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can't see it, dvr the show. market's at new highs. we are going to maae a lot of money. i got to hand you off to the man himself. big numbers, everybody tuned in. lou dobbs. fox business.% lou: good evening, everybody. republicans tore it up at the polls, the gop with an historic midterm election victory taking control of the senate, pxpanding majority in the house and winning more governorships, winning control of most of the state legislatures by an even wider margin. for a time today, there were so many republicans at 1600 pennsylvania avenue that t looked like republicans haa also won the white house. president obama merely hosting 14 congressional leaders trying to set a tone for what many expect to be a contentious legislative process and no one, democrat or republican, tried to put a bright, happy face on
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it at all, as you see there. this is what people look like when they don't like someone or learn that electionn do have consequences. and ttat they'll be working together for the next two years. but the president said the right things as host for the day speaking of cooperation and common ground. >> aa i said the other night, obviously, republicans had a good night, and i congratulated both mitch mcconnell as well as speaker boehner for running a very strong campaign. as i also said the day after the election, what we've seen now for a number of cycles is the american people just want to see work done here in washington. lou: oddly, no such conclusioo or expression in the exit polls. president doubled down on taking action on immigration legislation, or, if you will, executive action, in the form of executive order that would legalize millions of illegal
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immigrants. that's something that republican leaders have warned and continue o warn will poison the well. >> no one ran for office this year, campaigning to say the president ought to do more specifically on immigration. >> it's like waving aared flag in front of a bull. >> when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning yourself. lou: also tonight, the white out bbots on the ground in iraq is putting more boots on the ground in iraq. president obama today approved a defense department request as it is styled, to send up to 1500 more troops to iraq. that more than doubles the roughly 1400 troops there now, who are training and advising iraqi security forces. it also comes at a significant $5.6 billion. and russians tonight, ramping
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up the war on cyberamerica. new reports that hackers believed to be supported by the russian government have penetrated the software that runs much of this country's infrastructure. an aggressive move that puts at risk power plants, water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines, potentially causing economic catastrophe. and not just russian aggression against the united states, tensions flaring between russia and ukraine, ukraine saying they sent truck loads into the eastern part to support pro-russian separatists. that alleged border incursion comes after separatist election last sunday. the west was condemnee as illegitimate. and joining us now, fox news middle east and terrorism man stockton harris, and the authoro of the book, the lost spring.
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retired lieutenant colonel robert mcginnis. the president said vladimir putin and prrsident obama may meet during the international summits next week, though talks haven't beennscheduled. do you expect that to occur? dr. ferris? >> first of all, it's important before the latest movements by the russian leaddrship. we should have done something in europe. we should have been fast or faster at incorporating ukraine, should have demonstrated more balance of power. the baltic states. the borders with nato. when you deploy the forces, you create a balance of power, every international race will tell you then the message is sent. then you can sit with president putin and talk with a different manner. lou: but now, will there be talkk, do you expect and to what end? . >> i think talks will happen because the obama administration has no other alternative at this point in time. if you ask what is it you're
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going to do if tanks are crossing the borders with there is no strategic response because we're not mobilized there. lou: and colonel mcginnis, your thoughts? >> putin is playing with donetsk, and like georgia in 08, the no accident today yet a battalion of tanks, battalion of howitzers, it's going to continue through the winter. all the cards are on his side. concerred about the ruble, he's concerned about the sanctions, but as long as he didn't take verr significant offensive action inside ukraine in the near future, he'll accomplish what he wants, and that's to keep the area from the baltics all the way down to the stans, frozen and to keep
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the eu out. lou: nato and the eu are out, the united states is out. no military force in which to exert the political will of the united states, nor that of nato colonel. we're also watching cyberattacks. we learn malware has been discovered in the computers, the servers that govern everythiig from nucleer power plants across nearly every aspect of our infrastructure. the pentagon said that there will come a point at which a cyberattack will be regarded as an attack on the sovereignty of this nation. wwleed, are we there? >> look, cyberspace is just a virtual expression of reality, meaning we need to make our intentions known. there need to be a speechh either by the president, the secretary of defense that this is a penetration of our national security. and there should be sanctions oo measures.
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what is happening right now, the other side is making all the steps and nothing in response. lou: colonel, that speech has been given. the pentagon, the white house served notice, and yet again a red line and there is no response from this white house. >> this is deja vu cold war again, lou, the reaaity is we stood up a cybercommand. the russians using cyberaggressively against our assets like the chinese. this is war as far as i'm concerned. the reality is that if these malware, the trojan horse were executed on command which are embedded in infrastructure, it could lead to an economic catastrophe in this countryy o we know that. that's why the cybercommand is working overtime trying prevent that, trying to iscover it like the homeland security situation. this is going to become far more complex in the near future. just because of the aggressiveness of our opponents
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like the chinese and the russians. lou: turning to iraq, turning to the middle east, more boots on the ground in iraq, as the president promised there would not be. we now find he has penned a secret letter to the ayatollah khomeini. your reaction to all of this, and what prospects and what process ii it all leading to? >> look, lou, this is catastrophic in nature. let me begin with the letter to ayatollah khameeei. since june of 2009, we have only been, the administration we let down,,let go of the % oppression of the iranian demonstrators in june of 2009. we have allowed iran to come to the escue of assad to destabilize bahrain and they are arming and supportiig the rebels in yemen.
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what did we get in return? did they stop the process of building the nuclear strategic weapon? no. it's not working. why do we have the intranuclear agreement at this time. lou: colonel, you get the last word? >> the fighting that's going on in iraq quite frankly has been led by general soleimani, the couth force out of iran. the component we're going to rely upon to take back northern iraq, they're the people that fled before isil. isil is being victorious, nott only in syria but iraq, and more american boots on the ground means more americans coming home in body bags. lou: colonel, thank you very much, doctor, thank you, we appreciate it, gentlemen. the state of texas officially ebola free this evening. it has been 21 days since anyone contracted ebola or in contact with anyone suffering from ebola.
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texasshealth officials monitored 177 people over the past three weeks, folks who had contact with patient zero thomasseric duncan and nurses nina pham and amber vinson. new york city monitoring almost 400 people but no new cases reported. the centerssfor disease control announced it's stockpiling almost $3 million worth of protective medical gear, that would go to aid in the treaament of as many as 50 pbola patients in the country. the gear would be deployed to any hospital should they require it. up next, republican leaders celebrating their midterm election victory, with a visit to the white house. that's them there having -- see how much fun they're having? can they turn the 2014 wave into a more permanent stay at 1600 pennsylvania? we'll be talking with former
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. lou: bbeaking news tonight, the obama administration announcing moments ago that the president will nominate new york's top federal prosecutor, loretta lynch, to replace outgoing attorney general eric holder. president obama will make the announcement at the white house before he leavvs for his trip to asia. republican ed gillespie conceded the virginia senate % race to democratic inccmbent mark warner. >> we began this race 29 points down, and we were outspent by more than two to one, and in the end, a shift of 9,000 votes could have changed the outcome of this election.
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lou: absolutely incredible numbers and incredible outcome. gillespie supporters expressing regret that the national party did not give gillespie more financial backing. joining us from arkansas, mike huckabee, host of huckabee on the fox news channel. mike warner commended gillespie on his campaign stating congress as a whole in the gridlock and get to work. that sounded a lot like what the president said. but i looked at the exit polls, i didn't ee that in there. -p>> i didn't really see the whole in the gridlock get to work. it was a repudiation of the president's policies which he himself said that's what the election was about. i didn't see him say that in the postmortem press conference. this afternoon, iiwish had meat in the meat locker, i've never seen anything in washington that chilly.
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the folks? those people look like they're at -- i don't know what they look like. i expect experienced capable politicians all of which all of them are that, to fake it, don't you? >> at least show a little bit of acting chops, but instead, they made a baptist wake look like a garden party. it was unbelievable. i've never seen such sadness and gloom, it was absolutely awkward. must have been painful to be n the room. lou: judging by those faces, you are exactly right. i don't quite understand the point of the meeting. basically the president said we're going to compromise, and i'll define compromise as you agree with me and do what i tell you or i'll write an execuuive order up. >> the problem is this kind of meeting is six years too late. this is what the president should have bben doinn every
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week for six years. if you have a divided government, i had one, i understand this. you have to build relationships, which means before you talk about legislation and plans, you've got to build relationships and build a little bit of trust and respect, and that should have been happening in weekly meetings with leadership every week for six years. the way, i've been demonizing you guys six years and going to sit down to the table with you, but as you said, lou, sitting down to the table with the beating, a true butt kicking, the whole point of tte president is now come on and see it my way. ttat's bipartisanship, by gosh. leadership. it is pretty clear that as speaker boehner put it, he's going to torch himself with an executive order on amnesty for illegal immigrants. >> for a guy that doesn't believe in guns, he wants to hold one to headssof congress.
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it's not going to work. they come in with the wind at their back and the president brings nothing to the table right now. he really got embarrassed by the elections. i don't think he knows that, yet, but everybody else knows it. lou: the "washington post" reporting on illegal immigration, reporting that the obama administration is playing politics, imagine this, playing politics with politics with public information. the border patrol's annual statistics from a website were taken down after being up only five hours. that report was glimpsed, and shows that a majority of illegal immigrants, 252,653% of the total were ot from mexico. that's an incredible number. >> stunning to most people. it's also interesting to note that in places where it was said that republicans were going to get their heads handed to them because they were harsh on immigration, look what
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happened in texas. no one with a stronger immigration message, i don't mean let them, in but let's control our border than dan patrick, the lieutenant governor. he got almost 60% of hispanic votes in texas. that's better than george bush in governor's race at the peak of hispanics. lou: you don't suppose it's hispanic-americans are americans, do you? >> not only are they americans, they're god fearing, old-fashioned, hard work first, family first kind of people. they have been saying for a long time. not ooly hispanics, but african-americans caa be republicans if republicans weren't so dumb in ignoring them. speak the truth to them. lou: ed gillespie credits that outreach to his narrow, narrow -- i hate to say it, he came so ccose -- a loss, but the
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republican partyybroadening its outreach as well. governor, great to have you here. >> great to be here. lou: governor mike huckabee. watch huckabee saturday and sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. by golly. time for a look the online poll results. we asked if you believe president obama will alter his attitude, demeanor, red -- rhetoric to deal with a republican controlled senate. 90% of you said no! every bit as reliable as many of the polls hat project a tight, tight nationwide election result. our question tonight, are you pleased with the demeanor nd rhetoric of republican week's historic midterm s election victory? cast your vote at loudobbs.com. up next, republican party leaders should be shouting hallelujah from the rooftops
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coast-to-coast after tuesday night's resounding historic election victory, but no, they're being careful, constrained, well behaved. how boring! my commentary on the appropriate measure of political glee and national rejoicing. next. soso allnk rlly hano hidden fees on savings accous? h itit's ju that m woieoutyou kno" hidden fok, why's th?s accous? no hidden fees,, h fromhe banwhere no anches ealgreara
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. lou: a new thoughts what has been a great week for the republican party, and dare i say it, a great week for the nation,,potentially. republicans have every reason to celebrate achieving historic gains in the senate and the house, and winning control of the senate expanding the majorities in the house, governorships and state legislltures. yet congress' new rulinggparty has been reluctant to celebrate their wins. speaker john boehner warning his party this is, quote,,not a time for celebration but time for government to start getting he's right about the last part, but i hope that i can differ with the speaker on the first part. the speaker caught my attention by focusing on our middle class and those who aspire to it, and talking about good paying, secure jobs. let's celebrate mr. speaker, you're going to work hard
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anyway, you knoo that. let's have a little fun here. presumptive senate majority leader mitch mccounsel actually making sense with his immediate commentssruling out another government shutdown or the possibility of defaulting on our debt. good for you majority leader to speaker boehner talking about the middle class emphasizing that workmen and women and small businessmen and small businesswoman are at the top of the new congress' priority list and now the senate. republicans also should celebrate a generational shift in the senate. the average age of newly elected senators now 50 years old. that's 12 years younger than thh current group of senators. age not the only shift republicans have reason to be happy about. the party's big tent only growing larger after electing numerous women and minorities. i know, believe me, i kkow, that the republicans aven't
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done the hard things yet, but have done one very important thing, they've added a strong voice and one hopes a warm light to brighten our national politics, and this nation's capital. no one said we have to be as dower as our president or unimpressed as he is by a nation that is the envy of the world. a nation still becoming. it's not perfect, but it's damn good. people who aren't afraid to work hard or laugh hard at themselves as they dootheir politicians. we could lighten up just a bit o as we look to lighten the load of those working for work. great things aren'' done from people who shrink from challenge and adversity and whose lladers who ask them not to smile or laugh. we've had enough of such leadership. how about a day for national bipartisan hallelujahs! and a nation still being told
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by our president we are a people who aren't exceptional. he doos admit we're still indispensible, that ours is a nation has been flawed and at times awful. when he says that our great entrepreneurs and businesses large and small, our markets and financiers are terrible people and never built anything, i hope we've had enough of that. i hope boehner and mcconnell and the new congress and senate work hard and brighten american spirits. our founders built this great constitutional republic, and the genius and the energy of the american people have constructed, built, if you will, the world's strongest economy, an economy that's the marble of free enterprise capitalism. maybe just a thank you, lord. pass the good cheer along. would that do? could we do that? and republicans should be excited about a stronger majority in the house.
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243 republicans at least will now have a powerful partner in the u.s. senate to roll back much of the ineffective nonsense of the past six years. if there's ever been reason to celebrate. i think it's right now, and celebration with happy hearts won't cut by a single iota. the awesome responsibility of the republicannparty now to riiht the course of this great hallelujah, thank you, board. we're cominggright back. president obama doess't think much of tuesday's election results. so what does it mean to the future of the country? we take it up with the a-team here next.
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low- and middle-income people afford obamacare health insurance premiums. and the polls closed on tuesday but tww senate races remain wide open in alaska. republican dan sullivan is leading democratic incumbent mark begich by 8100 votes but there are still outstanding more than 40 -- excuse me, 20,000 absentee ballots that need to be counted. there won't be a decision until sometime next week. and louisiana is preparing for december 6 runoff election between incumbent democratic senator mary landrieu and republican opponent bill cassie. the senate campaign ccmmittee has canceled $2 million in ad buys for senator landrieu. joining us tonight the a-team, former white house political director, republican strategist, fox news political analyst ed rollins, and former
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adviser tooputtgeorge w. bush % leslie sanchez and good to see you, leslie. have the democrats cut their losses and simply admitted defeat in louisiana, leslie? >> i think while the president may not want have wanted to read the tea leaves, the democratic senatorial committee has. senator landrieu escaped political death twice, once in 2006. with the republican wave she's losing the chairmanship of the energy committee going back, there's not a lot there. and it is looking very positive when you combbne the tea party supporters and coalesce you to the republiccn voters, they're very formidable. lou: ed gillespie in virginia conceding that senate race, he almost won thaa thing. he was withii a whisker, and
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yet the republican party didn't support him financially to the extent. >> that was a terrible missed opportunity.% he's a tremendous candidate. he's a great friend of many of us. no one woull believe he's not a viable candidate he. was a viable candidate. he was badly outspent. worked his tail off. he baaely lost a few precincts in the north part of the state. that was a race we could have won easily. lou: and these polls, i want to ask you both about thiss across the country that led us to believe this was going to be a tiggter than a tick election for the most part, and it was a blowout of historic proportions. are you surprised by the >> not at all, i think we saw this happening in 2012, and it really needs to be a wake-up caal for our industry. i've been in the politiccl market research business for a long time and ww're relying on
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antiquated research, weight it we were not very clear on measuring exactly what the seetiment is, anddyou're sseing it, ed gillespie closed a 25 point gap, and people couldn't see what was happening in the ground game and understanding what was happening with voters. we have to improve our understanding of microtargeting and understanding entiment as it gets closer to election day or we'll continue to see the deficits. and support the right candidates, honestly. >> when you're in a campaign, you hire professionals. you pay attention, you follow just that poll of the pollsters and do it repeatedly. oftenttmes the media does not do the sameeexpensive polling. it's who's going to turn out the vote. the exii poll showed a parody between the two parties. both had 90% vote and the 28% are independenn. and once they break to your side, finding out who wins.
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dealing with 38, 39% of the electorate is a much more difficult task and my sense is it's clear. commine all the polls aad get a common number. lou: i'm thinking you ought to help them out and do the folks, institutional training. on the other side of this, and i've got to say, leslie, yoor down on your industry, but the truth is the party, reince priebus, i ggt to hand it to him, i was nnt very -- let's put it this way, skeptical about pronouncements of the republicannground game. i heard the same thing in 2012, and this time it materialized, they turned out their folks, and that made all the difference, right? >> it absolutely did. and there's a distinct difference between get out the vote and canvassing. if you ssw some of the data that the rnc was coming out with in 2012, 90% of it was analog, hand writing and only
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5% as this time around. there's a big improvement in closing that technology gap out in the field, which yielded tremendous results, and then there's the distinction of polling like the horse race of measuring who is going to turn out nd where we think that's going to be. we have to get better at that so we can support, viable o cfo candidates like an ed gillespie as they come closer to election day. >> the untold story, chairman priebus is a first rate operative. he came ut of wisconsin, party chairman there. he understands the grass roots. we had best operatives against their best operatives and stood toe to toe. there was no rhhtoric, it was about getting people to the polls, identifying voters, gettiig them to the polls and did that as effectively as democrrts have done. lou: lame-duck session before we see the new world that the republicans created on tuesday. how contentious is it going to be, lessie?
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we're really out of time, i want to get your voices on record how it's going to go >> it's already laying out to be incredibly contentious series of conversations, but i -pdon't think it's going to be pery effective, and it's going to continue to gel up the base on both sides. >> might as well go home. you saw that today. president doesn't recognize anything. what i would do if i was the republicans, give him attorney general, they passed her twice over and there's nothing in her background. let it go through. we gave you attorney general now. you're not going to give us anything, let's go homeeand wait until next january. lou: all right, with a hopeful conclusion, ed rollins. leslie sanchez, thank you, good to see you both. have a great weekend. we want you to be pprt of the conversation, follow me on twitter. i've got more than 92,000 ferls, trying to push that to 100,000.
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capital founder foo business contributor anthony scaramucci. great to have you. >> great to be here. lou: what a week this has been. how much of thhs is due to the outcome of the elections? >> some of that was priced in at the beginning of the week. you've got a little better employment data. the ignals from mario draghi. that's thh trifecta of the week, tte factors are building in a nice foundation in the end of the year. the market is up 13.2%, that's a very dramatic move off of the bottom we saw three weeks ago. lou: three whole weeks ago. >> the participation was up slightly. forth, but the u6 number that janet yellen is focused on 11.5% down from 11.8. lou: that translates to 18 million folks who are unemployed, underemployed or
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giving up. >> serious, serious problem, national crisis, the unemployment situation we have here. i'm not trying to make light of it. the fed, with rates where they are, draghi putting rates where they are. last ight we had dinner with ben bernanke and he gave a presentation. monetary policy for the bank of japan, ecb and the fed, our opinion, lower longer, that was the sentiment and the theme, that offers nicely for stocks, lou. lou: yet yellen in paris said she thinks it's about time to get real. she is interesting as fed chairman. >> it's a tightrope. i don't know the guy with the cable channel walking with a blindfold between buildings, that's what janet yellen is doing with the market. lou: i think a lot of people are walking warned blindfolds in the market. it's hard to discern which way they're headed. we're going to turn to and you ask where the market is headed, and should investors be on alerr for a downddaft or poised for opportunity?
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>> iithink we've had our near-term correction, the market is going to head higher the end of the year. and i predict the market this time next year will be higger. number of factors, the $2 trillion of cash on the s&p 500 balance sheet. if we get any type of pegislation passed from the republicans any, type of beneficial regulatory rubric, any longer term guidance from the current administration, stocks.going to go well for executives will take that cash, moving it back into companies. it will lead to a higher return on equity, which will be better for the stock market. lou: anthony is talking about the repatriation of $2 trillion. >> about 2.3 now. lot of money. lou: we went through this in 2004. the principal beneficiaaies who benefitted most, cut 20,000 jobs. >> i think ii's a little different today because we've had six years of corporations paring back, getting defensive,
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being fearful of the affordable care act or obamacare, and i think that they're right at the inflection point now where that money will get put to use to incremental employees.% that's our view, be very good for discretionary spending and overall growth of the economy. we're at a pretty good place, not at the placeewhere you or i would like us to be, we are getting better and have to accept that. lou: the republicans, how surprised were to you hear john boehner talk aboot the middle class, talking about working small businessmen and women. >> he owned a pub, i've always been impressed with john in terms of his personality and how he thinks about the middle class people. my feeling is -- lou: i've always felt that frankly he was following the chamber of commerce business roundtable. >> having met john a few times, and i'm a big supporter, i'll disclose that to everybody.
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investigative reporter sharyl attkisson has a fascinating new book out about attempts at silencing her by the liberal mainstream media, the lengths that the white house has been willing to go to keep her silenced. her book is called stonewalled, thanks for being with us, congratulations. >> thank you for having me. lou: what a subtitle. incredible! you flat-out believe that there is an enemies list held by this administration. >> i wouldd't call it that per se but wouldn't quibble with you if that's what you want to call it. clearly a number of journalists as well as leakers who speak to journalists have been singled out and identified by the administration for varrous things, including in my case constantly calling cbs news working with blogers and social media to discredit and controversialize trying to stop
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stories and spin themmand seel them. lou: it's clear that tte administration went to extraordinary lengths to stop leaks, surveilling reporters and doing so fushlgs, uuder false colors, going to judges, in the instances with the justice departmenttacted, and surveillinn journalists. i've never heard of such a thing. not since the nixon % administration. >> it's taken a little bit of time. now you have a consensus among journalists including those at "new york times," "washington post," usa today, washington correspondent, washington photographers have all objected in writing and verbally in different fashions to the practices of this administration in particuuar, of all the once i've covered i've had issues in trying to get inffrmation out of them, try to pry it from their grip. this stood out for exceptional behavior. lou: and many of those journalists actually expressing the view that this is the most
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dangerous administration for those of us who work under thee first amendment in this country,,fighting against the public's right to know at almost every turn, including against the congressional responsibility for oversight in investigating scandal after scandal. it's stunning the lack of public outrage at what has transpired. >> i would argue we have ourselves to blame, meaning the media. weehave allowed what i call in the book mojo to be pulled from us, given it up without so much as a whimper. we recognize this is hhppening, and i think a lot of this is very hard to wrestle back once you give up the right to have the press to get information to cover certain things. lou: you have been hacked. do you have a strong sense as to who it is? who's hacked your computers. >> i do. i have sources that have given me a name that i won't use because it's a human source. the forensics we've done, three separate ones, confirm remote
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access, highly sophisticated techniques, ongoing, ong-term surveillance of every move on the computer. making use of skype to activate audio, following every keystroke, accessing passwords. very extensive, including cbs home computer and apple computer used by my famiiy members, and two of the analyses found forensic evidence of government-type software involvement. lou: and the reaction of your employer, that time, cbs news, how did they respond? what did they do? >> hey hired a forensics team to confirm because my fiist source could not go public. when they hired their expprt, he too confirmed the remote intrusions, and i would say about that, there just to me was a lack of outrage they expected. i really thought they would be more upset their systems had been accessed, that my systems at home had been accessed. i thought thereewould be better
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follow-up to protect sources, other correspondents to see what had happened. if they did any of that, i was not privy to it. i felt i was a little bit left alone which is why i hired my own team to continue this investigation. lou: it is clear from your bookk if you do not believe that cbs news had fire in their corporate news bellies if you will, for the story, a drive to get to the truth. how did you deal with that? >> it was very tough. and sometime they did. they assigned me to the benghazi story. assigned me to healthcare.gov. it wws very difficult to dig into a story, receive a lot of praise and just when you felt like you were making inroads inno the secretive information and getting somewhere, sometime the light switch would be ttrned off. i'm never privy into why exactly that happens. suddenly the appetite is less, you are treated as a
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troublemaker for continuing to follow the story. very discouraging. and i'm not the only reporter phis happened to. especially when have you sources willing to put themselves out on a limb only to have to tell them nobody cares about your storyyafter all. lou: we all care a great deal about your story. a critically important story. the book is "stonewalled." on sale now online, book stores everywhere. we recommend it to you highly. sharyl attkisson, thank you for being here. >> thanks so much for having me. lou: all the best. time for a few of your comments. roger tweeted about president obama's loss in the midterms tuesday night. he spent the first six years beiig cool, wonder how it feels to be coal. and frank in new jeesey mailed fact, there is one voice obama did not hear, that is the voice of reason. e-mail us at lou at
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