That has to be worked out today, but a real sense of a vacuum here inside sanaa, thats vital for the u. S. Because any sense of chaos simply makes life easier for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. Theres a sense of fear about the u. S. Diplomats, one of their cars shot up two days ago. They are still here but the u. S. Military on standby to pull them out of here. And the real question of course being how does the rest of the country react . Were hearing rumblings from the pro government south that they feel theyre deeply concerned by the houthis power grab inside the capital. Where it leads in the hours ahead will affect the future of one of americas key counterterror allies. More breaking news now. Police in israel investigating a terror attack in tel aviv this morning. Authorities say a palestinian man stabbed several people on a bus, many of them suffering serious injuries. Global Affairs Correspondent elise lavin joins us with the latest. It happened just as rush hour was starting soldiers women, children also on the bus. Nine people stabbed four seriously wounded. Police shot the attacker in the leg after he got off the bus trying to make his escape. They arrested him, interrogated him, hes now in custody in the hospital. Police say this 23yearold palestinian from the west bank city of tell karam, arrived in tel aviv this morning, got on the bus in the central bus station, two stations later he took out the knife and began stabbing people. Police forces searched the area. They havent found any other suspects connected to the attack. Naturally, though tel aviv on high alert, as is jerusalem. No indication any terrorist group is involved. It does seem like were talking about a socalled lone wolf attack. Still, hamas has praised the attack and Prime Minister netenyahu is saying its those type of attacks that come from incitement against israel by the palestinians the kind of antisemitism you saw in paris and around the world. One of the paris terrorists and his wife may have been looking for possible targets for several months. Brand new Surveillance Video obtained by cnn reportedly shows the pair walking by Jewish Institution in paris last year before the deadly attack on the Kosher Grocery store, this as we learn more about four men who are in custody connected to the attack. Lets get to Senior International correspondent Nic Robertson live from paris. Michaela were learning new details from the Prime Minister about the scale and scope of the terror problem here in france. He says 3,000 people in the country have jihadist ties and need monitoring. Need the Intelligence Services to watch them. He says that radicalization is on the increase. And it continues to grow. He said those with ties to radical elements in iraq and syria have jumped up 130 over last year and he has been laying out what hes going to do about it how france is going to tackle their terror problem. He says the government will be spending close to 500 million on things like deradicalization better intelligence gathering overseas. 300 million will be allocated to the interior ministry over the next three years alone. Theyre going to create over 2600 new jobs to combat the threat. Theyre going to appoint another 50 imams to go into prisons here which is a massive radicalization problem. Theyll join the other 182 imams working on deradicalization. The problem in the prisons, a big and growing one as well. These are just some of the highlights of what the government is planning. An Interesting Development from the prosecutor in the details about Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who went into the supermarket. The four people being held by the government do not appear to be muslims. Three of them with a criminal track record involved in the buying of a getaway car. The car that got them to the supermarket and involved in the buying of the weapons. A worrying trend here. The nexus between criminal elements and terrorists here. Chris . You dont have to be a muslim to want to sell guns to people. Thats for sure. Nic robertson, thank you. So the president , optimistic defiant when making a pitch for the middle class during last nights state of the Union Address. Taking a few shots at the new Republicancontrolled Congress. Lets bring in White House CorrespondentMichelle Kosinski. Certainly a tale of two parties, if not two cities on display in a big way last night. And you know this was the state of the Union Address that the president has been wanting to make. He was fired up during parts of it and he also broke with tradition in the sense that this wasnt a string of proposals we havent heard about before. But he made the case for what hes already unveiled and for working with congress within limits of course. Mr. Speaker the president of the United States [ cheers and applause ] president obama strode into what some call hostile territory. Into the nowRepublicancontrolled Congress. Even got a kiss from michelle backman. The shadow crisis has passed and the state of the union is strong. His first standing ovation was for saluting american troops. Another big one on the economy. Over the past five years our businesses have created more than 11 million new jobs. This speech was less a laundry list of new things to try over the year and more a determined philosophical case for the goals, Immigration Reform free junior college, the president s tax proposal that the republicans oppose to take a bigger chunk from wealthy americans and benefit the middle class. If you believe you can work full time and support a family on less than 15,000 a year try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest working people in america a raise. The president is urging to make affordable child care a National Priority got a few women on the republican side standing. A vow to fight terror. Members of congress clutching pencils in solidarity with french cartoonist the for free speech and this poignant moment in the president s moment for lifting the trade embargo. Alan gross is back where he belongs. Welcome back alan were glad youre here. President obama reiterated his veto threats, but also spoke for crafting a better politics in america. Imagine if we broke out of these tired old patterns. Better politics is one where we debate without demonizing each other. And politics made for an unintentionally funny wrapping up. I have no more campaigns to run. My only agenda. I know because i won both of them. And the republican response freshman senator and war veteran, joni ernst. Americans have been hurtoring, but when we demanded solutions too often, washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like obama care. Pledging that republicans heard the message americans sent in the midterm elections and will pass what she called serious ideas for the economy. Lets begin this new chapter together and lets start the work right now. There was one new thing we heard in the speech last night. Something called the Precision Medicine initiative to look for cures for cancer diabetes and other diseases. The question has been for all of these things mr. President , how you plan on funding them. At least the things that can be done without congress having to approve them. We know that the president plans to present his budget within the next few weeks. Alisyn and chris . Michelle thanks. Lets get into that and those questions, we want to bring in john avlon and margaret hoover. John is editor in chief of the daily beet. And margaret is a cnn political commentator, republican consultant and a sirius xm host. Highs and lows for you, john . The highs were a lot of the ad libs you got the level of authenticity. Even when he pushed back on the sarcastic claps about not being able to run again. The lows were when he talked about the bipartisanship but the proposals didnt add up and i thought the joni ernst republican speech was stale. Meaning her delivery . Yes. The low is total lack of acknowledging hes faking the largest republican majority since 1920. He made no acknowledgement that all of the proposals he was suggesting have absolutely zero chance of passing. So it was incredibly defiant and thats a low, thats not in the gesture and ethos of being able to get done in the next in the next two years. The high was there was this moment of authenticity. There was this brief moment where i felt like everybody leaned in to see if he would take some responsibility for that. And he did a little bit. But then he went on to just laugh off his two wins and say, you know you guys maybe saying i dont have to run again, but im not going to run again and i won both times. I think that moment almost encapsulated the problem and the dynamic between the president and this congress. The problem is that the people in control of the problems are the republicans and theyre the ones that created the dynamic. You cant just blame one party. You know what, though . This morning i am and heres why, i didnt used to blame one party because they werent in control. But now they are. Well they havent even controlled. Control they started before they came into office theyre there now, and you heard the response from joni ernst last night. You were proud of what you joni ernst . I think she did a formidable job in the sense that she, she checked the box. She did what she needed to do she presented the republican vision. Thats the republican what we heard from joni ernst last night . I just want to hear it. Yeah. Heres what she talked about. She talked about the suffering that the middle class is going through. The middle class hasnt grown over the last ten years. That what we need new policies and a new policy approach to addressing these, the crunch in the middle class. Thats what she talked about. She talked about the need for mow robust and leaderly Foreign Policy. I think what you dont like is her delivery. Thats true and her its just a list of negatives, with no promise of delivering on the negatives. The underlying issue is lets go beyond the delivery. The problem is persistent. Which is expressing concern for the middle class, but then proposing absolutely no specific policies that are signature republican to deal with it its not enough to simply express concern and say were going to put forward serious policies later. You have to put something forward specific. This speech will be known as obama trying to refrain his economic legacy as middle class economics. Theres some degree of specifics both past and future. Whats specific with about not passing keystone. Changing obama care. Actually republicans believe that if you change the Corporate Tax code you will impact the middle class, if you reform obama care. Thats a good example of things this president agrees with republicans congress. If they could agree on details like loopholes that ernst referred to, but didnt deal with. Marco rubio called the hamby cast and made a case for some issues of Common Ground involving College Tuition and child care tax credits. But john i want to push back on you in terms of specifics, its what Michelle Kosinski they didnt think the president offered enough specifics on how to get it done. How will he fund the middle class tax relief that hes talking about, without hiking taxes on the wealthy, which republicans say they dont want to do. Hes proposed hiking taxes on the wealthy. It will not pass the congress. Thats the problem. Though. See thats why you want to use the word blame. I think its a bad word and heres why. The game is played it shouldnt be played but it is. Theyre in the control of the game. Your party is in control. What gets done is up to them. Just saying this wont happen all that will lead to is more stalemate. You know it, i know it. Its not that anything wont happen. Im not saying because you have a Republican Congress nothing is going to happen. What im saying is the president s policy solutions from last night which are basically midcentury, 20th century modern american liberal solutions. Suffering and ills in the American Society can be fixed by government spending. That is not going to pass the largest republican majority since 1920. So john i dont know that i agree. Earned income tax credit is not a mid 20thcentury. Paying for College Tuition. Paying for all these new programs. One thing the president is trying to address is the issue of income inequality and middle class being stagnant. What i want to hear is more republican specifics on how to address it lets set the table for real for one second. You got a Republican Congress a democratic president whose poll numbers are rocketing us because the economy is rocketing up. Which the republicans deny by the way. You listen to the republicans, they say the economy stinks. Which is everybody gets their opinion, not their own facts. Heres the other situation, the president has to deal with the Republican Congress no the just pretend like the midterms didnt happen. So maybe this comes together in the budget. Maybe this is the president saying look im not going to negotiate myself out of the gate. Im going to set forth a liberal vision and then republicans and i will meet in the middle. But thats got to happen for either of them to have a legacy in the last two years of the presidency. Lets show awe new cnn orc poll after the speech. 51 found the speech very positive. Somewhat positive 30 . 18 found it negative. Speechwatchers are generally democratic. If you want to hear what barack obama has to say youre a democrat and you tune into the state of the union. So its not reflective of 50 republicans. But still, 81 is a pretty high number given even that. Thats a landslide. There were attempts at you know oratory that did feel positive and uplifting at times and i differ from your point. You made my point exactly, the people who wanted to see the speech and were going to like it watched. As a former speechwriter i got to give a shoutout. The speech was a lot looser in tone there were unusually casual lines. They were young and in love in america. It doesnt get any better than that. A lot of casual lines and rhetoric that was stripped down for him. He was doing a lot of ad libs he was a president in command last night in terms of his delivery and the tone was different. I thought he was solid. Its a hard speech. Ive watched them given my whole life on the state level and the federal level. They are not exciting speeches he is in a position where its more philosophy than policy. The other party is in control and they dont want to do anything that he will have his name on. But heres the caveat. He was optimistic leaders have a duty to inspire the people. Not be polly annish although i thought polly anna was okay. You cant look at the economy and say the economy stinks you cant say wages arent growing. They have to be a mandate to be positive. You are right, chris, it is their job to pass legislation that they think is going to address the middle class, they need to pass trade bills, they need to pass some kind of tax reform. These are things the president has said hes willing to sign and work with them on. So go for it republicans, set the tibble for 2016. Do something proactive. And positive. And lets see what has beens. On that rosecolored note. Let us know what you think of the president s speech. Wed love to hear your thoughts. Were going to test the players and what we said should not be a game. Youve got senators angus king youve got tom tillis the white house Senior Adviser, Valerie Jarrett and representative Keith Ellison, what are they going to do to make your lives better. We turn to the intensifying battles in the eastern ukraine. Countrys Prime Minister claims that russians crossed the border to join the fight. Russia calls the allegation complete rubbish. Ukraine is enduring some of the worst fighting between Government Troops and pro russian separatists since last summer. A doctor shot at a boston hospital has died. Police say 44yearold Michael Davidson was targeted by a lone gunman who walked into brigham and Womens Hospital on tuesday, asked for the doctor and shot him twice. The shooter identified as a 55yearold male he then killed himself. There are reports that the gunmans late mother was one of davidsons fomer patients. Deflategate here are the facts, espn reports 11 out of 12 footballs used by the new England Patriots in sundays afc championship game underinflated by two pounds per square inch. 15 less air than required. What does the softer football do . The obvious makes it easier to grip especially in the cold and rainy conditions which plagued the game. Oh funny you should say that please come back to me what you just saw was a huge lineman catch a ball ha was a quick pass with big taped hands, thats not easy. I happen to have two football in my laps here is a regularly inflated one, it is very hard. It is a less inflated one. Even i can deal with this one. Ive exaggerated to make a point. That a softer ball could make a difference. Doesnt the league supply these . The league does not, the teams do. Doesnt the ump have the ball . Maybe the league should control the games if the teams cannot control themselves. Is the bottom line that they cheated . The balls were less deplated. You would have to prove intent and i will give a nod to the patriots im not a patriots fan, im a jets fan. They ran all over the colts. As john berman said they could have won with balls made out of marshmallow fluff. Inflated balls or not. If they cheated . Theres a solid case to be made they should be disqualified from the super bowl and the jets should be put in in instead. We have more coming