Connecticut and boston. This storm hasnt even really developed yet. We have hours ahead of us. You can see heavier snow in new york city and long island. Several inches of snow already on long island and philadelphia also getting in on the snow. We think it is mainly a new york to boston event where the highest snowfall totals will be. Already wind gusts in excess of 30 Miles Per Hour. I cant stress this storm has chbt gotten its act together. We have hours to go. Forecast radar you are looking at 9 00 p. M. Tonight heavy snow for new jersey up towards long island and connecticut rhode island, cape cod and the islands where we could have Hurricane Force winds for a duration of time. This is 6 00 a. M. Tuesday. Nobody is going anywhere along the i95 corridor especially since we have blizzard conditions, 40, 50 60 Miles Per Hour winds for a duration of hours. People will not be on the roads or in the air. Wednesday at 3 00 a. M. Finally seeing some relief but new england you are getting pounded with snow so this is going to be a significant event effecting millions of people for several days. Blizzard warnings in effect for tens of millions of people. One to three feet. We think boston you could top your biggest snowfall ever with close to three feet of snow and wind gusts from 50 to 80 Miles Per Hour. We have Hurricane ForceWind Warnings for parts of coastal massachusetts. We have a criteria we follow for blizzard. The following conditions have to be in place for at least three hours. That is reduced visibility of a quarter mile or less with heavy snow for a duration of time. And in this case we could be seeing blizzard conditions for 10 to 12 hours. Thanks. We are going to have live weather updates throughout the hour tonight but first this weekend the Obama Administration reiterated that we dont make deals with terrorists. We dont get into negotiations with terrorists. We dont pay ransoms because the cash then fuels further kidnappings which just continue to exacerbate the problem. And the prisoner swap . Now we are learning al qaeda operative who was released from a u. S. Prison may have been part of a prisoner swap that would have freed two americans being held abroad. White house adviser told fox last week was released because of time served. Do you support that amari released from the United States to qatar you believe that keeps us more safe and the president believes that keeps us more safe sth. People who served their sentence are then released. The swap reportedly came last july two months after the Obama Administration released five taliban fighters from gitmo in exchange for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl. Questions are being raised about whether or not that exchange set a dafgerous precedent. I think it is important to find out and discuss who this guy is. So almari was sent after 9 11 to come to the United States. His mission was to have some sort of followup attack. When the United States tracked him down and arrested him they found things like maps and cyanide and other things that you could be used to plan a terrorist attack. He was arrested during the bush administration. He was sent to a military prison in South Carolina in 2008. In the first year of the Obama Administration president obama and eric holder changed the terrorist status from enemy combattant to that of a criminal Justice System kind of guy. This is the question at the time of are we going to continue to prosecute the war on terror as a war or more of a legislative matter. With people who pre9 11 would say the legislative route of dealing with terrorists was not working. That is what they decided to do. He goes into the court system. He is charged with Material Support rather than something stronger. Material support is usually used for people who actually help a terrorist out. If you are a terrorist and i give you material that im busted for Material Support. The difference with this guy is that almari was the terrorist. Then he gets eight years. Does six years. What was said is that people who have served their sentence. There is the difference. People who served their sentence. That is what they decide to call him rather than a terrorist who is a sworn enemy against the United States they call him a person just like the guy on the Youtube Video who supposedly made the Youtube Video in benghazi, gets pulled out of his house in the middle of the night on a probation charge and is still in jail. That is a guy who served his sentence. The problem i think is that we are not distinguishing between the two. Im sorry to go on a little bit but i think it is important to understand why we are in this position. I dont know that they swapped prisoners. I hope not. So li there was a decision made to bring him into the u. S. Criminal Justice System. They could have held him indefinitely which would have been the good idea. They brought them in and gave them rights and privileges like a u. S. Citizen may have. And then they charge him with u. S. Support. He wasert some day player in. This is a guy orchestrating it. He is free to go back to his country. Because he had Good Behavior in a u. S. Criminal Justice System he gets to go back to qatar. We have no control over whether or not he would plot and plan additional attacks. It makes everyone less safe including moderate muslims who are main targets of the terrorists. It is hard to believe. We are dealing with an administration who cannot categorize much less name evil. The only thing president obama can hold is a golf club. If your country cannot hold a guy who joined al qaeda three years before 9 11 clearly he knew what 9 11 was who was planning on killing thousands and perhaps the most ghastly manner, if you cant hold that guy why hold knen . Soldiers have died trying to kill lesser threats. If eric holder had Charles Manson in custody he would let him off for Good Behavior. They shouldnt be running a 5 k charity run. They make me absolutely sick. Its sickening. Its disgusting. Ill shutup now. Bolling so this is the guy who was involved prior to 9 11 happening. Six years ago president obama said one of the first things i want to do is close gitmo. You have to keep that in mind. Is it terror when a guy does this . When he plots to kill to poison thousands of americans . Or is it work place violence . Is it terror when someone shoots 14 people in fort hood or work place violence or violent extremism . If it is terror you have to keep them off premises and in gitmo and continue enhanced interrogation techniques on them. If you want to call it violent extremism and bring them to america and put them wherever this guy was in South Carolina then you have to read him his rights and give him the same due process you would have to give anyone else who is a violent person in america. That is the problem. President obama promised to close gitmo. If he didnt make that promise these people would probably be at gitmo. And rather than being at the battlefield they would be held and we could maybe get intel and stop future attempts. Part of a prisoner swap. Your thoughts on this. This is something i think is very disturbing. I agree. Obviously this is someone who has ill intent for all of us or for america. I dont think there is question that you have to be uptight about what happens. What dana said is exactly right. This is a guy that was first put in South Carolina. There is no republican or democrat about that. He was put there as a criminal. And then the political issue comes with regard to the charge against him. I dont think there is question that he is more than a material witness. I think this guy is a terrorist. I would have upped the charge. If someone is charged and serves their sentence in keeping with American Values and american judicial system you let him go. That is our system of government. Is there a different standard whatever the rules are the rules were followed. Im saying at my heart i think this guy is a terrorist. I think he is a threat to america so im uncomfortable about it. It does not relate to guantanamo which i think is a larger issue. He wasnt at guantanamo. Thats somebody elses decision if you want to make a political fight out of it. You only send them to guantanamo if they were picked up outside the United States. He is still considered a detainee under a military situation. That is why the original position was South Carolina. When he goes to the criminal Justice System under eric holder it is possible that he gave us some sort of intel that was extremely helpful. We dont need to know that because i understand the secrecy. I also understand the goal of wanting to close gitmo. I understand that we dont want to hold on to terrorists forever and we have this problem and would rather not have it. We dont have a mechanism to deal with it. There is an opportunity for president obama with the new congress. That is that he is seeking a new authorization to use military force for actions that we have to fight al qaeda and isis around the world. It is possible i think using some of the guidance from Lindsey Graham and john mccain in the senate that president obama could find a way to maybe work something out to be able to prosecute and bring them to justice. And then you hold them not under a detainee scenario but under something else. You mean bring them to the United States . No i do not. A way to prosecute the trials. Thats the problem. The mechanism could get fixed and the authorization to use military force. The issue is of trust. Can you trust your leader as a negotiator when you feel that he doesnt have the skills for that . He is on par with a gullible tourist who buys a coat off the street thinking it is mink but it is rat. Then you is the hypocrisy in this administration in the labelling of violence that eric brings up. It deviates from any philosophy. When a man attacks a woman that is domestic violence. It is male violence against women when a gang attacks a gay man that is a hate crime and an example of home phobia. If it is radical islam we have no specifics and no blame. It just because terror. It speaks to the power of fear the fear of being called islam ophobic. I want to get to the reaction. Lets take a listen to what he had to say about this. It is clear nobody denies these are muslims who claim their warped view of their ideology is what informed their actions. Well, we simply do not believe that they should somehow be seen as representatives of islam. They are not. It is one of the worlds great religions. That lends to the point that we were making that if you dont call it what it is then you can never prosecute it and never fight it as a war. One thing that changed over the bergdahl swap we made it clear to isis and al qaeda and every other terrorist that there will be some form of negotiation with terrorism. We havent had that for years if not decades. The Obama Administration has changed. I dont know if there is stuff going on in prior administrations but it certainly wasnt out in front and center as it was where at the white house president obama brings the parents of bergdahl there and says we are going to get this whole thing done. They make a deal. It is on tv. We watch the swap on video. This never happened before. Just look at yourself as a terrorist. They will negotiate. Guess what that does. It puts a target on every single american traveling abroad. Better start looking over your shoulder and not go to places you dont think are safe. I totally disagree. Bergdahl was our soldier. That is an american soldier. He should come home and we should make an effort to bring him home. There is no evidence we traded. We talked at the end of the sentence if he has one year to go can we use him as a chip. There was no real bargaining. With the terrorists. Thats not your point. Your point was that we are doing deals with terrorists. He said he cant tell the japanese what to do. He was very clear that japanese even after the guy was executed. We have never done that. We have never to this day never traded. Helpful to get the bergdahl report so that we can make that determination. Coming up did the 2016 president ial race officially begin . It was a big weekend for republicans in iowa. The details after this. We are a year away from 2016 Iowa Caucuses but some biggest republican contenders were at the Freedom Summit making their case the iowa voters. We need leaders in america who understand, who ultimately understand the measure of success in government is not how many people are dependent on the government. The measure of success in government is how many people are no longer dependent on the government. In a republican primary every candidate will say i am most conservative to live. Talk is cheap. If you say you support liberty show me where you stood up and fought for it. Like Hillary Clinton i travelled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe but unlike her i have actually accomplished something. Flying is not an accomplishment. It is an activity. If the values im fighting for every day in new jersey and across this country are not consistent with your values then why would i keep coming back . I wouldnt. I do because our values are consistent and we are fighting together to make this a better country. Asked interesting question on special report friday night if he had to bet 100 in vegas where would he put his money today . 40 on rubio. 30 on bush and 15 on scott walker and i would blow the rest on booze. Kimberly you like to place bets. Im spot on maybe 5 additional allocation to the alcohol. What did you think of this weekend . Did you think anyone stood out . All of the reports were that scott walker was a standout and showed great persona and charisma. So that might have been a very defining moment to sort of put him on the grid. I think he has a lot of opportunity to be able to connect and resonate with the voting public out there so people get to know him and get a feel for him. I think he was the winner for that so far. Everything you read, who did you think came out they all got fairly good press. There were a couple that didnt do so well. I found it interesting the people who didnt show up. Jeb mitt romney and rand paul decided to avoid that event because im guessing they will do it on their own on their own time and get a lot more press. The other thing that 2016 related that came out today politico ran a big piece saying Hillary Clinton is now 100 in. They named someone who they think will be Communications Director and they said they had an outline of what her 2016 campaign would be. Better relations with the media and bring in bill clinton early. Bill clintons thoughts were jeb was a real threat and Chris Christie was a side show. Also there was another piece from one of our colleagues here who worked for the Clinton Administration and also the pollster. He wrote today that clintons favorables dont appear to make her invulnerable to a challenge from the left as a Warren Campaign would be. My polling shows a significant opening with primary voters who are liberal in ideology and populist in orientation. Do you think the Elizabeth Warren threat is real or a side show . It is a side show in polls but it is very much a difficult threat if she gets in the race. She is not a real candidate. Already ads have been run and there are fundraising mechanisms for Elizabeth Warren. If she said she is running i think polls shift. I think you begin a different set of traction and the fact is people still see Hillary Clinton as a senator from wall street from her time in washington. I think that is difficult if we have a populist campaign about wage inequality. All of this is taking place while the president has two years left. Our colleague Juan Williams woet a piece saying the president plans to go on the offensive. I keep looking at the blizzard alert and it looks like a frog doing yoga. Downward frog. Nicely done. President obama keeps talking about going on the offensive. I feel like nothing worse than someone who thinks they have nothing left to lose. His presidency is not the climax of animal house where you give it it at the end of the parade. You are still the president and not an 18 year old with senioritis who wants to tp on the way out. The people who win here are the media because they have five fresh punching bags. The key is for the Republican Party to teach the punching bags to hit back. The big news in iowa was sarah palin said she might get in the race. Everybody into the pool. I think you guys should sue. There is an issue with what i call pres teases. They say they are going to run and then fade away. They have to understand pres teases nobody likes a tease. One quick question. Why does someone who has absolutely no chance of president run for president . What are you talking about . Is there money involved . How much your speaking fees are go up. You think donald trump is really running . I am talking about the other candidates that have zero chance of winning. I think we know who they are. I think there might be some people who fall into the category that juan described but there are still some people who have the courage of their convictions and believe they want to at least have a say in the debate and see how far th