. >> host: how did james jones do for president obama, and how's tom donlan doing? >> guest: well, the jones appointment is a puzzle. i'm sure if we could get inside the president' mind, he would explain why he appointed james jones. there are a couple of good reasons. jones was a highly respected senior retired marine general who had shown his integrity by refusing to be considered for chairman of the joint chiefs under donald rumsfeld because he thought correctly that donald rumsfeld who was george w. bush's o secretary of defense was, basically, pounding people down and not, not letting them show any strength in terms of their own, their positions. one of these people who gained power by sort of squashing everybody else. whereas others say like george bundy tend to get power by enhancing other people, so they would work together. anyway, um, the -- you had, i'm sorry, i'm a little bit -- >> host: oh, how did general jones -- >> guest: okay. so he was -- obama felt as person who wasn't deeply involved in, he probably felt he wanted a senior person, needed somebody

advisor is getting ready to beat with barak tomorrow and likely talk about iran and nuclear threat and donlanoday. tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of john glenn's historic flight when he became the first american to orbit the earth. fox will be live at cape canaveral for the festivities. and on this day in 1945, u.s. marines invaded iwo jima beginning one of the the fiercest battles of world war ii, operation detachment. the mission to take over the remote island heavily guarded. and fighting claiming most casuales

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now today on the ground in israel, you have national security adviser tom donlan, he is just the latest of u.s. officials on the ground here having high-level talks about iran. tamron? >> all right, stephanie, thank you very much. >>> whitney houston has been buried next to her father in a brief, private ceremony at a new jersey cemetery sunday. on saturday, friends and family gathered for a star-studded funeral in the singer's birthplace of newark, new jersey. we'll have much more on whitney houston coming up in a live report. >>> southern states are digging out after a wintery blast. the storm dumped several inches of snow from kentucky to tennessee to the virginias and north carolina. after what had been a mild winter. tens of thousands of homes lost electricity and slippery roads caused dozens of accidents. >>> and here comes the sun as rupert murdoch is set to launch the successor, the sun on sunday will replace the former best-selling paper closed in july. after the revelation of staffers hacked into phones. >>> two pilots lucky to be alive this morning after a small plane and a h