we have lou who is the chairman and c.e.o. of a leading clean energy company with 2002 revenues of more than $15 billion, 43 mega what thes of generating capacity and 15,000 employees in 28 states as well as canada. next to matt -- lou is lora, senior adviser to the u.s. secretary of energy, secretary chu. she regulated electricity, natural gas and water industries. thank you both for coming. lou, i'm going to start with you. we hear a lot about transmission and frarke. but i don't think we really understand the problems that the infrastructure is facing today. >> i want to start by acknowledging what tom said in the earlier panel and pleased to hear it and one of the biggest opportunities for new jobs is in electric transmission and unlike everything we talked about today, one thing that is different, we don't need a penny of government money to make this happen. most people can relate to airlines and roads but don't think about electric transmission and our industry has challenged a lot. we had a vertically-integrated system

lou dobbs will tell us what might happen next. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the decline of america and the republican challenge. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. in analyzing the republican debate last night, you have to start with the decline of america. there is no question that the u.s.a. is in trouble. economically, we are simply in chaos. country owes more than $14 trillion. congress and the president will not cut spending drastically. and the presidential campaign of 2012 is shaping up to be a class warfare event. looking back, america's decline began on september 11th, 2001. the al qaeda attack forced the bush administration to take drastic action. trillions of dollars were spent. two wars initiated and what we did to protect ourselves alienated many throughout the world. the good news is we have been protected. and we did defeat al qaeda. but it c

we'll talk with lou dobbs, jay carney. then stein and wayne rogers. >> your state executed 234 death row inmates. >> did nbc skew the debate to the left? some conservatives are saying yes. bernie goldberg will analyze. >> i hope all of my friends up here are going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get republicans to fight each other to protect barak obama. >> newt gingrich lashes out at the news media, accusing them of being in the tank for barak obama. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the american jobs act and the republican debate last night. those are the subjects of this evening's talking points memo. we'll get to president obama's speech in a moment. first a couple of things about the gop debate last night. the most entertaining moment of the sparring was provided by newt gingrich. >> speaker gingrich, sounds like we've got a philosophical disagreement. in massachusetts, a mandate, almost no one, uninsur

megyn: thank you, lou. lou dobbs, everybody. catch lou every night on the fox business network, "lou dobbs tonight" airs weeknights at 7 p.m. eastern time. >>> well, it became the photo that defined the day yesterday, and it really is chilling. just look at this. look at the anguish. a father marking ten years since his son's death in the world trade center. we have the story behind this moving moment at the new memorial. just a bit. >>> plus, we have new details on why they scrambled the air force twice yesterday to deal with scares aboard two different passenger jets. that's coming up, stay with me. >> we just heard that there was some unusual activity up in the front of the plane, that people were, a couple, you know, few people, three, i guess, were going to the bathroom, spending a lot of time there and acting very suspicious. i was terrified. i was really scared. looking good! you lost some weight. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ]

all of us as citizens, let alone you folks elected to office. >> well, we do, lou. understand, we're in a bind. the house republicans are in a bit of a bind here because we were sent to washington to really try to undo everything this president's done which we believe has destroyed this economy. it's caused a bumpy road but i think each and every one of these fights that we have and the super committee and the debt ceiling will come up again and then there will be appropriations fights, i take a c c contrarian view. they want us to come together on something but they want us to be fiscally disciplined. >> i couldn't agree with you more and no one is more of a free enterprise capitalist than i am, no one believes more than a constitutional republic than i do. at the same time, i know this continuing resolution will take us through to a very short period of time. we're going to renew this debate, we've just had it a month previous, we also need to at some point move government policy to the point that we can restore prosperity in this country and that seems to me irre

the spin is spun we want to take a different look and put this in some perspective earlier i spoke to lou rockwell the chairman of the niece's institute he gave me his thoughts on the president's plan. those just more obama loney i mean first of all these sickos so called cuts by the one signed last month are the ones he's proposing are not cuts at all so they're rather their alleged cuts in the rate of increase which is the way they when they were in washington when they talk about a cut that's what they mean but even that is not in his control he's talking about over the next ten years or who's going to be president ten years from now it's not going to be obama unless there's a coup so in that across the however the tax increase is a real biting hard and immediately would come into effect another way the site is talking about the buffett rule in this sort of thing these things are not going to hurt the buffett or soros or blankfein or jamie dimon or any of the other billionaires and oligarchy in the u.s. they're aimed at as you mention at the young entrepreneur as i mean a business peop

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warfare actually wants to help the ruling class and stick it to the productive crowd well certainly lou there are some teachers and construction workers that make six figures salaries but i would argue that the majority of them you know are right there in you know the fifty's and sixty's in fact a family of four for a lot of people that's barely scraping by but i but this isn't necessarily you know about dividing these people. it's the fact that a president obama has said that there needs to be some sort of establishment so that people who do make fifty million dollars are getting are not getting away any longer with paying zero dollars in taxes i mean wouldn't you agree that it's because of a lot of the things that in this system in this country that those people are able to make the kind of wealth that they're making. well you know i don't want to shock anybody but the rich run the system and the notion that somehow you know a bomb is out for the poor remember who were his big donors the last time he ran for president goldman sachs j.p. morgan bank of america citi bank he's got it in

we have lou who is the chairman and c.e.o. of a leading clean energy company with 2002 revenues of more than $15 billion, 43 mega what thes of generating capacity and 15,000 employees in 28 states as well as canada. next to matt -- lou is lora, senior adviser to the u.s. secretary of energy, secretary chu. she regulated electricity, natural gas and water industries. thank you both for coming. lou, i'm going to start with you. we hear a lot about transmission and frarke. but i don't think we really understand the problems that the infrastructure is facing today. >> i want to start by acknowledging what tom said in the earlier panel and pleased to hear it and one of the biggest opportunities for new jobs is in electric transmission and unlike everything we talked about today, one thing that is different, we don't need a penny of government money to make this happen. most people can relate to airlines and roads but don't think about electric transmission and our industry has challenged a lot. we had a vertically-integrated system

lou dobbs, who seemed a little alarmed last night over a recent development in the world of comic books>> peter parker, who was a white orphan from queens, was killed off in june during a fight with his nemesis, the green goblin. marvel comics saying it's replacing the iconic character with miles morales, who is part latino and part black. >> jon: my god, it's lou dobbs' worst nightmare, a latino that can climb walls. [laughter] [applause] not to in any way sun on his parade, but the new multiracial spider-man appears in the comic "ultimate spider-man," which is actually set in a different alternate universe than that of the real spider-man, who still exists and is still caucasian and also is not real. [laughter] but, of course, the arts are not the only battlefield in our culture wars. this conflict is also being fought in and around our pee hole. >> birth control for women now going to be completely free. >> no co-pay or deductible. >> i might be for that if i didn't see a lot of people out there able to buy a new pair of shoes. >> if you can afford a $5 frappuccino at starbucks, you

lou gill ton, pat buscovich and frank rowland , geotech -- gee owe technical engineer. are we safe standing here? >> (inaudible). >> okay. right behind us, we can see all the way down san francisco's ocean beach and water front all the way down to points stig identity. what is that. >> pacifica is sticking out. beside that the muscle rock, the next promenade to the north and san andreas fault. >> muscle rock is what? the middle ground? >> in the fog. >> the bunch is just coming out. >> it's the point furthest south. >> okay. and why is that important to us? >> muscle rock is where the san andreas fault comes into san francisco cocaine and city a nd -- county and city. >> this is -- >> coming out into the water. >> going into the water, and out past fill rock and frank, where are we going from there. >>çó port race, it comes up between valleja so,. >> that's balinsa and point rat fault comes in between those two. >> okay. how far offshore is the fault where where we stand? >> about a mile and a half to two miles offshore. >> i have a question. i always hear that earthqua

it always had fantastic leadership until lou platt, which took us into the early 90s, lou platt stepped down and they went into one of the world's worst succession until this recent succession. the situation with carl i fiorina who a prior h.p. board had hired. the board turned over but they had lingering problems that were unbelievable. the irony is none of these people was ego maniacal and certainly were not greedy, not like the scandals we have seen in corporate america in the past. nobody is plundering shareholder wealth. they're all trying to do the right thing and they're very smart people. >> susie: i'm going to jump in because we just have a few seconds left. the stock of hewlett packard is down sharply as we told you. how patient do you think shareholders will be with meg whitman? how much time does she have to prove herself? >> i think she's certainly going to be entitled to at least six months, and the predecessor has gotten 10, 11 months and it was spiraling downwards. certainly it takes a new c.e.o. usually two years to take charge, especially coming in from the outside. sa

the lou is pending approval by the board of supervisors. the lease, the states -- these are the -- changes required are because of the following. the least stipulates that the tenant wishes to perform eligible of improvements to the arena, the tenant can currently receive an offset. process anticipates that the tenant will be responsible for the work but does not described a process for work that is paid for by the tenant but performed by the city. the lease also stipulates that the city only has the obligation to perform dredging. but as the owner of the marina, the city performs a variety of other maintenance repair and improvement projects. so the least neither clearly allows the parties to be included or clearly prohibits such inclusion. the city and the tenant presently desire to amend the least to say the following -- to the following -- "we would like to modify the provisions to allow the city or the city's contractors, rather than the tenant, to perform and credit work to be paid for by the tenant, subject to future offsets in accor

the lou stipulates that the department and the st. francis yacht club had a brother to cancel the project if the budget exceeds expectations. currently, the balance of the lump-sum funds is one. -- $211,000 is allocated. the remainder available for the country change order and any costs associated with the project is $936,731. the amount necessary for concrete box is approximately $711,000, leaving a remainder of $225,000 to be allocated for seawall a pair, said the proposed rent credits to the gaap club will not exceed $325,000 if we capped the project at $550,000. the amortization schedule to repay the loan has been recalculated to reflect the rejection in expended rental income for the years 2012, 2018. it has been concluded that the rent credits will not impair the department's ability to meet state requirements for loan repayments. the department will be able to maintain the cash flow projections due to the influx of funds from their new revenue- generating initiatives, increase revenue from existing operations, and reallocated f

>>reporter: the justices including the newest member lou have been asked to decide if the sponsors of prop 8 the vot voter approved ban on same sex marriage can continue the legal battle. federal judge has ruled denying gay the right to wed if uncons stawtional and state attorney general agrees. prop 8 supporters say that means they are the only ones left to mount an appeal. >> official proponent have an official status if state law. >>reporter: prop 8 opponent say only the government has the right. >> there is nothing in the california constitution or the statutes that give private citizens the right to take over the attorney general's cons stawtional responsibility. >>reporter: but over and over the justices questioned the fairness of a one sided legal challenge. >> would you really have us here today with only you arguing this proposition. >> i took encouragement from those questions because the answers all support our side of the case. >> well the court made the point that they do their job best when they can hear from both sides. >>reporter: the chief justice says the issue trans

the rich but republicans have described obama's approach as class warfare and libertarian economist lou rockwell believes the president's plan targets the wrong people. we're getting poorer and it's absolutely true the government connected rich are getting richer so what do we do about that do we punish businessmen who are creating jobs and creating wealth and making things better or do we take some of the stolen goods away from the people of washington away from the oligarchy away from the ruling class i think that's what we have to concentrate on not where the guys at the car which we have borrowed bob was working for and against soros and profit and these guys would not let them try to focus our attention on hating the guts of a guy who wants a bunch of a subway sandwich shops he's not the problem is the solution it's the bankers and all the people who got rich wall street of military industrial complex big pharma it's these kinds of arms of the corporate state but are getting rich far too rich and you know they need to be cut back cutting back cut back government that's what we need

commentary from libertarian economists lou rockwell. israel has offered bold direct talks with the palestinians in new york as a jewish state attempts to halt president abbas's ambition to win u.n. recognition the u.s. also opposes the bid and there has been intense diplomacy to avert a crisis over the move out of stocks which are going to report on the counter efforts that russia is taking to see the palestinian plan go through. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov held an urgent meeting with the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton now members of the delegation are telling us that even though this is a closed door meeting the assumption is that lavrov and clinton were negotiating the future of talks on the israeli palestinian leaderships the palestinian bid for statehood at the united nations security council is really stealing the show this year we know that palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is expected to present palestine's bid for recognize statehood to the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon in the next days to come and this i

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hearing didn't focus on whether same-sex couples should allowed to marry but whether supporters are loued to defend knit court. we're in the newsroom with the story. >> a judge ruled last year that prop 8 is unconstitutional. and supporters appealing this case to a heer court. but the governor and attorney general refused to join in that appeal leading the court to question whether supporters are even qualified, have what is called legal standings to continue the case. >> supporters and opponents were back in court this morning, edging the case through the legal system. >> we have never had this question before. have we? >> the question at hand is can supporters defend the case when the state refuses? >> this court's cases and statements make much clearer that the official components do have a direct interest. >> opponents argue the court would be establishing a precedent for third parties in inlt convenient. when the government has not. >> there is nothing in the cam cal 4 -- california constitution or statute that's give private citizens the right to take over the attorney general's con

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hearing is focus on whether marine intended to harm lou or to discipline him so he would stop falling watch duty. the hearing today is similar to civilian grand jury proceeding. it will determine if there's enough evidence to good to trial. >>> turkey is ratcheting up the dispute with israel are. today the prime minister announced the with turkey warship will football there. the spat between the 2 country started last week when the united nations release add report that found israel used excessive force when it raided a gaza bound flotilla in 2010 and killed 9 activist. that all right also said israel was entitled to its blockade of gaza. turkey wants israel to apologies for the raid. israel has refused saiingt act entered self-defense. u.s. officials are concerned and address the issue this week. >> about we have p over many months about tried to work with our ally turkey and our ally israel to strengthen and improve their buy the lateral relationship. we still believe that getting back to a good partnership between them is in each of their interests and we will continue to work for

that's also known as lou garrett's disease.s made him honorary captain against the houston, texas. super bowl ring certainly a very worthy deal. >> yeah, this is very nice. >> i'm not joking about the warriors. i think i've been staying all night, they've got a head of a movie studio in good-byer, millionaire, and this man here, you know, welts interesting background. >> veteran that they brought in. >> it's a big, all they have stood win. >> that's the next step. >> it sounds good on paper. >> we'll see what happens. good night everybody. ok, kids, our cable will let us record one more show. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. ok, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. oh, fun, yeah. 1...2...3... jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. ha! she's so pretty. yeah. or, we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. just $29 a month

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