>> all right. thank you. that's all the time we have left. thank you for being with us from greenville, south carolina. we will see you back here tomorrow night. greta is up next. tonight the gop presidential candidates are clawing at each other. no one knows who will land on top and run against president obama. but despite the scandals and the gaffes, rush limbaugh says they can't lose to 2012. >> i don't know about you but are you tired of hearing things like if the, fill in the blank, republicans win. >> are you tired of hearing, fill in the blank, is not electable? they are all electable. half of this country, half of the country is afraid to buy christmas presents because of the economy. half of the country is feeling bad because the holiday season is coming up and they may not be

able to go out and participate in it. and we are being told that our candidates are unelectable. it's all bs. if anybody by all rights, by what is decent, should be unelectable, it's barack obama. >> new jersey governor chris christie also comes out swinging as president obama today. >> the best way that we can help our party to move forward and our country to move forward is for us to go back to our states and do our jobs and do our jobs well and set an example of what real leadership looks like. and real leadership is not what you see in the white house right now. as i said before, it's a sad day in our country's history to have a bystander in the oval office. >> a candidate who wants to take president obama's place in the oval office and congresswoman michele bachmann. she joins us. good evening. >> good evening. nice to be with you tonight.

>> nice to be having you. they said any republican is electable and president obama is not electable. do you agree that the full compliment of all candidates can beat the president? >> oh, without a shadow of a doubt. like most things, rush limbaugh is exactly right on target because president obama is wildly unpopular across the united states. that's why the key message is we don't have to settle. we can have it all in a candidate and we need to have it all in a candidate because this is a highly unusual election. this is america's last chance to get it right. we've got to get the country back on the rails. we have to get rid of obamacare, we have to get rid of dodd frank, we have to have a pro growth tax code and that's why we need to have a very different bold candidate and i'm the only candidate in this race that's been the consistent no surprises conservative. and i leave every issue on the table with barack obama. i can't wait to shred his radical agenda to pieces in the

debates. >> all right. so i suppose you disagree a little bit then with governor chris christie when he says that president obama is a by standner the oval office when you are fighting some of the things that he has spearhead interested for example, national healthcare, dodd frank so he's not a bystander in your view but someone who has been quite active but someone who you disagree with? >> i would give governor christie the benefit of the doubt. i think perhaps what he might be referring to is the fact that president obama has completely disengaged from his job. you are right, greta, he occupies the oval white house -- or the oval office, but he's not doing the job of a president. all he's doing is a job of a campaigner in chief. he's on a perpetual re-election campaign right now when the country needs him to pay attention, not only just to the domestic economy, but to the real problem, which is iran obtaining a nuclear weapon. he's not. he's only concerned about himself and his re-election plans. that's not going to help the american people.

i'm in charles city, iowa tonight. people here are, treatmently upset with the president of the united states. i can tell you there's not a lot of love lost on the president. not personal, not vindictive, they just see that absolutely not handling foreign affairs. they are done with this president. rush limbaugh is right, chris christie is right, the president needs to get back to work. but i think the people have already made up their minds. they are going to have a different president in twelve. we've got to get it right and we have to get it right with a nominee who is right on everything, on social issues, on the tea party issues, on national security. and i'm the only one currently involved in national security issues of all the candidates and on fiscal policy. that's why i bring the entire party together. i can unify our party and defeat barack obama in the upcome election necessary the debates. >> all right. it's being reported tonight that you have said that if elected president of the united states, that you would consider senator

rick santorum for one of two positions, vice president or attorney general. do you want to explain that? >> yeah. i will. i think that rick santorum is a wonderful man personally, but also i think that he is very gifted when it comes to the area of legal issues. and i think i can see him as an attorney general. i think he would do a great job. i haven't talked to rick about that but i think he will be wonderful in another cabinet position, and i think that he would also be on my short list of people that i would consider for my vice president. >> all right. as long as you brought up the issue and the register is talking about it, it's fair game for discussion. anyone not -- anyone who is not running for president who you think would be an ideal vice president for you? >> we've got a lot of wonderful candidates who would fit that bill. it easily comes to find. i think senator david demint of south carolina, marco rubio

of florida would be in that category. there's a lot of great people out there and donald trump i think a lot of people would be intrigued with too. >> i think people would be intrigued, not to mention he would love it himself. you oppose the extension of the payroll tax. why? >> i did. well, because, as i warned my colleagues, number one, it would blow a hole, and it did month a hole in the social security trust fund of $111 billion a year. social security is running in the red right now. that means in order to keep our promise to senior citizens and write out the checks, greta, we have to go into the general treasury. well, we are flat broke in the general treasury which means we have to go borrow more money from china. this doesn't make sense. barack obama said if we lower the payroll tax, we create jobs. even his own economic advisers have said this hasn't created jobs. now he wants to continue to blow the hole in the social security trust fund. >> we have less than a minute

left. doesn't that mean a tax increase to about 160 million americans? >> well, what it means is that, yes, the payroll tax would go up. i opposed lowering it in the first place because we've got to keep our promise to senior sit sentence. that's what we have to recognize. we are continuing to borrow money from china that we can't afford to continue to payback. and we have to keep our promise to senior citizens. president obama's promise that it was going to create jobs didn't work. that's why his reasoning doesn't work to keep it at the rate it is now. that's why i can't vote to extend the payroll tax deduction. >> congressman, thanks for being here. it will be an interesting rate. hope you come back. >> i will. thank you. >> two states got a big, fat no from the obama administration and it all had to do with the new healthcare law. indiana and louisiana both asked for waivers, but, and they want it for insurers to avoid spending a rule in the healthcare because, but they

didn't get it. it requires insurers to spend 80% of revenue on patient care rather than company overhead. so it was the fed's decision about louisiana, is it fair? louisiana insurance commissioner james donald joins us. good even, sir. tell me exactly, what is it that you wanted? explain the healthcare waiver. >> it's very complicated, greta, and thank you for inviting us on to show our side, to express our concern about the mlr requirement and how it will affect our market here in louisiana. in louisiana, like many other states, our blue cross has 75% of our individual market. the other companies are the smaller companies that are trying to compete with blue cross, and in my opinion offer the best form of consumer protection and that is an opportunity for consumers to shop and choose, and through competition get a lower cost for

their health insurance. >> so unless you get a waiver, only blue cross/blue shield because it can spread across the ruing and spread across the administrative cost; basically of the last man stand and the smaller insurance companies will not be around? is that essentially what it is? >> that is the problem. no question about it. it's competition that we are trying to foster. we aren't trying to favor the ten small companies competing with blue cross, but we have a noncompetitive market and have had for a number of years, and it's getting worse year in and year out. i think the advocates of a single payor system are happy with that development. they want to squeeze out those small players, squeeze out the agents that represent those competitors, and ultimately end up with a government program, one size fits all. >> okay. so let me ask you something. you have a republican governor, indiana is a republican governor, but you have said that you don't think the decision is political.

and some of the states of that gotten waivers, there's about six of them. maine, new hampshire, kentucky, nevada, iowa and georgia, other states have that waivers, some have republican governors and some don't. so you don't think it's political. but why did the six other states get the waivers and louisiana didn't? >> it depends on your numbers. as i mentioned before, our blue has 75% of our market. next door in mississippi it's 80% for their blue. alabama, 85. kentucky, 90. north dakota, 95. it varies from state to state, the viability of the health insurance market. the choices that are available. our state is becoming a one-company dominated marketplace that the mlr requirement will just exacerbate. that's why we are advocating and asking and considering asking for re consideration to be granted, like some other states as you point out, georgia, for example, very similar to our

state, have been granted such waivers. we are going to look at the numbers again. hhs ashowers us this is all -- ashowers us this is all numbers driven. i take them at their word it's not politics. i have great concerns about the way we are going about, the congress is going about healthcare reform. even us republicans, john mccain, mitt romney, newt gingrich, all across the board admit there is desperate need for reform of the healthcare system. the health insurance part of the healthcare system. i'm in total agreement. i just think this fix is fatally flawed. >> i should say mlri, i had to look it up, i didn't know what it was, so i suspect the viewers, a couple, might be like i am. that means the medical loss ratio. >> exactly. >> we only have 30 seconds left. is this a done deal or will you get re consideration? >> well, it's going to be a high hurdle for us to get re consideration. they are going state by state.

17 states have asked, six have been granted, four denied, seven are still pending. but we are looking closely at our numbers and considering asking, we only have ten days to make that decision, so next week we will be deciding whether we are going to ask for reconsideration or not. >> and one thing, you just want a phased-in system, right? >> exactly. >> you just want to have a little bit of break for the next couple years so you can phase in, assuming the supreme court holds it constitutional in the end? >> that's correct. 65% this year, 70, 57% and ultimately get to 80% by the end of 2013. >> commissioner, thank you. we will be following it. thank you, sir. >> thank you. thank you, greta. >> this is a fox news alert. virginia attorney general ken kutchenelli will run for governor of virginia in 2013. that's according to a public

official. his candidacy sets up a race against the republican governor, billing bowling. you remember him he sued the national governor over the national healthcare law. he has not made a formal announcement but you can be sure, we will be watching the race and we will bring you the news as soon as we get it. and senator majority leader harry reid said it's the tsunami's fault. who else is he blaming and will voters be persuaded? fox business den knit kneel is here next. and governor paul ryan said we're not always at each other's throats. he's talking about teaming up with chris mcdonald, a democrat, on a big new idea. and will the two party opponents convince other from their parties to jump aboard? that's the mystery. they go on the record. and plus, has president obama failed work being americans? republican leader mitch mcconnell says so. what does senator john mccain

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>> he's not running for office but it looks like president george w. bush will be at the center of the 2012 election.

here is senate majority leader harry reid. >> i do think that the presidential election will be based on what took place in the bush administration and how we have tried to recover from that, how things have been exacerbated because of the tsunami and because of the european debt crisis. >> blaming the bush 43 administration for the sour economy and the jobs crisis work for the democrats? fox business network senior expendent dennis neal joins us. what do you think about that? >> every once in a while it happens, they speak the unadorned truth. and i think what he is hinting at is obama has nothing else to run on. he can't run on if i cannings the economy or run on jobs that didn't get created and he is scared by scandal. this would work for the base of the obama fans. i was at a potluck speaker last

night, a liberal crowd, and that's the first thing he said how is your guy doing? he said this is bush did this, it was years in the making and it was years in the making, he's right about that. the problem is though after a while, greta, it starts to sound whiney and weak and defensive. it's three years in, guys. shouldn't this messing his by now? >> what struck me is all the problems we have in this country right any and everybody suffering, and i realize we just took a soundbite from it, but for some reason i'm not looking for my senators and representatives, i mean, the nation to use the time on the senate floor to sort of poke fingers at each other and blame and talk about politics. i realize it's a political institution, but i would you sure like to have an idea or like have a strategy or something. that may be very unfair to senator harry reid but i really don't want to hear that kind of thing right now that the senate.

>> could you believe he brought up the tsunami? i'm sorry, i know it was a devastating thing but that's not what is making investors run crazy or hurting europe. it has nothing to do with anything. where is the policy or the $450 billion job program? obama came out of the gate and he went after healthcare when he should have went after jobs. then he used the stimulus package as a figure leaf to do it, which is what he really wanted to do is spend billions of dollars on green energy which ain't ready for prime time when he should have worked on jobs and he just keeps kind of missing the mark here. we wanted him to change it. we didn't think he could fix everything but we wanted to see the right direction. instead he talks about raising tax revenues, growing tax ref news instead of talking about growing the economy. if you grow the economy with the right moves the tax revenues will take care of itself but all he's talked about is wanting to raise taxes. that won't get you elected.

sorry. >> but president obama inherit add whole economy and he said it's going to be about that, about the economy he inherited, the bush administration. but how the democrats tried to recover and that's where i sort of part with him. because a leader can overcome, you know, a leader should be able to sort of pierce through and achieve things. we don't elect people just to try. we actually -- we elect people to achieve. >> right. >> and it's not going to be how the democrats tried to recover, it really is going to be, you know, whether they were able to achieve it. even if it is like the opposition is tough and hard, the problem is in this election, it is really not about who is trying, it's really about what did you get us? what have you done for us? >> they will blame the do-nothing congress and the republicans. but for the first two years, man, they had clean and green, they did whatever they wanted. they got a trillion dollars stimulus package that didn't create any new jobs. they got everything they wanted. i think obama could turn it around if he would just say, you know what, american people, i

didn't know what i was doing when i came in, i didn't know the economy stuff and we tried mightily. we made some wrong decisions. i was wrong to bash the very people i need today rehab the economy. i was wrong to bash millionaires and billionaires and big oil, i'm sorry, we are going to change. >> i think the only way -- i think he shows the trends and all the economic indicators the trends are upwards, he takes credit. if the economic indicators are not good, he will have to suffer for t but i'm taking the last word on that one. thank you, dennis. >> your show. bye. >> dodge up, ignoring deadlines and going on vacation while americans suffer and worry about their job, if they are lucky enough to have a job. congress has a very lousy reputation. can they fix it? knew two lawmakers from opposite parties say they have a solution to reign in the spending. they are here to tell you all about it. that's next. also, did you of think a talking trash can could be romantic?

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world is going on here in washington. lately all americans see is fighting and nothing getting done. but tonight there may be a glimmer of hope. the top republican and democrat on the house budget committee are teaming up to tackle the deficit. congressman paul ryan and congressman chris van hollen has introduce add bill to cut wasteful spending. we spoke to them earlier today. >> congressmen, nice to see you. >> nice to be with you. >> it's nice to see you sitting down together. we don't see it often on tv. let's start with the line item veto, explain what that is and after you explain the bill. >> this is an important mesh tower try to increase accountability for congress when it comes to spending. the way it works is this. if congress passes a big appropriations bill that has lots of stuff in it, the president can say i don't think we need to spend money on this item and this eye item and this

item. right now a lot of people try to stuff, you know, special, you know, provisions into these spending bills. and this will provide greater accountability, oversight and scrutiny. >> as it stands now without the line item veto if the president gets this big bill from congress that let's say has a whole bunch of fat in it and silly projects, he either has to accept it or reject it, right? >> the whole thing. >> so he can't send it back and says take this out. >> no, take it or leave it. and at the 11th hour, and both parties have done it, the 11th hour, remember the rainforest museum, he had to take that and take it with the rest of the things that are necessary and proper. this lets the president pull that piece of pork out, send if back to congress and then we have to vote on it up and town on its merits. we can't duck it or amend it. it will make members think twice about tucking things into the spending bills at the last

minute. we think it's a tool of embarrassment. it won't solve all the problems but it will help change the culture that's seeped into the system by both parties. we think this takes banning earmarks further by going after waste that gets tucked into the bills at the last minute. >> many people remember there was a line item veto case. we had a statute before that was passed and went to the supreme court and it was struck down as unconstitutional. how is this bill different than the earlier run where it was declared unconstitutional, that method? >> it's different for this reason, and paul and i both agree the earlier supreme court decision was correct. what happened there congress would send the president a spending bill and the congress has the power of the purse under the old line item veto provisions. the president can say, okay, i don't want to spend money on this item or that item, without further action by congress. what this is it is the president has to pull out the items that

he or she doesn't want to spend money on, but then congress has to act. >> so it goes back to congress? that's the big difference? >> it's called expedited procedure. it means it has to come up to vote. as paul said it's an up-or-down vote on this item of spending they have said, the president said we don't need. it means a lot of members will think twice up front before they ask for a spending item that they don't think they can defend under the full light of day. >> it sounds like a really good idea. let me go to you since your house runs the house of representatives right now. this parallels a bill in the senate that was passed last january, right? >> right. >> so what took you so long? i mean, because you know the american people, they are in an awful hurry to get things on and this seems like a wise way to look at spending. why does it take a year to catch up? i pass it had in 2005, the last time we were in majority and then it died in the senate. we are seeking to pass it this

session but we have partners in the senate, both republicans and democrats that are in favor of it, and the white house does support t so we think the planets have aligned so we can get it done. because in the past one would pass and one would die, and this time we think land up. >> but why did it take since january. >> because some of them like to tuck narrow spending measures in the bills without having to justify on their own merits, and that system, which is part of the core rose i have power of spending up here, propagated by both parties, is one we can't afford anymore. we believe we've got the momentum on our side, we've been fighting for this kind of accountability for a long time, and we think the time has come for it and that's why we are pushing it now. >> what is going on up here? why does it seem like the american people think things just aren't getting done. they see all the fighting and on the one hand it's nice to see

democracy and people argue their positionings, but it's gotten to the point the nation is in an economic crisis. we've gone from simpson-bowles, gone from the deficit vote in august and then the super committee. why can't things get done? >> greta, obviously this is as a result of deep disagreements on policy issues. but i would hope if we are able to come together and compromise on some issues. while this measure won't solve the deficit problem, it is an important step. again, i hope that we are able to work out some of the other pressing issues right now. i think we should extend the payroll tax holiday given the fragile economism think we should extend unemployment compensation and we will have those debates and maybe we will find agreement on some of those issues but for today we are pleased to come together on this measure. >> and i do see that. and even off-camera, it seems leak you guys like each other. i think the american people need to see that. it's frustrating for the things

that are so born, that you can't breakthrough whatever that barrier is to get things done, even though people have the sort of strong ideology. and the american people are thinking we are desperate, do something. >> the other reason chris and i are doing it, he and i are the top republican and democrats on the budget committee. we agree on this. we want to show we aren't always at each other's throats all the time. there are things we can work together and agree on and get things done. that's the other reason we are doing this now of all times where it would be nice to see that every now and again, and that's why we are doing this. >> will you get some resistance here? >> we will probably get resistance on both sides of the isle. >> is it only the people who have pet projects that will object or is there some overriding ideology? is there some reason beyond i want my thing in the bill? is there any other objection to it. >> the typical objection is the people who write these bills, the discretionary appropriations bill, lake to have the ultimate

amount of discretion with how they write those bills. and we want to limit that discretion to having more sunshine, more accountability, and this kind of a tool which can embarrass the wasteful spending that gets put into these bills. an the folks that don't like it are typically that want all total discretion and we think that's been abused too much. >> right. the old objection, of course, to the original line item veto is you are giving the executive branch, the president too much authority because the president gets to decide of all the items that congress said it wanted and has to spend money on, which ones he or she would not. why this is different is it comes back to congress. but congress can no longer duck this issue now. congress has to vote on whether or not to keep these proposed spending items as part of the bill. again, there will be resistance, but i think in the end of the day it will get done. >> keep the power of congress and keep the power of the purse in the legislative branch like the constitution says. >> when will the vote? >> we will probably mark it up this year and have the vote next

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senator john mccain said he totally grease. from the stubbornly high unemployment rate to the housing crisis, allñr indicators he says has gotten worse since he took office. that's one thing we discuss with him tonight. nice to see you. >> thank you, greta. >> and what to do about detainees who may have some contact with al-qaeda. what do you want to do? >> well we want to make sure that detainees -- anyone who is apprehended, no matter where, that is after a thorough investigation, is viewed as an enemy combatant, and that means they are attempting or conspiring to inflict damage or committee acts of espionage in the united states, that the clear parameters that they are indeed members of al-qaeda affiliated organizations, that they are not entitled to miranda rights or a civil trial.

>> who makes that decision? take the guy on the plane, the underwear bomber. at least it took several days to sort of track down what was to be done with him. he was already in u.s. custody and had already been mirandized. how practical is it? >> there's a thorough investigation conducted by the fbi, cia and the military. and a termination is made. after a authority reinvestigations of the circumstances of the apprehension. and also that individual has a rate to habeas if he or she is an american citizen, to go befor court if he or she is an american before being released. but the united states supreme court in hamden said there is no bar for the united states government from holding any of its citizens as an enemy combatant and that was the case in world war ii with people like tokyo rose, it's been true throughout our history of

american citizens who engaged in activities that would inflict harm or damage to the united states of america. >> i guess there a little bit of a difference. you had the one situation where the fbi and cia is doing an investigation, following people, listening to wiretaps and they make the explain they move in and make the bust and they arrest someone. the other instance, and i guess is the one where you have the underwear bomber, he attempts to blow up a plane and he is arrested there and the investigation takes several days and you can't just take and hold him while that is being done, the anywhere an dies him. >> you can hold him without anywhere an dieing as long as there is suspicion there he's a member of al-qaeda or affiliated organization. it would take about five or ten seconds in the case of the underwear bomber. it was a person who wanted to inflict damage, and actually blow up an airplane and kill 100 or so people. >> well, i'm all in favor of making sure the nation is really safe, but the question of the miranda rights and doing that

investigation, you and i may disagree a little bit on that one. >> okay. but i think that that person should be held and ascertain as to whether they are a member of al-qaeda or an affiliated organization, and if they are not, then obviously they are given their miranda rights and rights of every citizen. but in our history, for example, tokyo rose in world war ii and others, there have been numerous cases of american citizens who have aided and abetted the enemy, and they have been treated as enemy combatants. >> but here's the practical problem. the supreme court says the minute someone is in custody, and custody means the person no longer beliefs he's free to go, you must anywhere an dies the person. you can't all of a sudden say we are going to set this person aside, we are going to go and investigate this and see whether it's al-qaeda. it has to be done concurrent with the arrest. >> no. a person can, before they are formally charged, there can be an investigation, a period of investigation of what the

circumstances surrounding the alleged criminal act. >> anyway, we will move along. move to another topic. senator mcconnell has said president obama policies have failed working americans. i take it you agree with the senator? >> i totally agree, and the fact is that when you look at any indicator, things have gotten worse. no matter it be homes under water -- since president obama took office, whether it be unemployment, whether it be any measurement that things have gotten worse since the president of the united states took office. not to mention the burgeoning deficit. >> and an arnold my official has made a statement he said the strike last weekend by nato in which 26 pakistani soldiers was killed was a deliberate act of aggression. >> of course, that's totally incorrect, but our sympathy and

our sorrow goes out to the families of those 24 pakistani soldiers who were killed in this air -- we want to call it attack, this air situation. and there have been many other pakistanis who have lost their lives in areas near the afghan borders in fights with the taliban and other terrorist organizations. but the fact is also, and this must be a basis of our relationship with pakistan, that there are members of the isi, their intel jennings -- intelligence services that are actively supporting al-qaeda and other terrorist organizations in afghanistan that are killing americans. can i just finish with one other point? among other things there are two major fertilizer factories that the result of their product is resulting in the production of ieds that are in afghanistan

that are killing and wounding american soldiers. that is an unacceptable situation. >> it was horrible and it is getting worse and having a relationship deteriorate, the already bad relationship we had with pakistan get worse is even a bigger problem. what do we do? >> i think we have to gauge our support, and we have sent billions to pakistan, directly related to their degree of cooperation as far as the problems that i just outlined to you. we owe nothing less to the american taxpayer, but certainly nothing less than to the families of the men and women who are serving over there in harm's way. but for ten years we had no relations with pakistan. that didn't work out. pakistan is a nuclear -- is a country with a nuclear inventory. that's dangerous. and also we are dependent, to a large degree, on the supply lines through pakistan into afghanistan for the supplies that are necessary to keep our fighting force functioning

efficiently. now all these things are very important, and they also have to play in our determination. so we have to take a measured approach, make sure the pakistanis know what we expect of them, set up guide posts and goals that would expect them to meet and make judgments accordingly. and it has to be done soon. >> if you would like to watch our full interview with senator john mccain, just go to gretawire.com. straight ahead, forget hot-air balloons and skywriting. you are about to watch a proposal that make the rest look boring. and where are the elfs when you need them? one of santa's helpers runs in to help. you have to see this one. stay tuned. ugh, my sinus congestion,

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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here, flash studio lights, it's time for last call. president obama coming under fire for fund raising instead of governing. now, jimmy fallon joins the chorus of critics. >> the president will attend three fund-raisers in new york to raise money for his reelection campaign. how about holding a fund-raiser to raise money for the united states? hello? >> that is your last call. thank you for being with us tonight. make sure you go to greta wir