martha: so what will out be? bill: we're throwing all kind of theories at the wall. martha: all kinds of theories about what's going on. bill: we have no idea. martha: have a great weekend, everybody. we'll see you on monday. jon: and we begin with this fox news alert. we've just gotten word that the white house is going to be providing an opportunity for the president to make a statement about 45 minutes from now. the vice president also will be there which suggests there's a certain level of importance to whatever the president has to say. no official word on his announcement, but "the wall street journal" is reporting that it has to do with the keystone pipeline. we'll certainly take you there live when the president takes to the podium in 45 minutes or so from now. and this fox news alert, department of homeland security sources tell fox news a high level meeting is underway to

increase security on flights coming into the united states after the deadly russian plane crash in egypt. welcome to "happening now" on this friday, i'm jon scott. arthel: i'm arthel neville in for jenna lee, and this is coming out as new reports out of moscow say president putin is suspending all russian flights to egypt. now, this is on the heels of british and u.s. intelligence that points to a bomb bringing down that russian passenger jet in egypt. president obama himself calling that scenario a possibility. >> you know, whenever you've got a plane crash, first of all, you've got the tragedy, you've got the making sure that there's an investigation on site. i think there is a possibility that there was a bomb onboard, and we're taking that very seriously. jon: our chief foreign affairs correspondent, greg talcott, has the latest on the investigation live from london.

>> reporter: hi, jon, arthel. the word coming from putin's office regarding this russian plane crash probably the most telling in the last 24 hours in this fast-developing story. remember, it was putin and his spokesperson who were saying yesterday that claims from the u.k. that terror could have brought down that plane, shocking, premature. now putin is saying he won't wait for the end of the probe to act, there will be no more russian flights in and out of egypt until the cause of the crash is known. this is only going to cause more headaches on the ground, especially sharm el-sheikh airport. remember, the u.k. suspended flights on wednesday fearing that terror was behind the crash. so-called rescue flights for u.k. terrorists started today, but there aren't enough of them. there's some 20,000 brits there. russia, we are told, has able 45,000 tourists in egypt. this as more details emerge about what caused the u.k. to come out so forward on the

terror claims. our sister network here sky news saying that u.s. and u.k. intelligence combing through communications between isis members came across plotting for a major terror attack just days before the crash, and reuters in the past hour backing that up with a u.s. source saying the same thing. there are also indications that a bomb was planted on the plane. now russia is saying today it is bringing pieces of the wreckage to their country to test them for traces of explosive residue. so far there have been no indications of explosives found on the site and, again, that u.s. source quoted by reuters is saying there is still no hard evidence of a bomb, just a lot of speculation and intercepted intelligence. again though, jon, if it turns out that isis was responsible, this'll have huge implications for russia, its war against isis, our own war against isis and the broader story, airport

security. back to you. jon: especially in international locations. greg talcott, thank you. ♪ ♪ arthel: fox news is america's election headquarters, and the stage is set. fox business network announcing who will be in the next week's republican presidential debate. the eight candidates on the main stage -- donald trump, ben carson, marco rubio, ted cruz, jeb bush, carly fiorina, john kasich and rand paul. now, four in the so-called undercard debate -- chris christie and mike huckabee who were knocked off the main stage this time around along with rick santorum and bobby jindal. carl cameron, the man who knows it all, joins us now from washington. >> reporter: no doubt about it, this is a setback for chris christie and mike huckabee.

they fell short of the required 2.5% in the national polls. huckabee has issued a statement saying i'm happy to debate anyone, anywhere, anytime. we have months away from actual votes being cast, and neither the pundits, nor the press will decide this election. the people will. he's in south carolina today. i spoke with governor christie yesterday afternoon before fbn actually announced the roster last night. all these candidates read the polls. christie saw it coming. listen. >> i'll be on some stage one way or the other. no matter where i'm debating, i'll make an impression. you want to throw a podium out here on the lawn, and we'll go and start debating with folks out here. i'm happy to do that too. >> reporter: so the prime time event features eight candidates, not ten. donald trump and ben carson will be dead center, flanked by rubio and ted cruz who are battling for third and then the sort of single-digits gang on the wings. that second tier in the earlier debate now includes christie and

huckabee. bobby jindal and rick santorum, absent from the roster are lindsey graham, george pataki and jim gilmore who was bounced out of the debates after the first one because they didn't reach 1% in any of those four national polls. listen to marco rubio. >> i feel bad for them. i mean, they're working hard, and they're good people. i thought they both performed well in the last debate, so it's unfortunate. anytime you set up a criteria, someone might fall out of it. i feel even worse for the people who didn't even make the second debate. they're out there, they're flying around the country, they're working as hard as anybody else, and it's unfortunate. >> reporter: and national polls are not indicative of what's going on in the early states, iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. we are going to be hearing from both christie and kasich. they are in the new hampshire today filing to have their names put on the new hampshire first in the nation ballot in february. christie and kasich are there, and huckabee's down in south carolina.

both of them will speaking out t this, they are not going to give up. they argue ultimately the voters in the early states make up their minds in the last couple weeks, so what's happening now is all prelude. arthel: they will continue to jockey for position. carl cameron, thanks. jon: how is all of this going to affect the campaigns? let's get analysis from our political panel. a.b. stoddard is columnist for the hill, phillip bump writes for the for "the washington post"'s politics blog, the fix. you've got three candidates currently in the race who aren't going to be on the stage at all, a couple of candidates -- chris christie among them -- who have been bumped to the undercard. a.b., will the arguing over the polling and how people actually make it into the debate, will that ever end? >> no, because there's really in a field this large no way to determine who should get on what is already -- even with eight candidates -- much better than ten, but already a crowded main stage.

and there's no way to put 14 people up there. so you use polls to win know this down -- winno to w this down and make a determinationw . it is almost three months until the voting, so there can be comeback stories and huge surprises. it is a very volatile race and a volatile field. but at this moment, and this is certainly not the last debate, you're going to see a shift in who's in the earlier one and who's in the bigger one. i think that someone like chris christie's going to do fine. he took the right attitude. he didn't express any sour grapes. he is surging in new hampshire where he wants to be surging. he wants to peak later, i think they all do in the early states, not now. and i think if he has a memorable performance, it will be spoken about. mike huckabee, however, could suffer from this because i just don't see his campaign really going anywhere with the dominance of ben carson and

others in iowa, ted cruz, donald trump and then i don't think he's really going to be a contender in new hampshire. jon: yeah. well, it is one of the issues, phillip. these are based on national polls, but if you look at new hampshire polling, chris christie is ahead of rand paul, and in iowa huckabee and jindal are both ahead of kasich. >> right. yeah, and that's an argument you've heard especially bobby jindal make repeatedly. rick santorum's made it in the past pointing out national polling before he won the iowa caucus in 2012, he was polling around 4% in november. totally valid. we're heading toward the point in the race there are going to be enough candidates, after several more drop out, to actually fit on one stage, and all this will be somewhat moot. a.b.'s absolutely correct, you have to draw a line somewhere. there are literally hundreds of people who are running in this race as republicans. most of them are not actual, real candidates. but you have to figure out how are you going to draw the line. the person who has the strongest argument against this current selection is probably lindsey

graham. he wasn't asked in one of the polls that was ink4r50uded in the criteria. he may have gotten 1% in that debate. at the end of the day, the fault is on the candidates. if you're at 1%, it's not fox business' stage you didn't make -- fault you didn't make the debate stage. jon: are they all wondering about donald trump's presence in this race and what could have been or might have been had he decided not to run, a.b.? >> i think almost every one of these candidates, jon, plans a campaign and their candidacy and this big fight for the biggest job in the world without donald trump in their calculation. i don't think anyone really seriously thought who's running right now that this would be the dominant factor in this campaign thus far. it's a very interesting, also, because donald trump scores well in on line polls after debates. online polls are not really as reputable as other polling, and he always wins for his debate with performance, although

people usually wake up the next day and say even supporters i don't think he did a very good job. i think they're getting used to being on stage with him in the center. but no one expected donald trump would be defining everyone else's campaign. jon: count me as somebody who never thought he'd run in the first place. phillip, i owe you another question next time. thanks for being here. so four days from now milwaukee the place to be, this tuesday, november 10th. the first debate starts at 7 p.m. eastern time followed by the main event, 9 p.m. eastern, all on the fox business network. if you're not sure where to find fox business in your area, log on to foxbusiness.com/channelfinder. arthel: and speaking of our debate, our next guest is calling out jeb bush and ben carson, why he says both candidates are performing without a net. plus, california police releasing key information about the suspect in a college

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alberta, canada, about 1200 miles into nebraska and then, ultimately, to the gulf coast for refining. advocates say it would provide about 9,000 jobs during its construction. many labor unions have been very much in favor of it and the work that would come with it. the obama administration has been balking for years at approving the permitting process. just this week transcanada, the builder of the pipeline -- the proposed builder of the pipeline -- asked to put its permit application on hold, suspending it. the thinking was that they were hoping that a more friendly president might be elected in less than a year, and they could get that permit application approved. well, later on in the be week -- today, namely -- president obama will step out in front of the cameras and say he is killing the keystone pipeline. once that is the death knell once and for all is yet to be seen. we'll hear from the president about 30 minutes from now. ♪

♪ arthel: and ahead of tuesday's highly-anticipated republican debate, we look at two very different candidates with a similar problem, debate performance. both ben carson and jeb bush having trouble expressing their core messages on stage. according to an editorial in "the wall street journal" entitled "ben carson's jeb bush problem," it could cost each candidate the nomination. according to the writer, carson fails to show detailed knowledge of important issues in the debate, and it's hurting his campaign saying, quote: possibly the semi-opacity of mr. carson's remarks doesn't matter and charisma will win the nomination, but i doubt it. if he happens or doesn't sharp his focus, the substantive and hyperarticulate marco rubio and ted cruz will erode his support in the primaries. if he had anything resembling their policy chops, he'd be over 50%. here's the man who wrote that,

daniel henninger. he is the deputy editor for the wall street journal. daniel, that's quite an article you wrote there, and i want to go to this as well. you also say that carson is the gop candidate that most republicans would like to see become president. but carson, as you very well know, has spent the last few days recanting, reinterpreting, explaining statements that he has made. does this change his likability status inside the party, and does this at all, daniel, affect his honesty? i mean, in terms of polling he's right there on top in terms of who americans think is the most honest candidate. >> yeah. i doubt, arthel, that it's going to damage him very much. but the last few days have suggested that ben carson's candidacy is entering what i would call a red zone. an area where he's got to be careful. he is now the focus of attention. articles like this one questioning his accounts of his childhood are expected in presidential politics.

as the old saying goes, politics ain't bean bags, and he's going to get hit with things like this. my issue, though, has been with his performance in the debates. and while he is coming across as very likable, people like his personal story, there will be a point where he has to start talking in a more articulate way about substance the way ted cruz is, the way marco rubio is. and i compared him to jeb bush because bush is probably the most experienced candidate in the debate, and he has been doing an extremely poor job of explaining his core ideas the way cruz and rubio have. arthel: right. >> and he's fallen in the polls, those two are rising, and ben carson's right there at 23%. i think he can build, but he's got to step it up. arthel: and what about jeb bush? as you said, he's the most qualified candidate. can jeb start to jump out, if you will, and resonate with voters, you know, past the clutter that everybody's

complaining about in some of the debates? really i think one of jon's former guests said, look, at the end of the today, it's about that candidate, it's about their campaign. >> well, i think you put your finger on it, arthel, clutter. look, there are a lot of candidates. they're all fighting for media attention. it's very hard to get. the debates have -- well, this one will have eight people on the stage, and it's all about personal impressions at this point. you don't have much more time to do anything than that. jeb bush has diminished the importance of these debates saying out there in the campaign is where he'll show what he's got, but he has to understand that people's first impressions are coming off these debates. and i'm arguing that until he's willing to commit to memory -- the way rubio and cruz have done -- three or four core ideas and articulate them during those debates, people are going to keep wondering what is the point of his candidacy? arthel: and he can't get sidetracked by the jabs.coming at him from other sides of the stage, that is. >> no, he can't. he's got to say what he wants to

say. arthel: i'm running out of time. daniel henninger, always good to see you, thank you. jon: a fox news alert, and 25 minutes from now the president and vice president of the united states will head to that podium in the white house. we understand that mr. obama is going to announce he is killing transcanada's application to build the keystone pipeline. it would run from alberta to the gulf coast. the president plans to announce he will kill it. that's 25 minutes from now. more "stay" per roll.

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jon: media scrutiny of ben carson is spiking since his surge in the polls, and dr. carson is now complaining about cnn's coverage of his background. carson describes himself as a man who was saved from a bleak

path in life by faith, and that faith now a popular target for other candidates and in some cases the mainstream media itself. let's talk about it with lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun-times", cal thomas is a syndicated columnist and fox news contributor. cal, let's start with you. you have seen other candidates questioned about your faith. is what is happening -- about their faith, i should say. is what is happening with ben carson fair? >> well, sure. but, look, i think, jon, the media has a ignorance of religion and religious faith that really goes back to, in mod earn times, to jimmy carter. when carter came out and said he was born again, john chancellor of nbc nightly news got on the air and said we've looked up this born again business, and it's nothing new. that caused guffaws in the evangelical community. later the washington post wrote a piece in which they said the evangelicals are poor, uneducated and easy to command.

and there was a huge reaction to that prompting jo ann byrd, the ombudsman of "the washington post," to say what we meant was most of them are poor, uneducated and easy to command. this is inexcusable, i think, among media. jon: republicans, lynn, say they are targeted more often by the media for, you know, their religious faith or for professions of faith than democrats ever would be.hy don'p this to the subject at hand, because it's a big one, ben carson talking about faith, okay? he took an unfair, wrong blow from donald trump when he questioned his seventh day adventist behavior. that was covered. trump didn't come out of that looking very well. anything in a presidential candidate's life is fair game. ben carson is learning that, including religion. and i think that if you look at all the stories that will be written by, you know, the mainstream media is not monolithic. i want to say that again so your viewers know that. it's a hard concept, but there

are going to be many stories written on faith because so much of the ben carson phenomenon and his popularity is driven by faith-based communities. and they deserve and will get coverage and explanation just as mitt romney ran for president, we learned a lot, very substantially, about his mormon faith. jon: go ahead. >> and good for our learning curve. >> sorry. i think the complaint among many republicans and conservatives is that equal time is not applied to the democratic candidates. for example be, hillary clinton claims to be a methodist, but i doubt seriously if anybody is going to delve into her faith. and going back to the wesley brothers, the founders of modern-day methodism, and the reason for that, i believe, is her alleged feint comports pretty much -- faith comports pretty much with the traditional values questions. so all that conservatives are asking for is some equanimity here that hillary clinton and even bernie sanders be held to

the same standard that's being applied to people like ben carson. i don't think that's an unfair question. jon: carson is at the center -- >> could i just quickly say though because, actually, hillary clinton's methodist faith, it is not alleged -- she is a church-going methodist -- has been a part of many stories written about her through the decades including the influence that her youth pastor growing up in park ridge had on her. jon: all right. ben carson is at the center of this because he's been the subject of some critical articles. he says that his faith saved him when he was on a very downward path, even stabbing one of his relatives. megyn kelly asked him about that last night on her program over his teenage redemption stories. listen. be. megyn: i know that you've said this feels like a witch hunt, what's happening over at cnn, but let me ask you flat out whether you stand by the claim that you, as a young man, as a

14-year-old boy, attempted to stab another boy and attacked your mother with a hammer. >> those claims are absolutely true. you know, i am 100% sure that they are true, and this is simply an attempt to smear and to deflect the argument to something else, something that we've seen many, many times before. jon: kind of interesting the way this is working, cal. here's a guy who says i was doing terrible things, and the media don't want to believe him. >> well, that's true. he did say on the show, i think it was that show last night i saw, that he had contacted the person he says he stabbed and apparently the person doesn't want to come forward. which is fine. but, you know, this gets to truth telling and the rest. i do think, though, that this is minor compared to some of the major issues that confront us. and we're in a 24/7 news cycle, and they're going to pick apart

every life at least among the republicans right now like the entrails of a dead chicken. so this is a little game they play. this is, this is political foreplay before the republican party decides who it wants to get married to. jon: all right. lynn, quickly, he -- ben carson -- has the highest positive rating when it comes to honesty of any of the candidates. is that part of what's going on here? >> i don't think so. seems to me this is the routine look at a major candidate. it's the compliment being given to him by the media, all media, not monolithic, of taking him seriously. jon: all right. lynn sweet, cal thomas, good to talk to you. >> thank you, jon. arthel: and coming up, our own jon scott goes on the adventure of a lifetime for a great cause. we're going to take you along on his trip to machu pichu in the andes mountains of peru. also, shocking new details about a stabbing attack on a california campus and the

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jon: some week back we showed you a few pictures of my trip to peru where i attempted to hike the inca trail it was a four-day adventure. a whole lot of work and a lot of fun. [♪] it's a place incredible contrasts. where cities choked with traffic are enveloped which jungles. where icy peaks soar above rain forests shrouded in clouds. welcome to peru. we meet here to attempt a trek to hike 26 miles of the inca

trail while raising fund for compassion international. day one we'll pick up the trail outside the city at 8,500 feet above sea level. our guide is a descendant of the incas. >> we'll cover 10-11 kilometers to get our first camp inside today. we'll see two nice inca sights on the way. reporter: our passports stamped at a control station we embark on the inca trail. the empire stretched far beyond the boundaries of modern-day peru. the inca built 26,000 miles of trail. but it's these 26 miles that are best known.

one of the most famous hikes in the world. our group includes a petroleum engineer, a doctor, a farmer, a teacher and a cancer jeannette sift from arizona. 22 in all. i'm hiking the trail, too, but since i'm photographer as well as the reporter you won't see much of me. the trail is a purposeful chain of rocks carefully laid during the time inca ruled this western edge of south america until the spanish con questions th arrivea vanished into darkness. this is expected to be our toughest day. and though we didn't yet not, it would come to an ominous conclusion. we ascend over creeks fat with

rain and melted snow. water that feeds the lush blanket of green as it climbs towards the sky. reporter: the stone stairs may not be an issue at sea level. but there is a lot less air pressure to drive oxygen through your lungs into your bloodstream. that makes every step a labor of love. the trail rises to a pass elevation 14,000 feet. i reached the last few of the centuries old stairs to find others celebrating beneath an icy wind. we reached the highest point on the inca trail. reporter: how does it feel? >> great, i did it. reporter: the trail descend to our second campsite.

when we reach them we are rewarded with more spectacular scenery at the cloves an exhausting day. >> we did 3,000 feet in under three miles. it was steep before it was rewarding get together top, and it was great coming down and making it to camp. reporter: one of our members barely made it. our tight knit group was about to see the name dead woman's pass come frighteningly close to reality. in the second hour i'll bring as paul harvey would say the rest of the story. jon: about 200 hurricane, and 300 guides. you have to have a permit to hike the trail. that's part of the reason they

check your pass 40s when you are on. reporter: what a great assignment. a programming note. tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern, brit hume will host a special documentary on a brand-new look at the presidency of george h.w. bush. here is a clip. >> the boys telling me, beer proud of you dad. we are proud of you. and i'm thinking they go back to their communities. yes, but a failed president. reporter: it's based on the new biography by john meacham. it's tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. hi i'm heather cox

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jon: closing arguments under way for the robbery that led to the movie ""goodfellas." david lee miller live at the u.s. district court in brooklyn with the latest. >> reporter: forget movie "goodfellas." jurors have been rinsing to a summation by the prosecution of what happened 37 years ago during the lufthansa terminal heist. prosecutors are methodically going through the evidence. asaro took floats and listened attentively as prosecutor

describes his career as a member of the crime family. witnesses said they have seen these crimes replayed before their very eyes. they reminded jurors that a -- that aa so was secretly recorded by his own cousin. in one recording he claimed he did not get the full loot in the lufthansa heist. the defense is expected to attack credibility of government witnesses. bust prosecutor said former mobsters should be believed because their testimony is backed up by others suching a the testimony of victims and law enforcement. vincent asaro now age 80 is the only person to go on trial for the lufthansa heist at jfk

airport. arthel: a saga coming to an end after more than 40 years. now more on the trial with our legal panel. guys you know we are waiting for the president so we may get interrupt. but we'll start nonetheless. which side goes into the closing arguments with the stronger position? >> i think the government does. they have mob people who turned over and testified and hours of tape. you want to know about plumbing, you talk to a plumber. you want to know about the mob you talk to mobsters. >> hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars, millions of dollars of our money that we april 15 we are sending in every month is being spent on an 80-year-old guy who has been

sitting on a couch eating pasta doing nothing for the last 20 years tore see if we can find him guilty of a crime that took place 40 years ago. arthel: what's your point? >> the government always has the stronger argument when you are in federal court. >> you are seeing a guy faced with all this evidence trying to get you to look every, including the budget. >> david lee miller was snarnlgd front of the courthouse where i go once a week. the lead prosecutor is spectacular. i would like her look at terrorism cases. it's insane. >> these guys were violent vicious criminals, the fact that it was 40 years ago doesn't change that fact. >> they don't bring the cases up

until they are positive they are going to win. arthel: with that in mind they are going to start closing arguments. do you think the jurors have already made up their minds or can either side in their closing arguments sway them to a different perspective? >> studies show jurors make up their minds in opening statement. if they think it goal is not guilty they will look at all the things that support that contention. so they made up their mind. >> a school statistic. the "new york times" did a study 10 years ago. 80% of jurors, what they felt their verdict would be after the opening statement turned out to be what the verdict would be. so many people know about the movie. it makes the task for the defendants that much harder. arthel: what happens now? >> the case will go to the jury, the jury will deliberate. >> after closing arguments the judge with spend an hour with

the jury and tell them the rules of the game, what they can and can't consider. >> they will go deliberate. arthel: do you think to arthur's point they will waste more of the taxpayers' dollars. that's -- that's what he said. that's his job. long deliberations? >> what's today, thursday? >> it's friday. arthel: arthur, fred, thank you very much. jon: fox news confirmed the president will reject the construction of the keystone pipeline. we are waiting for him to emerge there along with the vice president to stand in front of those micro phones and make that

announcement. chris wallace is anchor much fox news sunday, and joins us live. this project has been talked about for years. what is it about this particular friday in november? reporter: beats me. this has been going on for 7 years the administration has been looking at this. because it was an international situation. the main review was being done by the state department under hillary clinton and john kerry and kerry today recommended to the president, by the seemed to have been set for some period of time, to go against it. very interesting. this has been a political hot potato for president obama. you have got two main stays, two key wings of the democratic base on opposite side. the environmental wing of the party that that has been opposed

to keystone, and you have got labor, the big union side of the democratic base in favor of it because this would according to a state department review create at least temporarily 42,000 new jobs, construction jobs and affiliated jobs based on the construction. so this was something the administration was caught between a rock and hard place as to whether it would go with the envelopists or the big labor groups it appears that they decided to take the environmental side of the argument. jon: transcanada was proposing this pipeline. they said we want to put our application on hold. don't do anything for now. we are going to let this thing percolate a while. the thinking was that they hoped they might find somebody occupying the oval office a year from now who might be a little friendlier toward their point of view and they would bring back

the application then. now in the same week the president decide to drive a spike through the thing. is that just coincidence? reporter: i don't know. i thought that, too. it's a question of were you fired or did you quit? and it seems like the president wants to make sure to say that it was fired. one of the things that has concerned a lot of people who support keystone, this isn't going to stop the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands in bert, canada. lit still be done. the question is how will it be transported. will it be transported to china or someplace else across the pacific that will not burn it and refine it with the same controls we would? would it be sent by train or truck as it has been which has a much bigger carbon footprint than the pipeline would have. it isn't as if ther this oil woe

burned and it may have more of an impact on the environment than the pipeline would have. but that's a case of don't confuse me with the facts. jon: the president is not running for reelection. he decided union endorsements notwithstanding he's going to apparently try to kill this thing. what is the net effect, i guess on the democrats running to succeed him. hillary clinton said she, too, rejects the keystone pipeline. reporter: this doesn't have an impact on hillary clinton who for a long time refused to say where she stood on this because she said this is something she considered, and she wanted to wait for the administration to couple with its decision. as the delay went on and there have been and lot of people complain being how long it take the white hughes to decide on this.

she said she would come out against the pipeline. you know, this is obviously something that will come up with the next president. if it's hoict appears clear it won't go forward. almost all the republicans i know have come out in fave of it. one of the things i think that's interesting here is it's clear the whole issue of climate change is very important to this president, and to his view of what he want his legacy to be. there is talk about a climate change and an international conference in paris before the end of the year to try to come up with some kind of international agreement to limit carbon emissions. clearly before that conference, this president didn't want to be in a position. he could kick the can down the road as he has for 7 years. when you were talking about why this friday, i don't know that this has anything to do with it. we did get good employment numbers.

7,000 jobs created. 5.0% unemployment rate. when -- to the degree there is a debate about the impact on jobs. he will kill a prong that would create tens of thousands of jobs at least on a temporary basis. jon: he was supposed to be out at the microphone 10 minutes ago. we'll let you get to work on "fox news sunday." if the president make the announcement in the meantime we'll be back to the white house right away. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's a good thing,

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join another pipeline and take it to the gulf coast for refining. it has been a controversial issue for years throughout this administration and even before that. now we understand mr. obama is going to announce his opposition to the pipeline. the pipeline as far as we understand it for now will not be built. arthel: this will be fodder for conversation on the debates coming up. it will be interesting to see if the president does confirm he will reject the keystone pipeline. it will be interesting, if the next president supports it how long they could get back online. >> good morning, everybody. several years ago the state department began a review process for the proposed construction after pipeline that would carry canadian crude oil through our heart told ports in the gulf of mexico and out into the world market. this morning secretary kerry informed me that after extensive

public outreach and consultation with other cabinet agencies, the state department decided that the keystone xl pipeline would not serve the national interests of the united states. i agree with that decision. this morning i have the opportunity to speak to prime minister trudeau, while he expressioned his disappointment, we agreed our friendship on a whole range of issues including climate change will provide our countries ways to go forward. my teams will be engage theirs to help deepen that cooperation. for years the keystone pipeline has occupied what i consider an overinflated role in our political discourse.

it became a symbol too often used by both parties. all of this obscured the fact that this pipeline would neither and silver bullet for the economy as promise bid some, nor the express lane of climate disaster proclaimed by others. let me briefly comment on some of the reasons the state department rejected this pipeline. first, the pipeline would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to our economy. so if congress is serious about wanting to create jobs, this was not the way to do it. if they want to do it, what we should be doing is passing a bipartisan infrastructure plan that in the short term could create more than 0 times as many -- more than 30 times as many jobs as the pipeline and would benefit our economy and