This terrorism thing – we have been way out in front of this, as you probably know – and it is really getting to be quite a story.

I am a history guy. I just want to bring to your attention that there is one other time in American history this happened. It is very interesting.

The Civil War was percolating for about twenty years. The South knew that the North did not like the slavery and had a totally different economic system than the southern farmers. So there was a lot of talk about getting a separate nation.

Andrew Jackson held things together, Van Buren – he was weak after that. And subsequent presidents really were befuddled.

But it got to critical mass when a man named James Buchanan took office.  He was the president before Abraham Lincoln. Buchanan saw that the secessionists were moving to leave the union – and did absolutely nothing about it. Nothing. The South was not very strong militarily at that time, and Buchanan could have moved Union forces in to prevent the insurrection.

He did not, and thus we had the bloodiest war in American history and Abraham Lincoln saving the day.  I think the same thing is happening here, because Barack Obama has to know these jihadists are not going to stop.

You cannot negotiate with them. And I mean, this Marie Harf at the State Department is dumb as a stump. To insinuate that the United States can actively intrude in the economies of Muslim nations to create jobs is just blatantly stupid.

And this woman is the spokesperson for the United States State Department? I would rather have a 10 year old in there. At least that person would not be insulting our intelligence.

I think that President Obama will do gown in history as the great appeaser, unless he has a startling change of heart, which he might, because believe me, the pressure that is building on the Obama administration, not just from me and from the media, but from other countries, is enormous.

He is under siege. Nobody cares about Obamacare anymore, the economy is limping along, getting a little bit better, but it is not going to really accelerate until he gets out of office.

It is just too much uncertainty – and part of it is terrorism. Part of it is the United States might sustain another big attack – because certainly that is what the jihadists want to do, that is goal number 1.

Yet you allow these people to run wild, to build their strength, and you will not even say it is the jihad, it is a holy war. You will not even say it. That is why I am spending so much time on this, and I am trying to make the case – and we have been. We are driving this debate. Every congressperson and senator is watching my program; they know what is going on. Attorney General Holder referred to it today - when he says Fox news, he is talking about us. Not to say that the other Fox News anchors are not doing it, they are, but we are driving this train here.  We are dealing with the facts and the analysis is just devastating.

When you release a statement condemning the execution of twenty-one poor migrant Coptic Christians, and the executioners say we killed these men because they are Christian, and in your release you do not mention that? You call them Egyptians? Something seriously wrong.

I think you all get it, that is why you are all watching, why you are the vanguard of this operation.

On the other front, the stories right now in this very, very cold February in the northeast, they are just small ball stories. Nothing really big.

We are watching the Republican candidates try to marshal their force, fundraise, organize. Hillary Clinton is certainly doing that, as we pointed out with Karl Rove last night.

That is on the horizon, but there is an awful lot of time before the action starts which will be this time next year. Then we will really step it up, but it is an accelerated process because of the amount of money that has to be raised. So people cannot really lay back, they’ve got to get the bucks to get the name recognition and the organization.

That’s where we are; we are just praying the weather gets better in the northeast because it is really a bear, as they say. 

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