Million on his campaign but hes in first place nationally in the New Hampshire as well. In South Carolina as well, and in iowa, hes just behind ted cruz. Ill have a full report on the state of the race closer to the Iowa Caucuses. Also tonight, the Obama Administration touting progress against the Islamic State saying its airstrikes have killed, ten Islamic State leaders over the past month. That development coming a day after the Iraqi Military said its forces recaptured the main government complex in ramadi from Islamic State fighters, but is the administration being too optmifblg, and will the ramadi recapture hold . Ill discuss that with Major General robert scales and House Foreign Affairs member lee zeldin among my guests tonight. And the texas teenager who famously invoked an affluenza defense for deadly drunk driving crash is back in custody. 18yearold ethan couch and his mother both are detained in mexico but now theres concern that he could get off lightly again. Well take that case up later in the broadcast. Meantime, our top story tonight. The race for the white house breaking news according to multiple reports. Former new york governor George Pataki is dropping out of the president ial race. Pataki is averages 0 in National Polling according to real clear politics. So nobody is going to question where his votes go because there arent any. Meantime, senator marco rubio winning the support of a lawmaker with a lot of pull among conservatives and donald trump is plotting the big tv ad blitz that could change the tv landscape. Ed henry has our report. Reporter the battle for the antitrump establishment lane of the Republican Party intensified today as Chris Christie and jeb bush launched sharp attacks on senator marco rubio, who responded in iowa by rolling out the endorsement of a conservative rock star. House Benghazi Committee chairman trey gowdy. I found the candidate, marco rubio. Reporter with polls showing rubio in third place behind Businessman Donald Trump and senator ted cruz, the florida senator was slammed for missing votes. With christie whos coming on strong in New Hampshire ripping rubio by declaring, quote, dude, show up to work and vote no. If you dont want to, quit. While the super pac supporting bush went after his protege with an ad buy charging rubio with fundraising instead of attending top secret briefings at the capitol after terror attacks in paris and san bernardino. He missed more total votes than any other senator. I have close to 90 attendance record. Chris has been missing in new jersey half the time. Reporter the sparse frees up trump to focus on the general election as he challenged Hillary Clinton by doubling down on attacks against her husband. You look at whether its Monica Lewinsky or paula jones or many of them, and that certainly will be fair game. Reporter while a liberal Washington Post columnist declared bill clintons conduct toward women is far worse than trumps comments. Ruth marcus writing, quote. Reporter Hillary Clinton was in New Hampshire and avoided comment on trump. An aide said trump is planning his first tv ad buy, 2 million a week, which could swamp his competitors. Were going to spend a lot of money over the next four weeks. Reporter a far cry from the resources or support of democrat martin omalley. In part because of a snowstorm, only one voter showed up at omalley event in iowa, and that voter would not commit to him. We actually had a whopping total of one person show up. They were glad to see me. Reporter trump responded to gowdys endorsement tweeting which he called a disaster. Trump critics note gowdy could make a good attorney general in a trump administration, tom. Tom ed henry, thank you very much. The Obama Administration touth gains against the Islamic State saying the airstrikes theyve been conduct having killed ten Islamic State leaders, but Many Americans still skeptical that the president has the right strategy to fight the radical islamist terrorist group. Kevin corke has this report. Reporter the u. S. State department proclaimed as one of its wins in 2015, quote, bringing peace and security to wartorn syria, something mark toner tried to explain. The operative word is bringing, not bought, were bringing peace and security to syria. I think that is a truthful claim. Reporter its in syria where a u. N. Brokered deal to evacuate 2,000 syrian families. The controversial arrangement allowed militants to leave so International Aid could reach the syrians left behind. While the fight continues in syria with no sheer resolution in sight. In iraq folks were battle weary and grateful including alabadi who visited ramadi one day after it was reclaimed from isis by Iraqi Security forces with the help of the u. S. Led coalition. Much of the success in the anbar provincial capital due to increase airstrikes who credited the campaign with helping to make appropriate headway in the fight against isis including the recent elimination with links to the deadly attacks in france. Over the past month we killed ten isil leadership figures with targeted airstrikes, including several external attack planners, some linked to the paris attacks, others had designs on further attacking the west. Reporter while far from a singular solution, pentagon officials do believe the airstrikes were about 80 of the reason the iraqi were able to retake the strategic government sensor. Since july, the u. S. Led coalition conducted more than 630 strikes in ramadi, including 150 in the past month alone. But experts say air campaigns by themselves wont be nearly enough to hang onto a few tactical gains. The force to hold it is considerably larger and constantly tying down more and more forces to hold on to reclaimed territory, and that becomes the achilles heel in iraq. Reporter for all the rahrah in ramadi, just as likely isis will retreat only to return, which could render some progress short lived. John kerry congratulated the iraqis for courage and perseverance in the battle for ramadi. If it does hold up, its likely the next major operation will see from the coalition will take place in mosul, that will likely take place this coming spring, tom . Tom kevin corke with the president in hawaii. A more brutal weather in store for much of the country this week. The epic storm system that claimed more than 40 lives barreling east bringing ice and heavy snow to the midwest and northeast and torrential rain to the southeast, all thats as missouri and illinois struggle with deadly flooding. At least 18 deaths in those two states are blamed on flooding, mostly involving vehicles that drove onto swamped roadways. Missouri governor jay nixon called in the National Guard to assist in flood fighting efforts, and hundreds of residents of west alton have been told to leave as the Mississippi River spilled over the top of the levee. Water has reached the roofs of several businesses. For more on what we can expect across the country, we go to fox news senior meteorologist janice dean live in the Fox Weather Center with the latest. Hi, tom. The good news is the storm is almost out to sea, but the bad news is parts of the midwest are going to see flooding well into next week and the new year. They havent seen historic flooding since 1993. The historic floods of st. Louis at the mississippi where they surpassed flood stage and we are going to almost reach that as we get through the next couple of hours. So heres what were dealing with. The crest will happen on thursday. 43. 2 feet. The record set back in 1993 was close to 50 feet, but again during the springtime months with snowmelt. Unprecedented to see this flooding in december. The good news is we have drier conditions for the foreseeable future for the next five days. But the river levels continue to rise, we have the state of emergency and so many people out of their homes affecting thousands across the Mississippi River valley. Well keep you up to date on that story. Were watching Winter Weather advisories, we have freezing rain watches in effect for parts of massachusetts, as well as connecticut and rhode island and winter storm warnings for maine, they will receive the jackpot of snow with upwards of 18 once the storm is all said and done. As we go through wednesday and thursday, the worst of it over. Well see a little trailing moisture across the southeast and the midatlantic, but as we head into the new year, tom, the good news is were going to be into a zonal pattern which means not many storms on the horizon and temperatures moderate over the next couple of days and that is good news for the folks that are obviously suffering from the tornadoes and the ice and the sleet and the flooding. If i could real quick, we, of course have a big celebration happening in new york city and across the country. New years eve forecast looks good for many big cities. We could see rain across the gulf coast, but otherwise, pretty balmy relatively speaking for parts of the midatlantic up towards the northeast and for new york city, looking pretty good. I cant do much better than that. 40 degrees at midnight and partly cloudy skies. Tom ive seen worse, a mix of spring and winter. Its historic, one for the record books. Tom it is. Janice dean, thank you for keeping us up to date. Appreciate it. A white Police Officer charged with murder in the 2014 Fatal Shooting of a black teenager Laquan Mcdonald today pleaded not guilty in a chicago court. Jason van dyke facing six counts of firstdegree murder and one count of official misconduct in the 17yearolds death. He pleaded not guilty in chicago. Dashcam video shows the officer shooting mcdonald 16 times which caused the spark of protests we saw in chicago. Antipolice sentiment has led to concern that violence against Law Enforcement would rise this year, but a new report shows thats not the case thankfully. New statistics show 42 officers were killed by gunfire this year. That is a 14 drop from last year. Unfortunately, more officers died in the line of duty as a result of other causes such as traffic related accidents. 124 officers killed on the job this year. A 4 increase from the 119 who died in the line of duty last year. Were coming right back. Stay with us. 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No annoying hold music. Just a real person, real fast. Whenever you need them. So your business can get back to business. Sounds like my rides ready. Dont get stuck on hold. Reach an expert fast. Comcast business. Built for business. Tom the war of words between donald trump and the clinton is intensifying, donald trump said bill clintons sexual escapades are fair game. The political back and forth is playing perfectly well into trumps hands by going after the clintons and ignoring all the other candidates, it establishes trump as Hillary Clintons chief rival if you will. Trump insists hes the only republican who can keep her out of the white house. You know, she says, wed love to run against trump, its her worst nightmare. They said, well, the Hillary Campaign said theyd love to run. Yeah, she wants to run against me instead of somebody else. I tried to explain to chuck todd and all the guys. When they say they want to run against trump, they dont want to run against trump. They dont understand. Lou joining us Brad Blakeman, former official in the bush 2 white house, now professor at georgetown and francesca chambers White House Daily correspondent. Let me start about the business its fair game to go after the clinton sexual escapades, and francesca start with you, its a question is it smarter to go after bill clinton whos not on the ticket, or to go after Hillary Clinton and the way she dealt with all of those moments when she was the wife of this guy . And some women said she was great, she stood by her man, and others said that was terrible to stand by him. Is that the way he should play it. Some people say it doesnt make sense to go after the clintons on this issue at all. There are other things to focus on. Instead, benghazi, the way she handle the situation, the way she handled herself as secretary of state. Trump is trying to Energize Voters and i think if he were the republican nominee, hed be a formidable opponent to Hillary Clinton and take her on strongly. Tom brad, listen, this will be interesting to see how he handles this. I dont know what you recommend. But you know that democrats moan every time a republican says anything about bill clintons sex life, and they say that doesnt matter, doesnt matter. So if they go after that, it will because if trumps the nominee, hes going to have to get democrats. Is this a bad idea . Do you agree with francesca . An awful idea. Its fair game but do you it at your peril. Bill clinton has higher Approval Rating than you, mr. Trump. And higher rating than Hillary Clinton. And number two is, there are millions of voters who werent alive when bill clinton was president. Its not a winning strategy. If you want to win, you have to be selected by the party which is the primary and elected by the people in the general. Dont be presumptuous in going after hillary too early when you havent won one primary or a caucus. Lou did you have to remind me theres a lot of people that were not alive then that are now voters, for heavens sakes . [ laughter ]. Tom this business about every one of the candidates polling at 1 or 3 or 5 says dont you worry im going to do great in pick your state. And theyre running out of time. Are they whistling dixie . I think theyre going to turn blue in the face if they are waiting for donald trump to implode or support to deflate. One thing that could happen in iowa or New Hampshire is that trumps get out the vote operation might fail. Hes a nontraditional politician, he has folks familiar with the Iowa Caucuses working for him. He himself is a nontraditional politician, going about this in unconventional way, and seeing ted cruz who has evangelical support, support of iowa conservatives who are familiar with the caucus process turn out the vote better than he does on february 1st. Tom but brad, you go to Chris Christie, who has, it looks like hes betting the farm on New Hampshire. That reminds me of other candidates who bet the farm on one state and one of them comes to mind is rudy giuliani, later as florida. That seems like what happens even if he wins, what happens to the rest of the states . Well, you know, if you win early, you get momentum and money starts coming in and people like to go with the winner. The two battleground states, iowa is the caucus and the secret ballot is in New Hampshire. Both are tests of grassroots. The ability to motivate people to get out the vote. People make up their minds in the last week of the caucus or primary, thats a real test for donald trump to have a good ground game. We havent seen. That hes bragged he hasnt spent money, its all on media. You cant motivate people and have a grassroots operation just on media. Tom the rnc said theyre going to share voter data with trumps campaign, is that a sign of warming between the rnc and trump . Its expected. You can have the wealth of information, its how you use it. What you need to do nord use it properly is have the mechanics and infrastructure to do that. What good is having a list that can be exploited if you cant exploit it having the right people to use it. Tom you need the troops to work it. Brad and francesca, good to see you both. Thank you. Thanks. Tom be sure to vote in tonights poll with trump leading the polls for months and the first voting now just weeks away, do the other gop candidates have plenty of time to beat him as they claim . Cast your vote at loudobbs. Com. And follow lou on twitter at and links to all of this can be found at loudobbs. Com. Easy to remember. A pro skier finished his race with an unlikely parting gift, check this out. A skier was skiing downhill during the world cup in santa katrina, italy, he was making a turn, arm got wrapped around th