buckle up, lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody. perilously close to falling to the radical islamist groups known as the islamic state. baghdad now within their reach. president obama has decided to turn to congress for help. two weeks ago the president ignored congress and choose to exchange five of the most dangerous radical islamists in the world for a soldier or early believed to have deserted. tonight president obama is looking to the same congress he ignored for answers on the rapidly deteriorating situation. here he is in the rose garden today offering little in the way of answers and changing his tune on including congress and the process. >> we will be monitori the situation very carefully. our top priority will remain being vigilant. we will consult closely with congress, and we will continue to keep the american people fully informed as we make decisions. lou: you will like to remember the president dennis declared 32 times on the campaign trail on mentioning his administration's success. >> we succeeded in our strategy t

lou dobbs.com. a groundbreaking study finds the male named hurricanes or those assigned female names are twice as deadly as the males counterparts. looking into this they suspect the reason is people don't consider hurricanes with female names as risky and don't take the same precaution. which is peculiar to me because i would think most people would understand nothing quite as dangerous as -- well, we will continue with that in aoment. jan brewer outrage looking inmates caught in texas then let go in arizona. are there no links this administration will go to show how fast the insurgency of government is? of government is? my commentary is next. looks like we're about to board. mm-hmm. i'm just comparing car insurance rates at progressive.com. is that where they show the other guys' rates, too? mm-hmm. cool. yeah. hi. final boarding call for flight 294. [ bells ring on sign ] [ vehicle beeping ] who's ready for the garlic festival? this guy! bringing our competitors' rates to you -- now, that's prog

lou: we'll take this up in moments. also tonight, he was targeted by obama justice department, for her reporting on benghazi, former cbs news investigative journal is sheryl at kis at -- s joining us. >> and irs claiming that lois lernery e-mails are lost but they also destroyed hard drive from which they originateed. our first guest said that president's options in iraq stem from years of disengagement by this administration, and u.s., will do its part, it is up to the iraqis as a sovereign nation, joining us congressman buck mckean. it is great to have you with us. >> thank you, lou. lou: the president contradicting himself as we reported at outset of the broadcast, he also seemed to embrace greater ambiguity for greater explanation for the american people. after you listen to the president, where are we headed in iraq? >> i am confused as i think you and your listeners. the president has done this before, we went through the same thing with syria. then we asked russia to pull our fat out of the fire, now we look to i

lou dobbs.com. a groundbreaking study finds the male named hurricanes or those assigned female names are twice as deadly as the males counterparts. looking into this they suspect the reason is people don't consider hurricanes with female names as risky and don't take the same precaution. which is peculiar to me because i would think most people would understand nothing quite as dangerous as -- well, we will continue with that in a moment. jan brewer outrage looking inmates caught in texas then let go in arizona. are there no links this administration will go to show how fast the insurgency of government is? my commentary is next. stay with us. we're moving our company to new york state. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state creating d

lou: iraq 1991. >> yes.e we took treasure. $56 billion that we moved a half million men, as you well know, in there to rescue the kuwaitis from saddam hussein's. but we were paid back. >> we were paid back for the -- yak, sure. for that operation. i understand that. lou: should we not expect that? should we not have that kind of discussion here? >> well, in terms of financial payback for conducting military operations, i have no problem with that. lou: the cost of that military operation, 56 billion. we start out with over $2 trillion in all. >> i understand that, but this is -- we are talking here the national security of the american people, and europeans as well as the middle east. that is what is at risk. lou: general -- >> if we let the iraqis and their ineptitude drive us here to a total frustration where we walk away and say this is helpless, that would be irresponsible. lou: i could not agree more, but also if we permit ourselves to be beguiled by a european union that has absolutely zero interest in

colonel always great to see you. >> thank you, lou. lou: ralph peters. veterans affair scandal going from bad to worse, 7 v.a. medical centers in midwest also had lengthy delays and they put veterans on secret wait lists like the phoenix facility. according to associated press, facilities in kansas, missouri, illinois, and indiana had nearly a hundred veterans total who waited more than 9 days for treatment, and the -- 90 days for treatment, and white house is reportedly considering nominateing ceo of cleveland clinic to be next secretary of v.a., dr. toby cosgrove, a decorated vietnam veteran who led clinic since 2004. >> bills keep piling up for some of the stkaeuts thas states thah of their obamacare web site, "wall street journal" analysis finds 5 of those, maryland, massachusets, in iniin i minnes, and oregon will have to spend a quarter of a billion to fix that site or switch to the federal web site that is considered a difficult choice. we're coming right back. tea party alive and well in mississippi, forcing a 6 term republican incumbent into a r

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lou: thank you general jack keane. >> thank you, lou. lou: for more on rodz radical is last ims we traded -- radical islamists tres we traded for set bergdahl, i am joined by walid phares. 5 senior taliban, how valuable val they to the taliban, and what risk are we taking in releasing them to surveillance and custody of gat ar? >> well -- qatar? >> this came as result of negotiations as we know for a long time. many years, and through qatar third party. and most likely have refuseed to exchange. they are ones that requested the generals, these are very important commanders for the taliban in my view, if tkwat ar qatar was involved this means there was a political future for these generals in the taliban, this is bigger than just exchangeing warlords for a sergeant this is about the future of afghanistan in my view. >> perhaps that is why afghan government expresss outrage at this deal? >> they should. imagine in world war ii we would exchange fore or -- 4 or 5 nazi generals for the sake of one sergeant, it is always important, our allies

lou: general, thanks so much. general jack keane. >> good talking to you, lou. lou: freed army sergeant bowe bergdahl flying back to the united states, he's expected to arrive in san antonio, texas sometime after midnight local time there to go to brook medical. bergdahl is not expected to make any public appearances during the final phase of his reintegration process following five years in taliban captivity. he's treatment will continue at the army medical center spending under two weeks in germany. >>> the daily beast explains at least in part why he left fellow troops in 2009. bergdahl reportedly writing, quote, that leadership was lacking, if not nonexistent. it is also important to put in context everything he says which goes to the fact that he received a psychological discharge from the united states coast guard before seeking to join the united states army. why was that not flagged? that will be part of the story as we move forward. >>> plenty of jockeying on capitol hill today. house republicans have to decide who will replace eric cantor as the next m

hands of one of the best ever, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, these are dire times. president obama's policies on immigration have led to an orchestrated march on our southern border with tens of thousands of unaccompanied children. and policies in iraq have led to a march on baghdad by radical islamists who are now an army, an army that is conquering cities, large numbers of iraqis are now either fleeing that army or under the control of the islamic state of iraq and the lavante, the isl. swaths of northern iraq and eastern syria, including the iraqi cities of mosul and tikrit. and apparently, this threat was not perceived by either the national security council or the president who had said just six months ago that these radical islamists, these terrorists, were the, quote, jv, the same president who just yesterday made this astounding declaration about the state of violence in the world today. >> the world is less violent than it has ever been. it is healthier than it has ever been. it is more tolerant than it has ever bee charles: fewer than 24 hours later, mr. o

nice to be with you, lou.racism that we have identified someone serving long in capitol hill could go down to defeat. do you think that cochran -- john cochran will lose? >> this is a close race. an open primary like this. i look at the plan in the way of an all-time southern senator. he was not a party activist as much as what he did despises policy moves. at policy or military policy, whenever. lou: and charlie rangel, langford, we are looking at some really interesting races. you know, there is no sense here because leaders jack had polling numbers. maybe you do. >> like it, charlie rangel has been around a long, long time. his big problem is it has changed. this might be their race that gets them. you know, oklahoma, exclusively democratic to almost exclusively republicans. this disappearance of the boll weevil. it is really an interesting change. the danger that i see in a place like mississippi or even georgia which we have not talked about, of people are enlightened democrats, and they're is so much mud

lou: in.unemployment rate high, whyis d think he would have an impull impulse given his racial make up, why withk he not understand that jobs have to be created to rising tides with all boats, this nonsense. >> he is a politician first, and a democrat, democrat has fighty to the labor unions. his party needs to funding them, you see president sides with labor on minimal wage laws, and sides with labor on against walmart, building a store in a depressed neighborhood that could used jobs, liberals would rather, that blacks in those neighborhoods be unemployed, it is shameful. lou: please stol helping us -- stop helping us, jason riley's cry, thank you. >> thank you. lou: time for your comments. >> diane tweeted, u.s. foreign policy has gone crazy, now is not the time to put advisors in iraq. >> and a sign of insanity to do the same thing over, and over and expect different results, here we go again, picking sides in the middle east. >> a free copy of my new novel will be shipped to the arthurs o

lou: welcome back. folks in northeastern nebraska are trying to do what they can after a storm system created dual tornadoes. the tornadoes tore through the community simultaneous into people were killed, as storms are forecast for tonight eastern montana all the way to new york. the ones that are won't be as powerful as yesterday's system in all likelihood. and the iraqi prime minister calling for unity between sunnis and shiites tonight after saudi arabia promoting genocide. my next guest served as u.s. ambassador. and ambassador, it is good to have you with us. let me ask you first, how critical and how urgent is the president's decision on whether to step in to iraq again, and by what degree you right now? >> first, we have to recognize that the huge sacrifices that were made during the surge, and the progress that was made as a result of that in the 2007 to 2009 period of time, they have all been evaporated because of the mistake of the policies and because of president obama's decision to withdraw

lou: see where it leads. thank you very much doctor. >> thanks, lou. lou: the president's nonenforcement of immigration law, turning three of our military bases for homes for illegal immigrant children. a congressman joins us to tell us what in the world is going on? i ys say be thman with the plan but with less ergy, moodiness, i had to do something. i saw mdoctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the onlynderarm low t treaent that can restore t vels to normal in about two weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especlly those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avoidt where axirons applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or incased acne in women may occur. report these symptoms to your doctor. tell your doctorbout all medical conditions and medications. serious side effects could include increased sk of prostate cancer, worsening prostate symptoms, decreased sperm count, a

lou: good evening. breaking news tonight the house oversight committee determining to dade the internal revenue service broke federal law during the ongoing cover-up of the irs scandal. lawmakers said agencies are required by law when records are destroyed her deleted to emphasize the irs failed to inform the national archives that her emails were lost and failed to notify the archives that the computer hard drive had been destroyed. >> i've got a lawyer. >> you administer the federal records act if they did not follow it could be safely assumed they broke the law? >> they did not follow the law and targeted of compiling information while working for the irs made through november of last year but o'connor claims she learned of the missing emails only last week. >> when did you first learn there were emails missing? >> i burned the emails were missingt of the computer crashed the week before last. >> key we're in charge may through november of compiling information and for congress and you never heard be

, here is lou. lou: good evening, breaking news, you are looking at live pictures from a house oversight committee hearing, irs commissioner john is to testify about e-mail servers that were allegedly destroyed, two years of lois lerner e-mail lost and those of 6 other higher level irs employees, adding to the coincidence distruction of her hard drive. her computer of quote unquote, recycleed. we take that up with katie, jedediah bila, and also, president obama appears ready to recommit american force to defend the iran an supported al-maliki government, prime minister min gave u.s. troops i thin irkhewnty from -- immunitym prosecution should they need to use force. >> president obama has not declared he will wait. he has made it clear in his most resense statement he is preparing with the increaseed intelligence, and work that military is doing. and president is prepared to take action when and if the president decides that is important. lou: we'll have more on the secretary's day in baghdad, and a

lou: in "the people vs.u talk about the currency of this administration as bribery. what do you mean? >> well, there's no question that bribery from the distribution of funding under the stimulus package, all of that faup falls under the rubric of bribery. the real case i'm making is this is a mafia-like organization where the president of the united states can sit up top, issue vague commands and somebody low down on the chain will pick those up and run with them. that what we've seen with the irs. i don't believe every conspiracy need ace smoking gun, you have the president issuing blanket statements about the way the world should be magically, the way people proceed make the world conform to what he wishes it were. lou: let me take you to this point quickly, senator sessions says there is the idea that there's impeachment and there is holding back funding. the fact is one is not enough, the others judge too much. this man, as you described him, as head of a criminal enterprise in effect, why would impeach

fax, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everyone. senior u.s. officials confirming to fox news that syria and iran have joined the ride in a rack. their governments are providing military assistance to would be a rack and shiite dominated government as obama since 300 u.s. military advisers into a rack and presumably, ultimately this fight. the iraqi prime minister rejecting the president's call for a new inclusive government. and he ignored the outside forces that look to determine iraq's futuregovernment formation is still urgent so that we can begin to make decisions necessary to protect iraq without outside forces moving to fill the vacuum. >> those forces are already engaged in combat against them. "the wall street journal" reports warplanes have struck targets, killing 50, injuring more than a hundred civilians while targeting strongholds in the area. employing more than a dozen officers who advised the iraqi army on intelligence and help mobilize 2000 militiamen from southern iraq. we will be talking with the pentagon official in official

lou: what you think about honesty, truth, justice? >> lou dobbs for president. [laughter] >> i have so much integrity, i wouldn't think of that. [laughter] >> we need lou dobbs right here. we want juan williams, ed rollins committed you so much. the fbi opening a criminal investigation into wrongdoing at the veterans affairs department. that comes as officials with the va health care system in the mexico say that they have identified at least 25 veterans who died while waiting to see a doctor in albuquerque, adding new outrage to this scandal. there are reports today that the va ended up with 100 million witnesses bonuses. and a superior court judge in los angeles has ruled that california's teacher tenure laws are unconstitutional. and the judge saying that such laws are making it hard to fire grossly ineffective teachers. as a result with a disproportionate burden on the northeast students. this judge needs to be celebrated across the country. the teachers unions are vowing to appeal that ruling. but the decision could change hiring and firing policies nationw

lou: wow. and here's chairman dave camp, barely able to contain his anger at the man who presides proudly over a politically corrupt organization and one that is now trying desperately to cover up the entire scandal. >> what i didn't hear in that was an apology to this committee. >> i don't think an apology is owed. not a single e-mail has been lost since the start of the this investigation, every e-mail has been preserved that we have that we will produce or produced by the end of this. >> you don't think the time period between january 2009 to 2011 is relevant to the investigation. lou: here's what we need to know, why were lerner's hard drives destroyed as the irs claims? why did the commissioner and predecessors not insociety of protection of the hard drives and every other record of the e-mails? why didn't koskinen tell congress and the american people as soon as he learned the e-mails were lost. why didn't any irs employee either in information technology or administration or any irs offi

lou: what about the other? think he is exactly right, this country, it can be a terrible thing. >> you had your shot, i'm going to take mine. my view is that this country is, well, 60 years further along. and we need to take note of it. the platitudes in the cotruct of language about race and the outcomes. they constitute, to me, a revisionism that is unacceptable to let me tell you the sty. my mother is not six years old and went to segregated elementary. that is my mother. so when you say that we are 60 years, not something a long time. the one i'm talking about my mother, who's not even six years old, just retired, went to elementary school in the north, north, i think we really have to take accountability to the reality of the history of the country and the fact that the opportunity is not there for everyone. so it's an ongoing struggle. it's not something from the past. and it should be everyone's struggle. lou: that is your view. lou: if i may, i was there in the 60s. >> i read the book too. lou: so you c

lou dobbs is next. keep it here on fox business. lou: good evening, everyone. the story of sergeant bergdahl has captivated millions this week. that the military commanders and democratic politicians have been urging us not to rush to judgment until the military specifically understand and gathers everything that we can learn about his alleged desertion and the reasons why. most of them have been in the public arena for two years. two years to the day tomorrow. it was published on june 7, 2012. the hastings article detailed a majority of the claims we heard rumored this week and michael is the same journalist was killed under some vicious circumstances a year ago this month in a single car accident in los angeles. and there are new developments tonight, reasons for new reflection on the events that led to his death. witnesses say that his brand-new mercedes-benz coupe began spontaneously before hitting a palm tree on the 18th of june last year. earlier that day he had confided to friends that he believed he was being investigated by the fbi. investigated becaus

getting you set for the weekend, lou dobbs coming up next. lou: good evening, everyone. obama tonight waiting the republican party and the national media for his decisions in leadership, failures, discrepancies, president obama talking with supporters outside minneapolis, st. paul, where claimed republicans for blocking what otherwise are highly effective proposed solutions, claiming that republicans are standing in the way of the country being a nation of laws. one day after the supreme court unanimously ruled against him, ruling that his appointment violated the constitution. and he blamed republicans for the ongoing illegal immigration crisis at our southern border after his own executive actions and rhetoric have spurred a humanitarian crisis on our border with mexico. >> i just want to be blunt. if you watch the news, washington is a mass. the basic attitude is that everyone is crazy. >> you're worried about me trying to fix a broken immigration system. let's hold hands and make sure that this country continues to be a nation of immigrants. i want to work with you,

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lou: did evening, everyone. president obama facing a firestorm of criticism for breaking the law and trading five taliban terrorist detainees at guantÁnamo bay. but the president insists that he will not be making any apologies. here he is in brussels today. >> we had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated. we were deeply concerned about only saw an opportunity and we seized it. i make no apologies for that. >> that is quite a statement from the president considering that he began his presidency as though he would never stop making apologies. do you remember those days? at least he apologized for previous presidents. here is president obama talking with us and 2009. >> my job is to communicate that americans are not your enemy. we sometimes make mistakes. we have not been perfect. lou: it is clear that this president has broken a law that was passed specifically to prevent the release of terrorist detainees from guantÁnamo bay. and then he ignored each and every one of the intelligence agencies that he

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but right now, the man is lou dobbs. lou: , good evening, everyone. the u.s. supreme court returned law to the most flawless demonstration in the history of the country. the president's recess appointment to the labor relations board 2.5 years ago, he violated the constitution and the courts decision was unanimous. all nine justices agreeing that the president appointments were illegal because the senate was indeed in session and senate approval was required. the national review reported this is the 12 time at all nine supreme court justices have rejected this administration. some of those high-profile rulings include upholding the arizona state law curbing the epa powers versus the clean water act in idaho. that ruling allowing them to appeal the federal poverty and the landmark ruling this week of the search and seizure of a cell phone becoming a violation of the law. suggesting the extent of the nature of this administration. before president obama took office just a third of the supreme court decisions were passed unanimously. half of their 57 rulings have

coming up next is lou dobbs. lou: it evening, everyone from a , a number of developing stories at this hour. the irs commissioner was defined as he appeared before the house ways and means committee today. the irs had refused to give any apology for failing to tell congress that for five months these lois learn enough have been lost. and the only reason the internal revenue service admitted that her hard drive had been destroyed, was because congress finally asked. >> what i didn't hear and that was an apology. >> not a single e-mail has been law since the start of the investigation feeling thousands of children coming across the border from mexico cannot remain. including the deportation executive order and that spurred the humanitarian crisis in the first place. end jay johnson finally heading back from texas to see the it extent of the crisis. his first visit to the border since january. and this includes his crisis and not waiting for the national guard to protect the border. and back home the pentagon mimick

lou >>> good evening, everybody. the entire obama administration tonight seems to be reeling from the political and media blowback against the president's release of five deadly radical islamist terrorists in exchange for one soldier. a soldier who appears to have become deeply dissociated from his comrades in arms from the army and from america. a deserter whose former fellow soldiers now say should be charged with desertion. the taliban today released this video of their handoff of sergeant bowe bergdahl to u.s. special forces in just one example of an administration in disarray, the state department would then not even verify nor even acknowledge that the images in this video are actually sergeant bergdahl. here is state department spokesperson marie harf haplessly responding to media questions about bergdahl and the video. >> i think i probably refer to the statement by my colleague at the pentagon, admiral kirby, who said we're aware of the video allegedly released by the taliban showing the transfer. >> while h

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we have sandra, lou, check it out. new prisoner questions that freed bowe bergdahl in exchange for a terrorist dream team, five high ranking members of the taliban. president obama using blunt language to support the swap. this as fox news confirms with sources who had debriefed two former members of bergdahl's unit. here is the president. >> regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an american soldier back that was held in captivity. period. full stop. we don't condition that. >> well, we are also hearing from bergdahl's former platoon members who until now were barred from speaking about his disappearance. some saying they can't believe the headlines calling him a hero and that he ought to be prosecuted. >> some of the activities before he deserted made tell tale signs of this, mailing his stuff home beforehand, the emails you mentioned, him talking about the terrain extensively, talking to the afghan national police in a way that was not about hearts and minds. t

so one guy gave lou -- if you were a that, you could buy an airplane. lou was given $5,000, $100 bills so he went to the center, bought an airplane, the kind of flow for in india. he wound up going over to israel and at that time, this is more than you asked by will give it to you, the israel air force had no planes at all. the only thing they could get, they got four screwed up mr. schmidt 109s that were put together with bomber engines and mismatched parts from czechoslovakia. flew them into israel and they were not even bolted together yet and meanwhile the egyptian army was coming up the coast toward tel aviv which was only 60 miles. there was a famous fight where women fought in the trenches against the advancing egyptian brigade so anyway lew was planning to take his four planes and attack this based. suddenly into the air base where they are comes the jeep with a guy who was in charge of the jewish forces defending against the egyptian army coming up so he said lou, we need your plane and lou said don't worry, we are attacking tomorrow. you don't

i mean, lou, you got to realize what we released here. we released the equivalent of the deputy secretary of defense, deputy secretary of interior, deputy secretary of intelligence, governor and a commander and all of the asse assessments suggest that they'll be back on the battled fefield they go back, we'll put american lives at risk to get them. why in the world did they even make the calculation of how much risk we were going to put americans in to do that before they made this release? i think it was a bad deal. >> as the secretary responded, they did not make that calculation. and american lives are put at risk. those assessments also don't include a statement as to why it was necessary to be so urgent in the decision making and creating the exchange. did you get any part of that in response by the secretary? >> lou, you got none of it. the administration just lied about this. they said they would not do it without consultation with congress. they did not live up to that promise. the second thing is they just broke the law. this adm