planned for the uss harry s truman have been cancelled, he says a reduced military presence around theffects the ability of the u.s. to respond quickly to a crisis. >>> the pentagon has not yet commented on iran's broadcast of video it claims was extracted from a cia spy drone captured in 2011. the footage was broadcast on iranian state media and it has not been confirmed. it says it downs the drone there but u.s. officials say the drone mal functioned and crashed. iran is also claiming it can reverse engineer the drone and launch its own production line of unmanned aircraft. >>> an iran supreme leader has rejected holding one on 1 nuclear negotiations with the u.s. he rejected all direct negotiations, however they will take part in nuclear talks later this month involving six world powers, including the u.s. >>> san jose state university received a major donation, we will tell you how much and which students will benefit. >>> rain has returned to the bay area, mark tamayo will tell us how long it is expected to last. >>> celebrities on the links for the annual pebble beach pro- am gol

. >> meanwhile, republican duncan hunter is teeing off on delaying the deployment of the harry s. trumano the persian gulf charging it's about dramatizing potential budget cuts than making the proper military decision, though a pentagon spokesman told fox this was totally done by the book that this was about saving money and not about political drama. lou? >> thank you very much, ed henry, chief white house fox news cor responsibility. the first guest attests firsthand to the lack of urgency and accountability in washington. concerning the sequester, former senator scott brown, a fox news cricketer, great to have you with us. >> great to be on, lou. lou: turn to the hoer row show the president is trodding out. seemingly every person in the administration given the opportunity to go out in front of cameras to scare the american people. what do you think of it? >> well, it's a broken record strategy. it's something i heard the last three years. they put something forth, give it a great title, but when you read the bill, it's not what it's moment to be. we saw sequestering if you remember b

(applause) >> greeted by hundreds of staffers and well wishers at the harry s. truman building john kerry began his tenure as the top diplomat as any polished public speaker would with a few jokes. >> after the last 8 years can a man actually run the state department? i have big heels to fill. >> over the weekend kerry called israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and mahmoud abbas. >> i think what's important here is that there was a very early contact with both sides to express a commitment to continuing to support them and getting back to the table with each other. >> fox news learned kerry also made time on saturday for a secret trip to walter reed national military medical center where he visited some wounded in the benghazi attack. >> i don't want to go back and relitigate the events that took place. >> at his confirmation hearing kerry intim mated he regarded much of the discussions as politically motivated. in the opening remarks to the state department the secretary made that sentiment explicit. i know everybody here still mourns that loss. we will. so i pl

they are cutting in the readiness accounts and they are saying we'll not deploy harry s. trumans they are testifying and not have the replacement troops to replace troops in stanford . what they are doing. they are hidging the readiness accounts because it would be less difficult to restart those than it would be to make up for a big manpower swing or a procurement account swing. they are taking the risk in the short term accounts and hoping that sequestitration doesn't happen . that is hope against hope at this point. >> one last question. y want - we want everyone to understand. things like affordable act oir obama care falls in mandatory category. talk me about the difference of where the cuts are coming from quickly. >> with discretionary accountings we spend more on medicare and social security than we do on defense. defense is 16 percent of the budge and it will take 50 percent of the sequestitration hits. it is out of balance and a lot of the nondiscretionary accounts are sort of fire walls and they are limited on what you can take out of them . so first and foremost, it

>> republican duncan hunter teeing off on the white house for delaying deployment of the uss harry s. trumanthe persian gulf and hunter claiming this is more about the drama than budget cuts. pentagon spokesman told fox news it was the right decision to make. that it was all about saving mup. had nothing to do with political drama. bret? >> bret: ed, yesterday, we had gene sperling on with the national economic council of advisors. i asked about the warn act, notices sent out 60 days in advance. letter sent out in september saying that the office of management and budget would cover the legal costs if the government were sued, if the companies were sued rather that the employees didn't get the notices and they would pick up all the legal cost. gene didn't have an answer about that. did the omb get back to us today? >> we were asking budget officials today about some of the issues. today they put out some paper that basically said look, it's not even clear the way the warn act is written that the layoff notices, the furlough notices have to go out, because there are evidents made to shut off

adversely affected by this, a 20% reduction in pay and the military families affected by the harry s. truman staying in port. we have to keep in mind the affect on the civilian dod employees and military families. >> 99% of the american people understand that they're both right and wrong. the forcing function needs to be the american people stepping forward saying we need a different path and approach to deal with our problems and this is not a short-term issue. this is a long-term issue. >> the white house said it wants to end tax loopholes and increase revenues. republicans have been stalking saying they want deeper cuts and entitlements to avoid this sequestration. it's estimated that 445,000 jobs in our area could be affected if this sequestration goes through march 1st. the president takes the podium at 9:00 p.m., we'll be here. >> thank you. i know you will have a full wrap on that after the speech. >>> breaking new, a bitterly divided senate panel voted to approve chuck hailel -- chuck hagel's nomination to be secretary of defense. more on that one coming up later tonight. >>> stronge

(applause) >> greeted by hundreds of staffers and well wishers at the harry s. trumang john kerry began his tenure as the top diplomat as any polished public speaker would with a few jokes. >> after the last 8 years can a man actually run the state department? i have big heels to fill. >> over the weekend kerry called israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and mahmoud abbas. >> i think what's important here is that there was a very early contact with both sides to express a commitment to continuing to support them and getting back to the table with each other. >> fox news learned kerry also made time on saturday for a secret trip to walter reed national military medical center where he visited some wounded in the benghazi attack. >> i don't want to go back and relitigate the events that took place. >> at his confirmation hearing kerry intim mated he regarded much of the discussions as politically motivated. in the opening remarks to the state department the secretary made that sentiment explicit. i know everybody here still mourns that loss. we will. so i pledge to

that decision comes just one day before the "uss harry s truman" was to leave for the gulf. carrier groups have been stationed in the region for the majority of the past two years because of rising tensions with iran. >>> president obama's choice to replace leon panetta at the pentagon will not receive his first confirmation votes today. the senate armed services committee decided to delay the vote on former senator chuck hagel after demands for more information from republicans. several senators have asked for more degree of hagel's business dealings and content of past speeches. democrats say the move is just political posturing and they fully expect hagel to be confirmed. >>> this morning a northern virginia congressman is defending his support for a bill to legalize marijuana. representative jim moran as well as d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton are two of the several co-sponsors of the measure. it calls for decriminalizing marijuana on a federal level and allowing states to regulate it. moran says it's time to reform drug laws, calling enforcement expensive. he says f

for example, saying that the aircraft carriers and all the associated ship movements for the "harry s. trumanand the "abraham lincoln," they could go to the persian gulf and to come out and say they can't go to the persian gulf is what they call -- what is it? gold watching. gold watches? is that the term? that's the military side to shutting down the washington monument. i mean, there are things that can be done. and if you hear some of the generals who i admire enormously but not necessarily financially, they say nothing can be done. that's not the case. >> larry, look. chief of staff of the army is not running for public office. we can't promote him again. he says he may have to cut up to 80% of the discretionary training budget for the remainder of the year. the navy has to fuel these carrier battle groups. if you want to save money quick you've got to either lay off civilian employees or you've got to stop burning gas and doing spare parts. there actually is no free lunch. >> is it time to write off civilian -- sir, is it time to lay off civilian employees? a lot of people are asking tha

secretary kerry told officials here at the harry s. truman building that he will advocate for them and they will embark together on a great adventure. >> we get to try to make peace in a world where there is far too much conflict and far too much killing. there are alternatives. we get to lift people out of poverty. we get to try to cure disease, we get to try to empower people with human rights. we get to speak to those who have no voice. >> reporter: secretary kerry also made reference by name to the four americans killed last september in benghazi, libya and added he would not let their patriotism and pwreufr re, quo bravery be obscured by policy. he put in calls to benjamin netanyahu and palestinian authority mahmoud abbas, and kerry reaffirmed president obama's commitment to israeli security and to a search for lasting peace between the two p. as is quite the vogue in swearing in these days. soak kerry who has already been formally sworn in will have a ceremonial swearing in ceremony, that takes place this week at the state department. j

harry s. trumane persian gulf for the sole purpose of pressuring congress in the sequestration. he undercut our national strategy visa see iran. telling iran we are too poor to fight. they are saying we don't have gas money. think how low we've sung when the chief of naval operations pulled a stunt like that. in 1943 after pearl harbor the pride of our fleet was at the bottom of the ocean in pearl harbor. those tin can skippers in the destroyers said we can't fight the japanese until we have more money. they would have gone to tokyo bay to fight the japanese if they had to row. now we have a chief of naval operations, undercuts our national strategy to try to bully congress to give him more money. it's got to stop. bill: the way you talk is almost as if you say this is a wake up call. >> well it is. that's why i am reluctantly foresee questions tracing. it's going to cut muscle and bone along with the fat. but the generals and admirals won't stand up and cut the real fat. and congress gets its share

harry s. trumanburg which is a cruiser were set to deploy for tomorrow for what was probably going to be an 8 to 10 month deployment into the persian gulf. up to this point we've had a requirement to have two carrier battle group presence in that fleet area of responsibility. well they told them yesterday, never mind all the work ups you went through, all the planning, your deployment is on hold. now you've got all these people, and their families, and this asset, these national assets leaning on a pier because we don't have the money to deploy them, and the threat is not going down. jenna: so if we're not there, if we don't have an aircraft carrier, first time in two years we won't have one in the persian gulf, then who fills that void? >> that is a great question. go back to senator now secretary of state kerry who wagged his finger at the iranians the other day and told them if they don't stop working on their nuclear program that the international community is going to be very upset with them and

chastity peralta, washington budget politics has hit hard on the deck of the aircraft carrier "harry s. trumancustdy of both of my children. >> this navy mother did that because the ship was supposed to leave last week for eight months in the middle east. the children were sent to live with their fathers. >> i cut off my cell phone bill, canceled everything i had, and moved on to the ship. >> reporter: but the navy suddenly changed course. the "truman" will stay put, saving millions of dollars during the budget crunch. it means one carrier, not two, in the middle east, leaving sailors left in port scrambling. >> i'm not going to take my children back and pull them out of school and, you know, unsettle their lives. >> reporter: petty officer second class natasha anderson also sent her son to live with family members. now she needs to find somewhere to live. >> currently, i'm staying on board the ship. when i lost my apartment, i wasn't able to get it back. >> reporter: another carrier, the "uss abraham lincoln" is parked right next to "truman." its fate is also on the line. "lincoln" is suppose

but on february 18, 1946, president harry s. truman signed the rescission act of 1946 into law which denied over 200,000 filipino world war ii veterans the benefits promised to them five years earlier by president roosevelt. congress finally acknowledged the dedicated service of many of these he denied veterans when it established the filipino veterans equity compensation fund in 2009. but many of these veterans, as many as 24,000, still have not received compensation due to bureaucratic hurdles and paperwork shuffles over the types of records they told verifying their service. the mighty five is now reduced to two with the passing of romeo and sylverio. i fear many more will pass without ever obtaining the recognition they deserve if this body does not act to remove the barriers preventing these veterans from receiving the benefits they have earned. yesterday i introduced legislation to ensure that the remainder of the mighty 5, and denied filipino veterans everywhere, finally receive the benefits promised to them so many years ago. m

s. and demanding austerity spending cuts both republican and democratic presidents harry truman to eisenhower and lawmakers grew our nation out of the so-called debt problem with government spending there were massive government investments to build the interstate highway system to send returning g.i.'s to college and to grow the social safety net we built schools and hospitals all across the country and it worked with more government investments more americans were put to work which meant they had more money to spend which meant more businesses hired more people to keep up with the higher demand which meant americans all around were earning more money and pay more revenue into the government through taxes. our debt to g.d.p. ratio plummeted from its peak of over one hundred twenty percent in the one nine hundred forty s. . to below fifty percent the one nine hundred seventy s. got here and then reagan came along gave billionaires a massive tax cut increased defense spending and our national debt exploded again but two presidents later bill clinton had a had the budget balance the nation on t

it was not until the 1950's when harry truman was having financial difficulties and writing members to congress. sam raburn received a letter from truman that said, please pass this bill to help me keep ahead of the hounds. the bill was enacted in 1958. after that, presidents started receiving a series of benefits. host: what sort of benefits did they get? guest: they get benefits that include a pension, payment for federal staff. their staff gets health and pension benefits. they get other benefits including office space, postage, printing. a handful are in the act itself. there are separate authorizations were they get additional benefits. some might consider their secret service protection and benefit. that is provided in a different part of the code. there are other and benefits like transition benefits that kick in about a month before they leave office and last for six months to help the transition between administrations. host: how how's the law changed -- how how's the law changed? guest: the tweak was in 2013. one of the big changes was the secret service protection. in 1994,

s&p 500. fourth place, david, goes to harry truman. coming in third, gerald ford. the market enjoyed a 17% annualized total return during his time in office. the silver, bill clinton, 17.4%. that is just .1 a behind first place. that top spot goes to president barack obama the s&p 500 saw a 17.5% annualized total return during the president's first term in office. okay. just for kicks. here is how the three major indices fared under the president so far. we take a look. it has been a very decent rally since his first inauguration. s&p up nearly 70%. the dow, 77%. and take a look at the nasdaq, more than doubling at 108%. hopefully that is reflected in your 401(k)s and pensions and 529s. david: you have to think of the bottom of the market. the dow was 6,000 in march of 2009. the dow was at 6,000. it started over 14,000 just a year before he was in office. so again, when you start real low you can build real high. liz: don't count out american business coming back. david: of course not. markets here at home are closed for president's day but we are open for business

it was not until the 1950's when harry truman was having financial difficulties and writing members to congress. sam raburn received a letter from truman that said, please pass this bill to help me keep ahead of the hounds. the bill was enacted in 1958. after that, presidents started receiving a series of benefits. host: what sort of benefits did they get? guest: they get benefits that include a pension, payment for federal staff. their staff gets health and pension benefits. they get other benefits including office space, postage, printing. a handful are in the act itself. there are separate authorizations were they get additional benefits. some might consider their secret service protection and benefit. that is provided in a different part of the code. there are other and benefits like transition benefits that kick in about a month before they leave office and last for six months to help the transition between administrations. host: how has the law changed? guest: the tweak was in 2013. one of the big changes was the secret service protection. in 1994, secret service protection was g

s. and demanding austerity spending cuts both republican and democratic presidents harry truman to eisenhower and lawmakers grew our nation out of this so-called debt problem with government spending there were massive government investments to build the interstate highway system to send returning g.i.'s to college and to grow the social safety net we built schools and hospitals all across the country and it worked with more government investments more americans were put to work which meant they had more money to spend which meant more businesses hired more people to keep up with the higher demand which meant americans all around were earning more money and pay more revenue into the government through taxes our debt to g.d.p. ratio plummeted from its peak of over one hundred twenty percent in the one nine hundred forty s. to below fifty percent in one nine hundred seventy s. but here and then reagan came along gave billionaires a massive tax cut increased defense spending and our national debt exploded again but two presidents later bill clinton had a had the budget balance the nation on trac

s returning home, president harry truman appointed general omar bradley to run the veterans administration. bradley was the popular choice and his steely approach to helping veterans was admired. his marching orders to the v.a. were simple and i quote, we are dealing with veterans, not procedures. with their problems, not ours. you'll find that same commitment in today's generation of veterans in the congressional veterans jobs caucus. it is simply unacceptable that when the courageous americans who fight our wars finally get to come home they have to fight for jobs. the congressional veterans jobs caucus is committed to making sure that doesn't happen. america has said it is time to bring our troops home. after a decade of war incredible sacrifice by our warriors the homecomings are underway. it is not easy to come home from war but the homecoming will be easier if we make sure our fighting men and women come home to a job. after all as general bradley said we are dealing with veterans not procedures. with their problems, not ours. and i would ask all of my colleagues here, we have 37 of

s, they hold these ridiculous high rates, as high as the money for% -- as high as 94%. the reason is the president makes peace with the tax system he inherits from harry truman and is more interested in deficit reduction and that bank retirement than he is in a tax reduction. that does not mean there is no tax reduction in the 1950's. people who are fans of reason tax rates now and burdens on the ich point back to the 1950's here is an era of good growth and we have these really high tax rates. taht's true but -- that's true but effective tax rates declined steadily during the 1950's. colom -- policymakers' fi figured out the deal. that would reduce the effecrtive ctive rate for most taxpayers. if you look up the actual rates being paid by people, they are dropping quite quickly. it is notionally high rates but declining tax burdens. those high tax rates that economists loved to hate then did succumb to a democratic administration and then to the 1916's when the kennedy administration past the big tax cut -- democratic administration kennedy1960's when the administration passed the big tax cut. that is an unholy compromise. the rate reduction to the to the 1960's walked