Gasoline prices that have fueled optimism but which are unrelated to any white house policy. Mr. Obama is also tonight going big on tax hikes. Proposing more than 300 billion dollars in new taxes. Hes still pushing taxpayerpaid Community College for all and looking for fast track trade promotion and negotiating authority from congress. And the president has already threatened to veto seven prospective bills in the Republicanled Congress. The Republican Leadership dismissed tonights speech as another campaign event, a speech loaded with proposals they declare to be nonstarters. I think any president in this situation has a choice he can sort of act like hes still running for office or he can focus on the things that we have a chance to reach an agreement on. Obviously, thats what i hope well hear tonight is a speech that brings us together and doesnt push us apart. Lou also here tonight u. S. Diplomats in a motorcade on their way to the u. S. Embassy were shot at in yemen, despite the turmoil in yemen the state department has not ordered an evacuation. And just hours before a white house delegation is set to arrive in cuba, a russian spy ship has docked in old havana. U. S. Diplomats will try to move forward on the president s unilateral order to normalize relations with the communist island nation. And the Obama White House returned another al qaeda terrorist to the middle east without public notice, and it appears without consulting with congress. The Obama JusticeDepartment Released the al qaeda operative and flew him to qatar. There are only a few of the reasons of the many reasons that the president wont be focusing tonight on his Foreign Policy agenda. Fox news chief White House Correspondent ed henry is on the north lawn with our report. Reporter for every state of the Union Address there are the images the white house wants the public to see such as president obama in the oval office today making final preps. Then the images of the world burning that the president wants to spend far less time on tonight like the deepening crisis in yemen where the u. S. Backed government is facing a coup. Isis demanding 200 Million Dollar ransom for two japanese hostages. And iran signing military aliance with russia. Im not sure how much time president obama will devote to the very serious threats facing this nation but i think americans in such Uncertain Times crave safety and security, and craving leadership. Reporter yemen in flames as shiite rebels took over the president ial palace while shots were fired at u. S. Embassy vehicle, there were no injuries reported there. All of this embarrassing for the commander in chief, who four short months ago held it up as a success story. Targeted al qaedas affiliate in yemen and recently eliminated the Top Commander of affiliate in somalia. The strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the front lines is one we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years. Reporter that may be one reason the president created another image, holding a surprise meeting with people who had written him personal letters and whose stories will be highlighted tonight. As he puts less emphasis on National Security and more on plans to double down on tax the rich policies that paint him as the guardian of the middle class. Our economy is demonstrating resilience, what that creates an opportunity to do right now is focus on policies that benefit the middle class and the president thinks by doing, that thats the best way we with grow our economy. Reporter the president will focus more on domestic policies that shape his legacy and the 2016 campaign. Even though those plans are going nowhere fast in the new republican congress. Absolute nonstarter. Last year we had the alltime alltime Record Number of receipts of dollars coming into the United States treasury and what did the democrats want to do . Instashiable desire we want to raise taxes and pour hundreds of additional dollars into the government. Thats not going to groat economy. Reporter aides say the president will be touting cooperation with republicans, pointing out hes ready for more veto threats and executive action. Lou ed henry reporting from the white house. The white house has announced the transportation secretary anthony foxx will be the designated survivor for tonight. Hell be the cabinet member held out of state of the union in case of a mass casualty event at the capitol. Real shocker is that the transportation secretary of all people is 13th in line of succession to the president. And we want to update the story on yemen. We have just received that the u. S. S. Iwo jima with the 24th Marine Expeditionary unit aboard and another craft have moved into the red sea. There has been as i said at the outset no evacuation ordered of u. S. Diplomats and personnel from yemen, but they are obviously being moved into the red sea should that be the decision ultimately of the president. Well keep you posted. A major part of the president s address tonight expected to focus on plan to normalize relations with cuba. President obama is wasting no time, hes sending state Department Representatives to cuba, they arrive tomorrow to begin talks aimed at opening an embassy in havana. Some members of congress and the first lady using the occasion to make political statements about cuba with a guest theyve invited to attend tonights speech. Fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen with our report. Reporter Jorge Luis Garcia perez is a cuban dissident who spent 17 years in the castro brothers jails, hell attend the state of the union as the honored guest of House Speaker john boehner. Marco rubio is bringing Rosa Maria Paya and seated with the first lady is alan gross the usaid subcontractor detained in cuba and freed as part of the Obama Administration secret diplomacy with havana. Mr. Obamas allies pleaded for bipartisan support in the lifting of trade and travel restrictions that only congress can overturn. The president is moving in areas of trade and travel as we hope he will do, to expand these opportunities but we have to do our part in congress. Reporter when she leads the u. S. Delegation to cuba tuesday, assistant secretary of state Roberta Jacobson will focus on the steps necessary to reopen our embassy in havana. I do not necessarily think that we are talking about direct human rights conditionality in the restoration of diplomatic relations part. This is a one sided approach by the president to give the cubans Major Political and moral victory in exchange for truly no changes on the island. Reporter a new book, the backchannel to cuba, chronicles six decades of secret diplomacy. They will face retrouble in the gop controlled congress. One of the earliest battles will be when the president nominates ambassador and the Senate Confirmation will be rough. Reporter and still another hurtle will be the Appropriations Congress will have to pass for the conversion of our intrasection in havana into an embassy. Aides to secretary of state john kerry say that even if he decides by june to keep cuba on the state departments list of nations that sponsor terrorism that opening of the embassy will proceed. Lou . Lou james, unilateral or not, this normalization seems to be proceeding at full speed full speed ahead. Reporter right, the first normalization talk on thursday there wont be embassy reopened immediately thereafter. There will be at least another six months but we are also told that this business of whether cuba stays on the list that the nations that sponsor state terrorism is going to be kept separate from the normalization track. Lou james thank you very much james rosen reporting. White house chief of staff Denis Mcdonough apparently more powerful than a lot of people thought. It wasnt president obama secretary of state kerry or defense secretary hagel or National Security adviser susan rice making Administration Representative in paris, it was mcdonough who told nbc it was his bad judgment that the superiors didnt attend the rally against terrorists earlier this month. We said we regret we didnt send somebody more senior than the ambassador. That rests on me. Thats my job. Were going to focus on that and work with our friends to make sure that doesnt happen again. Lou president obamas chief adviser Valerie Jarrett tried to do considerable damage control on the issue and messed it up a bit calling the demonstrations against radical islamist terrorism a parade. She did it not once, but twice. The white house apparently thought they should try and try again. New york mayor bill de blasio whos come under fire for treatment of police his refusal to apologize for what many consider his assault on Law Enforcement had no hesitation in jetting to paris to show support for the french. De blasio spending 24 hours, there meeting with political leaders and members of the jewish community. Were coming right back with much more. This is number six for president obama. Lofty goals, soaring rhetoric and plain old class warfare. Congressman randy forbes on the lame duck agenda and what we can expect, next. You just got a big bump in miles. So this is a great opportunity for an upgrade. Sound good . Great. Because youre not you youre a whole airline. 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Im sure thats what you will hear more of this evening. Lou are you as surprised as i am most people are, that this president is ignoring the midterm elections altogether with immense chutzpah going to the fact that there are more republicans in congress than at any time in the past 80 years. Its as if the election did not have consequences which is the inverse of what hes been lecturing for six years . Lou neither you nor i are surprised at him doing that. Hes had arrogance throughout the administration. Doesnt surprise us tonight. Hes going to dust off the same old rhetoric weve heard the sixth time. Tax and spend. What were not going to hear, thats the pity of all this. Wont hear how hes going to recharge the economy. How hes going to reestablish the rule of law or how hes going to rebuild the military. We expect to kind of hear much of what weve heard in years past. Lou do you think tonight were going to hear this president talk about the turmoil in yemen, the threat there to our diplomats and personnel, and the likely coup, as it stands right now . Are we going to hear about the military agreement between iran and russia . Is he going to address any of these issues in your opinion tonight . Lou, that would surprise me, it would surprise me if he told us how he released cuban spies so that he could begin this normalization with cuba. If he talked about how he gave away our Missile Defense system in europe because the russians wanted it. How he started reducing our navy because the chinese wanted it. How he tried to remove our land mines on the dmz or the sanctions against iran because thats what they wanted. What would be absent is anything the United States got as an exchange for any of those actions that hes taken. Lou all right, let me try this one do you think hell explain tonight in detail to the American People why he refuses to name our enemy in the global war on terror as its styled radical islamist terrorists . You know, im not sure he will explain that but i think most americans tonight are going to tune the president out because they feel hes tuned them out for the last six years, and part of it is because they see the threats going around the world they just see him missing in action and want a president that steps up to the plate acknowledges the threats, shows a strategy for dealing with them. But more importantly lou, and this is not just rhetoric. We need at this particular point in time a president that comes together and tries to bring people together instead of this constant class warfare dividing one person against another person. Thats why most americans are going to tune him out tonight. Lou congressman randy forbes, thank you for joining us. Thank you, lou. 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