might need someone from that cute little prepper down the street. make sure you have an encrypted device that allows you to get fox business so you can watch "the independents. " i'm kennedyed good night. . lou: good evening, everybody. the obama administration tonight has resumed its assault on our nation's law enforcement officers and agencies. obama administration's resumption of hostilities comes just two days after the department of justice let it be known that it will no longer be pursuing civil rights charges against ferguson police officer darren wilson. president obama today once again seeming to capriciously even recklessly assail law enforcement officers, and in the same sentence, accusing police of bias and absolving the minority community of any responsibility in the

interaction between police and the community. >> there are still biases in our society that in split-second situations where people have to make quick decisions that studies have shown african-american males are seen as more threatening, which puts them in more vulnerable positions. >> yes. >> young african-american males are seen as typically older than they are, and so a lot of the way to solve this is to improve training so people can be aware of their biasses ahead of time. lou: we'll be taking up the unexpected resumption of the obama attacks on law enforcement. we'll be joined among others by former new york city homicide detective bo dietl. also tonight -- the government in yemen collapsed at the hands of iranian shia backed rebels. the relationship between the white house and israel deteriorating at a rapid pace. we'll take the president's

floundering middle east strategy with retired major general robert scales. and the national football league have retained the services of a forensic investigatory firm to get to the bottom of deflate-gate by golly. we'll be joined by fox sports 1 lead football analyst joel clapp. he'll look why it is the national media's obsession with the so-called scandal. that's right, we're obsessed here too. we begin with the middle east in chaos beside the crumbling government in yemen and new monarch in saudi arabia. the islamic state is now claiming it executed two japanese hostages after the ransom demand for 200 million dollars was not paid. the pentagon is planning a major offensive to fight islamic state in iraq. the so-called mosul offensive while iran's influence grows in

the region. fox news white house correspondent kevin corke with our report. >> reporter: with the death of saudi king abdullah and yemen careening into chaos facing uncertain futures. that's raising the specter of increasingly influential iran in the region. the obama administration could be looking at beginning stages of a mideast domino effect one that ends with tehran filling a power vacuum. as for yemen? >> you've got terrorists that thrive on chaos, and so that's part of why it is such a dangerous place, some people have called it the new afghanistan. meaning afghanistan back before 9/11. >> reporter: and now the end of an era for the saudis. the kingdom losing a monarch whose relationship with the u.s. was among the most cooperative of the region. king salman ascends to the saudi throne with plummeting oil revenues and attacks from jihadists. couple that with instability

from lebanon, syria and iraq, to pakistan, afghanistan and yemen. and it's clear why the saudis are on edge as new questions arise about america's role in the region. >> saudi arabia going through a transition. they have real doubts about us whether we will stand by them and reassuring them that we will stand by them and be with them is critical. >> for understandable reasons, given their shared border saudi arabia is particularly concerned about the activities of extremists in yemen. that's why you have seen significant cooperation. >> reporter: the white house is hopeful that relationship with the new saudi king will hold steady. that's in question amid concerns about president obama's effort to strike a nuclear arms deal with the country blamed for much of the trouble in the region, iran. >> the likelihood of success for the diplomatic talks is at best 50/50. the reason they are worth pursuing is they're the best way to resolve the international community's

concerns about iran's nuclear program. >> reporter: the one that has plenty of critics here at home. >> the iranians are destabilizing the mideast. they want a nuclear program and this is a disaster in the making. >> reporter: at this point, the president is electing to bypass the upcoming event and saudi arabia honoring the late king abdullah. vice president joe biden is expected to go while the president continues with a previously planned trip to india. lou: kevin, thank you very much, kevin corke reporting from the white house welcome to our broadcast. we're delighted to be working with you. >> lou, thank you very much. lou: kevin corke. here at home another republican appears to be moving closer to adding his name to the list of potential 2016 contenders for the party nomination for president. senator marco rubio telling fox news that he has now hired a fund-raising director. this as a handful of other

potential candidates are gathering in iowa a year ahead of the first in the nation caucus, they hope to make a good first impression on the voters of the state. chief political correspondent carl cameron with our report. >> reporter: they've been here before and they're back in iowa ground zero for the 2016 campaign this weekend and home of the first caucuses next year. it's first candidate cattle call of the year and sponsored by citizens united and republican congressman steve king one of the more conservative and combative tea party member of the u.s. house. front-runners, mitt romney and jeb bush are not attending. after their big meeting in salt lake city, neither side reported anything more than a cordial visit. 8 other potential white house contenders will be here to deliver speeches back to back. it's not a debate but there will be plenty of zingers. a coming out party for scott

walker david polians key and mike huckabee's victory in 2008. for senator marco rubio, the forum comes right as he shifts campaign into higher gear. sunday rubio will join the candidate forum in california hosted by the koch brothers funded group freedom partners that will include walker, kentucky senator rand paul and texas senator ted cruz. chris christie has a challenge in the hawkeye state. while christie has controversies to work out in new jersey. insiders say he plans to aggressively campaign in new hampshire as well as iowa where conservatives are suspicious of northeastern republicans as too moderate. by contrast heartland candidate like former arkansas governor mike huckabee are eagerly embraced. he won the 08 caucuses still has a formidable following. rick santorum wrapping within a

five-day tour of the state narrowly beat romney. texas governor rick perry joins the iowa campaign late in 2012, coupled with self-inflicted political gaffes made it impossible to compete. newcomer ben carson draws huge crowds and has volunteers organizing in all 99 counties. historically a majority of iowa republican caucusgoers are self-described evangelical christian conservatives, there will be a lot of hot rhetoric issues, cultural issues particularly tomorrow. with the caucuses a year away, what most of the candidates will try to do is not try to screw it up at the starting line lou. social issues matter. that is what the topic will be tomorrow. it will be what the caucuses are about next year lou. lou: carl, thank you very much as always. can i ask you quickly, you've covered more than a few of these rounds.

what is your sense of the, in and the direction of these early candidates for the 2016? >> reporter: there's a lot of enthusiasm. when you come to iowa the first caucus state in new hampshire, the first primary. there is a tremendous amount going on. i talked to one activist who had half a dozen different interviews turned down a couple of jobs and mentioned candidates. ted cruz is looking for people working, rick perry looking for people to hire here. we've been reporting on this for a while. on the political classes, great deal of enthusiasm. in iowa there are 4 million people, only 250, 300,000 will take part in the republican caucuses. they are very conservative ardent and enthusiastic for the caucuses to take place next jeer thanks so much. i suspect you're not alone in that. carl cameron, thank you. the first round of high-level talks between the united states and cuba have wrapped up. today diplomats from both countries striking a cordial but cautious tone.

in a havana news conference the assistant secretary of state roberta jacobson stressed there were more than five decades of estrangement to overcome. >> we say we have profound disagreements with the cuban government. when we talk about democracy and human rights and support for civil society and independent actors. lou: jacobson's cuban counterpart said quote -- diplomats went onto say it could take weeks just to reschedule the next round of talks which signal something of a tough road ahead. we're coming right back. stay with us. the middle east is in chaos, and the white house now appears ready to order the pentagon into a fight on the ground with the islamic state. general bob scales on the mosul

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. lou: nato officials say they've detected signs that rebels in eastern ukraine are now preparing for a major offensive in their fight to break away from the rest of the country.

the announcement comes a day after ukrainian government troops retreated from the destroyed airport and the embattled city of donetsk. on your screen before and after pictures of the airport that are the focus of intense fighting for months now. at one point, ukrainian government soldiers and russian backed rebels even controlled, at the same time, different floors of the same building at that airport. the u.s. embassy in yemen remains open tonight despite rising chaos in the country. the state department has reduced the number of americans who are asked to work in the country, the pentagon in fact has moved the "u.s.s. iwo jima" and fort mchenry into the red sea. those two ships are in position should an evacuation be ordered. >> the situation is still very unclear, and it's -- we're

monitoring it as closely as we can, but it's not clear right now in whose hands the government is or will be in the future. lou: joining us now retired major general robert scales former condante of the military college and fox news analyst. good to have you here general. >> hi lou. lou: you heard general kirby say it's not clear, i have to say i'm not clear why it's unclear to our pentagon. they've got to have the best possible intelligence what is happening in that small country. your thoughts? >> you are exactly right. i think the situation in yemen is pretty much over. i think the victory goes to al qaeda and it goes to iran, it follows along very much like syria and iraq and other countries in the region.

the administration is trying to put the best face on this. just a year ago lou, they were talking about yemen being an enormous success story and descending into chaos. think of it as early afghanistan where al qaeda will have the run of the place and will be able to plot attacks against the west, using yemeni sovereign territory as they're based. it is a nightmare scenario lou. lou: it seems to be at least in these early days of the post yemeni government, it appears to be a victory for iran, which is pulling the levers and making the decisions as to what the outcome will be. >> that's exactly right. just think of the poor saudi arabians now. they just lost their king. they have a shiite-controlled, iranian-controlled state next to them in the south. they have iraq split asunder. syria under the control

eastern syria under the control of isis. they are sure, we all are quite sure iran is moving out to build a nuclear system to deliver it. i would be uneasy particularly given the fact that the level of support by this country for saudi arabia has been less than it should be for over a decade lou. lou: and discussion of the mosul offensive, we have been treated to reports variously from u.s. intelligence sources, from the pentagon, from nato countries to arab states in point of fact, mosul has been taken, it has been lost, it has been taken, it has been lost. i mean, it is one of the most confusing aspects of the islamic state's offensive in iraq that i've seen. >> yep. lou: what do you make of it?

>> message for the pentagon mosul is in isis hands and hasn't lost control. you can argue they have isolated mosul to some degree. this is the psychological heartland for isis. this is the crown jewel of the looming isis empire. if the iraqis are able to regain mosul, that will have an enormous psychological impact on the dominance of isin its region and might very well over the months to come convince young men flocking to the isis colors that isis isn't winning this war. lou, we are a long way from retaking mosul. the iraqi army is barely able to crawl at this point, and there's not a lot of confidence among the people i talked to in the region that at least in the short-term, the iraqi army is up to it. lou: all right as always good to have you with us, general bob scales. >> thank you, lou.

lou: thanks so much. take a minute to vote in our online poll at loudobbs.com. the question is -- last night's poll result wes asked in jeflt -- and i hope in humor you said yes, we thought that would be such an absurd question. 29% yes makes us think twice about such jokes. up next the one generation that seems to have captured the president's attention doesn't seem to be paying attention to much of anything. in the commentary, here next. stay with us. we got a lot for you.

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. lou: new york mayor bill de

blasio and los angeles mayor eric garcetti taking their support of president obama's unilateral executive fiat on amnesty to court. they announced today they've filed amicus brief along with 31 other mayors across the country are, in the lawsuit brought by 25 states with republican governors who have sued the president to overturn his executive fiat. the mayor's declaring their support for the president's executive action that gives amnesty to five million illegal immigrants. a few comment news on millennials! millennials who, according to the census bureau are expected to overtake us baby boomers. as the largest living generation sometime later this year. i'd say congratulations are in order, but we're the ones who actually made you. we're the ones who deserve whatever credit ensues, and i'm not sure millennial is the best descriptor for the 75 million folks currently ages 18-34.

some refer to you all as the boomerang generation because at one point 36% of you were once again, living at your parents' home. you're also known as the i don't, i won't generation because just about 26% of you are married. that compares to 48% of us baby boomers when we were your age. yes, we were one time, at one time your age. or how about the go for broke generation. since you've got record amounts of debt and 4 in 10 of you are interested in buying a home at all. don't get me wrong i don't know where i'd be if you hadn't invented the selfie or memes with grumpy cat. look at that face, so very grumpy. something of a talesman an avatar for entire generation not just a meme, i can't help but get a little annoyed when some of the best reporters in

the country are passed up by the obama white house for an interview with the president in favor of youtube stars whose claim to fame at least for one of them is taking a bath in fruit loops. i hope it's only one of them. if you thought those kinds of credentials would result in interviews, would have been below the dignity of the office, you were right. take a look. >> i, sometime people think i do, i don't smoke pot. it's not for me i think it's bad for my brain. i'm not into, it people think i do smoke pot because i'm in favor of legalizing marijuana. >> and my mama say when you go somebody's house give something, don't come empty-handed. so i have for your first wife. >> my first wife. >> i mean --. >> you know something i don't? >> ooh. >> if you have any free time what tv shows or movies do you

watch? >> you know, i'm really big on sports. so the truth of the matter is i'm mostly watching "sportscenter." >> you can take a selfie with me? >> let's do it. >> got it! >> there's reason to hold out hope. 15 million of you millennials voted for the president back in 2008 when he first ran for office. by 2012, when the president was seeking re-election. three million millennials. they chose not to vote for mr. obama. 12 million did focusing on that substantial decline, i think most of us suggest that that suggests a lot of potential for your generation. we'll see whether you live up to it or not. now our quotation of the evening. this one from english novelist social critic george orwell, saying --

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. lou: i love the expression camp when it comes to politicians. senator marco rubio's camp telling fox news they should

proceed as if they were running for president. rubio will embark on a california fund-raising swing next week. joining us to talk about the rapidly expanding republican 2016 field, the a-team. former white house political director matt schlapp, and republican strategist former bush spokesperson mercedes schlapp. it is great to have the schlapp family here. good to see you guys. >> hi lou! >> rubio, i guess he's in, huh, matt? >> yeah, i think basically we're going to have a big crowded field. i think marco rubio is looking at it seriously. he clearly wants to run. the real question for the candidates is if mitt romney gets in and jeb bush, they don't have a money question. for marco rubio and the other candidates it's a huge question how much they can raise. the amount of money it's going to raise to start the process

literally starting at the end of a campaign, it's a big price tag, lou. lou: a big price tag, and mercedes, i mean bush and romney meeting in utah at some secret meeting. >> uh-huh. lou: and from it, what was the meeting about, and what was the result? >> i don't think we have a clue, lou, but here's what we know is the fact that governor bush set up this meeting with romney a while back ago to kiss the ring to the fact he was going back to the presidential candidate of 2012, and quite frankly, that things have changed. it looks like governor romney is seriously looking into running for president, and it just is creating this divisiveness within the establishment part of the party which going back to marco rubio could create a bit of an opening for him, he is trying to gain the national visibility, and why not throw himself in the mix when the

field is so unclear? lou: carl cameron reporting earlier telling us that the energy is high in iowa, a year before the caucuses the state is already ginned up and starting to greet field that's growing before our very eyes. matt, what do you think is going to happen here? you said it was going to be an expanding field. how big is this thing going to get? >> wow we're going to have more than 12 top tier candidates. it reminds me a little of 1980 when you had a lot of candidates. you had more than one strong conservative. obviously ronald reagan came out of the process, wasn't such a bad thing for the party. lou: not bad at all. >> i think it's a good thing that we're going to have this big competitive process. by the way, lou, there's a lot of financiers of the republican party who are nervous because it makes it harder for them to hand pick a candidate and jam them through. the activists are going to have a much bigger role with this

many candidates. my wife is right -- she's always right -- she says romney and jeb bush, if they lock horns, it could create an opening for another candidate who we're not thinking about as much. lou: great point. >> and i do have to disagree a bit with the love of my life that, you know -- lou: and they put me in the middle of this picture, i notice, right between you two. >> when you have so many candidates it makes it into the grueling, difficult process. >> good. >> hillary is sitting back you go at it and fight all you want, i'm going to be ready to go any time now, and we just can't seem to find and stabilize ourselves as a party, and i think that presents a problem. i think the fact that you have governor romney thinking about getting in. it just creates so much division within the party itself, and i just think it's not necessarily a very helpful process especially for those candidates that we know don't have a chance of winning past

one or two primaries. lou: i'm going to have to say here, matt and mercedes i'm going to resolve this. no, i'm not. you have to work this out on your own. [ laughter ] >> it looks like we're off to a pretty good start here in washington, d.c. with the new party in control of the senate, and the house in an expanded majority. i mean their votes more amendment roll calls. this thing regular order has returned? are we going to see this continue? >> yeah, i think definitely. mitch mcconnell believes, he's an institutionalist when it comes to the senate he believes this is how the senate should operate. this is a democracy, so the minority party should be able to offer up plenty of amendments. so the fact we had 50 amendments on the keystone pipeline in a week which is more amendments than harry reid allowed in a year is a pretty big step. the bad news for people who want to see progress fast in congress is when the senate works the way it should work,

it works very slowly it. means that actually not much legislation will get done, but at least we'll have a fair and open and honest debate. lou: mercedes you get the last word, as always? >> i got to tell you i'm a little more doom and gloom here. no matter what they get out of senate or the house the president is going to veto it. he's going to keep going with unilateral approach which he did so meticulously in november and december, and he's going to careless what congress does. so we can go back to regular order which is a healthy process for the congress but again, i think they're going to be pushed aside by president obama as we've seen in the past actions. lou: at least the moral high ground will have been seized. thank you, both so much. the schlapp family. thanks, matt and mercedes. lou: the dow down 141 point the s&p lost 11, the nasdaq up 7. volume slipping down to 3.6

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. lou: president obama now saying police training is required to eliminate racial bias on the

part of police. he made the statements during one of his interviews with the so-called youtube stars. joining us former new york police detective and fox news contributor bo dietl. great to be with you. >> thank you. lou: your reaction to the decision by the justice department, they threat be known they made the decision not to bring charges against police officer darren wilson in ferguson, missouri. >> in order to get a civil rights charge, you have to have premeditation that you set the whole thing up. let's face it, the incident in ferguson was by a person who committed a crime and he was being arrested. he assaulted the officer it was all there. then we get our attorney general, who all of a sudden puts it in place that this is the attitude of a cop, that it's a racial bias. no, no they're making an arrest on somebody. this is an arrest case, this has nothing to do with racial bias. the same attorney general who refused to do anything with fast and furious, refused to go after the black panther.

refused to go after the irs scandal. all he does is step up and want to do this racial baiting thing saying every incident with the cops, all the police are against racial minorities. lou: now this one captured on video, do we have that video of the dash cam? i mean it's a straightforward case that you can see. however the judgments are made but video of officers telling these two men in the vehicle not to move and discovering a gun, and then -- >> there's also a history here. the officer just happens to be black, that takes the whole racial aspect out of this things are and the officer knew this criminal who did 13 years for shooting at three new jersey state troopers. he was known to him. he knew he was a violent felon.

so when he sees a gun in the car and tells him put your hands in the air. he's fearing for his life. your reaction is what you get. that cop feared for his life he knew he was involved with shooting other cops. now get that gun, take the shot, we have one dead cop and nobody cares. right now that was -- as far as i'm concerned, their actions caused this. when you are placed under arrest you comply with the police officer. lou: let me ask you this as a former policeman and detective why, in the world would there be any assumption on any person's part irrespective of his or her race that they have some capacity some license to simply dismiss a police officer's orders to say stay still. put your hands up. do precisely what i said. >> i think with the two cases that divided this country from the president on down to the attorney general, these are cases where the individuals who were involved with being

arrested, they were committed. wasn't that all of a sudden the cops wanted to make a racial incident occur. this happened placing someone under arrest. if you're placed under arrest, the officer, you comply. you want to make a complaint do, it after the fact. lou: if there is any gray area, with the police officer with typically 9 millimeter pistol drawn with hesitation why is there hesitation is beyond me? >> if you're right or wrong a police officer asks to you do something, you have to comply with it. lou: the president saying police have got to have their prejudices trained out of them. your reaction? >> you know what? when you get the attorney general, first statement said this is a day of regard for race relations, this was his attitude and this is the

attitude of the greatest country of the world. we have great police that's the way it is. lou: bo dietl, thanks so much. appreciate it. we're going to continue in just one moment. stay with us.

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. lou: the nfl deflategate investigation ongoing with the league announcing it has

conducted nearly 40 interviews with patriots' personnel and officials, both patriots' coach bill belichick and tom brady deny any wrongdoing whatsoever. joining us to help make sense of it relying entirely upon him to make sense of this, fox sports one football analyst former university of colorado quarterback joel klatt. great to have you with us. >> thanks for having me lou. lou: i can't help but grin talking about the story, obviously, we're embracing the story just like everyone else but it fascinates me that there's any question about this. why isn't this straightforward? either somebody new? they didn't know? the nfl checked it out? they found something, let's move on. what am i missing here? >> the gray area is most people inside football circles will tell you there was no competitive advantage gained and for the lay person and the fan out there that's very hard to understand. the nfl then has to operate in

lockstep with really the public sentiment which can act, as you know, in a more mob mentality, especially when the mainstream media gets ahold of it. lou: you're the first one to bring up mob mentality, and you do so absolutely accurately as i listen in my car to sports radio, you know fox sports everyone else, i mean my god! one host actually said on the air yesterday, at one point, i can't recall which host or at what time, saying we have to follow our audience. and i thought by god, he's being honest about it. that's what's happening here. >> there's no question they've got to follow their audience and the audience this is all they want to talk about. remember, there's only two teams left in the nfl. and there's only a certain amount of stories and let's be realistic, a lot of people know everything they need to know about new england. a lot of people because they're

the defending super bowl champions know everything they need to know about seattle. at least that the point there's a drought of stories in a week which there's no football game. a story like this, this is the worst possible time for this story to pop up if you're the new england patriots and if you're the nfl, because of the void, the vacuum that's created in the week that there's no game before the super bowl. lou: in no way do i want anyone in our audience to think i'm minimizing the profound nature of the events that have occurred here but i have to say to you, it seems so straightforward to me and you laid it out instantly. there's no competitive advantage then what in the world is the likely -- what is driving what likely happened here? what do you think happened? >> well, the process is very simple, and any quarterback will tell you, including my very short time in the nfl. on thursdays, the quarterback

goes into the equipment manager and they inspect all the footballs that the team has, and you pick out the 12 best or 20 best footballs that you have, and then they doctor them up. and the quarterback instructs that equipment staff to doctor them up. take a little air out of this one. put a little air in this one so there's inflating going odeflating going on. every time i was in the interactions, never was the maximum psi discussed. when tom brady said i had no idea what was going on. i truly believe him. he held the football, this is the type of football i like to play with and then went through the and did that. another couple things that are very important and i think people are missing this. in this is not a secretive ball boy sneaking the bag of footballs into the stadium with no one knowing. these footballs are inspected by the officials before the game and passed marked as game

footballs. then during the course of this game, every single snap the officials are handling the footballs, putting them down for the spot first and 10, second and 5, whatever it is the officials are handling the football. at no point did the official say this ball is a little deflated and could be competitive advantage and i should check this out. at no point. at no point during week 11 when indianapolis thought this was going on at no point did baltimore say this was going on. did the officials void knowledge of doing this? absolutely not, they're handling the footballs. then another important point. they inflate the balls to the regulation standard psi and the patriots go on 28-0 run and bury the indianapolis colts. lou, this is sour grapes from the indianapolis colts. lou: it would be tom brady who is the golden boy among quarterbacks in the nfl,

successful, married to a beautiful world-famous model, and bill belichick who just happens to be one of the crustiest, toughest guys, who is the most uncooperative with media in the entire nfl, it's just had to be written this way this scenario. didn't it? >> absolutely did. i think there's only two teams that blows this out of proportion. dallas cowboys, new england patriots, those are the only two teams this story takes off like it has. and happens to be with new england and the week before the super bowl. one other point i will say, the nfl backed themselves into a bit of a corner here, lou, they're heavy handed in suspensions and fines for players, and everybody in the league knows that including the nfl pa and the other organizations like the new orleans saints who went through bountygate and tried to have ignorance as an excuse, and the nfl says ignorance is not an excuse. the history of the nfl having

no precedent for this issue, everybody acting in mob mentality, i think the nfl backed themselves in a corner. i know they're conducting an investigation, nobody is in the same boat as roger goodell thinking to themselves this needs to blow over. he, and the new england patriots want it to go away as quickly as possible to get to their show showcase 110 to 115 million people on february 1st watching the most important game. lou: one of the most conspiratorial and i like the theory in all of this has been that this is a contrivance of the nfl itself in order to inflate, if you will that audience for the super bowl. joel, we thanks for being with us, and we really appreciate it. good to see you and all the best. >> thank you, lou. lou: thanks so much, joel. make sure to watch joel on america's pregame fox sports live on fox sports one and read

his blog on the nfl draft on fox, foxsports.com just one fox in that. joel klatt. he's got it right like to hear what you think as well. a few comments right now. joe tweeted us to say -- these are coincidences, these are coincidence, don't make too much of them. we love hearing from you, e-mail me and the show at loudobbs.com. follow us on twitter at lou dobbs news or go to facebook page links to everything at loudobbs.com. take a second to like our facebook page as well. like everything, like us all. we love you.

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