well, tonight at 9:00 p.m., the state of the union. tomorrow morning we'll have the post game show. so join us then. >> and i'm going to super bowl boulevard tomorrow. >> me, too! >> going to be great. drew brees will be here live. on a president obama hiking the minimum wage for federal contractors with a stroke of his pen. the president said the call for increased pay for all americans will set up the next big battle in congress. we have a packed two hours here today. martha: good morning. i'm martha maccallum. the president's executive action will boost pay, $7.25, up to $10.10 for federal contracts. only congress can raise the

minimum wage for private contractors. >> reporter: this is the executive order, the president is telling federal contractors when they sign a new contract you have got to pay a minimum of $10.10 an hour. this only applies to federal workers federal workers on a new contract. bill: it seems like a small step. is this mostly symbolic? >> reporter: in my opinion it's political. it's so small bore it will have virtually no impact on wage levels across the country. bill: do the republicans like it? >> reporter: the republicans oppose legislating higher wages. they say if you legislate higher wages you destroy jobs. >> what can we expect other than that?

>> reporter: action on retirement security. get executive action on retirement security. a job training scheme, 10 states spending $200 million and alliance with some big employers who will choose to kiss incriminate against the long-term employed. you add it up and it's a small bore program. bill: perhaps is a big deeg or perhaps it is not. it does not appear to be that big of a deal. >> reporter: it's mott a big deal in -- it's not a big deal in terms of its impact. but the president is using it to urge congress. why don't you raise the minimum wage. it's using the state of the union address to say to congress, you get out there and do way want you to do.

bill: thank you, sir. martha? martha: this development should come as from surprise. the president promised this ising a he wanted to do. here he is from two weeks ago. >> we are not going to just be waiting for legislation in order to make sure we are providing americans the type of help they need. i have got a pen and i have got a phone. martha: the pen refers to signing executive orders. he's not the only executive to use them. so far he has issued 18 executive orders but he still has 3 more years in office. president clinton 364 over 8 years. >> reporter: this is as president obama wrapped up the address republicans will be ready to respond. the big one from the house

republican conference america think mcmorris rogers. the tea party response given by conspirator mike lee and rand paul of kentucky. we are your place to be. the fox news channel for the state of the union 2014. our coverage begins at 8:55 eastern time. shepard smith is your name on the big fox broadcast network. martha: as the president gets ready to head a capitol hill three presidents are unveiling an alternative healthcare plan to replace obamacare. they are calling it the care act. senator coburn says ... >> if you look at obamacare you have a trillion in taxes, almost

a trillion stolen out of medicare. >> they have a better chance of being covered under our plan than the president's plan. martha: a lot of folk have been clamoring for republican to couple an alternative that's stang tangible. what do we know about this pro poeal. >> it am not coincidental coming in advance of the state of the union address. the president will have to defend his achievement. the tenuous implementation of obamacare. he's continuously said republicans have accumulation with no alternative to healthcare. they deny that and point to this particular proposal as the most manageable evidence of it yet. >> we'll provide for tax credit so people can buy their own insurance.

we'll reform medicaid so it -- it's a disaster right now -- but we can reform it so it will work. we'll help the poor up to 300% of poverty will be able to get the subsidy they need to purchase their own insurance. >> reporter: the unveiling of this bill comes at a time when it's becoming increasingly clear under obamacare there will be millions upon millions of uninsured people. the sponsors of this bill say this bill will correct that and also allow people up to the age of 26 to remain on their parents' plan. martha: what is the white house saying about this? >> reporter: when jay carney was askedb about this he said he has not seen this. he he it's a de facto repeal of obamacare. >> we haven't seen a proposal. what i have seen in press

reports. this looks like another appeal proposal. another attempt to raise taxes on the middle class to ray costs on seniors and take away medicaid from millions of americans to stand to gain coverage. >> reporter: the sponsor of this bill says it gives people rather than the government the power to empower their healthcare choices themselves and provide the states with the authority and money to do so. obviously this is going to a dead ender in the democratically controlled senate. with so many democratic senators and house members feeling the heat perhaps that will change as obamacare continue to evolve. martha: we'll talk to nor john cornyn about that plan. bill: 24 pert of the total enrollment said to be between the age of 13-34. even democrats in the house like

jim moran of virginia says they may never reach that goal. >> i'm afraid the millennials are less likely to sign up. i think they feel more independent. i think they feel even a little more invulnerable than prior venerations. but i don't think we'll -- supplier generations. i don't think we'll get enough signed up to make this bill work financially. bill: he's leaving congress after 12 terms in the house. these are the protected jigs for the 18-24. they expected half a pail by the end of november 2013 and 2.7 million at the end of march. this is where we believe they are now. advance it one time and the number are giving us today. not just 18-34. 3 million has of last week and

the projection is 7 million for the even of march. one thing you will most likely not hear about. this is the cancellation number for insurance policies. it's 7.6 million. martha: you cannot avoid this story. extreme weather. an historic freeze is packing subzero temperatures bringing the midwest to a standstill. even notre dame was closed for classes. that doesn't happen very soften. 23 below in cleveland, 29 below in chicago. people in the midwest are used to this but this is really cold.

in anchorage, alaska the with of minus 27. the university of michigan has closed the school, canceled classes for the first time since 1978. that is how cold it is. other parts of michigan, they are having the snowiest january they have ever had. in dubuque, iowa, they had the best snowfall they have had in recent win materials. today is the first day they are shutting the ski resort down. here in chicago it's much of the midwest they are asking people to stay home if they can. you can see a lot of people are still out here going to work after that polar vortex.

we had negative 40, negative 25 withs. the city of indianapolis, they shut down the city government. they put it on a 2-hour delay for tomorrow. the temperatures looks like they won't be going anywhere anytime soon. bill: the winter of 1977 and 1978. all those people in illinois and indiana and michigan, they all remember how brutal that was. with another month and a half to go. right on. mitt romney with tough word for president obama. have a listen. >> it's a difficult thing to reestablish a rep case for integrity and honesty if you lost it in the such a dramatic way as those promises demonstrated. bill: has the white house lost the trust of americans for good?

martha: new fears after a sinkhole opened up outside somebody's front door. we'll tell you where that's happening. bill: the president addressing millions of americans. but are americans ready to rinse. he's going to announce he's sidestepping congress even more and force his agenda on the american people through executive orders. that's answer abuys -- abuse of power.

martha: more of the incredible scenes we have seen the past two week out of kiev. two months of violent protests. the president of the country accepting the prime minister's resignation. he will be asked the stay on in that acting role until a new government is formed.

bill where new polling shows americans are not sold on the president's performance. the latest fox news polls show his performance numbers remain as near record lows at 42%. rich lowry joins us. you say the public is in a sour and sceptical mood. if that's the case you can change sour. how do you change sceptical. report report it's 6 in 10 people don't really have any faith in his presidency going forward. so it's hard to see how to change that haab sent some major event or absent some economic d absent some mayor event or comeek boom. bill: the first two lines on this poll number, i think it's

predictable. democrats are approving 77%. republicans 85% disapproval. how do you inspire? how do you influence when your numbers are like that? >> reporter: he will give a speak speech that's superficially popular. but all of it will wash away. the on thing something could happen with congress is if the president reached out in a ken trust way. by has shown he has no interest in doing that. so we'll be snuck the situation we are now with the obamacare and the economy being the overwhelming issues going into the mid-term elections. bill: you mentioned the disapproval numbers on these issues. right across the board. economy disapproved 59%. healthcare the same. federal deficit 66 person. d66%.

immigration under under water on that as well. is this a big nothing bigger. >> there were 40 initiatives he announced last year. two of them congress acted on, the violence against women and hiking the debt ceiling. everything else nothing happened. nothing else will happen except for executive actions which will be minor and same bol knick nature. the on thick that will be big if he does something unilaterally on carbon emissions to limit climate change. and two of them will hurt when it comes to the main issue people care about, jobs. bill: 68% in the "wall street journal" place say the country is the same or worse off than when the president took office in 2009. >> this is a deep-set pessimism among the american public.

people thought this country was on the wrong track for a decade. for 10 years. bill: tough to dig out of that. we'll talk to you real soon. we appreciate it. martha: this is a mystery of holy proportions. something belonging to pope john paul ii has been stolen. we'll tell you what it is. bill: an avalanche cutting off a town of 4,000 americans. >> wow! it's crazy. at half land much, it comes down every year. but not like that. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein!

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bill: police in italy searching for a stolen vial containing the blood of pope john paul ii. they say the relic was taken from a church where the pope liked to ski. they believe they might be planning to nights some sort of satanic ritual. we are just a few month away from when the vatican is expected to make him a saint. martha: it's a strange tory. i don't know why they think that's what it was take be for. but they must have some sort of lead on it. engineer say it could take up to a week to clear the debris from an avalanche that cut off an entire city in alaska. the area was blocked off friday after a snow slide blocked the only road in or out of this small town.

an involuntarily evacuation order has been issued for people closest to the slide. >> we have an -- an emergency alert system. you hear that siren and you be prepared to leave as soon as possible. >> adam housley has more on this. what's the latest? >> reporter: the area is prone to slide. butted the slides are a lot smaller normally. the department of transportation tried to do some clearing in worry that something like this would happen. but nobody expected it to be this big. unbelievable even for people who live in this area of valdez. you will see a lot of water is backing up because of the slide. they will say this thing is

unbelievable. >> we are thinking it will take 3-4 days to remove the snow once we get to removing the snow and the water receded. >> wow! , cow wow! , it's crazy. >> reporter: the water is the concern. they are afraid of a flash flood. they are afraid the water will come down and affect more residents cut off the by the snow slide. martha: it's amazing to look at the video and see the conditions people live in that snowy, cold, amazing place. it's so dramatic. we wish people well in that small community as they try to get them out. adam, thank you so much. bill: 25 minutes past the hour.

hillary clinton is saying her biggest regret is the deadly attack in benghazi. is her team trying to hit his head on knowing it will be her biggest liability? martha: former presidential nominee mitt romney has strong word for president obama. how broken promises he believes have damaged this president's reputation. >> the revelation that the president's campaign promise if you like your health insurance you can keep it, when they found that you that was not true and the president had been dishonest i think the american people saw him in a very different light. too big. too small. too soft.

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bill: new sinkhole fears in florida. a woman's driveway swallowed by the earth. it does not appear to be growing. but neighbors say they are being told to leave their homes in case it comes closer. >> i couldn't believe my eyes. >> unbelievable. >> it's so close to my house. that's the worry to me if it spread. bill: look at these dots showing all the sinkholes in florida since 1954. many of them in tampa on the west coast. last year a man was killed after a sinkhole swallowed him up

after it opened up a sinkhole under his bedroom. martha: mitt romney speaking out in an interesting interview on "hannity" last night. broken promises romney says have destroyed america's trust in this president. >> the revelation that the president's campaign promise if you like your health understand you can keep it, when they found it was not true and the president has been dishonest the american people i think saw him in a different light. it's a difficult thing reestablish a reputation for integrity and honesty if you lost tonight such a dramatic way that the promises demonstrated. martha: some people have been seeing a different side of the former presidential nome knee in a new documentary that just came out called "mitt."

martha: joining us is bob beckel and an -- and andrea tantaros. what is the significance of this at this point. what is the significance of mitt romney in people saying now they see nothing in him they didn't see before. >> i hope it's buyers' regret. at this point we have seen a pretty good glimpse into obama's second term. people look up -- at least i do, and when i see mitt romney on the screen and i think why couldn't he be our president right now. martha: bob thinks that all the

time. >> it breaks my heart. it's trite's too bad they didn't capture that side of the guy when he was running. when it comes to sinkholes i hope there is one under the republican national committee office in washington. >> that's not nice. >> no, they are fine people. martha: that's a subject for another day. >> there is a sinkhole under the white house the president has to address tonight. martha: i want to get back to the issue of what we didn't learn about him during the campaign. i think it says something about the presidential process. if we can skip forward to the second clip about the presidential process. >> it's getting harder and

harder to see behind the debates and behind attacks of various campaigns to see who the p is. frankly i wish we had done a better job at that. martha: he talked about how that the convention they played a documentary that was similar "the man from hope." but he says the networks don't carry much of the conventions anymore and people don't watch them so there isn't an opportunity to tell your testimonials. there were very moving stories about the people the romneys helped along the years. things that might have been surprising to people in the process. >> that's the sad part about it. i hate to admit it. but i managed walter mondale. behind the image of walter mondale was a wonderful, nice, decent human being. i met romney before. i think romney is that way.

this process does limit you. but that's not a reason to not try. i think it's bet to try and make some mistakes rather than trying to tow the line and do and say what people are saying you should be saying. particularly your campaign advisors. martha: he's so much looser and much more like many of us who interviewed him over the years have seen him behind the scenes. i won wonder if the consultant are saying. it bottled people up to the extent you don't get to know them. >> he ran in massachusetts. so it wasn't his first rodeo. he had run before. i do think he was nervous. they told us loosen up. try and be something different. that's who mitt romney was. instead of trying to air those

documentaries and give the american electorate the real idea of who is behind the scenes, they i stead rode shotgun on this misinformation campaign that he didn't pay his taxes, and he didn't like women and it couldn't be more far from the truth. >> that's politics. if they aring if to find an opening like that. >> it was a completely. >> his biggest speech of the year was his convention speech. the story behind the story was he had a wonderfully warm convention speech. his wife warmed them up before. and they changed the and vengs speech. he listened to this guy stuart stevens who is a smart guy but not the kind of guy romney should have been listening to. >> i think they had bigger

issues than changing a speech at the last minute. i think he should have gone negative a slot sooner. he didn't -- a lot sooner. he didn't fight back as toughly as he should have. but hindsight is 20-20. martha: he said when he was talking to sean, the perception of the country was that the economy was turning around. that's what bill clinton convinced everyone of when he came out of the convention. >> romney lost to the first president with a below 50% approval rating. >> and i think it was tough for him to foe off president obama on the i shall -- him to go after president obama on the issue of obamacare because of romney care. martha: we'll learn more about

his friendship with usher. and justin bieber. >> let many move right along. martha: we'll see you tonight on "the five." former presidential candidate mitt romney will be on "neil cavuto" on "your world." bill: republicans have a plan to replace obamacare. you can judge for yourself whether you think it would work better. march pete seger has died. a look at his long life. ♪ for everything turn turn turn turn, there is a season turn turn turn ♪ ♪ and a time for every purpose under heaven ♪ cúp,@s#b

bill: we are learning about this healthcare plan from three republican senators, unveiling a new alternative to obamacare. >> we we tried to do is we looked at it and said how can we make healthcare coverage more affordable for every american. >> the idea is to give affordable access care where you run your healthcare and the state makes the decisions and it's not mandated what you buy when you will buy it. there is no employer or individual mandate. bill: there is a will the more to this plan. we have a guest from the senior public policy center. let's tick through them. get rid of -- they want to allow employers to ban together

like -- to band together like big companies and buy their healthcare. >> a lot of small businesses are negotiate opening their own. if you have 100 employees you can't get quite the deal you can if you have 1,000 employees. if you band together small businesses you can get a better deal. bill: was that done before obamacare? >> many allowed to some degree. but under this proposal it would be encourages. bill: one of the big rub over this rollout has been the mandates that requires insurance companies to have certain coverage, certain policies for everybody who has that. this would get rid of these man 80s. >> this would beat obamacare on basically every metric.

it would slow the growth of cost without the government mandate, taxes and huge spending of obamacare. it's a plan to address the problems that americans want fixed without the big government baggage of obamacare. there is a shift of huge amounts of power to the department of human health and services. they can't dictate wham in everybody's insurance plan. there wouldn't be the hhs mandate. this will be shah decentral sighed approach. standing coverage. slowing costs and frankly allowing americans to decide for themselves what's best for their insurance plan. >> bill: one of the important tenets of plan is the tax credit. does that go to company and individual >> it goes to individual, not companies. the individual household would control it. they can use to it buy insurance.

there are lots of americans below about 300% of the poverty line, and 100% of the poverty line who are working and doing the right thing trying to make a living for their families but don't they have access to healthcare because their employer doesn't offer it or they can't afford it. they would be able to buy the same commercial insurance everybody else gets and gives them the ability have insurance for major medical and they across tailor the package for the benefits they want to see. bill: medicaid reform. not getting rid of it, but reforming it. this is sticking in the craw with of governor in america. how would they change it? >> they would give the states

much more gleksability -- much more flexibility and put them into mainstream insurance so they get access to the same doctors and hospitals as everybody else and as they work they wouldn't lose their coverage. if they get a better maying job their subsidy will stay with them. it would give them ability to move in a market-based program and get rid of the washington rules and regulations and let the states run it. bill: how do you think he will address obamacare tonight? >> i think he will try to make eight good news story and he will highlight he's covering some people that didn't have insurance before. that's what they will try to highlight. i would highlight surveys have indicated the vast majority of people who signed up, the vast majority had insurance prior to obamacare.

they are getting switched out of their current coverage and ina obamacare. so the net reduction in the uninsured is expected to be small. martha: deadly attacks in street battles with terrorists weeks before the winter games. the security breach could put one u.s. olympic teams dreams on ice. we'll talk to congressman mike mccaul who just returned from sochi. we'll get this take on what the safety situation really is there. ard - gots all my pertinents on it and such. works for me. turn to the camera. ah, actually i think my eyes might ha... next! digital insurance id cards. just a tap away on the geico app. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know that when a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, it does make a sound? ohhh...ugh.

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growing up. the great american singer songwriter pete seger has died at age of 94. he wrote "if i had a hammer" and if turn turn turn." this picture was taken by the putnam county news and reporter which conducted one of the last interviews with seger back in august of last year. he loved the hudson river and worked hard to clean it up. he said the most important message that jesus got out was the sower of seed. and i look at myself as a sower of seeds. pete seger dead at 94.

bill: super bowl sunday is getting closer and the town is ready. super bowl bundle they call it, a place where the fans can interact. nfl players will be signing autographs. lombardi t on display. and the fox news network in the mid of of all this. metlife stadium, new jersey, that's the host of the super bowl. the outcome of this game could depend on one call by the officials. and no one knows that better than fox sports analyst >> i have had so much fun in two days visiting my old haunts. bill: i want our viewers who don't know the game to know how

significant you are in the twittered world and live on fox broadcast. because you will make a call before the referees make a call on the field. that really changed the game. >> to me it's about education. that's what i tried to do is educate the fan on the rules of the game and what the officials are look at. and it's been fun. it morphed into a contest. who is right, the referees or me. when i'm wrong people come to me and say were wrong, you blew that one. i say they are wrong. first they emailed the easy ones. then they made threat them tougher. then the decision that came out from the referee wasn't the same as i thought. bill: a couple your tweets. just got up to the booth and yes the grab upon the shoulder was

defense yifd holding in my opinion. that wasn't a foul. here is what is tricky now about the game. you know being a form official the game is faster than the human eye can see. agree on that? >> you or -- you officiate on instincts because it's so fast. bill: the sound from the stadium can influence the judgment call you make. >> you have rules where you have helmet and helmet contact. that cannot be reversed. you have got the biggest game in america's biggest sport and you are relying on a split second call under a referee under a new rule that might determine the out yom sunday. >> when you have think about oh fish yaight, you never

officiated in the past what you are officiating now. the hits to the head. those are things you never grew up off officiating. -- you never knew up officiating. the 15-yard penalties that lead to a first down. when you see them lift's amazing the sound of the contact will affect you throwing the flag even though you are not sure whether there was helmet contact. so your reaction is to reach and throw and get out there. the league actually says because they are trying to change the culture of the game. even if you are unsure, go ahead and throw the flag. they are willing to live with the error. bill: you have the monitor on the side. broncos, seahawks, who wins? >> you always look at offense versus defense.

they say defense wins championships. this is an unbelievable matchup. you have got number one offense ranked against the number one defense. i have seen too many offensive weapons with denver. with their receivers and manning, i think offense wins out in this one. bill: thank you. thank you, mike. martha: good stuff. we know the president will use tonight's state of the union to announce his executive order raising the minimum wage. bill: senator john cornyn is live on that on what is else he headed our way. >> we believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars for they show us truth and make us brave and give us hope and leave us wiser than we were.

>> fox news alert. republican leaders set to come to the microphones and we will look for what they have to say ahead of the state of the union address. we will bring you that as soon as we get the drift of what they will say. and democrat telling people what democrats don't want to hear: a warning obamacare will collapse if young people don't sign up. we have a brand new hour here. >> this congressman cut through it jim moran is who said this. he said young ones are not signing up and that is a problem. >> i am afraid they are less likely to sign up. i think they feel more

independent. i think they feel a little more invulnerable and i don't think we will get enough young people to sign up to make it work as it was intended to financially. >> michael warren is here, staff writer, some might look at this is say you are retiring and why don't you speak like this earlier on? he was in favor of a different plan, but voted on this. >> i guess when you retire you can be more honest about you how you feel. republicans have to be feeling pretty good. a liberal democrat is making the points about how obamacare will fall apart or wouldn't work the way it was intended but the republicans were making those comments weeks or months or even years ago. this is an important moment you

see this very senior, liberal democrat congressman in virginia make this point. the argument is in the republican's favor, at least for now. >> and he adds his name to the list. bauchus said it was a train wreck. a lot of folks who lost their health insurance are saying thanks, this is a dollar and day short. >> i think they are echoing what a lot of democrat who are not retiring would like to say. the recognize the poll numbers and enrollment numbers are low. they are realizing they are not going to reach the numbers and

this election year this is a millstone around their necks and they have to distance themselves from it. >> i think you touched on something important. these members are freed up to change the message because there is no doubt there is going to be any issue that any republican is going to make central to their campaign. right? >> harry reid sort of started this off in december when we started talking about in 'come inequality and you heard democrats talking about raising the minimum wage. they want to distance themselves whether it is immigration or income inequality as long as they are not talking about obamacare besides saying we signed up people who didn't have

insurance. they will try to make the election anything but about their signature law. >> you know you will hear health care in the state of the union tonight. thank you, michael. >> brutal deep freeze hitting so many millions. someone said 80 millions effected. severe weather in texas, virginia, north carolina -- a mix of snow and ice and the wind chill below 0. this is very rare. team fox coverage in the extreme weather center. but we begin in alabama. how are conditions are, jonathan? >> we have noticed a major change. the temperature was in the

mid-50s and now 31 where i am now. we woke up to rain and now we are seeing sleet mixed in and anticipate snow throughout the afternoon. road and bridges will begin to ice through the afternoon and crews are out in full force prepared to spread the sand. but cold weather events are rare so these communities up and down throughout the southeast don't have the large fleets of heavy equipment that you might find in the upper midwest for example. that is why local officials are urging people who don't have to be out and about to stay at home. >> how is it affecting the region? you are in alabama. back in georgia, where you live in atlanta, west of texas, cover

as huge area, jonathan? >> it does. texas all the way through the carolinas we have people preparing. icy conditions in austin texas. another warm weather community is houston and nasa closed the johnston space center and telling non-essential employees to stay home. mission control is staying open so they can continue to monitor the international space station but it is affecting the entire south. >> and another swat coming that way. >> how long is this deep chill going to last? we have the extreme weather center report with the answer to that. >> i have good news in terms of that question. but first, let me show you the radar. we have the sleet like you heard

across parts of texas, louisiana, mississippi and all the way up into parts of virginia. 1500 miles across parts of the south that are dealing with the winter weather and that is why we have winter warnings in affect. and many could be looking at ice of over a quarter of an inch and that is treacherous on the roadways. new orleans is is on the list. and an ice storm in savannah, georgia and charleston, south carolina. just rain on the southern side of the system where temperatures are mild. but you can see behind the storm very cold in the morning. but wednesday morning we expect

the storm to wrap up. overall conditions improving as we go into the tomorrow. by the way, martha, eastern north carolina can see over six inches of snow but eventually much better for the weekend with a significant warmup. that is not going to be sticking around for too long. >> 53 on saturday -- that is the place to be. >> just to give you an idea. atlanta could hit 15. all-time low is 9 degrees below. snow in north carolina and south carolina, six inches or more? that is crazy. hang in there. it is only temporarily. new video from the toppled egyptian president's toppled government. he is appearing on a trial facing the death penalty of

polluting foreign forces in a prison escape. he is declaring he is the country's leader. high drama and a lot of unsettled situation. >> we are 11 hours away frame the president's state of the union. the president calling this quote a year of action and what will he do with executive orders. reactions next. >> and new concerns about security at the winter olympics and why one set of athlete and one team could be staying home because of the terror threats. we will talk to michael mccall who just got back from sochi. >> and spying by way of angry birds?

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state of the union

>> in maryland, firefighters rescued a girl from a 30-foot well. it took 20 emergency workers but they freed her in 20 empminutes. she was rushed to the hospital and treated for hyperthermia but she is going to be okay. >> president obama is hammering away at the theme of economic inequality and plans to signoon executive order to boost the minimum wage for new federal contracts going up to $10.10 an hour. i am joined by texas senator

john corman who is a member of the budget committee. good morning. good to have you. >> good to be with you >> what did you expect to hear tonight? >> the problems the president has is two-fold. one is a crisis of creditability and the other is a crisis of competence. he is deciding to do things he said you cannot do in a separation of institutions. he is giving up on work together and going alone. but there is not much he can do other than the superficial sorts of action like raising the minimum wage for certain federal workers >> i would imagine he will say the white house tried to work

with the republican and they have stonewalled everything he has tried. >> they might say that. but again, that is the biggest problem the white house has now. people don't believe them anymore after the president promised if you like it you can keep it with your health care and the other promises that have been made. the republicans have been willing to work with the white house but have been shutout of the process. the house passed hundred pierces of legislation that will grow the economy but harry reid and the white house shut them down. >> so much of the talk on the state of the union centers on small ball and people are not expecting new initiatives or things to be announced, but the one reality check that could come about, and i don't think anyone will, is if the president said he wanted to sit down with people like you, and your

colleagues and some up with a way to make fixes. he has said if you have a better way to make the health care law i am open to hearing them. >> he says a lot of things. we have been offering alternatives since 2009. just yesterday, a number of my colleagues offered another alternative. the truth is there are many different options. but the president is so invested in obamacare, which is now proving to be an epic failure, and we are going to be there at the table with democrats and the president, if he will, to try to fix the problem. but the fact is he weed to dismantle republican care and replace it with patient-centered alternatives. >> would you sit down with him if he asked?

or only if you say you are not willing to dismantle? >> you don't turn the president down if he invited you to talk at the white house. we would be happy to talk. but unfortunately, we have been met with nothing but a stiff arm and no response. so in addition to slow economic growth, which is creating the cancer that is eating away at the country, which is high unemployment, the president proposes to raise minimum wage and extend unemployment. he is treating the symptom and not the underlying problem. >> this quote is stunning and this the backdrop the president walks out in front of tonight. the question was, wall street journal poll, what one or two

words best describe the state of the union and he is going to walk out and say the state of the union is sound as they do. but those folks answered with divided 37%. 23% trouble. detearating 21%. and recovering comes next. but the top three is a grim picture. >> well, it is pretty ugly. i think it is because of a failure of leadership. we have always had divided government and done big things. republic we could work together but the president has an idea of going alone and not rolling up the sleeves and doing the job he was elected to do. he can give a wail of a speech but the follow up leaves us

wanting. >> fox news is your place for the state of the union. our coverage starts at 8:55 eastern. >> nowhere else to go but prime time. it is always interesting to watch. the ceremony and traditions. forget the taliban, it is being said the united states are behind terrorist attacks now. >> hilary clinton is saying her biggest regret is the deadly attack in benghazi. >> two of our people died at the outpost and two died on the roof of the cia annex. so you know, it is constant

balancing. i had to do that all of the time. obviously it was a great personal loss to me since i sent stevens there the first time.

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>> bazaar theory from the afghan president. he is suspecting u.s. involvement as a way to draw attention from u.s. air strikes. you have seen this before and dealt with this, what do you mick of a claim of this?

>> there is not much you can say about it that is diplomatic. it is verging on delusional. you have to wonder what the president's motive is because he is accusing of the united states of conspiring with the taliban against him. and that is as far from reality as you can get. >> you told producers this is a mark of the government collapsing? >> this is what you see final days of a government. i think this erratic behavior, whether you want to get into personal psychology or political fear, is very disturbing for the afghan government and the united

states. >> our ambassador put out a statement according to the washington post: a deeply conspiracy view that flies in the face of reality thinking we would aid the enemy. he is saying we blew up that restaurant. how do you deal and work with this man? >> i am not sure we can anymore. it is pointing to the mistake we mid in personalizing him as the head of the government. and i think more broadly of constructing the government. we are not there to build the afghan nation. we have key interest there in keeping the taliban and al qaeda from coming back to power. and his paver behavior has

hampered and made it harder. >> what do you think is behind this? >> i think he is worried his days are number and by putting pressure on the united states he can get more concessions out of us. after of the years we have worked with him and seeing this behavior shows he never understood us or there is a psychological problem going on here >> you are not the only one suggesting that. there is a story about releasing detainees over there. there is new concern over the safety of is u.s. athletes ahead of the winter games in sochi. michael mccall just got back prom the city and will join us live >> and how the u.s. government can spy on people using angry

birds? >> really. >> that is what they say. fly away. >> that is not good.

>> we are hearing speaker john boehner weighing in on the speech saying we have a

constitution and if he tries to ignore is he is going to run into a brick wall. speaker boehner took another question on the president's move regarding the executive order. >> i suspect the president has the authority to raise the minimum wage for those dealing with federal contracts. let's understand something: this affects not one current contract. it only affects future contracts. how many people, mr. president, will this executive action actually help? i suspect this is somewhere close to 0. >> speaker boehner is echoing what others are saying. 8:55 eastern time. primetime here. on the fox news channel.

>> the nsa knows what you are up to according to new documents from edward snowden. the spy agency uses cellphone apps like angry birds and google maps to assess your personal information. live in washington is catherine. how does this work? >> thank you, martha. according to the documents the nsa works alongside british intelligence counterparts to harvest personal data from phone apps. the intelligence agencies target angry birds because it is a leaky app. it generates personal information so data can be pulled illustrating your interest, universe of contacts and location.

the new reporting unsettling for those that use the app. >> our constitutional rights are more important than spying on phone calls or data mining google maps. i think there is a line that is overstepped. i think when the defense is turned on the citizens itself this is an atrocity. >> another reason to stay away from smart phone apps. whether it is large companies or retailers or the government can track you. >> the app makers could be more pro-active and in this case a lot of the apps are communicating with severer without encryption. >> there are so many links that tell them about us. what is the response from the nsa? >> in a statement the nsa said quote because data of u.s.

persons may at times be collected in a lawful foreign intelligence mission, privacy protection exist across the process and similar protections exist for innocent foreign citizens. the nsa insist this information isn't used to profile every day americans. but the depth and breadth of the data collection is surprising to many americans. >> every day there is another revelation on the orders it seems. thank you very much. winter games start in nine days. russian anti-aircraft is hunting down bombers and the national hockey league saying they might keep their players home if there is a security breach. michael mccall is chair of the

homeland security. i have heard you in interviews: what do you want americans to know about your trip to sochi? >> the threat is real. the state department issued a travel alert. the rebels have been at war with the russians for 150 years. they have radical islamic force and we have the top al qaeda leader, who was bin laden's top leader, who is calling the jihad in the region against the olympics and that concerns me. >> i want to go to maps to let the viewers know. are the russians ready or not? >> they have put all of the

resources they can possibly put to bear on security in russia. particularly what they call the perimeter. the ring of steel is what they are calling. the rail to the mountain where the skiing will take place. 100,000 security and 40,000 military forces are all there n visible sign of force. before the ring of steel was put in place, how many cells were there is my question. and when the black widows have penetrated the steel. they are widows of militants who have been killed by the russians. it only takes one suicide bomber to set things off. i think the bigger threat is probably not within the perimeter itself which is hardened. but more outside where the

softer targets are. they have called for increased bombings. we have had three going off. and they have called for increased bombings that will consume the olympics. >> i know you can not see it, but you can hear. moscow here. and this area he is talk about is about 4-500 miles east of the game. and now if you go into sochi it sup here on the black sea. coming down 25 miles to the olympic village and 30 miles up to the mountains where you see the snow boarding and skiing. but this is 25 miles in one direction and 30 in the other.

this the so-called ring of steel. you saw this, sir, and learned what? >> it is very secure. there is a heavy presence of military. which is odd for the olympics to have that military force. they will have to be not so visible. but the rings go out into the mountains to stop the black widows from coming from the mountains to the olympic villages. my whole concern is the location to the terrorist who have been at war with russia for 150 years. everybody is taking a great pause. i have not seen an olympics with that much threat. we have seen three suicide

bombers already. >> should the athletes go? stay home? families go? or do you bend to terrorist that way? >> we cannot let the terrorist win. we have the largest crowd. i believe unless there is a greater threat that comes out in the future that we need to rally behind our americans that i hope will take home more gold medals than any other team and not let the terrorist win. i think we need to be smart and cautious about this. if there are more bombings taking place inside the perimeter that could cause a threat i think we should change our way of thinking. >> we will stay in contact with you over the next couple weeks. thank you, michael mccall. >> thank you. hilary clinton revealing what she says is her biggest regret. what the former secretary of

state has to say about wrong choices and what she would have done differently about benghazi. >> and does the queen need a loan? >> you could lend her a couple pounds, bill. pounds, bill. check it out.

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>> we could auction one painting and they will be fine. >> i think she is going to be okay. former secretary of state hilary clinton changing her tune

the tape obviously of the quote we mentioned, what difference was it make, will be used against hilary clinton if she is trying to run. is she trying to float a different tone to see how it goes? >> of course, she is. she really regrets that she has the blood of the four dead people on her hands. the fact is she was negligent in not listening to chris and not recognizing that they should have had extra security. she was famous in her campaign

saying someone had to take the 3 a.m. phone call. if there is anything to prove she is not competent to take the 3 a.m. phone call it is this. >> you have a different take on this? >> yes, i do. because there is always a back story in the world of diplomacy. jay carney changed the description of the benjamin compound from conflict to diplomatic facility. and two of the people killed were cia operatives. there is a lot going on. there is two former cia analyst who say that in addition to diplomatic mission there might have been intelligence operations going on. i feel like jack nickelson in the movie with tom cruise we can'tandle the truth.

there is a lot we are not going to know. >> even if that is true, and i think we have all heard these stories about what was going on at the other compound, but we know there were concerns from the state department. so that doesn't answer the question of why they didn't beef up security or like the brits did remove the people from the area because there was a growing presence of al qaeda that was nearby. >> but you know what? there was a growing presence of resistance. these embassies were not on the outskirts of town. they were in the middle of town. the person serving you tea could be resentful of you.

i would appeal not to let the domestic policies impact the people. i have been to the embassies and these people work with locals. they live with locals. >> that is their job. they take that on. >> yes, but they take the risk. and they could be killed by this partisan bickery. >> the question is what responsibility does the state department have to do project them while doing their job? >> i think they have the direct responsibility. hilary clinton was in challenge of overseeing her people. the embassy had security removed in august right before the attack. hilary clinton claims to be unaware of that. and ms. jackson makes the point. there was a cia annex about a

mile away. that is where woods and dorty came from. we don't know what the obama administration was doing there. were they taking weapons? none of this augers in the secretary's favor. >> we establish there are a lot of questions. >> and we don't know. >> the obvious thing is we have seeing hilary clinton trying to figure out whether or not this is going to be a big issue if she is trying to run. she is thinking about it. hasn't made up her mind yet. but it is significant discussion that is being had in the quarters and here as well today. thank you tina and lars. >> jenna lee is back with us. >> bill, great to see you. the president is making

preparations for the state of the union. it comes from polling that suggest americans are not in a good mood or happy with the president. we will look at the standings, the message tonight and what the remainder of the administration could look like. and new information on breast cancer coming out. >> broncos or sea hawks? >> my coanchor is from colorado. so i go go broncos. you? >> i am not ready to forecast. >> cough it out. >> it is tuesday! >> computer calculations and massive hard drive. >> rick is outside with week's highlights. >> for the denver broncos and seattle sea hawks method media

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nwas the most watchedage otelevision event ever.s so, what's next? the upcoming winter games from sochi. where every second of nbc universal's coverage will be available on every device.

on tv, online or streaming on the nbc sports live extra app. beginning february 6th, experience the winter games everywhere. welcome to what's next. comcast nbcuniversal >> it is one of the more anticipated and wild day of the week: that is media day. we get to see the players side we rarely see. first up was payton manning taking in it in newark, new jersey. >> reporter: this is the first year the day is being held at a place other than the stadium. it is like negative 50 outside so it was a good year to start

this. the broncos are meeting the press and later the seattle s seahawks will take the floor. fans with being invited for the third year. they can listen in on the interviews. tickets were $27.50. real characters in the crowd. including one guy why met who is wearing a camera on his face shooting spots for the nfl network. >> does it feel like a first-person point of view having the camera from there? he is wearing it. it isn't on his hands. it feels like we are his head. >> is it comfortable? >> a lot more comfortable than

you think. >> reporter: gives new meaning to the word camera man. this is the goody bag you get. >> i don't get the sense you are having fun, rick. >> reporter: i am. i will have more fun when i am inside. >> we will let you go. >> reporter: it is blast in there. >> enjoying beautiful newark, new jersey on a brisk day. a broad session sof the country is feeling the way rick is from dangerous sub-zero temperatures. we have fox team coverage coming up.

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martha: super bowl fans getting a chance to show some team spirit ahead of the game. empire state building teaming up with verizon wireless to turn fan tweets into social media-powered light show. each day verizon asks a question about the team. they asked which team dominates

defensively. broncos holding a slight edge over the seahawks defensively. so the colors on the building were orange and blue. we're waiting for bill hemmer's prediction. he will continue to boil the numbers. bill: chris christie tweeted that broncos and seahawks did not land in new york. they landed in newark, new jersey. martha: of course they did. thank you, governor christie. we have to run. have a good day. jenna: breaking news and today's top headlines and brand new stories you will see here first. jon: a utah doctor convicted of murdering his wife trying to overturn his conviction and trying to avoid trial on another charge. our panel weighs in on the martin macneil case. a woman takes chances with her life trying to jump on a moving train. this drug could stop cancer in its trackses. it is all happening now.