whatever the investigation reached we won't know until after the super bowl. >> right. >> which means there will be another 100 million people watching just because they have a villain and they have a good guy. >> who is going to get it next? >> have a great day. we'll see you back here tomorrow

morning. martha: new york city leaders say this will be one of the worst blizzards people have ever seen. >> you are talking about 135-mile-an-hour gusts of winds. it's like being out in the polar during the storms. >> it's important to focus on safety the next few days. don't underestimate this storm. >> stocking up for the blizzard apocalypse that's going to happen. >> i don't believe you guys. there is nothing coming. it's going to bypass new york. martha: how it's look out there rick? >> reporter: snow started falling before dawn. it's not very heavy now. they are expecting 1-3 inches today. but night it could fall 1-3

inches were hour. you can see traffic moving on the long island expressway towards new york city with the blizzard warning sign above them. they are expecting treacherous conditions ahead with a blizzard warning stretching 250 miles from southern new jersey to northern maine. gusting to tropical storm force with widespread coastal flooding expected. officials warning of the hazardous travel out here. andrew cuomo says he may shut down the long island expressway and suspend service on the commuter train lines. >> my message to all new yorkers is prepare for something worse than we have seen before. prepare to be safe. take every precaution.

now is the time to get ready for this extreme weather. >> reporter: we are told road conditions will be treacherous. unnecessary travel is being discouraged. but a lot of folks trying to get to work this morning. martha: new york has snow plows and sanitation workers already on the street. >> reporter: they have 5,000 sanitation workers who will be manning those snow plows. they will be on 12-hour shifts. in new york they usually put the plows on the trash trucks themselves. they also have pothole crews on the road. they will a tow truck task force that has been activated. new york city has 6,000 miles of road. that's like trying to clear a path from los angeles and back.

martha: they have a lot of of experience with this and hopefully they will be successful. bill: so part airlines have canceled 2,000 flights. the storm is not even here and 2,000 are preemptively ground. 7 major airports in the path of this storm that include hubs, philadelphia and boston. fortunately most airlines are waiving the rebooking fees. martha: more than $29 million people are under blizzard warning. those advisories strepping across 7 states. in new york city alone we have 1,500 snow plows on standby. they are sanitation trucks they put plows on the front of. 6,000 miles of road so those

folks will be working in a big way. bill: you can tweet us your photos of the blizzard starting today, all week long as it moves across the country. i hope we are ready i think we are. i hope it's not the worst thing in the world. but if you listened to our i leaders you would have thought the playing was about to descend on new york stay. martha: maybe above your knee it sounds like. but we are going to be ready. bill: meanwhile new details on the al qaeda tear rights released into super max prison. we are told two americans in jail in cater have been released.

byron york, the "washington "examiner" and fox news contribute roar. who was al-mari? >> he was an died are trained tear right -- trainedtear right who was sent to the u.s. by khalid sheikh mohammed. the bush administration captured him. he was held at an enemy combatant. the obama administration changed that as us and released him for quote good behavior, people are trying to figure out what's going on. bill: what is going on with the american couple? >> they are free now. matt and grace belong were an

american accumulation living in qatar, they adopted children in africa. they weren't in good health when they were adopted. what we now know is that the qataris approached the united states and said how about we release the longs in exchange for al-mari. bill: the state department says there was no deal. what has importantied a lot republicans in congress is this offer came right after the release of bowe bergdahl where the president traded 5 taliban commanders in exchange for bergdahl, did not notify

congress as required by law and it sent the message that the united states will actually negotiate with terrorists. then you get this you have a for al-marri. the worry is we'll see more of this in the future. martha: we'll have more on al-marri and the shady circumstances his release. at the same time another prisoner swap could be in the works between japan and isis. the tear rights demanded the release of a jordanian woman who was arrested for the bombings of three hotels in 2005. they want that woman in return for sparing the life of the still living japanese hostage. they apparently beheaded the other captive last week. top democrats in washington saying they will never negotiate

with isis period. >> i'm not for it. i think the prisoners if they want a high-level woman who participated in a devastating bombing in a hotel in iman. >> we don't negotiate with terrorists. we don't pay ransom because that cash fuels further kidnappings which only exacerbates the problem. >> the prisoner swap? >> it's not true. martha: he says -- chris says to him, that's another form of ransom, a prisoner:swap, and he says yes that's why we would not advise the japanese to do it and it seems we have done it several times in recent months. bill: you see alert on your phone about that japanese

hostage and it's truly troubling. multiple security scares. 30,000 feet in the air. how two planes were ground because of a tweet. >> we are going to keep lowering taxes because we understand it's the people's money not the government's money. that's the difference between the wisconsin way and the washington way. martha: scott walker apparently bringing down the house at the summit. karl rove is going to join us with his thoughts on all that. bill: leaders of a new republican majority in congress, kevin mccarthy is on dwek the republican message next. >> let me ask you dead or alive, raise taxes on the wealthy. why would i want to raise taxes on people?

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phoenix. scary stuff. you can understand why they act. then they warned if anyone happens to me i'll make sure more flights are targeted. i strongly suggest you don't try anything stupid. airport officials obviously took that seriously. >> the reason we put the two aircraft in a remote location is to make sure they were as far away from the traveling public as we could get. if something unfortunate were to occur it occurs farthest away from the public. martha: an american airlines flight diverted. no word on if those threats could be connected. >> what are your thoughts on the

president's state of the union speech. >> it sounded like he is running for a third term. he was looking out at an audience that had 8. >> more republicans in it than his first state of the union. bill: senate majority leader mitch mm connell and "60 minutes" along with john boehner. senator mcconnell also says he wants to work the president. what does that mean? on what? >> we would like to work the president on places where we could find things moving forward. america has a history in divided government achieving big things. think back to reagan and tip o'neill doing tax reform. or balancing the budget with

bill clinton. remember bill clinton said the era of big government is over. our president thought he wouldn't election. he we have been here three weeks and he offered 7 veto threats on bills that have 102 democrat threats. bill: do you think of that as defines? what is that attitude you heard? >> he said i wanted to work with us but offered the most veto threats of any president in the state of the union history. sit down, work the legislative process and find a common ground at the end of the day. bill: do you think he's negotiating or is it more than that? >> i don't see negotiations on his side. we sat down with him twice having lunch, talking about places we can work together.

then he walks out the next day and says he needs tax increases. i think he finds a way not to come to a solution. bill: why is that? >> i'm not sure. i always thought it's better to have somebody who has been a governor to become president because they learned to work with both sides than the current open nation the white house. bill: there is no optimism in your voice. does that mean nothing gets done? >> remember how we got welfare reform, we had to send it there three times. even though the president offered veto threats 102 democrats defied the president and voted for these bills. if we see that in the senate, i think then he will listen to the american public. >> the president's policies made income inequality worse. all the regulations that are

coming out of washington make it more difficult for employers to hire more people. chief amongst those is obamacare which basically puts a penalty or tax on employers for every new job they created. bill: how do you communicate that message if that's what you believe. >> in twine the middle household income is down $2,000. if you look at the facts the president gave at the say the state of the union there are two he forgot. our participation rate is the lowist's been since 1978. jimmy carter. if people give up looking for a joisht means they have given up on their homes and dreams. his biggest piece of legislation obamacare cult the 40-hour -- cut the 40-hour workweek.

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there. let's send to it his decks and see what happens. bill: happy birthday to you. kevin mccarthy. >> thanks very much. martha: major security scare at the white house. the device the secret service says they find on the grounds this morning. bill: "american sniper" number one bying a long shot at the box office. michael moore slamming our military and snipers once again. >> they are the overlords, they are the folks protecting the guys on the ground from threats they don't see. it's essential. i would never see michael moore's movie. push your enterprise and you can move the world. ♪ ♪ but to get from the old way to the

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bill: a ho-hum review from an unlikely source. joe biden admitting he was bored by the state of the union address because he knew everything beforehand. he says he was put into the role his wife jill is put in all the time. boehner says his job is to stare at the back of the head of the president so it makes no news. joe biden is funny. >> we are in a war against al qaeda, we just never said we have been in a war against terrorism which is a tactic. we are pat war against al qaeda. martha: a top white house

official saying the u.s. is in a war against al qaeda. interest can it wasn't mentioned at all in the state of the unioness, but not terrorism. the president traveling to india attending the republic day parade displaying their military might. the president has a big agenda in india but terror issues overshadowing that event. >> reporter: he wants to take credit for a civilian breakthrough deal. he wants to highlight that. but yemen which is in shambles after the president said it was basically a success story and then what you just heard from dennis mcdonough. listen to what he said at last years state of the union when he claimed we were getting off a

war footing. >> even as we actively and aggressively pursue terrorist networks through more targeted efforts and building the capacity of our foreign partners, america must move off a permanent war footing. >> i pressed one the -- one of the president's top aides asking what that means. he said that was about troops in iraq and afghanistan. if we are at war with al qaeda why didn't the president last week at this state of the union mention it? martha: it seems like it would have been a golden opportunity to talk about that. so there was another incidents back home in washington this morning that's make something noise halfway around the world today, right? >> reporter: it was the middle

of the night east coast time. and one of my colleagues asked him, we are just getting this report of an unmanned drone landing on the white house drone in the middle of the night and he knew nothing about it and he checked his blackberry and said secret service said they found this don't middle of the night. they don't believe anyone is in danger. the president and the first lady are here. this is raising a lot of concerns. even though there was no immediate threat, secret service is doing an investigation. if a drone landed on the lawn, that makes you wonder what kind of threats are out there. bill: a slew of hopefuls for 2016. who made an impact?

who fell flat? martha: 2,000 flights have been canceled as this monster storm is bearing down on the northeast. so is it as puffed up as it looks? we are live at reagan national airport. >> i think little old laidies he will boeing each other. it looks like i'm at a hockey game. i almost got trampled getting down an is today lay for because someone couldn't get down fast enough to get to the food.

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bill: a potentially crippling blizzard moving in on the northeast. it has begun in new york. a live look at times square. snow coming down. things will pick up. storm warnings in effect up and down the east coast. some part might see as much as three feet of snow. airport officials getting ready for this.

doug mcelway is at reagan national. >> reporter: things are very, very calm here. i would characterize it as almost a sense of resignation. if you look at the departures and arrivals. i would estimate one out of every three or four flights are canceled or delayed. according to flight aware.com we are looking at 2,000 flights canceled as of tomorrow. the three airports with the most cancellations are right in your neck of the woods la guardia, jfk, liberty and newark. in wash it' raining. it's fluctuating between rain and snow. we are expecting between 2-4 ins. that's enough to pair lie this city. but as you head north it gets dramatically worse.

philadelphia will get hammered hard. there is a ground hold in philadelphia as we speak meaning nothing can take off or land. it's not due to the snow, it's due to the low ceiling. every major airport from philadelphia, newark paul the new york city airports, west chester county. portland maine and beyond will get hammered. so just expect your flight to be delayed or canceled. >> the airlines don't want to fly the cities. they will be stuck for a day or two with an aircraft. >> buzzing about what went on in iowa this week be for the unofficial kickoff of the 2016 race. potential gop presidential hopefuls attended the freedom forum in iowa. they rallied the conservatives and the crowd. but political watchers, a lot of of observers of what happened said it was scott walker that

was the wisconsin governor who stole the show. >> we need leaders in america who understand, who ultimately understand the measure success in government. it's not how many people are dependent on the government. the measure of success in government is how many people are no longer dependent on the government. [cheers and applause] we need that kind of leadership going forward. martha: meanwhile two potential candidates who range the highest in the polls we have seen so far. former governors jeb bush and mitt romney did not appear. let's get the take on all this. carl, good morning, good to have you with us. what was your takeaway.

scott walker got a lot of buzz. he was walking around on the stable with his microphone. he must have sensed his delivery and how he did on this speech was important for him. >> you have an event and you may perform well but you don't have the coming because someone does something unexpectedly good or bad. scott walker ... i say this as the son of a wisconsinite. they have a reputation for being too nice and too plight. the question about scott walker was, is he going to be able to show passion. martha: too nice and too plight. -- and too polite. >> last time around we had tim pawlenty who wasn't able to

project emotion. people thought this reserved solid, very effective governor of wisconsin they those's a good guy with a great record, but is he going to be able to demonstrate passion? while we had a lot of good perform answers at the iowa freedom forum. ted cruz, rick perry the guy who won the headline was walker because of this delivery. if he keeps this up he will be a major player particularly in the iowa caucasus. he spent some early years in iowa and his dad was a pastor there. martha: iowa will be a huge test. two people that everybody also talked quite a bit about were the two men who were not there mitt romney and jeb bush. here is donald trump on the two of them.

>> you can't have romney he chokes, you can't have bush. the last. the last thing we need is another bush. martha: he said romney choked in the last election and we can't have another bush and he got a rounding applause. >> the forum is less than 1% of the people who voted in 2012. there is a pool of 350,000 400,000 republicans who could conceivably come to the caucasus. i love mitt romney being lectured by donald trump on choke. trump is the guy who constantly chokes on the idea of being a

candidate. but this is the kind of thing that romney and bush are going have to endure as essentially the frontrunners in this contest. martha: do you think they were smart to sit it out or do you think it would have been a wise decision to show up and say i'm as conservative as any candidate you could be looking for? >> two thinks. chris christy did show up. the rap on him was he was too moderate a candidate. but you don't need to show up at everyone of these things. the danger is pandering. if you look like you are showing up at this thing like governor mom romney did in 2012 where he said i was a severely conservative governor of massachusetts. in iowa you have strongly

conservative people in western iowa represented by steve king, but you also have the rest of the element of the republican party, suburban conservative. it's an eclectic party. you have a lot of candidates running so you better be true to yourself. that's what iowaians value more than anything else is authenticity. that's why christy won support by going. he said here is where i stand. he explained who was and where he was coming from. there is one other person who did herself some good and that's a long-shot. carlie fiorina of hewlett-packard. she has got some good coming and buzz coming out of it. we have 54 weeks lot to go

through. martha: i look forward as always with you, thanks, karl. bill: there is a storm coming. americans voting with their wallets. "american sniper" tops the box office. do you know how' money this film has made in three weeks? director clients eastwood respond to people who say the moste tbloar if is war. martha: gunfire erupts in a crowded home depot store. >> it sounded like heavy fireworks. >> everybody was screaming and get to the back and lock the doors. 798 fico score thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water...

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martha: two people are dead after new york place say an employee got into an argument with a supervisor before he shot the victim inside that crowded store yesterday afternoon. the shooter then turned the gun

on himself. shoppers panicked as you would expect with everything going none the world. they and their young children ducked for cover. >> they were screaming everybody down, everybody out. we started running. i grabbed the baby. home depot took us to a back exit and they rushed everyone out. martha: police say it's unclear what the argument was about. home day possess the company is deeply saddened by this incident. bill: american sniper is close to $64 million this weekend alone. director clients eastwood says the biggest anti-warp statement any film can make is to show the fact what war does to the family and the people who have to go back in civilian life like chris

kyle did. pete, good morning to you. $200 million, they say it will easily top $300 million if not more than that. why do you think this film resonates the way it has. >> i think it touches the core of civic values we have as americans, duty, honor fidelity patriotism, love of your country and care and love for others. people who serve in the military believe it's the biggest institution for peace in the world. you don't serve so you can per president wait war. up do it so you can serve your fellow countrymen and preserve peace. no one wants war. but when you talk about the realities of it it makes it more difficult for people to look at armed conflict right out the

gate. a guy like chris kyle -- the message is strong. michael moore howard dean, they are look at this entirely differently. michael moore, what would jesus do? hide on top of a roof and shoot people in the back. why is he going there again? >> he seems to be doubling down. chris kyle never purported to be jesus. and i know he served and believed in jesus but people have different duties and responsibilities in society. jesus came to save our souls. chris kyle went to save the lives of the men he was overwatching pass a sniper. his job was to save american and friendly lives. michael moore continues to

gratuitously double down. at this point his comments are irrelevant. this is a guy who made a couple documentary films. he's doubling down on his bush hatred. >> bill: howard dean was on bill maher on hbo. >> there is a lot of age in this country and the people who go see this movie are people who are angry. this guy says i'm going fight on your side and they fight for it. i think there is some -- i bet if you looked at a cross-section of the tea party and people who go to see this movie there would be a cross-intersection. bill: who died and made him a shrink. >> he was screaming on the stage looking like the most angry man. he invented anger. what an irony.

it's how the left on either coast looks at middle america. they are clirngs to god fan guns and their ignorant and dumb. middle america is fill of patriots who leave in their nation and believe in celebrate something one like chris kyle. howard dean doesn't get it. he's on an island. they say they support the warrior but not the war. in comments like this belie the fact it's always been not just about the war but the warrior themselves. >> he says this is from his mouth. there is lot of anger and people who go to this country are people who are very angry. if you look at a cross-section of this movie he says there is a lot of intersection. where is he getting this? >> from his ivory tower. he's getting it from the "new york times," the starbucks drinking crowd who talk about

angry clingers in middle america watching this show who they just don't understand. they feel like our military is being gutted by this president. the folks who see this movie and so many others in california and new york as well understand our freedom has to be respect and defended. people are going to the movie because they want to celebrate and believe in america and they do. people like howard dean say they are angry and that's how displaced and disconnected he is from this movie. bill: i saw sit and i'm not angry. martha: the bathle for kobani may be -- the battle for kobani may be taking a turn. bill: the new england patriots on the way to arizona for the

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bill: secret service reports the drone that flew into the white house on you grounds over the weekend is a 2-foot quad cop term device crashed inside the grounds. we don't know if it was loaded with a camera or who's responsible. just look at the line the quad copter has blades that rotate in each corner of the device at 3:00 in the morning. martha: they need to figure out who's flying that thing.

we'll let you know as soon as we get any more on that. on the battle for kobani, kurdish fighters in syria reporting they have nearly pushed the isis terror army out of kobani. that would and big deal. it's a strategically important location because it's on turkey's border with syria. john huddy gives us the latest on this. what does this known the fight? >> reporter: it is a big deal because of the location along the turkish border. it would be major victory. kurdish forces have taken over thethe 0% of -- taken over 90% of kobani. the hill where isis put it black flag up, that's been ripped down and kurdish forces put their

flag up. this is a major and symbolic battle. kobani sits along the turkish border. so if isis would have taken control it would have access to that border crossing to get weapons in and out. not to mention taking kobani it would haved a to the large swath of territory isis controls in iraq and syria. martha: we are going to go but we are going talk more about how they were able to do it and where they are getting the support they are getting. bill: new information an al qaeda terrorist removed from the super max prison in colorado. prime minister did the u.s. just make a dangerous deal? well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? ♪ you got to know when to hold'em.

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martha: got a big one, folks bearing down on the northeast

threatening to bury the region under several feet of snow is the latest reports we have. as you look at the radar, the national weather service is issuing blizzard warnings. forecasters keep an eye on the path. we'll keep an eye on the path the next 24, 36 hours of this thing. welcome, everybody to brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. timing will be critical affecting tens of millions of americans up through maine. salt spreaders are out and chains and plows are on standby. things could be a real mess. already snow falling here in new york city. the city working around the clock to get ready for what could be crippling conditions. >> we've been coordinating with 50 over 50 of our agency partners in the city, the state the federal government to deal with this. and again, we've been tracking this for the last few days. it hasn't to then better.

it has got progressively worse. we have potential of three feet of snow. >> let them get their job done. of the please don't tailgate behind the vehicles. we need to be out there. this will be incredibly difficult storm for to us fight. martha: maria molina is in the. >> dream weather center with the very latest. hey, maria. >> good to see you. you have heard things have gotten progressively worse as far as the forecast was concerned. last week there were hints a clipper could move through the northeast, maybe light snow and heavier bands could develop and this has really blown up by late saturday into the day on sunday we knew we could get hammered by potentially historic storm across the northeast. i want to share some records for the city of boston. their number one nor'easter that brought 27.6 inches of snow could be beat by this storm system. we could see three feet of snow? the boston area. new york city, number one snowstorm, 27.9 inches of snow. we could beat that record in

new york city. we'll track the storm system carefully. one of the concerns i have conditions will really deteriorate as we head into this evening. if anyone is on the roads, with traffic and rush hour, that will be a huge problem across the new york city area and surrounding areas across the tristate. the current radar, the storm system hasn't intensified just yet. it is producing areas of heavy snow across parts of pennsylvania and eastern my. snow is coming down across parts of new jersey and new york city area. look at the computer model, as tonight we'll see very heavy snow developing, blizzard conditions. snowfall rates as much as two to four inches per hour. it will be very tough for crews to keep up with that amount of snowfall. we're likely also going to be experiencing thundersnow. there will be thunder and lightning in the overnight hours. 6:00 a.m. tuesday still blizzard conditions. in new york city in new jersey, all the way through parts of new england. this will be a long lived event.

take a look at the forecast model by 9:00 p.m. tuesday still snowing in new york city still snowing in boston and even snowing up into parts of maine. expect to see at least 24, to 4hours possibly even more for some of you across new england of very heavy snow. here is the forecast totals. as much as 18 to 30 inches in new york city. 24 to more than 30 inches possible in the city of the boston. that's why we do have blizzard warnings for an area of about 600 miles out here. the wind is also going to be a big issue. we could see hurricane gusts across the region. martha? martha: thundersnow, that doesn't sound good. >> no. stay home. martha: thank you very much. bill: if the forecast is right this could beat new york city's snowfall record by several inches. our biggest snowstorm came on february 11th and 12th of 2006. 26.9 inches falling in central park over a 16-hour period. meteorologists classifying the storm as a nor'easter with winds

clocked at 20 to 30 miles per hour if not greater at times. >> the storm already sweeping through the midwest. this video from marysville, ohio showing the snow covering roads overnight. six inches of snow in that area. lots of schools are closed. making it difficult for people trying to get around. best bet not to get around if you possibly can. snowfall is not expected to taper off there until this afternoon when we get walloped here bill. bill: tweet us your photos toes of the blizzard of 2015. include where you live, what part of the country. martha maccallum bill hemmer, at our facebook page "america's newsroom." new york city is a magical place when it snows. 48 hours into it is all slushy and dirty. >> take the pictures while it is dirty and send them along. all right, on to this now, there are new concerns that there are foreign governments pressuring the united states to make concessions on terrorism.

a new report shows the recent release of a confessed al qaeda sleeper agent was part after proposed swap for two americans abroad. bill: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on the story live in washington. good morning. what do we know about al mauri and any deal from the administration? did it happen. >> reporter: after 9/11 he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in peoria illinois. when cops got to his modest bungalow they found a briefcase full of cash. he was held as enemy combatant and transferred to to federal courts in 2009 he pled guilty to helping al qaeda. he was sent to the u.s. as part after second wave of attacks of the allegation this morning qatar offered to swap him for an american couple held by the gulf nation for alleged neglect of their adoptive daughter a charge they neglect. a source familiar with the discussion said qatar made the offer and wanted to do a deal

last year. >> during meetings on matt and grace wang, with the state department u.s. ambassador at the time susan ziedi was in our office talking to some qataris when the qataris floated the idea of a prisoner swap, spill mentioning al mari. >> reporter: when fox news asked the state department about the transfer last week, a spokeswoman there said that they simply had nothing to do with it. for some contacts after his sentencing in 2009, he was given credit for time served. so that would put his release date from supermax in colorado, 2016. not this year, bill. bill: what is the administration position? >> reporter: they said he completed list sentence and got credit for good behavior and escorted by homeland security

agents, a senior advisor to the president defended the transfer. >> i will defer to the justice department on every single case you're bringing up but the overall picture is do everything within our power as the strongest force in the world to keep america safe. he focused on that and that his priority. >> reporter: here is the hinge al-marri is directly connected to the 9/11 architect, khalid sheikh mohammed. a former senior defense official involved in al-marri's case said the transfer would need approvals at the highest levels of the administration. >> whatever reason through intelligence channels, through the doj, through diplomatic channels but ultimately the decision was taken to commute the sentence and allow him to go somewhere else. why? we don't know. >> reporter: so the question is whether even the suggestion of a deal is what may have opened the doors to get that release. as i mentioned the justice department says he got time for good behavior but that said, he

did plead guilty to being connected directly to al qaeda in the second wave of attacks after 9/11 bill. bill: a lot of questions. catherine herridge, thank you in washington. >> you're welcome. martha: that proposed swap is raising fears that the obama administration opened pandora's box when it traded five taliban fighters for army sergeant bo berg gall last year. you remember. that a lot to talk about with kt mcfarland fox news national security analyst and former assistant secretary of defense under president reagan. when this first happened, the almari transfer, when he was released you said on this show there is more to this story than we're hearing right now. >> the problem with all this is, i've seen it happen i have seen a president struggle how do you get your american citizens back, they have a devil's choice to make. they try to get them back. they swap terrorists going back into the fight or pay a ransom to be used by terrorists to continue the fight. it is a dreadful dilemma ever

president is put into. reality if you try to save one life this way by paying ransom or trading hostages you are signing death warrants down the road because all it does is encourage terrorists to take more hostages because they know that that's a currency they can get a lot for in a trade. martha: i thought this comment with regard to the japanese hostage being held by isis and what the white house thinks about this situation and what they recommend the comment made by denis mcdonough to chris wallace this weekend was very interesting. let's replay that. >> i will not get into a conversation about the japanese on your show. i'm not here to talk about to talk about that and i don't anticipate -- >> i take it you view it as another form of ransom? >> that is the way we treated this. martha: he says if they paid if they did a prisoner swap for this remaining hostage that that would be a form of ransom. that is the which we treated it and yet, certainly appears that has become the white house's mo. >> well, look the real problem

was when they swapped the jihadist terrorists at gitmo for bo bergdahl. you don't exchange prisoners during a war. this is a long war. it is a, not a long war of our making. it is a long war of their making there. is a very good and real reason why you don't exchange prisoners, pay ransom or exchange hostages. why? because they to back into the fight. and so, yes, is there a connection between the release of this jihadist prisoner, this al qaeda guy and the family in qatar? well the administration says no. let me tell you i worked for a president who was accused trading hostages for arms and it almost brought down a presidency. there is a very good reason we don't do this we know our allies do. it is a mistake every time. martha: one last question for you, because it is interesting isis calling for release of this woman who was involved in the triple hotel bombings under zarqawi i believe back in 2005. >> right. martha: there is a connection, is there not, between isis and

the roots what was left over of zarqawi's al qaeda division? >> yeah. isis is al qaeda rebranded. it is tougher, meaner, has a little bit of new leadership but it is radical jihad its. they want to get the woman who had a suicide vest. she is not a innocent bystander. no question about her guilt. she had a suicide vest. it didn't go off. they want to trade her. what will she do going back into the hands of al qaeda and isis? she will go back into the fight. she will be a huge pr victory. the jordanians are new front line of radical jihad. they have an x on their back. isis already said that is where they're going next. martha: kt, thank you very much. bill: a single tweet grounding not one but two airplanes. why they say the threats were quote, credible. martha: the president defiant in the face of a republican-controlled congress. chris wallace asking the white house chief of staff a

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the weekend. watch here. [shouting] bill: antigovernment protesters clashing with police back in tahrir square. at least 15 were killed. new violence comes as egypt marks four years since the uprising led to out ofs of former dictator hosni mubarak in 2011. it comes one day after a female protester was shot dead in a protest in downtown. martha: white house chief of staff denis mcdonough defending president obama on a wide range of issues and fueling claims that the president may be living in a different world than the rest of america. >> does president obama realize that he lost the midterm election? >> well what the president realizes, he laid this out in the speech of last night over the course of decades, middle class countries faced unrelenting pressure as costs go up while wages stagnate. >> not really answering that question. katie pavlich is news editor for townhall.com, fox news

contributor. merryian marsh former advisor to secretary of state john kerry. that was odd answer and talked about middle class. president himself said his policies were on the ballot. i would assume that means wait the handled the economy and other things. it appears the american people didn't like the way he was doing things. >> well, that was the 2014 election. we're on to 2016. and 2016 election is much tougher for republicans. they're desperate to win the white house. they have to defend 24 senate seats. as karl rove said in interview the turnout will be much much higher. unless they compromise on issues taxes and inequality, they will lose all of them. mcconnell knows it. boehner knows it. one or two republicans running for president and president obama knows it most of all. martha: denis mcdonough said it is about middle class.

i think marianne is right. that is where the conversation already moved but unbelievable and true. where is your side, katy going to compromise on taxes and economic inequality? >> i think that republicans for the past couple years have done a lost compromising when it comes to president obama's agenda. after years of the president accusing republicans in the house of being a do-nothing congress we'll move forward with the next two years which do matter. put 2016 aside for a minute. the next two years do martie and white house's decisions do matter and president will not do anything. it will be a do nothing white house. bottom line with the middle class, the middle class has been significantly deflated under barack obama's policies. the economy is not where it should be after six years of those policies. for him to say he wants to give middle class a bunch of free stuff is not really free will not solve the problem. the middle class doesn't need the government to help them. they need the government to get out of the way so they can prosper. martha: we'll talk about how he wants to help the middle class

marianne, it comes back to issue of raising taxes. moving money from people who have more of it to people who have less of it. my question to you as chris wallace brought up what percentage is fair if everybody gives fair share for wealthy what percentage? they're paying 55% in most cases, what percentage above that do you think is fair? >> well, two things martha. first and foremost i think you can close a lost loopholes which would make the tax system much more fair. go back to the tax rates under ronald reagan. republicans love ronald reagan. they love his economics. they loved everything that happened when ronald reagan was president. let's go back to those tax rates. martha: but you didn't answer my question and neither did -- >> 128.5? martha: what percentage is fair? for upper income 2.5. martha: in many cases they pay 55% when you combine state and federal taxes. if you want to give more than half your paycheck and that's fair and those people ought to give more i think there is a lot

of people would disagree with that. katy, i watched on "cavuto," they went out and asked people the same question, how much is fair. the president talks all the time about fair share. i don't know, 20% 25% that would be fair. i mean what are we talking about here? >> well the bottom line, martha is that taking from the so-called rich by the way president in his state of the union and in his address and his chief of staff make it sound really like they will give the middle class a tax break right? but in the end it is middle class will pay for all the spending that the taxes and rich can never make up. taking from the rich and giving to others has never been something that is worked out. it will not work under president obama. s it hairnet worked throughout history. and the president's move on this to bring back this class rhetoric, further solidifies he is more interested in his legacy with the american left rather than with the american people as a whole. we'll see that for the next two years through his actions at

white house. martha: john boehner says the idea is dead on arrival. marianne, you're right, i don't think a whole heck of a lot will happen over next two years. that is stood bad for the country. we'll see. marianne katy. thank you very much. bill: critics call it a federal land grab. president obama planning to take control of 12 million-acres in alaska. we'll explain why and where it goes next. martha: hero dad going to bat for his family's safety. >> daddy yelled, lock the door, lock the door. and he wouldn't. >> number one goal in everything is always take care of claire and i. he is a good husband and a good dad.

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martha: new hampshire dad take as big risk to protect his phamly fighting off an escaped prisoner with a kid's t ball

bat. he was building a snowman with his 7-year-old daughter when he saw escapee come out of the woods. >> could see through the trees what seemed to be something orange really. then it came closer and closer. i could see it was a person. >> i heard somebody pounding on our back doors of our home, like trying to enter the home. and at that point my fear was being trapped inside my house and being a hostage with my child and not being able to protect ourselves. we kind of huddled on the front porch, claire and i. martha: scary right? call to nine one one brought the police but their tasers failed to subdue the man. the hero dad finished to subdue him with that bat. wow. bill: growing controversy over a new move by the obama administration that would seek to designate at alaska's arctic wildlife refuge, known as anwar a new classification. this well north of fairbanks.

congress may not to along with it. the designation would eliminate any chance of development or oil drilling in the future. jonah goldberg fox news contributor, senior editor, "national review." you've been to this part of the world as have i. the secretary of the interior said this is part of alaska is like the grand canyon or yosemite. no one goes north of fairbanks. there are no, people, jonah. what is the obsession with northern alaska? >> look in all honesty my brother-in-law my wife is from fairbanks, alaska. there are a handful of people that go hunting up there. there are a few indian villages up there but anwr is the size of south carolina. the amount of space they want to use to drill is about size of dulles airport. that is what the footprint would be. this idea that it is like the grand canyon or yosemite is insane. there are millions of tourists go there every year. bill: to the grand canyon. >> to the grand canyon and

yosemite. and all that. that is not what is going on up there. this is truly wilderness up there. that is one of the reasons why it is a point of fascination for a lot of people on the left. barack obama used the idea that it is pristine as if there are no humans. it is not entirely true. not a lot of people go there and the footprint of actually drilling there would be very small and much safer than offshore drilling or importing foreign oil. but it is this, this romantic idea of this sort of shangri-la kind of thing that no one is ever going to visit somehow captured the american left. bill: lisa murkowski the senator from alaska said this, quote, what is coming is a stunning attack on our sovereignty and ability to develop a strong economist. people talking about the state of alaska. i can not understand why this administration is willing to negotiate with iran and not alaska. you make a very interesting point. just the designation itself

keeps it keeps it protected. unless congress acts, correct. >> right. so what's going on is, you know obama is officially asking congress to digs nate it a wilderness. congress, this congress will never, ever, do. that the problem is that once the federal government asks for that designation, it automatically sort of goes into equivalent of escrow. and it can't be touched or develop and forces congress to sign off on this one way or the other, effectively defacto getting exactly what obama wants anyway. murkowski is entirely right. the amount of land in alaska is privately held is 1%. this is a state that is four times the size of california and only 1% of it is privately held this administration wants to basically, you know, the reason why obama is not negotiating with alaskans because he doesn't negotiate with anybody. this is another one of these unilateral moves. it is legacy padding and truly

outrageous and alaskans deserve to be mad. bill: to anwar we go. forget about yosemite and yellowstone and the grand canyon. jonah goldberg. thank you. martha: 2016 republican hopefuls potential candidates taking iowa by storm according to some reports. the latest on who really did that up there on that stage and who was not there at all. bill: also details on a huge mountain-sized asteroid is expected to zoom past us today. martha: really? a lot of things coming at us lately. bill: a little too close for comfort. ♪

>> a drone was discovered at the white house. the president and the first lady are in india but the big question is who put this drone, flew it over toward the white

house and landed it on the lawn and why? kevin joins us from the white house. what do we know about all of this so far kevin? >> well so far what we do know it's a quad copter. that's commonly referred to as a drone and given the size of the device here found at the white house overnight, it's likely the kind that you can buy at any hobby shop. overnight it was a very active scene here at the white house. in fact, that's continued. in fact, all morning long we've seen secret service personnel combing the grounds, making sure there are no similar devices here in the area. while we have a moment let me show you what secret service spokesman is saying about what was found here overnight. at approximately 3:08 a.m., a secret service uniformed division officer post the on the southbound side saw and heard a quad copter device flying at a very low altitude and ultimately crashing on the southeast side of the complex. now, we do have obviously very good news t. doesn't appear to

have been a dangerous event and with the first daughters here and they're fine that's of paramount concern to the secret service but it's interesting to point out given the size of this one, this could be anything. you probably know this these drones can range in size from a tenth of a pound all the way up to hundreds and they could range up to thousands of dollars if you buy one. so far, so good. we'll keep an eye on what happens with the investigation. for now, back to you. >> kevin, thank you very much. >> battle lines shaping up in iowa. potential candidates for the white house seeking to support conservatives in that state. scott walker chris christie ted cruz among the bold faced names in des moines over the weekend. two leading contenders jeb bush and mitt romney they were no shows as were marco rubio and ronned rand paul over the weekend. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> you ran huckabee's winning campaign in 2008.

this is a discerning audience in iowa. what are folks in iowa looking for, ed? >> they want someone that basically is a crew conservative. the 1200 people that showed up at this nine or 10 hour event the most die hard possible. who would sit there and listen to all day speeches on a saturday? i wouldn't but i give them very credit. they're volunteers. but what happens at the events is they drag you to the right. you have to be more and more conservative and you can't be a moderate and you can't be a centrist and it was not a george bush crowd or a jeb bush crowd but at the end of the day, jeb bush was out raising lots of money and that's equally as important. >> when i come back to you, i want to get your take on who did well but joe, first, last hour karl rove told martha you do not want to pander when you go to iowa. what is your experience? >> that is exactly right. look. what happens is the candidate comes through iowa it's like the circus is coming to town.

and so you get a lot of people to come and it really matters once they're there that you got something to say and i think ed is right about this event. you know, this was catering more to the real conservative wing of the party. last time you saw romney win santorum did very well with conservatives. the huckabee campaign that ed ran was like fantastic for iowa. it attracted people and huckabee had something to say and he didn't pander. he was real and he was authentic and that's key in that state. >> you know ed, when you think about the current list at the moment, who is a huckabee? >> huckabee has to be looked at as a favorite son. if he doesn't win iowa his candidacy is probably over. wisconsin did extremely well and while everybody else was talking about what they would do if

they're president, he said this is what i've done in a liberal state. i've backed unions away restored economic stability to the state and he came off as doing extremely well so my sense is he probably got into the mix of viable candidates just off of this one performance. >> he won three elections in four years in a blue state. you've got a record there. joe, react to this. chris christie governor from new jersey now. >> let me ask you this. if i was too blunt, too direct too loud and too new jersey for iowa, then why do you people keep inviting me back? >> he teed it up well, joe. >> i thought chris christie did himself a lot of good at this event. and i think it's because the expectations, when you exceed expectations in iowa that matters. i think jeb bush may be able to do this too, because i think people had expectation that he's -- it's george bush again but you know i think people will find out that's not true.

i think chris christie you get people in that room that circus comes to town and he is in the front of that room. he's going to win people over. don't underestimate him. >> just his presence in that room is significant. i have to only say this. >> everybody gets invited. donald trump who may not even be republican anymore, basically shows up on the show. >> he was there. a lot of applause too. ed you think four did well. name them. >> huckabee was the last candidate to speak on the day and he did very well. i think perry did very well. i think walker did very very well. and, you know some others may have done equally as well but i think the ones who came out -- and obviously ted cruz is a god -- great performer and i think was one of the stars, too. >> thanks. >> i think carley did well. >> she had one great line joe. she

did well for herself. >> all right. you don't remember the line? >> no. the one thing i want to say, though, about ed is huckabee had such a great campaign in 2004 that i would sneak out of my dean headquarters to go to his event. he was really great candidate. >> well done. >> huckabee is a great candidate. he really is. >> thank you. see you gois real soon. >> so the f.b.i. is looking into a new wave of bomb threats after two planes landing in atlanta were searched for explosives and three others flying to orlando and seattle were disrupted over similar threats. we have more on this so william, what's going on here? >> blame it on social media. five flights over the weekend evacuated because of security threats on twitter and social media. on sunday a jet blue and sky west flight landed in seattle. officials parked both planes away from the terminal. the passengers evacuated and then busted a gate while police

inspected lug aiming-- luggage for bombs. they targeted both flights as well as an earlier flight diverted to dallas. in each case the threats considered credible but police did not find any explosives. >> the pilot came on and said i was just told just now that there's -- he said there was a credible threat to this plane. then everybody paid attention. he said credible threat to this plane and we're going to wait here for the police. >> right now the f.b.i. is trying to determine if those threats are linked but they're not releasing a lot of information because they don't want to inspire copy cats. >> of course they don't. so we understand on saturday that jets were actually scrambled to intercept two flights, right? >> they scrambled out of south carolina to escort two flights into atlanta after the f.b.i. said the twitter handle king zortek made 10 threats against southwest and delta. one said and i'm quoting, i

have a bomb on one of your planes. can you help me find it? it was smuggled through a back entrance because the airport didn't have much security. everyone will know when it's detonated. a second tweet to southwest air said this. a bomb was placed on southwest 2492. it will be detonated at a random time of my choosing and if anything happens to me i'll make sure that more flights are targeted. i strongly suggest you don't try anything stupid. fwiter said it may disclose a user's account in response to a valid law enforcement request. they will evaluate that on a case to case basis. f.b.i. told me that twitter is being cooperative. no arrest as of yet but this affects thousands of people. not just those on the planes but think of the thousands in the air who can't land. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> obama administration under fire concerned about what's happening in yemen. we'll talk to a counterterrorism expert about what's happening there. >> and a snow boarder survives

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>> some breaking news. spokes men for the islamic state renewing calls for attacks in the west saying, quote we will see you on the ground. we will defeat you here in attack you in your land. he's encouraging more lone wolfs, more attacks and pointed to deadly incidents in paris. belgium and australia saying any loyalist who has the opportunity to quote, shed a drop of blood should do so. that word from beirut just a short time ago. >> so the security situation in yemen is heading downhill with

the collapse of the pro u.s. government there but the white house says it will not hurt our efforts to fight al qaeda or acap as it's known in the area and there's no need to change the strategy. john mccain claimed the administration on that for failing to recognize what he says is a degreeing threat -- growing threat. >> i'm afraid that he and the president have lost touch with reality. iran is on the march throughout in yemen. it's not aqap that's taken over the government. it's the others who are backed and supported by the iranian. >> we have the former counterterrorism chief for the state department. god to have you here today, dan. you heard the exchange between bob scheffert and john mccain. >> this development has been long in the making.

they took over in september. they've been making gains for several months but this is not something the u.s. could halt without itself intervening in yemen and i don't think that was something that anyone would have supported. >> so obviously acap is a serious threat and this is their main territory in yemen. how does it affect our ability to have intelligence on the ground, to understand what is going on there and to thwart any planning they might have? >> obviously this is going to hurt our ability to equip and train yemeni security forces but we have good intelligence coming out of yemen and all kinds of assets for air power so we can disrupt plots as they are hatched and it's important to remember that aqap will be very busy fighting but that said chaos is the natural element for terrorist organizations and this

is going to make the matter more difficult for the united states. >> yeah. it's a good point about aqap and that will occupy a lot of time and energy perhaps in that area but you make a larger point about how this demonstrates the battle that's going on in this whole region between the saudis and iran. what do you see there? >> this is a struggle that has been shaping up since the islamic revolution in 1979 and both side have tried many different strategies pumped enormous amounts of money into different groups and it's coming to a head now. they let loose forces that were very, very great much larger than anything that we could easily deal with and it's really not in the first instance about us. but we see this in iraq, we see it in syria. we see it in yemen. we see it in bahrain. the sectarian conflict is the

defining feature of this moment in the middle east and that is something that we need to adapt our strategy to recognize. >> all right. dan, thank you very much. good to be with you today. >> jon scott is coming up next. kicking off a whole new week. >> i have something you do not have which is a window in my studio. >> that's a true story >> and we have a blizzard out there. a potentially difficult problem. 1700 flights cancelled. our weather team is out in force. plus the wide open race for the white house and a growing republican field as christie and walker make waves and iowa gathering makes news and president obama again pokes congress. we have it all coming up "happening now." >> good deal. thanks. stay inside. we have a monitor up here. you speak the truth. >> it's starting to get deep out there. >> get out the telescope. a huge asteroid zipping past

earth today. it will get close. how close, you ask?

>> that was beautiful. that will wake you up right? big sign over hollywood bringing headaches for people nearby. crowds meander through the neighborhoods by car and foot. local officials responded with parking restrictions and electronic gate to a popular hiking trail but the crowds keep coming. of course they do. it's a tourist attraction. they shouldn't live there if they don't want the people to see the sign. get over it.

>> scientists keeping their eye on a massive asteroid that's expected to fly by today. phil keating is live in miami looking up. when is the best time to view said asteroid? >> the closest this ais roadwayed will be next to the planet is in about 13 minutes by now. however, the best time to view this will be after sunset about three hours after tonight. that's according to astronomers at nasa's near earth objects program. here is a look at the trajectory of this massive asteroid. it is named 2004 bl 86. it is huge. the size of a mountain about a third of a mile wide. it is on the same orbit plane as earth is going around the sun and right now it is just about three times the distance of the earth and the moon. so that's pretty close. in fact, the closest an asteroid of this size will fly by us for the next 12 years.

>> you don't know what to expect, that is one of those wonders of science that you go in there and you can't wait to be surprised. >> astronomers worldwide really hope to learn a lot from this and several web soois will be connecting to the powerful observatory in the canary islands and you can watch a webcast of this very close fly-by for free. >> can you see with the naked eye or not in the daytime? >> very doubtful. it's possible you would be able to see it with some good binoculars binoculars. you're looking east. it's going to be going from south to north. the bigger and better your telescope, the bigger and better your chances are to see this asteroid which at its peak brightness will reach magnitude plus nine. that's a little dimmer than the planet neptune. in europe and africa they have the best chance to see it. the best time to see it will be when it's dark out, 8:00 p.m. to

1:00 a.m. eastern time tonight. and critically important here this mammoth asteroid is not going to hit planet earth. humanity will be spared. >> we have to live through the storm now. don't we? >> we're more about the blizzard. >> funny he added that detail for us that we don't have to be worried about hitting this. we come up with words when we cover these stories. it's going to hit a few hours from now in this area. you can see it's a big, big storm. it's going to be one of the major issues with the storm. how bad can it get? we'll give you the very latest. ld. ♪ ♪ but to get from the old way to the new you'll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps business move

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lightning in general. >> good for you. he'll have a good day then. steve writes so far so good here in destin florida. yeah. enjoy that. >> 26 million of us. >> as long as the power stays on i'm all good. >> see you tomorrow. >> have a great day. jon: fox news alert as weather conditions deteriorate in the northeast. massive storm system already dumping snow across several states. good morning to you. hope you're staying warm. i'm jon scott. jenna: and i'm jenna lee. power is one of the big concerns out there today. blizzard warnings stretching hundreds of miles from new jersey to maine. potentially historic storm system is forecasted to bring several feet of snow. the big problem here are the hurricane force winds that everyone is expecting. with the latest on