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p.m. the only place you king get simultaneous market reaction as he is speaking the biggest names the only place to get all of >> our top story leaders accused of engaging in retribution to use the power of the federal government and state governments against their opponents. more evidence emerging of the targeting of political enemies and the vengeful actions committed by this white house and its allies. conservative activist is one of those claiming to be the target of political retribution by one of the most powerful democrats of the country, the governor of new york. he's is your life today. arrester shaken by a market that is what to corrted
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another market sell-off. i am lou dobbs. lou: good evening. conservative activists to dash to susan that produced the 2016 obama is america has been indicted for fidelity campaign finance fraud. his film was highly critical of the obama ben administration releas to the 2012 election. he is accused of persuading his friends to donate and $20,000 to ed kennedy in the states of the york for reimbursing the donors. the fda claims it was from a routine review of campaign five legs with the sec but the indictment was brought forward by u.s. attorney from manhattan.
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his co-producer accuse the administration did to criminalize dissent within selective enforcement of the law saying that he did not act with that the criminal intent whenever but it was misguided friendship it is worth pointing not a john edwards daughter was accused of exactly the same crime by the bush to administration in 2007 and was charged with a misdemeanor. in just the latest example of what seems to be political reprisal, after the irs expose the targeng of conservive groups the department of justice exposed for the targeting of journalists. conservative activist is of a similar position today. hh claims governor cuomo is targeting his group with of
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number of requests for documents and use subpoena for his new to records. governor cuomo just revealed his true feelings about his political opposition. >> they are extreme conservatives who are right to life, a perot is selected , anti-what -- anti-gayhey are in favor of assault weapons of their the conservatives they have no place of the states of new york. that is not voodoo yorkers are. lou: he will join us to tell us his side of the story now have some opportunity before we bring you the bad news on wall street does stocks fell to the lowest levels dow jones industrial average 380 points closing below 16,000
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the s&p 500 lost 38 points in the nasdaq was down brady points more than 4.5 billion shares traded the wilshire 5,000 mr. the sses of $475 billion. for the week the dow was down 3.5% best of the loss 2.5 sam the nasdaq 1.5% of the week. and not over quite yet. j.p. morgan jays ceo jamie diamond earned $20 million including 320,000 shares. his total stake is now more than 6 million shares valued at $325 millio running in bad today visa guarantees customers are not held responsible if it
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reaches stolen after 110 million people had their account information stolen with the data breach at target and the market as. herbalife shares fall today after senator markey called for annvestigation of the company colleague and a possible policy scheme. long sat -- ponzi scheme he has made a numr of campaigns claims he takes a short position in the company nd billionaire investor carl icahn takes the opposite position holding nearly 20 percent of the stock. one bit of good news wall bar and announces the $10 billion fund to promote american be venturing jobs in the push to sell more american made products. way to go. thinking of more. the white house opposes with the senior health care advisers is leaving after only six months of the job
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the and one official says he resigned because of a recent health scare and other family considerations. is to as the metaphor for the disaster that is obamacare according to hhs 3 million people have now selected a health care plan under obamacare although there is no word how many of those a pate for premiums of more than 6 million people have had their health care plan canceled because of obamacare. the rnc voted to shorten the nomination contest to avoid another long primary battle that means the republican front runner could clinch the nomination as early as march rather than a. the chairman says it could improve the party's chances to win back the white house in 2016.
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[applause] >> we have been saying for months that we would no longer sitting around and allow ourselves to slice and dice for six months, participate in the circus of debates but take cold once again of our responsibility as the rnc because we are the custodians of the nomination process. lou: if you are counting all the 283 days from the midterm elections. bob mcdonnell and his wife pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges for accepting gifts a unit vacations from a businessman seeking favors from the state. both released on their own recognizance until the trial scheduled for late july the former governor rejected a plea deal that will allow him to plead guilty to one
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felony bank charges and would have let his wife off the hook all together. refers cast accuses the:registration and to target his group trying to intimidate and his group is responsible for exposing corruption of federal programs like obamacare and claims political retribution is standard for democratic party leaders the of our president. joining us now founder and president james teeeighteen. these are very serious charges you are making. very serious allegations against dinesh d'souza is seems disproportionate if it was true light would be a felony charge but the list goes on the ira's targeting of groups specifically why do you think you are being
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targeted by the new york state government? >>, said recently conservatives should not be will come but they should leave and a group of citizens project veritas we have under $1 billion budget we were subpoenaed over the last week asking for all financial records going back three years s it's seems suspicious with defrauding of the way stare of the views that they would come after a group like mine. lou: alleging what? >> all financial information we have sources said the undercover and we tried to protect our anonymity. this is the department of labor in the york state could be the unemployment compensation issue but they asked for all records.
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lou: did your attorneys asked them what they are doing?3 we back the state of new york did not show up when we ask them we with your daughter last year we were fully compliant so we're willing to cooperate but we do think it is suspicious th timing is suspicious because we are a journalist to come after us rht now. >> but as the definition of everyone in the york was catholic which is several million he tries to walk back the claims he was articulati of mission for his administration and? >> that seems to be the case. i have to show up in court next wk the and it is striking. not just with dinesh d'souza but in the state of louisiana and was brought up by charges i was cleared and my private information was leaked to the of media.
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there is an audit in the york state and their integration was leaked by the york post. i am concerned my infoation will be leaked to the press of the audit takes place for the that is my major concern. lou: other organizations should be concerned. if this is intimidation trying to chill the investigative process. what is the process? >> the major debates is a fight every journalist they try to define me as the activist if they can make that stick then they would arguably have this same journalistic protections protections, this is a very fundamental point. lou: you are saying whoever the arbitrat is what is a journalist they dismiss the
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activism of the new york times. >> that's right. so what is journalism if they can define that then they can take away the rights of we in the demise of the sedulous -- citizen journalist. lou: to see that trample on is disturbing in we will follow that closely. we wish you thebest and will be withou all go away is our president or office holders using there power to retaliate? the "a team" has the users. stay with us. the republican party has a historic opportunity to keep the house tuned to take the senate. what is missing with the
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what is missing with the republican battle
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lou: the house speaker bay phase say conservative rebellion but when it comes to pushing emigration in legislation without securing the border. thspeaker is expected to release his immigration a principles that was set the parameters for such legislation next week. but house republicans are concerned the leadership is preparing a path to amnesty rather than supporting the reform plan. so that revolution and maybe more significant than people suspect. president obama delivers his state of the union mired in
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scandal and endless investigations with his own failed policies. the economy is reeling from a jobless recovery. all zero that and much more of foreign policy. now 283 days away from the next election and the republican party has a historic opportunity to hold the house and take control of the senate but the g.o.p. does not have a strong message. in fact, one could argue there is a civil war in the g.o.p.. jordan we now stephen peyser and dos editor at town hall.com. , the turn to you. is seen to be the up -- siepi but citron reince priebus talking about the total end of message
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which is a 283 days away and >>. >> guess he was talking about 2016 but also midterm elections it doesn't have to be the message and incde 24t the unified message republicans have is obamacare. talk about historic turnovers look at 2010 obamacare was the baby issue before we saw premiums aaa ganda taxes theeek up. that is what individual candidates will run on the dnc said they will try as well as more people are against obamacare will not go well for the democrats. if individual candidates to stick to the what message they have a good plan. lou: lecter of the failure of obamacare and this administration.
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is that a half to breathe 42 pernt who do identify as a dependent or that see you perhaps a little problematic? been back and now she has a right. anything they do to distract from obamacare be in the bay the message, we wanted to focus on obamacare but others them leadership did not want to spend as much time. i figure was right if the kid is right to focus on did now or particularly september or october or in november next year. disaster for the present incumbent democrats, but chuck schumer has said the democrats would be ready on obamacare it would be an asset. it is not. played the
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we now see do lowe's, beyond what we thought was the bottom not numbers of three birds to go. so republicans would be five is -- should be wise to dusk and the addition not offer some of their own thoughts on obamacare. but the focus should we be on obamacare. lou: if the republicans fofocus on obamacare and the speaker makes it clear he boost toward with the emigration of proposals that i support and i think millions of americans would would, with this of frusation and crashing its economic policies he and republicans is not be able to do much about 23 billion people being unemployed.
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sublets of that you could hang on the present but the republicans have to have some kind of voice that addresses the unemployed to middle-class that is a shrinking in those aspirations that are being denied. justice a obamacare crashed and there is no news in that spirit but there's so much news that comes out of obamacare it is the centerpiece the way it is said of the way it is tripling the premiums it is destroying the middle-class now they can no longer move up to the upper class as a result of obamacare. those who were employed by businesses are either losing jobs or health insurance which means they don't have the money to go to develop themselves again to move up to that clas a you know, lot of the middle-class is
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pushed down to though overclass the disparity is bigger now under barack obama. you can talk about obamacare bid is important to know the economic consequences that goes with the legislation. of course, it will be a big deal for the middle class. >> what the reason the middle-class is shrinking is an alliance with and the elected officials felt response thursday of source vegas of the of class jobs and retreating policies that lead tooffshore production. even now pushing the democratic president to sign a fast-track authority that requires many of the save
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that have led to the devastation of the middle-class and a sizable portion of manufacturing jobs. how do they respond? how were they not thinking of those issues? >> i think i am not arguing only obamacare but it has to be what they talk about certainly you could have republicanandidates make comments or on other issues if they want to regaan john income the quality. lou: they have to. >> that's fine they have plans for upward mobility have that debate. conservative should want to. part of the problem in 2012 net romney wanted to talk about the economy and only that. yo could draw up parallel in it would be a ctionary tale.
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there romney wanted but he just talked about statistics that is not enough for a half to talk about other plans. lou: he did not even talk statistics are in the substantive issue including a mob in benghazi was al qaeda el link to a group of terrorists. he was so out of it in so afraid to embrace profound issues of american people a still desperate to have resolve of a free election better in a presidential year them the mid term it is better the and not at all to create a national consensus and he doesn't seem that there is any clear leadership yet. >> possibly but coming back to the issue of obamacare but republicans come and a
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matter the candidate does not have to explain how it affects people all. lou:hen why was said to the exclusion? and then why do you keep telling it? very the message they need to send to if they want health care back and it will not happen until the end slavery could do latitud look at heth care under bush or under the registration of barack obama? life take there has to be a different approach. >> make an argument. lou: the truth of the matter is eric american people all deserve some users did with
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it could obamacare it is necessary and sufficient then why is a vastly lower? >> give is necessary. >> i have no problem with that. >> but there are so many other important issues to talk about like the direction of this country. >> that is why republicans lose if they have the big object in front of them they get distracted then go off and go to other topics. lou: like immigration and? by rick exactly. the point is you have to at have a wedding issue way you wanted change for the first i've been a long time republicans have wanted to focus on to not drift off to other topics that are not winnable.
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lou: is the republican party starting to drool at the mouth? stibine not the first time. >> if you go and you look at the poll done recently for americanto break the top issue with the size and scope of government for one the top issues you was 16% you have the deficit the top four or five issues those are the things they should focus on but they should not be distracted to talk about issues not at what americans care about. lou: we are out of time. thank you for being here.
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that is why the speaker is practicing his curveball of inviggration of the 3% that the we are can people are concerned about it this bad guy would not be talking about immigration. we had this discussion of the four. with other conservatives. >> does not make sense to inject and.gov leave a ga through the 24 teed alexian. the fifth focus is that. >> even if he brings the bill to the floor they still will might get it done before the bid terms so why bring it up as a distraction? lou: take care. a new poll shows this may not be a typical big term
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eleven of the objectives in my new book is to help win elections. i discuss in my book "upheaval" that it's rare to have major turnover in capitol hill. listen to the short portion for myudio book. >> congress has created a system that makes it harder and harder for outsiders to run and win seats in the legislature. for decades congress has had an approval rating that would embarrass parking meter attendance. and yet they keep getting reelected over and over again. lou: take a look at this. the last big election was in 2010 when republicans took the hoe. at 85% of incumbents were reelected. the good news is that they re encouraging signs in a new gallup poll shows a record low number of voters, 46%, say that
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representatives deserve reelection. that is a cord low. most members of congress deserve election has dropped to an incredible historic low of 17%. it is up to the republican party leadership to take advanage of that rising discontent. and we hope that they will. because we need a viable republican party and an energetic and successful party to have our successful two-party system. i hope he will help these gop leaders to focus on the right issues. the ones that really matter. and hope to have help in the hard work to expand the gop and getting republicans to the polls this november. as i said, there are only 283 days to go. 283days. "upheaval" is available online. pick up an audio boo copy at itunes.com. barnes & noble, wal-mart. and we are coming right back. please stay with us. lou: jay leno and the man third
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in line for the presidency cracking jokes from the "tonight show." the "a-team" on the new speaker boehner and the old
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lou: the "ateam" tonight. robert dinner and then, senior policy is hadley heath and special assistant to george bush, ron christie. thank you for being here. dinesh d'souza is charged with violating a campaign election law and talking about a felon. $20,000. >> it is not about the dollar amount. it is about the act itself. and if you read what dinesh d'souza determined, he basically said he called it a most misguided friendship.
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>> i think that we have to wait and let the courts decide because we are innocent until proven guilty in this country. i would not defend criminal activity that is what is taking place here. that certainly it's hard to ignore his history. >> is not a conservative but he is a larry flynt of political literature. he has made a career writing rise and scandalous. so i don't give him any credit. i think it's a mistake when you talk about him being an author of political literature. lou: wow. [laughter] >> wow. lou: dinesh d'souza is a friend of mine. i like him and i think he is nice and gentle soul. i would say to you are a gentle soul until i heard you say that. my gosh. well, let's see what happens when ron christie weighs in on this. what are your thoughts?
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>> i think that this is a good showing. i no dinesh d'souza as well. i think that is happily pointed out, we are inncent until proven guilty. but it goes to the underlying nature of the administration that has overtly use the irs for political purposes. the point is someone who is a campai donor of obama, to see whether it warrants investigation. as a conservative and one that has written a documentary that was very critical of the president, i think it's interesting in a sense of timing that they are coming after him like that's. lou: i think we should give "the washington post" credit for pointing out to john edwards campaign who stood in precisely the same position with the same amount of money. it was only a misdemeanor in 2007, apparently a far less demanding president with george w. bush. does that give you any pause at all and even the post would point that out?
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>> i mean, look -- lou: is there any mercy in your heart? >> come on, robert. [laughter] >> for anyone who stands and tries to violate ourelectoral process, hold them accountable to the bar just is, i'm not suggesting you should go to jail or anything but to be held accountable. lou: a misdemeanor would state your bloodlust? >> i would refer back to what his own lawyer said. there's an issue here about misconduct that should be exposed. a. lou: that generosity is starting to percolate up. [laughter] we are on the way. so what are your thoughts, if we uld, very quickly. ron christie, we are getting ready for a state of the union address and peggy noonan says no one will be listening. is that true? >> i think that she is right. she wrote an excellent op-ed in "the wall street journal" or she said this president has
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overstated and oversaturated. the state of unity to be about something important or the president had the opportunity to talk to the country. it seems that this president has a wasted opportunity to bring the country together a. lou: what your thoughts? >> our member when the president made a campaign video and tv speech. he said don't tell me the words don't matter. and he pointed to other famous speeches and he talked about the importance of words. >> i also remember a time when republicans didn't yell, liar, and disrespect the presidency. a house member certainly did in one state of the union. how can they behave to respect this office? lou: i remember when folks wouldn't interrupt someone in midsentence. [laughter] lou: it was certainly a different time for different folks. robert zimmermanron christie, hadley heath, we take you off. up next, two consecutive days of triple digit losses. well, rethinking the possible worst. worst. wall street veteran
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lou: stocks plummeting. the dow jones posting its decline since 2011, the largest decline. i'm joined by director financial research, jonathan, it is good to have u here. what is driving this selloff is a lot about emerging market currencies. a slowdown in the chinese economy? what do you think? >> there's a lot of thing at play. we think about argentina tile and actually defaulted on their currency that led to a default and russian sovereign debt and big bankruptcy with big hedge fund trading currency. so in that ti the s&p was down 18%. how this sort of plays out.
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there are risks manifesting in the mark. lou: i want to put up a chart that i asked for earlier today. to show the relative market of these equities markets around the world. because people get a sense of proportion. we are looking at just about $23 trillion in europe is just about 12 trillion and china a little over 5 trillion. >> yes. lou: this is getting a little silly. because we have a business press that is letting the tail wag the dog. proportionality is crital. when you are assessing risks and making decisions about future bets. >> argentina's market cap is $40 billion. that is actually the sides of the uk connected global risk for a 40 billion-dollar bankruptcy were to go down, that would be massively important issue for
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the global market. but it's in close proximity and so the discounting factor is it will drive the markt. there is some smaller in but the latin american government can take care of it. lou: what is your judgment here? what is an investor to do and someone who is invested in it and what is your judgment about what someone should do who has capital when he or she is thinking about investing? >> we are in the midst of a development market boom. so if you think about emergin market and outperforms for the better part of a decade. that capital has to go somewhere. so the caitals went to funnel into those markets, actually keeping a good bid under the u.s. and the german and the uk market.
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lou: a new study finds out marijuana could cause addictive and compulsive behavior to be passed on to their children. as man states consider legalizing marijuana, joining us now is doctor marc siegel. a member of the fox news medical "a-team." doctor cummings great heavy with us. the president says that marijuana is better than our call. weighing in to another debate. which is an interesting decision on hs part. is he right or wrong? >> refer back to his memoir where he talks about his old pot smoking days. maybe that is where the influence fuels the spirit of the answers he is not right. both are bad. i'm not going to come on the programs that alcohol is good for you. it's bad for you it's bad for
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your liver and heart and brain. it is just bad. but so is marijuana. many studies out there have shown that it interferes with decision making and thinking especially when young people take marijuana. it interferes with her performance on tests and it's not good for the lungs. this new study is a fancy concept. what i did one person affects the offspring. it doesn't cause mutations that it alters how the genes are expressed. lou: so that actually reaches to the behavior of succeeding generations? >> yet, and we all thought that it was because of pot smokers of this generation say go ahead, go ahead. it's not like that. this study was done in rats and rats are not talking. the genetic changes that you see are related to something being passed along. it's frightening. lou: the president making this comparison. at this time there is a view that it should be legalized for medical reasons. do you support that? >> that is a hard one for me to support. there are medical reasons for
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using marijuana. but what ends up happening is that of its legalized it goes crazy. look at california. in california it is legalized for medical reasons, but everyone on the street corner is getting at. so it is used as an excuse. we will give out the local store and it's not restricted. lou: there is an arguent. there was some considerable craziness in california before. and it's so predictable. but the white house -- the white house itself, drugs are contradicting the president on this. so what should people be doing to resolve this? do you say to a kid, stay away? we know everyone is going to be asked to go drinking illegally before age. how do you counsel this? >> well, you can do about fear but you have to go buy a role
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model. they have to see how you behave and what your priorities are and you have to hope for the best. then it has something to do with who they hang out with. you can't control people hang out with because a lot of peer pressure is involved. if you do it by fear you're going to lose. lou: i want to turn to ano topic. h1n1 showing up in the country. it looks like a difficult flu year. what do you say to people about what to expect? >> people can still get their flu shots and they should. here's the deal. this is still the same flu predominating that we talked about in 2009. in an epidemiologist told me that 10 dumbest sy around for a few years. lou: there is the good news. >> this year it is still affecting the yog. so that is the group. the target group is still young people and pregnant women. o i say everyone get a flu shot to create a ring of immunity to
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protect your family. now is the time. lou: i can tell you in my own family that some of the young adults who are closely related to me have resisted getting their flu shots because they are so independent. >> are they out an agreement? i have some shots. the. lou: talk about a frightening thought. doctor marc siegel, it is always good to have you. >> good to see you. lou: before we go, we are promoting my new book, "upheaval." here are some of tonight's top comments. patrice will mean that keep talking. her voice needs to be heard on capitol hill before the republicans give the next election hillarylinton. that will mean the total demise of america as we know it. and i couldn't agree with you more except let's worry about 2014 here as well. and charles wrote on facebook about the president threatening exutive action. when will the amrican people
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