More than a decade earnings in focus, state of texas, ea, match, humana and amds chief lisa su will join us later this hour. Apple sports books reportedly reaching a new streaming deal with the pac12 lets begin with the fitch downgrade. Downgraded the u. S. To aa plus you talked about this last night. Is the market shrugging it off or not i think it has to in some ways, its just an upgrade of the way we run our country, and i think you want to go back and think, well, what happened in august 5 of 2011 when the s p downgraded us s p was at 1,119 it had gone down to 1,095. So, there was a big decline. Then, one year later, it went up so, in other words, if you just take the worst case scenario, which is what happened in 2011, it was an amazing buying opportunity. And when people looked at it, i think they said it was quizzical. Tim geithner was very angry, said it was wrong. This one says, youre a completely dysfunctional country, and we recognize that but all countries are dysfunctional
48 the live reporter. Watch out. Thanks everybody. Thats it for this special report. This is the fox report. Tonight president obama holds the last News Conference of his term and fights about raising the nations debt ceiling and the effort to stop mass murderers in america. My point is to focus on what makes sense, what works. One month after the shooting at newtown it is time to come up with action. We to have answers. He will announce his specific plan within days. The possible gun proposals and could they actually become law . Plus the Lance Armstrong interview. Hes denied he doped for years. Sick and tired of these allegations. They are absolutely untrue. The support gave him the boot. Lance armstrong has no place in cycling. Now and for the first time Lance Armstrong says hes opening up about what really happened. And hundreds of people hunting giant snakes. The species of the day is ber mes python. I have a machete and side arm. Man verses python in the florida everglades. Break
Or easy. But im confident that we can and will working closely with our allies and partners. Welcome to the journal editorial report. Im paul gigot. That was president obama saying his Foreign Policy team wassing working on a range of options but backing off reports they were close to a decision authorizing air strikes against the islamic extremists in syria. My guests say a plan to take on isis is needed now more than ever and believes american Led Coalition can still successfully defeat the terror group. Jack keen is the former vils chief of staff of the u. S. Army and a fox news military analyst. General, welcome to the program. Glad to be here, paul. So how formidable a military force is isis compared to the guerrillas we defeated during the surge in iraq in 2007 . Well, theyre quite formable. They operate very differently. They began activities in iraq in 2009 and 2010, much as weve seen before as a terrorist activity. Right. But when they moved to syria, they grew in size and sca
Isil will not be quick or easy but im confident we can and will working closery with ally and partners. Welcome to the journal editor report. Im paul gigot. That was president obama thursday saying his Foreign Policy backing off reports that the administration was close to 0 a decision authorizing air strikes against the islamic extremists in syria. My guests this week says a plan to take on isis is needed now more than ever and believes an americanled coalition can still successfully defeat the terror group. General jack keen, the former vice chief of sfaf of the u. S. Army and fox news military analyst. General, welcome to the program. Glad to be here, paul. So how formidable a mill tier force is isis compared to the guerillas that we defeated during the surge in iraq in 2007 . Well, theyre quite formidable in the sense that they operate very differently. They began activities in iraq in 2009 and 2010 much as we had seen before, as a terrorist activity. But when they moved to syria,
Longterm constructive dialogue. But in the same speech, putin was quick to remind the world that russia was quick to back the syrian dictator, Bashar Al Assad who in the past had all all americans in syria, quote, illegal invati iinvating forces. North koreas new years resolution is to continue and not back down from building an arsenal. Some time after new years day and it is this. To iran and President Trump is warning them, quote, the world is watching. Thats after dozens of peaceful antigovernment protesters were hauled away for chanting. Last hour saying, quote, trump is the main source of illwill toward iran. We have a team of reporters and analysts standing by covering all angels. I want to begin with cnn washington correspondent ryan noble he joins us in west palm bea beach, near where the president is vacationing. Ryan, talk to us about how the white house is responding . Christi, sometimes not responding directly from the president s comments last night, but its pretty clear