you are waggish. and we're hoping you're not offended by the word. thanks for watching. ms. megyn is next. please remember the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. breang tonight, critics trying to rewrite history with the administration insisting the taliban is not a terror group. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. i'm megyn kelly. we begin tonight with a couple dramatic new events in the raging debate over how the obama administration is dealing with radical islam. just hours ago the white house spokesman declared that the taliban was not a terror group but was instead a "armed insurgency." this is the same organization that just a few weeks ago stormed a schoolhouse in pakistan and murdered 132 school children. school children. the obama administration issued an edict a few years back

banning the words jihad and islamic extremism from its national security discussions. and now the administration seems to find itself in lockstep with al jazeera english, the middle eastern news network here in america that al gore helped bring to the usa when he sold them his television outlet current tv. as it turns out al jazeera english has a real problem with the english part of its name, certain words like terrorists and islamist "one person easter ris is another person's freedom fighter" executives there explained. i am not making this up. with all this playing out we have new fox news polls tonight showing what real americans think with 56% of respondents saying we are at war with radical islam. 47% saying the president underestimates the threat. and in the third poll 84% say they think the terrorists will try to launch an attack on u.s. soil and soon. trace gallagher has the story from our west coast newsroom

tonight. trace. >> megyn white house deputy press secretary eric schultz was asked if the jordanian government's plan to make a prisoner trade with the islamic state was similar to the u.s. swapping five members of the taliban for sergeant bowe bergdahl. first, schultz said we don't negotiate with terrorists. and then he said this. listen. >> i don't think that the taliban -- the taliban is an armed insurgency. this was the winding down of the war in afghanistan and that's why this arrangement was dealt. >> except as you stated we now know the taliban are still conducting terror attacks. and listen to what charles krauthammer said earlier on "special report." >> it slits throats, it attacks buses, it drives car bombs into markets. and it's not a terrorist group. look, you can't parody this administration. >> and in the new fox news poll the american people are speaking louder than krauthammer.

asked about the obama administration's policy toward hot spots in the middle east 54% say it has mostly failed. 29% say it has mostly succeeded. many also cite the administration's hesitation to call terror terror. this comes at the very same time we're learning the news nedwork al jazeera america will also not use the words terrorism or terrorist because as one executive explained in an e-mail, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. we could not find any freedom fighters whose goal was to attack innocent men, women and children. bring attention to "key words" that have a tendency to trip us up. instead of extremist, employees are told to use violent group and the word jihad is out because claiming it does not mean holy war. other words are also to be avoided like militants radicals and insurgents will now be simply referred to as fighters.

but there is an exception when it comes to using the word militant "we can use this word to describe the individuals who favor confrontational or violent methods in support of a political or social cause," which confuses me because i thought those were freedom fighters. megyn. >> you got to bend over backwards to be very protective and fair to those terrorists. they get very upset when they hear themselves referred to in those terms. trace, thank you. we have new political fallout 24 hours after three retired four-star generals appear before the u.s. senate armed services committee and told lawmakers that u.s. policy to defeat radical islam is failing because we don't even name the enemy as radical islam. last night one of those generals, jack keane, came on "the kelly file" after his testimony. >> u.s. pollicymakers refuse to name the movement as radical islam. we choose further not to define it nor explain its ideology. and most critical we have no

comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it. it was bipartisan support that we don't have a strategy to deal with this this menace that's growing in front of us. and we better put something together to deal with it. >> earlier tonight i spoke to retired four-star general wesley clark who served as nato supreme commander and former candidate for the democratic party's nomination for candidate. he's also author of "don't wait for the next war, a." wait until you hear what he had to say on this. general, great to see you. >> thank you megyn. >> when general keane says radical islam is the enemy, do you agree? >> well, i agree with a lot of what jack keane says. he's an old friend of mine. and he's a very smart and experienced leader. now, i think we do have a real threat from extremist interpretations of islam that are reflected by groups like isis, but but it's also true

that there's a tremendous geostrategic struggle going on in the middle east right now. >> okay, but before we get to that, i just want to start with the question of because we heard this from general flynn who rammed the agency he recently retired over the summer and slammed the administration for not using the term islamic militants. and he said we cannot defeat an enemy that you do not admit exists. do you agree with that? >> yeah i do agree with that. but i think it's not just radical islam. because radical islam is used. we, the united states used radical islam to fight the soviets in afghanistan. we begged the saudis to put the money in. they did. >> okay but that's -- >> this is all part of this. >> what these guys seem to be saying is we have an administration now that won't even call it what it is out of political correctness, out of fear of offending somebody. keane believes out of just fear about what happened in afghanistan and iraq and that we

cannot be controlled by fear right now in facing this enemy. >> well, of course we can't be controlled by fear, but you're not going to deal effectively with this threat unless you understand what the source of it is. it's not just the zealousness of radical islam. it's fed and fueled by the geostrategic ambitions of powers in the region. >> uh-huh. but what he -- but what he was trying to say because our viewers watched this segment and we got a lot of feedback on it. what general keane was trying to say is that the policy that these other generals say has failed is retreat, disengagement. and he went through the examples. let's just go through quickly. did we miss an opportunity in syria or didn't we? >> we could have done a lot more with the moderate syrians than we did. >> did we miss an opportunity in libya, or did we not? >> you know the trouble in libya was we had a partial

opposition but it wasn't a strong and unified opposition. >> we did? so general keane is wrong on that? >> that's right. we did support them. >> should we have left anybody there to maintain the gains our troops had won? >> i would like to have kept a residual force in iraq if we had the right status of forces agreement. what you have to understand about this criticism is that it was iran behind the scenes with the maliki regime, which no matter what the united states had done with the negotiations iran was going to find a way to wedge us out. >> why make it easy for them? >> right. and so -- >> why won't the administration refer to it as radical islam? >> you're going to have to ask a spokesman -- >> are they wrong not to? >> i'm just -- >> why -- are they being too politically correct? because it irritates people when they see that. six out of ten americans -- >> i want them to understand --

>> no -- yes, it is about religion. don't tell me this has nothing to do with islam. it does. >> yes, of course. but let me explain what people in the region will tell you. if you ask them, say what's going on with isis. you know what they'll tell you, they'll say very candidly, the only people that will fight the iranians and the shia and hezbollah are these zealous religious nuts. and all the sunni powers were using them. they created a frankenstein in the region. >> what should the united states be doing? because their problem is now our problem. >> got to put special forces in. you've got to use local forces on the ground. you've got to use u.s. air power. you've got to contain it. you've got to work with al slylyies in the region. >> do you believe as general keane suggested this is the naziism of our time?

>> i know that there's a threat from this religious interpretation, this extremist interpretation of islam yeah. is it the communism of our time? not unless it's backed by states. but what i'm trying to explain is the states have created this. and there are allies. >> so what's the answer then? >> you've got to have a broad approach to this. it's military it's diplomatic, it's economic it's ideological and you've got to get the sunni islamic states themselves like saudi arabia to speak out forcefully against isis and against their interpretation of it. >> uh-huh. great to see you. >> thank you. >> joining me now with more an iraq and afghanistan war veteran, ceo of concerned veterans for america and fox news contributor. pete, good to see you. >> good to see you.

>> does it matter? we've got the taliban, they're not terrorists now, the administration won't refer to radical extremists. and radical islam as far as they're concerned is not the enemy. >> you cannot defeat an enemy you will not define. if you do not define them you can't build a comprehensive strategy to defeat them. general clarke talked about a strategy, that starts with a fundamental understanding of the enemy and what motivates them. you talked about the population that supports them. that's the big problem. it's not just the radicals pulling triggers, it's a massive people sympathetic to the rad call islamic -- >> but we're alive with these people. like he was trying to say it's much more complicated than i was suggesting because these are our allies like saudi arabia who are funding some of this. >> he's right on that part. a lot of regimes purport to be our allies but behind the scenes fund radicals as a safety belt because they repress their own people. there's a lot of radical and sunni issues going on. but telling them forcing their

hand you feed a cycle of sunni and shia violence that only assists the violence. >> there's a huge -- pulling out of places like iraq prematurely, those vacuums don't stay empty. >> by the way, general clarke was never supportive, that's counterhistory. anyone who believes in -- needs to read general jack keane's testimony where he talks about communism and naziism. he lays it out. >> we've posted it on our facebook page. i recommend it too because it's fascinating reading. obviously he sees things differently than general clark, which is why we wanted both points of view. attorney general took heat over her support for the president's executive orders on immigration. wait until you see what she said about them. up next, the man asking some of the tough questions, senator jeff sessions is here. plus, breaking news on the media and 2016 with governor huckabee tonight accusing a popular website of making up quotes

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sentence with attorney general nominee loretta lynch suggesting she'll be different than her predecessor. shannon, a big sticking point today, immigration. >> you're absolutely right, megyn. it came up again and again as senators said they were less concerned about lynch's past and more about her future. they wanted to know if she plans to follow the path of current attorney general eric holder and whether she'll tell the president no if she believes he's exceeding his authority. senator sessions repeatedly asked lynch what she thinks of the president's recent unilateral action on immigration. here's their exchange. >> who has more right to a job in this country, a lawful immigrant who's here, a green card holder or a citizen, or a person who enters the country unlawfully? >> well, senator, i believe that the right and the obligation to work is one that's shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here and certainly if someone is here regardless of status i would prefer they be participating in the workplace than not

participating in the workplace. >> that answer seemed to shock a lot of people given that the attorney general is the nation's top law enforcement officer and that it's a federal crime for an employer to hire someone who is not in this country legally. texas republican ted cruz also wanted to talk about the administration's position on drones whether it's illegal to use them on american citizens on u.s. soil and he didn't like her answer. >> i'm disappointed that like attorney general holder, you are declining to give a simple straightforward answer and in fact what i think is the obvious answer of no, the federal government cannot use lethal force from a drone to kill an american citizen on american soil if that individual doesn't pose an imminent threat. >> other topics include fast and furious and irs targeting of conservative groups. in many cases lynch was diplomatic declining to comment often saying she didn't have enough information. >> all right shannon, thank you. joining me now, senator jeff

sessions republican, member of the subcommittee on immigration. great to see you tonight sir. to those at home listening to that answer on immigration say well, i guess it's better if the illegal immigrants who are here work rather thanng around doing nothing. as ms. lynch suggested. what say you? >> well, we don't have enough jobs for the american people here today. when i ask her about competition, what if two people go to apply for a truck driver's job and one is unemployed american and one is illegal immigrant just last week given legal status by the president of the united states -- unlawfully given that status, and they compete and he loses that job? we've got to ask ourselves who it is this government is representing. are we representing the interests of american who is are hurting today effectively who are having a difficult time of having jobs whose wages are down? and i think that this

administration and her statement really opened up and showed what they really believe about this. they're as committed to finding jobs for illegal people in our country today as they are people who are here lawfully. >> she ultimately tried to couch it by saying well, we want everyone to seek employment. but we do have in place a legal framework that requires employers to not hire people who aren't citizens. did that assuage your concerns at all? >> megyn, it clearly does not. what she was basically saying and really did say overtly, well, she's talking about the 5 million the president is giving legal status to a social security number, participation able to take any job in the american workforce. when i ask her would those people that he provides legal status to would american workers have a chance to object. she really didn't answer.

and i asked her how they would handle it if those american workers, lawful workers, sued because someone else who was here unlawfully took their job? so she didn't have a good answer for that. i would just say that fundamentally she openly advocated for the providing of scarce jobs in america to those who are here illegally. >> do you think that there's any chance that ms. lynch will not be confirmed? >> well i think there's some chance of it, yes. we've got to think this through. congress has a right to defend itself and its legitimate powers. the president ask it to pass certain immigration laws and congress refused. so he's doing it anyway. he's not just not using -- he's not just using prosecutorial discretion, megyn. what he's providing is work authorization, social security benefits and medicare that congress has just rejected. >> i know. she also told you that she thinks his executive action was

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from the world headqdquarters of fox news it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. well first lady michelle obama's visit to saudi arabia has set off a big debate with both sides focused on what she chose not to wear. trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom with the story. trace. >> well, it was a head scarfing, megyn. in 2010 in jakarta she did wear a head scarf and some thought

this was more than a fashion statement. the headline in "the washington post" said, and i'm quoting here make no mistake michelle obama just made a bold political statement in saudi arabia. republican texas senator ted cruz gave her a hats off tweeting kudos to the first lady for standing up for women and refusing to wear sharia mandated head scarf in saudi arabia. turns out she might not have been making any kind of statement at all considering other prominent women in attendance like condoleezza rice and nancy pelosi didn't wear head scarves either. and former first ladies laura bush and hillary clinton also did not wear head scarsfves when they visited. the white house was also asked about it today. watch. >> i will say that the first lady very much enjoyed her visit to both india and saudi arabia. she felt like she was warmly welcomed by the king there. they had a very good discussion.

>> turns out there was a collective yawn from arab groups in the u.s. as well. the american arab association of new york said it would be unfair to characterize the first lady's appearance as a statement of feminism, so the controversy appears to have been short lived. megyn. >> trace thank you. breaking news on the white house versus israel after speaker john boehner sits down with our own bret baier. >> do you think there's some type of antipathy in this administration towards netanyahu? >> of course there is. they don't even try to hide it. >> up next, the president, the prime minister and new reports about a former obama campaign staffer reportedly trying to defeat benjamin netanyahu. plus, governor huckabee was hammered in the headlines for his comments on trashy women who curse. he is here in a "the kelly file" exclusive to set the record straight about who he was talking about, who he was not. >> in new york not only do the

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breaking tonight, a new deadline from isis for a proposed prisoner swap. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live tonight in washington. catherine. >> megyn, the 25-second audio clip warns the prisoner swap must happen by sunset thursday iraq time or the jordanian pilot will die, but tonight there's confusion on the jihadi forum with another isis-linked account reporting japanese and jordanian hostages are already dead though there's no independent confirmation of either claim. earlier today this countdown clock with only seconds remaining was posted on social media. and on the left a screen grab from a recent isis propaganda video that showcased execution.

jordan's administration said they're willing to swap this woman, part of a 2005 attack on three hotels that killed 60 people for the jordanian pilot who was captured on december 24th. but first the jordanians are asking for a proof of life. street demonstrations in that country have shown how much pressure the jordanian government is under to secure the pilot's release. and the obama administration also found itself under pressure today to explain what looks like a double standard. how is jordan proposed swap for its pilot any different than the administration's decision to trade sergeant bowe bergdahl for five taliban prisoners at began taun mo. >> the president's bedrock -- leave no man or woman behind. that's the principle he was operating under. >> isn't that what the jordanians are operating under? the taliban is still conducting terrorist attacks so you can't say the war is ended as far as

they're concerned. >> well, i also point out the taliban is an armed insurgency isil is a terrorist group. we don't make concessions to terrorist groups. >> but this document from the u.s. government's national counterterrorism center states the exact opposite. it lists the afghan taliban under terrorist groups, megyn. >> catherine thank you. >> you're welcome. the reporters wanted to follow-up with eric schultz on that but he had to go off to his junior prom so they had to leave it at that. looks like he's 14 years old. also tonight, speaker john boehner fielding new questions over the controversy that erupted when he invited the israeli prime minister to speak to congress about the threat from iran. neither mr. boehner nor the israelis consulted with the white house which accused them of a breach of decorum. within days israeli media was quoting unnamed administration officials here as saying "there will be a price to pay" for

doing that. earlier tonight bret baier questioned the speaker of the house all about it on "special report". >> are you surprised about the pushback by your invite of the israeli prime minister to speak to congress? >> oh, not really. i believe that the prime minister of israel has a strong voice. he believes that the threat of the iranians having a nuclear weapon is a very serious threat. israeli prime minister can also talk with some expertise about the growing threat of radical islam. we've got a serious problem in the world and the president just wants to act like it's going to just disappear. and so as a co-equal branch of our government, i don't have any problem at all in doing what i did to invite the prime minister to come to congress and address those concerns. >> do you think there's some kind of antipathy in this administration towards netanyahu? >> of course there is. they don't even try to hide it.

>> joining me now rich lowry, fox news contributor and editor of the national review and also former presidential campaign manager and fox contributor. good to be with you both. >> speaking of invitations megyn, i don't think you're going to get one to the white house any time soon after that prom crack. >> he looks like a child. kudos to him for rising up the ranks so quickly, but i think he started shaving last week. all right. enough on poor mr. schultz. rich, start with you. notwithstanding the accusation that there's open antipathy they don't like each other. that's what they mean. the white house responded today saying the relationship is as solid as ever. is that true? >> that's ridiculous. it's completely absurd. everyone knows they've hated netanyahu from the beginning. they're basically openly rooting at the beginning for someone else to take power in israel. they can't stand this guy personally. they can't stand him aud

logically. imagine if ted cruz were the prime minister of israel that's how they regard netanyahu. >> they say they're fine, they don't want anything to do with the israeli election yet we have reports jeremy bird who was the field general for obama's re-election campaign is helping in israel elect netanyahu's opponent and to replace the current government there. pure coincidence? >> yeah. there's no way that jeremy bird has anything to do with what the white house wants or doesn't want. >> you don't think he would have made a phone call saying, hey valerie, is this cool? >> absolutely not. first of all i've been in this situation, you don't ask for permission, you ask forgiveness later on. this is a very lucrative contract, he's a hot commodity, one of the best out there. in 1993 megyn right after clinton got elected car vel went to work for the prime minister of greece, i went to work for the opposition in greece and we had a knock down drag out in

that year. i'm guaranteeing neither one of us checked with the clinton white house about that. you don't do that. it doesn't happen. >> let me ask you a follow-up before i go back to rich. there's a group connected to the group jeremy's working with. and that group has received over $200,000 of taxpayer money from the state department. should they be forced to return that money? >> i have no idea who the group is. >> one voice is the group that received the -- name of the group is -- >> i'm just saying, do you believe that since this group has gotten $200,000 partnering with a group to bring down netanyahu should be forced to return the $200,000 to the taxpayers? >> i don't know enough about that to know the answer to that. what i mean you know we have different committees here that have a charity and a political pac. >> i'm saying money all goes in the same pot. you tell me whether this is a political problem, because

there's a lot of taxpayers here that don't want their money going to a group while seemed fine now turns out to be a man americans really like and support. >> i agree depends exactly what the money is for. joe makes a point that's telling here. he says, he goes to work for one side in greece and someone else goes to work for the other side. i bet you cannot find anyone significant around president obama who would ever go to work for b.b. netanyahu. which again goes to the animosity they have to this man personally and for the point of view he represents. if the administration were more self-confident in what it's doing with iran, it would say please, come address congress. let's hear your point of view. because we're going to cut a deal that's going to be so awesome and it's going to put away this nuclear deal, this nuclear program forever. you're going to support it as well. the administration knows that's not true. everyone knows the administration is desperate to cut a deal and it's going to be a rotten papered over deal if they do get iran to sign. >> by the way, joe, i think if i

don't misunderstand you, you're not saying you like somebody else here are more of like a soulless lawyer type, you don't care. >> joe trip -- hired gun. >> look in the uk right now, jim macino one of the top people for obama working for cameron axelrod and gibbs are working -- >> who's working for netanyahu? >> no one. >> good question. >> i'm just saying netanyahu, look, there are people on both, all sides doing this. what i'm saying netanyahu he's the one that hires people. he hasn't asked me to work for him. >> he will if he's smart. but let me ask you this rich why would the administration other than the fact the procedure was "odd" as jen psaki put it to me in getting mr. netanyahu invited they bypassed the white house. so other than feeling like they were dissed, why would the white

house care that netanyahu is going to come over here and address congress? >> well they shouldn't. here you have iran who either with its forces directly or through proxies is in the process of taking over four countries in the middle east. lebanon, yemen, syria and iraq. just today iran supported terrorist group hezbollah kills two israeli soldiers and we're all having fainting fits over the prime minister of israel, an ally, coming here to talk about our enemies and the iranian nuclear program? it is completely absurd and goes again to this deep animosity they feel to be b.b. netanyahu because they completely reject his world view because it's much too, in my mind, too tough minded and realistic for them. >> joe, marc thiessen was making the point earlier this week that the way we've heard the white house officials mostly off the record but quoted in respectable publications talking about netten kwanet n netanyahu netanyahu, he's a chicken, blank, embarrassing. really condemnation from every

corner. his point was do they talk that way about the leader of iran? i mean, they seem to save it for the leader of israel. >> well, look i don't think they should be talking that way off the record or in background. if you're going to say that say it on the record and get your name attached to it. none of them are going to do that. it's wrong. they shouldn't have done it. they shouldn't be doing it now. look, there's animosity. there's no question about that. what i'm arguing is that there's no way that jeremy bird or operatives were sent into israel to somehow defeat netanyahu. they're there because they were hired to do something. and by the way, i've been on teams where the republicans -- you know in italy, frank luntz and i worked on a -- >> what? my head is going to explode. >> i know. this is very normal -- it's not out of the ordinary. >> i would love to see those focus groups. i bet they were wonderful. >> next we'll find out that

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and for a woman to say them in a professional setting we would only assume this is a very as we would say in the south, that's just trashy. >> joining me now in a "the kelly file" exclusive governor mike huckabee. author of the brand new book "god guns, grits and gravy" which will debut on the "new york times" best seller list on february 8th. when i saw that quote about you allegedly taking a shot at trashy women who swear at the fox news channel according to politico, of course i assumed you were referring to this. joining me now, former arkansas governor mike huckabee who is the host of [ bleep ] here on fox news channel and also former republican candidate. so, as it turns out you were not. >> no, i wasn't. megyn, you're the only one who's used that word in front of me at fox like that. >> and millions of others. >> you know, here's the interesting thing. this book has validated

everything that i intended it to validate and the reaction to it from some of the elites -- well, here's the thing. the whole point is there's this cultural divide between people who live in the bubbles of new york, washington and hollywood and people who live out here in the land of what i call god, guns, grits and gravy. so i write a chapter called the culture of crude. it's not directed to any particular person but to the general culture and how different it is. and the conversation that you played was an interview talking about it. most of these people who criticize have never read it. and i never said anything about the women at fox news who are by the way lovely and delightful. >> not trashy. >> everything i've said about fox news in that book, and there's several things i say in the book about fox, and they're all lovely. so here's the point, as many people hate the message of this book as hate fox news. and fox news speaks to the people and speaks for the people out here in the land of god

guns, grits and gravy. i'm convinced megyn one of the reasons there's so much venom pointed toward fox is because fox is the voice of and for a lot of the people out here in flyover country. >> you spoke of your disdain for women and men for that matter, but singled out women particularly for swearing in the workplace. talking about your time when working in new york politico ran with that saying you were calling fox news trashy which is an assumption that made but then later clarified it and corrected it to say not women at fox news, it says women in new york if you go to that website. so is that an honest mistake? >> no. it was an utterly fabricated lie upon the writer at politico. unless he was just too lazy to read the chapter in the book he was trying to talk about. clearly he had not read it because if he had read it he knew there was no way he could have drawn that conclusion.

let me give compliments to folks like the daily caller who themselves did go read the chapter and called out politico, thus they had to go back and correct their story, change their headline and realize they had really messed up. >> do you think they saw an opportunity here? not only would they love to take shots at fox news and the ladies, but they want to paint you as sort of thissin inan akronistic culturally irrelevant guy so this is an opportunity to make a distinction between -- you know in the book you long for the days of goldie hon, your thoughts. >> i was a kid during that time. >> there she is. >> a lot of things weren't suggested, they were explicit. but what we have now is really a culture that is so explicitly crude and it's intentionally

crude. my point in the book is that a lot of people who live in their own bubbles do not see the culture the same way that people do in the land of god, guns grits and gravy. that's the point. and whether it's related to firearms, whether it's related to the way we speak -- >> i got it. >> that's the point megyn. >> well, i do have news for you before i let you go. >> yes. >> we are not only swearing, we're drinking smoking, we're having premarital sex, birth control and sometimes -- >> i just don't want to hear that. >> sorry. that's just the reality, gov. talk to you soon. thanks for being here. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!" then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement, we'll pay for a car that's a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles

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areas of the northeast that were just hard hit in this recent blizzard. parts of massachusetts still digging out tonight from a few feet of snow and flooding along the coast. fox news correspondent molly line is in massachusetts with more. >> boston residents digging out today, cars and roads buried after the area was blanketed with more than two feet of snow. people navigating some wicked conditions when they headed outside. >> when i walked out the stairs i saw snow was up, you had to feel your way. >> cambridge street terrible. it was very icy. people were getting stuck there. >> reporter: meteorologists taking a lot of criticism for incorrectly predicting snow totals in the new york philadelphia areas. but forecasts for coastal areas from long island up to new england were mostly correct. the recovery may take some time. this was the largest storm to hit boston in january on record. temperatures in the city expected to be below freezing for a week. and more snow may be on the way. >> we have 850 miles of streets.

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