On this disturbing relationship. I got a fever and the only description is more and saturday night live at 40. Hannity starts right here, right now. Welcome to hannity, the atrocities committed by isis continue to mount and this time they are targeting christians in a barbaric display of brutality. Isis released a new video over the weekend showing the simultaneous beheading of 21 egyptian Coptic Christians on a beach in libya. This comes as the Islamic Terrorist Group vows to take this savagery all the way to the streets of rome. Standing by in washington tonight with the full report foxs own catherine herridge. Catherine. Sean, ive watched the fiveminute video in its entirety and analysts say its a watershed and believed to be the first documented mass execution by isis outside of its stronghold in syria and iraq. Well, not as highly produced as recent prop began ta tapes, the video uses multiple effects as well as camera angles and what appears to be a crane for overhead shots as it
Throughout the rundown, and i want to start with nbcs political reporter glenn murray and Peter Alexander who covered the last Romney Campaign. Gentlemen, good morning. Mark, start with you. We know the call will happen. Do we know if mitt will announce . Well, what we do know is hes holding a Conference Call with some of his closest supporters and advisers from his past president ial campaign run. And the hunch is and jose this is not a certainty. The hunch is hell continue to pursue the president ial bid hes been hinting at for weeks now and but we dont know for certain. What we do know is this jose that the ground underneath mitt romneys feet has actually started to shift in the last few days. Just yesterday we learned one of his top iowa strategists david kochel is said to be jeb bushs president ial campaign manager, if bush decides to make his expected 2016 president ial bid. And we also can tell you my colleague chuck todd has reported one of the people invited to be on this romn
Turks. Russia said they were bombing an isis target there. That was very disengenious. You have the tense situation. You also have russia with the very advanced surfacetoair missiles with the range of 250 miles. Latakia air base and the downing of the plane is only 50 miles. They are sending fighter jets to ensure the situation. Very intense situation. Ian, it is akin to the military response by russia. Russia sending a nonmilitary response. Strengthening controls on goods from turkey. Is this a good idea . This will escalate it one more notch. Reporter that is right. These are punitive measures by russia from turkey. You have to look at it. Russia is their second largest trade partner. Turkey is 60 of the natural gas from russia. Any measures puts a squeeze on turkey. I was on the street yesterday talking to people. They said this is what worries them most. Especially with it being winter. They dont want to see their gas reduced or cut off. Russia is advising their people not to come
Very abruptly all over refugees. The president was questioning what the Obama Administration has done in terms of allowing some refugees to come. This call from the white house was totally different. It says President Donald Trump and australian Prime Minister for 25 minutes today. Both emphasized the enduring strength of the relationship. It actually ended abruptly and all of this is happening as the mexican relationship also new controversy as well this morning because of an excerpt released from that phone call on friday with the mexican leader. Take a look at this excerpt provided to us. This is what the he says to the mexican president. Were willing to help with that big league and you have not done a good job knocking them out. So this is something the white house is going to be answering questions about today. They did not want to be talking about this but this diplomacy is worrying so many members of the National Security council and others and just these relationships the u. S
Sean how are you, mr. President . President trump im very good, thank you. Sean do you want to start with good news . You dont get a lot of good news in the media. President trump you dont get so much. Sean the market is up 25 since the won. You tweeted out that nobody is going to bring it up so i thought i would bring it up tonight. We have the lowest Unemployment Rate in 16 years. We have the best Labor Participation rate in seven years and the best the lowest number of people on food stamps and seven years. President trump thats right. I am loving it. Im doing the job for the people. People are seeing that. Im so proud of the 5. 2 trillion of increase in the stock market. If you look at the stock market, thats one element but that we have many other elements. The country, we took it over, the last eight years they borrowed more than it did in the whole history of our country. More than 10 trillion. Right . We picked up 5. 2 trillion just in the stock market. Possibly picked up the w