will be in the old guys the full bore the founder of microsoft will be attending as well as the john hughes news young ceo or marisa my vote will be attending. thank you very much indeed of crisp on the jackpots and in davos switzerland. and that's it for this news updates and ended in beijing. bye for now the eye. i know. i mean. all went well. for all things considered i'm peter labelle us president barack obama is a opinion ratings are in the doldrums now called a lame duck by many. he may finish his days in office is one of the country's worst and least effective presidents known to historians and the determine the success or failure of an ari

one of the great display is a full time he was seventy one stop a welcome back to schools like john hughes are mindful motorsports will begin in the iraqi province of anbar where thousands of residents of this if a no show on reporting to see in the midst of the fonts when yesterday the government iraqi prime minister an oriole maliki said it lost control of that city that fall into the hands of al qaeda linked militants will today is senior officials as saying that a major operation is underway to retake the city which lies just west of the dogs and cats catherine capitals heavily armed their faces he didn't. these anti government heisman i've controlled parts over madi. meanwhile the army are working with pro government tribesmen to face them back. look into the unknown. there is increased coordination between the army and tribesmen. the army provides that rhymes with weapons and everything they need in these last two against the terrorists. i think missy she will be rizzo within one or two dates below the base ministry of defence treat it appears to show aerial bombardments of an al qae

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we're joined by gloria borger, chief political analyst and john fabro, former barack obama speech writer and karen hughes former bush campaigner adviser former white house communications director as well. john, you just came from the white house. you were kind of looking over the speech. there are a lot of different audiences for the speech. there's progressives within the president's party, there are republicans who he has to try to work with particularly on immigration reform the there's a lot of different audiences for this. >> i think the president's main audience is the american people. this will be as state of the unions tend to be a unifying speech where he will lay out his vision for the country. as he said, wherever he can work with republicans and democrats in congress he certainly will. >> last year there was a laundry list of items that he wanted progress on. we did the checklist. not a lot of them were actually accomplished. do you see that happening tonight as well? >> i think he's going to show tonight a flurry of action. there are going to be plenty of ideas he has that he can do on his o

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and hugh will ford talking about his new book, america's great gain, about america's one time pro-arab policies in the middle east, and what has happened since. and john fund, greg valier to discuss the g.o.p.'s war on the tea party that much more, straight ahead. >> benghazi not only scandal for white house in the news today, new reports that the fbi is not plan ing to file criminal charges related to the irs scandal. according to "wall street journal," fbi investigators blame confusing rules, and bureaucratic incompetance for irs targets of conservative groups rather than criminal intent, that report infuriated house republicans who pointed out the case is still being investigated. house oversight chairman darrell issa wrote in a letter to tern general, anonymous and politically motivated leaks from unnamed law enforcement official undermine public apure anes by current and former fbi directors is this is a legitimate investigation, the leaks come after the justice department citing the confidential nature of the investigation refused too brief congress on its progress. investigator also discovered that person leading the fbi, investigation, departm

john meacham brought up breast-feeding and we will not ask him to apologize for that. >> he just brings it up. that is stepping in it. >> that is like the final scene of that howard hughesie with leonardo dicaprio but we will not bring it up. isn't it sickening, willie? these people are twitter. >> they are analysts. >> they want to make everyone evil. >> make animals on both sides. like martin bashir. he said something terrible and you know who said that? martin bashir. i talked to martin on the phone while it was going on and he goes, oh. he was so hurt, he felt so stupid and he felt so bad. and people close to him were saying, martin, you know? he screwed up. we all screw up! >> there is a difference to the level of screw-ups because that was written, but i'll tell you what happened with melissa's segment was just kind of unraveled and it was live and other people jumped in and she apologized for everybody on the set. >> exactly. >> she took it all on her shoulders. >> exactly. >> and people want to believe that she had some sort of evil ultimate motive. it makes no sense when you look at her own background. >> let me jump in and say this. let's compare sarah palin's