claim was 1,000. in three days i had my luggage. it was held in frankfurt, germany the entire time. that is it for "the willis report." have a great night. charles lou: good evening everybody. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordering reprisals or the kidnapping and murder of three teenagers in the west bank. the three teenage boys were kidnapped two weeks ago. they were found shot to death yesterday. one of the three boys an american citizen of the terrorist group hamas celebrated the event. said a seething israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu promised quote, hamas will pay. as you can see on your screen, prime minister netanyahu lived up to his threats, ordering bombings overnight of 34 suspects hamas strongholds. president obama, however in

contrast, calling for restraint, despite yet another dead american on foreign soil. the president saying quote, as a father i can not describe unimaginable pain that the parents of these three teenage boys are experiencing. i urge all parties to refrain from steps that could further destablize the situation. his comments suggest he doesn't quite comprehend the magnitude of yet another american killed on foreign soil by terrorists. the white house facing reality that ukraine moved back from civil war if it ever emerged with the russian military waiting across-the-boarder for order from vladmir putin to invade. today white house deadline for iraq to form a new government with 800 american troops returned to baghdad, the deadline is, as they often do

with this president has come and gone. shias, sunnis, kurd, no closer to ending sectarian violence. we'll talk with former pentagon official kt mcfarland here in moments about the president's foreign policy missteps and miscalculations. also tonight president obama said he will fix the broken immigration system himself without any help from congress. but president obama offered no details or any plan whatsoever. instead calling for more reviews, reports, suggestions from within his own administration that has yet to fix the problem. >> to review what authorities are available to the president, i think that can be applied in this case and president wants to see what executive authority he can wield to address some of those problems. what the president would want to see is full accounting. review that began in march at the president's request by the secretary of homeland security was review of current

immigration policy as it relates to deportations. whether or not there could be some changes made in that policy to make them more humane. what the president has asked for now is building upon building upon that request and that review. lou: we'll take up the president's go it alone strategy. we'll talk with manhattan institute fellow heather macdonald on the crisis on our southern border. we turn to iraq where the obama administration continues to insist it is not putting boots on the ground as another 200 of our troops move into iraq. he denies the move is even mission creep. for more on the situation in iraq iraq, israel, ukraine and mexico i'm joined by former pentagon official, fox news military analyst. kt mack lar land. food to have you with us -- mcfarland. >> good to be with you. lou: iraq, this is a strange

moment because the government in baghdad saying unless the united states gets serious about providing military aid they will turn to russians, iran for all equipment and materiel they say they desperately need. >> we spent $60 billion training and equiping the 65,000-manner rackky army. they were confronted by 2000 al qaeda-isis thugs. what do they do? they throw down their weapons, took off their uniforms and ran away to hide. if they're coming to say we need more american help, more person support, we can't do this alone, too bad you have had your chance. for the president to say have more inclusive government maliki, iraq is over. the iraq of two weeks ago is no longer the iraq of today and will never be again. lou: will it be a state divided in three, that is, the sunnis, shias and the kurds? >> big than that. i think the kurd in the north

are pro-american. they have a strong military, a thriving economy and stable at peace, that could be an american ally. that could be its own separate state because it is wealthy. it has got oil. the other two parts of iraq, shiite part of iraq, that is already iran's sock puppet. maliki who, he is really taking his orders from iran. it will not be shiite iraq. it will be shiite iran-iraq. on the other side the al qaeda isis group, they will sort of marry up with rebel groups in syria. so you will have those regions. borders don't mean anything anymore. they have moved past that. that is al qaeda isis group establishing a caliphate, that is what that means. borders don't count for them. lou: certainly not the borders, the border between syria and iraq where now they, the islamic state in iraq and the levant are

saying that they are going to maintain something called and creating something called the islamic state, inviting the immigrants to come to the islamic state as they style it. what do you make of this? is it sustainable, having a achieved what they have? they're controlling 1/3 of iraq right now. >> they are one of the wealthiest terrorist groups in the world. they have two billion, with a "b," money behind them. not counting gulf arab families that are supporting them. we look at them, say how absurd they will not be a legitimate state. so far they are. lou: benjamin netanyahu making good on his promise this would not stand, attacking, bombing, 34 hamas sites, strongholds, if you will in retaliation and reprisals.

meanwhile the president saying don't see stablize the region. not a word of protest i recall from this president about the kidnapping of those three teenagers and he didn't mention that one teenager happened to be an american citizen today. >> does it surprise you after benghazi when 4:00 americans were killed and president, white house, state department didn't provide adequate security for them before, during or after? didn't try to rescue them? president keeps making speeches telling people to do stuff. nobody does anything he said. whether russia, ukraine, whether it is iraq or syria or china. he keeps making speeches and calling for restraint. turns out leading from behind, we've been left behind, that is really upsetting thing. the legacy of presidency of barack obama will be diminution of the united states's position in the world. it is ever-shrinking power. lou: what do you make of so-called humanitarian crisis on our southern border, which for

all the world has been caused in large measure by this president's executive actions over course of five years which he reduced intensity of enforcement of u.s. immigration laws and in fact reduced our border security? >> we don't have a border with mexico anymore. if the president is saying, we're looking now at iraq and syria, there are thousands, 4,000 fighters, experienced jihadist with european or american passports, they will come home. what is easiest way to get into the united states, if you don't have american passport? come through the open border. if you do have american passport, come to the united states. they are coming and we are not protecting ourselves. we don't have a secure southern border and we're not looking for these people with the same intensity, because the political correctness. we have to treat everybody the same. but we really should be profiling for the behavior patterns terrorists exhibit and we're not.

lou: kt mcfarland, thank you for being here. >> thank you. lou: the obama care disaster is back in the news tonight after a government watchdog group issued a report finding widespread props with the health care applications. cordingcording to the health hun services inspector general there were two million flawed applications from october to december last year. worse, this government resolved only 10,000 of those cases during the ig's audit. that is less than 1% of the 2.9 million people. obamacare may also be far more expensive than previously reported. much. one harvard economics professor says the health care law is costing our economy more than $800 billion a year at current prices. new reports that romanian hacker attacked vermont's obamacare

website last december, gaining access 15 times, going undetected for a month. state officials say private consumer data wasn't on the hacked server but computer experts say it is possible that consumers were put at risk. russian hackers hard at work. private cybersecurity researchers say russian hackers have been engaging on industrial espionage on a large-scale, systematically attacking hundreds of western and oil and gas companies and energy investment firms. and they're employing more sophisticated hacking techniques such as planting malicious software into websites that energy workers often visit such as online take-out menus. we're coming right back. president obama refuses to take responsibility for the humanitarian crisis on our border with mexico. the manhattan institute's heather mcdonald on what the president is doing, what he

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yet he is still out there talking as if he is running against congress and sounding, it seems to me, extraordinarily, his words, extraordinarily hollow. is anybody taking him seriously? >> well the democrats are and immigrant advocates are. this is truly one of the most surreal moments in immigration history, lou. we have right now in front of our eyes a very startling preview of what is going to happen if obama gets his full-scale amnesty. we have a surge of minors, sometimes, accompanied by their parents. sometimes not. coming across-the-boarder. expecting quite rationally to be allowed to stay, having been drawn here by the magnet of obama's own unilateral and possibly unconstitutional amnesty for so-called dream juveniles, who were brought here by their parents. and so, what we're seeing is

what happens in every single amnesty in the west, whether it is in europe or here, you pass a amnesty. or in the case of obama, sign it into action without any congressional support, and you bring in more people. is, this is reversed. lou: excuse me. go ahead. >> he is getting away with it? saying to congress have to pass a bill i constructed. senate "gang of eight" bill, full on amnesty and open borders

no one picks on the lack of distinction between the two. >> exactly. and yet, bashes the republicans for not being willing to compromise. but he is the one who is not willing to compromise. already recently rebuked by the supreme court for. marvlous constitutional law professor here. stretching what i think his actual accomplishments were is preposterous. lou: with 13 unanimous decisions against his administration, i don't think will pretend effectively that much longer he is a savant on constitutional law? particularly again after losing on so many important cases and, i mean it is striking that he would even maintain, attempt to

maintain the fiction. let's, with his own appointees voting against him for crying out loud. the white house at this point, has made it pretty clear. they understand immigration reform is dead this year. they don't understand with a what they're witnessing on southern border. the reality is, that both parties, president bush, 10 years ago, pushing for a comprehensive immigration reform. famously saying there are jobs in americans won't do. this president saying that republicans are stopping him. the reality it seems to me heather, that, the people that this is supposed to be all about, that is illegal immigrants, are the last people being considered by either party. because this is could have been solved, most recently, proposals. four separate bills, would have

provided foundation for true reform and true a simulation and accommodation for illegal immigrants. it could have been done eight years ago in 2006 and seven, when both sides started demanding full load instead of a compromise. is there any rationality in prospect at all with the, with the fate of these illegal immigrants and national interests hanging in the balance? >> well, i, i don't really see it. i see the momentum moving further and further away from any understanding that our country has a unequivocal right to enforce its borders and sovereignty. and, once you give up on that, you're left to irrationality of people outside of our country deciding what our immigration policy should be -- lou: heather mcdonald, thanks for being with us. good to see you. >> thank you, lou. lou: up next, president obama

says he will fix as much as broken immigration system as he can without congress. is the system broken? or is it simply not being managed not being enforced. by the way, where is the president actual plan. my commentary is next. i had no idea i had shingles. there was like an eruption on my skin and burning. i'd lift my arm and the pain back here was excruciating. when i went to the doctor his first question was "did you have chickenpox?" i thought it was something that, you know, old people got.

lou: president obama programming is he will redirect federal resources to a humanitarian crisis, which appears to be a direct result of his previous executive orders and actions n his first year as president you may recall, he reduced worksite raids on large employers who were employing illegal immigrants. he ordered all i will immigrants facing deportation to have a lawyer, reversing the policy of the bush administration. mr. obama is also used proscutorial discretion to permit illegal immigrants to remain in the united states. he sued arizona and alabama to stop state enforcement of laws against illegal immigration. he create ad public advocate for, not the unemployed, but for illegal immigrants.

and he released illegal immigrant detainees, all sending strong messages to mexico and nations of central america and of course, their citizens, that our border is effectively open to whoever wants to cross it. president obama's executive actions are one of the main causes of our so-called border crisis. back in 2012 for example, the executive action titled, deferred action for childhood arrivals or dhaka. grant the children of illegal immigrants a two-year reprieve from deportation. the message was clear. that the obama white house would grant amnesty whenever possible. defacto but still amnesty. but now he as that temerity to say we have a real humanitarian crisis on our border. it is of the president's making. now while the president talks tough about enforcement, but

says never anything of any real solution, any real plan, he also is asking congress for mon than $2 billion to deploy a whopping 150 border patrol agents to reinforce our border. 150 additional agents, to add to the more than 21,000 border patrol agents who deal with about 60,000 so-called unaccompanied minors who walked right across our southern border. harder for this white house to explain is why with only half as many agents 10 years ago, the border patrol was catching almost three times as many illegal immigrants as this border patrol today. and why they manipulated deportation data to make it appear that the border patrol was in fact the deporting more illegal immigrants than the bush administration.

the homeland security secretary had to admit before congress that that was not the case. that in fact, they were manipulating the numbers. this president keeps saying most children from honduras, el salavador and guatemala will be shipped back home while still talking, acting as singular historic figure who will right wrongs against these people. and as congressman luis gutierrez said in a blinding moment of obama worship, he will heal illegal immigrants as well. instead mr. obama refuses to honor his constitutional obligation to defend our borders, to enforce, not defy our laws and to act in the national interests. it is now apparent that is not our president's nature. or inclination. we're coming right back. protests across the country

against common core educational standards. teachers union leader, randi teachers union leader, randi winegarten our guest next.

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people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. lou: common core facing a sharp national backlash. while the educational initiative was adopted by 45 states and the district of columbia. there are now more than 300 -- 340 bills in nearly every state introduced in their legislatures to modify and to delay or revoke implementation of the common core curriculum. indiana, oklahoma, south carolina, have passed legislation this year to be withdraw from the common core standards.w and a dozen states dropped out of the testing groups or delayed implementation of testing for at least another year. our next guest tonight is a supporter of common core. joining us is randi winegarten. she is the president of the american federation of teachers and it is a great pleasure to

have you here. >> great to be on. lou: common core, a good idea, it sounded like but the way it has been moved, implemented, has created problems of its own and the states are rebelling here, aren't they. >> well you have some, so, common cordone right is a good idea, meaning that we have to actually move public school systems to be, from no child left behind, which was -- lou: was that a good idea. >> well you know, yes and no. no child left behind, having title one and nesa funding so we do what other countries do, which is give more funding to kids who are poor, that is what lbj tried to do with the war on poverty and with title one. then what happened with george bush, was he said, i am frustrated! let's have,, let's make sure tht kids, actually we know what kids

are actually doing. and so the piece of no child lefti behind that was good was, okay, we shine a light on what is going on. but what then happened was the testing system became about rote memorization. lou: which by the way which most americans up until the 20th century were being, late 20thn century were being taught. >>b exactly. lou: it wasn't a bad result. >> no but the difference is this. you can't get a middle class job in america if you don't actually know how to apply knowledge these days. lou: we got 20 million people who are unemployed, who i think of as outstanding folks. they can read. they have got for the most part high school degrees at very least and who can't find a job because that job doesn't exist. >> well, that is, that, my friend is a whole another problem. lou: right. so, i think it goes together because we hear so many idealogues i'm talking about on both sides. >> right. lou: start talking aboutrt training.

one of the horror stories of modern politics is to hear people talk abouts training for jobs. jobs, a, that don't exist. >> right. lou: jobs, b, that none of the so-called savants understand will be created. therefore what in hell are we teaching people? what we need to do, the great equalizer in this society firmly believe, and i know you must, is public education. >> absolutely. so this what i think we need to do. i kind of take a step back, the polarization of this debate gives me headaches every day. because you he no, like, we, so i think we have to do three things for kids. i think we have to help kids developg relationships. they have toh develop trust. they have to develop relationships with each other around adults. number two, we have to help kids know how to apply knowledge. not just read but be able to apply it. best able to take and problem-solve. and number three, this is actually the most important, you have to have help kids learn

persistence and resilience. we all trip and fall. we all have bad things happen to us. aroundl the people who survive and ablen to navigate their livs are people who actually are at it and at it and have the support to be, to have that grit and resilience. that is what i think public education should beea about. lou: i don't think many people would argue with that.nk >> right. lou: there are a couple arguments that do arise from common core. hot hell decided what everybody will be teaching. >> right. lou: why was it done without the full knowledge and participation much ourhe public and citizenry. >> i think you're right. lou: gotze to number two. you got three. we are nation truly believe, even if we don't always practice it, public education. that is local control of public education. it has been proved to work. it is been, turned upside down by my opinion, an emphasis on the federal department of

education and federal initiatives. thirdly, in this instance, with, with common core, why in the world couldn't we bring people together, rather than money elites to drive an agenda and with program, into our public schools? why not have a full-on partnership between local education, state education and my god, we could even throw in the parents, how about that? >> what a concept. have parents who a are closest o kids. so i don't disagree with any of that. in fact i think what has happened, there was this rush, look, you have it with president obama. you had it with president bush. you have it with governors. they proclaimed -- lou: by the way you know i don't have a favorite among those two in terms of public education. >> they proclaim as opposed to rolling up sleeves and actually get work done. so there is a lot, what i would do is actually say, take these standards, see if they work. don't start testing kids on

them, or holding teachers consequential alley for them, until they make them work. make parents comfortable with them. and make kids comfortable with them. give teachers ability to teach it. lou: how about a do-over? why don't we have the public, the federal department of education, the fta, other teacher unions, all of the school districts and state departments of education in this country come together and start talking seriously about what would be a common core? that is, a core curriculum that was their design, with values and allow the individual discretionary differentiations still exist in local education with the full participation of parents in the community. >> hallelujah. lou: on hallelujah, we'll say randi winegarten, thanks for being here. we would like to have you back to continue the conversation. >> be great. thank you. lou: appreciate it. up next, the supreme court hand catholics nationwide a resounding victory in the battle

to maintain religious freedom, in the face of the obama agenda.

lou: joining me now, president of the catholic league, bill done snow hue. -- donohue. >> happy to be here. lou: do i detect a spring in your step. >> i like to pop the champagne. i don't trust the administration. i want more rights. quite frankly i never seen an administration less religion friendly than the obama administration. that is why we needs rights of conscience act before the congress right now. i don't trust him. i know we won today and we will win, mark my words, we'll win bigger once the supremes hear case dealing with catholic non-profits next year. we need to keep on winning. obamacare is literally imploding now. lou: i think you've got a good case to make there.

justice alito wrote in the majority opinion, protecting free exercise rights of corporation, like hobby lobby protect religious liberty of humans that own and control those companies. i was just talking with jason and judy about that. there are concern expressed by both that the idea that a citizen or a person rights are now being ascribed to a corporation. are you at any uncomfortable with that. >> not particularly although they make some legitimate points. i have less of a quarrel with them than the people, all the horror stories we're hearing what will happen next. people can be denied coverage for any reason willy-nilly. the fact of the matter is, supreme court ruled on a law, the religious freedom restoration act which was passed in '93. if all the parade of horribles was going to happen, we would known it by now. lou: isn't reality in all of this too, this effectively, goes to a small group of, what are

considered contraceptive pills and prescriptions that be there? i don't think people focus on narrow necessary of that part of it, and even though the effect was broad? secondly how many times does the taxpayer have to pay for contraception through welfare, and through all the various programs? my goodness, at all levels, state, federal, the needy are being provided for. one would think a $10 contraception would be a month contraception, would be available to everyone. not as if somebody is being denied? >> that is exactly right. in fact i checked on internet today. for $21.67 you can get a month supply of birth control. that is price of dvd or. that is phony issue. what is on the table is abortion. it is not contraception.

lobby -- hobby lobby, that is what bothers me. they could have settled for contraception. not exactly a controversial issue. abortion is. obama administration wants nose of camel in the tent because the goal going back to when he first came in obama, get freedom of choice act, which would force catholic hospitals to perform abortions. he lost today and i'm delighted. lou: pope francis. he is, he is being criticized in some quarters and quite a few quarters because he has been so strident on issue of capitalism. some saying he is marxist, a leninist. he says that the communists stolen the flag of the church. i thought that was interesting response. >> i think rhetorically communists done a good job that they're concerned about the poor. actually they punish them. much like obama and de blasio. lou: with that bill donahue, thanks for being here. >> thank you very much. appreciate it.

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♪ lou: quotation in the evening, this quote from the noted educator,o author, business thinker and consultant, peter drucker. the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity. he might had our next guest in mind as he expressed those thoughts. she is an entrepeneur sharing her heartwarming experience, in a brand new book, "life by the cup." the tale of a young woman, who

out of necessity to save her son created what would become a multimillion dollar business. author and founder of zhena's gypsy tea. zhena muzyka. >> thank you for having me. lou: congratulations on the book. >> thank you. it has been a long time coming. lou: you began this, to provide money and support for your son. tell us about that. >> well when my son was born i was a single mom and sage needed an operation to save his life. back then a birth defect was considered a preexisting condition. so i couldn't get him insurance. so we had several operations and by the time he was four he was all better but i had to have him with me and i needed a job. and no one will really hire you with a kid in tow. so i started my own tea company. lou: and the result, impressive indeed. what made you think of tea? >> well, my grandmother was ukrainian gypsy and she taught me that plants could heal

anything. andt i fell in love with botanicals. started blending up herbal concoctions. it was my hob by i studied herbal medicine. when i was in a desperate moment, i asked god what i could do to provide for my son and pay for these operations. i literally saw a gypsy tea party and took my heritage and tea and put it together. i threw my first one and almost 300 people came and the products were a hit. lou: that is extraordinary. you talk about social responsibility and sustainability. >>t uh-huh. lou:y profit is a, is a big word and an important factor. you have been able to drive profits. you've been able to talk about the values that are yours. where do go from here? >> well, being socially responsible is a must in the 21sty century. entrepreneurs are, i believe, the ones who will rebuild the world. i think business can fix and anything where governments can't. lou: listen, that is why you're

here. we love small business. in particular we love the people jobs, create products for the -- >> exactly. lou: when you think about it, small business people, in addition to everything else, are paying most of teshe taxes. >> absolutely. lou: big business, they manage to, i won't say -- >> get out of it. lou: avoid them but they elude them. and the jobs are being created by folks like you. >> absolutely. and women areng starting more ad more businesses now in this country. and i love the idea that, you know, if you can't find a job and you're unemployable. 20 million americans right now. start a business. lou: yeah. and it's, it is really very sad. not everybody has that, that spark, that, that imagination or the drive to create a business. >> uh-huh. lou: but it is, i agree with you. >> yeah. lou: if you can't find work, find a way forward. >> absolutely. in this country, i was a college dropout with $6 to my name and started a business and now the

products are in 20,000 stores. anything is possible. lou: keep it rolling. great to see you. and you will of that. >> thank you so much. lou: the book is, "life by the cup." on sale, online at bookstores everywhere. we recommend it to you highly. it is by any definition a major find. a 123-carat blue diamond. what icas its value, what is its impact on the global diamond market? a diamond expert joins us here a diamond expert joins us here next. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america.

shingles the pain in my tremendouscalp areailot. and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space to move to change radio frequencies. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. as a pilot that meant i was grounded.

♪ lou: a word of the evening, allotrope, a chemistry term that describes one of two warm more existing forms of an element. stay with me. there is a pay off. for example, a diamond is an allotrope of carbon. i hope you were paying attention because we are going to have a use for that knowledge.

we have a big allotrope. here to talk with you about a rare nearly 1203-carat blue diamond has been discovered in south africa which could go for up words, we're told, of tens of millions of dollars. to tell us exactly how much is diamond expert. good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. lou: this diamond, how much is that some of the gown worth? >> it is truly an amazing moment in history. this is next to impossible to find. the value will ultimately be determined by the collar. already considerably rare. i mean, that is what will determine. and, of course the yield. lou: and i am thinking, do you split it up, leave it where it

is, what do you do? >> a diamond cutter certainly has his or her work cut out for him. it will be about maintaining the vivid color and then, of course, the larger the diamond the more value it will hold. these moments are important because they provide a halo effect over the entire industry. lou: garnering a lot of attention. kind enough to bring along gigantic stones right here before us. give us an idea of how healthy this market is. investment in the retail. >> truly an exciting time for the diamond industry. innovation is one. having pulled thousands of americans about this, diamond

acquisition is really changing. they're is a strong demand for diamond brands. lou: let's take a look. let me take a look at something modest your. this little thing looks like something my wife might like. how much would that be? >> that is probably about a million dollars. lou: my goodness. >> the color and clarity are so fantastic. lou: i cannot tell you how much i regret -- >> wonderful styles of represent the different trends that we are seeing. of course round brilliant being the most popular. we are seeing a fancy shapes, emerald cuts as one of the fancy ones that we are sharing. americans are embracing personalized ways. lou: finding a stone or everyone

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