pack led about -- what's coming up this weekend? >> blood test that promises to -- a father comes home to a home redone for his family. bill: good morning on a friday. there is breaking news on another major terror plot. police raiding a suspected hideout in europe saying the suspects were hours away from carrying out another paris-style attack there. [shouting] [gunfire] after that gunbattle two suspects are dead dozens arrested in that country and across europe as new fears of terror attacks sweep across the western world. a lot to cover on a friday. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: good morning everybody i'm martha maccallum. a top terror chief is warning that the terror theft is so

significant that it will be extremely difficult to stop all planned attacks. rick leventhal joins us live in paris with the very latest. tell us what you know about the new arrests that happened where you you are overnight. >> reporter: martha, this is a result of ongoing investigation and search for possible accomplices to the gunmen behind last week's attacks in paris. the paris prosecutor's office says 12 people were arrested in anti-terror raids overnight. what we're now hearing these are people already known to police for other common crimes. there were eight men and four women arrested in the greater paris area and they were possibly providing logistical support to the gunman who attacked the kosher grocery, amedy coulibaly, who himself claimed allegiance to isis and may have bought his arsenal of weapons in belgium. coulibaly had outside help with a terror organization as well as

the kouachi brothers who attacked "charlie hebdo" newspaper. the france says they will not head back down. the head of european agency europol, says there are thousands of war trained radicals who are independent or semiindependent and this is extremely difficult situation to get under control martha. martha: what we saw unfold in belgium yesterday evening, tell us a little bit more about that raid rick. >> reporter: well, not perhaps a direct connection between what the attacks in paris and attacks in belgium but certainly ongoing situation involving these radicals these islamic radicals. belgium has been called a revolving door for jihadists in europe. it has highest per capita ratio of citizens gone to fight with isis. the big concern the radicals return back from the battlefield to wage war at home. they may have been hours away from waging a terrorist style

terror attack targeting police. that is what counter-terrorist teams raid ad hideout. it sparked a shootout for several minutes. they opened fire with happened guns and mill tear style weapons. two were killed another wounded. no security personnel were hurt. numerous other weapons were recovered along with explosives cash, and police uniforms. 13 people arrested across belgium in number of different raids last night. authorities are searching for more suspects. they can't confirm they have gotten them all. the terror alert level has been raised in belgium. jewish schools have been closed in belgium today as well, martha. martha: unbelievable. chilling they had police uniforms as part of their plan there. rick, thank you very much. bill: meanwhile secretary of state john kerry finally making it to paris today laying wreaths at the sites of last week's terror attacks. kerry also offering condolences to the french and french president francois hollande

saying, our hearts are with you. secretary kerry is the highest ranking u.s. official to visit france. the white house took significant heat for missing a rally in paris when leaders more than 40 countries locked arms for a show of solidarity with france. martha: meanwhile back in washington president obama and british prime minister david cameron are set to meet at the white house. the original agenda called for discussions on economic growth and global trade but clearly islamic extremism and cybersecurity have to be part of a focus and discussion with the white house. it is foremost on everybody's mind. the president and prime minister plan to announce joint cyber war payments, which starts with a mock attack on banks later this year. >> as the two leaders talk terror isis is doing the best to show the world how brutal it can be. the terror group releasing who are risk new propaganda images. we warn you the images are extremely graphic. we showed go on tamer side.

two men were crucified after being convicted of theft by an islamic court. another woman is stoned to death on the ground after being convicted of crime of adultery. we blurred images because they are two graphic to show. and we show a man thrown from the top of a building accuse of being gay. those are more of the sanitized images. those are stomach-churning to see what is happening in these towns because there are no reporters to bring you news. martha: they clearly ban the -- want images out there and they are proud of horrific acts. although you don't want to service putting these images out there i think it is important to how understand how sick and depraved the acts of this group is in order to mobilize forces against them. bill: we'll see how effective they are. that is coming up. meantime five minutes past the hour as isis shows what they are capable of.

americans don't think president obama is doing enough to keep america safe. 49% in our fox poll says the white house mostly failed to make the country safer. compared to 43% who say he is mostly succeeded. that is a stunning turn around from june 2012 when that same question was asked. it was 55-32 in june of that year. byron york chief washington correspondent for the "washington examiner" and fox news contributor. good morning to you. that june date from 2012 is significant. we can put it back on the screen for our viewers. we were leaving iraq at that time. isis had yet to spread its deadly tentacles. it was three months before the red line declaration in syria that was caused without consequence. look how that number changed since then byron? >> these are all big reminders that the world is a very dangerous place. they highlight doubts that the american people have about president obama's leadership. his overall approval is at 42%

in this new fox poll. it has been there for about nine months. you don't stay in that neighborhood as a president unless a lot of people have doubts about your job performance. if you look specifically at some of the keep the country safe measurements. for example, the pollsters asked about the president's performance in handling the threat posed by isis. 33% approval of. foreign policy in general 34% approval. there is widespread dissatisfaction with the basic presidential task of keeping the country safe. bill: go back to 2008. remember when our image in the world was so bad president obama had to clean it up? we asked that poll, what do you think about it now? has the image of america and the effort to improve it succeeded or failed? 60% say it is mostly failed. now is that based on policy? >> yeah i think if you look at a couple of things, there are obviously was an image problem in the world at the end of the george w. bush presidency.

i think a lot of people in the world felt that america was leading but if the wrong direction. i think what you have now is this sense of runaway threat most recently symbolized by attacks in france. and a sense that the americans are not leading really at all. that there is a passive america. and the united states is simply too big and too powerful not really be taking a leading role in a number of events. the president's absence at that big march in paris on sunday or the absence of the vice president, is just kind of a symbolic image of the united states missing in action in world leadership. bill: we got more from those polls coming up later today. thank you. byron york in washington, d.c. examining that for us this morning. martha: so it is a big day today for former gop presidential nominee, governor mitt romney. he will speak at republican national committee happening today in florida i mean

california. this will be the first big public appearance since he told a group of donors he is considering making a third run for the white house. it is big news and shaken up a lot of action on the gop side. he is expected to face some skepticism from members there today who want to know why they should back him. what his argument is for a third time at the ticket. bill: meantime republicans chooses freshman senator joanie earns from iowa to deliver the state of the union response tuesday night. she a had one of the biggest wins turning over a seat that democrats held for 30 years. she made national headlines for this rather memorable campaign ad. >> i'm joni ernst. i grew up castrating hogs on a iowa farm. so when i get to washington i will know how to cut pork. washington is full of big spenders. let's make them squeal. martha: how could we forget it?

bill: she gets her chance in a prime time address tuesday night with the president going prior to joni ernst here on the fox news channel. martha: it is one of those spots, you know people run into problems with before. marco rubio did the water thing. bill: the great tweet he sent yesterday. he said a bottle of poland spring. martha: make sure you're not thirsty when you start a sweep. we'll see how that goes for her. manhunt for a modern day bonnie & clyde. police searching for these two teenagers. they're on the run wanted for a crime spree that spans three states. bill: a 180 at duke university after widespread outrage over plans to play the muslim call to prayer from the tower's historic chapel. we'll tell you what the school says about that decision today. martha: the obama administration drawing fire over the release of five more guantanamo bay prisoners. ed henry taking the white house to task pressing them with very important questions on these

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martha: big turn around at duke university, they're scrapping plan for muslim call to prayer for school's historic chapel

bell tower. community outcry prompted this thank. instead muslims will gather outside and use a room inside of the chapel for weekly prayer service. the university says, quote duke remains committed to fostering welcoming campus for all of its students. what was clear is an effort to unify was not having intended effect. they changed their mind. they to the word from donors what i hear that helped them expedite that decision. ♪ >> unanimous recommendation from his national security team that steps could be put in place to insure that when these individual are transferred that we can significantly mitigate any threat that they have to the u.s. or our interests around the world. >> what are those specific steps? are you tracking each one of these folks? we understand they're going to estonia. going to oman. how do you specifically make sure they don't wind up back in yemen, retrained, to right back

on battlefield. >> ed, i recognize my answer may be unsatisfactory, the success of some of those strategies is predicated us not making those strategies public. but what i can tell you that the governments agreed to take on these detainees have done so after extensive consultation with the united states. bill: they also went on to say they're living quietly, those who have been released. the white house defending now the latest release of five out the gitmo of the these five men all from yemen. four to be transferred to oman which borders yemen. coming a week after terror attacks in paris. missouri senator roy blunt has been to gitmo. service on senate armed services committee. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: what do you make of the defense of this white house out of this constant drive out of gitmo? -- dribble out of gitmo. >> our problem is, a as we engage in this fight we continue to act like it is not a fight.

people in paris are marching over the weekend, leaders from all over the world, about standing against terror. at the same time our government is making final arrangements to let known terrorists go. the american people don't want them here. they want them in gitmo. the congress wants them in gitmo. in terms of national security recommendation, the president's been talking about this for eight years now. since he started running for president. six years into his presidency, the team he has put in place to advise him hasn't potten a message. of. he wants gitmo no matter matter what anybody else in the world thinks. that would be shocking. bill: what do you make of the administration those who are released are living quietly overseas? >> i think all the facts are different than that. there have been about 600 people have been in gitmo and out since gitmo was originally opened. i think number is somewhere between 107 and 200 of those

people were back in the fight. so somewhere approaching 30% of the people that have been let go have been back in the fight. one of the taliban commanders in helmand province when we let one of the mullahs go with bergdahl said this is like getting 10,000 reinforcements by having this person back in the fight. the terrorists think they're back in the fight. the only people that don't think they're back in the fight appear to be the obama administration. bill: you put out that 30% figure. the state department refuted that two days ago. they have numbers of re-engagement in the single digits which is something frankly that had not seen before. >> well of the 620 people that were let go, i think we have the names of 107 that were back in the fight. and the estimate is that somewhere approaching 200, so that is pretty darn close to 30% of 620. the state department can say whatever they want to say. they can say this is recruiting

tool. it wasn't recruiting tool obviously before 9/11. there is no evidence it was evidence any kind of a receipting tool. i think frankly it's a bigger recruiting tool when these people go back and are releaserred talking about the value of terrorism, whether they're even personally in the fight or not. i think that is a much bigger recruiting tool. and i think the recruiting tool is largely a myth. there is to real evidence of. that i'm back on the intelligence committee. the chairman of the intelligence committee, senator burr, senator ayotte, along with myself and others introduced legislation not to close gitmo. people who have access to the facts here, believe that these people can continue to be detained and they don't need to be detained as some in the administration suggest in prisons in the united states. bill: i know you want a time out of the point you were addressing was brought up again at the white house. here is josh earnest on that point. on gitmo. >> it would also be unwise to

neglect the fact that our, the prison at guantanamo bay, continues to inspire violent acts around the globe. it is not as if we can avoid violence by keeping prison open and all locked up. we know that continues to be an active source of inspiration and recruitment for terrorists. bill: when they claim that it inspires violent acts, where is the proof of that? where did that happen? was it paris? was it belgium? was it canada? was it australia, senator? >> we know it was not 9/11. there was no gitmo at 9/11. there is no evidence of that significant in any way. you fight find detainee here or there or someone here or there that says gitmo is bad. but you can find many more people say they're finally caving into letting our leaders

go. that our leaders are back in the fight. we need to join them. when the person in afghanistan says this is like getting 10,000 people back in the fight, detainment in gitmo was not as big a thing to khan who made those statements mullah khan as obviously when that person he was talking about was detained. this is largely a myth about gitmo that started in the president's first campaign. and it is part of the denial of whether we're engaged or not. why do we not have somebody in paris, even with the attorney general in paris, he doesn't show up. we constantly act like these things are not as significant as the people that were attacked in paris, in canada, in other places think they are. bill: i'm out of time but thank you for your time. secretary kerry in paris today as you well know. thank you, senator. >> i do know. that finally showed up. bill: got it. we'll see you soon. martha. martha: there is new reaction today to the pope's comments

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bill: so 18-year-old and 13-year-old girlfriend now wanted in a series of burglaries and car thefts spanning from kentucky to georgia. police say they stole a neighbor's truck, later spotted on surveillance video in south carolina. the families are pleading for their children just to come home. >> i want to say please come hope. we love you, miss you all. we need you home, and safe. you know we know that y'all have done wrong but you need to step up and you know, take the consequences of what you've done and come home. you know before somebody is really, really hurt.

bill: investigators saying the pair ditched a truck outside of atlanta, two stolen guns found inside of the truck. police say they are armed and dangerous. martha: tough story. how about this? pope francis defending free speech during a trip to the philippines. he warns there are limits. the pontiff says people should avoid speech that will provoke others. his comments drew swift criticism from those who say they believe he is justifying last week's deadly terror attacks on the french newspaper "charlie hebdo." to sort this out, tell us what he thinks about it father jonathan morris fox news religion contributor. good morning to you. you. how do you interpret pope's statements in the philippines about this. >> sometimes when you speak off-the-cuff that is what pope francis does and that is his power and his appeal and he says things that can an be misinterpreted. first of all, how did he react to the terrorist event itself?

he said it was atrocious. it is impossible in the name of god in any legitimate way to be killing the innocent. that is all he said. he didn't say anything more. that is what he said at the beginning, he said, i should say he called muslim leaders to stand up to speak out against it. then a week 1/2 later or so they asked him on the plane hey, what is the lilts of this freedom of expression? what about respect? so you have to answer that. so that is what he tried to do. and what he was talking about was not limiting the legal right of freedom of expression but rather he was talking a moral obligation to avoid mocking another, avoid not criticize but really being mean-spirited towards another religion. that is a limit. martha: which is understanding. when you look at this magazine before, what happened in paris i think a lot of people would say, you know, that they thought it was funny. they thought it was provocative, they thought it was great.

other people would say it is not really my tate. that is not my thing. i don't enjoy that type of humor. there was a lot of christian-bashing that went on. >> they didn't like clerics much. martha: they are anti-any sort of authority whether it is religious but that is their right but now i think everybody is supporting right of freedom of speech in a free society. >> that is a legal right. the pope is saying just because you're allowed to do it legally you shouldn't do it. self-restraint, how's that? martha: insulted my mother you can expect a punch which is normal. >> i don't think the pope should have said. that i think in pope francis era he would be okay me saying, pope francis, you did wrong. that would suggest somehow -- martha: this was a punch. >> or it is similar to getting punched by somebody, punching somebody after they said something about your mother. no, this was something totally different. this was a massacre of the innocent. no comparison whatsoever.

pope francis, i love you but i think that was not the perfect example. martha: thank you, father jonathan. always good to get your thoughts. take care. >> thank you. >> got some breaking news from the pentagon. the united states sending 400 troops to syria. we'll tell you why. we'll ask general jack keane what difference at this point will that make. also -- martha: plus, if the seattle seahawks 12th man is not enough one small town taking aim at the green bay packers, banning a certain food. i wonder what food that could be? something triangular on your head perhaps? [shouting] ♪ n you think aarp then you don't know "aarp." life reimagined gives you tools and support to get

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right now. more than two dozen terror suspects arrested across belgium, france and germany. police raiding a suspected terrorist hide out in belgium killing two, thwarting what they said was an imminent attack. ohio terrorist suspect expected to make his first appearance in court. his father claims that the fbi set him up. all eyes on mitt romney the former presidential nominee taking the stage at the rnc winter meeting in san diego. the speech on a decommissioned aircraft carrier will be romney's first public appearance since telling donors he is considering a third whitehouse run. >> well the pentagon is now saying it will send about 400 troops to help train and equip those moderate syrian rebels that we have talked so much about over the last several years in the battle to crush isis terrorist who is have

increasingly gained more leverage during that time. question, is it too late? back in 2012 president obama had this to say about baba heart al-assad and syria. >> the red line for us, we see a whole bunch of chemical weapons moved around. that would change my calculus change my equation. martha: we know that happened in 2013. it has not changed the calculus. this week after deploying a u.s. aircraft carrier to the persian gulf president hollande says he wished the u.s. acted back then in syria. stunning statement listen to this. >> i regret the international community did not act sufficiently quickly in order to stop the massacres in syria and in order to be able to stop the extremists from winning more ground. >> that is quit quite an admission. retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of institute for

study of war and fox news analyst. thanks for being here this morning. it is a pretty stunning admission i would say by fran waa hollande that a mistake was clearly made and it led in his mind to where we are today? >> well, i think, president hollande has come full circle here with his number one responsibility to protect his own people. he had to deal with that obviously in a very harsh way these last couple weeks. this introspection he is going through and that honest admission is to be applauded. frankly syria is the center of gravity for isis. the facts are the headquarters is there, logistical infrastructure is there, that is where the recruiting takes place and where the training takes place. yet our strategy syria is a secondary mission. iraq has priority. that is where most of our resources are being applied. and the mission in iraq is to defeat and destroy. the mission in syria, martha is just to degrade.

so we clearly have a flawed strategy in syria. secretary hagel questioned it. other people in the administration question it. yet we persist not changing it. martha: that is what i to ask you about next. there is a clear divide between the white house and pentagon on strategy. that feels like a very dangerous position to be given what we're facing here. >> anybody that looks at the strategy, the fact we separate the two countries and we have priority for iraq and secondary mission for syria is not the way the enemy looks at it. the enemy looks at this as one whole swath syria and iraq. martha: islamic state correct? >> that is exactly it. they are making gains as you noted in the introduction. they are gaining in eastern syria, central syria, and northern syria and attacking in damascus where we stopped offensive in iraq they are on the move and on the march in syria. it tells us there is something not right with our strategy. we have not come to grips fixing it and getting on wit. the longer we drag it out more

radicals will be inspired and motivated to kill people in their own countries unfolding every day before our eyes. martha: isn't it true the more leverage isis gains, the more sway they gain with some other islamic groups so they're trying to pull everybody over to tear side, their goal, correct me if i'm wrong, to move into eastern libya, to lebanon and conceal all of that power in order to grow? the other big motivation is to do attacks in the west to draw attention away from what's going on in this region in iraq and syria, correct? >> oh, you just put your finger right on it. in their annual report, some 400 pages i may add, much of it in color, they do indicate that they do intend to dominate arab muslim lands in the region. that is their caliphate they have right now is a beginning. you noted exactly where they're heading next. now there is much we can do. the 400 trainers, that's a step

in the right direction but i think what we're trying to say is that it's hardly sufficient. we need to do what turkey jordan the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are advising us to do and that is establish no-fly zones to put assad's air force on the ground and also buffer zones for the refugees. what that will do it will stop assad from pounding the free syrian army who we're trying to assist. here we will train members of the free syrian army and assad is killing them every day with his air power. makes no sense. martha: turkey jordan, saudi arabia all are encouraging us to do that. are they encouraging us with more than just words? >> well, they will not put any boots on the ground unless the united states does. that's where they stand. certainly turkey has not joined the coalition as we know. he would join the coalition, i'm convinced if we took the actions that he is recommended. i don't think we do turkey's

bidding here. i think we act in our own national interests and interests of the region but i do believe those countries are clearly on the right side of this thing. you have to look at syria as a center of gravity for isis and apply resources against it, otherwise this thing drags out and the killing continues insyria and outside of syria. martha: hard to imagine anything more pressing at this moment in foreign policy than getting together that coalition to do that. i saw this morning that chad is sending militants to fight boko haram, which is a step in the right direction that part of the world but forces need to come togethe to fight this on so many levels and some fronts. general jack keane, thank you so much as always. good to have you with us. >> good talking to you martha. bill: apparently nothing is off limits when a trip to the super bowl is on the alignment bainbridge island, a small town in washington state, banning cheese inside city hall until sunday's nfc championship game is over.

the seattle seahawks face off against the green bay packers. of course wisconsin is known for cheese. packer fans known as cheeseheads, in case you haven't heard. that could have far-reaching consequences on our pregame menu. martha: absolutely. bill: nachos will clearly be affected. >> i wonder if soy tofu -- bill: soy tofu cheese? martha: i doubt that it would taste quite the same. are they going to ban coffee in wisconsin? or what else comes from -- bill: what you got green bay? martha: what you got? how about a coffee ban? bill: try it. martha: could be interesting weekend. exsunday back-to-back payments. will be huge. -- games. martha: meantime president obama with a message for democrats. forget defense. he is ready to go on the offense he says. what does that mean? what does he have in store? we'll tell you. bill: feeling the need for speed. a group trying to save the real

life aircraft carrier used in the movie "top gun." trying to pull it out of the danger zone, goose. martha: that is cause i can get behind. ♪

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long beach instead but the navy says, time is short. the ranger will again its trip to texas to be dismantledded in a matter of weeks. save the ranger. bill: you were told that was 1986. martha: no no, honey. i know that was 1986. really let's be realistic. bill: everybody was wearing raybans then. martha: exactly. wearing them again by the way. bill: president obama vowing to dig in to press on with his agenda with more executive action despite new political reality in washington with republicans in full control of congress. the president meeting with leading senate democrats and telling them quote, i will not spend the next two years on defense. i'm going to play offense. mary catherine ham editor-at-large for hotair.com fox news contributor. cory elan former communications director to president obama. good morning to both of you. got running shoe, shotgun, go deep, mary catherine.

what do you think about that. >> first i'm disappointed we were not brought on to topp gun and danger zone. but as to the president i'm not terribly surprised by this i don't think he is a guy who pivots of the he doesn't. he says he is pivoting to the economy fairly often but doesn't actually move and change behavior. i don't think losses in congress matter to him. i don't think whether he thinks executive actions are legal. he goes ahead what he wants to do. the president will do what he wants to do. bill: president what? >> yolo. bill: you said president yolo. you only live once cory. cory are you surprised by this? apparently the word came out this was a bit of a pep rally trying to keep folks invigorated on senate side? >> i'm not surprised by it at all. basically what he is saying is you will continue to see more what you saw in 2014. certainly leading up to the midterms and then soon thereafter.

what did we see? we saw historic deal with china on climate. we saw action taken on immigration. on the immigration piece in particular let's remember, the president gave republican house in particular and john boehner two years to get something done on immigration. what he said was, if they don't take action i will. that is the mantra, that is the thing that he is taking into these last two years of his presidency. basically what he said is look, i'm not going to sit down and as a matter of fact i'm going to stand up, despite the fact that we have lost control of house and senate. bill: i understand that. i think tuesday night will be fascinating. >> absolutely. bill: mary catherine we'll see what his tone his, what his attitude is, and whether or not he is willing to cut a deal but i don't know what you cut a deal on? is it keystone? iran sanctions? you're catching a lot of heat from democrats on both issues. go. >> both of those offer opportunities for the president to cut a deal. i'm not sure he changes any behavior to make that happen.

it is not about just sitting down or standing up. he is more than welcome to not endorse republican priorities. that is how politics works but i do think it would be smarter politics if he did make some changes and did come to something like keystone he would give up frankly not a whole bunch. a lot of symbolism something popular for american people and get something in return. i probably wouldn't be happy about it but i think he could make fairly big move. you don't have to look very far to notice there is not a plan. he is out there announcing hey, free community college. let's send james taylor to france. that is not a plan. >> that is not accurate at all. first you have to appreciate the president has economic tailwinds to do things that he wants to do going into 2015 and beyond. >> with more people out of work in the last 30 years. >> 58 straight months. >> smaller job force. >> private sector job force

11 million jobs created. we have the highest domestic energy. bill: cut through this we're running out of time. mk, she listed off a number of things here. right it raised an interesting. tuesday night what does he say where i'm going to work with you on blank? >> i think, it has been documented that what he wants to talk about is tax reform. those are areas where we can work together. trade is areas where we can work together. those are two big ones that they will be focusing on. but again, tuesday night will be about domestic policy and things that he wants to do to directly impact the american people. we saw a little bit of that this week with announcements on community college, on on -- bill: small things. a lot of them would consider that small ball. mary catherine. >> not to the american people impacted by that. bill: trade, mary catherine. >> message is free stuff. if you don't work with him i will extort you and that is the

message and that is the plan. democracy. bill: hello? >> what? bill: free cds with james taylor? >> hand them out on ipods. bill: see you later guys. president yolo. that's a new one the thank you mary catherine, thank you corey. ten minutes before the hour. martha: hillary clinton most people feel close being anointed the democratic nominee. who knows what can happen between now and then. as she runs virtually unopposed does that help or hurt her chances? that is the question. then there is this. >> no! no! bill: that is a race team that defied death after a hair-raising high-speed crash. >> look out!

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bill: to an annual tracinda digs that could save lives in utah. dozens of dogs are training to become certified rescuers in event of avalanche. they put through their paces on mountains near salt lake where they really learn how to follow their nose. >> we're trying to expose the dogs to things they never worked around before. not only trying to sift through the human scent, but hazardous materials, gasolines and oils and fuels. we're trying to teach our dogs to work through and work around vehicles in this difficult terrain. bill: the programing necessary too. even some first time for many. the dogs were able to pick up a scent and target they were looking for in less than one minute. booed stuff. -- good stuff. martha: if hillary clinton runs for president will she go unopposed in democratic primary? if so, does that ultimately help

or hurt her against the republican choice. john roberts is live looking at this today. hello, john. >> reporter: good morning to you, martha. depend on what measure you use to define the word interest on republican side there could be anywhere from 12 to 23 candidates. we limited it to 12 because of space, on democratic side there is chance only one serious contender for the nomination and that is hillary clinton. her poll numbers are slipping. still more than 60% of democrats say she is their choice to be nominee. real possibility like incumbent president she may run unopposed. on one hand that could be a good thing for her. while a flock of republican candidates are duking it out on primaries, she can concentrate all the firepower on them not a democratic rival. it allows not to be pinned down on policy questions with difficult questions if there are no primary debate. says virginia's larry sabato

there is downside. going through the crucible of a primaries makes the candidate a better campaigner in general election. >> there is also a disadvantage. you're simply not as sharp if you're not challenged daily on the campaign trail by opponents. and that is one advantage the eventual republican nominee will have. >> reporter: sabato says the risk for clinton that she could be rusty as he says, she was during her book tour when she committed some pretty bad gaffs in the first couple of days. remember when she said she and bill clinton were virtually broke after they came out of the white house? what is the risk for republicans? strategies say with a field this big, there is chance they could be pulled so far to the right they will become unpalatable in a general election. for historical perspective you have to go back to 19 off to find a parallel for this cycle. richard nixon had virtually to himself in open presidential election but remember he lost martha. >> very interesting, john, thank you. bill: fears of terror attacks

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martha: terror suspects taken out in a shootout in belgium and dozens of suspects swept up in raids across europe. the firefight breaking out as police moved in on several suspects. allegedly, these suspects were planning to kill police. they had police uniforms among their stash and ammunition. just hours before the attacks were set to get underway. that is word we're getting just this morning on brand new hour on "america's newsroom." glad to have you i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. two suspected terrorists killed in that raid. two others wounded. additional raids in belgium, france and germany, targeting links to islamic extremism.

british prime minister david cameron visiting the white house today, pointing out a need for international cooperation. >> looks like another indication of huge risks we face from islamic extremist terror after attacks in paris after events here in america? now we see this. underlines our intelligence and security agencies need to work together very closely. we have to remain extremely vigilant. that we have to take all the steps we can to beat this evil. bill: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live back with us from washington with the latest now. catherine, good morning. >> reporter: thank you, bill. this morning speaking to reporters belgium authorities left no doubt that cells are organized and armed and that the paris massacre is acting like an accelerant for cells moving up their timeline to attack. >> we found several weapons. among them were four ak-47 kalashnikovs. several small fire weapons,

firearms munitions and explosives. moreover we found several police uniforms. >> reporter: in the last 24 hours more than two dozen suspects have been arrested in belgium, france and germany with the raids ongoing. french and german authorities alone arrested 14 people with suspected links to the islamic state. authorities around warning there are more suspects on the loose. it is worth noting that arms dealer who supplied weapons to the kosher deli suspect, amedy coulibaly turned himself in. we understand he is talking and providing new lead to investigators. bill: what are we learning about these cells either through him or someone else catherine? >> reporter: a senior member of the house intelligence committee telling fox news last night he believes raids in belgium are tied to isis. this may be first in series of plots directed by the leadership in sir rack and syria. >> europe right now is really a hotbed that could easily come to

the united states and i think this is, if today's attack on the cell and that cell was actually controlled by isis this is really the first time we've seen a fully coordinated plan coming from isis. that is a dramatic turning point. >> reporter: we're working to confirm this morning as raids continue across europe france, germany belgium, could involve with up to 20 sleeper cells with 180 people. intelligence source tells fox news that command-and-control with these cells means operatives are identified by the terror group given training and financing but the timing for the plot is left up to their discretion. there is no phone call or email or text for operational security reasons, bill. bill: that means they're changing as they go. chairman herridge, correct, thank you in washington. martha: attacks raising top concern in this country showing

up in new poll, overtaking economy first time in five years new research shows that 76% people think terrorism m is top priority. the way question is asked you answer a number of these. numbers on right-hand side of your screen. chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. chris, clearly after the paris attacks and what happened in belgium last night, everybody is waking up to the fact that this is a top priority? >> well, to look at it another way, we all would like to forget about it, wouldn't we? martha: that's right. >> it is natural human tendency. you heard the prime minister's use of the word evil. people like to forget about evil because it is hard to think about. americans live in terror exhaustion, fear exhaustion, years after september 11th. given opportunity to stop thinking about it, a lot of americans did. but every quarter every three or four months we're reminded in

brutal fashion whether beheads of americans abroad or attacks on capitol of one of our key allies whatever it is. we reminded of relentless necessary of threat and forgetfulness we engage in is stripped from us and terrorism comes back to the fore in the issue stack. martha: well-said. listen to charles krauthamer's on president's take and how he sees his legacy as it relates to all this in charles's opinion. >> in foreign policy he cares about essentially appeasing our enemies, or as he would said, making overtures to our enemies, the russians, the iranians with the nuclear program. he sees his mission as the one who makes america sort of popular again in the world. he doesn't see as his mission to be the president who defeated islamic tear recommend. >> what do you think? >> well, when you see a president who allows for the release of yemeni islamist

militants at the time that the whole world is thinking about yemeni islamist militants as he does with the release from guantanamo bay, when that happens, that encapsulates the thinking of this administration it would seem which is, you know what? i have a political fight to win with republicans here at home. i have a foreign policy predicated on minimizing offense to the world through guantanamo bay. i'm going to do that. so the president carries on with that works, regardless what the polls say. but as we learned last year, in the summer and fall, when the public gets engaged and when you see numbers like the pew poll you shared when the public gets engaged comes into the spa president will hear from democrat telling, come with me he have a plan to be on offense to deal with the republicans. they will say if you don't look busy and engaged on national security issues none of the other stuff will matter. martha: is it unfair to say that the president often gravitates toward things that are not where the conversation and the

national focus seem to be? in this case they are the antithesis where the focus seems to be. i don't think even people who really believe gitmo should be closed there are people out there to be sure would mind if the president said at this moment obviously this is not the right time we're going to sit on that decision for a little bit and sort of get our strategies straight here and not release anybody right now? don't you think everyone would kind of understand that? >> well the minority of americans who are engaged about guantanamo is so small, the number the president those who agree with the president on the issue is such a small number it wouldn't even matter from political point of view what they thought because they are minority of the minority. martha: why is he doing it, chris? >> he is doing it, we heard the president, how often we heard the president say when policies go wrong or he has political setbacks or failures, how often he tell us his error is not good story teller, not helping americans to understand, what he

calls political theater. he believes himself too focused on important issues and operating in this ethereal sphere in which he is doing the right things and good things but he fails to bring the voters along with him. sometimes though, or usually voters leave the president. martha: yeah. interesting. chris, as always great to talk to you. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> so illegal immigrants protected by president obama's amnesty program will be getting another break, a tax break. the non-partisan congressional budget office estimating more than two million will equal by the year 2017, costing billions of dollars. stuart varney host of "varney & company," fox business network. how are you, sir? you're getting ready for your big show. first now, what is the story here stuart? >> let's be clear yes it is a tax break but that tax break translates into cold hard cash. these people will be getting a check from the treasury every year. here's the story.

they come illegally. the president changes their status with his amnesty. they get a social security number. they can therefore apply for the earned income tax credit. thatthat is a government program where low income earners have the income topped off with a check from the treasury. 2.25 million people will come to this country or they're already here. they get the amnesty. they will be eligible to apply for that check. they will get cold, hard cash. now look, bill this is not some fringe group making this allegation. this is the congressional budget office. these are the bean counters employed by the government. that is who is saying 2.25 million people are eligible for a check every year from the government. bill: there is a court battle. >> yes. bill: underway right now right in texas to prevent this. >> yes. the state of texas, along with some other states sued to prevent the amnesty program going into effect. bill: we'll see -- >> with evidence given by the cb

the o numbers. bill: i president says you go ahead with the amnesty deal you can pursue those here illegally. with the am necessary you can work with legal classification to work here in america. >> bill this becomes your right. under an amnesty program you get the social security number, you have the right to apply for the earned income tax credit. you have the right to apply for that check. bill: what is the cost in all that? >> billions of dollars. you have to wait and see exactly how many people do apply for this check and then how much they get in that check but it will be billions and billions of dollars. bill: we'll see you 11:00 a.m. on fox business. >> sure thing. bill: stuart varney. thank you. martha. martha: big political day today for the gop as mitt romney will address republicans at winter meetings in san diego and reports that the gop nominee from last time around isgying it a third run at the white house met with mixed emotions. some not too happy about it but

where is that really coming from? we'll talk to the top official at the rnc next. bill: there are pacific images put out made public by isis showing brutal torture and murder of people who do not follow their hard-line rule. why isis wants you to see these photos. plus this. >> whoa! [screaming] >> that's a terrifying car crash. appropriately dubbed the world's most dangerous event. we'll tell you why. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda.

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bill: breaking news now as it relates to obamacare. a top health official is stepping down. marilyn tavenner the administrator of cms, will lee the health and human -- will leave the health and human services department. she was the one who testified numerous times before congress about her role in the botched rollout of obamacare and the web site that followed. so she is stepping down next month, it appears. that's breaking news here on "america's newsroom." ♪ ♪ >> mitt's a good man, and i think he would have been a good president, but i think it's time for us to move forward. if we're going the talk a stark contrast between the tired old policies of washington, i think we need to have a new approach. big, bold ideas outside of washington have been proven, and in our state, we've shown conservative reforms can work.

martha: that's scott walker, of course a name that is getting a lot of attention as far as 2016's concerned. mitt romney facing criticism from possible opponents governor romney expected to mention his presidential -- his potential during this 2016 speech that he's going to make today. it's a brief speech from everything that we're learning. criticism is also coming from outside the gop playing field though. a former michigan party leader saying quote: mitt romney blew a golden opportunity. it was a winnable race given the state of the economy and low approval of the president. if mitt romney gets the nomination i think republicans are headed for another loss. harsh. rnc communications director joins he now, sean, welcome. >> thank you, good morning. martha: mitt romney's on the top of the polls against hillary clinton. obviously, it's very early in the game but it seemed like a lot of person wanted him to get in, and he suggests he might and he's getting hammered in the

press and other places. >> look by my count i think we have 23-25 potential candidates that are seriously look at this race. i think each one of them whether it's scott walker, rand paul, jeb bush, dr. ben carson ted cruz, they're all going to have to articulate -- or even mitt romney -- articulate why they should be the future stand bearer of our party and lead the country forward. so it's not, you know, at the end of the day each one of these guys is going to have to make their case as to why they're going to be the best candidate not just for the republican party, but the best candidate to lead the country as president. martha: you know, there was also a piece in yesterday's new york times that said chris christie was telling his supporters or to relax -- supporters to relax that everybody needs to slow down and to take this one step at a tomb and, you know, it didn't down to two people yet clearly, and you mentioned all the people out there. do you think that's a wise tack from him at this point? >> well, like i said, we've got

23-25 really serious people looking at this race. the rnc's job is to be the league, if you will, and let the other teams or candidates play their game. i'm not going to comment on anybody's particular strategy, whether to get in early or late or how to announce or whatever. that's why each one of these guys has got to figure out what's best for them and how to play the game. but, you know -- martha: understand. understood. i know where you're coming from and, obviously you want to keep the field very wide. everybody's welcome to join in, as everybody has said. july is the announced date now the 18th through 21st, i believe, in cleveland ohio will be the republican national convention. a month earlier than last time and two months earlier than the time before, right? why? >> well, i mean the reality is conventions got moved back into late august/september back in the '70s for campaign finance reasons when people were taking public money and they could access that money later in the calendar. the more that people and candidates on both sides have

foregone that, it makes more sense to move the calendar up and allow candidates to access that general election money they raided privately a -- raised privately a lot earlier. so it's going to give us a huge advantage over the democrats. one of the things we've really concentrated on is figuring out the ground game, the digital operation, that we can hand all of our candidates up and down the ballot and give them that edge when it comes to beating democrats. martha: interesting. and we're still waiting to hear we should point out, the dates from the democrats not released at this point. we also have some news that joni ernst, the new senator from iowa, is going to do the response to the state of the union address on tuesday night. what can we expect to hear from her? >> i think joni ernst is going to articulate a very positive vision for alternatives for the way forward, something that's focused on family private enterprise how we can grow solutions that are not government based. joni ernst is a phenomenal pick.

you've got to commend speaker boehner. that couldn't have been better. she represents so much that's going to change in this country with leaders like her that have just emerged in the senate. i think you're going to hear a much, much different vision of where this country could go if republicans were in charged, and he couldn't have picked better than her. martha: looks like you're in a beautiful spot t there this california, and we'll be watching very closely. we'll see the comments from mitt romney later today. sean, thank you very much. always good to have you with us. bill: maybe take "america's newsroom" to san diego. martha: it looks nice, doesn't it? lovely. bill: twist the arm. more gitmo detainees now released from the prison. will they rejoin the terror fight? our next guest says americans should be outraged. outraged at how the president is putting his ideology before our national safety. we'll talk about that. martha: and how about this interesting story? they let their 6-year-old and 10-year-old walk one mile to a local park and now the police have them under investigation.

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what it's been doing for the last 13 years? 12 years. it vanished after losing contact with the main spaceship, and it was on a mission to look at life on mars to see if anything exists, any water, any of that kind of thing, but scientists say they will not be able to recover any of the data so everything this beagle it has learned in all of its years on mars we will never know. bill: we thought he wasn't really good, but he -- martha: hello. is it me you're looking for? [laughter] bill: president obama releasing gitmo detalk about knees despite their being -- detainees despite their being accused of a laundry list of offenses. others have returned to al-qaeda or joined isis. a former gitmo spokesman, former spokesperson for the defense department a retired navy commander. how are you, sir? good morning to you. you make some strong allegations about what these former detainees are doing.

here's one of them, all right? ex-gitmo men have become leaders of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and ansar al-sharia in libya. one became a suicide bomber in iraq, they've killed americans and our allies in each place, most notably in benghazi. between 30 and 40 have joined the islamic state in iraq and sur ya and i think the administration would take great exception to that but go ahead and make your point. where does the proof come from? >> the intelligence agencies and from the actual fact they've killed people once they get out of guantanamo. president obama knows nearly one out of three detainees have returned to terrorism. president obama knows it yet he's putting his ideology over our safety. he's really rolling the dice with our lives. bill: you also write this another heavy charge: five top taliban leaders exchanged for a repeated army deserter, two explicitly said they'll return

to terrorism ten were at tora bora, bin laden's last stand in afghanistan, one was arrested with possession of stinger missiles which detainees recovered documents indicated was intended for use in a nuclear device, that's according to his file. the white house said just this week they're living quietly among these other host nations. what's the truth? >> well, you know, this is the same white house that also said benghazi happened because of a video. this is the same white house that can't even say we're defending ourselves against radical its lam so -- islam, so they have zero credibility. basically, according to them they'll have to catch a detainee red-handed in order to admit it. you can't trust this administration at all on that. and my last nine months at the pentagon were the first nine months of the obama administration. there was an interagency review process, and i can tell you nine lawyers representing al-qaeda became senior political appointees in the obama administration, including on that task force. so it was basically like the

inmates running the asylum. you trust those people? bill: but your number at 30% which many republicans have quoted is considerably higher than the number put out two days ago from the state department. they've got it well into the single digits. what's the truth? >> well, the truth is it's about 30% that have gone back to terrorism, confirmed or suspected. that 10% figure that the state department -- bill: it was less than 10%. it's about 6.7%, and the other figure was 1.1. >> that's, that's the figure they're saying that left under the obama administration. so the 30% figure is aggregate total since day one people who have left. so the state department's saying now under the obama administration only a few have returned. however, like i said, you can't trust this administration. they're not being truthful with the more than people. like i said -- with the american people. like i said, you can't trust them to say if detainees released during their watch went back to terrorism or not. they just don't have any credibility. bill: there's about 122 left at

gitmo. we'll see what ps becomes of them. j.d. gordon from washington appreciate you coming on. >> thanks, bill. martha: cruel, inhumane and barbaric. islamic state militants releasing photos highlighting their own depravity. the lengths the terror group will go to to spread their own propaganda. bill: driving along, no time to react. trying to mind your own business right? we will show you what happens next. ♪ hi, tom. how's the college visit? does it make the short list? yeah, i'm afraid so. it's okay. this is what we've been planning for. knowing our clients personally is why edward jones is the big company that doesn't act that way.

martha: president obama about to meet with british prime minister david cameron in the oval office. the two will then hold a joint news conference. they've got quite a list of topics obviously, on the plate today including the recent terror events that happened in paris, and the meeting is expected to last a little bit more than an hour. we'll bring you those remarks as soon as they get under way. bill: isis releasing disturbing

extremely graphic images depicting how cruel and depraved they can be and a strong word of warning -- these are hard to look at -- but we chose some of the more suitable imagings. some pictures show the excooks of a man -- cushion of a man charged with being gay. he was reportedly thrown off a tall building while the crowd watched below. there's also the image of a woman stoned to death convicted of adultery and the cruise function of accused -- crucifixion of accused thieves shot point bank in the head. mike baker former covert cia officer, president of diligence llc, mike, you have seen these images. why does isis want them public? what do they get from that? >> well, you know, isis, al-qaeda elements, boko haram, they all seem to be in a bit of a race to show who's the most depraved. i mean, it is, it is a bizarre scene that we're watching play out.

just the other day as an example, al-qaeda released one of their affiliated groups, released a video of an execution of a woman accused of running a brothel. and isis, there was some comment out on social media with people supposedly -- that's disgusting it was almost as if isis was saying that's ridiculous you can't go that far, and then isis releases these videos saying, you know what? we need to top that. we need to go one better than this. and it's hard for us in the west to process. boko haram is sending children into markets with explosives strapped on them. now, that was a scenario devised, essentially, in iraq. we saw that in stages of the iraq war so that was nothing new, but it just shows they're all sort of in this one-upping effort in this gruesome disgusting effort to show who's the most true to the -- in their minds -- the sharia law. bill: so mike, who would been

fit or how would they benefit? would they receive more money? attract more fighters? or is it something else? >> for me, that would be speculation. i'm not a scholar of the psychotic mind but i think, you know, in a sense they're putting these things out to show their potential recruits, their followers and, yes, i suspect there's an element here of trying to shore up their base. that sounds like a political concept, but i think there's an aspect to it. and their financing. so i think you probably touched on the key elements here. this is, if nothing else, it's a public relations, and it's also designed the scare those, you know? on the ground in syria as an example, and iraq. those that they're fighting. i think they want to show, look there's no safe place to hide and you might as well submit, otherwise this is coming to your neighborhood. bill: have you thought about the fact that there are very few reporters in these countries? i mean, you mentioned nigeria and cameroon and chad and what's happening in syria and iraq. when the iraq war was underway,

reporters could go there without fearing they would lose their lives because they were with the u.s. military, so they always had defense. and now you see no reporters in these areas because they have no way of defending themselves which means the stories don't get out. and now the story's coming out, and the person that's delivering it are the isis terrorists themselves. >> no that's absolutely right. it's a complete shift in the sense that they are, they are packaging and delivering exactly what they want to tell the world. there's no counterpoint to it. there's no, as you said, the media shining a light on it. and so they are having the ability to drive their message as it were and then it gets out in social media where, of course, it's just a complete mixed bag of chaos in term of how it's received, how it's reported and discussed. overall, we keep coming back to how do we resolve this, how do we try to find our way out of this battle that we're in, this war on terror that's been going on for so long? and every time there's an attack

in paris or an atrocity like with boko haram and the thousands that were killed, we tend to get very aggressive. well, we've got to kill more of them. we're not going to kill our way out of it. and then we talk about the muslim leaders themselves, and then we also want to define what it is. the administration is wrapped up in this idea that well they're falsely representing islam they're not really islamic. well, the isis, the al-qaeda and boko haram, they believe they're being good muslims. it's not up to us to tell them whether they're islamic or not. and it all comes back around to the muslim world. it's a problem in their community. we can't kill our way out of it. the muslim community has to take this, they have to take charge and not just after an attack. they have to do this consistently. and i don't know how we get them to do that. bill: well mike, thank you. it's a tough one. out of boise, idaho mike waker. thank you for that -- mike baker. thank you for that analysis there. >> thank you.

martha: well, the world's most dangerous offroad rally living up to the its reputation. watch this. >> no! no! martha: what happened is real. it was traveling more than 100 miles an hour. it hit a water hazard in bolivia during the dakar rally across south measuring. the car goes tumbling finally bursting into flames. three people inside are said to be okay. that's the good news. the car, of course, was totaled. meanwhile, in toronto a man on his way home when a tire comes flying at him. watch this. just driving home from work. bill: oh! martha: and that happens. that's not good. broke the sunroof, dented the frame, but he was okay. he ducked before the impact. note to self, if a tire comes flying at you you might be able

to save your life by ducking behind your steering wheel. bill: i think i'll just walk today. martha: gosh. bill: 22 now before the hour. an oscar nomination that did not happen is now being blamed on race. the film, "zillion ma," -- selma," largely ignored yesterday. al sharpton is threatening action. our panel will debate that. martha: that's going to be good. plus a couple lets their two children walk to the park can you imagine? so now they're being accused of neglect. the heated debate over so-called free range parenting. stick around. >> parenting and every other generation involved letting your kids learn independence and not only letting them learn it, but helping them. resilience and courage and that's not going to happen if we're watching them all the time. fruit topped pastry... ...with indulgent streusel crumble, be from... fiber one. fiber one streusel.

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bill: so some parents in maryland under investigation for allowing their kids to walk to

the park. daniel and alex practice what's called free range parenting, so they allow their kids, ages to walk all around the washington d.c. suburb unsupervised, but one day police picked up the kids, and when dad said the children had permission, child services showed up instead. >> they had a safety plan. they told my husband he had to sign it, and it said the children would not be unattended at all until they could follow up with us the following week. and he said is i can't sign anything without talking to my wife, i want to talk to a lawyer, and she said if you don't sign this we're going to take the children right now, and she called the police. bill: wow. the parents say there are rules and they teach their kids to be safe. they've got a meeting with cps next week. martha: that is unbelievable. they said we're going to take your kids right now. of course you should be able to walk a mile to the park. we have gotten out of control in this country when you can't walk to the park.

bill: good luck next week. martha: how about this one? al sharpton pulling the race card on the academy awards claiming black actors were snubbed during this year's oscar nominations despite selma getting a nod for best picture of the year. social media exploding after yesterday's announcement as everybody quickly added everything up and said, oh, my goodness the 20 contenders for lead and supporting actor and actress are all white. howhow can that be? that happened for the first time since 1998, meaning it has been very diverse for all of those years. so al sharpton quickly issued a call to action saying, quote: the movie industry is like the rockty mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets. i have called an manger meeting early -- an emergency meeting early next week to discuss possible action around the academy awards. discuss possible action around the academy awards. what he means by that i guess we'll find out. richard fowler is the host of the richard fowler radio show,

and rory murdoch is a syndicated columnist -- apparently, we lost richard for a moment. let me get your reaction to this first. what do you think? >> i heard al sharpton's organizing an emergency meeting. finally we'll have an emergency meeting on the black unemployment rate which is about 10.4% versus about 5.6 overall, or maybe it's on the fact that 32% of black kids never get out of high school never graduate high school? or maybe an emergency meeting over the fact that in 2013 about 5,600 black people were murdered by other black people, but it turns out to be about the academy awards. given all the problems facing black people today, it seems like he ought to organize a whole bunch of other emergency meetings before he has a total people facebookout about how the awards are playing themselves out. martha: yeah. richard, you're back. what's your reaction to this all-white academy awards?

twitter hashtags, oscar's so white making the rounds out there. what do you make of it? >> reason, i think -- listen, i think they need to be more diverse, but here's the thing, and we all know this, hollywood does not always reflect what's happening in this country. not saying america isn't diverse, we're just saying that the people who are oat voting on the nominations in hollywood aren't diverse, and all the stats show that. 93 president of the academy happens to be caucasian a good majority happen to be male. so that sort of dictates how -- [inaudible] martha: oh, we keep losing richard, i am very sorry, richard. that's too bad. i do want to, you know put up this statement. interesting in retrospect by ellen degeneres, i don't know if you remember this if you watched the show last year, but that was the year that 12 years a slave won best picture it also won the award for best supporting actress, and here's what she said in the opening monologue; possibility number one, 12 years a layoff wins best picture, possibility number two

you're all racist, and everyone in the room laughed. >> yeah, it is funny because, look, these statistics are interesting that the academy's 93% white, 76% male. these same alleged racists just last year hollywood didn't look like the rocky mountains it looked more like mount kilimanjaro. 12 years a slave won best picture, best actress, best score, best adapted screenplay. so just a year ago it was a huge pageant of black cinematic achievement. martha: richard, i want to live in a world where away say, oh, were those the best movies and actors this year when you look at what happened in film? and not have a ridiculous discussion about what nationality this director or that director or what background -- why, why couldn't it be that way? and i haven't seen selma yet. i would like to see it. it was nominated for best picture this year, that's a huge honor. >> no, i completely agree with you. i saw the movie definitely

everybody out there should see it. i think it's a really, really good depiction of king and his life, but here's the thing, and i think you're right. everybody wants to live in a postracial society but the truth of the matter is we don't and the fact that the academy doesn't represent what the population of this country represents shows that. martha, there's not a lot of yous and mes on this academy, let's be truthful. martha: it's not -- these are companies. these are companies that want to make money. that's their business. that's what they do. the academy gets together, and we all know they're pushing this movie or that movie, but, you know, to have this immediate reaction, to have al sharpton, you know who by all accounts, you know has some other things that he should potentially be worrying about at this moment is basically bullying these folks, and, you know, this woman, you know, who is in the sony thing apparently he had to make a deal with her that he could be some sort of adviser at

sony now to what kind of movies they do and other corporations who are concerned about some way that they're being presented. he's making deals with them, too, and they're paying him off not to sue them. >> martha, i think we're going to have an emergency meeting about extortion, which is basically al sharpton's stock in trade, how can we get these studios, shake 'em down and either make donations to sharpton's group or put various people on the boards. martha: unbelievable. let me get one reaction from richard because we lost him a couple of times and we'll close on your thoughts here, richard. >> here's the thing. this is not messily about al sharpton, this is -- necessarily about al sharpton. people all across the country, black, white, yellow, purple, green, orange, they took to twitter to say this is a problem. so clearly, this is not an al sharpton problem or a kkk problem or a black panther party problem, this is a national problem. and i think that's sort of the larger, that's the emphasis you can get from this story.

every major newspaper's covered the story because of the hashtag that's come out, and that means social media -- martha: i looked at the hashtag and i've got to tell you at least two-thirds of it is saying that this is a ridiculous argument to be making. you know? i think may the best movie win the best actor, the best actress -- >> what a concept huh? martha: thanks you guys. sorry about the tech problems, richard. bill: jon scott's coming up now, "happening now" comes your way shortly. good morning. jon: ten minutes away. good morning bill. europe very much on age as terror raids take place in belgium, germany and france. belgium says it foiled a terror plot just in time, two terrorists killed there, more than two dozen arrested across europe. we've got live fox team coverage and analysis. plus president obama and british prime minister david cameron will hold a joint news conference. we imagine there will be a lot to say there. we will have it for you live. bill: thank you jon, busy day. the dark corners of the

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bill: there's a trial underway in new york city that involves a host of alleged criminal activities that have taken place online. gregg jarrett is live in our new york newsroom with that story. >> good morning bill. the feds have infiltrated the web site silk road when they discovered the digital currency bitcoins were being used to purchase $200 million worth of cocaine and many other drugs with the click of a mouse. this 30-year-old admits he created silk road but insists he has nothing to do with the narcotics trafficking computer hacking and money laundering. he claims he handed off operations to others who ran it

under the alias dread pirate roberts, a film character. he argues his client was -- the lawyer argues his client client was set up by a fall guy. >> i believe in his innocence and i think he's being accused of things he didn't do, i'm quite certain of it, and so we look forward to having justice be served. >> prosecutors have a mountain of evidence on ulbricht's laptop and he was busted while talking online to an undercover fbi agent. his supporters say the government is the villain. >> i think it's highly questionable, the methods they used to acquire the info they claim they have. >> but prosecutors say they have evidence the defendant confessed he was running a site that sold illegal drugs and bragged he was the mastermind. >> the words of the defendant will tell the jury whether he had guilty knowledge and guilty intelligent. >> well, prosecutors call him the kingpin of the digital

criminal enterprise amassing an $18 million personal fortune. they say he was so vigilant in protecting his operation he went so far as to solicit others to murder people who threatened that operation. well, it never happened, but ulbricht is also charged now in baltimore federal court with this attempted murder scheme. bill: what a story that is there. thank you, gregg, gregg jarrett in new york. martha? martha: well two terror suspects with ties to militants in syria killed in a shootout with police. raids taking place across europe in a desperate search to uncover terror cells before another attack. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. [ m'm... ] [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.®

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singer james taylor joining secretary of state john kerry in paris, performing, you got a friend after kerry offered his condolences to french president hollande. bill: we have to run. have a great weekend and wonderful friday. martha: "happening now" starts right now. >> we begin with this fox news alert. europe is very much on edge after more than two dozen terror arrests across the country. a day after belgian authorities halted a paris-style attack with just hours to spare. welcome to the friday edition of "happening now." i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. here is what we know. police in berlin conducting a series of raids arresting two men on suspicion of recruiting for isis after arresting another suspect about 120 miles away for allegedly traveling to syria to fight for the terror group. over in france police arresting 12 people in three raid on three towns near paris.