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we have to run. good panel tonight, guys before you go, if you are in atlanta on sunday, december 18th, michael w smith, me, ollie north and herma will be there, tickets at hannity.com. see you. >> tonight there's an extraordinary development. missing former fbi agent robert is alive. new video shows him for the first time since he mysteriously vanished in iran. now his family is trying a new tactic, making an urgent plea to his kidnappers >> we not part of a government, we are not experts on the region. no one can help us but you. please help us. we tried to contact you, but you never responded. i am sending this message because we need to know what you want our family to do so that my father can come home safely. we will do everything that's in our power to bring him home. i don't know how else to
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communicate with you. but my father knows how to contact us. we don't know what else to do. please tell us what you want and please help us bring my father home. >> bob, i will continue to do everything i can to bring you home alive. all i want is for our family to be whole again. we love you. we miss you every day. >> robert levinson's wife joins us. there's nothing thatten rages me more than i hear stories about pan am 103 and also the story about yourissing husband, the fact he is apparently alive or was as of november, 2010, and that the american government has been unsuccessful to bring him home. i take it you have tried going the state department route and this is now your next tactic? >> we've tried everything. and we have not been able to get the group holding bob to get in touch with us to tell us what we
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need to do and how to get him home. >> how did you get this video? because i assume -- and if you go on your website you can actuallyisten to your husband speak. but how did this video get from his kidnappers to you? >> it came to my e-mail. >> and so just one day you opened up your e-mail and there's your husband on tape, and you discover for the first time that he's alive in several years? >> yes. >> did you take it to the state department? >> no. the fbi actually has a continuing investigation on the case. so they were the ones who i brought it to. >> in the tape i note that you are wearing a star of. i assume that's out of an effort to at least communicate to the captors that if that is somehow a polite gesture that at least you are reaching out to them and you want them to reach back to you with information about your husband? >> yes. as you know, the southwest asia
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area is muslim area, and out of respect for them i am wearing the head scarf so that they will be able to see my video. >> now we have done this story so many times in the past few years but in case someone is a new viewer, take me back several years. tell us what happened to bob when he was in iran in march of several years ago, what you know about his disappearance. >> what i know is that he was last seen on keesh island, an area right outside of iran in the hotel merrium and when he left the hotel to come home, on his way to the airport he disappeared somehow. and since then we've been trying to find him. and that was march 9, 2007. since then i have no information about who has him or where he is. >> so then you fast forward to november of last year, 2010, which is when you got the video
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and it's of your husband and he said i think made about three years after he was kidnapped, is that about right? >> three and a half, yes. >> now what has the fbi told you? they must have tracked it down. i guess if they are now telling you or giving you the nod to go public, that they have hit a brick wall? this is obviously a new tactic to reach out to his kidnappers? >> the fbi has a continuing investigation on the case. what the goal here is, is to get whoever is holding him, to get in touch with the family because they have not done that and told us what we need to do to get him home. we've tried to contact them over the past year and we have not been able to do that. so that is the goal right now >> was there any request made in the videotape of anybody to exchange your husband for anything? >> we have not had a request to exchange anything. at this time there is no
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negotiation. >> do you assume, or i know you listen to music in the background, there's an analysis of it, do you assume he's being held in iran, pakistan, or what's your best thought on that? >> i honestly don't know. all i know is he's somewhere in thatter and my goal is to get him home alive as soon as possible to our family >> so you never got any ransom note, no communication, nothing until all of a sudden last year, november, this video shows up in your e-mail account. so he must have given them your e-mail, right? >> somehow they know my e-mail and i believe bob carried that on him so i believe that's how he would know. >> are you satisfied our federal government is doing everything they can in their power to help find your husband and help bring him home? >> i am. i believe that the united states is doing everything possible in
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order to get him home. as you know, that area of the world is very difficult. and information is very hard to come by there. i continue to hope that anybody who sees our video and has knowledge of anything involving bob's case will get in touch with us at our website, www.w helpboblevinson.com. >> is there anything we can do, other than putting it across the tv, that helps, but anything else? is this a story, you know, we are vested in because we really would like to see bob come home because we know your family now. >> yes, i would like to see him come home too. unfortunately every day goes by and i have no more information on how to do that, how to get him home safe and sound to our family. now it's the holiday season once again and this will be the fifth holiday season. it's just very hard each year when we don't have him there. >> thank you, and i hope someone will get in touch with you that's holding your husband so
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this might have a happy ending. thank you. >> thank you, greta. >> how come so many members of congress get so rich on hair congressional salary necessary is there a dirty little secret? while on that topic, what about warren buffett? there may be a lot more to the so-called fiscal hero and friend of president obama when the curtain gets peeled back. all this in a mind blowing new book. the book is called throw them all out. it's author peter schwizer. good evening. >> good evening. night to be on with you. >> nice to have you on. what's your theory, members of congress on both side, republicans, democrats, they come in and make less than 200,000 a year, and they leave very wealthy people. how does this happen? >> well, they are able to leverage their position and take advantage of their position in ways that people couldn't with other jobs. when it comes to stock trading, for example, they are able to use inside information that they glean from their government service about individual companies or about about the
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economy in general. they get special access to ipo shares of stock, which give them huge returns on a day or two, and they are getting those stocks primarily because of their position in power. and they are able to use taxpayer money in the form of earmarks to improve the value of their commercial and residential real estate. so it's a wonderful scheme and a wonderful way to maximize their net worth that, if any of us were to do it in our jobs, we would face some serious legal jeopardy. >> and your book is replete with examples. you are talking about the real estate and there's one particular example about former speaker of the house dennis, how he became a rich man within short order of leaving. but what caught my attention, besides members of congress, you talk about warren buffett. warren buffett is somebody people look to in terms of fiscal responsibility and rather pure in the business world. but you sure don't paint him as that. what's the story on warren
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buffett accord to your research? >> warren buffett was an advisor to the obama administration in early 2009 and also a little bit to the bush administration before on the financial crisis. he wrote a five-page letter and was an advisor in setting up what became the public-private partnership to bail out the banks, which was announced the end of march, 2009, by treasury secretary tim geithner. this seems like a very selfless act. the problem when you lock at his investment moves, he was at the same time literally buying millions of shares of stocks in the very banks that would end up being bailed out by the plan that he helped put together. so he was able to buy banks for pennies on the dollar in some cases because there was no such uncertainty what the bailout would look like, but because he knew what it was going to be like, he was able to buy those shares and when the public-private partnership became public, those stocks all spiked and he did very,ville well. >> you country him as political entrepreneur and he's a genius
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as p. r.. you are very harsh on him. >> well, yeah. i think it reflects the facts. he has this image of being sort of the grandfatherly investor, you know, who owns dairy queen and stands at the query queen making ice cream cones but you don't get in a position that he does without understanding the political game. and he's done that. he has done that with not just with president obama, but in other circumstances. and i think this is one of the frightening developments, greta, that as the government has gotten much more involved in the financial sector, healthcare sector and elsewhere, a lot of investors and entrepreneurs are coming to realize it's a better use of their time to invest in the political process because they are going to end up making more money that way than in, you know, doing further an littics or developing new products or new technologies for their companies. that's the consequence of i think what we have today, which is increasingly crony capitalism. >> you hear often about some of the benches he have lens of warren buffett.
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he talks about the tacks and he wants to make sure it's fair. yet if you read your book it looks like this is the most self-serving, self interest, die boll cal investments in working and working the system. it's a very different picture. >> well, it is. and i think it reflects really the reality. i mean, if you look at the bircher-hathaway reports, they are hard on the bailouts. they say banks that were weak and companies weak should have been more financially sound. what they owe mitt, of course, is companies that he had large equity in received $90 billion worth of bailout money. so he was a beneficiary of the bailout. if you look at how he took a large equity stake in goldman sachs in november of 2008, he was able to get that at a premium. he got a guaranteed 10% dividend from goldman sachs. he did that and he's been open about this only because he knew that congress was going to pass the tarp legislation, which was
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legislation, by the way, that he was advising them on and encouraging them to bail out. i mean, that's a massive conflict of interest that has not been revealed, and frankly should be revealed. he's not a disinterested party when he is offering advice on a whe host of matters. >> did you call him and ask him, in writing the book, did you give him a chance to respond to these allegations? >> yes. i contacted his office, and i was told that, you know, he has done nothing illegal, that there's nothing unethical in their mind about it, and their belief that he tries as best as he can to serve his country with wisdom and advice. and i think that's fine, i think that's great, but when you are buying bank stocks at the same time that you are structuring the bank bailout, that's a problem that most other people, other than warren buffet, would have a serious pr problem with. but because of his image he's generally given a free pass on this. >> peter, thank you. >> thank you. >> as noted, his book is called
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"throw them all out." so is that what the american people are going to do? it's no secret the nation is fed up with congress and anew poll shows there's a new high anti-incumbent feeling. according to the poll. 76% of voters say most members of congress do not deserve re-election. looks like a lot of them are about to get the boot, right? well, not so fast. there's more to the story. david from roll call joins us. good evening. >> good evening. >> knows numbers the 76% is a rather a daunting number. >> congress isn't very popular these days but as we've seen in elections past, voters often hate congress but love their congressmen. even if this next one is different and they still don't like their own congressmen all that much or as much as they used to, we still aren't likely to see wholesale throw-the-bums out type of effect because at the end of the day people will vote for a choice. if you live in a very republican district, something that's very
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republican or very democratic, very liberal, you are not going to throw out, if you are a liberal or a conservative, the republican or the democrat simply to make a statement. you are going to end up voting for the person that fits you i'd logically. there is also going to be a lot of influence from the presidential race and that will have a lot to say. we've seen this before, especially when times are tough and the economy is not good, but you usually don't see wholesale people being thrown out. >> so what's the message? if the american people are saying i hate congress, they don't do anything, they are horrible, but i'm going to vote for my member of congress because i don't want the other party in in my district, what's the message that's being sent, just to the nation? >> well, i think that this is a little bit more complex than simply a poll. when we usually see members thrown out that you wouldn't have expected otherwise, it's usually in a midterm year when people want to send a message to a president they don't like. that's usually the exception to my rule. but even then it's not really about the incumbent, the person
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that's in congress, it's about the president. and i also think you have to look at it like this. you've got competing ideas, republicans versus democrats, conservatives versus liberals, and it's a choice. and you have to stand for something. simply saying i'm not him when it comes town to voting for house or senate is usually not enough. >> congress, 76% say most members of congress do not deserve reelection. when we turn to the president, 43% say he does deserve to be re-elected, and 55% say he does not deserve to be re-elected. what do we read at those numbers? >> that he's in trouble. he will be running against somebody and the american people are a little bit more sophisticated than sometimes they get credit for. >> but if the american people are going to say they don't like congress but will be damned for a boat of the other party, why doesn't that translate into the
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general election for the president? why doesn't that translate that way? >> well, usually you see these things in midterm elections where they are going to vote for or against the president and the congressman or congresswoman is often the fall guy. democrats will sometimes throw democrats out if they are angry at a democratic president and vice versa. i think when you have a presidential year, usually the top of the ticket governs everything going down. so if one of the candidates is doing very well, then it's going to reflect well on their party. >> is it also a question, too, of turnout? and if you are sort of dissatisfied with the president and you are a democrat, you are less likely to go to the poll necessary you may not vote for a republican, you probably would never turn vote for a republican but you have a depressed vote. >> turnout, enthusiasm, that can be a big thing but usually it's governed bind depends. we saw in 2008, as much as we
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heard the republicans weren't that satisfied with senator john mccain, you had pretty much the same turnout as you had in 2004 in terms of the right and left. what helped president obama and put him over the top, including states that hadn't gone democratic for a while was independents. >> i can't tell you how many people claim to be independent. and hardly independent, might be right or left but a lot of people fashion themselves as inned gets when they have strang passionate conviction in a particular direction. >> americans like to think of themselves as independents and here is a reason why congress isn't thrown out wholesale when you see polls like this. you talk to a democrat and say i hate congress because republicans throw the house and republicans say i hate house because harry read is controlling the senate. just because republican hates congress's not going to throw out his republican congressman. he's angry at harry reid. but they have to vote in one district. you could see some separation,
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where this could come into play is in the senate races. senate races are statewide. they can separate, so you could see maybe -- that's different. >> you could see some unusual results. >> david, thank you. night to see you. >> thank you. >> and donald trump, did you hear what his plans are? it's more than just moderating a debate. and we will see what people think about the new trump news. he's here next. and new problems for attorney general eric holder. ed headline is this. he's being asked to step down or face impeachment. and we go on the record with the inside story. and a hit tv show gets ready to shoot an episode about occupy wall street but then the real protestors show up. see how this real life drama huh ends. people love the surf & turf. you can't go wrong. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's surf & turf. 3 grilled comnations all under $20. like our maine lobster with peercorn sirloin,
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>> is donald trump going to ditch his debate and run for president himself? well a growing number of gop candidates are dissing the donald saying mow to his tv debate and he is not happy about it. >> you know who i am very disappointed, michele bachmann. show came up to see me four times. four times. she would call me, she would ask me for advice, she said i should
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be her vice presidential, if she wins she would like to think about me for the vice president. >> that will work. >> you know, all of these things. and most importantly, i did like a two hour phone call for her with her people and it caused me a problem. people said are you endorsing her in and the answer was no and after all of that she's not going to do the debate. it's unbelievable. it's actually called loyalty. >> now the candidates may find themselves really taking on trump. he says he might run for president. trump says the republican party candidates are very concerned sometime after the final episode of the apprentice on may 20th when the equal time provisions are not applicable to me, i may announce my candidacy for press of the united states as an independent and that, unless i conclusively agree not to had
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run as an independent, they will choose -- >> so is all of this tarnishing the republican race for the white house? we are joined by ryan. good evening, sir. >> hey, greta, how are you? >> very well. i suspect it falls under the headline never dull. possibility that you will now have donald trump running as an independent. have you given it some thought? >> well, first of all i thought you were going to have me on so we could talk about our packers a littlebit but we can get down to business and talk about this issue. greta, listen, i respect mr. trump quite a bit, and i certainly respect newsmax. and my position on this on thiss absolutely nothing to do whether or not we appreciate or appreciate the organization or mr. trump, not at all. what this has to do with is the
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fact if you have a moderator and the moderator is considering running as an independent, i think that's an issue we need to look at and that's all. in the end the reality is, as you know, because fox has been involved in a lot of debates, candidates decide for themselves what they want to do. and fox and cnn and all these groups can, you can all schedule debates, but in the end the candidates actually decide what they want to do and what they don't want to do. what i did earlier this week on fox whe i was on fox and friends, and i was asked about it, was simply just say, look, like mr. trump and newsmax a whole lot, but this is an issue of concern, and i think that it's pretty reasonable for a campaign charm to be concerned about it. >> are you saying if he would make a declaration that he has no intention to run as republican or independent or anything that you would have no flocks because some people are opposed to him moderating a debate. but are you saying in that
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instance if he's not going to run that you think that, you know, that might be a good idea to have him run a debate? >> well, i mean, i think that it certainly would take the major hurdle off the table. and then at that point, like now even with the hurdle, it's still up to the candidates, greta. i guess that's what i'm saying. i think most people watching this would agree with me that eats a pretty reasonable concern to have. that concern is completely off the table, my answer is just the candidates decide. and the candidates decide anyway, for that matter. so it's their call in the end. and these candidates and the campaigns have to make these decisions on their own, both on scheduling and all of those sorts of issues that these guys need to be concerned with. >> have you or anyone on your staff had a conversation with donald trump in the last three or four weeks? >> no. >> not at all? no communication between the donald trump and the rnc? >> i've talked to donald trump a
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month ago. in fact, we did a fundraiser at a golf course of his over the summer, and it was a great event. and our relationship with mr. trump is very good. i just want to -- this has nothing to do with relationships or what we think about newsmax or anyone else. this just has to do with the fact whether or not it's a smart idea to have a moderator who is having the idea of running as an independent. that's all this is. >> seems like there might be some blood on the floor in the republican party in the next couple weeks because it's gotten quite rugged between a couple candidates. most recently it seems governor romney and his supporters are going pretty aggressively after supper gingrich for his permanent past. personal past. your thought on what is evolving between a rugged campaign between the two of them? >> i don't think primaries are anything unique. obviously the other parties have had plenty of them, bill clinton came through one and obviously
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hillary and barack obama nearly gouged each other's eyes out through the end of june and look what happened, he won and took a super majority in congress and 60 votes in the u.s. senate with him. the concept that tough primaries are somehow a bad thing, i think the opposite. i actually think primaries that are competitive and tough, i think they are great for us. you know, we are both from wisconsin, greta. scott walker didn't walk into the governor's house and he's leading a great debate in this country, he didn't walk in, he had a tough fight against mark newman who spent about $5 million of his own money. all those other governors that came through the midwest, none of them walked in, they all came through primaries. there's a history in this country that usually candidates that come through pretty difficult primaries end up going in and winning elections. so i think it's pretty common. >> what is uncommon, though, is in two days the packers managed to sell $43 million worth of
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shares to citizens when essentially they bought almost nothing except bragging rights but it does show the enormous amount of -- and i'm going to take the last word on that one but -- >> hey, i'm a stockholder. >> we all are. and apparently we have a lot of new share hold. coming up, they say holder must go. now he goes on the record. that's next. and also get out your checkbook. if you are house hundred dollarsing or just day dreaming dollarsing or just day dreaming you are about to see some this new at&t 4g lte is fast. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new... ...office rules? cause you're currently in violation of 6 of them. oh yeah, baby? ...and 7.
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the heat got turned up on attorney general eric holder and it isn't just thanks congress wants, congress wants his head. a growing number of lawmakers warn if the attorney general does not resign, they will kick him out. yesterday house committee members got it during the hearing. >> a letter to member of congress february, 2011, a letter that was demonstrably false. your department withdraw that letter ten months later. when did you learn that that letter was false? >> well, i would not characterize the letter as false. i would say it contained inaccuracies. >> you don't think they are demonstrablably false when you
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say atf makes an effort to interdict all efforts for guns going to mexico? how is that not false? >> no, how you use the word. >> is it false? can i demonstrate that it's false? >> and good evening, sir. >> thank you for having me. you want him to leave? >> i have lost confidence in his ability to lead a department that is very important to me as a former federal prosecutor. i don't put the department of justice in the same category as i do other more political embarkments. i want a chief law enforcement officer, irrespective of political party, that i have trust and confidence in. whether he knew about gunwalking, which i can prove, i don't have a piece of evidence to show that he did. what i do have are four senior level d. o. j. officials who did know about it. so it's a question of
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leadership, of management. if he's not going to get engaged in find being out the truth about a letter written to a united states senator, then what is he doing? jason from utah asked him yesterday i thought fairly politely, have you talked to secretary clinton? in? no,na pal ton no? no? president obama? snow? >> and there are dead border patrol agents and dead mexican citizens and you have yet to have a conversation with any of your peers? >> do you think he doesn't know or is it possible he's covering? you asked those specific questions, did you talk to specific people. it could have been that he didn't talk to this person but he talk to another person and you didn't name that person. do you have the sense that the attorney general is being straight with you? he's being evasive? or he's just disconnected because he's focused on other things? >> i would say option c. i have no evidence that is a lying about whether or not he knew about fast and furious. so lay that aside, i'm not going to accuse someone of lying if i
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don't have any evidence of that. i would then say he should have known about it. if he was engaged as i want the attorney general to be, he should have known about it. >> who is the highest rankling person? have you figured that out, who has authorized fast and furious? >> i asked him yesterday specifically about lenny brewer. >> did he say lenny brewer green lighted it? >> lenny brewer new gun walking had taken place. >> and someone made a really bad decision. we don't know who that, quote, someone is. that someone could still be making decisions today that are equally as stupid. and everyone con seeks the attorney general and members of congress, everybody says it was a really bad decision but no one has yet, at least -- do you know who authorized that? >> no, ma'am. >> don't you think that's weird? >> i think it's beyond weird. >> i mean, isn't it incumbent upon the attorney general to find out who did it, how high
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up? because this has been going on for ten months. >> but notice what he does. notice what happens. he appear points an inspector general. greta, you are an attorney, you know if you do something false in front of a judge, don't appoint someone to investigate it, you correct it immediately. he's hiding behind the inspector general trying to buy time saying let's wait until the investigation. >> how long does that take? >> the next election cycle, i can promise you that. >> that's appalling. has the inspector general been summoned to congress? >> no. she's a former d. o. j., a prosecutor. again -- >> why down haul her up there and say who is the highest rankling person making these very bad decisions and is that person still in the justice department, is he still capable of making equally bad decisions in because according to what holder said yesterday, there could be many more people who are hurt by this, who will die by this. >> well, there will be. and your question illustrates perfectly our frustration. this is the department of
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justice, not the department of tourism or politics. should we really have to s&p someone. >> apparently the answer is yes. >> or the answer is we need a new attorney general. >> then you may not get the answer and that person may still be sitting there. >> you heard the charm yesterday discuss the full spectrum of options they have at their disposal. you even heard lamar smith, who is one of the more genius members of congress talk about contempt. and i'm this is lamar smith who said we may have to use our contempt of congress or s&p to to -- or subpoena to answer our questions. i don't know who he is protecting. >> i'm getting more suspicious by the day. ifs not particularly suspicious and now i'm real suspicious. i never was before. but i hope you get to the bottom of it because there's something
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that is not quite right. >> me too. thank you. >> and president obama was pulling the strings some say. was his dealings with boeing a ploy? well there is the latest in the fallout. fox business dennis is here, he's next. and forget about hot-air balloons and skywriting. a creative boyfriend comes up with a sparkling idea to propose for marriage.
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>> from america's news headquarters, i'm marianne rafferty. wall street reacting positively friday to european efforts to battle the continent's debt crisis. the dow jones gaining 186 points and nasdaq was up 50 and s&p was up 21. it followed an agreement by all 17 nations that use the euro, to sign a treaty for closer oversight of their budget. 19 other nations are considering it. britain is the lone holdup.
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nasa giving the okay for the first ever international cargo run to the space station. they will attempt a run in february. they hope to send astronauts by 2014. last year, they began the first private business to launch into orbit. the u.s. ended its shuttle program in august. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to "on the record." for your latest headlines, go to foxnews.com. record. >> big involvements in the the politically charged case against boeing. the national labor relations board announced today it's dropping it's lawsuit. the nrb had blasted boeing's decision to open a nonunion plant in north carolina. they said it was retaliating against union workers. but lawmakers called it a ploy by the obama administration to get or keep the union vote. who won or who lost here? fox business senior correspondent dennis joins us. what is up with this?
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>> it's so much to talk to you outside the box. i'm glad you are right here in new york. >> that sounds really weird. whatever. >> that sounds like a great thing for business, but there's also something very disturbing about it. because the reason that this labor board of the government dropped its case is because boeing went ahead and signed a really nice new contract with machinist's union. 74% voted to approve a new contract that did such thing as a 2% annual wage increase for the next four years each year and performance based incentives and $5,000 signing bonus and preserves pension and health benefits. is the labor board saying, hey, boeing, because you were nice to the union and gave them a nice fat new deal, now we will go ahead and look the other way and won't bother you. the labor board said they violated the law of retaliation against unions in building a plant, $750 million, a thousand jobs in south carolina where unions don't instantly have the automatic right to get in there and take over your company.
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now a violation is a violation a new contract in seattle should not make a government agency suddenly not want to enforce the law. so was it really a violation or not? i think it wasn't. i think they know it was a loss. >> regardless of the contractor no contract, the new contract in the pacific northwest, if there's a good, legitimate legal claim against boeing in south carolina, it should go forward. it shouldn't be the situation where the union now says they have held a gun up to the head of go boeing, got some special deals and turn to the buddies in the government and say okay now you can stand down now on your complaint because we've extracted some deal out of boeing. >> exactly. here's the thing. technically the law does make it illegal to retaliate against a union to organize a company. that was the law they used to go after going. this plant has had four or more strikes, and the most recent strike cost us $1.8 billion.
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it was like 58 days or something. what is wrong with a business deciding the next plant i'm thinking we should go in a state where there isn't such hard union rules. >> actually the better argument for boeing is when building the plant in south carolina they didn't take any jobs from the pacific northwest. those jobs still stayed intact. these were additional jobs, right? >> indeed. >> that's a little stronger argument for boeing. >> and worse than that, the nlrb went to a judge and said you should force them to make this new plant a bigger plant, you should force them to make that plane in washington and suddenly they are dropping that complaint entirely. >> what did they say why they are dropping it? >> here's the other thing that bothers me. here's and the general counsel said. the case was always about the loss of future jobs in the seattle area. this has resolved the issue. hey, man, told us the company illegally retaliated again the union but now the case was about
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the loss of future jobs in seattle? it's so political, they should be embarrassed they said that. republicans are now calling for an investigation how this decision was made and i think someone should look into it. >> 40 seconds left what have about boeing say about it? >> boeing is making nice and saying we thought the complain never had merit at all and we are happy to move forward in a new relationship with the unions. but they should be saying to the defenders, they stepped in and were totally and blatantly political. why are we spending $300 million a year on an agency that goes after union disputes when they represent less than 7% of american workers in. >> how do you really feel about this, dennis? >> that's how i really feel. >> ahead, blurring the line against reality and tv. who stormed the set in new york city? you will see. you think your rent is two high? you will never believe how expensive this manhattan apartment is. start guessing.
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>> here's the absolute best of the rest. occupy wall street protestors take no entertainment tv. sort of. they did try to take over the new york set of law and order.
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the tv show was getting ready to tape an episode based on the occupy move men. they even built a a fake set. finally the city got into the set and law and or, they had to cancel the shoot. and a christmas wish comes through for an oklahoma couple. chad lester came up with a dazzling way to propose to his girlfriend. he took her to see a huge holiday lights display. tiffany thought she was just going to check out the beautiful lights but as the music played and 150,000 lights wrinkled, chad proposed and tiffany said she was shocked. but, of course, she did say yes. and if you are in the market for a palace, there's a new one for rent in new york city but it's going to cost you. $100,000 a month to be exact. as the renovated townhouse is in the very trendy soho neighborhood. it's 13,000 square feet and does come with a swimming pool.
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it's the most expensive rental listing, but if you are willing to pay even more you can get a suite with hotel amenities. it will cost you $165,000 a month. and you have heard of lucky number 7. how about lucky number 26? that's right. cat, wisconsin, and you knew it had to be wisconsin, has 26 toes. those extra toes are helping to raise money for a milwaukee animal shelter. daniel, the cat, has inspired people across the country to donate $26 each. by the way, daniel is just two toes short of tieing the guinness world record. there you have it, the best of the rest. coming up, your last call, one more quick round before we turn down the lights. do you recognize this actor? you should. he goes on the record all the time. start guessing.
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>> greta: time for last call. familiar face makes a move from the theater of capitol hill. take a look at griff jenkins. >> this is the start of the nut cracker. the 50th anniversary and our director here and they're in a party theme hopefully not screw this up. and the mustache, and the mittens going on now. that means it's coming soon. ♪ [ music ] . >> greta:

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