lou: it is. it's a city run by a man who until this point, until this very day, have been one of those leading a national campaign of hatred against law enforcement, a campaign as i've said in this broadcast, a campaign of ignorance, that's got to end. it is at this point not ending. >> i think -- i think he's going to have to realize that that rhetoric, that anti-cop, racist rhetoric that's been perpetrated by him and sharpton primarily in this city, it has to stop. this, the assassin of these tops, he had mental illness. if you want to dig down and look at things. why was this guy out on the street? you can look at the criminal justice system. why he went to prison. why he wasn't treated. they'll get into that. at the end of the day, that guy killed those two cops because he believed all the things that was said by de blasio, by sharpton and others about the michael brown and garner incidents. things that were lies. things that were lies. they were lies perpetrated over the last several weeks,

lou: general bob scales, thanks. >> thank you, lou.: we asked whether you believe this president is more of an autocrat than a democrat. 96% of you said yes. vote in our poll tonight, the question would a military strike against north korea be an appropriate response to cyberattacks against this country? cast your vote at loudobbs.com. we'd like to hear from you. >>> up next, president obama's imperiast rule in stark contrast to bush bashing campaigns, remember those and litany of promises to, well, to reduce the imperial presidency to something more appropriate. more american. more constrained. do you remember that? we do. and we'll quote the president and show you his own words, next. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!" then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement, we'll pay for a car that's a model yea

lou: good evening, everybody. breaking news tonight, president obama just moments ago signed the executive amnesty heard that he laid out last night. republicans had vowed to do everything in their power to stop him, but they overestimated that power. and they've left town now for the holidays. house speaker john boehner, however, before leaving blasted the president for acting on his own and repeated his threat that real bipartisan immigration reform is now dead in the incoming congress. >> with this action, the president has chosen to deliberately sabotage any chance of enacting bipartisan reforms that he claims to seek, and as i told the president yesterday, he's damaging the presidency itself. president obama has turned a deaf ear to the people that he was elected and we were elected to serve, but we will not do that. lou: house judiciary committee chairman congressman bob good lot called for a hearing. he said, quote -- so what tools are available? appropriations committee chairman congressman howell rogers c

lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody. breaking news tonight. we are now less than five hours away from another government shutdown. house speaker john boehner's year long omnibus combined with a funding extension of the department of homeland security is officially going nowhere, at least right now. the house earlier in the day barely passed a rules procedural hurdle to even bring the spending bill to the floor. house leadership then resorted to a last minute round of arm twisting to procure the last vote needed to move forward, and they won the vote by one vote. shortly thereafter, president obama announced his support for the boehner plan. here is josh earnest trying to explain why the president sided with republicans in the house. >> there is a significant benefit associated with congress acting responsibly to pass a budget without the threat of a shutdown. and to do so over an extended period of time. over a full year. it provides the kind of certainty that's important to our economy. and that is among the reasons why the president supports

lou: general bob scales, thanks. >> thank you, lou.: we asked whether you believe this president is more of an autocrat than a democrat. 96% of you said yes. vote in our poll tonight, the question would a military strike against north korea be an appropriate response to cyberattacks against this country? cast your vote at loudobbs.com. we'd like to hear from you. >>> up next, president obama's imperiast rule in stark contrast to bush bashing campaigns, remember those and litany of promises to, well, to reduce the imperial presidency to something more appropriate. more american. more constrained. do you remember that? we do. and we'll quote the president and show you his own words, next. . lou: breaking news now, the department of homeland security review of the secret service accusing the agency of being insular and in need of a new director, a director from outside the scandal plagued agency. the panel was made up of two former obama and two former bush staffers, and it's the second highly critical report on the secret service since a

lou: jason reilly, thanks for being here. >> thank you, lou. lou: good see you.day stocks moved lower, seems so ip significant, doesn't it? a day of volatile trading. now it seems a little more significant, the dow down 17, the nasdaq dropping 57. volume on the big board, volume picking up to 4.9 billion shares. what's going on here? volatility and higher volume, something to watch. crude oil, a four-day losing streak was broken today, settling just below $56 a barrel. construction of new homes, however, fell 1.6% last month. a reminder to listen to my financial reports each day three times a day on the salem radio network. >>> i up next, the white house assault on law enforcement agencies and officers. now turning their focus to the grand jury system. whether or not to deprive police officers of the same rights granted to criminal suspects. we'll see, next. ♪ you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boili

himself, lou dobbs. keep it right here fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. president obama conducting his annual year-end news conference. not surprisingly he declared this year to be one of his very best. what a very accomplishment and success without note of the historic wave victories in the midterm elections. the historically low number of democrats who will be there on capitol hill in the new year. president obama began his press conference by acknowledging that north korea was behind the breach of the sony pictures computer system. he admonished sony for canceling the release of the new film "the interview." obama: sony is a corporation. it suffered significant damage. there were threats against its employees. i am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. i wished they had spoken to me first. i would have told them: do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of attacks. lou: i have to give the president credit. he's never given a direct answer to a question. the irony

lou: she should. helping other people is of blessing but now it has overwhelmed the white house and much of washington and the first lady has fallen in line with her husband's administration now her story is one of racial discrimination and. ignorance is now operated is time to call leaders for the hypocritical words and unseemly conduct. america and should fail to respond to the words from the man who says he is our leader. maybe now we are awakening to what this administration is. the new poll finds that a majority of us a race relations are bad compared to 40% to say they're a good. that is a lawless level since 1995. but the public's view of president obama uh the poll found that they would take a different approach than president obama. i'll ask the president to apologize but i ensure you now i expect nothing at all from president obama. to accuse americans of racism now clinton looks to echo the shocking remarks to raise the ante. raise the ante. next. ♪ oh what fun it is to ride. raise the ante

lou? lou: thank you very much, rick leventhal. the house tonight passing its bill designed to stop president obama's executive action conferring amnesty on millions of illegal immigrants. the bill says the president does not have the authority to decide which categories of illegal immigrants can be deport. it passed the house by a vote of 219 to 197. three democrats voted in favor of the legislation. congressman john barrow of georgia, mike mcintyre of north carolina, colin peterson of minnesota. barrow defeated in the midterms mcintyre retiring and peterson won 13th term in congress. >>> three republicans protested they cast a vote of simply present. congressman steve king of iowa, raul labrador of idaho, paul g gosar of arizona. they have unique constituencies, the white house will veto the legislation even though it's unlikely the democratic senate will take it up. fox news chief correspondent mike emanuel with our report. >> reporter: on a mostly party-line vote, house lawmakers passed a bill written by one of its most conserv

lou? lou: wendell, thank you, wendell goler from the white house. >>> secretary johnson on how american workers would be impacted by the president's executive amnesty, especially as a result of obamacare. >> do i keep the american worker and provide health insurance or pay a $3,000 fine or do i get rid of the american worker and hire someone i do not have to provide health insurance and i won't get find, is that a possibility? >> i don't see it that way. >> you don't think any employers see it that way. >> i don't think i see it that way, no, sir. lou: he doesn't see it that way. and this is how the administration deals with reality. the middle class already being squeezed with spending up about 2% since 2007. incomes however have risen less than half a percent over the same period. middle class forced to cut spending on everything from clothing to eating out due to steep rise on spending on health care, rent, cell phones and the internet. the federal government however, slowing down not a

lou? lou: greg, thank you greg palkot from london. >>> in this country turning to the obama administration and left wing assault on law enforcement, new york city mayor bill de blasio today met with new york police department and union leaders behind closed doors. their face-to-face meeting cams at largest and most diverse police department is bracing for anti-cop protesters. they plan to storm the times square new year's eve celebration tomorrow night. fox news correspondent david lee miller with the latest for us. >> reporter: new york city mayor bill de blasio met with the leaders of five police unions and police commissioner bill bratton to improve relations between the department and the city's chief executive. the meeting behind closed doors when it was over the head of the police benevolent association who accused of mayor of having blood on his hands after two police officers were slain had little to say over what was accomplished. >> there was no resolve and our thought here today

lou? back to you. lou: will carr, thanks. much more on the demonstrations and the attacks on local law enforcement. we'll be talking with milwaukee county sheriff david clark. >>> turning to capitol hill, congressional leaders unveil more than one trillion dollar spending bill to keep the federal government running. the 1600-page document does absolutely nothing to stop the president's executive action on amnesty other than put a shorter time frame on funding for the homeland security department. it would run out next february instead of next september. house speaker boehner tried to frame that as a positive but conservatives aren't buying it. >> tomorrow, will pass a responsible bill that keeps the government running. without the threat of a government shutdown, this sets up a direct challenge to the president's unilateral actions on immigration when we have new majorities in both chambers of congress. >> i feel they are asking us to punt on first down without any effort to get a first do

lou: it has to. the president also asked about working with a new republican congress next year and the looming battles over his rule by fiat. mr. obama had one suggestion for the republican leadership: he thinks it would be democratic, progressive and in harmony if they would simply pass the bills he tells them he's willing to sign. obama: if executive actions on areas like minimum wage or equal pay or having a more sensible immigration system are important to republicans, if they care about those issues, and the executive actions are bothering them, there's a very simple solution. and that is: pass bills. and work with me to make sure i sign those bills. lou: now mr. obama off to hawaii for 17 days of vacation with his family. our first guest says president obama's final press conference only affirms his contempt for the separation of powers. joining me, host of huckabee on the fox news channel. thank you for being here. >> the christmas gift is that obama is gone for 17 days. we won't have to hear

. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everyone. left-wing assault on american law enforcement agencies and the grand jury system has been officially joined, it seems, by the republican party. congresswoman cathy mcmorris rogers, chair of the house republicans conference along with how speaker john boehner is now calling for a congressional hearing into the death of actor garner and michael brown and the grand jury decision that cleared officers darren wilson and daniel pantaleo. >> certainly both of these are serious tragedies that we have seen in our society. and i think the american people would like to understand more what the facts were. and there are a lot of unanswered questions that americans have and that i have. i do think the american people deserve more answers about what really happened here and was our system of justice handled properly. lou: house leaders that are republican joined by george w. bush and told another network today that i thought how sad the verdict was hard to understand. it is sad that race continues

lou? lou: mike emanuel reporting from capitol hill. the optics on the drama on capitol hill in the final days of the 113th congress are impressive. president obama fighting hard to get his fellow democrats to support john boehner's trillion dollar spending bill. the lame duck either tired of six years of fighting over budgets or the president is giving a preview of possible compromise when divided government leans far more right in january. chief white house correspondent ed henry with our report. >> reporter: if this was the first postelection test of president obama's juice, he stumbled. despite sending denis mcdonough to twist arms behind closed doors, it was the revolt of house democrats who declared that the commander in chief is a lame duck. >> if the president is lobbying, we do not like it and we're saying do not be intimidated by anybody. >> reporter: democrats upset about a provision rolling back wall street reforms. 139 democrats voted against the bill and the president. the whi

lou: good evening, everybody. president obama for all the world today looked like a community organizerment the president assembling five democratic mayors, the leaders of 22 nonprofit organizations two, universities, seven members of his own administration, the police commissioners of baltimore and philadelphia and four representatives from the faith community to talk about how to change policing in the aftermath of the ferguson grand jury decision. there was not a single corporate leader, not a small businessman or woman. a union president or even a republican in the group. it appears that we are that the point that a man can say whatever he wishes without consequences or his lack of respect for the judicial process and law and order. >> you won the first round, mr. prosecutor, but don't cut your gloves off. because the fight's not over. justice will come to ferguson! >> al sharpton, the fact he was at the white house gives some you idea how the president intends to lead when a young black man steals from a conv

lou: mr. obama, on occasion can be outrage usually contra dec tree, and self righteous council this time to our youth. to equate now to a half century earlier then doing so calling for persistence. at what task he does not say, and talking likely thinks there is a latter day martin luther king, almost 6 years ago attorney general holder accused american z of being as he put it cowards, when it comes to race. but who are the cowards when this administration tries to hide behind race to slow. to blunt or avoid criticism of their failed policies, and judgments. >> attorney general saying there was as he put it some months ago racial an mouse in those opposeing obama's policy, for obama talked his way to job his holds, declaring there is not a liberal america, and a conservative america, there is the united state of of america. and americans bought his perceived call for unity, but a detective aid later, there is no evidence of his grand view in practice in action. instead. his divisive, skpeupb s

hands of lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody. for the first time in our nation's history, a sitting president has called for demonstrations in streets across the country. president obama ignoring the rule of law in our nation's most fundamental values to urge those who disagree with grand jury decisions in the michael brown and the eric garner cases to inconvenience their fellow citizens to disrupt our nation's cities. here is our president speaking to the black entertainment television network. >> long as they're peaceful, i think they're necessary. a country's conscience sometimes has to be triggered by inconvenience because i think a lot of people who saw the eric garner video are troubled. even if they haven't had the same experience themselves. even if they're not african-american or latino. there are a lot of good well meaning people. a lot of police officers who might have looked at that and said, you know, that is a tragedy what happened and we've got to figure out what happened, how to bring an end to these kinds of trag

lou: not yet done. president obama also escalating his ongoing assault against law enforcement agencies and officers insulting their training while accusing some departments of fomenting prejudice in ranks and suggesting that americans are racist by nature. >> the vast majority of law enforcement officers are doing a really tough job, and most of them are doing it well. but a combination of bad training in some cases, a combination in some cases of departments that really are not trying to root out biasses, and in a lot of cases, subconscious fear of folks who look different, all of this contributes to a national problem that's going to require a national solution. lou: a national solution for a national problem. two incidents, a national problem? there was a great saying that came out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. mr. obama increasingly looks to be no part of a solution. >>> protesters seem to hardly need the president's enc

lou: good evening. the democratic party is divided over leadership's choice to proceed with the partisan document that you would expect from the dnc. senator dianne feinstein, the head of the senate intelligence committee put out a report without the input of a single republican or cia and leader publishing the highly, highly biased report on the cia enhanced interrogation program that ended eight years ago. senator dianne feinstein admitted on the senate floor that her actions could spur violence against americans and american interests abroad and at home. >> there are those who will seize upon the report and say see what the americans did? and try to use it to justify evil actions and incite more violence, we can't prevent that. history will judge us commit to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. lou: no question history will judge whether favorably is of course a major question. reports out of the white house contradictory, john kerry call dian

talking to you, lou. next, the mayor of one of the country's biggest cities calls the summit counterparts across the country. on how to best implement president obama's unconstitutional immigration fiat. how's that work again? we'll show you here next. lou: joining us now the a-team, ed rollins. michael goodwin. both fox news contributors. let's start with mayor de blasio of new york city, will coordinate bring together mayors to implement the executive fiat of president's delivery? >> it is grandstanding on his part, he is a politician more than a mayor. everything he does is with an eye on politics whether feather bedding with unions or whether it is playing the card. card. >> are you referring to mayor or president. >> i refer to him as -- lou: you have to be impressed, to see 3 successive meetings with a cabinet, and a group of other folks, two are closed one is open, all about how to retrain police. >> we have police to do a fabulous job. they keep us safe, we're safe as a nation. equally as importan

>> absolutely, lou. this is one of those cases where sooner or later, we have to step up to the entire world and show them we not only have the capability but the will to use it in support of freedom of expression, and defending this country. there is absolutely no way that we could continue to mislead the american populace by allowing the hacks to take place and not stating we have the capability nor the will to respond. now, with north korea being off for 10 1/2 hours, if that's the responsibility of the united states government or some patriotic hacktivist group out there, regardless, i think the measure is not enough, as john says, but at the same time, we have to be careful. we've got to make sure we get the leadership's attention, that we have the capability, the will to use, it but can't harm the population to the point we caused geopolitical discontent. >> you know, the geopolitical discontent seems to me mostly right now resides within the united states. the approval rating for our president, fo

lou? lou: thank you, catherine herridge. police in pennsylvania are searching for a former marine reservist suspected in the shooting deaths of at least six people at three houses in the philadelphia suburbs. they were shot and killed before dawn today. investors don't know how bradley william stone is moving around but he is suspected of killing his recently-engaged ex-wife and several members of her family. >>> on capitol hill the threat of a government shutdown is off the table. after the senate cleared a trillion dollar spending bill late saturday night. president obama who joined house republican leaders in pushing for the measure now expected to sign it by wednesday. but the legislation's passage was not an easy feat. conservative republican senators ted cruz and mike lee tried to delay the proceedings by calling for an up-or-down vote on president obama's executive actions on amnesty for illegal immigrants. their effort was rejected. 74-22. and democrats took advantage of the extra time they had to spend in washington

lou: joining us now.s we hear i consider a nonsense carrying out the drumbeat of racial exploitation what are your thoughts? >> i hear the voices proclaiming racism from america and it is disturbing to me. in many of us have experienced it but america is not racist to say we have an african-american president with brown skin and then many caution -- caucasians devoted for him so how does that feel now? we voted for you but i am a racist? lou: and the attorney general calls the said nations of cowards and then retreated into the shadows and now has emerged again. and these are scoundrels seeking refuge in a race and being held accountable. they're behavior is utterly disgraceful for leaders of our nation. >> it takes courage on national television and i'm thankful for that. i am gathering with african-americans and other leaders for dallas texas for reconciliation. and then to have the most racist our in america sunday morning been no people are worshiping together. now love every ethnicity i know that we'

lou: good to have you with us.who insist and open borders once a very big fence around him and his family. he has erected a privacy fence. there is to keep his constituents from looking to a deeply or too often into the tax payer funded manchin it already had a brick wall but we should change the language calling a driver -- ti. willis report is next. have a good weekend. liz: bye now. gerri: hello, everyone. i'm gerri willis. it's a bitter pill for americans to swallow. the rising health care costs affecting everyone. 43 million of us have unpaid medical bills. 43 million. tonight, we'll give you solutions to lowering your family's health costs. joining me now, dr. jeff rice, ceo of health care blue book. remember that name. and doug hersh. jeff, i want to start with you. we want to talk about rising health care costs and what americans can do about it. tell us why costs are rising so much and so

lou: david b. miller. the longest war officially ending over the weekend to complete the 30-year combat mission in afghanistan now un mission for 11,000 troops left in the country advising and assisting afghan security forces to fight the taliban. our fox news correspondent has the report. >> at nato headquarters a hand-picked audience watched the end of nato ground operations after 30 years of war, $1 trillion, 3500 troops killed. a demonstration of obama as promised to end combat operation by year's end. >> because of the service of men and women in american armed forces, afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. we are safer. it will not be a source of terrorist attacks again. >> the same day the flag was rolled up in callable for afghan soldiers were killed repelling the latest attack. 30 years of u.s. involvement has done nothing to change nothing of the tribal allegiance. >> the taliban sees this as an opportunity and we will now see more operations in the near term over 18 months rather t

lou: good to have you with us. a wrap up of the handyman to implement the executive and fiat on amnesty the mayor who insist and open borders once a very big fence around him and his family. he has erected a privacy fence. there is to keep his constituents from looking to a deeply or too often into the tax payer funded manchin it already had a brick wall but we should change the language calling a driver -- privacy rather than security. good night. from new york. neil: welcome, everybody. i am neil cavuto. his ears is the fallout from the saudi racial emails the co-chairman reaches out to two al sharpton and jesse jackson for healing. ab, multitask to bring a checkbook and i know where this is going and so does the reverend peterson. good to have you back. i suspect she will have to do more than say she is sorry? >> no. she will have to pay up been a good fashion. not just apologizing to the black community they have a history

lou: breaking news. the president so desperately wants to close the guantanamo bay detention center is acting unilaterally to open all of cuba. , and the phone with castro 45 minutes if we're told it is the first communication in more than half a century and now with the senate al for the holidays the president chose to announce he is lot weakening the embargo is still talking with the state-sponsored terrorism along with everyone and syrian city of. >> i have instructed secretary kerry to immediately begin discussions with cuba to reestablish diplomatic discussions that a better place since 1961 the united states will establish a embassy in havana and high-ranking officials will visit cuba were recanted france shared interest. and for humanitarian reasons he was released not because of the taliban deal of. made the claim despite to release those espionage as spies on this the same day the cuban government did acknowledge the release of the cuban-born americans as well. surrounded by politicians is that

so lou, i'll start with you.u think that congress should come up with policies for professional sports? >> yeah. i think that's a burning answer. >> why are they involved then? >> it's good politics and them seem pure as the driven snow by standing up against domestic abuse. let's leave out the anti-trust exception the nfl enjoys. local taxpayer money spent to build stadiums and the profits that go to the owners, let's forget all of that and the fact the nfl is a not for profit organization. let's focus on ray rice. i'm saying to you that ray rice, by the way, i don't know whether he'll play football again or not but he'll make money in this lawsuit against the nfl. he's going to own a big chunk. >> really? >> oh, yeah. what goodell has done and what the nfl has done with the momentum given him by the federal district court. >> ray punches his wife and he'll make money. >> no. no. roger goodell, the commissioner of the nfl, lies to a federal -- well, i won't go through the whole thing. the fact of the matter is,

they're angry, lou. i don't want your audience to get the idea that the message coming out of this is saying whites are oppressing blacks at an all-time high level, but i think what is really happening is that folks are saying stop the madness. sharpton and those guys, i think, are pouring gasoline on a raging fire and they've opened pandora's box and it won't be easily closed. that's part of the problem at this point. i think that holder, i've not really been a fan of his all along because he's selectively enforcing law in the nation. >> he's a political activist in the attorney general's office. >> yes. >> he leads the political arm of this administration. >> he really does. lou, i think right now though there's a long-term process that can happen. i think the church has got to lead the way of helping people sit down together and take positive action. notice that the jury there was three blacks and nine whites. in that community, in one of the forums that we had, we heard that it's hard to get blacks e