slogan comes to us from bobby in illinois. he says "i'm a "fox & friends" junkie, my friends and family are aware or come over until "fox & friends" is off the air." that's great. >> see you at 9:00. >> welcome aboard, folks! we've got a jam packed day starting right now live on fox news. 15 hours from now, the president is going to go and tell us the state of our nation. >> he is. it's called the state of the union and his main focus is going to be the economy. caroline schively joins us now from washington. i have a sneaking suspicion he had a different speech written eight days or so ago. now it's switched to touting the economy. >> you're right, gretchen. it's still switching. as of last night, the president was still rewriting his state of the union speech mainly by hand. he hadn't done a run through or rehearsal yet. today he plans to do at least one or not two. before a big speech, the white house distributes talking points to their allies so they can pump up the administration's accomplishments. here's what the white house has handed out this year. one that government is making government more accessible and transparent, he's been faithful to the central promises to his campaign. rescue and restore. he's rescued the economy from the brink of failure. he'll rebuild the domestic agenda and working to restore global relationships. we expect republicans to have a different take on those points throughout the day. as for the president's actual speech tonight, he'll place a heavy emphasis on jobs, as you guys said but health care, terrorism with other countries frpt that's a major pivot off his primary focus of health care from the last several months and aligns with a recent fox news poll that asked americans what the president should focus on this year. the economy blew all other topics away as a top priority followed with health care with 12%, terrorism with 11% and the wars in afghanistan and iraq at 7%. as the president polishes his speech, he'll try to cut it down so it runs an hour including the applause. steve, gretchen and brian, back to you. >> all right, live in our nation's capital. thank you very much. there's a brand new, rather, a "wall street journal" poll out this morning that takes a look at what you are interested in and according to this, 51% of you believe that barack obama has paid too little attention to the economy. 42% think that he's paid just the right amount. meanwhile, 44% believe he's paid too much attention to overhauling health care. hence, the problem a lot of you say. he's spent too much time doing health care. not enough time on j-o-b-s. >> much longer than he thought. his deadline was this summer. let's get this thing done by september. continue to drag on. next thing we know we wanted to get it done by christmas. almost done by christmas. then comes the special elections in massachusetts. they said let's get a new democrat in there. everything blew up since. here's something else. despite everything you just read, steve. >> yes? >> 47% of the country now thinks he's -- they approve of the way he's handling the economy. that's up five points since september. so the administration does have some reasons to say, wait a second, the american people still believe in us. >> headline to me is what he's going to talk about tonight which i find very surprising that he's going to talk about tax cuts. yes. president obama is going to talk, apparently, about tax cuts, number one. eliminating capital gains taxes on investments for small businesses. number two, a tax credit for new hires. and number three, extending bigger tax breaks to those that purchase new facilities and equipment. isn't this what a lot of people have been saying? i know at least on our show for the last year, this is what they're saying will stimulate the economy, tax cuts for small businesses. if the president says this tonight, this is going to sound very republicanesque in my mind. >> that's what a lot of people -- >> republicanesque? >> i just made it up. stunned by the fact he's going to talk about tax cuts. >> that sounds republicanish. >> i like stymied, too. i'm going to try to use it in a sentence in the third hour. i'm not too sure. i'll do it carefully. other things that come up, speci special guests that will be the two officers that brought down major hasan in fort hood. he's going to talk about sealing the border first. plans to seal the border between the u.s. and mexico and talk about immigration reform and he's going to do something, i think, both sides can agree on, $9 billion for the military families. >> there's -- there's one other thing that caught my eye. i was looking -- cruising around on the internet yesterday and i saw that news max had commissioned a poll with zogby and this has got to give the white house a pause. if the election were held today and if it were scott brown vs. barack obama, scott brown would actually beat the president of the united states. taking a look at -- because the president's support with independents and the swing voters are the ones that actually put people in the white house. scott brown is popular with 48% of the independents while barack obama only 36%. so clearly, some alarm bells at that going off in the white house, if you lose the middle. >> good news for that is, gretchen, is that it's good news for taxpayers because scott brown would leave the basketball court in. he loves that game. >> very true. wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall and see what the original state of the union actually said? that could be historic proportions to see that speech, if they started cracking that eight days ago and how different it would have to be now for this date in 2010. in the meantime, another thing that the president will speak about tonight is this spending freeze that he started talking about yesterday. which is about, i think, $15 to $17 billion in savings over the next three years. but at the same time that he's talking about saving that kind of money, this administration has also added a lot more money to the deficit. and charles thinks he has found the loophole in this whole thing. listen to this. >> it's not a hatchet. it's not a scalpel. it's a q tip. it's a fraud. this is a minuscule amount. remember, it excludes defense, homeland security, it excludes veterans affairs. it excludes all the entitlements which are 60% of the budget. it excludes stimuli past and future, the 2/3 of the near trillion dollar stimulus that hadn't been spent. all that is excluded. it excludes the trillion that would end up being spent in health care if it were passed. what it is is a $15 billion reduction in a year 2011 in which the c.b.o. has just announced we'll have a deficit of $1.35 trillion which means it is -- it's a rounding error. it's lunch money. >> entire talking point. that was beautiful. that's why he's charles. >> he goes on to say, it's a way to lock in the increased spending that this administration has put into place. it's complicated but maybe later on in the show, we'll have time to explain that. >> yeah, you know, he goes back to, you know, talking about an axe and a scalpel. he's clearing parodying with the president of the united states, then a senator said on the campaign trail when john mccain was for the spending freezes and barack obama was against them. well, now he is for it. but there are some critics who say, look, just like he just said, it's a tiny amount of money we're talking about. less than 3% in the grand scheme of things. clearly, it is simply a p.r. band-aid to put on a big problem that they've got. and that is the economy, they want to portray the president as somebody who is really worried about those big deficits. >> all right. also, we should tell you, too, that we're thrilled to announce, we'll be on at 5:00 a.m. eastern time to give some instant feedback on the 50 to one hour speech the president will be giving tonight, between 30 and 50 million of you will be watching. we'll talk to about what it will mean from here. a lot of people are saying this will be the type of pivot if president obama is going to be successful over the next three years, that president clinton did that brought him so much success which was the opposition congress. but let's talk a little bit about health care because they don't want to. it turns out harry reid says, well, you know what? let's just put that aside for now. we've talked enough about health care in the past. in fact, here's harry reid in his own words. >> we're not on health care now. we've talked a lot about it in the past. there is no rush. this is a congress. what we have done lasts for two years. >> if you were -- >> since when? >> can you imagine if you were a bear and hibernated since december 24th. i remember being on vacation on christmas eve morning and watching this huge press conference at 7:00 a.m. eastern time that they had solved health care and it was just about to pass. if you were a bear and hibernating and you woke up now, you'd be a very confused bear. >> no reason to get cable if you're sleeping through the winter. >> if you are a bear and you watch cable news, please call us because we would like to sign you up and get you -- >> no one would have predicted that on this date in january, we would be discussing what we're discussing today. >> what do bears do in the summer if they're that tired they have to sleep through the winter? >> exactly right. what do they do? >> dick morris will weigh in on what the president is going to be talking about tonight. also, a secret plan by pelosi and reid to actually ram the health care bill through after all because they've got a way to do it even though it was revealed yesterday, i think that the politico did a poll of moderate senators on the democrat side and eight say, we can't go for that reconciliation and then you add joe lieberman and suddenly, they've got to redraw. >> they're running for the hills now. brian, i believe you have my headlines. if you'd like to pass them off. >> yes, i will. by the power vested in me, i'd like to give you the headlines. there you go. >> thank you very much. fox news alert this morning, north and south korea exchanging fire now on the high seas this morning. it's happening in the disputed border area. the north fired artillery shells as part of an annual military drill so the south fired warning shots in the air. north's shells landed in its own waters. no reports of casualties. yesterday, the north declared a no sail zone in the disputed area of the sea. two weeks after that powerful earthquake in haiti, people still being pulled from the rubble alive? members of america's 82nd airborne rescued a 35-year-old man from a collapsed building in port-au-prince. he's being treated for a broken leg and, of course, dehydration. but hundreds of flights are still waiting for permission to land with supplies. the u.s. is reporting a backlog of seven days to be able to get in there. the filmmaker who posed as a pimp and recorded undercover videos of controversial practices at acorn offices across the country now under arrest himself. james o'keefe are charged with trying to tamper with the phones of the senator in new orleans. his lawyer says "we don't have any of the facts yet but james at heart is a really good kid." four men face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. heisman trophy winner tim tebow making big waves off the field over a pro life ad that's going to appear during the super bowl. the ad tells the story of his mom who got sick when she was pregnant with tim. doctors apparently urged her to have an abortion. she did not. and now some women's groups are protesting the ad paid for by a christian group saying that it only provides one point of view. tebow says he's not trying to tell anyone what to believe. >> i don't feel like i'm very preachy about it but i do stand up for what i believe and at least you can respect that because i do stand up and unfortunately in today's society, not many athletes tend to do that. >> tebow has long been open about his strong christian beliefs and family values. and those are your headlines. >> all right. it is now a dozen minutes after the top of the hour on this wednesday. president bill clinton failed at health care reform. then called hillary care. then gave the state of the union address. we're going to -- will it be deja vu all over again for president obama or can he get out of clinton's shadow? we're going to talk to former clinton advisor dick morris straight ahead. >> and what is up with steve jobs? what does he have up his sleeve? we'll finally see a new tablet from apple today. i think it's all but a done deal. we are live in san francisco and clayton morris scrambled to tell us what we can expect. 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>> president obama set to take center stage tonight for his first state of the union address. >> but will the speech take on the same tone as president clinton's did after his failed attempt to reform health care? >> can president obama change his rhetoric to reflect the voice of the american people? joining us now -- >> with his expert take, former clinton advisor dick morris. good to see you, dick. >> good to be here. >> all right. so many people are going to be looking at this speech tonight and comparing the words of president obama to the words of president clinton when almost the exact same thing happened. do you expect this president to come to the middle of the road like president clinton did? >> i think he will try to in the sense that many of the proposals he'll make tonight will be aimed at the center. things like a spending freeze or aid to families or expanding the child tax credit. but not in the sense that he's going to abandon his left wing proposals. i think he's still going to push ahead with health care. i think that the bulk of the federal spending will grind right on including the balance of the stimulus package and most important, he's not going to back away from the regulatory reform measure that's coming up next which permits the secretary of the treasury to seize any company he bloody well wants for any reason. >> you know, if he's going to vilify wall street, if he's going to reinforce the border, isn't he doing some easy populous, positive things that will get him some applause? >> yeah, i think he's going to try that. but i think the key thing to understand about this speech and about the obama presidency, from the minute he took office, i've been saying it's an outcome based presidency. bush -- bill clinton's was not. there was nothing particularly going on in the country that he had to solve. there was a minor recession but that was well on its way to solution and other than that, he really had a blank slate and could do what he wanted and therefore, his presidency depended a lot on advocacy, a lot of what he said and so on. in obama's case, the transcended need is to lower unemployment and he will be judged on his ability to do that just like with bush, it was to win the war on terror. and no matter what he says, in any speech, it's going to provide a little bit of a blip and then go back down as long as that 10% unemployment remains high. >> that's very interesting because i was looking at a poll this morning that shows the president's poll numbers historically only tick up or down one point after a state of the union address. >> that wasn't true with clinton. his would go up 10 and they'd stay high for a long time. >> interesting. let me ask you about president clinton because president obama gave an interview in the last couple of days where he said the one thing i'm clear about is i'd rather be a really good one term president than a mediocre two term president. a lot of people thought that might have been a swipe at president bush but then it dawned on me, maybe it's a swipe at president clinton? >> yeah, i think so. i don't think obama would describe bush as a mediocre two term president. i think he'd describe him as the worst president in american history. in fact, i think he probably did say that. i don't know. but he came pretty close. mediocre means bill clinton in his lexicon but i think he misunderstood that. he had one year as president when he ran the country. that's over now. his year is over. the next year, they're going to be running for cover. and then two years later, he'll be dealing with a republican congress. >> we'll see. in a matter of a few months, we'll see how the midterms do. that will be the report card everybody is looking at. stay right there, we want you to talk about a secret deal that you have sources that say is happening behind closed doors that could put health care front and center, the inside scoop coming your way. >> and also, senator-elect scott brown keeping his promise and already reaching out to democrats. but are they listening? >> we showed you this miracle shot yesterday. hits the shot at half court. we'll show you what happened. a? 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