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joe biden decides to run for president. how would dee as commander in chief? let's go to the bob gates book. he also accuses mr. nst military leadership and refers to what joe biden wanted to do in afghanistan. he said he was wrong on that. he wanted to do the counterterrorism strikes from afar. mr. gates says the whackamole hits on taliban leaders were not a long-term strategy. he does not think joe biden has made good military decisions. >> when it came to libya, they were making military decisions without anyone from the defense department in the room at the time. he also went on to say when it came to defense spending and the elimination of don't ask, don't tell, they felt, admiral fullen and he felt like they were blind sided by the president's decision and were forced to react within one day. now, he's very complimentary to the former senator, former secretary of state hillary clinton in many ways. however, when it comes to the surge in iraq, he has a different take. it was astonishing what took place. first off, let's think back. she's running for president. she's in the primary process. she sat on foreig

mr. sharon died of organ failure. vice president joe biden is expected to leave the u.s.egation to go to the sharon memorial service. many palestinians recall sharon as the architect in the occupied territory. a military leader blamed for civilian deaths in the camps. >>> bad weather efforts today to recover the body. the single engine beach bonanza crashed last month in the idaho mountains. software engineer dale smith, his son and daughter-in-law were killed. yesterday a private search team including smith's brother found the plane. the local authorities plan to meet monday to consider ways to recover the wreckage. >>> electric rates would go up across the state under a plan state regulators are considering. it would charge customers different rates depending on the time of day. the idea is to encourage people to conserve energy in the afternoon when demand is at the greatest. customers could still choose a flat rate, but that would also rise. the cpuc is expected to vote on the plan later this year and it could take full effect by 28 tn. >>> the city of hayward, human

tense because in the gates book, what bob gates' former defense secretary says regarding joe biden is they say that mrnal security issue for the last 40 years. according to somebody inside the white house, the quotation is this is very, very bad. jay carney is spinning everyone, but that's his job. the american troops were put in harm's way. a captain was talking to elisabeth an hour ago about what this book does to the troops. listen to this. >> to see the political nature of decisions being made in the white house when we have warriors losing their lives on the battlefield, they confirmed the suspicions that we had. it was never about finishing the war in afghanistan properly. it was about ending it and getting out as quickly as possible. if you want to be a politician or pundit and walk around and say i was for the troops but not for the mission, now the commander in chief. your job is support them and give them a job to be successful. >> by the way, he's current captain. >> yeah. he's still active in the reserves. here is what he's responding to, the fact that according to the secretary of defense

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joe biden. good morning, mr. vice president. what's the answer to speaker boehner? where are the jobs? >> the jobs are in -- jobs and good jobs and middle class jobs are in matching skills to the real increase we have in high-tech manufacturing in this country, getting out there, beginning to rebuild the infrastructure of this country which has to be built to the 21st century. matching educational skills to the need of the new economy and that's what the president talked about last night. he talked about everything from early education to using community college to retrain people for the high-tech jobs of the future and there are plenty of jobs out there and there's a mismatch now in terms of skills and the jobs that are available. >> you mentioned the mismatch between skills and jobs. there may be a mismatch because what needs to be done and what the president can do with these executive orders. they're relatively limited. can he even say how many workers will get a raise because of the president's executive order on the minimum wage? >> well, there will be thousands, tens of thousand

. >> with us is the vice president of the united states joe biden, joining us from washington. mr. vice president, good morning. >> hey charlie, how you doing? >> good. >> let me begin with the state of the union and what the president said. why so much emphasis on executive orders when so many people believe they have limited abilities and most of the big things have to be through congress? >> most of the big things do have to go through congress and the president said i want congress to do that. as a matter of fact as i sat interest with john boehner, and i were talking about the prospects, about the prospects of the house moving on immigration. last year the president asked for movement on immigration, and, in fact as everybody said no, this is dead on arrival. this year, it looks like we may get something done. in the meantime the president eased up some of the deportation that was -- that was under way. so the president will take action where in fact he thinks it will spur action in the states and federally, and with the congress. or where, again, we have to -- where we can ma

already addressing the book, defending joe biden, a deflection what secretary gates said about his afghan policy. this is the thing about it, gretchen. it's not like mr. gates, secretary gates, is a hard core partisan. this is one of the most respected and credible people in washington speaking with authority about our commander in chief in my opinion abusing his solemn responsibility of putting our troops in harm's way, using politics to make those determinations, not good and smart politics. >> in the book gates does say every situation president obama made with regard to these wars he believed was correct. i'm going back to my original question, bernard. does the president of the united states owe an explanation to the people who have served this country, and to every other american about these wars and whether or not what bob gates said was true or false. >> does the president owe an explanation about a disagreement with direct reports? absolutely not. owed to american people to fulfill on his promise to end the war. fewer people are dying in these wars because barack obama -- >> more people died in afghanistan than under president bush. >> and m

mr. secretary. let's turn to other revelations in the book. it's a good juicy, meaty read. and you don't hold back on some of your colleagues. joe bidenfor example. the vice president. you say that he's a lovely guy, down to earth, funny, profane, humorously self-aware. but you also go on to say which i think is a fairly damning indictment of the vice president. biden's been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. that is a pretty as i say damning verdict on the vice president. >> well, in the context of the book, one of the interesting things -- first of all i stand by that statement. but what is interesting in retrospect and what i make clear in the book is that on most of the major foreign policy issues in the obama administration, the vice president and i actually agreed. whether it was how to handle the downfall of mubarek in egypt or our opposition to intervening in libya and so on. we did disagree, and we disagreed deeply on afghanistan. and i did resent the vice president stoking suspicion of the senior military with the president. but when i go back to the early 70s through

last month joe biden spoke up after north korea freed a captured american veteran. >> it is a positive thing that they have done. they have mr. bae who has no reason to be held. >> bae's family dismisses reports that he was plotting to topple the government. >> he has definitely not tried to overthrow the government. >> north korea captured bae while leading tourists there in 2012 as he has done a number of times. whatever the reason for his arrest many korea watchers expect the confession was coerced. the fact that bae is being allowed to speak is promising. after all, he was arrested amid growing tension over north korea's missile and nuclear programs. >> possibly the north koreans are sending a signal we have had kenneth bae for 15 months. we are ready to negotiate. we are ready to deal. >> reporter: what kind of deal would they be after? we don't know. maybe a matter of saving face by letting him go. we do know the family is certainly ready for some kind of change because prisoner 103 is believed to be in failing health and for the time being is still serving a 15-year sentence at hard labor. >> tom, thank you. >>> still

we heard remarks from vice president joe biden on mr. sharon's personality and work for his country. close with aork country like israel, a country that is tested as much as israel, loses a man like prime minister sharon, it does not leader.e the loss of a it feels like a death in the family. many of my fellow americans, some of whom are here, feel that same sense of loss. i say to prime minister sharon's , anded and devoted son's the entire family, particularly the sons who spent so much time caring after their father the last few years. it is a great honor to bring the sympathies of the president and the american people to you on this occasion. netanyahu, toter president peres, the grieving men and women of the nation of israel, but most particular to an fellow warriors -- i fear attempt to capture him and what he stood for is beyond my capabilities. i knew him for over 30 years. man.s not only a powerful he was a powerfully built man -- as a young senators, young senator, when you first met him, you could not help but understand as th

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joe biden out of the picture, don' isn't he. >> ifill: i don't think so. >> woodruff: very handsome ties. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. ( applause ) >> woodruff: speaking of joslin, the members do jostle for a front row place, so they can lean over and hug, kiss, or otherwise embrace the president, as he comes in, even if they're a republican. mark, is this right? >> you're absolutely right. and you will see eliot engel of new york, who has been there since the 11th of january. now we have to get the seat. >> ifill: the president in the last few days has said he will do whatever he wants toot without congress. he considers congress to be intransigent. but there are rituals you go through in the city, in this capital, and also we're going to see about 20 people in the first lady's box tonight. remember when-- all of a sudden we have a lot of american here whose are part of that box. >> woodruff: well, they do look like they're enjoying each other's company right now. >> they are politicians. we need to sleep and eat. they need other people. and they do thrive on each other's

joe biden. you're watching "fox & friends," and you'll enjoy it. >> thank you very much, mr.ee you. >> you, too. >> a quote of the vice president, it's a big deal that you're here. >> i was ready to (bleep). >> thank you for that. >> geraldo rivera will be right here on the curvy couch in about two minutes. right now we turn to heather nauert who has got the headlines. >> geraldo is a big bleeping deal as well. happy friday to you all. good morning. god to see you. -- good to see you. a fox news alert. senior officials telling "fox & friends" that the president will call for the nsa to restrict phone data. he plans to reveal this during a speech at the department of justice later today. the official adding the president will not say who should store that data. he'll call on the intelligence community and congress to help him figure out that one. >>> new information to bring you in the case of a missing boy with autism from new york. police making a disturbing discovery earlier this morning. finding skeletal remains along the shore line in queens. police now notifying the fami

joe biden. >> oh, i thought dick cheney sent them to you. >> no. and, again, it's the new year. mr. them. >> second time's going to be the charm. >> it's not the charm, it's the cuff links. >> little bit every day, maybe. a check of the weather for us. >> let's show you what we've got going on right now. and we still have a lot of lake effect snow to talk about. the counterclockwise flow of air around that low pressure system bringing the winds right across lake ontario and lake erie. so we've got a pretty good band right now in watertown between watertown and syracuse. buffalo's going to be looking at light snow. they have been all day today. they're going to be seeing snow squalls until about 3:00 in the afternoon then snow showers by 6:00. and look at some of these totals. watertown, new york, all the way in between there and oswego. some places could see on top of what they've already gotten, another foot and a half of snow. the rest of the country, another system making its way into the pacific northwest. look for snow around the western parts of the upper midwest, i should say

. >>> vice president joe biden isn't showing his cards when it comes to the 2016 presidential race. during an interview this morning with savannah, savannah asked mrdecision to decide whether or not to run for president. and there's plenty of time to do that. i have not made a decision to run, i have not made a decision not to run. >> meantime, the vice president is promoting president obama's education initiative today during a visit to a community college in rochester, new york. >>> jonathan martin, the nfl player who says he endured bullying in the miami dolphins locker room, is speaking out for the first time since leaving his team. he sat down for a candid conversation with sports analyst tony dungy. >> i turned the microscope back on myself, what am i doing wrong that i'm being treated like this, you know, what makes me different? and i'm not different from any other football player. >>> the texas teenager who survived a sky diving accident in oklahoma has been moved out of intensive care. she's expected to make a full recovery, but her parents say it never should have happened. here's nbc's janet shamlian. >> reporter: makenzie wethington i

joe biden. but i actually got to boogie a little with the first lady. >> wow. >> deborah and i were dancing and all of a sudden i turned around and there was mrs.nd that's what was kind of cool about it. here's like a mom and her daughter just kind of grooving, having a good time. and thinking, oh, my gosh, i'm dancing with the first lady. >> good stuff, al. thank you very much. >> all right, guys. >> glad you have a great time, al. >> okay. take care. see you tomorrow. >> all right. >>> and the oscar ares still afew weeks away. and some say the best way to predict the winner is to look at the s.a.g. awards. and "american hustle" won the top prize. the that major acting wins went to matthew mcconaughey and cate blanchett. matthew went a little long in his acceptance speech. >> that doesn't always happen, but when it does and you feel like they could put a blindfold on you and take you in a spaceship and take you to neptune. >> been in a film industry for a long time, 29 seconds, matthew mcconaughey spoke about neptune, and i think i can -- five seconds. >> give her a little extra time. >> exactly. >>> speaking of the awards, the joke of the nig

mr. president peres, vice president joe biden, the president of the czech republic, former prime ministers -- the prime minister of the czech republic, former prime minister tony blair of great britain, distinguished foreign ministers, chairman of the duma and the many delegations who came here from abroad. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: president of the supreme court, members of the knesset, distinguished guests, ariel sharon was one of the greatest leaders that israel saw and one of the greatest leaders of the idf. arik longs to the generation of the generation of the founding of israel. it was conditional on bringing jewish fighters that will renew their jewish legacy of heroism in israel, legacy that seems to have gone by in the years of the diaspora. arik sharon had a central role in the building of this heroic legacy. he fought in the idf for many years, from the war of independence until the battles of the yom kippur war. in the doctrine of the fighting of the idf, he laid central pillars. ahead of them, the concept of retaliation and initiative against the war on terror

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