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>> my fear is that we're going to give away the farm to iran. >> could the push for an agreement make iran an even bigger threat? and a wealthy mother accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband. and prosutors say they have tapes to prove it. >> but her lawyers insist that tape does not tell the whole story. it's all "happening now." >> but first our top story today. executive action on immigration could come this week. welcome to "happening now." i'm jon scott. >> we are awaiting a white house briefing as president obama is expected to act on his own to change the u.s. immigration's laws. we're just getting word that president obama will travel to las vegas on friday. it was the site of another major immigration speech by the president last year. here now to discuss it, the

staff writer for the weekly standard, and the national reporter for the "washington post." welcome to you both. >> hi, thank you. >> i'll start with you. there is something called an upside down pinocchio in your paper. tell us what that's all about with regard to the president. >> it is the fact checker. not a lot of people get upside down pinocchio. that is a bold faced lie. what he gave the president that for was saying that he never said that he wouldn't do an executive action. in fact, he had said that numerous times over the last several years. he's made comments like i'm not a king, i'm not an emperor. i can't go that far. now obviously he is planning to go that far probably tomorrow. >> we'll see exactly what he has planned. bottom line, it will be some kind of legal status for millions who came here illegally or here now illegally. so i want to refer to a

statement from house speaker john boehner's spokesman. this is what he said about what he thinks will happen. if emperor obama ignores the american people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his constitutional authority, he will september his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for congressional action on this issue and many others. michael, what do you make of that? there are a lot of folks who think the president is baiting the gop. if they come back against some kind of immigration change, they're going to isolate and abandon their attempts to reach the latino voting block. >> well, yeah. those are fighting words from michael steele, the boehner spokesman. and i talked to michael earlier today. emthat they still haven't come up with a way quite yet to address what the president is planning on doing but they will fight and speaker boehner has said that. i think it poisons the well in a lot of ways. not just on immigration but

really on everything domestic policywise for the next two years. let's remember exactly what it is that we expect to see from the president on this. this is wide reaching. this isn't something that tinkers with the law or maybe it changes a small thing the way the president might execute the law. it basically writes new law. something didn't pass congress. i think this really causes a problem but also possibly splitting republicans in congress because they're not all in agreement about what exactly to do about it. >> yet we have article one and two of the constitution who have that spells out who has what power. legislative to congress. executive enforcement of the laws and defense of the constitution by the president, and there are a lot of folks who are arguing that he as a one-time constitutional law instructor, and it is something that is talked about numerous times, knows better. did the "washington post," my colleagues, they did a long story on monday about the legal

challenges that this presents. and they categorized it as murky uncharted territory. the white house and their legal counsel has looked this over. they say this is within the confines of the law. that they are able to do this. what they are doing is not so much giving anyone legal status. they're just prioritizing some deportations over others. so we'll see what people think when the president comes out with his announcement tomorrow. >> this has ramifications. there are immigration agents who sued the administration over the saying they're being forced to violate their oath to upheld to constitution and defend the laws of this country. if the president is saying you come across someone, they're an illegal immigrant, you have to let them go. you can't report them, turn them in or detain them at all. when you discuss that with the average american on the street, they have a problem with that. when you talk about this issue of deporting 11, 12 million, 20

million people, they think that sounds like nonsense. where do republicans find a sweet spot, can they? >> this is age old question. what to do about immigration. there's no easy answer here. i think that the murkiness of what we're about to see from president obama also gives us all these questions about what exactly to do to address this very specific issue of the constitutional question. can president obama change law by himself? and i think that's where you're seeing the republicans divided. some are saying target the funding. others say we don't want a shutdown. they'll go through courts. so before they can even, republicans can even sort out what to do about the immigration system as a hole, they haven't figured out what to do about addressing this particular executive action. and i think that that shows you just how fractious the republican coalition is on this issue of immigration. there are no easy answers. for their sake, it would be

good to be united on one particular strategy. whether it is taking hold of the funding or at least the public messaging. michael and cold by, great to see you both today. we'll stand by and see what the president has in store. >> also, republicans are looking ahead after the keystone pipeline failed to pass by just one vote. lawmakers vow they will take it up again next year when the republican controlled senate is sworn in. part of the pipeline is already finished. the southern leg opened earlier this year carrying froil oklahoma to the gulf coast. >> with all of this noise in washington over the keystone xl pipeline, a lot of people do forget what you were talking about. about 40% of the project is already complete and it is up and running. let's show you that map to put this into perspective. you have a 300 or so mile stretch that runs between steel

city, nebraska, and cushing, oklahoma. then you have the 435 mile line that was put down near the gulf. what was voted down yesterday, the blue line that you'll see added there. that blue line would connect alberta, canada to the 00 in steele city. oil has been flowing there for nearly a year without incident and folks in oklahoma can't understand why lawmakers did not pass this last night. many have been huge advocates of the pipeline because they say it was a big boost to their local economy. something other cities could benefit from. in fact, some feel keystone saved their small town. >> we are dependent in this community on the oil and gas industry and without it, we have no jobs, we have no businesses. the community in my opinion would be gone. >> but many environmentalists and land owners have been critical of the pipeline, as you

know. especially after other older lines have leaked or ruptured in some places, like an incident in michigan, not related to trans canada. >> 20 months after that spill they haven't cleaned up the river where it occurred. there has been $700 million and they have a long stretch of river that is off limits to the public. >> there are already about 2.6 million miles of gas and oil lines running, chris crossing the united states. >> reporting live from dallas. thank you. an intense hearing on capitol hill today after a series of embarrassing security lapses by the secret service, including this incident in september when a man was able to jump the fence and get all the way into the east room of the white house. the interim director of the agency admitting mistakes were made but lawmakers want answers, not apologies.

live from capitol hill, good afternoon, mike. >> reporter: thank you. after the bank potentially dire consequences of lowered morale and operational security at secret service, today house judiciary chairman sounded this alarm. >> recent incidents give never great concern that the policies are not entirely up to the task. >> reporter: there has been some focus a september 19th fence jumper incident when the army vet omar gonzalez made it through multiple rings of security deep inside the white house. one lawmaker grilled the director on consequences for secret service person heel downplayed the breach and misled the public. >> we've got to do a. better job of communicating within the internal. >> i want to know if there is any consequence. did anybody face disciplinary action? you have a major morale problem and this is why can. >> reporter: let's take live look at the white house.

others reminded clangsy that the secret service cannot make mistake protecting the president, the first lady and the white house. and one democrat floated the idea of making serious changes around the white house in the name of security. >> what a moat, water, six feet around be climbed of attractive and effective? >> it may be. one of the things we balance is obviously the accessibility of the white house. we recognize the historic nature of the white house and how the american people should have access to the white house. >> reporter: and back to that september 19th incident, joe clancy called the findings of the internal review that led to it devastating. >> live on capitol hill. thank you so much. >> reporter: thank you.

a fox news alert. the expectation has been that it would come and now it is official. the white house is going to announce executive action by president obama on immigration during a prime time address tomorrow night. he calls it common sense steps to fix the nation's immigration system. many republican there's call it an abuse of his authority. the battle begins apparently tomorrow night. a prime time address from the white house after which the president will fly to nevada to announce much the same thing. we'll keep you updated on what we learn about what the president intends to announce. in the meantime, israel is in mourning after a massacre in a place of prayer. five people murdered, including three americans, killed by palestinian terrorists inside a jerusalem synagogue. but it is a scene of celebration for some palestinians. even as israel's prime minister promises swift retaliation.

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it is official. we've been wondering about the timing and we still wonder about the content but president obama is set to announce executive action on immigration. there will be a prime time address, we understand, probably 8:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow night on thursday. the white house saying it is time to fix our broken immigration system and saying the president will address the nation with quote, common sense steps that he will take as much as he can. in the past he said there were limits on what he could do with immigration. that he is not an emperorconnec0

>> we appreciate the community in israel that are partners. we fresh sacrifice they've made in protecting and defending israel. what we have to see, john, is we have to see a change within palestinian society. this culture of hatred and incitement and violence has to

end. what you saw, the things that you saw dancing innocent street. which happened after 9/11. the same palestinians dancing in the streets today when jews were savagely murdered in the synagogue were dancing after 9/11 when 3,000 americans lay dead. the whole world, the whole civilized world has to stand together with israel and send a very clear message that these things are unacceptable. the civilized world will not accept your claims, will not listen to your grievances until you take a clear stand against terrorism and against evil. >> this is a people that professes to want its own state. there is a movement afoot in the united nations to declare some kind of unilateral palestinian state. if this is the kind of behavior that you're getting from palestinians, i mean, what does that say about the state of the world and its view toward these kinds. acts? >> well, you know, the spanish parliament met today and they voted to recognize a palestinian

state. instead of spanning together as the spanish parliament and standing in solidarity with israel and condemning this act, they just said to president abbas, the leader of the palestinians, here's your state on a silver platter. you can sit with a bunch of terrorists. you can incite violence against israel and we'll give you a state. what message does that send to the palestinians? that they don't have to do anything. they can continue down the path of terrorism and be given a state. the only way they should be given a state is in the context of a peace treaty with israel. israel will oppose any effort to give them a state. it is the wrong thing to do. it sets back peace. the palestinians have tonlds the path toward peace is in negotiations with israel where there are mutual compromises. that's the only way we'll be able to move this forward. what just happened in the spanish parliament, what the europeans are doing, is setting the cause of peace back. >> ambassador ron dermer, ambassador to the united states,

thank you for coming on today. all right. we've officially gotten word that tomorrow night the president will address in prime time some executive orders on immigration. coming up, we'll have reaction from the gom side of that. [ breathing deeply ]

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the corner. that's why we turn to our meteorologist live in the fox extreme weather center to fill us in. >> a couple more storms but a lot more snow to be had. the temps very cold. cold enough across the great lakes to get lake effect snow. this latest radar image over the last 36 hours, this really gives you an idea of what lake effect snow is. you see on the western side of the lakes, nothing is really happening. it is the eastern side where you have the winds move across and then on the eastern sides of each of those you end up with the very heavy snow. and this has been the one very persistent band that has brought us all that heavy snow. to the south of buffalo right to the south of buffalo. you can see it just very consistent there. and now over the last few hours, this has drifted and lifted up toward the north. the snow has had a little bit of a break. that's all about to change because we have another storm that will move in. water temperatures are still relatively warm compared to the air temperature.

that's all you need. this is the next little system that will move through. as we take a look at the future radar, we'll be fine until overnight we start to see this set up again. so tomorrow we think areas may be up to about another two feet of snow before this one is done. got to tell you this weekend, much warmer air moves in. we could be looking at significant flooding as this snow begins to melt all too quickly. >> thank you very much for the jump date. the weather blamed for dramatic incidents cute a dash cam in wisconsin. an officer pulling over to hem two drivers on the side of the highway but watch this. he got slammed by an out of control suv. great news. nobody was seriously hurt. the release of the video is to remind motorists to steer clear of emergency vehicles this winter. >> negotiators from the world's biggest powers are trying to hash out a deal with iran over the nuclear program. the deadline to come up with something is monday. will they make it?

our next guest writes in the boston herald, while there is likely to be another extension to the deadline, that's probably better than trying to bridge the current gap that's might hurt the united states, its allies and friends. plus, time is probably on iran's side. but with tehran in its difficult position, washington should hang tough in its nuclear negotiations, resisting the tantalizing american temptation to, quote, close the deal. peter brooks is the senior fellow and former deputy assistant secretary of defense. your fear, peter, is that the united states is going to want to make some kind of a deal, any deal. and therefore, come to a bad deal with the iranians. >> that's exactly right. john kerry is in europe. the secretary of state is expected to be in vienna this weekend. and as you can imagine, you know, the iranians are playing hard to get.

and if you want it bad, you're going to get it bad. i think they're betting the americans will cave in on our interests and sign a deal that will allow iran to move forward in some way or have the capability in some way to break out at some point and pursue, continue to pursue nuclear weapons. >> the deal under considerations allows the iranians to continue to maintain at least some parts of a nuclear weapons program. a program that they say they don't have and the world thinks they don't need. >> well, that's exactly right. what they, what we were talking about doing is iran says we have the right. and the obama administration is kind of agreed to this. unfortunately, that they have a right to enrich uranium. what they want to do is keep that ability. the americans are betting that they will have enough time or enough strategic warning that they will be able to at least a year, that they will be able to

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proebl says the time has come for him to take executive action on immigration. no time to wait for congress. he says it is time to move forward. hello. >> all week the white house has been building the case for why the president needs to go it alone and in their words, solve the immigration problem, at least try to help solve the crisis with some type of executive order. we've heard from the republicans who say doing so through executive action would poison the well. it would be very strong rhetoric from the republicans warning the

white house not to do it. they seem undeterred. and there has been a lot of discussion over the past day or so about how this rollout was going to go. and it started, at least on, facebook. >> hi, everybody. tomorrow night i'll be announcing from here, the white house some steps to start taking to fix our broken immigration system. then on friday i'll be traveling to del sol high school in las vegas where two years ago i laid out the prings for comprehensive immigration reform. everybody agrees that our immigration system is broken. unfortunately, washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long. so what i'm going to be laying out is the things that i can do with my lawful authority as president, to make the system work better even as i continue to work with congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan come pre helncive bil that can help solve the problem.

so i'll be here from the white house and then del sol high school, i will see you on friday. thanks, everybody. >> in the way we've heard over the past week, some of the details trickle out here. last week, fox was one of the first reports, what was going to be in this executive order. possibly expanded visas for the high-tech sector. also more money for border security. something that the republicans actually agree on. helping to secure the border. and then the big issue is what a lot of folks call amnesty for four, five, programs even 6 million immigrants in the united states. something the president will announce and the republicans will not be him a with. >> that's almost a certain guarantee. more on that coming up. as we mentioned a moment ago, talks are underway to make a deal with iran over the nuclear program. global leaders fear iran's energy program could turn into a

weapons program. the deadline for a deal is monday. does it really matter? a new report says iran will be a threat, deal or no deal. here's the author of that report. matthew, the nonresident senior fellow, author of time to attack the looming iranian nuclear threat. a lot of disagreement would seem to require that the united states and the rest world trust the iranians. are they trust worthy? >> well, i don't think they're trust worthy. even if they are, what i pounlt out, even if we did a deal and even if iraq doesn't build nuclear weapons, it will have this threshold nuclear ability. that will pose all kinds of challenges for global nonproliferation efforts, regional security and democracy and human rights in iran. so what i tried to do in the report was lay out in policy recommendations for how we can deal with those challenges. even if we get a come pre henlsive deal. >> with relax some of the

sanctions on iran as the talks got underway. did that prove to be useful, do you think? >> it was necessary to do that last year but it complicated our ability to get a comprehensive deal. the iranians aren't willing to make the necessary concessions. as your previous guest a couple minutes ago mentioned, to get a deal by the 24th, it will require the united states to make major concessions which i don't think we're willing to do so i think likely we won't get a deal by monday and the negotiations will be extended. >> how anxious is this administration to do a deal? would they take a bad deal over a good one? >> well, they would very much like to get a deal. ben rhodes, the national security adviser, told a group of supporters that this would be like health care for us. which he meant to be a good thing. which he suggested would be a major political achievement. so i think they are very much

want a deal. but i don't think they're willing to make the kind of concessions they would make to get a deal by monday to allow iran to really just be a couple of months away from a nuclear weapons capability. that's not a deal that this administration wants, or that they could sell to the american people. >> we talk about their nuclear weapons capability. they are also working feverishly, so would it seem original bliss missile technology them might soon not only have the womenry but also the ability to deliver it. >> right. according to a pentagon report, they could have a bliss missile capable of reaching the united states by as early as next year. so that among other things really calls into question iran's claims. there is no question on earth, not even the united states that puts conventional warheads on these intercontinental ballistic missiles. so it raises the question why it is building them. >> we'll see what happenses by

this monday. thank you for coming on. >> don't forget, tomorrow night 8:00 eastern. the president has announced he will announce his fixes for our broken immigration system. via executive action. we'll talk about it next.

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coming up today, president obama will announce his immigration executive action tomorrow night during prime time. as the white house reporter asks if the move means president obama is now emperor obama. and we'll talk to a truck driver in buffalo still stranded for more than a day now in all that snow on the throughway. how is he surviving? plus, a major airbag recall we told you about a few weeks ago, now being demanded by the feds for your safety. do you have one of the cars affected? find out. top of the hour. president obama, we have been told, is going to announce

executive action on immigration during a prime time address tomorrow. 8:00 p.m. from the white house. a special report anchor joins to us talk about. this this is what republicans have been fearing and perhaps predicting all along. if the president has the courage of his convictions on this issue, why did he wait until after the election to make this move? >> well, i think politically it was not feasible for some of the red state democrats, some of the democrats running in states that mitt romney won in 2012, and he was being asked by those people running not to do this until after the election. and you had even the homeland security secretary saying this was a political decision on timing. now, it turns out, that even delaying that decision until after the election did not help a lot of those red state democrats who are not coming back to the next congress. i think it is going to be interesting to see, john, what

the republican response to this is. i am not sure that there is a consensus at all about what the next move will be once this executive action is announced tomorrow night by the president. >> the republican party is up two minds on this issue. there are some who say that those illegal immigrants here now, that there is no way to deport them. that they ought to be allowed to say. stay. the argument, i suppose, is over the best way to go about handling those that aren't here. >> yeah. and i think the republicans want to show their political strength them want to slow their ability to get things done. there will be this temptation to push back against had on a constitutional ground on, a funding ground to make it so it can't be funded. but you run the risk of doing something that potentially affects the funding of the federal government.

i think that's what republican leaders are trying to deal with now. figuring out the way forward. one of the ideas is this recision idea which was, which would mean when you get to the new year, you pass a funding bill takes out all the money or anything tied to this executive action. you're still going head to when he had the president in that sense. >> they're still talking about doing a very short term continuing resolution on the budget side. and not giving, not doing a full year budget, right? >> right. that's the thought now. there's this spending bill would be passed. but more than likely it is another continuing resolution which is short term and gets you into the next congress. i think there will be a lot of fallout. i think the biggest challenge would likely be a legal challenge on the constitutionality of the action.

you have to have an aggrieved party who files. who would that be? probably congress. >> this is the same president who, you know, as a senator, condemned the executive actions that president george w. bush took time and time again. but now that he's president, i guess world looks a little different. >> sure. those cliffs are pretty devastating when you look at how many times he talked about how he couldn't do when he is getting ready to do. the white house says the dynamic changed after the senate passed the come pre henlsive bill and it sat there and the house did not act on it. they stay president is pushing for action. that if the house passes the senate bill or they move forward on some piece of legislation, that the executive action that he's going to announce would be torn up and thrown aside. whether that happens is really a long shot. >> there is thinking, maybe call it cynical.

but there is the thinking that the president is sort of daring republicans to take him on over this issue. that he wants the blowback to be so fierce that the republican brand is damaged or programs the democrat brand is enhanced for the 2016 white house campaign. what do you think about that? >> that is a thinking that is circulating a lot here in washington. and setting a tram for republicans. and you're going to have leadership making that case. that's exactly what is happening here. but for the leaders, speaker boehner and now mitch mcconnell, to be able to therd coots this issue is going to be pretty tough when it is this explosive, obviously, this emotional of an issue. >> i can't wait to see what your panel has to say about all this. >> the anchor of special report. 6:00 p.m. this evening and every evening on fox news channel. thanks. so how do members of the gop

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the president says he is going to move forward on his own with regard to immigration. let's see how the gop feels about that. republican senator orrin hatch of utah joining us now live from capitol hill. all right, senator. your reaction? the president says washington can't get it done, so he is going to have to. >> the senate did pass an immigration bill. the house is committed to doing it, and the way to do it is to have the senate pass its bill. the house pass its go to

conference, and then work out the difficulties between the two of us. i think it's a real manages take for the president to unilaterally do this by executive order, and i'm want sure he has the power to do it by executive order other than he seems to ignore that particular legal distinction. >> well, and he has said himself in the past that what he has been asked to do by advocates in the area of immigration is not something he legally could defend or could do, so if he does move forward, what will the gop do? will you get any support from democrats? it is their power as members of congress, duly elected by the people that are also being userped. >> it will be toxic because people won't appreciate that on either side, as far as i'm concerned. look, if you want to have a lasting impact that works in immigration, it has to be done through the proper channels, and that means congress. a

admittedly congress has been dragging its feet and has been slow on this. the house is ready to act, and i think we ought to give them the chance to do it. it's the right way to do it. it's the legal way to do it. it's the constitutional way to do it, and the president by acting unilaterally acts like he is all three of those all wrapped up into one. he is the constitution, he is the judiciary, he is the executive, and that's not the way the constitution operates, but, you know, this president seems to think he can do whatever he wants to do and we'll just have to see what happens. >> all right. so if you view, as many people do, including those who were his supporters. i think of professor jonathan turley, a legal specialist who has been vocal about this doesn't just impact this presidency. this bridges a whole new sphere of executive power by this president moving forward the way he is, but what's to stop him? what will you do when the gop takes control of both houses come january? will you stop him with funded sng will there be another lawsuit?

what tools do you have, and is the gop united in a strategy? >> we'll have to see, but the executive order is only as good as the presidency, even if it's illegal, had this one i think would be. you know, if you want a lasting impact, we've got to do it the right way. we've got to do it through congress. i'm dedicated to doing that. i think most people are in both bodies. they just want -- they may have differences that have to be ironed out, but that's what -- that's why you do it through congress so you can iron out the differences. these are the folks -- the 535 of us are the folks that represent the people out there. the president has certain rights, but doesn't have the right to legislate from the oval office, and in this particular case seems to me he is way over extending himself. if you really want something that's going to last and be worthwhile and that the american people accept and that we can all get behind, it's got to go through the proper channels in congress. and not be just an executive order off the top of the head of

the president. >> very quickly before we get cut off, senator, is the president trying to bait you? >> he has done that before. on the other hand, i think we've caught him a few times, but i don't fully understand why this president doesn't wake up and come up and work with us. we're willing to work with him. we're willing to try and work together in the best interest of this country. he just unilaterally acts all the time. even the dmsz are complaining, and let's just be honest about it. they're not happy with this president either, but i would like to see him work with us and let's see what we can get done in ab appropriate constitutionally sound way that will be lasting and will help people rather than hurt them in the end. >> well, as you have, i've heard complaints from democrats on the hill as well saying they don't even get to sit down with him. thank you for making time for us on such short notice. we'll all be watching tomorrow night to see what comes next. thank you, sir. >> nice to be with you. so fox will bring you the latest on the president's

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