have a great night. we will see you right back here on monday. ♪ good day in washington and wall street, as well, awkward presidential pivots, president obama said more government programs are the answer to job creation, and house speaker boehner said the republican party is no longer simply the opposition party. former arkansas governor mike huckabee joins us. he'll have his thoughts on all of that. good evening, everybody. president obama back on the campaign trail to push his state of the union message, his so-called year of action, today

beginning with a signing of an executive order to expand federal job training programs, president obama himself admitted his proposal lacks anything that could be described as a new idea. >> so, what we're going to do, we're going to review all of the federal job training programs, then we're going to be supporting local ones. which ones are workingbest and let's duplicate themnd expand them. >> it would worry some of that the president doesn't already know which programs are working and which aren't working. a bizarre shot at higher education, president obama telling his audience that college is just not necessary for success. >> lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career but i promise you, folks can make a lot more potentially with

skilled manufacturing with the trades than with an art history degree, i'm just saying, you can make a really good living and have a great career without getting a four-year college education. >> lot of parents will be talking with their sons and daughts about their art history choices as a major. and while the president back on to never-ending campaign trail, house republicans were at their annual retreat, discussing their next moves on both immigration and obama care, speaker john boehner trying to rebrand the publican party as a quote alternative to the president instead of merely opposition. fox news chief coressional correspondent mike emanuel with our report. >> house republicans leaders are taking on major issues such as a finding alternati to obama

care and immigration reform including a legal status for those aeady here. >> doing immigration reform and a commonsense step by step manner, helps our members understand the bite-sized pieces and it helps our constituents build more confidence that what we're doing makes sense. >> rorter: the contrast from the senate which last year passed a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. the house is expected to only offer them legal status. the house republican principles including interior reinfoement. employment verification and work place enforcement. so that the best and the

brightest educated here can stay. children of illegals who are brought here should be an opportunity for legal rez essenti -- residency. >> at tuesday night's state of the yuan. president should reform as being critical for economic reform. >> it's time to heed the call of business leaders, law enforcement, and fix our broken immigration system. >> those conservatives worry it could split the gop. on replacing obama care the house gop's guiding principles including insuring the availability of health care options, provide more americans to acces and choice of care options and enable more doctors to practice medicine, also the issue of the government's borrowing authority, the debt ceiling which president obama wants it extended in november without negotiating.

>> we are not doing right by the american people. >> yes some house republicans note that president obama once said having no program dealing with our long-term debt is a failure. would like mr. obama tt pressure on his fellow democrats to get this done. >> this has been placed on the house to lead, the president is required to lead. he's made it clear he wants a clear debt ceiling. >> of course, republicans would like to control that other half the senate, and part of laying out an alternative vision designed to show what republicans can do in both chambers. >> score one for the republican party. apologized to chairman reinus pre preebus.

an unacceptable tweet. the tweet that was pulled read, quote, maybe the right wing will hate it but everyone else will go aw. the adorable new cheerios ad with biracial family was the reason for the outrageously offensive tweet by msnbc. the favoring of the staffer that tweeted that message came only after republicans vowed to stay off that channel. hillary clinton the washington post, abc survey finds clinton was % among democrats followed by vice president biden a distant second. and senator elizabeth warren in

third place. clinton's lead is the longest ever recorded in that poll and republicans, well, congressman paul ryan leading with 20% republican support, followed by jeb bush and governor chris christie, another new poll shows our first guest here in front, the public policy polling survey has former arkansas governor mike huckabee leading the way with 16%, jeb bush at 14 and chris christie at 13%. joining us now is mike huckabee, he's keeping an open mind about exploring a run for president, mike, it's great to have you here. you got to feel good about these polls that show you consistently at the forefront, among the leaders are leading for potential 2016 candidates. >> always better to be at the top of those things than at the bottom. i'm glad your name wasn't on the

list. i would be way back. >> you have never been safer. >> you know what, i think all of the talk about who's going to run and who's leading, little premature, the most important thing that republicans have to focus on getting control of the senate, pushing harry reid back to the room. he has become the great hen sitting on the egg of every idea coming out of the house. things go in and they never come out. >> senator ted cruz said today, republicans will lose their opportunity to regain control of the senate if the boehner plan goes forward, that is, apparently his preference for a pathway to citizenship and any reform legislation,ather than full support for the chairman cjudiciary committee. pathway to legal status instead

of citizenship. >> i think soenator cruz's righ on this. what's the hurry? what's the urgency take a democratic plan and rush it into legislation? the last time we rushed into legislation that the democrats dreamed up, we got obama care, and unless there's some serious, thoughtful discussion on how any reform would be implemented, i think republicans ought to throttle back and wait until you they take both house and senate, then they can manage that legislation far more effectively before it becomes blanket amnesty, not only for the republican party but a disaster for the country. >> there are sme wrest control from the democrats, the senate and house, that would automatically disaster for the country. today's gop, i have been calling

upon the republican party t develop a message and to identify itself, in much stronger terms for the middle class in this country, and those who aspire to it, out comes today is speaker boehner at the retreat, he doesn't want the republican party not only to be the opposition party, he wants the republican party to be known as the alternative party. is there not someone in gop leadership who understands language and how to use it? >> well, i would like to think so, i think it was a good line that boehner used, you want to be known for what you're for. it's not a different form of big government, less government and government that has shifted from washington to a centralized government and to push it back where mayors and governors are making decisions and not a bunch of people who are thousand a

miles of removed. that's what republicans need to do, we need to commicate our message in such a way that we're talking to the people working kitchen not just the people sitting at the head table,ot more americans who are working in kitchen than who will ever sit at the head table. neither party knows who they are, cares who they are. >> i love what you're saying, talking to the folks in the kitchen as well as those at the head table. i don't get the feeling that republicans are talking to people at the head table, indeed they're listening to thpeople at the head ble. whether it be the establisent in this country, the republican party is not standing up for self-reliance or independence or its campaign connections with

the middle class, working men and women. do you think you can change that yourself? >> i think that's a fair assessment. i think republicans haveo put aigger focus on the small business of america, not the big businesses, they're going to be fine. lou, i doesn't make the most populaguy in the room, but i have said we have this washington to wall street axis of power that has dominated the political landscape. but the problem is, both of these sides one is funding the politicians and the politicians in turn are granting all sort of favors as if they were the tooth fairy and it's hh time the republican party say, look, our job is not to empower the already empowered. it's to empower the people who don't have people in washington working for them. scratching out their business

ideas on paper. >> governor, as always, great to talk with you. the obama care train wreck, the father of health savings accounts, john c. goodman joins us tonight to peace of mind is important when you're running a successful business. so we provide it services you can rely on. with centurylink as your trusted it partner, you'llxperiencreliable uptime forhe network and services you depend on. multi-layered security solutions keep your information safe, and secure. and responsive dedicated support meets your needs, and eases your mind. centurylink. your link to what's next.

our first guest tonight says that obama care can't survive in its present form, we simply, he says we can't buy a product. he says the mandate has to be replaced. and joining us now is, well, one of the foremost authorities on health care in the country, he's john goodman, ceo of the national center of policy and analysis.

good to have you with us, john. >> glad to be with you, lou. >> this model we have seen clearly is broken, young people aren't signing up for it. it insists on mandates to make it work and people don't -- are resisting even the mandates. how soon does this thing and to the other point, i mean, looming large here, you got 6 million people who have had their insurance canceled, private insurance canceled and only 3 million have picked up coverage. at what point, where is the infliction point in this and where does it unravel? >> the fear you get in a death spiral when only sick people are in the pool so the premium keeps rising and rising and everybody who's healthy or a little bit sick stays away and if only really sick people are in the pool, premiums go sky high,

insurance companies go bankrupt or leave the market. >> we know that the insurance companies on may 15th are going to adjust their premiums, we're already told they're going to significant significantly go higher. moody's put several of these companies on a negative outlook, expecting 2% to 3% reduction in earnings. this is a train wreck, we understand that, it's not delivering what it was supposed to the people, to whom it was supposed to be delivering insurance. i mean, how long do we wait? how longan we put up with this? we're talking about a program and that's a pretty expensive experiment? >> no matter how bad it gets it won't change before the elections. after the ection is over, there will be interest from both sides of the iaisle to make

significant changes. >> isn't it about time somebody in the republican party, somebody in the democratic party start getting it straight, we're not getting it from the white house, this has been a debacle of the highest imaginable order, the republican party comes rward today with a proposal that frankly, to me, seems like they didn't spend a lot of time coming up with an alternative which had been promised. i mean, what's going on here? why doesn't -- why should the american people receive this kind of back of the hand from their two political parties? >> well, i applaud the republicans for making an effort, frankly, i liked the last coburn bill better. the idea that mccain ran on back in 2008. let's treat everybody the same.

regardless of where you get the insurance, that's where i think we have to go. >> you know, as we look at where we are going, we're looking at a plan that doesn't work, it's going to be very expensive, meanwhile, it's not delivering a service that most folks deserve to have insurance, why are we tting up with these kind of expensive government programs that don't deliver and two parties that don't deliver candidate dor and directness and a sense of responsibility to the american people? republicans didn't vote for this thing, why are they holding back? is there a deal behind doors to avoid an encounter at the polls in november? >> no, i think in both parties there's no interest in focusing on what's really on. for the public, the insurance companies aren't talking. they're rarely ever on tv

explaining what's going on. >> they know the facts, they alone have the facts. and it's pretty clear they're afraid they'reoing to lose their bailouts and subsidies, some trillion dollars that they desperately need. is that why the obama administration the government, has boughtheir silence sf. >> they're afraid to say anything. i think the media hasn't done a good job, especially the health care media, they have done a poor job of explaining to the public of what's going on. >> we have been covering this story and i have to tell you, i don't get the sense that many people who were elected to the house in either the house or the senate know what they're talking about. it's clear the administration doesn't know what they're talking about or else they

wouldn't have put this albatross around their own neck. >> i think you're right. no one's taking responsibility, including the president. >> what can we do between now -- this is -- would you notay that without a doubt is a crisis, it will lead to crisis and a failure to provide heah care? it's a crisis fiscally because the cost, the enormous costs that amounts to nothing more than a sad joke played on the american people. what can we do? >> it's a huge crisis and it affects people in a very personal way. lot of people don't know if they're going to be able to get insurance. this is a really tragedy. i'm sorry to see two party having no interest to come together on a solution. >> and the president standing up in front of the american people

bragging about all of the people that quote unquote that obama care put on medicaid. half the doctors in the country don't accept medicaid. this is beyond a failure of intellectualintegrity, don't you think? >> absolutely. medicaid, the results for enrollees is m i was surprised the democratic party wanted to do that, but they all voted for it. >> as they did obama care itself. >> john goodman, thank you. we'll try to bring the story to the american people. we appreciate it. john goodman. > coming up next house speaker john boehner he's come up with

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president obama will say, he wants to find out what federal programs are working, so he can duplicate them and then expand them, implying that he doesn't know which, if any, are successful. i don't think you would have believed me, and if i told you that today the third most powerful man in government the speaker of the house, would tell a conference of his party that he wants to show the american people that the republican party is not merely about opposition but is the alternative party, not the party of the middle class, not the party of education, not the party of aspiration, but the alternative party, i don't think you would have believed me, would you? in my book, upheaval, i write about how critical it is for republicans, this year, to come up with an effective branding strategy in this midterm election. listen to this excerpt from the

upheaval audio book. >> i don't know what the republicans' message will be this year f i did, i could probably tell you whether they will win or not. whether they will hold their majority in the house, whether they will take the senate. forecasting republican ingeneral youty, innovation, bold bs and energy is a hazardous proposition, so i'll refrain. inead i'll just cross my fingers and hope they come up with a message for these midterm and speaker boehner has certainly granted my wish, list to speaker boehner today. >> in order to maximize our year, it's important to show the american people we're not just the opposition party we're the alternative party. >> the alternative party, that is what they want as a message. >> mr. speaker, you're making your followers' heads hurt.

you want the republican party to be known as the alternative party, such a name might make people think, alternative to what? democrat, liberal. how about getting rid of all words that latin derivative. if that will help you get concrete and specific and insping in your messaging, how about a republican party that is an alternative to the current gop establishment? is that too alternative for you? one that focuses on people and less on taxation and less on regulation, how about the republican party being the party of the middle class and all of those who aspire to be in it?

the country is depending on you. and larry wrote -- thanks for the time and effort you put into preparing "upheaval." you're great american and patrt. thank you. the obama foreign policy,

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the obama administration preparing sanctions that could be imposed against ukranian government officials and protest leaders, if vlence in ukraine escala escalates. against the current government and intended closer relations with ruia erupted more than two months ago. the president is now on sick leave in ukraine and their prime minister has resigned, so the political crisis is in fact worsening. the afghan government can't properly account for $1 billion in aid that the united states sends to it each and every year,

aud tors are looking for that billion dollars. they looked into ministries, not a ngle one of them would divulge where that money might be, whether stolen, wasted or something else. in a new report finds that the united states believes russia has tested a new ground launch cruise missile that could be a violation of the 1987 treaty of banning the test of medium-range missil. . white house however will not discuss the matter or accuse russia of violating the treaty, because they say, it might damage chances of future arms control agreements that might also be breached by the government. former u.s. ambassador to the united nations john bolton and judy miller. both fox news contributors. great to have you both with us.

judy, let me begin with you, so we can bring you closer to john and me for this discussion, what is going on in the ukraine? you were there this summer. >> right. >> and the administration would threaten sanctions against a popular uprising? >> well, as youwere one of the first people to report, lou f the united states isn't paying attention to a country that it wants to sign an association agreement with the european union and the russians are all over them, leaning on them, ou must join with us, what's going to happen, yukraine is going to join with the russians, people had it, they rebelled. as we have seen, the president is sick, maybe a diplomatic illness, we will find out, but this is a really are result of

lack of priority. obama simply wasn't paying attention. you were one of the first people to report that here. >> ambassador, at some point, the american people, i'm sitting here thinking, most people are not paying attention to this, this is so low on their list of concerns in a geo political, but this is important to the united states and our ally and exactly. and yet we had a president in an hour and 5, 10-minute state of union message spent the president spent on foreign policy. the real problem is, vladimir putin. >> vladimir putin turns up in a lot of problems we seem to have. but th president seems to

embrace him. judy, as we look at what's happening in syria, now it turns out, just 4. .1%, of the chemical apons have been turned over far behind schedule, in doing so, shock, surprise, everybody's agast that syr syria isn't living up to the agreements. >> they were worn out by the exhausting talks in switzerland this week they didn't have time or energy to move those chemical weapons to the ports where they supposed to get out of the country. they're behind schedule. i'm not worry about the progress on that front as i am on the absolute paralysis over the negotiations on ending the war front. that's dragging wn.

jihadis are pouring in there. it's a mess. >> iran, those negotiations, the talks, go swimmingly, talking here with general jack kean wednesday. for releasing money under the sanctions. >> well, look, the iranians made trivial easily reverse aal ncessions. in exchange, they got major breeches in the moving the whole dial on what's accept nl trade on iran. a very victory for tehran. >> judy, a new man to take over for general lalexander at ns

the military to maintain control. i'm going to be very clear about this, but i want you and i want the ambassador to respond, i'm so tired of the harping and the crowlike noises i hear out washington, i trust that the united states military leaders, who are running the nsa and the people of our intelligence ayensy, far more than i trust those who are doing the carping, the elected officials that we have in the house and the senate that are complaining and i trust those who are in oversight. where does this end up? >> well, i think she a natural extension of the fact thathe president gave a speech, which was full of many, many words, which basically signaled that he doesn't want to change very much. and so, you may be happy with the current situation and the continuation of this program in the military's hands. i'll add one more to your list, lou, i'm not happy with google

and yahoo! having this information more than the u. government but i do want to strengthen oversight, i think when you have this kind of power and information it can be abuse zmrd judy's exactly right, i don't trust the ceos of google, microsoft, facebook to represent our national interest. >> google knows far more about us than the nsa does, this debate has been badly skewed. there have been unsub stans yated debates. this is one of the president's worst performances where he ays have existed but i'm going to make changes anyway. just inexcusable. >> merely rhetoric and not substance.

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a new study finds out the use of marijuana could pass addictive behavior on to their children. as more states weigh legalization of marijuana. joining us now to assess the medical come important of the pot debate, professor of nyu. doctor, great to have you with us. the president says marijuana is better than alcohol, weighing in another debate that seems to be an interesting decision on his part, is he right or is he

wrong? >> refer make to his memoir where he referred to his old pot smoking debate. both are bad for you. i'm not going to say alcohol is good for you. alcohol is bad for your liver, your heart and your brain. alcohol is bad. so is marijuana. many studies out there, shows it interferes with decisionmaking, especially when young children take marijuana, it interferes with their performce on sts. what i do to one person affects their offsprings. it doesn't cause mutations. >> it actually reaches to the behavior of succeeding generation. >> absolutely. we all thought that was the pot smokers of this genation say, go ahead. no. because this study was done on

rats and they're not talking. they're related to something being passed along. >> and the president making this comparison, at this time when -- there's a view it should be legalized for medical reason, do you support that view? >> that's a hard one for me to discuss, there are medical reasons for using marijuana. that happens, the legalization, it goes crazy. in california, it's legalized for medical reasons but everyone on the street corner is getting it. it's used as an excuse. no doctors in the loop. it's not restricted. >> there's an argument and it's unfair for me to say this, there was some considerable craziness in california before. >> i knew you were going to say that. >> i'm so predictable. the white house itself -- drugs are contradicting the president on this, what should people be

doing to resolve this, do you say to a kid, stay away -- look, you know every one of these kids these days is going to be offered pot, how do you counsel them? >> you can't do it by fear, you have to do it by role modeling. they have to see how you behave and what your priorities are and then who they han out with, which you also can't control. if you do it by fear, though, you're going to lose. >> one other, h 1 n 1 showing up this year in the flu, tough year, it looks like a difficult flu year, what do you say people what to expect this year. >> people can still get their flu shots and they should. here's the deal, one headline here, this is still the same flu that we talked about in 2009, the swine flu, pandemics stay

aroundor a few years, lou, people need to know this year it's still affecting the young. the target group is still adults, pregnant women and young people. i would say get the flu shot to protect a ring of immunity. >> i can tell you in my o family some of the yng adults who are closely related to me resisted getting their flu shots because they are so independent -- such independents. their mother's in the green room right now, they'll haveto deal with her. doctor, good to see you. up next -- the brand-new book "unbalanced." it makes the case that copendency - while i was in the military, i served my country.

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it is arguably the most important international relationship with this country, the united states and china, and they have developed a codependent economic relationship that's straightforward, it's argued by the author of this terrific book, it also has some very unhealthy and potentially, well, critical consequences that have to be considered by our decisionmakers, joining us is the author, senior fellow at yale university jackson institute of global affairs, this new book, unbalanced the codependency of america and china, which we commend all of you -- recommend you to buy it.

i love the book, i love the idea that you take exactly -- to understand the relationship, i think you have to read stephen's book, it is that terrific. and as we look at what's happening today, people are saying toslow down in china is because -- it's creating all of the uncertainty and anxiety and tremors in our markets, do you agree in. >> well, china is slowing, the title of the book is unbalanced, an action concept which means the only way you get out of the unbalanced trap is to rebalance, china is rebalancing and we are not. it has consequences for us. china is morphing into a consumer. it's slower pace of economic activity. >> we have our china is possesses the largest surplus, trade with the united states of any country.

it's our largest deficit in trade, they are balanced in their approach or nearer than we are certainly in their current account, why have we not adopted it at least the behavi of china or germany, perhaps, balanced too far the other way. >> look, we're hooked on consumption in america. we don't save and so to keep growing and consuming we got to borrow the surplus sievings from china and run these big deficits and then, they turn around and buy our treasuries to support our markets and their currency, it's ansidious codepdent relationship. >> i can't imagine, as you argue for balance, you talked about something that would be traumatic and stressful for this country, savings, bring ba our

consumption, boost our exports to an intelligent and sustainable level that makes a real difference in our current account, how do get there. >> well,look, lou, i took a peek at your book, you're a big advoca of saving as am i, if you don't save as a nation, you can't invest in your people, you can't invest in capacity and infrastructure. we're counting on china to do that for us. they're saying, look, those ys are over. we have to save again as a nation. >> so the great horror for amera is that the chinese economy, now finally moving from just being a production economy to a consumption economy, want to do it intntelligently. >> with gotten away with it. it's not going to work out this

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