Pulitzer prize winners. Problem said to give his first state of the Union Address before the gop led congress. Its said to be defiant. Our talk about that and a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Well nations in europe on alert this weekend following sweep across the continent after the home grown terror attacks in paris. And the arrests here in United States of Christopher Lee cornell in pan fbi sting. Feds saying cornell planned to target capitol hill. Florida congresswoman ross is a member of the House Intelligence Committee and joining us now. Good to have you. Welcome. Good morning maria. Increasing incidents at home, home grown terrorism. Are we fighting a new war on terror . Its always been a challenge for intelligence capabilities to keep up with loan wolf attacks. More frightening is the global islamic Jihadist Network. We have extreme networks trying to target us. Well never get rid of lone attacks like this gentleman who obviously has some issues. We hope t
Melissa the plot to bomb the u. S. Capitol in the name of isis foiled by the fbi before it could be carried out. 20yearold Christopher Lee cornell was on authorities radar for months. He was post about violent jihad on social media and researching how to make a bomb. Then he made the move that prompted agents to act. He bought two m15 rifles with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Here now steve moore from the heritage foundation. We have jack hough from barrons. Simon constable is from the wall street journal i feel like were reading about a new Something Like this attempted attack every day. Kudos to the Obama Administration for foiling this. It didnt get enough attention in washington, d. C. Where i woke up this morning before coming to new york. It was buried in the newspaper. This is big story a terrorist attack in our capitol city. I rarely say good things about obama, but this is job welldone. Is it crazy or whoever they say it is will say they do it in the name of isis . Im not
Buck 47 a barrel. Energy co. Still getting hit because we went up and then we went down so exxon is taking a hit, same with chevron, Conoco Phillips a little bit. Now we have 21 states in the 1 gasoline club. That is where the state average for regular is below 2 a gallon. Most people in america pretty much have access to under 2 gasoline. How about that . The Interest Rate barometer we check every day, down again, 1. 81 is the interest on a ten year treasury bond, historically very low. President obama wants to give away, paternal leave for federal workers, six weeks of that fully paid. Stuart s to give that away, paid sick leave for everybody one weeks worth, a giveaway to everybody Washington Times on my opinion editor Monica Crowley is here. I dont think any of this is actually going to pass muster in congress, what the president is doing is my opinion, he is a we are going to give everybody all this good stuff republicans are going to say no you are not and they look like the bad
On top of hollywoods world nominations are in. Birdman leading the pack. Reese witherspoon, Bradley Cooper, Michael Keaton all in the running. And good morning, america. They are up early in hollywood this morning. Everyone ready for those Oscar Nominations coming up in just a little bit. You know how we feel about the oscars. Were not the only ones. Take a look at our studio crew. And also our studio. We are ready. They are ready, as well. Look, dressed to the nines. Oh, yeah. Because the countdown is on to hollywoods biggest night. Elegant. Indeed, they are. And then host Neil Patrick Harris getting geared up already, tweeting last night, i really need to finish counting all those ballots. So we have so much to discuss. Thats ahead. But first, were going to get started with the news and that homegrown terrorist. A young man in ohio inspired by isis and planning a major attack on our nations capital. Arrested by the fbi. Abcs Pierre Thomas is in washington with the latest on all that.
Reportedly had on him when he was shot. The investigators as you can see, both the d. A. And Police Investigators are still on the scene. Theyre going door to door in some of the area, interviewing possible witnesses. And, of course, this area is still cordoned off, i believe it will be cordoned off for a little while longer. It happened about 1 30 this afternoon, heres how police say it went down. The officer whose name has not been released was patrolling the area which has had a rash of robberies in recent weeks. He reportedly saw someone standing by a drive way acting suspiciously. The officer got out of his patrol car. The Police Captain explains what happened next. It looks like the officer was in full uniform, here to investigate a suspicious person. That person pulled out a firearm and the officer defended himself. The suspect was armed with a semiautomatic handgun, with an extended magazine, which carries more than den rounds. The gun has been recovered. The suspect a young hi