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In this Jan. 8, 2014, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Cuban-American, speaks about the "American dream" on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s first State of the Union address in 1964, where LBJ committed the government to a war on poverty, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rubio’s speech was hosted by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Dealing with an empathy gap, Republicans are trying to forge a new image before the 2014 midterm elections as a party that helps the poor and lifts struggling workers into the middle class. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this March 11, 2012 file photo, Zhou Yongkang, then Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of security, attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. An influential Hong Kong newspaper reported Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, that China’s top leadership has agreed to start a corruption investigation into Zhou Yongkang, the former security czar and one of the country’s most powerful politicians of the past decade. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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** FILE ** New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, D-Sayreville, N.J., answers a question at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, after a top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in a town at the base of the George Washington Bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Gunmen gather in a street as they chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government and demanding that the Iraqi army not try to enter Fallujah. U.S. intelligence analysts said al Qaeda's takeover of two Iraqi cities in Anbar province is an outgrowth of a jailbreak orchestrated last summer by the terrorist network. (Associated Press)
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A man walks outside Egyptian Satirist Bassem Youssef's studio in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Youssef, often compared to U.S. comedian Jon Stewart, says his team will bring back its popular television show poking fun at politics in a country still beset by turmoil following a July military coup. However, he acknowledged the challenges facing him and others in Egypt now in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Youssef, often compared to U.S. comedian Jon Stewart, says his team will bring back its popular television show poking fun at politics in a country still beset by turmoil following a July military coup. However, he acknowledged the challenges facing him and others in Egypt now in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty)
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Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef poses for a photograph at his studio in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Youssef, often compared to U.S. comedian Jon Stewart, says his team will bring back its popular television show poking fun at politics in a country still beset by turmoil following a July military coup. However, he acknowledged the challenges facing him and others in Egypt now in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty)
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Iraqi Ambassador to the United States Lukman Faily speaks to the Washington Times at the Iraqi Embassy, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, January 8, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Iraqi Ambassador to the United States Lukman Faily speaks to the Washington Times at the Iraqi Embassy, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, January 8, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
