peace in the middle east, saying that america seeks to resolve its differences with iran but that iran must first prove to the world that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. >> iran is the only part of the npt that cannot demonstrate the peaceful intentions of its nuclear program. and those actions have consequences. for u.n. security council resolution 1929, we made it clear that international law is not an empty promise. jen yuen white house correspondent mike emanuel is here in new york following the president's every move an every word, mike. what kind of strikes you about what he had to say today? >> reporter: i was struck by how much he talked about middle east peace. many american presidents have tried for middle east peace and that's been very elusive, so the president raeg making the case that we can do the same old same old when it comes to the palestinians and israel, be back here making big speeches once again, and so he spent a lot of his focus on that. also struck me, the talk about the global economy, what he's tried to do to help rescue the global economy. obviously that's a great concern around the world. jenna: it's interesting, ahead of the protests we're expecting in new york city about iran. what do we expect to hear next from the president? he has a few speeches and a few things to take care of in new york. >> he has a key bilateral with the chinese premiere so we can expect talk about north korea to come you, the global economy. the two nations, u.s. and china, have differences sometimes over economic issues but obviously the u.s. would like to see china take a more proactive role when it comes to north korea. we'll see what happens when the cameras are rolling. jenna: how do you like being here rather than the white house? >> it's great. jenna: but the white house is nice. >> but great to be here with you! jenna: mike, thank you very much. jon: house republicans just laid out their pledge to america. gop leaders unveiling an agenda for slashing tax and government spending. they're hoping for the kind of success newt gingrich had with the contract in america in 1994, when republicans swept the midterm elections and took control of the house and senate. shannon bream is live at the unveiling in sterling, virginia. so shannon, how is the message of today's pledge to america, how does it differ from what we heard in 1994? >> well, jon, when you look at the physical rollout, you can see the differences. back in 1994 it was on the steps the u.s. capitol, today, wee are in suburban west virginia, it's clear that republicans want it to seem like it's more collaborative. 1994, they handed out the ten points and say this has finish discussion with the american people, it's about acknowledging the things done wrong in washington and now republicans are pledging to serve the people of america. here's how congresswoman marsha blackburn put it. >> the great promise end salvation of this country has always been the power of the american people to seek and create solutions. this pledge acknowledges that washington has gotten in the way of those solutions and that washington has made the problems worse. >> so today, they laid out the road map for turning those things around, jon. >> jon: i know that in the past democrats have always said that republicans don't have a lot of ideas, especially for the economic situation. did they put anything forward today? >> they did. you know, first they talked about the fact that hey, when republicans were in charge of the house, they did things wrong, there were issues with spending and other things but now they say it's time for everybody to get back on track, they want to go to prestimulus spending levels, they want to reign in government and with the things done with health care and all kinds of things, representative herling discussed that. take a listen. >> we will have discretionary spending, we would go to the first house without a budget to a house with a binding budget under our pledge and we would actually cut congress' budget, at a time when families are having to cut back, small businesses are having to cut back. >> reporter: they say everyone should be sharing those responsibilities for cutting back. that was a clear point here today, jon. jon: so any reaction from democrats on that? >> as you can imagine, you know, last night when we started getting the contours and outlines of what they were going to talk about today, democrats have fired back saying in a federal pledge to america, this is more a pledge to wall street, to big business, to oil companies. we heard that from representative steny hoyer, majority leader in the house and also a spokesperson for nancy pelosi's office, the house speaker's office, said it's about giving tax cuts -- stopping tax cuts for billionaires and shipping jobs overseas. this is in a tough midterm cycle. jon. jenna: democrats are quickly tiring back -- firing back and james clyburn, offering his own interpretation of the republican pledge. heresy, just moments ago: >> if implemented, the proposed document will visit a plague from americans. >> a plague, not a pledge. let's talk to the lead author of that pledge, congressman mccarthy, joining us live from virginia. congressman mccarthy, some comparing this with the contract of america, some calling it a plague on america, rather than a pledge. what did you -- why did you choose to call this a pledge? >> this is a pledge, this is what we will do, what we can do before we leave congress. we're calling on nancy pelosi and harry reid to bring these bills up, stop the uncertainty so business can start working again, cut the debt and cut the spending, what's been going on, cut the regulation and reform congress, where you have something oefplt that's why we're at a small business today that hasn't even had a profit in two years. jenna: you said you want to get some of these done right now. talk directly to our viewes. there's been talk about republicans taking back the house, some of maybe republicans taking the senate but if you don't have both houses it's very difficult to get legislation through, so again, how reasonable is it, some of the pledges you're making to our viewers today? >> this is very seasonal. -- roam. this focuses on small businesses, where 80 percent of all jobs are created, gives them a 20 percent deduction so they can survive and invest, it makes sure the uncertainty is taken away so they know the tax system stays the same and goes forward, no tax increases in a recession, it takes away regulation where these agencies are putting new regulation on business, 191 of them out there, that will cost american taxpayers $100 million in business, because it first has to be roted -- voted on by congress. >> can you do that without having the majority in both houses? >> yes we can. i will tell you, the american people we've been talking to for the last two years asked for this and when they came to talk to us we never asked what party they were afailate dollars with, they wanted jobs and take down the debt and they wanted to change washington. that cuts across all parties. this isn't about republicans, democrat, liberal, conservative. this is about the american people. jenna: but you do mention the democratic party directly in the pledge, as well as president obama, and some would suggest the rene we have this administration in place right now is the reaction of the american people to the previous republican administration. so how are you and this pledge different? >> well, first of all, i never served in the republican majority, i wasn't here. but the one thing that i have found is the american public never thought this country would go as far as they did. they want to see this country come back and make it actually strong for future generations. so many mothers and fathers are asking will the next generation be as well off as mine and that's what we have to restore and that's what this pledge does. these are items that can be taken care of right now, be passed before we leave congress. the on thing that the democratic majority is talking about is ending early, going home and leaving the uncertainty, looming out there to the american public. jenna: there's been two criticisms of this pledge, mainly coming from the gop. one is that it's risky to be putting out there right now 40 days ahead of the mid terms because it really gives the democrats a chance to kind of pick away at your strategy. it also, according to some republicans, does not include enough references to social issues, to values. what's your response to that? >> well, these are things that can be done right now. i'd love to have the debate with any democrat on what they disagree, do they disagree that small business creates jobs? do they disagree with the idea that government spends too much? do they disagree that a bill should be put online for 72 hours and actually read before it's voted on? do they disagree that you actually have to have the constitutional authority listed in the bill that you introduce? i fine that hard to disagree with. but the majority in congress today led by nancy pelosi believe that. and we think the american people want this, we talked to them, we discussed it with them and we lay it out very boldly. we have ideas and we have ideas to take this country back. yeah, the light may have been dimmed a little on that shining city on the hill but we're going to recharge it. it is not going to go out on our watch. jenna: if you're part of the young guns, the next generation of republicans, do you think it's proper that congressman boehner is the lead face of your party right now? >> one thing you found in this meeting, there were a lot of new faces that you haven't seen in congress that have been working, put ing this together. leader boehner has done a great job of bringing us together. this is a microcosm across america, this isn't just congress working on this, we went to the american public. the american public has the ownership of the pledge and that's why we ask america to join with us and fight to bring this to the floor, ask nancy pelosi to allow us to ask the vote and let us see where america stands. jenna: congressman mccarthy, they appreciate you joining us and we look forward to talking to you again soon. thank you sir. >> thank you for having me. jon: we know a lot of you are online as uch watching this. if you'd like to read the pledge to america, you can find it on our show page, fox news.com/happening now, also vote on our question of the day, we want to know what you think of this pledge, do you support it, oppose it, or if you support some but not all of it, you can cast your vote and we will check out the results later in the program. and fair and balanced, coming up in the second hour of "happening now", we will get reaction to the pledge from democratic senator bayh iron dorgan and we'll ask him if he supports the president's position on extending the bush tax cuts for just the middle class. jenna: apparently there are movements on those tax cuts today so we'll keep you up to date as we hear more. we're also watching kentucky right now and big news, rand paul's bid for the u.s. senate. live redetails -- details, strayed ahead. >> harris is at the breaking desk with new information on a crazy and sometimes thought to be controversial car chase, harris. what do we have? >> reporter: i tell you what, jenna. we have firefighters, cops, from two of florida's largest counties, tasers involved, paramedics, a chase that ended so dramatically we brought it all together, so i asked who the heck are these guys? we've got the followup to the roundup. we've got their pictures, too. stay close. jon: new information about that dramatic car chase in south florida. if you were with us for "happening now" yesterday you saw all of this mayhem live, sheriff's deputies chase ago car on the roads and the sidewalks of a neighborhood in miami-dade county. when they finally got this thing stopped it looked like a clown car with all the bodies piling out. harris has new information from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: my new information is made even newer. this has just come out of the miami herald. apparently there was crystal meth that was found on one of the suspects or the car, so possibly drug use going on during this thing. that's from the miami-dade miami herald that's being reported. this crossed two counties, miami-dade and brower when it finally came to an end and now we know according to police what started it all. we thought maybe the vehicle was stolen but now we know what these guys were apparently looking for was to steal equipment from houses in a nice neighborhood. you'll remember jenna kept bringing up, this is a residential area, this is not a freeway, these guys could hurt somebody, drive up in somebody's lawn, then they went for it and you saw the houses in the background. they were looking, according to police, to take lawn equipment from houses in this neighborhood, corral springs officers started off with a chase in the toyota camera in the 4000 block of corral springs, bringing this whole thing to an end and who are the guys? we have mug shots. lewis is 30 years old and then there were allegedly two brothers involved in this, joel and eric, you see joel's picture there, joel and eric sanudo, 18 and 19 years old, they are charged this morning and getting ready to leave for court is what i'm told to face charges. they had injuries but they were minor. they got tasered, one more than once, and we saw them hitting the ground pretty hard. that's the full story. people want to know who would do this sort of thing, what's the whole follow? now you have the followup on the roundup. back to you guys. jon: thanks! >> sure. jenna: well, we're awaiting a significant announcement in kentucky senate race, gop ran date rand paul expected to get tea backing in this race and steve brown is there, live in louisville with more. steve, who's going to back rand paul? >> reporter: we're finding out specifically about an event coming up on saturday, where mike huckabee, former arkansas governor, current host of huckabee, which is a fox news channel show, he's going to be coming in here on saturday to campaign with rand paul. today there's going to be an endorsement announcement and the information isn't specific but it's a business group. already the u.s. chamber of commerce has come in on the side of rand paul, but this is another business group that's going to be coming in with an announcement later at 2:00 this afternoon. jenna. jenna: steve, ran paul's opponent, democrat jack conway, has been saying the poll numbers showing him behind rand paul are wrong. does he have a point there? >> reporter: he actually may have a point here. his polling internally is done in a different methodology. what he does is his poll people ask are you a registered voter, then a likely voter. usually pollsters either ask one question or the other, likely or registered, and likely is the preferred methodology by most pollsters. conway says that kind of double secures that these are actual likely voters and in his polling it's internal polling. now, conway has been getting peppered by attack ads from groups aligning themselves with rand paul, and a lot of them have basically pinned him to barack obama and a lot of his polices as fellow democrats, and this is what jack conway had to say about that: >> what my polling is doing and what a lot of polling is actually doing, is doing it the right way, that is to say we are going to call registered voters and see who the likely voters are. >> reporter: my apologies, i tossed it the wrong sound bite, but essentially, what jack conway says is barack obama is not on the ballot, and he's going to try and make that point, and as much as his opponent and his affiliates are going to try to make the case, that jack conway is an extension of barack obama, his popularity numbers, not the highest here in kentucky. jenna: interesting race to watch. thank you very much, steve brown for us today in louisville, kentucky. by the way, fox news is your election headquarters across all platforms, get political headlines, also breaking news, 24 hours a day. check out the log, front row seat to politics, log on to politics.blogs.fox news.com. jon onpresident obama making it clear at the up u.n. iran is running out of time its nuclear program only has peaceful purposes. ambassador john bolton on the chances that iran is actually listening to the president. and to the protestors. jon: well, right now president obama says iran's failure to satisfy the world's demands on its nuclear program will have consequences. this comes just hours ahead of president mahmoud ahmadinejad's turn before the world's body late dear. amid protests over the iraniano on iran leader's presence at the u.n. fox news contributor and former ambassador to the up, john bolton is with us. welcome. >> glad to be be here. jon: i've heard themes in which iran has been threatened with consequences if it doesn't comply with the world's demands. >> what was surprising to me about this speech is how little there was new in it generally or specifically on iran's nuclear weapons program. a lot of people thought this was an opportunity for the president either to make another gesture towards negotiations or to take some stronger position, but instead, it was essentially a reiteration of what he has been saying for some time, unfortunately, without having any impact on iran. jon: that suggest the white house is running out of ideas? >> i'm afraid they have run out of ideas, and in fact their real expectation at this point is that sanctions will not stop iran from getting nuclear weapons and that the consequences, we will have a nuclear iran that will try and contain and deter. i think that's doomed to be a failure but i think that's where the administration may be. jon: what if you had been given the chance to get up to the podium today, what would you have said? >> i would have said time is just about -- has just about run out on iran and unless there's a major change in policy, abandoning their nuclear weapons program entirely, the consequences they would face would not be ones talked about in diplomatic circles but be much more forceful. i honestly think that's the only way at this point to stop the nearly inevitable outcome of an iran with nuclear weapons. jon: but the administration did succeed in getting that new round of u.n. sanctions passed three or four-months ago. is that not working? >> not really, nor are the extra sanctions adopted by the european union or the u.s. congress, countries like russia, china, turkey, venezuela, many others are still assisting iran in financial terms and in some of its other critical needs so that the sanctions themselves, while they may raise cost for iran, generally may make life more difficult or not affecting the nuclear program. jon: what is your sense about the power behind ahmadinejad? he is the public face of that country, and yet, he is in some trouble at home, isn't he? >> well, you know, human ambition and conflict extends even in regimes like this, but i think what's happening, in fact, secretary of state clinton has said this recently, publicly, the regime is increasingly a military dictatorship with theocratic overturns. it's no longer a group of mullahs running the country, it's much more the revolutionary guard of which ahmadinejad is an alum nis. jon: is he in charge? >> i don't think he's the sole power. he is obviously one of the top ones. there are a number of people who have powers, more of an uneasy, collective leadership, but as i say, a leadership that's backed by the military. jon: ambassador john bolton, thank you very much. jenna: a lot of news to get to today but we have some crazy video to though you -- to show you now a. fla