Steve tomorrow is going to be the post game show for tonight has state of the Union Address. We will get reaction from senator marco rubio and oddly, brooklyn decker. Brian she will report and respond and the Tea Party Response will be rand paul. That should be interesting. Gretchen log on for our after the show show. More with jody and these toys for girls. Brian see you on the radio. Bill there is breaking news. The defiant north korea is at it again. Thats the rocket launch from december a few months back. Im will hemmer, welcome to americas hughes room. Americas newsroom. Marthamartha north korea says y have successfully completed a nuke car test, the kind you would put on a missile. Reporter the world got a bit more dangerous overnight. It is twice as powerful as the north korea completed in 1999. North korea claims it is a smaller, more sophisticated device. We have no con fir maition nation on that. If thats true, this means north korea is capable of creating Something Like a war head that could fit on a ballistic missile. One expert said this is an important step toward further weaponnization of their Nuclear Arsenal. Bill why is this happening now, gregg . Reporter pyongyang has not stopped their barrage of propaganda since they tested the device. They say this is just a First Response. They say this is in response to hostile activity from the United States. The United States called it provocative. What is significant is this is the First Nuclear test while kimukimjune unis in control. Probably it is no coincidence that today obama will be delivering that state of the Union Address. They are looking for a maximum tiein with their arch enemy the United States. Martha this merrygoround over north koreas nukes goes back 20 years. It froze its Nuclear Program in 1994 in an agreement with the u. S. But that broke down in 2002. North korea has been ramping up their production ever since. They put the number in the north between 413 nuclear bombs. Bill this is the range of the missile we do believe north korea has the capacity to. The range said to be 6,000 kilometers away from north korea. Just to the edge of where you would findway. Here is the dmz that separates north korea. This time of year it is isolated, it is remote, it is cold and snowy as well. Well show you the region for the number of countries they have been party to the talks with north korea in the past. We are gauging talks out of moscow. We are going to bring you all of that as we move throughout the morning. Northern region of north korea is where this was detected earlier today. Martha, back to you. Martha its a big night in america. We are hours away from the president s fourth state of the Union Address. Hes calling for investment in infrastructure and education. Which means well see more spending. What do we expect tonight, stuart . Reporter well see the president make a call for a robust presence of the governments presence in the economy. In three areas he will call for more spending, education, green energy and infrastructure. Those are three key areas where the president wants to improve increased spending. It will rely on a mini stimulus program. He will rely on Government Spending to create jobs. This will be paid for with higher taxes on wealthy individuals, corporations and Oil Companies. This will be the aggressive pursuit of the economic policies put in place in the first four years. More Government Spending. Martha we saw a recent poll that showed 21 that people do not believe more spending is the route to economic recovery in this country. It got him reelected, these ideas about taxing Oil Companies and the rich more. But there is another question that has to do with reports of fraud and waste in the existing spending programs. The president s always said he would go after them with a scalpel to make sure the waste is gone. Is that happening . Reporter the free cell phone system, the lifeline program. 6 Million People get three cell phones from the government. 42 of the people who got the phones could not justify their eligibility. The broadband opportunities program, 4 billion. Part of its been halted because Internet Service supposed to go to some rural areas have not gone to the right places or the right people. Number three, state authorities are beginning to question the return on a College Investment as College Tuition costs skyrocket and student debt explodes to over a trillion dollars. The authorities are questioning what do we get it of College Education just as the president wants to spend even more on education. Martha anybody listening to this would say does anybody check on these programs and try to figure out at one point the Vice President was supposed to make sure the stimulus dollars were going to effective use places. Anybody following up . Reporter the Inspector General looks at these Government Programs and exposes the waste and fraud. But are they ever truly scaled back and abolished in the answer is no, they are not. It never really happens. Martha once these things are on the books its next to impossible to get rid of them. Bill we are learning interesting names on the state of the union guests. Former congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband astronaut mark kelly. They will be guests of senator mccain. Also on the list gun rights advocate ted nugent will be the guest of a republican congressman. Martha interesting crew there. For full and complete coverage of the state of the union, you know where to go, right . Our special coverage gets going at 8 55 p. M. Right here on the Fox News Channel. Bill where else would you be . We have had enough previews. We know what hes going to ask for and we know what House Republicans will give and what they will not. Its a busy morning here on a tuesday. It will be long trip home for 4,000 passenger and crew strand offed on that broken down ship. An update from one of the koig escorts today. Martha there are disturbing details surfacing in the search for a fugitive excop. He may have had some help. Bill chuck hagel, is he being honest with congress. A senate panel gets ready to vote on his fate today. The Ranking Member of that committee explains whether he can stop chuck hagel. [ anouncer ] ihop in time square to compare new griddlemelts to your usual breakfast sandwich. A lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihops new griddle melts. Made fresh and hot hand crafted just for you. Its like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. Just 4. Its like a sexy sandwich. Its an epic breakfast sandwich. Bill breaking news. We are learning later tonight in the state of the Union Address president barack obama will announce a year from today the United States will have 34,000 fewer troops fighting in afghanistan than at the moment. So expect headlines on that throughout the day. Well get more on that out of washington. Martha chris kyle, the exnavy seal sniper who was gunned down at a shooting range will be laid to rest at the tks state acceptor at the tk at the tee cemetery. Former Alaska Governor sarah palin and her husband were among those who attended the emotional sendoff. He leaves behind his wife and two yo we thank him for his service. Bill there are new details emerging on defense secretary nominee chuck hagel. Fox news confirming hagel did not disclose two recent speeches on the arabisraeli conflict as part of his confirmation. I speak with senator james inhofe of oklahoma. Can you prevent chuck hagel from being the defense secretary . I dont know if i can stop it. Today at 2 30 he will be passed out of committee. The democrats want it the republicans dont. The next problem will be well see to it he has a 60 vote threshold. By doing that there will have to be 60 members of the United States senate who want him to be the secretary of defense. I give senator cruz credit for this. He had a videotape of al jazeera where hagel agreed with them that israel was guilty of war crimes and sickening slaughter and america is the worlds bully and arguably one of the strongest terrorist states, iran is endorsing him to be the next seek terry of defense. If 60 members of the United States senate think in spite of that will be a good secretary of defense well find out. Bill it appears you are right at the line on that. I have no way of knowing. All but two republicans in the u. S. Senate have said negative things about him. Bill senator mccain suggested this is not the type of filibuster battle republicans in the senate want. Do you agree with him . Its not a filibuster. Im saying we are going to try to get anne a consent agreement solar are you reid will alloy us to have a 60vote margin. It happened with kathleen sebelius. This is a common thing and it should be expected they should have to have a 60vote margin. Bill two of senator hagel speeches were apparently not included in his Senate Proposal form. Other members are concerned about not getting the Financial Information that they requested and they have a strong point there. I think we have 3 or 4 senators. Senator cruz is one of them. Bill senator Lindsey Graham says this should not go forward until the white house provides more information for what the president was doing and the white house was communicating on september 11, the night the benghazi consulate was under attack. It isnt an issue for me. Its a totally different subject. We have United States senators elected to office and on the armed forces committee. Different things are objectionable to each one. We are not carbon copies. Senator graham has every right to have the information hes hoping for. I think hes supporting the idea of a 60vote flesh hold. Bill i know you will not vote for him. In the end do you win this battle or not. I give it a 5545. Bill we have brandnew information from the vatican after the popes stung the popes stunning announcement. A little bit more on what went into his announcement and the role he will play from here. Bill 4,000 people are strand on this ship. Well talk to the coast guard helping them get back to port. I need to rethink the core of my portfolio. What i really need is sleep. Introducing the ishares core, Building Blocks for the heart of your portfolio. Find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. Ishares by blackrock. Call 1800ishares for a prospectus which includes investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Read and consider it carefully before investing. Risk includes possible loss of principal. Bill three people are dead after a deadly shooting at a courthouse in delaware. According to investigators the gunman was the father of a man who had kidnapped his children in 2007. Was in the middle of a bitter custody battle. There are were duds of people in the lobby at the time of the shooting. When i first heard it it was so fast, pop pop pop pop pop. I saw a cop hit the floor and i hit the floor and everybody was going down at that point. Bill the courthouse is known for handling most of the issues for the american stock exchange. Martha a stranded cruise ship with 4,000 people onboard is being slowly tugged back to the u. S. Shoreline. Its called the carnival triumph and it has been stranded since sunday morning when a fire erupted in one of its engine rooms. Since then things have not been so cushy. They have been floating aimlessly in the gulf of mexico. At one point they floated 90 miles north. Im joined by the hero of this story. Good morning, commander. You are better off on the vigorous than the triumph today. Give us a sense of whats happening on the water. Yesterday afternoon we had two Carnival Cruise ships that transferred about 3 tons of supplies over to triumph. At 8 30 p. M. Two tugs came alongside, large, oceangoing tugs. Since last night we have been going at 8 Miles Per Hour north. We have current push us so that weighs into the decision the carnival made to tow the vessel to mobile, alabama. Martha the reports that we have been getting off that ship are horrific. People are saying the toilets are overflowing. The carpets are soaked. They barely have any food to eat. I all brought hem supplies im sure they were grateful for. Whats the feeling for whats going on on the ship as far as you can tell . Its hard for to us confirm the exact conditions onboard. Carnival would have to comment on that. We did note people were in good spirits when the transfer of supply. Was going on there thats what we observed from people on deck. Martha ill bet they were happy to see you guys. How long do you expect this will take . When do you expect they will be back home . Right now looking at the vessel arriving on the 18. Thats with no problems along the way. We dont anticipate any problems at this time. Martha do you expect you will make more deliveries of supplies before the ship gets back to the coast . It appears they have enough to get back. Between the two cruise ships they transferred a lot of material. We dont anticipate having to do any additional supply. Martha you guys do a fantastic job. Ill bet they were so glad to see the coast guard coming to their aid. Good luck with this mission. Thank goodness for the coast guard. Bill they will be home for valentines day and they will have a heck of a tan. Martha were willing to weather the night weather just to get out there and breathe. Bill we have more on the fugitive excop accused of triple murder and promising more violence. Authorities are saying chris dorner may have had help from the beginning. Martha the president is said to get aggressive at the state of the iewn wroteon tonight. Republicans are saying the president has gotten plenty in terms of taxes and spending so well speak with California Republican kevin mccarthy. Im not sure it will be a speech about ideas or program. If the inaugural address was this extraordinarily ideological address, i think the state of the union will be extremely aggressive and partisan. Obama is stale campaigning. He hasnt stopped. [ whispering ] ive always preferred the creme part of an oreo. [ whispering ] thats crazy, the cookies the best part. Creme. Cooe. Creme. Stop yelling. You stop yelling. [ whispering ] both of you stop yelling. [ whispering ] im trying to read. [ male announcer ] choose your side at oreo. Com. Bill new information now on the search for this fugitive excop wanted for murder, thee of them in fact. New here released Court Documents suggest dorn r Christopher Dorner may have had help hiding from police. What are we learning about some of the documents that have turned up . What are in those . Reporter one ever the Big Questions is, what was dorner doing up in the San Bernardino mountains . What was he doing in big bear . How did why did he torch his truck, and if he did how did he get off the mountain . One of the answers may lie in this federal Court Records that we obtained in an affidavit in support for an arrest warrant there a u. S from a u. S. Marshal who says that dorner has a friend, a known associate with the initials j. Y. In his manifesto he calls jason young, a great friend, mother, entrepreneur, i love you brother. His family owns a cabin in big bear. The Marshal Service was tracking young and saw his car last thursday in mes costa costa mesa off the mountain, that is four hours dorner set fire to his truck. Feasibly assuming dorner is not still on that mountain somewhere that could have been his ride off the mountain. The affidavit says there is probable cause to believe that dorner mexico, that is based on when dorn er Dorner Dorner attempted to steal that bot, boat, unsuccessfully. He said to the man he was taking the boat to mexico but a rope got caught in the propeller and that didnt happen. The attorneys say dont read too much into this. Because the information is a little old. Last night police raided a hotel in mexico, 20 cops, they did not find dorner. When you are at the port of entry there are cameras, as well as a license plate reader. If he went over the border legally, if you will, u. S. Authorities had time, we believe to have stopped him there. He could have stopped the border into mexico illegally of course. That is some of the information coming out of the affidavit. Bill apparently there is new video of dorner that has su has surfaced. Tmz is reporting it obtained video from a Sporting Goods store in torrance california of dorner buying scuba equipment. We know he had training with the navy. He was carrying two air tanks. That was the week he was dismissed from the navy, two days before he allegedly killed monica quan and her fiance. By the way, i talked to the police, or the Task Force Last night, they are looking into the authenticity of those video shots from the Sporting Good store. There is also information there that an individual called randy quan the father of monica quan said you should have done a better job protecting your daughter. But that could have been a hoax, it was traced to canada. Bill thank you. Martha president obama expected to be somewhat aggressive in the state of the Union Address tonight. He will likely use the primetime spotlight to challenge republicans on several key issues. California republican kevin ma thart thee ikevin mccarthy is the House Majority whip. Youve heard reports this morning that basically the inaugural address was sort of an olive branch but the onetwo punch is coming tonight . That is unfortunate. I was hoping that this president would realize the campaign is over and that he could put a plan together for all americans that we can move forward and get this economy back working again. Martha well the plan is according to what we are learning for more spending, struck struck, education, green energy, these are themes we have heard throughout the obama presidency. What is your response going to be to, you know, the notion that spen spending more is the way he Still Believes hes going to turn this economy around . That is going to fail. Remember we had this whole plan before where they went out and spent a trillion dollars on a sometime last plan that did not work, it h helped get uts in us in this mess. Hes got more than enough revenues, hes always talked about a balanced approach but never talked about the ability where he could find cuts in government or control the spending in government. He should put his political pressure on the democrats in the senate that havent even produced the budget. Martha there is absolutely no indication in anything that we are learn hrao erpbg abou learning about this address that it toes this. One of his aide with us a source on one of these reports this morning quoted an old chinese strategist, the idea is to build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. Thats the way he sees the tkpworpbgs the g. O. P. , they havbucked have bucked him at every turn and hes ready to move ahead without you guys. Remember when Ronald Reagan was president the democrats controlled both houses and reformed the tax code. When bill clinton had Newt Gingrich and bob doyle to deal with they balanced the budget and reformed re welfare. I think americans want to see us work together. He need to stop campaigning. One of the tricky things with the tax reform issue that i see is that early on in the process of trying to come in with a way to bring in more revenue republicans said we are willing to do it, wed like tow do it through tax reform,ee lame nature some of the loopholes, talk about capital gains. They raised taxes initially as part of the fiscal cliff bargain, now they are coming back for more and saying we also want what you suggested the first time around. If you read the Congressional Budget Office latest report over the last four decade the average amount of money that the president got coming in was 17. 9 of gdp. It says this president is going to get 19. 1 , its going to take from the economy, from the gdp. He already has more revenue on average than the last 40 years. His problem is spending. If you just look at the first martha nancy pelosi says spending is not the problem. The president has said it. Hair economisan economist said were going there, and were willing to make more. What do you say . I think the president continues to spend more. He added 6 trillion. If you take the first two months of this fiscal year revenues increased 6 , 30 billion. You cant get out of this problem. Martha do you feel like youre shouting into the wind . I didnt mean to just cut you off there which makes you feel more like youre shouting into the wind. Do you feel that way . I feel tpwrus traited tha frustrated that the president wont listen to the american public. If you sake away all the zeros and put in the Family Household numbers on average we bring in 24,000 a year but we spend approximately 35,000. So we add 11,000 to the credit card. On that credit card we already owe 160,000. You cant get out of this mess by continuing to spend. You have to grow the economy, which is a plan that we both worked together but youve got to watch your spending, thats when the president talks about a balanced approach he should do something about it. Martha you talk about adding things and infrastructure and green jobs and education, you also talk about retitlement reform which the president says hes willing to do. Do you see any Common Ground on entitlement reform this coming year . I think the person public wants to be able to save medicare and social security. I see the president ignoring it. Every year he ignores it it adds 11 trillion to the unfunded. When the republicans put in a plan to balance the budget in ten years. They are going to have apples ceo inside the state of union. The the last time the democrats passed a budget the ipad wasnt even interes introduced they are already onto their third version. Martha thank you very much, congressman kevin mccarthy, its always good to have you on. Thank you. Bill cant stop apple. Check of the markets we are treading market as investors react to the state of the Union Address later tonight. The economy will take center stage. Its been on center sthaeupbl centanni tere stagcenter stage for five years. Businesses are really doing well. Martha a little more stuff overseas. Bill right at the 14,000 mark. Well keep and eye on that for you. Martha this is not the first time that we have told you this story, with regards to north korea. But this time this nuclear test, the experts are saying looks very different and very concerning from the rogue nation as they take a huge step toward launching a nuclear missile. This is an important story this morning, everybody, ambassador john molton will be up next. 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Martha if you drive, and lets face us most of us do, its hard to get places if you dont, you may have noticed that gas prices jumped in the past two we can. The average price is 3. 60. It has risen every day for almost a month. 26 consecutive days, 3. 60 is the highest ever for this time of year and the highest since october. Americans say more than an average of 1. 3 billion for gas every day. A lot of gasoline. Bill so north korea now thumbing its nose at the United States in the world community. China russia, south korea, japan, it conducted yet another nuclear test overnight. This time that rogue regime detonating a miniature rice eddie vice just the type would you put on top of a ballistic missile. Ambassador john bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations and fox news contributor, good morning to you sir. I want to connect two dots quickly. You had a missile test in september, a smaller test overnight that was first perceived to be an earthquake, now we know according to south korean officials it is something very different. What are you to make of this now, mr. Ambassador. As you say this is the third north Korean Nuclear test. They are proceeding in a very systematic way coupled with tests of Ballistic Missiles obviously to develop a Nuclear Warhead that their missiles can carry anywhere on earth. Weve seen this program in training for 20 years, and this third test is just another piece of evidence, sadly, of the failure of americas efforts through three administrations to deal effectively with north korea and its Nuclear Program. Bill i just want you to react to this. North korea its saying its a First Response to perceived u. S. Threats again the country. A lot of that is laced with rhetoric and also talked about second and third measures of greater intensity if the United States maintains that stated hostility. What does that mean . Well its all from a standard north korean phrase book blaming us for their Nuclear Weapons program. Next theyll be threatening to unleash a sea of fire across the Korean Peninsula this we do anything about it. The real issue is whether well take this seriously enough to do the only thing that really can eliminate this threat, and thats to work with china and others in the region to get the Korean Peninsulae peninsula reunified. Bill this is a really remote region this time of the year. It is winter that that part of the Korean Peninsula we can advance it one time because you mentioned china there are at least six nations as a part of this story on going for years. Russia is one, japan, south korea and of course china and the United States u. Say it is critical mr. Ambassador to understand what chinas position is on this now. Theyve condemned it, but what more have we learned from beijing . Well, the question is whether china is willing to exert the influence it alone has to change the regime, or at least to change their policy. China supplies 90 or more of north koreas energy, food and humanitarian existence. That regime would not continue to exist without chinas report. China says it doesnt want north korea to have Nuclear Weapons, but frankly for 20 years it has failed to do what it alone can do to stop it. The idea that we are going to negotiate with north korea over this has been a delusion for a longtime. Bill one more question on this. You say its important to understand whether its plutonium or ooh rain yan. What is the difference . The north korean as have been use d plutonium in their first new tests reprocessed from their reactor. Many believe they are running out of plutonium. They have had a substantial Uranium Enrichment Program for ten years. If leaks from gases from this test show that it was uranium based that will demonstrate that they have enriched uranium to weapons grade levels and have successfully tested it. That would be a big breakthrough with potential implications for iran as well. Bill one question on benghazi. This came out of the hearing at the end of last week, the amount of contact or lack there of that came from the white house and specifically the president after 5 30 in the evening when the consulate was under attack. What questions do you need answered . Where does that story go where here if it goes anywhere, mr. Ambassador . I think the testimony last week by secretary of defense panetta and chairman dempsey revealed a vacuum of leadership at the top of the Obama Administration that i found not only unprecedented but shocking and very, very disturbing, that the president wasnt intimately involved in worrying about these americans under attack, worried about other americans elsewhere in the middle east, in north africa, possibly being under attack, the lack of contact between the secretary of defense and the secretary of state. I mean this is a we face a threat in that region, the president is nowhere close to adequately dealing witness. I hope he talks about it tonight. He certainly didnt in his inaugural address. Bill would you expect that . Im not counting on it. I dont think the president pays adequate attention to international affairs. I suppose hell Say Something about north korea because he doesnt have any choice. Bill john bolton thank you. Hemmer fox news. Com. Bya, because you asked, just one line is all we need. Martha this story and this man who is a doctor are getting a ton of attention after he made National Headlines criticizing president obamas policies in a speech introducing him at the National Prayer breakfast. Now why that doctor is defending what he said there. Its a big story. Bill also there is dramatic new testimony in the trial of this woman accused of brutally killing her boy friend. What she is now telling jurors about her past. His tone changed to something very friendly but it was like artificial friendly. He said i have a great idea, how about you move to antarctica and never call me again. And i said minus antarctica, sure. Hello . The words are going this waytheres no way. Oh, the lights came on. Isnt technology supposed to make life easier . At chase were pioneering innovations that make banking simple. Deposit a check with a photo. Pay someone with an email. And bank seamlessly with our awardwinning mobile app. Take a step forward. And chase what matters. Martha dramatic new testimony in the trial of an arizona woman who is accused of murdering her boyfriend, stabbing him 20something times. Jodi arias told jurors that she was actually a victim of his mental and physical abuse, a claim that his friend have strongly denied. On the left you can see what the couple looked like when they were together. Hes sort of peeking in from the side there, but they looked happy enough at that time. And thats what jodi airy as looks like now in court. Alicia acuna has and following this for us. Arias and her defense attorney continue to put the boyfriend in the blame zone here. They really do, martha, jodi arias is painting herself as a victim of physical and verbal abuse all at the hands of the man she says she loved. This is the point where she recalls a particularly bad fight and she says he told her she should just move to antarctica and never call him again. She testified this was a very low point for her. Throughout this all i had been feeling suicidal so i thought that that was kind of the point where i decided i wanted to go through with that, so i called my friend, matt because he had guns, and i was going to ask him if i could borrow one because i wanted to kill myself. Reporter now throughout the day the testimony worked to define Travis Alexander as a controlling, jealous boyfriend, someone jodi arias said she feared but returned to over and over again. Martha what a story this is. Shes also made some other very serious accusations against him. Reporter yes, jodi arias testified that she discovered that Travis Alexander was interested in child pornography, and that he was embarrassed when he waur when he was first caught but that turned to furry when she gave him a pamphlet about getting psychological help. She related another incident that she claims happen when she refused to lend him money. He got angry and he crossed the room and he started shaking me and he said. [bleep] im sick of you. An waand he was screaming at me cloud and some of his spit got in my face. He wasnt spitting on me when he was talking. And he body slammed me at the end of his bed. The attorneys asked why she didnt leave him or call the cops. She said she would never call the cops on him because she wont quote, betray him. Martha wow what, a story. Well see how that turns out for her. Bill we are learning more about Pope Benedicts decision to set aside including information about his health that we did not know before today. Shepard smith is live at the vatican. Well talk to him live in a moment. Martha florida senator marco rubio is set to give the republican response to the state of the Union Tonight and it will be unlike any other response in history we are told, when we come back. Martha uncertainty today for the worlds 1. 2 billion catholics, just a day after Pope Benedict dropped a bit of a bombshell that stunned the world announcing his intention to step aside, which is really not done, and he will do that at the end of this month. Today we are learning new details about that decision, about his health and about the role that he will play in the future of the catholic church, and that is how we start with that beautiful vatican city background this morning. Im martha maccallum, welcome. Bill im bill hemmer. Morning martha, the vatican saying Pope Benedict will be handsoff in the selection of the next holy father, they made that clear earlier today. Lead leaving it up to the college of card nams to make that decision as it always is. Shepard smith streams live out of rome italy. They are revealing a little bit more about Pope Benedicts health. They will us about that. Reporter we now know bill that the pope has apace maker and has had one for many years. In fact had one installed before he became pope, and then just about three months ago, bill, in the greatest of secrecy the pope left the vatican, went to a hospital, had the batteries inside that pacemaker replaced. Nobody ever new anything of it outside his closes advisers inside vatican city. He never missed an appearance. Again it was just a sort of routine battery change but it goes a long way to tell you how secret things are here and how much secrecy popes are given. Bill it certainly does. You have about two and a half weeks now on the calendar before he owe facially resigns the 28th of february. What are we learning about the process, or what in the world happens after that . Reporter well, the cardinals will all come together and select a new pope, a process which has we learned, what, eight years ago can take a matter of days or a bit longer. Any number of people up for that. There are thoughts about the possibility of the first black pope, and the first there are those from latin america as well. After that bill is where it gets interesting. Not since gregory the 12th in 1416 have they had a situation where there is a former pope and a pope. So the many people are asking about what the role of the pope will be once he steps down. Its my understanding he will not go into seclusion, according to his aid hell live in a cloistered monastery in the very back of vatican city, and hell continue to write. The question remains if he has a matter on doctrine about which he writes and the new hope whomever he may be has a different thought, whether there might be some sort of Division Within the church. They say they are not concerned about this at all, this is not a man who has ever sought political power or anything like that and they believe that he will just write and pray and live out his days in a monastery in the back of vatican city. That will be something that no one of course has seen in many centuries, but there doesnt seem to be a lot of concern about it around here e. Says according to his aides hes just a man who has got even old and about a year ago, according to the vatican newspaper b about a year ago made this decision about going on a visit to mexico and cuba and was just exhausted afterward, he said i need to think about stepping down from this post. His brother says hes known about it for about a year. The transition will happen some time before easter which is at the end of march. And when the smoke rises there will be a new pope and another one who used to be pope hanging out in the back of vatican city. Bill in the 1400s i think that was before cable news too so they have that to contend with. Shepard enjoy your time. Well talk to you later. Shepard has more later today on the fallout and where the vatican and 1. 2 billion catholics move from here. Studio b, 3 00 eastern time live from the vatican. Martha a little bit of context now on the selection of the next pope. Shepard talked a little bit about this. A pope is elected by the college of cardinals of course when he receives a two third majority of that group. After each round of voting, nobody will ever know who voted for whom because the ballots are burned and by tradition they are burned with special chemicals that create the black smoke that signifies when it comes through the chimney, we remember when we covered this last time around, youre detecting whether its black or not. When its white that means that they have indeed, and last time it took several days, come to a conclusion, and elected a new pope, and you never know how strong the majority was, some say that benedict whats elected unanimously on the vote that did go through, but well never know, well never know. Bill the heck of a headline if you were inside th inside the sistine chapel. This is hours after the pope announces hes his resignation. Some Media Outlets saying this a lightning bolt struck the basilica. There is a freeze frame that actually shows the lighting hit the top. Martha we just saw it a little bit. Right to the top of st. Peters. Bill put all this together, you have the year of the snake, Pope Benedict, lightning on stop of st. Peters. Martha there is no such thing as coincidence. All right. We are getting brandnew details right now on what to expect in tonights state of the Union Address. The white house says that the president will focus on the economy and talk a lot about jobs and he will call for more investments, code word for spending in most cases, that he believes will start now, dispersing job growth in this country. That is a line of thinking that could antagonize republicans who say they believe spending is not the answer. Our fox news polls suggest that the majority of americans, look at these numbers, the worst is yet to come in the economy, 52 say they believe that. How will the markets and the Financial Insurance taoupbgss responinstitutions respond to what the president has to say tonight. And they always do. Neil cavuto joins us. Senior vp for the Fox Business Network. What are you thinking . I dont think there is too much doubt that the president will call for more investment tonight. Reporter talk about lightning striking buildings it might strike the corner of wall and broad if we get an indication out of the president that according to some of this is key advisers he thinks that the debt battle is won, its done. We are getting word out of the white house now in their views the job and Debt Reduction has effectively been finished. The white house believes that its just about a trillion to a trillion and a half away from finalizing the cuts that would be necessary to getting this debt issue resolved and put behind them. Never mind this 4 trillion that you hear much talk about is over ten years, and still grows higher over that same ten years. But if the white house is effective here saying this battle is done and won, republicans no doubt are going to seize on that and say, this battle hasnt even been started and hasnt even been waged and there is going to be some fighting word tonight and no doubt a response by marco rubio to that premature victory announcement tonight. It is one of the reasons why no doubt in this poll that youre referring to, martha, a lot of americans are concerned about the future because they think that washington could be whistling past the financial graveyard here, that this debt is getting worse, and it is building. Even if this years deficit, for example, comes in better than expected, the Congressional Budget Office is going to seize on that later this afternoon, it does not necessarily mean that were going to be shrinking our red ink. Whatever we pile in excess spending is going to be piled onto our debt and it will go on and on and on. The concern is tonight the president is not going to talk about a sort of a broad, you know, boldface attempt to get this under control. That could raise some hack h he hackles and on wall street serious concern. Martha i talked to senator mccarthy before and it seems like the p debate over, as you say. That he believes spending is going to be the way to improve the economy. He says there are signs in the Housing Market and other places that things are picking up, and it does feel like they are putting that debt issue to rest, at least for the moment, and that they dont think that they have to answer to republicans at all on that, neal. Reporter they are much convince towed that. They are looking at the housing you eluded to, they are looking at the improving Financial Market and the higher tax rates that they say are adding a lot to revenues in washington and could be substantially so for the month of january when the treasury releases numbers later today to that effect, so, they are effectively going to be saying, look the economy is improving, more revenues are coming into washington, we are on our way. We dont have to do anything draconian at all, we dont have to do anything big at all. If to hear some republicans tell it its the democrats say of saying we dont have to do anything at all i. Dont think that will sit well with wall street. Whether buildings are struck by lightning as a result that might be a leap, but i do think it is a reminder here that the president is going to risk republican and market ire responsibility by saying this game is won and done. Martha we will see, thank you so much. Neil cavuto joining us here in americas newsroom. You can watch him tonight. I will be anchoring the coverage for Fox Business Network for the state of the union aeu direction 8 00 to 11 00 on the Fox Business Network. We have bret baier on this side of things at the Fox News Channel hosting special coverage, that gets started at 8 55. Get your pop court and get ready. Bill marco rubio delivers the republican response. He will deliver that in both english and spanish. The first time such a high profile speech will be given in two languages, immigration likely to be front and center. Chief National Correspondent jim angle live in d. C. On that. Why marco rubio tonight . Reporter well, bill there is no question that send rubio who was only elect ned 2010 is already a star in the Republican Party, and thats why hes been chosen to give the official response to the president. Listen. If there is one thing that republicans learn from the november election its that they need to do a better job of attracting hispanic votes. So, the combination of rubios eloquent star power and his positions on immigration and other issues of interest to hispanics makes him really unbeatable for this position. Reporter so, young, hispanic, and articulate Time Magazine went so far as to put him on the cover of the magazine with the headline, the republicans savior, calling him the new voice of the Republican Party, bill. Bill you know, jim he is young but yet he is active in terms of fashioning legislation. What can you tell bus that . Reporter he had a long history in the Florida Legislature as well. He has authored bipartisan jobs legislation, he has plans procedure legislation on education and Small Business and of course a carefully crafted immigration plan likely to draw bipartisan support. That is an issue of course close to the hearts of cuban americans. Here is what he said. I didnt read about it in a book, i didnt watch some movie about immigration. I live this i shall hugh on a daily basis i. Live in a family of immigrants, married into a familiar leave immigrants, in a neighborhood of immigrants, in a community of immigrants. Reporter rubio is trying to show the welcoming faces of g. O. P. On Legal Immigration while firmly discouraging ilLegal Immigration. Tonight hell talk about a wider range of issues, jobs, spending taxes and the cost of Big Government on which hes taken fir ogs firm positions. He plans to role out several piece of legislation in weeks. In short rubio is what Republican Leaders hope their party will become. Bill big night in your town. Reporter you bet. Bill sim angle in washington. Martha we injures getting word that the Deputy Defense secretary Ashton Carter is testifying right now and hes not mincing words. He says that the cuts that are about to kick in on march the 1st at the pentagon would leave us in a position of unreadiness. He says the devastating cuts are no longer a distant threat, and that the wolf is at the door. Very strong testimony about his concerns in terms of what it would do to hamper our military if Congress Allows those cuts to kick in, saying that it would cancel maintenance on 25 ships, 470 aircraft. The list goes on and on. Well give you more of that as he continues to speak about today what he sees as a dire situation for the pentagon if this happens. And there are some new concerns about the potential impact of these cuts, because just when our enemies are strengthening their military, our military is getting to cutback on the first of next month. We are going to ask a general what he believes the ramifications are for our countrys safety. Bill also a doctor taking heat for publicly kreu criticizing the president s policies and doing it right in front of him. Did he go too far . Our panel will debate that as the doctor defend himself. There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but thats not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to u know, the bully. [ male announcer ] house rule number 14. A great cup of coffee should be easy as one, two. Well, just one. New single serve cafe collections from Maxwell House now available for use in the keurig kcup brewer. Always good to the last drop. Now available for use in the keurig kcup brewer. New honey bunches of oats greek yohere we go. Ole grain. Honey cornflakes and chunks of greek yogurt. Im tasting both the yogurt and the honey at the same time. Im like digging this yogurt thing. I feel healthy. New honey bunches of oats greek. Martha a lot of buzz around this story. The doctor responsible for raising some eyebrows with his speech at the National Prayer breakfast is now defending his conservative opinions that he put out there that morning. His name is dr. Ben carson, a pediatric neurologist one of the best known physicians in the country at john hopkins medical school. He is in the National Spotlight now after criticizing the mountains tax policy right in front of the president. Take a look. You make 10 billion you put in a billion. You make 10 you put in 1. Of course youve got to get rid of the loopholes but [applause] now, some people say, they say well that is not fair, because it doesnt hurt the guy who made 10 billion as much as the guy who made 10, where does it say you have to hurt the guy . He just put a billion dollars in the pot. You know, we dont need to hurt him. Oh, a little tense in there at that moment i would say. Joined by bob beckel former Democratic Campaign manager and cohost of the 5. Mary katherine ham is editor at large at hot air. Com and fox news contributor. Bob, what do you think . I really cant say what i think on the air. Martha sure you can. Ill try to catch my language here. It was one of the most shameful appearances ive seen in washington in my career. Martha martha yeah . Let me tell you why. It is one of the few places whereby partisanship reigns. Its a which to commune with the god of your choice and this guy turns it into a talking point political session. He could have wait ford the Political Action committee to spew this kind of stuff he had no right to use essentially a religious ceremony to spew that in front of the president of the United States or anybody else. I hope they have a fainting couch behind the five desk for bob. Its perfectly fine for bob to take issue with this. Its perfectly fine for doctor carson to have his point of view. The president tells stories about himself that he loves to be surrounded by a team of rivals, in practice thats almost ever true. As long east says he digs it so much, i say sit back and enjoy. I think i think there is a lot of overreacting about this. Martha bob u know, obviously its the Prayer Breakfast, he started by quoting, you know, a number of different pieces of the bible, and sort of tying all of that together in what he was saying. This is a doctor who is very well known. He speaks very frequently. I mean i would imagine that the president was prepared, kind of knew where he was coming from when he stood up and started to talk. What bothered me, in terms of the this event i which the president had just reached out his hand and shaken his hand and maybe dr. Carson may have turned to him at the end and said look i know we dont agree on everything, i respect what you believe and you do the same tore me. It would be fine if it was a political gathering. When he quoted the bible, sometimes not well, he should have remembered that in romans, the great apostle paul said that we have to respect authority because the authority is given to us by god. Martha how was he disrespectful . How was he disrespectful . He goes and spews that rightwing stuff in front of the president of the United States. He was perfectly polite good by the way you name me one time in eight years where bush was at a Prayer Breakfast when somebody did Something Like that for him. People showed up all the time in public to heckel him. Im talking about a National Prayer breakfast not in country. You tell me when the president himself has gone before the state of the union and insulted the Supreme Court of the United States. The president to expect everybody to hush, hush when hes at an event is not that reasonable when he takes to paul ryan when hes standing in the front row and takes to the Supreme Court. Its a Prayer Breakfast p you ge, you get that . Martha he spoke from his personal experience, his family experience, how he was raised, talked about his life, talked about the bible and how he ties all these things into the way his philosophy has brought him to think. I think its interesting that youre so offended by it. I am offended. I think he got his 15 minutes of shame but shame on him. It sounds like youre afraid to hear from him. Id be happy to hear from him somewhere beside my church. Your church is a Prayer Breakfast. Martha well see you on the 5. Thank you. Bill what the Seal Team Six member is saying about firing the fatal shots that killed Osama Bin Laden. Cops on a drug bust got a wild surprise when they were greeted by this guy. [singing] stphoelt. So. Howd it go . Well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. Youve mastered monkeystyle kung fu . No. Priceline is different now. You dont even have to bid. Master hahn taught you all that . Oh, and he says to say translated from cantonese you still owe him five bucks. Your accent needs a little work. Just begin with americas favorite soups. Bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. Or bestever meatloaf. Go to campbellskitchen. Com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. Campbells. Its amazing what soup can do. Stunning new details about the raid that killed the worlds most dangerous terrorist. In an interview with esquire magazine a Seal Team Six member, simply called the shooter, said he fired the fatal shot on Osama Bin Laden and now says the navy has left him high and dry after 16 years of service. The mental and physical struggles hes had since leaving the military. Chad williams is a former navy seal and author of seal of god. He is my guest out of los angeles. Good morning to you and thank you for coming in today. We lean on guys like you to give us some inside knowledge and i appreciate that. This is thank you. Bill this is what the shooter said. I shot him two times in the forehead bat, bat the second time than east hes going down. I crumbled on to the floor and i hit him again in the same place. He was dead. I watched him take his last breath, just a reflex breath. This interview occurred in september. What do you think about him talking now . Well i think its important to share the story, the truth of what had happened, and a lot of people out there, they might be thinking, you know, why would they takeout Osama Bin Laden, why would they kill him, not try to take him alive if there wasnt say a weapon in his thern this, man could have a suicide vest on, ready to go that could blow up the building at any moment, so its important to take him out as soon as possible before he potentially takes the lives of everyone inside of that building. Bill you know, chad i find two stunning items in this article and its lined and detailed. I think bronstein did a great job, frankly. One is how he details the actual killing and the other is the life this man is left with now. His wife said this in the article, i feel there is no support, meaning from the military, not just for my family but for other families in the community. I honestly have nobody i can go to or talk to nor do i feel my husband has got even much for what hes accomplished in his career. What are we to understand about that, chad . Well its not like he could show up to some Job Interview and say, look, here i am, the shooter, the guy, that would put a target on his back right away. When youre sort of doing a full 20 years in the military you dont really have a retirement. I fell into the same choose where as soon as i was out of the mai military these kind of it. I dont have any healthcare for my wife and i, we are living on the edge, and you just have to somehow cope with that. I have a very close friend of mine, by the name of Scott Helvenston who had a very similar situation. He was no ordinary navy seal, youngest man to make it through seal training at 17yearsold. World champion athlete. A record time on the Obstacle Course and when he had got even out of the military waoes struggling to provide and care for his family and ultimately he finds himself in a situation where he tells me, you know, junior i have this opportunity to go overseas and who knows perhaps make a difference and provide for my household the way that i need to, its only going to be a couple of months long. The next time that you saw my friend, my mentor, this man that was like a second father to me was on television, it was video foot afpblg his body being mutilated in the streets of iraq as they are chanting, fallujah is the graveyard of americans, beating on his body with rods and hanging him upside down from the Euphrates River bridge and torturing his body. This is kind of the desperate sayings that scott found himself in. I believe he didnt die ultimately in vein. He was a sacrifice for the sake of freedom, and there are soldiers today that are a living sacrifice for the sake of freedom and this is just kind of the shoes that they find themselves in. Bill my best to you and your wife and the struggles youre going through. I know you find this outrageous, but it happens so much to so many navy seals. And my regards to you losing your friend scotch on that bridge in fallujah. Chad we will continue to talk to you about this okay. Well bring you back soon. Issues like this are not going away. Chad williams, thank you. Thank you for having me on. Martha its an incredible story to think that this hero to killed Osama Bin Laden is in this tough shape. They say if he stayed in his 20 years he would have been entitled. We have to have a different set of rules for tees people who are in these extraordinary set of circumstances and burn out sooner than the other people in the military because ever the extraordinary circumstances that they are in. We have to have a better solution. Bill huge, huge sacrifice you heard it from chad in person. Martha there are dire new warnings today about the massive defense cuts that are set to hit the pentagon on march the 1st. While one top official is speaking out just moments ago. He says the wolf is at the door, folks. He wants us to realize what he believes this means for our national security. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare . Thats a good thing, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Like all standardized Medicare Supplement plans, they pick up some of what medicare doesnt pay. And save you up to thousands of dollars in outofpocket costs. Call today to request a free decision guide to help you better understand what medicare is all about. And which aarp Medicare Supplement plan works best for you. 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Call now to request your free decision guide. This easytounderstand guide will answer some of your questions, and help you find the aarp Medicare Supplement plan thats right for you. Martha a dire new warning today about the massive defense cuts that are set to hit the pent gone next month. Deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter tells this morn, the Senate Armed Services committee a few minutes ago the acrosstheboard cuts are no longer, quote, a distant threat, and he believes they could undermined the new defense strati F National Security correspondent give give is live at the pentagon. How bad is this going to be . Reporter well it looks very bad, the warnings are very dire as you mentioned if you listen to the joint chiefs and Deputy Defense secretary ash carter who are speaking on capitol hill before the Senate Armed Services committee t has already had a Significant Impact on Navy Families for instance in norfolk, virginia, when the Navy Announced last week they would not have enough in their budget to deploy the uss truman to the persian gulf. That deployment was canceled on friday. Secretary panetta and i have been using the word devastating for 16 months now, and i testified last august to the consequences of sequestration, if it was to occur and now the wolvess at the door. I began my career in a hollow army. I do not want to end my career in a hollow army. Reporter the army chief said they would have to curtail training 80 of the Ground Forces if sequestration takes place. Furlough 20,000 civilians up to 22 days. 80 live outside the beltway in washington and work at army depots and navy ship, work on ships outside of the beltway. He anticipates losing 100,000 Army Personnel if sequestration happens. Only 16 days are left to stop sequestration. Martha when you think about it, jennifer, these cuts were designed to be devastating. They were designed to be so devastating that congress would never allow them to kick in. That is where we find ourselves now. With this as backdrop the president is expected to make announcement tonight about troop levels in afghanistan, right . Reporter thats right. As you mentioned sequestration was never supposed to happen. It was supposed to be a poison pill so difficult it wouldnt happen. What we expect to hear tonight from president obama during the state of the Union Address, he is, were anticipate that he will announce that 34,000 u. S. Troops will be home in a year, in a years time from now. This is part of the drawdown from afghanistan. Whats new here is at window into the pace of the withdrawal. The president has decided to cut the force in half a year before the complete withdrawal, martha. Martha jennifer, thank you very much. Reporting from the pentagon. Bill martha, we have taken a look now on the percentages of defense spending for countries like the United States, russia, china. We just wanted to give viewers at home an idea about what countries are doing what over the past four years and coming four years. What weve done is taken a percentage of the Defense Budget growth, starting in 2007, going up to 2011. So you have a period of four years here. Between china, russia and the United States down here on the bottom. If we use our slide rule here, and bring it out to just about the current year, 2012, you see where these three lines diverge. China goes up. Russia goes up to a lesser degree and the u. S. Almost remains flat compared to the other two countries. If you project us next four years to say, 2015, watch what happens to the lines to the three countries and percentage in their Defense Budget. China is 300 increase. Russia is not too far behind. The United States is not only flat but trailing now as we move toward the year 2015. Major general robert scales is retired from the u. S. Army, a fox news military analyst and, sir, good morning to you. Good morning, bill. Bill what do you make of this . Well, as you show there we have two divergent curves. Isnt it interesting that ash carter is testifying before the senate about reducing Defense Budgets at a time that north korea explodes their first operationally capable nuclear weapon. And he announced that the navy is going to reduce its presence in the pacific around north korea by 35 . At the time north korea and iran are building Nuclear Weapons, we are reducing our expenditures on rebuilding our 50yearold Nuclear Arsenal. This is ridiculous. Bill, ive lived through three of these in my lifetime. After vietnam. In the carter era, and during the peace dividend. This is by far the worst i have ever seen. Bill worse in what way . When you think about this, the wolf is at the door, thats a phrase that people can understand. Well, let me put it this way. It takes one budget cycle to break the back and create a hollow military. It take as generation to rebuild it. You say, well, all were going to do is reduce the budget. No, were not. Well take away, 100,000 soldiers. Many spent, four, five, six tours in iraq and afghanistan. Well reduce the armys training budget by 78 at a time we have the most tactically Capable Military in the world. The falloff, the proficiency training falloff is very quick, americasured in weeks and months, but takes years if not decades to rebuild a hollow force. Bill wellstated. One more point on the north korean test you referred to in the first answer. Yes. Bill do you expect cutting the Nuclear Arsenal to be part of the speech tonight given the timing of the nuclear test or is it taken out . That is already on the way out. Theyre talking about an 80 billion reduction in the nuclear rebuild over the next eight years. That is 10 billion a year. Remember our Nuclear Weapons are 40, 50 years old. The North Koreans as i said earlier, it looks like they have their first viable uranium bomb. It is the first operationally capable weapon they have built. Mate that to an icbm they tested in december, this is no longer a regional problem, bill. This is an american problem that we have to tend to. Bill with regard to sequestration, roy blunt, the senator, was with us yesterday. He says it is going to happen. If it does, hold onto your hat. Thank you, general bob scales for your time today. Here is martha. Martha the clock is ticking now down to the state of the Union Address which happens this evening and the republican response from senator marco rubio which will follow as traditionally does. This time he is in the spotlight. So what can we expect to hear from this rising star in the gop . Well ask steve hayes because he just sat down with marco rubio. Bill also a drug bust with a serious bite. Its hard to tell because of its size. It is certainly interesting to have it but i dont really know what their motive was to have it. Hi. Im henry winkler. And im here to tell homeowners that are 62 and older about a great way to live a better retirement. Its called a reverse mortgage. [ male announcer ] call right now to receive your free dvd and booklet with no obligation. It answers questions like how a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money, and more. Plus, when you call now, youll get this magnifier with l. E. D. Light absolutely free. When you call the experts at one reverse mortgage today, youll learn the benefits of a governmentinsured reverse mortgage. It will eliminate your monthly mortgage payments and give you taxfree cash from the equity in your home. And heres the best part you still own your home. Take control of your retirement today. Bill police in california take a bite out of crime. Oh, yes, they did, only to find an exotic pet that took a bite out of them. Check it out. Busting a couple in the middle of a drug deal, police went to their home where they found this baby alligator. They found loads of pot, guns and close to 30,000 in cash. The couple is facing numerous charges. As for the gator, it has been turned over to county humane services. Martha republican rising star, senator marco rubio, is set to deliver the gop response tonight to the president s state of the Union Address. President obama is expected to be aggressive were hearing tonight. Well see if that turns out to be the case but in an interview with our own steve harubio says he will show how president obamas view of america differs from that of republicans. Quote. On issue after issue, there is virtually no problem in america that he thinks doesnt have a government answer. From concussions in football to the weather, according to marco rubio in his sitdown with steve hayes. Steve hayes joins me now, Senior Writer at the Weekly Standard and a fox news contributor. Steve, welcome, good to have you here as always. Welcome, martha. Martha what do you think to hear from marco rubio . I think he will drive a contrast in different ways. One most obvious is the vision contrast. What Free Enterprise yields and versus what the government yields. You showed a quote there, a flavor of where marco rubio wants to take that argument. On the other hand i think he wants to make sort of a tonal contrast where president obama as you say is supposed to be combative or feisty or aggressive tonight, taking shots at republicans. I think marco rubio is likely to seek to stay above the fray, to be bigminded and make a bigger, deeper case, to the American People what the American Dream means in a very practical way, instead after theoretical way weve heard about. Martha from a political sense when you look at marco rubio he has had an unbelievable rise. Feels just like yesterday he was a really unlikely newbie congressional candidate from florida that nobody thought could win his race. Look where he is now, delivering the republican response, rising star in his party. But you know, weve seen this road before with this rebuttal opportunity that comes up and paul ryan had it and bobby jindal had it. Do you think marco rubios sort of outcome will be more memorable than theirs were . Well, thats a good question and i asked about that i joked with him, you know you had some of your predecessors who sort of stumbled in this speak. It is very hard to be on par with the president of the United States speaking to congress. Theres a certain ceremonial aspect to that that is hard to replicate or hard to compete with. He said, look, i cant really be worried about that. If you are in a ball game and you dont want the ball with 30 seconds to go you probably shouldnt be in the ball game, that is sort of his attitude toward the whole thing. I dont think he is cowed by it. He sees it as an opportunity to make a contrast case with the president. He will push him on a number of issues including obamacare which i thought was interesting. Martha interesting. Of course there is the latino question, an area that, you know, the gop did horrible with in the last president ial election and it definitely contributes to his popularity. The idea that he can embrace a group that has not been embracing republicans lately. I think thats right. I mean theres a lot of talk whether, does he have broad appeal among hispanic voters. I think the fact is he does and he will. The really what marco rubio, i think what sets him apart is the fact that he is the best communicator in the Republican Party right now. You know, the fact that he is hispanic allows him to make a case to republicans as you say rub republicans have not done enough to reach out to. Rubio is his strength is to be able to communicate no matter the audience. Martha you talked so much about how he reached out to friends and family in florida and says what do you care about, what do you want to hear about . If you had 15 minutes to sort of change the conversation, what would you do . Yeah, exactly. I do think well hear about immigration. I dont think it will dominate his response which is expected to go between 12 and 15 minutes. I think he will use the time he has got to talk about immigration in the context of economic growth. The interesting thing he is going to do tonight, another substantive contrast will be pushing a republican agenda, republican message that really focuses on economic growth, in addition to austerity. Martha he has an opportunity tonight that few get to rebut the president s state of the Union Address. Well watch it tonight. Thanks for the insight before all that, steve. Good to talk to you. Thanks, martha. Martha catch full coverage of course right here this evening. President obamas state of the Union Address on fox news. Special coverage begins at 8 55 p. M. Tonight. Do not miss it. Bill you will be there, right . Martha i will be there. Bill be there with popcorn, husband, three kids. Martha if i can round them all up. Bill work on that. Martha i will. Bill who women be the next pope . Will the United States get its first pope . And what about latin america . It has never happened there before either. Some are asking if the next Church Leader could come from that region. Martha a lot of questions about that. Very interesting. And here is something completely different. A horror movie comes to life as a legitimate News Organization warns people that zombies are rising in fact from their graves. It indeed has happened. We done mockups before. This is the real deal, folks. Well be right back. Dentures are very different to real teeth. Theyre about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. Polident kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. Thats why i recommend polident. [ male announcer ] cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. Ididide . E announcer ] cleaner, youre not my dad ahh hey honey, back feels better, little dancing tonight, you and me . Dr. Scholls pro inserts relieve different types of lower body pain by treating at the source so youre a whole new you. Go pro with dr. Scholls. Martha wait until you see this. Folks in great falls, montana, got a bit of a scare as hackers apparently got into the Emergency Alert system in one. Tv stations there, warned of a coming, in fact imminent zombie apocalypse. Take a look at this. Civil authorities in your area are reported bodies of dead are rising from their graves attacking the living. Poll messages on screen that will be updated as information becomes available. Martha see, it is indeed happening. The bodies of the dead are rising and attacking. The message got on telling them not to attempt to approach these bodies. Theyre considered extremely dangerous, dont go near them. The station said the whole thing was a fake and their engineers are trying to figure out exactly how that happened. I think it was taken over by zombie is. Bill there is whole issue about competence in the media. I dont know why that would be the case. Martha that is problematic. Bill long considered a a fortress in the catholic church, latin america is home to one of the Fastest Growing catholic populations. Go the next pope be latino . Steve harrigan live in miami. How many attention is this getting . Reporter bill, it is getting quite a bit of attention especially from those who think the southern hemisphere. 42 are in latin america but those cardinals simply do not have the votes yet. Although europe has only 25 of the worlds catholics, they have over half of the voting cardinals. So still a longshot for a noneuropean pope, bill. Bill who would be the main contenders from latin america, steve . Reporter five or six names keep being mentioned among those most likely the cardinal sher of brazil. This is the Worlds Largest catholic country. Owe controls the Worlds Largest catholic diocese. Cardinal sandri and he holds key positions. A longer shot from honduras. He has goten a lot of praise for his work with the poor. Any of these three could be a potential first latin american pope, bill. Bill steve, let the speculation begin. Steve harrigan, live from miami on that story. Well all probably find out probably within four weeks. Thanks. Martha interesting story. There are major developments right now in the manhunt for a fugitive excop and triple murder suspect. Why please are now saying that chris dorner had help in his getaway. So who is helping chris dorner, and what the prosecutors are going to do even before hes captured. Thats coming up