lou: now to escalating show down between republicans and obama administration over s response to deadlyin benghazi. u.s. ambassador to united nations susan rice weighed in on her controversial remarks on benghazi just a short time ago, joining us now is fox news correspondent katherine harrage. >> thank you lou. the ambassador to u.n. took the questions it was really quite unexpected she got two on the ben been scandal. and here is her response. >> when discussing the attacks against our facilities in benghazi, i relied solely and scarily on the information provided to me by the intelligence community, i made clear that the information was preliminary. and that our investigations would give us the definitive answers, everyone, particularly the intelligence community, has worked in good faith to provide the best assessment based on the information available. >> reporter: tonight this comes less than a week after a classified session on capitol hill where fox news was told james clapper, head of u.s. intelligence community of definite his team did not make controversial changes to the tal

s next destination libya the obama administration has received congressional approval to allocate moneyfor special units reportedly made up of some five hundred people who will train the country's forces according to one b.b. and militia commander a team of americans is already in the country looking for recruits a major obstacle in their weight a vastly divided society there isn't an army and maybe and now and the army is not going to be because whenever you try and get militias which have been region says to a variety of reasons of things than the national interest so they have a legions to drive or to a sect or to a religion rather than having allegiance to the nation or to the country you cannot build an army. but with training and aid fully via the us we have more pragmatic goals then why do you do your view we're just teaching them the best way to fight this we're training it actually because it's really about not so much about you know teaching people how to use rifles and how to use new equipment it's all about really what indoctrination make any aid each one of the children the

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s negotiations with the obama administration to solve the government's fiscal cliff. since the election, mr. rom knit has secluded himself from the media at his southern california home making no public appearances but has bad photographed killing his car at a local gas station and taking a day trip with his grandchildren to nearby disneyland. linden in bristol, virginia on our democrats line. the g.o.p. says to address the spending problem, what do you think? caller: i kind of agree more with the president that it should be a balanced approach. yes, we probably do have a spending problem. i agree. but i definitely believe that there is a problem with our revenue and you know, to go back for guys who make billions or millions of dollars every year and just interest alone, who -- a secretary to work every day does that 40 hour a week. so i think it's a balanced approach leaning more towards revenue as a way to solve things. definitely got to cut spending. the other thing i wanted to say is, i'm in the 3%, the 3% of americans -- and i'm also in that smallest percentage

obama administration moveall the way over? >> getting a deal on revenue and entitlement. >> you use that s a standard. >> absolutely. >> i mightoke, but if that were the deal i think probably -- i don't know. i would have to still think about it. both parties are dejected and is better than i am getting a creditit for. so catholics go for romney. i love this. this margin. 59-40. the first time they have not played a decided role. >> you know what, i was raised catholic. i don't know if you work, but i have no good answer for this. i poured over this number. an outright war against the catholic church. religious freedom. think effectively by the conservatives, and still you get this. no explanation. lou: we will be back with women's reproductive rights and the republican party and whether or not they will be mutually exclusive or whether there will be some rethinng here. we will be right back wh the "a-team." stay with us. the capital one cash rewards card gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone...but her likes 50% more cash. but i'm upping my game. do you want a candy cane? yes! do you wa

lori: grilling the obama administration of its promise on transparency. lou dobbs joins us ahead. melissa: the sp having the best to date gains in months. we are heading back to the new york stock exchange. look at treasuries as we head out to break. we will be right back. ♪ sometimes investing opportunities are hard to spot. you have to dig a little. fidelity's etf market tracker shows you the big picture and it lets you go in for a closer look at areas within a class or sector that may be bucking a larger trend. i'm stephen hett of fidelity investments. the etf market tracker is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. >> i am robert gray with your fox business brief. the rally on wall street continues sparked by optimism over the fiscal cliff. better than expected reports on the housing market. the dow is up 162-point right now. intel ceo and president will be stepping down from his post next year. after nearly 40 years with the company, he will retire in may. they are in the process of choosing a succe

u-s ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were killed in the assault. petraeus testifed the c-i-a told the obama administration an al-qaeda linked group was behind the attack. but, he claimed the white house changed this assessment. he added he knew an anti- islamic video didn't spark the assault... contradicting president obama and other white house officials. >> the ambassador's statement represented the best possible and for mission without jeopardize in classified information. ... the cia eventually approved the white house's decision to remove "al-qaeda" from the assessment, but didn't give a reason why. a lawmaker did ask petraeus if his affair had any impact on his testimony, and he said "no." the cia launches an investigation into petraeus. as we mentioned, petraeus suddenly resigned from the post last week... because he had an extramarital affair with his biographer, paula broadwell. the c-i-a says the purpose of its investigation is simple: to see if there are any lessons to learn from this scandal. attorney general eric holder said yesterday petraeus' affair didn't compromise national security. the

s&p 500 finished ahead 15. nasdaq was up 43. the top republican on senate environment committee blasting the obama administration for missing thesclosing the regulatory plans and the economic impact. oklahoma republican james inhof says the second straight legal deadline the white house missed. it missed hit the week. friday we take a special look at the coal industry. what it's up against. what is on the line in this election. fair and balanced look friday. on the coal industry. brace yourself for the possibility of another healthcare fight at the u.s. supreme court. believe it or not. the justice department is agreeing with liberty university that last summer's decision did not address several related issues. it says it does not oppose the school's request for a rehearing. if the supreme court grants the university's rehearing request, the case will first have to be heard at the fourth circuit court. >>> we are approaching the final weekend and several of the battleground states are still in play, of course. that's why they are battlegrounds. we will talk to experts from three of the battleground states when we come back. [ m

s will thomas is following the developments. >> lawmakers divided as ever. republican lawmakers say they've struggled for weeks to get answers on libya ripping into the obama administration today. now tempers are boiling on both sides with democrats claiming it's all an effort to embarrass the president. >> the committee will come to offend. >> reporter: republicans on the house foreign fairs committee targeted the white house over benghazi. >> i expect to hear some real answers. it's time to fess up. >> i think we need to have a real honest explanation of what happened. >> somebody obviously forgot to circle the calendar on 9/11. >> two months since four americans including u.s. ambassador chris stevens were killed republicans say it's still not clear why more security wasn't in place. >> there weren't three even. there's supposed to be five. the unwritten rule there were three, but there was only one there, only one, the security was lax. >> wednesday president obama sounded off on senate republicans over their criticism over the administration's handling of the attack. specifically accusations u.n. ambassador susan rice lied to the public when she went on five sunday

obama fog. ththat's when the alwayss articulate captain perfect es mute over stuff that reallyly matters. andrea: dana, the bush administration dealtlt are the ocber surprises.. and you handled messagiging in the white house. has sasd the poinof coming clean onn this? >> dana: they did way back ththen on september 13. the pnt of no retur wasas the dayy susan rice, thembassador went onhe tv and said someththing demonstrably false. you haven't sn or heard fm hesense. >> greg: h many story frorom the filmmaker overhe chamon of expressssion? >> bob: how manyny rors is newt gingrich g going to have? >> andrea: whewe come baback -- we' see if it't's a rumor.r. >> bob: we'll see.e. >> a andrea: rich, whihite lirals iso anxious t that romney could win theyave troubl sleeping and can't exercise. greg has the ailments ailingg the left as we approach election day. coming up next. ♪ ♪ [ cheepi ] [ male annnnouncer ] yohear that? that's the sound ofar insurance comompani these days. hhere a cheap, there a cap, everywhere a cheap.... you get it so, what if instead of just a cheap cice, y could make a smart choioice? like, esurance f example. they were bororn online and built to savpeople money frfrom the beginning. it's whath

what i found, which was to my s astonishment, there was little understanding of how the economy works and how business works in the obama administration it was totally predictable. we have the -- 50% of the jobs we created are part-time jobs in this economy. 50%. this is really extraordinary. you have a very, very weak economy. it's much weaker than the numbers look. the real unemployment rate is 15% to 16% and these things really count to me. >> so, gene, this is the battle a lot of americans who believe things are getting better, there are some who still think we've a long way to go, the slowest recovery since the depression. so i guess that's why this -- while the president is ahead in most of the polls it's still a jump ball, isn't it? >> well, i do think it's still a jump ball. the president is ahead in most of the polls and if you're trying to knock off the president, you want to do it a little bit better in some of these states at this point. however, i think mitt romney has failed to convince a lot of people that his policies will do better. >> he certainly has. >> that's been a lot of the battle -- that's been a lot of the ba

obama administration, i would appoint bill clinton as a middle east peace envoy. he has credibility both on the israeli street and in the arab world with the camp david accord s andh the clinton global initiative. we, as americans, the united nations has to get involved. we have to send a message to both israel and palestine that there's absolutely no military violence solution to the israeli/palestinian conflict. it can only be a peaceful and political one. >>> today's talk back question, should [ male announcer ] with 160 more miles per tank, the distances aren't getting shorter. ♪ the trucks are going farther. the new 2013 ram 1500. ♪ with the best-in-class fuel economy. engineered to move heaven and earth. ♪ guts. glory. ram. . >>> now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning, should politicians have a mandatory retirement age? it was a simple question, if you're 27. or maybe those over 50 are way too sensitive. nbc's fresh face luke russert shouted out a question at nancy pelosi's presser and was soundly booed over his age-related queer. >> i some of your colleagues privately say that your decision t

s in depth on c-span2. >>> up next, for-profit practitioners discuss the role of private enterprise in public education. they lose also look at the obama administration approach to education reform. that was hosted yesterday at the american enterprise institute in washington. it is 90 minutes. >> hi. welcome, thanks for joining us. whether you're here at home, hope everybody had a terrific thanksgiving. i know that we're just getting back and, so the energy level is probably going to be, mellow, which we'll make that work for us, since we're going to talk about what sometimes is contentious subject. today's panel is on the question of for-profits and federal education policy. this is a topic that we ad aei have been interested in and talking about for an extended stretch. the last couple of years with the generous support of the templeton foundation we have been running the private enterprise and american education project trying to think about both the opportunities and the challenges, the upsides and the downsides of having for-profits involved in k-12 and higher education. how do we make this work for kids and communities how do we think about som