breaking news in the war on terror. in yemen, the worst fears of the west seem closer at this hour rebels have stormed the presidential palace attempting a coup against this critical american ally. this as the u.s. navy positions two ships in the red sea, ready to evacuate all u.s. embassy personnel. our team coverage begins with cnn senior international correspondent, nick paton walsh, the only western tv journalist in yemen. what do we know at this hour nick? >> with power vacuums that made washington's policy makers most nervous and this morning we have awoke ton an absolute void at the heart of the government. the president is stilled by the president by the leader of the houthi rebels but his presidential body guard, we understand according to a senior houthi gunman. is he still the president? do the houthis want to claim that title for one of their own?

that has to be worked out today, but a real sense of a vacuum here inside sanaa, that's vital for the u.s. because any sense of chaos simply makes life easier for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. there's a sense of fear about the u.s. diplomats, one of their cars shot up two days ago. they are still here but the u.s. military on standby to pull them out of here. and the real question of course being how does the rest of the country react? we're hearing rumblings from the pro government south that they feel they're deeply concerned by the houthis power grab inside the capital. where it leads in the hours ahead will affect the future of one of america's key counterterror allies. more breaking news now. police in israel investigating a terror attack in tel aviv this morning. authorities say a palestinian man stabbed several people on a bus, many of them suffering serious injuries. global affairs correspondent

elise lavin joins us with the latest. >> it happened just as rush hour was starting soldiers women, children also on the bus. nine people stabbed four seriously wounded. police shot the attacker in the leg after he got off the bus trying to make his escape. they arrested him, interrogated him, he's now in custody in the hospital. police say this 23-year-old palestinian from the west bank city of tell karam, arrived in tel aviv this morning, got on the bus in the central bus station, two stations later he took out the knife and began stabbing people. police forces searched the area. they haven't found any other suspects connected to the attack. naturally, though tel aviv on high alert, as is jerusalem. no indication any terrorist group is involved. it does seem like we're talking about a so-called lone wolf attack. still, hamas has praised the attack and prime minister

netenyahu is saying it's those type of attacks that come from incitement against israel by the palestinians the kind of antisemitism you saw in paris and around the world. one of the paris terrorists and his wife may have been looking for possible targets for several months. brand new surveillance video obtained by cnn reportedly shows the pair walking by jewish institution in paris last year before the deadly attack on the kosher grocery store, this as we learn more about four men who are in custody connected to the attack. let's get to senior international correspondent nic robertson live from paris. >> michaela we're learning new details from the prime minister about the scale and scope of the terror problem here in france. he says 3,000 people in the country have jihadist ties and need monitoring. need the intelligence services to watch them. he says that radicalization is on the increase. and it continues to grow. he said those with ties to radical elements in iraq and syria have jumped up 130% over

last year and he has been laying out what he's going to do about it how france is going to tackle their terror problem. he says the government will be spending close to $500 million on things like deradicalization better intelligence gathering overseas. $300 million will be allocated to the interior ministry over the next three years alone. they're going to create over 2600 new jobs to combat the threat. they're going to appoint another 50 imams to go into prisons here which is a massive radicalization problem. they'll join the other 182 imams working on deradicalization. the problem in the prisons, a big and growing one as well. these are just some of the highlights of what the government is planning. an interesting development from the prosecutor in the details about amedy coulibaly, the gunman who went into the supermarket. the four people being held by

the government do not appear to be muslims. three of them with a criminal track record involved in the buying of a getaway car. the car that got them to the supermarket and involved in the buying of the weapons. a worrying trend here. the nexus between criminal elements and terrorists here. chris? >> you don't have to be a muslim to want to sell guns to people. that's for sure. nic robertson, thank you. so the president, optimistic defiant when making a pitch for the middle class during last night's state of the union address. taking a few shots at the new republican-controlled congress. let's bring in white house correspondent michelle kosinski. certainly a tale of two parties, if not two cities on display in a big way last night. >> and you know this was the state of the union address that the president has been wanting to make. he was fired up during parts of it and he also broke with tradition in the sense that this wasn't a string of proposals we haven't heard about before. but he made the case for what he's already unveiled and for

working with congress within limits of course. >> mr. speaker! the president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ] >> president obama strode into what some call hostile territory. into the now-republican-controlled congress. even got a kiss from michelle backman. >> the shadow crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. >> his first standing ovation was for saluting american troops. another big one on the economy. >> over the past five years our businesses have created more than 11 million new jobs. >> this speech was less a laundry list of new things to try over the year and more a determined philosophical case for the goals, immigration reform free junior college, the president's tax proposal that

the republicans oppose to take a bigger chunk from wealthy americans and benefit the middle class. >> if you believe you can work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year -- try it. if not, vote to give millions of the hardest working people in america a raise. >> the president is urging to make affordable child care a national priority got a few women on the republican side standing. a vow to fight terror. members of congress clutching pencils in solidarity with french cartoonist the for free speech and this poignant moment in the president's moment for lifting the trade embargo. >> alan gross is back where he belongs. welcome back alan we're glad you're here. >> president obama reiterated his veto threats, but also spoke for crafting a better politics in america. >> imagine if we broke out of these tired old patterns. better politics is one where we

debate without demonizing each other. >> and politics made for an unintentionally funny wrapping up. >> i have no more campaigns to run. my only agenda. -- i know because i won both of them. >> and the republican response freshman senator and war veteran, joni ernst. >> americans have been hurtoring, but when we demanded solutions too often, washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like obama care. >> pledging that republicans heard the message americans sent in the mid-term elections and will pass what she called serious ideas for the economy. >> let's begin this new chapter together and let's start the work right now. >> there was one new thing we heard in the speech last night. something called the precision medicine initiative to look for cures for cancer diabetes and other diseases. the question has been for all of

these things -- mr. president, how you plan on funding them. at least the things that can be done without congress having to approve them. we know that the president plans to present his budget within the next few weeks. alisyn and chris? >> michelle thanks. let's get into that and those questions, we want to bring in john avlon and margaret hoover. john is editor in chief of the daily beet. and margaret is a cnn political commentator, republican consultant and a sirius xm host. highs and lows for you, john? >> the highs were a lot of the ad libs you got the level of authenticity. even when he pushed back on the sarcastic claps about not being able to run again. the lows were when he talked about the bipartisanship but the proposals didn't add up and i thought the joni ernst republican speech was stale. >> meaning her delivery? >> yes. >> the low is total lack of

acknowledging he's faking the largest republican majority since 1920. he made no acknowledgement that all of the proposals he was suggesting have absolutely zero chance of passing. so it was incredibly defiant and that's a low, that's not in the gesture and ethos of being able to get done in the next in the next two years. the high was there was this moment of authenticity. there was this brief moment where i felt like everybody leaned in to see if he would take some responsibility for that. and he did a little bit. but then he went on to just laugh off his two wins and say, you know you guys maybe saying i don't have to run again, but i'm not going to run again and i won both times. i think that moment almost encapsulated the problem and the dynamic between the president and this congress. >> the problem is that the people in control of the problems are the republicans and they're the ones that created the dynamic. >> you can't just blame one party.

>> you know what, though? this morning i am and here's why, i didn't used to blame one party because they weren't in control. but now they are. >> well they haven't even controlled. >> control -- they started before they came into office they're there now, and you heard the response from joni ernst last night. you were proud of what you -- joni ernst? >> i think she did a formidable job in the sense that she, she checked the box. she did what she needed to do she presented the republican vision. >> that's the republican what we heard from joni ernst last night? i just want to hear it. >> yeah. here's what she talked about. she talked about the suffering that the middle class is going through. the middle class hasn't grown over the last ten years. that what we need new policies and a new policy approach to addressing these, the crunch in the middle class. that's what she talked about. she talked about the need for mow robust and leaderly foreign policy. i think what you don't like is her delivery. >> that's true and her -- >> it's just a list of negatives, with no promise of

delivering on the negatives. >> the underlying issue is let's go beyond the delivery. the problem is persistent. which is expressing concern for the middle class, but then proposing absolutely no specific policies that are signature republican to deal with it it's not enough to simply express concern and say we're going to put forward serious policies later. you have to put something forward specific. this speech will be known as obama trying to refrain his economic legacy as middle class economics. there's some degree of specifics both past and future. >> what's specific with about not passing keystone. changing obama care. actually republicans believe that if you change the corporate tax code you will impact the middle class, if you reform obama care. >> that's a good example of things this president agrees with republicans congress. if they could agree on details like loopholes that ernst referred to, but didn't deal with. marco rubio called the hamby

cast and made a case for some issues of common ground involving college tuition and child care tax credits. >> but john i want to push back on you in terms of specifics, it's what michelle kosinski they didn't think the president offered enough specifics on how to get it done. how will he fund the middle class tax relief that he's talking about, without hiking taxes on the wealthy, which republicans say they don't want to do. >> he's proposed hiking taxes on the wealthy. >> it will not pass the congress. >> that's the problem. though. see that's why you want to use the word blame. i think it's a bad word and here's why. the game is played it shouldn't be played but it is. they're in the control of the game. your party is in control. what gets done is up to them. just saying this won't happen all that will lead to is more stalemate. you know it, i know it. >> it's not that anything won't happen. i'm not saying because you have a republican congress nothing is going to happen. what i'm saying is the president's policy solutions from last night which are basically mid-century, 20th

century modern american liberal solutions. suffering and ills in the american society can be fixed by government spending. that is not going to pass the largest republican majority since 1920. >> so john -- >> i don't know that i agree. earned income tax credit is not a mid 20th-century. >> paying for college tuition. paying for all these new programs. >> one thing the president is trying to address is the issue of income inequality and middle class being stagnant. what i want to hear is more republican specifics on how to address it let's set the table for real for one second. you got a republican congress a democratic president whose poll numbers are rocketing us because the economy is rocketing up. >> which the republicans deny by the way. you listen to the republicans, they say the economy stinks. >> which is everybody gets their opinion, not their own facts. here's the other situation, the president has to deal with the republican congress no the just pretend like the mid-terms didn't happen. so maybe this comes together in the budget. maybe this is the president

saying look i'm not going to negotiate myself out of the gate. i'm going to set forth a liberal vision and then republicans and i will meet in the middle. but that's got to happen for either of them to have a legacy in the last two years of the presidency. >> let's show awe new cnn/orc poll after the speech. 51% found the speech very positive. somewhat positive 30%. 18% found it negative. speech-watchers are generally democratic. if you want to hear what barack obama has to say you're a democrat and you tune into the state of the union. so it's not reflective of 50% republicans. but still, 81% is a pretty high number given even that. >> that's a landslide. >> there were attempts at you know oratory that did feel positive and uplifting at times and i differ from your point. you made my point exactly, the people who wanted to see the speech and were going to like

it watched. >> as a former speechwriter i got to give a shout-out. the speech was a lot looser in tone there were unusually casual lines. they were young and in love in america. it doesn't get any better than that. a lot of casual lines and rhetoric that was stripped down for him. he was doing a lot of ad libs he was a president in command last night in terms of his delivery and the tone was different. >> i thought he was solid. it's a hard speech. i've watched them given my whole life on the state level and the federal level. they are not exciting speeches he is in a position where it's more philosophy than policy. the other party is in control and they don't want to do anything that he will have his name on. but here's the caveat. he was optimistic leaders have a duty to inspire the people. not be polly annish although i thought polly anna was okay. you can't look at the economy and say the economy stinks you

can't say wages aren't growing. they have to be a mandate to be positive. >> you are right, chris, it is their job to pass legislation that they think is going to address the middle class, they need to pass trade bills, they need to pass some kind of tax reform. these are things the president has said he's willing to sign and work with them on. so go for it republicans, set the tibble for 2016. do something proactive. and positive. and let's see what has beens. >> on that rose-colored note. let us know what you think of the president's speech. we'd love to hear your thoughts. we're going to test the players and what we said should not be a game. you've got senators angus king you've got tom tillis the white house senior adviser, valerie jarrett and representative keith ellison, what are they going to do to make your lives better. we turn to the intensifying battles in the eastern ukraine. country's prime minister claims

that russians crossed the border to join the fight. russia calls the allegation complete rubbish. ukraine is enduring some of the worst fighting between government troops and pro russian separatists since last summer. a doctor shot at a boston hospital has died. police say 44-year-old michael davidson was targeted by a lone gunman who walked into brigham and women's hospital on tuesday, asked for the doctor and shot him twice. the shooter -- identified as a 55-year-old male he then killed himself. there are reports that the gunman's late mother was one of davidson's fomer patients. deflate-gate here are the facts, espn reports 11 out of 12 footballs used by the new england patriots in sunday's afc championship game underinflated by two pounds per square inch. 15% less air than required. what does the softer football do? the obvious -- makes it easier to grip especially in the cold

and rainy conditions which plagued the game. oh funny you should say that please come back to me what you just saw was a huge lineman catch a ball ha was a quick pass with big taped hands, that's not easy. i happen to have two football in my laps here is a regularly inflated one, it is very hard. it is a less inflated one. >> even i can deal with this one. >> i've exaggerated to make a point. that a softer ball could make a difference. >> doesn't the league supply these? >> the league does not, the teams do. >> doesn't the ump have the ball? >> maybe the league should control the games if the teams cannot control themselves. >> is the bottom line that they cheated? >> the balls were less deplated. you would have to prove intent and i will give a nod to the patriots i'm not a patriots fan, i'm a jets fan. they ran all over the colts. as john berman said they could have won with balls made out of marshmallow fluff. >> inflated balls or not. >> if they cheated?

>> there's a solid case to be made they should be disqualified from the super bowl and the jets should be put in in instead. we have more coming up in our "bleacher report." there's a coup under way in a key american ally. yemen's presidential palace overtaken by rebels how dangerous is this to u.s. security? the ceo of air asia speaking out to cnn for the first time since the crash of flight 8501. he's going to tell but the moment he learned about the crash. it's a powerful interview, ahead for you.

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with in the middle east. let's bring in bobby ghosh, he understands the situation very well a cnn global affairs analyst. the managing editor of "quartz." you've been to yemen, you know the cultural dynamic. yemen, do i care? yes, you should care and why? >> you should care because the beasts that are being, the monsters that are being unleashed in yemen are going to come out and have already in some cases, come out and hurt all of us. and taken a bite out of all of us most recently in paris. millennium sn home to aqapl qaeda in the arabian peninsula, probably the most dangerous franchise of al qaeda anywhere in the world. it's a deeply poor country. the poorest by far in the arab world, one of the poorest in the world at large. >> the government -- >> a very corrupt government a very weak government. the south and east of the country is sort of a playing ground for al qaeda. the north where the shiite rebels have elerjmerged from is very

close to saudi arabia. these rubbles are called the houthis, named after their leader. you have a shiite with a sunni dimension. >> who is paying for the houthis? >> the iranians are. >> you have al qaeda, iran all the forces at play in this one place. >> it's murphy's law, writ large over a piece of territory. everything that can go wrong is going wrong. and it has enormous consequences not only for the arab world, but for the rest of the world. >> let's talk about the consequences. because last night the president was saying his commitment to going and finding terrorists and killing -- not a lot of talk about yemen. and probably because it was too in the weeds he thought for this particular speech. but is this place really what should be the focus right now? >> well it's hard to pick one place to focus on there's so much going on around the world. but yes, this certainly deserve as lot more attention than it's been getting. the policy so far with yemen is to use drones use cruise missiles and some amount of local armed forces to go after

aqap. and for a while it seemed to be working. it took some territory, they were pushed back. they were they were cornered basically. but nobody saw, certainly nobody in washington saw the houthis advance this much. and iranians backed them so much and if iran is getting involved you know that saudi arabia will push back. those two countries, sunni and shia have enormous hatred for each other and are trying to play a sort of bizarre game of chess against each other all over the arab world. >> millennium sn also one of the sovereigns that had been very active in the fight against al qaeda. the irony is they're being overtaken within their own walls. but they were allowing the u.s. cooperating with the u.s. president obama referred to yemen as a success. now what? >> well clearly the policy of simply using drones and cruise missiles is not enough and focusing only on fighting al qaeda is not enough. you have to figure out better ways that yemen has a better government. >> how do we do that? their military is being overrun

by the houthis, if they have control of the presidential palace we hear it's surrounded by houthi guards that's a good indication what does the president have to do? >> we have to wait for the dust to settle to see if the house of representativesis are -- houthi s in charge. >> if they're going to run the country, they need help from somewhere. iran is not in position -- it's one thing to support an insurgency. but to run a country, that's not something this iran can do. they're going to need the international community. whether it's the united nations, whether it's the arab league the gulf gcc, the gulf countries. if the u.s. cannot intervene directly there are many proxies through which we can begin a conversation. >> that exact same model applies to another same situation that is being ignored because of what

we're dealing with everywhere else -- ukraine. it's happening again, the word from the ground is as intense as ever. donetsk, the eastern part of ukraine is under siege, they believe by russian forces. >> vladimir putin has looked the west in the eye, has looked the sanctions in the eye and said i don't care he's put all his chips into this thing and he's dragging his country down economically. the ruble is in sort of freefall. but he's absolutely determined the sanctions are not stopping him. >> to do what? what does he pull off here? >> he wants complete control of ukraine, politically if not territorial territorially. he will take enough control of the east. he doesn't want a stable ukraine that then moves to the european union, whether as a direct member or under the shelter of the european union. he's determined that ukraine should be a -- an example to be set to all the countries that

were formerly members of the ussr. that don't think just because the ussr is broken that you don't have to bow to moscow. moscow is still in charge here and whether we control you directly or indirectly you have to bow to us. that's the putin doctrine. >> bobby ghosh, thank you very much as always for the perspective. the mayor of paris preparing to sue fox news. she says the network has insulted her city with its false reporting. question is though, does she have a case? when heartburn comes creeping up on you... fight back with relief so smooth... ...it's fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum...♪ smoothies! only from tums.

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the ceo of airasia ask speaking out as we learn more about what may have caused flight 8501 to fall out of the sky. a cording to reports, the plane climbed faster than normal in the final minutes, then stalled before crashing into the java sea, richard quest just spoke to the ceo in his first interview since the crash. and joins me now. tell us what you have been

hearing? >> on the question of what happened the reports of the climb and the stall -- tony fernandez basically said he refused to speculate. he said it's too soon to say. there are too many unknowns about what happened. and he said anyway airasia has not seen and he had no knowledge yet of the voice recorder or the flight data recorder. the airline was being invited to look at that this friday. so they weren't able he wasn't able to confirm or deny what the rumors are out there. on the question of what it was like and how he had heard the information, this is the first incident for airasia. and as tony fernandes is the chief executive, he got the phone call telling him the plane was missing. >> there is no amount of rehearsal or practice or reading that can actually prep you for this moment. it is the single worst feeling i think i've ever had in my life.

and it continues to be that that moment of that phone call. will haunt me forever. we've carried 215 million people 13 years. very safely. and it is not something that you can really put into words when that call comes through. but somehow you have to find the resolve to be strong and get in there and focus on the families and our crew. >> now, tony fernandes said he had given all the families his personal mobile number. he was in constant contact with them. and on the question of safety of the airline, he said safety is a marathon it's not something you just do once and then forget about. >> well richard he's been praised for being out front in all of this. being actively involved in the investigation, making himself available to the families. what is his main focus right

now? >> his main focus is clear -- it is to recover as many of the bodies of the passengers or his guests as he calls them. it is to recover as many of the guests as possible. to find out what happened and to give them some form of closure. as for airasia the airline, he says it's really very simple -- we will never allow the airline to forget. of course he said there are safety questions. there are issues that have to be addressed. but he was quite clear -- he said there had been no shortcuts and they had done everything by the book. >> does he feel confident about the future of the airline? >> no question. he says the airline will continue to grow. he's already slowed down the growth of the airline in previous years. he said the mere the size and scale of growth in aviation in asia is the demand is there. so i asked him, i did ask him, i said look is there something

wrong with aviation in asia? after all you had mh-370 mh-17. now airasia flight 8501. is there something systemically wrong, he was absolutely clear, he said richard i strongly disagree with you. there's no connection between that and anything to do with aviation in asia. >> very interesting. richard quest, thank you for joining us from the beautiful davos, switzerland. a developing story, the mayor of paris threatening to sue fox news for insulting the city with its coverage of the so-called no-go zones for nonmuslims. does the mayor have a case against fox? we'll take a look. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it!

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patriots did in fact use under-inflated footballs in their win over the colts. nearly a dozen of them 11 out of 12. i mean andy scholes -- this morning's "bleacher report." yesterday, you kind of pooh-poohed it. i expressed the obvious concerns. we come out with the softball. nick and alisyn are aghast at how much easier this ball is to play with. this is exaggerated in terms of how underinflated it is because i don't like the patriots. and they pounded the ball on the ground and probably could have done it as john berman says with a ball made of fluff. but what does it mean? is there a question in there? >> you were right, i was wrong. this sass bad as it gets we might have a team that actually cheated its way into the super bowl. of course they might have beat the colts anyway. we'll never know, according to espn nfl found that 11 of the 12 balls the patriots used were

underinflated by two pounds per square inch about 50% less than what a ball should be. what does it mean? underinflating the balls in cold and wet conditions makes it easier for the quarterback to grip helps him throw it and makes it easier for the receivers to catch the ball. the nfl says not ready to comment on their investigation right now. it's going to be their investigation should be completed in the next two to three days. now, no mat weather they find the patriots they're going to the super bowl. but they could face a hefty fine and a loss of draft pick. now as you can imagine, even though the colts lost that game. 45-7 they're feeling a bit cheated right about now, their punter pat mcafee, tweeted, if new england is going to be dq'd, we should be their replacement, right? jerry rice weighed in tweeting 11 of 12 balls underinflated? can anyone spell cheating?

#justsayin'. the nfl actually might want to talk to the baltimore ravens about the blake-gate. cbs is reporting that the ravens had questions about their kicking balls, whether or not they were inflated the proper way. they said the balls were not going the normal distance when they were kicking them. so that's another aspect to deflate gate we might see coming and the ravens lost a close game 35-31. the patriots are not going to get any benefit of the doubt after what happened in spygate five or six years ago. >> let the league provide the balls, 'nuf said move on. >> that would solve some problems. >> thanks andy. let's talk about this developing story. the mayor of paris taking on fox news mayor anne hidalgo tells cnn's christiane amanpour that she plans to sue fox news. fox news has apologized for suggesting that parts of paris

and other european cities where nonmuslims could not go. let's bring in brian stelter. host of "reliable sources." fox news apologized what more do they need to do? >> i think this is probably an example of a mayor playing to their constituents. there's been an uproar in france about fox's cover amg. parodied by their version of the of "the daily show." it would be fascinating media case. here in the united states the idea of a lawsuit against a television network is outlandish. in france it's a little less outlandish. >> we want to divvy up many parts of the story. isn't it the breaking news here in america, the fact that fox apologized in the history of my career i don't know that i've seen fox do this to an issue like this. >> not one as big as this. the head of fox news has proudly said in the past they've never

had to retract a story. this isn't a retraction but this is them walking away from a story and indicating they were probably playing it up too much. >> what's behind that? >> my they are is that fox is owned by rupert murdoch. he has big business interests in the uk. in europe in television networks and newspaper there is. maybe he was trying to save face. the idea of no-go zones, has been popular in right wing media. you heard it brought up in cnn as well. i think one of the issues of fox is they were talking about it with talking heads, they weren't reporting on it they weren't going to the neighborhoods in paris. >> it raises an issue of what's an expert. and what happened in france? they did have riots there. that were a function of the muslim ghettos, the underserved communities feeling that there was no connection the police shouldn't have been there. they're not no-go zones, but they did have that problem.

islamophobia comes into the mix as well. something that's being pandered to the american public. i'm not a fox hater. i worked there, alisyn worked there. you live by the sword, you die by the sword, i was on tv ten hours the friday after the paris attacks, once after the ten hours i called the guy who attacked the kosher market african-american. they played it and played it up as the media's pc-ness. when you play the game can you get hurt by the game and that's why they're not getting a lot of friends right now. >> they say the idea of the lawsuit is misplaced. bill o'riley addressed it on the air. >> i didn't have anything to do with this. but i will point out that the mayor is a socialist. that fox news isn't even seen in france because they block it. so this is just an attention-getter. another playing to the left. that's what this is. suits going nowhere. it's ridiculous. >> a great example of pandering,

also. i didn't have anything to do with it. you're part of the team or you're not. they're socialists? that has nothing to do with a lawsuit. >> is there any standing? they have to show damages. people would have to show that tourists are not going there. >> they'd have to show malice afore thought. that this was intentionally done to hurt paris. that would be very difficult to do. >> cnn was sued by a small town in brazil that didn't like a report we aired. cnn ended up winning on appeal. situations like that have happened once in a while. but i can't imagine this going forward. >> the same conversation was had with birmingham areas of london. i understand there's no such litigation threatened by the british people that we've heard of yet. >> but the way i interpret it is there are neighborhoods that are no so insular that you see women fully veiled. we had our expert tell us that. but they're not called no-go zones. fox went too far. it's an interesting point, provocative point.

they should talk about it but they went too far. >> it's when information becomes a narrative and a narrative is what gets a news organization into trouble. if you push a narrative, what's important about the media vir, is there can be a response. twitter was trending with responses to rupert murdoch, when he was critical of muslim responsesen and there was a hash tag fox news facts. so people can respond and try to hold newslets accountable. including cnn. we can be held accountable in the way we couldn't in the past. that's a good thing, actually. this is one of the stories out there there's a lot of news that matters to you, so let's go get to it. >> the president of the united states! [ cheers and applause ] >> the shadow crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. >> it is time to move on. beyond president barack obama. >> i wish i had better news for you. all is not well in america.

>> americans have been hurting. >> i have no more campaigns to run. i know, because i won both of them. this morning, yemen under siege. >> this may be the most volatile situation on the face of the planet. >> end up in a training camp run by terrorists my son you're hearing about today. tomorrow it could be your son. this is "new day," with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. >> good morning, welcome back to "new day." president obama laying out an ambitious agenda for his final two years in office. in his state of the union address. he announced a renewed focus on the middle class. the president received a rousing ovation when he vowed to hunt down terrorists amid the growing list of international crises. >> one of the hot spots is yemen, where the presidential palace is said to be under control of rebels on the verge of a coup. two u.s. navy warships in the red sea ready to evacuate americans.

yemen is a key u.s. ally and home to one of al qaeda's most dangerous affiliates aqap. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. we are the only western news outlet to have someone on the ground which speaks not just to cnn's dedication but to how dangerous it is right now. you're looking at him, senior international correspondent nick paton walsh with the latest from yemen. >> we woke this morning to a much more confused situation about who is in charge. frankly of yemen. the president is still called the president by the leader of the houthi rebel who is swept into his administration yesterday. outside his house, his presidential body guard, have left and it's instead houthi gunmen who are looking after him. this morning, yemen under siege. by iranian-backed shiite houthi rebels. a look yemen's capital, sanaa, appears to have fallen. the insurgent group proving their power on the streets. the aftermath of what yemen

officials are calling an all-out coup. the fate of the elected president hadi remains unclear. we reached his information minister by phone who says so far he is safe and alive. >> do you believe that president is still in control of the country? and is his life safe? >> i don't think the president is in control of anything. >> the houthis have been vying for radical political change for years. houthi rebel leader appeared on television demanding changes being made to the constitution saying quote we're trying to bring some legitimacy to the government. but u.n. security council urging dialogue and consultation. >> the members of the security council emphasized that all parties and political actors in yemen must stand with president hadi. >> the power position vital to the u.s. as the yemeni government and its neighboring

country, saudi arabia are america's key allies against the looming threat of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. aqap. at least one of the attackers responsible for the "charlie hebdo" massacre in paris, officials say trained in yemen and has ties to the terrorist group. the immediate worry -- the safety of several hundred american embassy workers. two u.s. navy warships in the red sea positioned to evacuate the embassy if ordered. some u.s. officials say get out now. >> it's better not to risk the fact that yemeni troops guarding the embassy default and if something bad happens to our people. >> unknown assailants fired shots at one of the embassy's armed vehicles. the u.s. diplomats inside escaping uninjured. but the embassy said there was intent to kill. now of course how all this pans out is so vital. for the future of one of the u.s.'s most important counterterror allies al qaeda

in the arabian peninsula. the clearest threat say many u.s. officials, to the united states. the more chaos there is here the greater collapse of government the easier it is for al qaeda to hide and the harder it is for the u.s. to target them. >> nick paton walsh. back at home a defiant president obama challenging the new republican-controlled congress to practice a different brand of politics during his final two years in office. in his state of the union address, the president laid out an expansive and expensive wish list to help middle class americans. let's begin with michelle kosinski at the white house. tell us more michelle. >> this morning the white house says they are very pleased with the speech and how it was received. and this is the state of the union address the president has been wanting to make. they say now for the first time the economy is strong enough that he can really focus on some of the initiatives to benefit the middle class. here's one of them. >> if you truly believe you can work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year? try it.

if not, vote to give millions of the hardest working people in america a raise. >> the president fired up there at times. throwing down the gauntlet challenging republicans to come up with better proposals on a range of issues. for example one of them was the keystone pipeline. the president has threatened to veto that at least for now. he said let's set our sights higher than one pipeline and pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill. that's one area of working together with congress that might actually happen. that was a theme of his, it was how he wrapped up his speech. saying that he envisions in fact a better politics in america. where people can have strong differences of opinion. but not demonize each other. michaela. >> michelle meanwhile, freshman senator joni ernst, an iraq war veteran who grew up on a farm in iowa delivered the republican response. how did her party receive the president's agenda?

chief capital correspondent dana bash in washington. how did republicans receive it? >> not so well when it comes to what michelle was talking about -- the cost of what the president was proposing, especially when it comes to the new tax benefits that he's talking about. when it comes to joni ernst, she did something a bit different in a lot of ways. but in terms of the substance of her speech she specifically said she wasn't responding to the president, she wanted to talk more about republican ideas, she did talk about the keystone pipeline the tax reform. but the big thrust of her speech was about her, she is a different kind of republican and she talked about growing up in iowa and wearing bread bags on her feet because she only had one pair of shoes. listen. >> i was never embarrassed. because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet. our parents may not have had much but they worked hard for what they did have.

>> that's a classic reason why republicans chose joni ernst. she is a very new republican senator from the state of iowa. but there is another reason not just because of her, her upbringing not just because she they believe represents sort of middle america. the midwest. it's also because of her experience on the battlefield. and i want to you check out the shoes that she wore. she's a lieutenant colonel, she saw combat in iraq she wore camo shoes. so chris, i think we can call that a statement shoe. >> yes, the president used the word strong it applies equally there. she's getting some heat for her delivery. i think it misses the point. you're right, it's not just middle american values she represent as lot of generations of people who fought their way to some kind of prosperity and ak fighting man and woman should be honored. where are we going to come out on all of this.

an independent senator from maine, angus king. he's a member of the armed services committee and the intelligence committee. i want to talk about the pressing matters we have abroad. you just came back from saudi arabia qatar and israel. can you help us on that in understanding the state of play. let's deal with last night first. what did you hear? give me the up and down on it? >> i think the president made a lot of good points the i thought the end of his speech was very interesting. usually state of the unions are just long laundry list of proposals. in the end he went into this whole thing about how do we want our politics to work? and i think what i would like to see is for the republicans to respond to his proposals based on what they would do. in other words based on the merits not just say, if it's his idea i'm against it if we can get by that step and say, okay, some of these will work some of these make sense, some of these we don't like you know think we'll get a lot further along. i got to tell you, chris, i do sense that there's more of a mood around here among

everybody, but including republicans, to talk about some of these issues and try to get at them. i think it's interesting last night on tv the former republican chair, michael steele said let's do this minimum wage thing and move on. that's the kind of thing that you know we ought to just be able to take care of and not turn into some kind of partisan battle. just because it's the president's idea. >> so just to get a second beat on this you do believe, we're hearing a lot of resistance a lot of the typical opposition from the right. you're saying that may be just talk. you do sense there may be a change there may be a chance for congress to get back to work again? >> absolutely. it depends on the issue. it's going to be issue by issue. but you know the president talked about trade last night. he's going to get overwhelming support on that from the republicans. and i think his problem is going to be with the democrats. >> do you think objectively it is true that the shadow of crisis has passed in terms of the economy? >> we're certainly way ahead of where we've been. we've seen good job creation good gdp growth.

the problem is wages. people are still stagnant and the growth in wages hasn't caught up. but as the unemployment rate goes down wages tend to go up. and by the way, chris, something is going to happen in the next month that nobody is talking about, that i think is going to be very significant. the president has the unilateral power to increase the level where, where overtime clicks in. it's no question he has it this isn't the imperial presidency. george bush did it ten years ago. and that's going to suddenly change the incomes of a lot of middle class people. and that's i think is something we're going to see. i'm predicting a story. you're going to hear it i suspect in about a month. >> well it's important for it to be on the radar. it's more important to see what you do about it obviously. we'll be watching for leadership from somewhere on that issue and many others. let's talk about the trip you just took senator. you came back to some hotbed areas, saudi arabia on both sides of the ball u.s. ally

but also known for funding extreme groups. they're helping out with france but they're also you know giving 100 lashes or whatever it is 1,000 lashes to this blogger. so they're on both sides of the ball. what did you see there? and the state of play in the middle east? >> i think isis has gotten their attention. i think they have been somewhat ambivalent. i think they've been mostly helpful to us they've certainly been participating, including flying air strikes in the coalition fight against isis. they had an incident on their border recently where they had some people killed by isis. and i think their attention is focused. what's going on in yemen, though is just really difficult and what what the saudis and the qataris are concerned about is iran. and i think, i don't want to make life more complicated, but a lot of this is a dispute between iran and the arab states. the iranians are not arabs, they're persians and this is a

2,000-year-old rivalry. here's how complicated yemen is. your reporter mentioned aqap. that's a sunni-based extremist group. the houthi who is just took over last night apparently are shiites aligned with iran. how is all of that going to play out? so it's you got to have a program, you got to know the players to be able to follow this. >> senator, isn't part of the problem we've had here since 1998 if not earlier is that the american people have wanted it to be simple and it allowed certain moves to be accepted that it probably shouldn't have. this is a complicated set of factors you you're dealing with you have iran not just potentially funding the shiite insurgents in yemen. they're fighting side by side with the iraqis right now, making progress on the ground. these are things that have to be recognized. the question is what does the u.s. do let's start specifically with yemen. you can't lose yemen and you're about to. >> i don't think we have much control there. i got to be honest.

i think had you a clip earlier. it sounded like dianne feinstein, i couldn't see it i agree with her, i think we ought to get our people out. >> we have the ships there. >> we have ships there, we have air assets. i think we should get them out right away. because the outer perimeter defense of the embassy and the compound are local troops. that's true all over the world. and if they collapse disappear, melt away, we've got a real problem. we've got some marines there, but in my view let's be i'd rather be safe than sorry. let's get them out. and if things settle down we can work out something diplomatically they can go back in that's fine. but i don't want to be here talking to you later this week about a hostage situation. >> i don't want to find myself in yemen because it's gone wrong again. this is supposed to be the lessonbenghazi. i get that you don't want to lose u.s. presence in yemen.

you can video conference wirks be on the ground there right now. is there any chance can you get people to give some analysis to this situation. because we're not hearing it from the white house? >> i know from a meeting i was in yesterday afternoon that this is at the top of the agenda at the national security council right now. i suspect at this hour. they've got contingency plans for getting people out. i think somebody just has to say, okay let's do it. and my feeling is now is the time and we'll see what happens later. because we like you say, i don't want to utter that word benghazi but it's on everybody's mind. >> and well it should be. senator king thanks very much for joining us. good luck in the work ahead. in our next hour we're going to discuss the speech with republican senator tom tillis. white house senior adviser valerie jarrett and congressman keith ellison. the point to give you all different points of the players, their perspective on what was said last night. what we they'd to do to get

progress going forward. >> we have a breaking story to tell you about, a stabbing spree on a bus in tel aviv being called a terror attack. israeli police say a palestinian man stabbed at least nine people one of them suffering serious injuries. police say they shot the attacker in the leg once he got off the bus and arrested him. in a new video, boko haram threatens attacks on nigeria's neighbors, niger, chad and cam roop room. as many as 2,000 people have been killed in a rampage. the reported leader of the muslimist group said they were doing quote what their lord told them to do. alan thicke tells the "toronto star" there's no doubt in my mind bill cosby was a bad boy. bad boy, he ought to know thicke was a producer on cosby's

variety show in the '70s, however thicke admits he never witnessed behavior from cosby like he is being accused of. >> that is big. bad boy sounds more tame. >> in the article he goes on to say he doesn't have a reason to believe that those accusations are true? >> are not true. >> he believes that they're true. but he never witnessed it. >> if you're not going to say something, say nothing. this is a volatile situation. an apparent coup in yemen. u.s. navy warships offshore, ready to evacuate embassy personnel if need be. and we're going to dive deep near what was behind the state of the union. we'll take you actually behind the scenes john king has all of it and more on "inside politics."

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an offshot of zeism. they fought six battles, rounds of war between 2004-2010. their godsend for them was the 2011 revolution and the instability that flowed from that. recently they've been able to move into many provinces in the country and now have taken over the capital. >> and barak i want to stick with you, what do they want? >> what they want is the end of marginalization of the northern provinces. they want to decrease the influence of the islamists and the sufiists. their immediate demand is the end of the constitutional amendments which calls for the division of the yemen into six federal republics. >> general marks, i want to go to you, we just had senator angus king on our air say he is worried about a hostage situation in the embassy if we're to leave our u.s.

personnel in there much longer. is it time at this hour to get them out of there? >> it is alisyn. i think the decision should be made very quickly. let me follow up on what senator king said. clearly, the national security council is in consult and central command is really creating all the contingency plans in terms of what the next steps look like. so the nsc is going to take the lead from centcom which is where did should be. the issue inside sanaa and yemen more greatly is that you've got aqap sunni essentially and the houthis, shia essentially. and so what you have is this incredible turmoil. the united states is stuck right in the middle of that with no good potential outcome. unless they get out of there right now. clearly what you see is the larger collapse of governance in the middle east that we see. so you got to work both ends of it. you got to protect what you have now and preserve life. and at the end of this thing we've got to be able to try to

work in some way to create governance and some degree of stability. clearly that's not on the near horizon. >> general, why aren't we getting them out right now? why didn't we get them out yesterday? >> i think it has to do with our relationship with president hadi and to insure that he gets the clear message that the united states remains a very strong friend of the government of yemen. they've been very good to the united states in our efforts to act in many cases unilaterally and with their support, against aqap. both there and to launch other operations elsewhere in the middle east. >> barak, is it surprising that the yemeni government collapsed in this way to allow the presidential palace to be taken over? >> not at all. president hadi never had the support of the ruling party known as the general people's congress or the gpc. he took power from ali abdullah salah and since day one president salah has been trying to undermine him.

we've been hearing reports that his son had been working closely with the houthis, military units have refused to fight the houthis, so there's all types of collusion trying to undermine the president at this time. >> general, while we have you, we want to ask you quickly about what's going on in the the ukraine. ukrainians say russian troops have been deployed into ukraine. russia says that is quote complete rubbish. what's the truth? >> it's not complete rubbish. the, the russian forces have been in ukraine and have clearly been a part of what has been going on over the course of the last year. overtly. we shouldn't be surprised at all by the claim that russian forces are in ukraine. clearly crimea has gone away. and that this is kind of more of the same. and it's it's putin taking advantage of our glance and our focus elsewhere. this is more of this we can anticipate if we don't step up as a coalition, as nato and as

the european union unless we look putin straight in the eye and say look no more. but we haven't been able to touch the right buttons to provide leverage against him. >> it's interesting you say we haven't gone far enough. the president last night, president obama talked about this in the state of the union address where he said we are, i'll quote him. he said we're opposing russian aggression we're supporting ukraine's democracy. we're reassuring our nato allies. it sounds like you think he's not going far enough. >> this was his speech last night, i think we would agree, we need to see actions on the ground and we haven't seen that in a concerted way to confront this. we've contained it and we've watched it but we haven't confronted it. >> major-general spider marks and barak barfi thanks for being on. we have the risk abroad and then we have the risk at home and we have an example for it in reality. a man's son converted to islam, but then became radicalized, trained with al qaeda, returned to the u.s. and killed an american soldier. now, his father is speaking out to "new day" about how this all

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france is taking measures. the french prime minister says 3,000 people in france with ties to jihad need to be under surveillance. in the meantime this brand new video obtained by cnn appears to show slain terrorist, amedy coulibaly, and his wife walking by a jewish institution last summer. sources tell cnn the couple may have been causing possible targets for several months. to a mystery in argentina, was a prosecutor's death a suicide? alberto nisman's supporters including his ex-wife are stepping forward to say no. he was found shot in the head. sunday night just hours before he was set to testify about accusations that argentina's president, christina fernandez, directed a cover-up in the 1994 bombing of a jewish community center. 85 people were killed in the still-unsolved attack. two former pro wrestlers are suing the wwe. they're claiming concussions suffered in the ring left them with severe brain injuries.

in the lawsuit, 50-year-old veto lograsso who wrestled under pd name skull von crush and 22-year-old evan singleton accused the wwe of selling violence and ignoring their repeated head injuries. a lawyer for the wwe says the suit has no merit. let's get to "inside politics" with john king the president said the state of the union is strong i would use the same word to describe your coverage john king strong. >> i'm glad you stayed up late mr. cuomo. alisyn michaela. the morning after the state of the union. it was a big speech the president was assertive, optimistic. democrats loved it. with me this morning to share their reporting and insight, jonathan martin of the "new york times," and nia malika henderson of the "washington post." democrats loved it republicans thought the president was in denial. never did he say the senate changed hands. the republicans are in charge. so the commentary after was can you get anything done in this

town? the president laid out his middle-class agenda. tax increases on the wealthy. the republicans don't like that what struck republicans was, here's a moment the president, i'm right, you're wrong portion of the speech. >> at every step we were told our goals were misguided, too ambitious, we would crush jobs. and explode deficits. instead, we've seen the fastest economic growth in over a decade. our deficits cut by two-thirds. a stock market that has doubled and health care inflation at its lowest rate in 50 years. this is good news, people. so the verdict is clear -- middle class economics works. >> if you don't like him or you don't like his policies you don't like that.

but it was a strong performance by the president. a lot of people thought wow, how can he be so optimistic how he be so upbeat? he did a little bit of conciliatory. most of it was a defiant, here's what i believe and i'm sticking to it. >> it picks up on where he was right after the november election. he came out did the executive action item on immigration reform. he made the moves on cuba. same thing in the press conference this is something that the white house, this stands full of swagger, drop the mike sort of approach. has been what this president has adopted. if you looked on twitter, progressives were going crazy about this. they were talking about this is the president that they person they fell in love with in 2004. he echoed some of what he was about in 2004. and this is the president that is, i mean it was almost like he was saying i'm in charge here. like sort of borrowing from al

hague and almost as if he was looking out at all democrats at a democratic convention. >> and yet, he did, was very assertive. but he can't get any of his plan passed. issue is they can't get any of their plan passed either. they need his signature. need 60 votes in the senate. before you come in jonathan nia mentioned twitter. the moment that most lit up social media. was this one. the president had turned back to his old 2004 no red america, no blue america. he was closing the speech on a very skill story note. then this -- >> i have no more campaigns to run. [ applause ] >> my only agenda -- i know, 'cuz i won both of them. >> he wants to remember 2008 and 2012 i guess forget 2014. >> president obama has been great president politically for himself. he's been a terrible president for his party in two mid-term

elections, that's why he's standing out there and talking to a crowd of overwhelmingly republicans. it strikes me that the speech more about 2016 than it is about the next two years. he knows he's not going to be able to get most of this stuff done with the overwhelming gop congress. he's setting up the con tours of the coming debate. as he did so effectively in '08 and '12, he's pressing the opposition. squeezing them politically. working across party lines to get big stuff done? he hasn't proven quite as effective. >> the question will be do the republicans see it in their self-interest down the road to cut some deals on this stuff and can the president keep his poll numbers. which have been going up. if the president can keep his poll numbers around 50%, it will change the dynamic. >> free trade deals, certainly. but what beyond that? is a gop congress with huge majorities going to give on?

i'm uncertain. >> it is true if you talk about sort of the changing rhetoric of republicans, if you look at what they were saying particularly rand paul and his rebuttal he's talking about he didn't say middle class economics, the new phrase you hear at the white house, but he talks about income inequality. so in that way he is kind of setting the agenda if not the policy. >> in the republican response joni ernst, the freshman from iowa is the response. she doesn't have a live audience. it's tough when you're a democrat or republican to be in that position. they also had a spanish language response. joni ernst delivered the main response. but the spanish language networks had freshman congressman carlos corbello of florida. he talked about immigration. joni ernst never mentioned the world. carlos corbello did not endorse the president's executive action. but he did talk in more of a kinder gentler tone that congress should do some stuff on immigration. >> it tells you everything you

need to know about the republicans' fundamental challenge. they can't sync their responses to the president's speech last night. it's a remarkable thing. it captures the fact that they're constantly trying to accommodate a very culturally conservative. older white base and at the same time try to move beyond that base to take back the white house. and there's tensions are on vivid display when you look at those two speeches. >> what do we think about when we look forward. it's all about 2016. hillary clinton tweeted she loved the speech. we watched elizabeth warren in case and she said she loved the speech. >> the 2016 mike huckabee or jeb bush all of them said pretty much the same thing, the president is in denial ignoring the results of the election. ted cruz said forget about him. move on. >> and they're arguing for their own relevancy. right? they're the kind of ones left saying no, we're really in

charge here. the president has been sidelined by the last election. if you looked at what rand paul said he also talked about america is still adrift. they have to figure out what is their upbeat message. it looks like obama has recaptured this hope and change language from 2008 2004. what is their message? is it still american is adrift? >> the big threat to the republicans is not what obama was talking about last night. it's going to be the threat the gas prices are sinking, the economy is coming back and this president's numbers are slowly moving up. if this president leaves office john at a 51% approval rating that's a heck of a lot different than 44%. and it makes it a lot tougher for the republicans to run against him in 2016. >> they came out of 2014 thinking hillary clinton would be a third obama term was a great line for them. that's when the president was at 44%. if the president keeps moving up george h.w. bush can tell

you -- >> the political winds in 2016 it might not be the case. >> alisyn as we get back to you in new york everybody on late night before they recorded these shows before the president spoke, including jimmy fallon poking a little fun at the state of the union. >> the obamas invited 22 guests to the speech including a former cuban prisoner. an astronaut, and a doctor. either that or he was setting up the weirdest bar joke of all time. >> that's okay. >> a little bit of last certificate good. >> i like that but i've heard him do better. >> can he do better you're right. you do a great job, john king thanks so much. >> we had a fun night, our group had a good night. >> thanks so much. meanwhile, coming up a father whose son became radicalized, trained in yemen, then came back to carry out deadly violence in the u.s. is now speaking out. his thoughts, when we come back.

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one thing for sure it would happen again. >> chilling words from a father testifying before congress four years ago. melvin bledsoe's son carlos is now called abdul muhammed. he converted to islam in college and became radicalized. he travelled to yemen. claimed he was trained by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. just like the terrorists in the "charlie hebdo" attack. now at home he opened fire at a recruiting center in little rock arkansas in 2009 killing a soldier and wounding another. he's serving a life sentence in prison. his father joins me now. dad, you're living a horrible nightmare. how are you doing? >> i'm holding on pretty strong. >> i can imagine the paris attacks unfortunately reminded you all too much of your own personal nightmare. >> it certainly did open up a new wound. all over again, i'm seeing that

it's yemens it's like all over. >> you talk about your son as being a happy go lucky regular teenager, well-liked social raised baptist. he went to college and that's where you believe the radicalization happened. when did you notice the change? >> i noticed the change when he started giving away all his possessions. everything that he owned, his nike tennis shoes, his baseball cap. his car, his furniture. those are the signs that people should look for. >> did you have a conversation with him when that happened? >> sure i had a conversation with him. but it was more like -- this is what i want to do. i want to become a muslim. i want to convert to islam. of course we talked to him about that. and we couldn't really reach out to him. >> when somebody converts, that may be a shock to the family. but that's not, people convert a lot. but it's when it gets into extremism that is concerning. so he's in college.

he finishes college. he travels to yemen. that must have raised a red flag to you. >> that was certainly a red flag. we was very concerned about that. we tried to convince him not to go. he promised us he was just going to school to teach english. but that turned out to be not true. he was misled and misguided by the people in nashville, tennessee, who programmed him. they did this bit by bit. >> you believe he was targeted. you believe that he was intentionally and professionally sort of sought out. >> yeah. these people were sophisticated. these people were the kind of people you would say you would like to have them as your neighbor next door. but it turned out to be they had political agenda for him. he was vulnerable. at that time. he was just 19 20 years old. and we sent him to school to get a higher education and that dream we had for him turned into a nightmare. >> he had strong beliefs growing

up in your family. he was involved in sports he grew up with the church. he had strong beliefs. what do you think it was that allowed him to change from those strong beliefs and the structure he had at home into something that was so foreign and unknown to you? >> well again, these people are very sophisticated. they're professional they target him. i've considered them as hunters. and he was captured by these hunters. he's evil-doers. these people are professional. they knew that he was vulnerable because of he had made some mistakes in his life and he kind of shared that with them. and at that time they knew they could take advantage of him. >> did you reach out to authorities to any help here in the united states sort of saying we're concerned, we're his family who know him and have seen a change. >> no we didn't. because it was so new to us i think 75% of american people probably today still don't know about how radicalization takes place, it was very new to us. if i knew what i know now, i would have did everything coy. >> you feel that the

universities are a real concern or can be? >> sure. i mean if you have a professor on campus that's passing out leaflets that gets knew the mosque and surely they're trying to intentionally recruit you. and this is something that's going on in america and i think that america needs to in my opinion, stop looking for the blatant terrorists and trying more keeping their eyes open for the people who are out there, speaking to our young folks and our young men especially in the community. and telling them all the wonderful things that who they are and but they have a totally different intention. >> even when he got back you say that's when the extremist views returned with him. you say that there wasn't as much surveillance. even though the fbi had been aware of him and his movings overseas you feel that they dropped the ball a certain amount? >> i feel definitely they dropped the ball. here is the fbi, who interviewed

my son in yemen after he was arrested there. for overstaying his visa and having a false passport. he stayed in a political prison in yemen for four months before he was coming back to america. the same fbi agent that interviewed him in yemen. interviewed him in nashville. the same city that he was from. how can you know who he were what he was basically being involved. so definitely i think they dropped the ball. this is something that didn't have to happen. >> mr. bledsoe, you and the father of the man your son killed made a documentary called "losing our sons." i think it's important to note that it shows there's healing and forgiveness in the light of such an atrocity. our thoughts are with you, we can imagine the struggle of the parents of a young person who has been radicalized, is a very painful reality for you. thank you for joining us and we hope your message gets out.

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joining us for today's "new day" new you report. sanjay, what did they find? what do we know now that we didn't know before? >> 36 million people having migraines. that's an extraordinary number. 10%. this is a very big problem, and there's been all these different classes of medications out there that have come out for some time and they just provide different options, but this is sort of the first time they went back and really said what works, what really works, both in terms of treating migraines and also preventing them. there's a list they put together to basically show what to basically do in these sorts of situations. some of the medications may surprise you when you read the lists there. we don't have the list right now but triptans can treat these and dihydro gotomines. >> what do they mean? >> we don't know why we get

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this morning yemen under siege. >> maybe the most volatile situation on the face of the planet. >> some u.s. officials say get out now. >> the shadow of benghazi is -- >> it is a shadow of benghazi. there's no question about it. >> the president of the united states! >> the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. >> it is time to move on beyond president barack obama. >> i wish i had better news for you. >> all is not well in america. >> americans have been hurting. >> i have no more campaigns to run. i know because i won both of them. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo. alisyn cam mer rot at that and

micaela pereira. >> good morning. welcome back. this is your "new day." wednesday, january 21st. just after 8:00 in the east. president obama says the state of our union is strong but so are the countless terror groups active and only getting stronger around the world. >> and one of those groups is in yemen. this morning the yemeni government a critical ally of the u.s. is on the brink of collapse. rebels staging a coup taking control of the presidential palace forcing the u.s. to position two u.s. navy warships in the event that evacuation is necessary. earlier on "new day" maine senator angus king said that it is time to evacuate. our team coverage begins with cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. he's the only western journalist in yemen. he joins us live. what's the latest nick? >> reporter: alisyn we've just come back from the presidential residence that separates the presidential palace that was

overrun by the houthis yesterday. the presidential residence is a different story. the president is still inside. we understand. we don't know who's with him, but the guard who would normally be around the outside of that residence, gone. in their place a number of sometimes pretty young houthi militants, relaxed, calm. one of them actually in control of a tank there, and they seem to be the ones who say that they are now the president. one of the men we spoke to out there has just won the houthi militia man. when asked who is the president, they said we are. a real balance in flux. the houthi leader still referred to president hadi. there's no desire to change his job title. what we are looking at is a situation where the president is certainly being, they say, protected by the houthis. i haven't heard from his office how he feels about that situation, but he's certainly

not going anywhere at the moment alisyn. >> nick paton walsh, it is wonderful to have your front row reporting. we'll monitor this throughout the morning, of course. as the situation in yemen becomes more dire there are more calls to evacuate american personnel from the embassy immediately. why isn't that happening? let's go to barbara starr live from the pentagon. what are you hearing, barbara? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. at this hour there is a debate about what to do. on the one side you have the state department and the cia who hope they can stay the embassy can stay open. it is not just a diplomatic outpost, but behind the scenes in yemen the embassy is a valuable intelligence listening post for intelligence. there are intelligence operatives for the united states who work in yemen. there are u.s. military commando teams who use the embassy as a base of operations. it is vital for them to have that outpost. the state department right now doesn't want to be seen as

abandoning president hadi. on the other side you have the pentagon who says if the decision is made to evacuate, go now while it potentially is still safe enough tore diplomats to drive to the airport and get on commercial flights. not at all clear those roads are still safe to go to the airport. the military says if they have to go in and evacuate it will essentially be very difficult. they'll have to have air cover. it will be a full blown military operation. one official saying to me you've got to go while the going is good. micaella. >> barbara star thank you for that. president obama taking his state of the union agenda on the road today. the first stop the red state of idaho. it was a bold and unrestrained president obama who addressed the nation. calling for tax hikes for the wealthy, a fair shake for the middle class. let's bring in our white house correspondent, michelle kosinski. now he's taking it on the road. >> reporter: he is.

the white house says they are pleased, very pleased with the way the speech was received. this is the state of the union address that the president has been wanting to make. the white house says now for once the economy is strong enough that he can really focus on these initiatives for the middle class. defiantly making a case for them last night and for working with congress, of course within limits. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states! >> reporter: president obama strode into what some called hostile territory of the now republican-controlled congress. this was intended to be a different kind of state of the union. >> tonight we turn the page. the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. >> reporter: his first standing ovation was for saluting american troops another big one on the economy. >> over the past five years our businesses have created more

than 11 million new jobs. >> reporter: this speech was less a laundry list of new things to try over the year and more a determined philosophical case for those goals. immigration reform free junior college, the president's tax proposal that republicans propose to take a chunk from the wealthiest merges and benefit for the middle class. >> if you truly believe you can work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year try it. if not, vote to give millions of the hardest working people in america a raise. >> reporter: the president's urging to make federal child care a national priority got a few women standing. on foreign policy a vow to fighter ror terror. >> we will continue to hunt down terrorists and hunt them down. >> reporter: and this poignant moment in the president's argument for lifting the cuba trade embargo. >> after years in prison we are enjoyed that alan gross is back where he belongs.

welcome home alan. we're glad you're here. >> reporter: president obama reiterated his veto threats but also spoke for crafting a better politics in america. >> imagine if we broke out of these tired old patterns. a better politics is one where we debate without demonizing one another. >> reporter: politics made for an unintentionally funny wrapping up. i have no more campaigns to run. my only agenda -- i know because i won both of them. >> reporter: and the republican response freshman senator and war veteran, jonie ernst. >> americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions too often washington responded with the same stale mind set that led to failed policies like obama care. >> reporter: pledging that americans heard the message in the mid-term elections and will pass what she calls serious ideas for the economy. >> let's begin this new chapter

together and let's start the work right now. >> reporter: one big question has been even if any of these proposals were to be accepted by congress how exactly does the president plan on funding them? well we expect him to present his budget within the next few weeks. chris? >> the least of his concerns michelle kosinski thanks very much for the reporting. joining us is senator tom till tillis who is a freshman senator. thank you very much for joining us senator. of course we're going to talk about what you heard last night, but there is a situation that demands our attention. what's going on in yemen? they're not around the president's residence. they don't have full control of the government itself but the houthis have the palace. they're moving quickly. they seem stronger than the opposition the military. do you think the u.s. should get its people out of the embassy? >> i think we should listen to the pentagon and people who are closest to the facts on the ground. if the pentagon says now is the

safest time to get merchs out, then they need to take that into account. what we don't want to do is wait and just focus and go when the people who have the intelligence tell us to do. >> that is what the reporter at the pentagon is saying if you want to get out, you should be doing it before it is perilous it is dangerous to get people out. now would be the time. the balance to that senator, is obvious. you don't want to show that you're fleeing the president there and the current government. which comes first? >> well i think the safety and security of the american people come first. there are people on the ground there, we've made mistakes like this in the past by waiting too late. i think we just need to make sure. the timing i understand and the diplomatic issues weigh into that but nothing outscores the priority of protecting the americans on the ground in yemen. >> all right. hopefully this is something that stays urgent.

we don't want to come at this story from the aftermath of not doing it right. thank you for giving us your take on that. we look forward to seeing what action happens there. let's put up the poll of people who watched. very unscientific last night. the people who were watching. that's a stilted group. yes/no on pre and post-comments whether the president's comments will move us in the right direction. it was high and post speech much higher. 72% saying yes, they will. the opposition response from jonie ernst obviously very different. she says that these people are wrong. do you believe that the people are wrong in this poll senator? do you think the president's policies will move us forward? >> chris, i think the problem or the reference points that were used to actually build the case we talked about gas prices being lower, they're higher than they were when the president was sworn in. we're talking about unemployment being lower. labor participation rate goes back to -- if you were to weigh

that in we would be 3 or 4% higher. saying deficits is down is one thing, but the reality is we've got a historic debt and we're just adding to the debt at a slower pace. i think the american people need to understand that what the president has proposed sounds good but it's unsustainable. >> gas prices are being tauted as being the lowest in recent history. oil hasn't seen these in forever. do you think gas prices are a good reference point for the economy not recovering? >> i think the gas prices are low not because of the president president's policies but in spite of them. canada is doing everything they can to keep production higher while other countries are subsidizing their oil industries to keep the prices lower, to try and force the united states and canada out of what can be within our reach energy independence. >> you know very well the u.s. has never been putting out the kind of oil that it is right now, not in terms of recent history.

is that a good basis for push back on the president? with fracking and sand oil you're making more than you have in a long time. >> right. but we've never really done what we should to explore and extract in an environmentally sound way energy resources. we need to become an independent energy super power. we have it within our reach to do that. these reference points again, are because we've been historically bad at actually doing a good job of becoming energy independent. that's what i mean by the kind of false reference points in the speech last night. i don't think it's giving the american people a clear picture of the challenges that we have and the opportunities that we have. >> let's put up your statement here that you responded. partisan grid locks make things harder and not easier. washington has not produced results. nobody is going to disagree with that except your brothers and sisters that you're about to join in congress because they all seem to hide from their own inertia, however, hearing you now, you do seem to be sounding a lot like everybody else which is whatever the president says

is good. you say is bad. is that the way forward, senator? >> no, i don't think so. you know i came from a legislature that had a democratic governor and republican house andersen nate. senate. we found a way to check the things at the door where we weren't going to agree. we worked on energy policy we worked on tax policy and we worked on regulatory policy. we need to do that for the nation. recognize i'm not going to embrace a majority of what president obama stands for. he's not going to embrace a majority of what i stand for. there's a lot in the middle we can do to cooperate and get the economy back on track and make the country safer and more secure. >> that will be well received by the voters senator, because there are many in congress right now who believe that doing nothing is serving the people's interests, and that's hard for americans to swallow. it's good to hear you saying something different. senator tillis good luck to you in the work ahead. >> thank you, chris. what do you think? what did you think of the president's speech?

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we're covering some breaking news this morning, a critical u.s. ally yemen, is on the verge of a coup. it's home to a dangerous affiliate, aqap. is it time to evacuate u.s. personnel from the embassy there? joining us is senior adviser to president obama, valerie jarrett. ms. jarrett, good morning. >> good morning. >> we'll get to president obama's state of the union address in a moment. we wanted to hear the white house's thoughts on yemen. is the white house evacuating the u.s. embassy in yemen. >> first of all, there is

nothing more important to the president than the safety of u.s. people. the president is receiving regularly -- regular updates from his national security team here at the white house so no decision has been made to announce yet. >> we just had senator angus king on our air on "new day." he said that the time is now to evacuate because he's worried that there could be a hostage crisis. how concerned is the white house and why not just do it right now? >> well the president is very concerned, but that's his decision to make and he'll make it in consultation with both folks on the ground and his national security team. >> what's the reason not to evacuate? >> well having a presence there is very important. that's a very important region and the work that they're doing, that is key to our agenda and so it's -- many of the people who serve, and it's an important point to make in our embassies all across the world are at risk. we are very grateful to them for that service. these are oftentimes very

dangerous jobs and so it's a delicate balance, and the president, as i said is personally monitoring the situation very closely and the state department is in absolutely continuous contact with our folks on the ground. >> of course it's a delicate balance and of course it is important to have them there, but it just seems as the situation is becoming more turbulent, people think back to benghazi when there were warning signs that the situation on the ground was getting more turbulent, it was time for the ambassador to go. no one wants to see a repeat obviously. >> well, obviously. as i said at the outset nothing is more important to the president than the safety of the american people and we are fortunate to have so many people who are willing to put themselves in harm's way every day serving our country. >> ms. jarrett, we want to talk about the state of the union address. last night, many political watchers including our own wolf blitzer, said they couldn't remember a state of the union where the threat of a veto was invoked more often. last night president obama said he would veto any repeal of

obama care he would veto any repeal of watching wall street sanctions about iran. tell us about that tone. was that the right tone for a state of the union address? >> i think first of all the president really enjoys an opportunity to speak directly to the american people. it gives him a chance to lay forth his agenda what his priorities are and how he wants to -- how he sees the state of the union and he sees the state of our union as very strong. just take a step back and remind everyone we've now had 58 straight months of private sector job growth over 11.2 million jobs. we're absolutely moving in the right direction, but the president wants to make sure that what's happening in the aggregate in the economy actually is happening with individual families and their lives. he wanted to be clear about what he's for but he also wanted to be clear that as republicans have come back and as they've started to take action what he's not going to do is have them dismantle his affordable care act that's providing health care to millions of americans for the first time.

women who are getting preventive care for the first time. people who have pre-existing conditions without who would be without insurance altogether were it not for the aca. he took executive actions as a last resort for immigration reform and he made it very clear that he was hoping congress would act. the senate did act in a bipartisan basis but the house for over two years didn't act and so the president said now i'm going to do what i can do. i'm not going to let you simply overturn that. if you don't like the executive actions, pass a bill. and so i think it's really important for him to stand up and say what he stands for, what he intends to do but also let's not forget the end of the speech which was really important. what he said look we can disagree but let's find that common ground and there are many of the proposals that he set forth last night, including many of the tax proposals that began and came from republicans. so let's not just say because it comes out of his mouth that it's dead on arrival, let's work together. let's find that common ground

and let's remind ourselves of why we're all here and that's to serve people like rebecca who was sitting in the box who she and her husband are just trying to make ends meet go back to community college, get retraining. her husband now as the construction industry is coming back is doing better but couldn't afford child care. that's an explanation. he's telling the story for why he wants to provide $3,000 tax credit for every young child in our families. >> right. >> because this is what people are talking about when they sit around their kitchen tables. >> let's talk about the republican rebuttal to the president's state of the union last night. it was given by new senator joni ernst. she talked about bipartisanship as well and where she thinks there is an opportunity and for job growth. she zeroed in on the keystone pipeline. listen to this. >> president obama has been delaying this bipartisan infrastructure project for years even though many members of his

party, unions and a strong majority of americans support it. the president's own state department has said keystone's construction could support thousands of jobs and pump billions into our economy and do it with minimal environmental impact. >> okay. so given all of those reasons, why doesn't the president like it? >> well first of all, the president hasn't made a decision. what he has said is the state department hasn't yet made a recommendation to him. they haven't finished their process of consulting with all of the additional agencies who have standing to participate in this. the more important point he made is let's not focus on one pipeline let's be bolder than that. we have infrastructure all over our country, our airports our ports, our roads, our bridges all of it who need investment. those would he kroo atd jobs right now. when we want to compete with countries across the world and create an incentive for companies to locate here in america, make their goods here in america, infrastructure is

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welcome back to "new day." let's break down the president's state of the union address and his ambitious agenda and also let's do a little fact checking. joining us live from washington is anna navorro. she's a republican strategist and jay carney is cnn's political commentator and

president obama's former white house press secretary. i can tell you're feisty even though you may be tired from watching the speech. okay. let's talk about one of the things that the president was trumpeting last night. he was talking about the economy. i will read to you what he said. the shadow of crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. anna do you take that at face value? is the economic crisis over? >> well you know alisyn there's been like 67 state of the unions. i can't remember at least in my lifetime anybody coming out and saying the state of the union is weak. that's part of what the president needs to do, come out and pump the economy, pump what's happening and frankly pump up the american people. i think one of the problems and one of the frustrations for president obama is that despite the fact that there's been some good job numbers, it hasn't quite translated to optimism within the american people and it's part of what he has to do. we need to get consumer confidence back up. it's an important part of the

economy. i think that's what he was doing last night. >> in fact jay, not just consumer confidence but the labor participation rate that we have talked so much about is down. 62.7%. that is the lowest level since 1978 so how can president obama say the shadow of crisis has passed? >> well because we have the strongest economy we've had in our nation since bill clinton was president. doesn't mean it's strong enough. doesn't mean we don't have issues especially wage stagnation for the middle class, but there's no question that the economy's growing faster it's creating more jobs markets are doing very well unemployment is down to 5.6%. remember when governor romney and paul ryan were running against president obama in 2012. romney promised that if he were elected president he would bring unemployment down below 6% in his first term. well president obama did it two years early. >> yes, but that unemployment number is misleading because when you calculate in the labor

participation rate it's not as rosie. >> we have our largest generation in history retiring. a big chunk has to do with the baby boom generation retiring. you're absolutely right. we're not where we need to be yet. are we on the right track? no question. when i was in the white house every year we would have this debate about how optimistic could the president be could we be about the signs of economic growth because, don't forget we've been growing out of the recession for five years, but it has been painfully slow. and every year until now the debate has ended with the decision not to overly trumpet the economy, to recognize that it wasn't doing well enough. i think we've turned a corner economically. we're clearly the strongest and fittest nation on earth right now economically and the president needs to remind the american people that we're headed in the right direction. >> let's talk about what the president said about the war on terrorism overseas and in particular fighting isis. here's what he said last night.

>> syria, american leadership including our military power is stopping isil's advance. >> anna is that overstating the case stopping isil -- call in in the media, have we stopped their advance or are they still taking hostages as we saw this week with the video of two japanese hostages who they're demanding ransom for? >> well i think, you know we definitely have not obliterated isil and it's still around. it's still a problem. it's still a big threat. i do think it was one of the bipartisan moments in that speech and one where he can find support both from democrats and republicans who were sitting there because we are all united in the fight against terror. i think that's what we saw over and over again yesterday from president obama, where it was sticks and carrots. we saw him say some things that republicans didn't like we saw him say some things that republicans did like and vice versa when it comes to democrats. he also said things that i think his own party didn't like very much. >> jay, i mean of course

they're united in the effort to fight isis but when the president says we've -- we're stopping isil's advance, is that a bit of a mission accomplished moment? >> well no, i think stopping the advance is a long way from defeating isil. i think he's speaking very specifically about isil or isis's advance into iraq and that has not -- they haven't made up any more ground. in fact they've been halted but absolutely the case that this is an ongoing effort that will take a long time. and i think that if we look at where there are potential problem areas for the president this year things that could take people's attention away from a stronger economy, it's a flare-up of problems in iraq the requirement to commit more u.s. resources to that effort. americans are still very tired of and exhausted by fighting two wars for more than a decade and i think that's potentially a problem. >> anna what surprised you last night? >> you know i was surprised he didn't make a bigger case for

immigration. it got a very minor pronouncement, a very minor mention in his -- amidst his veto threats when he said you know don't try to mess with the executive action because if you send me a law that does that i will veto it but i didn't see a proposal from him. i didn't hear a push to get something done. so i think to me it was almost an acceptance that maybe nothing will get done in this congress and that what he will leave as part of his legacy will be this executive action if it doesn't get overturned by the court. i also was surprised by his tone. i think i saw it almost as president obama, he said he wasn't on campaign but i saw it as president obama being on campaign and part of it is a campaign for his base. the numbers are going up for president obama's approval and it's not because any republican has -- is approving more of him now than they were before it's because i think some of his base has come back as a result of the things he has done the executive actions he's taken on

issues like immigration, issues like cuba the keystone issue, things that his base likes. >> jay, some people in the post-game analysis this morning, people are calling his tone defiant, combative. are those fair characterizations of last night? >> i think defiant, certainly. i think he's feeling great. there's no question about it. after, you know a terrible mid term election for him and his party, he acted decisively demonstrated that he's not just going to you know sleep walk through the last two years of his presidency. he's acted on cuba. he's acted on immigration. he's acted on climate change and most importantly, we are seeing real strong signs in the economy that i think explain why some of those numbers have moved back. washington post poll, it put him at 50%. the highest rating since 2013. i think you cannot under estimate the link between how people are feeling about the economy and the approval they give to the president, the person in the white house.

>> yeah. jay carney ana navorro you can get some sleep now. we know you were up late. thank for being on "new day." >> thanks alisyn. >> let us know. tweet us at new day or go to facebook. yemen is on the edge of being overrun by insurgents. u.s. personnel are still there. the first elected muslim in congress he's going to talk to us about what the u.s. should do there and his reaction to the state of the union. that's ahead. plus, history in the making my friends. cold war tensions between cuba and the u.s. may begin to thaw starting today with the start of diplomatic talks. we'll go to live reports from havana for you. stay with us.

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welcome back. this is your "new day." today is the beginning of a new era for u.s./cuba relations. patrick otman is following the big meetings taking place in havana today. joining us from the place itself patrick, what do we know? >> reporter: good morning. you know we're hearing that just moments ago the u.s. delegation arrived at the government facility where negotiations over the next three days will take place beginning the first day of these historic talks where officials from cuba and the u.s. will really begin to thaw five decades of icy relations, talk about how they can begin to open up embassies in washington d.c. havana the nuts and bolts of getting that done. the u.s. embargo that president barack obama called on congress to lift last night. we know this is going to be a long prob ses, chris.

it will take months if not longer. it's quite striking to hear for the first time both cuban and u.s. officials talk about when not if a u.s. embassy will be reopened in havana. michaela? >> all right. let's take a look at those five things you need to know for your "new day." number one, rebels appear on the verge of a coup in yemen. they have taken control of the presidential palace ramping up concerns that they could exploit the chaos. two u.s. navy warships are in position to evacuate americans if necessary. president obama hits the road today to sell his agenda. first stop, boise, idaho. >> cnn has learned exclusively and the team has obtained video of amedy coulibaly and his wife outside a jewish institution in paris. the couple may have been searching for potential terror targets for several months. the foreign ministers of russia and ukraine meeting with their counterparts from france and germany in search of a

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yemen, a critical american ally in the mid east is on the verge of a collapse. a rebel group has staged an attempted coup. it's home to the al qaeda affiliate aqap. i want to turn to democratic congressman and co-chair of the democratic caucus. the first muslim elected to congress. an apparent coup attempt, embassy vehicle fired upon. moments ago senator angus king spoke to us on "new day." i want you to listen to what he had to say. >> i'd rather be safe than sorry. let's get them out. if things settle down we can work out something diplomatically they can go back in. that's fine.

i don't want to be here talking to you later this week about a hostage situation. >> so, congressman, do you join the chorus saying the time to get out is now? >> i respect the administration's ability to decide that. it looks like it's a rapidly evolving situation. it looks like it certainly would be advisable, but i'm going to let the people who are the closest to the problem make that call but it seems like a good idea. fair enough. do you think the u.s. needs to re-evaluate its presence its role in yemen given the changing circumstances there? >> well you know yemen is an important country geo politically. it's a very strategic location. we cannot abandon that relationship even if we do have to take a strategic step back. we cannot permanently disengage with yemen. so i think that we should be constantly evaluating but the situation in yemen for the last several years, they've been marked by dictators who are

allies they've had great political turmoil. you know just a few years ago a young woman was the nobel prize -- peace prize winner because of her efforts to try to bring peace to that country that is still troubled. you know the united states can't back out. we certainly have to continue to re-evaluate how we engage. it's an important country. >> given all of the crises that are sort of unfolding as we speak in the country, yemen if you look at the ongoing terrorism threats in europe cyber attacks reportedly from north korea, do you believe looking to the state of the union address last night from the president, do you believe that he struck the right balance of addressing these kind of issues? >> i think he did because i think that what most americans want to know is how are we going to address american economic security inside the united states? i think it was right to start with those key things that americans want to know about, but he did talk about threats abroad. he marked some successes we have

drawn down in afghanistan and iraq but we have some continuing threats around the world. i was glad he said we're going to close guantanamo bay. that's a good thing. i think it would improve our security if we did, but, you know, in a 70-minute speech you can't talk about every single thing you want to talk about in detail so i'm satisfied with how the president treated those threats. >> middle class economics certainly a big theme. i think any american -- >> absolutely. >> -- listening last night would have heard the themes of child care college, health care home retirement. >> infrastructure. >> infrastructure tax credits, all of those things but let's just have some real talk here congressman. we are in a republican controlled congress. what is the likelihood that any of this is going to -- any of these measures will get through? >> if you don't push it you certainly won't get any of it through. so i like the idea that the president is raising our aspirations. i like what he said about the

keystone pipeline. why are we arguing over one pipeline when we should be talking about investing all over america in roads, bridges, transit, wastewater treatment, fiber optic, all of these things critically important? i thought that -- you know i think we can meet some place, infrastructure perhaps. here's the other thing about college. he mentioned tennessee. they've done a lot to make college more affordable for community college students. that's a republican state. look at the whole country of germany. they've gone free tuition. are you telling me that the richest country in the world -- in the history of the world cannot afford to help educate and train the next generation? i don't buy that. i think we can move. >> a few moments ago actually it was interesting to hear one of your counterparts gop center tom tillis on our air at "new day" admitting, look the president and i don't agree on a lot of things but he said there's a lot in the middle that we can cooperate. in the halls are you hearing that there is room for common ground? because i think from the outset it sounds as though this is --

this is -- this is a congress that is set to just push up against the president on every aspect that he brings forward. >> you've got to try to keep on getting there. you've got to continue to try to make progress. i mean i think that the silence on the republican side was deafening when the president mentioned some of the successes of the affordable care act. you know we've ensured a lot of brand-new people. they were kind of quiet when those successes were mentioned. maybe now we can agree that we can look on how we can improve the affordable care act and abandon this ridiculous effort to repeal it. there are things that we can do together to move forward. >> we had a poll. i want to bring up the results. we love a good poll here in news. cnn speech watchers poll of people that watched this. they said 74%, 74% of americans want obama to work on bipartisan compromise instead of unilateral action. we have heard several veto threats from the president lately. do you think that sends the

right message to the majority party? >> well let me tell you that you know with a poll like that i think the public is saying two things. one, they would prefer that we work in a bipartisan way. of course they would. all of us would. that's the ongoing fact but does the public want the republicans to shut down the government? do they want the republicans to reveal the repeal the affordable care act, the wall street reforms? no they don't. if they try it the president will veto it. i don't think you should mix up the veto threats on some things and assume that forecloses bipartisan cooperation on other things. the votes are possible. >> i think that should down is a terrible memory for most americans. none of us want a repeat of that. certainly you don't either. representative keith ellison from minnesota. thanks so much for making time for us on "new day." >> thank you, michaela. i've got a good one for you. this whole man decides to run a business and in retirement he

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himself. >> 85 years old. >> there he is. plants the seeds, maintains it. but why he does all of this is the key. he gives it all away. last year 65,000 pounds of food for the hungry. this year 100,000 pounds. >> wow. >> all of it for charity. remember he's 85 years old, but, listen, to this free farmer. >> well off. i don't need to make money. i don't want to make money. this is very enjoyable to me. i get a great feeling in doing something positive and i hope to continue if my health keeps going as it is i'll be doing it when i'm 100. >> hooray for boule. according to second harvest food bank one in six households in louisiana alone, food insecure which is a nice way of saying they don't have enough to eat. >> volunteer. >> right. is he married? i have a bit of a crush on him now. >> you are -- there's that. >> once again --

>> extreme. >> my plans. >> she's right. >> michaela pereira playing the voice of reason. a lot of news. we get you to the "newsroom" and miss carol costello. any questions for mich. >> pardon? what? i'll check. >> what? >> have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom," does this sound like a lame duck president to you? >> i have no more campaigns to run run. my only agenda -- i know because i won both of them. >> talking tough on terror and talking up his track record here at home. >> i call on this congress to show the world that we are united in this mission bypassing a resolution to authorize the use of force against isil. our unemployment rate is now lower than it was before the financial