the final point i make is josh earnest pushed back on kelly ayotte and other republicans saying thatf the gitmo detainees that are released wind up back on the battlefield. josh said his numbers suggest the administration believes about 6% of those terrorists wind up on the battlefield. well whether it's 30% or 6%. obviously there is difference there. it's also significant. 6% ending up on the battlefield is still a problem and still means potentially going to launch more terror attacks against either us or in paris or somewhere else greta. >> ed, thank you. so should president obama keep releasing gitmo prisoners, keeping his promise or is this dangerous? >> this is ebrahim senior advisor for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. one of the most wanted tears in the world. one the men released from guantanamo bay and now back in the fight for global jihad. >> terrorists are being trained and sent back to commit acts of terror. >> since 2009 the ebama administration has released 117 detainees from guantanamo b#u; >> gitmo has become a symbol around the world for an america that flouts th

and our interview with kelly ayotte is posted there. ." >>> tonight, the defiant charlie hebdo won't back down. the first post-terrorist attack edition will again have the prophet muhammad on its cover. we'll show you that in just a moment. paul ryan is out, mitt romney looks like he's in, and chris christie is inching closer. the architect karl rove breaks down the latest moves in the gop crowded 2016 presidential field. >> jimmy carter chimes in on the terrorist attacks in france. and as usual, blames israel. >> this

and i do want to talk a little bit about him putting that kelly ayotte said this morning. she said that when we get these guys, we need to fully interrogate them. i i'm concerned that we don't have the intelligence interrogation process to be able to effectively do that. we have been talking a lot about the presidents executive order from the first week of presidency back in 2009. what are your thoughts on that reign. >> i came out again today and i think that senator kelly ayotte mentioned it. something tells and it might've been catherine herridge who brought it up, in some of these countries that we have released these terrorists to yemen. that is one of the places that we are okay with releasing them to. a lot of activity coming out of there, i think there was an attack that killed more than 30 people. so it's not like it's a carefree sound. harris: that is a terror rich zone. >> we are releasing detainees that we know is about 30% for those who go back to radical terror act committees and it's something that we have to think about and every time someone leaves gitmo w

senator kelly ayotte please keep us updated. >> we will. thanks shannon. >> pete is here, the ceo of the concerned veterans for americans who once served at guantanamo bay. pete, great to have you here. >> great to be here. >> we also want to talk to you in addition about gitmo, about the authorization of the administration now indicating that the president is going to seek from congress to help it have formal support, and authority for moving ahead with the strategy against the islamic state, isis, whatever you want to call it. they've been having these talks for months. >> sure. >> leaders on both site of the aisle said there's bipartisan support for this. why can't they get it done? >> the people on the right are frustrated because they won't name the enemy and go after it sufficiently. they're seeking to limit the authorization. geographical location, what we can do with boots on the ground. many of those that understand isis say, you can't set a timeline. have we not learned that lesson yet. you can't tell the enemy what assets you wil

. >> reporter: it is a moratorium and pushed by the republicans and lindsay graham and kelly ayotte. they say now is not the time to release terrorist detainees especially the large portion of those left are from yemen. listen what rudy gull annia. >> you have to be out of your mind to let killers go. what is going on in the white house? this is the craziest thing the president of the united states has done. >> reporter: interesting because the latest fox poll, the public believes that 56% say keep it open and 32 percent close it. >> interesting to watch. and appreciate it as always. those threats are terror are all too real as the feds foil an isis plot here at home. we'll talk to a fbi official about a blood bath that may have been prevented on u.s. soil. >> well, it looks like hillary clinton might try to win the white house with a blast from her husband's past. she has not announced a run in 2016 if she has, she hired charles podefta as campaign chairman. podefta is a current senior advisor to president obama and will leave that post in a few weeks. we have vince and shera today.

and our interview with kelly ayotte is posted there. this is "the kelly file." >>> tonight, the defiant charlie hebdo won't back down. the first post-terrorist attack edition will again have the prophet muhammad on its cover. we'll show you that in just a moment. paul ryan is out, mitt romney looks like he's in, and chris christie is inching closer. the architect karl rove breaks down the latest moves in the gop crowded 2016 presidential field. >> jimmy carter chimes in on the terrorist attacks in france. and as usual, blames israel. >> this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the arab people who live in the west bank in gaza. what they're doing now. >>> the white house downplays the centcom kriber attack. >> the networks that were penetrated were commercial networks operated by a couple of social media outlets. >> what does yesterday's hacking really tell us about america's cybersecurity? hannity starts right now. >>> charlie hebdo have released their first cover since the deadly attack, and it features the so-called pr

bill: bringing in kelly ayotte now from capitol hill. good morning to you.d what you're hearing from your colleagues in the senate. >> this is a horrible terrorist attack and our prayers go out to friends in france and those who have been affected by this. this highlights the danger that we face from terrorists and obviously as we look at the situation with isis, there have been thousands of individuals that have joined isis and we don't yet know who has been involved in this attack and they need to be brought to justice. but that being said, these individuals are of concern. many have gone and joined in syria and iraq. the problem is that we have a visa waiver program with france and so we don't have track of all those individuals they could also travel to the united states of america. this is critical that we get control over who these people are and make sure that they can not only go back and affect countries like france like we unfortunately saw terribly what with what happened in paris, but also our country as well. bill: 30 minutes ago peter made a po

kelly ayotte spoke with bill hemmer last hour and she said we should reevaluate our visa waiver programhat we have with france which means that if you are french you can come to the united states without a visa i do not have to apply for visa a visa if i want to go to paris. so folks could really come out of the battlefield of syria, go to france do an attack like this, then jump over to us. do you think it is time to reevaluate these policies in light of the current situation reign to you never want to turn away from a policy that you enjoy with someone like france but what they have been concerned with is that isil has been recruiting on a global scale, trying to get folks to come over, get trained, come back to western europe. the challenge here is that the folks that they are recruiting do not have any footprints with law enforcement or security officials. if they come back and they are under the radar screen they come to the united states and they have always been a concern. so i think the reevaluation of the policy is prudent and of course there are all sorts of other things we sh

you have john mccain foreign services kelly ayotte and her role. the upcoming hearings for the secretary of defense. we have legislation proposed today that says no releases of these serious or moderate threat candidates in terms of going back into the fight who are currently being detained. no transfers into the united states legislatively blocking that. no money for additional transfers and no one into yemen which we know is the al qaeda in arabia peninsula headquarters. >> you would think this would be put on the back burner tactically by by the obama administration. when you look at the attacks in paris, the two there previously were incarcerated and they got radicalized before they were let out. in light of what happened it seems like a rather awkward time to be trying to release gitmo. >> the president has been really quickening it the last year. there was the taliban five who were released and sent to qatar. >> it's actually the release of them. is qa tar really watching those five? is anyone monitoring these? who is following these things t

mitt romney calling senator kelly ayotte from new new hampshire talking about new hampshire.alik says he doesn't have much doubt 8% chance that mitt romney is going to run for president this it time. we're back with the panel. tucker? thoughts? >> i don't think, a this was the plan as of late last week according to the people i was talking to then. i think this is a decision they made in the last couple days. b, i think it's going to be pretty tough. called around today and it's hard to find donors outside of utah, outside of the core who are really excited about this. that may change. seems to me the most direct effect of this announcement and he i think it looks real, is that it makes it tougher for jeb. that may be part of the reason. there is no love loss between jeb bush and mitt romney as everybody knows. i'm back and we are going to raise 100 million in the first quarter of 2015. it raised the expectations pretty high. this, in effect, tell as lot of g.o.p. donors just put it on pause. not necessarily giving to mitt right now if you are going to give to jeb slow down f

and in swing states places like pennsylvania where rob portman is up and kelly ayotte those are statesublicans want to know where they stand on keystone and fossil fuels, should we be cutting back on fossil fuels. you see these ads in the fall of 2016 and it says in a roll call vote, et cetera that's what these amendments are about. they can document this and get the folks on the record. yes, that slows up the process. mitch mcnonconnell said what is good for the goose is good for the gander. >> do you know what is amazing chad, it is their nature, in their dna to just pile on stuff, isn't it? they can't help themselves. >> reporter: well, this is going to be the flip side on the immigration issue for the republicans a little bit. democrats were very critical as you heard from nancy pelosi, about taking this funding bill which has to be done by the 27th of february and putting on immigration-related legislation to peel back the ability to execute these orders. that bill is going to have some problems in the united states senate. republicans have control there but you have to cross two

kelly ayotte serves on the armed services committee and she joins us. nice to see you, senator. >> nice to see you, greta. >> do you get wind of the releases or hear about it after they are finished, they are complete. >> this one we wouldn't have gotten any word of because he was released out of a super max in colorado. so we did not get word of this. and i'm very glad that duncan hunter is asking questions. i do think we need more details about this because the timing of this is very suspicious. buff we do have to take it back to the taliban five transfer. so, now you have a situation where we transfer those five dangerous members. >> transfer or release. >> release essentially greta. they are in qatar but think are scheduled to go back to afghanistan. that's the real worry that some many of us have had. the issue really is that what's the price being put on american lives number one, we now are going to have a pattern where people are being asked to be traded you have identifies saying for certain individuals we want tastes released in exchange for.

. >> republican john mccain kelly ayotte, others have claimed it's 30% go back to the patel field.hite house insists it's 6%. they have independent analysis backing that up. so, bottom line though is what i was trying to press josh earnst on even if it is 6% and john mccain is wrong. 6% of these terrorists going back to the battlefield. >> we saw painfully in paris could be real problems. >> what is the summit now in extremist here in washington and one of the things when we pressure josh earnst on in this week they want to talk about quote strats we could better pro-proceed pluralism and resilience and exiewnts. i am struggling a little. and that's why i prettied said why didn't you call this a summit on islamic extremism and josh earnst said look, there is other forms of violence extreesm. >> and we have to deal with ed henry. we do. >> obviously islamic extremism is the one that is threading, unfortunately tragically all these incidents in recent memory. >> of course. boston bombing. everybody knows that canada, australia. they goal back to mcveigh and all of this other business

worrying to the administration, obviously is something we heard today from republican senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire who was saying that because of the visa system, if you are in france it's pretty easy obviously to get here to america. as have you been reporting to the top greg palkot it, appears that these particular suspects have been taken into custody. maybe one of them killed. if another situation like this happens again, there is that fear that the terror could spread to the united states. something that the homeland security secretary jay johnson who was on chill one of the president's key advisors saying they are trying to stay on top of that greta. >> and president obama spoke to president france from air france one. >> he did. full support. fbi and others have been trying to help french authorities track the suspects down. very bottom line, of course is that france, you will remember, the iraq war, the first iraq war, there was a lot of back and forth about whether this alliance was strong. it's very clear these two presidents realize they have got to work together in thi

he will try release more people, but you will see congress led by kelly ayotte putting a moratorium on releases of high threat and medium threat detainees. the president of the united states has concluded that the war on terror has reached a point that we can safely release people from gitmo. the best i can say about him is he is unfocused. that's delusional thinking. the war on terror has reached a lethal phase. it is insane to be letting these people out of gitmo to go back to the fight. 30% of the people released already have gone back to the night. i believe the war has hit a point where we need to keep these guys in jail at least for a couple years until we can get a grip on what's going on throughout the world. particularly iraq and syria. iraq and syria are great platforms for radical islamists to attack this country and the president is going to send them some reinforcements by letting people out of gitmo. that makes no sense. >> senator, thank you. nice to sigh, sir. straight ahead the republican led house already begun making good on promises or as democrats would say on thei

kelly ayotte and her leadership role upcoming discussion and hearings are going to to be consequential for hearing for secretary of defense who has so sign off on these things. we have legislation proposed today that says no releases of these sirius or even moderate threat candidates in terms it of going back into the fight who are currently being detansd. no transfers into the united states. legislatively blocking that no money for additional transfers. and no into yemen which we know is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula headquarters. >> i would think that right now this would sort of be put on the back burner, tactically by the obama administration because when you look at what happened in paris, the two in paris who were at the magazine apparently they previously were incarcerated and they got radicalized there and they got out. i would think politically it wouldn't be good timing. if the president wants to do it they would at least wait a couple weeks until we forget. this in light of what happened. you know, it seems like a rather awkward time to be trying to release gitmo. >> he

and kelly ayotte, and so the senate seats that are mup the blue -- are up in the next election. >> and so in the telephone poll we will find out how the president's speech may influence the next race for the white house. we will talk to two potential presidential candidates and what got them riled up ahead. >> my only agenda for the hex int two years is the same one that i had when i swore an oath on the steps of this capitol, to do what i believe is best for america. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms? i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm... everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.... can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. >>> we have the first results of the cnn polls. 61% said ha they had a positive view of the speech and 18% said that they had a negative take on the president's remarks and the president got a more positive reception than last year and

we have senator kelly ayotte as well. she will be running for reelection, presumably, next year. it is a broad party. i think the fact that the party needs to do a better job of appealing to women voters is a lesson we have learned through trial and error and some of the past election cycles, one taken seriously by all of the candidates, along with appealing to working-class voters. we are always preparing to fight the last war. republicans learned a lot of lessons from some of the areas where mitt romney did not have as much appeal as we would have liked to have seen. host: steve scheffler. i want to share with you this column. basically, what he's saying is that steve king, the congressman from your state, is making the iowa caucuses irrelevant. " for the last decade -- "for the last decade, the iowa caucus has let steve king lead the party. -- guest: it doesn't line up with the fact caller: -- the facts at all. he won his biggest election victory here by about 24 once. -- points. any republican audience in iowa, he gets a great response. he fits well with the base here in iowa

. >> one bipartisan couple that announce themselves were kelly ayotte and booker.e talk about the vice president's role tonight? >> yes, and i have a bone to pick with the president on this one. the vice president, when he leaves the senate, he is coming over, of course, he is the vice president, but he is the president of the senate. he is leading the president's delegation. when the president gives his address tonight he always begins by knology -- acknowledging the vice president and the speaker. obama and clinton on a few occasions a mr. vice president, mr. speaker, or they will say vice president biden, mr. speaker. what he should be saying, what any president should be saying if the vice president is in the chair he should say mr. president, because he is there in his capacity as the president of the senate, not the vice president. >> and traditions matter. >> traditions matter and they should stick to it. >> we will take a telephone call from matt and newberg, oregon. you are on the air. >> a question for ray. ray has been a student of congress for many, man

>> you can but the reality is you have someone like kelly ayotte, the senator from new hampshire hoagto the pipeline they are trying to run through new hampshire. this is not a good deal for america. if you rebuild roads broadband and clean energy. those are the real jobs. bill: does it pass or not tony? veto-proof in the senate. >> it has a fighting chance. i can't say yes about it has a fighting chance. bill: marianne? >> no. bill: thank you marianne, thank you, tony. martha: apparently democrats have a new plan that will raise taxes. who are they targeting with this plan? bill: the staggering costs on the bottom line that you are picking up. bill: . the landmarks around the world putting on tributes to recognize france. nice touch. martha: it's an important start but there is a lot of work to be done. we'll talk more about that coming up. democrats unveiling a plan to redistribute wealth. the way they want to do it is by raising taxes on high earners. kevin cork is with us. great to have you with us this morning. tell us how this plan works. >> i want you to think it like a footbal

re-election in 2016 that aren't going to like some of this immigration stuff, people like rob portman, kelly ayotteo have a republican senate where they go wait let's put the brakes on what the house is doing. that's always been the case until now. >> let's talk about three specific things that republicans and democrats agree on, at least the majority. overhaul tax reform some type of immigration reform and republicans are on record saying -- >> where's the bill? >> we'll see it in a couple weeks. >> waiting for a bill for four years. where's the bill? >> that's a good question we will hopefully get answers to in 2015. jimmy, robert, thank you both for being with me. appreciate it. >> thank you. have a good day. >> you too. >>> i want to bring an update about a story from last hour. california attorney general announced she's running for senate in 2016 looking to fill the seat by retiring barbara boxer. in a message to supporters she says she wants to be a voice for california on issues that impact the state. says she will fight recentlessly to protect immigrant communities. this is a race we will

but he was certainly calling john mccain, calling kelly ayotte calling folks, to gauge reaction. he's out there. and i think the competitor in him is going to make it hard for him to pull -- i would be surprised if he would pull back. if he does it's admitting he can't beat jeb bush. i don't think he's ready to admit that. >> we talk about how early these things start. this one -- the aggression in the earliness. what is it having on donors and the rest of the field? >> you know it so well in your days of covering new jersey politics and the northeastern donor community, wall street et cetera jeb bush -- i think he clearly has been very methodical about his planning on this campaign. this was not a sort of fly by the seat of your pants situation by jeb bush down to the fact i think he lost 15 pounds over the calendar year of 2014. he got himself physically in shape. and then sort of got his own financial house in order. got his family house in order. and knew he had to go somewhat early because number one, there's people that never believed he was going to run. he had to show mor

support of legislation i introduced last week as a companion piece to a bill authored by senator kelly ayotte to protect the safety of the united states and its allies and restrict the transfers of detainees from guantanamo bay. since mid november, the president and his administration have ramped up an effort to make good on a campaign promise to increase the number of the release of guantanamo detainee transfers. last night during his state of the union address, the president reaffirmed his commitment to close this facility once and for all and he is releasing prisoners at an alarming rate. 21 terrorists have been released just in november alone to foreign countries. this comes at the expense of our own country. this bill would suspend the transfer of high and medium risk detainees and prohibit any detainee transfers to yemen as well as increased transparency regarding the remaining guantanamo detainees. detainees at gitmo pose a real threat to our national security. when i speak with folks at home, my constituents, moms and dads and they ask me how safe we really are, this rate of re-engage

we have senator kelly ayotte as well. she will be running for reelection, presumably, next year. it is a broad party. i think the fact that the party needs to do a better job of appealing to women voters is a lesson we have learned through trial and error and some of the past election cycles, one taken seriously by all of the candidates, along with appealing to working-class voters. we are always preparing to fight the last war. republicans learned a lot of lessons from some of the areas where mitt romney did not have as much appeal as we would have liked to have seen. host: steve scheffler. i want to share with you this column. basically, what he's saying is that steve king, the congressman from your state, is making the iowa caucuses irrelevant. " for the last decade -- "for the last decade, the iowa caucus has let steve king lead the party. -- guest: it doesn't line up with the fact caller: -- the facts at all. he won his biggest election victory here by about 24 once. -- points. any republican audience in iowa, he gets a great response. he fits well with the base here in iowa

other republicans with whom romney spoke recently include senators kelly ayotte of new hampshire, rob portman of ohio, former minnesota governor tim pawlenty, hewlett-packard chief meg whitman former massachusetts senator scott brown, former missouri senator jim talent, and representative jason chaffetz. romney says he intends on running to the right of bush who is also working vigorously to what donors -- court donors and establishment figures for a 2016 bid. he is trying to assure them that he shares their views on immigration and tax policy and if he enters the race he will not forsake 20 orthodoxy. -- party orthodoxy." mitt romney telling supporters that he will run to the right of jeb bush. yesterday on a fox news radio show, john gibson asked the senator rand paul, another potential contender, about romney throwing in his hat. [video clip] >> ilife governor romney, -- i like governor romney, i think he is a great businessman. but that is yesterday's news. he has tried twice. i don't really think that there is a third time now there. i think he did a lot of things right, but in t

now is not the time to empty guantanamo said kelly ayott.he lemlation they are pushing behind would bar transfers to yes, ma'amep for two years, sus spends the transfer of higher medium risk terrorism for the same period and repeel the current law that has allowed the administration to transport prisoners. the bill also would prohibit terrorism of suspects to foreign countries if there is a confirmed case from which an individual is transferred from gaupt guantand engaged in any activity. back to our calls on today's vote on the dhs bill. barbara, hollywood, florida, democrats line. caller: yes, i feel the republicans are putting our country at risk like of. like always, they are only appeasing their base. it's terrible that flevent the president from doing everything. the republican party cot care less about america and its people and they are the poison party. host: when you say "putting the country at risk," what do you mean? caller: well not funding the dhs. the republicans had the opportunity to pass immigration reform. they refused onl

this legislation has been authored by senator kelly ayotte and its cosponsors include the chairman of the armed services committee john mccain and richard burr as well as the senators preeminent expert on military law, lindsey graham. i'm honored to add my name to the list of senators who have cosponsored stage thing. the effect of this legislation is to preserve the ability of the united states to detain in our faults at guantanamo bay members of al qaeda and the taliban. the organizations responsible for the terrorist acts of september 11 2001. so why is keeping guantanamo open so important? simply put mr. president guantanamo affords our military a safe and secure location to detain those individuals held under the law of war or for violations of the law of war. if an enemy combatant is captured that individual can be held under the law of war. there is a generally accepted legal principle affirmed repeatedly by the supreme court that enemy combatants can be held at least until the conflict is concluded. if an individual is held for a violation of the laws of war that means they ar