Ill shut up now. Thats it for us. That was a medical tip . That was a medical tip. Leave the fat ones alone. Special report is next. President obama delivers his state of the Union Address with Foreign Policy hot spots getting hotter and domestic proposals already getting major push back on capitol hill. This is special report. Good evening, welcome to washington. We are about three hours from the start of president obamas next to last state of the union speech. This time the president will be on what has become gop home turf. A Capital Building in complete political control of republicans. That means a focus on plans for massive increases and a middle class tax cut is exploding are
already getting eye rolls from a skeptical audience. One of the biggest skeptic Mitch Mcconnell will join us next. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry is live with a preview. Reporter aides say the president wants to tout progress in the economy but some major crisis may get in the way. For every state of the Union Address there are the images the white house wants the public to see such as president obama in the Oval Office Making final preps and then the images of the world burning like the deepening crisis in yemen where the government is facing a coup. And also today iran signing a military alliance with russia. Im not sure how much time president obama will devote to the very serious threats facing this nation. I think americans in such Uncertain Times first and
foremost crave safety and security and leadership. Reporter yemen in flames as rebels took over the president ial palace while shots were fired at a u. S. Embaesz vehicle. All of this embarrassing for the commander in chief who four short months ago held it up as a success story. Recently eliminated the Top Commander of its affiliate in somalia. This tragedy of taking out terrorists who threaten us is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years. Reporter that may be one reason the president created another image today. As he puts less emphasis on National Security and more on his plans to double down on tax the rich policies that paint him as the guardian of the middle class. Creates an opportunity to do right now is to focus on
policies that benefit the middle class. The president thinks that is the best way to grow the economy. The president will focus on more domestic policy that will shape his legacy and the 2016 Campaign Even though the plans are going nowhere fast in the new Republican Congress. Lets remember that last year we had the alltime Record Number of receipts of dollars coming into the United States treasury. What do the democrats want to do . Their insatiable desire to raise taxes and pour hundreds of billions of additional dollars into government. That is not going to help grow the economy. Reporter aides say the president will be touting cooperation with republicans and are hinting he will be defiant at other times by teeing up more vetoes and more executive action. Moments ago i spoke with Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. I asked what he is expecting
tonight. Sounds like another campaign speech. I wish the president would remember he is not running again. He has two years left no point in making a campaign speech. What i would love to see since American People have given us divided government and has done very significant things for the country is an emphasis on things that we can agree on. There are a few like trade comprehensive tax reform maybe, infrastructure. If you look at what they released before the speech you may think the president was going to run for reelection. Take a listen to the White House Press secretary talking about this tax plan. We have 58 consecutive months of private sector job growth. In the Third Quarter of last year we saw strongest growth in more than a decade. Our economy is demonstrating resilience. This creates opportunity to focus on policies that can benefit the middle class. We can raise the Capital Gains rate back to the level it was
under president reagan and use that revenue to make sure that middle class kids can go to college and working mom and dads can get an extra tax credit to help afford child care. They have it down to the talking points. What is your response . It is great that the economy is picking up. Nothing like low gas prices to make that happen. I think that is terrific. The question is whether it is a good idea to raise taxes on anybody at this particular point. I mean, we dont need a tax increase. The president got several of them already. Rates are very high on most successful people in the country. He is suggesting that we levee a tax on small businesses. I think that is the last thing we ought to be doing. He is certainly correct that the middle class has not enjoyed any kind of recovery. If there has been recovery it has been among people at the top who under this president who is always talking about how terrible it is that people at the top are somehow getting away with something, they have made
out in fine fashion during the obama years. Its the middle and lower income people who are behind. That is because this has been an uneven recovery benefitting only those at the top getting the economy going doing things like approving the Keystone Pipeline would create 42000 jobs according to his state department is the kind of thing we ought to be doing. So they have a lot of bullet points that obviously the president will hit on in the majority of the speech tonight. They said november of 2014 was best year of job growth. Most of the overall wage growth exceeded inflation. Health care employer premiums lowest rate on record and on energy the u. S. Is leading work in oil and natural Gas Production solar and wind up as well. Some of those things are true. The government had absolutely nothing to do with the energy boom that we are experiencing. The job creation if you look at the number of people looking for work, the number of people looking for work is at the lowest level since the carter administration. A lot of people have given up and dropped out. Im glad the economy is Getting Better but it is not morning again in america. You would not be able to convince working class americans and lower income americans that they have benefitted from the policies of this administration. Basically what the president is apparently going to offer tonight is more of the same tax and spend, tax and spend. We asked people to tweet in questions. One came from jay murray. He said could you ask what if anything they have a 67 vote threshold on, a veto proof majority on . Is there an issue that you can convince enough democrats to override a veto . I hope so but the president doesnt set the agenda in the senate. He is trying to tell us what we should and shouldnt debate based upon what he intends to do
with it. We were elected by the American People, too. They chose a Republican Congress. The president doesnt set our agenda. I hope that he will end up agreeing with us on some of the initiatives that we are going to pass most of which will enjoy bipartisan support members of his own party supporting like the Keystone Pipeline. If he chooses not to do it then the American People understand we just have a different point of view about how to get the country moving again. Do you see this as a first card putting down in the negotiation or do you think it is so far apart from what you have heard that this is just vision for his legacy and his party . It is hard to be encouraged by the utterances that the president has made in almost a de defiant way since the november election which was a defeat for his party not only at the congressional level but state and local level, as well. I dont think the American People were sending a message that they were happy or wanted
more of the same. They were saying we want a fully divided government. We would like for you guys to figure out things you can agree on. They were not saying that they wanted the president of the United States to set the agenda in the new majority in the United States senate. We are going to do what we think the American People expect us to do try to move the country in a different direction. I hope he will sign on. If he doesnt the American People understand we have a different point of view. On Foreign Policy you have a different point of view. If you look at the world at the map you have yemen today, libya, iraq afghanistan syria iran signing a military deal with russia today, troubles in ukraine, what do you say about this president s Foreign Policy . He went to cairo and said if we work out more things would be better. He did not leave a residual force behind in iraq. When the ukrainians asked for
military assistance to defend themselves we sent blankets and meals ready to eat. I think our adversaries around the world think america is in retreat. So they react accordingly feeling that they can be pretty aggressive. Take the iran nuclear issue. We already had two extensions. There will probably be a third. The iranians know the president loves to talk. Will sanctions go forward . I hope so. What the iranians need to know and we can be helpful to the president on even though he doesnt want it is to say to them if at the end of the current discussion supposedly to end this summer there is no deal you get tougher sanctions. You dont get them now but you get them if there is no outcome. You dont think it blows up the deal . No because the talks continue but you know there needs to be an end date to it or you get a worse case of sanctions. If there is an agreement it
needs to come to congress to be approved so that we have part ownership of this, as well. The American People dont expect this policy to be 100 unilateral on behalf of the president only. Guantanamo bay the president , this administration seems adamant that they are going to close it one way or another. Is Congress Going to let them cephal. We are going to do everything we can to prevent that. Guantanamo bay is the Perfect Place for these Foreign Terrorists. The administrations policy has been two fold either to kill them with drones. I dont necessarily oppose that but a dead terrorist cant talk or to capture a terrorist overseas and put them in a u. S. Court where they are given a lawyer and told to shutup. The most important thing you can get from a terrorist is information. Guantanamo bay is the Perfect Place for the location of Foreign Terrorists who can give us information to thwart the next attack. Do you expect to be standing up and applauding much tonight . I will applaud for trade and maybe a few other lines but i think it entirely depends on how the president presents himself. As always thank you. Please join me for complete coverage of the president s address and the republican response will begin at 8 55 eastern time. We will have an expanded panel and Wisconsin Republican will join us live. Up next how tonights state of the Union Address sets the stage for the 2016 president ial race. First a look at what the fox affiliates across the country are covering. Six members of a family are unaccounted for as a fierce fire reduced a waterfront mansion to scorched stone framework. Relatives say they believe the six were inside at the time of
the blaze. Khon in honolulu where pro golfer thanks a woman who he says saves his life. He says he was kidnapped, robbed and beaten friday night. The woman says she saw him arguing with two men and intervened. He says he does not remember most of what happened. This is a live look at cincinnati from fox 19 and the scene of a deadly construction accident that shut down the southbound lanes of interstate 75. An overpass collapsed and killed a worker last night. Officials are not sure when the lanes will reopen. That is a live look from special report. Heartburn. Did someone say burn . Try alka seltzer reliefchews. They work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. Mmm. Amazing. Yeah, i get that a lot. Alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. Enjoy the relief. We are expecting a heavy dose of what the president calls paying your fair share and what republicans call class warfare tonight in the state of the Union Address. That will likely be a foundation of the democratic play book in 2016. Chief Political Correspondent is here tonight with thoughts on that. Obviously 2016 gop president ial contenders disagree with most of what the president will propose tonight. Mitt romney and jeb bush were here in d. C. Today to raise money off the opposition of president s proposals. They scheduled fundraisers around the state of the union knowing conservatives will probably be eager to write big checks. Romney and bush are not giving interviews, no reaction to the state of the union but they expect the president will be setting the table for 2016 for Hillary Clinton with a speech of not very subtle messages of that class warfare. Can clinton pull that off . Doesnt the Democratic Party think she is too cozy . Sure. They do. She is not really going to help herself tomorrow. Turns out clinton will give two speeches in canada that raise
eyebrows all over again. They are cohosted by the bank of commerce which is being investigated by the u. S. By helping wealthy americans evade taxes. Bad timing and precisely why the warren wing will continue to show misgivings. I am sure we will hear populous messages. Arent the gop prospects sounding more populous . They want to cut taxes so people can keep more of their money. The trick for both parties will be developing a growing economy. It is a gop field but four are getting special attention this weekend. Kentucky senator rand paul, scott walker marco rubio and ted cruz have gotten much coveted invitations to speak to a freedom partners conference this weekend. For the conservative philanthropy of the koch
brothers. They have an obvious affinity for rand paul. Walker is a conservative governor of a blue state who fought free labor and won. Rubio can help grow the gop. Cruz is a Tea Party Rebel known for bucking the establishment. The republicans are going to seize what the president says today and campaign against it for the next year and a half. We will follow it all. Ted cruz and rand paul will be on after state of the union tonight. The dow gained four. S p 500 finished ahead three and nasdaq up 20. How isis terrorists have been a major thorn in president obamas side since the last state of the union speech. First how cuba figures in to tonights address. One Foreign Policy subject we will likely hear a lot about tonight is the effort to restore relations with cuba. James rosen tells us many in the audience have a personal stake in the issue. Reporter acuban dissident who spent 17 years in the castro brothers jail will attend the state of the union as the honored guest of House Speaker boehner. Marco rubio is bringing daughter of a slain cuban dissident. Seated with the first lady will be allen gross, the usaid subcontractor detained in cuba and freed as part of the secret diplom
diplomacy. Mr. Obamas allies pleaded for bipartisan support in the lifting of trade and travel restrictions that only congress can overturn. The president is moving in areas of trade and travel as we hope he will do to expand these opportunities, but we have to do our part in congress. Reporter when she leads the u. S. Delegation to cuba assistant secretary of state will raise issues. I do not think we are talking about direct human rights condition ality in the restoration of diplomatic relations. This is clearly a onesided approach by the president to give the cubans a major moral and political victory in. In the book back channel. Its coauthor predicts the president s initiative will face
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meaningful summary of where we are and where we are going would be a very welcome change. Reporter here is the goal the president set in september. Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. That is not possible are air strikes alone. The approach is not to defeat isis from air. You dont dictate in states from air. You cant control territory. You cant influence people. You cant maintain lines of control after you have established them. That will take a ground force. Meantime Canadian Special forces accompanying iraqi troops monday to the front lines in Northern Iraq became the First Western forces to find themselves in a fire fight with isis. A canadian sniper neutralized the threat according to canadian officials. Thank you. Some 200 Police Officers raided 13 homes in berlin and elsewhere in germany looking for evidence
in a nationwide terrorism investigation. A Spokesman Says the raids were mostly on Close Associates of two suspected terror cell members. Authorities say a group of turkish extremist terrorists procured funding. The Obama Administration says it released a former al qaeda operative from an american prison prior to completion of his sentence due to quote time served. He admitted to plotting against civilian targets. Al qaeda detainee identified him specifically as a sleeper operative whose task it was to facilitate additional al qaeda members in follow on attacks. I think it is important to remember that the judge considered this a very serious offense and the judges words was that he did not believe that he truly rejeblthed or was sorry for what he did when he came
here and that he would do it again. He has been repatrioted to qatar. A pope generally applauded for his stance tenor and tone on many issues is calling for catholics to use common sense and not quote breed like rabbits. More on the statement that raised some eyebrows. Reporter pope francis is making head lines yet again this time for remarks he made regarding the size of catholic families which he says can be regulated within the guidelines that prohibit using artificial Birth Control. Translator some think that in order to be good catholics we have to be like rabbits. Reporter catholics for choice that opposes the teachings on Birth Control and abortion called the comments troubling adding the stereotype
of catholic rabbit breeding is an insult for those who choose to ignore some other persons judgment on the right number of children to have. Pope francis should respect and defend our rights and not deny them. Executive director of priest for life says she believes the pope is speaking more freely but acknowledges that can open him up to more criticism. Unfortunately, people want the churchs teachings to change. What has to change is our hearts. We have to change our hearts because if you want to grow closer to the lord its changing your heart that will do that. Reporter in his remarks this weekend pope francis said catholics should engage in responsible parenthood and told the story of a woman he met in rome who was pregnant with her eighth child caasking does she want to leave the seven orphans. The pope clarified comments
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assisting people everywhere who stand up to the bankrupt ideology of violent extremism. We will succeed. Tonight i call on congress to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force against isil. A lot of places are blowing up essentially. One of them is yemen. Take a listen to the president 4 1 2 months ago on that issue. We targeted al qaedas affiliate in yemen. Recently eliminated the Top Commander of its affiliate in somalia. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the front lines is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years. Now there is an effort to watch and monitor to see if the embassy there has to be evacuated. Lets bring in our panel, george will national Political Correspondent and steve heys. George, thoughts . Because the president has
been so aggressive in asserting his power in domestic policy making, unilateral changes on Affordable Care act and immigration he is going to get a pushback in regard to Foreign Policy where president ial policy is normally at epiagy. That is with regard to iran and the question of sanctions that congress will clearly assert itself to his discomfort. With regard to cuba the same thing because people are convinced that the president asked for nothing and got nothing in return for extending u. S. Relaxationf oour relations with them. We have a paradox. Where the president should be most powerful he will find himself under considerable fire. As we take a look at this map of all the hot spots that are happening now and it doesnt look good yemen down there on the bottom we are getting word from a senior u. S. Official that
they moved into the red sea and could be used in the evacuation of u. S. Embassy in yemen. They have marines on board and there is no guarantee that the u. S. Embassy is evacuated that the ships will be used but are moving into position to do just that. Yemen is a big story tonight. Sounds like the u. S. Backed government will fall to the rebels. I think on some Foreign Policy issues the president very early in the term is going to get pushback from congress that is successful. There are probably 60 votes for that bill in congress that would put sanctions on iraq tougher sanctions if the fails. The president has begged Congress Give me more time, hold your fire. But i think that would be big problem for him, filibuster Group Majority voted for that. Yemen is a problem. This is the president who just one year ago in his state of the
Union Address said we have to get off our permanent war footing and the world hasnt cooperated. What about iran . Today russia and iran sign a military agreement. Take a listen to the Iranian Defense minister. Translator the United States policies of interference in regional and International Affairs and how to counter factors that create crisis when confronting the interference of forces from outside the region. Iran and russia on the state of the Union Address tonight. Iran and russia have had friendly relations for a long time. Russia has been helpful in ways that we didnt want russia to be helpful with iran in the past. I think what we are seeing in comments like that we are seeing in announcements like the ones that we have seen is our enemies are not afraid to challenge the
United States. Almost seem to take delight in the fact that they can tweak us and poke us without any concern of reprival. I think that is one of the problems that president obama faces with his Foreign Policy and i one of the reasons why i think we wont hear a lot. A couple of excerpts they put out deal with Foreign Policy. What about this release of this al qaeda operative who was supposed to be a sleeper al qaeda operative. Sent him here before 9 11 to activate cells to conduct followen attacks after the 9 11 attacks. According to news reports the Obama Administration is basically just freed him and let him walk in qatar. He was supposed to get out on what was a very sweet plea deal in 2018. He has been set free. I talked to some intelligence folks today who say if you look
at twitter they are celebrating the fact that this guy who was a sleeper agent who would help lead the follow on attacks after 9 11 is just a free man. How much do you think we will hear about that effort against terrorism and closing gitmo in the speeches tonight . I think very little in the excerpt that you read. The president said what he wants an authorization for the use of force against isil. The middle east is like scrambled eggs right now. It is very hard to separate one group from the other. We had the group we were supposed to worry about at some point. We are working on behalf of the vetted moderates in syria. We said president assad of syria must go. How do you draw an authorization for use of force on one component of this . I know the incoming chairman of the Foreign Relations committee and others are astonished that the president says he wants an authorization for the use of force but hasnt said about what. If this is what he wants it for it will be narrow indeed. This white house has their hands full with a lot of different issues. They have their hands full with Foreign Policy. The authorization for use of force is something that Congress Wants to pass. This is something he could get. He has to say what he wants it for and limitations. I think it is one of the few things he can get through. A lot of talk about leadership. I believe in a smarter kind of American Leadership. We lead best when we combine military power with strong diplomacy and leverage power and dont let our fears blind us to the opportunities that this new century presents. That is exactly what we are doing now and around the globe it is making a difference. Its a im struck by the fact that this administration after six years of what i think many regard is a disastrous Foreign Policy is using the phrase smart power trying to sell the idea that what they are
doing is so much smarter than the Foreign Policy execution than what we have seen in the past. Part of the problem is when he says our fears blind us to better leadership to smarter conduct of Foreign Policy. He seems not to understand that there are some things that should cause us fear. You are talking about these groups that want to threaten the United States. You are talking about iran, the worlds leading state sponsor of terror with a nuclear weapon. It is interesting to hear him saying it in this context is to down play the concerns. He has done it from the beginning of his administration and did it when he was in the senate suggesting this is a gross overreaction. I think we will continue to find out that it is not. Next up domestic issues in what republicans are already calling class warfare. Hey guess what day it is . . Hump day hummmp daaay its hump day yeah hey Mike Mike MikeMike Mike MikeMike Mike Mike mike mike. Hey he knows hey guess what day it is
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we were by the American People too. They chose divided government. They chose a Republican Congress. The president doesnt set our agenda. I hope that he will end up agreeing with us on some of the initiatives that we are gonna pass. Most of which will enjoy bipartisan support, members of his own party supporting like the Keystone Pipeline. But, if he chooses not to do it, then the American People will understand we just have a different point of view about how to get the country moving again. If republicans have a different vision, if there are some areas where they disagree, they are welcome to say so. If they think its more important to protect that loop whom for people who have trust funds, then they can certainly make that case. The president believes that Community College education is more important for middle class families. Domestic issues in the state of the Union Address. Were back with the panel. Mara, what about this . Is this the beginning of a negotiation or is this just
what we have seen many times . Two parties on many different sides of this issue . I think its both. Its an opening bid but its also laying out his vision bowers he wants to frame the debates of the next two years and set the table for 2016 his way. He has decided after 2010 he moved to the republicans issues, tried to talk about the deficit. Tried to get a big deal. It didnt work out so well. So now he is saying we are not going to talk about the deficit. We are not going to talk about the size of the government. We are going to talk about how with the economy growing can we address this question of wage stagnation and inequality. He has a lot of popular proposals. Not will raising rates closing loopholes that sound pretty unclear. The trust fund loophole. How much inherited wealth is tax base; thats what he is going to push i think he would like to have a deal on tax reform with Republican Congress. They have wanted not just corporate. This is his entry into that debate. Of course that trust fund
loophole death tax would be two times that money. George . The president is going to unfuller a Mission Accomplished economy. Which is why we are growing again and everyone is back to work. We dont need to worry about entitlement reform. Therefore we dont need to worry about the structural deficit. That is to say no more irresponsible. But, the way voters think of success in the economy is jobs. Unemployment is down to 5. 6 . But only because primarily because so many people, particularly american men in prime working years have left the workforce. If the workforce Participation Rate today were as high as it was when barack obama was inaugurated president six years ago. The unemployment would be 9. 9 . If this is success, we have defined success down. We should point out that the republican response is
by freshman republican senator joni ernst from iowa. They have just put out on her behalf some excerpts as well. There you see her practicing for this response. Among the excerpts, quote americans have been hurting when we demanded solutions too often washington responded with the same failed mind set obamacare. A mind set that gave us political talking points not serious solutions. Tough job republican response or any response. It is a tough job. I hope she offers some serious one of the things i think republicans have done poorly in the first couple weeks of this new congress is offer an alternative. Republicans seem to me to have given the president an opening. Remember, after the election voters had great confidence in republicans. Republicans favorability was 47. Disfavorability was 47. That was the highest it had been in years. I think voters chose republicans in part because they wanted to see republicans do things. What we have seen from the Republican Congress so far is a lot of talk. We havent seen them do
things. Why didnt republicans come out with a middle class tax reform package that included individual adjustments to individual rates or something that would have blown up the irs. They didnt do any of that i think, unfortunately, for republicans, the president has sort of seized the initiative on that. I think its going to be very hard for him to sell this as truly beneficial to the middle class but he is out there first. He is making this proposal. I think they have sort of backed themselves into a corner. There is a reason for that. They cant agree. They have spent years trying to come up with alternative to obamacare. Dave camp came one tax reform proposal which they threw in the waste basket what i have k. See. Not that they cant agree they also lack the will. If you remember the interview that Mitch Mcconnell gave to the the Washington Post at the beginning of the month. He said basically our job here as a congress is not to mess up the playing field. He said that for very under staneldable reasons. I guess i think the job of the Republican Congress is to provide be bold and make the case. Couldnt vote for the
mcconnell interview on this show. You had to go to the the Washington Post . He didnt say that he to. You where they agree, the president writes the law. The republicans is the Corporate Tax rate is too high. But republicans are understandably low loathe to start out by doing something for big business. They should be. That would send, i think in my view the wrong message. That is it for the panel. Stay tuned to see how secretary kerry could have handled his trip to paris perhaps a little bit differently. Nexium® 24hr. Its the purple pill the 1 prescribed acid blocking brand available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. Get complete protection. Nexium level protection™
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