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to in party who wins the race -- no matter who wins the race, what matters most is god, family and country. [cheers and applause] eric: even took the presidential limo on a spin around the track. this is a brand new hour of "america's news headquarters." i'm eric shawn. arthel: and i'm arkansas shell neville. president trump's stop at the daytona 500 coming amid growing scrutiny of his relationship with attorney general william barr. more than 1100 former justice department officials now calling for barr to resign claiming he's, quote, doing the president's personal bidding. this after the justice department recommends a shorter sentence for longtime trump confidant roger stone. we have live fox team coverage. meredith is in west palm beach where the president spent most of the weekend. but we begin with phil keating live in day --tona beach -- daytona beach.

>> reporter: hi, arthel. the president and first lady after their historic lap around the daytona international racetrack. they are now enroute back to washington after spending the weekend down in palm beach. really thrilling for the about 100,000 people in the stands here today the as air force one, before landing, did a very low altitude flyover of the racetrack. 800 feet off the ground according to the white house. it was a pretty cool sight to see. most people don't even ever see air force one so so low, you can be sure a lot of camera phones were out recording video of that memorable moment. they landed nearby at the daytona international airport which is really right next door to the track. so just a short drive once they actually descended the stairs and got down into the beast. the president's car. they drove over to the tack where he was accompanied by the owner of nascar, some other

nascar people and some other dignitaries including governor ron desantis from the state of florida. and then he toured the infield, met some of the drivers and did a bunch of closed door things. and then he gave short remarks to the crowd, really nascar remarks, not really necessarily any kind of campaign remarks even though florida's critical in november. the president speaking to the nascar nation here, and the cheers were pretty loud in there, as you can imagine. arthel? arthel: absolutely. a pretty cool sight there. phil keating, thank you. eric? eric: well, president trump is now back on his way to washington and faces some criticism there from democrats and former justice department officials about the attorney general. mark meredith is standing by live near the president's mar rah dog lowers state in west balm -- mar rah log go in west palm beach. >> reporter: phil was talking about the fun the president was

having. back here in west palm beach it was all about political fundraising last night where he raised millions for his re-election campaign. the controversy that is still back in washington, so many people are talking about it. this all stems over the attorney general, bill barr, and the calls we're seeing for some democrats for him to -- from some democrats for him to resign for office. the case of the former trump associate, roger stone, the prosecutors wanted stone to face between 7-9 years behind bars. of department leaders decided to push for a shorter sentence. that has left some democrats outraged. >> bill barr should resign. he should leave and he should leave right now. and congress should use every tool we have -- we don't have money, but let's use what we've got to try to get him out of there. >> reporter: the white house says it still has full faith and confidence in the attorney general. of that support came after barr criticized the president's

constant tweets on ongoing cases. today a senior white house official told fox news the president has no plans to stop speaking out. >> it's disingenuous to say the president doesn't comment on criminal matter. the president of the united states has not directed his attorney general privately to do anything on any criminal matter, including roger stone. >> reporter: but so far we have heard from a number of former justice officials and a group called protect democracy saying they want bill barr to step down. fox news has not been able to verify this petition claims a list of everyone who has claimed to work at the justice department, but this will certainly come into this new week. as for the attorney general, we've not seen a response to this petition, and he is going to be speaking with lawmakers directly, heading up to capitol hill for a hearing, but that's not scheduled to happen until the end of march. eric? eric: all right. that'll be big when it happens. arthel: a sanctuary city crackdown. the trump administration to send

100 tactical border patrol officers to ten major cities from new york, boston and detroit to chicago and san francisco. p the white house wants those officers to help enforce compliance with federal immigration laws, but this move is getting some criticism. molly henning berg is live with the details there in washington. >> reporter: hi, arthel. the trump administration says it's dangerous and in some cases has been deadly for law-abiding citizens when illegal immigrants are released from custody by local governments in sanctuary cities instead of being turned over to i.c.e., immigration and customs enforcement. and that's why the administration is deploying some of the most elite, highly trained border patrol agents to those sanctuary cities. >> it goes with what we've been saying for years and years, that these sanctuary jurisdictions cause us to have to make more arrests at large in the community. the safest thing for our officers and the public is to turn these individuals over to us when they have them in their custody as they've already been

arrested for a criminal violation in those jurisdictions, but they refuse to cooperate with us, leaving us no choice but to work these cases at large. >> reporter: president trump said last week that, quote, not one more american life should be stolen by sanctuary cities. the border agents will work in new york, boston, chicago, san francisco and los angeles. but the democratic leaders of those cities, who say sanctuary city policies keep their cities safer because illegal immigrants willing to work with police without fear of arrest, say everyone still welcome in their cities. >> if anyone thinks that they can come here to our city and terrorize our residents into the shadows, met me say this: -- let me say this, you've got another thing coming. >> reporter: mayor with lightfoot said in that statement that illegal immigrants is have power and don't have to open their doors if someone knocks and doesn't have a warrant signed by a judge. and she reminded her community

that chicago has banned its police officers and i city employees -- and city employees from helping any federal agent in any civil immigration enforcement efforts. arthel? arthel: molly henneberg, thank you very much. eric? eric: the latest on the coronavirus. the u.s. evacuating nearly 400 american passengers today from the diamond princess cruise ship. you know, it's been docked near tokyo where they've been quarantined the since february 3rd. health officials say more than 40 of the passengers on that ship did test positive for coronavirus. >> flu-like symptoms will not be able to get on the evacuation plane. others are going to be evacuated starting imminently to air force bases in the united states. the degree of transmissibility on that cruise ship is essentially akin to being in a hot spot. eric: and they're expected to arrive tomorrow. so far 69,000 confirmed cases

worldwide, more than 1600 people so far have died from coronavirus. christina coleman live from los angeles with the very latest. christina? >> reporter: well, eric, one of those cases includes an 83-year-old american woman who departed a cruise ship in cambodia last week and flew to malaysia on friday. she is in the hospital in stable condition after she tested positive for the virus. she was on the holland america cruise ship that departed hong kong on friday -- or departed hong kong on february 1st. it was turned away from four ports around asia over concerns of coronavirus. however, cambodia allowed the ship to dock in its country last week. cambodia's governmented had said earlier that all 1,455 passengers on the shipp tested negative -- ship tested negative for the virus. however, today malaysian officials announced they will not allow any more passengers from the westerdam cruise ship into their country. meantime, americans who were quarantined on a cruise ship docked in the port city of

yokohama japan were evacuated today. they got on buses heading to an airport in tokyo. one of those flights will land an travis air force base here in california, and the other will go to lackland air force base in texas. once passengers arrive in the u.s., they will be quarantined for an additional 14 days. there were 355 people infected with the virus on that ship. the u.s. embassy made american passengers aware that these chartered flights are their only option to fly to the u.s. before march 4th at the earliest. evacuated passengers say they are ready to go home. >> a little bit scary with the numbers going up of people taken off the ship with the virus. so, you know, i think it's time to go. i think it's time to cut our losses and take off. >> reporter: china reported 142 deaths and 2,009 new cases

of coronavirus in the previous 24 hours. the rate of reported new cases has slowed in the past three days, even though the death toll continues to rise. eric? eric: all right, christina, thank you. arthel: well, eric, at least four rockets hitting near the u.s. embassy in baghdad inside what is known as the green zone. the latest and whether this could again raise tensions in the region. is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. hey! my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. who's the dummy now? whoof! whoof! so get allstate where good drivers save 40% for avoiding mayhem, like me. sorry! he's a baby!

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♪ ♪ arthel: new rocket attacks near the u.s. embassy in baghdad this morning. a u.s. military spokesperson says at least four rockets hit the base hosting u.s. and coalition forces within the city's heavily-fortified green zone. but three iraqi security officials say two of the rockets fell inside the u.s. embassy compound while another hit near the coalition base. no personnel are reported injured, and as far as who's behind the attack, that is under investigation. mike tobin is live in our mid e west bureau with the latest. mike? >> reporter: and, arthel, this latest rocket attack on u.s. positions in iraq had four rockets exploding in the u.s.-fortified green zone. that casualties reported -- no casualties reported but the latest in a series of rocket and

mortar strikes believed to be supported by iran. january 8th, an air base injuring dozens of servicemen and women, last thursday in kirkuk. tensions with the u.s. and iran began escalating when the u.s. reimposed sanctions. tensions peaked when the u.s. killed qassem soleimani with a drone strike on january 3rd. today hassan rouhani taunted president trump from a press conference at the presidential palace in tehran. he said trump's decisions in the region are only geared toward re-election. >> translator: americans know what harm war can do them, especially mr. trump who wants to do anything to become the winner in the next elections, and he plans and does his work based on that. >> reporter: rouhani also faces an election, parliamentary elections are on friday, and his moderate bloc is challenged by iranian hard-liners. rouhani has struggled to deliver

on his promise of a better life for iranian people, particularly under the crushing weight of u.s. sanctions. arthel? arthel: thank you, mike tobin. >> you see how the president weighs in. he didn't is have a conversation with bill barr about roger stone, he had a conversation with the whole world. he put it, as he is wont to do, on social media. he cuts out the middlemen, and they don't like. that he tells everybody what he thinks on any number of issues, including the stone case. eric: that, of course, kellyanne conway, defending the president's use of twitter to say that he thinks. attorney general william barr claimed last week that the president's tweets made it, in his words, quote, impossible for him to do the job. that after the president complained about the sentencing recommendation of his one-time adviser, roger stone. judy miller is here, adjunct fellow at manhattan institute for policy research and a fox news contributor.

so, judy, the president says it's his right to say what he wants, that there was no political influence with stone, so what do you think the chances are of a presidential fingers boycotting twitter? [laughter] >> i don't think the president is going to stop tweeting, and i think kellyanne conway is going to have to continue defending him and defending, basically, the mystifying, eric -- the problem is doubling down today on his comments only puppets bill barr in an -- puts bull barr in an increasingly difficult situation. what bill barr said earlier this week about making his job impossible was a signal to the president that lay off, to let him do his job with, to let him try to help him, which is what bill barr has been trying to do. the president is making that very difficult, and now clop and

company -- kellyanne conway and company, those real, true loyalists, are making it even harder for bill barr to do his job. i think the people who really care about the president and his re-election are hoping, are really hoping that bill barr does not quit. eric: well, look, barr announced a special prosecutor to intlook the flynn situation -- into the flynn situation, and this came when mccabe was cleared by the fbi on friday, something -- this is what the president tweeted: ig report on andrew mccabe, misled investigators in role over news media disclosure, lied on four separate occasions, authorized media leaks to advance personal interest, ig recommended mccabe's firing. how does the attorney general deal with these tweets that may conflict with department policy? >> well, that's exactly the problem for bill barr. i mean, i interviewed bill barr before he was confirmed, and barr told me that what his intention was, was to resurrect

the justice department, as he said, to kind of clean out the deep state. and i was at mar-a-lago last night, and what people were saying was that the president should be a shoo-inning for re-election, but this kind of erratic behavior, his attack on people like bill barr who has been so utterly, totally loyal to him, so much so that he's having to explain his conduct on march 31st on capitol hill, is really making life very difficult for the supporters. rather than take a victory lap after his acquittal, rather than understand that his ratings are up and that he should really be feeling very confident, the president seems to be increasingly suspicious and talking to fewer and fewer people except ultra-loyalists like kellyanne conway. bill barr has not had a conversation about mccabe or these other considerations one

would assume an attorney general like bill barr might have -- eric: but the -- >> we really have to watch -- eric: let me just stop you for a we could, because they would -- the create ins would say, well, that's a good thing, you know, that he should not have these conversations with the president, and the president said he has not talked to barr about roger stone. barr said that very same thing. isn't that what one would expect if everything is being handled appropriately? the media would be saying that's exactly what should happen. >> oh, i don't think much of the media's ever going to be lauding donald trump for bill barr under any circumstances. but i think there is a difference between having a conversation about a decision the justice department has made, has been making whether or not it's mike flynn or mccabe and telling the president, mr. president, please stop tweeting rather than announcing it to the world.

i think that's the kind of back and forth that really has people very alarmed and very mystified. eric: you know, finally, on a final note, i mean, you served 85 days in federal prison, in jail because you would not give up a source, famously. as someone who has been through that system and through that process, what is it like? what are you concerned about when you hear these type of stories? what should we watch out for? >> i am always concerned about the politicization of the justice department. i think the doj has to be above and beyond politics. the rule of law has to apply to everyone equally. and i understand that the president is frustrated but what's happened to him. he feels that the whole mueller investigation was untoward, and it was, as he calls it, faux news and terrible charges and a setup. but that does not mean that he has the right the weigh in to

justice department decisions after they have been made, after people have at senior levels, prosecutors have decided to continue with a prosecution or not continue with a prosecution, because then it seems as if bill barr is not serving the public interests, but is serving the president's interests alone. that would be a terrible miss carriage of justice. it would not -- miscarriage of justice. it would not be ea equal justice for all under the law and, yes, i am very, very concerned about it. and i think supporters of mr. barr think that he is as well. frankly, eric, everyone is kind of mystified by why the president has taken this course, both supporters and, of course, detractors are not mystified, but furious. eric: judy miller, as always, we thank you. arthel? >> thank you. arthel: well, thank you. several u.s. agencies now taking action against chinese tech giant huawei for alleged rogue practices, but some of our

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a fans and those watching at home. wonder if he gets a pit stop? >> do we have a company that is developing 5g next generation wireless technology, that is on the path to owning most of the world's marketplace. they're not going to be part of the american market, but that in itself doesn't keep us secure if our friends and allies around the world use this equipment. particularly for next generation 5g wireless. arthel: and that was senate intelligence vice chair mark warner on chinese tech giant huawei. a newly-unsealed federal indictment charges that company with conspiracy to steal trade secrets -- persuade allies to keep the company and its telecom gear out of their networks. let's bring in dan of match, former cia station chief who served in moscow iraq and pakistan.

he is also a fox news contributor. dan, always good to see you and, great, i want to start here. so huawei is partially owned by the chinese government. the nsa says huawei allows it is chinese government to secretly access mobile phone networks around the world. is so how did they do it, dan, and what can they do once they access the phone? >> yeah. it's worth recalling first just the comments from director fbi wray last year when he said that china represents the broadest x most challenging counterintelligence threat to our nation. and what china is doing is they're using huawei, as secretary pompeo says, as a trojan horse. they've got technological back doors which allows them to access massive treasure-trove of user data. and out really fits with a lot of the other espionage operations that they've been running such as the hack of opm to collect data about our government employees. arthel: and the u.s. has already charged huawei with racketeering

and conspiracy to steal trade secrets, but they're still at it. i mean, so can the u.s. really stop china with this huawei spy operation? >> it's an extraordinary challenge for a couple of reasons. first, china's really infiltrated the market. huawei's a $120 billion total revenue per-year company. and they are partnering with other companies around the world including motorola and deutsche telekom and vodafone, and lots of countries are really relying on china because another alternative doesn't exist. i think it's a dual track for the united states, really it's first to highlight the threat from china to use this for their own nefarious reasons, big brother overlooking all of our data, but secondly to offer up an alternative. and attorney general barr has said we need to do that, we need to have some sort of a better alternative for next generation 5g. arthel: how how did we get behind the curve on that?

>> there's certainly a few options, one might be for the united states government to work with some of the telecom providers, potentially enabling or supporting -- arthel: excuse me, dan. how did we get so behind? >> oh, behind, i'm sorry. arthel: no, that's my fault. >> no, no, that's the challenge. we're playing catch-up, and it's something that, you know, i think that we failed to recognize years ago was going to be out there on the horizon. it's an ongoing challenge for us of keeping up and outpacing our rivals like china and russia in technology. good point. arthel: and as you well know following brexit, the u.k. announced that it will allow huawei to help the u.k. build its 5k wireless network. is so how much access does this give huawei and the chinese government, and how does that deal compromise u.s. security? >> well, our u.k. partners are saying that they're only going

to allow huawei to build out on the periphery of their 5g network. now, it's over to our technological scientific experts to determine the risks that that entails. i would think it does entail some risks. but again, i think we have to offer some sort of an alternative to way not only the british, but our other european allies from taking on this chinese trojan horse which is going to cause so many problems down the road. arthel: so, yeah, lots of unknowns at this point. finally, dan, the pentagon is no longer against efforts by the trump administration to make it harder for u.s. chipmakers and other companies to supply huawei from their overseas facilities. first of all, what does this mean, and is the pentagon reversal the right move? >> on the surface it doesn't appear to be the right move. i wonder whether our european allies might be asking us why we're doing this if we're being so hard on the 5g network that huawei's trying to build in the u.k. and germany and other places.

to kind of paraphrase an old soviet communist statement, that we might be selling the chinese the noose they're going to use to hang us with. so i would expect some congressional oversight on that, on the pentagon sales of technology to huawei. arthel: used to be a pretty ominous term, congressional oversight. but it kind of doesn't mean much anymore, so really? do they have any real say in this? >> i think there's a bipartisan level of concern here. you've got the house and the senate, certainly the senate intelligence committee, both senators warner and burr, expressing great concern about huawei. and speaker pelosi talking about her concern about china controlling the information highway. so if you're looking for one area -- and it's awfully rare, unfortunately, these days -- where there's some bipartisan consensus, it's on china and the threat they pose. i think we might see some of that play out in the coming

weeks and months. arthel: very good. dan hoffman if, thank you so much. >> okay. eric: you know it's -- ♪ ♪ eric: well, you know what that mean, it's time to tell you about politics today, and it is the second day of early voting in nevada ahead of saturday's democratic caucuses there. the 2020 democratic presidential candidates are out on the campaign trail in force. senator bernie sanders, pete buttigieg and former vice president joe biden all attending events in the silver state today. ellison barber is live in las vegas where pete buttigieg just held a campaign event. hey, ellison. >> reporter: hey, eric. yeah, he just wrappedded a rally here maybe 15, 20 minutes ago, there was a line outside of this building of people waiting to get inside for more than an hour. campaign staffers tell me they are hyper-focused on early voting right now. they think if they can get people out to vote early over the course of these four days -- remember, nevadas that early

voting. that was not the case in either new hampshire or iowa. they think if they can turn out sporters, get them -- supporters, get them to the polls early, then those people will go back, tell their friends, and they will have higher turnout on saturday when the caucuses are actually set to take place. there are four days of early voting in nevada, and as of 5 p.m. yesterday evening at the end of the first day, 31,80 -- 11,800 nevada democrats voted early according to the party. pete buttigieg, again, this room that we were in, it was filled with people, filled with supporters consideration he told the crowd i am here to ask you for your support. i know i am not entitled to it. nevada an important state, it is the first in the west caucus, and it's the first real indication of how candidates will do among minority voters, a group that pete buttigieg has struggled to gain support with. nevada has a large hispanic population, and candidates want their support. buttigieg spoke to the vegas crowd today at times answering questions in spanish.

he also sat down with telemundo this weekend. the journalist asked pilot buttigieg as well as two other candidates who is the president of mexico. only one of them got it right. >> this is our neighbor to the south, and a lot of people don't even know his name. so you know -- in i forget. >> you know his name? >> i forget. >> i know that he is the mexican president. >> but can you tell me his name is? >> lower pez obrador. >> you're the only one that's been able to tell me that today. >> really in. >> wow. >> reporter: buttigieg is one of four candidates set to be in vegas later this evening hosted by the american society of engineers. arthel: eric and ellison, u.s. officials expressing optimism about a new truce agreement between them and the taliban. will it hold. what does it mean for our troupes in afghanistan? that report is up next.

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♪ ♪ >> so we have on the table right now a reduction in violence proposed that it was negotiated between our ambassador and the taliban. it looks very promising. we have to give peace a chance that the best, if not only way forward in afghanistan, through a political agreement and that means taking some risk. arthel: and that is defense secretary mark esper on the latest u.s. agreement with the taliban. so if this seven-day reduction in violence is successful, it could ultimately lead to withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan. dr. rebecca grant is a national security and military analyst and the president of iris independent research, and i am very happy to have you here on set with me today, dr. grant. >> thank you. arthel: so it is not a ceasefire, but a violence reduction. what do you think about the deal points there so far on the table? >> very important that it's not

a ceasefire. that means if there's some random small arms fire, that won't break the deal. first of all, we're waiting to get a date for the reduction this violence to commence. after that though it's very come comprehensive. it covers all of afghanistan, and they want to make sure there are no prepoland attacks, suicide attacks, roadside bombs and most of all, we don't see the taliban collaborating with isis or doing anything else to take advantage of that one week reduction in violence. arthel: interesting. the question is, you know, will it stick and what are the risks. >> very good question. there are some short-term risks such as possibility of the taliban taking advantage of that to reposition. but i think in the medium term these risks, as secretary's per has said, it's really worth taking the risk. that's really going to be up to the taliban, will it stick, but what everyone wants to see is a reduction in violence because, arthel, it's mainly the afghan

civilians and military forces that take the brunt of these casualties. we need to see that reduction in violence to let the taliban and the afghan government begin their inter-afghan talks. arthel: yeah. which is why president ashraf ghaani is skeptical of the proposed negotiations of the taliban. can there be bona bone peace tas without -- bona fide peace talks without the inclusion and consideration of the afghan government? really how much say does he have and should he have? >> and that's been the big question. step one was to get the u.s. coalition and taliban ceasefire because we know the taliban can't one militarily, and our general scott miller has said we've got to have a political solution. so really then the question let's get that reduction in violence and see if ghaani's government and the taliban, who have a lot of support in afghanistan, can put together a viable country and make it work. arthel: and how would that look, simply put if you could, in terms of how it would benefit

the people of afghanistan? >> right. well, the main thing really to stop this level of violence and let afghanistan put basically 40 years of war aside and move forward. if they're able to do that, it doesn't mean that the u.s. and nato are getting out. we're going to be staying there to help implement some of those goals,. arthel: so it's not a complete withdrawal. >> correct. nato has formally committed to remain supportive of the afghan military on special programs through at least 2024. the u.s. is still continuing to build up afghans' military, their army, their air force. we're selling them apache helicopters to help them patrol that region. so even though we're talking about some u.s. troop drawdowns, this is by no means a case of either nato or the u.s. just running out on afghanistan. arthel: you know, you've said it several times that it depends on the taliban. given the taliban's track record, i mean, can you really trust -- let's say, you know,

you get to the point where you have enough time that has passed where there's a reduction in violence. not necessarily a cease phi, but you are that period. you pull out in whichever form that's going to happen, the taliban says, great, we're taking over the territory? >> it's pretty hard for americans to want to trust the taliban, right in i understand what you're saying. i think that's why all the officials are hedging their bets. but right now everyone from lindsey graham to prime minister of pakistan says this is the best opening that we've had since 2001. it's been two years in the making with our u.s. ambassadors negotiating with everyone in the region. this is the right time to give it a try. arthel: dr. rebecca grant, thank you very much. i love hearing your analysis. you always really give it to us straight and break it down in a way that we can all understand. appreciate it and good to see you. >> thank you. eric: thanks, doctor and arthel.

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arthel: the nba is honoring kobe bryant during its all-star weekend in chicago. nba commissioner adam silver announcing that the game mvp award will now be called the kobe bryant mvp award. he was an 18-time all-tar and the youngest player to ever compete in an all-star game. kobe, his 13-year-old gigi and seven others all died in the helicopter crash in southern california last month. eric: well deserved. well, that american airlines passenger, you see this? set off a viral video debate by reclining her seat. she says she wants to press charges against the guy behind her who was seen in that video repeatedly punching the back of her seat. she's asking the airline to tell her who he is. alex hogan standing by with the late latest on this. >> reporter: it's the latest debate sweeping the internet, to you recline your seat on an

airplane or not? it doesn't seem very plex, but it's sparking a lot of very passionate answers after this viral interaction. take a look at this video. on january 31st the woman taking this video, wendy williams, claims the man behind her started hitting the back of her seat when she wouldn't put it up. he says the flight attendant told her to delete the video and gave her a notice to cease her behavior. she wants the name of the man sitting behind her to press assault charges, but that's not where the story ends. williams says she might sue i american airlines. she sought medical treatment because of a history of back surgery, and she wants the airline to cover those costs. williams sharing the video online and tweeting: shouldn't have had to endure the repeated blows, hashtag whiplash. in another tweet adapting the lyrics of the gloria gaynor song, i will survive by writing, first i was afraid, i was petrified, kept thinking he was going to kill me with those

crazy eyes. the interaction alone stirring up a lot of opinions online. some say it's inconsiderate to put the seat back with such little space, others say these chairs have reclining buttons that passengers are allowed to use. if people don't like the close quarters, they don't need to commercially. fox news reached out to american airlines, the company responding that it is aware of the dispute saying, quote: safety and comfort of our customers and team members is our top priority and our team is looking into the issue. the airline also adding: we will review a lawsuit if it's filed. a lot of opinions on this one including just a general what flight etiquette should be. eric? eric: so where do you weigh in on this? recline or not recline? >> i think in general i would recline. we do have to factor in you're in that last seat, it's unfortunate, but that one doesn't go back. of course, if you have more questions about that, there's certainly a lot of things online. eric: and in the emergency room

too -- arthel: yeah, but you have extra space in the emergency room. eric: oh, that's true. arthel: you turn around, you say to the guy, guy, am i bad? i've got spinal issues, i can't recline. see if you can get another seat for you or me, you know? if that doesn't work, you take off the earring. i'll tell you about that in a commercial break. we'll be back in a moment. [laughter] ok everyone! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy.

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>> mississippi's governor declaring a state of emergency in the state as the rain-swollen river threatens the capital city of jackson and central parts of the state. the high water already prompting hundreds of evacuations so far. meteorologist adam klotz is here with the very latest. what's going on down south, adam? adam: hey there, eric. we're tracking a big system that's brought a lot of heavy rain already working its way across the southeast. that system has moved off farther to the east so the rain we have seen back across portions of mississippi and louisiana, it is now drying off. there is still flooding concern. the heavy rain portions of northern florida, georgia and the carolinas before the system heads its way out to sea. here's what we're looking at flood watches, warnings, pretty much all the rivers and tributaries towards the west through mississippi, louisiana, parts of arkansas. this will take a day or so to totally drain out. still a possibility of some water funneling into rivers, flooding continuing to be an issue. but as the system moves off towards the east, we're only looking at an additional in these green areas, perhaps

anywhere from a quarter of an inch or half inch total precipitation, again before the system takes its way autoto sea and -- out to sea, and then a couple dry days across the region. there are also rounds of winter weather hitting the pacific northwest. now we're seeing some snow at higher elevations. these are winter storm watches and warnings. some of these areas again the higher elevations expecting to see snowfall totals up to a foot, to a foot and a half. that's going to be lasting here through your sunday into monday before eventually this system kind of winds down, but those are spots where the temperatures are cold enough to support that winter weather. these are our current numbers. we have seen how it's been a little bit on the cold side in the upper midwest and the east coast today especially yesterday also. you see your highs on sunday, but that changes more so as we get into monday. some of those warmer air continues to funnel back in. 50 degrees in new york. 40 degrees in chicago tomorrow. still wintry, but a mild side here for the eastern half of the country. guys? eric: milder winter, i would

say. adam, thanks. arthel: would you recline your seat, yes or no? adam: i would recline my seat, but that woman suing, i've got no time for that. arthel: me and you both agree. i like you adam klotz. that does it for us. gutfeld up next. york. >> sound the alarm that way, that will let everybody know what has happened. >> all of the alarms have gone off, they are ringing the incredibly loud at a ten alarm fire. it can set off an alarm bell. the alarms are ringing. what do alarms do, they are supposed to wake us up, in this case we are awake. what do we do, how about hitting the snooze button. [laughter] [cheering] greg: let's start out with a