carolina should only be in the 30s. by the way, feet of snow forecast across the great lakes. >> get out the long john. >> thank you. >> see you. bill: a whole new week and president obama ready to go on it alone on immigration. expected to grant amnesty with single stroke of the pen. but his own words are coming back to haunted him. why is that? welcome to america's newsroom. i feel good. martha: i'm glad, you look wonderful. i'm martha maccallum, glad to have everybody with us here. in 2006 president obama warned in "the audacity of hope" that a

surge of illegal immigrants would be bad. he said it threatens to stress the wages of blue collar americans and puts strain on an overburdened safety net. >> he's poking the eye of the republican leaders in congress and making it more difficult for there to be a permanent solution to this issue. what he's proposing to do is a temporary solution which will eventually potentially be reversed by a republican president. bill: how do we square the words of the senator now that he is president with this authority? >> quite simply we don't. what president obama said back then doesn't square very well with what he said back then. it's not the only issue we have seen president obama evolve on. there is some debate whether

it's a compelling argument but it puts the president in a difficult political situation having made the argument that he's rejecting today. bill: what can or will republicans do about it? >> i think they can throw his words back in his face. there is talk of censuring the president. and denying funds for what he wants to do. and that's for republicans to point out what they might do for executive fiat if they were to take back the white house. if a republican president didn't like the way capital gains taxes were being collect. could he say we are doing until i see we are doing it appropriate. the republicans are raising

those kinds of things to warn people would executive action could look like. bill: he says it will get congress moving. do you buy into that? >> it's the opposite. we have heard from john bane more has been favorably disposed for some time. it will have exactly the opposite effect and the president knows this. bill: steve hayes from washington there, leaving our coverage there. martha: will the immigration debate lead to a government shutdown. we'll have senator rob for theman anfor -- nor robportman s analyst brit hume. there are a lot of the things in the president's proposal that appears to be have much in line

with what the republicans say they wanted all along. but he seems to want to force it before the vote on it. you have got six different video of jonathon gruber counting off the lies that were told to the american voters. just listen for yourself. >> a lack of transparency is a big political advantage. call it the stupidity of the american voter but it was necessary to get it passed.

martha: so clever. now we are getting new details on how much he was paid to tell those stories about the lies americans were being told. stuart varney joins us live. he's a smarty pants, mr. griesh, he knows all and the american people do not. they simply don't get it. it goes over their heads. he got paid we are finding out a pretty penny to tell those stories. >> reporter: here is the grant total of consulting fees. $5,500,000. $1.7 million from the department of justice. $1.6 million from consulting on the exchanges.

$392,000 from health and human services and $103,000 from the 8 department. how come the 8 department was consulted on obamacare i don't know but that's a grant total of $6 million. martha: you can get a lot of the money out of the government. it's shocking that nancy pelosi seems to forget who he is. the president is not aware of who is either yet the of this country paying him almost $6 million. >> reporter: at the news conference in australia president * said pro feelsor gruber wasn't on the fast. but he was in the white house four days after the cbo said the obamacare math doesn't add up. four days later professor gruber is in the white house.

subsequently the media covered up the bad math. cnbc. when melissa francis was working there four years ago. she did the obamacare math and was husband manied into the manager's office and said stop saying that, it's disrespectful to the president. the' affordable care act was a hoax. martha: it's shocking that a reporter would be told who is adding up the numbers that it doesn't work, you would think any news organization would want the numbers to be told. >> reporter: melissa was not dealing with the politics, she was dealing with the math. the math did not add up and that's what she was told to stop saying.

martha: it's quite a story this whole unraveling of jonathon griesh and quite shocking the amount of money he was paid. bill: the costs are adding up for states trying to make sure their health exchange web sites work this time around. some states like oregon and nevada folding their web sites and moving word with the fed wall exchange. other states had to fire their contracts and revamp' their sites. when some of the state sites crashed, thousands who tried to get healthcare ended up being turned away. martha: another isis acrossity happens. intelligence officials say a new proper began today video is indeed real.

it reviewings the murder of petepeept cassig. president obama calls his execution an act of pure elf. that's coming up in america's newsroom. bill: james clapper director of national intelligence says north korea was upset that it did not receive some diplomatic benefit from the release. >> when did you find out they were going to release these people? >> we spent the day waiting for

quite some time until late afternoon, and then they -- mss representative came by the state guest house and said you have 20 minutes to pick up your luggage, we are leaving. bill: lan and mirm were serving lengthy sentences on espionage charges in north core we ria. k. bill: several teams were searched for drugs after the game sunday. martha: we'll find out later if a police officer will be indicted for the shooting death of a police officer in ferguson, missouri. more footage and audio tapes have raised more questions about what really happened on that hot

august night. >> it will be a black male in a white t-shirt.

martha: we have some dangerous weather sweeping across the south. tornado warnings are in effect in florida, alabama and georgia. there are reports of a swifter touching down in florida's

panhandle. bill: republicans on the hill considering ways to prevent president obama from taking action on immigration. one of the actions is to not fund the government. you don't think the republicans should take the bait and shut down the government. >> we were only in for a few days florida week. the house and senate leaders are talking about it. but the president would be well served not to go down this path. he's putting at risk and in peril an opportunity to do some real things for the country. bill: what do you expect the president to do? >> i hope he won't do it. we have had this historical election.

the americans have said they want to us work together and get things done. let's work together and get this thing done. bill: do you think it's a threat or do you think it's for real? >> it's not going purchase congress, it's going around the american people. >> we believe it's illegal, we believe it will be overturned, we believe a lawsuit will be filed and we think it many a terrible way to start off where it's sphoalsd be a fresh start and we have a republican majority to do with ronald reagan and newt gingrich to get some things done. i don't know if it will be resolved during his administration. the statute says you have got to enforce the law, and i'm going

to go around it. this is an opportunity to disarm and work together. both parties believe the immigration system is broken. we have to do more on the enforcement side. we have to help these dream kids. we have top deal with the high-tech visas. so there is some common ground. let's try to work together. bill: mitch mcconnell said the morning after the election he's not interested in shutting down the government. the question comes back to somebody like you, what can and will the republicans do now with the majority? >> the reason this is so important for the country. it's not about republicans or democrats. clearly both sides feel it's a broken system. but let's get this economy moving. this is the great opportunity we

have got. that includes keystone xl pipeline. and that's would create a lot of job. but second on taxes, these companies are going overseas and taking investment with them. let's inform the dog gone tax code. let's lower those rates bring the money back here. some of these are bipartisan to deal with. exports. we are concerned about the fact that middle class wages have been stagnant and even going down. export jobs, fire wages, higher benefits. let's get the exports going. there are some things we can do to give the economy a shot in the arm. bill: do you support a shutdown? >> the funding ends december 11.

if the president acts before december 11 there will and lot of' republicans who will say we are not going to give him funding to execute this executive order. for these certain parts of government that enable the government to execute an executive order to go around the people, we don't want to do that. let's get a budget done and have the appropriations bill done. we have to do the things the american people sent us to do. bill: keystone. will it pass in the senate? >> we never had a free standing vote on just keystone. except one that is non-tbhiedged the budget. it did pass the hughes already.

the question is will the president sign sit or not. my own view is eventually we'll be successful because when we have the republican majority we'll not only have 60 votes, we'll have mid-60s. bill: do you think this legislation is veto proof? >> i think it will be. keystone is great for jobs, it lowers the cost of energy. it lets north america be energy dependent more quickly and it's safer. these oil sands are going to be used somewhere. it helps us in this country with north dakota to bring our own oil down safely. bill: senator, thank you for going through all that. rob portman from ohio. martha: a high-seas voyage has

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bill: it was nearly a blowout on the field. the new england patriots stunning the indianapolis colts.

jonas gray turned that game into a track meet. tom brady two touchdown passes as the patriots take the afc this week. martha: there is something magical going on and they got angry. it fuels success in life, don't you think. two teams were raid and they searched players and medical staff. that must have caught a few people by surprise. >> it certainly did.

this is about prescription pain killers and the alleged abuse by team players and doctors within the nfl. several teams targeted with these inspections. including the san francisco 49ers at metlife stadium in new jersey. another team that was targeted is tampa bay. the bucaneers were preparing to fly out of the airport and they were met by dea inspectors. players tweeting the following. authorities checked in with our party and after a five-minute delay we proceeded on to our play out incident. this follows a class action lawsuit filed back in may allege can the team doctors and trainers gave hem prescription pain killers without

prescriptions to mask pain so they could get them back on the field. ' glowft this but there is a lot going on for the nfl. adrian peterson, the star running back, he's awaiting a decision from the nfl on his future. he plead no contest to assaulting one of his children with a tree branch. he waits to see if he will be us spend or be allowed to return to the vikings. then we are waiting for the appeal desnitlthe a --for the ay rice. he was indefinitely suspend add he punched his fiancee now wife in an elevator. we expect a decision sometime this week.

for the nfl commissioner roger goodell it's going to be a very busy week. bill: there were no arrests made and we don't know what the arrests were and they were check the credentials of the doctors traveling with the team. the u.s. making a push to train iraqi troops in the fight against isis. will this be enough? martha: the nation is bracing for a decision by the grand jury. it could come down at any moment from ferguson, missouri. new tapes and new video emerged in this case over the weekend.

bill: this is a fox news alert. we are waiting to hear whether charges will be filed against the officer in the death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. we are getting surveillance tape and audio recordings. the images show officer wilson in ferguson at the police station and later at the hospital.

bill: protesters vowing to take to the streets if wilson is not indicted. we'll bring you the grand jury decision as soon as we get it. martha: isis terrorists beheeding a third american -- beheading a third american. michael kassig was working to deliver medical supplies to the area. the u.s. is speeding up its training of iraqi troops. will this be enough to destroy isis as the pro claimed goal of this administration? kt macfarland is a national

security analyst. welcome to you. do they have some special fairy dust to sprinkle which' they can use to make what happened -- you have to say, let's speed it up. you have to feel for general boyd austin who is working to speed it up. >> we have take and decade and $30 billion training and equipping the iraqi army. and the iraqi army, the first sight of. >> i is. and they were greatly outnumbered, isis. they put down their weapons and ran. we gave our weapons to the iraqi military and they never pass them on to the kurds. martha: as you say you could put

more force behind the peshmerga. would the be enough if you just put your focus on the kurds? the argument is if america gives the kind of training that would be needed to get the kurds in the position they need to be in, other countries will look at that and say let's go help them out. >> what are we trying to achieve here? the middle east, particularly in iraq and syria, they are in a 30-year war. that's the iraq and assad government in syria. sunnis are the other groups they have gotten to follow them. who is caught in the middle? the moderates. are there any moderates in the middle willing to fight? do guerrilla warfare, that's' the way they are fighting. the mistakes we made in vietnam

as we tried to nation width or even iraq. we are trying to build a western-style military and it isn't working in that part of the world. special forces sure. arm the kurds but at the end of the day if the people in the region don't stand up and fight isis, they won't be defeated. martha: let's listen to the former secretary of defense robert gates on this issue. >> the president of the united states cannot make a threat and draw a red line and not carry it out. cock that pistol unless you are ready to carry it out. because when the president of the united states makes a threat the credibility of this entire country is on the line and it send a powerful message.

martha: he looks back on that point in history kp. it sends such a powerful moment. >> it's the president who in response to falling poll ratings saw americanratings -- saw amers beheaded. to have a big ramp operation. whether it was the read line in syria, wet -- the red line in syria. the president made a speech figuring he solved the problem but it looks like the united states put down a marker then retreated from it. secretary gates is right, the continuing effect of this is the president saying we are going to do this and doesn't follow through ...

martha: too defeat isis you need to show such a strong amount of force and coalition it becomes clear to those who want to join, because al qaeda has hooked up with them and forces in egypt want to hook up with them. they seem to be the winners. guys you want to be with. >> usama bin laden said people will always choose the strong horse. people who want to help look around the world and they see isis is the one to join. to beat them economic all. push down the price of oil then they have the squabbling because they are not getting the big donations.

give them special forces and covert operations and teach them how to be good guerrillas. bill: a fox news alert here in seconds. a death from ebola being reported in the u.s. officials in a hospital in omaha say dr. martin salia has died. the surgeon air lift out of sierra leone to the nebraska medical center, he had been living in maryland working in a hospital in hi his home countryf sierra leone. martha: this news also broke over the weekend. pope francis is planning a trip to america. it's going to bring it so-called rock star pontiff -- i don't know how he would feel about that title -- but he will visit the city of brotherly love.

bill: the white house reacting to the fiery comments from the obamacare architect jonathon gruber. >> this administration believes they are smarter and everyone else and they need to create the policy and impose the policy and states exist only to be able to carry out their wishes from the central government. piano tunersters andn were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. start shopping online from a list of top-rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. it says here that increases at the age of 80. helps reduce the risk of heart disse. keep hrt-healthy. live long. eat the 100% goodness of post shreddedheat. doctorrecommend it.

martha: a history-making trip is in the works for pope francis. the trip next september may also include stops to new york city and washington. you can't go to philadelphia and not come to new york and washington. this will be pope francis' first visit here since becoming a leader of the world's 1.2 billion catholics. martha: it's going to be very,

very ... bill: president obama saying his administration did not mislead voters and he just heard of jonathon gruber. one lawmaker calling this scandal an example of what's wrong with washington, d.c. >> gruber's comments show what's wrong in washington, d.c. this administration believes they are smarter and everyone else and they need to impose the policies and states exist only to carry out their wishes from the central government. bill: ladies, good morning to both you. katie, how do we square this? >> i'm not sure we can square this. this is rule number one in the classic obama play bikes to play dumb.

now that jonathon gruber has been out times saying the american people are stupid. you know, the president is saying i just found out about this. he was never on staff. he wasn't in these negotiations when the fact is he was inside the white house meeting with president obama and was paid $2 million in taxpayer funds to do so to mislead voters. so president obama has a culture of desneption this white house that starts at the top with him. he set up this culture. jonathon gruber was simply carrying them out. bill: i heard $4. > -- i heard$400,000, not $2 mi. the issue of trust, marianne comes back again, does it not? >> i have to say it's safe to

say jonathon gruber's consulting career is over. in terms of trust, that's what this is about. there are plenty of people on a sunny day if the president said the sky is blue, they wouldn't believe him. but there are those who have tried to undercut the president to stop him from getting anything done. they do that for the next two years the people who are punished first are the american people, then the republicans in the next election. you are starting to see that with immigration and the talk of a shutdown and impeachment. bill: i don't know how deep the threat is on the government shutdown. mitch mcconnell said on the night he was elected that they are not interested in shutting down the government. before we go there, come back to this issue on trust in

government. what will or how should they manage this now with ma joarts on both sides do you believe. >> i think they should ask serious questions of the white house and why jonathon gruber was telling different audiences they misled the public to cover up the fact that it was a tax. he said they mislabeled things. the companies in the country mislabeled the their products, they face prison time and huge crimes. if jonathon gruber were a ceo or founder of a company he would be facing federal prison time yet here we are with mary anne saying this is about republicans. this isn't about republicans. this is about people who never liked obamacare being mislead

about 1/of the economy being taken over based on a lie. >> reporter: the american people are smart enough to know when they are being lied to. there is a difference between obamacare versus two wars we were lied to. let many keep this in perspective. president obama said more people would have access to healthcare, they do. he said people would be able to have more healthcare or less. they do. he said the web sites would work this time, they are. if you are hold him responsible for a consultant for this entire effort which took hundreds of people to do, thousands of efforts. bill: he was in the mix. you can't just kiss miss this guy. he went to cap til who help democrats craft the bill. >> reporter: jonathon grouper

is not a low-level con -- jonathon gruber was the key architect, not a low-level con substitutant. -- low-leaf consultant. nancy pelosi was repeatedly seen during press conferences on video praising gruber. now the president wants to distance himself. eventually they will say forget about it, it was a long time ago like they do with every scan dmal this administration. bill: marianne, thanks. thanks to you, katie as well. martha: supporters say it would mean thousands of jobs, but the keystone pipeline has been bogged down in congress for years. now there could be a vote coming in the next few days. bill: a cruise ship is limping

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the ebola patients. three decades ago and none of us remember that. it was a huge hit all over america and the world for that matter. so a great, great cause. martha: good song. i think we'll be hearing a lot of it over the holidays. another crisis on a cruise ship. federal officials say 170 people became infected with the norovirus on the crown princess that recently arrived in los angeles. this happened in the middle of a long cruise? >> reporter: it was towards the beginning of it. it was a month-long cruise. passengers were feeling sick and required to go to their quarters on this cruise thatld head to hawaii and tahiti. if you look at overall numbers less than 5% were sick.

158 passengers, 11 crew members reported having the illness. everyone was treated onboard. nobody required hospitalization. but while this is going on. here is what one passenger said became a common sight. >> there were so many people walking around with sanitizers and wiping down walls and wiping count tables and chairs. >> norovirus is highly contagious. it's very contagious. that's why they took this very seriously. martha: what is next for this cruise? >> reporter: they had a delay here in los angeles. passengers who had to stay in hotels were given onboard credit. 20% off their next cruise. but it's back on the says.

it left last night at 9:00 out of san pedro, head down to the mexican riviera and it will be there for the next week or so. what's interesting, this is the same cruise ship that back in april the crown princess on a 7-day cruise had problems of norovirus. they are doing the best they can and they are following what they say is the cdc protocol for the cleaning of ships. and the cdc is opening an investigation. bill: another reason to stay on land. another american has been beheaded by isis. what will we do to end this now? martha: plus ferguson, missouri, is on edge at this hour as it awaits a grand jury decision on the officer who shot and killed michael brown.

martha: terrorist carried out another brutal beheading of an aid work. experts point out differences between this video and the previous video. that video marking the execution of western hostages. welcome to a brand-new hour of america's newsroom. bill: peter kassig a former ranger from indiana formed an aid group for syrian refugees. it's not clear when he was actually killed. but the video came out shortly after a visit in iraq by martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs. >> i think he was killed last month and they waited for the dempsey visit to drag out these horrible images and put them in front of the world to gain it

advantage if you will by any attempt by the united states top reestablish credibility in the region. martha: catherine herridge joins us from washington. >> reporter: the french interior minister, france's equivalent of the homeland security, that one of their citizens is likely one of those in the video. in the tape released sunday he takes part in the mass execution of syrian military personnel who are systematically lined up and behead. it's more evidence isis must be stopped. >> this video we have seen here if verified is a tragic reminder of threminder -- of the savagerd

complexity of our challenge. >> reporter: his family asked the media not to further the isis agenda by broadcasting images of share son in captivity. there is condemnation from the white house. and the governor of kassig's home state of indiana are asking that flags be flown at half-staff in his memory. the same process we saw with the french is being used very similar process by the fbi and the national counter terrorism center 0 or nc to review the 16-minute video with a strong focus on the identification of the unmasked executioners and possible excuse. the new radio is a departure from previous videotapes which does not identify the next

hostage to be executed. that's more more evidence the hostages including john and john tlie and another european are not held together. the is very kept the video up longer and it spread more likely. a big departure. bill: friends describe him as an inspiration with a big heart and helping hand for those who need it. >> he worked every day to save the lives of people who were in need. >> he chose to go back to membership with all the suffering. >> the initial deadline passed

without news and that for us was great news. you just feel the love between these paints and this son and how proud they were of him. bill: parents attending a prayer vigil saying they were heartbroken. incredibly proud, this his humanitarian work. breaks your heart when you wake up on a sunday morning and you see that alert coming across and you wonder how much longer is this going to last? martha: you can't have the outrage diminish with each one that happens. it's horrific and our hearts and prayers go out to this family. terrific family as the gentleman said in that piece of video. so we are thinking about them. >> a pair of deadly car bombings rocking iraq's capital. 12 people were killed and a dozen were wound.

it comes as security forces struggle to push back against these isis terrorists who are suspected of carrying out these attacks. bill: they are rushing to get rid of the bugs on the web sites after last year's crashes. doug mcelway is with us in washington. how is the rollout fargo fo -- ? >> reporter: friday one of its chief critics told us about its massive troubles. >> they are in worse state under obamacare. today they still don't have a functional website and they

spent over a quarter billion to get ready to launch one tomorrow. >> reporter: they maintain the uninsured rate has dropped, average premiums have gone down, yet obamacare remains unpopular. >> when you ask the american people about the importance of no longer being held off healthcare because of preexisting conditions, only the fact that their children to the age of 26 can be on their plans. when ask you them about the substance of the issue the american people respond positively. >> reporter: from brisbane, australia president obama said we have seen healthcare premiums less than in previous years. when people have less money to spend they don't go to the doctor as often. bill: republicans remain poised

to repeal the bill. reporter: republicans are hopeful they will see more democratic defections from:obamacare. house republicans say they passed a lot of bills that would stop obamacare overreach that was by part on support for those measures in the house. >> reporter: the president has take on of those steps as an administrative measure. the president would be hard prepared to explain why he wants to veto it if he has already don't as an administrative measure. >> reporter: republicans may be looking at removing the individual advisory board and the mandates. martha: waiting for a major decision on the keystone pipeline. the democratically controlled senate is setting set to vote on

the keystone pipeline. >> this is a cynical attempt to save a senate seat in louisiana. if the senate was serious on this we would have vote on it six years ago. >> martha:mike, will they have the votes needed? >> reporter: democratic snort mary landrieu who is in a runoff for her seat is trying to demonstrate to voters in energy-rich louisiana that she has influence on these kinds of issues while republicans are calling passing keystone xl a no-brainer, they say it's not guaranteed to pass. >> i think it's a close call. if the members of the democratic caucus vote the way they want to, it will pass and then we'll see what the president does.

>> reporter: there have been five environmental reviews from keystone all of which have said it will have minimal impact on the environment. senate majority leader harry reid has resisted a vote on constructing the pipeline until now. the tar sands oil will dramatically affect the carbon emissions. >> i think it's important to send that signal right off the bat. i think the new republican majority have long despised and den grade this president. they can roll him i think they would like to. i think it's important that he set the stage early on this, particularly when the stakes are so high. >> reporter: fit passes it

will be up to the president to sign or veto it. bill: you know there is a showdown on immigration. but how is this going to go. president obama moving closer to executive action, legalizing as many as 5 million. what would republicans do then. martha: brand-new video of a malaysian jetliner it was shot out of the sky and crashed in ukraine. bill: two former develops secretaries going ballistic, complaining about interference and micromanagement from the president and the white house. height was the microimagine thee micromanagement that drove me crazy. it was a very great concern to me.

bill: we are getting a new look at the frightening moments after the malaysian airlines 517 was shot from the skies over ukraine. in this cell phone video you can see flames and plumes of smoke after the plane fell out of the sky. the west, led by the u.s. and

ukraine, say russian separatists shot down the plane with a ground-to-air missile. martha: president obama promising to take executive action on immigration unless republicans pass a reform bill that passed the senate last year. >> policies are defensible. the process is ... beyond constitutional questions there is an etiquette of democracy. particularly after an election where this issue was features in many states and it's clear the country opposes what the president is doing. martha: interesting words by george will, and you are speak on that panel over the weekend as well. but he's saying there is a waive doing things. this election was quite clear in

what is said in terms of the way americans want to go. americans want and the president should wait until after the election and hammer this out. >> reporter: don't underestimate the difficulty of passing legislation here. in order for this to clear both houses there will have to be sufficient border enforcement and security provisions to satisfy a lot of republicans who do not trust the president and feel almost any border security provisions instituted in a bill would not be put in place and not enforced. this is a tough one to pass. not impossible but very difficult. my sense about this is the president is past caring about things such as george will spoke of, the etiquette of responding to an election and all the rest of it. he wants to put these things in place on his own, knowing that

that will gain favor for him and his party with his and nicks particular and possibly settingg a trap for republicans to overrespond which is not impossible either. martha: will they take the bait on that? >> reporter: the republicans would be wise to look at what the president actually does. it looks like he will end the possibility of deportation for 5 million his taj and i who are here who have children who were born here. the fact is i don't think many of these people would be deported anyway. so it would be smart to look hat what he actually does and compare it with the status go question to see fit makes any practical difference. in which case it doesn't. the fact that the president is acting in defines of what appear to be the constitutional

requirements might not have a practical effect. it would be worth a blowup that might backfire on the republicans. i'm not saying it would, but they will have to be careful how they handle this. martha: senator rob portman was talking to bill an said shutdown is not what anybody is looking for. but he said you could block the funding for this specific proposal of the president's and push it past the past january. >> reporter: you could do that and it's possible you might get a funding bill that would not have any money in it to put the president's orders in place. in the bill. but suppose the president didn't veto that and that triggered a shutdown. month would get the blame? history suggests that the republicans would get the blame. the public doesn't like

shutdowns. up hear a lot of people saying they one the mid-term elections, that proves the shutdown didn't hurt them. baloney. when that shutdown happened the majority of americans blamed the republicans and they took a hit in the opinion polls. that was a race during the obamacare fiasco. it gave people time to forget about the shutdown. make no mistake about it. the shutdown hurt the republicans and they wouldn't mid-term not because of it but in spite of it. martha: what do you think is the best move for the gop? >> reporter: i think they should at least try to respect funding for this and see how far they can get with that. it's not clear to me they can pass it. they will need 60 votes in the

senate to do that. so we got a long way to go here. but i think there are reasons to be cautious here. because of the track record republicans have created for themselves on these times of confrontations. martha: polls show 58% of the people disapprove of bypassing congress and giving executive orders and 57% think there should be a path to legalizationer to those who have been here for a long time. >> reporter: you look at that, martha. people approve broadly of the steps the president is outlying but they don't want him to go about it this way. that's where the dilemma lies. martha: bring it, than. martha: brit, thank you very much. bill: why the dea broke into his

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working at a hospital in his home country of sierra leone. >> drug agents making surprise visits to three nfl teams. part of investigation the claims of how they handle prescription medication. the dea say it affected the tampa bay buccaneers, san francisco 49ers, seattle seahawks while they were playing on the road. dea agents visited the teams at the airport. nobody arrested. more searches coming. sportscaster and fox news contributor. why did this happen again? >> because they believe they are giving guys the painkillers and medications that do not transfer from state lines, they are not giving them the label, not telling them the morning or the risk and feel as though this is going on with trainers as opposed to doctors.

bill: the union says this, unprecedented raid on a sports league, trust the evidence was substantial and compelling. see what comes of that in time. my questions, if you really want to find something you don't go during an nfl game, you go to the practice facility on a tuesday afternoon he had there were no arrests made. and went to the airport before the team left town to check the dodgers paperwork. now what do you make of this and if this is serious to be able to find it. >> it is a serious deal so far, to be spending all of their time. major lawsuits filed by former players to say they were given painkillers without explaining the risk, not knowing what was

done repetition repercussions tm back on the field. so they could get them to play. the players many of them felt they had no choice but the players who were injured last night, i asked what were the procedures going on, what are going on? it used to be they could get a shot before or after the game, a common procedure but it was readily available be at now they have to sign documentation. a lot of it has changed over the course of time in the past several years particularly with the head injuries and concussions that have come to light in the national football league. perhaps they want to do to get some of these doctors who don't have the proper paperwork prescribing things without the proper language out on the road trying to treat guys in pain and perhaps they felt this was the

best way to trip them up. bill: why san francisco, tampa bay, seattle, is there a reason for that? >> i can't tell you exactly what that reason is, that would be probably the investigators know why those teams were chosen. i have no real knowledge why those teams were selected. we're also told nothing improper was found. the san francisco 49ers say they are cooperating an in nothing wg with procedures in place and got on their plane and went home. bill: no irregularities found. we will see after more searches come, it could happen. from los angeles today. martha: president obama getting called out by former members of his own administration. >> i off on the greatest concer, really the first president i

served and the last president i served. lyndon johnson and barack obama it was white house micromanagement. martha: a lot in these statements from robert gates. growing controversy over claims the commander in chief is acting micromanager in chief. bill: the bitter cold is already here, only november. what's next? we will show you. >> i could not see as it was coming down so i had to pull over. >> trying to stay warm out of this.

martha: get ready, old man man winter is coming. causing lots of problems on the nation's roadways has dramatic video in oklahoma city. the car skidding off the road.

accidents all-around, similar similar problems in colorado where a snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow there. >> it is important to throw down the dry deicer because it adds traction to the wheels. if you put down a liquid, with the temperatures we are having overnight it will freeze up make the roads more slick then they need to be. martha: with more on this. good morning. >> good morning, martha. another surge of cold air. some significant snowfall in colorado, snow across the planes and portions of the great lakes. in ohio, western pennsylvania, even if new england and accumulation is some out here. several inches of snowfall,

still two o two walks to transin over to snow. we are also tracking the potential for severe weather. two tornado watch is in effect. florida and georgia. eastern portions of north carolina. the threat for severe storms, multiple severe thunderstorm warnings in effect across georgia and south carolina so there is a potential for the storms to rotate and produce tornadoes or even some damaging wind continuing to move eastward. something very significant taking shape across portions of the great lakes. the system moving eastward, the cold air moving eastward and it will be producing some very significant lake effect snow fall. potentially one for the record books. for buffalo, 2-3 feet of snow. that could change onto lake ontario toward the north.

how cold is that air mass? temperatures all the way down to texas in the teams in dallas. 11 degrees low zero in the city of minneapolis. martha: 11 degrees below zero. i feel for you, minneapolis. hang in there. they are made for that weather. bill: hands off. thank you, maria. two former insiders blast in white house over their handling of the military. leon panetta and robert gates rattling serious charges accusing the president and his staff of meddling in military matters quite a great lengths of control down to operational details. this is not the first time that have been critical.

>> i told the commanders you get a call from the white house, tell them to go to hell or call me. when a president wants highly centralized control of the white house at the degree of micromanagement i am describing, that is not your craddick, that is political. bill: what you think? >> he is angry. even the joint chief of staff everybody is appalled at the willful incompetence of this white house. consider we have a president so arrogant to think they know how to run military affairs better than military professionals. we have a president who appears

to care more about closing guantánamo then shutting down islamic state militants. ready to slash the military. we are in a horrible state of affairs maaffairs manifested. they don't want to attack the president but they feel it is their patriotic duty, they are compelled to do this now. bill: he said he was reflecting his time in vietnam during the lyndon johnson era. lbj chose to oversee every aspect of that war. but he saw a telephone apparently according to what he said the other night a direct line to somebody inside the national security council and had the phone ripped out. militarily or politically speaking, why would you have a television with a direct line?

>> because this administration is obsessed with controlling everything for domestic political purposes. there is a chain of command for very good reason and you don't jump the chain of command, you don't subvert the chain of command. the military doesn't get the final say on strategic policy, the president is responsible for the strategic direction. but when it comes to the nitty-gritty of fighting wars, let the people know do it. lawyers approving targets, i look at isis beheading videos, they cut the throats and decapitate hostages while the president wants to let the hostages in guantanamo bay.

get the lawyers out of it, get the politicians out of it, top military destroy islamic state and what happens stays in iraq and syria. bill: there on the outside now, do you think that is what this the boat and would have impact? >> what have impact on the commander-in-chief? no, obama doesn't listen to anybody. there may be some change in rhetoric but the difference between team obama on one hand and the former century of defense on the other is they are authentic patriots. bill: thank you, colonel. 21 minutes before the hour.

martha: an american city is on edge, the rest of the nation's watching closely. we are waiting for the decision from the grand jury on the decision in ferguson, missouri. listen. >> we need several more units over here, there's going to be a problem. >> advise. martha: what happens if the officer is not indicted or if he is. coming up, plus this area did bill: if you like fireworks, it is lovely, right? there is a catch, we will tell you.

bill: a fireworks mishap in italy caught on video. watch. the whole lot of noise. pursue uploaded the video said protecting onlookers. a problem that caused the accidental explosion. shot earlier in the year caught online, smelly get a look at it. martha: a grand jury said to decide if charges will be filed against police officer in ferguson, officer darren wilson. the policeman that killed the unarmed teenager there three

months ago in august. the decision could come as early as today, we're learning. this is a protest as they wait for the news to come out of the grand jury. a very tense situation on the ground. they were laying in the streets to make some sort of a point. they claim michael brown was racially profiled by the police and want the loss to change in that area and are protesting to further their aim. i'm joined now by former lapd detective and on the ground covering this story in ferguson talking to the people there in august, both fox news contributors. thank you for being here this morning. since the awful days in august and some of the awful nights that came after that, a lot more details from darren wilson side of the story has come out. and we have this video that came out over the weekend which shows him walking in the hospital

later on that evening and some people say this shows he was not hurt during the altercation he had with michael brown. your thoughts on those two things. >> martha, when you look at a video like that it is irrelevant to if he is disabled because he can't work or visible cuts and bruises on his face. this didn't have to do with injuries, it had to do with the attack when michael brown tried to disarm and kill darren wilson and turned on him not being searched and not following commands. that is the situation, not about the visible injuries. martha: i want you to react to that video as well, does it tell us anything? >> i don't think the video helps or hurts the investigation.

it shows they were not injured as much as the police chief made it sound, but in terms of the investigation itself, i must agree the bottom line here is whether or not the officer overstepped his boundaries pulling the weapon that day. one other thing that is so important, we need to wait for the facts and circumstances, the same circumstances a grand jury has heard before we rush to judgment on either side. martha: we know generally the bar is very low for indictment. we see any grounds given what we know? >> we don't see anything just with what rod just said. not that it would cause indictment of wilson. he was on the defensive from the first moment michael brown contacted him really until the

last moment michael brown was alive. michael brown indicated everything in this confrontation from the beginning to the end so i don't see an indictment. >> we know there are groups that want the outcome to be violent and want everybody to keep the peace, if there is no indictment for officer wilson, you can bet there's going to be some sort of reaction. should also point out some of these very extreme groups have tried to published during wilson's address, stockpiling ammunition. the reaction sounds very bad. >> not only doesn't sound bad, but it is also illegal. if you want to change the law, there is a right way an and a wg way to do it. they don't want the violence. a lot of those individuals there

in august were not even from the city of ferguson, they were from other areas. new york, chicago, bringing trouble to the city. it was not necessarily about michael brown. they were there with their own agenda. i really hope they please department maintains the peace because the people of ferguson do not want the violence. martha: eric holder went to ferguson, would you expect him now to make a statement to urge people to be calm in their reaction regardless of the outcome? >> with eric holder, i say no, don't say anything. president obama was there november 5 telling the community to stay course. i was the president would stay out of this, let this go through the process before they can start getting involved. we see them when the president and eric holder gets involved,

things go into disarray. in my opinion they don't need to say a word. martha: stay the course to the people there, we will see what happens. thank you so much. good to have you. bill: sometimes you want a cold beer. what happens when somebody tries to get away without paying.

martha: a bit of a beef over beer caught on video in oregon without paying. the not go very well, the owners sped up. a violent fight broke out, knocked over shells and displays. caption the suspect as he tried to flee.

now all because of two beers. bill: should have brought his id. bill: possible game-changer in the industry. battebatteries helping to powere grid. live in the bureau in atlanta. amazing technology always changing especially now. how does it work, jonathan? >> it looks like a giant shipping container but packed with these high-tech batteries. inside the batteries are inorganic chemicals keeping electrical resistance to a minimum. they are guaranteed to last at least 20 years. the idea is the batter' is whacked as a shock absorber for the power grid storing electricity went too much is being produced and release it at times of peak demand instead of having to ramp up or slow down power stations which waste a lot of energy.

>> we produce so much electricity, we have to find a model to take the energy for the grid. >> resort up company plans to build these batteries in a philip morris cigarette factory in north carolina creating at least 2500 u.s. jobs over the next few years. bill: who will be using these batteries, jonathan? >> it was turnout exper exportig these products in turkey and china. both of them trying to meet the huge demands going on, but domestic power companies are also taking note looking to alternative forms of energy. listen. >> battery technology has lots of purposes. they can help smooth that out, and energy storage in the

bedtime, restore it in the night. >> and conventional power plants more efficient. imagine if you stall them on a coal-fired plant, you can make the plant more efficient, produce pollution, in the epa standards without costly retrofit. bill: jonathan, thank you. martha: from immigration to the case on pipeline, president obama and republicans gearing up for several showdowns coming up in the works. bret baier on how this is all playing out. we will be right back. i'm over the hill. my body doesn't work the way it used to. past my prime? i'm a victim of a slowing metabolism?

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man in portland created a massive nut cracker and it can crack a coconut. that is a nut cracker, folks. >> that will not fit in your stocking. we have to run, everybody. >> bye, everybody. president obama back in washington and striking an aggressive tone as both sides are facing combat. >> you know it has been less than two wokes since republicans won full control of congress and many are saying hope is fading between