twork. good night. ♪ ♪ ♪ lou: good evening everyone. two of president obama's former top intelligence advisers are warning that a terrorist style terrorist attack within the united states is not only possible but in an interview only a matter of time. former cia director leon panetta and michael morell, both appointed to lead the agency by president obama, expressing skepticism that radical islamists inside the united states can be caught before they carry out an act of terror. >> i think what we are seeing, as i said is a much more aggressive chapter and dangerous

chapter in terms of the war on terrorism and i think it's a matter of time were the director directed at the united states as well. >> we had the boston bombings, we had radicalized this and i expect more. i think that we are going to see a terrorist style attack here in we need to be prepared for that. particularly a lone individual can be difficult to find. lou: president obama seemingly ignoring the warnings as evidenced by his actions. a country in 90 miles from the southernmost point of the united states, cuba, and one of only four nations that the state department has designated as state sponsors of terrorism. a senior state department official today confirmed to fox news that the terror list status will not deter the administration from opening an embassy in havana even if the

secretary of state next month review determines that they should remain flat for government-sponsored terrorism. and as this white house moves to normalize relations with cuba despite terrorism concerns, european authorities remain on high alert tonight after a series of radical islamists and terror attacks and thwarted terror plots. foreign affairs correspondent greg has the report. >> the streets of europe look like a war zone belgian soldiers and french soldiers continue their patrols. this after days of terror attacks and anti-terror raids. nine people are held as possible accomplices. and after thwarting the terror plot, belgian authorities are seeking the extradition of suspects arrested all swear. homegrown hotties getting

experience in the middle east and bringing terror home. the european union wants help. >> this thread is not the only one that we face but also many other parts of the world and we need to find a way of cooperating together. reporter: the was buried this weekend. officials were worried that the graves of said and cherif kouachi would become shrines. there was extra security around the premises. this amid protests in afghanistan today, the profit mohamed appearing on the latest cover of "charlie hebdo." 3 million copies of "charlie hebdo" already sold it's now

been expanded to 7 million. lou: thank you. here at home, the president set to make his state of the union address tomorrow evening. mr. obama layout a lofty agenda and agenda the lame duck president has little hope of realizing with republicans now in charge of congress but the president is expected to focus on themes that may seem familiar such as the robin hood tax it was revealed over the weekend. taxing the rich to give to the poor and the middle class. correspondent ed henry has our report. reporter: president obama's new preview of the state of union address sounds like an old campaign commercial from 2012, that is because it is. dusting off a well-worn script about how tomorrow night he will try again to redistribute wealth, raising taxes on the rich to pay for new spending

plans and tax cuts for others. >> this gives me an opportunity to present to the american people, now that we have fought her way through the crisis how do we make sure that everybody in this country -- how do we make sure that they are sharing in this growing economy. reporter: sharing the wealth is a familiar thing that helped the president when in 2012 though he is leaving out the fact that when he presented it again in the 24 team in terms it did not fare as well. >> i am not on the ballot this fall. michelle is pretty happy about that. [laughter] but make no mistake that these policies are on the ballot. every single one of them. reporter: that is why republicans say this is an outdated plan divorced from the reality of the new power dynamics with republicans in charge of both chambers of congress. >> the notion that in order for some people to do better someone has to be worse is just not true, raising taxes on

people is not going to make those are struggling more successful. reporter: involves raising $320 million in new taxes on the rich. to pay for $175 million for the middle class. $60 billion for free community college for millions of americans as well. and the president's senior adviser faced heavy skepticism when he pitched it to cbs news bob schieffer. >> do think this is for real? you think that there's a chance that something like this could pass? >> out of the economy is in a stronger place and it's been, we need to double down on the effort to deal with wage stagnation and declining economic mobility. so the simple proposition that we should ask the wealthy to pay a little more. >> clearly the president has more room to run given up recovering economy. which is lifted his approval rating to 50% in a new "washington post" abc news poll. the first time it has reached out i spring of 2013. get the same poll has danger signs for the president as well.

when asked about his executive actions on immigration, 41% say that they should go forward. 56% say they should be blocked. then there is a question of how the president defines the middle class. in this case he wants a tax credit for couples where both parents are working if a family is earning a total bust in $120,000 per year, they get a 500-dollar credit, if you earn a total between 120,000 and $210,000 you get a partial credit. lou: ed henry from the white house. eremite did it turn into fox news coverage as the state of the union address takes place tomorrow night. neil cavuto will be hosting the broadcast at 8:00 p.m. eastern right after this broadcast tomorrow night. obama administration officials are headed to havana later this week as a part of the president's unilateral decisions to normalize relations with cuba. that despite the fact that cuba has rearrested two of the 53 political prisoners that it promised to free as part of the

deal. one of those prisoners was rereleased and the other remains in custody. a delegation of congressional democrats led by senator patrick leahy is currently in cuba but there's no word if they have met with powell castro. new york's governor into cuomo planning to leave a trade mission to cuba in the coming months. that is the latest on cuba. we are coming back and we have much more straightahead. lou: america's allies doing their part against radical islamic terror. the new chairman of the senate

lou: european officials for increased intelligence sharing with error nations following european antiterrorist raids our first guest talks about ramifications in the middle east if more isn't done by the air of nations to stop radical islamist terrorism. joining us tonight is senator richard burr, member of the senate finance committee. mr. chairman, it's good to have you with us.

>> thank you. lou: the call to shared intelligence by european officials, they are carrying out the broadest range of raids against radical islamists in history. what do you make of this? >> we have to enlist our arab friends to stop financing and stop educating children to be terrorists. we have to bring them into this global effort to illuminate radical terrorism. i am convinced that this is about an ideology and it's not about specific individuals. and i have to believe that a muslim family somewhere in the world who is not radicalized is just a scared with sharia law and when they see individuals thrown off a roof or flogged, that they don't see this as normal and i believe that we

need our arab friends to speak against this. lou: at the same time you create a paradox for this president and his administration, which maintains that there is no al qaeda was not on the run that the islamic state itself is not islamic, that won't use the phrase radical islamists when referring to terrorism, that is universally radical islamist terrorism that we are engaged in in the so-called war on terror. how do you get around that? >> welcome i don't think that there's a person in the world today that believes that al qaeda has been decimated. whether that is core al qaeda or others, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they are alive and well they thrive they direct they train. what we have seen in france as they have executed and we need to be just as concerned with

execution throughout europe as we are with execution here in the united states. now, we don't have any threats that we are following that are specific, but we see more especially on the internet and social media than i ever have in the 14 years that i've been on the intelligence committee since 2000. it doesn't have to be spectacular like 9/11 to do a tremendous amount of damage not just to individuals but to a fragile global economy. lou: your reaction to leon panetta, mike morell has been leading the agency and both men say that in effect sooner or later al qaeda radical islamist terror, will be attacking this country. are you as fatalistic as they are? >> leon panetta and mike morell call balls and strikes and they definitely have called a strike this time. we have the best intelligence

organization in the world, we have the best enforcement and counterintelligence and we do a tremendous job of surveilling those individuals that we think might carry out this. and so i think that is what leon panetta and mike are expressing. it's things that we don't know and it's events like terrorists takedowns like belgium things that give us new intelligent mode so we can go out and track down whether there is an individual here that we need to be aware of, but here is the key thing, you can't take away the tools and we have to have the access to metadata. we have to have the ability for pfizer warns to be exercised with sufficient court supervision. take them away from us and our intelligence and law enforcement

won't be any better than we've seen anywhere else in the rest of the world and i will tell you that the french have much greater authorities than does our fbi. so that gives you a hand. lou: for the first time they are making this immense shift, recognizing that islamist radical islamists are their enemy. an incredible national display of unity and protests against radical islamist terrorism this administration seems to be receding from engagement with terrorists and radical islamist in particular, can you give us your outlook for the near future to keep it as ambiguous as possible. your outlook as we concluded tonight. >> let me just say that the rest of the world, europe, asia everywhere, they are watching the united states and they are looking at the president. we are the ones that have to

leave. when you see 12 airstrikes today in syria on a good day and when you see the president that says we are making an impact, the rest of the world knows that we are not. it istme tat e te tings at me th resof th wod nvind th we e gog to lumite t thrt he at home and we are going to help them to do it abroad. i am ready and willing and able to work with the white house. like i said, we have the best and the brightest and the strongest committee. ask one of those 100 marines sitting there tonight if they feel safe they would laugh at us. >> senator, thank you for being with us. chairman of the senate finance committee. lou: time for online poll results, to whom the president issued the strongest warning. was it congress or was it iran? 97% of you said he believed the president had his strongest

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lou: we thought you might enjoy seeing this exchange. a florida sheriff setting someone straight after making comments about being prepared

for a gunfight with a group of murder suspects. >> some of the comments that were made last night about shooting the suspects possibly in some comments about waiting for a gunfight, was that in the heat of the moment? >> i'm pretty excited about understanding what would've happened. there's nothing about politically correct. there's nothing about politically correct keeping people alive and people in this community come first. so if you surrender peacefully, that is the way that we prefer it, you can not only plan on you can guarantee that we are going to shoot you. lou: polk county sheriff not hesitating to stand up to the media they are and four men

accused of a vicious double murder. if you comments on the civil rights era. martin luther king jr. and the movie maker. andré carson yesterday during a special church service to honor the legacy of martin luther king. >> the nation is watching, the world is watching, ferguson is a call. it is the new selma. it is the microcosm of what can and will happen when we come together as a united front to take back our communities. lou: the congressman may be right, but i don't frankly see the comparison between selma and ferguson. the fatal shooting of michael brown sparking nights of rioting sparking $5 million in damages last fall in much of them to local business members of the

community. and the father of michael brown not condoning the violence. martin luther king's son said my father's approach to the social injustices during the civil rights struggle is rooted in nonviolence is a morally and tactically correct response. in no way do i order what my father condone any ends to justify the means of behavior. the racially exploitative obama white house over regions efforts to leverage the ferguson crisis and political damage. the unexpected vigorous backlash against the obama white house and attorney general holder backing off, and the ferguson point man, al sharpton in this new year has been reduced to calling for emergency meetings when favorite actors are snubbed at the oscars.

if there is such a thing as an emergency screening of a movie that is what happened this weekend. the director of the new movie "selma" does a little stomach as well pretending portraying him in a way that some don't believe that he was. the director says this is a film that i am not a historian even though it is a buyout that. and "the new york times" berean job says that she wasn't interested in making a white savior movie. i get the feeling, given those words, that it she would have made a movie called gettysburg, there would've been only are an

uprising of slaves would've begun the civil war. so lbj historians like this one says that mlk and lbj were partners. saying at a time when racial tension is once again hide from ferguson to brooklyn, it does no good to bastardize one of the most hollow chapters in the civil rights movement. by suggesting the president himself stood in the way of progress. i wouldn't go quite so far as he did, i would just say that we americans should be thanking god for blessings and be deeply grateful that our nation continues to produce american flight luther king junior whose contributions we celebrate

today, and whose success we celebrate today. this evening squirrel coming from none other than martin luther king jr. he said that our lives begin to end the day that we become silent about things that matter. there are so many things that matter now and so few voices. we are coming right back. lou: when it comes to the issue of locking the president's executive the yacht on amnesty you get sick you can't breathe through your nose... ddenly... you're a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone so you can breathe and sleep shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. no super-slow-motion footage of trucks splashing through the mud.

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lou: and nasa scientists whipping back claims that this was the warmest year on record. the climate scientists are now only 38% sure that last year set a key record at all. maybe they are taking votes on this nonsense. there was no mention at all about the astronomical "new york times" article reporting on the allegedly warmest year on record. we will let you know if nasa takes another vote on this and just how much confidence they are placing on their statements.

hope frances today confirming that he will be coming to new york and washington and philadelphia on his upcoming trip to september to the united states. the pontiff also said that he wishes that he could enter the united states or our southern border as a sign of brotherhood and of help to the emigrants. i have to say is we were looking up hope frances they are. >> they are saying that we will law, be arrested everything it takes, our next guest voted to defund the executive amnesty and the legislation faces an uphill climb to say the least, joining us now is raul labrador, vice chair of the subcommittee on immigration and border security.

congressman, it is good to talk with you. your colleague luis gutierrez that is pretty strong talk to compare him in himself and supporters to selma, don't you think? >> it is very strong the difference is that the african-american community was trying to assist in the united states, they were doing things that were appropriate and they have law enforcement getting in their way from being law abiding citizens. and i just thought that the comparison was not appropriate.

lou: we are talking about this actually the senate and the house are starting to sound like president obama. the ambiguity, the equivocation the lack of specificity instead of direct answers to specific questions, like are you going to lose this version of immigration reform or are we trying to sell out and do amnesty as the president insists. >> i think there is only one way that we are going to work it out. we are going to work in a step-by-step approach, it's what we have been saying for the last four years, working on immigration will work with order security and we are going to do other security and things are going to make the american people feel safe and secure in the united states. once we do that we can start talking about other things that can be done to work in the house. we are all in agreement and we need to do the border security

bill. lou: john boehner stand up and say this is the way we are going to go in this is the path forward. this is what we are going to do and why doesn't he have the guts to do that. lou: in that case is mitch mcconnell going to sign on as well to . >> welcome i don't work with them, but i hope that he can sign on come on a little bit concerned about mitch mcconnell we need to start applying pressure on all senators, especially the senator, the democratic senator coming from the swing states that are up for reelection. i can assure you that just like in my state of idaho and in their state of border security it's the number one priority. lou: that is encouraging.

lou: the president is the redistributionist, okay so where does he want -- he wants higher taxes on gasoline, some of the most regressive and the republicans were going to dismiss all this of this nonsense because what we have heard instead his acceptance of the idea of higher taxes on gasoline. >> i think most republicans are concerned about the ideology of its ironic that he tried it for two years. they had it in their hands for two years and it almost collapsed the entire economy of the united states.

we have stopped the agenda, stop the taxation, stopped the stop the overspending. all of a sudden the economy started improving. and we have house republicans that stop the obama agenda. so this last election, he comes back not with a way to bring us together, but more with a left-wing ideology but he totally believes in. lou: using the words radical islamist saying that al qaeda is still on the run even as europe is in this. you have about 30 seconds for us to give us your view on radical islamist terror.

>> it makes absolutely no sense it is completely ironic, the leadership in france is actually stronger than the president of the united states. lou: it's well said, congressman, good to see you and happy new year. congressman raul labrador. coming up next, critics blasting the new movie "selma", saying that it's nothing more than historical fiction. juan williams wrote to best-selling histories of the civil rights movie and an essay as well. he will take up his views next and i may add just one or two of

lou: the new movie "selma" controversial. our next guest says that the greatest social movement of the last century belongs to all americans. joining us now is juan williams, it's so great to have you here. i love the sentiment.

thank goodness for maureen dowd and others for enlarging it, thank god for you, there are radical views, boxes to check. what is your take on that? >> i think that it's such a powerful part of the american experience and our narrative, there is a lot of white guilt attached to "the new york times" key quite frank and i think the you say that play out. patronizing. patronizing. making excuses for the fact that somebody is distorting the history. he never says oh, she's got it right, no, he simply says that we should excuse this. as maureen dowd points out and i point out, there is something beyond the point of dramatic

license and this includes turning the voting rights act on its head. you're not positioning it for dramatic effect, you are in fact, congo looting it and distorting it so that what you are saying is absolutely wrong. and that sends a message to me that what this is about is a racial vendetta. but oh when people had nothing to do with a the victory that black people had in the civil rights era and she's going to make president johnson as a white man into a villain for her purposes. lou: there are politicos that

suggests that it is not in any way shared from this. it's a bizarre view. and i said this if she were doing a book and a movie on gettysburg, there would be no union army. and it is incredible. >> well, i just take to heart what you just said because i thought it was so right. so right on not only obviously most of the soldiers who died to free the slaves were white folgers, but continuing that thought, abe lincoln, i don't think he is a black eye, then you go on down the line let's

just wonder about who are the students that went south. welcome i think they were mostly white kids. imagine that. when you think about this two thirds are white people. but the idea that somehow doctor martin luther king has to be pushed up an elevated by pushing down president johnson to me it is insulting and martin luther king is an american hero and when i say american, i mean for all americans. and she may have some deepening security to perpetrate this kind of fraud. and they were thinking that i

can tell you that the author not only talk about this documentary, but i can tell you it is the first supreme court justice that it was president johnson who put the first african-american on the supreme court. and again it's just awful. when you start to think the cost of which he has acted and the implications of future generations that will walk away thinking that oh i know that story and have it absolutely wrong. it's the one we reflect a bit on this day, those that were still reluctant and they are all races and all creeds. that this happens to work pretty well for this country. and it certainly worked very well for this country that we had with doctor martin luther king jr., who let us through

that extraordinary time. a typical time, a difficult era. so it's great to see you, my friend, thank you for being here. >> it is my pleasure, thank you for having me today. lou: wall street closed in honor of the martin luther king holiday, amazon announcing that its getting into the movie business, that's what we need is one more movie maker. it will be available on its screening service a month or two after being released in theaters. and the movie american sniper shattering the box office this weekend. it is about decorated marksman chris kyle decimating records for this holiday weekend and the month of january. second place 25 million, the wedding ringer 4.5 million.

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lou: fears are growing of a possible coop in yemen. a country he said was a success story. he didn't call them radical islamists. relax. those were my words. fox news analyst kt mcfarland. radical islamist. are we going to have to put up with a president who plays these silly -- >> yeah. one he thinks he's already solved that

problem. he got bin laden. that's a george bush problem. lou: thank god there was only one of them. >> a george bush problem. not mine. if he puts islamic or terrorist or radical -- lou: took islamic out of islamic state. >> yeah. lou: their words, not mine. >> they call it an islamic state. the prime epicenter -- lou: it looks like egypt now has a convincing real leader. >> yes, i agree. lou: that his people can depend upon as well as the allies of egypt. >> yeah, i met with him. he was general. i was very impressed. he gets it. knows it's an economic crisis. knows you have to have political stability to fix the economy. great personal courage. to go to the equivalent of the vatican the

muslim world vatican, to say to the leaders, you have to fix it. it's you who have gotten us where we are. lou: and as the saying goes, what we've heard is crickets. >> or from the white house which should have said is we endorse what the president of egypt has said. >> we hear constant noise of that place. constant babble. europe. this has been a complete reversal of the leaders particularly of france to acknowledge the threat of radical islamist terrorism and to demonstrate and protest it by the millions in the streets. >> it's not just to the demonstrate against islam. it was to demonstrate in favor of shared western values. freedom of speech. we won't be intimidated. what will they do about it? will they actually tackle it? it's not an easy problem to tackle. it's not just let's

round up a couple of bad guys. it's an endemic problem. >> they've flooded the vulnerable areas with their military, which is something new, you know, a number of people writing that parts of france looked like they're engaged in war as if my god they actually aren't. i mean, they are. >> well, and belgium as well. and even in greece over the weekend. they realize that they have a problem primarily with their own citizens who go to the middle east to train to fight and then come home with these commando commando-style attacks. >> leon panetta saying it's only when we're attacked. >> yeah. absolutely. i agree. we have the ability now to track those people using higher technology and software we've developed for the market system and also for afghanistan. we need to use that to start winnowing out the couple percent of the population of the united states that might be a threat and take a much

closer look at them instead of looking at 100 percent and trying to find the new england inneedle inthe, hey stake. lou: i want leaders that say we will stop this. i'm starting to get more than a little concerned about attitudes that sound like they cover their posteriors rather than to say we're engaged, we're effective and we'll continue to be effective. kt always great to see you. time for a few comments. duck tweeted me. that's right. al-qaeda is on the run. the president won't admit they're winning the race. mike wrote: reagan had no problem naming the communists and the threats they pose. why won't this white house do the same with radical islamists? because there is no comparison between this president and mr. reagan. and roger in michigan: al sharpton needs to be reminded that martin luther king jr. that

things should be judged byby their content, not color. see you tomorrow. thank you for being with us. good night from new york. neil: welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. and is it me or is the president more creative in finding ways to raise money than he is at saving money? i ask because tomorrow night, he'll be at it again. a state of the union speech that will be big on soaking the rich. he wants to increase spending. that's not shocked. what is, is how creative he's getting. expect liberals to cheer his plan to squeeze money out of the well-to-do in the next decade. he tends to do that by hiking the capital gains rate up. keep in mind the president has already raised this rate from 15%,