Tuesdays state of union address. Tomorrow night its time to restore opportunity for all. Its the indication of a new bipartisan spirit. We need it. One of the things that president barack obama ought to do is look in the camera and say, im sorry. This is a year of action and work and bypass congress where necessary. A u. S. Citizens was gaoled this dubai after putting out a parody video. I did nothing wrong, there was nothing illegal about the video. For once im somebody nobody thought i would be. The feeling you get back from them you cant scribe it. We begin with president obamas fifth state of union address, expected to focus on income and equality, Immigration Reform, the environment and education. The president offered a sneak peek of what is to come on monday. Tomorrow night its time to restore opportunity for all. Its an opportunity to try again on unfulfilled goals in the state of union. Lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works fulltime should have to live in poverty and raise the minimum wage to 9 an hour. Leaders from business, Law Enforcement, faith, communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform. Now is the time to do it, to get it done what will be different this year as the president goes into the speech with the record low disability actions . The president sees this as a year of action and bipat congress where necessary, to lift folks who want to come up into the middle class. We are joined by lynn suite, bureau chief of suns times of chicago, and bill schneider, a contributor for al jazeera english. They were both in the washington d. C. Studios. Year of action that jay carney is referring to. The president says he has his pen and phone and its shorthand for bypassing congress, some say he has to follow the constitution. Are we in for a worst gridlock executive orders and direct theives are not directives are not unconstitutional. Unless the republicans want to make a court case out of something, that alone will not do it. Its a diminished presidency if the president has to concede he has to bypass congress and if he uses the telephone and pen, its not the strongest starting point. Others say he may want to like an optimistic note. Nothing wrong with that. It will be hard to have the year of action. Talking about not having a strong starting point president obama goes into this with record low numbers, a gallop pom, 52 disagreed. 37 have confidence hell make the right decisions. 63 do not think he will. A lot is fallout from obamacare. 63 think hes has no confidence. Hes paying the price for breaking his word on obamacare. He said if you like your plan you can keep it. It wasnt true. Hes paying a price because theres no economic boom. In regans second term the economy was booming. People forgave iran cant ra. In clintons there was a boom. The economy is not booming. People are waiting for it to happen. Theres little the president can do without congress to create economic prosperity. On the obamacare, theres positive signs, 3 Million People signed up for it. A survey showed 55 of americans didnt show when the date was to enrol. How big a problem will it be for the president as he tries to get anything done, moving into this year. Let me take one number that you mentioned, the march deadline for signing up. The reason thats important. Besides the fact that people have Health Insurance, its a practical thing. If you dont have Health Insurance by that date you face a penalty you have to pay. It may be a wakeup call for people, more effective than the advertisement. Expect a renewed push in mass marketing. I think 55 were not aware of the deadline. That will change. Therell be a renewed effort. Because the website is working i know there may be some problems there, but certainly it was totally not functioning in the october roll out. The advertising will be able to sink in more because people will take action once they know what their situation is going to be. Certainly, more people are able to sign up. Its working better. Bill, we heard the head of etna talking about how big a problem it was. So few young people signed up. Theres a push. It will be okay. Already theres a lot of talk that the average premium will be up for the majority of americans. If more young people dont sign up, it will be a disaster. Well, i can tell you you said i teach college, students dont do anything until the last minute. We are likely to see young people signing up. Theres a problem. A lot of young people say when is the penalty, how far is it 95, next april. Thats never, so some will not bhother. If that happens the rates will go up in october, a month before the mid term election. A lot of companies anticipate big rate greases or the rick pool is so heavy with older and sicker and poorer people that they wont be able to stay in business. That will create a crisis. If it happens before the november elections, that weakens the president s standing. Immigration reform was a big focus of the speech. I talked to a congressman who was optimistic it would go through. What do you think . Its a proposal that president obama could make head way on because we talk about looking for Common Ground and the democratic passed a comprehensive bill. The house doesnt want to touch it. If you take bitesized chunks the republican is open to it. Republican paul ryan, he is very open to doing things and immigration has been working on it. Heres the one issue where its hard. Democrats were opposed or agree that students or youths in the country, through no fault of their own deserve a break. Republicans look at a path to legalization. It will be hard to find compromise on their question. Income and equality, another big part of the speech as it has been, one of the things that the president will call for is a minimum wage hike. Will it happen. Its pap ou lar. Theres a lot of pressure. There may be a hike, maybe not as much as he wants. It is long overdue. I think theres a good possibility of that because the minimum wage hike is popular. Gun control is popular. The early part of last year. They didnt pass because there was a determined Interest Group that threatened members of congress. Republicans are pushing back on the income and equality limb. Senator roy blunt says the talk about bringing the middle class up is more of the same and we dont need more inference, calling it a path to class war fair. Polls show that americans believe that Big Government is one of the biggest threats we face. Will the president s message go anywhere. An issue we should look at is what it means within the democratic family. Instead of talking what is poll tested and focused. When you are talking about minimum wage, some dont necessarily here as middle class issues, because i think there is work that obama may have to do to keep the vent rift right of leaning democrats eye line. You have more with you if you dont talk by economy. Republicans are pushing back saying what the focus is. Bill, lets talk about the republican family. The g. O. P. Response, senator ted cruz you have texas has a batch of questions. Combatting the war on womenen. Cathy from Washington State will do the official rebuttal. Senator mike lee is doing a tea party rebuttal and senator rand paul is doing his own. What does it say about the lack of leadership in the g. O. P. It says theres no leader. G. O. P. Its not bush, its not the latelate nominee or john mccape. Theres no leader. Theres the problem. Theres john mack cane. Theres no leader, theres the problem. The republicans cannot get their act together. Rand paul has gone out there and made a lot of noise in advance of the speech, especially the war on womenen. This is what he had to say. The media seems to have given president clinton a pass on this. Someone who takes advantage of a young girl and they have the gal to stand up and say republicans are having a war on womenen. Im mistified as to why rand paul is going after bill clinton, and bringing up Monica Lewinski will this get them anywhere. This is about rand paul, not the g. O. P. I think they have one official response. Hundreds of lawmakers will do responses, local, national, whatever, people decide who they want to Pay Attention to. Rand paul is provocative, thats why he brought up Monica Lewinski. Hillary clinton has a long record of being a senator and a secretary of state. If you want to go at her for what she did in her capacity, do it. If you want to talk about the war on womenen which is a package of issues talked about, including pay equity, the right to choose, having access to womens Preventative Health care, thats what is what are the issues that are there. Rand paul bringing up what he did about bill clinton. Everyone knows about it. Its being provocative for the availabling of getting attention for himself. The white house is promising an optimistic speech. This is what said the president was reflecting on past president , lincoln in particular, and how long it takes to get things done. Doesnt it single a sign of diminished expectations, the way he phrased that . Yes, it signals a downscaling of his presidency. He has one thing he hopes will define his legacy, the health care bill. No american should be without health care. Hes hoping Immigration Reform will be the achievement of his second term. As for other things, he needs an economic boom and cant make it happen on his own without the support of congress. Hes pulling back expectations. We are a paragraph in a long story and we dont want to raise expectations too high for the remaining three years of his presidency. Do you think the speech will make a difference. They do make a difference. If obama is into lincoln, he should see the movie where theres a scene where lincoln cut a deal with congress. You have about five times as many people watching the super bowl on sunday as watching the state of union speech. If someone shouts at the president or the Supreme Court justice mouths an objection. That makes news. Well see what happens tomorrow night and hope he joins in the week ahead. Appreciate you joining us. Coming up new concerns over the antivaccine movements. Are they making americans more sick . And a bitcoin mass and the twins claiming to have founded facebook. And we track the top stories on the web. What is trending . A 21st century parenting problem. Why technology is a solution and concern for mums and dads with special needs skids. We ask what you expect to hear from president obama in the state of union address. Check out some of the answers on aljazeera. Com considerthis and continue the conversation throughout the show. An explosive spread of childhood diseases that could be prevented by the use of vaccines is felt worldwide including in the u. S. A look at the map from the council on Foreign Relations from 2008 to 2012 shows whooping cough and measles outbreaks the green and red dots. And huge outbreaks in western europe and Subsaharan Africa. The move to discredit a vaccine may have a powerful effect. None of them good. For more im joined in the studio an assistant professor, abdu elsayed, who focussed on disease prevention and emerging challenges in Public Health. Were you shocked when you saw the map . Absolutely. The numbers are shocking. Beyond simply the outbreaks, its interesting if you look at the map which is on the website. Youll see the increase in time, in outbreaks. That tells us theres something about the way of preventing diseases. This has been brought current. When you look at the United States you dont think that youll be having reports here and there. And more whooping cough. This is significant in the most developed country in the world. I think you hit the nail on the head. We have been able to prevent the diseases for 30, 40 years. Why are they researching is now, people are making is decision not to vaccinate and leads to bubbles that we see on the map. Lets look at it, how dramatic it was. According to disease control. More than 24 cases of whooping cough. Theres 24,000 lasts year down from 50,000. When you look at what it was like three decades ago, as you can see from 1979 to 1982, there was only 2,000 is it this attributable to the fact that a lot of parents were scared by the association of autism. Thats so. It shows the power of reference. Sometimes when we think about the vaccination, if i dont vac sin out my own risk, theyll be protect by everyone around them. The minute you spread ta to someone else and their kids are not vaccinated, you have increased the risk in your own kid. In theres one child and everyone is vaccinated and that kid is not. He or she is protected by the fact that everyone around them isnt. Imagine five of them, the parents not vaccinating him. That kid is playing at lunch or research. They are exposed carrying the disease and can infect the child. Its a parental responsibility. We sometimes forget how bad the diseases are. Unfortunately vaccinations have become the victim of their own success. We dont know people who have kids who have a lot of these diseases. Because they are rare, it doesnt take much to talk to the parents generation, and they can tell you about children who had polio or pumps. I had measles, but didnt suffer the consequences. As a child you were afraid of some of these diseases, small pox among the worse. Im sensitive to autism. I have a nephew and niece on the spectrum. Is the signs settled. Theres no causal relationship between vaccinations and awedism. The research was driven by an idea that you had an increase in autism that if you laid it over the increase in sack sination, the two things are increasing. Hence there might be a relationship. Andrew wakefield who is credited with publishing the Research Published a study. Since then the findings have been rescinded. Its clear to the Scientific Community that theres no relationship between vaccinations and autism. In the United States its whooping cough that is the big issues. In europe its measles. How bad are the diseases . Both are deadly. We saw 10 kids die in california from whooping cough. What is sad about whooping cough is that the children who die tend to be less than one year old. You are talking about infants, it leads to pneumonia and seizures, if not death. With respect to measles, there can be longterm consequences, including pneumonia and death. The increase of deaths from measles is probably because of parents declining to vaccinate children. Situations where we have the Public Health infrastructure, the only reason we see a resurgence of the disease is because parents take advantage of the infrastructure. When parents dont vac sinuate kids are at a greater risk. When you look at the big red dots, that is more likely a lack of access to vaccines. Yes. In places like Subsaharan Africa or india, where theres a lack of a robust infrastructure, that can mobilise and get access to vaccinations for children, we see a higher raid. If you compare the rates in the United States, the numbers are staggering. Thats because the infrastructure is lacking. What is interesting is as which worked through the financial downturn over the last five, 10 years, its had an effect on where money goes in places like Subsaharan Africa. As the economy its improving, but as the economy worsens, we see the Ripple Effect on how likely people are to get vaccinations and the diseases. Well pull up the map. We are talking about Subsaharan Africa. If you look at other countries. You see virtually nothing happening in those places. One of the articles that i read said that we have aft ron omicily high rates aft ron omicily higher rates in u. S. Rather than afghanistan. Would you have believed that happens . Its staggering to think about. It shows how seriously people take vaccinations, recognising that its a way to protect children that wreaked havoc. If they do the work of mobilising limited resources to make sure kids are vaccinated its a trav si that parents are not taking advantage of what we have here. Lets home people listen. Abdu elsayed, doctor, thank are for coming in. Switching topics to what may be a below to bitcoin. Charlie shrem is vice fair and runs bitinstant. The winklevoss brothers who dewle over Mark Zuckerberg and dualed over facebook, they said they were part owners in the site. They sold more than a million if bitcoins for users of the deep web, silk road website conspiracy to commit runny lawned iring and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. They could bring 25 years in prison. Silk road allows users to purchase Illegal Drugs and commodities anonymously. Im joined in the studio by glenn greenwald, who has been covering the story. Great to have you with us. Youve been on top of this for a while. For people who end understand what it is, what is it . Bitcoin is a decentralize the crypto currency, a digital cash not issued by any government or bank. Its controlled only by the users. Cash can be used anonymously. Like a digital currency, whatever facebook credits or world of war craft gold. It combines online payments. It allows online producers. What are the details of the indictment . Whl, Charlie Shrem, a public pace. Hes the advice chairman of the bitcoin foundation. Its been the main group in terms of lobbying. Its kind of a legal tender trying to reduce the regulation of the black market currency. He is accused of helping to sell a million worth of bit going users. To a bitcoin exchange. According to a person in the indictment Charlie Shrem wrote to another person that was indicted and said then he wrote another email to a cofounder of bitinstant and said those efails do not look good. This is the indictment that the prosecutors put together. It seems to be that Charlie Shrem didnt want to do business with this guy. Saw that he was potentially involved in illegality but was tempted by the profits he could make by exchanging bitcoins for silk road use irs. As the numbers grew he chan