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Join for fre and expect amazing. Because it works. Bill lets kick off a whole new week on a monday and a fox news alert. President obama set to push through new legislation on another controversial issue setting his sights on Immigration Reform. Said to be getting ready to announce a single sweeping bill that could legalize the countrys 11 million Illegal Immigrants. Well see how this goes. Welcome to the blue show here live at in americas newsroom. Martha were not blue. Im martha maccallum. So republicans not against Immigration Reform as we know but pushing more of a step by step earned approach on all of this. The president wants the big comprehensive picture to get a lot done all at once. Bill it is the next battle. Steve hayes, senior writer, weekly standard. Fox news contributor. Good morning to you. Go ....
steve: great. speaker john boehner will be the first to face a major test. we re watching that as we get rolling here. good morning, welcome to america s newsroom. i m bill hemmer, here in the new year. i m heather chilled ders. where is martha? bill: she will be here next week. i m filling in for martha. that comes for a rocky start from the speak. bill: do l delayed vote for victims of soup storm sandy punted to the next congress. that affected lawmakers in the affected area. to leave new york, new jersey, thousand of people in this area this holiday season on their own and abandoned was wrung and disgraceful in a lot of ways. to say to a region hirt by a natural disaster and now you have to rebuild yourself and you have to fund the reconstruction, actually adds insult to injury. bill: the critic say, the bill, they re sympathetic to the victims but the aid needs to be paid for. there is other criticism. mike emanuel live on the hill. good morning to you. fi ....
bagram airbase. two workers were hurt but they will be okay. bill: dempsey talking about the attacks on u.s. and nato forces by afghan troops. you were there last night. what happened? reporter: fox news pentagon correspondent and jennifer griffin and steve shelton and i were in bagram for the chairman s visit. at 1:00 a.m. we heard alarms for incoming rocket fire. there was a series of explosions. this is a regular occurrence in bagram. they take a lot of rocket fire, especially during the summer. the report we got the chairman s plane was hit. not serious damage but enough that they chose a different airplane to fly him and his tveng on the tourrage out of afghanistan. injured were two workers taking care of helicopter and a plane in the area. there was a helicopter damaged. the military says this was not a target on general dempsey. this is the regular incoming fire that bagram and other bases across afghanistan regularly see. i ve been to bagram many, many times, ....
afghanistan this morning. the attack happened at bagram airbase. two workers were hurt but they will be okay. bill: dempsey talking about the attacks on u.s. and nato forces by afghan troops. you were there last night. what happened? reporter: fox news pentagon correspondent and jennifer griffin and steve shelton and i were in bagram for the chairman s visit. at 1:00 a.m. we heard alarms for incoming rocket fire. there was a series of explosions. this is a regular occurrence in bagram. they take a lot of rocket fire, especially during the summer. the report we got the chairman s plane was hit. not serious damage but enough that they chose a different airplane to fly him and his traveling on the tourrage out of afghanistan. injured were two workers taking care of helicopter and a plane in the area. there was a helicopter damaged. the military says this was not a target on general dempsey. this is the regular incoming fire that bagram and other bases across afghanistan ....
within the number, you have a pop with independents in that number, with women and perhaps most notably among senior citizens given the fact that will be a central part of the whole discussion because ryan s plans to revamp medicare. byron york, chief washington correspondent for the washington examiner . what do you make of these numbers? good morning. first thing to say we re 72 hours into the romney-ryan ticket and it is too early to draw conclusions from it. people are just getting to know him. i think the results are fairly encouraging for the romney-ryan ticket. republicans like the choice. democrats don t like the choice. people in the middle are trying to figure it all out but seem to become a little more positive toward paul ryan. so i would say for the first 72 hours they think it is pretty encouraging. martha: all over the media this morning splashed all kinds of takes on these numbers. some saying they were weak. they show he compares with other people wh ....