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FOXNEWSW The Kelly File January 13, 2015

Terror. Ed henry, marc thiessen, former speech writer for the president bush white house, fox news military analyst general jack keane. First, from that stunning show of solidarity in paris, dozens of World Leaders marched arm in arm yesterday to send a clear message that terrorism will never win. It was remarkable not only in size but in the fact that some of these people rarely agree on anything. Yet they managed to put aside everything for a few short hours in the city of paris to walk the streets and remember the victims of frances brutal terror attacks. And not a single high level United States representative was in the group. Tonight, the white house taking serious heat for that. If theres ever a picture that says our policy is leading from behind, thats it. Even the left leaning New York Daily News saying you let the world down. And then there is this from new york post, sorry, charlie, obamas team goes awol at obama obama look at the pictures of the unity march, sunday. 40 were leaders even europes Benjamin Netanyahu along with president abbas, but not joe biden or anyone from the cabinet. Barack obamas kiss off. While forbes headline reads shame on president obama for skipping the paris unity rally against terrorism. A point cnns jake tapper addressed with the president s former spokesman jay carney. Certainly youll grant the point when theres nothing wrong that the good wife had higher representation with a cameo from Valerie Jarrett than this very important rally perhaps the most important rally in europe in a generation. This tweeted, not an excuse in universe can explain why u. S. Failed to send to paris a more visible representative than attorney general eric holder note k mias including the president and mrs. Obama, Vice President joe biden, none of these people were available for this . By this afternoon he writes even the white house itself will acknowledge the mistake. Some have asked whether or not the United States should have sent someone with a higher profile than the ambassador to france. And i think its fair to say we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there. Our chief White House Correspondent ed henry reports tonight. Ed, good evening. Good to see you martha. Whats particularly clear is the case of attorney general eric holder, as you noted he was in paris but decided to skip the rally. His aides say thats because he wanted to get back to washington by sunday afternoon after he taped four sunday morning talk shows back here in the u. S. Unclear what he needed to get back to in washington, they havent answered our questions about what else he had to do. Josh earnest briefing insisted that the white house wanted to send someone, perhaps even the president so i pressed him what went wrong. Ed ive sort of tried to describe to you exactly the situation here. Were talking about a march that came together with essentially 36 hours notice and a march that occurred outdoors with an obviously very large number of people who participated. How do you explain then that the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, he made it there. Hes a huge target, obviously. I will allow israelis to discuss security we havent gotten an accounting of what the president did yesterday. I havent spoken to the president , i prepared for a lot of questions today but i did not prepare for a question on what the president was actually doing. The attorney general was in that city, there was no issue security was already in place. Im not aware of the details of the attorney generals schedule for yesterday. Im telling you, yes, we believe somebody with a higher profile should have been asked to attend. You heard josh earnest repeatedly cite security for a reason for not sending the president , perhaps the Vice President. Well, a secret Service Official did tell us it would have been a huge challenge at the lastminute to send such a high profile official. They say they could have done it, but they were never asked. That there was no ask of the agency put together a plan so the white house did not really consider it that seriously, martha. So how would the white house know it would be a security problem if there was no request. Ed, thank you very much. Interestingly a lot of the harshest criticism that we heard today from the white house came from Media Outlets that are usually tend to be sympathetic to the president. But it was also a moment for some potential 2016 contenders to get on this one. Heres senator ted cruz. Where was the president . Where was the Vice President . Where was the secretary of state . Where was the attorney general whod been there moments before but chose to get on a plane and fly back home . Marc thiessen former speech writer for president george w. Bush and American Enterprise Institute Fellow and the Washington Post columnist marc, good to have you here with us this evening. Obviously when all of those people just listed were not available or couldnt make it this is a deliberate decision. This was not an oversight. Clearly it was a very deliberate decision not to participate. So how do you explain this . Well, this is the same president who went to a fundraiser the day after an American Ambassador was killed in benghazi. This is the same president who went golfing after an american was executed beheaded by isis. So he doesnt adjust his schedule for american victims of terror why would he change his schedule for the french . It seems theres a fatherly role that comes along with being president , that theres a healing role that comes along with it. And in all of those instances you name the president sort of did not step up into that role and say do not be afraid. I think of the people standing up in paris with the not afraid signs. And it made me think this afternoon of the moment when president george w. Bush during the world series in october of 2001 while the city was still literally burning and the security concerns were rampant did this [ cheers and applause ] i was in new york then. People were afraid to get on subways. They were afraid to cross the bridges. That must have given secret Service Folks gray hairs. But president bush was not going to stop for that was he . Absolutely. He was in ground zero just a couple days after 9 11 when it was a pile of rubble. We didnt know who had attacked us, we knew it was al qaeda we didnt know who ksm was, we didnt know if there were other sleeper cells in the Country Planning attacks. It was in the context of the anthrax attacks and other things going on. It was a very dangerous time for america. So i just dont buy the security argument that the Obama Administration is making. But lets give them that. Eric holder doesnt go . You had 40 World Leaders. You talk about symbolism, a Million People marching behind 40 World Leaders walking arm in arm saying we are going to combat islamic radicalism together and the u. S. Is completely absent from that picture. How can we be absent from that statement of global unity against the people the same people who attacked us on september 11 2001 . These other World Leaders weve heard from canada weve heard from david cameron, they dont seem to have a hard time constructing sentences to call this what they believe it is marc. No, exactly. Apparently the french dont. When the socialist Prime Minister of france is tougher on islamic radicalism than the american administration, you know we have a problem. I mean, this administration wont call it islamic radicalism. You know theyre having in a few weeks theyre having a summit on combatting violent extremism extremism. Were not at war with violent extremism. You know what violent extremists are . Theyre ecoterrorists Animal Liberation terrorists, youve got colombian extremists. You cannot defeat an enemy if you wont even name it. Marc, thank you very much. See you next time. Thanks, martha. You just heard mark mention radical extremists, marie harf is here on wa exactly those plans are. And a brand new Terror Threat from isis today, chilling in its wording. General jack keane reacts to the hacking of the Central Command and what it means for this fight on terror. And are you ready for the return of candidate mitt romney . Dramatic new developments in the 2016 race and what it could mean for the other hopefuls. Let me ask a lot of folks are wondering about 2016 and wondering which of the two of you will be potential gop contenders. I want to ask you, congressman ryan, who do you think would make a better president , you or governor romney . Ill give it to him. Hes very generous but i had my turn. Its his turn now. Every truck can tow a boat. Every truck can climb a hill. Every truck can haul a trailer. But not everyone can say theyre the fastestgrowing truck brand. In america. Guts. Glory. Ram. Breaking tonight, details on a brand new Terror Threat for the United States today after hackers tying themselves to the terror army known as isis break into the twitter and youtube accounts of none other than u. S. Central command, also known as centcom. They hijacked those accounts and plastered them with terrorist training pictures and videos. Unbelievable. They made threats to u. S. Military personnel and families releasing personal information on some high ranking officials. Trace gallaghers live with all the details of this ridiculously horrible story that happened this afternoon. Trace, good to have you with us. And martha the first sign of a breach happened early this afternoon when up popped the words on centcoms twitter page saying, i love isis, the rogue tweets included statements like isis is already here and threats against u. S. Troops saying we know everything about your wives and children, and watch your back. The hackers also posted personal details about top commanders including emails and Social Security numbers though much of that information was apparently outdated or publicly available online. The Centcom Youtube site was also hacked playing isis propaganda videos with images of terrorist fighters. Now, its unclear what level of security centcom has on its social media sites, but the pentagon has emphasized this was not a breach of any command or control networks. U. S. Central command overseas air strikes against isis in iraq and syria. And though isis has claimed responsibility for the hack u. S. Authorities caution that groups claiming to be isis have also conducted similar hacks against a maryland tv station and a new mexico newspaper. But a Cyber Defense expert told us that isis is building a cyber warfare unit. Listen. They can shut down our power grids, the financial sectors. I mean, they can disrupt pretty much everyday operations here in the United States including military defense facilities, other areas. I mean this is definitely a huge target for them. Something theyre actively going out and recruiting for to try and get more and more capabilities from the Younger Generation to hack into the military installation. And martha at this hour centcoms twitter and youtube accounts are suspended. Central command also has a Facebook Page but it was not affected. Martha. Trace, thanks. Joining me now general jack keane, chairman for the institute of chairman of war and former army chief of staff. Whats your reaction to all this . Well, its frustrating to be sure. Obviously theres no Operational Command information that these guys have gained from this, but that wasnt their intent. Their intent was a propaganda victory, and theyve achieved that. And i think what disturbs me the most that maybe terrorizing and intimidating our soldiers and their families. If they release some information about them even though its available on other sources, the fact its in such a public way that that information is released. I mean, our soldiers and their families go through enough challenges and stresses in terms of their deployment separations and threat of losing life and limb. Without this added baggage to everyday life. So that really frustrates me. What the medias doing what the militarys doing is like other Government Agencies theyre trying to open themselves up a little bit. After all only 1 of this population in america participates in the military. And so theyre trying to have some communication with the American People at large. And they also use it to actually communicate with our troops as well. Yeah, so thats the reason why they would even be on social media. Makes a lot of sense when you put it like that general keane. But when you look at this and you hear the gentleman that we just heard whos a Cyber Security expert talking about it. He said that these terrorist organizations are building up teams of people that are going to attempt to do this. You look at even 9 11 and the things that happened before 9 11, they kept working and working at similar attacks until they pulled one off. And it feels like thats what theyre doing with this Cyber Security as well. Do we have an army and a military that can match them in the cyber world and shut them down . The offensive capability that United States government has and what the National Security agency has and the newly formed Cyber Command is extraordinary. And we cant talk much about it, but at Network Speed what they can do is incredibly damaging to any nation state. The problem you have here is isis despite its claim to be a nation state is not. I mean, they dont really have utility infrastructure, they dont have a Financial System, they dont have the things that nation state has that a network and therefore very vulnerable. All that said we are entering a new era here with what we recognized as taken place with the hacking that has been going on in our country rather significantly with major corporations and the ability to do that. One of the things, if you were talking to the head of the National Security agency he would tell you because we would get these briefings you know in the pentagon when i was on the secretary of defenses policy board and they would say wa keeps you up at night. Well, if radical islamists and terrorist organizations were able to get ahold of the capability that russia has or another nation state like iran has and they were able to use that, in other words they bought the capability, then they can do damage to our Financial System to our Transportation System that would exceed anything that took place on 9 11. Yeah, we got to be ready for that because it feels like the war of the future. It certainly does. Yeah its coming. General, thank you so much. Good to have you with us. Well see you soon. Good talking to you, martha. You too. Also tonight the attorney general is refusing to knock down reports that charges may be filed against general David Petraeus. Judge Andrew Napolitano next on that and what is very wrong, he says, with this picture. Plus, even after recent events in paris australia, canada, the Obama Administration seems to be refusing to use the words radical islamic in the same sentence. The state departments marie harf is here to explain why. Why isnt the summit on countering islamic extremism . Because violent extremism is something we want to be focused on. And its not just its not just islamic violent extremism we want to encounter paris, australia, canada, isnt the threat islamic extremism . So youre looking for a loan . Hows your credit . I know i have an 810 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian. Com. And your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers . Nope. Hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. Thats not really in our wheelhouse. You dont put it in a wheelhouse. You put it in your mouth. Get your credit swagger on. Become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. Fico scores are used in 90 of credit decisions. Developing tonight, new reports the fbi and Justice Department prosecutors want to bring felony charges against general David Petraeus after he allegedly disclosed classified information to his mistress when she was doing an autobiography about him. I dont want to comment on that which is an ongoing investigation. At the appropriate time the proper people within the Justice Department will make determinations as to what, if any action should occur. But that could take a while. Judge Andrew Napolitano is fox news senior judicial analyst and author of suicide pact. Thank you for being with us. Good to be with you, martha. This thing has been hanging over his head for a very long time. Why cant they just move forward with this if theyre going to do something or admit they dont have anything to move forward with . I was surprised a lot of us watching these things for a living w

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