thank you for joining us. have a great night. stay warm out there. ♪ lou: and the polar cortex, a deadly and costly weather system that has left much of the country and a deep freeze. nearly 90 percent of the continental united states below freezing at this hour. some regions of the midwest, incredibly colder than the south pole. i'm lou dobbs. ♪ lou: screening. that snowstorms and f known now as the polar vertex has turned deadly and expensive. a series of traffic accidents

and help the premiere criminalize of at least 20 people across the northeast and midwest. power outages across five states . in some cases people are without heat and power. stretching as far south as louisiana and georgia. dropping temperatures in southern cities into the single digits. the deep freeze arriving just as winter heating costs are respected to rise, and rise dramatically. the national energy assistance directors association project the cost of heating an average household to just over 10 percent this winter. tens of thousands of travelers also feeling the consequences. more than 22,000 flights canceled and delayed since sunday. jet blue closed down completely in new york, new jersey, and boston. the trade group measuring the cost of the delays and cancellations at nearly $80 a

minute for the affected carriers . relief may finally be in sight with some of the region's not accustomed to the weather actually returning to spring-like temperatures million of the week. fox news senior meteorologist and out in the elements tonight. you can see her there with the good and the bad news. you look like you're holding up well. >> reporter: i am from canada. i am the heart egal. i can take these temperatures. although i will be running inside. the temperatures across the of -- across the northeast, frigid. here are some of the low temperatures of we set records for across detroit,-14, pittsburgh,-9, new york city, central park, a century-old record of 4 degrees. even austin texas, 14 degrees. take a look to some of these other members across the map

now, as you mentioned, we are still into the deep freeze. -50 with the wind chill,-12 in chicago,-6 in buffalo. excuse me, these are morning low temperatures, actual air temperatures, not wind chills that to be stretching as far south as the far south. incredible windchill advisories. record lows. for dozens set overnight. as you can see, and the wind chill is still a potentially deadly across canada done to the northern plains, upper midwest after my great lakes, northeast. still feels like 14 in atlanta, 26 in new orleans, and-8 in new york, where there is relief on the way. i am so excited to tell you. before we do that, let's show more cold temperatures across the northeast.

the teens in new york city, boston ten, albany ten, but the first set will feel downright balmy, 70 temperatures. as you take a look ahead going through tomorrow, things will warm up. chicago, they were dealing with- 69 and minus 40-degree wind chills. look at new york city. can you believe this? heading into saturday and sunday we will go lower average. will feel downright like spring. even atlanta's georgia moving up into the '40's by friday, 60's by the weekend. i am happy to actually deliver good news on this very frigid evening. just to give you a look ahead, is a looking better, thursday even better. friday we are all above the freezing mark. saturday, downright spring-like across the eastern seaboard. there is the good news. we have to get through the next

well-funded for hours and it will be okay finished above weeks. we only have about 72 days until spring officially. if all of fish to 6 billion above average. is that possibly global warming? >> no, it is not one weather bet that global warming makes. we get have a discussion your whole show about climate change, global warming. but let me just say this. i am a weather forecaster. outside of five days it is very hard to predict what happens. to predict what is going to happen in a month, in a year, and five years, and 20 years, and 100 years, that is next to impossible. like everything else, everything adapts, changes. it is the same with the weather. we will have to pay close attention to what we put in the

atmosphere. i am all for making sure we project the atmosphere, but to say what will happen in 20, 30 years down the line, not one polar vortexes does this climate change make. lou: with that constructive sentence we will call it the last word on the matter. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. we call that forecast by and about a 30-year forecast. thank you so much. the senate voted to move ahead with the bill extending federal unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed. six republicans voted with democrats to go ahead on the bill that lets you actively restore aid payments to some 1 million unemployed. and when i talk about and narrow vote, 60 was the requisite number of votes. in shortly after the president's

planned by several job -- jobless americans, we're told to merge the senate to pass the measure without delay, and by golly, that's what they did. lou: -- >> i need a lot of people, and i cannot name a time or i met an american who would rather have an unemployment check than the pride of having a job. [applause] lou: it is not clear if democrats have the votes required for passage in the senate. they face a difficult fight in the republican controlled house. republican leaders to this point insist it will only backed legislation if it is six and a half billion dollars in costs is offset by spending cuts elsewhere. on the senate floor today minority leader richard mcconnell suggested we could do that by delaying parts of the president's health care law. >> i would like to propose that

we be allowed to offer an amendment to pay for these benefits by lifting the bbrden of obamacare is individual mandate for one year. lou: that proposal immediately rejected by the senate minority leader, harry reid. at the white house press secretary jay, -- j kearney suggested that he would be among many struggling to pay their bills of their unemployment checks are not renewed. >> in mission to the other hardships they face in many parts of the country, they're contemplating how they pay their heating bills. in louisville, kentucky was 7 degrees fahrenheit. lou: republicans pointing out the entire reason for the debate is that the president's policies have failed. at the white house he pushed back against even that idea. >> he has now had five years. does he bear some responsibility? >> he believes that they all

bear responsibility for taking action to help the economy in the american people. that is why economic growth, job creation, middle-class security have been the cornerstones of his domestic policy says the day he was sworn into office. and when. lou: sends us a note. we would like your interpretation of his reasoning which seemed to suggest that the president has no greater power than that of a u.s. congressman or senator. maybe i'm is heard the president's spokesman. send your thoughts to lou at loudobbs.com. as for the president, you will be promoting proposals for poverty and the nation's income. according to the publication,

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reforming the national security agency this new round of meetings comes up to the president's surveillance review panel recommending having telecommunications companies for a third-party organization hold the physical, if you can refer to visit -- visual and virtual records as physical, instead of the nsa. an air strike in iraq killing 25 al qaeda-linked to terrorists. this following the capture of an army officer and four soldiers, iraqi soldiers. now battling the terrorist group to retake to cities that were al qaeda strongholds before the iraqi war. and the first of the chemical weapons have left the country. you an official said the deadly chemicals are now on board a

danish cargo ship that is bound for international waters where they are said to be destroyed by u.s. officials. former defense secretary robert gates has created explosive had lasted a. portions of his revealing new books have been released. that book questions president obama. the book's title is duty, memoirs of a secretary at war. in one passage is him into afghanistan in know which he recounts a meeting with the president in march of 2011 and rates, as i sat there i thought the president does not trust his commander, cannot stand karzai, does not believe in his own strategy, and does not consider the war to be his. for him it is all about getting out. joining us tonight on fox news strategic analyst on the tennis colonel ron peters, formal -- former federal prosecutor and

arthur andrew mccarthy. gentlemen, thank you for being here. let me begin with you. your reaction to the gates recollection and writing? >> there is only one surprise in that book as far as i am concerned. someone in washington wrote an honest remark. i we surprise that a woman despises or does not trust the military. heat and militant steve -- he and hillary oppose the iraq surcharge -- surged. and i guess here is one more surprise. this president can call allegedly led americans die and be maimed you now in afghanistan for a policy he is not believe in for five years. lou: now, later in the book he says that he believes that the

president, somewhat contradictory to say the least, actually did the right thing, made the right decisions. i cannot spread up at all. can you? >> it would not be impossible to fight the right decision for the wrong reason. but i don't see how this could possibly be the right decision. i think similar to what robb said. well we have is a memoir that makes the obvious explicit. we have people who are politically opposed to not only american projections of power, but also have an unnatural aversion to the military who basically have -- as as it was politically possible try to disentangle themselves from these overseas conflicts, and it is much more about the political prospects that his national security. lou: we are going to go much deeper into his sense of

history. his time as secretary of defense, but it is already an explosive cha the president and secretary of state clinton to suggest that they were operating out of a political motivation rather than one in the national interest. let's turn to iraq. al qaeda taking over these two cities. i can remember vividly, as i'm sure you both can, the troops that we lost in taking those cities and holding those cities. i mean, it just does not make sense that we have, even as we are leaving iraq, not left a force strong enough, a government strong enough, military strong enough to hold onto the iraq that we left. >> again, politics. obama declared -- he knew

nothing about strategy your foreigg policy, but because iraq was started by bush he declared it a bad war. by default afghanistan becomes is a good war which he does not believe either but pursues for political reasons. when his percentage this trip where he spat on iraq where five soldiers were killed and maimed, imagine how different the entire middle east and tanks today had a obama left a small car residual force in iraq. our relations with iran would be different. syria would be different. he screwed it all the way. lou: and you have written extensively on this contest between the radical islamist and western civilization and, of

course, specifically the united states. how does this resolve itself? key is committed, the united states to withdraw. we are seeing the overrunning al qaeda. there will be a further conflict between sydney and portia. as we leave, one almost say abandon afghanistan, what is the result of it all? >> the result is that we leave behind a situation which replicates the late 1990's. al qaeda is able to get safe havens. the big thing with iraq, it was incumbent upon both these two most recent administrations, the real reason we needed to be there we said nothing to do with democracy but preventing al

qaeda from projecting force. about having made that political case we could have laid the groundwork for what we have now, which is a mess and not one that will be resolved anytime soon. lou: to be clear, i would like you to answer very quickly because we're so far on time. our troops will be in afghanistan to protect u.s. citizens as they are perceived by this president and administration. it does not matter whether the president of afghanistan says that there will be a bilateral security agreement or not, does it? >> it does matter because we have the pretense of legality. when we leave afghanistan, having left, a bloody mess

moderates against al qaeda. we will see a bloodbath in the middle east and the coming years that will tour 43:00 p.m. already seen in syria. >> we ought to give them rules of engagement if britain were people there. lou: i think that is a consensus. thank you very much. they cute. up next, we will go to the chalkboard to reveal some of the most important things in my brand new book, winning back this country. how about that. solutions that work. let's try that. the "chalk talk" is next. stay with us. ♪ 35th street the old dining tab at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall f roble avenue. ♪ this magic momt t is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those o believed they had the power to do more.

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and it rose by nearly 12% to $46 billion in 2012. >> and accusing fellow republicans unfortunate political stunt for filing a lawsuit challenging members of congress under obamacare. saying that senator johnson

should talk about these big problems that must be addressed in senator johnson said that he is disappointed by the congressman's disagreement on the issue. and we are not puzzled in any way. john sensenbrenner is trying to protect his staff and the other members of congress by working against the good senator. this nonsense is being piled up. joining us now is the "a-team." a.b. stoddard, it is so great to have you here with us. and lis wiehl is here with us as well. and also the national review columnist john fund.

and this includes the political basis for the decision is taken against and in iraq. what is your reaction? >> and he is known for his bipartisan distance. and it's pretty astonishing taking on people that we work with.

lou: is there anyway that we can escape this kind of baggage that is piled on? with a heavily laden fight? >> at this point what difference does it make? lou: whether it's the president's own cynicism and skepticism. about the quality of this in the strategy being important. whether it is iraq or afghanistan. the amount i think it is fair to say that we elected one of the

most important presidents when it came to foreign affairs in 2009. in five years and we are paying a very heavy price for that. if you read this carefully, the president has contempt for the military and as an absentee commander-in-chief most of the time. lou: i can hear ralph peters stopping at the notion that anyone could ever believed in any bit of this. >> is no telling when you have such an introspective. lou: we are going to continue

with the "a-team." i want to understand better how secretary gates could lead our troops and leave the military and of course president obama to be skeptical or absolutely opposed to a strategy that cost our young men their lives and we want to continue with this here in just a moment.

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lou: we are back with the "a-team." and i want to ask you. does this white house really have any credibility left on any issue? they have been caught in so many lies and in so many fictions. but to defeat and rationalize by further insistence on using this

as lives. >> that is a broad question. and there are many policy issues where the president is struggling to gain any traction and to achieve any results to build any momentum. this includes the window for a second term president and it was engulfed in a scandal and problem after problem and that window is now closed. democratic party is struggling to defend obamacare and there are not only problems with people trying to get into the program via the website, but they are continuing to have so many changes that it's going to be increasingly difficult for the democrats to explain this because it changes every week. lou: your answer is so broad i'm

finding it hard to attach it to my question. >> i think he struggling. i don't think he has understood this. and i think he is really struggling with credibility on any issue. but he has a terrible challenge trying to regain the trust of the public. and we are doing whatever we can to put the plan forward.

>> after that we are going to get the president going back to appeal this popularity and they are going to see bill de blasio on the left. >> they are talking about the income gap for crying out loud.

the fact is that urban minority males, the unemployment rate is worse today than it was in 1965. >> you get the last word. >> and we are using this as a campaign theme for the fall. and we will see if it works. lou: thank you so much for being with us. and you can join our discussion

and check us out on twitter and follow site lou dobbs news. go to our facebook page that loudobbs.com and here are some of tonight's best comments sharing their obamacare success story with us, saying thing that my family and i have retirement coverage and only 46.7% for 2014. and it had only increased this in the prior five years and especially if i lose my coverage under the employer mandate since the coverage i have had for 38 years is so terrible. and we have been told a lot of things by this administration and none of them are true. we want to hear your thoughts and your e-mail. we will be sure to read them on the air and we will send you a

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in her economics professor is the author of this book. paul, it is great to have you with us. what a brilliant idea. you are serious about this? >> yes. >> tell us about it very quickly. was it successful? do you recommend online dating? >> i do and it works for me. and the reason it worked from an economic perspective is that there's a market and that is where the parallel comes from online dating.

and way people go with this what other things, and it's a place where no money is changing hands. that's on the online market. some people get caught up and i like to make the point that you have a lot of economic principles. lou: the prices reflected later. >> yes, there's not doubt much in the way of prices. it's some talk about people searching for good. and when you get outside of the online dating sites, prices begin to come in for that much more and i talk about the difference between searching for a partner in searching for pharmaceuticals and that is one example that i've gotten into. lou: i'm thinking that we are

going to see only dating exccange is mandated by the government. but you are happy and it worked for you and i know it works for a lot of people. >> it's probably not for everd to get past the point. so when the market started there was a lot of stigma attached and in the book again into the parallels of the health reform debate in the other cases about this. and we're past that now.

lou: we have lots of people doing it and that is the quiddity that you are referring to. >> and we're getting very close on time. and i just want to commend you for humorous and insightful part of this. something that most of us find surprising and fun. which is something we don't get to do a lot of what it comes to economics and we thank you. we would like you to come back and we'll talk more about this. the book is everything that i ever needed to know about economics i went from online dating. paul, thank you again. what a terrific story. that is it for us tonight and we thank you for being with us. don't forget to pick up a copy of my new book, "upheaval." and again, pickup "upheaval" at the bookstore or online and a reminder that ob on tonight on

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