dealing with the crisis in egypt. there is the public side which we all see and hear about, and then there is the private diplomacy and the troubleshooting going on behind closed doors. joining us live now someone who knows well what goes on dana perino, a former white house secretary and fox news contributor. there is more going on behind the scenes than what we might hear from the president and his spokesperson. reporter: that is certainly almost always true every single day. in particular during a crisis like this some of the work that is being done you may never hear about, at least maybe not for ten, 15, 20 years as the history of this period is written. the president of the united states will be getting regular up dates. what they don t tell you about is behind the scenes through our state department and you re defense department we have very good relationships with people that are currently in power in egypt. a lot of conversations are taking place. i would imagine that the wh
changes we might see? well, with respect to what is happening in egypt, and other countries such as yemen, obviously the president, and the secretary of state have kind of i ve already indicated that, look, we are watching, we are monitoring, but what we hope for is a peaceful, open and democratic process. that s the goal. now with respect to security and security planning, it s really a variation on the same theme. we re watching, we re monitoring to make sure that the american people remain safe. we have no information connected to the evolution in egypt or other countries that alters our present position. jenna: certainly a lot of serious topics that we re discussing. i just would like to end on a lighter question because we do have the super bowl this weekend. you have your money on anybody? you like the packers or the steelers secretary napolitano.
development. there are whole agencies of this government that are counter productive to the private sector. just get rid of them. that s going to take courage. restoring this nation to the legitimate constitutionally limited government that it deserves is no policy for the timid. paul ryan is right now the most aggressive guy we ve got in washington. we need others to work with him in support of his efforts. jon: dick armey is the chairman of freed freedom work and former majority leader from texas. thank you. jenna: check out the pictures we are getting from kdfw, it s live out of dallas. it takes some courage to drive on those roads. jon: corvettes aren t known for their abilities to go in the snow. jenna: to be fair if you re driving in dallas you re probably not thinking you re driving through a lot of snow all the time. let s see is she or he going to get going? it looks tough. dallas airport is open.
they canceled about 300 outgoing flights. a lot of people trying to get into dallas because the super bowl is nearby. this is the type of weather that the football teams are dealing with, luckily, jon they do get that dome. jon: they need a couple of linemen to get behind the car and push it. jenna: 21 degrees in dallas right now. jon: wow. jenna: unbelievable. we ll keep you updated on what is going on out of texas, and the super bowl including this. janet napolitano joins us next. she is going to layout plans for top left security at the super bowl, plus we ll get her take on new reports al-qaida is actively pursuing weapons of mass destruction. how is that a game changer? we have her straight ahead.
service and really integrate this technology into tsa security regime to better find explosives on people at the checkpoints. jon: we ve got about 500 of these very sort of accurate body scanners already in use. that s millions if not billions of dollars. this is just a software fix? i mean, they re not going to go out and have to buy 500 new machines, will they? no, this will be a software improvement and bear in mind this is a test. but this is a real testament to what the technology industry can do with innovation when they re assured that the agency is committed to using this. you have more companies working with their very best software engineers to bring better and better innovations and this is just the start of how of the improvements we re going to see in this technology. jon: if but if you tr s don t the government and a lot of people don t, if you don t believe the new machines aren t going to be as revealing, you ve still got to get the patdown and a lot of people don t