joinin us now is a fox news contributor, monica crowley and david webb and from houston, monica, i'mk you, the preside be so deeply critical and profoundly punishing of his own administration over the course of five years? >> i think on a superficial level you are absolutely right. but i think on an obvious level. you are correct. the lexical little bit deeper. i don't think t's a big mystery as to bartok obama ..@ i think he is what you can call a socialist. lou: the question is have you ever seen a president like that. >> now, i have not. the normal american see a disaster and i think that obama and the far left these a rousing success. he is moving as many people in the government dependency s possible and he is succeeding. >> let's talk about the president's own words and when they talk about the economy, they say it's headed inhe right direction. these are their words going against their own facts. the role of government, he sees the change being successful, he is not being critical or honest with the american people. >> i have to agree -- lou:'mgoing to stop you right there, le

libby casey joinin joins us livm capital. capitol hill. what is on the table.eader pelosi i is holding a hearing today to raise concern. the democrats are raising the charge to get longterm unemployment benefits extended. they run out december 28 them. they werthe benefits were instia year and a half ago. they are trying to drum up interest and support for this. wthey talked about it on the house floor. up to 1.6 million americans are out of work or will be out of work because of these mindless cuts. and we are pu further cutting or safety net. he is talking about not just raising unemployment benefits but sequester cuts. they feel that they have been hit hard with programs like head start. they are trying to get it dealt with. >> has the white house weighed in on this t. >> the white house talked talked in a statement about what the latest unemployment numbers look like. here is what their release said. they said unacceptably high. they are trying to get more jobs and get interest in trying to help americans who are dealing with unemployment. >> what is the re

. >> through for joinin -- thank n joining us. this more than anything else those the degree to which nelson mandela continues in death to unite people as he did in life. back to you, david. >> mike, thank you very much indead. transnational, transcontinental, nelson mandela. a move that straddled all of south africa. >>> we are going to get news out of sudan. the vice president has resigned as part of a ca cabinet reshuff. he was the main negotiator in the pease peace agreement that d 1220 years of civil war in 2005. he denied there was any rift with his deputy. we have more from the sudanese capital. what has happened is a senior generalwho is a right hand man of the president has replaced him. it's important how the government sees it's need to maintain power it's a form of co-oco-opting him into power. it's kind of secured it in that sense. it's not clear how even if there are new faces in the government with the same old policies whether or not it will make a difference to being able to han handle the economic crisis this cou