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The last three years. >> well, im always hesitant to criticize public officials without knowing all the background details. certainly the mayor of houston had a very hard decision. its a city of a few million people. once you ask -- mandate a few million people the leave youre creating chaos on the highways. whether he could have or should have required certain local areas to evacuate, i cant tell. i dont know the area. i think there will be a lot of review after the fact. i think it is pre-matu...

Notice means. but in about 20 minutes the national security council says theyll provide background details to reporters. let me bring in pentagon correspondent hans nichols. hans, do you have any idea why the president would be giving to dover? >> dover is where the remains of fallen u.s. soldiers typically return when theyre repat rated to this country. as we know, a navy s.e.a.l., chief petty officer on owens perished in a raid that went bad over the weekend. president obama did this frequentl...

That he might have been radicalized by the very efforts to stop the radicalization? >> most the cases ive seen radicalization happens from other individuals who draw someone into a network. the second thing is were only seeing half of this story. the government doesnt spend the resources and take the legal risk of pulling somebody aside, preventing them from traveling just because somebody looks funny. there is something else going on here in terms of whatever triggered the government to underta...

Unacceptable for the president and the white house to basically say hey, nothing to do with us. three big bombshells have erupted, you know. you have the assassination of an ambassador in benghazi and other americans, youve had the targeting of right wing tea partiers by the irs, and youve got the targeting of the press now in two different places, a.p. and fox news. all of them, i think, come down to a culture at the white house. can he really, the president, stand by and jay carney and these g...

These guys and say none of these are scandals, nothing to do with us, our fingerprints arent on this? >> oh, i was waiting -- >> didnt take long. didnt take long. >> every time people mention nixon -- >> even nixon didnt do what holders done. even nixon didnt seek to go after a journalist like rosen at fox news and try and get all these background details, his e-mail, his familys e-mails. >> holder is not a sitting president, okay? again -- >> he works for the administration. >> not exactly. the...

Americans, youve had the targeting of right wing tea partiers by the irs, and youve got the targeting of the press now in two different places, a.p. and fox news. all of them, i think, come down to a culture at the white house. can he really, the president, stand by and jay carney and these guys and say none of these are scandals, nothing to do with us, our fingerprints arent on this? >> oh, i was waiting -- >> didnt take long. didnt take long. >> every time people mention nixon -- >> even nixon...

President. his opening remarks to the israeli president prime minister were that, quote: its good to get away from the congress. he then introduces his deputy national security advisor for strategic communications ben rhodes and says if i say anything offensive its because of this guy and then the president notes that ben rhodes brother is david rhodes, the former fox news executive who is now president of cbs news to which all of which president prime minister netanyahu says this sounds like a ...

President. his opening remarks to the israeli president prime minister were that, quote: its good to get away from the congress. he then introduces his deputy national security advisor for strategic communications ben rhodes and says if i say anything offensive its because of this guy and then the president notes that ben rhodes brother is david rhodes, the former fox news executive who is now president of cbs news to which all of which president prime minister netanyahu says this sounds like a ...

Background details, and new information from faisal shahzad all on our web page. you can go to foxnews.com and click on america live and go to half a dozen links to get yourself up to speed on all aspects of this case. in the meantime new details this hour on what they are calling the 500-year flood in the southern united states. this is just incredible. now the numbers have gone up even further, 18 people dead just in the state of tennessee. the coast guard just closed down more than 200 miles ...