♪ neil: good evening everybody. thank you for being with us. as we go through the da's events and deelopmet may lp us to emember we're all in this together. there is a lot tocover tonight. with the white house and this predent engulfed in scandals, trust is noo unexpectedly eroding in the administration. it may have rendered him a lame duck before his time. his desire for relevance may be frustrated the remainder of his term. the cutting consequence of this president's toxic leadership style are uch in evidence tonight. consider this his approval rating dropped another poit overnight. it does remain at 47%. busess confidence measured by

the jobs that busiess leaders create is weak. even in the fifth year of the economic recovery. depending on whether you support this preside or don't, his appointments ambassador susan rice and samantha power to the post rice holds are bold, deft stres by a president intent on not adding an outsider t the inthere circle avoiding a nfirmation process for the unpoll pew lar rice, or as political opponents seeit, not deft, but desperate, and likely to bring unreleapting pressure on mr. obama and his white house that has now manaed tostone wall on benghazi, the internal renue service, ssaults on the rst amendment. here is te president today naming ambassador rice to the top nationaa security post in s administration.. >> as our ambassador to the u.n.,susan has been a tireles

advocate in advancg our interes. >> i'm deely graftful for your enduring confidence in me. we have much stl to accomplish on behalf of the american people, and i look forward to continuing to serve on your national secury eam to keep our nation strong and sae. lou: yes, she is the same rice o aggressively spearheaded the obama administration's stone wall and benghazi. going on five sunday talk shows to falsely blame the attacks on protests overan anti-muslim video instead of laming it on al-qaeda. criticssay susan rice outright lied to the american public, and at best, providedmisleading information. either way, president obama is losing the trust of the american people. it couldn't be clearer that mr. obama's nomination tday means that he's closing ranks,

preparing for what, well, may b a protracted, debilitating, political d legal confronontation. the outcome of which may be his principle legacy as president p. this is no longer the presidency of hoe and change. this is a white house now du in against its critics and fauxes. a new, bc poll shows at least 55% of americans think each of the white house scndals aises doubts about te administration's onesty and integrity. there is a high price to pay for ose doubts. for more on the president's controversial appointments today, turningto the chief white house correspondent, ed henry, with our report >> president obama's econd term charm offensive with the republicans took a detour in the rose garden today. by partisan outreach gaveay to defiance as tom esigned replaced with ssan rice, the

one blocked rom elevati to secretary of state over benghazi. >> this team of people has been edicated to america. they have made america safer. >> reporter: republicans beg to differ saying rice got a post that does not require senate cop fir mages because she ucks questions about the five sunday talk shows. >> e was used, viathe talking points o come police sit in the drafting of the talking points, and it's not asking too m she answer the questions beore she offer herself for pomotions for something as important as national security adiser. reporter: carney insisted it was preliminary information and double down on the idea that the miskes me om the intelligence community. >> the most qualified foreign policy experts in america. if that's the case, how did she get the information on benhazi so wrong many >> i wlce the opportunity to corre the record for some news utlets who

persist on isrepresentinghe facts. the centl contested point that was made on those sunday shows was drafted in the first inance and in every instafter b. >>they teed out of for not explaning the role in the private reactiono the benghazi terrorist attack. >> it's not just what was said on tv tat sunday, but the fact that tom was the key ndividual in the white house and probably in opinion the one most likely to have been the architect of chagin what the cia started o say to what ended up being what susan rice did say. reporter: colleagues described him as a tireless public servant saying the change i vaned tion for rice who expressed loyalty to the president. >> i'm deeply gateful r your enduring confidce in me.

reporter: the president nominated samantha power to replace riceas u.n. ambassador. power resignefrom the 2008 obma campaign for calling hillary clinton a mop steer. she later apologized, and toda made a passionate plea for mre muscular american intervention. >> i've een u.n.peacekeepers fail to protect the people of bosnia. as the most powerful and inspiring country on this effort , we have acritil role to play inssisting the institution meet thenecessities of our time. reporter: power an adocate for strong u.s. action in libya, and rice pushes for approaches in syria, planing why john mccain today said he could work with rice as national security adviser ad threw support behind power saing the senat needs to agent on nominionss soon possie. lou: joining us no, former frl prosecutor, andr mccarthy, great to have you th us. >> thank you. lou: otright, simply not

qualified. >> if she purposely lied knew what she aid on those sun sows was false, sh's unfit t serv ethically, morlly, andshe simply -- ii she was about the business of pulling the woo over the american people's eyes, she shldn't be in a position of trust. if she actually, honestly believed what she was saying o the circumstances where, as we now know within mintes of the attack, the government in washington knew that this was a terrorist attack, and certainly, by e time she was on those programs, it was utterly clea that it was not a reaction to the video, which is just been a fraud through nd hrough from the start, then i do't sehow e's confident to advise the prident on mmatter lie cotterrorism. lou: in this instance, she's his choice, and rather conveniently,

i think it might be said, will not have to testify in a confirmationprocess. in fact, the president's executive privilege can be -sserte so she doesn't testify adds all to congress on the issue of nghazi; right? >> well, let's see if that's the case that we do have some history of thepresident's advisers being called to testify on important matts. the 9/11 commission, for example, but it's up to wheter the president is going to cooperate, s the most transparent administration in history going to be cooperative th cgress and getting tothe bottom o what happened? u: i thinthat's moved by this administration, he most open and transparent. >> well, good t remind them, thou, periodically, like, every day. lou: well, samtha power nominated, will be facing a confirmation prossas you know, and as we listened t her today talking about military intervention rather than relying upon the good offices of the united nations, which she

purpts to be representing us too, this i a woman who has been ex-- well, xcoriating in the criticism of the security council calling it unemocratic. shh has a strange voice for a u.s. ambassador to the united nations. >> my view of this, for what it's worth is that when you elect president obama, you get samantha power. i thhink that she would be implementing his policy. i thin that's clear across the board. i think it's clear at the justice dartment and homeland security. >> clear enoughit poses obvious lls to the nomination? she's somewhat radical in views on the use of u.s. military poweand where thse interventions could take place and for rather than united nations fforces. >> well, -- lou: ironic given this president lashed president obama and the reblican arty for their failure to rse above

uuilateraliim. >> yes. well, you know, look, think she would impleme his policy. she's not the most objtionable nominee that - lou: that is the highest standard i heard applied. >> the fact is -- lou: he most objectionable. >> i want to see her not get through, but the fact is she's going to get through. i mean, loo at who got though so ar. there'seen clear cases to stuff, a number of these nominee, and the republicans haveot stopped them. i don't thk this is the hill they die on. u: andr, good to have you here. >> thank yu si. lou: new developments with the embattled revenue service. the irs today putting two of the senior staffers on administrative leave because they accepted free gifts in violation of government ethic standards. the two employees tasked th the enforcingobamacare allegedly accepted more tan a thousandollar in free food in a lavish california conference in 200.

the move comes after an ininspecter genral repor this week fou the irs spent $50 millio on conferences over just three yars. coming up, attorney general eric holder's assault on the media and freedom of speech. the leading attoney, lloyd abramsith us, puts it all in we kw a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep, and lunesta eszopiclone can help you get there, like ihas r so many people before. do not take lunesta if you are allergic to anything in it. when taking lunest don't drive orate machinery til you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. lunesta should not be taken gether with alcohol.

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lou: my first guest tonight ss the attorn general is personally responsible for these dangerous incursions into the first amendment. it seriously threats our freedom of expression. joining me is the leading first amendment attorney, lloyd abrams with a newbook coming out tomorrow "friend of the court," and it will bereleased tomorrow.

great to see ou. >> good to see y. lou: quite a spectacular, i think, series of statements from the attorney general's office i the justice department. the principle deputy responding saying that with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosre material that is noot something i've been involved in, eard, or would think would be a wise policy. this is what the attorney regime said. how could that not be outright contra venges of truth? >> well, the way i view it, he may well be telli th truth the never messaged rosecuting. the problem is they told the judge and a signed affidavit by the fbi submitted by the fbi department that the journalist was -- there was probable case to believe the journalit was violatin the espionage act, and

at the vy least, hewas an aider or abette of someone who was doing it. basically, and this is unaccptable. basically, they were trying to per sexually transtted persuadee them a search warrant and whether or not they elieved they were goingo go afterhe journalist, to me, is not the rel point. the real point is that there was no basis for ever saying to the judge that thejournalist was an aider and an abetter. lou: the big deal for me is the attorney general, te attorney general and fbi agent and a judge signed off on wht every one of those people should have known was preposterous. >> i agreree with that. i agree that -- i'll give the judgea pass because he had before hi a signed affidavit from an fbi aget saying that the ournalist was a flight risk. i mean, that was -- i mean, whether or not i was credible when itwas said, it cannot have

been believed by peole in the department of justice. lou: itamazes me that three institutions, the unitedstates justice department, our couuts, o federal courts, and the fbi put their honor to the side. >> yeah. they did it in the name of the united states. i men, this document was file in court on the stationery of the united states of america, in the name of the united ssates, anwhat itsaid was hat th journalist was, in effect, violating the espionage law, and it was not true. it was not true when they said it, and whether or not my guess iscorrect that that was teir y of getting a search warrant. it's stll uacceptabl lou: nd where do we go from here? the idea thatthis could even -- there would be any discussion

about this, the president would not immediately dismiss he attorney general, that immediately there wouldn't be a call for a full investigation. >> the fbi who signed the papers setting forth probable cause, the judge -- i will follow your counsel and give him a pass here, but i do o with -- i'm telling you, i'm absolutely repuused by whathe did. >> well, look, this s an unacceptable situation, unacceptable behavior, and the question is where to go from here. i think the fear had a good effect. i really believe that at the very least, they will refrain from this type of exeases and this type of abus in the future. i think that likely. i mean, remember hat are talking about here, a leak

investigation. leak investigations have thei role, b ey were never supposed to be the central focus. i mean something that trumps everything else, and it's only if you believe that it is so important that we goo to get the guy that doneit, ect., that 're rdy to say this or ready tosay tht, ready to say that, that you can even understand it except as, you know, total indifference to the first amendment and total indifference to the just being up front with the court you're appearing before. lou: and the people yu serve. >> and the people of the country, yea. lou: lloyd abrams, always gt to have you here. >> good to see you. lou: your wods should disquiet, i think, thwhite house and the attorney general. hopefully tthe point of action. thank you very much, loyd. congratulations on your new book. he last recession calledded a

mancessio because it hut men in the work rce hard, yet feminists and the liberal media celebratea study. we wonder why. we'll explore it in tonight's "chalk ta

lou: in the last two or three ys, i've been criticized by a few folks like some in the own tent saying a newtudy on breadwinner mommings concerns me, troubles me about the country and what's happening to the society. a ew of the detractors decided it was a hallmark of, well, sisterhood and progress towar gend equality because moms are the sole or primary breadwinners in 40% of the homes. here's what they focus on in the new survey, and there's a lot of celebrate. it is, in some saller peentage thanthey suggest, both at pugh and amongst folks i

had a word or two. tre is some good, and there is also se submerge material that lot of people didn't lookat. we're now lookin at 5.1 million married mothers who have a higher income than ther husbands. that's great. who are they? t's ask ourselv what this all means. 49% of them have a least a college deree, 65% of them are white, 67% between the ages of 30-50. they are more mature. they are median family income i nearly $80,000, and i think that's pretty much what most people would expect, but all that is not what impressed me in the study or concernedme, and believe it or not, thereare few fol who thought i shouldn't be concerned or i shouldn't be trouled by what we are seeing, and i dont know why hey felt that way. frkly, i don't care because it

was more ideological. it was more reflexive. it had something to do in some abstract way, i think, with some ort of gender politics, but here is wh y detractors refuse to acknowledge. in some cases, they didn't want to talk about it. the single moms, there's8.6 million them versus the .1 million with the 80,000 and life going good, but these single mothers who are woking, 49% of them, 9% of them have a high school deee, and they are working because they have to. this is not about the sisterhood. this is not about progress. this is about the consequence of choices that we're making as a society, and it's not working out great for these olks, and to deny that, i consider to b

outrageous. 40% of them ae black nearly a quarter, 24% of hispanic, nearly a third of them are white. almost half, 46%, are 30 years or younger. if they've ever been married, whether divord, separated, or widowed,hey make on average 9,000 a year. if they've never bee married, they make an average of $17,400 a year, the poerty line, by the way, for family with one adult and one child jus over $15,000 so that tell you where these women an their children live in our economy. their childn live in poverty and the moms are the sole provider by default, not because of gender equality or progress or here are, you know, hear u roar. many of these children of thse single moms areat risk, ad in so bing,they perpetuate a

cycle of poverty an illegal behavior, all of us, men and women, have got to break the cycle of passivity, indifference, and good, gd, yes, break the cycle of irresponsible, political correctness tht deludes some into denies pain in our soiety and the consequences o poor public policy decision. we've got o address and fix this for these people's sake. we're going to take all of that up with fox news ntional security analst kc mcfarland with a carer in home, family, and a ox news contributor who nsists the taditional home and family thing is not for her. two perspectis, two bright women on these issues here next. the boys us double milefrom their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello.

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be one as i just mentioned in the "chalk talk", a pew study on breadwinner moms my next guest has investigated issues confronting women. k.t. mcfarland. our fellow broadcaster. she is a grandmother of five. >> that is right b-1 also agrim turn her five granhildren. we are talking about women. >> i have a dog as well. lou: she has a dog too. >> how can we ballyhoo all this

progress? lou: that's rit, you saw this in the "chalk talk." more han million women face in income between $29,000and 30,000 dollars a year. we are perpetuating such a aste in our society. >> the unfortunate part is that there are very fewpeople who are willing to talk about this. this is a very sensitive subject. you have to talk about single mothers in theroblems in an shoe. able to give them educationalng opportunities. you're talking about what ultimately leads to the entitlement society that you have. these people become dependent on government programs. they have two figures who are able to contribute to their emotional and financial well-bng.

i support that you are financially able to take that on, i also tip my hat to yu. but you'd need to be sure that you can finanally provide for that child or you are doing a disservice not only to child, but society at large. lou: i'm thinking there's a lot more work than money. >> the thing that struck me that you just did a few studies us. he said we have this wek side

which is well educcted and quite conseative. >> he ke his entire analysis and coclusio to only white americans. >> that's right. >> what he found is that they are better educated,hey stay married, they have a very low divorce rate. only 4% of them have children out of wedlock. those kid and those families are very intact and they are doing really well. but tre is this whole other group been tked about in the "chalktalk." they are single parent families, the women are breadwinners, not out of choice but necessity, the children are far moe likely to use drugs, to e poorly educat. that i is the problem. because america is built on a great middle class. lou: do you want to get marrie you want your children? >> iersonally do nt want to ha children.

hopefully i will have a husband if i do that has no problem with me being a breadwinner. you know, i am one of those peop who doesn't feel like it really matters. who wears the financi pinson family and that something is something that needs to be decided on an individual basis. per couple, per family. 300 million people a we ha to be able to accommodate lot of choices and reflexes should not be a neanderthal or bizarre. there ought to be a very simple thto say. it is up your life, it is america, you live it. i don't understand y that isn't the case. there is a sort of, i donnt know, any other way to say it -- it's sort of a primitive outlook.

were talking about the importance of two people who love and support a child without being outdated. the witty you do that is by saying that want people to be in power. i want cldren to be eowered. lou: the children of 8.6 million and the pew rearchpoll are in power. >> they willever catch up. a lot of the assumptions mad or challenged in society. >>alk about the cultural components. how people feel about men and women. gender stereotyping and what that has to do with us all. that puts an interesting mixad there is a lot of research on college campusesbout how men %-beyond you know, get out there

and go to and you do something that you enjoy. but it is not going to be an education. that is why we have 57% of college graduates that are women. certainly as breadwinners. thk you both. bill clinton first urged his wife to run against an incumbent president. president. ed klein, author of the amatur. you hurt my feelings, todd. i did? when visa signature asked everybody what upgraded experiences really mattered... you suggested luxury car seice instd of "strength training with patrick wils." come on todd! flap them chicken wings. [ grunts ] well, i travel a lot and umm...

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warm and cozy. president bill clinton agreed to give bac incredibleespeech at the democratic nional convention. in return, president obabamawoud endors hillary in 2016. president has been dodging in and out of that dl ever since. joinining us with the details is the author of the best-selng book, the amateur. it i now released in paperba. brand-new details. we will be discussing it here tonight. ed klein, it is great to have you. >> thank you. the democratic national conventi. we knew soething was going on. because his anatioand enthusiasm haveeneer bee so apparent.

>> he said that he thought he had the right to name the new chaian of the democratic national committee. at was the deal. and it stuck right throu the electionntil obama won. then he started backing off. lou: as the report, h gets furious because the presidentnt dedes welcome i don't need him anymore. we are talking about the second term president, suddenly all lovey-dovey on the cameras. >>hawas the payo that obama had to do when he fnd

out that hillry clinton may be having a private talk. that is how muh he took it. obama and his people -- lou: this w not a potential adversary. >> ihinkkobama realizes that. the big friendsip on television and thenhey invited the clintons to the white house for thvery first time to have dinner in the family quarters. guess who's there at thedinner? lerie jarrett. theyouldn't even have dinner with the alone.

>> president clinton talked about george w. bush. what is the current state of the deal? what are hillary's plans? >> the current state of the deal but i have been told by sources that i have been talking to for several months, is that the clintons have given up any hope of getting obama's endorsement in 2016 despite the deal. the deal has basically been taed over and tossed over the side of the boat. obamsaying that he is my vice president, i can't turn my back

on joe. so i can't really describe it. lou: i am certain that that has to do with this deal. guess john boehner was the o who famously remid us how effective a deal is for this budget. it doesn't sm tome to be a dealbrear for hillary and her aspirations for 2016, a? >> no, i don't think it is at all. i think we have a resident wh gives his word. i have been reeorting o barack obama for seral years. i can't tell you how many people have told me that i thought he had a dealand i thought i d an agreement.

then he didn't follow through. th happens again and again. i think this is what has happened in congress. lou: ed klein, thank you for it the more desperate the paperck edition of the amateur is on ssle at bookstores. to loudobbs.com an click on the link to the book the amateur. it is simply a disgrace. veterans forced to waimont and even yearfor their benefits. congressman jeff miller joins us tonight with his

lou: the backlog has grown to expect 600 to 10,000 of our veterans. incrrasing 200% in the past four years. joining us is congressman jeff miller. any member of the armed serices committee and the select committee on intelligence. let me just start with the numbers at i cannot even believe. 273 days, the average weight for a combat veteran before any benefits. that is appalling. >> that is the average grade you might imagine ththis. you have so many individuals that are waiting 500 days and more. theyre actually having claims that are in the queue now 30 years and years old. and we have to figure out what the problem is. i wantto help the department of veterans affairs. i don't want to do it from an adversarial position. but the numbers keep rising. veterans keep waiting. they keep dying before they get

their benefits. lou: is simply outrageo. to make sure that they have every dollar in person. >> i is not a matter ot getting what they asked for. the department has done everything they have asked fr. lou: we are looking at these paper files and boxes paper files. >> every regional office you go

to all across the country. yowill see stacks of those paper files. very little of it is digitized. something over little nth ago or two months ago. heame up with an idea and lett3 them figure it out later, he said. >> that is a great idea. i have great respect for secretary nicholson for the problem is that the va is terrib aboutgoing out and collecting on insurance payments that are being made now.

or they have billions of daught and $10 that are out there. but i would like to see if maybe a partial payment, like u said, in advan of some te. i think that could be one of the only ways we cld get over the hill. the problem with this is the focus that is being given to the disability backlog right now. the overtime. if they don't fix the system that they've got. it doesn't matter how much they have put to go down. lou: we left out the man who is responsie. that is, after all, the president of the united states. president obama. you are ting to manage around a man who is not taken the lead on us. we appreciate it, congressman. so much. >> thank you very much. up next, the new book. the inide story of a shadowy international bank.

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>> what ishe rld fifinancial management about? >> started in the late 1990s there is a chapter that i wrote and i just thought that this was very fascinating organization. >> who runs the bank? who really run run this? >> the bank really runs itself. you have been a foreign correspondt, you have been one throughout the career. lou: do you believe it to be a benign force?

>> what we want to know is that we want information on what go on. lou: we do resist ahority little bit and we accept it. there are thoswho sist the federa reserve. i commend it to it is salnow online. bookstores everywhere.

go to loudobbs.com. it is great to have you here. come bacand we will talk more. toight, we thank you for being wi us. wewe will see you tomorrow. good night from new york. neil: goldilocks. one out of 75,000 more last month good enough to sho growths ad wonder today in the stock buying binge, notng but this.