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Now after today ill be the former side kick to gretchen carlson. No way. I know youre going to be fantastic. We have so much news to get to today. Looking forward to it. He me as well. Thank you so much, governor. Breaking right now. Torontos rehabilitated cracksmoking mayor may be spending his last day in charge. Mayor rob ford reportedly dropping his bid for mayor in next months election. Apparently not for the reasons you may think. Trace gallagher live with mosh on that. Ill till, gretchen. We thought the News Conference was going to be the top of the hour, but we still have not gotten a signal. It might be at mount sinai hospital where rob ford is being treated for a mass in his stomach or it might be at city hall where his brother doug ford might make a statement. Now, heres the reason. You might want to get a score card because we have some Musical Chairs going on in the toronto mayors race. We have just learned an hour ago that rob ford has pulled out of the race because he was diagnosed with that stomach mass. He has been biopsied. He has pulled out. Meantime, his brother doug ford who was the city councilman of toronto has now decided he will run for mayor in his brothers place. Rob ford will not run for mayor, but he will run for city council. Thats why we did the News Conference to make this all out. It was a few days ago when rob ford had some extreme abdomenal main. He went to the hospital. They found that mass inside his stomach. The doctors said it was a fair sized mass, and they did the biopsy. We wont know the results until next week. Rob ford has issued a statement saying and im quoting here now i could be facing the battle of my lifetime. I want the people of toronto to know that i intend to face this challenge head on and win. With my family and doctors, i know i need to focus on getting better. There is much work to be done, and i cant give it my all at this point. Now, despite the fact that this cracksmoking mayor has been in the news quite often over the past year, his popularity remained fairly even. In recent polls his opponent, a man named john tory, was running at about 40 in the polls and rob ford was running about 28 in the polls. Well, now the deadline was at 2 00 eastern time for ford to drop out. It was also at 2 00 eastern time for anybody else to get in. The headline here is were awaiting the News Conference. Rob ford is out in the mayors race. His brother, doug ford, is in in the mayobut, yet, rob ford will run for his Old City Council seat while he awaits results of this biopsy from the in as his stomach. He also had a tumor back in 2009. We should note, gretchen, in his appendix, and he has been hospitalized a couple of other times. Once for trouble breathing, and once for kidney stones. When the News Conference comes up, if news is made, well get back to you. All right. Excellent report, trace. Let me just ask you this. Why or do we know why he has agreed that he will run for a City Council Seat but not for the mayors position . He didnt he didnt explain that. I mean, he is saying that he has the battle of his life right now and he cannot put his full heart into the mayors race. As to why he decided to take his old position back or at least run for his old position in city council, he dent explain. We also know theres a nephew, his name is mike ford, who was going to run for city council, and he has dropped out of the race altogether. The brother flipflops. The nephew gets out altogether, and were waiting for the explanation from the brother, doug ford, to see if this late stage in the game if he thinks he might stand a chance to overcome his opponent now john torewho has a lead in this race. Trace gallagher, thank you so much. Lets move on now to the Terror Threat in the middle east. Still no word of a larger Bombing Campaign being unleashed on isis. Secretary of state john kerry refusing to call the latest military action a war, but instead a counterterrorism operation. Well, now were hearing within two days of the president s announcement to expand air strikes and to degrade and ultimately destroy the group, isis membership is ballooning. According to the cia, its now triple threat that it was in june. Growing from nearly 10,000 militants to as many as 32,000. Molly, live for us at the white house. Molly, is the president going to ask congress to sign on to the military action, and sometime relatively soon . Gretchen, not in any formal sense. The president s spokesman just said the president obama would welcome support from congress, but the president doesnt believe he needs it to carry out air strikes in syria. Heres more. It is the view of this administration and the president S National Security team specifically that additional authorization from congress is not required, that he has the authority that he needs to order the military action that he has to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. Also pentagon Officials Say they are about to turn up the heat on isis. The coming days were going to be more aggressive, and shift a focus from what has been to date primarily defensive in nature rather than more offensive in nature. Gretchen, as for the increasing numbers of isis fighters, this is just happening now in the white house briefing. Thats an indication that the Islamic Terror Group that is had some postrecruiting success, but josh, ernest went on to say that the administration believes that the president s strategy will be enough to counter that threat. Gretchen. Its pretty scary to go from 10,000 to 32,000 just in a couple of months. All right. So republicans say that were wul at war even if the white house isnt really calling it a war, so which one is it . Gop lawmakers say secretary of state john kerry may not call it a war, but isis is certainly at war with us. They contend that the obama strais wants to downplay the threat level for political reasons. I think the reason why the president had such a hard time making a decision to finally i think do the right thing to go into syria is that he could get his head wrapped around isis because isis defies his entire Campaign Narrative that he has ended the war on terror, that al qaeda is on the run and this whole thing is over when, in fact, the threat level has gone up, not down. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Says its necessary tolg after isis inside syria because the head of the snake is in syria. Gretchen. All right, molly. Live for us at the white house. Thank you. Also today, some new twists in the ray rice investigation. Raising questions about nfl commissioner roger good lel. A team owner telling the wall street journal that goodell lamed that he went easy on rice because he felt uncomfortable challenging his fiances story. Well, she apparently claimed she lost consciousness after falling in the casino elevator during that scuffle. Several sources close to rice told espn that he came clean telling goodell everything, though the sources differ on key details. They all disagree with goodells claim that the exact circumstances remained unclear until the elevator video came out. Meanwhile, 16 female senators are calling for the mfl to establish a zero tolerance policy on Domestic Violence. Some democrats are pushing for a congressional investigation. Bring in ellise who is a staff writer for the hill. The first obvious question, what business of it is congress to get into something with the nfl . Its a good question. That is one side of the republican talking points here, but on the other side, they have a historical precedent where republican chairman of committees have, in fact, launched hearings to do with pro sports. Take an example in 2005 when tom davis who was a republican congressman brought mark mcguire before congress and almost made him cry in that case. There was a major congressional investigation into doping in baseball. The Republican Party in congress right now is divided about whether congress ought to be involved in the kind of moral investigation of what the nfl is doing. All i remember from that baseball situation no matter what you want to call it is mark mcguire just kept taking the fix. I think a lot of people at home right now are thinking, all right, congress has so many problems that they actually havent gotten to with regard to things that actually affect our day to day living, and the money that we pay in taxes, so is it really worth it to have them assemble especially if they dont come up with solutions . Its a good question. Right now congress has very little time to get its work done before the november election. In fact, they are trying to get everything done by the end of next week so they can go out of town to campaign, and that includes passing a very complicated government funding bill to avoid a shutdown on october 1st. They certainly have plenty to do. It seems ub likely from just the scheduling perspective that they would be able to fit in a hearing on the nfl. At the same time there is also an incentive in congress particularly among republican allies of the league not necessarily to come down hard on them until they know whats going to happen with roger goodell. I think that that is what darryl issa, the head of the House Oversight committee is waiting to see. Whats the next shoe thats going to drop . What did congress do . I think a lot of us are saying they can make some noise, they can turn up the heat, but what are they going to pass a law to say that they cant do what they cant do, which is to beat up a woman . Theres already a law against that. Its very unlikely that congress would pass anything to do with the specific scandal, but they have hard power and soft power. They do have the ability to call for major cultural figures and call them out for not handling situations well, and i think there are a lot of people in the public, including on the right who want to see the nfl do a better job when it comes to Domestic Violence. We can also talk about this in terms of the campaign. You know, republicans are going for centrist women in order to win the senate. It might not be such a bad idea for them to go for this issue, which is clearly resonating with women around the country. Thank you very much. Thank you both. Dont miss governor huckabees exclusive interview with actress and activist robin givens. That is saturday and sunday on huckabee at 8 00 p. M. Eastern right here on the fox news channel. Time for my take on this topic. We aunl congress is really good at setting up hearings and talking about issues at length, but the problem is many times we as the American Public dont end up seeing a lot of solutions. Its frustrating, right . Our taxpayer dollars should give us more in return. In this case, though, if i were a member of congress, i would also have signed a letter to the nfl urging the league to institute a zero tolerance policy for Domestic Violence. As i state here before, my eyes were opened wide after i did a 30part series on Domestic Violence when i worked in tv in dallas. Im not sure members of congress can actually cause any changes to happen within the nfl, but at the very least im hoping they can inform the public what a serious problem this is and, of course, in the end help provide solutions and answers for the hundreds of thousands of victims who are currently suffering and trying to find a way out. Some may be watching right now. Coming up on the show the cia saying isis has three times as many fighters as they first thought. Now the former head of the agency retired general David Petraeus who also orchestrated the surge in iraq says america should be prepared to be in this fight for the long haul. Well, and i think that the president has been quite up front. Other officials have been up front recognizing that this is going to be years, not months. Well ask Lieutenant Colonel bill cowan if petraeus is right. 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The white house and pentagon now officially saying without question we are at war with isis. The white house finally calling the fight what it is, as we get shocking new numbers showing the terror group growing three fold in just the last few months. Meanwhile, former cia director and top u. S. Commander in iraq and afghanistan general David Petraeus saying we ought to keep some perspective about the terror group and that the campaign in syria is likely the toughest challenge in the president s new plan. Isil in iraq should not be overestimated. This in many respects is that it has nowhere near the roots, the numbers, and the structure that al qaeda in iraq and the associated sunni insurgents had. This is a very, very different matter. In syria the, you know again, you have to have a ground force. Heres the thing. Theyre actually calling it now a war. What was the hesitation . Now it may be that as many as 31,500 people. I would say thats a heck of a lot different than the feeting a counterterrorist operation like al qaeda and instead fighting isis, which is really war. Colonel, you know, the president once said this was the jv team. Looks like theyve gotten their letter jackets as of now. They certainly have come into their own. Why did it take them so long . Not so much the intelligence agencies, but the white house. Why did it take them so long to understand the real threat of isis . What a great question, governor. You have said one time earlier here on tv that all the teams he was getting his intelligence briefings, he was sitting there not paying attention and instead thinking about his golf swing. I do believe that for the most part the Intelligence Community did their very best to convince the white house and the president that this really was a big threat and a growing threat, and i think the white house just preferred not to hear it because it didnt fit the story line that they have had for a long time. It got finally to the point where they had to admit it, and certainly, you know, we have a long way to go to overcome the problems that have been presented to us by these long delays in decision making. Certainly, the pentagon, weve listened to so many briefings over the last couple of weeks. They were emfat ebbing about the fact that they always had a strategy, so if you read between the lines, they had a strategy. It was the white house that did not. I want to ask you one final question. We rarely hear from general David Petraeus anymore. What did you make of his comments . I think they prefer he not come out and talk too much because he is stepping up to the plate a little bit. This is a different fight than we fought with in al qaeda in iraq when he was in charge of the surge when we were really talking about insurgents, but i think isis is both insurgent and a conventional army on some level. I do i dont necessarily agree totally with general petraeus. S i think were looking at a much bigger threat. I think al qaeda in iraq, we did defeat them. We did a good job. Were not going to fight the same kind of battles as we go after isis, which controls upwards of eight Million People right now. Thats much different than what we were dealing with in iraq. All right. Lieutenant colonel bill cowan, i dont know who has the better oneliners. You or the gov. Thanks. All right. Have a fantastic weekend. Thank you. Heres whats coming up. Police releasing terrifying Surveillance Video capturing a moment the suspect opens fire on a court mouse with an assault rifle. This one is not so bad. This is my High School Year book photo way back when. I love that photo. Why are we showing it . Because one kid is getting in a cat fight over who else he wants in his year book photo. Well explain. That brings to us our facebook question of the day. Whats your most regrettable School Picture . Tweet me at gretchen carlson. Use the real story. Well read your comments as we end the show, and, of course, were going to show you one of governor huckabees most embarrassing, maybe more than one photo. Oh, when we return. Oh, gov. You got to know. This is the real story, pal. We do it real here. When fixed income experts work with equity experts who work with regional experts thats when expertise happens. Mfs. Because there is no expertise without collaboration. Everyone is looking for ways while to cut expenses. S unique, and thats where pg es Online Business Energy Checkup tool can really help. You can use it to track your Actual Energy use. 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