And overnights. A pledge which appears to be dashed in the face of chinese provocation. A nightmare for president obama. It embarrasses him in the middle of a summit that hes called with southeast asia. The goal of the summit was to create a unified response in the South China Sea and avoid militarization. Civilian satellite image ri by fox news appears to show that china has faced its hq 9 missiles on woody island. It was confirmed the accuracy is real. The Missile System which closely resembles russias Missile System has a range of 125 miles. Would it pose a threat to any airplane civilian or military within that range. The missile placement is the latest in a of provocative actions by china in that region. 450 miles southeast in the spratly islands, china has been dredging sand to build up an air strip. It is now completed and in useful china last december accused the u. S. Of a series of military provocations after an american b52 bomber flew over. They demanded washington immediately stop such aggressive acts. The u. S. Respond that had the overnight was unintentional and bad weather may have trinld to the pilot flying offcourse. It come three week after secretary of state john kerry visited beijing to discuss the contested islands. At that time chinas foreign minister pledged not to militaryize them. In the past halfhour president obama completed his Closing Press conference. He did not discuss chings pla placement of the missiles. Well head back. Now to president ial politics. It is only tuesday of primary week in South Carolina. The primary is saturday. Republicans are not leaving themselves much room to go further downward in the negative campaigning department. The rhetoric already resembles according to some, a professional wrestling free for all cage match and there are three more days to go. The chief Political Correspondent carl cameron has the down and dirty details from columbia. According to the high population of active and retired military, republican candidates zeroed in on defense policies and one another. Jeb bush took aim at donald trump. He thinks he can use his real estate skills to somehow bring to light the Weapons Systems necessary to keep our war fighters safe. That imaginally well have an army of fore90,000. Thats not a reality based statement. Trump who attended military school said he is the most military in the group. You know this guy ted cruz. Ive never seen a human being lie so much. He lies about everything. Cruz went to the uss yorktown to detail and expand his security strategies. And then in a stop later. I voted against john kerry. And donald trump supported john kerry know not only, that he gave money to him and supported him to be president against george w. Bush. Marco rubio has been hammering cruz for months for voting against authorization bills. Now he says cruz is repeatedly violating the 11th commandment that republicans should not wage war against republicans. So to the extent that has been violate, it has been by teds campaign. Trump has a double digit lead in most South Carolina polls against ted cruz who is in a tight battle for second. And jeb bush is gaining momentum after his brother and commander in chief took some swipes. It comes from integrity and character. And in my experience, the strongest person usually isnt the loudest one in the room. Bush noted trumps assertion in the extreme left that his brother lied about weapon women in iraq. I thought it was a little strange that a front running candidate would attack the president of the United States who did keep us safe. John kasich doesnt expect to be competitive in South Carolina and was in michigan talking National Security too. Well to have rebuild our military but we have to rebuild it by also rebuilding the pentagon. Over the last five months the republican field has gone from 17 candidates to now just six. Trump has a big lead in the polls. But his negatives, his unfavorable rating sare sky high as the rest of the field recognizes that until a couple more candidates drop out, it will be difficult for them to actually beat him. Carl cameron in South Carolina. Thank you. President obama was asked for and gave his thoughts on the 2016 president ial races on the republican contest, he had some choice words for the frontrunner, donald trump. I continue to believe mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is because i have a lot of faith in the american people. And i think they recognize that being president is a serious job. Its not hosting a talk show or a reality show. Its not promotion. Its not marketing. Its hard. President obama also says regarding the democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, he is content, not surprisingly, to let the primary process play out. I know hillary better than i know bernie because she serve in the my administration and she was an outstanding secretary of state. And i suspect that on certain issues, she agrees with me more than bernie does. On the other hand, there may be a couple issues where bernie agrees with me more. I dont know. I havent studied it closely. Senator sanders and doing work in South Carolina. Hillary clinton is in harlem trying to shore up support among a voting bloc she may have been taking for granted. Ed henry tells us, that support might be undermined by her own husband. Hillary clinton was playing catchup today meeting with al sharpton and other civil rights leaders to shore up africanamerican support nearly a week after Bernie Sanders did the same. And i know very well that both my campaign, but more importantly, my presidency, if im so fortunate to be in that position, must reflect the thinking and the planning and the proposals of people like you around this. Before measuring draymonds in the oval office, clinton has to deal with sanders erasing the 25point lead in nevada. And the fact that the socialist today went to South Carolina which has its democratic primary on february 27 ths and tailored his attack on wall street. The Africanamerican Community that suffered more and has recovered in a much less significant way. To win the nomination, hell have to overcome the inevitable controversies around her husband. Last week in memphis, president clinton appeared to downplay the importance of president obama being the first africanamerican president. After being introduced as a standin for the first black president. Im happy to do that. Do you know what else we learned . We learned that unless your ancestors, everyone of you, are 100 , 100 from sub saharan africa, we are all mixed race people. That clinton did say his point was from a scientific perspective, people are 99. 5 first same and should focus only. And he went on to praise mr. Obama for creating 14 million jobs. In nevada, nhl hillary raise someday eyebrows with comments about a dog barking at Campaign Lies which culminated in her, yes, barking like a dog. Every time they say these things, bark, bark, bark. I think we could cut through a lot of their claims. Now sanders africanamerican outreach is having some impact. Today, vincent fourth, the africanamerican leader switched his endorsement from clinton to sanders. They vote in georgia march that 1st. Be honest. Have you ever seen a president ial candidate bark . No. Democrat, republican or independent. Never. Ed henry, live in vegas. President obama is Standing Firm on his resolve the nominate a replacement on Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia who died over the weekend. And he said senators should do their job. As you just saw, he made comments to the media a short time ago in california. Kevin corke is traveling with the president. Reporter hey there, youre right. This asean sum was supposed to be a major pivot for the president. Obviously this has been overshadowed by the death of Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia so it has effectively pushed to the back ground the president was having with the leaders about important issues like trade and security and economic cooperation. Instead, all anyone wants to talk about is the nomination process. And the bruising battle that the president will likely face as he puts up for vote a possible Supreme Court nominee. This is the Supreme Court. The highest court in the land. It is the one court where we would expect elected officials to rise above day to day politics. And this will be the opportunity for senators to do their job. Yeah. But while the president is saying all the right things about the fact he thinks the senators should come together and give the nominee an up or down vote, i want to share something he said in 2006 when he was senator barack obama. This was about then president george w. Bushs nominee to the high court, sam alito. The president was asked about whether he would support the filibuster to keep alito from getting an up or down vote. Then senator barack obama saying i will be supporting the filibuster because i think judge alito in fact is somebody who is contrary to core american values, not just liberal values. He was challenged about that day. He deflected and pointed to more dysfunction in washington. Clearly the president has had a couple of opportunities to nominate to someone for the high court. Hes been successful with justices sotomayor and justice kagan. It took with a month to name that person and then they both made it through the process relatively comfortably. The president could take a few weeks. We talked about it before. He makes another nomination to the high court. If he wants to expedite it. He may to go someone like attorney general loretta lynch. Thank you. Services for Justice Scalia will be held this weekend. Chief Legal Correspondent the. We are learning more about the final arrange xts for Justice Scalia. Draymond in ceremonial black wool crepe and memorial. Both his chair and the bench where he sat. There is a draymope over the courtroom doors. The flag will remain at halfstaff for 30 days. On friday his body will lie in repose in the great hall. It is open to all who would like to attend and pay their almosts. Then on saturday at 11 00 a. M. , a mass will be held at the basilica shrine of the immaculate conception. It is the Largest Catholic Church in north america. Youll remember that the poem conducted mass there when he was in washington. There have been questions about why there was no autopsy. Why he was declared dead in a phone call in that west texas hunting phone call. The major complication is that it was so very remote. It is legal if texas to have someone declared dead by a justice of the peace over a telephone inquiry. This third person they finally got to it was. County judge. She said she talked on law enforcement. They said there was no sign of foul play. She said his physician about some Health Issues so she did not order an autopsy. When the body finally made to it an el paso home, the family turned down an autopsy as well. There has been a lot made of the ranch here found him who they said had a pillow over his head. They said it would be more accurate to say it was above his head and touching the head board. Emthere was nothing unusual in the location of the pillow. Okay. Thank you. Is there a disconnect between the Obama Administration and the real threat posed by isis . First, fox 30 in jacksonville, florida, with the coast guard hearing into the sinking of a cargo ship during a hurricane in october. The these crew members are presumed dead. It left propulsion after leaving jacksonville. Fox 6 in birmingham as the Weather Service experts assess damage from storms that caused problems in at least six alabama counties. The National Weather system is looking at a century that hit the area. Possible storm damage reported in russell, barber, crenshaw and montgomery counties. The storms prompted multiple tornado watches and warnings. And this is a live look at houston. From fox news 26. The start of early voting. Texas has the biggest delegate prize of the 12 States Holding this a prize for super tuesday. Thats tonights live look outside the beltway. Well be right back. flourish spray noise flourish spray noise flourish spray noise flourish spray noise the joy of real cream in 15 calories per serving. Enough said. Reddiwip. flourish spray noise share the joy. We ship everything you atcan imagine. N, and everything we ship has something in common. Whether its expedited overnight. Or shipped around the globe,. Its handled by od employees who know that delivering freight. Means delivering promises. Od. Helping the world keep promises. Man 1 he just got fired. Man 2 why . Man 1 network breach. 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There is an apparent difference of opinion about how dangerous the threat is becoming from isis terrorists. Heres our report and a warning, some of the image you say may be disturbing. Reporter the deputy secretary of state said significant progress has been made along the turkish Syrian Border against isis. We were working with the turks to get control of the last 10 . Reporter speaking to the brookings institution, they said the group known as dash are in iraq where u. S. Forces are working with local fighters. They have not been able to engage in any offensive operations since last spring. What were seeing is that not only are we taking back territory. But were doing it in a strategic way. Reporter but his upbeat assessment appears to conflict. Isil including its eight established and several more emerging branches has become pre Eminent Global terrorist threat. Reporter these images document an isis attack against kurdish fighters. On sunday the cia director confirmed the terror group is experimenting with weapons of mass destruction. We have a number of instances where isil has used kept munl igss on the battlefield. Artillery shells. Sure. Reporter despite the bombing campaign, they also said the number of foreign fighters traveling to the region is at a record high of 36,000 from at least 120 countries. As Syrian Government forces with the help, president obama said russian intervention will be help nor significantly weaken isis. There is nothing happening over the last several weeks that points to those issues being solved. Thats what i mean by a quagmire. The pentagon Spokesman Says the u. S. Has not been asked to provide for aid from aleppo. The syrian president s base of operations. Private they said theres no way to get the aid there without isis benefiting. Well, Bashar Al Assad is warning turkey and saudi arabia that any ground incursion will have global repercussions. Meanwhile, russia is denying involvement on hospitals in Northern Syria that left dozens dead. Correspondent john has the latest tonight. Reporter emergency workers hit the ground as a bomb hits what is said to be the Doctors Without Borders hospital. Today they denied the jets carried out the attack. Witnesses said the hospital was hit at least four times. It come just days after foreign officials announced the plan for a cessation of hostilities in syria to get desperately needed aid into aelemento. But Syrian Forces continue to pound and the violence is intense identifying. Turkey has suggested sending Ground Troops into syria and has called on the u. S. To join in the ground operation. U. S. Officials say there are no imagines to do that. In fact the u. S. And russia agree to the temporary cessation of fighting. But russian air strikes continue and show no sign of letting up leading some to speculate, this is more political talk than action. Then theres assad who says no cease fire can be reached with, quote, terrorists. Translator we hear about them questioning a years fire within a week. Then who is bringing together all these conditions within a week. Who will make them accountable . There is some movement on the humanitarian aid front. The u. N. Says that it is getting convoys ready to go into seven bee sieged areas after syrias government gave its approval and they are expected to roll out in the coming days. In our middle east newsroom. Thanks. The state Department Says three american whos were abducted last month in baghdad have been freed. The three have been handed over to the u. N. Embassy. It was termed a suspicious apartment. Iraqi and western Officials Say theyve suspected one of two powerful shiite militias to be behind that abduction. It has not been a Good Campaign season for the people. I use whats already inside me to reach my goals. 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Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test everybody wants to go to the coliseum. This has been a pattern. You spent the last days just making stuff up. When radical islamic terrorists waged jihad on the United States of manager interesting answer is not to tweet insults at them. Sth this guy cruz comes out. He is so strident and so nasty, he will lose every single state. Then poor bush, he comes out. He goes, well, i dont think that donald trump can beat Hillary Clinton but i can. I say, why are not you beating me . So the sights and sounds from South Carolina. And we can take a live look in buford, South Carolina. A forum ongoing. Donald trump talking about the war. Talking about isis. Just a moment ago said that 9 11 would not have i were president. As you take a look at the latest polls out of South Carolina, the average of recent polls, you see donald trump up significantly. However, a caveat. Most of these polls happened before the debate. At least a part of them. We expect different polling numbers or at least new polling numbers in the next day or so. Well have our own thursday morning. Lets bring in george will, editor and chief, and david gregory, the form he moderator of meet the press and author of the book, how is your faith . What about this, whats happening in South Carolina . Trump made a calculation that the only way to win this is to do what they did in the opening scene of the godfather. You have to take out the other families. Take them out at the altar, the phone booth. I guess the only way to do is it to settle the score on globalism, bushism, the war. And he is doing it in a way that is really strident and really fonlds a lot of people but i guess he is banking on the fact that there is not all that much affection for the policies but a the love affection for the people, the patriotic side of the bushes. It is a risky strategy. Right now, could it pay off . Were all of these policies popular . When the bushes respond, they tend to go to donald trump is a reality star. Hes not serious. I think the debate about these policies is a healthy one to have. Was our policy toward china good . Did it really work out . He doesnt want to relitigate iraq war or those decisions then. They dont. But in an ugly way, trump is forcing a debate that a lot of people arent having. I dont think he is putting it very well but what are the leadership, i would like to hear that. Particularly in how you fight isis. Thats a relevant debate to have. Not the way he is putting it now. I think there is some cal chags here of stridency. And tapping into this anger. Dont forget we talk about tea party sentiment. It was bush who bailed out the big banks. So a lot of that anger starts under bush. As well as the extension of america in the middle east and afghanistan. David is right. The tea party was a reaction against really the spending by the bush administration. So there is a lot of sin to go around here. Mr. Cruz understands, if you deep bombs going off, no one will focus any one of them. You mean trump. Trump. Yes. He said when he was a birther, before he said cruz wasnt eligible to be president , he said this wasnt wasnt eligible to be president. He said i have investigators in hawaii and theyre finding amazing things. He never told us what they were because he went on to something else. 23 days ago he said on television, any day now i will believe announcing the senators who have endorsed me. No one has endorsed him yet. No one remembers that emthat. Theres one likely senator, some people think Jeff Sessions because he agrees with trump on trade and immigration. I talked with jeff. He has no intention of endorsing anyone. The cnn poll about people deciding. Definitely decided, 49 . Leaning toward someone, 20 . Still trying to decide, 31 . What is clear is these early states, a lot can happen in the final days. South carolina is a tricky place. A strong evangelical base. They have that Bob Jones University forum on friday. Trump didnt show up. He didnt have anyone at his table. Cruz and rubio was there. But there is a poll out there that says that most republicans in South Carolina think trump will be the nominee. So you wonder how much despite his promises of things that dont happen. People just get the sense. Jeb carries too much weight in the past. Rubio is a little too young. Carson is nice but he didnt really cut through. And cruz might not catch on in other states as smart as he is. Hes probably the only guy who will winett so well throw in with him even with all our reservations. Remember, South Carolina, the democrats arent voting saturday. I think trump is going for a General Electric play, thinking he will pull. Even though a lot of republicans wouldnt have said it that way. I want to turn to the democrats who are lining up ahead of nevada. Thats their focus on saturday. Theyre making a may for the africanamerican vote. Hillary clinton in harlem. Bernie sanders with a number of moves. Hillary clintons husband, the former president , saying this about the genome and the first black president. He remarked that i was just a standin for the first black president. Im happy to do that. But you know what else we learned from the human genome . We learned that unless your ancestors, everyone of you, are 100 , 100 from sub saharan africa, we are all mixed race people. Im not sure how that plays. My very considered response is, what is he talking about . It just strikes me as weird. Honestly. I havent looked at the human genome project in a while but this is a bit of a problem with bill clinton on the campaign trail. And one of the cautionary notes, though hes been more disciplined, the potential for distraction if she is the president of the United States with the first husband. As a campaigner, is it a liability or an asset to have bill clinton on the trail . I think it is an excitement. You never quite know where hes going with this. I think what he is saying, and it is a truth which is our genetic makeup is a really complicated thing after 200 generations. One of the four of us is almost certainly related to charlemagne and one of the four of us is almost certainly related directly to 20 generations, to charlemagnes group. So what . Whats interesting is that the Democratic Party makes so much out of race and identity politics. To have him come out and say by the way, race is a pretty blurry concept. It doesnt really fit on a bumper sticker. I agree. I dont understand why he thought bringing that up there will help hillary. Remember in South Carolina in 2008, he made that comment about, this is the biggest fantasy ever. Paraphrasing about obama. Hillary today was in harlem and gave a speech with race. A lot of reference to white americans. It instruction me as kind of odd. He know you have a black you had a ye aence. It is always slicing and dicing the country into this identity politics moment. I guess were all at a speech code forum at harvard. Whatever happens at the university, you made this point, is trickling down into our political conversations. It is about white americans think this and black americans think this. I thought we were supposed to have our own individual thoughts. Maybe thats a fantasy as well. Next up, president obama talks about the Supreme Court as china makes a major move. Const . Trust number one doctor recommended dulcolax use dulcolax tablets for gentle overnight relief suppositories for relief in minutes and stool softeners for comfortable relief of hard stools. 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President obama in california talking about the Supreme Court vacancy now that Justice Scalia has passed. He will make a nomination, the president says. Were back with the panel. Well start there. There was also breaking news about chinas moves as he is meeting at this summit. Lets start on the Supreme Court vacancy. The president s rationale. He obviously was a senator who filibustered a Supreme Court nominee in 2006. He didnt answer that question today. You have to admire the president s ability to say with a straight face that the republicans should give a full hearing and vote on his candidate because that is the original intent of the founders. We know his devotion to that. Heres a man who has been rebuked repeatedly by, of all things, the Supreme Court, often 9 to 0 for his depart ures from the clear. He is president , anyone in his position would send up a nominee. And the republicans are going to have to deal with it. And they think what they should do is have hearings in the Judiciary Committee, have a vote on the floor, a full debate and explain why they dont want that particular person. It is certain they will not want that person and they can just explain why. Chuck schumer in 2007, al enter toe gonzalez today. We should not confirm any bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances. When president bush was in the white house, we had obstruction by the democrats. So the democrats are not speaking here on a moral high ground. So, there is hypocrisy on both sides politicians, Mitch Mcconnell has said other things. Bottom line, what do you think is going to happen here . Not much except that i think the president is, of course, going to nominate someone. Senator grassley runs the Judiciary Committee has not said there wont be a hearing. We will see what happens. This is a high stakes nomination to be sure. The president sounded pretty idealistic today about the process. I wish he had been that idealistic when he was actually in the senate. But i do agree with him from that point of view that this ought to be a moment to try to rise above these moments pick somebody who is qualified. The story that David Axelrod tells he says from the white house send me somebody really really smart. Thats what i want. Send me alena kagan. He realized it was going to be somebody who didnt agree with him. We will see. The politics are going to be very difficult on this. Both sides are going to be energized on this. What will happen whether there is a confirmation or not, this becomes elevated in importance all year long through the general because the stakes are that high for the balance of the court. Ca6e he pick somebody that pulls a few republicans off the line. No. Oh, no. Its been 50plus years since byron white was confirmed to the bench, democrat nominee who was a just jurist who was fair and looked at the law as it is and was more of a texas actualist than textualist than not. Nothing but a reliable vote for the most leftist activist policies and rulings on the court. I clerked for Justice Thomas as a lot of people know. I look back to the last 30 years and i really other than justice white, i cant imagine one democrat that the president would pick, one nominee that the president would pick who would not be a vote for expanding the rights of Illegal Immigrants to vote, environmental policy, abortion law, unions, gun against gun rights so, thats whats at stake for the republicans, they know it. If it was someone like a byron white then i think it would be different. Meantime he is at the this conference, this summit, conference and china moves surface to Ballistic Missiles on these items. A big move thumby c this is another sign of where really big nations with really big ambitions are prodding and poking and seeing if the there ever be a response. We have a fleet over there. We have an admirable admiral who wants to sail close to these items and test the international law. We will see what the president does now. Quickly, this is a standoff. It is a standoff. I dont think, you know, he wants to position himself for anything militarily. Its going to occupy nn lot more time and effort to try to get china to fall into line when a lot of others who have challenged the president have not fell into line. Political party, trump, bush, policy toward china been successful . Are we stronger visavis china and the rest of the world today . I think thats worthy of debate. That is it for the panel, stay tuned to find out the food fueling the president ial candidates. Finally tonight as the 2016 race heats up. Campaign finance under scrutiny how much doe candidates are spending on food. One late night host keeping track. Hillary clinton making a breakfast stop at this man Manchester Duncan donuts wife and jennette looking for a snack. Today donuts. Wtajjt to dunkin donuts. Hillary clinton spent nearly 1,900 at dunkin donuts. Second jeb bush over hundred bucks. Jeb bush 230. Trump only spent 10. [ laughter ] oh, Hillary Clinton bought 1,900 worth of donuts. Wow, she hasnt seen that much he dough since her last speech to goldman sachs. Thanks for inviti5 s n us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record in a few seconds. Well, tonight on the record, no southern hospitality, the war for South Carolina is turning nasty. Thats a really bad namecalling. This 2016 race is wild. But the race isnt as tight as some candidates would like to you think. A brand new cnn orc poll of likely Republican Voters has donald trump with a double digit lead. Trump sits in first place at 2 it 8