e you, tonight, a programming note starting next week, new episodes of "stossel" air every friday on fox business, no longer thursday i'm moving to friday, same time same channel. hope to see you then. good night.he meantime here's lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody. president obama's tense relationship with israel and prime minister netanyahu just worsened. secretary of state john kerry appears to have misspoken about the views of the mossad about the impact of further u.s. sanctions against iran. the secretary of state not only misspeaking it appears, but caught categorically contradicted by the israeli government. the secretary claiming the mossad advised a group of unnamed senators to avoid any new sanctions on iran. the secretary's clear implication that the mossad and the netanyahu government are divided on the issue of iranian

sanctions. >> one of the top intelligence personnel within the israeli intelligence field i won't name names, but this person was asked directly by a congressional delegation that visited over the weekend what the effect of sanctions would be? this person answered it would be like throwing a grenade into the process. lou: the mossad says kerry's statement is untrue. a statement released today reads, quote -- contrary to the report, the head of the mossad did not say he opposed sanctions on iran. the remarkable efficacy of the sanctions imposed on iran over the last few years in bringing iran to the negotiating table.

senate foreign relations committee chairman bob corker, present at the meeting and here he is further rebuking the kerry claims. >> some this weekend over the same issue, we have heard no one, no one say if congress were to weigh in on the final agreement, it would have anything it would in any way destabilize the negotiations. lou: the committee's former chairman, senator bob menendez took his criticism of president obama further. menendez accused the administration of doing iran's bidding. >> i have to be honest with you, the more i hear from the administration and its quotes the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of teheran. lou: the white house now three weeks into the 114th congress and president obama has run into something of a right hook from the republican-controlled

legislative branch. speaker john boehner announcing mr. netanyahu will have a meeting on the threat and it is now breach of protocol. making claims about the israeli intelligence agency that are insupportable. turning to yemen the nation, the obama administration once pointed to as a great middle east success story. that success story is crumbling tonight. intelligence officials not only calling what has occurred a coup, but after armed rebels took over the presidential palace and much of the capital city, the president and entire congress of yemen resigned. fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin with our report. >> reporter: state department officials say they have reached out to yemeni officials in the capital sanaa to get more clarity about the resignation of president hadi his prime

minister and cabinet, one day after yemeni officials announced a ten point truce. the president agreed to give the shia houthis more representation when they have not withdrawn from around the president's residence and remained inside the presidential palace the truce appeared in jeopardy. the state department not calling this a coup has left open the idea of working with the houthis. u.s. officials say the houthis have not indicated they plan to target the american embassy or the american people. >> the houthis do not want to see the rise or success of al qaeda in yemen either. counterterrorism effort is ongoing. >> reporter: all of this worrisome to u.s. officials seeing a key ally against al qaeda fall to militants under the control of iran making yemen's neighbors nervous. >> saudi arabia in a vulnerable stage now with a probable transition of power happening

given in the near future. with iran in the east houthis in the south, this is not a comfortable situation for saudi arabia. >> reporter: the unrest is coming an awkward time after president obama vowed to close the detention facility at guantanamo bay where two-thirds of the 122 detainees are from yemen. the defense secretary said the pentagon will continue to refuse to send relief detainees to yemen. last week five yemeni detainees were transferred from guantanamo bay. >> the conditions in yemen today aren't different than what they have been, and we don't send them back to yemen. >> reporter: a company of u.s. marines are in yemen prepared to defend the u.s. embassy, the "u.s.s. iwo jima" and fort mchenry are standing by. the u.s. spent millions to fight al qaeda. all of that could be going up

in smoke right now. lou? lou: jennifer griffin reporting from the pentagon. here at home, a meeting of potential front-runners for the republican nomination for president. 2012 republican nominee governor mitt romney meeting with former governor of florida jeb bush in utah to talk about the politics of a potential head-to-head matchup in 2016. fox news chief national correspondent carl cameron with our report. >> reporter: posing with airline employees before flying from d.c. to salt lake city to meet mitt romney, jeb bush couldn't resist tweeting a photo with the caption, thank you to the delta team sorry about all of our reporter friends milling around. the former florida governor requested a meeting before he engaged a pac for the white house run. it was supposed to be a customary call to romney who said he would not run a third time. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: romney changed his mind and made his i'm back reappearance at the rnc meeting

in san diego last week. he's been calling donors exstaffers and supporters for three weeks now and romney is determined to try again. bush endorsed romney in 2012 and the two are cordial political acquaintances. >> it is a joy to be here in support of the next president of the united states, mitt romney. >> reporter: both are considered establishment front-runners. competition for the same donors and votes could be intense. bush's support for immigration reform and common core education standards and romney's opposition to both is a sure flash point. they agree on one thing, hillary clinton and the democrats must be defeated. as clinton's team comes together expectations are rising following expected announcement in march or april insiders are buzzing that the avalanche of prearranged donations will obliterate fund-raising records and make it clear clinton will be the democrats' nominee, and a tough candidate. once again indicated he is

still mulling what would be his third white house run. >> i don't think you have to make up your mind until the summer. i think this is wide open on both sides. >> any chance can you challenge her? >> yes, there's a chance but i haven't made my mind up about that. we've got a lot of work it do between now and then. plenty of time. >> reporter: biden insiders think clinton is vulnerable he's not locking up big donors the way clinton is and barely registers in the polls. eight republicans including chris christie and scott walker will take part of the candidate forum in iowa. sunday night in california, the koch brothers organization will host a moderate discussion between ted cruz, marco rubio and rand paul that is likely to caught all kind of tea party fireworks. lou: thank you very much, carl cameron. a "washington post" poll shows hillary clinton with double-digit leads over both of them in a potential matchup.

clinton beats bush 54% to 41% among registered voters. she beats romney 55-40%. president obama low marks all around for his state of the union address. just under 32 million people watched tuesday's primetime address, that is the lowest cloughest viewership, the smallest audience for a state of the union address since former president bill clinton's final speech in 2000. fact checkers calling out the president for this claim -- >> our diplomacy is at work with respect to iran where for the first time in a decade we've halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material. lou: ooh. too good to be true? yes, it was too good to be true. his remark earned three pinocchios. the "washington post" fact checker unamused saying the president can claim he slowed

the progress of the iranian nuclear program but not halted it. remember this american success story that the president was touting in his speech? >> rebekah took out student loans and enrolled in community college and retrained for a new career they sacrificed for each other and slowly it paid off. america, rebekah and ben's story is our story. they represent the millions who worked hard and scrimped and sacrificed and retooled. urity reason that i ran for this office. lou: in part that's absolutely true, it turns out she also represents the democratic party. she is a hard-working mom, she's also a former democratic campaign operative who worked for senator patty murray and who worked for president obama in his 2008 campaign. on wall street stocks extended gains a day of heavy

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. lou: state department spokeswoman jen psaki was pressed, asked why the united states has not ordered the evacuation of the u.s. embassy in yemen. listen to the exchange with associated press reporter matt lee. >> so, there hasn't been any change, so basically anarchy is not enough to get to you adjust your presence? >> matt with all due respect to your assessment as ang ap reporter, we have the united states government and our team

on the ground seasing what is needed. >> i'm not. >> we take it very seriously. >> don't miss understand. lou: our next guest says the situation in yemen is another example of terrorism and terrorists dominating the middle east fueled by money, weapons and other aid by the iranian government. joining us senator james risch he serves on the senate foreign intelligence committee and natural gas and resources. senator, good to have you here. i understand you've been working through the day on the crisis in yemen. your conclusion tonight about what's happening there? >> lou about, two years ago week held a hearing in our subcommittee on yemen and were told by the administration that everything was fine, they were able to articulate what the policy was. today, as you know, the president and the cabinet resigned, they had to or would have been killed. as a result of that, you have two groups vying for control of

the country. one are the houthis and the other al qaeda, neither of whom are friends of the united states, there's a mess there right now. lou: secretary of state kerry saying that basically mossad had told a group of senators to put the further sanctions against iran would be like quote, unquote throwing a hand grenade into the negotiations. that has been disputed by mossad and senators. what in the world is the administration thinking here? >> you know i'm really not sure. i've met with the prime minister on a number of occasions. i know what his position is. it's crystal clear. today, i read the reports about what mossad said on a hear say basis. the israeli embassy put out a statement which clearly said anyone who interpreted the -- those remarks by mossad as

being against the additional imposition of sanctions was dead wrong. lou: our key ally in the region, israel. this is to me a remarkable maneuver by the speaker of the house, john boehner, inviting prime minister netanyahu to address a joint session of congress. your thoughts. >> well they are our key ally in the region. the prime minister frequently comes to washington, d.c. for a gathering in march, and he'll be doing that, and the speaker simply asked him to come and address a joint session of congress, which is really important because they are our key ally in the region. i understand there's a protocol dispute between the speaker and the white house, but, look, that's the tempest in the teapot. we ought not to be talking about these kinds of things when we have such important issues to talk about. lou: you mean protocol?

we've had 114 heads of state and other dignitaries address joint sessions of congress, and this administration has shown a woeful disregard it seems to me, for not only the protocol itself, but for actually regulations and laws. so i don't think john boehner is likely losing much sleep and does present a powerful speaker with a powerful difference of view with that of the administration. so it will be a compelling certainly to hear the prime minister. i want to ask you about the state of the union address. now you picked up on a statement there, and i want to share this with the audience which frankly, i completely, utterly missed, in which he said that in the state of the union, something that you believe may be unconstitutional. he said this, and we're going to put this quote up for our audience --

my god! that's an incredible statement for the president of the united states to make. >> lou, it is incredible. and you weren't the only one to miss it, the entire national media missed it i was astonished at. i thought he misspoke or i miss heard him. i pulled the statement exactly. what the president of the united states has done is called for a national property tax. the loophole he's referring to that we should close is the united states constitution. the federal government cannot confiscate property belonging to americans or american institutions, and that's what he called for in that sentence. it's black and white. now i frankly am astonished this is shades of fdr and shades of trying to push the

country towards a socialistic frame that moves property around from people that have some property to those that the government thinks ought to have property. it's incredible absolutely incredible. lou: and perhaps beyond. that senator, good to talk with. >> you lou, good to talk with you. thank you. lou: you're looking at the patriots' braintrust belichick and brady and meet the press and divulge what the media dubbed deflate-gate. we use the expression well, teapot. next.

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. lou: mexican drug smugglers took to the sky decades ago but not on this fashion you're looking at a remote-controlled drone, toting more than six pounds of meth it was, when it crashed into a parking lot in mexico a couple miles from the

border. drones crashing on capitol hill. it had to happen. the house science subcommittee yesterday holding a hearing whether to allow the unmanned aircraft. representatives from 3-d robotics wanted to show off their drones show how safe they were, but about six seconds into the flight, in the hearing room the drone, well it did this. it hit the floor. . britain's prince andrew weighing on allegations he had sex with an underaged teenager who was part of a sex trafficking ring led by american billionaire jeffrey epstein. >> firstly, i think i must for the record refer to the events that have taken place in the last few weeks, and i just wish to reiterate and to reaffirm the statements which have

already been made on my behalf by buckingham palace. my focus is on my work. lou: the woman in question who is now 31 years old is demanding prince andrew submit to an under oath interview about her charges. deflate-gate the number one trending story on twitter tonight. new england patriot coach bill belichick and quarterback tom brady holding separate news conferences in which they denied any knowledge whatsoever of the scandal. >> no knowledge whatsoever of the situation until monday morning. i learned a lot more about the process in the last three days than i knew or talked about it in the last 40 years i've coached in this league. tom's personal preferences on his footballs are something he can talk about in much better

detail, and information than i could possibly provide. >> i didn't alter the ball in any way. i have a process i go through before every game they pick the balls that i want to -- the footballs that i want to use for the game. i feel like i've always played within the rules i would never do anything to break the rules. lou: brady put the scandal into some perspective, and he put it into i would say a wry perspective, having just a little fun with the matter. >> everybody has a preference. some guys like them round some like them thin some guys like them tacky, brand new, they're all different. they're leather, every batch comes. it's different. i tell them everything is going to be okay. i am fine, this isn't isis it

isn't anyone dying. the integrity of the game is very important, integrity is very important. lou: and the hall of fame quarterback to be also knowing when to leave well enough alone. the news conferences gaining extra attention for the unfortunate hashtag, gillette trying to flex hashtag to the public relations well, inconvenience. be sure to vote in our poll tonight, do you believe bill belichick and tom brady should be thrown out of the -- we're having fun with this. we're not even going to do it in fun. throwing them out of the nfl? do you think that would be appropriate? how serious is this thing? we would like to hear from you. i, for one think a little out of proportion. time now for a look at last night's online poll results.

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. lou: israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said to address a joint session of congress on march 3rd at the invitation of speaker john boehner. the white house is horrified, however, saying president obama will not meet with the president obama during his visit saying quote as a matter of longstanding practice and principle we do not see heads of state or candidates in close proximity to their elections, so as to avoid the appearance of influencing a democratic election in a foreign country. my next guest says the president should meet with netanyahu to send a strong signal to iran. joining us former israeli ambassador to the united

states daniel iolane. >> good to be here. lou: silly pettiness on the part of a president who should be better than that. what do you think? >> it's disappointing, unfortunate that the two leaders, the best ally of the united states, especially in an area where the threats are so acute from iran, from terrorism. not to me but because of false pride or reasons of protocol. they should be secondary, and about the issue of elections, there is a very good solution practiced all over. you are meeting because you cannot freeze and wait until elections and by that time die or whatever you go and ipvite the head of opposition for a meeting. the president himself was in israel during his own campaign just like most president candidates do, and they go europe and go to other places. so i think they should have looked over it and looked at

the substance of what's at stake. iran and terrorism. and not look at protocol. lou: if indeed protocol is what they're looking at rather than frankly being self-indulgent again in pettiness and petulance, this is a president who doesn't seem to have any veil any longer about how frankly poor spirited he can be. and now the flap with the secretary of state john kerry, quoting senators who secretary of state heard the chief of mossad saying that it would be to throw a hand grenade into the negotiations to strengthen sanctions against iran on. its face that makes no sense? >> and it's slightly wrong. the protocols are there. notes were taken from the meeting. by the way, mossad denied it flatly today. so this was a strong i don't

know what was the reason for making this false argument, and i hope we will go past it. lou: i'm sure we will go past it, but it is an artless, clumsy, terrible moment for secretary of state kerry, and it is in the clumsiness i'm referring to the fact he would mention it. obviously, he found it to be to his benefit or that of the administration or he wouldn't have said it. >> first of all, it was hearsay, and secondly i don't think it is wise to say things like that from a closed meeting. the understanding is things will not leak out. other thing it's strengthening the hands of the ayatollahs. now it's diminishing. lou: this administration further strengthening the ayatollahs half billion dollars of being returned to iran again, without any ostensible

quid pro quo. no bargain in any of this. people are getting increasingly increasingly in this country, concerned that this administration perhaps in search of a legacy is so desperate that it will sign anything with the iran government. >> that would be a grave danger. the deal so far with iran was a dream deal for the iranians. why? they have to give anything. the fact they do not proceed with the production, that does not mean they cannot do it at the time of their choice. they're kept all their capabilities. suspension not good enough. and it's a missed opportunity because iran does not have any cards. especially now with oil prices going down. this is a time to push for a deal that will dismantle, it will not allow them to come back at the time of their choice. it's a threat not just to israel but threat to allies of the united states and the united states itself. lou: i think it's why the

president and john boehner are joined on an issue now, and that is iran its role in the middle east and threat, extant threat to israel and the threat to the united states and its interests, and it is a good thing, a smart thing they think the speaker has done here and i'm delighted, and i think most americans are, that the prime minister will be here to address congress because otherwise this debate would be far too onesided. perhaps that will change. good to see you ambassador. >> thank you. lou: thanks for being with us. secretary of state kerry no doubt will address some of the issues when he arrives in davos to speak at the world economic forum tomorrow. there might be a few questions tomorrow. we expect so. fox business has been there all week. tomorrow maria bartiromo with exclusive interview with microsoft's founder and we're told he keeps his hand in on advising technology, bill gates.

watch it live from davos on "opening bell" with maria at 9:00 a.m. eastern. we've got changes coming to the fox business network primetime lineup. beginning mondays, you can see this broadcast as always, and at 11:00 p.m. eastern, 8 pacific. cavuto remains at 8:00 p.m. eastern followed by "strange inheritance" about the valuable, and fascinating things people receive from the dearly departed. "stossel" moved to friday and "kennedy" at 10:00 p.m. up next a middle eastern nation the president called a model of success is collapsing. and controversy erupting after a police shooting in new jersey. we take it up with

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. lou: chaos in yemen but secretary of state kerry met with anti-islamic state coalition members in london claiming significant gains against the islamic state. >> we are taking out isis

fighters in the thousands thus far, single digits, but thousands. their commanders 50% of the top command has been eliminated. lou: joining us to discuss the latest in the fight against the islamic state, yemen and indeed obama foreign policy in the middle east, retired three star army lieutenant general daniel bolger. general, good have you here. let's start with the body count. 50% of the leaders. that's an impressive number, if true. your reaction? >> lou, the one thing we should know for sure and secretary kerry as a veteran of vietnam, body counts are highly suspicious when you are dealing with insurgent enemy. look, it's great we're killing their leaders they need to be killed but they can replace them they replace and recruit

fighters. the effect on ability to control population in territories, they are hanging in there. lou: and worse elements at least of the islamic state have moved into yemen. the fight there is between the houthis, the al qaeda organization as well, and now we've got a government that has collapsed. what's in store? >> real tough situation in yemen. a three-way fight going on. the government that we back is shaky at best. in fact, resignations under pressure and that pressure is houthi rebels breaking into the presidential palace, taking the chief of staff captive things like that. really tough. the houthis are backed by the iranians, they are shia. backed by tehran. lou: wait a minute, general, i'm confused. the iranians are acting against u.s. interests as we are

negotiating their nuclear future? >> oh, yes, the iranians act in their own interests, lou, as you well know. and by the way, the houthis down there are putting the iranians near key chokepoint. the southern entrance to the red sea, about 10% of the world's petroleum goes through the chokepoint every day. lou: and we heard kerry reference the islamic state as dash. we've heard a couple of generals try to change the nomenclature with which we identify our enemy, which is the islamic state. this has become sort of a silly game. an administration that refuses to acknowledge that these are radical islamist terrorists will not use the phrase, and at the same time, seeking to change nomenclature to something more offensive to the terrorists themselves. this is a lot of time and art spent on it seems to me the supercilious?

>> it's us negotiating with ourselves, lou. what we need to do is find these guys and kill them. lou: and are there generals in the pentagon who understand this that's precisely what we need to do? is there any hope that they're going to get those orders from this commander in chief? >> well, there's definitely generals and soldiers marines, airmen and coast guard all ranked that are given the best military they can the president and the other members of this administration. and i know because i know those people that they're telling them, hey, if you send americans in there, give them a clear mission, and most importantly, do not tie their hands. lou: well, one mission we're told coming up here in the next couple of months will be to send 400 troops to train up as many as 18,000 syrian moderate rebels if that is not altogether a contradiction in terms. is that a reasonable mission? is it one in which we can see

result in success? >> i'd first of all say, lou, it might take more than 400 troops to find syrian opposition members in that number, that are moderates. the most effective part of the syrian opposition are isis which are our enemies in iraq. the so-called moderate oppositions, thin on the ground, and they're opposed by the bashar assad regime which is an ally of iran. there they are again. we're in the three-way dogfight and none of the dogs are too pleasant. lou: and one other on the porch as well, and that, of course, is russia, which is continuing to advance its relationship with iran, including technology and more modern armament including surface-to-air missiles. general, look forward to talking with you soon. >> thanks.

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rebecca rosewoodland. this is an investigation as we look at video with a gun in the car. the victim of this shooting, whether victim is appropriate here, defied a police order. what do you make of that? where do we start? >> well, in this situation, it does seem like that would be very easy to justify the officers. but when you actually watch the video the gun was not in the hands of anyone in the car. the gun was in the glove compartment. it was retrieved by a police officer. the police officers kept saying stay in the car. we have no idea -- lou: they identified a gun was in the car. this wasn't post shooting. >> they were yelling at him. you're going to be, you know dead. i can't use the word on television. very aggressive

behavior. and he's standing like this. lou: define aggressive for me. you see a man who has -- that you stopped and there's a gun in the car -- >> in the glove compartment. lou: if you're a police officer are you to suppose that he only has one gun. >> no. lou: if i may, if he has the -- >> his hands were up like this. lou: i don't care if he was twirling on his head. >> if he had a gun somewhere else if his hands are up like this, then the officers could you know, make sure that they got him under arrest. lou: i'm sorry. i have to tell you, i cannot imagine as a police officer if i tell somebody and i see a gun in a car, not to move and they have -- they're sufficiently out of their mind to move how would i interpret

that behavior? >> probably not shoot them dead. lou: i'm not sure. i don't know at what point you decide your life is worth more than the risk. >> see, that's the issue here. that's where there's an investigation. police are trained for this sort of thing. we're not. we're civilians. most police officers are fantastic. lou: you know the guts it takes to shep out of a karat car at night. >> he was stepping out of the car with his hands fully up. the question is: in a police officer's mind and with his training is that shooting justified or is it over the edge in what is considered an unjustified shooting? lou: you tell me. >> that's why you bring it to a grand jury. lou: wait a minute. obama's administration hates a jury. >> i know.

lou: unfairly criticized -- >> that's why you bring it to a grand jury. i had cases where i didn't know if it was an accident or murder. that's why you bring in people who can debate it and they can decide. >> the facts are presented. then they decide. >> exactly. >> the grand jury doesn't decide approximateguilt orinnocence. lou: i'm fascinated by the idea -- the officer in this case firing the weapon that killed him was not a white police officer firing on a black suspect -- >> i don't think it's a black-white issue. lou: you know that anything can be turned into a racial issue, particularly when a white officer is firing on a black suspect. >> there is not that issue. there was a white officer, but the gun was discharged apparently. the first shot was made by the black officer. lou: what is your judgment? >> grand jury.

let them decide. >> absolutely. lou: to what degree does the officer have a prerogative in fear for his life and his officer. >> you bring the officer in and ask him that question. what was your fear and thought process in that exact moment? >> then the grand jury will determine. and then, if there is an indictment, it will go to a full trial where prosecution and the grand jury will be able to to get to the bottom of this. lou: this man shot dead on that roadside defying a police officer's orders and warning had fired on state troopers earlier in his life. >> he was underage at that time. i find it distressing that the situation continued -- lou: he had a record. >> they don't seem to resolve. these situations are continuing in a manner that are aggressive. but we did find out in ferguson, we found out

something interesting. there will not be a charge. >> civil charge. lou: that's what we call judgment. not prejudgment. as exercised by this ni attorney general and our president. thank you. neil: welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. houston, we have a problem. two of that city biggest employers, halliburton and baker hughes poised to cut jobs. not just in houston. american express and ebay the latest two announcing layoffs are coming as well. the sudden drop in profit about 40% in the first quarter, i imagine it's a matter of time before they're cutting back in a flash as well. sandbag. maybe not as well. with an economy the president has been trumping and pumping. you don't go around the country relate patting yourself on the back if this reversing