active with boost. we're now on some of this video in the after the show show. we'll see you back here tomorrow >> we continue breaking news coveraged. gunman on the loose if paris. at least a dozen are dead when masked men armed with automatic weapons storm a satirical newspaper that published cartoons of the prophet mohammed. this is part of eyewitness records we've seen sew far here. [gunfire] david: i'm bill. bill: he calls it a terror attack without a doubt.

good morning, everybody i'm bill hemmer. breaking news live in "america's newsroom." >> i'm martha maccallum. we know the gunman burst into the "charlie hebdo" offices in the hard of the city. the gun men shouting "allahu akbar!" as they shot up and down two floors of the building. here is some of the damage from the windows. reports are as they went through the offices of the newspaper they were calling for specific names of individuals and turning their guns on them. bill: they made escape firing at police outside. stealing a fet away car. people in the streets watching as scenes like this unfolding. we warn you some of these images are graphic. [gunfire]

bill: that image was taking one final shot at a wounded victim, showing how savage the attack was noon local time, making their escape to the outskirts of the city. there is manhunt underway in one of the more iconic cities in the we have the latest from the reporter on the scene. catherine, what is the latest. >> reporter: forensic and police are gathering whatever evidence they can. we have meeting with two members about paris's islamic community said this is an attack on all people. they distanced themselves from these attackers. they said these are not part of us they said. the other news we have, 10 journalists killed and two policemen. among those 10 journalists were four of perhaps's leading

political caricaturists. this is real attack on freedom of the press and an attack on france itself which is what the french president said. also at this time the french president is chairing a meeting at the french presidential palace and he has said in about five hours time he will address the nation. bill: catherine, there is report that this newspaper had police protection. then the report perhaps the protection had been backed off in the last couple of weeks. what can we say about that now? >> reporter: with we can say now that was the theory, that the perhaps this attack was deliberately timed after the holiday period. let's not forget during the christmas-new year period, france had a serious alert. this is thought that when an attack could come. that is where the report came from. that perhaps one that christmas-new year's period was

gone the guards may have been lessened slightly. bill: catherine eyewitnesses said they screamed "allahu akbar!" when they opened fire. they screamed we're avenging the prophet. what more do you have on that? >> reporter: that is indeed the same reports we're getting. that "charlie hebdo" is a weekly magazine that is constantly poked the prophet muhammad. in 2012 they publish ad cartoon of a naked prophet muhammad. in 2011 they publish ad cartoon with the prophet muhammad with a bomb on his head. the offices were firebombed after that. they followed the law here in france that said they can publish these cartoons, despite fact particularly in 201012, the french foreign ministry said please do not publish cartoons of the naked prophet muhammad.

bill: catherine what do you expect from the french government and french president? >> reporter: main thing is track being down the four attackers. they're still loose in the paris area. we have airports railway stations and schools major shopping centers under police and military protection catherine, to be clear you said four gunman, not two. has that number changed? >> reporter: what the police were saying two possibly three entered the building. there was another one waiting outside in the car. that car sped off from the scene. it crashed. they grabbed another car. police are saying that there are four attack somewhere in the greater paris or indeed in central paris area. bill: catherine field. thank you. we'll come back to you a little bit later today. thank you for the latest from paris. martha has more back here at home. martha: learning about this story as much as we can this morning. we know this paper was already under police surveillance

because of cartoons they published of the prophet muhammad. it was firebombed for those cartoons back in 2011. is also faced protests in 2007 after depict muhammad crying with the tag line, hard to be loved by idiots. we heard reporters talking about different instances garner attracted a lot of tension from this paper in the past. they first had trouble from reprinting that well-known danish cartoon that depicted the prophet back in tuition. that incident -- 2006. that incident caused massive riots around the world and brought out by name specifically by al qaeda that something raised their ire in all of this. let's bring in walid phares, our fox news middle eastern terrorism analyst. walid, obviously a tragic, sad morning playing out in paris. these gunmen are very much at large which is a main concern we have here at this moment. what is your reaction to all of this walid? >> first of all by reviewing the videos, i'm sure our

government, other governments the french government others are looking to the details. this is a military-style executed operation. two were engaged. the other would protect the way they got back to the car. strict military expert will tell you this is strict military unit. if you compare to this al qaeda and isis conduct operations in iraq and syria, this is almost the same. that makes me very, very concerned, that france is meeting operational cells inside. doesn't matter if it is others. what matters for french national security and for western national security is the possibility that these people have been trained in iraq, in syria and back home or even in france by people that have returned from these battlefields. martha: this is exactly the scenario that we have all talked about for a very long time. when you think about what happened in australia it appeared to be more of a lone wolf who was clearly inspired by

islamic extremism to carry out at that attack. if you look at the london bombings in subways in london, local people who were clearly inspired by islamic radicalism but you bring up a very salient point because we know that there are european passport carriers who have been training in syria training in iraq with isis, with isil and do you believe that this is what we're seeing play out here? >> martha, just from observation, you don't have to be a real expert, you realize by comparison what we have seen what we're seeing now in the footage is execution of a military operation. look at even the way they hold their guns. this is a military-trained individual. if you play it slow motion you will see that. and now of course we can see the difference between a lone wolf who is executing a very non-sophisticated attack against individuals in australia, in canada in the united states, we have everything here. even an individual military inside of a base like fort hood

he is on his own. this is martha, something new. this is military units executing an attack against a very specific target which is a newsroom. forget that this is "charlie hebdo." this is newsroom being attacked by military unit by jihad its. that's what counts today. martha: you have to wonder what happens next, walid? if we can play into the tape showing them get back into the vehicle because they're very calm as they walk back into that vehicle and get back into that car. this is from the earlier part of all of this and horrible execution happened on the street. we know there was police protection at play here. what do you think is next? given what we now about how these groups operate, do you believe they would be done for today and gone into hiding or they may have something else on their plate? >> i could not answer this question but of course i project based on what happened before, mumbai is a case. remember when they attacked in india. the same cell kept attacking,

attacking. but it is new and they were done. in this case if they are not apprehended immediately it will be difficult. there will be intelligence bit french and they may apprehend them and they may not. my concern goes beyond. that if this is a cell of four or five, we don't know how many exactly, that executed this horrific attack, how many other cells? you know why i'm asking the question because in 2005 there were hundreds of, actually thousands of militants on the streets of paris and 80 other french cities and villages and town burning 10,000 cars. at the time, on our channel i said, if this exists now, in years from now they may be using guns, not in 2005 but here comes 2015, 10 years later. they use guns. martha: great point unfortunately. well-made. walid, great to have you here today. bill: we need to get a lot more more on this report of three or four gun men loose in paris.

the point he makes about the training these men have had it is clear from the video that the point farris makes on that they had experience and knew what they were doing. more on that. martha: this is exactly what they promised they would do. the call was to carry out attacks in other places, in western interests, in europe, in the united states. media organizations were on those hit lists. so this is a very clear exercise exactly what they were told to do. bill: back to paris in a moment. white house already saying it will veto some of the first bills that come out of congress. charles krauthamer saying you are seeing the president as never before but he predicted. >> the guy is an leashed. he is in the fourth quarter. he is never running again. the reason he is doing x y and z, not because he needs the greens or he is working his way to the left or to the right. bill: white house press secretary josh earnest on that in a moment. he is live next. >> plus we will get his take on what is going on in paris as a

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martha: we're back with breaking news on the active manhunt for terrorist who is stormed into a newspaper office this morning and killed at least 12 people in paris. [shouting]

[gunfire] martha: one of the angles we got this morning. those people terrified on the rooftop of that building as they looked down the alley at shooters down there with masked men with guns on the street. officials say 12 people killed in the attack. it's a satirical newspaper "charlie hebdo." it is a weekly. the newspaper previously drawn criticism from muslims for its cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad. bill: we have white house press secretary josh earnest. thanks for coming here. >> good morning, bill. bill: officers to the president of france, what is the president saying about this josh? >> this is act of terror we condemn in the strongest possible terms. the thoughts and prayers of the president, and the first lady and everybody here at the white house is with the families of those killed or injured in this attack. right now is a moment where we stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies over in france as

they face down these this terrible act of violence. bill: just 30 minutes ago he called it a terrible act of violence as you just mentioned there. and now you call it terror. what changed in 30 minutes josh? >> well you know, bill this is still something we're looking into. i know the french president has called this an act of terror. it does seem to be exactly what this is. and again this is an act of violence against innocent civilians. and this is newspaper that has been tar petted in the past and -- targeted in the past. we're still waiting to see actually who is responsible for this what the motivation may have been. if it is what it seems to be, this isn't just an attack on innocent civilians this seems to be an attack on some basic universal human values, human rights, freedom of the press freedom of expression, free speech. these are values we hold dear in this country. these are values our allies over in france hold dear and we have already had top national security officials here at the white house in touch with our

counterparts over in france and we are going to be in regular touch with then days ahead and work with them to offer any necessary assistance to help them conduct this investigation and bring to justice those who committed this terrible act. bill: as you rightly point out the french president called this a terrorist attack without a doubt. last you called them perpetrators. i'm trying to figure out why the it changed. did you get information are you characterizing in a different way, josh? what is it? >> we had this event occurred a couple hours ago. we're still learning details exactly what happened. but what is clear this is an act much violence an act of terrorism we condemn in the strongest possible terms and we're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies in france. these are allies who have been stalwart in our international coalition this president has built to take the fight to isil, to degrade and ultimately destroy them. we're not exactly sure who is responsible nor this this is

something we're looking into and look to the french to figure it out. bill: there are experience, josh, look at video of these were men who were out to kill and kill as many many as they possibly could. has president obama spoken with the french president? >> i don't have any presidential level phone calls to read out but i'm confident that you know that the president speaks regularly with his french counterpart. we already had top national security officials in this administration in frequent touch with their counterparts over in france. so we'll be sure to let everybody know when the president has spoken with president hollande. bill: i want to make a awkward turn here, josh. at home congress changed in last 24 hours, on day one high noon yesterday two veto threats were issued from you and the president. at the same time the president said he wants to figure out a way to work with the new congress how do you figure out anything when the baffle dropped on day one with two veto threats out of the white house? >> bill, the two pieces of legislation republicans in

congress decided to move first are two pieces of legislation that the president already indicated he is strongly opposed to. i recognize in your mind that may raise questions about the president's willingness to work with republicans. raises questions about the republicans willingness to work with the president. but i will tell you we'll have differences of opinion with republican leaders in congress about some priorities. what we can't do however is allow a difference of opinion over one or two issues become an obstacle to finding common ground on earth issues we may have agreement. bill: i understand. two veto threats in one hour. what do you expect to get in return for that? >> what we expect, bill, we expect republicans to find common ground with the president on some shared values and whether that is opening up markets overseas markets to american businesses or trying to reform our tax code and make it more fair and simpler there may be opportunity for us to try to cooperate on some issues and actually make progress for the american people. bill: on keystone, more than 2/3 of americans polled support it.

68% from our polling four weeks ago. it's a bipartisan bill. for whom is the president speaking on this when he says he will turn it down? >> bill, what the president says we should actually have, that we already have, in place a well-established process one that predates this administration for evaluating infrastructure projects that span international borders like the keystone pipeline. so i don't understand why congress weighed into a process that already ongoing where we are able to separate politics from this equation and focus on the merits of the project. we can evaluate what impact it would have on economy and impact on gas price and what impact on carbon pollutions that is the way we determine whether or not this project will move forward. bill: a debate that will move forward. i appreciate your time. is a statement from the president came out moments ago saying they're in touch with french officials in paris. we'll follow that throughout the morning. josh we'll speak again. >> sounds good, bill. bill: martha, quirky. martha: more breaking news on this huge and ongoing story of a

terrorism attack on the streets of paris. we'll to to catherine herridge, around we will bring in our terrorism reporter moments away from washington. stay with us.

martha: we are back in the middle of breaking news coverage here at fox and an ongoing manhunt in the streets of paris after gunmen stormed a newspaper that printed cartoons of the prophet muhammad. reports are that the gunmen went from floor to floor in systemic way. they were wearing black masks and matching uniforms as they stormed into this building and they went after according to these reports after specific people in the building. the editor of the magazine and lead cartoonist reportedly were killed in this attack. let's bring in chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in washington with more on this

catherine, first off what do we know at this point? >> reporter: martha, u.s. intelligence and counterterrorism officials are deeply engaged on the paris shooting this morning and based on conversation what is has their attention is this level of preplanning and premeditation the attack appears to exhibit involving multiple assailants with the eyewitness accounts that the gunmen asked for individuals by name as they storm the that office building n at digs the assailants showed killed and ruthlessness with their targeting. think of video of that wounded french police officer being executed, shot in the head at point-blank range as he lay in the street. in addition the fact that the gunmen were able to extract themselves again shows premeditation and advanced reconnaissance of the site, martha. martha: yeah. in terms of u.s. involvement you know, at what level is that? we spoke to josh earnest moments ago. he was not 100% that the president had spoken to the french president but what do we know what the involvement is? >> reporter: u.s. investigators

will get involved but it has to come after requests from the french government and based on the conversation i had in the last hour that had not happened at this early point. basically what i've been told based on my contacts is that there are two buckets of suspects based on the preliminary information. the homegrown self-radicalized individual or those who traveled to syria and gained training from al qaeda or isis. france has a significant foreign fighter problem with more than a thousand of its nationals traveling to the region. the priority this morning for the u.s. counterterrorism community is identifying these suspects and fox is told they're actively reviewing the databases of known terrorist suspects and those who trailed to syria and part of that analysis will rely on the television footage the cctv footage physical evidence from the crime scene as well as dna in addition to identifying the suspects, the focus is determining, you mentioned this earlier, whether this is an

isolated incident or part of a series of attacks martha. martha: you look at the recent attacks in australia in the coffee shop and at the canadian parliament while someone at work doing security and what parallels do we see, what parallels are not there catherine? >> reporter: these are very starkly different episodes. if we look at australia and we look at canada, they fit the classic template of a lone wolf attack, a single individual who was self-radicalized and these are the hardest plans to infiltrate because there is just a single suspect. this case in france this morning, based on reporting of at least four individuals, three shooters and then someone who was driving the car this tells you that this was a small cell. this by its very nature is more highly organized and a cell has to work very closely and

discretely because the likelihood that information could be picked up because of the communication between the cell members is higher so it is more likely to be thwarted. so again what we saw in france is small cell. what we saw in australia and canada, those are the classic profile of a lone wolf, self-radicalized attack. martha: as you point out this is so unsettling because they're still out there. catherine, thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome martha. bill: breaking details all morning here on fox. we'll speak to a member of the homeland security committee. on the senate floor also mitch mcconnell will speak any moment now. we're on all of it next. [ male announcer ] take zzzquil and sleep like... the kids went to nana's house... for the whole

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expect comments, his first address in the chambers. he referred to this yesterday with brief remarks but would have a longer prepared statement. we're awaiting also to hear something that might pertain to what we're watching play out in paris, france. at least three gunmen on the loose after this horrific murder and shooting and terrorist attack inside the satirical newspaper. it happened right at 12 noon paris time. 10 people at the paper dead. two police officers shot and kid in the street. as the comments come out from the new senate majority leader we'll take you there. meantime here is martha. martha: mitch mcconnell. as we've been talking about all morning three masked gunmen still on the loose after storming a paris newspaper office and opening fire. at least 12 people are killed in the most horrific terrorism attack that france has seen in more than 20 years. it could rise, that number. there wereer people confirmed to have been injured in the attack.

we have a massive manhunt underway because people who did this got away. we watched them escape in a getaway car in a very well-orchestrated moment. watch. [gunfire] [shouting] martha: horrible. that is the moment when a police officer was executed after he had fallen down, being wounded on the sidewalk. i mean it is just horrific to watch these images play out. the white house condemned the attack. but last time the obama administration said anything about terrorism was december 19th before they discussed it this morning. that is when the state department issued a travel warning to americans going overseas for the holidays. we asked this question about what we know about the threat that exists today, to our country, in light of all of this? joined by ohio republican senator rob portman who is on the homeland security committee as well. senator, good morning.

good to have you with us today. >> good morning martha. martha: this is very rough news coming out of our ally and it's a terrifying scene as we watch the play out and as we say the gunmen are still on the loose. what is your reaction this morning, senator. >> it is a chilling scene and it remind us this fight continues against radical islam and we need to redouble efforts hire at home. but at the moment we need to stand with our ally france. as you know, martha, france has been active with us in fighting terrorism. specifically they provided heir sport with regard to the fight against isis. refueling capacity. they have stood with us and with other members about allied group fighting terrorism. we need to stand with them. our hearts and prayers go out to the family. martha: senator, we want to go back to the senate majority leader and listen to him for a moment and we'll come book to you. >> we're in a moment of great anxiety with the nation. the people we represent have lost faith in their government, they no longer trust washington

to do the right thing. many face the reality of losing health plans after being told otherwise. many struggle with rising medical costs after washington officials repeatedly said they would be lower. confidence in the american dream has plunged. anxiety about the type of country we leave to the next generation is widespread. and for many it never has seemed more difficult just to get by. when americans look overseas, they see a world filled with chaos. instability royaling the middle east terrorists pressing an aggressive agenda and autocrats scoffing at a superpower that doesn't seem to have a real plan. at home they see a government that is either uninterested or incapable of addressing their

concerns. a government that seems to be working for itself instead of them. whether it's washington's dysfunction or a bureaucracy that has grown so byzantine or unkattable and -- unaccountable and mustmuzzle political opponents or and ignore veterans. the american people have had enough mr. president, and this past november they had their say. the message they sent was clear. if voters hit the brakes four years ago this time they spun the wheel. they said they want the administration to change course and move to the middle. they said they want congress to send legislation to the president that addresses their concerns. this november the american people didn't ask for a government that tries to do everything and fails and they didn't demand a government that

aims to do nothing and succeeds. they asked for simply for a government that works. they want a government of the 21st century one that functions with efficiency and accountability competence, and purpose. they want a washington that is more interested in modernizing and streamlining government than adding more layers to it. and they want more jobs, more opportunity for the middle class, and more flexibility in a complex age with complex demands that -- martha: years of harry reid as senate majority leader there. is a new majority leader, once again it is senator mitch mcconnell. he could be reading the exit polls in terms of what he saying, what is on americans minds when they voted in midterms in november. i'm joined by senator rob portman. the white house laid down the

gauntlet on two key issues, keystone and health care and he said don't try to do anything in that regard. >> too bad that the president has taken that posture. you all talked earlier about keystone. here is the opportunity for us to give the economy a shot in the arm. all of us are concerned about the fact wages are flat, even reclining. this is way to add $3 billion to the u.s. economist. it is about 40,000 new jobs. the white house itself through the state department said this is safer than moving oil by truck or by train. better for the environment in that case. so this is opportunity for us to do something on a bipartisan basis. bill talked about a poll earlier, martha, that 68% of the american people support this what is really interesting, more than 60 senators support it. in other words it is bipartisan and will go to the president. i hope he signs it. martha: you need 67 to override veto of the president. do you think the numbers are there. >> i don't know if we have 67 yet. that is a very good question. i do think there is opportunity for democrats who believe this project is a good idea to say look, we've had a process.

there has been six years of study, all the state department reports have come back in a very positive way. obviously there is something going on here, more than just having appropriate study because the studies have gone on forever. martha: you heard josh ernest moments ago saying they're still studying it. there is process going on. i don't know how many years you have to study but apparently they have to study it. one more quick question. we heard months ago there were at least 100 americans who had passports who had gone to train in syria and in the middle east. do we, are we, how are we doing on that? are we cracking down on the passports? are we getting any closer for the homeland security committee learning who those individual are? we don't want something like what subpoena haing in paris to happen here at home? >> exactly. we have the opportunity with new republican majority to provide better oversight on that issue. i raised that issue as you know, martha, in the past. my earn concern we have foreign fighters with u.s. passports who could come back to the country with those passports. we need to use the authority the state department has to be able

to revoke passports. we also ought to monitor individuals much more closely. we need to insure, people who have not yet left the united states but who we have intelligence don't go over to the join the fight because they tend to get radicalized there. they tend to learn how to use very dangerous weapons. this is something we have to tighten up on. i hope what happens in paris today is wake-up call to us to redouble our efforts here at home. martha: a long list and a lot on the to-do list that you just mentioned. let's hope we're on top of it, senator. thank you very much. good to talk to you today. >> thanks, martha. take care. bill: terrorism hitting paris france. breaking news in "america's newsroom" a newspaper that thrived on satire on every religion is target of islamic terrorists. at this hour those killers are still at large. >> translator: we are being threatened because we are a country of freedom and because we are a country of freedom we beat the threats and will punish the aggressors.

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bill: masked gunmen screaming god is great before storming a newspaper and killing 12 in paper. islamic terrorists making threats at the paper after it showed pictures of the prophet muhammad in the past and protests followed. this in 2006. three years ago the paper was hit with arson. today the editor and an artist are among those dead. lieutenant colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst. colonel, good morning to you. thank you for coming back to our program. you have watched this newspaper with its satire for years and now this is what you get for freedom of the press. >> absolutely. and by the way these terrorists who did this monsterous attack in paris are the people senator feinstein doesn't even want to water board. bill, you know, when you said good morning my response, my instinct was no it is not a good morning. it is a terrible morning. it is a bad morning for press

freedom and freedom of information. it is bad because the terrorists won this morning the terrorists won. we'll sorrow and make faces how terrible it all is, and even if the terrorists are tracked down and killed and i hope they are tracked down and killed miserably the result of this we will continue to censors. "charlie hebdo," the satirical magazine, the weekly was bravest publication i know. there is not a single magazine in the english-speaking world that had the guts, the courage to take on islamist fanaticism and mock these fanatics the way "charlie hebdo" is. the correct response to this attack by all of us in journalism, we pretend to be so brave. if we had guts, those cartoons would be reprinted on front page of "new york times," the "wall street journal", the "washington post," "the l.a. times," tomorrow. they won't be. we'll cry but we're going to continue to self-sensor.

brave journalists died and cowardly ones will profit. bill: the french have a lot of concern, ralph, as you know. these were highly-trained men and they had automatic weapons and by all accounts they were well-trained and they knew exactly where their targets were. so what now? >> first dr. walid phares earlier in the show really nailed it. this was a military operation. it was terrifying. i mean these guys, these weren't amateurs. these weren't clowns. so what are the implications? we've seen terrorism get more and more sophisticated more and more pervasive. and bill, the bottom line is, we have lost the will to fight. we're in a period of strategic decadence where we're more worried about, again about maybe our interrogations are too harsh. we're worried about our enemy hurting our enemy's feelings and they are slaughtering people. i mean this is, again put in in perspective. this was a horrible attack on brave journalists but every day

dozens and hundreds of people are slaughtered around the world by islamist extremists and we will not come to grips with it. our president will not come to grips wit. journalists will not come to grips with it. even our military, is lawyer-adeled, lawyer-ridden and worried about offending our enemies. this is civilizational struggle, not, not what samuel huntington called a clash of sillizations because there is no civilization on the other side. we it is our job to defend civilization against barbarians. again, this will be a headline story. everybody will say how terrible it was. we'll be sad for those brave journalists and we are not going to stand up. we in the journalism world are not going to stand up against fanatical islam. we're not going to do it. we don't have the guts. bill: ralph, it appears the white house changed its language within an hour and initially calling it a terrible act of violence. josh earnest 30 minutes ago talked about the act of

terrorism. the president put out a statement about the terrorist act and talked about fight against terrorists. so then is this a case where the white house perhaps has gotten right now? >> no. because it has to say islamist terror. this administration is just soft on radical islam. it is just stunning to me. i mean, look the problem again we've said it forever the problem isn't all of islam. but within islam there is this horrible cancer of radical islamist fanaticism that this administration simply will not address and it continues to pander to the most radical voices here in the united states at the expense of law-abiding productive muslim american citizens. so look, if, if the president of the united states will not call a problem by its proper name, will not admit what the problem is, how on earth can we begin to address it? again, let me just say that, my

heart, it is not an empty thing. my heart is with the families of those incredibly brave gutsy journalists in france. you know the cartoons they ran they were often crude stupid, sophomoric, dumb and incredibly brave and we need to stand up for that kind of bravery, not cower in our corners and pat ourselves on the back. bill: ralph peters, thank you, the colonel from washington, d.c. ten minutes before the hour. our coverage continues now with martha. martha: as ralph says it is a very dark day as 12 journalists are gunned down in their offices by islamic terrorists. an active manhunt in the streets of paris at this moment as police comb the streets looking for the murderers. breaking news continues.

martha: this is a fast-moving story and the latest word from our side is that, john kerry the secretary of state is going to speak about this he will address the paris terror attack as the white house continues to put forth its message what its reaction is to this. we saw francois hollande, right away amazingly he drove immediately to the scene of this horrific killing and got out of his car and talked about it and called it a terrorist attack

within moments of it happening. and now we'll hear from secretary of state john kerry in just a moment to get more reaction. we also know that u.s. counterterrorism officials are engaged, deeply engaged in the words of our reporter catherine herridge in terms of what their take is on this obviously it was a mill at thatriesic attack we saw play out before our own eyes. listen what is going on sky news on our sister network in london and their coverage of this. >> whether or not there was somebody with them at that point we simply don't know but what we do know, according to the police three gunmen on the loose and crucially they don't know where they are at the moment. >> just quotes from salman rushdie, some will remember him and the the is aic verses he wrote that -- the is a tannic verses that he wrote.

he said respect for religion has become a code phrase, fear of religion. religious totalitarianism cause ad deadly mutation in the heart of islam and we saw a terrorism in paris. those are the words from salman rushdie. and other political leaders around the world. >> france said thanks but no thanks we'll deal with it. and we heard from campbell the former lib dem leader condemning this attack. concerns must be raised for the safety of the media outlets like sky news here in the u.k. >> yeah. so -- martha: back here now terrible, that they were not able to catch these guys, went into a subway, jumped into another car. obviously a frantic search

underway to potentially catch three gun men involved in this. just a side note in our urgent que who is covering, dni director clapper is talking about cybersecurity and interestingly made no mention of this attack in paris but we continue to look for information coming out of the u.s. government and reaction to all of this. secretary of state john kerry we expect to speak moments away. we'll take you there live. bill: martha, we pointed out these gunmen clearly had experience. now we know clearly they had a plan to get away after murdering 12. more breaking news. top of the hour here on "america's newsroom" and the fox news channel. >> by the three gunmen.

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we've seen in france in two decades. [shouting] [gunfire] martha: you can hear terrified voices and rumblings of these people. they're on a rooftop looking down. they obviously escaped up to the rooftop when they heard the gunfire and shot that video of a masked gunman who stormed the office of this satirical newspaper in the heart of paris and it has been targeted by terrorists before. there were reports that people who worked there were concerned something like this could happen because they had open threats. welcome, everybody another hour of "america's newsroom." we're in breaking news coverage mode. i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. the gunmen stormed the office of a newspaper around noon local time killing at least a dozen. at least five other the seriously wounded. witnesses say the gunmen shouted

"allahu akbar!," meaning god is great as they shot their way up and down two floors. jumping into a getaway car outside of the newspaper's office in the heart of paris france. martha: one witness, there were cell phones all around as we always see in these horrible situations now shot this graphic video of the gunmen as they shot a police officer who was wounded and laying on the sidewalk. they went back to finish him off in the most brutal manner in cold blood as he begged for mercy on that street. [gunfire] [shouting] martha: so hard to watch. unbelievable what happened this morning. intense search going on now for these three gunmen, who methodically got back into their getaway vehicle. they were not ruffled or rattled in any way it would appear. kit i logan joins us live from our london bureau. kitty, what are you learning

from where you are at this point? good morning. >> reporter: good morning, martha. as you say it looks like a very well-planned, very well-organized attack. we know among the dead are two police officers. 10 people were working at "charlie hebdo" in paris. they were gathered for a weekly editorial meeting. we understand three men now the french police say were hooded. they used can lash that could have automatic weapons. there were seeing two men climbing into that vehicle and speed off. now the french police as far as we're aware have not yet located these two men. they are on the run but there is a huge manhunt on the way. police very concerned where these two men might go next, martha. martha: do you have any idea what they're telling people in paris in terms staying inside? have they evacuated any buildings? >> reporter: police are obviously clamping down in the city. they are watching very kaley public buildings

transportation other media offices. people in paris are very nervous. obviously police are continuing to hunt down these two men. they are very concerned about where they might go next. france has seen several incidents over the past few weeks, several terror-related incidents, nothing of course on this scale but isis has warned it would attack france and there are, interestingly, a number of french jihadis gone out to fight in iraq and syria. this particular office was, as you say itself a target. it had been targeted before, in 2011 with a firebomb attack t was very controversial. it published a number of cartoons which for example the muhammad cartoons which caused a lot of problems many years back. the editor-in-chief is thought to be among those among the dead. leaders are very quick to done -- condemn the attack. the question is how fast can these men can be caught and will

they do it again? martha: the editor tweeted something about al-baghdadi the head of isis even before the attack was underway. that is something this newspaper did regularly. the ralph peters talked about them being brave for the way they talked about radical islam in the world. katy. thank you very much. bill: still an active scene. congressman peter king, chair of homeland subcommittee on counter terrorism and intelligence. good morning to you from capitol hill. you've got this on your plate. catherine herridge reports that eyewitness accounts suggest that the terrorists asked for individual by name as they stormed the office. they knew what they were doing. >> this obviously appears to be a well-coordinated attack. islamist terrorist attack, and bill it me it shows the importance of local intelligence. cia does a great job nsa i'm sure it is the same in france. the fact this proves to me the need for intelligence. you can't provide security for every soft target in a major

city if you have surveillance, if you're in the community and have informers that shows how essential it is like nypd has been doing over the years. i'm not saying it would stopped the attack but shows absolute necessity having it. this is on the ground intelligence that's needed and i am surprised i don't want to be judging from a distance but the fact that this attack went on for a while and no other police arrived on the scene i would have thought a city like paris would have rapid response teams they would be there -- bill: that could have been. we'll get the assessment over time. back to your original point what does that tell you what should that tell us? >> it shows us we should put political correctness aside and realize it is important to have police in the communities to be using sources, to be using informers and let's face it. the threat some coulding from, for the most part, it is coming out of the muslim community. it is a small percentage. that is where it is coming from. we've gone through this before.

mafia came from italian community, westties came from irish community. these terrorist the came from the muslim community. we have to have more sources to go in there and find out what is happening and be tipped off and not treat all communities if they're the same. we have to have more surveillance in those communities. bill: the french have been dealing with this for some time as you know. >> yeah. bill: they have also been quite fearful of the possibility of something like this or perhaps even worse. what is your level of confidence that those responsible will be caught? >> i would think that they will be caught. i mean, i just think there will be such a manhunt there will be such an extensive dragnet in france that they will capture them again. no guaranties, but i would think that they, i'm sure are still in paris and french are very effective going after people and, i would think the one way or the other they will find them. bill: put, catherine herridge

talking about u.s. officials deeply engaged in this shooting. a lot of conversation with the attention to the level of preplanning and premeditation that an attack like this is quite obvious in the way they carried it out and got away. what would you expect our contribution to be for the french in this? >> i would say our main contribution would probably be wire surveilance or telephone surveillance, that we have any messages that we intercepted which could mean more now than they did yesterday. if they have them again this would be a question was this planned internationalwise or was this local or foreign fighters that came back? we have to see where this originated from, how coordinate the it was or was it coordinated entirely in paris itself. we'll provide any information we have any intercepts we have in any way could remotely affect or be related to this attack in paris today. unfortunately when the attack happens you go back to something

you had two or three days ago it makes more sense. i'm not saying that is the case. we'll put all that on the table for the french so they can analyze it themselves. that will be shared with the brits. all of us do work together, despite a lot of the public posturing you see. the fact is, that the brits the french the u.s., other countries, certainly the australians, canadians we work so closely together on this because we realized that it's a common enemy. i go back to during the iraq war, there was so much personal animus between george bush and chirac. the anti-terror cooperation was as high as it ever was because of a common enemy. bill: in 2014 you have a french foreign fighter problem. there are some reports that at least 600 nationals joined the battle with isis in syria and iraq. >> they have much more serious foreign fighter problem than we do. they have larger numbers. a lot easier to travel from the middle east up through turkey into europe than it is to come

to the united states. they also have a much more hostile inner population in the muslim community in france than we do in the united states. overwhelming of must preliminaries in this country are patriotic americans. in france they have more isolated communities of muslims who are hostile towards the government. they have a much more serious foreign fighter issue than we do. bill: peter king, final question, will this be taken up in any manner today, with the new congress? >> i don't think it will be taken up in congress but i hope it's a wake-up call in congress. we have not funded the department of homeland security because of a dispute over immigration. whatever we do on that as far as immigration can not in any way be allowed to interfere with our counterterrorism methods. the juxtaposition would be terrible, a terrorist slaughter in paris and u.s. cuts back on homeland security funding. we have to sure whatever we do, whether involved with immigration, we can not in any

way stop programs that stop terrorism in this country to be impeded whatsoever. bill: peter king in washington thank you, sir. >> bills thank you. bill: ten minutes past. martha: at this point we're waiting for those comments from secretary kerry on the attacks in paris. we'll bring you those as soon as we get them. there is a look at the scene outside of this horrific killing that played out in an office building of a newspaper just this morning. white house reaction that comes in. we'll get more of that but have they been hesitant to call this islamic terrorism as ralph peters called them out for? a great panel coming up on that right out of this break. breaking news on fox.

>> what is clear this is an act of violence, an act of terrorism we condemn in the strongest possible terms and we're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies in france. these are allies who have been stalwart in our international coalition that this president has built to take the fight to isil, to degrade and ultimately destroy them. martha: that was the reaction this morning from white house press secretary josh earnest condemning the terrorist attacks and calling them an act of terrorism. lieutenant colonel ralph peters told us earlier that he believes this statement didn't go nearly far enough. >> it has to say islamist terror. this administration is so the on radical islam. it is stunning to me. the problem again, we said it forever. the problem isn't all of islam but within islam there is this

horrible cancer of radical islamist fanaticism that this administration simply will not address and it continues to pander to the most radical voices here in the united states, at the expense of law-abiding, productive muslim-american citizens. martha: ralph peters just moments ago on our program. kevin jackson joins us, executive director of the black sphere author of race tipping the multitrillion dollar business of liberalism, and juan williams a fox news political analyst. gentlemen, we were going to talk about something else this morning but this story is so awful and so large in its scope. juan, let me start with you your thoughts on the initial reaction. to point out in josh earnest's first appearance he said it was act of violence and terrible act of violence. he added word terrorism to it when he spoke to bill a little while ago. >> martha you have to understand here the politics in the united

states goes back of course to the 9/11 events and then subsequent war that we launched first against in afghanistan and in iran -- iraq and what you had on the part of the obama administration, when they came in a reluctance to engage in and talk about islamic terror and say that this is not a war against islam. george w. bush even made a point of going to hamas saying this is not a war against islam in general. ralph peters said something very important here. bill: you have to get away from the euphemisms and the games. what we know this is the kind intimidation harrassment and outright terrorism that is launched by the islamic extremists who want to censor people at a satirical magazine. they have done it in this country, martha. remember we have a political cartoonist in seattle. who drew caricatures of profit muhammad and had to go into

hiding and van gogh the guy in europe who did a documentary how muslim ex-timists and hurt and exploit women and for that he was assassinated. this retribution by islamic extremists, in this situation we think it may be related to isis is not out of the ordinary. we know what it is, you can't as the obama administration has done in the past, call this act man-made disaster. this is outright islamic terrorism. martha: hard to understand, you know, the hess tan sir the stumble in the reaction to this. it is what it is. it is an attack on one of our closest allies, a brutal murder against freedom of the press. that happened in an office building it is a mini 9/11 and doesn't feel miniature in any way, shape or form to these families kevin. what is your reaction to it what we're seeing here? >> my first reaction, surprised agree with juan but i do agree and as far as the reaction to terrorism by the obama administration, i don't believe there is anything new here.

i think they ratchet it up to get a taste of how the public is going to deal with it. representative king probably summed it up best saying we have to abandon political correctness. we needed to abandon political correctness decades ago because what it forces us to do look at things correctly through the prism of what is actually happening, the observation what is happening not only in france which is where islamization has been occurring radically for some quite some time and what is beginning to occur here. the fact the cop got shot at the end is almost like icing on the cake and points so what is happening here in america this slow slippage into this type of thought. martha: gentlemen, thank you. we're short on time. we have a reporter live on the ground we have to get to but thank you both for weighing in this morning. >> you're welcome martha. bill: paris remains on edge. a cold-blooded terror attack as police look for those behind the

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bill: we continue to get brand new information and brand new images in the manhunt for these masked terrorists. we'll show you the car they initially used to escape the scene. apparently they used the vehicle before getting into another vehicle. some reports suggest theyot on the subway from there. police are serving area for all three. we're getting new images, new pictures of two of the victims. the editor of the paper on the left and on the right the lead cartoonist. the two go by pen names charb and kabu. we have reporter robert nesbitt on the ground there in paris. robert? >> well, we're at the perimeter here. you can't get much closer to the fesses where this happened to

where we are now. it happened five, five 1/2 hours ago now and there is still intense police activity at the scene. we understand across paris 3,000 extra police officers are now on patrol. you can imagine that there are taking no chances with any of the newspapers that may have even just commented on this controversy in the past because this is a satirical newspaper with a history here. it is three times published cartoons of the prophet muhammad. firstly in 2006. then in 2011 and then in 2012. and the editor had been asked by many people, including the president of france not to keep on provoking extremists but he said this is a quote from him i prefer to die standing than to live on my knees. it appears that man the editor is one of those who died in the attack earlier on today. this sound as if it was planned

with military precision. that the gunmen went up to the front door. they got someone who worked inside of the newspaper who was with their child to punch in the security code, to get in through the front door. they then went up to the second floor where an editorial meeting was taking place. the gunmen, burt into that office and they started calling out the names this according to an eyewitness of each of the cartoonists and shooting them as they did so. then they fled and of course those distressing scenes we've seen of them killing a police officer on the ground, even though he was holding up his hand in effect, begging for mercy. the total dead, 12 here, between four or five, that number, we're getting conflicting reports believed to be seriously injured. and we understand from francois hollande that 40 people were saved on the outside. we're not quite sure what he meant by that, but francois hollande will be holding a news conference at 8:00 p.m. local time this evening. at the moment there are large

demonstrations being planned around the city in support of charlie and against muslim, there is hashtag repeated, i am charlie. a number of people holding up pieces of paper around this police barricade showing their support. bill: talking about using a child to gain access to the security code to get inside. what he reports ask what we've heard from catherine last hour. they were looking for people by name, individual who work for that newspaper finding them and killing them. martha: he also mentioned the publisher who is also emerging as someone who may have lost their life in this situation. we continue to watch this and our hearts and prayers go out to all the families. it's a horrific, horrific scene and it is ongoing as the manhunt continues and we'll hear from our own secretary of state john kerry who will step to that

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martha: we are back and waiting for comments from john kerry secretary of state, expected to address the horrific attack that took place in the offices of a satirical newspaper in paris. steve joins us now. what is your reaction to this in your thoughts on how prepared we are for something like this here at home? >> first of all, i wish that i was surprised but you know, martha france experienced three similar attacks unfortunately. french government officials refuse to categorize them as islamic terrorist attacks due to political correctness. fortunately they did characterize this one today. our government in today's press

reaction refused to call it an islamic terrorist attack. they call it extremism. the bottom line is that these are terrorist attacks that need to be called as such. the second thing is that these attacks are induced not by isis alone or al qaeda alone but by muslim brotherhood groups acting in the west always spreading the ideological poison that is a war against islam. these are groups that are invited to do outreach by the white house or by other governments and that is the number one inducement to carry out such an attack. are we prepared? the bottom line is that the fbi has been doing a great job in stopping 90% of the terrorist plot since 9/11. but you can't stop everything. of armed terrorists want to go into a building of journalists or commercial activities they can carry out such attacks and kill scores of people.

the question is whether we can deter it or whether we can use this in time and i don't know whether we can do that. martha: no you cannot protect every building in every city, it simply can't be done. but we did hear quite a bit about those that went to syria and the middle east to train with some of these groups. i often asked myself what the follow-up has been and how good of a job that we are doing on figuring out his people are before they walked into these buildings. >> here's a question. i don't think that we are doing good enough here with these volunteer fighters were isis order overseas before or after they go or after they return. that's number one. certainly in europe they have not identify them properly and that is why they had the tax in france and belgium. number two is that you don't need to go to france or syria or iraq to become a to hobby.

you can go online to learn how to build a bomb and acquire weapons here and the motivation is here online or in the communities among radical mosques in the united states or paris. that is the bottom line here. you don't see denunciations of radical islam's by mainstream islamic groups that this has nothing to do with islam. and islam is not the definition of terrorism, it's far from it. but there is radical islamists who believe in this and they have to be condemned. unless they are ostracized and delegitimize, these attacks are going to continue. so you cannot seal off all society. their points to succeed ultimately. as a specialist the only way to defeat this type of terrorism is ultimately to drive them from the blessings of the community of those radical islamists that

live within us. unless we do it, we are going to continue to see this and unless we call it what it is radical islamic extremism, we are going to give them the ability to do this. martha: as we have seen this morning, this is a concerning situation. thank you. bill: bringing in kelly ayotte now from capitol hill. good morning to you. your reaction on what we are hearing so far and what you're hearing from your colleagues in the senate. >> this is a horrible terrorist attack and our prayers go out to friends in france and those who have been affected by this. this highlights the danger that we face from terrorists and obviously as we look at the situation with isis, there have been thousands of individuals that have joined isis and we don't yet know who has been involved in this attack and they need to be brought to justice. but that being said, these individuals are of concern. many have gone and joined in

syria and iraq. the problem is that we have a visa waiver program with france and so we don't have track of all those individuals they could also travel to the united states of america. this is critical that we get control over who these people are and make sure that they can not only go back and affect countries like france like we unfortunately saw terribly what with what happened in paris, but also our country as well. bill: 30 minutes ago peter made a point to you basically have to find them before they find you. and too many to many looking in, it appears to be easier said than done. >> that is true. one of the ways we find them first is good intelligence and we need to make sure that when we do capture terrorists that we fully interrogate them and find out what they know and make sure that we are developing good intelligence not only on isis and al qaeda and all the affiliated groups of making sure that that intelligence is shared among our allies as well.

bill: to our laws and administration support the same? >> i am concerned is one of the issues i have been working on if you look at the group that has been released, 30% have reengaged in terrorism and the issue is why we need this? we should have a place in a secure to interrogate terrorists that we capture and instead they have been putting them on ships. they have not had intelligence gathering policies that will allow us to fully interrogate terrorists that are captured. that concerns me when we think about what they are going to do. bill: 127 remaining in gitmo. the white house would like to bring that number down to 60 or

80. at that point it becomes cost prohibitive to keep them there. the economics no longer make any sense. i know they you have heard that argument. will that be successful? >> it's pretty always what they are trying to do. they are trying to fulfill a campaign promise. here is the problem. they have released 27 since may, 15 since december, were released to afghanistan before they released to afghanistan, were previously reported to be high risk and what we have heard is that they have gone back to their home. so this is a risk of people who we have captured getting back in the fight against not only our troops and our allies that is real american lives at risk come on let's not forget how dangerous the taliban was. they owe accounting to us about what whereabouts are.

bill: many are from yemen and that country has been on fire depending on the week. >> in the last 24 hours there was a suicide attack in the capital of yemen that killed 33 people in the administration is actually lifting the prohibition on transferring a former detainees to yemen. i have been trying to reinstate that prohibition because there is no way that the security situation in the presence of al qaeda has gotten worse in yemen and not better. bill: tellier yacht, thank you so much for your time. kelly ayotte. martha: paris is trying to find these killers that they think are in range. we are waiting for secretary of state john kerry to step to the podium and speak about it. we will take you there live as soon as that gets underway

bill: back to breaking news, this is where it stands at the moment. we are waiting for the french president to address this country and secretary of state john kerry to talk about this as well. as we wait all that this is the latest. at least 12 people are dead. three gunmen and terrorists on the loose after first using this car as a getaway vehicle initially before transferring to another car and then before fleeing, the image that you see here to the right of your screen is the image of a police officer with his hands in the air clearly looking back at the gunmen, pleading for his own life and losing. the gunmen fired a bullet into his back and his life was over. we are watching this story is the manhunt continues somewhere on the outskirts of paris. who knows where this leads today. but at the moment 12 are dead after a stunning and shocked country is left to face this again.

martha: let's bring in michael goodwin of the "new york post." in these hours that are going on now, i am reminded of austin during which police search this entire city. people are terrified, they don't want to leave their houses, it has to feel like that as they search for these three or four killers out there. >> if we look at the main elements of the attack, i do believe that it gives us some new reasons to worry. first, as you said correctly this is a military style assault, very unusual, unprecedented in the west. a planned attack using military weapons and techniques. we have never seen that before, military assault targets and then finally aimed directly at the freedom of the press. i think that when you look at those three main elements it is unique. it is the first time that we have seen anything like that

combination in the west and that does put the opinion on intelligence gathering. we cannot harden every building or anything like that, but we have to know where these people are from, what their intent is so it puts a premium on intelligence both in terms of interrogating prisoners and those we capture on the battlefield and surveillance and aggressive police work here at home. martha: it absolutely does. the only way to combat this is to find out who these people are before they pull this off. so what is your confidence level in terms of how that is going at home? >> i would say that the attacks on the police in new york city and elsewhere across the country, largely are almost exclusively false they really do have an impact on police work. we are seeing a slowdown of police activity, but under ray

kelly they had an active surveillance program looking at this, talking to muslims who were captured and arrested for other crimes come asking them for information, that is largely abandon by the current mayor and police commissioner under a political correctness doctrine which says that all of this is bad form and it's a form of profiling. the fact that it was legal, it has been upheld by the courts, i think that that is the sort of thing that america needs to revisit. one attack like this reveals the holes in the west. it reveals the one ability and unless we take more seriously these kinds of attacks and learn from them and use them to harden our defenses at home and abroad i think that we are going to see more and more of them. so the question comes of inevitability. the former police commissioner

ray kelly, i asked him after 9/11, new york when all of these years and they said i don't think it is inevitable. contrasting that with the current view that they are inevitable that changes how we fight this sort of thing and we have to get back to the idea that this is not inevitable, we can prevent this if we are willing to commit to preventing it. martha: you make great points. specifically pointing to two things come at the end of the program that allows investigation into mosques which we know are largely places where people go to worship, but that they also are places where people pull these things off and in some places where they have rattled feathers among the other worshipers there. and they notice things and they need to be able to turn to someone and say you might want to keep anonymous person or check this out or do investigating. and combined combine that with the fact that the police in new

york city are in a posture now where they're not wanted to show up for certain crime events that are happening because they feel that they are unwanted and that they are unappreciated. that is a very frightening combination that you just pointed to. >> and it does -- it does inhibit the police, whether they intend to be inhibited or not, this has to make them second-guess their own instincts and their own information. i believe that that is a real danger here. that when you go down this road you unleash a kind of second-guessing politically correct approach to things and once it begins it's very hard to stop it. then you put this on those that would be aggressive and say do not do that, do not be aggressive. i think that is why supporting the police is this mayor has failed to do in new york can have unforeseen consequences in areas that were not intended, but are part of human nature, that the police begin to

second-guess just as ralph peters talked about, a media group censoring themselves in something similar happens with law enforcement, it goes into a cautionary defensive mode instead of an aggressive protective mode. martha: that combination has to be exactly what those kind of things the terrorists would love to see making things much easier for them and they have no qualms about what they want to carry out. michael, thank you it's good to have you with us. bill: the words of terrorists as they shot their way through a french newspaper. a newspaper that thrived on humor. twelve people dead, secretary of state john kerry will address this is the live coverage continues in just a moment you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!" then liberty mutual calls. and you

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>> i am jon scott, happening now is nine minutes away. at least 12 people dead, including journalist at a satirical newspaper. the massive manhunt under way. we have fox team coverage and

analysts on this developing story. lower prices at the palm, but are gas as other than that it is not such great news and we will have it next for you on "happening now." bill: thank you tara still on the loose. we are here with the latest. [inaudible] [inaudible] bill: this is perhaps the image that will tell the story of terror. a police officer wounded on the sideline. that is one of the terrorists moments before he fires a deadly bullet. just a fraction before this you

see him putting his hands up in the air for mercy which he did not dead. we are learning the victims identities. moments ago, how speaker john boehner addressing congress. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the people in paris this morning. this vicious terrorist attack is a reminder that we must always be vigilant against the enemies of freedom. bill: there will be a lot of reaction coming up through the morning. martha: the editor of this newspaper had many run-ins even with the french goernment that encouraged him not to run some of the stuff that they were running. he had his own guards that were protecting him and unfortunately they were not able to protect him this morning. they were having an editorial meeting when these gunmen stormed in.

the gunmen requested someone was in the lobby with a child allow them to go up the stairs. it is a horrific and awful story that sends a chill across all of society in terms of how it protects us from these kinds of attacks. bill: we are in the early stages of this. we expect more information. the french president is expected to address his country and we are waiting john kerry to address everyone from the department of state. it has been pushed back a little bit. we know that the initial statement from the white house is talking about the violence and then when josh joins us live today, that language changes from violence to terrorist. it is not 25 minutes from now but right now and it john kerry

speaking. >> i am very pleased to welcome the foreign minister here to washington today. he has come here specially to meet with us and to talk about the importance of our relationships between poland and the united states, a very important nato member, we are working on many issues in a very close bilateral way. before i do talk however, about our relationship both of us were just talking about the horrific attack in paris today. the murderous attack on paris. i would like to stay to all the people of paris and the friends that each and every american stands with you today. not just in horror and anger and outrage for this vicious act of

violence, but we stand with you in solidarity and a commitment both to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause with the extremists fear so much and it has always united our two countries. freedom. no country knows better than france that freedom has a price because france gave her to democracy itself. france sparked so many revolutions of the human spirit born of freedom and free expression, and that is what extremists fear the most. they may wield weapons, but we in the united states share a commitment to those who wield something that is far more powerful. not just a pen but one that represents an instrument of freedom and not of fear. free expression and a free press have core values that are

universal values. principles that can be attacked but never eradicated because brave and decent people around the world will never give in to the intimidation and terror of those destroying those values. i agree with the french who today called this slain journalists martyrs for liberty. today's murders are part of a larger confrontation not between civilizations no but between civilization itself and those who are opposed to the civilized world. the murders dare proclaim charlie hebdo is dead. but make no mistake, they are wrong. today and tomorrow and in paris and france and across the world, the freedom of expression that this magazine, no matter what your feelings are about it, the

freedom of expression that is represented is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror. on the contrary. it will never be eradicated by any act of terror. what they don't understand what the people do these things, they don't understand that they will only strengthen the commitment and our commitment to a civilized world. and i would like to just say a quick word if i may directly to people of france. [speaking in french]

[speaking in french] [speaking in french] [speaking in french] [speaking in french] [speaking in french] jon: john kerry with his message to france. martyrs for liberty and what we

have seen for the last few hours is just stunning. we are back in that place again. speak to the people of paris are hunkering down, we have breaking news coverage throughout the day on fox. >> following the deadly rampage secretary of state john kerry calling an attack on freedom of expression everywhere, at least a dozen people shot dead, three gunmen who fled are now still at large is the terror level is raised to the highest level. welcome to "happening now" big news day welcome, everybody. jon: and i am jon scott. an act of terror after masked men fired at a satire called newspaper known for publishing cartoons of prophet muhammed. they killed the editor and a cartoonist along with eight other journalists as well as two police