tv Lou Dobbs Tonight FOX Business September 22, 2014 10:00pm-11:01pm EDT
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>> you are asking about some relatively sensitive intelligence that i cannot discuss. just as a general matter, let me say that the united states and our law enforcement officials here as well as our national security officials are very focused on the threat that is posed by foreign fighters. again, these are individuals from the u.s. or the west that travel to syria or the region. fighting isil and the concern is that they could return to the u.s. and carry an act of violence here. we are working closely with our international partners. lou: u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power boasted that more than 40 nations have agreed to help president obama have agreed to help president obama. she refused to name any of the nation's air joined the coalition or the extent of the support that there will be providing. here she is dodging the
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question. >> every country can contribute something. >> i will make you a prediction. lou: cement the powers of prediction is anything but rock-solid. the president's record of rejecting his foreign-policy and national-security teams council over recent years. yesterday '60 minutes' interview with former cia director and former defense secretary leon panetta reveal the president's entire national security team advise them to harm the syrian rebels two years ago. president obama refused that recommendation. fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffith with our report. >> reporter: an alarming admission from a senior administration official, of
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the 100 americans to travel to syria to train with isis, no. there are already back in the united states. there are some who have gone to syria, someone tried to go, and some will have come back and nine are under active fbi surveillance. >> individuals who have been trained, have access to military equipment and who have indicated willingness to die for the cause. >> reporter: people like this man with a north american accent to appeared in a isis propaganda video released friday. the administration estimates of the 50,000 foreign fighters who have gone to fight from the 2000 or from europe and the president obama was slated to chair a un security council meeting wednesday to highlight the issue. it is only the second time that a u.s. president has done so they're released a new audio tape. the french became the first
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u.s. ally to carry out air strikes. late today a group in algeria released a video of a french hostage demanding an end to the strikes. former defense secretary leon panetta told 60 minutes the president's entire national security team advised and three years ago on the syrian rebels. >> i think the president's concern -- and i understand it -- was that he had a fear that if we started providing weapons we would not know where those weapons would wind up. my view was, you have to begin somewhere. >> in retrospect now was not arming the rebels at that time a mistake? >> i think it would have helped. and i think in part we paid a price for not doing that in what we see happening with katie. >> the so-called islamic state continued its march kidnapping 68 troops as the debate over boots on the ground continues. secretary of state john kerry tried to explain to the senate foreign relations committee down nearly 1200
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u.s. troops do not constitute combat troops. a markedly different tone from when lt. carey testified in 1971 while opposing the vietnam war. >> we can only look with amazement of the fact that this country has not been able to see that there is absolutely no difference between a ground troops and a helicopter crew. and yet people have accepted a differentiation. >> with the administration is trying to communicate is that we will not send battalions, send brigades. but there will have to be, i think, to achieve the nation that the president has assigned some american boots on the ground and in harm's way. lou: the first time that the administration has acknowledged some of the american foreign fighters now back in the u.s. up until now the president and senior members of his cabinet said repeatedly that they have no intelligence that isis posed an immediate threat to the homeland.
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lou: secretary of state kerry met with his iranian counterpart in new york yesterday, and some republicans are now voicing concern that secretary kerrey is offering concessions well beyond expectations in the nuclear negotiations, possibly a trade for iranian support against the islamic state terrace. fox news senior white house correspondent with the report. >> fresh from the seizure of territory in the execution of two americans and a briton to enlist isis u.s. officials have stressed iran -- iran has a stake in the bargain. >> we have made clear publicly and privately that the conversation in the context are entirely separate.
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>> iran ayatollah raise the issue by claiming he would veto the u.s. request. israeli officials were alarmed at the prospect warning a nuclear iran is a thousand times worse than isis. virginia republican congressman agrees. >> we have to remember, iran is a major concern for many of us around the world if they even if their weapon. a huge game changer. >> they will not reveal whether they have privately sought such a trade and flatly denied the u.s. suggested working with iran. >> let me stress that we're not coordinating military operations where sharing intelligence. >> they have expressed their own concerns about the isis threat that would support hezbollah and the regime's of assad, and neither of those two have spent much energy going after isis. the critics say that the u.s. should be careful about helping iran even if it does not involve nuclear trade-off. >> ultimately doing anything
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at all to build them up, given sanctuary and in effect have them on our side . >> the phrase the enemy of my enemy is my friend is often thought to be a muslim phrase, but it actually predates the profit muhamed by a thousand years. it has often been wrong. lou: thank you very much the intruder who evaded secret service, his car was found containing a hundred rounds of ammunition and has had two previous runs with the law. he had to hatchets and machete the start. the iraqi war veteran has been a danger to the president even though he had no weapon on him at the time of his entry.
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not in use by employees or tour groups princess senior service which was investigating the security breach is stepping up its patrols in response and is considering checkpoint's several blocks away inviting the secret service turgid to testify at a hearing. the mother and a marine sergeant says his mental health is deteriorating. a reporter over the weekend, her son is highly disk arrays. there is no light at the end of the tunnel. unresolved or entreated ptsd eath and cannot get the cognitive therapy behavior led veterans of america received. he has been held in that
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mexican prison for 176days since taking a wrong turn and crossing the mexican border with weapons of his own, registered weapons we're coming right back. they are here or some of them. fighting with radical islamists terrace have come home. we just don't know how many. we join general jack keene on the islamic strategy and the islamic state at home next. ♪ guys! you're not gonna believe this! watch this. sam always gives you the good news in person, bad news in email. good news -- fedex has flat rate shipping.
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lou: some positive news to report in the deadly outbreak of ebola in west africa. world health organization officials declaring the spread of the disease virtually contained in senegal and nigeria. there have been no new cases in those countries several week right now, despite the fact that total number of cases has risen to 5800. death to topping 2800. climate change activists littered with hypocrisy and irresponsibility today, causes some trouble on the streets of new york city ahead of president's highly anticipated speech on the topic before the united nations tomorrow. not clear exactly who these people are. organizing for america perhaps? communists? anarchists? just order theirry working men and women taking time off from their jobs to pursue important issues? you decide. around 1000 of these activists disrupting the peace around wall street to protest what they say is the corporate and economic complicity in the so-called climate crisis. and one of the greatest
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corporate compliance, that is none other than former vice president al gore was there as well. turning now to, to the situation in the middle east, joint chiefs chairman, general martin dempsey calling for greater participation from arab countries in the fight against islamic state. suggesting that the u.s. campaign might not move to the next phase without greater support. joining us tonight, retired four-star army general, former army vice chief of staff, chairman general jack keane of the institute of study for institute of war. good to have you with us, general. >> thank you, lou. lou: something rings peculiar, to hear the joint, the joint chairman say, we need more arabs in this coalition that won't, that the administration won't even enumerate, won't tell us who they are but we need arab states in it. what, shouldn't they be the ones asking us to go to war for them.
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>> absolutely. there is no doubt. i'm sure, you know, chairman dempsey publicly saying that because they're having difficulty getting them to participate. and there is a little of frustration out there. i don't want to defend them because they should be all-in here. this is, radical islamists, ideology that threatens their sovereignty for sure. but the fact is, they are very skeptical about the president's seriousness and seeing this mission through. particularly after he pulled out of iraq in 2011 and he did not execute the airstrikes on behalf of the crossing red line with the syrians using chemical weapons. he announced the fact he was going to do that. they felt like he pulled the rug out from underneath them. all that said, they should be all-in. there are some things happening. saudi arabia is going to provide bases for training of the free syrian army. i think we're going to get some pretty good intelligence capability out of jordan. we'll get some kind of a capability out of the u.a.e. the truth of the matter, given all
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that is at risk here nor for the middle east and for them and our vital interests and given the things we have done to provide for security umbrella for years, it is inadequate. lou: inadequate, we're now 13 years on from the time george w. bush made his very famous speech which he declared against al qaeda and he said it would not end with al qaeda. he was a prophet because it certainly has not. at what point, we talk about war fatigue for the american people. but our military machine and our military manpower, i mean, my gosh, we've been talking about, this is going on 23 years of war, of conflict, in the middle east. when can the american people expect resolution here? when will our, when will our elected leaders, when will our flag officers say, by god, enough of this nonsense. we've got to win and we're going
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to do everything we can to win quickly, not in terms of a long, so-called, war? >> well, i think dealing with the ideology is going to be protracted anyway. when you think about it, we have been dealing with al qaeda since the early '90s. admittedly they declared war on us. we sort of selectively ignored it until something catastrophic happened to us, two embassies in '98 and 9/11 and uss cole. that is 20 year experience. we're still dealing with remnants of them. we've been involved with isis, formerly, aqi or al qaeda in iraq since 2:00. we'll put these -- 2004. we'll put these guys down. i'm not significantly convinced we'll destroy their capability. if we don't deal with the larger problem and allies in the region dealing with the larger problem of ideology or working with that, there will be another group that pops up. lou: let me put it this way. the fact that george w. bush
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said, that we're going to basically unleash the hound of hell on these people. there will be shock and awe. there was none of that. we were told that we were going to bring this to conclusion. we didn't. we said that the taliban in afghanistan, would either, either come to their senses or we would destroy them as we did with al qaeda. we did neither destroy al qaeda or the taliban. in fact we're turning the country over to the taliban at that point. what gives you such assurance that our leadership now has come to its senses and the american people can rely on that leadership? i'm not talking about partisan politics? i'm talking about both political parties. i'm talking about congress. i'm talking about presidency. i'm talking about pentagon. >> i don't have that confidence to be frank, neither president bush nor the current president has ever dealt with the major problem which is, radical
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islamist ideology and those that subscribto it and how we get ourselves politically and militarily organized to deal with this thing. much as we did with communist ideology, nato countries, political and military alliance to shape this thing. we never ever wanted to go down that route. the fact of the matter we'll continue to have problems. even dealing with this isis, which while, i will admit it's a challenge but it is not. a significantly formidable military challenge to go and defeat tens of thousands of people who are by and large, lightly armed, even though they have some acquired weapons from us. we clearly have the capacity to deal with this organization rather significantly. but the fact of the matter is, we have got to create the will in this country to do this kind of thing and educate the american people about it and bring the congress along with us. that takes leadership. it takes seriousness and commitment to do that. i just don't see us there.
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lou: general jack keane, always good to see you. >> good talking to you, lou. lou: be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you believe there is any reason to prolong the war on terror without using all of our resources and manpower to achieve victory? cast your vote at lou dobbs.com. at the weekend box office of, the maze runner took first plays, twentieth century fox film, bringing in 33 million, a big number for a movie that cost 34 million to produce. "the maze runner," beating out a "a walk among the tombstones." brought in 13 million for warner brothers. "this is where i leave you" came in third making 12 million. all-time record for the movie stage musical, "the lion king," grossing $6 billion worldwide. giving it highest box office total in any work in any media of any kind in entertainment history. it overtook the "phantom of the
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lou: coming up here tonight, president clinton, former defense secretary panetta lashing out at president obama's syria strategy. political analysts ed rollins and juan williams will be here to analyze the politics if there is any politics to be involved in this. u.n. ambassador samantha power says we're not working with iran, on the islamic state. really? secretary of state kerry meeting with iran on the islamic state. can't these folks get anything right? former u.n. ambassador to the united nations john bolton with us tonight. first a few thoughts on the secret service and its head-scratching performance of late. the house oversight committee set to investigate the secret service and how two intruders on successive days climb the white house fence and entering the grounds, one managing to get inside of the white house itself. in splendid washington fashion the secret service announced vowing to investigate itself and
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to review its procedures after the intrusions. but it is time for more honest work in washington, honest answers about a once proud organization that is now conducting itself irresponsibly, unprofessionally, failing to meet even the lowest imaginable standards, for an agency charged with protecting our nation's leader. embarrassing, outrageous, and it is beyond time to show the entire management of that agency the door. less than a year after president obama took office, a couple of managed to crash a state dinner despite not being on the guest list, even taking pictures with vice president biden, which is of course not particularly an insurmountable task in any tore rum. in 2011, one of the president's limousines got stuck during a trip to dublin. secret service blame ad slight miscalculation on the size of the beast during the advance process. what about those 13 agents implicated in the prostitution
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scandal, during preparations for a 2012, presidential trip to cart at that hain i can't? or the three agents sent hem from the netherlands after a night of serious drinking. one agent found passed out in a hotel hallway. just three months ago the president was photographed exercising in a hotel gym in poland. the secret service, excused their performance and indiscretion, insisting president obama was never in harms's way and agents were in close proximity but not sufficiently close to prevent that video. the number of embarass, the number of secret service scandals may be acceptable to a white house itself embroiled in scandals and charges of incompetence. we should at very least demand far better of those charged with protecting our president and his family, don't you think? we're coming right back. protecting hillary, bubba
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lou: baltimore ravens owner steve bisciotti today, finally addressing a espn investigative report alleging that he and his organization lobbied the nfl for a light ray rice suspension. >> i expected four or six games. i was as surprised as everybody else it was two. but, again, to, to, for that article to make it sound like we're best buddies because we both liked to golf, and so, clearly, i must have asked him to do me a favor in front of the whole world to see. like you would think that if i can get a favor out of roger, it
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certainly isn't going to be something publicized nationally. so it w standard two-game and i was prepared for four or six games. lou: bisciotti went on to accuse the rice camp of manufacturing that story, to build a case for reinstatement from his indefinite suspension from the nfl he didn't explain exactly how that would work. let's go to some other politics, bigger than that, even. joining us the a-team, five co-hosts columnist of "the hill," juan williams, former reagan white house director, fox news contributor, republican strategist, good friend, ed rollins. >> thank you. lou: let's start with you, juan. why in the world is this administration, at a time being accused of just about everything, a pile of scandals, to the ceiling, charges of incompetence in every dregs, domestic and foreign policy, they're not even reacting to, the president's life being endangered by this kind of
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unprofessional conduct on the part of the secret service? >> well, i got to imagine that this is kind of one of those behind closed doors screaming matches that is going on. i don't think there is any advantage antagonizing people who protect you, lou. but there has to be some degree of, you know, heading people to account for such a failure that would allow this man to jump the fence and get through the front door of the white house? to me, it is like unbelievable, even as a reporter, you're sitting next to somebody who was in and out, ed rollins, he worked there, hard to get in with a pass! >> i had many hard day getting in with my pass. i always had a beard and they looked at me suspiciously. i find it appalling. i can't believe someone didn't shoot him along the way. not that you take his life. you want to fire a warning shot, stop him, some shape or form. i'm appalled bit diminishing skills of these people that guard the president. lou: it is, it is no longer, if
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it ever was even remotest sense amusing, funny. we're talking about, the life of the president here. and that man didn't know whether the president and his family were there or or didn't. there is, thank god that the decision, this man is iraq war veteran. he is obviously deeply troubled. >> right. lou: the problem is the secret service had him in custody before. >> fortunately he didn't run with a hand grenade or something like that. more fortunate that the president wasn't there. once he got to that point he got to the door, that, could have done anything. lou: well, one hopes the expression, holding accountable will occur to some one in this administration. leon panetta, juan, on "60 minutes." that was devastating to the president and to the policies that he has been pursuing, particularly in syria, and in, frankly giving the islamic state a pass. your reaction? >> well, you know, i think a lot
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of this is monday morning quarterbacking people out there selling books, lou. these guys, i think not only panetta, i think back to gates, all these guys came out with the criticisms after the fact, when they have a book to sell and you know, if you even look at it from a hard boiled point of view, which is, isis was being formed and the president didn't act quickly enough, gear this in power. they were the guys there. and they didn't take the action. they can say oh, well, we said to the president, what about this? we should be doing something. they were not persuasive. they did not make the argument such a way to persuade the president who was worried about arming the bad guys. arming potential terrorists. lou: do you buy that? juan is saying the fault doesn't lie with the president who was unpersuaded by these failures of persuasion, it really isn't on him. >> no offense to my good friend juan who also sells great books and done interesting things and been around the white house not as long as i have been around the white house, the
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commander-in-chief made decisions. obviously recommendations are made. leon panetta i've known him 45 years. almost integrity, almost insult to sell books or gates. i think at end of the day they made strong recommendations. the president did not choose to take them. a lot of people in the administration right today who are questioning whether this tactic moving, strategy we're moving forth on will work. they're getting on record, say, listen if this ends up being a long tedious war which americans are killed, we recommended differently. lou: i got to say, i talked with general jack keane earlier. he said it. he is not assured what is going on here. when we talk about a long tedious war to begin with, the american people have gone through long, tedious and, unsuccessful conflicts, whether it is in iraq, or whether it is in afghanistan. shouldn't it just be about time the elites in this country, the leaders of both parties, juan, understood their job and the
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general, the flag officers of our military, understand, it is their job to lead well and produce victory and stop selling, you know, princeton theses as a legitimate doctrine of war? >> yeah. i mean, i don't know, even what to say to you, lou, that is exactly right. the job of the military is to win military conflicts and our military is quite good but it is time to get back to that mission and make it plain. we obviously are in a situation where you have an ideology that is driving much of this terrorist type of activity. but we are skilled, also, in fighting guerrilla warfare. we know how to fight when it comes to ideology. you know what? that is just what we should be doing. i couldn't agree more. >> we have the best professional military in the world. always ends up being stopped short as in these wars. a great disservice to say to our military they didn't win the battles.
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they didn't win these battles because they were not allowed to win these battles. at end of the day this was a president didn't want combat. a lot of recommendations made during the course of time how to do, keeping 10, 15,000 troops in iraq at end of this war. he wanted to get the troops out of there. now we're paying a price. i agree with juan does, if this is president wants to do, tell the generals to get this done. there are 30,000 on either side. we could wipe them out in short period of time. lou: if you were referring it in way to the troops that i'm blaming troops because we didn't secure victory, i'm blaming flag officers and two presidents of the united states, obviously two in a row, didn't know what the hell what they were doing. >> you and i are pretty much on the same waive 99% of the time. i think our troops were deprived of the opportunity to win this thing. lou: my, my view on this is, goes beyond that too and that is that the american people have
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got to stop putting up with this lollipop licking, bunch of phonies that we call national leaders. and i'm talking about both political parties. juan, you get the last word. >> you know this is, at the moment, though you look at the numbers in the polling, and that's what i do, you know, coming to you as a political analyst, i must say it is the american people that don't want another war, who feel like you know what? we just went through a long war and lost a lot of people so that is part of the political problem, the part of the political calculus for our military folks. lou: last word. one more. >> american public doesn't win a bar. we have to go do it. you go against american public opinion and get it done, period. lou: ed rollins, juan williams, god, good to see you guys. thank you very much. >> glad you guys are getting along these days. >> we always get along. lou: both pals of mine. thanks, gentlemen.
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it's free of flavors and colorants. for a closer feeling to natural teeth. fixodent. and forget it. lou: my next guest says president obama doesn't understand or doesn't care about iran's relentless strategy to build nuclear weapons. here to analyze obama's mind set on iran as world leaders batter this week at the u.n. general assembly, former u.n. am ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. >> good to be here. lou: he doesn't understand? >> i believe hes can sweet talk iran to giving up its nuclear weapons program. i think that is delusional. this is the trump card for the ayatollahs. they have been pursuing it 25 years. they will not stop anytime soon. the president's obsession with quote, unquote, diplomatic solution is blinding him to dangers we see elsewhere in the region. lou: i hear a lot of folks say
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he is blinded, inadequate intellectually, he doesn't understand or a knowledge base experience. i heard all of that. what y'all are really saying that is the president is willing to gamble on extraordinary concessions on nuclear, nuclear power, to the iranians in exchange for their support on isis? isn't that it? >> i think that is fairly close to it. i think it's a combination of really, unprecedented -- lou: i'm kind of pleased when i get close. >> unprecedented naivete and ideology. that moves the president in this direction. the fact is we're in a very complex situation much we've got an enemy in isis that we should strangle before it becomes a more pressing threat. we have an enemy in iran that is very close to nuclear weapons. we have to deal with both simultaneously. lou: look, i respect your knowledge, your experience, your intellect. so tell me this. how is it that the islamic state is greater threat to the united states than it is to our arab allies who refuse to join the coalition apparently, to kill
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the islamic state terrorists? >> i think it's a threat to them and more imminently than it is to us. in fact that is what al qaeda's propaganda is now. isis is more of a threat to the arab regime. i think they are reluctant to join because they see president obama doesn't really have his heart in his objective which he says is to destroy isis. so i think they're hedging their bets. i think that is a big mistake for them. but the fact they haven't come forward with more concrete participation in the coalition is because they don't think the president really is willing to do what is necessary. lou: my wife, our family, parts of our family were down in virginia beach with a national seal foundation of the you see those guys who are running constant missions of, and you talk about going after the islamic state, so, not you, personally, but a lot of people, so glibly. without full support. that has to be tiring to people
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who care about our troops, and who want to see this thing resolved. looking back at george bush's september 20th, 2001 speech which you remember very well which he declared war on al qaeda, i mean, we've got to come up with sensible answers to these issues of the american people are tired of it. we are not serving our servicemen and women well when we continue this, try to strip them of manned power and resources and then add a mission and a, without explanation or analysis. >> it is potential catastrophe. i think clearly instead of spending money on loan guaranties for the likes of skoal zoll would have been -- solyndra, would have been far better to invest in the military as well. i think the military is deeply worried about the mood in the country and this is a mark of a lack of presidential leadership. i think american people are very practical. the president tells them about a threat, they will step up to it. they don't hear him talking
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about it, don't hear him explaining it. our troops are worried they're being sent into another conflict without public support. they could get the public support. those polls juan williams referred to, they're not blocks of granite. they change on basis of presidential leadership we're not getting right now. lou: ambassador john bolton. good to have you here. >> thank you, lou. lou: on wall street the stocks moved lower. dow down 107. nasdaq fell 15. volume picking up to 3.3 billion shares. >> up. >> next vulnerable democrats avoiding the president on the campaign trail. they're not going near him and don't want him near them. they're having trouble hiding however from his promised executive action on amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. we'll take it all up and more with arkansas governor, fox news with arkansas governor, fox news host, mike huckabee here next. some cash back cards limit your rewards by telling you where you can earn bonus cash back. and then those categories change every few months. one month it's the "gym"...
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lou: as promised here is former arkansas governor, hoist of "huckabee" on the fox news channel, mike huckabee. good to have you with us. >> thanks, lou. great to be back. lou: great to see you. start with lois lerner. that was the darn evidence "politico" article i've seen in a long time. pair after after paragraph with no news but somehow managed to shape her in a bright light and bathe her in warmth. >> well, sleigh needs to be in a bright light all right but that bright light is down at police headquarters or over at the congressional hearing where she has been stonewalling giving any information this was outrage, to go sit down to talk to "politico" to cover her backside, tell everybody, what a wonderful person she is, loving dogs and taking care of gardens and should feel sorry for her because nobody will hire her.
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the fact is this is a lady said she has done nothing wrong. clams up with the fifth amendment but she ran a division of the irs that stomped all over people's constitutional rights. and once you do that, lou, i just think there has to be some accountability. if she wants to sing like a canary, take her road show over to congress, sit down in front of the house accountability committee and let her sing to her heart's content. lou: didn't she say, governor, she is not worse than jeffrey dahmer? i think that is the quote. >> what a comparison? who is? i mean, you know, if that is the best she's got, to say i'm not as bad as jeffrey dahmer, when i invite people over for dinner they're not menu, that is terrific. i'm delighted to hear it. that doesn't mean she should have been taking our money as taxpayers and abusing us with it. unless somebody can prove that, that didn't happen, there is every indication we know from organizations like the national
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organization for marriage, that the irs had to end up paying a fine because they were caught politically having trampled all over these peep, releasing their private information to their opponents. it is that kind of thing. somebody ought to be doing the perp walk for this. lou: well the president is going to have a little more time for golf over the next several weeks. leading into the midterms because nobody wants him on the campaign trail next to him, shoulder to shoulder with senate or congressional candidates. i mean, good grief, what is going on here? >> now there are, they're trying to get michelle obama to come out bass she is sop more popular than her husband. his approval ratings are in the toilet. democrats don't want to be seen with him. everyone is afraid he will step off air force one for political event and hug them. that would just be the kiss of death in this election cycle people have become increasingly
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to the conclusion as your previous guests so clearly indicated, he just don't know what he is doing. i'm not sure he knows what he wants to do, much less how to do it. lou: leon panetta, bubba, dumping all over president obama and his decision not to fund the syrian rebels. your thoughts? >> you know, lou, when i saw lee on pa net tax i felt this is a man who is tortured from within, i really do believe leon panetta, i felt this way back in the clinton administration, say what you will, he has integrity and sense of honor and duty, he loves his country and i think it really pains him to be part of an administration he can not openly support and can't just cover for. i have great respect for the courage that leon panetta displayed and also the clarity. he didn't beat around the bush. he came out and made it very clear that our strategy, dealing with the middle east is simply not a strategy that is going to
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be effective and hats off to him. lou: and what about the politics of this? is hillary really going to be, toes who are somewhat skeptical, even cynical suggest this is all a play to sell a book, also to support hillary and her 2016 aspirations, is she going to be able to divorce herself from the very policies and decisions of an administration which she was one of the very top leaders? >> no. she can't. she is going to try. if anybody could get away with it, hillary might find magic to make it work. maybe husband bubba could help her out. the fact she still has to answer for benghazi. these documents scrubbings that apparently took place at the state department to protect the boss, hillary, they're still some gold in them there hills. i don't think hillary will say, i was there for years but i had nothing to do with what was going on. if she gives that answer, lou,
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that is tantamount, i'm clueless, i had the job but i had no idea something was going on around me. lou: governor, i got to say thank you. be sure to join in "huckabee" on be sure to join in "huckabee" on th you know what my business philosophy is, reynolds? no. not exactly. to attain success, one must project success. that's why we use fedex one rate. their flat rate shipping. exactly. it makes us look top-notch but we know it's affordable. [ garage door opening ] [ sighs ] honey, haven't i asked you to please use the -- we don't have a reception entrance. [ male announcer ] ship a pak via fedex express saver® for as low as $7.50.
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