T meet the press and replace the moron who is on now. Just too busy, especially next ten years. The growing terror problem for president obama an american killed in libya. Isis threatens more hostages and a former top official who worked for him says the administration is paralyzed confused and defensive. This is special report. The growing criticism against president obamas terrorism policy is growing louder tonight. The former head of the Defense Intelligence agency under this president is with the administration and now a change at the top of one of the most
important allies. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry has our top story tonight. Reporter air force one touching down in saudi arabia. President obama trying to build repore amid a series of crisis threatening to consume the president s final years in office. In september he cited yemen as a success bh talking about our strategy against isis. Now yemen is imploding. Reporter sharp criticism is coming from the former head of the Defense Intelligence agency. Flynn told a washington conference the administration is unwilling to admit the scope of islamic extremism saying quote there are many sincere people in our government who frankly are paralyzed by this complexity so they accept a defensive posture reasoning that pasivity is less likely to invoke enemies. Today the u. S. Ambassador to india told fox the president had a successful visit to new delhi but cut it short to deal with the challenges. The fact that he was here and able to show his respect to the royal family was also important to do. I think the people of india understand that. Reporter the president brought a bipartisan delegation to help pay respects to king abdullah. Republicans urged him to get tough on the saudis. They need to be working against radical islam and quick funding radical islamic schools in our country and around the world and they need to send Ground Troops in to help us fight isis. Reporter highly unlikely the president would be that blunt since his secretary of state down played terror. Today we are witnessing nothing more than a form of
anarchy which claims a religious foundation. Obviously the biggest area that we can make would be to blame muslims collectively for crimes not committed by muslims alone. Reporter quin who left his post last summer slammed the administration for refusing to use the phrase islamic militants declaring quote you cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists. After three days here in new delhi and the quick stop it will be a hard turn back to domestic politics for the president who is planning to go behind closed doors with House Democrats at their annual retreat on thursday in philadelphia weather permitting of course. Ed henry traveling with the president. Isis terrorists are threatening to murder a japanese hostage if a failed suicide bomber in jordan custody is not freed. The message said the two had
less than 24 hours to live. Terrorism in libya tonight. Masked gun men stormed a luxury hotel in tripoli killing at least eight people and taking hostages. A Senior State Department official confirmed one american is among the dead. Reporter terrorists attacked a hotel in tripoli frequented by foreigners and others. At least eight were killed. It started this morning when a car bomb was detonated near the hotel and then gun men used the distraction to burst into the hotel spraying the place with bullets. They worked their way up to the 21st floor where they were cornered. We condemn the terrorist attack in tripoli which was carried out earlier today. Reporter claiming the responsibility the libya chapter of isis. Fighters have become active in libya. The attack said to be revenge for the death of an al qaeda operative seized by special forces last year in libya linked
to the u. S. Embassy bombings in africa. He died in the u. S. Prison earlier this month. Others claimed the target of the attack was the leader of the violent regime. Another more secular fashion in the east. All of this chaos since the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi which allowed more terrorists to thrive. Does allow a group like isis toos move in the vacuum of control means no monopoly of violence. Reporter fox news can confirm the idea of the american killed today in libya. His name is david berry. He was a security contractor working for the cruseble Security Firm out of fredricksburg, virginia. It should be noted that isis in its claim of responsibility today said it was goinc after Security Firms at that hotel and should also be noted that david berry was a former u. S. Marine. Our condolences go to the family, of course. Live tonight in london, thank
you. Confusion tonight over the fate of Sergeant Bowe bergdahl who spent years in taliban captivity and now could face jail time in the u. S. National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the story. Reporter the army is pushing back on reports that it has decided to charge Sergeant Bowe bergdahl with desertion. Top pentagon Officials SaySergeant Bergdahl has not been charged with any crime. Let me put a fork in this right now if i can. No decision has been made with respect to the case of Sergeant Bergdahl. None. And there is no timeline to make that decision. Reporter the decision remains with Lieutenant General mark millie in fort bragg, north carolina. Even if it is beyond dispute that bergdahl dropped his pack and desserted his fellow
soldiers the general can say the guy was in captivity and mistreated and therefore it is not fair to courtmartial him since he served five years at the hands of the enemy. He has wide discretion. Reporter the pentagon says Sergeant Bergdahl has not received charges as of yet. The armys Major General ron lewis took a swipe at the media. The reporting is inaccurate. No decision has been made. There is no update to where we are in the process and no change to the range of options the commander has. There is no pressure or influence being applied to general millie. After bergdahls parents appeared in a rose garden ceremony shortly after five senior taliban leaders were released from guantanamo as part of a prisoner swap. I think it was the day of or day after he left we heard there was an american looking for someone who spoke english so he could talk to the taliban. Reporter defense secretary chuck hagel was briefed on the results of the bergdahl investigation a few days before christmas. General millie has been reviewing the findings for more than a month. Thank you. This is a fox news alert as you look live at the white house, president obama dropped a controversial proposal to end Popular College savings accounts known as 529s. The issue became too much of a distraction and the president wants congress to focus on his overall education tax relief program. Nancy pelosi and other Top Democrats joined republicans in pushing the white house to draw to kill the 529s. John boehner said he is glad president obama decided to listen to the american people. Disappointing earnings numbers and sagging orders for business equipment sent stocks plunging earlier today. The dow ended up losing 291. 5. The s p 500 dropped 27. 5. The nasdaq was off 90. What was supposed to be a massive snow storm some called the storm of the century turned out to be such a bust in some areas that a meteorologist with the National Weather service tweeted out an apology earlier this morning. Having said that, there are still plenty of places with plenty of snow. Reporter the first major storm of the season struck the northeast forcing officials to ban roadway travel from new jersey to maine. Major cities like boston virtually shut down. Eastern new england was slammed by blizzard conditions while over two feet of snow falling in massachusetts. High winds sometimes gusting to 70 Miles Per Hour creating massive drifts. In plymouth streets were virtually impasseable. As many as 30,000 homes lost power including the entire
island of nantucket. Realizing the political implications of failing to prepare properly for the Winter Weather officials mobilized an army of plows. Massachusetts republican governor baker briefed residents every few hours. The power outage numbers at this point are significantly below where we anticipated they would be. That is a really good thing. That is due in large part to the fact that the temperature was a bit colder than most people anticipated it would be and as a result the snow was lighter and fluffier. Reporter the storm was a forecasting nightmare for meteorologists and warning of a potentially historical forcing mayor de blasio to put a positive spin on preparations. We got lucky. Things turned out a lot better than we feared but we were prepared. Reporter air travel was frozen. More than 7,500 flights cancelled leaving people
stranded at multiple airports. The Airlines Hope to Begin Operating again tomorrow. Despite the bitter cold some found a Silver Lining and a rare opportunity. Cross country seems to be pretty nice because the plows kind of pack down the snow a little bit so you get a base to slide on. Have you ever been able to Cross Country through city before . No. This is a first. It is still snowing here in the city of boston and the big digout is well underway. Governor baker announcing the travel ban in place here in eastern massachusetts will be lifted. Up next 70 years after the liberation of the death camp some of the survivors come back. First here is what some are covering tonight. In miami with Fidel Castros comments. He says he supports the idea but
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there. Today some of the survivors came back. Amy kellogg has the story. Reporter 300 survivors returned for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. For some it was their first time back. My mother was gassed. How did i know . Is because the girls knew. Reporter her mother was one of the 420,000 jews killed in the holocaust. Survivors paid tribute to those victims today. Some say the memories grow more haunting with age. 6 million jews were killed in the holocaust. Over 1 million of them. It lingers literally born into terror. We do not want our past to be our childrens future. Reporter it has effected most jews around the world in one way or another. I was born two years after the liberation and i have never lived a conscious moment without knowing that this horrific thing happened to people like me. Reporter heads of state and survivors children and grandchildren were present today. As the final candles were lit concerns were raised about the rise of antisemitism in europe specifically. The legacy is never again, never more will we permit or stand by quietly indifferently, callusly to hate and antisemitism. Here it is again throughout
europe. Reporter with many of these survivors getting into their 80s and 90s this may be the last time that there is a gathering like this. It is very important for these survivors. Possibly one last time to share their stories for themselves and for posterity. Thank you. In the intervening seven decades it has become a symbol of mans inhumanity to man. James rosen takes a look back at a report tonight and a warning which contains images you may find disturbing. Reporter a vast complex it was a concentration camp, a slave labor colony and extermination center. Nazi officers and guards beat and starved the prisoners conducted sick medical experiments on them, hanged and shot them and used poison gas on them and burned their bodies in matoriumcrematoriums. At the u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in washington a survivor. Dying daily. You can die mentally before your body gives out. Reporter for the sheer scale the camps death toll reflects onesixth the total number of jews killed. Roughly half the 6 million were shot as in this rare footage of a mobile killing unit in 1941. The gas chambers were not efficient and were not necessary for killing jews. Reporter the author of hitlers willing executioners. The killing was gruesome even
for people who believed it was the right thing to do. Reporter without hitler germany probably would not have embarked. Richard brighten authored the biography. You can say we have 2,000 years of warnings of the possibility of genocide and we didnt pay enough attention to where severe negative stereotypes might take the world. Reporter in washington, james rosen, fox news. Our resident historian, james rosen. Why the government has been keeping track of you while you are driving. First, emotions run high over benghazi. Republicans and democrats were at each others throats rhetorically speaking over benghazi today. The explosive arguments from capitol hill. Reporter the tension over witnesses and documents was palpable. The letters havent worked and the southern politeness has not worked. We are going to ratchet it up. We need someone to defend the truth. We cannot defend the truth because republicans lock us out. Reporter republicans said the state department continues to throw up blocks. If you have time for demonstrations or culinary diplomacy you have time to comply with a legitimate request for documents. Reporter republicans say witness testimony was pointless but democrats said there was nothing left to find after eight
other investigations, a dispute claims they want the final word on witnesses. We never ask for veto over subpoenas. We asked to be notified of them and have a chance to weigh in. Reporter republicans said previous investigations were flawed with thensecretary of state Hillary Clintons aides running interference. Given a draft copy of the report before it went public to make edits of this socalled independent board. Reporter if the state department has its way diplomatic agents wont testify. We want to avoid interfereing with ongoing investigations and prosecutions. Reporter the ranking democrat said the committee is failing them. They wanted us to sit down and Work Together. Reporter new testimony from state Department Witnesses shows the democrats have not requested additional documents or witness interviews before todays
hearing. Thank you. Some Senate Democrats now say they are willing to give president obama more time to negotiate with iran before supporting a new round of sanctions. Senators bob Menendez Chuck Schumer and others put it in writing today to the president he has until the end of march. I believe the only way iran will stop their march to Nuclear Weapons is if they know tougher sanctions will be enacted if they fail to come to a strong agreement. New sanctions at this time are unnecessary and far from enhancing the prospect of negotiations risk fatally undermining our diplomacy making a deal less likely. The administration set a goal for reaching a framework for a deal in coming months. Conservative forces are committing nearly 1 billion to the next president ial race. Attendees at the freedom partners meeting in california confirmed to fox news the 889
million budget the money will go into Field OperationsData Driven Technology and policy work as well as media campaigns. A texas judge has refused to throw out a felony abuse of power case against former governor perry. Perry was indicted in august. He says he will announce whether he will run for president again as soon as may. Perry will be a guest on hannity tonight at 10 p. M. Why you cant throw your garbage into your garbage can in seattle. We