Thats it for us. Special report, you know its next. A possible shakeup in the strategy in afghanistan. Hello, everyone. Im eric shawn and this is inside americas news headquarters. Im arthel neville. Topping the news this hour, new defense secretary Ashton Carter suggesting a change in u. S. Strategy may keep our troops in afghanistan longer. The northeast that brutal cold is tragically increased the number of hypothermia deaths across the country. Coming up, janis dean will tell us how much longer we can expect this dangerous weather to hang around. Plus, a blunt response from egypt over the latest isis atrocity. What they say the world now needs to do to defeat the
Islamic State and the threat of terrorism. Cairos response to the beheading of those 21 coptic eye egyptian christians and what we face next. The egyptian ambassador to the United States will be here to fill us in live. We start here new defense secretary Ashton Carter visiting afghanistan today on his first overseas trip in his new role. He met with the president in kabul and said the u. S. Is considering slowing u. S. Troop withdrawal from the country there. Peter doocy is live in washington tracking it for us. Peter, whats the latest . Reporter the latest is that things are going so much better in afghanistan than anyone here in dc forecast that there are new questions about whether or not things will keep going well if 10,000 troops become 5,000 by the end of this year and 5,000 becomes zero by the end of next
year. Our priority now is to make sure this progress sticks. That is why president obama is considering a number of options to reinforceai our support for president 3n ganigwvrs9xncenmi security. Reporter the thing Administration Officials are so encouraged by is the partnership between afghan president gan, and afghan chief executive Abdullah Abdullah because their newly formed government has been surprisingly stable. In fact, today we heard president gani speak about the possibility of reconciling with the taliban. The grounds for peace has never been better in the last 36 years. Reporter in addition to possibly slowed down drawdown,
official8 ur saz considering a p3iut spt a jrjt the way the remaining americans that are in afghanistan are used and the way that remaining u. S. Bases will close as people and equipment leave the country. President gani will come to dc next month and hes going to hash all this out with president obama who he thanked today for having an open mind about coming up with adjustments based on what gani describes as the reality on the ground. Okay. Peter, thanks. The threat here to our homeland not only involves radical islamic terrorism, but now a new Intelligence Report from the department of Homeland Security focuses on a different kind of threat that they say we face. The assessment lists violence from what they call, quote, sovereign citizen extremists. People who break the laws that they dont agree with and some Law Enforcement groups are saying that the threat is nearly equal to that of terrorists. Leeland vittert joins us with much more on this from
washington. Hi. Reporter hi. The timing here certainly raises a lot of questions. Just this week the administration held their much lampooned summit to combat violent extremism. At the same time, they refused to call isis and other islamic terrorists. Yet this new intelligence assessment put out by the department of Homeland Security talks about the threat from sovereign citizen extremists folks angry at the government and do something about it. The assessment says quote,2 . Yi sce violence during 2015 will continue to occur3k rau5h7 . Vni
little context in light of the anger and outrage over this report coming out, saying that this assessment does not discount the threat from islamic extremism, a threat the source says everyone believes will increase. The source calls it a useful assessment for the dement of Homeland Security, but says it does not mean sovereign citizen extremists are the new focus for the dhs. Back to you. Well be talking more a lot about terrorism 20 minutes from now with the egyptian ambassador to the United States about how we can face all of these threats. Thank you. The dhs will be the victim of a partial Government Shutdown if congress does not pass a funding bill in the next week. If lawmakers fail to do so, what will happen . Most employees affected by this would stay on on the job, including Border Patrol agents thats
because they are considered essential government employees. So too screeners and coast guard. But they might not get paid, at least until the budget stalemate ends, and some 30,000 other dhs employees are expected to be furloughed. President obama is not backing down on immigration. The Administration Says it will file an Emergency Court order to restart the president s executive action. This after a federal judge in texas blocked the immigration action from moving forward. The programs will in effect grant amnesty to as many as 5 Million Immigrants who are in the country illegally. The white house says the Justice Department will file for the stay by monday at the latest. That much the ukrainian million and pro russian separatists are exchanging dozens of prisoners. Despite that peace deal and the supposed promise from Vladimir Putin that he does not want a
war, the intense fighting is continuing. Greg palkot has his exclusive interview with the countrys Prime Minister. Reporter the latest word that we are getting from ukrainian officials here is that the russiabacked rebels are on the move again. They are said to be moving rocket launchers near the Big Government held city as they possibly open up a new front in this supposed cease fire. I asked the Prime Minister has the cease fire collapsed . We are very far from the collapse. You know why . We dont have the cease fire. There is no cease fire . No. Cease fire means no one shoots. Cease fire means that russianled terrorists do not make any kind of shellings. That they do not kill ukrainian soldier. Reporter officials said there were violations of the cease fire on both sides today, but according to the prime
minister, rebel actions are driven very much by Vladimir Putin. We asked him what putin wants. One can say that pint just wants ukraine. No doubt that putin wants to take over ukraine. But let me provide awe bigger scope. Whats really the ultimate goal of putin . Hes fighting not just with us. Hes fighting with you. Hes fighting with all of us. Reporter putins line is there are no russian weapons and no Russian Troops on ukrainian soil, to which the Prime Minister retorts hes the only guy who says that. Eric . Thanks so much, from kiev in ukraine. A large part of the country dealing with harsh Winter Weather. Take a look now. This is a view from outside our studios here along 6th avenue. Midtown manhattan. A massive storm packed with heavy snow, not happening here and freezing rain hitting from
missouri to the northeast, though. More than 1,000 Flights Canceled and the string of winter storms is already being blamed for the deaths of at least 18 people in tennessee and two in pennsylvania. Janis dean is live in the fox extreme weather center. This thing just wont let up, right . No. Weve got two storms were tracking. One across the rockies which we will talk about, but this one moving into the northeast is causing major problems at all of the big airports across the northeast. We have a ground stop at la guardia and hours of delays stacking up at newark as well as jfk. So if you have a flight coming in, you might want to just check ahead because some of these flights might not get in. They might be canceled and heading out as well. Just a mess. Weve got freezing rain reported in the dc area. You can see the pink here. Very dangerous for traveling. Up toward philadelphia light snow, light snow being reported in new york all the way up to boston as well. So those airport delays over three hours at newark, if the planes are actually getting out or coming in. So big issues across the northeast. Airports and that has a Ripple Effect for the rest of the country. Here is a look at the snowfall. We could get several inches in and around the new york city area for parts of new jersey, towards pennsylvania. The appalachians here even toward new england and upstate new york, several inches here. Then were going to see a transition overnight tonight to rain. So again very treacherous travel over the next 12 to say 20 hours across the northeast. Well keep you up to date. Watching this storm system bring measurable snow up to two feet or more for the rockies. Thats going to dive southward, pick up a lot of this gulf moisture and look at the mess on monday for parts of the arclatec. We have Winter Weather advisories posted now into the texas region west texas,
central texas. So this is our next weather maker were going to be watching. For now if youre traveling across the northeast, you really need to be careful. Back to you. Thats for sure. Thank you so much. Nascar star kurt busch lost his first appeal. That after nascar suspended him indefinitely for the Domestic Violence case. The judge said he almost surely strangled and beat his ex girlfriend last fall and according to the judges ruling, there was a substantial likelihood the judge said, of even more violence from him in the future. Will carr has more on this developing story from our los angeles news room. Reporter hi. Definitely strong words from this judge as he issued a protective order in this case. This is a story thats had a lot of strange twists and turns. His exgirlfriend patricia driscoll, says he was battling alcoholism and depression leading up to the night of the alleged abuse. He fired back said he believed she was a quote trained
assassin and he was afraid of her and claimed a judge yesterday refuted, pointing out busch shouldnt be scared of her, since he puts his life on the line driving 200 Miles Per Hour for a living. Busch becomes the first nascar driver to be suspended for domestic abuse. Listen to driscoll in a sitdown interview this past week with fox friends anchor, brian kilmeade. At some point you have to stay a stand as a part about how you feel about Domestic Violence. Ive had a lot of women come forward to me from the nascar community to say they were also abused. Reporter after the suspension was announced yesterday, nascar in a press conference actually responded to those allegations. Take a listen. Nascars made it very clear to our entire membership and the broader industry that any actions of abuse will not be tolerated in the industry and i want to make it clear that any inference that there is a
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of the first commercial spacecraft in 2017. Hundreds of people gather in new york city today to remember civil rights leader malcolm x. The activist was shot and killed 50 years ago today at the audubon ballroom in harlem. President obama speaking at the Democratic National committee Winter Convention saying the gop is, quote bamboozling americans by claim be to be the party of the middle class. But a new report from a special dnc Task Force Says democrats are failing in their efforts to convince americans otherwise. The task force was created following democrats dismal showing in the 2014 election and finds the party has failed to focus on core values that voters can relate to. Here in the studio with me, tammy bruce a radio talk show host and fox news contributor. Jessica is a democratic pollster and strategist. And senior political strategist
for schoen consulting, good to see you both. Here we are. The three brunettes. Whats going to happen . Oh my goodness. She said that. I didnt. Im loving it. The earth is moving. Were good. This is why you dont put us together. This could be bad. But im going to start with you, jessica, since youre representing the democrats on here. So do you find that the party is out of touch with americans or a messaging problem . A communication problem. I think the core values are what people want to hear. The 2014 election was a bad showing, but i think it really was a referendum on president obama and not necessarily the democrats as a whole party and what weve been advocating for. We saw on the state level a lot of Ballot Initiatives that got through and people want minimum wage increases. Thats something that i think the democrats continue to articulate is core and central to what were all about that well be successful in 2016. Tammy, some are saying that the democrats maybe should have stuck closer to the president
and his policy in hindsight. Yeah, i think that would have been a great idea. Maybe more republicans would have been elected. Look, theyve been in power for six years. They actually had power two years before that in congress. Americans its one thing to hear about an idea and theyve been articulating them for eight years. Hes been on television and hes happy with how hes conveying where he stands and the democrats where they stand. So americans have seen the results and thats the difference. Its one thing to have rhetoric and an idea when youre first running. Then you have six years of what the end result is. The American People havent liked it. So i reject the idea that this is about communication. For the democrats, and i like that theyve had their meetings. I think competition makes everyone stronger. But in order to solve a problem, you first have to admit you have one and their problem is nobody likes the result of what they were doing. So you might be voting for feel good kind of things, but it
wasnt just about obama when you lose the state house of illinois when you lose maryland when you lose when the republicans are governorships and lose all of those state house. Its a big difference nationally. Tammy, with the special committee in place now, there are many who think they have a problem with messaging. Yeah. Thats the issue. If they think they just simply havent talked enough about what it is they stand for theyre missing the point that the American People on a daily basis feel what theyve done and thats what hasnt worked for them. Jessica, you say what . I dont entirely disagree but i would counter by saying im curious to hear what the gop platform is going to be. And they need to articulate a message. Weve seen lower Economic Growth than in ten years. The president has done a great job. Foreign policy we would agree is not up to snuff. But we havent also heard from the republicans what the counter is. Thats why i argue that the losses in november were largely due to an obama problem and not
a democrat problem. One in five american households rely on food stamps. Over 92 million americans are out of work and off the work rolls. So those are the things that on a daily basis americans feel. But the gop, youre right, they have benefited from what has been effectively a disaster in daily experience on their level and the republicans are going to have to then do more than the were not them argument and thats going to be a little bit of a civil war, but that will be good. But for the democrats, there is no competition for hillary. There seems to be no one willing to kind of go up there to her and have that debate about what do they represent how does that tie into hillary, jessica . I think she she has a massive opportunity, which i think she will see will be successful at where she can really be the master behind the entirely new or renovated i guess, 2016 dnc platform. And take bits and piece from the
elizabeth warren camp and the obama camp. Do you think shes doing that . She didnt do it before. Its a new time. She knows it didnt work for her in 08. Maybe shes running now. Shes tougher on foreign policy. All of she is running for president figuring she was going to win entitled to it. And even then she didnt have a platform when it came to a vision. I dont think shes gog have it now if she tint have it in 08. I think that you have to give her a chance. Shes definitely shes putting together the Strongest Team she can. Im hoping to see that it becomes more diverse as the months tick on. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the dnc seem to be operating as like theyre own little entity. It didnt seem like what Hillary Clinton thought was a factor there. So that is an opportunity and i think its going to be an opportunity that hillary misses. You closed the show because you opened it. Always fair and balanced. Lets go out for drinks ladies. Well take our brown hair on
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saying the u. S. Is considering pulling its military exit from afghanistan. The pentagon chief also saying the Obama Administration is rethinking the Counterterrorism Mission in afghanistan. The u. S. And iran sending their Top Nuclear Officials to geneva as the white house tries to reach a deal trying to cap Irans Nuclear activities in ex change for billions of dollars in sanctions. Irans Atomic Energy chief joining those talks for the very first time. Yemens former president taking refuge in the southern part of the country. He resigned the presidency last month, leaving the capital over the shiite rebels staging a coup released him. They captured the capitol therrell month. Now to the fight against isis. One world leader who has taken a very tough and blunt stance against the Islamic State terrorists and the spread of jihad is the president of egypt. He ordered the air strikes against the Islamic State on monday, bombing an isis Training Camp in libya. That attack in response to yet another unspeakable isis video. The latest one as you see there, reporting to show those 21 egyptian citizens, all christians march down a beach and beheaded. Egypt does not fly air strikes but has taken the battle into its own hands. How do we all win against the radical islamic terrorists and their spreading ideology . Joining us from washington is the egyptian ambassador to the United States, mohammed kafik. Thank you for coming out in the snow this evening. My first question has to do with the spreading ideology here in our country of how the World Trade Center bombing 911. Youve had the attacks in sinai that have assassinated your troops. How does the world get a handle on this threat . Well, its a global battle
really eric. You have to deal with this on all fronts. You have to deal with these people militarily but you also need to deal with the ideology. You need to deal with their financing, their ability to recruit people and their messaging. And egypt is really out there on the front line on all these fronts. You talked about the ideology. Your president al sisi in january, before this attack, he had that astounding and praised speech on new years day talking about the need for, in his words, a religious revolution that in his view, it has to come from the imams and from within the religion itself. Let me give you a quote to what your president said. Quote, i say and repeat again that were in need of a religious revolution. You imams are responsible before allah. The entire world i say it again, the entire world is waiting for your next move because its being torn, it is being destroyed. It is being lost. It is being lost by our own
hands. What does he mean and what does he hope . I think what he means is that these terrorists are abusing our religion. Theyre using elements from religious sects in a way that was not at all how we perceive it to be how the majority of muslims perceive it. And its up to us preliminaries to muslims to deal with that to take away the ability to abuse our religion and we have to start at all levels. We have to deal with the way we educate our children the way we address people in mosques. This is really a comprehensive approach. We have to make people understand the tolerance that is inherent in our religion and this is something that we can do you can not do. You can help us. But really this is up to us. How can we help us . What do you want the Obama Administration and americans to do . How can we help . Well, you can provide us with the necessary weapons we need in fighting these people. For example, were speaking about libya and libya there is a legitimate government and that government is denied the weapons it needs to confront the terrorists. The Libyan Government is not asking the International Community to come and fight on its behalf. All it is saying is allow us to get weapons. We are able to handle this. But help us to do so. Ambassador, that was the plea by the Syrian Rebels two years ago and the white house turned them down. Hillary apparently said yes and encouraged that. Do you think that there will be weapons given by the u. S. To the libyans and should there be u. S. Air strikes in libya against
isis as there are, for example in iraq . Well, i think the issue of air strikes is a little bit ahead of us right now. Right now we have an effort by the United Nations which we support, but that effort needs to be supplemented by allowing the legitimate government in libya to get the weapons they need. If you start early on, it is easy to control isis. If you wait until its too late until they have roots deeply in place, until they control a large part of the country, then its already too late. Do you think it is too late now . Are we at a place in libya where we were two years ago when we dealt with syria and iraq . I think today the time to act in libya is today. There is a Good Opportunity to beat these people and the libyans themselves are capable
of doing it. But they need the assistance and the support of the International Community. You say its a Good Opportunity to beat these people. Overall, ambassador, what will it take . Will it take a u. N. Sanctioned army . Will it take arab and other armies on the ground in syria, in iraq, in libya to finally defeat and as the president of the United States has said, completely degrade and destroy isis . Well, right now there is a fight going on in iraq and partly in syria. And im confident that over time, that fight will succeed in first of all containing then defeating isis. But we can not allow isis to get more and more strong in libya. We have to confront them now in libya. They control major cities in libya, but they still dont control the whole country. This is the right time to do so and we do not need air strikes
from the International Community right now. What we do need is to support the Libyan Government. They need weapons and they need training and they need them today. Finally ambassador, we hear about them expanding and the atrocities. Horrendous. In the civilized world, you would never think this would happen. How do we stop it eventually and you sound optimistic in a time when they seem to be expanding. Are you optimistic . Well, i am determined, as is my president and as is my people. We are determined to confront these people. We are not going to allow them to take control over our region. Egypt considers itself to be the bulwark against these extremists and we take our role seriously. But now these 21 people, these 21 egyptians who were slaughtered in libya, that should be a wakeup call to us
all. The International Community needs to show resolve and that has to happen today. Not in six months time. Just an horrendous situation with those 21 christians, as all the other victims of isis. Ambassador of egypt, we thank you so much this evening for coming in and giving us your view and sharing with us your faith and confidence that at some point, isis will be defeated. Thank you. Thank you very much. We will have this whole interview posted online if you want to see it on foxnews. Com. Tax time. Just got more stressful. Were going to talk about that. Nearly a million americans will have some trouble because of a glitch in obamacare. Some congressional vectors are taking a closer look at that and as taxpayers are getting ready to do their taxes for a second time. Its bad enough i got to do it once. Well explain. And tonight check it out. Jamie colby meets a family who inherits rare letters written to their grandmother from a young john f. Kennedy. The first in a pair of back to back episodes of strange inheritance. You can also catch the show monday through thursday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on fbn. When i first looked at, wow. And promptly put them in a safe deposit box. There they remained for the next quarter century. But a surprise phone call from a stranger will reignite this familys interest in their unique inheritance. I got off the phone and left this message. Are you the nephew of harold w. Marty jacks heart attack didnt come with a warning. Today, his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. If youve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor
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hands and say, here we go again. There have been 28 changes made unilaterally by president obama and obamacare and none of them seem to work. At least not to prevent these people from going into tax hell. 50,000 people are going to have to redo their taxes all over again. Who knows how long their refunds are going to be delayed . And some people may have to give money back to the government right . Conceivably hundreds or even thousands of dollars. So what does this mean john, for the future of the obamacare insurance penalty . I think were going to see it gradually erode away. I think people increasingly are frustrated with this. It complicates the tax code dramatically. The irs has already announced if you try to call the irs hot line for advice, you probably will never get through. If you get through the odds of you getting the right advice are no more than flipping a coin. So i think increasingly people in congress are going to hear from constituents who didnt
know how much the penalty has gone up. Its gone up to 1 of your income for many folks. I think people are going to be in open revolt. You remember those town Hall Meetings of 2010 . I think theyll be back this summer. I think the insurance penalty is going to have to be delayed again. Of course the white house is naturally pushing back and of course still championing the president s signature law. Do they have a good defense for the law at this point . Well, i assume their defense will be well eventually get it right. But look, if you were buying a car and there were 28 separate fixes made in it and for 800,000 people the car still didnt start properly, youd call it a lemon and have the federal trade commission sue the car company for false advertising and defective products. Unfortunately, we cant do that with the federal government. But right now weve got a lemon and the lemon is even smelling. A car would have an opportunity to be test driven. So now maybe this is the test
driving period. The test drive has been five years. And so far the car is still an edsel. There is no way, in your opinion, john to somehow at the time rid of and fix all the glitches that are surrounding obamacare attached to the law and eventually i assume theyll fix it. But the problem is even if they fix it under the current law the president refuses to make any changes in it. He refuses to negotiate with congress. I think were going to have to wait for the Supreme Court which hopefully will change the exchanges based on their interpretation as being unconstitutional. Then president obama will have to go back to congress negotiate with both parties, maybe then we can have some sensible fixes in this law. But as it is right now, the president doesnt want to change it unless its an emergency and unless he can do it all by himself and without even consulting congress. So do you think its a good idea to have all americans have
access to insurance . Access to insurance is fine. But a lot of people i think have been fooled by this. They think access to insurance means youre going to get automatically insurance. Look, i have relatives who tried to sign up for obamacare. Theyve gotten a policy but the deductible is not nearly as good as the policy they used to have and the deductible is up to 6,000. So you have to spend 6,000 of your own pocket in one year and before you get any benefit from the insurance policy. All right. John, thanks for being here and for the record, i had to play the other side of the conversation. So dont tweet me. There is another side. Of course. Im just saying to the viewers. They think i work for the president. No. So anyway there. All right. I support all across the board. There you go. Talk to you later, john fund. Thank you. Weve all been there. Youve been out and about and your cell phone dies because it doesnt have power. Coming up, well tell you how you can charge your cell phone wherever you are and well look at how you can be fashionable. See is this my man purse . Major heres our new trainer ensure active heart health. Heart i maximize good stuff like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. New ensure active heart Health Supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. Ensure, take life in. If you dont think beat con men at their own game when you think aarp, you dont know aarp. The Aarp Fraud Watch Network helps everyone protect themselves and their families against scams and identity theft. Find more real possibilities at aarp. Org possibilities. Now . Can i at least put my shoes on . If your bladder is calling the shots. You may have a medical condition called overactive bladder. Or oab youve got to be kidding me. Ive had enough its time to talk to the doctor. Ask your doctor how myrbetriq may help treat. Oab symptoms of urgency frequency, and leakage. Which may mean fewer trips to the bathroom. Myrbetriq mirabegron may increase your blood pressure. Myrbetriq may increase your chances. Of not being able to empty your bladder. Tell your doctor right away if you have. Trouble emptying your bladder or have a weak urine stream. Myrbetriq may affect. Or be affected by other medications. So tell your doctor about all the medicines you take. Before taking myrbetriq, tell your doctor if you have liver or kidney problems. Common side effects include increased blood pressure, common cold symptoms, urinary tract infection, and headache. Take charge by talking to your doctor about your oab symptoms and myrbetriq. Find out if you can get your first prescription at no cost by visiting myrbetriq. Com in our house, we do just about everything online. And our old internet just wasnt cutting it. So i switched us from uverse to xfinity. They have the fastest, most reliable internet. Which is perfect for me, because i think everything should just work. Works . Works. Works works . Works. Works. Its happened to all of us. Away from home and your cell phone dies and youre trying to find a power outlet and there isnt one. You could carry a Battery Powered charger. Who has room for that . There is another solution. Its to buy a bag with a charger built in. Consumer reports, jody is here. You brought some cute bags. Tell us what you got here and how it works. We were excited to find out there were bags that do the charging for you so youre not scrambling around trying to find an outlet or begging someone to use their plug. Theyve come out with these bags. We took a look at them in our labs at Consumer Reports to see how they worked. We found varying things. Well start with the purses. This is from empowered. Super cute. Built in charger thing. You plug the wire in here, you plug the other end into your phone and off you go. The only thing is when youre charging, you cant open your bag. Its super cute. Nice leather. But pricey. Pros and cons. This is from express. Its a lot cheaper. 50 bucks. This has a little removable pouch with a little removable charger. Super handy. Same thing. You charge this and you use it to charge your phone. But we had some issues with this. Same teal. Now your phone is plugged in and you cant zip it. How long do these charges last . It all depends because the smaller the charger the lesser the charge. So when we get into some of the work bags, youll get more out of that. The smaller ones, a little less power. This is cute. This is from butler called the mighty purse. Thats a good name. Its got this little removable pack. We liked it when it comes out because you could put it in another bag. Whats this . That goes with your phone. Android or iphone . With an android. With iphone typically youll need anotherle plug. Well get to the unisex stuff. This is the power bag. 80 bucks. It will hold a 15inch laptop
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