>> no, no. i have screwed that up, so i don't have to do it again. we got governor mike huckabee on saturday. high-tech tailgating of the we'll show you even lazier ways to have fun this weekend. >> have a great weekend. see you monday. friday. compromise and cut a deal and stick your heels in the dirt and hang on. what will it be? the president has lunch with leading lawmakers from both parties as the democrats suffered humiliating losses in the midterms. how will this go? i'm bill hemmer. >> busy, busy week for us. i'm heather childers in for martha maccallum. house speaker john boehner sharing his vision for the country yesterday. talking about jobs at the top of his list. >> finding common ground will be hard work but if will be even harder if the president isn't willing to work with us. yesterday we heard him say he may double down on his go it alone approach. listen, i told the president

before, he needs to put politics aside and rebuild trust. and rebuilding trust not only with the american people, but with the american people's representatives here in the united states congress. bill: wow what about that trust? chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor. how are you doing, reverend. >> bill. bill: and john boehner to a lesser degree you make the case this today is all about whether or not the president accepts the results of tuesday night. so how is this going to go? >> well it's like this. this is such a large group as to be, it is so big it is insignificant. real deals get cut when you have one-on-one, one on two, small groups working together to hash out what the overall plan is. this is obviously symbol little. we're talking about 16 people. nothing real is going to happen here. this is about the president showing some optics. he need to do that, given the fact that earlier in this week he essentially said, this was not a valid election return

because of all the peel who didn't vote in it. the message something a little off, let's put it that way. bill: they should know today, right? they could look him in the eye and figure out whether he is ready to deal or dig in, agree? >> no way. what will happen, i'm almost sure. we have the lame-duck session coming up and it will be a mother of a duck. it will have a fiscal cliff. we have looming action on iran's nuclear program. we have an attorney general nomination. we have all of this stuff. team harry reid, smarting worse than anyone from a humiliating defeat looks like they may be wanting some revenge talking about jamming a 10-month spending plan through. no way. so, this is going to be pretty tough stuff. i think today will be strained niceties around the luncheon table with the network coming later on. bill: okay. we'll go for that. we'll wait later. here is back to speaker boehner what he believes they can get done. watch here. >> you heard me talk many times

about the many jobs bills that the outgoing senate majority has ignored. those bills will offer the congress, i think a new start. we can act on the keystone pipeline, restore the 40-hour work week that was gutted by obamacare and pass the hire more heroes act that would encourage our businesses to hire more of our veterans. bill: now that may be his wish-list. of those items, chris, which ones get completed? >> well, look, it's a miss of non-controversial and controversial issues. everybody is in favor of hiring veterans right? that is not a problem. when we start talking about the keystone pipeline, start talking about any changes to obamacare, things get more difficult. don't forget this, this is your money remembrance, changes to obamacare delayed past the 2012 election and delayed past the 2014 election coming into effect over last several months. that will bring the law front

and center as companies enforce employee mandates. bill: the law is settling in. the old family dining room. like thanks giving with the family, chris. sometimes the family acts kind of strange when they're together, right? what is the crazy uncle going to do, how will they interact? >> put olives on end of y fingers from the relish tray. i can see that. this is pretty dysfunctional family. i don't know if they make it through without throwing mash potatoes. bill: hatfields and mccoast. hmmm. thank you, sir. chris stirewalt. terrific riding the week with you. appreciate it. >> who carves the turkey? bill: or the pumpkin read. >> the labor department releasing, excuse me, some new jobs numbers for october, showing employers add 214,000 jobs, marking the ninth straight month that the economy added at least 200,000 jobs. the unemployment rate ticking down to 5.8%. that is the lowest number since

july 2008. so let's bring in liz claman from the fox business network. liz great to have you here this morning. voter overwhelmingly, they said the economy was their number one issue as they headed to the polls. this is what people want to see. is this a move in the right direction? is it enough? >> perfectly put, it's a definite move in the right direction, heather. there are still demands right now for u.s. workers. when you stretch it out, when you say nine months in a row of plus 200,000 build in jobs, that is very good. then you bring down the unemployment rate. however, i'm personally looking at the wage growth rate and that is still inching along like a teeny little worm. you need to see wage growth now start to improve because people, while starting to work more hours, are not making that much more. wage growth improved by .1 of a percent. the expectation was to see .2 of a percent. let's talk about the good news for the moment.

that is we're heading into the holiday season, i've been watching companies like macy's, fedex, us, they're all saying that they will hire for the holidays, each company, somewhere from 95,000, to more than 100,000 temporary holiday works. so the big question becomes, does that have a longer tail? but this report, as you look at it to see 5.8% rate for unemployment is the lowest we've seen since 2008. we all recall when happened in 2008. big-time financial crisis. so looking better. >> liz, not to be debbie downer here, it struck me when i heard the president speaking following the election, he mentioned 2/3 of people who did not turn out to vote. he mentioned that twice. yet we don't hear him mention another number when it comes to the economy himself, that is the labor participation rate, some 92 million people, who are no longer looking for work. so, where does that stand? >> 62.8, that is among the highest that we've ever seen. in fact i think it is just one off the highest level.

this is the not a great number at all. how however you talk to different economists they have about 58 different opinions. he would expect labor participation to come down a little bit and as baby boomers continue to age to leave the workforce. either way we need this number come back down. what you want to see a lower number so people are jumping back into the workforce. however there is another good number to superimpose over that, something called the household survey where they take a survey of everybody in every household, 16 years or older, that number looked better for employment, heather. what would work with bill hemmer's sensibilities. he looks at all kinds of sports. this is boxing analogy, a welterweight report. more of a sugar ray leonard versus my upped homed ali but we're getting there. bill: up against the ropes for far too long. liz claman. check her out on fox business.

thank you. seven minutes past. more tension in washington over reports that the president is reaching out yet again to iran. "the wall street journal" reporting that president secretly sent a letter to the supreme leader about our shared work against isis. how is this report playing there in washington, leland? >> reporter: bill, not well would an understatement. senior congressional source told our chad pergram in very colorful language this really messes things up. not only was congress and everyone else caught off-guard, many see the engagement with iran will see as weakness by sunni-arab countries, saudi arabia, u.a.e., jordan, qataris who are very concerned about iran getting a nuclear weapon and influence in iraq. it took a lot of convincings for them to join the fragile ill u.s.-led coalition against isis. >> seems to be a desper

operation move to get a nuclear arms deal but of great concern is the fact that apparently we are going to work with the iranians to defeat isis. we now are telling the free syrian army that we're working with the people who are major reason why some 6 them are slaughtered? i think it is unconscionable. >> reporter: looking at this in context of president obama's promise to build bridges in congress, as they say in foreign policy this revelation is not a confidence building measure on two fronts. first working with iran is not a popular idea on capitol hill and lawmakers really do not like being kept in the dark by the white house. bill: how is the white house reacting now, leland? >> reporter: they're not really saying a whole lot. of the josh earnest ducked reporters questions yesterday about the reported letter. >> the policy that the president and his administration have articulated about iran remains unchanged. about iran's nuclear program.

and we have also discussed on the sidelines of those talks, at least a couple of occasions the ongoing campaign that is being conducted against isil. >> reporter: also, remember, another ally won't be happy with this, israel. reports indicate they were not briefed about the letter allegedly sent in october and coming on the heels of a senior administration official using locker room-like language to describe the israeli prime minister, this could make an already bad relationship with the white house even more dysfunctional. bill? >> leland thank you, leland vittert in washington on that. more to come a bit later. we also know the identity now of a navy seal who killed barack obama. that man is robert o'neill. fox news has exclusive television interview with him. peter doocy making contact with o'neill and explaining to megyn last night about how it went down. >> he and i met. we got connected through a third

party. and over time we develop ad relationship and this summer something happened that we cover in the special where he decided, now is when i want to tell the story. and now is when i want to reveal myself. bill: this is a special you do not want to miss. the man who killed usama bin laden. it is two-night special beginning tuesday, 10:00 eastern time, only here on the fox news channel. >> fox news alert. a national guard helicopter crashing last night just miles from a base in idaho. two pilots on board confirmed dead. officials say the apache combat chopper, was on a routine mission, training mission. the pentagon is investigating the crash. the commander of idaho national guard weighing in on the tragedy saying they are quote, united in grief at the loss of two of our brothers in arms. bill: so speaker boehner warning the president not to go it alone on immigration. >> i believe that the president continues to act on his own he is going to poison the well.

bill: well, what happens if he does? can congress work with the president to get a comprehensive deal done. we'll debate that mk and juan in a moment. heather? >> a crazed patient terrify as hospital staff with a weapon and starts swinging at nurses, can you imagine? find out how police finally took him down. bill: surveillance video helps track down a brazen kidnapping subject with a long rap sheet. thankfully what else this guy is doing according to the police chief. >> this is a stranger abduction. she didn't know him. he didn't know her. and that is pretty frightening when you stop and think about it. ♪

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heather: welcome back. panic in a hospital as a patient begins attacking employees. take a look at this. the 68-year-old man, begins going after nurses with a large metal object. now all of this happened at a hospital just outside of minneapolis last week. you can see many understandably ran for their lives. that patient eventually left the hospital. but police did find him a few blocks away, thank goodness. still armed. they tased him. eventually handcuffed him. he died in custody a short time later. police are investigating what sparked the attack. >> i believe that the president continues to act on his own he is going to poison the well. when you play with matches, you take the risk of burning

yourself. and he is going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path. bill: speaker boehner strong warning for the president. he says he will take executive action on immigration if congress does not do a deal. juan williams, fox news political analyst, mary catherine ham, hotair.com, fox news contributor. guys, let's go at it. family dining room right here, okay? mk. what is going to happen here? >> well i think he will probably move on this. i don't think he cares if it messes up the chance to pass a law. in the past he went and did the dreamer executive action while marco rubio was taking a political risk in the senate to bring something dream-like up. when you cut people off at the knees like that taking a political risk trying to do something that is hard, that thing doesn't get done. if he is interested in a comprehensive something then you want to encourage people to do the thing that is tough to do and i think but cut them off at the knees you won't do. that he said in 2012 it would be hard to legally defend what he

wants to do now. >> you still think he is going to do it? >> yes, i think so, juan, what do you think he is going to do? >> yeah, i think he said he is going to do it. we don't have to think. certainly by the end of the year, after the asia trip, he is going to use executive authority, as much as possible to do what is legally possible to remedy, what i think everybody would agree is a broken immigration system. you know what is interesting to me is, remember, the senate did act on this the senate got something done. it is the house that hasn't gotten anything done. the president has been patient. boehner is running for office. he has a very strong right-wing caulk within the republican house. he is playing to that theater. the reality is something needs to get done. people can't wait forever. this is humanitarian crisis in this country. bill: mk, you say that you don't believe he cares about working with others. that's a strong charge. why do you say that?

>> i don't think he has a plan for doing it. i don't think he has a plan for doing anything different. i think we learned over the years that is not actually hess style. he has met with mitch mcconnell once as we talk about. even though he gave mitch mcconnell for credit being a guy who shoots straight who knows what he can deliver from his caucus, i know that is true. if you work with a person that you might be able to create something that you could get to join up with house action to make work. by the way i do want to say, as far as immigration reform goes, this is a washington priority that washington is very concerned about. it is farther down the list when it comes to normal americans. i think that is one of the reasons inaction has not been as politically costly as people in washington think it will be. i think why poke people in the eye and expect them to work with you? you have received a rebuke but you're not hearing the rebuke. that is a problem. bill: what do you think about that, juan. is there truth to that? >> i don't, i'm a little stunned because look, you know what? if you look at the poll numbers, which i think mary catherine is referring to, overall you see it

is not that high an issue. guess what, we have 12 million or show people in this country who are living in limbo and breaking the law. so we are encouraging, we know from the chamber of commerce, to the latino action groups, all say, listen, please deal with this issue. let's get it right. threat's get it straight. >> then let's get it right to work together on it. >> they have failed to act time and time and time again. >> just like the democrats in 2009. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear you? >> the democrats supermajority failed to act on this in 2009 when it was perfectly easy for them to do so. bill: otherwise you get executive action. old family dining room. you guys ever been there in the white house? what kind of gathering will this be? >> today? bill: put that dysfunctional family together. i hope the table is round so they're forced to look at each other, juan. >> i think they will refeign from throwing things. >> tay could be a kumbayah day.

they have in fact every reason, obama invested in legacy. boehner and mcconnell want to show that they can govern. today could be a good day. bill: we'll see. high denies in that room. >> at least the food will probably be good. bill: likely. juan, thanks. >> you're welcome. bill: heather? heather: some disturbing new allegations to tell you about involving the suspect in a brazen kidnapping on the streets of philadelphia. the evidence that links him to another crime. bill: also he pulled off the win over the incumbent colorado senator-elect cory gardner, with his message of optimism for america. he is here live today. >> lifting people's eyes up to the rocky mountain horizon this is ever young state where we talk about ever hopeful attitude. the fact for colorado, if you don't put together that vision, if you don't put together that positive idea how we will have brighter today tomorrow, people don't want you there. i'm an idaho potato farmer

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bill: texas now believed to be ebola-free. quarantine orders coming to an end for the last person exposed to deadly virus identified as a hospital worker from a patient several weeks ago. texas dealt with three diagnosed cases of ebola. officials watching about 108 people. heather: we're learn aring more about the man accused kidnapping a woman off the streets of philadelphia. 37-year-old delvin barnes has a long rap sheet with dozens of charges from armed robbery to attempted murder. authorities say that he is not only responsible for abducting that 22-year-old woman seen there on sunday, who was thankfully found alive but for another attack last month where he allegedly raped and burned a 16-year-old girl. david lee miller live in our new york city newsroom. david, what do we know about his past? >> reporter: heather, barnes has a very long criminal history. court records show he was arrested at least a dozen times

since 2001. most of those charges were dismissed. but in 2006, he was convicted of attacking his estranged wife. he was found guilty of numerous charges, among them false imprisonment and aggravated assault. he spent seven years behind bars. according to published reports he was released on parole last year. last month barnes allegedly abduct ad woman in richmond, virginia. she told police she was hit on the head with a shovel, forced in into a car and sexually abused. barnes was linked to the crime by dna in that attack he faces charges of attempted murder and malicious injury with acid. barnes's uncle says he is not surprised by his nephew's recent arrest. >> i'm not going to say like everyone else he is a good person because he is my nephew. he is not a good person. >> reporter: barnes's uncle said some men grow up having problems with women and take it out on women. in his words, apparently he is

one of them. heather. heather: last two victims so lucky they fought back. another question for you, what happens next to him? he was denied parole several times. >> reporter: that's right. now at this hour, barnes is in the state of virginia. in maryland, in the last 24 hours a hearing took place and the judge ordered him to be extradited. barnes decided that he was not going to fight extradition. during that hearing barnes appeared over a video link. during the appearance he wore an orange jumpsuit. there he is arriving at the virginia sheriff's office a short time ago. during the hearing he was relatively polite answering judge's questions, no, sir, yes, sir. according to a local official in virginia the community still trying to cope with recent events. >> we're really a small tight-knit community and something of that caliber almost never happens here. it's a shock to the community. i'm sure it's a shock to me and but i'm sure the community is glad that this guy is off the

street. we never know who is living amongst us. >> reporter: regarding the most recent attack, according to an affidavit from an fbi agent, barnes in fact admitted to authorities that he did abduct the 22-year-old girl in pennsylvania and that he did not know his victim in that case. he was found, heather, in great measure thanks to some excellent police work here. they were able to locate atm receipts in driveway of someone and that led them to a convenience store where are they were able to look at sure straight lance video. there was gps in the car he was driving. heather: that is interesting. we'll talk a little more about that. bill: what the chief said yesterday was fascinating. 40 years of law enforcement he had never seen an actual abduction before like you saw on that surveillance tape. heather: where they get away? bill: well, they caught the guy because of a tip they got from the video. heather: yep. bill: so is the president going soft on iran after reports the

president sent a fourth letter now to iran's supreme leader about isis. how will this impact already tense nuclear talks with tehran. kt mcfarland will analyze that, heather. heather: always good to hear from her. we're approaching the anniversary of a memorable moment in modern history. do you remember this, the day the berlin wall fell. as communism crumbled a look back, 25 years later. [applause] so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees, from the bank where no branches equals great rates.

heather: president obama sent a letter to iran's supreme leader describing our mutual interest in defeating isis. that is according to "the wall street journal" the news raising eyebrows of somehow lawmakers like house speaker john boehner who says the u.s. should not be taking such a soft stance with iran. >> i don't trust the iranians. i don't think that we need to bring them into this.

and i would hope that the negotiations that are underway are serious negotiations but i have my doubts. heather: kt mcfarland, fox news national security analyst and former deputy assistant secretary of defense under president ronald reagan. you know your stuff. thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you. heather: this is not just raising eyebrows amongst lawmakers. a lot of people hearing this thinking what are we doing negotiating with iran? you say no deal is better than a bad deal, correct? >> yeah. here's the thing, the president has want ad deal with iran all along. deal with iran would be terrific but not a deal that sacrifices israel, sacrifices our sunni allies and allows iran to get nuclear weapons and allows nuclear iran to become dominant power in the region why? because iran on regular basis we would like to exterminate the state of israel. iran says time and again they want to run the whole region.

iran nuclear threshold state -- heather: we tried to reach an agreement for six years why would be this different? >> this wouldn't be different. iran hassen at this fuelings to enrich uranium. in this deal iran reportedly will unplug it for a while. no guaranty they will replug it back in. the deal the president is about to agree to without congressional approval presumably to say to iran, with a wink and a nod, you're going to pretend to stop your nuclear program and we'll pretend to stop to believe you. everybody in the region will know iran will be a nuclear power. >> specifically talk about israel and what it does for them? >> israel is surrounded by unfriendly countries. iran supports a lot of those terrorist unfriendly groups, hezbollah for example. part of this letter that the president obama apparently wrote, he gave sort of again a wink and a nod to the iranians to say, you can keep your terrorist groups in the region, you can keep your relationship with assad. we'll not go after assad.

we're going to let you kind of run the show. including, with your sock puppet government in baghdad which is the new iraqi government which is very close to the iranians government. heather: other arab countries in the area also expressing their displeasure this has been going on behind the scenes? >> sure. because we're trying to convince, the middle east is so complicated. there are friends, there are enemies and frenemies and they all swim around. basically this is fight between shiites and sunnis. we've tried to get the sunnis to work with us to defeat isis. heather: by supporting iran they will not be supporting shiites? >> exactly. heather: okay. i have to ask you this question. you wonder about the timing of these type of announcements and these leaks that are, information that is allegedly leaked. >> never -- heather: why is this coming out right now? who does this benefit? >> here's why. the president and every administration i've been part of sixth year you're looking around for leg ba sy in the history

books. president obama says i reformed america in my own image, obamacare, big government, big welfare expansion but i haven't had any big successes foreign policywise. reset with russia didn't work. arab spring was a dud. heather: pulling out of iraq. >> seized defeat from the jaws of victory. i need the deal, need it fast. what is the only deal available to me? that is deal with iran. we have a lot of leverage but we're not using it. iran is nervous. they see what happened tuesday night. they are worried that the president will not give them friendly deal. cut a tougher deal. with the falling oil prices, sanctions against iran meant they can't sell their oil on the world market. they have to sell it at a discount price to anybody who will buy it. if that price of oil, world price goes down, the discount price goes even lower. heather: the deadline for them to come to terms with this nuclear agreement was november 24th. >> correct. heather: pushback, pushback,

should we push it back again? >> i think already has won to a certain extent. why? because they know a little bit of sanction lifting will mean everybody wants to do business with iran. guess who is already talking to the iranians selling their products? apple? heather: really. >> european carmakers. they can't wait for the big market in iran, largest market in the middle east. heather: all ties together. >> it does. heather: thank you, kt. appreciate your insight as always. bill? >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. bill: what a stirring moment that was, 1987, calling for the berlin wall to come down, two years later it did, november of 1989. 25 years ago this sunday, the unofficial end to the cold war between the u.s. and soviet union. but even as we mark that anniversary. there are fears, a new cold war is brewing between russia and the west. greg palkot live in the london newsroom on this. is there a bit of a mixed mood

this time around, greg? >> reporter: bill. bill: it is a little bit more subdued than past anniversaries but berlin is getting ready for a very big day, setting up rows of balloons to be released on sunday, released to tunes of ode to joy. for those of us there 25 years ago it was amazing and witnessing beginning of the end of the cold war or was it? hard to believe all these years later we would talk about a new cold war but we're dealing with newly assertive russia, testing nato defenses, taunting the u.s. and according to one expert, so far, we are losing. the listen carefully. >> he is winning. he is managed to divide ukraine and get away with it. he managed to indim tate the west and get away with it. showed us up for being weak and divided. my worry he will push his advantage in the baltic states. if i can bust nato in the baltic

states i can but them permanently and get americans out of europe. >> reporter: lucas says putin does not a new berlin wall or iron curtain. he wants europe on his own terms, bill. bill: what do analysts say europe has to do, greg. >> reporter: they have to get the old cold war mojo back again. in fact the u.s., we are told was better prepared to deal with the soviet union 25 years ago. then it was superpower versus superpower. now a global geopolitical scene is much more fragmented, the west more easily distracted. they do acknowledge putin's russia is smaller and arguably weaker than the old soviet union but they also say a fading empire, flailing for power can be equally dangerous especially with all those nuclear weapons. bill. bill: you haven't changed by the way. man. bottle that dna. thank you, greg palkot live in london. there will be a lot of analysis over the weekend where we're headed now.

that was one of many dominoes that rippled across the world. that was a big, big one in november 1989. heather: remember that moment. still to come, a big decision in a murder case for hire. did you hear about this one involving ac/dc's drummer? why prosecutors are dropping charges already after only his first court appearance. bill: cory gardner is the next senator-elect from colorado. the republican turning the state from blue to red. what did tuesday night tell him? we'll find out when we ask him live. next. >> can either agree and help work this country's greatest problems along with the house and senate. we'll put a number of bills on his desk to do just. that if he doesn't, it will show the american people that he and his party are refusing to work with us. man: i know the name of eight princesses. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown.

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of trying to he hire a hit man to carry out two killings. he faces charges of making threats to kill someone along with multiple drug charges. he could get up to seven years in prison. bill: what did tuesday tell us? americans voted out incumbent democrats in at least six states. there could be more. one of the state was colorado where senator mark udall lost his seat to cory gardiner. the senator-elect is with me in "america's newsroom." >> good morning. bill: the big picture is settling in for at love americans. they're tuning in to try to figure out what the lesson is from tuesday and perhaps where we're headed next. what was the lesson you took away from it? >> i don't think you can read too much into it for republicans or democrats but you have to read into for both of them that the american public, if you look at 2008, 2010, 2014 is tired of gridlock, dysfunction, regardless of who is in charge. they're not afraid to throw

people out if you can't fix things we'll try somebody else, regardless of party. bill: that may be true but when you look at deeply democratic states like maryland, that elect ad republican governor, 3-1 democrats, republicans in that state. illinois and massachusetts. >> there is frustration, that's right. bill: illinois and massachusetts. it is more than just the u.s. senate, would you not agree? >> oh absolutely but people are frustrated everywhere. they see washington. they see local politics. they see people who aren't doing their job getting out of the way. people's incomes are stagnant while unemployment numbers are dropping. people aren't earning money to make ends meet. people are frustrated. whoever is in chargings democrats or republicans over next several election cycles they will be held responsible. >> do you characterize this as a vote against the president or a vote in favor of the republican party? >> well i think the president himself said his policies are on the ballot. every single one of them. so it is hard not to imagine

this was not a vote against the president and those failed policies and against those people who supported those policies. so, in many respects a vote against the president's policies. vote against those people who supported them hook, line and sinker and vote for those people who won't follow the failed policies. bill: you're not saying republicans were given a mandate? >> i don't think you can read too much as republican mandate. in two years if republicans don't lead the same thing will happen. except it will be a wave going back the other direction. the house, senate, has to focus putting legislation on the president's desk. give this president the opportunity to veto or agree with legislation that the american people agree with. so that we can prove we can lead, we can solve problems. the people of colorado, don't like dysfunction. they want a positive vision and that's what we have to prove to the people of this country. bill: what would be your expectation for what could get done? >> i think there is a number of things that could get done to put on the president's desk almost immediately. things like keystone pipeline. broad bipartisan support for

keystone pipeline. work on tax reform. there is broad, bipartisan support for tax reform. restoring 40-hour work week. repealing the independent payment advisory board. repealing the medical device tax which is hurting jobs here in colorado and many states around the country. those are things we can do, put on the president's desk and give the american people confidence that a republican majority in the house and senate can govern maturely and with competence. bill: do you think he would go along with any of that? >> i think there are two options. if the president doesn't go along he sets his nominee up for failure in 2016. bill: really? >> if the president does go along shows the republicans can lead and helps the republican nominee in 2016. bill: on the issues now, most important issue facing country, this is what we found under exit polling in our screen for our viewers. the economy was 45%, that is republicans, that's democrats, that's independent voters. which you have a lot in colorado over the past four years.

health care 25%. and illegal immigration and foreign policy. where are the issues with women? i don't see them on that priority list? your opponent, mark udall, campaigned on women's issues. what happened there? >> well i think actually the issues dealing with women around the country are on those exit polls. they do reflect in the exit polls, that is in the economy and that is in health care. what we noticed women around the country are just not interested in talking about what mark udall to, obnoxious single issue campaign as "denver post" said. labor participation rate amongst women has declined from reporting period to reporting period. economic issues matter to women as they do to men around this country. the fact even though colorado unemployment dropped to 5.7%, people still aren't earning income that they need. in fact $4,000 is the average loss to a median household income salary over past several years. people may be working better

jobs or harder and harder but they're not earning more money. so it's a very complicated factor. that is why the economy continues to be top of mind to so many people around the country. bill: that message sold in colorado. you're a winner by 2.9%. the polls are actually accurate in your case. >> they were. bill: real clear average was 2 1/2. cory gardner, congratulations. we'll talk again real soon. we'll see whether or not something comes of this meeting today in the white house from denver. thank you very much. heather? heather: coming up the wealthiest company in the world looking for a taxpayer bailout? coming up the green energy project that could end up costing americans a pretty penny. bill: terrifying video here. putting you face-to-face with an armed carjacker. wait until you hear the story behind that image. ♪ ♪ "here i am. rock you like a hurricane." ♪ fiber one now makes cookies.

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bill: this is a daring rescue. florida keys, a good samaritan risking his life to pull six people from this burning boat here. >> i tried to extinguish it and it wouldn't go. by that time it was engulfed in flames. >> i thought at any moment, first it was going to blow up. i literally jumped into the water. >> it obviously could have been a lot worse. we rebuild them. we can build another one. bill: they say a fuel tank caused it. 400 gallons of fuel had to burn itself out. the flames were strong well over three hours. heather: to a giant solar facility that was unveiled back in february for you now. only producing a fraction of the electricity that it promised. now the companies behind it which include google and jpmorgan, they're looking for a taxpayer bailout to the tune of half a billion dollars. william la jeunesse is live from our west coast newsroom. so, william, why do they see serve this money? people say these are some big companies. >> reporter: yeah, well the

money's out there, that is the answer. it is a $1.6 billion federal loan that apparently wasn't good enough. now the owners, google and nrg energy want a $500 million federal grant to pay off their federal loan. you heard of solyndra, beacon power, all received millions in federal loans for solar projecting that went bankrupt. this giant plant in the mojave desert. only producing fraction of electricity promise. now the wealthy investors want 539 million of your money to pay off their loan so they don't have to use their money. >> this is an attempt by very large, cash-generating companies that have billions on their balance sheet to get a federal bailout, i.e., a bailout from us, the taxpayer, for their pet project. it is just, actually rather obscene. >> reporter: nrg does not call

this a bailout. they say they're simply taking advantage after government clean energy program and it is true. the feds gave out 18 billion to renewable projects in 2013, 4 billion for solar. >> man, $539 million. why isn't it generating more power? >> reporter: the company says the sun isn't shining as often as they hoped. the weather not cooperating. first eight months this year it generated 254,000-megawatt hours of electricity. that is quarter of the million it was promised. to compensate it is using 60% more natural gas, the fossil fuel it was designed to replace and reason it got federal money. nrg insists it is new plant, new technology. it will improve. this is not the first controversy, heather. a study recently done by the state that the plant kills 20,000 birds a year because of that 800-degree solar rayburns the birds. and the plant also to get built,

the first owner spent 400,000 lobbying. ceo visited the white house 10 times. its chairman wrote to the white house chief of staff we need a commitment from the white house to quarterback the loan. so it gets approved by the doe. that is interference that house investigators called the worst kind of cronyism. book to you. >> so the sun isn't shining enough for them? william la jeunesse. thank you. bill: so the white house, president obama, sitting down with congressional leaders. we're going to hear from the president in a matter of moments here. will we see compromise and cooperation? steve hayes has some interesting things to say. heather: maybe we can cross our fingers on that. and ready or not, here it comes again. two words we learned to fear last winter. do you remember this, bill? i'm talking about the polar vortex. bill: come on. heather: yes, again. [ male announcer ] approaching medicare eligibility?

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today, president obama meeting with top lawmakers from both parties putting all that talk about compromise to the test early based on tuesday night. brand new hour on a friday, i'm bill hemmer. heather: i'm heather childers. time to see if you can walk the walk, so to speak. the president inviting 16 congressional leaders to that meeting. at stake, whether there's any common ground for a compromise. both sides voicing optimism, but they are still far apart on some key issues like immigration, obamacare. wendell goler joins us live from the white house. both sides already warning each other. no mistake there, right? >> reporter: you're right, heather. republicans warning the president not to go forward with his plan to implement some of the immigration reforms the house has refused by executive order to. house speaker john boehner saying that would poison the well, playing with matches, mr. president, you're going to get burned. the majority of the country, in fact, the majority of congress supports those reforms.

an immigration bill passed the senate with republican votes, boehner refused to let house memberrers vote on it -- members vote on it. one of their first efforts will be to try to repeal obamacare now that harry reid can no longer keep the senate from voting on such a bill, but officials doubt it would pass filibuster, and if it did, the president would veto it anyway. heather: wendell, what can they agree on, if anything? give us some sort of hope here. >> reporter: there's indications they might find common ground on trade agreements and on legislation to repair roads and bridges which would create jobs. there's also a possibility of some tax reforms that could pass democrat and republican muster, but democrats want to spend that money might create, republicans want to lower tax rates. still, white house press secretary josh earnest was optimistic yesterday. >> senator mcconnell didn't suggest he's going to fold on his principles. the president's not going to do that either. but it doesn't mean we shouldn't

be, use that as an excuse not to get something done where we do agree. >> reporter: meanwhile, there's more to talk about over lunch than what legislation might pass next year. the head of central command will brief lawmakers on the current fight against isis in iraq and syria. the president's expected to ask them for more money to conduct that fight and a new authorization for the use of military force. heather: wendell goler, thank you very much. bill: south dakota senator john thune, he'll be there today and a bit earlier on "fox & friends" he says it looks like a big photo op to him, but he's holding out hope for progress. >> the president wants to have a photo op with the new congress, and i think demonstrate that a he's still relevant in all this debate. but i hope that he also moves in a direction that will allow us to actually get some things done for the country. and i think what we're hoping to hear from him is a willingness to work in a constructive way to dialogue with the congress. bill: stephen hayes with the weekly standard with me now, how

are you, steve? >> morning, bill. bill: certainly could be more than a photo op. you can make it that way if you want, right? >> sure, you can, but i think the republicans are right to be skeptical. we've seen from the president in the past that when he wins elections, he's not eager to compromise. we've also seen that after 2010 when he loses elections, he's not here to compromise. if you look at what he said in his press conference earlier this week, he seems to define compromise as those areas when republicans come and agree with the policy positions that he puts forth. bill: what, 2008, 2010, 2012? if you agree with me, i'll compromise? if i -- >> pretty much. bill: if i like what you're doing, i'll do it? >> look, he basically said that. the president was asked repeatedly, mr. president, are you willing to talk to republicans, are you willing to move over to republicans and seek some compromise? are you willing to be more like bill clinton, is the way that ed henry phrased it, and he, in effect, said, no. we're here to get stuff done. we'd like to agree with we can,

but he said concern -- and i thought the keyword was "overlap." well, we know there's not much overlap. where there is, it's specific, narrow issues like those that wendell mentioned. but it doesn't seem to be that the president is eager in any kind of a give-and-take compromise. will: you write today, president impervious. you make the point that you are still relevant despite what the other side might think or believe, and if you think about president bush's final two years in office, he fired donald rumsfeld, he had the surge in iraq, and at the end of that two years, you dealt with the financial collapse. there can still be a lot going on, and in that sense you will be relevant for whatever comes your way. >> you're the president of the united states, you're relevant no matter what. i mean, i think when people talk about, you know, president obama potentially beinger vel rant, what they mean is he no longer has really a governing agenda. the kinds of things he came into

office to do, to change america in a fundamental way, to make the american electorate embrace big government, activist government the way that he had hoped, that's over. so in that sense the age of obama is over. his big project hasn't worked out for him. but that doesn't mean that he's irrelevant at all. he's still highly relevant for the reasons you suggest. he's talking about this nuclear deal with iran. that's, that could be, you know, huge -- bill: enormous. >> significant in the way that the region operates, an arms race there, the way that the united states secures itself for decades into the future. bill: you remember what ben rhodes said last week, his national security adviser, he said this could be as big as obamacare. wow. old family dining room at the white house. that'll be an entering table to set today, huh? [laughter] get that oldies functional family -- dysfunctional family, make them look at each other and talk, steve? >> i think it's much more likely to be what john thune says in

that it's a photo op, but i think we've seen both in the comments from john boehner and mitch mcconnell and also president obama, there's not likely to be much room for compromise. bill: unfortunately, i hope you're wrong. i hope that table's wrong so they have to look each other in the eyes the whole time. thank you. stephen hayes, enjoy your weekend. >> thanks, bill. heather: listen up to this. a first of its kind move by the justice department, a russian national held in afghanistan is set to face terror charges in a virginia federal court, and some say that this is a test run for the white house since the administration is unwilling to send anyone else to gitmo. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live for us in washington. catherine, what do prosecutors say that this guy did? let's start there. >> reporter: well, heather, while there are no publicly-available photos of the suspect, a 55-year-old russian national, these court documents claim he's a follower of the spiritual leader of the taliban

with a $10 million bounty on his head for his alleged connection to and support of the 9/11 attacks. and the documents state the russian suspect is a follower of the haqqani network that has driven the insurgency in afghanistan. he is specifically charged with the 2009 attack on the forward operating base in afghanistan with pakistan that housed american military personnel and afghan police officers. fox news is told the case of the 55-year-old is a test run for whether detainees held from afghanistan can be successfully tried in court. heather: what is the big picture here? >> reporter: the allegation is that some detainees held by the u.s. in afghanistan have been released because there's no way the obama administration will send them to guantanamo bay for military trials, and there's simply not enough evidence to bring them to the federal courts.

>> there are a number of high value detainees lake this russian -- like this russian who were in custody in afghanistan who have american blood on their hands who have either been released and we haven't heard about it who are very dangerous people, or who are still in custody, and the administration is wrestling with what to do with them. >> reporter: the reason this matters is that by the end of the year the u.s. will no longer run detention operations in afghanistan, and the afghans have said to us that they are unwilling to take over the custodial responsibilities of these foreign nationals. so the question is what we do with them and whether they will just simply be released because they cannot be sent to gitmo. heather: very serious questions. catherine, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. bill: just days after we heard from voters expressing frustration about the economy, we're getting new figures now about the pace of job growth in america. labor d. reporting 214,000 jobs

added last month, showing some momentum, but that number was lower than expected. unemployment rate drops to 5.8%, economists saying that many of the jobs being created are still low paying jobs, and underemployment rate is still staggeringly high. heather: fox news alert, across the world rebels in ukraine say they've uncovered more remains linked to downed malaysian flight 17. 298 people were kill inside the rebel-held eastern part of that country way back on july 17th. well, ukraine and other western countries, they have accused russian-backed separatists for shooting down that plane. australia's prime minister calling for a one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin to confront him over the crash. they meet next week in china for trade talks. bill: something crossing earlier that russia's on the move again near ukraine. only hours away from a face-to-face meeting with the president and congressional

leaders. we are learning the head of u.s. central command will be at that meeting. so is the battle against isis about to take a new direction? heather: and an emergency landing sends three people to the hospital, a problem reported shortly after takeoff. and -- >> getten the ground -- get on the ground! bill: net this now. an armed suspect confessing his crime to a television photographer before things take a very dangerous turn. >> he was more than willing at first to, you know, go quietly. but i suppose something twisted in his mind. powders may take days to work. for gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. dulcolax, for relief you can count on.

heather: welcome back. tensions have been growing at a muslim-run holy site in eastern jerusalem. israeli security forces clashing with protesters amid a renewed conflict over whether israelis should be allowed to raze the site which they are currently banned from doing. the protests come after a deadly attack at a train station by aha maas militant, and then hours later, this: a car ramming into a group of israeli soldiers in the west bank wounding three. the motorist later turning himself in to police. bill: president obama gets set to meet with leaders from both parties post-midterm lunch, that

is, we're learning the centcom commander will be there as well, and my next guest says that's significant. fox news military adviser, chuck nash. what does that tell you? >> this is the first meeting where the president's pulling together all the leadership in congress. so you're going to have the house and senate leadership there, key staffers, key committee members, and now all of a sudden in comes the commanding general of central command. and he has to discuss some things like how are we doing with isis, what's going on in iraq and, oh, by the way, there's an afghan withdrawal that's supposed to be coming up, and there have been some recent statements by the general that he is looking at whether he needs to look -- recommend slowing that down. bill: so they're going to make the case that we need to step it up? >> well, i think what general

austin is going to do is, number one, he's -- central command is burning about $8 million a day, and we're, we've flown over 8,000 orties when you -- sorries when you look at u.s. and allies. so there's a lot being expended over there. and they're going to ask for $3.2 billion. this is on top of the $56.8 billion -- or $58.6 billion that's already in the budget you should a continuing resolution, so there is no budget past. now, they could coan exception to the continue -- do an exception and force this money through, or they could wait until january when the new congress -- bill: i gotcha. >> it'll be interesting to see. bill: any objection to that money? it's a lot. >> no, i don't think there will be, bill, it's just will the democrat-controlled senate allow that to get passed and put democrat senators on record supporting this, or will they wait til january when the new congress is seated and turn it

all over to them. bill: okay. ed henry asked a simple question at the white house the other day, are we winning? here is that answer. whether we are winningoo early because, as i said at the outset of the isil campaign, this is going to be a long-term plan. bill: if you're not oning now, you've got to find a way to, captain. >> well, you have to define what "oning" is. that concern winning is. that's been kind of squishy all along. the end state in this is not going to be written by the united states. -- driven by the united states. the end state, according to general austin speaking at a washington think tank yesterday, said more troops is not the answerer. the answer is the baghdad government, the al-abadi government has to bring in the sunnied and kurds legitimately

into the government and give them some power and share some of that oil revenue. and they don't, there aren't american, nato or allied forces that can change the complexion on the ground. bill: they're saying we killed a key bombmaker in syria, and bob baer, former cia guy on another network last night, says this guy wasn't key. he says the guy you need to get was in yemen. he was just one of many. what do you know about this? >> well, the thing is if you look at how he was taken out, he was taken out by a reaper, probably with a hellfire missile driving in a single vehicle with a driver up in northern syria. now, if this guy was a nobody, man, somebody put a lot of attention into figuring out how to get that warhead on his forehead. and you don't do that for no reason at all. so he was important to somebody. bill: baer also said they've got the technology now to put bombs on planes. that can get by our security

that we've implemented. is he right? >> well, i think what they're going to do is they're going to start playing around a lot more with uavs. hezbollah has been doing that, flying uavs down into israel for some time. that technology is out there. you can go to a store, you can order one online and get a little flyaway thing. but the bigger ones, we've been flying remote control airplanes for a very long time. people know how to do that. if they can make the bombs, they can certainly fly one of those airplanes. bill: a warhead on his forehead. >> that's it. bill: we'll talk again. >> you bet, bill. heather: another breach at home depot just after millions of credit card numbers were stolen, we will tell you what hack hers stole this time. bill: also rand paul saying hillary clinton is now the campaign kiss of death, citing what he calls hillary's losers. heather: ouch. >> they wanted to be associated as clinton democrats, and they all very -- all were soundly

rejected. so there is a message here about hillary clinton as much as there is a message about the president.

bill: home depot now admitting hackers stole 53 million e-mail addresses in addition to customers' credit card info. the company revealing the breach of 56 million credit cards back in september. home depot saying the hackers did not get any passwords or personal information, but the company's warning customers to be on alert for e-mail stamm scams. concern scams. heather: one top democratic star couldn't stop her party's shellacking on tuesday. the midterms marking former secretary of state hillary clinton's return to the campaign trail. but the majority of candidates that clinton campaigned for, they ended up losing.

chief washington correspondent james rosen is live with that story. so, james, senator rand paul specifically, the republican from key who is himself widely thought to be considering a run for the white house in 206, he was among those quick to declare these midterm results were an unwelcome development for hillary himself. hmm. how so? >> heather, good morning. senator paul seemed to be addressing that assessment on the results on the more than two dozen contests where mrs. clinton actively campaigned. >> i think it is a repudiation, basically, of the president's policies, but also hillary clinton's. hillary clinton and bill clinton have been all over the place. they're trying to make it out as if they're somehow better for democrats. well, in kentucky they were soundly rejected. >> reporter: of course, the results in these local elections can hardly be laid entirely at mrs. clinton's feet. nonetheless, of the 26 candidates mrs. clinton stumped

for, 12 won and 13 lost with mary landrieu suspended in runoff purgatory. >> i think that this election was a repudiation, first and foremost as every republican i've heard say, of president obama. and i think the clinton brand is separate and distinct from president obama, and i don't think this has a appreciable impact on her fortunes and future. >> reporter: now, hillary clinton is nothing if not a champion of girls and women. and of the ought female candidates she stumped for, only one was declared a winner, heather. heather: so, james, is there an argument to be made that this big republican win somehow benefits hillary clinton if, indeed, she runs for president? >> reporter: well, two respected beltway reporters have been arguing that. the gop wave we saw on tuesday will have a kind of liberating effect on mrs. clinton. >> getting them elected wasn't important. she wanted to be there for them, she smashed 45 appearances in, and she did what they had to do.

they all owe her now. >> i think that hillary benefits by having an all-republican congress. i'm not saying that's what she wanted. it clarifies things in washington. she can push off against the republican congress, she doesn't have to defend harry reid anymore. >> reporter: mrs. clinton has said she will announce whether she's running for president early next year. heather: two interesting takes on it. james rosen, thank you. bill: really good debate the other night on "special report." a pilot reporting danger after takeoff, what forced this flight to make an emergency landing causing injuries to the passengers onboard. heather: plus, a suspect abducts a woman off the streets in philadelphia. days later she's found alive, and now some chilling details on the suspect's criminal past. >> nobody in my family slept those last couple days. everybody been up nonstop trying to get her back home. reach all, but there are no branches? 24/7 it's just i'm a little reluctant to try new things.

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♪ ♪ bill: three injuries after a plane makes an emergency landing. officials saying a small air canada express plane reported problems right after takeoff and was diverted to a different airport where it ended up skidding down the runway on its belly. witnesses report seeing sparks trailing behind the plane. one of the plane's tires blown out just after takeoff, forcing that emergency landing. ♪ ♪ heather: well, the suspect accused of abducting a woman right off a philadelphia street expected to face new charges, that abduction captured in this shocking surveillance video. the suspect grabbing the victim. as she struggles to get away before being thrown into a car, and then he took her to maryland. days later, that victim -- 22-year-old -- was found alive. police say the suspect, delvin barnes, has a long rap sheet which includes choking his ex-wife and trying to abduct a 16-year-old virginia girl with the bent of kill-- the intent of

killing her. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. heather: let's begin with what is happening now. he is being extradited back to virginia to face the charges involving the 16-year-old which include possibly trying to burn her. she managed to get away only because he was digging a hole to bury her in, and she got away. >> yeah. she's definitely a case study in fortitude and survival. heather: both of these women. >> exactly. the situation here is that he actually waived, he agreed to be extradited to virginia. it's very difficult to fought an extradition, but if you have an attorney, you can request a hearing to find out more about the charges. so it was a question and answer, yes and no, and he's off to virginia where he's going to face attempted capital murder charges and also rape charges. heather: now, the latest victim, the 22-year-old victim, she was taken from virginia into maryland. so what will change with the charges there? and is there a difference between the 32-year-old and the

16-year-old -- 22-year-old and the 16-year-old? >> he's definitely going to stand trial in virginia, unless he agrees to the charges, and then he will possibly be expedited to philadelphia, pennsylvania -- heather: because she was taken off the streets of philadelphia. >> exactly. heather: part of the way that he was tracked involved this gps monitoring that weapon on in the car, and i found this very interesting. this car dealership and, apparently, this happens at a lot of places, that sell these vehicles to individuals who may have less than stellar credit, they put these gps in there so they can track them. this is one of the ways that they were able to locate that car. how will that play into -- >> if he gets an attorney, his attorney is going to say it shouldn't be admitted as evidence. heather: okay. >> obviously, the state is going to argue otherwise. heather: and he left behind a trail of evidence in this case. he used the victim's credit card twice. >> exactly. but what you have here is neither of these victims are dead, okay?

so you can expect them to testify if this goes to trial. they're definitely going to testify in this situation. heather: what about alleged admission? be he allegedly has at least admitted to the last case -- >> he has admitted, but i've seen situations like this where you have somebody who's charged, a defendant who admits something and then right before trial changes their mind, wants an attorney, says, look, i was under pressure, i was in a situation where i didn't have counsel, i asked for counsel and wasn't given to me and so now i'm changing my mind, i'm not going to admit it. heather: bottom line, people want to know especially in virginia will this guy be put behind bars, and will he be kept there this time. he was already in jail accused of maliciously attacking his ex-wife and her father. he was up for parole three times, finally let out the fourth time and then does this. >> exactly. you can expect in virginia he's not going to be granted any type of bail given his history. and he's going to sit there, he's going to sit there until

his trial if he does have one, if he doesn't agree to the charges beforehand, and he probably won't see the light of day for quite some time. heather: and one final question, i think we have a little extra time here. the state of virginia, they've already been in the news involving the hannah graham case. >> with jesse matthew. heather: how will that influence what happens here? the same state, same awful crimes going on. >> exactly. it's not going to influence. the law in virginia, the evidence that exists, those are going to dictate the cases. heather: and they want to follow that to the letter -- >> exactly, so it doesn't effect an appeal. you want to get it right the first time. heather: thank you so much, we appreciate it. and certainly glad these two women were able to fight back and their fortitude we say, you know, definitely saved their lives. >> yes. heather: thank you. bill? bill: heather, thank you. a military review revealing more than 600 u.s. service members may have been exposed to chemical weapons in iraq. that report saying they were likely exposed after the u.s.-led invasion back in 2003. the report also claims defense

officials failed to track veterans or provide adequate treatment. the new york times reporting pentagon officials say the department will expand its outreach to veterans and establish a toll-free hotline to report potential exposure. also president obama will travel to beijing for a major economic summit next, and we're getting reports that china's navy is deploying its first nuclear-armed sub jennifer griffin at the pentagon now, good morning to you. what is the pentagon saying and noticing about china's mail military? >> reporter: what seems to have gotten their attention is the new emphasis china's navy is putting on nuclear submarines. last year with little fanfare china sent its first nuclear-powered submarine undetect today the indian ocean, it passed through the strait of malacca, days later a hunter-killer surfaced in the persian gulf. it sounds like a tom clancy plot.

soon the office of naval intelligence expects china to launch a boomer sub capable of carrying armed nuclear missiles. >> this is important because it shows china's long-term intentions. it really means that the chinese will be able to do what they've only talked about in the past. this is important for us because the concept of deterrence is breaking down, and nothing good ever occurs when deterrence breaks down. >> reporter: china now has its first aircraft carrier, a stealth fighter jet that look remarkably similar to ones designed in the u.s., and the largest navy in asia, bill. bill: this has been a new push for beijing. why is it building up its navy, jennifer? >> reporter: well, the pentagon's most recent china power military report, quote: the pla navy places a high priority on the modernization of its submarine force. >> they have a belief and a manifestny that they should be in charge of the western pacific. they should be in charge of the

south china sea and that all the nations around asia should pay attention to them and to their rules as they want to establish them. >> reporter: back in the 1960s mao declared, quote: we will build a nuclear submarine even if it takes us 10,000 years. it seems china is now ahead of schedule. bill: thank you, jennifer griffin, from the pentagon. heather: coming up at today's meeting at the white house, we've been talking about this a lot, the thanksgiving dinner you're calling it -- bill: that's right. the old family dining room. i've got a big family, too, and they're kind of crazy. heather: ah. it could set the tone for the rest of the obama presidency, so will this power lunch be about compromise or control? our panel will debate that, plus this -- >> get on the ground! bill: this was a tense takedown of a carjacker caught on video, but so was the carjacking itself. you will not believe how this

went down. >> i wanted to get that shot of him with the gun, but i didn't want to get shot.

bill: so this guy confesses to a crime, to a cameraman in australia, then steals his news van. peter steer just finished taping the confession when the suspect apparently had a change of heart, pointing his gun at the journalist and taking off in his car. the guy made it a few miles up the road before he crashed at a gas station, then this happened. all caught on video. >> he was more than willing at first to, you know, go quietly. i wanted to get that shot of him with the gun, but i didn't want to get shot. for a cameraman, i guess, it was the sort of stuff that you sort of dream of, i guess. you know? so, yeah, i'm fine. i'm fine. i just need a big drink. bill: the suspect is facing several charges including

attempted murder. that out of australia. ♪ ♪ heather: charles krauthammer writing an op-ed in "the washington post" today warning republicans that they did not win, the democrats lost. so now is the time to take control of the national ageneral da and lead the country in -- agenda and lead the country in a new direction. tyler is a communications expert and marjorie clifton is a former consultant to the obama campaign and ceo of clifton consulting. thank you both for joining us. >> thanks, healther. >> no problem. heather: we'll given with this, and at the very beginning of his op-ed he goes on to say, remember, you didn't win, the democrats lost it. this is not to say that you didn't show discipline in making the election a referendum on six years of barack obama. so, marjorie, where do they go from here? >> well, i think they do have a lot to prove. my favorite headline on election night was "voters hate everyone," and basically exit

polls were showing that 58% of americans, about the same on both sides, both disapproved of the administration and gop leadership in congress. so right now the referendum is on we need people who are going to get things done and get along. so i think it is going to be absolutely mission critical the republicans also learn how to talk about these issues. you also have to look at who turned out at the polls, and it was largely white voters. you had about a 17% difference -- or point difference, rather, between republicans and democrats who showed up. minorities and women will show up in the next cycle, so how are we going to tackle these hot button issues in a way that speaks to those voters as well. heather: i keep hearing democrats say that, tyler, the lack of perhaps in terms of voters, talking about women, but then you have tim scott, mia long there, kind of ignoring that. where should republicans take this and run? >> well, i wish that krauthammer had made some phone calls to the hill before assuming that there is no agenda.

i mean, frankly, there is 352 bills that have been passed by the house that's sitting on harry reid's desk, and so there is a lot to do. a good chunk of these bills, up to 56, 57 of them have to do with the economy and getting people back to work. so there's a lot to do. and then you have people like u.s. senator mike lee who's put together the conservative reform agenda which is gaining a lot of support both on the house and senate sides. so i think definitely the president of the united states being as unpopular as he is and his policies being as unpopular as they are really weighed down democrats across the board. but it's not the first time that it's happened. i think the republicans in 2006 feel like the democrats do now. heather: all right. let's move forward. marjorie, are there some areas where we can possibly get some agreement? tyler talked about the economy, that was first and foremost in

the minds of voters as they headed to the polls. 5% of them, they said -- 45% of them said that was the most important issue. what about the medical device sales tax? is can we reach agreement there? what about the keystone pipeline? that would create jobs, 13,000 just for the construction alone. so where is there room for agreement? >> well, they've talked about things like prison sentencing and patent reform and trade and tax being topics that we could probably find democrats and republicans coming together. and i'm very hopeful that that will be the case. i think, as you said, the economy is always a lead issue, doesn't matter what's happening at any point in time. everyone cares about what it looks like at home and how they're feeling the hurt of the economy. so figuring out ways to come together on those issues is going to be critical. now, things like health care reform, as you said, the medical device tax, i think the republicans are going to have challenges if they aren't able to come together on some of these bigger issue is like obamacare. and i think where it becomes problematic is when you do have

republican leaders who are out there saying we're going to focus on repealing obamacare and these sort of big, hot button issues. but within it there might be some options. i don't think any democrat wholeheartedly thinks obamacare across the board is perfect, so figuring out ways to modify that that is helpful. heather: and, tyler, let's talk about obama care because president obama flat out said any bill that suggests repeal i will not sign. he's also, you know, threatening to use his authority on immigration, his executive authority. does it sound like he's willing to compromise on either of these big issues? is. >> no. of he's a lame duck president. frankly, i think that you'll see congress, especially under this new leadership, be more aggressive. i think that they will take to the airwaves, they will take the message to the people and let the people continue to weigh in on what should happen. but you have a very unpopular president that's a lame duck now. he's got a congress on both

sides that's really not going to take his bull anymore. heather: will they hurt republicans if they continue to push those, tyler? >> no, it's not going to hurt republicans if they continue to push these issues. look, obamacare is unpopular. a lot of the people who came to the polls said i'm voting against obamacare as much as they were voting against obama, the man. heather: all right. have to wrap it up there. i'm sorry, marjorie, we'll give you the last word next time. >> that's okay. heather: we appreciate it. bill: they'll get another chance. fox news alert, russia charged with leading a taliban attack on u.s. forces pleading not guilty moments ago. he was arraigned on 12 different counts. a judge ordered him detained until april 13, that's when the trial happens. he's the first military detainee out of afghanistan to come to the u.s. for trial, captured five years ago after an attack on afghan border police and u.s.

soldiers there. thirteen minutes before the hour, jon scott has "happening now" coming up in just a couple of minutes. happy friday. jon: i'm doing well, happy friday to you, mr. hemmer. bipartisanship gets its first big test today. we're awaiting news from a meeting at the white house between the president and 16 congressional leaders from both parties including the victorious speaker of the house, john boehner, and likely new senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. we will have details on that as they emerge. we hope there won't be a food fight. plus, hillary 2016, why the nile times says -- new york times says the midterms might have been good news for her. and binge diet cans, they might work after all. bill: hey, jon? jon: yeah. bill: happy birthday. jon: thank you, man. bill: enjoy it. polar vortex part two, 3.0 about to -- 2.0 about to make a comeback. heather: i'm sorry, you're not getting by with that.

your birthday is coming up on monday. happy birthday to you too. bill: it's not monday yet. way down on -- don't tell my family. a heart warming update on the 4-year-old daughter of a cincinnati bengals' player and her battle with cancer. heather: it's a great story. g?gç

heather: look at this. high winds creating some nervous moments for flyers in chicago, this plane making a very choppy landing at chicago's o'hare airport, wind speeds reaching as high as 35 miles an hour as storms in the region caused delays and cancellations. bill: remember the polar vortex, right? heather: yes. bill: get ready for part two. we're expecting a bitter cold snap starting next week. oh, man. we had a lot to complain about

back then. [laughter] sure did. maria molina's watching this. >> reporter: hi, bill. good to see you. hello, everyone. that's right, we're going to be seeing a return of some very cold temperatures as we head into next week. but for now we do already have some cold air in place and moving into portions of the northeast, and i want to point out here that we have some significant snowfall forecast across portions of maine and other parts of new england. we do have some winter storm warnings in effect out here and additional 4-8 inches of snow is possible. some totals could be up to a foot out here, we're expecting wind gusts to 25 miles per hour. but that's not the coldest of the today you're looking at highs into the 40 and 50s in minneapolis, chicago, also into new york city, but take a look what starts to happen as we head into next week. very cold arctic air is going to move southward from canada, and these highs are going to be well below average.

averages in kansas city and billings are in the 50s, some places are going to be up to 30 degrees colder than that average, places like billings, montana. only in the teens on thursday. these are your forecast high temperatures. that doesn't even factor in the wind and the wind chill, what it's going to feel like out there. and here's a closer look at that dip in the temperatures into next week. by monday looking at highs into the 20s from billings to marquette, then by tuesday keeps moving southward. take a look at wednesday, you're only in the teens in parts of montana, in the 40s as far south as little rock, and that cold air keeps moving south and eastward, new york city by thursday highs in the low 40s, 30s in buffalo, and, bill, we could be looking at cold associated with this very cold air. it's too early to pinpoint where and how much, but stay tuned to the forecast coming up next week. this is a big chunk of the country out here that's going to be impacted by this arctic air mass. bill: outstanding. [laughter]

>> reporter: i'm just the messenger. bill: right on. thank as, mara, appreciate that -- maria. we can run, but we can't hide. heather: no, we cannot. well, incredible moment. this happened at the start of one nfl game as a little girl with a big heart is honored for her battle against cancer. [ narrator ] mama sherman and the legion of super fans. wow! [ narrator ] on a mission to get richard to his campbell's chunky soup. it's new chunky beer-n-cheese with beef and bacon soup. i love it. and mama loves you. ♪

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bill: the star of last night's bengal-browns game was a 4-year-old girl battling stage 4 cancer, leah still. daughter of defensive tack dell levno still. brought on the to field before the game, for the fight against pediatric cancer. she present ad check for $1.3 million to cincinnati children's hospital and pediatric cancer research. her father sporting eye black, leah strong as he has all year. very cool moment. first time she has seen her

father play. they could have played better. she was there in attendance. made a great moment. we wish the best of luck for her health. >> her tumor was removed september and her prognosis improved since then. bill: we're waiting for president. the cabinet meet something underway. we believe they will get a bit after tape playback they call. that we'll bet remarks from the president. we'll bring that to her for a moment. i want to thank my family walking into the studio 20 years ago and surprising me here in new york city for my birthday. i love you all. >> yeah. bill: i'm still a little stunned. heather: should we sing you out? bill: absolutely not. we'll go to "happening now." jon: a white house lunch hour that could set the nation's course for the next two years. president obama is opening the family dining room we are told to republicans, three days after

the gop swept the midterm elections. welcome to this friday edition of "happening now." i'm jon scott. heather: i'm heather nauert in for jenna lee. it has been a long week and certainly a long week for the president and democrats. the president is meeting with congressional leaders very shortly after the white house. a chance for republicans and democrats to talk about bipartisanship. this meeting will include senator mitch mcconnell, the presumed majority leader in the senate and house speaker john boehner. as for the democrats, senate majority leader harry reid will be there, house minority leader nancy pelosi and about a dozen others including our upcoming guests. jon: within a day the president and republicans promising cooperation and already fractures are showing especially on immigration reform. president obama says he will use executive authority if congress can not send him an sentable bill. talk about what this lunch meeting might produce with jamie weinstein, senior editor at "the