cousin. the poll reveals the i'm packs of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants going across the southern boarder. the american public now says that immigration is the most important problem facing the nation. the rapidly rising number of illegal immigrants crossing our boarder awakened millions of americans to the impact of illegal immigration and the lack of boarder security. the number of americans who consider the boarder crisis to be the country's most important problem reaching 17%. that's up from 5% just last month, and the highest number of

illegal immigration has ever registered in the poll. the emerging of immigration is the top issue in the minds of americans reported as the government unveiled a plan to turn a cushion texas resort complete with tennis courts and olympic size swimming pool, hot tubs, cable television and wi-fi into a juvenile illegal immigrant facility. this at a cost of $50 million to taxpayers. the plan, moments ago scrapped by health and human services because of what they claim to be quote a negative backlash caused by information misreported to the public. to be clear, the negative backlash was created by burro -- burocrats and juan hernandez is blaming u.s. drug policy for the

surge of illegal immigrants to the u.s. boarder. hernandez said quote, the root cause is that the united states and colombia carried out big operations in the fight against drugs. then mexico did it pushing drug traffickers into honduras, gaut ma -- guatemala and el salvador. harry reid says the boarder is fine. >> the boarder is secure. it was talked in the caucus today. he said he can say without any equivocation, the boarder is secure. >> the boarder is secure. governor dave hinneman disagrees. he says they are moving tens of thousands of illegal children all over the united states and refusing to tell state and local leaders anything. he'll join us in just moments.

>> also tonight, the house rules committee taking the first official step in speaker boehner's quest to unilaterally change the law without consent. george washington university constitutional law professor jonathan turly saying why it is imperative the speaker given legal authority. >> we're seeing the emerging of a different model rejected by the framer. a dominant presidency occurred with little opposition. indeed, when president obama pledgeed to circumvent, he received applause from the body he was opposing to make relevant. when a president can govern alone, he can become a government on to himself which is precisely the danger the framers sought to avoid. >> we'll talk with congressman mike kelly why the speaker has chosen a lawsuit over

impeachment. democrats accusing republicans of waging a war on women for years but the book "assault and flattery" proves once and for all, it's democrats ignoring the best interest of american women. editor and "out numbered" co-host katy among our guests d administration to be transparent and to report to congress where unaccompanied illegal children are being sent, how many have been giving immigration hearing dates and how many of them are sheing showing up for the hearing. joining us now nebraska governor along with congressman terry found out 200 children had been sent to the state of nebraska without any notice whatsoever to

local or state government officials. governor, good to have you with us. let's start with has there been any apology. is thehere any effort? has the health and hew muman services reached out to change the tone of your government? >> lou, not at all. no more contact. no more information. we initiated all the phone calls, all the action. i appreciate what congressman terry is doing. this administration says it wants to be transparent. how about being transparent by telling governors and mayors and local elected ocho fsfficials t names of the illegal children are being sent to cities, states, who their sponsors are. we have a responsibility to our taxpayers to ensure they don't receive state and federal taxpayer benefits. they can start right there.

>> they would start there but it seems pretty clear that the obama administration means for state and local government and their taxpayers to bear the burden of accommodating these illegal immigrants in their come can m communities without notice. is there any recourse they have? >> i'm very, very concerned about that lou. i'm not sure there is. for example, we're going to have to educate those children at least for a period of time. that will be local property tax dollars, state sales and income tax dollars. i'll send a bill to the president of the united states but i doubt he'll reimbursed me and i got another suggest. how about bold, decisive, immediate action to secure the boarder by activating the national guard? he can do that right now there are plenty of states. i would volunteer our national guard to go down for 30 or 60 days to secure the boarder,

stand the tide of illegal immigrants coming into the country. you need to do something right now. >> governor, i think it is now clear to every single american who is watching this crisis unfold on the southern boarder that this is a crisis orchestrated in concert with the governments of central america, specifically, el salvador, honduras, guatemala, the government of mexico, these children could not possibly have made their way 1800 miles from theirntries of origin without the help, assistance whether implied or rhetorical on the part of the president of whether active along with all the organizations and ngos that are engaged in this crisis. this is a political theater but the actors are very real and the consequences are extraordinary

gray for the country. this president means to destroy that boarder. >> lou, that's what we're worried about. it's causing heart burn and heartache and we don't know what is going on. unaccompanied children in america in undisclosed locations and they won't tell us what is going on. i'll continue to work with senators and congressmen to demand to know that information at the national government association when the vice president biden was walking around the table shaking hands, i took 30, 60 seconds to bring it to his attention -- >> did you laugh in his face, governor. >> no, i didn't laugh in his face because it's too serious of an issue.

i do hope they will listen, pay attention to what the governors are saying. >> i will guarantee you if i may, they are not listening to congress or anyone this is a government unto itself, this president is ruling and he means to continue to do so. it seems utterly, it's one thing that is transparent about this administration. let me ask you this, why not talk to the communities in your state, the mayors, talk to the county supervisors, find out what is going on in the state and use your own network for information and a public policy response from your office and from the state legislature to preserve the integrity of your state? >> well, lou, i'm already trying to talk to several mayors to get an idea if they know anything about it and so far where we think they may be going, the

mayors aren't aware of it, either. all we heard is various rumors that potentially there will be more children showing up for school here in the middle of august. again, we deserve to know what is going on. this is our country. why won't they share that information with us? are they hiding and like you, i'm concerned we'll never find out but we'll do everything we can to try. >> you were talking about the national governor's association. governor maloy, that refusing being honored. there seems to be a different standard for blue states and red states, governor. do you surprise that has any impact on what is going on here? >> i'd like to think not but it could be. the one difference i know right now is that would have meant a holding operation there in connecticut, which he said no to. i don't know whether he said no

to accepting any and can he prevent it because if they are only go to go to red states versus blue states, that's not the way we work in america. >> this isn't really an american operation then again, is it? >> thank you, lou. >> thank you. president obama today trying to divert attention from all of his scandals and controversies during a six-minute appearance in the white house press briefing room. president obama announced new economic sanctions that target not russia but russian energy firms, financial institutions, some and a few russian companies that make weapons. european leaders also ordered up sanctions. steve stockman in the broadcast, stay right with we'll let you know if they work. >> fox news national security expert katy mcelderry forland, next.

israel has resumed air strikes against hamas and hamas rejected seize fire proposed by the government of egypt. netanyahu vowing hamas will quote, pay the price for its decision threatening to exert great force after the first israeli was killed in the conflict killed by a hamas rocket. joining us now, fox news national security analysts katy mcfarland. this is now a full on escalation at least in rhetoric, the number of strikes and your thoughts about where we're headed? >> i think we can be going,

hamas turned down the deal that was offered, seize fire. why? i think very cynsi want to stac gasties. the israelis killed this many palestinians and not have many israelis have died. >> that's a tire some thing. it worked at some point over distance times, but now people are sophisticated enough to realize what they are doing. to watch it can be utterly remarkable as i commented on this broadcast. >> you're right and while a lot of people understand what is going on. there are people maybe in 1600 pennsylvania avenue who don't get it and i think the hamas and palestinian objective and their goal so separate israel from the united states.

they know if they can get israel not only isolated not region, if the united states walks away, israel is suicide. >> i think there may be a more difficult problem for administration than it recognizes because if it's -- if there is the effort on the part of this administration, not saying there is, but if it were to be an effort on the part of this administration as some perceive it to be, that would be a mistake because the american people are absolutely in alliance with the israelis. there would be a political prize for this president to introduce it. >> it would be a political earthquake. when other countries, the '73

war retried to resupply israeli. they wouldn't let us land to get fuel to get to israel. he'll stall and lawyer it and think it over. he has to assess the situation. if there is a crisis it happens in the middle east and delay is as bad as doing nothing. >> on this broadcast it was pointed out that the french, the germans, the british have all stood up and voiced their solidarity with israel, which is very important because they have not always be so kweeager to express that support for israel. these are different times. where do we go with this c confli conflict? >> we'll see, hamas said no seize fire. the israeli haves a window, politically, not military, a window to take out the areas

where the rocket launchers are, to do it, do it quickly and be done with it. i don't think it ends up being ground troops but we'll see what the next 24 hours old. >> thank you. up next, my commentary on administration's return of a familiar strategy, one that excuses and rationalizes incompetence in government. 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.

comments on attorney general holder and his latest effort to avoid accountability for the obama administration's failures, scandals and efforts to deflect individual responsibility for both himself and the president. holder now maintains that the two men, the first african american president, the first african american attorney general are targets of racial enemies. this is public disapproval of the president's handling of every major issue. during one of his first speeches upon taking office the attorney

general led to acquisitions and seemingly doing so without any reguard for the irony of being the nation's first black attorney general. >> though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and we, i believe, continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. >> cowards didn't putt eric holder in office. cowards didn't put president obama in office. this weekend holder didn't exactly stand by his early rash judgments and comments, he said only, he wouldn't quote walk away from them. >> i wouldn't walk away from that speech. i think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues. >> too afraid. but it is the attorney general who appears afraid and often

uncertain, having done little to nothing to take up that debate on race relations in this country, and our president is presiding over one of the most polarized eras in our country's history and now the attorney general says race is driving some of the administration's critics and political opponents. >> there is a certain level it seems to me directed at me. you know, people talk about it, there is a certain race co compone component. for some there is a racial an mist. >> not major but obviously worthy of the attorney general's mind space and comments but it is it seems to me administration that has become uncomfortably

adroid in throwing down the race card and using it to distract the body politics from the obama white's house incompetence and failures of government. they seek, it seems, to excuse, racialize when they should take responsibility and blame for many scandals and coverups that multiplied to the point that require numbers, not names, the national liberal media can't abide reporting on all those scandals, all of those failures, the coverups, all of the policy failures and now overall clumsiness of this white house but a national media that gives full throat to the obama pitch for class warfare and when that doesn't take, how about a month or two of boosting the president's income strategy and now comprehensive immigration reform and now that that strategy has backfired on the obama administration, they throw

down their hold favorite strategy, this president who was once so bright has lost standing even in the compliant, co media comes race, from the same president, the same white house that was so many years ago been historic, historic in making this, the post racial era in ameri america. instead, this white house seems to be doing it's best to divide americans, rather than unite us. but we are still the united states of america. we americans are once again proving how strong and stub bbo the american dream can be. we're stborn in the states of leadership that would have us be

otherwise. the people's house versus barack obama. speaker boehner moves forward to sue the president. congressman mike kelly on the i'm pending lawsuit and the fight for the constitution.

they say they will suspend attacks for five hours tomorrow. they call it a humanitarian gesture but a senior israeli official says the likely hood of a ground invasion of the gaza strip is very high. more than 200 people have been killed in gaza during the nine-day conflict. more than 1200 hamas rockets and mortars fired into israel. syrian president bashar al-assad today sworn in for a third, switch-year term.

it was more than three years ago president obama said asad must go. in washington, speaker boehner taking the next step in his lawsuit against the president over executive over reach. a group of legal experts testifying in front of the house rules committee one law professor warning congress self-decembstruction self-destruction. congressman mike kelly, good to have you with us. george washington university professor jonathan turlly. one of the most respected minds teaching constitutional law in this country, laying it out clearly for the national media, for the country. simply stated, either you guys act to blunt what is government and the abusive power by this president or our system of government is done. >> yeah, well good words from

the professor but every american should know it falls on our shoulders. people vote and send us here to defend the contusion. the same i took, the president has taken and that is defend our constitution against all enemies, both domestic and foreign. the key is there are things going on that no american would look at and say i think it's all right. it's not all right and time for the house to do what the house can do following the rule of law and believing we're a nation of laws and nobody is above the law including the president of the united states. that's what makes this exceptional. if we ever walk away from that duty, what are we doing here? why we could come here? why would we ask people to send us here to defend them if we don't have the backbone and stomach to stand up and do what is necessary to preserve the great nation going forward? our constitution is wonderful. we have many blessings but a burden. we have to defend this vigorously and aggressaggressiv. we can't say i don't think now at the time to do it. when isn't there an election and

you know what? it falls on our shoulders now. this is what falls in front f us and what we must do. we can't walk away and say there may be a better time to do it. the constitution has never been under greater stress right now than what it's going through. we have to defend it vigorously. >> darrell leading the committee has done, i think, work in investigating scandal after scandal after scandal benghazi, fast and furious, irs, the list goes on and unsuccessfully in terms of reaching a resolution, even siting the attorney general of the united states for contempt but first, cabinet secretary to be held in contempt by congress, louis learner held in content but the effect of congressional action has been nil, zero, and it's inadequate and what i don't hear from congress and what i don't hear

from the leadership, even as speaker boehner prepares a lawsuit here, is it a response innovative and serious as the president's abuses of power? he is right now authoring even if implicitly a crisis on our southern boarder. he is sustaining that crisis, not resolving. in congress sits basically mute, last footing and seemingly unnerved. is this what we can expect of our congress and of our government? >> no, i don't think it is but again, i go back to the rule of law and what is available to us in the way that the law prescribes. what i think right flow is special prosecutors are going to intervene. they could hold him in contempt and the department of justice says i can't do that and then

you say okay, what are our alternatives. we can't prosecute. we can investigate and expose. the executive branch said we won't touch them. we'll put them to the side and wait until a later date. who knows when that is. the idea you run out the clock in important issues and hope people will get discouraged and their anger will turn and say it's not worth fighting anymore. we losted everything. what we have done, coming in place the department of justice is not going to do its job. eric holder is not going to do its job the way prescribed and what his duties are. not what he chooses to do. >> the speaker and leadership of the house, i think the initial way was the lawsuit that the speakers talked about. keep in mind, he's the speaker of the house. he's the speaker for the house of representatives including

both sides and i would hope my colleagues to sit in the house is not standing and applauding for a president saying they are not doing the job it's supposed to do. i've got a phone, pen, i'll do it myself. that should have never stood up and applauded that. they should have sat back and said my goodness, my rule is diminished. both sides of the house, democrats and republicans come together and defend the american people. forget about the party specifics. >> the republican party doesn't have the strength to do so. it's highly unlikely the democrdem democrats will join in on part of the loyal opposition. congressman, great to talk with you. >> thanks for what you're doing. thanks so much. up next, president clinton so furious over the failed rollout of hilary's book "hard choices" we'll tell you what

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. joining us now author of the new york times number one best seller "blood feud." good to have you here. >> thank you. >> what book was it beating out? >> what was the name of that book? hillary clinton's "hard something" or other. >> i had to give you an opportunity to bask in the moment. you write she's planning on writing a book to fix the other book, the number two book. on the 4th of july weekend he called and said he had an idea, which he should stop and write another book in which she would

tell all about being a grandma, coming to be a grandma, being a mother, her true health problems, his health problems, and her real relationship with barack obama. >> that might be pretty interesting. >> it would be a lot more interesting than the book she wrote. [ laughter ] >> it's right there just below you. >> the idea that bill clinton, president clinton is pushing hard on strategy, approaches, and listen up wife, we need another book here. >> she's taking notes i'm told about this new book but simon is taking a $10 million bath on this book. not sure they will publish the next book. >> speaking of changes and the influence of the clinton brand, i understand from you that we're seeing a little change in

direction on capitol hill. >> there is nothing i like wetter than breaking news. from your reporting, i'm reading from notes because it's important the successes in the democratic party, the leadership is shifting away from obama to the clinic anyones and that i'm told the top leadership, nancy pelosi, harry reid are calling the clintons rather than the white house before they make major legislative decisions on such matters like immigration and contraceptive health care reform. that has to say the least say something about the why house. any sense of reaction there? >> i'm sure the reaction there and i haven't reported from the white house, i'll tell you in a minute about the clintons. the white house will not be happy. the clintons have stolen away a

lot of the white house political operative but i am told that when hilary relates this news to her friends about the shift in leadership, she's full of laughty how she trumped obama. >> giddy she might be but also, president obama is moving toward elizabeth warren as his favorite in a direct slap to hillary clinton. what part is that play income your judgment in the decision making of the capitol hill leadership, whether reid's office or >> they are more in t establishment wing of the party than elizabeth warren who is way

over in the left. i don't think they will get behind elizabeth warren and i think they feel that hilary is really inevitable in the nomination. >> as i am listening to your reporting and your account of events and these new currenting running, this sounds like a resurgent hillary clinton in the midst of it. >> it's like the doll that comes back up, there is nothing like the clintons being the comeback kids. i think they think that they are going to come back in a big, big way. >> all right. well ed kline, you're running number one right now so you're the got it made kid. congratulatio

congratulations. >> thank you. >> it's on sale right now, went flying off the shelves. the attorney general says film critics hate him and president obama not because of critics but because of their skin colors. the book "please stop helping us" onñ@ç@çpçpçpç÷ñoxmhmhyhy

. my next guest says the obama administration's willingness to stoke racial division is playing to the fears of minorities to scare them to the polls in november. joining us is editorial board member jason raleigh, the author of the book please stop helping

us. great to have you here today. >> thank you, lou. >> congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> talking about this administration, it is racial anamist says eric holder, like he visits race every three years and talks about what cowards everyone else is. >> that's what he is counting on with american people. it's ridiculous he is suggesting there are no legitimate non-racial criticisms of barack obama and so this must be what it's all about because there couldn't possibly be about any of his policies or the state of the economy, hopefully five years plus into a recovery the state of joblessness but lou, this is political desperation. the democrats are worried minority wills stay home in november and lose the senate. eric holder is out there scaring

them to the polls. >> and scar the them to the pol >> lying them, telling them voter id laws are surprising the vote. the black voter rate in 2012 exceeded the white voter rate, states with the toughest voter id laws in the country. >> before the u.s. supreme court and people need to understand and greg abbit for example prevailed the majority of the time against the obama administration before the supreme court. >> the policies of this administration failed time and again and failed these conkn constituenci constituencies. look at the unemployment rate. black, white poverty gap widened. poverty today is higher than

1960 lou. all this administration has to offer these people is more food stamps perhaps. >> this goes to your point, stop helping us, the fact is that the idea that there is stubborn unemployment and nobody is changing an approach for minorities. >> don't expect the democrats to change the approach. the democrats have a vested interest on government and that's what we have today, whether jobs, military, post office. in terms of handouts, welfare and food stamps. that's what the democrats want to maintain, it's how they get reelected. >> jason, great to have you here. thanks so much. up next, democrats claim the republican party is waging a war on women. the new book assault and flattery, democrats, the real

the quotation of the evening tonight, one president obama president obama and jack lou might pay attention to, this quote from mark twain. patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. my next guest argues it is actually the left perpetrating a war on women. the book is titled "assault and flattery flattery." katie pavlich. >> thank you for having me. great to be on the show. >> let's start with one of my favorite, my favorite parts of the book. you describe the kennedy family

as america's worst family. >> absolutely. >> you're holding back, i get the feeling on the kennedys, why do you say that? >> look, i covered the presidential campaign very closely. the obama campaign used it as a way to attack republicans and they played a five minute tribute video to ted kennedy and stamped the words women's right champion on that video. they didn't mention the part in his life where he left a young woman to die in his car but when you take a deeper look at the kennedy family as i did in my book, you'll see they have a long history on treating women poorly and yet, they are upheld by democrats as this glorious party and glorious family that should be an example for democrats to look up to and they are absolutely not. >> and it is an article of faith of the left there this country that the republican party is waging a quote, war on women. >> right. >> without -- and you knocked

that down and turned it against the democrats. >> the left has a bad habit of accusing opponents of what they are doing and the war on women is no exception. for example, everything from sexual abuse to government programs and dependency are examples. going to barack obama, i had a 2012 campaign democrats are dependent on government, not independent and nothing more duh humanizing women by the pills they take. in terms of giving specific examples, the irs targeting of tea party conservative groups, many tea party groups were founded by women. and tons of little tea party groups headed by women and yet, the left screams about getting women involved in the political process and the irs made sure they were humiliated, bullied. that's one example. another example is president

obama's efforts to get women more dependent on government. you'll remember the life of julia. they portrayed this woman as cradle to grave from health care to raising her child and housing and everything. why is it familienests need the government to hold their hand throughout the course of their life. >> and we got just about a minute here, katie, but why hasn't the republican party been more effective in slamming in allegation, this war on women in the republican party right down the teeth of the left? >> well, they are getting there. they got blind sided by it in 2014 and 2016. we saw republicans introduced legislation to counter ridiculous claims of democrats contraception is going to be banned and determine whether you have access to contraception. so they are getting better at it to address it instead of allowing republicans define it

for them. they are defining it for themselves. >> kay the katie suggesting. thanks for being here. assault and platry, online, book storms everywhere, we high he recommend you make a purchase. time for a few of your comments. no longer do we have a president of all the people, only of liberals, i was tweeted in response quote of the evening from president's lincoln, i think president obama is inspired and motivated by the heart about fooling some of the people all of the time. johnny in texas said, has anyone looked into how so many poverty families in central america are coming up with $7,000 to pay the

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