we'll talk with white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough in a moment. >>> but, first, fox news chief whout correspondent ed henry is traveling with t president in india and joins us with the latest. >> reporter: here in india the president has now phoned the japanese prime minister to express solidarity over this beheading. he also called it a brutal murder. that comes just a few days after in the state of union, the president claimed that american leadership is stopping isis' advance. at a news conference here he was pressed about another contradiction, he called yemen a success story in september. it's clearly in shambles now. the president denied u.s. counterterror efforts there have been sidelined. the isis beheading is a series of cry cease in the mideast. the president also called the new king, sing salman and abruptdly cancelled plans for vice president biden to go there. images of this like the french president hollande, greeting king salman was too much for the president. he was slammed not too long ago for not going to anti-terror rally in paris. look how saudi arabia which

. >> dennis mcdonough.e was on the "today" schmohow this morning, he said i'm the boss, he's somebody that's always been very direct, very blunt. what we don't know is, a, why did it take more than a week for someone to step up at the white house and say it's on me. dennis mcdonough is saying that he decided to not go, but the president said he didn't want to go and he didn't push him hard enough. >> details debttails ed. >>> keep it right here on fox, full analysis for the state of the union address starts right here at 8:00 p.m. eastern. senators ted cruz and rand paul will both be live with their reactions to the president's speech. >> a year ago the freshman senator from iowa was a complete unknown. but a striking campaign ad helped propel her to gop stardom. >> i grew up castrating hogs on an iowa farm so when i get the washington, i'll know how to cut pork. >> earnstst she was a tea party favorite for everything on her views on abortion to federal minimum wage. she used her victory speech to re re re-

but, you know in all of this i go back to dennis mcdonough, spokesperson, you know somebody from thete house who should know what the talking points are for his white house. and he did two things this past week. he told us that we don't negotiate in hostage situations with prisoner swaps. when we know we do. bowe bergdahl, by the way according to fox sources is up on charges of desertion. and so that's who we traded for. we'll let that one go -- >> for now. >> dennis mcdonough released the name of an american woman who's being held by savages right now. we all know widespread that keeping that low profile can help keep them safe. so just a couple of things coming out of the white house that i would want them to focus on to get their stuff tight. i don't know if you can reclarify what we do in hostage situations. i don't think we want to give our enemies that much information. >> and charles, it brings up a good point. you know what kind of message are we sending when the japanese are negotiating right now for their citizens held by isis? >> right. one, of course already beheaded and

he is the white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough, listen to this. >> you know matt, we have said't send somebody more senior than our ambassador that rests on me. that's my job. >> so what do you think? do you buy that? is mcdonough a scapegoat? our political panel is back. good to have you with us. by rob, i these dennis mcdonough was chosen to take the fall for this one. >> the white house has really kept this very very secret. even though the press has asked a bunch of questions about it the president has not uttered a word about testimony the white house has never told us what the president or the vice president for that matter were doing that this march was happening in paris. so finally the chief of staff comes forward and throws himself under the bus. and so i think the white house is hoping that this is all just completely over. but the fact is we have never learned exactly what went on and who made the decision. >> ed henry, i remember asked point blank where was the president that day on that sunday basic josh earnst said he didn't know what the president's schedule was

here's what white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough said today on abc. >> you heard the president say this morning on his forecast that of course al qaeda hides in dark corners and make sure that they're operating in places where they're not going to be pursued. that means a lot of the places where they spring up and they try to operate are places like yemen or somalia or north africa where the security forces are under developed, where the political situation is volatile and that's why we have put in place a strategy the make sure that we are not only strengthening our partner security forces for them to take the fight to al qaeda. >> joining us is cnn intelligence analysis bob bayer. more intel and greater influence on diplomatic efforts there in yemen. but how concerned reasonable doubt you that in the interim al qaeda might be enboldened there, might pick up strength while there's this power backup in yemen? >> fredericka that's exactly it these are power grabbing states yemen is gone essentially as a state. iraq is gone as a state. you have the kurdish area, the sunni area an

. >> dennis mcdonough listed a lot of wars.nk the president's message is let's talk about domestic affairs. we have ended the wars. we are off a permanent war footing. the fact is that we are still on a war footing. and he is sending more troops little by little into a lot of these countries. he has raised a number of troops in iraq and i think he will have to continue elsewhere because the strategy of training these armed forces of these so-called friendly governments hasn't worked yet for us. i think it is a real problem. we are right in the middle of a bunch of sec sect arian wars. we don't really have a good strategy. on the other hand you don't have republicans jumping up and down saying commit more troops. there are a few voices dianne feinstein, john mccain. >> john mccain, sure. george, your shots. >> we heard two very interesting words used so far in the clips you have shown. one is manifestation. we are fighting al qaeda's manifestations here there and everywhere. i gather that doesn't mean just al qaeda but something

. >> dennis mcdonough confident the newly popularity has everything to do with economics and not plummeting gas prices. kristen, what's at stake with this particular state of the union this year? >> reporter: well a lot is at stake. white house officials hope this will help frame the debate with the republican-led congress. as you pointed out, president obama has been criss crossing the country and unveiling policies he's going to talk about tonight ahead of time the strategy not only to frame the debate with congress but also allow the speech to be more about the story telling aspect and the story that president obama wants to tell he's going to argue that there has been a resurgence in the american economy and he's em boldened by the figures we're getting and the unemployment rate is at 5.6%. it was at 7.8 when he took office. the aprol rating is up 46%, that's its highest since october of 2013. tonight you're going to hear him talk about all of that and focus on some of the policies which was unveiled over the weekend. his proposal to increase taxes on wealthy americans, to close the loo

. >> thank you, dennis mcdonough. good to talk to you. always enjoy it. >> so do i. >> good. >>> up next our sunday group joins the conversation about the invitation by the speaker to benjamin netanyahu and the worsening situation in the middle east. and what would you like to ask the panel about the dust-up over the netanyahu visit. and just go to fox news sunday and we may use your question on the air. >>> i don't believe i'm poking anyone in the eye. there is a serious threat that exists in the world and the president last night kind of paved over it. >> the speaker announcing his decision to invite netanyahu to address congress in march without notifying the white house. and it is time for our sunday group. columnist ron will ron fournier of the journal. fox contributor liz cheney and kmarlz lane, journalist. was the speaker wrong or netanyahu wrong to accept the invitation. >> neither were wrong. this is foreign policy. second, the president has gone out of his way to show disdain for congress for foreign and domestic policy and for

news sunday, he'll talk with the white house chief of staff who was at our lunch the a die, dennis mcdonoughhe said hello, he will be there to talk about the threat in the middle east and the plans the president shelled out in -- spelled out in his "state of t address. chris wallace will talk with a potential republican contender number 74. john case kasich. he is number 74. >> he is a serious guy. i i'd put him in the top half dozen. >> what are we going to do about the bush and the romney? >> i hope they fight it out for a year on fox news sunday. it's good for us. >> i read the other day, think it was media said you have to go through fox news sunday to get the republican nomination. i like that. >> it's the "fox news sunday" primary. >> any guess is your wife is going to cook, otherwise there's no reason for them to come. i hope you act better in the future. >>> folks in the northeast are gearing up for what could be the-miles-an-hour major snowstorm of the season. might get two or three inches here in new york city. six inches in pittsburgh. major winter storm. sometimes tv news is sill

domestic policies and the growing terror threat in the middle east with white house chief of staff, dennis mcdonoughus, house speaker boehner invites israel's prime minister to capital hill without consulting the white house. >>> our sunday group weighs in. >>> then, republican 2016

appearing on the "today" show this morning, white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough defended the plan. >> i think what the president is saying that middle class economics that we pursued since 2009 have gotten us to where we are. we want a series of middle class tax cuts. >> but dennis it can't pass. and nobody says it can pass. people say it is dead on arrival. isn't it a political maneuver some kind of a trap to simply get republicans in a bad spot as the 2016 election approaches? >> matt the president has run his last campaign. what the president says is any tax reform ought to benefit the middle class. >> nbc senior correspondent kris jansing joins us now. kris obviously the president has been beating a slow drum beat leading up to his state of the union. really trying to go to different states pitching for example, the college plan. now of course we know the buzz around the president's tax proposal. >> reporter: you know this is different than anything we've seen for a state of the union before. you mentioned all of the travel he has done. it used to be secretive. couldn't g

we don't know whether it was the farlg of dennis mcdonough, the chief of staff, susan rice, the national security advisor, the deputy national security advisor, ben rhodes whose background is in pr and campaign press or valerie jarrett who apparently ranges widely through all of these things. yes, the white house decision-making process failed at its most fundamental responsibility and that is bringing big issues to the president to make a decision. but, you know what? it's not just the fault of those four people. it's the fault of the president. the president of the united states has not created a white house that challenges him, that properly advises him. that provides the kind of support and direction and decision-making that the president of the united states has to have. >> do we even know whether or not maybe, you know, it's -- i'm just guessing, i mean, i'm just throwing it out there, actually, that maybe the president did know about it. maybe he was told and maybe they are covering for him because it's such profoundly stupid decision not to go. maybe they are protecting him and f

. >> thank you, dennis mcdonough. good to talk to you. always enjoy it. >> so do i. >> good. >>> up next our sunday group joins the conversation about the invitation by the speaker to benjamin netanyahu and the worsening situation in the middle east. and what would you like to ask the panel about the dust-up over the netanyahu visit. and just go to fox news sunday and we may use your question on the air. can this decadent, fruit topped pastry... ...with indulgent streusel crumble, be from... fiber one. fiber one streusel. no pictures of trucks pulling boats. no photos of men working on ranches. just a ram 1500 ecodiesel that gets 156 more miles per tank than the ford f-150 ecoboost. get more facts at ramtrucks.com. thanks for the ride around norfolk! and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years! roger that. captain's waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. could've parked a little bit closer... it's gonna be dark by the time i get there. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 year

we will talk to white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough.tor john mccain. we will talk to senator dianne fine stein hoist now the ranking democrat on the senate intelligence commit thee. a lot of news coming up from overseas this morning, and it is not what i would call in anyway, shape or form good news. so, we will try to cover it and answer as many questions about that as we can. this morning, on face the nation. >> all right bob thanks very much. >>> we will look forward to that. >>> still to come this morning, get ready for another round of winter weather, this could be the biggest one this season and it is right in time for the start of the your workweek. carol is tracking the timing and potential amounts, when we come right back. >>> plus this... >> eye on the arts is sponsored by the arts in philadelphia. >> the barnes foundation goes vintage, the barnes foundation is staging a young professionals party friday night mix nothing unique exhibit with the jazz music. as pass a sir tells news this eye on the art visitors will take a step

. >> as the big night approaches chief of staff dennis mcdonough emphasizes after all of the rewritesesident. >>speaker, the president of the united states. [ cheering and applause ] >> so that was my report. the most interesting probably to me was seeing it friday night, how many people were still jamming on every aspect of it with just days to go. >> it's really cool that you did that. you don't often see it behind the scenes. it's really fun to see a draft like that with the president's scribble all over it. >> the scribble as need as it was? >> it was not a doctor's scribble, that's for sure. there's a lot of preparation, which clearly there is, especially this time around with the news constantly changing. you have spent a lot of time living in d.c. so you probably know more than most about what goes on in these things. did anything surprise you? >> the most surprising was the office of management and budget how early they are in fall measuring out every policy whether it is talking to the president or the process through aides, and they really take that seriously for all kinds o

we talked to the chief of staff dennis mcdonough. i talked to him and some say he has been defyefy yant and going on the aggressive. >> some see that he had growing up in the middle class family over the course of the last several decades. that is his mind frame, charlie, to make sure that middle class families can succeed in this country. that is basic bottom line of the american dream. >> you see going on the offensive. the president has threatened five vetoes. >> the president threatened to make sure the bills that don't help the middle class succeed and crank the odds up against them are not enacted in law. if he has to veto he will. >> scott pelley and i will be in washington, d.c. for the state of the union address. you can watch it here on cbs. you can just go to cbsnews.com. >>> we are learning more this morning about how the nfl may have heard about the new england patriots ball deflation scandal during the nfc title game. after d'quell jackson intercepted a pass he said it felt deflated. how the issue of if the patriots pur

after the president said it was basically a success story and then what you just heard from dennis mcdonougho what he said at last years state of the union when he claimed we were getting off a war footing. >> even as we actively and aggressively pursue terrorist networks through more targeted efforts and building the capacity of our foreign partners, america must move off a permanent war footing. >> i pressed one the -- one of the president's top aides asking what that means. he said that was about troops in iraq and afghanistan. if we are at war with al qaeda why didn't the president last week at this state of the union mention it? martha: it seems like it would have been a golden opportunity to talk about that. so there was another incidents back home in washington this morning that's make something noise halfway around the world today, right? >> reporter: it was the middle of the night east coast time. and one of my colleagues asked him, we are just getting this report of an unmanned drone landing on the white house drone in the middle of the night and he knew nothing about it and he che

we will talk about that with dennis mcdonough a on "fox news". >> no one is in charge in yemen this morningis in charge. >> you could be the president of the yemen if you would like to be but it is a very dangerous place to be the the president. >> but i live in philly, i can handle it. thanks, chris. >>> from chris wallace to beyonce, that is a natural transition right there. >> is there a craft site, how would you describe it. >> it is one. >> you do create and buy different thingsy will tell you why beyonce is not happy, with their products, and who just got engaged. >> little surprising ladies >>> i have always had a thing for stacy dash. >> she's gorgeous. >> yes, this is another good one john staple owes from kelly, she says this is my all time celebrity crush what a hunk. >> that dash was in clueless. >> yes, she was. >> single ladies vh-1 for a little bit. >> now she's a commentator or "fox news" channel. >> yes. >> so we want to know who your celebrity crush is. keep tweeting us using hash tag fox 29 good day. >> hold on a second, joe rooney. >> what are you doing. >> secret signal

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. >> reporter: also interesting that on fox news sunday chief of staff dennis mcdonough told chris wallacentext of isis, now demand ago ransom for the second japanese citizen who is being held hostage. interesting in light of the al-qaeda sleeper agent who was released from a u.s. prison last week, there is a report in the daily beast suggesting he had previously been on the table for potential prisoner swap for two american prisoners held overseas and of course, there was a beau bergdahl swap with the taliban. >> we know how that turned out. thank you. >> next stop, saudi arabia. >>> we're going to turn to heather nauert. >> good morning. a dramatic rescue off the coast of hawaii. this is all caught on camera. a coast guard chopper fluked three adults and a baby out of the pacific ocean after their plane crash landed in the ocean. they are all okay this morning. this happened just hours after another plane like this one crashed off of hawaii when it ran out of fuel. but instead of the coast guard picking it up, a cruise ship came to that pilot's rescue. wow. >>> we all know the song this

we'll be talking about it on sunday with the president's chief of staff dennis mcdonough, one of hisecome even more dangerous. >> let's look at what it looks like now as you look at these maps and see how much influence iran has and how much formidable isis is. were you struck by the fact that the secretary of state was describing so much success against isis yesterday and the secretary of defense says he knew nothing about it? >> well, actually it's interesting, and it's not the first time that you've had this administration speaking with different voices, oftentimes the white house at odds with the pentagon on a variety of these issues. you're exactly right. look at that map because wointing out is iran's spreading influence because the rebels ho appear to have taken over an area in yemen, they are an iranian-backed rebel force and you can see around are considerable control in those other capitals and then don't even have on the map isis, which is a sunni group, anti-iran, but also anti-american. they've got a tremendous foothold in iraq and syria. it's not good news for the unite

>> we'll be talking about this with the white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough allowing him to directlyuestions. i have the quote that netanyahu spat in our face. i'll ask what is the price? and as 2016 gears up we'll have a live report from des moines where there was cattle call yesterday of a number of leading potential candidates and we'll talk live john cay sick, the governor of ohio who is a potential 2016 candidate. >> thank you so much. >> bye, guys. >>> all right. the measles outbreak is growing. this morning we learned it's reaching eight states. how dangerous is this? our next guest said very. >>> unbelievable the raging river. we'll tell you it happens. stay tuned. with psoriatic arthritis, i had intense joint pain that got worse and worse. then my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. enbrel helps relieve pain and stop joint damage. i've been on the course and on the road. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders

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