Firearms. Is that marine waiting to find out his fate, why hes now hopeful hell be released. Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. President obama confronts a humanitarian and political crisis when he arrives in texas in just a few hours. The president will focus on the surge of undocumented and unaccompanied kids crossing the border into the United States. Hell meet with a republican governor rick perry and faith leaders. But he will not travel to the border, at least not now. That, according to white house officials, to see the situation firsthand. That decision, though, is generating lots of political backlash. Heres what republican senator john cornyn of texas said on cnns new day. This is a real crisis and the president needs to treat it as such and i think traveling from dallas to the border, its a 500mile trip. Its not far to go on air force one. Would help him understand, you know, president s sometimes live in a bubble and i think right now the president s looking
Intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge live for us in washington. Gretchen, at this hour, theresthere theres again wine confusions. A well known isislinked twitter account, posted this simm imagine, the countdown clock with just a few seconds left. Jordans information minister saying today that they will swap this woman, a failed suicide bomber who was part of a 2005 attack on three hotels in their capital, killing 60 people in exchange for the jordanian pilot who was captured on december 24 after his plane was shot down. And there have been street demonstrations in that country to show the pressure the jordanian government is under to secure his release. Jordan said they would squap the suicide bomber but of course after getting a proof of life that the pilot is alive and in good health. Is there a chance that the japanese hostage has already been killed . An authority told fox news that isis is playing chess not checkers. But in the past the military intelligence tells fox new
The local police chief says its possible this shooting was justified. Today, new information on another road rage incident involving that gunman. Did donald trump boldly challenge decades of tensions with china or get punked by taiwan . The u. S. Does not conduct formal diplomacy with taiwan that. Was part of a carefully arranged deal struck by the Nixon Administration and maintained since the 1970s. Donald trump says he took a congratulatory call from the taiwanese president which chinese view as a ploy by taiwan to lure the president elect into a diplomatic breach. Chinas foreign minister even dubbing it a little trick. Trump immediately dug in on the issue saying the u. S. Sells military equipment to taiwan so he ought to be able to talk a phone call. Trumps response raises the question of who hes just doubling down on a kind of improvisational or accidental foreign policy. While the longterm diplomatic problem from the call is unclear, weve got this covered from all angles. Well st
Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins. Bill hi, i am bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. The First Casualty of the Trump Administration, that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. National security chiefig Michael Flynn has resigned. The general got into trouble over a phone call he had with the Russian Ambassador before, before donald trump took office. The issue is centered on sanctions president obama slapped on russia. Apparently, general flynn discussed that with the russians. Michael flynn should have known that his call was being taped,d, both by american and russian intelligence agencies. That is standard. But then things get foggy. I dont know what general flynne said, nobody knows at this point, except government officials because there is a transcript of the conversation, as yet unreleased. But according to fox news correspondent john roberts, general flynn misled Vice President pence about the content of the call. And t
What it means to be goenched by a uniform set of rules and practiced. Well have more on all of that ahead. We begin with Miguel Marquez live along the parade route here in new york city. And snoopy is behind you. It looks like hes ready. Yeah, this is the coolest balloon ever. This is the 40th version of snoopy theyve had in the 93 years theyve been doing this parade. The netting is still on him. All of his handlers have gone under the netting, and they are at their post. But you can still see those green bags holding on to the netting. That keeps the balloons down until those come off and until theyre about ready to step off well know for sure. But right now nypd saying that its a go. Balloons will fly. They may be low in some places because of the intersections but they will fly. We have a band warming up now. Morgan state out of baltimore will lead off the parade. And some of the balloons. About 40 smaller balloons. 16 of the large balloons. Some of those smaller balloons are alread