lou: i'm sorry, what? is the problem, mainstream media made it an elect year issue instead of investigating the benghazi issue, so american people do not know what to think, they don't know it is important, no one is telling them so, september for except for fox news. >> and real story, here is, a administration engaged in a cover-up, second part is national media that is absolutely, denying its responsibilities, to hold accountable power, thank you very much we appreciate it happy thanksgiving. all. >> up next, viewers still not satisfied with obama administration's response to benghazi, we check the in box when we comeback, stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. thas right. i've arned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on ground shipping at fedex office. >> this is a test. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn sy

lou: arture thank you. the unemployment number. >> not changing much, i saved money today, i don't have to buy a mask, given how ugly i am, i don't have to buy a mask. lou: we're equally blessed. >> thank you. >> from your mouth to god's ears. lou: i never raise my voice above a whisper. up next, romney advisor davis, and thoughts on what some see as a particular obama-chris kristi chris christie love fest. >> and donald rumsfeld examine the administration statements, contradiction, and prospect of responsible assumed for the loss of four american lives. all eyes, right here. this is our year. i thought it was last year... turns out i was wrong. none of us would walk in here and settle. that's how we are! i forgot what i was going to y. patrick, i want 100% commitment! because i care man, ok? who are we!? 49ers! 49ers! 49ers! yeah! [ all cheering ] what the heck is going on in here? sorry coach, i just got a little carried away. alright, i think we're good. [ morgan ] for a chance to be in a locker room on

lou: will stop at?resident's lead, but also the fact that you have a democratic congress -- excuse me. >> were all laughing. >> because -- >> that is effective, but congress does one thing very well which is survived. i think the idea -- a long your shelf life than nuclear waste. going over the fiscal cliff is mutual destruction that we are not prepared to do. >> the problem with that scenario, on some level it makes sense. they're going to survive, but the reality is problems are so big and so obvious and so fundamental that you cannot just skate around the edges. that is where it becomes a serious problem. a number of leading democrats in congress. we heard earlier that the teamsters said, no compromise on anything having to do with entitlements. for republicans -- lou: can you believe a man would say that? look at the extreme republican -- look at the republican leaders in the house. >> the republicans have no for almost two years agreed to revenue increases. the democrats have never agreed to entitl

lou: that's a good point.resting, no one down there is talking about the fact that individual tax payments, a taxpayer payments, the internal revenue service, receipts from the taxpayers are risen 26% of the bush tax cuts of the past two years, which tells us that the answer here is growth. t i'm a simple follow. i just want to see everybody talk to each other. let me turn to benghazi, the area of the special prosecutor. there is a sense of helplessness that is probable in wasngton d.c. right now. i don't believe that congress feels that it has the strength or the tools to actually penetrate the veil of denial and secrecy and opaque miss that is this administration when it comes to what it is done within just the last nine weeks. you're calling for a special prosecutor, and the fellow who has to do that works for the president of the united sates. >> the attorney-general. that's right. the attorney general has to do it. lou: can you really see eric holder sang, you know what, congressman, i think you have a sp

lou: do that again?e last two years, government revenues have risen 26%, almost a quarter using the bush tax rates, bringing in mor revenue, not less revenue. lou: it has been demonstrated throughout history. you interpret the drama to bef? really a total lack of faith enoch in front of the growthdems model that is being two demonstrated, as he you pointed out in the past two years? they are saying this economy just can't grow fast enough toe ec support this government. we won't see revenue increasee r unless we raise taxes. >> that is absolutely correct. but of course, the perverse thing is that you don't get gro growth if you raise taxif rates. california and several other states, the top rate is approaching 50% effectively. fie they have as much incentive to fire somebody to lower costs is to hire somebody to increase revenues. lou: so we have a contemporaneous experiment going on.t it is a high-risk experiment, but nonetheless an experiment.ra in california, bringing tax levels above 50% in the natio

lou: roy?that there's something more bind this to have this resignation on a friday when most people are not looking at major stories. i think the administration's trying to bury something. >> i want him under oath to tell us what happened in libya and what happened in the very sad affair. lou: all right, thank you very much. >> thank you. lou: mary, thank you. well, it is time now for your comments. turning to one who said, lou, obama knows nothing about the center, but off center into dangerous territory. ed says it's amazing how many people don't know about libya as well as fast and furious. thanks for keeping the torch alive, lou. the promised, most transparent administration in history is actually the most secretive administration in history. anthony wrote to say, lou, thank you for your thoughtful and intelligent coverage during the election season. keep fighting. thank you, all, for your commts, keep them coming at lou jdobbs.com for links to to be, twitter, e-mail us, we love hearing fr

lou: is deeply troubling, if not? >> it is one the administration claims to be mostly transparent since the earth cooled. we're going to find out what happened and when dossey without the voluntary health or with the voluntary help of the people. we will have committee hearings until the lord comes back if that's what it takes. we have four murderee americans. i also found the president's reaction to what the three senators said to be disappointing. he does get fensive when he is question we didn't send susan rice. if he is upset and frustrated, he has no one to blame but himself. lou: legislators keep forgetting to put for the fact that there were three senators on this committee, not just the two men, a number of them have stepped forward to say this is rough treatment of a woman, namely ambassador rice, forgetting that senator ayotte is also amongst those. >> how paternalistic is that, lou? susan rice can think for herself. she has a career as a diplomat. she should have asked the intelligence officials what inform

lou: good evening, everybody. the white house running from the david ptraeus scandal in the tough questions that follow. many of those questions related to benghazi. jay carney in move to refer rather than answer the white house press corps. could only offer a series of nonanswers and referrals to questions ranging from a breach of national security to the convenient election day ting of the presidenteing informed of the petraeus scandal. >> i would refer you to the pentagon for the process underway with regard to i the pentagon and the ig on the one hand and the fbi in regard to general petraeus. >> i refer you to the fbi. as i understand it they have protocols in place for when the notify the legislative and executive branches of investigations. the fbi is the place to go in terms of explanation the otocols they follow. i would refer, that said earlier, to policies in place at the fbi for how they deal with notifications investigations. lou: as you saw and heard, a frustring day for the white house press corps.

thanks for being here. >> nice to be back with you, lou. >> lou: let's turn, to first, the talking pois. which, it seems that no one after general petraeus made it clear there had been changes in those talking points, the testimony before congress s been surveyed, and congressman mike rogers, the chair of the house intelligence committee, said, it has to be the white house, because everybody else has testified that they didn't. do you agree? >> i agree. and, in that deputy's committee i'm hurry the white house representative and the national securityfrom the national security agency, council, had his marching orders. >> lou: his marching orders and petraeus for his part says part of the confusion here, that is primarily, i believe, it is safe to say the confusion between the testimony he gave to congress, three days after september 11th, and what he said over the past few days, to congress, represents what happens when you try to avoid tipping off terrorists, do you buy that? >> well, according to congressman king, it certain indicates that petraeus lied during his first testimony. >> l

lou: thank you. more on the fiscal cliff and what would happen if congress were to fail to reach a deal with the president with the "a-team" coming up next. >> how much should we pay in taxes to the government? a prominent economist says which go back to the time times of let to beaver and pay up. ho does 91% feel to you? would pick it up in the "chalk talk." rocket attacks and the israeli response. our president is pivoting to asia as thunder rolls over the middle east. former commander joins us here next. want to try to crack it? yeah, that's the way to do it! now we need a little bit more... [ male announcer ] at humana, we understand the value of quality time and personal attention. which is why we are proud to partner with health care professionals who understand the difference that quality time with our members can make... that's a very nice cake! ohh! [ giggles ] [ male announcer ] humana thas the physicians, nurses, hospitals, pharmacists and other health professionals who helped us achieve t

of losing, lou.ost the bet. lou: also the consequences that lead to doing good for a charity. thank you. >> thank you. lou: war producing heros and tragedies, too many to count, outpost in afghanistan, and detailed accurately by jake tapper in the new book "the outpost," ed henry gave me permission to talk with him tonight. the american dream may be closer for millions of illegal immiantings. republicans moving forward with lame duck legislation that will change their world. the achieve act and sator hutchenson next. >> this friday when the heads to a toy factory pushed further tax hikes on those top earners, the wealthy. the last we heard from the president was after the election and give a news conference saying a majority of us agree with this approach him. in other words, a mandate to raise taxes hutton. tonight we want to take that mandate and put it into some context and perspective. this is the president's 2012 victory. but 50 -- and this is the mandate. forty-seven. the electoral votes, 3302.

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. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. day of revelations by a former cia director, who is now apparently seeking redemption. america's former top spy, david petraeus testified about that terrorist attacks in benghazi and several of the cia andits director in all of it. petraeus contradicted the white house version of why it took them so long to acknowledge the evidence of terrorism, why there were still talking about an anti muslim video when they knew very well that they had attacked and killed four americans. house intelligence committee member congressman peter king told fox news meghan kelly that petraeus acknowledged the cia knew it does he was an act of terror from the very beginning and that the talking points provided to amassador rice were edited by someone after the cia had delivered their assessment to the white house. reis went on five sunday morning talk shows and falsely told america that benghazi was a spontaneous attack in response to the internet video. >> the talking points that came from the cia specifi

lou: all right. a coiled spring and on the mend. >> i hope. lou: thank you so much. >> thanks, lou.nks for having me. lou: up next second place finish raising a lot of questions about the republican party, its viability. we are talking about remorse, recriminations, re-examination. the republicans failed to meet our modern-day challenges? we are joined, and the president's campaign strategy working exactly as they planned. america turned out, handed him a second term, and some of the biggest implications, ramifications, and consequences of four more years. we take that up in the chalk talk and the cost thereof. ♪ is what ives us to broadcast the world's biggest events in 3d, or live to your seat high above the atlantic ocean. it's what drives us to create eco-friendly race tracks, batteries that power tomorrow's c nearlyndestructible laptops, and the sustainable smart towns ofhe future. at panasonic, we're driven to make what matters most better. just another way we're engineering a better world for you. gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone

lou: we appreciate that. andther part is, thank you for noting, and putting on record for fact that i conceded that president obama would win at least one state. >> don'think i'm forgetting our bet, mr. dobbs, mr. rich by. >> thank you very much. lou: up next new york city mayor bloomberg refuses to let national guard help are hurricane sandy recovery, why? u will not believe why, we'll have the full story. >> and president obama coming just short of declaring out right victory on the campaign trail today. we'll be joined by best seller author brad thor, calling it sure chicago campaign tactic, with his theory ad forecast for this upcoming presidential election, he is up next. ...seems like you guys got a little gass out there. enough already. c'mon guys. next question. mr.ewis? what's your favite color? what's my favorite color? yes. purple. what's your favorite animal? sea turtle. what's your bedtime? do you believe in space aliens? ...i love puppies. hash browns or home fries? home fries. do you like my dr

. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody.oth democrats and republicans appear tonight to be determined to abandon any meaningful commitment to intellectual integrity and their respective parties in debating and discussing solutions to the fiscal cliff. president obama organizing a campaign to persuade voters that his plans for higher taxes on the wealthy are the right path forward. leading republicans creating consternation within their own party does they reversed themselves from taxes and seemingly the president's ideas of increases, a growing number on the right rejecting their no new taxes pledges and instead are now claiming the grover norquist is the real problem in washington d.c. fox digital politics center is here with us tonight as is the daily caller stalker carlson. egyptian leader declaring new powers for himself, claiming he won't be just another dictator. just a week ago praised by the obama administration for brokering a ceasefire in gaza, and now the white house is silent on the more -- coupe. middle east exp

lou: all right. a coiled spring and on the mend. >> i hope. lou: thank you so much. >> thanks, lou.nks for having me. lou: up next second place finish raising a lot of questions about the republican party, its viability. we are talking about remorse, recrinations, re-examination. the republicans failed to meet our modern-day challenges? we are joined, and the president's campaign strategy working exactly as they planned. america turned out, handed him a second term, and some of the biggest implications, ramifications, and consequences of four more years. we take that up in the chalk talk and the cost thereof. ♪ ♪ lou: folks are talking about consequences of the elections gaza we thought we would get right to hit tonight and just show you a few consequences of yesterday's vote tallies. end the cost thereof. cost, by the way, to you, to meet demand our fellow citizens. by the way, anybody who is under the illusion that this just affect those are making over a million dollars a year, please understand, we are going to introduce reality. grab hold of your chair if you have one nearby. w

lou: sure.state and a presumed read governor. >> and the people really wanted bipartisanship that it not elect a guy here reached across the aisle and massachusetts but did elect the guy who shoved the health care law that everyone's throat. craving compromise and someone who would reach across the aisle, should have gone for mitt romney. >> run on bipartisanship for the old campaign. it would have been a different campaign can differ result, and a different set of circumstances >> i agree because, remember, barack obama for four years did nothing to reach across the aisle. nothing in this man's background or history or characters it -- to suggest cooperation. something tells me that even though we are facing the fiscal cliff you will see barack obama the ideologue. lou: in counterpoint, he i going to be talking about economic growth, the fiscal cliff, the deficit, and what to do about it, and he is looking rather quickly. does this surprise you? >> he will talk about it, but if you look at what

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lou: we appreciate that. and other part is, thank you for noting, and putting on record for fact that i conceded that president obama would win at least one state. >> don't think i'm forgetting our bet, mr. dobbs, mr. rich by. >> thank you very much. lou: up next new york city mayor bloomberg refuses to let national guard help are hurricane sandy recovery, why? you will not believe why, we'll have the full story. >> and president obama coming just short of declaring out right victory on the campaign trail today. we'll be joined by best seller author brad thor, calling it sure chicago campaign tactic, with his theory and forecast for this upcoming presidential election, he is up next. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bk are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you s

lou: yeah.et me turn to the issue of the possibility of a republican reset, if i may, very quickly. the party, some say outright in disarray in defeat of the candidate, president obama's hands, and there's great hand wringing, gnashing of teeth, and wailing on the part of the republican party. the leadership seems to reside with speaker boehner and rinse -- reince, chairman of the rnc, who led the party to another defeat, second in the row, over the course of the past two cycles. at what point do republicans acknowledge there's a problem, we have to do things differently, find out what the message is, and find someone willing to listen to the message that will grow the party. >> well, i think, look, i think we've haddtremendous successes. in 2010, we took back the house, grew the majority in the house, took seats in the senate, a lot of seats in governorship, governor walker, scott, and so the party had a tremendous amount of successes over the last four years. is it a big disappointment we didn

lou: thank you.ennifer griffin, fox is national security correspondent. david patraeus will not a fear of for congress to answer congressional cuts -- questions aut bnghazi. lawmakers still want to hear from him at some point. they also want to know why they were not bried by the fbi before news of the affair broke friday. fox news chief inteigence correspondent atharine heritage has the latest on that ankle. >> although the investigation began as early as june, the chair and ranking members of the house and senate intelligce committees were not notified that the cia director and is alleged lover have fallen within thscope of an fbi investigation. >> received no advance notice. it was like a lightning bot. >> with a half-dozen hearings scheduled this week on benghazi, acting ciadirectorike morale is expected to take general patraeus is placed. lawmakers say their options are open and ty intend to ask patraeus to voluntarily apear as a private citizen or if necessary use subpoena power down the road.

lou: good evening i'm lou dobbs after a wk of rocket attacks from gaza and targeted airstrikes in response from israel, a truce has been announced between hamasnd the jewish state, hamas launching more than 1300 rockets to southern israel last width. -- wednesday, 5 people kill. 200 wounded. >> israel retaliating with more than 2000 targeted airstrike, israeli defense ministry confirming 19 hamas senior come centers, and 30 op practicetives, and funnelling tunnels were destroyed much operation pillar of defense lasting 8 days, and conflict coming to an end for the time being, a ceasefire com commencig just a few hours ago that the prime minister be benjamin thate nat warns needenetanyahu warnin. >> the army is ready when needed. the state of israel has to try to achieve a ceasefire which will be continuous. >> tha netanyahu added he agreeo give the ceasefire a chant after speaking with president obama. secretary of state clinton announced the ceasefire at a joint press conference with the egyption foreign minister, secretary clinton praised egyptian president, and muslim brotherhood member

lou: let me ask you this. because you are keenly aware of the impact of public policy on our markets and our economy. based on what we are reporting tonight, the demeanor of this president, the insult, there is no other way that i can think of to construe what timothy geithner carried over to speaker boehner today. i don't know why he bothered to make the trip. that was an insult. the markets tonight and tomorrow and i'm talking about asia and europe, they are going to be extremely volatile in reaction. do you not agree? >> i agree with you and i think the markets were watching us. individuals were watching us. this is real drama, it is serious. saturday is december 1. we coullget a substantial del and we could lower people's rates and bring in revenue. but we couldhave an economy with a lot of vitality to create jobs. or we could go into contraction. lou: senator richard shelby, thank you so much. much more on these negotiations over what would be tax hikes and $1.2 trillion on the first of january. we will b

. ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs.he week-long escalation of israeli-palestinian violence has seen thousands of rockets launched into the jewish state from gaza, more than 2,000 started air strikes by the israeli military in response. hundreds are dead or injured, and the world's top diplomat has been sent into the fray. talks of a truce brokered by egypt began to heat up, president obama dispatched secretary of state clinton to the middle east in what is being called an emergency mission, mission to augment efforts by you in chief of find a diplomatic way to avoid an all-out ground war between israel and the moss. as of tonight, no deal has been reached. ambassador michael moran saying israel is looking for a lasting solution, not just a temporary halt to the ongoing violence. telling fox news that clinton is not there to put her imprint on an already agreed to cease fire but they're for diplomacy. eight top hamas official echoing those remarks telling reuters that israel has yet to even respond to proposals and that

lou: thank you. more on the fiscal cliff and what would happen if congress were to fail to reach a deal with the president with the "a-team" coming up next. >> how much should we pay in taxes to the government? a prominent economist says which go back to the time times of let to beaver and pay up. how does 91% feel to you? would pick it up in the "chalk talk." rocket attacks and the israeli response. our president is pivoting to asia as thunder rolls over the middle east. former commander joins us here next. lou: tensions on the rise in the middle east tonight, hamas firing thousands of rockets into israel as our best middle east outline defends itself against airstrikes. joining us in just moments. it was optimism that ruled wall street today. optimism over the possibility of a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, optimistic about the housing market showing strength, sales of existing homes of over 2%, even building optimism rose to the highest levels to six years last month. investors jumping in with bo

lou: brass tacks. we talk about raising the top rate-- the top rate0ce ilmost 40% i don't know thet th impact baidu have a sneaking a suspicion the president is not aware individual taxnment payments to the governmentr thbu has risen by 25% over the face two years. the answer is growth. in >> private sector growth is the only way out. 800 billion a stimulus, interest-rate printing money like it is going goddess style. 39.six tax rate you don't add 10 said payroll tax. those are small businessesth. the larger corporations seee taa the corporate tax rate go down.ll be it the businesses hit are thosere that create jobs that areme not there today. ge >> the same with obamacare, rea, and labor cost. lou: what if i told do thatgivee give them at the margin would you once on taxes. de whether investment, capping deductions, i think that made sense to most people. get that done then say what will you do? you will still be left with the deficit and that will mean cutting the federal budget. >> eventh if increas

lou: all right. i love it. >> there we go. 547,000 democrats have voted early or cast an absentee ballot early or have requested an absentee ballots compared to 470,000 republicans. decrats traditionally out in votes and republicans carry election day. for example, four years ago 712,000 democrats that voted early cast an absentee ballot. 372 republicans. already there are 70,000 -- excuse me, 90,000 more republicans that have voted in four years ago. 165,000 fewer democrats. that is a swing of 2,603,000 away from the democrats in toward the republicans. guess what, obama's margin was 262,000 in no way, most of it fueled by a huge turnout in early voting, and that he lost the election day voting to make romney. so this is not a good sign commend i have been watching this trend for a week. the margins are gettg bigger. on tuesday it was 50 some odd thousand. now it is larger than what obama won the state by a in 2008. this is a bad sign for president obama, and we see it reflected in the polls as well