colby. thanks for watching "strange inheritance". and remember you can't take it with you. . lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the obama administration today clearly acknowledging and demonstrating that whatever their strategy to defeat the islamic state, it is not only incomplete, it is not working. defense secretary ash carter testified before the house armed services committee today. he made it clear the pentagon's efforts to train iraqi forces to fight the islamic state is failing and failing badly. >> our training efforts in iraq have thus far been slowed by a lack of trainees. we simply haven't received enough recruits. of the 24,000 iraqi security forces we originally envisioned

training at our four sites by this fall. we've only received enough recruits to train about 7,000. in addition to 2,000 counterterrorism service personnel. lou: both secretary carter and chairman dempsey didn't foreclose the possibility the military may play a more active role in the fight against the islamic state. but general dempsey also warned that american troops cannot be used to serve as morale boosters for iraqi forces. >> i would not recommend that we put u.s. forces in harm's way simply to stiffen the spine of local forces. if their spine is not stiffened by the threat of isil and their way of life nothing we do is going to stiffen their spine. >> the pessimism over iraq permeates the obama administration. internal documents obtained by fox news show that top aides to the director of the defense

intelligence agency last week removed the word quagmire from draft testimony about iraq. the documents make it clear the director agrees iraq is a quagmire but senior dia officials considered the term to be, quote, too political, perhaps too reminiscent of other american quagmires whether afghanistan or vietnam. its original reference. some successes in breaking up home grown terrorist plots, the fbi today arrested a 251-year-old ghana man in connection with a plot to detonate a bomb in new york city on behalf of the islamic state. authorities arrested faried after he allegedly tried to stab a federal agent as he was being taken into custody. the agent suffered only minor injuries. this is the third person to be arrested in connection with the plot the target of which may have been the george washington bridge. in phoenix tonight

authorities arrested a man they say helped orchestrate the may shooting in garland, texas and he had aspirations to join the islamic state and attack the super bowl in arizona earlier this year. a prosecutor calls abdul malik abdul kareem, quote off the charts dangerous end quote. there have been more than 50 indictments of american or long-term residents related to the islamic state charged over the past 15 months. and a federal law enforcement source tells fox news such terrorist busts are expected to increase in the coming weeks. officials making an all-out push to arrest home grown terrorist suspects before the 4th of july holiday. the fbi reportedly conducting hundreds of investigations in all 50 states. it's now been 12 days since convicted murderers david sweat and richard matt escaped from a

maximum security facility in dannemora new york. 800 law enforcement officers combing hundreds and hundreds of acres. investigators poring over more than 1300 tips still nothing substantive to follow. fox news senior correspondent rick leventhal is in plattsburgh new york and has our report. >> reporter: lou, new developments today but no confirmed sightings of the escaped killers and no hard evidence to suggest they're here or made it out of here. authorities dismantled the roadblocks in the streets surrounding and close to the clinton correctional facility and no longer manning a perimeter. they are focused on road patrols, expanding and shifting the search to locations outside of dannemora and checking out all of the 1400 leads and tips developed so far. and the new york state police released progression photos showing what richard matt and david sweat might look like after 12 days on the run hoping someone might spot them and

call it in. >> one word they thought of throughout this investigation is relentless, and we are going to pursue every lead and we are going to locate these individuals, and they will be apprehended. >> reporter: the d.a. confirmed there was a plot by the convicted killers to murder the husband of the woman who helped them escape. d.a. says joyce mitchell told investigators matt and sweat planned to murder lyle mitchell but the d.a. wouldn't say if it was her idea and wouldn't confirm reports she got cold feet and warned her husband he was a target. lyle mitchell was questioned this morning with attorney present but sources tell us he is not charged with a crime. as for the search, one of the investigators told me it's very unusual they didn't find hard physical evidence in the area after searching 10,000 acres. no stolen cars or burglaries linked to the two men and no indication they've gotten any help but publicly the investigators seem very confident that these men will be caught lou?

lou: rick, thank you very much rick leventhal reporting. turning to the west coast california taxpayers are about to become the first in the country to pay for health care for children who are in the country illegally. it's something president obama promised never would happen while he was ramming obamacare through congress. it is clear that turned out to be a lie. critics call it the latest in a series of laws that incentivize illegal immigration. fox news correspondent william la jeunesse in los angeles with our report. >> reporter: in this budget we're helping low income working californians. that includes residents living in california illegally. in a deal hammered out tuesday, democratic governor jerry brown agreed to provide health care to illegal immigrants under age 19. >> at the end of the day, if we don't have the young people to have the access to health care they're not going to be able to be productive.

>> reporter: the democratically controlled legislature wanted all eligible illegal immigrants covered but backed off because of costs. they eventually agreed on 130 million paid by state and federal taxpayers. >> and the way we've come together, you can conclude this is a sound and well thought-out budget. >> reporter: democrats propose allowing illegal immigrants to buy health insurance through obamacare. the president promised in 009 his health care plan would not apply to illegal immigrants. >> there are also those who claim that reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. this too is false! >> reporter: using the affordable care act which still require federal approval, and that remains unknown. republicans largely oppose the bill. >> the democrats talk about expanding the plan that isn't even serving its core constituency right now. we have a problem with that. >> reporter: not long ago nothing in california expanded but red ink. >> our state is in serious trouble. >> reporter: but a tax increase

and turnaround changed that, with agreements in spending increases in education first time tax credit for the working poor subsidies for preschool and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. >> opponents fear expanding benefits will attract more illegal immigrants. supporters say if people work and pay taxes they deserve the coverage. lou back to you. lou: william la jeunesse from california. big news tonight the birth rate among american women is now on the rise. for the first time in almost a decade. new reports show births among women ages 15-44 rising 1% from 2013 to 2014. that may seem a small increase but it is the first increase since the beginning of the recession in 2007. experts say the increase in the birth rate is evidence of an improving economy. the nation's fertility rate the number of children each woman is likely to have over

the course of her life also rising slightly from 1.85 to 1.86. i said it was a slight rise. it's still below the 2.1 rate that is required to keep the population stable without counting immigration. we're coming right back. stay with us. much more ahead right here. pope francis issues his encyclical on climate change and the reaction is very hot indeed. we'll have that next. a tropical storm inundating huge swaths of texas and the the e-class has 11 intelligent driver-assist systems. it recognizes pedestrians and alerts you. warns you about incoming cross-traffic.

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least friday morning. the issue of climate change and leading republican presidential candidates to take on pope francis. pontiff set to release an encyclical tomorrow that has been leaked but it will make a moral case for action to curb climate change. governor jeb bush suggesting the pope risk politicizing religion. >> hope i'm not like going to get castigated by saying this by my priest back home but i don't get economic policy from my bishops or cardinals or my pope. i think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things that end up getting into the political realm. lou: governor jeb bush not hesitating to enter that foray. earlier this month, the candidate rick santorum said the church shouldn't be weighing in on scientific or political matters. joining me now fox news

senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. judge great to see you. >> good to be with you, lou. >> the pope's choice an encyclical. this is a big deal within the church, and likely to become a big deal on the campaign trail. >> i was raised in a very traditional catholic household. the pope is the vicker of christ on earth, and i believe he is, i believe this pope is. this pope is sometimes difficult to understand when he veers off as governor bush and senator santorum have accused him in my view quite properly areas outside the competence of the papacy. so for him to suggest that capitalism is evil as he did in a papal exertation about a year ago, and for him to suggest that global warming is a scientific fact and you not be catholic and deviate from that is not serving the people he was chosen to serve. i'm going to take this further than governor bush did.

his job is to get souls into heaven, period. his job is not to tell governments how to spend money or industries how to keep the atmosphere clear. lou: and troubling his encyclical the timing is unfortunate for the pontiff because at this very moment, the 10-year most reliable measurements show that we've been in a decade long cooling period. >> yes, yes, in fairness to the pope, i haven't seen it, you haven't seen it, the english version hasn't come out yet. supposed to be 190 pages, we will have to read it to opine on it. lou: i assure you i won't. >> at least two or three of our colleagues will ask me to do so and i will do so. this pope has a tendency to do things authorityively that are outside faith and morals.

lou: and that territory incognita the reality is he's talked about capitalism unfavorably. talked about climate change and the policies necessary in his judgment which is as you suggest perhaps not his to make. and thirdly to talk about a new global authority to assure that his views are institutionalized, this is the most troubling aspect of what he said. >> if he means moral authority he's entitled to that. if he means coercive authority, i don't know what he's talking about. talking about the u.n., some super -- he's really really off the beaten path. lou: we're looking at the prospect that the supreme court will be judging obamacare to be unconstitutional or supported, a host of issues facing this country. what do you believe the supreme court will decide? do you have a sense of it? >> i do.

and my sense of it is from my familiarity with the wait justices and think my awareness of what they said in their questions at oral gumeargument. they will establish the four words established by the states were a bona fide scrivenous error. i'm not suggesting they, should but i think they will. it is the job of the court, most of the present members of the court to believe to find a way to fit the statute in the constitution, and there are many, many cases where there obviously was a scrivenous error i think they will correct this one and obamacare will still be around until the government decides it should be out of the business of telling us how to take care of ourselves. lou: your confidence that they will rule in that direction on

four words. i think i have a very good precedent. the chief justice managed to torture both reality semantics and good judgment i think and interpretation of intent when he changed the word finds to taxes. >> listen father government says -- lou: why not change four words instead of one. >> if the government says it's not a tax, if the challenger says it's not a tax. the courts find it's not a tax. they found it was a tax and saved the individual mandate. >> i honestly don't know of any precedent, at least in my lifetime, which a justice or a court has just simply decided that neither side knew what they were talking about and said this is what you meant. >> almost unhear the of. if it happened to a lower court, these guys would have reversed a lower court. only they can do that. they're infallible because they're final not final because they are infallible.

lou: you know what is so amusing in terms of the president, the president going on and on about this ideological court, this partisan court as if somehow his mind was purged to the memory that chief justice roberts and this very court upheld his signature law. >> the president's criticism of the court as an institute and suggestion as to how they should rule on this is outrageous and it will have no effect on the court whatsoever. i suggest before they made the decision, they already voted and could care a less. lou: i was about to say something i shouldn't. judge well it doesn't make it quite unanimous, anyway. [ laughter ] >> judge napolitano, good to be with you. >> good to be with you, lou. lou: would you consider voting for donald trump for president? we'd like to hear from you on that. a lot of kerfufel following his announcement. a hero dad in georgia caught on camera springing into

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win their party's nomination, and in my opinion, the winner in 2016 will be the candidate who best appeals to our shrinking middle class our hard pressed folks and the working men and women who are being crushed by stagnant wages fewer jobs slower economic growth illegal immigration and the outsourcing of american jobs. as we have been reporting here for weeks the walt disney company under fire for recent layoffs of american employees, and replacing them with foreign workers h1-b visas but in the slightest of bows to public opinion and pressure, disney has at least partially changed its corporate mind on the matter. the "new york times" heralding the move its headline reasons in turn about, disney cancels tech worker layoffs. that's true as far as it went. the reversal by disney only covers 35 of the tech employees

included in new york in california not in florida. and that 35 is only a fraction of the 250 employees in orlando who were laid off by disney after being ordered to train their h1-b replacements. those replacements foreign workers hired on h1-b visas who typically earn about $62,000 a year replacing the american employees who make about $100,000 a year. all of that paying for disney workers while walt disney company posted record earnings. we'll see far more corporate outrages like disney's with the passage of mr. obama's so-called free trade deal and the ever greater power it will give him over immigration as well as trade. maybe disney should get a presidential medal of some sort for paving the way. our quotation of the evening by best-selling author tom robbins who said --

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clinton confidant sidney blumenthal did not write the e-mails about libya he forwarded to then secretary hillary clinton. it turns out blumenthal was forwarding information from former high-ranking cia official tyler drumheller who may have had business interests in libya. latest revelations from the benghazi select committee congressman trey gowdy, he said this today -- blumenthal spent nine hours yesterday testifying before gowdy's committee in a closed session, and hope to have congressman gowdy tomorrow depending on the schedule of votes. a quinnipiac poll shows

swing voters do not view hillary clinton as trustworthy. 51% of florida respondents found clinton untrustworthy. 53% say she is dishonest and in pennsylvania 54% don't see her as honest. voters listing honesty and trustworthiness as top issue in choosing the nominee. joining us former reagan political director fox news political analyst ed rollins. >> good to be with you. lou: this is a tough one to know where to start. let's start with hillary clinton who looks like she's in trouble in three important states. >> equally important in addition to the poll which is critical and people don't trust you and don't believe you are telling the truth have a tendency not to vote for you. very early in the campaign those are telling marks. the most telling thing to me over the weekend is bernie sanders is close to her in new hampshire. 10 points behind her.

my sense is she's not making the sale. she certainly is still the front-runner for the democrats but a the love questions about who she is and what kind of president she's going to be. lou: let's look at a couple of the polls here, clinton neck and neck in matchups against rubio and rand paul. rubio 44% hillary, 43%, and as we look at paul 45. clinton 44%. in ohio, governor kasich doing well beating in fact hillary clinton 47-40%. in ohio also clinton barely beats former florida governor jeb bush 42, 41%. >> pennsylvania has not been in place since the campaign i ran 30 years ago with ronald reagan. the fact it's in play here tells you there is a real vulnerability on her part. governor kasich is doing well in ohio. very key state. you got to win two of the three

states. florida and ohio to be viable and i think we're very credible positions today. lou: there's a sort of a suspicious scent to hillary clinton and blumenthal as trey gowdy the chairman of the house senate select committee on benghazi released tyler drumheller his words and intelligence was being passed on by blumenthal the times reported they were trying to win contracts from the libyan transitional government at the same time. i mean it's a mess in everything she's associated with. >> why as secretary of state do you have access to the cia, not former cia, why wouldn't you use their intelligence briefings? why would you pass this on as if it's your own document. blumenthal has a very tarnished reputation onetime journalist but basically a hack for them. and my sense today is it's just the usual clinton operation,

they don't play by the rules. lou: the rules are, the rules committee setting up the way for the trade promotion authority vote thursday. these guys refuse to give up on this. these guys are playing as it looks strictly on the orders of the business roundtable in the chamber of commerce. >> no question about that, the chamber of commerce bought half this congress the republicans majority a couple years ago, and they're basically pulling that today. the key thing in my objection is why would you force a vote that members don't know what's in the bill. why would you give this president more power when you are concerned about the things he's doing in iran and elsewhere. a lot of republicans are unhappy with the congress, and john boehner is being forced or doing it by his own will to really discipline a lot of members off the reservation. lou: the conservatives who said -- >> who basically are objecting to this there's no rush to get this done.

i think to a certain extent it is. lou: he's also basically dashing the aspirations of most if not all of the republican candidates for president in 2016. this is a vote that he doesn't need to put his party behind right now, because this is going to be a race it's going to be a generational election in my opinion. i want to hear your thoughts i also believe it's about the american worker and the american family, and to do this as a matter of policy. >> equally as important, a telling voting group. hispanic voters women voters that hillary has an advantage with. white male catholic vote in the seven critical states makes a difference. the people displaced by the workforce. my sense is this bill is not good for them, by the time we get through with this thing, there is a lot of outrage out there. donald trump hit on that note yesterday, and others will again. lou: and as always you hit on that note, and we appreciate you being here. sounded like music to me. thanks a lot.

ed rollins. vote in tonight's poll, would you consider voting for donald trump for president? i forgot to ask ed rollins. did you get your bottle of empire. >> i didn't get it. i spray it on my hands, i'm not sure my wife or dogs will let me in. lou: this is what donald trump's pr folks sent a lot of hosts and talent. the chocolate, i'll admit it i ate the damn chocolate. i like this. politics doesn't have to stink. you know he's got that part right. anyway, ed thank you. >> a pleasure. lou: folks in north carolina are on edge since the shark attack sunday, and this video just may not help anyone right now. half a dozen sharks captured swimming in the same waters below a pier at emerald isle in north carolina, two hours north of oak island where the two

teenagers were attacked by that shark sunday. in california, lifeguards there are using a $1400 drone to patrol the waters off seal beach looking for sharks. used to take lifeguards up to two hours to go on jet skis to confirm shark sightings, but eye in the sky now can do it in a matter of minutes and there it goes. by the way, i have one of those they're called phantoms. they're terrific. as you can see great white sharks have been spotted feet from the shore but officials don't believe the animals are behaving aggressively the beach is being kept open. i don't know who would avail themselves of such an open beach that's their business. up next, administration officials admit the fight against the islamic state isn't going well. we'll have the latest on that. a squadron of f-22 raptors may be headed to europe to counter what the air force secretary says is the biggest threat in europe. stay with us. we're coming right back.

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of those rising russian provocations. services secretary debra james saying that the air force could send a squadron of the stealth fighter jets joining jets in the baltics and b-52 bombers in the u.k. conducting military exercises in poland. the rapid response force training for the first time since establishment following the annexation of crimea. hundreds of other nato forces joining in the amphibious assault exercises, it wasn't all a success. joining us tonight, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations fox news contributor john bolton. good to see you. it's been a while. and as we talk, ash carter, the defense secretary, says things aren't going too well with the

iraqis. i did not see that as a news headline. it has been absolutely obvious now for months. what's your reaction? >> well, i think it is stating the obvious but indeed the problem in iraq goes much deeper than the fact that the iraqi army isn't up to it. president is actually now sending more advisers to get them ready. that is a strategic fundamental mistake. we are aiding a government that is functioning as a satellite of iran, and indeed, the real effect is to send a signal to the sunnis in iraq and syria that we're aiding their enemy. we are driving them further into the arms of isis. i think we've got to have a complete redo of our view of the region. i think iraq has ceased to exist as a country and an effort to put it back together is a mistake. lou: let me put forward a proposition here, the united states gets out, period leaves iraq to itself to its own

devices and nature. there is little we can do it seems if anything by military force in that country now, because we have a president who will not commit san francisco force or manpower to the prospect. in that now where we are, what do you think of the idea? >> i agree with what you say about the president but i do think there is a considerable american interest in not allowing isis to consolidate and control. lou: what is that interest? >> the territory that isis now holds has already been a magnet for terrorists from western europe and the united states. isis influence is spreading across north africa and throughout the region. i think they're a real threat. militarily you know the kurds with assistance from the united states including air power have been dealing isis setbacks. small i think in comparison to isis overall's, is but isis can still be beaten, not by aiding the baghdad government.

lou: let's be honest john let's be honest. this administration will not support the kurds because it does not want to offend the turkish government. it does not want to support the kurds because it doesn't want to offend russia. it doesn't want to offend baghdad. the reality is that this administration has no soul, it has no center and no compass, or frankly perceived value in that region to pursue. >> yeah, well, i go one beyond what you're saying in that i think the real problem here is that the administration is aiding the baghdad government because it's so desperate to do anything it can to get on iran's good side, to get this deal on nuclear weapons which is another catastrophe we've talked about. lou: what do we do? >> get a new president. lou: afghanistan is a place filled with corrupt hearts and minds when it comes to the iranians and likely prosperity

and rising influence. what do we do with the reality that we now possess. >> look, for the next 18 months, the best we could hope for is that the world goes to sleep. i think in the absence of a president who knows what he's doing, we have to think strategically against the day when some sane person get oos a shouldn't say sane, when a responsible person gets in the white house and pursue american interests again. i'm not sanguine about the next 18 months. i think the dangers. the threats to the united states are going to rise. i think the president shows no indication he's learned anything in 6 1/2 years in office. lou: ambassador john bolton, always good to have you with us thank you. >> thank you, lou. lou: on wall street today stocks closed higher. the dow up 3, 1 the s&p up 4. the nasdaq up 9. volume 3.2 billion shares. a reminder to listen to my reports coast-to-coast on the salem radio network. and up next here america recovering from a great baby

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>> >> ago can be a little grumpy called trump and eight and i did not think that was nice. joining me now the opinion editor patrick brown and alex smith. good to have you here. would you vote for donald trump? vitter i think his entry into the race. >> did you have to start with over the bulk. [laughter] >> whoever the nominee may be but his entry into the race shows a we have a number of different candidates with a number of different backgrounds bringing diversity of

experience that then democrats don't how. they have one and democrat. >> antisocialist. [laughter] that is it. a socialist and hillary clinton and. that is not enough to defeat donald trump? >> he decidedly is not a socialist but those people on social media don't care about politics and they hate politicians and he shares their hatred. >> but he has an interesting perspective he says he is really rich which he is. and kim vincent lee and persuasively for all those that have been running the governments are losers. how do you come back? >> there is no wider opening in this field for someone to come through with a different experience and i

think donald trump does bring perspective to the race that should be taken seriously. lou: he does suggest he will build a fence and the mexican government will pay for it is the also secretly plotting that russia will attack china? he has the great disruptive presence that might be beneficial to the bunch of republicans. >> i like those disruptive sentiments but i don't think he has a serious idea how he will follow through. lou: so many people have nonsense. listen to the president bob blob blob the most boring person in the world. and that does not mean you are effective. >> then it running a business is different than trying to win the election. >> but we have seen a

successful businessmen turned candidates. but it is different. lou: but that establishment is the organism that feeds on the life of others. the reality is, entreprenuers and businesspeople buildings i am not supposed to say that in the obamacare of but that is what happens. it is a wonderful contrast to bring dynamism to the field of candidates that is effective and more will enter. >> trump may be making the unintended contribution. >> not entirely and not buying this. [laughter] to be honest. he has the potential to disrupt but to last the pasticcio seriousness about politics but he doesn't have many conservative principles

of the instinct to dislike china but for instance when his casinos and business interests are for eminent domain that stayed said the government should seize private property. lou: maybe that is a credential to those current candidates. we are writing a time but the birthrate in the country is up which is the signal of optimism? >> i would couching it is reflective of the marginal growth we have seen in the economy and the birthrate has increased marginally as well and if we are okay with 2%. lou: i will say it is the great signal. thanks to you to be with us. , at the online poll results

is donald trump right? 8 percent said yes. [laughter] joins us tomorrow about benghazi. good night from new york. >> on the watching tonight if you have enough money clearly you can buy this election with "the donald" trump polarizing the field and the rationale to me he does have a few billion dollars of race for the big whites' house has turned into a freak show. who will be the highest bidder? here is a donald trump holding forth with george stephanopoulos