in london, greg palkot, fox news. the person killed has been identified as a 20-year-old moroccan - who was previously involved in a minor robbery in 2013. president obama.... addressiing gun control - during a live town hall meeting on c-n-n divided between supporters of further gun regulation and those who oppose it. the president is promoting a series of executive orders revealed this week - that would bypass congress. they would - among other steps - expand background checks for gun buyers - and narrow the so- called "gun show loophole" - that leaves most small and private sellers exempt from keeping formal sales. republicans are speaking out against the action. the president clearly does not respect second amendment rights for law-abiding americans. it will take rights away from law- abiding citizens. they're not going to take your guns away, not gonna do it. they're trying. a cnn-orc poll released last month found 48 percent of americans support stricter gun laws, and 51 percent opposed. seventeen miners in new

in landstuhl, germany, greg palkot, fox news. in 19-79.... the u-s held up 400 million in iranian money - to be used to purchase u-s military equipment... now... the u-s has to give it back... plus, one-point- three billion in interest... that's a number that secretary of state john kerry calls a "fair settlement". many had to the day off in honor of martin luther king. some went to the parade downtown, some took up the community and some just took advantage of the day to relax. fox5's les krifaton was up at the lee canyon resort where today plenty of people were enjoying the chill by skiing and snowboarding. there were plenty of people who took advantage of the day to get out onto the slopes and have a little family or me time in the snow. the traffic getting up there didn't seem to discourage many people we've already had more snow than all of last season and that alone was enough to drive people by what looks like the thousands up to mount charleston on this holiday. once they manourvered through the traffic and it was busy throughout the

fox news's greg palkot with the latest. greg?id a new business push by iranian president rouhani, charges after new faceoff between iran and united states on high seas. iran said it warn ad u.s. warship to get away twice where it was conducting navy drill in the sea of iran. knave say says interaction is common and routine and denied a specific threat. the navy is on high alert after taking by iran earlier this month of those u.s. sailors. meanwhile rouhani continues his european tour drumming up business after lifts of international sanctions against his country. he had time to take a swipe at the u.s. >> possible iran and united states might have friendly relations. the key to that is in washington hands. if i had key to iran would have unfortunately used it but the key lies in washington and they should use the key are. reporter: he is blaming congress. we need to set aside hostilities. there is no hostility of making money after inking $11 billion of deals with italy and france where he expects to deals with airbus and peugeo

david: greg palkot. melissa. melissa: here to weigh in former navy seal rob o'neill and fox news contributor. we hear about bomb making factory in brussels. two days after we learn about jihadi university in raqqa. what does all this tell you? >> what is it going on, melissa this is direct growth of result of isis. regardless how much territory we're claiming we're getting back. this is all spawning from raqqa. comes out of raqqa. goes through turkey into western europe. what they found there was there is remnants of it. atp, which is asset tone peroxide. this is mother of sate ton for bomb buildings because so volatile but it is there. coming from schools in raqqa. they're teaching people how to do it. bringing videos across. one of the videos was captured. it will get worse as long as we let raqqa continue tobruk call. continue to be middle of jihad. melissa: in your training as navy seal what is step one? do we need to go in? we know where raqqa screen hadi university is? should we go blow it up? >> i've been

let's bring in greg palkot. any chance of this ban trump measure passing parliament?n't think so, bill. speaking with my political contacts throughout london tonight. and as they say even though people are upset here about what donald trump has to say that he will not get banned by this committee of parliament that will be meeting. there is a precedent for this happening, however and what probably has donald trump's office a little bit concerned if americans are found violating hate speech or provocative speech, whatever, they have been blocked in the past. the fighter are mike tyson was blocked. the radio host, mike savage as well as terry jones, the preacher. the question is, is what he has been saying classified as hate speech and, again, my contacts say it won't be classified as hate speech. >> i hope not. >> because they have this system. >> if that ever happened, because, look, i know trump as well as anybody knows trump. and as i said to miss kelly, i disagree with some of his policy pronouncements,kñ you don't alienate the muslim world if you want the muslim w

greg palkot in germany. thanks, greg. general going to the president's defense on this, backing his executive actions on guns. she says they are constitutional. some of the president's critics though beg to differ. senator richard shelby is among them. he will join us coming up in "america's newsroom." bill: something dark and mysterious lurking deep in space and this sucker is big, changing our view of the entire solar system. martha: wow. bill: what is it, huh? ♪ performance... ...reimagined. style... ...reinvented. sophistication... ...redefined. introducing the all-new lexus rx and rx hybrid. agile handling. available 12.3-inch navigation screen and panorama glass roof. never has luxury been this expressive. this is the pursuit of perfection. martha: finally winter, folks. we have winter storm up and down much of the east coast. state of emergency declared in virginia. heavy snow expected across 15 states from the mid-atlantic to the northeast. blizzard conditions in washington. they are not going anywhere for some ti

greg palkot is in landstuhl, germany with more. smiles, as americans detained by iran reunuite with their families. pastor saeed abedini, former marine amir hekmati, and journalist jason rezaian receiving treatment at a u-s military hospital in germany before heading back to the u-s. heckmati says he had no idea he would be released. heckmati says: "..it feels great, i feel very lucky, like i said i feel alive for the first time. it's like being born again. and i just really feel rezaian imprisoned for 5-hundred-45 days. his congressman calling the detainment "horrific." huffman says: "..if the revolutionary guard thought they would break the spirit of this guy, they failed miserably. his wit, his intellect, his sense of humour, all of it is fully intact the obama adminisrtation criticized for the swap... which saw sentences of seven iranians pardonned or commuted... and charges against more than a dozen others dropped. gorka says: "..this is a propaganda coup for the mullahs, for the badguys, for the people who want to destroy us.

greg palkot has more relations between the koreas continue to deteriorate following pyongyang's nuclear test... on wednesday - the south korean military fired warning shots at a drone from the north that had crossed the d-m-z... the incident comes following the resumption of propaganda broadcasts by south korea - aimed at the north. park says: "the government will continue to make efforts in telling the truth to north korean citizens." but south korea's military said today - the north is countering with a propaganda war of its own: jeon says: "today north korean military leaflets were found in south korea. it was identified that the leaflets were scattered from the north." the increased tensions have lawmakers on capitol hill asking hard questions about america's response to the nuclear test... and how the obama administration can pressure china - north korea's last staunch ally - into helping contain pyongyang's nuclear program. salmon says: "china favors north kollied korea as a neighbor." but at an emergency meeting today between japan, south korea, and the u-s... america's north kor

. >> that was my colleague greg palkot in germany asking many of those questions of amir heck mattie.tuent. i just want to take about 15 seconds to give you a giant shoutout because you have been a strong advocate for your constituent and, boy, everyone back in michigan should be proud. i pound you, congressman, so many times that i really want to give you a shoutout. good work. have you been on this since the beginning, sir. >> thanks, greta. i have got to say every timeÑó i hear amir's voice. i just met him yesterday for the first time which seems odd because i feel like i know him so well. i get choked up when i hear him. isn't he just annual amazing american the way spoke? it's incredible. i have got to return comment, greta, thank you for raising this issue the way you did. it made a difference. it made a difference to him and also made a difference to getting him home. >> you know, thank you, congressman. like you, i love hearing his voice. where he says the first he felt alive for the first time. proud to be an american. he gives you a shoutout. i mean it's like, you know, this

fox news foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in germany. greg?, i have not spent half as much, maybe even less than that time on the story than you have. but in the past 24 hours, i have been upclose and personal with the people involved in this story, that is family members and other individuals that help facilitate this. i have been impressed by the energy, the warmth, and finally the reliefumhere on the ground. initially we were thinking that maybe the three freed americans would maybe just stop over. might even skip this stop. you know, why would they want to stay around in another facility after they have been in the horrible facility in iran, the jail, the penitentiaries, but the more i'm hearing from people here, the more i'm seeing how valuable these next couple of days are going to be for these three. it's a solid medical team at the landstuhl medical center. this is the best american hospital. this is about a mile from where we are standing outside of america. but alsos a psychological team that is working these three individuals who ha

we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot in london. >> brett, even if it does prove to be untrue, as one insider told us, the fact that north korea is claiming that they detonated a hydrogen bomb has got much of the world watching. including the u.s. north korea state tv show young leader kim jong-un signing off on an alleged test of a hydrogen number bomb.ich pyongyang calls of justice. a tv anchor declared the bomb's success as well-programmed crowds responded. >> translator: as long as the united states maintains its policy i have a depression against north korea i think developing a hydrogen bomb is inevitable. >> translator: a successful testing of the h-bomb would be a dangerous step forward for the rogue nation's nuclear program. it would be more powerful than devices pyongyang tested in the last ten years. >>> experts do not believe noik has yet the technical expertise to make such a sophisticated bomb. and scientists studying the quake, said it was no larger than that created by the country's last atomic trial in 2013. it will take more time to confirm or de

having a lot of problem with migrants who made their way in, specifically the syrian asylum seekers, greg palkot in london with the fallout for germany on defense about being so generous. greg? >> shocking news, neil, out of germany. there could be some aftershocks hitting the united states as well. the authorities now in the german city of kolon are saying there are 516 -- you hard right -- criminal complaints having been filed, at least 40% of them for sexual assault involving incidents on new year's eve in that city. 1,000 rowdy drunken men, mostly migrant and asylum seekers from north africa and other middle east countries, gathered in the center of the city, and then that night went on the attack. cornering young women, some of them teenageres, taunting, groping, grabbing, molesting, reports of two actual rapes. police are quite low profile on that incident. they were present tamping down an antiimmigration protest. police did not take a harder line. so far there have only been two arrests from those new year's incidents. authorities now saying that the man claiming allegiance to isis was k

p>> germany greg palkot, fox pnews. pnew video shows iraq taking aim pisis targets in war on terror. pthe iraqi ministry of defense preleased footage that shows paircraft bombing several isis ptargets. pofficials say they used lockheed pvipir war planes to carry out pthose raids. pthey hit targets north iraq pcapital late last night. pofficials say air strikes pdestroyed the militant community pregion. punit nations released a civilian pdeath toll report for iraq in pnumbers really are quite pthe report says nearly 19,000 pcivilian were killed between pjanuary of 2014 and october of p2015. pin addition more than 36,000 eople were wounded by isis. pthe list of terror groups pkillings include shootings, pbeheadings, burning people alive pisis also believed to be holding p3500 people as slaves mostly pwomen and children. pthey were capture in summer of p20 fours and forced into sexual pslavery. pa 12 missing marines, an pofficials now reporting they phave found some life raft debris psimilar to what marine phelicopter carr

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martha: more on this with greg palkot with breaking developments. good morning, greg.: literally this is breaking last few minutes. paris's prosecutor's office is investigating this as a terror attack. because of that new evidence which you just outlined on that, on the body of this person now dead was found a piece of paper with some kind of an isis flag, perhaps scrawled on it, perhaps drawn on it but also arabic writing which said to say claiming responsibility for this act, whatever act he was trying to accomplish at the police station, the isis terror group. there is phone, mobil phone on this person. that could help urgently and greatly the investigators trying to figure out whether there were any other people involved with this attempted act. let's go through what actually happened today, just before noon paris time, just around 6:00 a.m. eastern time. 40-year-old man of arabic appearance tried to enter that police station in northern neighborhood in paris. two police officers were standing guard. they told him twice to stop. according to reports he didn't. when