By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone )

NOTABLES

• 2016 IN 2015: Don't tell anyone at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting in San Diego that the 2016 presidential race hasn't begun yet. Already committee chairmen and members are talking about who they might support, and the consensus around Mitt Romney seems clear: "meh," according to ABC's ALI WEINBERG. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called him a "good man" - that was it - when pushed by the national press to say something about him. And many committee members I spoke with had similarly polite, but not enthusiastic, things to say about the former Republican nominee who speaks at the RNC meeting at 7 PM Pacific tonight. Speaking of Walker, that's a man who sounds like he's getting ready to announce a presidential bid.

• EMILY'S LIST CALLS GOP PRIORITIES 'OUTRAGEOUS': And timed to the RNC's winter meeting in sunny San Diego, EMILY's List, the group devoted to getting Democratic women elected to office, is launching a new campaign meant to highlight what they say is the new Republican Congress' misplaced priorities, WEINBERG notes. Called "Genuinely Outrageous Priorities," the campaign will include a targeted digital advertising campaign in San Diego, calling out Republicans' introduction of five bills that would limit access to abortion and women's reproductive health on the first day of the 114th Congress, while polls show Americans are most worried about the economy.

• THIS WEEK ON 'THIS WEEK': As the GOP field for 2016 begins to take shape, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee comes to "This Week" to discuss his new book, "God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy." And the powerhouse roundtable debates all the week's politics, with ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, Fusion's Alicia Menendez, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and former Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Be sure to use #ThisWeek when you tweet about the program. TUNE IN SUNDAY: http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

EXCLUSIVE - HOW THE FBI FOILED A 2012 PLOT TO BOMB THE US CAPITOL: The arrest Wednesday of an Ohio man who allegedly plotted an all-out assault on the U.S. Capitol was not the first time the FBI nabbed someone for such a plot through an undercover operation, according to ABC's PIERRE THOMAS, MIKE LEVINE, JACK DATE and JACK CLOHERTY. Surveillance video, exclusively obtained by ABC News from that earlier case, shows just how far homegrown radicals are willing to go. http://abcn.ws/1xueqWf

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

ORRIN HATCH, SENATOR AND LOVE SONG WRITER. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is now third in line to the presidency in his new role of as Senate president pro tempore, but he also has a side gig as a prolific songwriter, who has even penned a few love songs, ABC's ARLETTE SAENZ writes. Hatch, who also serves as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has written everything from religious hymns to patriotic music and country songs. WATCH : http://abcn.ws/157OCbR

THE BUZZ

with ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI

7 THINGS CHRIS CHRISTIE JUST REVEALED ABOUT 2016. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did his monthly call-in show "Ask the Governor" on Thursday night where he takes questions from Garden State voters, as well as the host on NJ101.5. Christie was asked about his potential run for the White House in 2016, his thoughts on the 2016 GOP primary, his friendship with the Bush family and his plans for his political action committee. ABC's SHUSHANNAH WALSHE highlights seven things Christie revealed about 2016 (and a bonus one about football). http://abcn.ws/1yimSP7

JOHN BOEHNER HOPES WOULD-BE KILLER 'GETS THE HELP HE NEEDS.' House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday he hopes the Ohio man who threatened to poison him "gets the help he needs." Michael Robert Hoyt of Ohio was indicted last week on charges of threatening to murder Boehner last October. "Obviously this young man has got some health issues, mental health issues that need to be addressed and I hope he gets the help he needs," Boehner said at a news conference at a Republican retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania, ABC's ARLETTE SAENZ reports. Hoyt, who had been fired from his job as a bartender at the Ohio country club Boehner attends, told police he often served drinks for Boehner and could have slipped something into his drink and said he told a Deer Park police officer he "needed to kill Boehner." http://abcn.ws/1BygToI

REMEMBERING THE GAFFES THAT MIGHT HAUNT MITT ROMNEY IN 2016. Mitt's back! The two-time presidential candidate is making calls and meeting with advisors to form a rationale for a third bid. But if he does hit the road to the White House again in 2016, which he says will be different, will Mitt Romney be haunted by ghosts of campaigns past? ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI, STACY CHEN and STEPHANIE EBBS look back at some of the former Republican presidential nominee's most cringe-worthy moments. http://abcn.ws/1AUAAWi

HERE'S WHAT FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER WANTS TO BE REMEMBERED FOR. What will historians say about former President Jimmy Carter 100 years from now? According to the 39th president, he hopes when people think of him, the words "peace and human rights" come to mind, notes ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI. That's what he told ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS when asked what he'd want to be remembered for most. "I kept the country at peace for four years and promoted peace for others," Carter said. Carter is currently within reach of a major accomplishment that if achieved would surely make history books - eradicating a disease. "We are getting close," Carter told Stephanopoulos in the "Good Morning America" interview. "We started out with 23,600 villages, 20 countries, three and a half million cases of Guinea worm. And we've cut it down now. Last year, we had 126 cases." http://abcn.ws/1yqNxYE

WHO'S TWEETING?

@WilliamsJon: Cheesy - or très fromage! #SecKerry took James Taylor to #Paris to sing "You got a friend" - interwoven with bits of La Marseillaise! Sweet.

@amyewalter: Why Ds need new Econ msg: Just 25% of 'financially insecure' turned out in '14. Down 8pts from '10 & 26 pts from '12 http://cookpolitical.com/story/8151

@ZekeJMiller: Cameron's office released some great photos from his meetings with Obama https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/number10gov/sets/72157650304768911/ … https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/number10gov/sets/72157650304768911/ …

@mikiebarb: Ben Carson, conservative darling, offers admiring words for strong convictions of ISIS fighters: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/15/ben-carson-holds-up-islamic-state-for-willingness-to-die-for-convictions/?tid=HP_more …

@OKnox: I can't be the only one rooting for @mittromney to deliver a message *in French* about Paris attacks. He and Kerry both pas mauvais.