tonight. i'm sure you'll be watching fox business. >> three hours from now as late as it goes. coverage you can't get anywhere else. if you don't watch the rich coverage, you will be poor for it. you don't want that. see you tonight. hello, everyone. i'm dana perino along with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, eric bolling and a bored greg gutfield. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." >> we're about four hours away from president obama's fifth state of the union address. fox news will have coverage starting at 8:55 and the five of us will be live tweeting. we're going to tell you about that later. it's going to be a tough sell for the president tonight. the latest fox news poll says that 62% of americans are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country. and a wall street journal poll says 68% think the u.s. has been stagnant or worse off since the president took office. so what can we expect to hear from the president tonight?

ed henry knows a little bit about that and he joins us from the white house. give us the summary. >> well, dana, what's interesting, as you'll remember from your final year or two of the bush administration, dealing with the end of the administration, where we use that dreaded phrase, small ball, where there's not a lot of new ideas, not a lot of major initiatives. you're kind of running out the clock. for this president, he may be getting there a little sooner. he obviously has a couple more state of the union addresses to go, but all the signals we're getting from the administration is there will not be a lot of new ideas. instead, what he's going to do is two-fold, saying he's still willing to work with republicans in the house on issues like immigration reform, but he realizes it's an uphill battle, but if that doesn't work, he's willing to go at it alone with executive orders, executive actions. and he made a little movement on that today with the minimum wage. for example, we can get into

that in a minute. when you talk about the tough task tonight, it was summed up by robert gibbs who said this morning that last year was a lost year. between the botched health care rollout, the irs issue, other crises that popped up, robert gibbs. one of the president's top allies, said it was a lost year and there's a lot riding on this tonight for the president to try to right the ship and show he's still relevant. >> u.n. wione of the things, ed i'm going to turn it over to eric in a second, but the white house has been advertising the fact they're going to have a small-ball speech, which is a different strategy. >> ed, how does president obama -- how does he square this? there's 60% of the people who dana points out who say the economy is not working, not going in the right direction. the president, the country is not going in the right direction. his approval rating is sliding, yet he's got the unemployment rate down to 6.7% and gdp is frankly getting better.

he's got on one hand good economic numbers, but the country is not seeing it. how does he make the people, all of us, realize maybe something he's doing might be right, and is it? >> i have seen him struggle with this for over five years now because every time there is positive economic data, if he looks like he's cheerleading it too much, when there are folks across the country who are not feeling it yet, he looks like he's out of touch. yet if he doesn't tout the good economic data, he has to deal with the fact there's other bad economic data he still has to deal with. bottom line is, this week we were hearing from jay carney and others the reason why the country is still struggling with the economic crisis, the damage from that, is that the president inherited this crisis from president bush. republicans don't like to hear that, but this administration continues to say that. so what they'll say is, look, the hole was so big when he came to office that yes, progress has been made, but there's still not enough. bottom line is it's a harder and harder case for the president to make to the american people.

it might have worked in the first year, the second year, but now when you're in your sixth year, he's had over five years in charge of the economy. that's a harder case to make. >> ed, this is beckel. you have been around the president for some time. can you name me one time, just once, that a republican has said anything positive about barack obama? i could name you a thousand where they have obstructed him. why he says he's going to work with the fools in the house, i don't know. let's assume he has to do it. name me one positive thing they said. >> how much time? >> doesn't answer my question. >> bob, can you name one time when anybody in the democrats commented at the 4% unemployment rate in the bush administration and said it was positive? can you name me one time? the political opposition isn't there to support the president. >> my brain doesn't work that well. the history of the administration is written, it's going to be the most anti-from

the republicans, everything they could do to scuttle this guy, go back to what mitch mcconnell said, our job is to defeat the guy. >> oh, my goodness. i'm going to go to andrea next. >> i feel like i'm in the middle of an awkward family fight at the thanksgiving table. >> welcome to "the five." >> interesting. >> still didn't get an answer, but that's okay. >> speaker boehner at a breakfast with reporters, at one point, he was saying if the president goes too far with the executive orders, he's going to face a brick wall up here from republicans. i asked speaker boehner, why would the president think that's different? he thinks you already have a brick wall up against his agenda and frajly, that's why the white house thinks the president is justified to move forward because he's not getting anywhere on the hill. >> good question. i'm glad you asked the question. >> i just want to respond to bob very quickly, ed. i did say something positive about the president in the very early years when he decided to deep some of bush's policies in place. we all said that around this

table. there's your question answered, bob. now it's my turn. ed, how does the president draw a balance tonight? he has a number of nervous democratic senators up for re-election in purple states that are nervous about him going into global warming on arguably the coldest day we have seen in a long time, or issues like obamacare. they don't want him to talk about the policy failure. at the same time, doesn't he have to get his base something to rally them, to get them excited in the fall. how is he going to strike that balance? >> rally them on the minimum wage, the executive order he did today only involved federal contracts and future ones at that. it doesn't impact current workers dealing with, you know, working under federal contracts. only in the future. it's a limited number of people who will be impacted. he's going to urge congress to raise the minimum wage. that's something that does rally the left. it has not much chance of passage. your point is valid.

that's what robert gibbs was talking about, this lost year. the botches rol rollout damages president's credibility. he'll make the case to the red and purple states where there's tough re-elections for democrats, the website is fixed or a long way towards being fixed and they believe at the white house that the health care law is, you know, sort of turning the corner. i will tell you speaker boehner at breakfast said very directly he thinks while repealing the law is dict and unlikely to happen, he and other republicans admit that, they still say, speaker boehner does, he thinks the law will fall under its own

star-struck potus poodles who line up along the entrance so when the president saunters in like a grad student who just won an award for most improved marxist, they're trying to shake his hand because they're so desperate to be on camera, to be seen shaking the hand of the president. they're grown people who are star-struck. >> is there a question? >> i'm getting to the question, ed. the state of the union is a ritual everybody hates. nobody likes it, including the president, including the politicians, including the media. we all know it's a joke, so why do we keep doing it? why don't we say enough is enough? it's like an acquaintance you used to meet every year, you decide neither of you like each other, so why do we keep meeting? >> for the media, we get to have a big night, a little bit of drama. the republicans sort of get to

speak their piece about what they don't like about the president. for the president, sure, there's about 100 other things he would rather do than get in front of the house chamber, democrats and republicans, and explain his policies again, et cetera, et cetera, but he's at such a difficult point in his presidency right now. having a chance it go before the chamber, and more importantly, go before the nation and reset things, that's something he desperately has to do, because the fact is this president is getting closer and closer to being a lame duck. so he's got to try to grab the nation by the lapels and say i'm still relevant and here's what i want to do for the last three > ask you. isn't he after the speech, won't he be a lame duck? $10.10 minimum wage for employees, that's enough. immigration, he's tried that before. he can't talk about obamacare, can't talk about raising taxes. that's a no-win. isn't this his moment of lame

duck coming out right here? >> it's one of his last chances, frankly, because he's got a three to six-month window before the summer and fall when what's going to happen? all these democrats and republicans in the chamber tonight are thinking about the mid-term elections and if the republicans take back the senate and hold the house, if they do, his final two years in office, yes, lame duck city. but if somehow he can keep control of the senate and somehow make some gains in the house, maybe his agenda has a fighting chance, but yes, you're right. the 5uds are he's closer and closer to lame duck. >> this is wbeckel again. i was told by my producer not to attack you as if you're a republican commentary. i know you're a good reporter and i was asking that in a rhetorical sway. having said that, after listening to boehner this morning, do you think the republicans have a sense, as bad shape as obama is in, their numbers are worse. and so the question is, what are

the republicans going to do besides what they have been doing, which is no, no, no, no? do you think the republicans have an agenda of their own they might actually think they could pass? >> somewhat. bob, you're answering your own question. yes, speaker boehner directly said he has said this publicly before, that he believes the republicans can't be the party of no. they can't just beat up on every obama policy. they have to come up with an agenda of their own. leave it to the audience to decide are the republican plans good enough? let the people decide that, but secondly, i point out, it was only 24 hours ago that three senate republicans came forward with a serious health care plan. again, the white house is going to say it's not good enough, doesn't cover enough people, but there are republican plans on the table. they're going to fight this out, but yes, to your bottom line point, the republicans can't just throw stones at the president. they have to have plans on their own on the economy, health care, and they say they do, and on immigration, speaker boehner is leading the effort to say let's

do something. he's not saying no. now, he doesn't want a big, big plan like the president has, the comprehensive plan, but he's saying let's do this in five, six, seven smaller bills, bite-sized pieces people can dige digest. boehner is saying yes. >> i'm getting eyes rolled by dana. >> i haven't said a word. >> about what? >> i'm going to get the last question. >> go. >> after the state of the union, then any president goes out on the road and they try to sell through the follow-throw. the president, i know, is going to wisconsin and tennessee. already you have members who are elected, another the governors there or senators saying they're not going to appear with the president. do they think this is a sign of things to come? it's fairly early in the year for this to be happening, in my opinion. >> they know it's a reality. he went a few months ago to louisiana. mary landrieu facing a tough re-election, a moderate democrat, did not appear with him. i think in that case, it was business in louisiana. a few weeks ago, he went to

carolina. kay hagan had senate business back here in washington. so look, as you know, dana, this happened to president bush in 2006. sometimes where the republicans who didn't want to appear with him. others were very happy to appear with president bush and have him help raise money for them. i suspect there will be some senate democrats who don't like the president much, but say, hey, he'll help raise a couple million dollars for my campaign. he's going to be a help in some states and other states, he's going to be a real hindrance. >> hopefully the president won't take it personally because it does happen to all of them. coming up, details on "the five" live tweeting during the state of the union. bob, we'll explain that to him. we want you to join us. and also, robert redford has harsh words for republicans who disagree with president obama's agenda. you'll hear from the sundance kid when we come back. [ male announcer ] want healthy joints?°

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on the eve of the state of the union address, news leaked that president obama will deliver on a promise he made recently. the president will announce tonight that he intends to use the executive pen to raise the minimum wage for contractors hired by the u.s. taxpayer. nicely done, sir. but weren't you the guy against the executive pen before you were for it? roll it. >> the issue of executive power and executive privilege is one that is subject to abuse. and in an obama presidency, what you will see is a sufficient respect for law and the coequal branches of government. >> oopy, but like clock w, they lined up in support. first, thomas perez. listen. >> this is actually efficient,

making sure you pay someone $10.10. when you're paying someone $7, you're going to lose them because they're going to go to employers who pay better. this executive order, i believe, is going to increase the efficiency of government. i think it's a smart way to run government. >> dana? >> you want to know why it will increase efficiency? because they will hire fewer people. that's what will happen. it's such a small number of people that actually get minimum wage on federal contracts. perhaps there is a way to, you know, tie the cpi to minimum wage and see if things rise and fall with whatever the market says. i think the problem with this is yes, once again, the president is showing himself to be a hypocrite on this particular issue. maybe it happens with every president, but his executive order, what he can do from the white house himself is actually probably not that powerful. executive actions, on the other hand, is very powerful. it's the labor department, epa, interior department, energy,

transportation, the effect on businesses, small businesses in particular, who don't really have a big voice in washington, the national federation of independent business put out a video earlier yesterday, which i thought was very good, talking about the strangulation of small business at the expense of unelected bureaucrats, and congress needs to get something done. the president is making a mistake when he thinks he couldn't do something on the minimum wage. he should have at least tried it in congress. if that then failed, he could have gone ahead and done this. >> it's not that he's using the executive pen more than the sum of his predecessors. in fact, he is not. there are a lot of presidents who used it quite often. the problem is when president obama in 2007 said, no, no, i'm not going to use the executive pen in an obama presidency. >> the problem is he said executive privilege, which is an entirely different issue. entirely different issue. >> in what way? >> it's asserting executive

privilege so you don't have to turn over document s generally o the congress of the united states. that has nothing to do -- >> it's from the same -- bypassing the congress. >> let me see if i -- >> bob, if he was talking about executive privilege and not action, it's exactly what president obama tried to assert in the fast and furious investigation so people in the white house didn't have to respond. >> that's right. >> if we could make him hypocritical on that, too? >> we could, but we're talking about the issue of $10.10. we put the cut on the show. we used executive privilege as a cut. maybe we can get the cuts right. >> let's move on. >> every congress passes a bill. there is always room in those bills for president of the executive board to implement what the law says, and it's wide open for regulation. it's not -- nothing new. now, he may go a lot further than a lot of presidents have. he may have to, frankly, but this is not new because congress

always cannot anticipate every regulation, and interpretation of what they write. >> i'm fine. >> deep breath. >> what's wrong with that? >> may i address that? >> please. >> federal workers which means essentially it's spending. this is our money. this is not private business. this is the government. so essentially, he's proven once again that he's not really the president of the united states. he's the president of government. these are the people that he cares about most. you can't move up the ladder, bob, if you aren't on the ladder. this administration shows that you can opt out of the ladder and survive. government programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, and obamacare disincentivizes working. you don't have to get on the ladder anymore. when you're talking about income inequality, he's actually advocating policies that make it worse. you need to work to gain experience. and he's creating a life where you don't have to work. >> greg hits on a point.

income inequality, $10.10 not just for federal workers, future federal contractors. that's not going to do a darn thing for his income inequality problem, is it in. >> it will help his buddies out. you'll hear income inequality all night. i thought when bill clinton talked about midnight basketball, that was small ball. this is even smaller ball. when he stands at the podium and addresses the nation and says this is going to help so many people. this is going to help all of you, this is for him. this is for his union buddies. we were talking on "the five" a couple months ago about how the richest area of the united states is washington, d.c., ny/nj virginia, where all these contractors work. this is not for minimum wage america. this is for people connected to him and for him for his power lust and personal political gain. >> hang in there, bobby. i have to get this. next up is dissent a disease? robert redford seems to think so. here he is on obama's critics.

>> when you have a system that's supposed to serve the public good by being bipartisan, that's the point of it all. bipartisanship is meant to serve the public good. when you have one half whose only motive is to destroy the motives of the president of the united states, then you have a diseased system. >> bring it around very quickly, bob. you're agreeing with bob redford. >> of course, i am, but i want to say i don't know of a uniwhereunion person who makes less than $10. >> are you joking? are you kidding me? >> name me one. >> construction workers are making $10 an hour. >> a lot more than that. >> oh, yeah, a ton of money. >> which is why this is -- it doesn't affect anybody. it won't have an impact. >> it's a joke. >> i thought you said it was unions, paying off his union buddies. i'm not going to talk much here. i'll say this, i think redford is right. i have never seen a republican party that used to be a great party, become such an

obstructionist party and a right-wing party. >> can i point out robert redford contracted a valentine in the form of a film. whether it's republicans decide to bomb ft. dix and kill members of the military, maybe redford would embrace them? >> democrats are not reversing anything of this three decade trend of income inequality. and another thing, if they really want to stop income inequality, they could talk about the cultural issues, work your ass off, get married, stop promoting single motherhood. that's a real issue, but they don't want to talk about that. they want to throw money at a problem. >> there are presidents and i worked for one who can work across the aisle even when there's complete opposition to him and his policies, especially after the recount, which was very divisive for the nation. tax cuts, no child left behind, and fisa were four he had to deal with with a very difficult congress, but he was able to get them done. >> and we're going to have -- >> because he worked for them.

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it was pain in a pantsuit. i refer to hillary clinton claiming her biggest regret was the benghazi terror attack. >> my biggest, you know, regret is what happened in benghazi. it was a terrible tragedy, losing four americans , two

diplomats and now it's public so i can say two cia workers. losing chris stevens. >> the fallout and lack of follow-up makes the white house and especially hillary look bad. so is this regret really about the attack or about how it reflects on her? i don't know. but cynicism is the only correct response after living among political animals like the clintons for so long. people who stay married for political purposes, people who appoint pals for political purposes, people who breathe for political purposes. the regret for benghazi is laudful, but also a mistake for it occurs after 2012, an election in which they colluded to avoid unseemly topics like a poorly protected embassy or pretending a video is to blame. like the irs story and doj, it

was swept under a rug so obama could win. by the time the election was over, that rug looked like mt. evere everest, so regretting it now is like regretting you lied on your resume after getting that great job. it means little now. and maybe the regret comes from the fact the story lingers, not as a reminder of incompetence, but injustice, no matter how hillary supporters try to fabreze the failures, the faces of the dead still look at you, eyes wide open. they saw it all, even if the media chose not to. all right, dana, was this admission all about 2016? is this the start of somehow kind of coderizing that wound? >> i don't know her personal motivations. maybe she does feel that way, but from a political standpoint, what it does for democrats is for them to say, look, the "new york times" said it wasn't a problem. she's apologized for it. and we need to move on. republicans will be strongly against her, partly because of

benghazi. then you'll have independents who will have to look at her comments both at the hearings afterwards and then at the paid speaking event she was attending and have to decide if it's enough of a character issue for them to vote against her or not. >> andrea, do you think there will be any democratic challenger who will bring it up or will they agree that should not be common -- >> if i were running against her, i would most certainly bring it up. it would be foolish not to. and even a step further, dana, than what you mentioned. i think she's doing this, too, because she knows republicans will bring it up, so when they do, she can not just say, like obama did with his book, oh, i addressed that in the book. she can say, you're bullying me. i said i regret this. stop bringing it up. you're unreasonable for bringing it up. she's very good at crafting things. if you look at the statements, the clintons have regretted everything, right? they have learned so much through the years, so why do they keep making the same mistakes. she said that about hillary

care. i don't think she's going to be able to message her way out of this one by simply saying i regret it only because the manner in which they died, she said, was not relevant. and if she was supposedly friends with ambassador stevens, close friends, don't you think she would have been a little less sterile when asked that question? don't you think she would have at least faked it like she did when she cried in new hampshire. she couldn't even muster that. it was just box checking to me. >> she didn't admit any faults or mistakes in this. that's the great thing about regret. >> let's deconstruct what happened. hillary clinton goes out there and says i regret, my biggest regret was benghazi over the last two years. the plan is to make us forget when she said at this point, what difference does it make? hopefully, she's thinking this is going to, like andrea points out, she learned this is where they are, stop bullying her, but the problem is she said something. she said something that's going to haunt her even with that comment. she said it's a terrible

tragedy. benghazi wasn't a tragedy. a tragedy is when a plane crashes or an earthquake happens and people die. benghazi was a terror attack. human beings saying we're going to kill you. that's murder. it's not a tragedy. if you want to use that, secretary, madam secretary, senator, knock yourself out, because you calling benghazi is a tragedy is just as bads you saying what difference does it make, in my book. >> what's going to have a bigger impact in 2016 -- benghazi or christie's bridge gate? >> neither one of them. she said she regretted it. it's time to move on. i said what i will say. >> that's it? >> why do you think she does not say she regrets blaming the video? because i think that's -- if that's what irritated people the most. >> because she can't, because -- >> that would mean admitting wrongdoing, which is something the clintons don't do. >> so weird. >> all right, then. next, a feminist mocks motherhood and marriage in a

blog post that is outraging a lot of readers on the internet. why she says women with husbands and kids are inferior to ones without. tte or au lait?

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and children. dana, the blog post that follow her post of people, especially women, are just outraged. so she says, look, she goes, i don't understand why i have to have a shower for someone who had a baby. it's not exactly hard to have a baby or get married or find a good partner. i think it's pretty hard to find a good partner, and i think partners are pretty beneficial, don't you? >> it's harder every day, if you talk to people around here, and men, too, who are looking to find a committed relationship. i'm not in to judging others for their lifestyle choices. i have a dog, in case you haven't heard. i don't know how she would feel about me with a husband and a dog, if there's an knepgz in her world for somebody like me. it does bother me she has so much time on her hands to judge other people. if she has all this energy to channel this, and you will never

have the time, energy, mobility, or freedom to be exceptional if you have a husband or kids, my guess is she's probably looking for a lot of attention and she likes those blog posts. >> she does have a history, greg, of posting pretty controversial things. she says if you have a man, you can't backpack through asia by yourself, which i guess she considers more exceptional than giving birth or other things. >> you know who backpacked through asia alone? lonely people. she's a troll, and trolls create outrage on the internet. by the way, a feminist blogger will never create anything as valuable as what a mother creates. think about it. what would you love more? a blog post about abortion or homemade potato salad? you can never be hugged by patriarchal metaphors. i think this is basically therapy on her part. >> it sounds like it. eric, she says can a woman who stays at home really consider

themselves on equal footing as a woman who goes to work. basically saying women who stay at home and manage a family aren't really working. it's pretty easy. >> it's the hardest job, by far harder than blogging, ms. glass. on the other side of the coin, men who have a wife and a child, they have no -- they can't compete with single men? or men who are married without kids? this is so -- i don't know, what's -- >> familiest. >> it's ridiculous. my question is, there's no evidence of it. some of the most successful women in the world are at the top of the corporate ladders are married with children. there's no basis for this other than some blogger's opinion, i guess. >> and she doesn't really, bob, get into women who do both. you know, she sort of leaves out these women who -- i don't know, are managing careers and managing their husbands and their families and they are super women. she just seems to think, just have a career. that's the most fulfilling. >> it's dumb.

>> you're very concise this evening. >> a man of few words. >> it's dumb. go ahead. >> all righty. >> awkward. >> how about this? do you think this is dumb? men -- you can't think this is dumb. this is good. if men want a healthy wife, according to a new poll, bob, women are saying men should go out into the work place and work more. that way they're not at home. they argue the more money they bring in makes the woman at home happy, and i guess they get out of their hair. what do you think about that? >> i think they're right. >> okay. >> i think -- yeah. i mean, i know the longer i work to stay away from my wife, the happier she was. >> is there some truth to that, eric? you work a lot of long hours. you're not able to fight as much if you're not home. you're bringing home the bacon, helping out? >> there may be something to that. there's something about, you know, you miss her more. you want to hurry up and get home.

how am i doing? >> bob, are you not buying that? >> come on. >> i think that it does point to something that greg brought up earlier, which is the joy you get from working and the feeling of accomplishing something and being productive, that makes the husband happy. it makes the wife happy, and actually work is something that helps make a marriage successful. >> i said that? >> not as well. >> i don't remember saying anything that sensiblsensible. from my experience, women who shack up with moody loafers who pretend to be artists always end up being really miserable. men like to produce things and women respect men who produce things. that's why the world works. >> yep, as much as they want men to be men and women to be women, they are. >> ahead, a big announcement from "the five" and what we'll be doing during the state of the union tonight. we want you to be a part of it. details when we come back. ♪epic classical

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so, state of the union is tonight. wide awake on the edge of your seat, and the five of us and juan will be tweeting live

during the event. the only problem is i don't know how to tweet, so they have somebody doing it for me. dana is asleep by 9:00 or 9:30, and greg will probably dunk on him anyway, and andrea will be getting back from the wine shop and she'll watch it and take notes. what are you going to do for the tweets tonight? keep it to a minimum amount of words. >> it's called fox news chat. that's the hash tag that everybody can follow. you'll see our very brilliant and insightful insights into -- >> the fox news what? >> chat. >> #foxnewschat. >> if you're not on twitter, tonight would be a great night to get on twitter. really easy to sign up. >> it's not what you think a hashtag is. you think it's something from the '60s, '70s, or '80s. >> you see the top of the screen? every time you tweet, you put #, which is the pound sign, foxn s

foxnewschat, put that at the end, and every time someone wants to see what we're talking about -- >> we're going to get lots of people coming back. once i say, you're going to say, f-you, bob, and that will be the end of it. >> you know what is great when they have group shots of people? they have us do the group shots, they never work out, so they take us all separately and put us together. those are seven different pictures. for my fox news chat, i'm going to tweet nothing but interesting facts about matthew fox, the star of "lost" and "party of five." >> will you in honor of matthew fox, a notorious nudist, be nude? >> i have no curtains in my apartment, so yes. >> i'm glad i don't live in your neighborhood. i think this is going to be the worst state of the union ever, and it's going to be hard for me to not go back and watch episodes of "the following" with kevin bacon. but i will use restraint and say

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time now for "one more thing." and andrea is kicking us off. >> this is what greg gutfield would call the perfect fox news "one more thing." hot girls, football, and the military. check out alicia quako, a member of the seahawks cheerleading squad so you'll see her on the side lines on sunday, but she also works full-time for the u.s. air force. >> mother of god. >> bob's mood just improved. if i knew showing this picture would get bob's mood to improve, i would have shown it a long time ago, like 30 minutes into the show when it took a turn. she's a hero and a cheerleader and she had to ask for permission to audition, and they said yes. >> i'm so glad she's going to be there and so sad her team is going to lose. >> that's not what the odds say. >> computers know nothing. >> time for -- >> i hate these people. >> that. all right, i don't know if you're aware of this.

there's a new documentary out about mitt romney. it's making the rounds. everybody says it's fantastic. the people who are talking the most about it are the media. that are so surprised that mitt romney is so charming, and that they suddenly love him and think, you know, he might have been a great president. he might have been a great leader, and gosh, he's so funny. screw you. where were you? you wouldn't have lifted your finger for this guy because he was running against your guy. now that the election is over and it's a year past, now you can sit there and go, oh, mitt, he was so great. oh, shut up. >> well said. i hate those people, too. >> i hate them, too. >> eric, you're next. >> while you're watching the state of the union and tweeting with us tonight, think about this guy's state of the union, one of them. watch. >> four years ago, we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. we did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.

tonight, we can take pride in 25 straight months of economic growth, the strongest in 34 years. a three-year inflation average of 3.9%. the lowest in 17 years. and 7.3 million new jobs in two years, which more of our citizens working than ever before. >> there goes bob's mood. >> that man reached across the aisle and brought america back to prominence and power. he was a real leader. >> think of the seahawks cheerleader. >> i have nothing to say. >> you're next. you're next, though. you get to go next. >> okay. a real loss. one of the great humanitarians, environmentalists, anti-war people. somebody i knew and met three or four times, pete seeger, has died. pete probably single-handedly saved the hudson river. he was a great folk singer. he will be missed enormously by anybody with a conscience.

and particularly, i hope that the people of west virginia who polluted that water would remember pete seeger and the people who are dying because of him. ♪ this land was made for you and me ♪ >> everybody. ♪ this land is your land this land is my land ♪ >> that was pete seeger and bruce springsteen singing together before barack obama's inauguration. he will be missed. >> that song will get in your head and never leave. so we'll be singing it tonight when we do the fox news chat. who do you think has the toughest job this week? anybody in football, the owners, the coaches, the referees? >> the people who clean up the stadium. >> a guy named john bateman. he's hired by the nfl as the meteorologist and he has to report every morning about the weather forecast for the game. you know, it's going to be great. it's going to be about 20 degrees warmer than today and i

think it will be fine. that's it for us. fox's special coverage of the state of the union begins at 8:55 tonight. don't forget, we'll be live tweeting throughout the speech. join us using the hashta hashtag #foxnewschat. executive action and not many new initiatives. the state of the union address shaping up to feature more confrontation than compromise. this is "special report." good evening. i'm bret baier. president of the united states desperately trying to avoid the irelevance of lame duck status will tonight take another shot at outlining his second-term ajentda and what he's willing to do to accomplish it. his critics, and there are more of them now than ever, are already charging that some of those tactics are unconstitutional. we have extensive coverage tonight of the state of the