tuesday on fbn at 8 p.m. eastern. candidates have to say about the pricey government presidential perks? public workers in 21 states buying what's called air time. pay thousands of dollars upfront, and get tens of thousands, in this case, hundreds thousands more when they retire and you know who is picking up the difference? you, the taxpayer. toby, you can't make this stuff up. >> brenda, you can't. and what's amazing is that people are having a hard time understanding why we're cynical about our government, about our leadership. and then we bring something up like this, that is, is sort of egregious in multiple ways. the math doesn't make any sense and number two, a sense of entitlement and sort of came up with this idea for air time from coming up the marriage from your air card, for crying out loud. and the idea that you can sneak this under the rug and pay this and nobody did the math is the epitome of everything that makes us just go nuts in this country. >> i don't know, it sounds kind of like annuity. >> that'

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. >> tuesday night 8 eastern, wait a minute, if you don't get fbn-- >> demand it! >> a new year and a new fee for president obama's health care law come january 1st, health insurance plans will pay a research fee as part of a plan to figure out what treatments work best for patients and matt, you say there's more evidence that this obama care thing is going to cost us so much money and give us less health care. >> yes, and the money part obviously is charging health insurance and that's to be passed on to you and i, easy to figure out and affected in a way that we get treated for sick or not sick. what they're doing, they're rationing and they're going to what doctor, what hospitals, for each condition and in a way, that hit us right away next year, but down the road suddenly, if you want to get a certain type of procedure done. they'll push to a certain type of doctor and it's more out of your pockets and ends up more money out of our pocket for health care. >> dagen, it seems like another layer on what's already an arcane system. >> well, it's only, it's worse fr

mitch daniels on fbn, there and only there. see you then. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> eric: hello, i'm eric bolling with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in our old studio in new york city. "the five." a lot going on today. first, we're less than a month away from iowa. candidates look to pick up major endorsements. trump, palin, mccain. what are the biggest and why? we analyze. trump making headlines again. see what some g.o.p. candidates and karl rove had to say about the donald. tiger woods gets his first win in over two years. conservative christians, tim tebow makes it 6-1. take that bill maher. "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> eric: our top story today, the big endorsement each candidate looking to score one or more. there are many still out there to be had. herman cain, sarah palin and donnel trump amongst many others virgin islands my own idea of the most coveted endorsement. i'll save it for last. who is the big kahuna as far as endorsements go? who will land them? >> bob: t

neil cavuto is on his fbn show currently. thank you for dvring that and watching this.grich and what he faces tonight? you saw the apology there. he is under attack in iowa. ron punish ads, mitt romney ads. what about -- ron paul's ads and mitt romney ads. what about tonight's debate for gingrich? >> if i were neil, i'd say something intelligent about politics but i'm chris so i'll say something cynical. newt gingrich is the target on the stage in a way he hasn't been in the priest abc debate. he wasn't that way now. his numbers are starting to slip. other candidates smell blood. they will come after him hard. can gingrich do what he says he will do and stay positive and not push back? if this debate turns in to two hours of a referendum on newt gingrich's 40 years in public life, it's a disaster for him. >> bret: right. steve brown's piece talking to folks around here about what they want to see in tonight's debate, a they don't want to see. they point back to tim pawlenty when he went on the attack of congresswoman bachmann in our debate in iowa ahead of the straw pol

here now fox business anchor lou dobbs see him at 7:00 on fbn each evening.good news, isn't it. >> it is. folks you may refer to as pinheads are going to go into the its so he taker can isotaker can a. we are forming more than 100,000 jobs a month not enough but better than we have seen. >> we have got to get a lot of politics president obama can say it's improving give me more time and i can make 't. better. people who don't like him it's because people gave up looking for jobs. isn't there some big number of people who gave up looking for jobs? >> some truth in both views. the fact is this president doesn't want to claim too much success too early. >> bill: it could reverse. >> seasonal hiring? a lot of it is receivable hiring. it is. very volatile numbers, the unemployment rate. it could change dramatically in the next three months. he can't afford to take too much credit for anything. >> bill: people are adding personnel. there was a big buying on black friday. >> black friday 16% higher than a year ago. 6% higher for four days. >> bill: all of this is go

>>guest: i met the guy who says if you don't get fbn demand it. >>neil: he has an agent.st: it is cool to meet you but cooler to meet you. >>neil: this could be a long interview. you have your doubts whether the european mess will end nicely. >>guest: the white house line as the president said and what the spokesman said before, the european problem, and they need a european solution and there are two parts to that. they say that europe has the resources to take care of th, the president said that in the answer, and that is that this is not some impop -- impoverished area. the message, don't ask us for a bailout, folks, that is the clear signal. >>neil: but if everything hit the fan, would the president provide the billions? >>guest: he had the e.u. leaders at the white house said we will do everything to help you and vice president biden was in greece. >>neil: why did he bring treasury guys? >>guest: you would think when you hear "we will do everything we can to help you," but the officials say it is advise. we worked through a big financial crisis. we are going to talk

fbn. 8:00 eastern time.don't get it -- >> got to demand it. >> got to demand it. >> you're not neil. >> i'm not neil. who are you? >> where is neil. how do you know who i am? >> you miss neil, don't you? >> i do miss neil. i hope he comes back. hope it's not a weird transition. neil will be back, right? >> neil will be back tuesday. i won't be a weird transition, you stinker. we had a good time with you tonight and we'll

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. >> shepard: ashley, look for you on fbn. i wonder what the lawyers have to say. here they are over here. lawyers, at&t. >> that whole antitrust thing, they would have been the biggest. start off with five or six companies now down to three. would have been at&t, verdicts, and sprint. >> that's about it. >> and then down to two and then down to one and then that's not america anymore. >> shepard: you are right. down to one bank. [ laughter ] got three banks there. >> what else do you need. >> shepard: partridge in a pear tree. >> that's sad. >> shepard: this other matter, i don't know, antitrust lawsuit that could go on forever and make a lot of lawyers rich. >> jobs went down saying it. little part. >> shepard: what went down? >> steve. >> shepard: oh. >> at least round one he was accurate. that's america. so now what's going to happen? they have to pay billions of dollars, google going to be paying bills of dollars to apple for the infringement? >> why don't we spend the money and do better things with technology instead of beating each other up. at what point d

global will get yapping tomorrow, no one is sure, but thanks to fbn charlie gasparino here is what weg at $1.2 billion of customer cash that is not only missing but permanently gone. we have more on this. >> they will probably trace it somewhere but i think -- i am getting this from the investigators working on the case and banks involved in the bankruptcy of m.f. global. they have the forensic accountants looking at this as well. the money was likely customer money commingleed with the operationm money. commingling the money was used to pay off debts so to speak. >> neil: that is a no-no? >> it's illegal. customer money -- even when bear stearns implodeed and lehman brothers implodeed, customer money is segregated. you have can't use it for anything but to give back to brokerage customers. they were a brokerage firm and handling orders for the customers and pro priortary trading shop. that is where jon corzine was taking the risk and got in trouble. the customer money was used for the operational stuff. when you pay off the customer, the customer gets to keep it. it's not like a bern

she has her own program weekdays at 5:00 eastern time. 4:00 in oxford on fbn.rly one in three americans is now reportedly either low income or living below the poverty line. one in three. according to the new census data about 20% of america is now below the low income threshold which is about $45,000 a year for a family of four. while about 14% of the total hop legs is statistically poor at about $24,000 a year for that same family of four. the experts blame falling wages for the middle class or what's left of it and changes to social welfare programs like food stamps and tax credits for putting more americans in poverty. the guy who calls himself the toughest sheriff in america may be a little too tough. the feds are now accusing arizona's joe arpaio of civil rights violation against latinos. one justice department expert calling this the worst case of racial profiling he has ever seen. sheriff arpaio famous for holding inmates in tents, giving them pink underwear. now the feds accusing his department of ordering immigration sweeps based on flimsy complaints.

he is the anchor of fbn's "varney & company". low interest rates, varney? sounds like a christmas gift from the fed. >> it is a christmas gift that will stretch into next year and year after. the federal reserve according to "the wall street journal" keeps interest rates way down. that means mortgage rates close to record lows for some time to come. car loan rates also, very, very low. low interest rates. low loan rates for next couple years. how about that? julie: that's amazing is it all good news? >> no. it is not all good news, to do this means that the federal reserve is saying our economy stays sluggish for at least a couple of years. that means we're going to look more like europe, more like japan, slow growth, high unemployment, big debt. not all good news. julie: all right. i don't want you to sound like the grinch do you have any cheer on the financial front? >> yes i do. i really do. this is way out of my ballpark but i bring you the real housewives of spain. i bring you sheer joy. this, these are the lottery winners in spain. this is sheer joy,

fox business network was stu varney of fbn joins me now. stu, why are we going there? why is our treasury secretary going over there and what is likely to happen, if anything, with american dollars? >> okay. america does not want to see the euro crash. if the euro crashes, if these insolvent countries cannot pay any of their debts, that entire continent goes into a depression. not just a recession. a depression. if that happens, it washes over our shores and affects our economy very, very badly, therefore, the administration will move heaven and earth to make sure there is some kind of bailout, some kind of time frame, that allows breathing space so the euro does not crash. that's why treasury secretary geithner is in frankfurt, he'll be holding talks starting tomorrow with all the top financial leaders of europe. he wants to make sure that a euro bailout is in place. it will be at least a trillion dollars, probably $2 trillion. the question is, where does that money come from. will america contribute anything via the imf? if so, how much? it's all open questions at th

we'll see you 9:20 on fbn. it is the number that got our attention. stuart. thank you. martha has more. martha: we look in the context of existing home sales the past few years. for all of us this is our biggest investment, right? look how it has shaped up. sales ranged from $4.9 million to 5.1 million from 2008 to 2010. now economists say in a healthy economy people buy six million existing homes in a year. so we have been well below that for quite some time. bill: certainly are. we want to get to the race for the white house and that republican nomination. new polling numbers just out from "the wall street journal" showing newt gingrich leading mitt romney as the first choice of republican voters. the former house speaker, 40%. romney at 23. what does governor romney have to say about all that? we'll talk to him about that when he joins us next hour here in "america's newsroom." also in that polling numbers it will show you who men prefer and who women prefer and who conservatives prefer and who independents prefer. we'll talk about all that coming up. martha: very in

we'll catch you on fbn. thank you,ee liz about i, elizabeth mcdonald.hy geithner is across the pond working on europe's debt crisis. steve forbes is straight ahead on that knee ha that. bill: this is not the day to show off and one guy apparently did not listen. >> you rile, in front of this group with all the important issues you have going on in this state you're wasting these people's time with a question on whether we plant questions in the audience. bill: what was that question that set off the new jersey governor, chris christie, and his fiery response? you will hear it. julie: albal alec baldwin, he's infamous for having a temper, but when you bring that to the friendly stars, you're in trouble. skies, you're in trouble. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. plus veggie nutrition. why settle for a one-note cereal? ♪ more, more, more... get more with honey bunches of oats 4 nutritious grains come together for more

see you at 9:20 on fbn here is martha. martha: the unemployment rate dropped from 9% in october. you have it at 8.6% in this area. it was at that level the last time. go back into the early months of 2009 you see where we hit that level again. go back to december of '07, you were at 5% unemployment. so let's take a look at number you would have to be at healthy economy. here is our yellow line. 6% you want to be for healthy economy. as you can understand, the administration argument will be that the number from its high of 9.9% has been working its way down and they will claim that they believe this is a positive picture. of course it will all come down to individuals and what their own experience is this in the economy and whether or not they feel like things are getting better. the number 8.6% is politically a good number for them to focus on, bill. bill: martha, we're getting reaction from a lot of candidates. republican candidate newt gingrich getting ahead of the jobs announcement. he says he wants to be the best paycheck president in american history. he would create mandat

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see you 9:20 on fbn well-done. martha. martha: tough situation are it us to be in. how bad is the situation in the united states compared with some of these very troubled nations that are our friends and allies in europe? here is a list of each country's debt and how much they owe compared to their gross domestic product that. is very indicator of the strength of any economy. a low ratio means a country is in much better position to pay back their debts of course. a high ratio means they're in a lot of trouble. all the countries have debt-to-gdp ratio better than 100% or higher. greece leads the pack, 165% debt to ratio. just to give you an idea, around 60% would be a healthy economy. look at united states though. we're at 100% of our gdp to debt ratio. this is very, very tenuous position for us to be in at this point. look at our debt. we have the biggest debt of all of them at $15 trillion in our debt. so this is a very tough situation for us. bill? bill: 100% worth, you're right, martha. new this morning, also, these clashes erupting in greece during the visit fr