foxbusiness.com/charles payne. you were fantastic. enjoyed it. jonathan, come back any time. >> thank you. >> we had a fantastic week, don't worry about the market crash. in the meantime, lou dobbs is going to take you into the weekend. keep it on fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. breaking news. the federal government now 29 hours from shutting down. the fate of the obama-boehner trillion dollar plus fiscal year long government funding bill in the hand of harry reid in his final days as majority leader of the u.s. senate. congress definitely divided on the legislation, house speaker john boehner needed more than 50 democratic votes in order to pass the massive spending bill. the president himself lobbying democratic congressman for those votes, exposing a deep divide among house democrats. minority leader nancy pelosi

urging her caucus to vote no, and she blasted president obama while her number two, congressman steny hoyer was actually urging the bill's passage. the democrats, that divide. the president spokesman claiming no hard feelings between the white house and the minority leader. >> we'll just say that the president has always had not just a good working relationship but open line of communication with leader pelosi. that didn't change yesterday and it's not going to change in the future. lou: reid is playing nice, he wants the trillion dollar, 1600 page bill passed tonight. but the democratic ranks in the senate are severely divided. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill and has our report. >> reporter: lou, the drama isn't entirely over on capitol hill. house passed a trillion dollar plus government funding extension, now it's up to the

senate. >> we're going to consider the legislation to keep our government open and funded and do it today, i hope. senators are unhappy with the legislation, and they'll have a chance to make their objections heard. >> reporter: if senators want to run around the clock, congress passed emergency funding extension through tomorrow night. the house passed a second extension through wednesday. the senate appropriations chair who negotiated the bipartisan bicameral deal is pushing colleagues to pass the bill quickly. >> we will not have government on autopilot and will be able to fund our responsibilities and protect america and really prepare america for both today and the rest of the 21st century. >> reporter: senators republican david vitter and elizabeth warren filed amendment hoping to strip a provision that would weaken dodd-frank banking regulations and warren says could lead to future bailouts. the houses impasse lifted when

democratic senator steny hoyer split with leader nancy pelosi. >> i have concluded it is better for us to pass this cromnibus as it is euphemistically referred to, to defeat it. i urge my members to vote for the cromnibus. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner all smiles when he realized he had the votes to pass the bill 219-206. 67 republicans voted against the measure and a number of conservative members were left frustrated. >> obamacare is funded. obama's executive amnesty funded. we insisted on a vote that would allow us to cut off all funding to implement his executive amnesty. >> reporter: republicans who backed the compromise say boehner did his job keeping government open and leadership won't suffer long-term damage. >> i think it's important that house republicans stay together. if we're divided, the person who benefits most is the

president. the american people in the last election said they were unhappy with the president's policy. that's why we had sweeping victories in the house and the senate, and together we can get good things done. >> reporter: the date to circle on your calendar is february 17th when homeland security funding would run out. many are expecting boehner and senate republican leaders to stand up and fight funding for president obama's executive action on immigration. lou? lou: mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill. the optics on the drama on capitol hill in the final days of the 113th congress are impressive. president obama fighting hard to get his fellow democrats to support john boehner's trillion dollar spending bill. the lame duck either tired of six years of fighting over budgets or the president is giving a preview of possible compromise when divided government leans far more right in january.

chief white house correspondent ed henry with our report. >> reporter: if this was the first postelection test of president obama's juice, he stumbled. despite sending denis mcdonough to twist arms behind closed doors, it was the revolt of house democrats who declared that the commander in chief is a lame duck. >> if the president is lobbying, we do not like it and we're saying do not be intimidated by anybody. >> reporter: democrats upset about a provision rolling back wall street reforms. 139 democrats voted against the bill and the president. the white house aides put the best face on it noting 57 house democrats voted yes, helping to give the president major victories by running roughshod over republican objections and getting health care law. >> on neither measure were we able to implement those initiatives and continue to make progress on them.

that is a clear win for democrats and a clear win for the president. >> reporter: indeed, the president got other goodies like money for a climate change fund, legacy items that might put speaker john boehner in hot water with conservatives. democratic leader nancy pelosi bucking him. >> enormously disappointed that the white house feels that the only way they can get a bill is to go along with this. >> reporter: the president today tried to soften that blow by noting this is the new political reality for his party. >> this is what's produced when you have the divided government that the american people voted for. there are a bunch of provisions in this bill i really do not like. >> reporter: last year when republicans did not like the president's health care law and forced the government shutdown, the president lashed out. >> one faction of one party in one house of congress, in one branch of government, shut down major parts of the government.

all because they didn't like one law. >> reporter: now with one faction of the democratic party at least flirting with the shutdown, the white house attacks on republicans are a distant memory. >> a year ago the president, jay carney and others said they were hostage-takers, terrorists. >> because they shut down the government, ed. >> reporter: democrats tried last night. >> the democrats said they would not be willing to support this compromised proposal because they had concerns about the specific provisions. >> reporter: concerns about wall street reform that democrats express now that was a principled stand in the white house. concerns republicans expressed about health care, not so much. lou? lou: ed, thank you very much, ed henry from the white house. while the budget, the spending bill hangs in the balance, the architect of the president's signature health care law is now firmly in the cross hairs of congressional investigators. jonathan gruber testified before the house oversight committee earlier this week, calling the american voters

stupid on a number of occasions. well who's stupid now? he's being subpoenaed by congressman darrell issa because he refused to answer how much taxpayer money he actually made in compensation as adviser to the government on obamacare. fox news chief political correspondent carl cameron has our report. >> reporter: house government oversight committee chairman darrell issa subpoenaed m.i.t. professor and former affordable care act consultant jonathan gruber for all documents and communications with federal, state and local government employees related with aspects of work on the president's health care law. gruber testified voluntarily this week and got slammed for the 2013 assertion that passing obamacare hinged on concealing flaws from an ignorant public. >> huge political advantage, and basically called the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, basically that was

really critical. i sincerely apologize with conjecturing with the tone of expertise and doing so in a disparaging fashion. i knew better, i know better, i'm embarrassed and i'm sorry. >> reporter: under oath tuesday, gruber said he was not the author or architect of obamacare. old videos like this class lecture keep emerging to raise doubts. >> i'm going to describe objectively, i helped write it. i'll trying to objective, pull the disclaimer i was involved in writing the legislation, there is bias involved here. >> reporter: gruber had contracts with 12 states from california to maine between 2009 and 2014. he earned at least two million and perhaps as much as five million dollars. gruber does not believe there were deliberate attempts to conceal unpalletable aspects of obamacare. they want to see if gruber's e-mails support that or convict

government officials with misleading the public to pass health care reform. lou? lou: carl cameron. on wall street, a major sell-off, a cap to a volatile week of trading. the dow industrials today plummeted 315 point, the s&p lost 33, the nasdaq lost 55 points. volume on the big board, 4.1 billion shares. for the week, the dow and s&p down 3.5%. the worst week in more than three years. the nasdaq posting weekly losses of 2.5%. crude oil settling below $58 a barrel. $57.81. that's the lowest level in more than five years. we're coming back with a great deal more. please stay with us. still at it, attorney general eric holder and racial politics. this time in the president's hometown. with one of the nation's highest murder rates. governor mike huckabee on race,

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the director of citizenship and immigration services, leon rodriguez announced his agency will begin taking applications in mid-february. and democratic congressman luis gutierrez will be in chicago this weekend with mayor rahm emanuel, trying to help 500 illegal immigrant families prepare for background checks. saying the more people that sign up, the more unlikely you will ever unravel. this joining us to talk about the president's executive fiat and much more, we're joined by former arkansas governor, presidential candidate and host of "huckabee" on the fox news channel. mike huckabee. great to have you with us. >> great to be here. lou: in the spirit of the season, the attorney general is out playing racial politics. the president himself doing the same. it is extraordinary timing. >> if they are really serious about trying to help young black men and prevent them from

being victims of violent crime, let's talk about black on black crime in the inner city, because that's where the crisis point is. if they would talk about fatherhood and the importance of these young men growing up with, a father figure in their lives, that would be significant. instead we're off on the peripheral issues, things that amount to a very small percentage of black deaths, and i'm not saying what happened to garner was insignificant. i'm saying if they really want to look at the great body of wrong being done to young black males, talk about the young black males being murdered in our major cities. lou: interesting that the president nor his attorney general will talk about what is an abject failure on the part of black leadership in this country. we are looking at much the same unemployment rates among young black males today as we were almost 50 years ago. >> actually worse than 50 years ago. the poverty rate in america, same as it was when we launched

the war on poverty. yet we spend $2 trillion fighting it? we lost the war. we've lost it because you can't win the war on poverty if kids grow up without two parents with a high school education and gainfully employed. those factors result in a child having less than 9% likelihood of ever spending a day in his life in poverty. that's how you fight poverty. daniel patrick moynihan said this in 1964. we are still not having progress. lou: talking race and attacking law enforcement once again. what is that about? and why is -- the american public doesn't buy it. that is, they respect and depreciate law enforcement officers all over this country? >> eric holder is supposed to be the number one cop in america, that's what the attorney general is. it's hardly appropriate for the attorney general who is

supposed to have the confidence of law enforcement completely denigrating everybody in law enforcement. and lou, one of the things that's frustrating in all of this issue of the police, when are we going to start saying, one of the messages we have to give to our kids, if a police officer stops you, and you think he's wrong to stop you, this is not a time to let him know how many profane words you know. this is not a time to exhibit how tough you can be. this is a time to be respectful, shut up and if you think he's wrong, take it to court. you can't fix that on the street it. never ends well when you try argue with a cop who's thinking he's doing his duty. lou: and you know, as we look at what is happening with the grievance industry in this country. al sharpton tomorrow. he's calling it a candlelight vigil, bringing together the faith community. you know, it does, though, create the question, where is

the broader faith community, and why are we not hearing from evangelicals, from the catholic church? why aren't they weighing into the issue, and a broader, deeper expression of gratitude and support for law enforcement that might be helpful? >> i think that's a fair indictment. i've not heard many people do anything other than show their support for the police. people understand, cops make mistakes. cops do wrong things but there's a process to deal with it. if you don't like a stlard a jury comes out with, there's a way to deal with it, it's not to burn a city down. i'm all for people to have a candlelight vigil. that's fine. americans have the right to protest. al sharpton has the responsibility to be a little more truthful and forthcoming. he could start to paying his taxes and owning up to responsibility as a citizen before he lights up a million candles and blames everybody but himself what's wrong with

america. lou: speaking of blaming america. president obama, he's being publicly chastised by the democratic party. we're looking at a divide that perhaps it was there, certainly wasn't visible or animated as it is tonight? >> pretty stark when nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders attached lips to the back side of the president for six years say we're done, and you've got maxine waters saying it doesn't matter who it is, we're not listening. that's pretty significant. here's what i don't understand, the republicans have an incredible opportunity with divided democratic party to take a stand and defund things like the illegal immigration executive order, and what are they doing? they're rolling over. lou, what the heck is this about? about wanting to go home for christmas? get your job done and go home. don't roll over so quick. lou: i will credit speaker boehner on one bases. in moving the $1.1 trillion,

made it the democratic problem in the senate, and the republicans if it does come to, this they won't be the ones held responsible by the public in my judgment. >> silver lining in every cloud, there's one that you can find. good for you. lou: thank you very much, coming from you, mike, that means a great deal. thank you, governor, appreciate it. watch "huckabee" on the fox news channel saturday and sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. eastern. time for a quick look at online poll results. we asked -- be sure to vote in our poll tonight, downing the leadership of both parties are taking direction from the chamber of commerce and the business roundtable or is it just the gop? cast your vote at loudobbs.com. new warnings tonight that a

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strips derivitives from the dodd-frank wall street reform law that would leave derivitives still in institutions by the fdic. we will keep you updated on the senate throughout this hour. first, a few comments on what the "washington post" reports is a new malaise in america. reading the post article casts my mind back to july 1979. a lot of people who worked for then president jimmy carter finally realized folks across america stopped listen to the president. most of us were well up with a stagnant economy, high inflation, long gas lines and inflation. and, yes, we'd had a belly full of sanctimonious self-righteous incompetent in the white house. he loved to wear sweaters and play a somber part. wringing his hands over what he

judged to be increasingly scarce natural resources, and insisting that we mere citizens set our top speed at 55 miles an hour and thermostats no higher than 68 degrees. president carter's ineptitude and inability to inspire the american people of course prompted him to go on national television and blame his failures, his lack of vision and inability to lead on those he thought should be following. him, and only him. this is how mr. carter delivered his famously disastrous malaise speech.. lou: if you could understand,

that you're doing better than me, i apologize for our technical problems there. mr. carter's do youer tones i assure you sounded much like our current president. but mr. obama has outdone mr. carter. now more than 35 years later we're stuck with a president who slipped into irrelevancy and according to quinnipiac polling is considered the worst president since world war ii. and president obama is unrelenting in his ongoing electures and his hectorg, self-indulgences and hapless efforts to at least appear engaged in what could have been the important work of state. but now, he talks to only some americans at a time, seldom all. he strives to divide seemingly never to unite, he accepts despair and never tries to inspire. a "new york times" poll out

this week shows 64% of us believe the american dream is still alive. that is the lowest number in nearly two decades. a pew research poll shows fewer than half americans expect next year to be better than this. that's the lowest since the recession. and democrats have been the loud nest expressing their loss of faith in this president. >> i'm enormously disappointed that the white house feels that the only way they can get a bill is to go along with this. >> americans were crying out for the end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs, not changes in health care. lou: when even pelosi and schumer acknowledge the disaster that has been this administration's governance, president obama arrived at irrelevancy. and now the numbers count and the countdown has begun. 769. that's the number of days that

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. lou: the pentagon today admitted that its occurrence strategy of airstrikes alone against the islamic state won't be sufficient to defeat the islamic state. >> i think everybody shares the same basic sense of urgency about isil and about the fight inside iraq, and the need to continue to move forward in a comprehensive, holistic way, airstrikes are not the panacea, everybody realizes that.

lou: joining us is retired major general robert scales, former commandant of the war college. good to see you. what would you do at the war college with a fella who talked about holistic comprehensive blah, blah, blah. have we come to this where people talk like that in an admiral's uniform? >> i think he went to the naval war college, i arrest my case, lou. [ laughter ] >> but yeah, what he's trying to say to all that pentagon blather is that what we've known all along, what you and i discussed on the show before is that a strategy centered on airstrikes alone is a flawed strategy, that eventually the enemy emurs itself to airstrikes and a knee in the curve gets to bombing lower doesn't equation on the ground. it looks as if now something like 70% of the air sorties

that fly into syria are coming back with bombs -- lou: i'm sorry to interrupt you, general. we just watched a piece of smart ordnance blow up a pickup truck. >> my point. lou: and i believe that that probably has set back the islamic state, what do you figure, three, four months? >> yeah, let's face it. the targets are fewer and fewer, the enemy's gone to ground, hiding among the people. sequestering himself in the cities, and the only targets are the ones you see in front of you, pickup trucks. i'm sorry, a million piece of ordnance against a toyota is not a good exchange. we're rung out of options other than airstrikes and going create a void, a strategic void where we can do nothing at least for a year. lou: and we reached the point people need to understand it's time to get the hell out. the generals need to say this

doesn't make sense that frankly the relative equivalency here in expenditure to reward is massively lopsided. >> right. lou: and we cannot sustain this kind of engagement and not a practical way to defeat any inmate insurgent guerrilla force that operates seldom large enough in units to merit an assault by multiple jet fighters? >> exactly. remember now this is a war of ideas, a war of ideology. if we pack up and go home or if we continue this silly charade of air campaign, all this does is strengthen the narrative of isis. they can say look, we have insurgent force whose power is driven by allah against the world's greatest superpower and we're winning, and the americans are not able to do anything against this? what does that do? draws in true believers from the rest of the middle east,

and as we've seen lately, causes isis to increase in power. lou: i have heard choices put forward by the pentagon since september 12, 2001 to this current date. at some point we have to have whether civilian or military leaders who will say, there are choices beyond, false choices, choices beyond extremes of the spectrum of possibilities. there is right, there is wrong, and there is marshalling our forces and the integrity of the nation, and it commands that our generals either win wars or get the hell out. are we at that inflection point? >> you know, there's an old saying that either you go big or you go home. and soldiers understand that. and, yes, we're beyond that inflection point, the culminating point. you get to the point where adding more bombs doesn't increase the advantage at all. adding more bombs eventually

makes it worse rather than better, and we have no other alternatives, even if the iraqis suddenly come to life with nine combat ready brigades materials, be years before they push back isis, which gives them the breathing space to turn a conquest into a country. that is the biggest nightmare of all. >> general, good to talk with you. >> thank you, thank you, lou. >> up next, the dow finishing off worst week in three years, plummeting crude oil prices reaching recession level lows and perhaps lower in prospect. that's next. how can power consumption in china, impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 70% of r mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.

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. lou: stocks closing out the week significantly lower. the dow and s&p posting the biggest weekly declines in more than three years, down more than 3.5% this week. moody's chief economist john lunski. what is driving oil so low? >> to push the price of oil down to a level that slows the expansion of drilling activity in places like the united states. lou: and saudi arabia?

>> well, okay. and beyond that, i think what we're overlooking is the possibility that unexpectedly slow growth outside the united states is also putting downward pressure on crude oil prices. lou: you're talking principally about europe, china, emerging countries. >> call it a global slack attack. i think it's under way right now. lou: a global slack attack, i like that. this would be a lot funnier if there weren't so many people getting hurt her. i don't bemoan the lower prices. i love the implications for are oil prices whether it's heating oil or gasoline. >> you are correct. a drop in energy prices is a positive for the world economy and the u.s. economy. however, to the degree that slowdown globally is helping to push oil priceser, that's troublesome. keep your eye on base metals, the industrial metals.

lou: i've been watching them all year. >> if the prices of base metals begin to sink, and today they took a beating in the equity market. that would tell me that we are much closer to a global recession than we currently think. lou: when we're looking at crude oil at 57 bucks, we're talking about a -- and if we continue to march lower here, that's telling me we haven't begun to test the possibility that this recession, globally, is far worse than anyone was speaking of. thinking of. or crediting. if that's the case, what are the implications for equities markets in particular? >> i think early on it's bad news for the united states until we have remedial actions abroad that lower interest rates, and i'm not talking about just foreign government bond yields, i'm speaking with

the recent run-up in corporate bond yields in the united states. early on when equities were rallying week had quite a jump on junk bond yields. lou: they are starting to act like junk. >> there is no way at next week's fomc meeting we're going to find the fed -- >> they're not going to raise rates? you know how many people are blathering. >> for a considerable time stays in the policy statement, it's not removed with markets sinking worldwide. lou: i can't tell you how many fools i've heard about the prospect of higher interest rates driving this market higher. can you believe such nonsense? >> it's insane. over the top. lou: but they actually say it! i can't believe it. >> a year ago, what were the pundits saying, telling us by the final quarter of 2014, the 10-year treasury bond yield would be closer to 4% down to

3%. as it turns out, the 10-year treasury yield is closer to 2% than 3%. that was the worst call of the year without question. lou: we could argue this 2.1, just a little would be closer to 3 and 4. john lonski, great to talk with you. listen to financial reports coast-to-coast on the salem radio network. up next, president obama, speaker boehner teamed up to pass a spending bill, which could signal, well, severely diminished influence on the part of either man. we'll take it up here next. stay with us. thanks. ♪ [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to able global commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly. great job. (mandarin) ♪

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well. joining us now the a-team, ellen ratner, chief political correspondent for talk radio news service and fox news contributor. great to have. >> you thank you. lou: former white house political director political strategist ed rollins, good to have you. >> thank you. lou: and in d.c., "washington times" political reporter. >> it shows politics can have very strange bedfellows if they think they can move it ahead. lou: we thought they were going bed many times. this time they got it done. >> they did. what this is showing is the divide in both the republican party and the democratic party, and that is going to play now the 2016. lou: ed, your thoughts? >> my thoughts are this is the last of this miserable session of congress and getting just

what they deserve. i hope they all stay up all night long before they vote. at the end of the day if the republicans don't have orderly process, it drives the whole agenda starting with appropriation hearings, authorization hearings and budget bill way before the end of the year, they'll fail and fail miserably. lou: and steve, what are the prospects as best can you determine we're going to see something in the senate either tonight or tomorrow? >> not going to shut the government down. they will pass either this bill tonight or else pass a short-term spending bill, i believe it's five days that gets us into next week. lou: so wednesday. >> yeah, and they will pass. this $1.1 trillion bill will end up passing essentially as it is. the votes are there. what's going on in the senate now is entirely at issue of republicans and democrats arguing about the clock in order to see what sort of nominations get through. there are very important nomination that the president wants to get done before he loses control of the taent

senate and republicans control that process. about using up the clock and making it painful so the fewer nominees can get through right now. lou: let me point out, florida senator bill nelson is speaking right now. live pictures from the senate. ellen, the house vote represented a real step forward, but the divide between the democrats and the conservatives and the republican party with their leadership, is that pretense? or does it presage what will happen with the 114th congress? >> it's hard to know. president bush had trouble with his own republicans, as we know. so it's hard to know whether they're going to come along with speaker boehner or not. there is certainly a republican divide in terms of the tea party, and they voted against the bill and they're not too excited about it. lou: what about the conservatives in immigration? they're furious, the conservatives, that john boehner didn't buck the

president on the issue of illegal immigration and executive fiat. >> there is plenty of time to do. this the speaker is in better position than he's ever been. far more members, you don't have cantor who is a potential threat to him. >> he wanted that job. >> he did. he has his own team now. he'll address the issue when they have the full congress. and mcconnell is going to play a big role in the house. they're going to have a coordinated effort, if they do it well, they'll move stuff. the president may veto it. they will put legislation on the board. lou: the two leaders of the senate, steve, have been very quiet. harry reid and mitch mcconnell. your thoughts? >> well, on the spending bill, they're in the middle of negotiations over the nominees. real quickly, one of the nominees is for immigration and custom enforcement, that is a major issue that plays into the issue. republicans would love to block

that to have some victory on immigration regardless of what happens next year when they have to face this over the spending bill. that's one of the reasons the bill is tied up. a lot of this comes down to the relationship between the two men, mcconnell and read and the senate and what they want to get done. mcconnell will have a sizable number of troops. the focus will be on half a dozen red state democrats up for re-election in the next two cycles to see whether they're willing to play ball with mcconnell as well. >> dead man walking is harry reid. sandoval, he will clobber harry reid. >> i would like to think that's not true. everybody is talking about 2016 is looming and that is what a lot of this is about. >>. amber: a lot of the talk on 2016 seems way premaddure.

chris christie getting clobbered in his home state. 53% saying he'll not make a good president. failing to beat -- hillary clinton beating him in his home state, the same with jeb bush. we're looking at spectacular weakness here. >> the magic of christie, this guy can win in a blue state. that's not true anymore. >> >> i have been predicting that for the last six months

but the folks around can believe that the republican party might take a third look at mitt romney. >> working with $1 million apiece obviously he would be of a tough candidate to be to the primary process with the executive fiat on the amnesty the mayor who insists on open borders once a very big fence around him and his family. he has erected a privacy fence. there is to keep his constituents from looking too deeply and too often into the mansion, the taxpayer funded home is already had a brick wall

that protected the predecessors but we said change the language to call for border privacy rather than and border security and yorkers don't take much of the mayor either. good night from new york. neil: welcome, everybody. i am neil cavuto. his ears is the fallout from the saudi racial emails the co-chairman reaches out to two al sharpton and jesse jackson for healing. ab, multitask to bring a checkbook and i know where this is going and so does the reverend peterson. good to have you back. i suspect she will have to do more than say she is sorry? >> no. she will have to pay up been a good fashion. not just apologizing to the black community they have a history