karl thinks so.he made his big discovery in the attic, he spied several wrinkled and grimy cards strewn among the rafters and the floorboards. karl believes that they went flying during one of his grandma jenny's cleaning purges. when she pitched boxes of junk right out the attic window, into a big mound below. thank goodness, she never got a hold of that one box in the corner. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thank you so much for joining us. remember, you can't take it with you. do you have a "strange inheritance" story you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. send me an email or go to our website, "strange inheritance.com." (?) >> a letter arrives in the mail with news of a strange and lucrative inheritance. >> if i got a letter like this, i would think it was a scam. someone is scamming us. >> so is it a scam? >> i said, you know, ray, there is a fine line between a genius and idiot. he said, yeah, i crossed that two or three times a day. who is this mysterious benefactor? >>

i'd be entered in seeing what karl thinks. jon: what about that, karl?income inequality going to be the issue for the 2016 presidential race? >> well it's going to be one issue, but there's going to be a distinctly different view from the republican side than the democratic side. you saw it in this able sis of the -- analysis of the president's tax proposals. he takes from the top and gives to the bottom 20%. they don't really have much of a tax burden at all. what it in essence is, a transfer payment taking max money from more -- tax money from more affluent americans and providing cash to those at the bottom. they have virtually no taxes, in fact, they receive refundable tax credits. they get money out of the tax system rather than putting money in. but i do think republicans are going to say look, the middle class, the median family income dropped $2,084 under president obama, first time in an economic recovery we've seen median household income go down and that's in part because of the president's tax and spend policies and because of their disincent

karl rove joins us next. lou: republican leaders today rejecting the president's four veto threats and his partisan proposals last night. >> this kind of partisanship is what we've become accustomed to from the president. and we know the president may not be wild about the people's choice of a congress, but he owes it to the american people to find a serious way to work with the representatives that they elected. >> we need to fix our broken tax code. balance our budget, and replace the broken health care law with solutions that lower costs and protect jobs. lou: joining us now is carl cove, former deputy chief of staff for george bush. fox news contributor. karl, i have to say john impressed me by inviting netanyahu to appear before a joint session of congress. it was a stroke of brilliance. i suspect they're still choking about it at the courthouse. >> theywhite house. >> you have a significant number of democrats (?) in the house and senate who are supportive of this back-up sanctions bill. remember, this

karl? >> karl, break this down for me because i think everyone is wondering why can't they say the words islamic extremism? >> well, i'm not certain i have got a good explanation for it. it makes us look oddly disconnected. look today the japanese prime minister traveling in the middle east after the death at the hands of isil of two japanese nationals called islamic extremism. the president of the united states can't bring himself to do it but the president of france can bring himself to call it islamic extremism. secretary kerry can't bring himself to say it but the british foreign minister standing right next to him calls it islamic extremism. i don't get why the administration doesn't seem to understand that the moral authority of calling it out as islamic extremism is to our advantage. it causes people inside the muslim community to understand they have an essential role to play in confronting a virus which is infecting their religion. look, kerry today in his speech said, you know, th

up next karl rove.ox new political contributor and former deputy chief of staff seem many veiled rev yenss to your former boss tonight. first your impressions on remarks tonight. >> it says the crisis is gone. i thought it's connected from the economic realities. he made it sound like everybody is hunky dory. it took us longer to get back to the number of people working in america that were working when the crisis began. than at any time in history. and we have, you know a huge number more. 2 million more people working part time can't find it the president sounded like this is great. and seemed disconnected from his record. here is a guy hyper partisan. questions motives of his opposition saying they're un-american at one point. yet, tonight sounded like an old barack obama and and and had a disconnect from his route. >> up next we're going to hold karl over. and we're going to ask my name is bret hembree. i am an electric crew foreman out of the cupertino service center. i was born and raised in the c

bush and republican strategist, karl rove.nd foreign reagan white house political director and republican strategist ed rollins. we begin with a rant. and john boehner says the white house is ignoring this threat. the administration in the midst of seemingless endless negotiations with iran and they continue to loosen economic sanctions with no conditions attached. the white house releasing another half billion dollars returning that money to iran simply to competentcompensate them for continuing to talk. boehner invited benjamin netanyahu to deliver a speech to a joint session of congress on the iranian threat. (?) an invitation that netanyahu has accepted. his speech will take place on february 11th. it is a direct rebuke of the president's threat to veto a bipartisan bill calling for more sanctions against iran. the speaker making it clear today that if the president is unwilling to take iran's threat seriously, the new republican-led congress will. and that he doesn't require the president's permission to bring mr. netanya

lou: karl, the president says he doesn't pay attention to the polls. how much of a constraint can it be on him to look at the will of the people here? he seems to be uninterested in either traditional constraints, constitutionally checks and balances, equal partners in government. seems unconcerned by the constitution. is there anything that this now congressional-led senate and house can do to rein in his somewhat adventurous impulses? >> sure, absolutely. we'll see them fixing riders to appropriations bills that say no funds appropriated will be used for the following purposes. in february it's going to take writing, draftsmanship because the president is funding his, in my opinion, illegal, unsupported statutorily not allowed immigration memorandas by using fee income of people who are in the system. so you have to say not only shall no funds be appropriated but you need to say no funds that are available in the system may be used for this. so they're going to have to find the right words to rein it. in i think that's going to pass the house with ea

thank you, karl. appreciate it. >> thank you, lou. >> up next, why americans are paying too high a price for the president's refusal to talk straight to the american people and, indeed, to the world. startup-ny. it's working for new york state. already 55 companies are investing over $98 million dollars and creating over 2100 jobs. from long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. they are paying no property taxes no corporate taxes no sales taxes. and with over 300 locations, and 3.7 million square feet available, there's a place that's right for your business. see if startup-ny can work for you. go to startup.ny.gov. >>> a few comments now on a president who seemingly can do anything with language but talk straight. during his hour-long news conference, the day filled with five-minute-long answers. president obama once again refused to use the term radical islamist terrorist. is it perhaps because he is so frightened of radical islamists terrorists himself or h

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. >> karl rove your thoughts on that? >> well, the suggestion is that

that's what i'm looking for, karl. what do you see in the field? well, look i think we're right here at the beginning. let's not kid ourselves. there's a long way to go before we have a good sense of how these people will look and be in 2016. particularly, in the context of a general election. we think we know a lot about them from their past experience from either ted cruz in 2010 or what scott walker's been doing in wisconsin or what jeb bush did as governor or what mitt romney did last time around. but the contest this time around is going to be so different and the dynamics are going to be so different than they were in the past, that it's going to take us a while before these candidates begin to sort of gel and to mold and model in the form they'll take for 2016. and as a result, it's going to be exciting to watch. and i'm with you, we want the most conservative candidate with the optimistic forward looking vision who can win. >> let's go through the governors who may run. governor perry, scott walker is contemplating a run maybe bobby jindal?

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. >> and karl rove joins us. nice to see i, karl. >> good to see you, greta. >> karl, maybe you can help me figure this one out. josh earnst says the taliban are not terrorists. today, three americans gunned down by someone dressed in an afghan police uniform in kabul in the airport in the last 48 hours. the taliban is suspected in multiple attacks that killed more than 30, including a suicide bombing attack on a funeral in afghanistan today. why is the white house not calling them terrorists? >> i had no idea. let's go back even further than this. let's go back to september of 2001. the attacks on 9/11 were launched by al qaeda which was located inside of afghanistan. it had been welcomed to afghanistan by the taliban which was then in power. after 9/11, president bush demanded that the taliban give up usama bin laden and the al qaeda and you may remember that for a period of about five or six weeks they continued to refuse to turn him over and made a series of incredible statements that there was no evidence. t

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jon karl was there for all the action. >> reporter: and they're off. in iowa this weekend, the unofficial start of the race for the republican presidential nomination. and it is wide open. >> this is the most open republican nomination since 1940. i think it will be fun. it will be interesting to watch. >> reporter: open and crowded. at least 12 speakers here at the iowa freedom summit say they're at least thinking about running. new jersey governor chris christie. >> you're the only person you agree with 100% of the time. >> reporter: a trash-talking, sometimes moderate republican from the northeast might have a tough time in the conservative heartland. when we caught up with him exclusively, outside this secret backstage exit he suggested iowa could be christie country. you feel like you can compete in iowa? >> sure. why not? >> reporter: another blue-state governor, scott walker was one of the summit's biggest stars. >> if you're not afraid to go big and go bold, you can get results. >> reporter: we met up with him moments after he got off stage. he

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the irs will conduct 46,000 fewer audits. >> all right, jon karl live from the white house. so, fewer audits. a lot of people are going to like hearing that. but we also pay a price for that, too, jon. >> reporter: that's right. according to the tax commissioner, fewer audits, fewer officers to go after tax cheats means that you will have $2 billion less in revenue coming in to the treasury. >> all right, jon karl getting his hands on that e-mail tonight. jon, thank you. >>> and also on the economy tonight, the good news about gas prices. the national average now $2.10, and just look at the map this evening. 45 states now with at least one station with gas under $2. and in one town in texas, $1.47 a gallon. i should have gone while i was in texas last night. let's get right to abc's clayton sandell, who is there tonight. >> reporter: that huge sign heralding $1.47 gas is drawing a huge empty tank crowd to texas, for one of the lowest, if not the lowest prices anywhere. good news for perry carbo. his limo company uses two stretch hummers. >> you get like seven miles to the ga

megyn: your thoughts karl rove? >> this is just dead was talking about his predecessor he does have a tendency to blame his predecessor but rash decisions to remove the taliban from power it was a rash decision to remove saddam hussein he picked to secretaries of state both of whom voted to take him now. betty shed not be the military was live president bush but the first reaction is to say to the taliban give up the al qaeda going for months and months to be criticized by a the the year for moving too slowly to get the international consensus for saddam hussein in the aftermath of the first world war provide never heard the word persistence steady resolve applied to obama behalf president bush. megyn: good to see you. thank you for watching as the conversation continues of mine. follow me on twitter in and tell me where you think of tonight's address. thank you for watching. this is the county filed. we will see you hiring new employees can be tough. but it doesn't have to be. because now you can post to over 50 of

jonathan karl inside the house chamber. and jon, when it comes to the economy tonight, no hedging from the president. he's going to declare victory over this great recession. >> that's for sure, george. this is going to be a triumphant speech, which is amazing. he's coming in after his party was trounced in the midterm election. he's going to be looking out at a chamber with many more republican faces than democratic faces. when he looks at the economy, he sees an economy that's at its strongest of his presidency. so, you're gouge to see a little bit of an i told you so theme here. republicans predicted dire consequences, result of his policies, especially on obamacare. he's going to say, the verdict is in. my policies worked. >> and abc political analyst, matthew dowd, everyone gathered there, waiting for the sergeant-at-arms to announce the president, that is really the president's big job tonight. to own the recovery, convince people he should get some credit for it. >> his main imperative is to sell the rise, to sell th

in his inaugural address, karl racine said he'll be directly accountable to the citizens of the district will defend the vote to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. racine was a defense attorney before running for office. abc 7 will continue to follow all of the inaugural events tonight. we'll have the latest for you from the inaugural ball at 11:00. developing now. a missing virginia man has been found dead in mexico. 25-year-old hari simran ran a yoga center in leesburg. his wife says he went for a day hike in the mountains of central mexico on tuesday and hadn't been seen since. a mexican civil defense official says simran's body was found a few hours ago in one of the narrow ravines in the mountains. tonight, a close friend of the family read a statement. >> the journey has been a testament to the numerous amount of love and goodness that you shared with us all during his time on earth. his last picture says "looking down on you." we know he is an angel in the heavens now looking down on all of us. we love you. >> this evening, a prayer vigil will be held at the yo

>> i think karl, i know karl very well. the salt conference many times as you know charlie. i think karl wants to win. average republican wants to win. >> this is a headline he is not necessarily in the bush camp here? >> i don't see him as in either camp at this point. melissa: got to go. >> that is the headline right there. melissa: thanks, guys. no yelling in football. how one coaching staff is trying to change the game even when the championship is on the line. >>> plus, falling gas prices putting extra money in your pocket but that relief could be short-lived. new calls in d.c. to take that money right out of your pocket. "piles of money" coming up. ♪ i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. control. it's so, wha

i want you to listen to karl alzner. >> just because everybody is playing at the top of their game at the same time. that's important. you need that and you need to try to get it as soon as possible. >> what about this game tonight? >> well it's a bit of a payback game for us and losing in overtime there was done a little bit. we looked on the video and we know what the weaknesss are and that's what we're going to try to key in on. this is a team that in the league whenever you play them, you get a little bit more excited to play against and play better. >> karl alzner of the washington capitals face off tonight at 8:00. all right, it's being reported the washington redskins have a new defensive coordinator. joe berry. he was the linebackers coach with the san diego chargers. before that he was a defensive coordinator of the detroit lions. college basketball the maryland terrapins trying to fight the memory of the win over the badgers. because that's who rutgers beat last. coming off that upset win over number six wisconsin so this could be a really, really good ballgame tonight. >> t

and talk about it with karl rove. we have a fox news contributor as well.it a surprise that 59 percent said romney should run? >> no, not really. put it in perspective jon. it is an early poll and at this point in 2007 barak obama was an asteric. it is a poll of only republicans. and the numbers were among republicans and some states independents and democrats can vote in the republican primary. it will be a highly fluid contest. i look at the poll and shoes that there is robust interest in having a broad field but be careful about reading to which in to it. what is interesting, everybody breaks down all of those names in four boxes. the first group are the people know upon them and they like them and want him to run. 59 percent would like him to run and 29 percent no. and 15 percent don't have enough information to make a decision. romney, bush and huckabee they like them and want them to run. then a group of they like them and don't know them. rubio 29 percent. and 54 percent don't know him. ben carson. 21- 17 and both initance they have right side up. gu

a representative from the parent company of karl's jr.' anything you wouldn't see at the beach and that they don't cross the line but like to get right up to it and while it's estimated 46% of super bowl viewers are women, this ad reportedly targets the brand's core which is 18 to 34-year-old hungry guy which apparently also includes michael strahan because the reaction there, he was all eyes. >> i see guys chipping ice and squirting water -- >> that was over the top. that kind of -- my jaw dropped on that one. >> they said they don't cross the line really? they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. >> linsey brought it all home with more buns than burger. >> that's the takeaway there. >> thank you. >> we'll be talking about that one. i'm guessing you you will too. >>> coming up everybody, financial infidelity. how cups are hiding bank accounts and credit cards from each other. what can you do to stop those secrets. >> nobody would ever do that. >>> caught on camera. an albuquerque police officer shot during a routine traffic stop. he's speaking out

in george will, julie pace karl rove, and juanwomen. george, sit back for a moment. what strikes you this week about the trained terror cells in the heart of western capitals and their ability to paralyze a great city like paris. >> what happened at the magazine was terrible and terrifying. it wasn't terrorism as we normal understood it. this was not random. this was an assassination operation. they knew where they were going knew who they would be there -- >> let me interrupt for a moment. a live picture from paris, auld world leaders on the streets in paris part of this mass demonstration, more than a million people ranging from president hollande, chance her merkel, netanyahu all bearing witness to the terrorist events. >> a modern city, modern sewed depends on flow cooperation and trust. we've all seen how a two-car accident can close a four-lane superhighway. that's the nature of modern society. that's where random violence comes in, because it destroys the sinews that destroy -- and that's the level plays field. they're just as capable as we are. we saw what a

you have the george sorris' to the left karl rove s. i believe much is about money. i'm asked if there's good or bad members of congress. plenty of good members of congress and there are people that have gotten in trouble for unethical activities but the system itself is doomed to corruption. anything jack abramoff and i did -- i ate sushi with jack abramoff i drank scotch with jack abramoff. anything we did is codified in the united states law. if i am a lobbyist and brian you're a congressman today, i give true examples in the book that have happened and i put the examples in the book sometimes with names omitted for a reason because i can produce names. but if i want to, i can take you to alaska, we can hunt. we can have a $3,000 or $4,000 dinner, better food than jack had and i can raise you $75,000. i can take you, a staffer, maybe some of your family, fly you as a congressman to las vegas. we can have a $2,000 or $3,000 dinner and raise you $1 25,000, it's all legal. alice fisher in her announcement i did a lot of wrong things but for using a loj for a fundrais

let's get right to abc's jonathan karl. jon, speaker boehner holding on, but what started this? >> reporter: john boehner faced more defections from his own party than any speaker in more than 150 years. 25 tea party republicans tried to oust him because they believe he has been too easy on president obama. so he ultimately won, but what this means, david, is that you have a significant faction of conservatives in the house that are going to be pushing bayne earl to be even more confrontational with president obama. >> and jon, republicans have signaled that among the first issues they'll tackle is the keystone pipeline. and i want to show everyone at home remembering where that pipeline is. it goes from alberta, canada all the way to nebraska. it's a proposal. you learned how the white house plans to respond to this republican house and senate? >> reporter: you can mark this down. today, the whouls ishite house issued the first veto threat against this congress. it came within minutes of this new congress being sworn in. the white house saying point blank, if congress passes th

i want to bring in abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. is there any question the gas prices are playing into it? >> reporter: there's no doubt that is what's driving this. gas prices low, the unemployment rate low. the president's message in the state of the union will be america is back. the economic resurgence is real. and if you look at our poll americans are starting to feel it. look. 41% believe the economy is excellent or good. that is a big change from just three months ago when it was just 27%. but david, tomorrow in that big speech the president is going to play a little robin hood. he's going to propose tax hikes on the rich. help for the poor and middle class. those programs don't have much of a chance of passing, but it's a recognition that while the economy is growing, so is that gap between rich and poor. >> jon karl booil with you and george and the entire team this time tomorrow night. >>> in the meantime as you heard jon say, the president expected to talk a lot about income inequality here at home. tonight, a number to t

jon karl tonight, thanks. reclaimed the titles, more wins >>> tonight, joe paterno has reclaimed the titles, more wins than any major college football coach in history. penn state football had been stripped of 112 wins as a result of the jerry sandusky sexual abuse scandal. tonight those wins reinstated. and $65,000 in fines paid bid penn state will be reallocated to help victims of sexual abuse. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this friday. the hospital imposter caught on tape. roaming the halls for weeks. authorities say wearing his lab coat, a stethoscope and tonight the real doctor who noticed something was wrong. >>> and watch this, the malfunction caught on tape tonight. the set back in the effort to get america back in space. >>> and our person of the week tonight, actress julianne moore on her many roles, her life, and who she is standing up for tonight. the silent struggle in america is coming up. i am his guardian. i am his voice. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda x

jamie: karl kissner and his jamie: carl and his family are selling off strange inheritance with a rarel cards via $3 billion in the initial of share brought in 566,000 and the family still has plenty to sell. and then with to online auctions racked up $419,000. august 2013 in chicago then there is another 228,000. big apple 2014 number 8.5 and number nine assist in the $300,000 paul. to more online auctions raise the total at $1.7 billion. -- million. then i joined carl and his cousin at the national for collectors convention for the latest auction. >> this is exciting watching everybody. >> the last person standing with the hand in the air gets the item. jamie: of first is the georgia peach. >> when the auctioneers slows down you know, that it is getting good. >> sold. $40,000. jamie: now stepping up to is the plague is number nine wagner. jamie: 33,007 the hundred $50. the earnings included in the online sales totaled $133,000 lifting the totals at 1.8 million. >> are you satisfied? >> rand the person who buys it loves it and will add it to his collection maybe he will pass on to his

those are going nowhere in this congress. >> jon karl in washington tonight. jon, thank you. and later here more from havana. what the children told me today. and the vintage cars. can you guess what one of those american cars from the 1950s here in cuba would be worth back home? that's coming up. >>> and one more moment from last night's state of the union that had everyone talking. this is a political note. the president and what's being called his drop the mike moment. calling for unity when something else happened. take a look. >> i have no more campaigns to run. [ applause ] my only agenda -- i know, because i won both of them. >> a lot of people tweeting about that moment at the state of the union. >>> but we do move on tonight to that bomb shell back home in new england. the patriots headed to the super bowl of course. amid those accusations they deflated the footballs. reports that suspicions were first raised when that linebacker intercepted the ball telling officials it didn't feel right. well tonight, the nfl is now weighing in saying they checked those footballs j

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tracking this tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. this is a dramatic shakeup. a near total gutting of the senior leadership of the secret service. this was the last straw. the knife-wielding man who leaped the fence and sprinted across the lawn right into the white house in september. it was the most embarrassing in a string of lapses by the secret service. the agents who hired prostitutes in colombia the armed man who got onto a ensay or the with president obama. the bullets that hit the white house without the secret service figuring it out for days a scathing report released last month placed blame at the top, calling the secret service an organization starved for leadership. secret service director julia pierson was forced out in october, and a new acting director vowed to do better. >> and restore the secret service's rightful place at the most respected protection service in the world. >> reporter: and now in a shakeup first reported by "the washington post," four more top leaders

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl pressed the white house today and here's what they said. >> reporter: you said you should have sent somebody with a higher profile. why? >> the american people stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies in france. and sending a high level, highly visible senior administration official with a high profile to that march would have done that. >> jon karl at the white house today. and we do move on now. and this evening, to a dangerous commute home for millions. just take a look at this tonight. in colorado a car swerving off the road. just miles away a sink hole opening up. in indianapolis tonight, ice storm warnings on i-70. heavy rains in north carolina flooding water. even here in dallas this weekend, where we were getting ready for the game winds, frigid cold. abc's rob marciano at the weather wall for us. rob? >> reporter: good evening, david. the rain snow and ice that plague sod many americans is moving out. no big storms in the near storm with the exception of some snow in the rocky mountains. this big blue h is the story. more c

more from abc's jonathan karl. >> reporter: this was the last straw, the knife-wielding man to leaped the fence and sprinted across the lawn right into the white house in september. it was the most embarrassing in a string of lapses by the secret service. the agents who hired prostitutes in colombia, the armed man who got onto an elevator with president obama, the bullets that hit the white house without the secret service figuring it out for days. a scathing report released last month placed blame at the top calling the secret service an organization starved for leadership. secret service director julia pierson was forced out in october, and the new acting director vowed to do better. >> and restore the secret service's rightful place as the most respected protection service in the world. >> reporter: and now in a shake-up first reported by "the washington post," four more top leaders are being removed as the acting secret service director said in a statement, "change is necessary to gain a fresh perspective on how we conduct business." the white house had no comment on the secret se

so let's get right to abc's jonathan karl across town at the white house. jon, the economy, gas prices driving this job approval. and you've learned what americans will hear tonight. >> reporter: that's right. and david, the president's top advisers tell me that he is going into this speech with a bounce in his step because we are seeing the strongest economy of his presidency. so the three big economic themes that he will hit tonight is first, vindication. he will take credit for that recovering economy, in excepts just released, he says quote, the verdict is in his policies worked. second help for the middle class. he's proposing new spending on things like free community college, even cheaper, faster internet access. and then three, tax the rich. that's how he is proposing paying for all of this. but david, as you can imagine, that call for more spending higher taxes, puts him on a collision course with the republicans in that chamber tonight. >> a tough sell for them indeed. jon, thank you. let's get right to george stephanopoulos in our washington bure