behind. all the money comes to chris kyle's foundation. pete scobell will be in the after show. >> former navy s.e.a.l. and now an artist. >> trying to be. i don't know what's tougher. >> see you tomorrow. bill: thank you, guys. fox news alert. it is a defining moment in the u.s. relationship with israel and iran for that matter. netanyahu set to address a joint meeting of congress, stakes could not be higher hang in the balance a possible nuclear deal with iran as white house down playing a rift with one of our closest allies. good morning, everyone, a split broadcast this morning. i'm bill hemmer live on capitol hill where the speech will get underway two hours. good morning martha. martha: i'm martha maccallum in "america's newsroom" in new york city. benjamin netanyahu says it is his duty to tale americans in

person any deal with iran is direct threat to israel's survival and israel is prepared to defend itself. bill: here to deliver the message. correspondent james rosen live on capitol hill. good morning to you. what must netanyahu achieve today. >> reporter: israelis are imploring the united states congress to serve as a check and a balance on the powers of the president of the united states. secretary of state john kerry is in montreux, switzerland this talks with iranians and five other nations over iran's renegade nuclear program. white house security advisor susan rice told aipac last night that members of congress should reject israel's argument, any deal must strip the regime of entire nuclear enrichment program. that is not realistic with the them possessing 20,000 centrifuges. iran can not unlearn the technology. look for plim netanyahu to urge

they pass the legislation to assure congress gets final approval on the final accord. worst of all that israel and sunni neighbors in the persian gulf can not abide a deal that expires in just 10 or 15 years. >> america is the strongest power in the world. israel is strong but it is much more vulnerable. american leaders worry about the security of their country. israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country. you know -- [applause] >> reporter: prime minister netanyahu is no rookie at this. this will in fact be his third address to a joint meeting of congress. puts him in very select group. i think winston churchill the only other one bill. bill: will be given a bull. of churchhill prior to the speech. 50 member, of, democratic

members of the house and senate will skip the speech. why? >> reporter: probably unprecedented one thing israelis have a election coming up this is controversial speech. 4 the congress members and eight democratic senators are skipping the speech. daniel shapiro u.s. ambassador to israel will not attend nor any member of the obama administration. >> relationship between the united states and israel should not be defined by one botched invitation to one prime minister to speak to one joint meeting at congress. we need to get beyond this. this is silly, if you invite ad guest you didn't like to a bad wedding. >> i've seen many joint sessions. never have i seen a foreign leader come in to directly rebut our president who is in the middle of trying to negotiate a reduction of nuclear weapons with another country. along with the international group who has great experience with these things. it is just seems unseemly.

>> reporter: unseemly. a guest you didn't like invited to a bad wedding, bill. strong stuff. much rides on the address. as we noted the prime minister faces voters in israel about two weeks time. bill: james good to see you. james rosen in washington. senator tom cotton from arkansas our guest in a moment on this live as well. martha back to you in new york. martha: thanks, bill. so the speech highlighting growing tensions between the white house and the israeli prime minister obviously. not a single member as we were saying obama administration will attend this address. think about that. think about this, as james just reported. not even the united states ambassador to israel, dan shapiro will be present there today. president obama did an interview ahead of netanyahu's address with reuters trying to clean up national security advisor's susan rice's comments yesterday at aipac saying netanyahu's speech isn't destructive says the president but he says it is a distraction. >> not only does it look like it

politicizes the relationship but what is also a problem is when the topic of the prime minister's speech is an area where the executive branch, the u.s. president and his team have a disagreement with the other side. i don't think it is permanently destructive. i think it is a distraction from what should be our focus. martha: very strong words from the president. the white house also reportedly pressuring netanyahu not to reveal any of the details of the iranian nuclear talks that are ongoing. john kerry and president both said nobody knows what is in that agreement at this point. will benjamin netanyahu spill the beans on any of that is the big question for today. like james said this will be netanyahu's third address before a joint meeting of congress of the last time he was here was may of 2011. he was focused on iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon warning lawmakers that a

quote nuclear armed iran would ignite a nuclear arms race in the middle east that could threaten the entire world. and then back in 1996 the prime minister spoke in the building for the first time focusing on middle east security, islamic terrorism and the potential destruction of israel. we're going to have much more on this in a moment through the entire morning of course as well bill? bill: martha, thank you, freshman republican senator tom cotton will be there in the room today. he wrote this in a "wall street journal" op ed 30 days ago. quote, iran is not a rational or peaceful actor. it is radical islamist tyranny whose constitution explicitly calls for jihad. iran's ayatollahs honored the call. iran has been killing americans for more than three decades, end quote. arkansas senator tom cotton, member of the armed services committee. veteran of iraq and afghanistan wars. nice to see you. the president says congress will screw this up today, will it?

>> no, we will not. i'm eager to hear what prime minister netanyahu has to say. more importantly most americans are eager to hear because iran does pose a grave threat to the united states and to our allies like israel. as you just said i wrote a month ago, iran has been killing americans for over three decades. in 1983 our soldiers our diplomats, our intelligence professionals in beirut at khobar towers bombing in 19896. when i served in iraq, hundreds of people were dying because iranian-supplied weapons. the problem with iran we can not let the islamic revolutionary government obtain the world's worst weapons. bill: doesn't sounds to me after reading your piece and talk toking you now that the dow trust administration? >> i don't trust leadership iran not to have nuclear weapons but nuclear weapons capability the president foolishly pushed sanctions aside when iran was driven to its knees.

we should apply the pressure and force iran is only acceptable solution, which is complete unconditional nuclear disarmament of government subject to intrusive inspections. bill: president put odds after deal being reached no better than 50, 50. last night he said still more likely than not iran doesn't get to yes of the if that is the case what then? >> president continues to give concessions to iran to help reach a deal that would not only against interests of the united states but all of our allies in the region. not just israel but countries like saudi arabia, turkey u.a.e. i think we should have never started negotiations. should have increased sanctions and we should have used credible threat of military force. if for some reason we don't reach a deal, we should impose new sanctions. president once again needs to make it clear that the united states will use military force along with our allies if necessary to stop iran's ayatollahs from getting nuclear weapons capabilities. bill: one thing the prime

minister said yesterday in washington, no one makes alliances with the weak. did you hear that? >> i did hear that. he is correct. no one wants to be friends with the weak. they want to be friends with the strong. usama bin laden said this in the 1990s, when people see a strong horse and weak horse they root for the strong horse. america needs once again to be strong horse. we need to show allies and enemies alike we will not accept the world's worst regimes getting world's worst weapons. bill: tom cotton thank you for your time. we'll see you inside the house chamber this morning. >> thank you. bill: arkansas senator with me. much more live from washington martha. martha: thank you, gentlemen. reaction coming in after a bombshell new report about hillary clinton this morning. that the former secretary of state may have violated federal record-keeping laws while she was in office. "new york times" is the first to report this. that clinton used only, solely a personal email address to conduct all official business for the state department during

her time as the nation's top diplomat. what does all this mean? doug mckelway breaks it down live from washington. coming as this does news foreign entities contributed to the clinton foundation when she was secretary of state. it feed as lot of suspicion that the clintons are far from transparent? >> yeah, martha. the state department is trying to do best downplaying revelation, issuing a statement said in part, the state department long had access to wide array of secretary clinton's records including emails between her and department officials with state.gov accounts. but the statement does not say what access it does not have to other hillary emails. further hillary's office issued a statement which said in part, we're quoting like secretaries of state before her she used her own email account engaging with department officials. for government business she emailed them on department accounts with every expectation they would be retained, end quote. that is not sitting well with some of her political opponents

as you can well imagine. we're hearing a lot from them. in addition to that, given the storm over benghazi, the russian reset foreign money sent to the clinton foundation as other seminal events while hillary was secretary of state these emails could be the beginning of a major headache in advance of her presumed announcement to run for president of the united martha, back to you. martha: we'll have a lot more on this coming up. doug, thank you very much. bill: 11 minutes past the hour. there is major offensive against isis. iraqi forces trying to take back tikrit. new details that the u.s. did not even know about this? assault being run by one of our enemies. we'll have details on that in a moment martha. martha: general keane coming up on that. how about this? fortune of president bill clinton generating a whole lot of controversy as artist reveals what the shadow that you see on the man tell is supposed to be. we will explain. >> also, our coverage of israeli

prime minister bejnamin netanyahu's address to congress continues. we'll talk with ohio governor john kasich here in washington for this speech. he has his own concerns about the nuclear talks with iran. we'll talk to him next. >> israeli always been a bipartisan issue. israel will always a remain a bipartisan issue. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. ♪ help join a continent with nearly 3 million

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martha: north korea is responding to the u.s. and south korea's joint military drills calling them an unprecedented

provocative move. north korea's foreign minister says they have a high possibility sparking a war. the country fired off two short-range ballistic missiles at the same time. south korea and washington launched their annual drills yesterday. the annual exercises trigger a jump in military tensions on divided peninsula. the drills will run until the end of april. iran envelops the entire world with its tentacles of terror. this is what iran is doing now without nuclear weapons. imagine what iran would do with nuclear weapons. and the same iran vows to annihilate israel if it develops nuclear weapons it would have the means to achieve that goal. we must not let that happen. [applause] bill: so that from yesterday. today we'll find out whether or not the prime minister has specifics. ohio governor john kasich flew into washington for this speech. the governor is with me now. good morning to you.

nice to see you in person. why did you come here? >> well i've been a forever supporter of israel and i felt that this was an important speech important to our country, important to one of our greatest allies in the world and look, i am the governor. one of the most powerful states in the country. i wanted to be here to lend my support. bill: samantha power yesterday said this. the usa will not allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon period. do you believe it? >> well, i'm very concerned about these negotiations. bill, the problem with negotiations, and i've been in a lot of them, sometimes you fall in love with your goal. sometimes you're willing to do a lot of things to accommodate reaching that goal and that gets to be a slippery slope and very nervous. frankly in this case the congress should have to ratify anything that this administration could reach agreement on. i'm glad to hear that she said that. i don't know, first time i've heard a staple like that out of the administration. very dangerous. the big problem is not just iran getting a nuclear weapon but for

all people that watch you think about your kids and your grandchildren. what happens possibility of proliferation. this ends up in hands of groups like hamas and groups like hezbollah. this is a very serious situation. the proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear material is the something entire world has to say we can't afford it. bill: specifically for bebe netanyahu. iran worries about security. israel worries about survival. >> they're under existential threat of iran. israel is not even on the map. if you go to iran you don't see the country of israel labeled. we know all about the rhetoric. not just iran and israel find itself in the cross-hairs. we can too. we see things happening around the world when we look at isis and other things. this is not the time to give a country that has been our sworn enemy the chance to have a nuclear weapon. bill: there are those on the other side who will argue today

could actually be injurious to the process. >> oh, i think, i think it's, you mean our relationship? bill: netanyahu's presence and speech today. >> i think that is a siliconclusion. my opinion is you get bumps in the road. this is one we shouldn't have had to had but end of the day our relationship with israel is enduring. they're a democracy in the middle east. they're our great ally. this too shall pass. bill: you skipped cpac last weekend. do you regret that? >> no. i was busy last weekend. i took my daughter to new york and we went to see "aladdin." we had a great time. bill: you know why i'm asking? >> i heard you and cavuto last week going at it on air, whether or not you would get in the race. where are you in the process? >> i will go out and speak. i'm on balanced budget amendment tour and do other speeches because in ohio we have incredible thing going out there. we're balanced budgets. we're running surpluses.

largest tax cuts in the country. we're up almost 300,000 jobs. i want people to hear what we're doing in ohio. i want them to hear how we're doing it. we have another massive budget out there. it is controversial. all kinds of things are happening bill. it is exciting when you want to do things. it is not exciting to sit back. i'm not a guy that sits back. bill: that answer, sounds like you're a candidate. >> no. don't be concluding that. all my options are on the table. i have no not decided what i'm going to do. one of the nice who once thought about running for president told me, you figure it out on your own. use our own timetable. pay no attention to the people who are experts out there. look, i am the governor of ohio. i am not governor of tiny little state. it really matters. you're from ohio. you know sway we have, good to see you. >> yes, my first time in the house chamber in 15 years, sitting on the house floor. bill: welcome home. >> thank you. bill: back to martha in new york. martha: very interesting. all right. thank you. back to one of our top stories

this morning. potential trouble brewing for hillary clinton. did the likely presidential candidate violate federal laws during her time as secretary of state? what a benghazi select committee has now discovered looking into her emails. dana perino of course was white house press secretary under president george w. bush. she will give us her thoughts how all this works. that, then this. >> whoa! oh my god. [bleep] >> awful seen. we have new details on this whole thing. the deadly police-involved shooting on l.a.'s skid row. a second video has now emerged that shows the moments leading up to what you're looking at right now. we'll show it to you. police piece together exactlyno o what happened. [shouting] so we go cheap. you know, because we're never gonna need it. until one day, we do. now that cut-rate policy

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bill: back here live in washington. a subtle reference in bill clinton's official portrait now revealed. the artist nelson shanks says he painted shadow of a dress to invoke monica lewinsky's infamous blue dress. it raised eyebrows. in 2006, clinton is not wearing a wedding ring. mantle on the -- shadow on the mantle. it is metaphor on clinton's time in office. now you know. martha: new questions today whether hillary clinton violated federal laws during her time as secretary of state after the benghazi select committee discovered clinton only use ad private email account while working as a top cabinet member and that her own aides may not have taken appropriate action to preserve all of those emails which of course would call be a expected to be a matter of

public record. dana perino worked as white house press secretary under president george w. bush. co-host of "the five." good to have you here. string started pulling on all of this the house celebrity committee of benghazi. they want all of hillary's emails. trying to figure out why they can't get them all. so now what? >> congressman trey gowdy heading up this committee is former prosecutor. some people were frustrated with the pace and how long it would take to get information. now we know, one of the reasons it was hard to get information because they didn't have access to the emails. they said why don't we have access to emails? are there no emails? is there no communication? they found this little nugget "new york times" and others have written about. martha: hillary clinton's people say not a big deal. colin powell condi rice, did not use official government email. look at clothe from the clintons statement in response. they claim "the new york times" story is inaccurate. like secretaries of state before her, used her own email account

engaging with any department officials for government business. she emailed them on their department accounts with every expectation they would be retained. just to explain this, hillary clinton.com or whatever she was emailing from, to so-and-so at the state department. well, they will catch it because it es all on the state department hopper in the end. good excuse? >> i don't think that would pass muster forget about with me but with the archivist, national nara. is the acronym. they're in charge of official records for the government. i don't think from the articles i said today that would pass muster with them. i think that should be further looked into. but to say, she is the head of the department, to not know that any emails coming from your account need to be saved, i don't know, about conde rice's email use. i don't remember ever emailing her. i only spoke to her in person or on the phone. president bush did not an email address or blackberry.

that changed when president obama came to office. they decided that he should. i think one of the concernses is, if you're secretary of state and emailing around on your own personal email account, those are supposed to be official records under government law but what sort of protection did she have where other possible foreign governments listen in on her phone? one of the reasons for government issued email account to help protect you from others. >> that's a great point. it is a two-pronged question everybody has here. one, is she hiding anything? are her aides cheryl mills, phillipe raines, mentioned in article, are they being selective what they're releasing from the e-mails? you're right, dana, the second point everyone is supposed to operate on the same server and same government email accounts is that they can't get hacked into or lowers likelihood right? >> two reasons. working for government and taxpayers so they are responsible to the taxpayer. also, because yes that is the

best way to keep your information protected. one of the reasons that you didn't have presidents before now, e-mailing back and forth to aids maybe they are confident his is secure. i remember when he made that decision thinking this could come back to haunt them. martha: i remember it was a big discussion as well whether or not he should have a blackberry. it is interesting the regulations from the national archives and records administration you just mentioned nara, require any email sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency's records but mrs. clinton aides failed to do so. is a law broken here and could that potentially be problematic for her if she decides run president? >> i would think so. this adds to question of her character and her judgment. this is not coming from the right-wing conspiracy. these news articles about foreign donations to the clinton foundation and about her personal email use are being revealed by places like

"the new york times," "washington post" and "politico." they're doing very good reporting leading into this. i think part of the reason that she is going to move up her announcement to run for president, she wanted to do late summer. yesterday they said she is more likely to do it in april. i think it is because they need to have a formal organization. they will have to feed the media beast. every day a reporter has to file a story about the hillary clinton campaign. if there isn't a campaign for them to talk about, all that is left to reveal are all the shady things that are possibly happened when she was secretary of state. martha: that's a great point. it raises a question is something the clintons are doing? are they leaking stuff, they want it to get out there now confront it now and hopefully -- >> i don't think so. i think was definitely from the benghazi select committee. there is probably more where that came from. martha: one of the aspects brought up in this story, what is unusual in her case she solely used that email. that she didn't even have a government email address at all.

but the clinton folks are saying that john kerry is the first secretary of state to even -- >> that might be true. as i said i talked to secretary rice a lot when i was press secretary. i always did it by phone. i don't remember emailing her. i don't recall that. martha: by phone a lot more than they do now. dana, thank you. obviously this is just tip of this iceberg here. we'll keep seeing what is underneath it. >> thanks for having me. martha: bill? bill: 9:31 here in washington. what will come from today's historic speech? israeli prime minister bejnamin netanyahu set to address a joint meeting of congress. you will hear that live on fox news channel. u.s. fought for and bat won battle for tikrit 10 years ago. new offensive to go after isis terrorists. did the u.s. even know about the operation? as iran steps in. >> american advisors have been

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bill: so the big event is live on capitol hill today. benjamin netanyahu educated mit harvard. served in israeli forces where he was wounded twice. today at 65 takes his message of israeli survival to the u.s. congress. that speech begins in 90 minutes. 50 democratic lawmakers boycotting the speech but it is still easily the hottest ticket in town. speaker boehner says the request for seats, 10 times greater than number available in the house balcony. before prime minister netanyahu begins, he will be presented with a but of winston churchill. because with today's address he joins churchhill as only two world leaders to address a joint meeting of congress on three different occasions. more from washington live here in a moment.

martha: we look to that. the u.s. may have been caught off-guard by the new iraqi offensive to take back tikrit from isis. [gunfire] these are some of the scenes from the battle in tikrit. new reports u.s. officials were largely kept in the dark about efforts to recapture that iraqi city from isis that. the u.s.-led coalition is not providing air cover and that iran is the main entity actively involved in this offensive in tikrit. retired four-star army general jack keane is a fox news military analyst and chairman of the institute of the study of war. general, good to have you here. welcome. >> good to be here, martha. martha: there is a lot to analyze in our offensive against isis this morning and this is the first issue i want to address with you. it sounds like iran is in charge in terms of this tikrit offensive and we knew nothing or

little about it. >> yeah. we didn't find much about it until the final stages of the planning phase and clearly while iran has supported operations that the iraqi military and mostly shia militia have done in the past, north and south of baghdad and also helping to defend baghdad, this is a major offensive operation that has taken place. the facts are these. iranians have much to do with the planning. they're on the ground with the shia militia forces doing the fighting. they're providing rockets and artillery and top quds force commander, the general suluma. [i is on the scene. this is no doubt iranian-led and supported operation. this is the first major battle in the counter offensive to retake mosul and retake anbar province. martha: reporting on mosul at least with one report, the

offensive supposed to take place there this spring the coalition forces including the united states had been planning is now indefinitely postponed. do you have any thoughts on that? >> well i never understood the centcom report that came out a week or so ago that outlined in detail what we were going to do and also provide ad timeline. before ramadan or avram ma dawn, it has to do with the are iraqi security forces ready. if we pull the timeline off likely they're not ready yet. this issue taking place here is significant today because, i know, without even talking to them i know our military leaders in iraq are frustrated with such a visible battle taking place with the iranians playing such a large hand and it really, it, emphasizes the potential for a huge sectarian divide here between the shias and sunnis when i know we're

working very hard to bring the sunni tribes into this battle against isis. we're training them. we're also working with their leaders who are not involved. yet they get more involved. the iraqi government has been attempting to do that. this has potential to separate this. and also render some positive moves we made somewhat negative. if the shia militia goes into this town, martha, and systematically starts to destroy residences in the town itself, that will absolutely aggravate the sunnis and cause some resistance to joining the fight against isis. martha: no doubt. i mean you have this sort of three-pronged sequence of events with iran leading the charge in tikrit. with us indefinitely postponing action to take back mosul as part of our coalition force and then you have the moderates in syria we've been talking and talking and talking about backing for over two years now dissolving according to reports over the weekend.

and becoming a more islamic faction. i mean, it sounds like we're backing out. are we done? are we done? >> no but, it underscores our reluctance to get involved in a decisive point. going back to the syria point that you mentioned they asked for our help back in 2011. it was 2012 when isis moved into syria. the free syrian army wanted our help in 2011. the administration turned down their own national security team, the president did, to help the moderates. we're trying to do something late 2014 and late 2015. some of it is a little too late. going to iraq here, martha, when fallujah was taken in january 2014 maliki came to us and asked for help. we said no. iranians started putting airplanes on the ground almost daily basis providing help and brought in their generals to start thinking through the problem. mosul was taken in june of 2014. maliki asked for emergency air support. we said no.

iranians came in and provided assistance to him to include some immediate air support. so it is no wonder the iranians have some influence here at the expense of the united states because we were not decisive in helping what is considered to be an ally, that was in trouble. martha: i mean it appears we may be backing down and allowing them to have the front row seat in this confrontation. i'm sure some people would be happy with that. let them fight it out. but it is very contrary to what we've heard from most of the military in terms of how to win this battle. general, thank you very much. we'll talk to you soon. >> good talking to you, martha. martha: you too. bill: 19 minutes before the hour. he used executive action to bypass congress in immigration and same-sex marriage but could president obama do the same to raise your taxes? his press secretary was asked that specific question just yesterday. >> if your plans run into

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martha: brazen robbery along a rural stretch of north carolina's interstate 95. police say an armored truck pulled over to the side of the road with mechanical problems. just then three armed men showed up with a truck, ordering guards to lie on the ground tie their hands marching them into the nearby woods. officers say the robbers sole $4.8 million in gold bars. the armored truck workers were not hurt. the suspects are still on the loose. bill: could president obama use his pen and phone to raise your taxes? white house press secretary josh earnest confirming that the president is considering turning to executive orders on that. >> the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals. i'm not in position to talk

about those in any detail at this point but the president is very interested in this, in this avenue generally. bill: what about that? stuart varney for fox business network. how are you, stuart? good morning to you in new york. tell me, where is this coming from? >> this started with senator bernie sanders on the left from vermont. he called for 100 billion-dollar tax hike on business, using irs executive authority, executive action. that suggestion was put to josh earnest as you just saw. josh earnest said, yeah, the president is very interested. he said look there is no imminent announcement on this but there is a whole array of executive actions which his team is looking at. no doubt raising taxes by executive authority, that was probably in the mix. >> is this legal? because i thought financial matters had to run through congress? >> yes, if it you want to take tax rates very clearly you must go through congress. what the president may be getting around to here changing some loopholes in irs

regulations. the question is, can he do that with executive order? and i don't know the answer to that because i'm not a constitutional scholar. he is not saying raise tax rates by executive authority. he is saying change or make the make, do something with the squeeze the irs rules to get another $100 billion out of business. >> so stuart just to emphasize this, what ernest said was this is not imminent. >> right. bill: so, where does that lead us to think? i mean is it going to happen or is this just talk? >> at the moment it's just talk but josh earnest did go on to say that the president's team has asked for an array of executive actions which the president might take. and because he that time, talking about the raising tax revenue, by executive action, maybe that possibility was included in that array of executive actions. will it happen? well, it would really put the

cat amongst the pigeons if this suggestion went through and odds are it is not going to happen. bill: as you look at it, where would the money come from again? you mentioned corporations? >> at the moment american corporations hold well over $2 trillion overseas. if they bring back to america it is taxed at 35% rate. the president wants that tax money, the two trillion a part of it overseas. he is thinking about maybe it is on the table, that he would plan an executive action to get some of that money that is now overseas from business. republicans oppose that. therefore the president will go around congress to do it by executive authority. bill: that would be an interesting debate. >> you got that? bill: i got it. >> a lot of money, bill. bill: see you 11:00 on fox business. stuart varney, thank you from new york. we're one hour and 12 minutes away from the anticipated speech of the israeli prime minister bejnamin netanyahu before that

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bill: story here. nhl player will play much closer to home thanks in part to an emotional letter from his 11-year-old daughter. defenseman jordan lee polled, played most of season in columbus, ohio but his wife and four kids live in minneapolis. the his daughter wrote a letter to the local team, the minnesota wild. here it is. she asked for the team to trade for her father because her family missed him so. the letter was posted online. it went viral. yesterday at trade deadline minnesota worked out a deal to acquire loepold the team quietly hinted that letter played a part in the decision. nice lesson. had she sent a tweet, blown her off. handwritten letter counts. martha: my favorite part. the wild are not winning too many games and you could use a little bit of defense. bill: my dad can do that job. martha: you need my dad. maybe should be his agent. probably doesn't need an agent.

bill: i like that. welcome home. >> good stuff. thanks bill. there is brand new surveillance video that shows another angle of the deadly police activity that was involved in a shooting on skid row in l.a. let's take a look. it shows this moments before the officers shot the unidentified man on sunday. you can see him in the top left corner of the screen. a struggle ensues when he tries to get back into his tent. his arms and feet moving wildly, as the officers take him down to the ground. the incident sparked national attention after video was posted online. now the l.a. police department is revealing that the man they claimed forcibly grabbed at an officer's holster before the shots were fired. dan springer has got more. dan, we're learning some officers were wearing body cameras, right? >> reporter: that's right, martha. l.a.p.d. revealed two of the officers involved in the shooting were wearing body cameras. that is looked at part of the

investigation. however public will not see video because the department considers it evidence and says it doesn't have to release it. that reveals a major controversy surrounding cop body cams. open government advocates say every frame of video shot by officers should be made available to the public upon request. president obama says that will cool what he call as simmering distrust of police after the ferguson shooting. obama asked congress to buy 50,000 cop body cams on task force on 21st century policing recommended cameras be used all over the country. many see as step towards transparency. >> public records belong to the public and they have a right to inspect them of the agencies, bear the cost of making those records available for inspection. >> reporter: but in los angeles and elsewhere city councils have decided that the cost and hassle of providing video-on-demand are too great. as long as prosecutors and civilian oversight groups have access to the see video justice will be served. martha? martha: dan, thank you very much

bill: high-stakes drama today in our nation's capitol. we are an hour and five minutes away from benjamin netanyahu and his address to a joint meeting of congress. warning about iranian nuclear talks and threat to israel. what will the speech mean for israel, iran, the united states and the relationship with president obama? all that next hour here live in "america's newsroom." room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i'm sold! a “selling machine!” ready for you alert, only at lq.com.

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>> prime minister netanyahu about to take center stage on capitol hill to tell his side of the iran nukes story. white house not happy about it. the entire administration and more than 55 democrats all say that they will sit this speech out today. welcome everybody. brand new hour of america's news room. >> live today from capitol hill the prime minister sounding the alarm for his own country's survival and the white house turning its back on his

appearance today. the president and prime minister say it will not damage the bedrock alliance between the u.s. and israel. >> reports of the demise of the israeli-u.s. relation is not only premature, they're just wrong. [applause] you're here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever. >> today's speech certainly will add to the stress on an already strained relationship. that speech gets underway 60 min nets from now. you'll see it live here on fox. electric morning here on capitol hill. highly anticipated drama. ed henry is live on pennsylvania avenue. good morning to you. white house making it clear president obama will not be watching netanyahu's address. is that clear? >> it is absolutely clear and compared to the electricity you talk about on capitol hill

they're trying to make it like they're indifferent here at the white house that there's not a big event today. fascinating because we already knew vice president biden travelling in latin america, he won't be there but the addition this morning is the white house is just announcing that the president in the same hour that the prime minister will be speaking here in washington will be conducting a secure video conference with the leaders of the u.k., france, other key allies to discuss the serious situation in ukraine. so you see they add this event to his calendar his schedule to say he's really busy on other issues to make sure that they don't leave the impression he's ignoring it just for the sake of ignoring but it sends an interesting message. other point i would make quickly is that use -- susan rice spoke to aipac. she mentioned the prime minister's visit would be destructive to the relationship. she walked some back last night by first of all saying, look. this kosher market attack was

anti-semantic. the president did an interview with reuters where he walked back right's comments about destructive saying no it's not permanently destructive. the white house trying to send the signal they're going to turn the page after the prime minister leaves, bill. >> i think the word he used last night was "distraction." we'll see how that goes over today. the president will not even watch the speech. 50 democrats will not be present but you have an overwhelming presence today here in congress and republicans clearly are putting pressure here along with benjamin netanyahu. you're saying it's not just republicans. democrats as well. >> absolutely. the next step here after all the back and forth about the speech is going to be on people finally focussing on the substance of what the prime minister is saying is his fear that iran is getting closer to nuclear weapons and what will the u.s. deal being hatched with iraq

really have? bob menendez said this. >> it comes to defending the u.s.-israel relationship i am not intimidated by anyone. not israel's political enemies and not my political friends when i believe they're wrong. >> a top democrat saying i am not intimidated by anyone. that was a direct message to this president that folks like bob menendez on the hill after the speech wants to make sure the vote gets on the hill. republicans and democrats will vote for more sanctions against iran, bill. >> ed henry, we expect the prime minister to be here in the capitol building in about 15 minutes and again the speech begins about 55 minutes from now. so a lot going on in the next 60 minutes here in washington. back to you in new york. >> as we wait for that let's talk background on all of this.

mike huckabee has just returned from israel. he spoke with megan kelly last night. the governor says that the prime minister netanyahu is speaking to congress today because he believes that a nuclear iran is a death sentence for israel. >> the president has no credibility when it comes to saying look. you can trust me. actually, we can't. and the truth is we certainly can't trust the iranians. and whatever legacy the president wants to have by saying, look. i made a deal with the iranians, it can't be a good deal because you can't trust a government that has vowed openly and publicly that it's going to wipe another nation off the face of the earth. >> john bolton is a former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and fox news contributor. before we dig into that what are your thoughts the u.s. ambassador to israel is among those who will not be there today when benjamin netanyahu

speaks? >> well, i think it's just another demonstration that the administration is still acting like it's collectively in high school because of netanyahu's speech. i mean i suppose chamberlain would not have been happy in 1938 to hear the leadership of czechoslovakia address the house of commons either. i think the administration is just embarrassing itself by the way it's conducted its affairs. >> we heard from governor huckabee. let's listen to senator mccain. i want to get your thoughts on both of them. >> every country in the region is going to go nuclear if we sign this deal that he's desperate to get done. >> with iran. >> yeah. oh, yeah. with iran. listen. i have heard from middle eastern leaders direct that they will go nuclear. >> a lot of countries, saudi arabia among them very upset that the white house is negotiating a deal with iran ambassador. >> well i think it's been clear for a long time that when iran

actually demonstrated it had nuclear weapons, for example by testing that other countries in the region would themselves get nuclear weapons. saudi arabia, egypt, turkey, perhaps others. but i think what has happened in the past year is that the -- excuse me. the mere act of negotiation has produced -- excuse me. >> all right. hopefully he can get a sip of water there as we continue to think about all of this and, you know, saudi arabia obviously our relationship with them has become a lot more tense over the course of the negotiations with iran and i think, you know, a lot of people believe that john mccain is absolutely right, that these other countries turkey as you mention would egypt perhaps, saudi arabia will defensively snide that they really must have nuclear weapons as well if the neighborhood becomes that much more dangerous, right? >> well i think what's clear is that the conventions --

concessions that the administration has made has convinced other powers in the region that iran has a clear path to weaponization. they're not going to wait for iran to demonstrate conclusively that they've got nuclear weapons. the other countries are going to act now to make sure they're ready for it so in a way, the very act of negotiations has precipitated the arms race. >> you know when those other countries look at the negotiations that we're having with iran when they hear about the letters and the phone calls passing back and forth it appears that you know he has built a relationship with them that makes him see the whole region very differently and perhaps just puts us on their side in the sunni shia equation. is that accurate? >> well i think the administration over a sustained

period of time has aided iran in material ways, not opposing the asad regime which is backed by iran, really pulling out of iraq in 2011 which has allowed iran to dominate the government of iraq not acting effectively against hezbollah in lebanon. i think it's been a series of mistaken policies that certainly have led the arab states of the region to conclude that the united states is not a reliable ally and that in those circumstances, they will find help from others. so i think our policy has contributed in a very material way to destabilizing the entire middle east. >> ambassador bolton thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we expect benjamin netanyahu in the capitol about 10 minutes from now. we're in the cannon house office building which is right across the street from the capitol building. you see flanked in scaffolding as the -- well the

reconstruction project, i guess the renovation project continues here in washington. john boehner isn't out an alert that a bust of winston churchill will be presented to the prime minister prior to his speech and that's significant, too. only foreign leaders who address the joint media of congress three times were benjamin netanyahu and winston churchill. also in attendance today a survivor of the holocaust, nobel prize winner, he will be in the audience today and our producers here on capitol hill reporting that it's starting to take on the state of the union feel in the house floor at the moment, there are maybe a half a dozen lawmakers staking out their position along the aisle way that you'll see the prime minister walk down so they're getting what you could consider at least at the beginning a front row seat. john boehner also says despite more than 50 democrats who will not attend and the word from ed

henry a moment ago at the white house that the president will not even watch the speech. speaker boehner says we've had 10 times the number of ticket requests than there are seats available in the gallery. if you think now about the aipac meeting yesterday where they had 16,000 people attend you can get an idea and a sense about how high the demand will be for these tickets and appearance inside the house chamber today. much more on that as our coverage continues. in the meantime isis militants allegedly threatening violent jihad against twitter as the platform shut down their accounts. online intimidation against the founder, some employees. imagine the scene while one of the twitter employees is at a nearby bar drunk and it's dark waiting and cutting his throats.

militants relied heavily on twitter and other media networks to communicate. there are hundreds if not thousands of twitter accounts linked to isis. while enforcement are investigating along with the security team on that. >> we've just got word from our capitol hill producer that speaker boehner is calling on the house to pass a clean d.h.s. funding bill. we understand that that vote could happen as early as today. on the bill on cap top hill a lot of controversy to that and the link to immigration and whether the immigration elements of it should be stripped out. many believe the president overuses his executive powers. a lot of battle going on between the house and the senate over the d.h.s. bill. >> indeed there are. 11 minutes past the hour now. tensions high ahead of netanyahu speech to congress. you'll see that live in 51 minutes. we're awaiting his arrival on the hill. no one from the obama administration will be in attendance today.

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>> israeli prime minister netanyahu ready to give a historic speech before a joint meeting of congress today. less than an hour from now, you can see people are starting to gather in that room. 55, 57 perhaps democrats are not in that room. they will skip this speech. not one single member of the obama administration will even be sort of token participant in this audience today. ari fleischer former press secretary and board member of the republican jewish coalition jon:s me now. good morning. >> thank you, martha. >> did you ever think you would see this play out the way it has? >> no. for an administration, a president who said he has israel's back what he's doing today is turning his back on the

leader of israel. the president made this controversial. all he had to do was say, anybody can address congress. that's their business. this would not be partisan, this would not be controversial and probably very few people will be taking the speech live. president made this into the moment it is because he sent this signal that he objects to what the prime minister is doing. >> you know, there's discussion that benjamin netanyahu melee -- may lay out the details of nuclear weapons. doourng he's going to do that? >> i don't know. i think that he's going to talk about the risks of allowing iran to be on the pathway to getting nuclear weapons. and that's what we hear this deal will do. doesn't matter if the path is long, the path is short, the path is full of cheats and you can hide along the path and get nuclear weapons and that's the problem with it. iran should never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, end of story. that should be the policy of europe, it should be the policy

of the united states and of course, it's the policy of israel. what the president is doing that's so alarming is allowing iran to be on the path to getting nuclear weapons. iran is the only one who knows if they can speed up and get to the end every the path before anybody catches them. it's a terrible position to put the world in. >> it could have been handled, as you pointed out, so very differently. when you think about the potential impact on iran if they saw the united states president whom they've been discussing things withstand shoulder to shoulder with president netanyahu, how powerful of a message and how potentially brokering that moment could possibly be and how much pressure it would put on iran to come clean. >> when ronald reagan walked from gorbachev on a nuclear agreement, it sent a signal to russia, to the soviet union that they had to deal with ronald

reagan seriously. peace through strength is the best way to deter aggressors and that's what we need to do with iran. unfortunately iran looks at president obama and they recognize he's the president who said nothing when millions of iranians took to the streets. he saw president obama talk about we'll help syrian moderates and then we did nothing for them and now we're doing too little too late. he saw us withdraw from iraq and therefore iran has influence in iraq and he saw us draw a red line with syria we did not enforcement all the president's actions keep suggesting he will allow vacuums to take place. when a vacuum exists, it's filled by those the moment violent, isis muslim brotherhood and now iran. israel living there cannot let that happen. >> all good points, well laid out. why do you think there's so much personal attention between these two men? why are they such different people? >> i think president obama came to office to determine the

distance between the united states and israel. he said that. he wanted to put daylight between us and the reason it was that, i think he genuinely thought he could be the middle man, the great negotiator to forge a peace agreement between the arabs and israelis. he thought israel needed to change in order for there to be peace. the people who need to change are hamas and hezbollah and iran and the radicals. those are the people united states should put pressure on to change so peace can be achieved. interesting alliance from egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates, israel. arabs and israelis working together against the threat of iran. >> without the united states in the picture. it's a stunning stunning development. ari, very interesting. great to talk to you as always. thank you. we'll see you soon. >> thank you, martha. >> okay. we are 40 minutes away now. we expect to see the prime minister at the capitol building moments from now. we'll take you there live. the speech 40 minutes away. supreme court takes up another legal challenge in the president's health care law that

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>> big moment just a couple of seconds ago. here's a look at benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel as he arrives on capitol

hill. he's there now. he's going to give a historic speech by all accounts to congress. just moments away about 36 minutes from the big moment they are expecting the israeli prime minister in the chamber in the capitol hill chamber moments away. look at the entourage as he pulls in. the flags of israel flapping in the wind on the front of that vehicle. all of this as bill pointed out, tremendous amount of tension on capitol hill while things are quiet at the white house where the president is going to be on a video conference with european leaders. very very stark difference in the two scenes. >> unusually big crowd here. congressman paul ryan is with me now here as well and you came to talk about obamacare subsidies and the supreme court. we'll get to that in a moment but you were just remarking that normally you would not have what 12 15 live tv cameras

here unless -- >> i think the president made a huge mistake by dissing the prime minister of israel one of our greatest allies, by having democrats boycott this. what he's done is elevated the critique of his foreign policy to a level that people are now paying attention to his criticism. i think the president made a huge mistake here. i'm one of the critics of the foreign policy and we should always want to hear from the closest allies about their views on things. we should be welcoming the prime minister of israel here no matter whether you're going to be criticized for foreign policy or not. i think the president made a huge mistake by making this a big show. it elevates the critique of his foreign policy. >> i think americans are trying to figure out what this means today. susan rice called it destructive to the relationship. the president backed away from that last night, called it a distraction so what is it? what is today all about? where are we after this? >> here is our concern. what we don't want to see is a nuclear arms race in the middle

east. we don't want to see conflict but we believe based on the leaks we're getting from the administration that they're in the midst of getting a really bad deal with iran which make those things more likely. and so republicans and democrats here in congress are very worried and very concerned about the president's foreign policies. if he gets this wrong and we hear that he is then this will be among the most spectacular failures of the obama foreign policy and we want to stop that from happening. and that's why this is getting all of this attention. >> samantha power yesterday said iran went out of the way to get a nuclear power period. in all likelihood they're easier getting to know than they are yes, to para phrase the words from his interview yesterday. >> ronald reagan walked away from gorbachev at a unique time and made a stronger -- i don't know if obama has that in him

but the last thing we want to do is get a bad deal that makes it more likely that iran will get a nuclear weapon or trigger a nuclear arms race in the middle east. this is not a country that is a democracy. this is not a country that respects individual rights. this is a country dedicated to wiping out another country that is the greatest sponsor of terrorism around the world. and so it does matter whether they get a bomb or close to a bomb. that's why we're all concerned about it. >> do you think he needs to bring specifics today? >> netanyahu or obama? i think that -- i want i've known bb 10 years. i want to hear what he has to say about the status of things just how big the consequences are of getting this wrong. we're critical of the administration's policy. i don't think he should relax concessions. my fear is that the administration's policy is more of appeasement that leads to

ultimately a nuclear iran and a nuclear arms race in the middle east which is destabilizing not just for the region but for the world. >> let's talk about topic number two, supreme court is going to hear oral arguments on the subsidies going to millions of americans. you write this. what we will propose is an offering out of obamacare toward patient centered health care. two parts. first making insurance more affordable by ending washington mandate examines giving choice back to states individuals and families and second, support americans in purchasing the coverage of their choosing. end quote. there's more in that piece but you talk about escaping from mandated care. you need an alternative in case the supreme court says, the subsidyies are illegal. >> that's right. so what we put out today in this editorial in the "wall street journal" is what the alternative looks like. they're entering oral arguments tomorrow, making a decision in a couple of months. we'll find out probably end of june whether or not the supreme court strikes this down. we believe any clear reading of

the law shows that the obama administration disregarded the law and enforced 37 states into accepting obamacare when the law didn't allow them to have the subsidies so the point is no americans should be penalized for the obama administration's disregard to the law and we feel that we have an obligation to offer an alternative to show an offering out of obamacare so people can get affordable health insurance. obamacare takes away your ability to choose the plan that you want. it makes health insurance much much more expensive and then it takes money from taxpayers from some making it more expensive for others. lower prices and better access. >> quickly but your -- administration call them subsidies. under your plan it's tax credits. same thing? >> not at all. they are subsidies and they call them tax credits. they're thinly veiled subsidies

policed by the internal revenue service. we're saying, give families and individuals tax credits to go toward their purchase much health insurance and let them decide what they want. i.r.s. is saying buy the washington mandated plan and the i.r.s. will place how you buy that. we're saying give people freedom. >> you're talking about a sane health care alternative. tomorrow supreme court. thank you, congressman. netanyahu, 30 minutes away. back to you. >> big moment today and another big one tomorrow. brand new revelations about hillary clinton. while she was secretary of state, did she violate federal law? the explosive controversy over why she used a private email address.

>> we are back and as you know it was john boehner, the speak whoer initially invited benjamin netanyahu to speak on capitol hill. he's the first person. the two are meeting right now before the speech which will begin and i believe that was netanyahu's wife walking in to the chamber as well. it is 10:35 eastern time right now. there's a look on the right-hand side of your screen of the arrival of the entourage of the prime minister of israel as he came into capitol hill. a ton of energy, a lot of tension and excitement on the hill. there's senator rubio filing in as well. all of the arrivals as we get ready for the big speech. we want to bring in lou dobbs who is joining us as well. talk to me a little bit about your response to the scene here. very different very quiet at the white house and a little bit more excitement going on on capitol hill. >> a lot of excitement and much of that excitement, too. the white house itself and the way this president has responded to speaker boehner's invitation

to the prime minister. this is very much, in my opinion the president's creation the drama, the electricity running through the room and the expectations that are global here for what the prime minister will say to all of us. >> you know just talking to ari moments ago. what do you make of this sort of realignment that appears to be happening of our allies? you've got saudi arabia and egypt talking to israel. you have an israeli-arab agreement that seems to be happening except we're left out of it and we seem to be siding with iran. >> leading from behind for this president is resulting in simply being left behind. and this is a positive development. looking at it beyond you know, our interests directly the fact that the president is taking leadership in the region and he is doing so both calling for the reform of the muslim religion as well as a realignment of the

arab states to bring one of the poorest nations and that is egypt and most populous with one of the richest nations and least populous saudi arabia is the beginning i think, of what could be a brilliant, brilliant organization of arab states that would be counter veiling force against iran and its sponsorship. >> except we're sitting on the sidelines for all of that. >> this is a country that is not unaccustomed to the sidelines and the fact is power is often best demonstrated by not using it. and supporting grand ideas and great leaders. we can find them in the middle east but it's going to take more than an autocratic, authoritarian approach from the president of the united states who is a leader of a constitutional republic democracy and we're not given to not wrinkling either fiat so i

think it's a good time for us to cheer on others in the region. >> thank you very much. we'll send it back to bill on capitol hill. >> you know martha, what is intriguing is the whole calendar. two weeks from today you have elections in eye rail. three weeks from today you have this march deadline among the discussion between want u.s. and the others with iran. i want to bring in my colleague here in washington, d.c. today. how are you? >> good to see you in person. >> the president would say if he were sitting where you were, that his fear is that congress is going to screw this up. >> well -- >> is he right? >> that's their hope. the republicans in congress hope that what they will do will screw up the president's intent to enter into a nuclear treaty with iran that they believe is dire and disastrous. no good can come out of this nuclear deal. their hope is that netanyahu is going to come in here and make an argument that democrats in

the senate cannot resist, that he makes an argument that persuades democrats that they can't go with the president on this trip. >> that was minority leader harry reid crossing the camera there. you saw his right hand face after the exercise injury he's still recovering from and walking somewhat gingerly. >> that's why i don't exercise. >> no member of administration will attend. >> right. >> how much of that matters in the end? >> well this is interesting. benjamin netanyahu is a very good politician. whatever you think of his policies, as a politician the guy is dynamite. obama administration has played into his hand. they've said that this was a -- susan rice called it damaging to the relationship and the president had to walk that back a little bit but they have created sensation that netanyahu is going to be a bomb thrower and wild as he demonstrated at aipac yesterday.

that's not what he's going to do. he's going to surpass expectations set by the administration because he's good at politics. >> senate republican from wyoming frequent guest on america's news room, now he'll be in the chamber as well. barack obama said yesterday it is probably more likely than not that iran does not get to yes. prior to that he said he put the odds at no better than 50-50. we are we after two years of talk? >> well the old premise from the administration was that a bad deal was worse than no deal as we get to the end and the desire for this administration that's hanging so much of the middle eastern policy including the war against isis as the president moves to the end, now the second move dead line for this treaty, a lot is riding on his ability to keep iran as part of his coalition on isis and other issues. if this falls apart, as it looks like it might the whole obama foreign policy might come further in route.

>> 20 seconds or less what is the sense that you've picked up in washington the past couple of days in anticipation of what we're about to hear? >> it is good in washington when we remember that actual history is sometimes made here rather than just jaw boning it. >> today is one of those days. >> you got it. >> back to you in a moment. here is martha in new york. >> very interesting. thanks. a few minutes from now, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will speak to the joint meeting of congress about the threat of a nuclear iran. we're going to have a preview from one of our producers who follows all the dynamics on capitol hill very closely. he knows where everybody is and what's happening this morning. what a scene as we wait for the big moment just moments away now. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. when account lead craig wilson books at iaquinta.com. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can settle in and practice his big pitch.

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>> little debate on this. it will be a packed forum today in the house chamber waiting for the big speech to begin. the moment 15 minutes from now. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu set to lay his cards on the table. there's nancy pelosi screen left and screen right, the members of the senate making their way from one side of the building to the other. seeking leverage, netanyahu is now against a nuclear deal with iran. the white house insisting it will block iran from going nuclear will not back away from israel. to the chamber floor capitol hill senior producer. chad, where are you? what do you see? >> i'm sitting just one level above where prime minister benjamin netanyahu will start his speech in about 15 minutes.

we expect speaker john boehner to come in very shortly. i'm looking at former senator norm coleman from minnesota. bop bob craft, owner of the patriots, bob walker of pennsylvania and dennis kucinich of ohio. there are more republican members sitting on their side of the chamber although the democrats are certainly well represented and are starting to fill in. i thought it was interesting looking at members in the chamber, we're talking about an hour, hour and a half ago who were staking out seats on the aisle, much like what they do for the president's state of the union address. democrat joyce mingh from queens new york was here earlier so right now there's just a lot of glad handing. we'll see the speaker come into the chamber very soon. he's meeting just off the floor with the prime minister who was giving him a menorah of scroll and esther in honor of the jewish holiday coming up so speaker boehner will come to the

house chamber. joe biden is not here today. he's out of the country so usually during a joint meeting of congress or a joint session, they both preside. this is a joint meeting. it's a little bit different just one step down from a joint session of congress which is what you have when you count the electoral college when the president comes to do the state of the union address. or oran hatch is the most senior member of the majority party and is the president pro tem. he's fourth in line to the presidency. he'll be standing in for joe biden today. >> as you were talking we saw newt gingrich taking a seat in the balcony with his wife. he's an invite on behalf of speaker john boehner today as is elia bizell. nobel peace prize winner congressional gold medal recipient expected to be in the chamber as well. at least 50 democrats --

>> i can see him where i am. >> -- will not be there today. have you spoken to them and what is their rationale for boycotting? >> some of them said they think they've overly politicized this. there was one member last night a democrat from minnesota who said that -- he said i don't want to be a party of letting the israeli prime minister come to the house chamber and fully rebutt the president on this. he said i've never seen a joint session of congress where a foreign leader has come to rebutt our president in the middle of trying to negotiate a deal. he said that quote, i find this unseamly. i asked what he would be doing today. he said i have some constituent work he'll be doing. you have other members like martin from new mexico senator who said he's not going to come to the speech but he'll watch. then you have elizabeth warren, the democratic senator from massachusetts who said she strongly supports israel but says this is so mrit i cannized that she doesn't think it's appropriate to be here. she said quote, it's unfortunate that speaker

boehner's actions have made this more political. john boehner has wrapped the gavel here. he's right now here as we speak and he'll call the house to order. >> chad stand by one moment because just yesterday, he said the interest for this event is 10 times the capacity for the balcony. >> united states senate. [applause] >> chad if you're still with us, how many -- several hundred seats in the balcony? what would you guess is the seating capacity for others? >> there are about 400 seats in the balcony or so and the speaker's office had said that the demand for this particular event far exceeded any event they had seen before. remember we had ukrainian leader here in the fall in september and it was pretty well attended but this is something different. each office democrats and

republicans, get one ticket to the gallery for the chamber and as you say, bush administration, speaker staff has said that they have had 10 times the number of request for tickets than are the seats available in the gallery and on the floor 20 minutes ago i saw capitol workers bringing in plastic folding chairs they were setting along the back rail for extra members and staff who want to sit in the chamber here. >> that's the democrat from new jersey who just last night at aipac reviewed a stunning review of talks with iran. as they now get ready, those who have decided to attend this today, i want to bring in bret baier who is with me as well. good morning to you. you wonder and you know the power of benjamin netanyahu and his ability to communicate and speak now. he's been doing this for his entire adult life in and out of politics. what a personal history he has,

educated at m.i.t. at harvard, fought on behalf of special forces, wounded twice in combat. that's the resume he brings today and based on the people you talk to today what is his message to the american people and for that part the rest of the world now watching? >> well history shows that prime minister netanyahu has made the case very well both in front of the united nations, other speeches about the threat from iran. what we're hearing on background from israeli officials is that this will get into the substance of the p 5 plus one deal. this will get into the u.s.-iran negotiations that are ongoing. this will get into some of the details. now, they're saying it's not going to get into the classified negotiations that are ongoing, that this is all open source because they're addressing directly the concerns of the obama administration as they said they were really worried about this but they are going to

lay out the case why no deal is better than a bad deal. and that is what bb netanyahu will do in front of congress a congress that despite 50 plus members not being there on the democratic side is as you can see, packed and will likely be very receptive. >> it's martha in new york. it's stunning as you lay it out to consider that john kerry is in switzerland negotiating an arrangement with iran at the same moment that the israeli prime minister is stepping into a packed house to discuss the threat that iran poses to israel, something that certainly prior presidents could hardly imagine themselves doing at this moment. >> martha, you're right. and it's important to point out this goes beyond the u.s.-iran nuclear deal. you will likely hear prime minister netanyahu lay out the threat from iran both on supporting terrorists as the

number one state sponsor of terrorism and also about basically having a spread out effort to take over large portions of their neighborhood. you look at what's happening in yemen. you look at what's happening in iraq, actually as the head general is leading the forces, iranian forces into tikrit. saddam hussein's home town. it's hard to believe if you look back at the u.s. effort in iraq and all the people who served on the ground that iranian troops are leading the fight against isis into tikrit. that's shocking. >> susan rice the other day called this move today destructive and the president walked that back last night calling it not destructive so much as it is a distraction at the moment but knowing the president as ed henry reports, that he will not be watching the speech and knowing also he's admitted publicly many times he's not so sure they can get a deal in the end with iran so if

we move past march and into the summer months and you're two years down the road what do all these efforts applying john kerry to europe and the middle east for the past 24 months what in the end would the administration have to show for that work? >> it's a good question, bill. i think that all indications are this administration still really wants a deal. desperately wants a deal that they want to get across the finish line with something. i think that the hope on the israeli side is that the iranians will not a grow to a deal and that's where you are. there are still a big -- from everything we're hearing there's a big distance from the u.s. and iran on substance, on a couple of key areas, the breakout time it would take to get a nuclear bomb, all of the specific enrich enrichments enrichments, number of centrifuges. there's a real push in the administration to get a deal that they'll try very hard to

continue to do that and that's why secretary kerry is in geneva right now. >> bret you make a great point about iran's emerging influence over the entire middle east when you look at egypt and you look at damascus and libya and all the areas that we're seeing influence from iran and now you've got this interesting result of all of that. saudi arabia and egypt may be forming a stronger alliance with israel than we are at this moment. quite odd. >> yeah. and that's been developing over time. egypt, saudi arabia these gulf arab states are as concerned about iran's expansion through the region as anybody. frankly, more concerned in what they say and what they've done than the u.s. has been as policy matter. so i think you're going to see a real concern from bb netanyahu

about this not only the substance of the nuclear deal but also the expansion of iran's presence throughout the middle east. i want to bring in a panel here. we have in the studio joining me now, managing editor of foreign policy magazine, associate editor of the hill and syndicated columnist. panelists, welcome. we're waiting for the prime minister. what do you think? what will he lay out to congress and what is he charged to do? >> he's charged as he sees it to make the best case he can against what he sees as both a pock -- apocolyptic. he talks to constituents here and at home. the white house keeps saying they'll veto the current bill that would impose sanctions if talks fail. if there's a deal at some point

the white house has to go to congress and say lift sanctions permanently. that's not talked about as much as it should be so he has a near term goal and a long term long and torpedo a deal down the road by preventing the white house from doing what it needs to do. >> there's all the focus on israeli politics and there's an election march 17. is it pbl that the conventional wisdom going in may flip as he makes this case about the threat from iran? >> certainly. i mean you've seen and now he's down a little bit. there's some polls saying he may get as few as 18 seats in the next israeli election. even so he'll have the ability to form a government but it's fascinating. we have a sense of conventional wisdom here. in israel it's here one day here a different day and probably there later today. >> we should point out it is broadcast live in israel but there is a monitor, apparently who is going to blackout anything that tends towards the

politics of -- ahead of the election. i don't know who this is and onhas the switch but it's interesting the whole dynamic here as we're watching the house floor. they're getting ready to bring it to order. your thoughts on this speech? >> the politics of the speech is different from the politics of the deal. so there are members of congress today who are attending the speech who felt that this was not a useful tactic for the prime minister. nonetheless. they have major problems with the deal. this speech is not the deal. >> charles, the substance of this speech. >> this will be the case that the world has not heard for what is wrong with the agreement. up until now we're debating proplity of the speech. a way from administration to distract us from the content of the agreement. now discussion about propriety of the speech is over as of now. now from now on we'll have to hear the details. the objective of netanyahu is to

make the world aware how much the u.s. conceded to the iranian position and how much on the edge and cusp of nuclear capacity is the deal would leave them. that i think is going to have major influence on the debate. in fact it probably will have major influence on kerry negotiating. i think he is at a point where there will be tremendous pressure as a result of the speech not to make further concessions and perhaps to pull back on some he's already made. >> now, but what about the broad case and this concern he is going to release details of this ongoing negotiation that the administration expressed openly that he is going to somehow let the cat out of the bag in this speech? >> look, in for a dime, in for a dollar. he is already offended the administration. he already offended a lot of democrats. he has to do what he has to do. if that means saying that the number of centrifuges we have agreed to is 6500, he will say

it. it is not classified. everybody knows it. it has been out there, leaked a dozen times. he is going to do it. this is the one chance, only time, the whole world is going to hear what is actually been given away in these negotiations. and he knows it. it is not going to happen again. he is going to say what he has to say. >> just the politics here for all of the talk about who is not going to be there, apparently this is the highest demand for a joint meeting since speaker boehner has been speaker and that this place is packed. >> well, israel is other staunch ally. this is not, joint sessions from allied prime ministers are usually house. this is israel. the number of democrats who are skipping this is still small in proportion. like i said, there are still democrats like senator tim kaine will not come to the speech today. he is also pushing legislation to force the president to submit