bill: so we're having our christmas party later today and martha and i are the hosts. we don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. martha: we may or may not be back. see you later. bye, over. have a great day. jenna: right now breaking news on today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: shocking testimony in the newlywed murder trial. what the defendant told investigators after her husband's body was found. new questions about benghazi terror attack that killed four americans. new documents show the state department ordered security dreams not to talk to the media. what they knew and why they couldn't say anything. plus a pregnant woman murdered with her two-year-old nearby. her husband convicted of killing her in a trial that made national headlines. now he could get a new trial. we'll explain why, "happening now."

jon: and it is good morning to you. hope your thursday is off to a good start. i'm jon scott. >> great to see you. i'm jenna lee. we'll start off with the sexiest man alive. that is related to health care, right, jon? jon: somehow they made the connection. jenna: we'll make it for our viewers. right now the sexiest man alive has been linked to boost obamacare. adam levine is among the celebs as part after social media campaign targeting young people. let's bring in fox news contributor, jonah goldberg, nationalreview.online and alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show. author of the "thank the liberals for saving america." jonah, this worked before for the administration, tapping into celebrities and getting them to help the administration overall. do you think it is going to work

here? >> it might work at the margins. i'm sure there are truly unfortunate souls out there the lead singer from maroon 5 is one to take health care tips. jenna: i take it you're not one of them. >> not necessarily. this is a big problem for barack obama in the broader sense. everybody talks about the act -- actuarial stuff the young and healthy need tock overcharged to pay for the older and sicker. if you don't get that you get into a death spiral. this is split cam problem for the obama administration. this is the core support of obama's two victories were. this is a coalition a lot of democrats are counting on for obama to bequeath to them for 2014 and 2016. in young people turn on democrats and this law, it create as real head wind for democrats broadly. jenna: we have numbers from nbc news and "wall street journal" poll, how young people, 18 to 34-year-olds feel about the

president. the approval rating for the president, 45%. the disapproval, 49%. what do you attribute that to and how do you turn it around. >> i attribute it to he has a lot of negative press on health care issue. he has been beaten up on left side of the press and right side of the press. if you're 18, 19, 21, 22, you would not necessarily be affected by in terms of health care law. i believe over time like any other new big bill it takes time for people to get adjusted to it. they should have been doing this long time ago. they should have started this marketing campaign long before now with the rollout in october of website, and were so focused on non-working website they couldn't do it. i'm glad they're doing it now. jenna: it is easy to see. a visible sign and question about a new policy, alan. jonah, i would like to ask your thoughts as well as you look at approval, disapproval ratings for the president among young people.

what numbers we don't have right now, whether or not the young people say i disapprove the president and i approve of republicans. what about that? is that even happening? >> no, that's right. and that's a real problem for republicans. in a lot of these stories they asked young people would you vote for obama again, well depends who the other candidate was. doesn't necessarily mean they would vote republican. but again the republican answer to obamacare isn't a republican state-run government-run health care system. it's a system where the free market can work better and be allowed to fix these things which gets at core problem for obama and democrats. they have been able to sell obamacare as this hip, you know, amazon-like, kayak.com-like, product and that's what young people want to hear. young people are a lot different. when alan is absolutely right. other programs have had rocky rollouts. those are for generations of people who spent their lives dealing with clunky

bureaucracies. young people live iphone lives. this is post office solution. jenna: this your point, jonah, alan your thoughts on this, young people are idealistic. we all wish we were more, maybe younger and more idealistic. has this been such a disappointment, so anti-kayak.com and amazon.com, is the ideology really the problem that perhaps young people are discovering? >> well i don't know that the ideology is the problem. i think the website was the problem. not having a smooth rollout is a problem which is different than the actual policy itself. too many people conflated not wanting it, many people didn't want it to work then they would be wrong, conflate ad non-working or not well working website with a policy they didn't like. they're not exactly the same thing. website will get fixed and i believe policy over time will be very much accepted much like medicare, medicaid. jenna: let me ask you about that, alan. looking at different numbers we do that. let me talk about health care policy in states that release

numbers like washington states, eight times as many young people signed up for medicaid rather than private health insurance. it is not about getting young people involved in this policy. it is about getting young people involved in private health insurance perhaps to balance out the market. are we even missing the story here? it is not just about getting them, but getting them in the right place. >> what we're miss something better plan to begin with, single-payer, medicare for all would have work ad lot better and lot simpler. john conyers hr 1076, had it for 10 years, 39-page bill. would have made it simpler. it is hard to get their mind around all the complexities of the affordable care act. jenna: jonah, is there still a messaging problem? >> there is messaging problem and also a product problem. alan is right, eventually the website will work. eventually people who think they're enrolling and aren't will vent ali enroll and all that. three core promises of obama care it will cheaper for everybody and keep your doctor

and keep your plan. all three of those things are not true. they have nothing to do with the when site. they have to do with the policy and will create real problems. jenna: does this have anything to do with age at this point? people with age have issues with that. does this discriminate. nice to have you weigh in on the sexiest man alive. >> jon scott, should have been asked to do that, don't you think. >> alan, that was very sweet of you. i wasn't expecting that. jon: i don't have enough tattoos. who does? jenna: that's true. well, again, great to have both of you. thank you very much. >> good to be here. jon: a marathon session in the u.s. senate. lawmakers working into the early morning hours debate the president's nominees as a battle heats up over the so-called "nuclear option." the gop refuses to give an inch, protesting new rules pushed through by senate democrats. peter doocy has details what is going on from washington. so what is it republicans doing

that has democrats so upset set, peteer? >> reporter: jon, basically to get back at democrats for invoking "the nuclear option" so they can confer presidential nominees with democratic support only, you republicans are make them wait, between two hours and 30 hours, depending on position for 11 presidential nominees. way things are going, republicans will be able to delay things in the senate until sometime on saturday night. remember this started yesterday afternoon. and this strategy allowed republicans to delay the first vote until about 1:00 this morning. >> the change the rules, our friends on the left had to break the rules. mr. president, we're here tonight because the obama administration and our friends on the left needed a distraction by invoking "the nuclear option," leading up tonight's vote on pillar to the d.c. circuit, they are attempting to quiet a disaster of their own

making. >> reporter: the senate can not take up any other business like the budget bill or the defense authorization bill until they get through this confirmation process. they will stay in session non-stop, jon, until it is done. jon: is there anything democrats can do here? >> reporter: not really. the democratic majority leader harry reid thinks this republican strategy is pointless. >> we're going to continue to work tonight, remain in session as long as we need to. republicans are forcing us to waste a week on nominees this week. they know we'll be confirmed. everyone of them will be confirmed. there are no objections to qualifications of these nominees. >> reporter: since republicans can not filibuster thanks to that "nuclear option", they will keep the senate moving at a snail's pace and all the majority leader reid can really do to make up some time is keep the clock running all night long, which is what he did last night. jon? jon: interesting.

peter doocy in washington. thank you. jenna: stunning new developments in the benghazi terror attack today. knewly-released documents show the state order ad benghazi firm not to talk to the media in weeks following the deadly terrorist attack that killed the u.s. ambassador and three other americans. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has been following the story since the beginning an joins us now what we're learning from these emails. >> reporter: well, general that, these e mail were released as part after freedom of information act lawsuit by judicial watch. a state department contracting officer told blue mountain u.k., the security firm in charge of consulate security guards should not respond to requests from reuters news service and fox news. quote, we notified our public affairs personnel they may too receive questions. we concur with you at the moment the best way to deal with the inquiries is to be either silent or to provide no comment. fox news was first to report in october 2012 one month after the

attack that the same state department contracting officer had refused to intervene in a dispute between security personnel on the ground in benghazi after complaints that the security agreement with blue mountain was unworkable. in a letter at that time, two months before the attack, contracting officer jan wrote quote, u.s. government is not required to mediate any disagreements between the two parties of the blue mountain libya partnership adding that to date, contract performance is satisfactory. asked about that letter, then state department spokeswoman victoria newman told reporters that the state's department investigation also known as the accountability review board, or arb would likely address the issue. that those kinds of questions will have to be looked at she said. but those issues surrounding the blue mountain contract were never addressed in the arb and specifically why the state department refused to get involved after complaints security was adversely affected by this contract dispute at blue mountain. jenna.

jenna: catherine herridge, live in d.c. thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jon: you remember that lacrosse player of convicted of brutally murdering his former girlfriend? he is awaiting a major ruling from an appeals court. could he go free? a danger in space as a key system breaks down on the international space station. what nasa is doing now to try to get this thing fixed. we are live at mission control.

jon: right now some crime stories we're keeping an eye on. a texas teen convicted of killing four people while driving drunk gets off with just probation. prosecutors wanted him to serve 20 years but the teen's lawyer claimed he suffers from affluenza. basically meaning he didn't link bad behavior with consequences

because his parents taught him that wealth buys privilege. the lacrosse player from the university of virginia convicted of brutally murdering his former girlfriend awaits word from the court of appeals on his request for a new trial. he is currently serving a 23-year prison term. an acquittal for a former new orleans police officer accused fatally shooting a man without justification in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. this comes three years after he was originally found guilty. this time jurors did not hear testimony about falsified police reports. jenna: right now nasa scientists are trying to fix a major problem with the international space station. a cooling system is malfunctioning and now teams in space and here on earth are trying to figure out how to fix it. sound like an important job. casey stiegel has details live from dallas now. casey? >> reporter: yeah, general florida, good to see you. nasa officials tell us the good news here, the six-person crew is not in any danger. that of course includes two

american astronauts that are currently doing work up on the iss here is what happened. yesterday a flight control teams noticed that a colder than normal temperature reading was coming from inside one of the space station's cooling pumps, so the pump was shut down as a precaution and now operating on just one. the iss has two of these giant cooling loops as they're called. they circulate ammonia through them to keep computers and equipment cool. if the problem is linked to a faulty control valve which scientists say is likely, the crew may have to do what nasa refers to as eva, or extra vehicular activity. simply put, a spacewalk, to repair it but that is no small feat according to nasa's administrator. >> any eva worries me. you know, we, evas are not trivial and the one thing we really, when i talk to the flight crews after we, every time we do one of these emergency evas, what the folk

in houston always remind me is, this is risky stuff and we should not take it lightly. >> reporter: here's why. this past summer you may remember a spacewalk had to be cut short after one of the astronauts helmet's started filling with water. the italian crew member was not injured at the time but the walk only lasted about an hour 1/2 instead of the more than six hours it was scheduled for. at that time crews were prepping the station for the arrival of a new russian laboratory module. now nasa also said it is possible the issue with this cooling pump could be software related and if that is the case they could simply up load a patch to repair it without having to leave the iss. we'll keep you posted, jenna. jenna: we'll certainly be watching, casey. thank you. jon: while international negotiators try to convince iran not to produce nuclear weapons there's a delicate situation here in the u.s. the white house is pushing the iran talks while there are signs americans don't

much approve of that idea. a man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, her sister found the body with her little girl huddled near, under the covers nearby. why the husband now could get a new trial. >> he said there is blood everywhere? >> yes. >> is she conscious? >> i don't so. should i try to help her? >> listen to me, ma'am. >> i'm listening. >> is she breathing? >> i don't think so. >> have you checked? >> michelle? she is cold. >> okay. listen to me, did you see what happened? >> i don't know. cassidy, come here, sweetie. i'm here with her daughter.

jon: some new information now on

a murder that shocked the nation. a pregnant woman beaten to death with her 2-year-old daughter nearby. her husband eventually convicted of that brutal killing, he could get a new trial. patti ann browne with details from the breaking newsdesk for us. >> well, jon, we'll see about a new trial. you may recall michelle young, a pregnant wife and mother was beaten to death back in 2006. her sister found the 29-year-old in a pool of blood next to her bed in a raleigh, north carolina. her two-year-old daughter cassidy was hiding under the covers of the three years later, michelle's husband, areas son young was arrested in the case. he says he was in virginia on business at the time of the murder. prosecutors say after checking into a hotel just over the border he drove back and killed his wife before returning to virginia. the case went to trial in 2011 but ended with a hung jury. jason was tried again last year and this time found guilty of first-degree murder but now that conviction is being appealed. defense lawyers say the judge made several errors during the

seven-week trial. for example, jurors were told they could consider the fact that jason was not willing to talk to friend and family about his wife's death. defense attorney barbara black man said, quote, strucking the jury it could infer guilt from mr. young's silence was an error so fundamental the jury probably would have returned a different verdict had it not been permitted to do so. black man says judge donald stephens should not have allowed testimony about a wrongful death lawsuit won by family to the tune of $15,348. and testimony about the custody fight over daughter cassidy should have been excluded the defense notes there is no physical evidence linking jason young to the brutal crime where michelle was hit 30 times, mainly in the head. the prosecutors say the circumstantial case was strong. they say jason was unhappy in the marriage and refusal to testify under oath in the civil trial suggested his guilt. well today jason young's attorneys are arguing to

north carolina's state court of appeals that the conviction should be overturned. so far defense lawyer a black man spoke and answered the judge's questions for 20 minutes and dan o'brien and amy irene arguing for the state. if the appeal is denied, the 39-year-old will continue with his sentence of life in prison. jon: weill watch the case as appeals go forward. patti ann browne. thanks. jenna: right now a delicate point in the iran nuclear talks according to secretary of state john kerry. the secretary of state is trying to get congressional support for negotiations aimed at getting iran to agree not to produce nuclear weapons but so far no lawmakers on the influential foreign relations committee agreed to support the effort. the house is considering new sanctions on iran. in fact the senate is as well. iran says new sanctions will kill the deal and there will be no deal. elliot abrams, former secretary national security visor for president george w. bush the nice to have you on set.

>> nice to be here. jenna: secretary of state john kerry says we're at a very delicate dip loy mat tick moment. are we? >> we are if you buy the iranian talking points which are, anymore sanctions and we walk. i don't see why we should really believe that and why we should kind of cringe in advantages. let's keep pushing them to the table kerry tells us. the administration tells us that. why would any further sanctions delayed until june, by the way, they're not tomorrow morning. the senate gives them six months. why would that blow up the talks? jenna: we should mention the deal we have in iran, in quotes, deal, just agreement for initial framework. it i was not an official deal over their nuclear program. >> it's a short, it's a six-month deal and it isn't even, your quotes are right because there has to be implementation agreement which there isn't yet before that deal goes into effect. it hasn't even started yet. jenna: you get the sense though, watching some of these hearings and from what secretary kerry said and you get the sense

saying i get sense based on my research here there is this feeling of, we know something that maybe you don't know and you don't understand, congress, the situation we're in right now. you've been involved in some of these very delicate conversations. could that be true? that really the president and secretary kerry, they have been on of the front lines. secretary kerry in particular and know something maybe congress doesn't? >> it is possible. it is a mistake if that's true. we know there were secret talks and the saudis and israelis and other allies weren't told b if there is some kind after secret deal they ought to tell congress about it and break the seacrest civil we know the american people are really not thrilled with this deal and would rather rely on sanctions. so if the secretary's relying on some kind of secret arrangement with iran, in the long run people will be quite disillusioned. >> politics aside what strategy makes us safer? >> i think actually in this case the polls are right. the american people are right. don't trust the iranians. keep the sanctions on.

the more sanctions the better. if sanctions got them to the table, the more pressure they're under, more likely they will be going to stay with a deal. jenna: you would support congress pushing ahead for eventual sanctions six months from now to keep pressure on iran? >> absolutely. we know they will cheat. they have done it for 10 years. jenna: as aside we don't expect a vote in the next couple weeks t could happen. so far we don't see that on the horizon. looks like the administration has a little time. i want to ask you about something quickly. secretary kerry is on his way to israel. >> right. jenna: to continue negotiations between israelis and palestinians. he has made the joke he is commuter now to that area of the world. why such the focus here and, is it the priority? >> well he has made it a priority. the president doesn't seem to have, doesn't seem to have, and there is a huge opportunity cost here, the things kerry is not paying attention to. syria right next door where the humanitarian conditions are just horrible and getting worse now that winter is there. kerry arrived today in the

middle of a snowstorm. schools are closed in jerusalem. roads are closed. he is kind of putting air in the balloon every time he gets there and soon as leaves the air cops out again. i don't think he can keep doing this for three more years. jenna: it will be interesting to see. he kept up quite a pace so far. great to have you. >> glad to be here, thank you. jenna: appreciate it very much. jon? jon: some dramatic testimony at the trial of a newlywed accused of pushing her husband off a cliff to his death. what she told the fbi after his body was found. is the jury buying her story? plus, things got way out of hand for these lawmakers. what caused the pushing and shoving? and where it all went down.

jon: right now new stories still to come this hour. the latest in the trial of a newlywed accused of pushing her husband off a cliff to his death. what the defendant told investigators about that fateful day. all-out knockdown among lawmakers. what led to this government brawl. plus the golden globe nominees just announced. we'll tell you who is leading the pack in hollywood as award season gets underway. jenna: emotional testimony in the murder trial of a montana bride accused of pushing her husband off a cliff to her death. the jury hearing a recording of the defendant, the wife, jordan graham, describing what happened on the day her husband cody

johnson died. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. he has been following this case. william, what did we learn from yesterday's testimony? >> reporter: two big takeaways from the trial so far, jenna. yesterday the jury heard a fbi recording of accused killer jordan graham say about her dead husband, quote, i pushed him and i took off. secondly, the prosecution says graham blindfolded her husband, cody johnson before pushing him head first over the cliff. prosecutors showed photographs of a black clot, the alleged blindfold. the coroner said was found closer to johnson's body than one of his shoes even after a 200-foot fall. the cloth is important because johnson reportedly claimed he knew parts of glacier national park so well he could walk it blindfolded. prosecutors suggested that graham may have usedded bravado to blindfold him before pushing him over the edge. the defense claims that johnson accidentally fell during an argument.

that basically jordan tried to push one of his arms away. she is being tried for first-degree murder. so the question for the jury is this. is she a killer or just a liar? did she intentionally push him over or was it an accident? jenna. jenna: what are friends and family saying about the accused killer? >> reporter: so far there is very little redeeming testimony on jordan graham's behalf. graham first spotted when she saw her husband's body in ravine a friend said quote, she didn't show any emotion. a friend said, graham quipped a funeral can be held and cops can get out of it. another heard her saying how a bod long a bod do i could float in a pool of water before he was found. his brother claimed how many times jordan lied to cover up the death. she was in the park and police showed photos she was there. secondly he had gone out with friend and that was not true. and fabricate ad person on

internet named tony said this guy died on a hike. also untrue. the prosecution is expected to wrap up today. possibly the trial could end tomorrow. what we don't know, jenna, is if the defense will call jordan graham to the stand. back to you. jenna: that will be interesting twist. we'll have more on the story. william, thank you. jon: so a bit more now on the montana murder case. let's bring in today's legal panel, doug burns is a criminal defense attorney. faith jenkins is a former prosecutor. faith, there are a lot of holes in this woman's story. in fact the first time she talked to the fbi, she then had to go back a week later and admitted that she lied. is that enough to torpedo her credibility in front of this jury? >> here is what i would argue if i were the prosecutor. innocent people don't have to make up stories. she has lied so many times and repeatedly. why is she doing that? it is consciousness of guilt. it is because she committed the crime and covering it up. she didn't want to get caught. that is why she repeatedly

lying. there has lost so many credibility no way the defense attorneys will put her on the witness stand. the prosecutors would sled her with the shred her with number of lies she told. jon: she said, doug, she could have walked away in the final confrontation. she decided to shove him. isn't that enough for second-degree murder conviction? >> very good question, jon. the reality is that the only thing defense has to work with, may be too much hair splitting in terms of a common sense of jury of people who come into the courthouse, i intended to shove him but doesn't mean i intended to kill him. that will be exactly right, that turns out between first and second degree. you really don't have enough to show first-degree murder. faith make as good point. she was untruthful. she lied. the defense always argues even in accident you can panic and tell the lies. again the case seems to be stronger than it was before this started. >> i disagree on that point, doug because here when it comes to first-degree murder you

actually have motive. you don't have to prove motive as a proper to. here this woman clearly did not want to be married. she expressed. that all of sudden her husband is dead and she is lying about it. jon: she said, faith, thee shout -- she thought after you get married you should be on cloud nine and after get getting married sounds like she was present unhappy with things. >> them will look at behavior. not just the moment on the cliff when she pushed her husband. they will look at behavior before and after when they come up with the verdict. they will look at her behavior in the totality and determine i think that she's guilty. jon: just the fact, doug, she goes back and miraculously finds his body, after, telling police this crazy story about, she left somewhere to go get a cell phone charger. then he supposedly texted her that he was going off on a drive with his buddies. then she goes and finds his body? doesn't that suggest an awful lot about what happened here? >> i hope the prosecutors are

watching you, jon, because that is a great point seriously. it was like scott peterson. found 300 miles away from the house right at very spot or venue where the body was in the water. so yeah, you're right. the point is, if you take out the fabrication and the lying it would have been much more of a horse race at trial. she would have stood a shot at acquittal. here she will get convicted of lying, 1001, as we call it, statute, she admitted that she lied to them. as faith says, she makes good prosecutorial arguments but i still hold to the fact, faith, people think first-degree murder, they may think this incorrectly, has to be planned out in advance which it doesn't. i think it might be a second degree conviction. we'll see. jon: we should point out and viewers may be wondering why they're not hearing some. very emotional testimony because this happened in a national park, the death. therefore it become as federal case and being tried in federal court where cameras are not allowed. final question, faith.

her brother testified about the lies that she told and talked about how disgusted he was with all the lying she did. that has got to have a huge impact on this jury? >> it's a huge impact because what happens is now, they're setting this up, for if she takes the witness stand the state can argued she lied some times but now she wants you to believe she is telling the truth? don't buy it, folks. jon: all right. we are continuing to watch this case and certainly when it gets to deliberation and a verdict we'll bring it to our viewers. faith jenkins, doug burns, thank you both. >> my pleasure, jon. jenna: just interesting to mention, jon, heard in my ear, producer in the control room said the prosecution just rested. william la jeunesse said maybe we could see the trial wrap up maybe this week. we'll learn shortly. jon: will they put the defendant on stand? jenna: a question to watch the rest of the day today. we'll bring you headlines as we get them. in the meantime when lawmakers attack. as a big brawl breaks out in

parliament. we'll tell what you sparked this fight. and, the senate pulling an all-nighter. speaking of fights, what was behind the big talkathon. they're not throwing punches we're glad about that. one wonders if you need to get it out of your system. that's a question for anglela. good to see you.

jon: new next hour, a hand impregn made is thrown at a vehicle carrying two british tourists in kenya. as the country marks 50 years of independence pro britain. police say the device did not explode. the ftc holding an open meeting whether airline passengers should be allowed to use cell phones while in flight. recently the government agency determined that passenger can safely use cell phones during all phases of fly.

a sign language interpreter accused of using fake signs at nelson mandela's memorial service says he suffer ad schizophrenic episode during the event and was hallucinating and hearing voices. south african cabinet minister says it was a mistake to hire the guy. jenna: political infighting and all-out brawl break out in georgia's parliament. started with a resolution supporting protesters in ukraine, a member of georgia's ruling party didn't like that. so he kicked the lawmaker who introduced the measure. then as you can see is really got out of hand with a whole lot of pushing and shoving and everything else. a nice metaphor, jon, as we ease into our next politics segment. jon: yeah, that is right, jenna. there were no fists flying on capitol hill in this country but it is getting ugly in the senate where lawmakers had to pull an all-nighter. republicans are still fuming over the so-called "nuclear

option" waged something of a talkathon. they refused to give up debate over a slate of presidential nominees. senate majority leader harry reid threatens to keep the senate in continuous session through the weekend unless the gop relents. joining us now, angela mcglowan, fox news political analyst. the ways of the senate are kind of strange and that is part of the reason republicans are so upset that this "nuclear option" has been invoked. for years it took 60 votes to get certain presidential nominees through the senate. >> right. jon: now harry reid changed the rules. said, oh, we need simple majority, lo and behold democrats have one. >> senator tom coburn is holding out on one of the nominees that went through the homeland security committee dealing with number two position with department of homeland. alexander may york can. he is nominated to be number two at department of justice but the

department of homeland security is investigating him on allegations regarding hb 5 visas. jon: a lot of people might look at this and say, harry reid took the nuclear option step because he wanted to get business done in the senate. he said things slowed to a standstill almost. it is time to get moving. now republicans find a way to billion locks up of -- bollock up the things. >> the reason there is stand still and partisan poll significance is because of harry reid's partisan politics. you have many republicanning proposals harry reid refuses to put on the floor. blame republicans one more time when republicans are doing what they're supposed to do in the senate. that is doing their job. jon: do you think they will catch heat for it? will this become stuff of campaign commercials this time around for instance? >> if does become the stuff of campaign commercials and up to the republicans and gop to do

grassroots advocacy. press the flesh with your constituents and tell them what is actually going on. the fact we have been trying to represent you and your interests, in the senate but the democratic lip and the democratic administration won't allow us. jon: meantime, for the first time in years we have at least the framework of a budget deal. bipartisan, house and senate. they got together. they came up with a deal but steams like almost nobody likes it. is this thing going to pass? >> i'm optimistic again because of self-preservation is the first law of nature and last week when we talked about this i thought we would come to some type of a budget resolution but we do have buzzards in the house that don't want anything to pass. that do want gridlock. when you have certain republicans saying, jon, that the only reason why paul ryan helped make this deal with senator patty murray was to raise his stature for 2016. that is just not true.

jon: well, but is it true to say they don't want legislation moved or they don't want to see spending rise? because that's one of the problems, one of the most frequent criticisms of this deal is that it lifts the sequester spending caps. >> it does increase and does lift the spending caps but you have to compromise. not everyone is going to get everything at the table. we might have to raise some spending caps but here's what americans don't want to see. they don't want to see another government shutdown. they don't want to see another continuing resolution. the can kicked down the road. they want a resolution. jon: you're a conservative. >> yes. jon: probably don't much like increased government spending. >> no. jon: so what do you see as the tradeoff to what, forgoing along increased government spending? >> there is going to have to be some compromise. if we had a republican house and senate and democratic white house as we did in the clinton days we wouldn't be having this problem. so what we need to do is have

more members of congress move to the center. liberals move more to the center. fiscal conservatives move more to the center. we can't have everything that we want. now do i want to see tax increases? no. do i want to see spending caps raised? no. what i don't want to see have our war veterans go to our memorials and not being able to see it because of a government shutdown. that i don't want to see. jon: self-preservation. the first law of nature. angela. thank you. >> thanks, jon. jon: jenna. jenna: talk about a bad day at work. a woman resorts to extreme measures after getting locked in the office bathroom. we'll tell you the full story there. plus award season getting underway in hollywood. the golden globe nominees were announced this morning. we'll tell you who is up for top honors.

jenna: washington, d.c. woman finds herself locked in a bathroom and decides to dig her way out. her name is karen faren. she was trapped in her office bathroom for nearly eight hours, jon. eight hours. the door apparently became locked while she was inside. she pent spent hours trying to get out. she tried sliding paper towels beneath the door to get attention of security. she found a wall and chiseled her way into the wall. the company is investigating how the door became locked in the first break. good idea to figure that out, sounds like a "twilight" episode. fox 411 now on the gold den globes nominations announced. they are widely a very good predictor of which stars and movies will get oscar nominations. who got picked and who got snubbed? julie banderas is here with the

3411. >> guys, hollywood was awake early this morning. this is 5:00 local time in the morning for them, announcing nominees for the 71th golden globes. when there are this many great films in one year the competition is fierce. among the top contenders, slavery epic, "12 years a slave" and "american hustle." a story about 1970s con men. take the oscar lead earning seven nominations apiece, best picture, best director and slew of acting nominations. he got best nod for actor in motion picture drama. other nominations christian bale, amy adams, bradley cooper in "american hustle." in 12 years a slave. captain phillips a tom hanks, nominated for best actor in a motion picture drama. other films include givety. sandra bullock nominated for best actress in a drama. for the best motion picture comedy or musical category,

challenging "american hustle" are "her", "inside llewyn davis," nebraska and the "wolf of wall street" directed by martin scorsese starring, leonardo dicaprio. "breaking bad" got a good-bye nomination. downtown abby, "the good wife," "house of cards" and masters of sex. for tv comedy or musical there are several regulars. modern family, girls, "big bang theory", parks and recreation. and welcome fox's brooklyn 99 starring andy samberg who received an individual acting honor. fellow fox stars zoe day chanel received a acting nod for "new girl." the party of the year airs january 12th, hosting once again by comedic duo, tina fey and amy pohler. i will tune in to watch the

hosts. jon: jon: they're always hysterical. julie, thank you. jenna: did hhs secretary kathleen sebelius act criminally when looking into the investigation into healthcare.gov? that is the question of the day. we'll go in depth

jenna: twelve noon here on the east coast and a fox news alert. we're watching a news conference out of the centers for disease control in atlanta today. health officials there are updating all of us on this year's flu season. we've learned that about 40% of people the cdc says should get a flu shot have done so, it's now urging everybody else to get the vaccine which is readily available this season, they say. we should also hear more about this current strain of the flu and just how bad it may be. we'll bring you updates as it happens. ♪ ♪ jon: and speaking of the flu and health care, our top story, effects of obamacare now felt by

doctors as well as patients around the country. i'm jon scott. jenna: how neatly the stories work together. jon: you've got to get a doctor to give you your flu shot. jenna: i'm jenna lee, welcome to a brand new hour of "happening now," and lawmakers right now are hearing from doctors about some of the ways the health care law is impacting not only them, but their patients as well. take a listen. >> none of what you're seeing or about to see is unforeseen. the a affordable care act's problem is not a computer site. >> we are now at t-minus 20 days and counting. the doctors and the patients are going to be having extreme difficulties in accessing care. and, yes, mr. cummings, i agree with you, it's nice to carry a plastic insurance card to say you're insured, it's quite another thing to access the care. jenna: our chief congressional correspondent, mike emanuel, is live on capitol hill. we saw the doctors in their

white coats there. what other consequences are lawmakers hearing from these medical doctors? >> reporter: that's right, three medical doctors from across the country who are saying there are serious troubles with this law, and it's not just the healthcare.gov web site. one new york city eye specialist says for many, the affordable care act -- or obamacare -- just isn't that affordable. >> in a large city like new york city, a studio apartment is $2,000 a month. how is a person earning $50,000, which by most standards across the country is not a terribly small amount of money, but someone earning $50,000 in new york city paying $2,000 rent for a hole in the wall cannot afford a $3,000 deductible for a plan that is being advertised as affordable because they take the bronze plan.

>> reporter: democrats have defended the law saying the idea of giving coverage to those who do not have insurance is a noble effort. and some have suggested that this panel could be a little bit more balanced, trying to find some doctors who actually like the health care law, jenna. jenna: it's interesting to hear their story, mike. any other real world examples that you heard today that struck a chord with you? >> reporter: one specialist says it's impossible to refer a patient to another specialist if that specialist is not in the same network. another example was made that this law gives incentive to doctors to dump the most difficult patients. >> the really sick, under the current system unless we change it, find themselves undesirable either to get full care which costs more or, quite frankly, to get to the doctor at all. that's what you're dealing with unless we make these changes. >> yes. >> reporter: so what we're hearing from lawmakers and from these doctors is that while a lot of people like the existing

system, it may not have been perfect, to change it to benefit a smaller percentage of the american public has upset the apple cart for, essentially, just about everybody. jenna? jenna: mike emanuel live on capitol hill, thank you. jon: well, that hearing also bringing up lots of questions about how many americans actually have signed up for obamacare. health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius touting some new ebb rollment l figures -- enrollment figures yesterday saying the numbers show the site is back on track. but chairman darrell issa says there's no way to know for sure because he claims she is criminally on to instructing his committee's investment listen to what he said on "fox & friends" earlier today. >> kathleen sebelius is not providing america the truth. as a matter of fact, in a letter that i sent to her i warned her that her people are actually obstructing justice. they're telling individual companies who have serious reports on security flaws, in other words, vulnerability to hackers, not to provide us the

information. and what's amazing about it, brian, is they're saying 73 days later, don't provide information because it's a road map to hackers. jon: let's talk about it with nina easton, washington columnist for "fortune" magazine, jamie weinstein, a senior editor at the daily caller. obstruction of justice, that's a pretty serious charge, nina. does what kathleen sebelius has been doing, does it seem to merit that charge to you? >> well, i don't know if it quite rises to that level, but certainly congress has a right to investigate what has gone on and what's gone wrong with this web site. we have spent $319 million on i.t. for this web site. if you do the math, that's about $5 million a person if they meet the target of seven million people signing up by this spring which their unlikely to meet. it's an enormous amount of

taxpayer dollars going into this, and congress has every right to look into it. kathleen sebelius just now set up an investigator at her, at the agency to look into this. i think it's certainly inquiries from congress should be welcome. jon: yeah, jamie, the job of darrell issa's committee is to kind of keep an eye on how things are going in these government programs, right? >> right. he is responsible for oversight, and when you see a failure as large as this, as nina said, $300 million to build this web site which is just not secure according to tech experts, what other computer design experts say should have cost no more than $10 million be, yeah, i think it is within his prerogative to subpoena and get information from contractors for what went wrong. and, obviously, he's not going to just necessarily trust the word of kathleen sebelius. he wants to talk to the people that worked on site. and i don't think there's any excuse for trying to stop him from doing his job. jon: and, nina, not only has

sebelius announced they're not going to be releasing so many facts and figures about how many people sign up, they're not even going to be telling you information that's kind of essential. i mean, if it were a private company, it would be essential, about the ages of the people who are signing up, for instance. >> that's right. the ages or even just going back to the first question you mentioned, the question of how many people have signed up. it's clearly an inflated figure. so they say something like 364,000 people have signed up, another 800,000 are eligible under the expansion of medicaid. by the way, that leaves a deficit of about four million people because you have to -- if you factor in all the people who have lost their insurance going in. but also the way they calculate the figures, that's all people who have selected a health plan but actually haven't gone through to sign up and pay the premium. jon: right. >> so there's lots of questions even about those numbers, jon, before you get to the question of age and so forth. jon: jamie, you know, the

private health insurance companies will tell you it's easy to get somebody to fill out a form and say they want health insurance, the hard part is getting them to fill out a check and actually pay for it. >> right. but there's also some people that think they're signed up that will find out when it comes january 1st that they're actually not enrolled in any of the health plans they thought they signed up for. this is partly due to the back end problems which is problems to actually pay the insurers. the front-end problems have been improved upon, but the back-end problems still remain. even just yesterday congressional staffers received an e-mail saying that, you know, make sure you come down to our office and, you know, thank god if you're a congressional staffer because you have extra help than ordinary americans will, to make sure that you are actually signed up because just because you think you went through the process doesn't mean it actually physically, the money went to the insurance company, because there's so many different problems with the back end of the site. jon: and so, nina, we're left with a situation in which this president who has made it, you

know, a keystone point of his administration to try to get everybody in the nation covered by health insurance, we may have fewer people actually covered as a result of obamacare, at least when it, when it kicks in? >> we certainly have a gap in coverage, jon. and as we've seen, there's people with chronic illnesses, for example, who are finding that they can't keep their own doctors, their own specialty doctors that they need to treat those illnesses. we're finding people who are, have lost their insurance because they don't meet obamacare standards and then are having trouble signing up. so there's this huge gap that's just going to keep rolling out, i think, in the next several months. just fixing the front end of the i.t. doesn't solve the problem. jon: right. you can fix the web site, but there are other problems within the program, so it seems. nina easton, jamie weinstein, thank you. >> thanks, jon. >> thank you. jenna: now a fox news alert on a big moment on capitol hill. house lawmakers are expected to vote on the first budget agreement in years which

restores about $63 billion in mandatory spending cuts. the deal also does not extend unemployment benefits and other entitlements, sparking outrage among democrats. house speaker john boehner and minority leader nancy pelosi both weighing in. >> this bill gets us more deficit reduction than what we have under the budget control act. i came here to cut the size of government. that's exactly what this bill does. >> yeah. we're unhappy. we're very unhappy about it, but not enough to say, therefore, we're going to make matters worse by not having an agreement. jenna: our chief political correspondent, carl cameron, is in washington. democrats are not exactly happy with this. we had congressman van hollen on our show just yesterday saying that, but is their unhappiness going to lead to the deal to breaking apart? >> it doesn't look like that's the case at all. nancy pelosi making the argument

we're unsatisfied, but it's better than endless cycles of gridlock. john boehner was quite feisty. he continued his attacks, his real create similar soft -- criticism of some of the conservative groups that have been urging republican lawmakers to vote against this deal and have often been voting conservatives to vote against some of the things that the speaker has brought to the floor as though he was somehow off the reservation of conservativism. today boehner said those groups have lost all credibility. in fact, one of them said they didn't think the whole shutdown strategy would work, and he acted as though that was the kind of absurd the city that makes him right -- absurdity. that's going to be an ongoing battle between conservatives who think this is a fiscally-irresponsible deal and with liberals on the far left saying, look, they've got to grow government more to help people deal with the economy and

the middle class. so there is an awful lot of dissent about this, but it's not likely to derail the bill at all. there'll be some nasty debate this afternoon, and sometime around dinner we expect it to pass in the house, and then off to the senate it goes. jenna: democrats unhappy will probably not lead to the bill not passing, and republicans are also not willing to not let it pass. >> reporter: and here's the dirty little secret in this whole process, this is not a bill that goes to the president to be signed into a law, this is a guideline. this is a road map that allows them for the or next two years to set the limits on their spending and taxing. they at any point can change it, and when the committees of jurisdiction write the bills to do it, they often do, so it doesn't necessarily avert shutdowns and lots of budget battles in the months and years ahead. jenna: carl cameron, live in deals, and we'll see what happens in the house and there on. carl, thank you. jon: it is a touchy subject for airline travelers, should you be allowed to use your cell phone on plane to actually make a

call, have a conversation? the feds are weighing the pros and cons. and you've heard about the interpreter accused of faking the signing at nelson mandela's memorial service? the story of this guy is getting stranger by the day. plus, check this out. carvers us hydrant. how'd that happen?

jon: jenna and i were just talking about during the break, do you really want to hear the guy in the center seat jacking on his -- yakking on his cell phone? jenna: no. [laughter] jon: the debate is beginning on using cell phones onboard planes. a house panel expected to take up the question today. the fcc is hosting the first of several public meetings on whether or not it's a good idea. doug mckelway live at reagan national airport to phone in this one for us. doug? >> reporter: that's right, jon. the fcc, it's probably a done

deal as far as they are concerned at least in the technological consent. they are fully competent that cell phone usage while in flight no longer poses a threat to the safe operation of an airplane. the social costs are an entirely different matter. the fcc will be meeting at 2:30 this afternoon to vote on moving this proposed rule forward into the comment phase. if it passes this afternoon, we'll have several months of comment before the fcc takes a final vote down the road. faa, meanwhile, will be moving ahead with its own rule change, but just because the government favors this rule change, it does not mean necessarily that government officials favor the change. listen to the fcc commissioner speaking before the house energy committee this morning. >> i'm the last person in the world who wants to listen to somebody talking to me while they fly across the country. but we are the technical agency, and we will make the technical rules that reflect the way the new technology works.

>> reporter: our random survey of passengers here at reagan national airport says that the fcc chairman is not at all alone. >> i like peace and quiet on a plane right now. i like to be able to work or read, and and i would prefer that other people not be talking around me. >> i have often thought of what i would do if someone next to me was carrying on on a lengthy phone conversation while i was imprisoned next to them in the airline, and i would probably pull out a magazine or a book and start reading out loud in a loud, clear voice to give them a sense of the torture that they were putting me through. >> reporter: delta air lines has already announced that it will ban cell phone usage on planes if this becomes an official government rule. congressman bill schuster, chairman of the transportation committee, has introduced legislation that would ban cell phone usage in planes. he wrote in part: for those few

hours in the air with 150 other people, it is just common sense that we all keep our personal lives to ourselves and stay off the phone. but he's also being criticized by small governmento say he's pa legislative solution to what should be the airlines' problem to solve. jon, back to you. jon: you know, we've been flying airplanes for 110 years, and somehow we've gotten by without cell phone conversation. i vote that we keep it up. >> reporter: i agree with you. i'm there. jon: doug mckelway in washington. jenna: speaking of common sense, we're getting new information on a story we brought you yesterday, a south african cabinet minister is now saying the company which supplied the sign language interpreter at nelson mandela's memorial service is nowhere to be found. patti ann brown, do you know where he is? [laughter] >> reporter: i wish i did, jenna, but there are a lot of developments but not a lot of answers in this bizarre case. during tuesday's mandela memorial, a man on stage was

supposed to be providing sign language for the deaf. he was gesturing with his hands right next to president obama and other prominent world leaders, but deaf groups immediately started complaining that the man's signs were gibberish, and now that man is peek speaking out. 34-year-old tom -- [inaudible] insists he is a qualified interpreter who has signed at many events. he says he was paid the equivalent of $85 u.s. dollars to interpret the mandela service, but he told the johannesburg star he suffered a schizophrenic episode, hearing voices and seeing angels in the stadium. >> i was in a very, very, very difficult position. i don't remember. don't remember. >> reporter: well, deaf viewers have reportedly complained about his signing in the past at events for the ruling african national congress, and then there are the security questions. people asking how a mentally ill man who told the associated press he's become violent a lot,

in his words, was allowed on stage with world leaders. a south african official says it was a mistake to hire him, and an investigation is underway. deputy minister blaming the company that supposedly provided the imposter. she says they paid him far below the normal rate and that translators are supposed to be rotated every 20 minutes. he signed for more than three hours. she also tells ap the government trying to track down this company, but its officials have, quote, vanished into thin air. jenna? jenna: such a bizarre story, patti ann. thank you. >> reporter: thanks. jon: well, someone hurls a grenade at western tourists, trying to send it through the window of their car. the frightening details on what happened there next. plus, a frigid blast hitting western new york state as much of the country falls into another deep freeze with dangerously low temperatures. it is mighty nippy right outside

our midtown manhattan studios at the moment but even colder in chicago. we'll take you to the windy city next. ♪ ♪

jon: dangerous cold covers much of ty right now with wind chills in the -30-50 degree can range across the midwest and great lakes. in western new york folks are dealing with an arctic blast of snow, slush and ice making for treacherous conditions on the roads. garrett tenny is braving the weather outside our chicago bureau right now. >> reporter: right now it's about 14 degrees, but as you mentioned, that wind chill is where you really feel it, about -2 degrees right now.

last night it got as cold as -20 to 25 here in chicago with that wind chill. it's cold enough to freeze the chicago river behind me, but it's not just uncomfortable to walk down the street. it can actually be dangerous to your health. the national weather service has issued a warning that with these extreme wind chills all across the region, that it can actually cause hypothermia and even frostbite for many people which isn't much of a surprise. they are encouraging people to avoid being outside and to stay indoors as much as possible. now, across chicago they have established some warming centers so that people can get a chance to get out of the cold, get a hot cup of coffee, some food and some much-needed warmth. now, temperatures all across the region, as you mentioned, 10-20, 30 degrees below average for this time of year, and we're expecting more of that system to be coming through as more winter weather is going to be coming

tomorrow and throughout the weekend. in michigan earlier today, the snow and ice on those roads did not make for an easy morning commute up there. one accident as many as 40 cars involved, two of them police vehicles that were responding to that initial accident. no word on injuries there in that incident, but as we said, jon, this weather's expected to continue at least through early next week. jon? jon: garrett, we're going to have to get you a hat in weather like that. [laughter] thanks, garrett. >> reporter: certainly. jenna: well, apparently there was an attack targeting british tourists in kenya. police say it was thrown, a grenade was thrown at a van taking those tourists on safari. no one was hurt. the grenade miss zed the window and bounced off the passenger-side door. as you can see then, obviously, they detonated it to make sure that it was done. there it is. no one has claimed responsibility, and security

forces are now searching for the attacker. jon: a high speed police chase ends with police getting their man. it all went down in north ridge, california. cops say they were chasing an armed robbery suspect. they caught him after he slammed into a fire hydrant. we'll update the story if we get any new information, but quite a cascade of water there. jenna: certainly is. supporters of iran's nuclear program under current sanction, why the obama administration is urging congress not to issue any new sanctions against iran. and strong words for lawmakers from the wife of a christian pastor detained in iran for his religious beliefs. we'll talk about his plight and what's being done to try to get him out, next. ♪ ♪

jon: the u.s. today cracking down on supporters of iran's nuclear program for violating current sanctions. the announcement comes as state and treasury officials testify on a temporary nuclear deal with iran. the obama administration has been urging congress to gift agreement time to work before issuing new sanctions against the iranians. chief washington correspondent james rosen live in our d.c. newsroom with more information. james? >> reporter: jon, good afternoon. senior obama administration officials today denied today's

designation of multiple companies and individuals for allegedly working to aid iran's wmd programs and to evade the existing sanctions on that country was deliberately timed to sway lawmakers against imposing new sanctions. top aid to secretary of state john kerry argued on capitol hill today, once again that the slapping of fresh sanctions on iran by the u.s. congress so soon after the west reached preliminary agreement on curtailment of iran's nuclear program would bring all the pioneering diplomacy to a screeching halt. >> if we indeed say, well, we didn't really mean it, we'll now impose additional sanctions that you will all have to live with around the world our partners are likely to say, wait a minute here, you're changing the rules. >> reporter: in iran senior leaders heralded the nuclear deal granting the islamic regime to right to enrich uranium the very activity that half a dozen union resolutions demand that iran halt completely. the current deal only tells them

to reduce the current levels, not suspend it. $7 billion of relief from sanctions over a six-month time frame. >> here we have a rogue nation, a rogue nation, is wreaking havoc, using a portion of our sanctions, proceeds that we're alleviating right now to kill people in syria and you know that they're using a portion of this to funnel it to hezbollah, to kill people in syria. i guess i don't understand why you already agree on the front end to them not having the gold standard, if you will, as it relates to enrichment? >> reporter: leading democrat, senator bob menendez of new jersey who sits on the banking committee that convened today and chairs the foreign relations committee agreed the deal grants the iran the right to enrich and said the obama's administration negotiating posture here leaves him, quote, nervous. to the point where menendez warned that the senate may seek through a resolution to bind the administration's hand in the setting of the final terms for

iran's nuclear program. jon? jon: james rosen at the state department in washington. james, thank you. jenna: secretary of state john kerry arguing the nuclear deal should be separated from efforts to bring home americans missing or knowingly being held in iran. robert levinson, a former fbi investigator, traveling in the country as a private businessman, missing nearly 2500 days at this point. iranian american, amir hekmadi held on espionage charses. he was arrested, former marine and translator was arrested while visiting his grandmother. said abedini a christian pastor serving an eight year prison sentence in connection with his religious believes. congressman chris smith questioning the secretary kerr about the pastor on thursday. >> my question first is that true, did we raise abedini's

case directly with iranians in negotiations on the nuclear issue. >> the answer that is not true. i person raised issue with foreign minister sarif when i first met him the very first time and we have not linked it directly to the nuclear issue because we believe that prejudices them and it also prejudices the negotiation. we don't want them to become the hostages or pawns of a process that then gets played against something they want with respect to the nuclear program, nor do you i think. jenna: the pastor's wife had harsh words for lawmakers today. take a listen. >> i had anticipated that i would battle the iranian government for my husband's freedom. i never anticipated that i would also have to battle my own government and that the journey would become even much more difficult than it has been. my husband is suffering because he is a christian.

he is suffering because he is an american. yet his own government did not fight for him when his captors were across the table from him. jenna: she will join greta tonight. congressman chris smith joins us now. the congressman chairs a subcommittee held a hearing which the pastor's wife testified at. he is senior member of the house foreign affairs committee.man, . >> thank you very much. appreciate you covering this very important issue. jenna: let me ask you a little bit about the pastor and what we know about him. my understanding that you wrote a letter to the president. the president reached out to the new president of iran. had a phone conversation back in september. since that time what is your understanding of how pastor abedini has been treated inside of iran? >> actually has gotten worse. he has been put into a prison that is notorious, i actually met one of the former inmates at my hearing who spent five years in that prison. it is filled with murderers, rapists and his life as we talk

here today is at risk. and naghemd, wife of pastor abedini couldn't be more clear she feels abandoned the obama administration. secretary kerry in my opinion should have began the negotiation and integrated throughout the negotiation and should have ended, pick up the phone and let these americans go. in the case of pastor abedini, he was in iran settings up an orphanage. he was targeted because he is a christian. jenna: we heard a little of what secretary kerry had to say. his point is well-taken. you have to be careful about elevating level of one prisoner so that you don't endanger that prisoner's life and don't endanger other americans so they become pawns in future kidnappings or imprisonments and the like. how concerned are you about that angle. >> oh, just the opposite. one of the greatest takeaways dictatorships from china, father of democracy movement who was a

political prisoner, for almost 20 years, made it very clear and same thing with iranians and i know many former prisoners of conscience there. when you speak out, we, the united states, in a transparent, bold, effective, look them in the eyes and say, this is a priority for the united states of america and you do it and you integrate it with all of your conversations with them and negotiations. that leads to prisoners not being tortured as much and ultimately leads to their release. so it is just the opposite. when we kowtow, when we enable, they know it is not a priority. it should have been -- jenna: real quick, congressman. then i'm going to have to run. we'll talk a little more about this. why do you think that hasn't been done by this administration? if it was that easy to call the phone, make the call or look somebody in the eye and bet it done, why do you think it hasn't been? >> well, pastor be a dean any's wife when she testified at frank

wolf's hearing, the one we had last march, she went to the state department and they said there is nothing that can be done. as a result of that hearing, at least the administration raised his case. our argument today is, that with this nuclear deal, with this face-to-face negotiations that have occurred and will occur into the future this, needs to be a priority. if we deprioritize it, you can be darn sure the iranians will deprioritize it as well and he will not be allowed out. jenna: point well-taken. >> we have to make it, we've got to make eight priority. jenna: we'll continue to follow this story. we'll do a lot more later today on this network as well. congressman, thank you so much. >> thank you. jenna: nice to have you on the program. as i mentioned earlier greta has an exclusive interview with the pastor's wife to not, "on the record", 7:00 p.m. eastern time. jon: for more context into the number of americans who are detained abroad the state department says it doesn't have the current number of u.s. citizens being held by u.s. nations but more than 2500 americans are arrested abroad each year.

more than 30% of those arrests are drug-related. the state department says mexico arrests more u.s. citizens than any other foreign nation. it also has the highest population of american prisoners outside of the united states. jenna: well as lawmakers in the house get set to vote on their first budget in years, we asked a simple question, why does the mainstream media seem thrilled with a bill that does so little? our panel will weigh in on that as we watch live from the house floor. also live outside of our studios, why is one of fox news channel's competitors so obsessed with our coverage that they cover it and becomes their news? that is also something our media panel will take up as well. let's head over to control room 4 to see what's cooking with bill hemmer and alisyn camerota. that will be at the top of the hour.

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>> usually like we're outside or at bagel cart. >> what are we doing in here? it is so weird. anyway at the top of the hour we hope you join us. we'll have congressman darrell issa here who will tell us what he has heard from doctors on the hill today how obamacare is affecting their practices. >> don't miss that. also a fish story you must see to believe. take our word for it. see you in a couple minutes. jon: well, for the third time in the last month or so msnbc is coming under fire for comments by one of its host. this time al sharpton, took comments by fox's bill o'reilly about the passing of nelson mandela out of context. on a nearly nightly basis on nearly every show that cable network seems to have a singular obsession with trying to tear down fox news. whether it is the day time programing or prime time, msnbc

appears to be consumed. why? are there any other examples of one media outlet being so obsessed with another? joining us now with thoughts on that, noah rock man. editor for media blight. jumpingter ton -- jumping pinkerton. jim, like "the washington post" writing op-ed about the "new york times" with the exception that the "washington post" actually has influence and has a lot of well-informed people who tune to it for news. >> what msnbc concluded, if you can't be the most powerful name in news as the polls show and surveys show fox news is regarded by the american people as most powerful name in news, necessary best thing i think they think to attack the most powerful name in news. maybe note right will help them.

certainly epcheaper than sending reporters everywhere. they don't have reporters. they look down the street and say, make fun of fox. the problem, with "washington post", the problem msnbc has, fox is doing so well, front page much style section of "the washington post" today, very nice picture of colleague megyn kelly, it i'm sure killed the mainstream media, that megyn kelly is emerged as major television star. she was on jay leno. al sharpton will sit there and throw spit balls from msnbc. jon: it is not just sharpton though. it is ed shults. it is rachel maddow, chris matthews, lauren owe don't nell, spend a -- lawrence o'donnell spend a good deal of airtime mentioning the fox news. >> just about every show has a clip of fox and pit it up and offer very little commentary. you mentioned ed shults, he is becoming the equivalent of msnbc's media buzz, with the media consisting entirely of fox

news. yesterday played a clip of sean hannity, with almost no commentary. a 90 second clip and offered it up there and said this is what they're doing. of the it is becoming a singular obsession as you said. >> this is the outlet, noah, in the george zimmerman, tray tray case,dtrayvon martin case did very desent i have he had it of actual events to portray one side after controversy. >> it was a local nbc outlet and played nationally on nbc and msnbc. they learned a pretty tough lesson from that. that was almost criminal and misleading editing. what happened to o'reilly in this case was actually inappropriate. i wouldn't go so far to call it criminal. it was very misleading. i don't believe they will go so far again to manipulate public opinion in criminal case like the george zimmerman does. to impune their opponents and fox news, absolutely. jon: we've got the other big media topic ever the day, jim. that is this budget agreement.

it seems to get a lot of positive press. why? >> well i think howard kurtz put it well at fox, look the mainstream media love bipartisan deals. that is inherently, what they think is a good thing to them. however the wrinkle here the difference is, that the architect of this deal on the republican side of course is budget chairman paul ryan who is probably the most, single most respected figure on the right in terms of budget and tax issues. and so i don't think it quite fits the mainstream narrative the way they want it to. i think paul ryan and joined by john boehner, i watched carl cameron a moment ago saying that boehner is attacking opponents of the deal. so this will be a more complicated picture for media to get their heads around. jon: noah, it is described as a modest achievement, this budget deal but it is winning all kinds of headlines. are they deserved? >> i think it is deserved only in the sense that it's avoiding real gridlock, potential for another shutdown. futures market had shutdown as

6%. it was 30% last week. there is sense we're not stopping anything. as jim said there is bias perspective from towards activist government. there was report, that 113th congress was not very active congress. it was presented as horrible thing. nobody went so far to say why necessarily. not doing anything is regarded as a bad thing. jon: noah, jim, we'll have to least discussion there. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. jenna: well the administration reportedly enlisting celebrities to promote obamacare including possible singer adam levine. "people" magazine calls him the sexiest man alive. can he get more young people to sign up for insurance. it's a staple for breakfast table, that is orange juice from florida. where we find our very own phil keithing. >> florida's iconic orange industry is being threatened and fearing for sustainability over the long term because of greening disease. this is actually an orange tree. these look like limes. these are infected with the

disease. i will show you who the culprit is and what is being done right after the break.

jenna: right know deadly bacteria threatening florida's citrus industry. phil keating is live in florida with more for us. phil? >> reporter: you know, jenna, 90% of all of the orange juice consumed at american breakfast tables every day comes from florida, squeezed right here but the impact and threat of citrus greening disease can be seen in the palms of your hand. these are two healthy florida oranges, beautiful yellow orange color. these oranges have been impacted by greening disease. you can see they're green, tune in. they look more like limes and taste very sour. they're absolutely worldless. already led to 800,000 florida orange trees being chopped down.

the industry as a whole is taking this very seriously as well it should. southern garden citrus squeezes 32 million florida oranges every day, taking truckloads of new flute through the processing plant where 25,000 oranges are squeezed into juice every single minute. the culprit is an asian bug which passes so far incurrable disease tree to tree, decimating crops and threatening florida's iconic 9 billion-dollar citrus industry. >> this insect is prevalent as the mosquito. we're constantly deal with that that we're doing what we have to control it. >> reporter: do you fear a future where florida and orange juice don't go together in the same sentence anymore? >> it's possible. it's possible. >> reporter: today u.s. department of agriculture is announcing an emergency response framework to battle citrus greening. this after shaving off by four million boxes 3% of its this

year, florida orange harvest prediction. the university of florida is doing millions of dollars of research, stem grafting with root stocks, all in an effort to discover a greening resistant orange tree, genetic research bit citrus industry is also underway because a solution needs to come quick. in the eight years since citrus greening disease first showed up in florida, the orange production has dropped from 150 million box as year, to 120 million boxes. >> that's a distinct possibility. the research community is working as fast as we can. the growers are looking for something to buy time, to keep it going. as we mentioned earlier, if the juice plants close, they're not going to open back up. >> reporter: here's what you're seeing all across florida. every citrus growing county right now has been impacted by the greening disease. pesticides can kill the bug but they certainly don't save the tree. once it becomes green it is

pretty much worthless for good. jenna. jenna: very interesting story, phil. thank you very much. we'll be back with more "happening now."

thank you for joaning us. >> bill and ally are next. now with a fox news alert. doctors taking to capitol hill to speak out on obama care warning that the problems with the health care law go far beyond the troubled website. welcome to hq, i am alisyn camerota. >> and i am bill hemmer. the doctors said patients will lose their doctors and the quality of care will suffer. >> darril issa is here. congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you for covering the important hearing and we heard from health care professionals and who are seeing their patients cut out of