the white house grounds. the secret service is inspecting the device. early indications are that this device poses no threat. >> interesting. >> this shows you the threats now of modern technology. obviously. you know it doesn't take much. a remote controlled airplane. you can put it above the white house air space. >> faa is working with companies to figure out the rules of the road so to speak. >> it is a drone lands on the white house grounds. some device investigating. we will bring you more when we get it. we will get something from the white house reporter in a minute. >>> the president is in india defending his counterterrorism strategy in yemen. we will talk to our white house reporter on that and the latest situation on the device that landed on the white house grounds. that is 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 str

according to her white house biography. poor kate chase sprague never got a white house biography as mary lincoln and harriet lane did, even though she spent most of her adulthood discouraging her father from any remarriage and encouraging him to run for president. kate and her sister nette were two of the seven women and the many hundred men who attended lincoln's white house funeral while mary lincoln pleaded she was too ill to attend. later that year kate gave birth to her first child, a son and she and sprague had three additional children, three daughters over the next ten years. she revived her father's hopes for the presidency as he campaigned from the bench of the supreme court an appointment lincoln had graciously granted him in december of '64. the chases switched parties with kate working the democratic convention of 1872 trying to secure her father's candidacy, another failed campaign. things went downhill for kate when her father died in may 1873. four months later the sprague fortune was wiped out by black fri

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to be a deputy in the white house. certainly in a white house press office because the hours are insane and the work load is pretty crazy. >> roughly what time would you come in in the morning? did you come in for senior staff around -- >> well before. so i would wake up at 4:00 and dana especially -- when dana was the principal deputy, then when she was press secretary, she and i were on e-mail with each other at 4:30 4:45 in the morning every day. i would haveçó four a and b sections of newspapers read before i would get to the white house at 5:30 in the morning. i'd pull up to the starbucks on pennsylvania avenue and they would have two coffees waiting for me. a quad espresso and a grande dark. i would be in the white house by 5:00. the national security meeting was at 6:30. press office meeting at 7:15. senior staff ató[ 7:30. xhung communications meeting at 8:00. and then in the ear k days we were getting ready for the gaggle at that point. we ended up getting rid of the gaggle. >> gaggle was a more informal gr

house was when is i smoked when i first went to the white house. and a bunch from the press office went to these decided to join this class called smoke enders. and we went. i think it's eight weeks or so. and i stopped smoking. so but seriously my best day in the white house clearly was when i had to stand up and announce the end of the vietnam war. and i had as i say as an nbc correspondent had covered the war. i did five tours there as a correspondent. got wounded almost died. and then i'm the one who had to go over into the old executive office building and read this statement from the president saying for us the war is over. and i've got an old fashioned ca set tape of that at home. my voice is about five octaves higher than normal, very quavery because of what vietnam had meant in my life and here i'm the one who has to stand up and announce the end of the war. >> did you want to cry? >> yes. >> did you cry? >> not in public but in privatedy. >> how about you marlin? what was your best day? i'm thinking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the

of the white house. it was on temporary lock down at the white house until they determined the drone was not a threat. they got a call from a man who apparently coincidentally randomly works for the geospatial intelligence agency. he says it was him that flew the drone into the white house. it was just a mistake. he was messing around with his friend's drone and he lost control of it near the white house grounds. he also apparently mentioned to the secret service that he was hammered when it happened. oops. so far the man has not been charged with anything. the secret service appears to believe him that it was an innocent 3:00 a.m. drunken screw up. what if it had not been. this is the latest in a series of more or less security breaches at the grounds of the white house. we only just recently learned of a very serious incident in 2010 when a gunman fired a semiautomatic gun out of the car and the bullets struck the upstairs windows of the white house. that is after a white house housekeeper found broken

the white house spokesman josh earnest confirming that there was a device found on the white house grounds. and early investigation of that device shows that it poses no immediate threat to anyone inside the building inside the white house. just a few minutes ago, we saw more officers patrolling the grounds with flashlights. this video was taken about 15 20 minutes ago. but the officers are still on the grounds using flash flights, searching the area. the secret service is expected to give us more information on exactly what type of of device was found, where exactly it was found on the white house grounds. and what is going on with that. of course the president and the first lady are not inside the white house. they're not there. the president traveling overseas not expected back in washington until a little bit later on this week. but again we still see a lot of activity here outside the white house, we park where the secret se cars right behind me not heletting anyone inside. la fayette park closed. secret service police are patrolling the area on in their patrol cars as well. again, we

someone representing the white house to that rally. eric holder we should note the attorney general was in paris but according to a statement from his office he had to get back and kind of cut it short to be back in washington on sunday afternoon and trying to figure out why he did not attend since he was in paris. the person that did attend was the u.s. ambassador to france and pressed whether this was becoming a big problem for the white house. listen. >> i don't think there is a feeling of that on the french government's side. >> then why do you think all the questions are being generated about tone deafness? do you think it's just us in the media, making something of nothing? >> i wouldn't go that far. >> i wouldn't go that far she says. secretary of state john kerrly said today he thinks the media is quibbling right now and down played the idea that this was a problem saying the relationship with france is not settled over one day or one moment. nonetheless, secretary kerry hurryiedly announcing he's going to paris on thursday. >>

he was the chef to the white house. not the pastry chef. a chef in the white house. that is his gingerbread house and through the years, it has morphed considerably. and a pastry chef said, a pastry chef will create the gingerbread house. >> this is 2009? >> it has electricity now. [laughter] and water and ice skaters this year. >> incredible. remarkable. >> they work from architectural plans to get everything correct, the proportions and everything and each year, the chefs try to update it. there is about 400 pounds of gingerbread and icing. that is on a base there that is on a table in the state dining room and to carry it in, it takes eight people and taken -- and it has to be taken from the pastry shop which is a temporary facility, actually where the china is kept. they need a big area. it is very ceremoniously taken out, loaded on a truck and driven two miles an hour to the north portico, where it is taken off the truck and placed on the state dining room table, the end table, i should say, and it stays there through the entire christmas season and at the end o

that is really, really old to be a deputy in the white house. in the white house press office. the hours are insane and the workload is crazy. >> what time would you go in the morning? >> i would wake up at 4:00. dana, she was the principal deputy and press secretary, she and i would e-mail each other at 4:00 in the morning or 4:30 in the morning. i would have four sections of newspapers read before i even got to the white house at 5:30 in the morning. i would pull up to starbucks on pennsylvania avenue and have two coffees waiting for me. an espresso and the grande dark. the national security meeting at 6:30, the press conference meeting at 7:15. senior staff at 7:30. communications meeting at 8:00. in the early days, we were getting ready for the gag hold. >> you were there from 5:30 until 6:00 because it had to be live on the air. >> early tv cable. >> the broadcaster and cable talk radio, all of the needed information currently that morning. that is the glamorous part of the white house. you have to get up at 4:00 every morning. >> the irony is that when i was recruited --

the white house is poisoning -- poisoning the justice system. >> the white house doesn't want a trial. we reported last night. >> that's my point. >> the white house seems to want appear lesser desertion charge slapped on bergdahl so they wouldn't have to go to trial. plead guilty. time served taliban captain and he leaves. >> awol charge they love to walk. >> i need to you react to this. you heard kirby. i mean, you heard him. i mean look, it's not just fox news reporting. this it's nbc reporting it as well. here is kirby right? and he goes out. he basically calls us liars, colonel shaffer is a liar. everybody is a liar. nothing has been decided. mille is still deliberating, which, look this isn't that complicated. you know? it's not that complicated. >> no, it isn't. but kirby is in a tough spot. sedansing on burning pins and needles. >> they are going on the offense, see. so now if it comes back that it is a desertion, he looks like an idiot. and a how much longer are they going to draw this out? i mean, how much longer is it going to take? >> i don't know. but i will tell you. thi

what's the white house game here? >> i don't know. i don't think they're trying to set up 2016 because if they are they're making a mistake. i think this is all about his legacy. i think president obama sees himself almost like tr did where he set up 20 years of progressive change in the country. he is looking long view. for 2016, if you ask smart democrats, including people working very closely with hillary clinton, they're worried what the president did with his very muscular very non-bending state of the union address is put her in a box, that she will be forced to let quicker and harder than she would like to be to be elected in a general election. >> liz, the white house pointed out, there is good economic news growth is up unemployment is down gas prices are way down and in a new pole, washington post poll this week the president's approval rating back up to 50% which is tremendous for him after where he's been. what about the argument the white house makes he enters this debate this confrontation with congress with some of the

you've covered the white house. i've covered the white house. you don't hear that often from the press secretary do you? >> reporter: you don't hear it much from politicians at all. in addition to the fact a josh was acknowledging a reality that most people feel like the united states should have had a higher profile representative at the march, josh was doing something smart when it comes to public relations. admit an error, admit it early, acknowledge it, and move on. it stops the bleeding in terms of crisis like this. look this was something that people obviously, within the white house and in the obama administration were privately expressing agreement with when some people including myself said that we wish there had higher level higher profile person. if the security is too big an issue for the president to attend there's vice president biden, secretary of state john kerry, hagel and others. it is rare in politics to do so but in some cases it's a rather wise thing to do. >> certainly is. you make a mistake, everybody understands that. eve

house if we could confront the white house we could win. we went through the same thing in 95. he made the calculation that he could fight internally but at some point this minority in his caucus was going to insist they have the opportunity to win the war. so he made a calculation and the analogy that was used back then if he had a group of members determined they wouldn't get burned if they touch the stove and he made a calculation i would rather have him touch the stove earlier rather than later. better october of 2013 and in june of 2014. and it was intentional on his part and it was a disaster politically. they were saved to some degree because of the problems of the rollout and so the country kind of moved on but if you talk to the leadership now i didn't talk to most of the members that were advocating for it they realized it was not successful and politically they dodged a bullet because of other issues that came about there after. so the consensus and the ability for the leaders to lead and develop a consensus can sometimes take a

it is the white house issue. you did march. what is your role going to be here over the next few days and weeks? >> well i'm going to the memorial right now for the slain policemen. secretary kerry is coming in as well. we will be meeting again with key people in the french government. it is the same as it has been. i'm staying in touch with the people in the government. they have been fantastic to work with and we will continue working hard and honoring the victims. >> ambassador thank you so much for being with us. i'm sure the people here appreciate you coming by this memorial. >> i'm so sorry. >> nice to see you. >> thank you. >> so you hear the u.s. became u.s. ambassador to france jane hart hartley is here at the memorial. she is heading to the memorials for the three slain police officers. the u.s. has apologized it has not send the president or vice president or secretary of state. she has not been asked to convey that message herself to the french leader. she is not involved in that process, per se. the mourning proces

that is really, really old to be a deputy in the white house. in the white house press office. yet hours are insane and the workload is crazy. >> what time would you go in the morning? >> i would wake up at 4:00 and dana, when she was the principal deputy and press secretary, she and i would e-mail each other at 4:00 in the morning or 4:30 in the morning. i would have four sections of newspapers friend before i even got to the white house at 5:30 in the morning. i would pull up to starbucks on pennsylvania avenue and have two copies waiting for me. an espresso and the grande dark. the national security meeting with that 6:30 the press conference and meeting at 7:15. senior staff at 7:30. the communications meeting at 8:00. in the early days, we were getting ready guy cold. -- gag hold. >> you were there from 5:30 until 6:00 because it had to be live on the air. the broadcaster and cable, talk radio, all of the needed information currently that morning. that is the glamorous part of the white house. you have to get up at 4:00 every morning. >> the irony is that when i was recrui

the white house o -- the white house is the only one who didn't think it was important to go on saturday. it's almost as though the white house, you know, isn't listening to the rest are of us are. >> i think in terms of labeling, the white house has challenges in terms of having to conduct diplomacy. >> why? there is radical islam and islam. talk to the radical islam don't talk. they are trying to kill us. >> i heard senator rand paul give a speech yesterday. he was asked specifically about that the distinction he sees is between civilized and barbaric islam. it uses justification. but, again not giving credence to it. not lending credence to it. other politicians would make other choices in terms of the labeling. they made -- they recognize that the weekend not recognizing how big the paris event was was a mistake. which is pretty extraordinary to have any white house acknowledge that so i think that piece of it is little bit separate from. this i don't think that if they had hudenly labeled that differently that would have forced their hands to send one to paris. >> any way it validat

house at today's white house briefing. here's what he had to say. >> some have asked whether or not the united states should have sent someone with a higher profile than the ambassador to france and i think it's fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there. that said there is no doubt that the american people and this administration stand four-square behind our allies in france. >> reporter: josh earnest went on to say that the security factors in planning a presidential trip within 36 hours' notice to paris would have been a daunting challenge in that that was part of the reason for the white house decision but i just talked to a secret service official within the last several minutes who said that the agency was never contacted or asked about a presidential trip last week so if the white house was thinking through the security options of sending the president to paris, they did not contact the secret service according to the secret service and according to a secret service spokesman who

. >>> we're going to turn now to that scare at the white house. a small drone flying low, crashing onto the white house grounds. raising alarms, so many asking, who sent it and why? well tonight, a government employee revealing it was him. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas now. >> reporter: in the hours just before dawn, secret service and emergency personnel descend on the white house, after a secret service officer reports seeing something unprecedented. a small drone, two feet in diameter, flying at low altitude, inside the white house south lawn fence.

there will be the white house conference at the white house. there will be five sessions throughout the country. in florida, in oregon another in arizona and another in ohio. one of them will not be in california. and also aarp has put money towards the conference. you asked earlier about the consequence of not having the act. the white house has put in money and so has aarp but it's nowhere the money that would be needed. thus we're having the five and six probably in the fall. >>any comments or questions from kathy? any comments or questions from the public? thank you. the next item on the agenda is the case report. hello patty and valerie. >>good morning. i'm here with some of my colleagues, we have a presentation we're going to do and you have it sitting at your desks now. we met in december we had a holiday party and our white elephant is becoming quite famous and getting some interesting gifts and a lot of fun was had by all. our board also met in december and we finalized our advocacy platform. this is what we feel is needed in our commu

>>> the white house admits now the decision not to attend sunday's march was a mistake. >> whether or not the united states should have sent someone with a higher profile and it's fair to say we should have sent someone with a higher profile. >> hack attack, after centcom social media victimized by isis inspired hackers, they say it should be a warning. >> not a crisis but needs to be looked at. >> this is not a threat to critical infrastructure. this is much more of an annoyance than anything else. >> and power shift, congress's leaders meet with the president. they at least find something on which they can agree. >> to the speaker, i want to point out, i said there are going to be some things we agree on and having a college football playoff is clearly something we can agree on. i called for it when i came into office. i think it turned out pretty well, particularly for ohio. ♪ >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we're following all of the latest developments from france and israel. the surviving staff at "charlie hebdo" is preparing to release a new issue, 3 million

and the white house tonight under fire from a liberal national media. and it fellow democrats after declining to send a high-level official to a massive anti-terror rally in paris is weekend. having the white house admitting that they are wrong. taking all of this up on the program tonight. and we begin with new threats to the homeland. the u.s. military overseas operations in the middle east. hackers claiming the islamic state had a so-called cyberjihad on by attacking youtube and twitter accounts. jennifer griffin has the latest details from the pentagon. >> a cyberattack hit this youtube page are virtually the same time the president was making plans and remarks about the need for better cybersecurity. >> this is a direct threat to the economic security of american families are in and we have to stop it. and if we are going to be connected, then we need to be protected. reporter: as the president spoke, the official twitter account for u.s. central command which oversees the war in syria and iraq had a banner that said i love isis reclaiming a cyberc

they saw me graduate from law school and ultimately serve in the white house. we have experienced the american dream firsthand and it is what has inspired me and motivated me to be at the helm of a great american institution, 47 years having been established to create opportunities to break down barriers. so my parents are very special. we have lost my father but we still have my mother, she is very frail and is 91, we treasure her. my parents are very representative of our success because of the great example that they instilled in me and my brothers and sisters. my brother's son graduated from yale and is a trial attorney in the office of civil rights. his son, nick, is a firefighter and his daughter, kelly. is a teacher who graduated from teach for america. she just got her masters from harvard. this is the american dream and in my family, we have had the fortunate privilege of experiencing that american dream. at the root of it is those values and the hard work and sacrifice that my parents really demonstrated and the importance of giving back. my mom taugh

it is like a call of personality who the white house. i have been through the tail end of the clinton administration, the bush administration and now this. and it is sad. i think he wanted to watch football and that was it. he doesn't have that adult in the room coming in to say you need to go to this or get someone off your butt to head over there. the political damage from this is going to be significant. >> there is more football this weekend. >> sure is. >> thank you for your time. >>> president obama is on the road today pushing a plan to give more americans high-speed internet but he is facing resistance while trying to regulate the industry. president is traveling to cedar falls, iowa pointing to their broadband as a model he would like to see across the country. >> yes, a model that would allow speeds up to hundred times faster than what many consumers get. no tier pricing or sticky contracts that lure you in but can't get you out. he wants that for all-americans to redefine broadband like your electric company. >> there are no g

white house. >> believe me, you're always part of the white house. it was the day that the affordable care act was signed into law. it's hard to describe. those of us in the democratic party far long time i was on capitol hill in the clinton administration, working for a member of the senate finance committee, when we tried to get health care passed in 1993-1994. i worked with senator bill bradley when he put out a comprehensive, very good plan for overall health reform that of course he didn't get leblingted, that didn't happen. that moment of actually getting it done after presidents had tried to do it for 70 years, it's really hard to describe. so as many mistakes as we made and i made in terms of that law that was without a doubt the most moving moment. >> let us open the microphones to your questions. i know we are limited on time, so if you can introduce yourself and address if you want to ask one or the other of your panelists here. we will try to make the answers as succinct to get to as many questions as possible. >> hello, my name is eric a

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here at the white house, we do. i think republicans have no way to coherently fight against that message, unfortunately. >> keystone pipeline is taking center stage in the senate today. can republicans get enough votes to override a presidential veto? if not, will the president sign it? plus he has been ready to run again. he may be ready to run again. mitt romney telling donors he's thinking about taking another shot at the white house. how that would shake things up in 2016. i have great credit. how do you know? duh. try credit karma. it's free and you can see what your score is right now . i just got my free credit score! credit karma. really free. >> we are just hours away potentially from a senate vote on the keystone pipeline. the controversial project will be at the very center of the senate's meeting this afternoon. and the president has already announced he will veto legislation approving the pipeline if it hits his desk. but after it passed the house friday lawmakers backing the project said they hope to g

i think also in the clinton white house, this was practice there was a standard model of white house staff work, and i think it is safe to say by the oral histories that the clinton white house was not standard. i will be looking forward to hearing more from the panelists about that, and the way the domestic policy really wanders into economic policy, as you mentioned and the last panel these are hard to separate out from the large independent task force forces, how policymaking involved, i looking forward to hearing some great conversations. >> these oral histories, as you may know, some of these are coming out today at 4:30, and that is why these events are held today, so it is way to be a treasure trove for historians and people. let me tell you how i met bill clinton. it was in 1990 and i was working for "newsweek." dan quayle very much wanted coming he had a rough time in his early days as a vice president, and he was trying to make his reputation extremely cautiously, and we landed in little rock, and there was a governor who met him and he could not be a bigger force. it was q

now they're raising the height of the white house fence. this tiny little drone, even though that drone itself is probably a toy, really couldn't carry anything dangerous, is really rocking the secret service that suddenly realizes they've got to start worrying now about another threat these bigger drones that could carry a weapon. here's a former secret service agent. >> yeah this is a game changer because you have now a device that can transport surveillance and explosives that's commercially availsly recognizable as a weapon. that's a vy big deal. >> reporter: so now the secret service he says and it's obvious, has two big tasks, related but different. one, figure out a way to detect drones secondly figure out a way to destroy any drone that's been detected. though are tough, tough jobs that lie ahead for the secret service. i'm steve handelsman news4. live at the white house. >>> and we're learning this isn't the first drone to fly near secure government buildings. it's happened near the capitalol already, even near crowded planes in th

i'm live outside the white house, molette green. back to you. >>> likely a lot more to come on that later on throughout the day. >> and this just into the newsroom. county schools has canceled the professional day it had for teachers. so that proves al dayfessl canceled these a live pictures of rockville. the rain has turned over to snow and the snow is picking up. >> it looks like it will stay that way for a while? >> if newgood news, it isn't really sticking to the roads or sidewalks because pavement temperatures are above freezing and so are the air temperatures. that has been a gift for the morning commute. but that wet snow pretty much melting on most roads. and the area in green on radar, that is rain. you can see there is a lot of rain. that is falling in virginia and southern marylanr partrlower part of the eastern shore. but it changes over to snow when it gets closer to the metro area. there is the battle line. laurel up toward montgomery county line and from there, west it is snow. and it's snowing across northern fairfax

do you worry that this white house is in too much of a hurry to close gitmo? >> i've been in the group that believes it's in our national interests, quote, to close guantanamo. it does create a psychological scar on our national values. whether it should or not it does. what i have also said quite clearly is there are some of these detines, in particular this kind of contract over a protracted period that simply should not be released. we're going to come to a point where we've got dozens of thinks individuals who have to be detained and we have to figure that out. >> but you would not release them? >> no, of course not. >> if you can't release them and the u.s. congress says you can't bring them to this country -- >> isn't that a fair question for our elected leaders? >> well, doesn't that mean you have to keep gitmo open? >> well that's a policy decision, but there will be dozens of these individuals that have to be detained. our elected officials need to find a way to detain them. >>> iran you say that a diplomatic solution is preferable but if the talks we

congress and the white house. >> this was a huge talking point. they were using it to take out a few vulnerable senate democrats as a sign of weakness and tying them to the president. this is going to be a fight in the next couple of months to get a deal on march 1 or july 1. they will be having a fight over this because the republicans will not be happy about this. no matter what comes, the republicans will not be happy. >> thank you for coming in. you are watching bbc world news. the world may be getting richer. what does it mean for those at the bottom and the top? we start a special series. journalists in afghanistan are facing increasing dangers according to the campaign group, human rights watch. it is not just threats from the taliban. it is politicians. we have this report. >> it is a success story of the new afghanistan. a woman presents a -- unthinkable and the former televangelist ara. -- unthinkable in the former taliban era. >> there is never a follow-up to this. they do it again. >> people think they can kill journalists and get away

and what does this say about the white house communication effort? >> well, the white house communication effort, that's easy. it's abysmal. you know, the way they talk about the stuff, it reminds me of, you know, with with all this terrorism if it's in pakistan, it's not. if it's in afghanistan. it kind reef minds me of john candy and stripes explaining how to play poker. it's tuesday it's these rules. if it's wednesday it's these rules. the recidivism rate out of gitmo is 30%. right now the recidivism rate of these 5 is only 20% so i would expect more. >> juan? >> so far recidivism rate is zero. i mean the key point here is that these guys are still being held in qatar and we know that this communication occurred, so that would indicate there is some kind of monitoring of these individuals. the question is what happens after a year because jonah i think in a year, they are allowed to leave. and the question is then do they go back to the battle field? that would be the real sad tragedy from our perspective. so the question is what is the deal? and

upstairs of the white house. in september, a man was able to step on to an elevator with president obama. during the president's trip to the cdc in atlanta. that man on the elevator was not cleared to be there. he did have a loaded gun on him at the time while he was riding the elevator with the president. that same month, a man wielding a knife ran across the lawn and made it into the east room birdie he was tackled by a secret service agent. since all of those have been brought to light, the secret service chief has resigned. the top executives have been fired. the secret was so and white house security have been reviewed bay top level government panel. now we have the drunken drone thing. which by all accounts was a relatively harmless accident. what if it had been carrying a payload of some kind. what if it had been carrying inging explosives, god forbid? the white house has antiaircraft missiles. the white house is protected by radar that monitors the air space around the white house. but the drone is very l

in that use room of the white house, the first ever screening -- in the east room of the white house, the first ever screening. >> whole was in the crowd? >> his family, some of his cabinet members, other high-ranking washington figures. >> as i read your book, a former chief justice? >> a former chief justice and it went so well that night that dixon and griffith and very quickly put together a second screening for the supreme court of the united states and congressional leaders. again, terrific sense of marketing and getting these powerbrokers behind the movie as being an awesome piece of filmmaking. you have to remember when you go back to 1915, the film industry, it's in its infancy. no one had ever seen anything like what griffith had produced take away the subject matter being the civil war and reconstruction. just the effects of it all had people, audiences we think during emotional scenes -- we think -- weeping during emotional scenes. it really was kind of a "star wars" of its time. >> wearables woodrow wilson from originally? >> he was originally from the south, kentucky. >>

what does the white house get out of this? how does it help the president? un we point out, he's not running for reelection. how does it help his agenda to be doing this? >> sure. well, the new media offers opportunity for the president to extend his message. twitter, facebook online digital engagement increases that echo chamber so that the president can engage with his base, to push his agenda and his policies, but also reach towards new audiences as well. >> woodruff: i mean, does that mean, for example oimmigration. he wants a certain kind of immigration policy to be passed by congress. is this going to make it more possible to get immigration or child care legislation or anything else that he's pushing for? >> any time a political leader, including the president is engaging audiences and helping them to carry his message forward into new network, into new places, that's effective. that is the way that new media works these days. >> woodruff: and bill powers how do you see that? i mean, is it-- does this translate into something that has tranchible benef

you'll remember another unnamed white house staffer. referred to the prime minister as a chicken expletive and a coward back in october for refusing to de-escalate tensions with his muslim neighbors. the escalation and personal attacks means the prime minister can't ignore even israel's friends when it comes to threats. but iran won't be outdone when it comes to threats against israel. the iranian state news agency published pictures of netanyahu's children and calling for a hezbollah hunt. mr. obama is assailing our key ally in the middle east. and seeking -- only for a time with our enemy the islamic enemy of iran. former ambassador daniel among our guests here tonight. (?) we begin with the taliban exchange. the swap, all five guantanamo detainees for sergeant bergdahl have been accounted for in qatar. one of the five has made phone calls to the terrorist group. joining me now, retired four star army general. general jack keane. for the institute study of war. fox news military analyst. good to have you with us. let's start with this

. >> a drone infiltrates the white house grounds. how big a risk does this pose and with all of the new drone technology out there, what can the secret service do to keep the president safe? >>> new demands from the terror group isis after it appears they've killed one of the two japanese hostages they've been holding and demanding ransom. what are they demanding now. that and much more is ahead. >>> hello, everyone. i'm john berman. >> i'm and i'm kate bolduan. i come back bringing bad news of a very big storm. >> it's awesome. we would have preferred a better show warming gift than this storm. it's epic. this winter storm for the ages. it's coming. it's threatening to shutdown much of the east coast. many people call it historic massive, disruptive but the most important term being used right now is life threatening. >> the storm is now expected -- listen to this -- impact millions of people in one way or another. blizzard and winter storm warnings are in effect from maryland to maine and in canada. folks in boston could hear up to

white house is learning at least the next two years that this president remains in the white house, you've got to be really sensitive to these kinds of moments. learn a lesson from this mistake and then move on. >> reporter: this president has acknowledged in the past that he doesn't have the same foroptics for images as previous presidents. he has said it was not his strength. i think it was more than just optics. if you look at the reality of the march, world leaders were not actually marching but be that as it may, this is being referred to here in france as france's 9/11. this is being referred to as a demarcation, a moment this country is changing. truly, having been at the rally yesterday, having covered it for cnn eight hours straight i have to say it really looks as though france at least for one day, is embracing the right things and great things about france. all the pleuralism and open mindedness that usually thrives here. i think that it was beyond just optics. when you think back about 9/11 which obviously was a much bigger deal in terms of the fact that the united states had

right now that the obama white house is pressuring mr. netanyahu not to come and if he discuss there could be, quote, consequences. what's your reaction as this is happening to a key ally of ours? >> it's bizarre surreal and most unfortunate. look, israel is our most important ally in the region and it is one of our most important allies in the world. we need to be standing with israel and doing everything we can to protect israel against the many threats that it faces from every single direction. so, look, the president has what i believe to be a deficient strategy, a failed strategy legislate ifl and in his negotiation posture. the fact that there are members of congress in both houses in both political parties who recognize this ought to be an indication to the president that he ought to reconsider what he's doing. this is yet another manifestation of this, i think it is unfortunate and an embarrassment to the world that we've got had this leader coming over and the president is worried about what this says about whether protocol is fo

a head of state normally notifies the white house of a trip. asked if the white house is annoyed. earnest says they are reserving judgment until they speak to the israeli israelis. it's worth noting the white house is not saying whether the president will even meet with netanyahu when he delivers that speech next month, but read between the lines. this is another chapter in the long saga of the frosty relationship with netanyahu and the united states. >>> and being held in havana the initial discussions are trade and travel and reopening embassies. these talks come weeks after president obama and raul castro ended nearly six decades of he strangement. >>> objections from female lawmakers left leaders short of the vote needed to pass it. this is marking the anniversary of the rowe v. wade decision. >>> the president says this is a necessary response of climate change for the arctic. one alaska senator says the order does not do enough and focuses too much on climate change and too little on development and build up of infrastructure. >>> as for the political climate. climate change

the speaker inviting him to speak before congress without telling the white house first. this is major speech. it's a speech passionately loudly against one of the president's most cherished goals, a nuclear deal with iran. dana bash is out front. this is a historic moment. it was done behind the president's back and the announcement came hours after he warned congress not to get involved with the negotiations at all. >> reporter: you're right. there's so many layers of intrigue and drama here. you have three very powerful men with complicated personal relationships and a very real issue in differences over how to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. dpop gop sources admit congress traditionally coordinates with the white house before asking a world leader to address congress. >> i did not consult with the white house. >> reporter: they both want congress to pass new sanctions against iran which the president opposes. >> is this just a way to poke the president in the eye on an issue like iran where you know he very much opposes what you want to do? >> i don't believe