lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama says don't blame him for not winning the war against the islamic state. mr. obama tells npr it's the media's fault, national public radio listening respectfully to the president's excuses in an interview that aired this morning, and certainly didn't raise the possibility that the president was avoiding appropriate acceptance of his own responsibility for the failure of his administration to fulfill his promise of more than a year ago to, quote, degrade and destroy the islamic state. no. mr. obama instead declared the media have lost a sense of proportion about it all and stoking the fears of american citizens. here's the president now talking with npr before taking off on his two-week vacation in hawaii. >> post-paris, you had a saturation of news about the horrible attack there, and you know, isil combines viciousness with very savvy media operations, and as a consequence, if you've been watching television for the last month, all you've been seeing, all you've been h

markets, politics, your livelihood, lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. a new pentagon report makes it clear, crystal clear, that president obama's most recent public assessment of the islamic state is not only misleading, it's utterly wrong. according to the pentagon report, the islamic state is not shrinking but, in fact growing, growing stronger in afghanistan. the pentagon report says the islamic state is now openly fighting the taliban there and trying to establish territorial control in large regions. i'll take up the administration's terrorist strategy with general jack keane right here in just moments. >>> also tonight, donald trump has climbed to new heights in another national poll. a new "washington post"-abc news poll puts trump at 38% support. 23 points ahead of his closest rival, senator ted cruz. this is the second poll this week showing trump with a massive lead over his rivals. >>> and los angeles officials tonight forced to defend their decision to cancel classes across the entire city today after they received an e-mailed threat. new yo

lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama wrapping up his appearance at the climate change conference in paris. he declared his strategy to defeat the islamic state is working. the president insisted his strategy and used the words degrade and ultimately destroy when talking about the islamic state. the president's comments in paris in stark contrast to what generals were saying in washington. at a house armed services committee, the joint chiefs chairman, joseph dunford said, we have not contained the islamic state, at the same hearing defense secretary ash carter said the united states will send more special operations forces to syria and will expand special ops in iraq. we'll take up the obama administration's ever evolving strategy with former cheney national security adviser john hannah. and tonight, how long can the obama justice department seemingly prolong the hillary clinton investigation? newly released e-mails shed more light on her handling of benghazi and what she was trying to cover up. we'll tak

lou dobbs is next. . lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama and his administration today continuing their campaign of comfort, aimed at americans unsettled or outright afraid of the growing threat of the islamic state. the obama comfort campaign landed at the national counterterrorism center today, using the center as a backdrop, a centerpiece if you will of the administration's readiness and the president's strong leadership. he made it clear if nothing else that the white house knows how to build optics for its point of view. a week and a half ago mr. obama gave an oval office speech on islamic state, and it was the islamic state's much doubted and not always obvious strategy that did not impress many americans. monday, a visit to the pentagon, today, a visit to the counterterrorism center, but all of that for not. because officials of his administration shockingly could not tell a congressional committee the whereabouts of thousands of foreigners who have had their visas revoked over terrorism concerns. >> of the 122,000 rev

lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. raging demonstration in chicago tonight, despite the decision to prosecute the police officer who shot and killed a young black man more than a year ago. and just hours after the mayor apologized for the young man's death. protesters and demonstrators filling the city's streets as you see there, they're demanding that rahm emanuel resign as mayor of chicago. we'll have the latest on the demonstrations and what is likely to happen next in chicago. >>> also tonight -- the republican establishment, the democratic leadership, and the national liberal media have joined forces to create what i call an unholy alliance, and together, they're attacking viciously their common rival and foe, gop presidential candidate donald trump. trump has been the front-runner of the large broad field of candidates for five months now, and trump appears to be only getting stronger. his support growing. that unholy alliance is mendaciously attacking mr. trump, certainly viciously trying to overturn what is an

we hand it off to the man himself, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. donald trump may be unstoppable. brand-new "fox news poll" shows the republican front-runner increasing lead yet again in the race for the republican nomination. trump netted the support of 39% of republican primary voters. that is up 11 points from only a month ago. the increase comes after his controversial remarks about temporarily stopping non-american muslims from coming into the country until we can figure out what we're doing. and the "fox news poll" shows 7 in 10 republican primary voters, 70% are in favor of such a ban. we'll have the full report tonight. >>> also, bernie sanders's campaign accusing democratic party leaders of trying to undermine his white house bid, and to boost that of rival hillary clinton. they're angry that the dnc denied sanders access to their own voter data after a sanders staffer improperly, quote, end quote breached the clinton files. >> the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign. we are

speaking about the best, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs.he mainstream liberal media tonight acting like delicate little flowers recoiling in apparent outrage at donald trump's rude language on the campaign trail. they appear to be all worked up over trump's bastardized usage of a vulgar yiddish word to attack hillary clinton in campaign event in grand rapids last night. >> everything that's been involved in hillary has been losses. you take a look. even a race to obama, she was going to beat obama. i don't know who would be worse? i don't know. how does it get worse? but she was going beat. she was favored to win and she got -- she lost, she lost. lou: the national media doing best impression of outrage at such language suggesting rude words are less to be tolerated, much less than mere lies to the american people, and tonight we'll have the latest national poll that unexpectedly shows a tightening in the republican race. brand-new quinnipiac poll showing trump leading the race, a four-point lead. last month less than half the lead he had i

lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. donald trump has a message for republican leaders who reportedly are planning for a brokered convention next july. trump says he's going to win, and the party establishment needs to deal with that. here now is the republican front-runner as he talked with fox news sunday host chris wallace. >> they're kidding themselves. i'm going to win, i think i'm going to win. i'm not one of the other guys that goes down, i don't go down, i go up. >> do you have a warning for gop leaders? >> i say folks, i'm sorry i did this to you, but you got to get used to, it one of the little problems in life. lou: trump doesn't seem overly concerned, does he, that he's the target of some of the most powerful moneyed people in this country and paid political assassins. trump knows well that the unholy alliance of the republican establishment, the democratic leadership and the national liberal media will only intensify attacks against him. trump also knows he can reasonably expect his numbers to get stronger i

i'm lou dobbs.he republican establishment appears ready to risk turning the gop presidential primary process upside down, and upset millions and millions of republican voters while the unholy alliance attacks donald trump's candidacy and his campaign. in the doing, will also frustrate the will of the american people, it appears, those who support trump for president. the gop elites appeared to have lost their minds, if the "washington post" reporting is accurate, the post reports more than 20 top republican officials and leading figures in the gop this week met to discuss the possibility of coalescea around a trump alternative and forcing a brokered convention, and in new york state some establishment republicans, so-called, want to have trump banished from the party altogether. this as republican consultant e. o'brien murray, you can tell he's establishment, considering filing a complaint with the party. >> the message about keeping americans out of our country if they're muslim and out of the coun

lou dobbs. he's next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. it took three days but the fbi today announced it's treating the san bernardino massacre as an act of terrorism. that's something president obama has gone to great lengths to avoid saying. fbi director james comey today addressed the media. here he is. >> the investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. so far we have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or formed part of a cell. there's no indication they are part of a network. lou: the director's comments come after investigators learned that the female shooter, tashfeen malik, declared her allegiance to the islamic state on facebook, about 11:00 a.m. wednesday, roughly the time that the shooting began. investigators have also learned that malik and farook tried to destroy hard drives in a bid to cover their tracks and communications, and crushed cell phones crushed in a trash can near their home. the

here's lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs.he republican establishment has spent the past five months trying to take down donald trump. now they and trump's republican rivals have a lot of help. it's all about trump's proposed temporary ban on muslim immigration to the united states. while trump has considerable experience with controversy, he may have outdone himself this time. politicians are piling on from every quarter, his ban plan drawing widespread condemnation here and abroad. british, french, egyptian leaders, even the u.n. refugee agency denouncing trump's remarks, but as for the donald himself he seems unperturbed and today he doubled and tripled and quadrupled down. >> calling very simply for a shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> i have no doubt that we have no choice but to do exactly what i said until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. we don't know what's going on. you had the world trade center. remember this, you had the world trade center knocked down. people

lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the obama administration tonight looks more than a little confused about the direction and the progress of its so-called fight against the islamic state, or as this administration weakly calls it, isil. two days ago, president obama said he was dispatching his defense secretary ash carter to the middle east to press the fight against the islamic state, a fight that president obama intimated was being well thought and going well and that america was about to take the fight to the enemy. but tonight, we learn the u.s.-led coalition has suffered an unexplained reversal, and american forces are arguably worse off than monday. the pentagon announcing it's withdrawing 12 f-15 fighter jets deployed to turkey to carry out airstrikes against the islamic state. and in his talks with iraqi officials today, defense secretary ash carter failed to win iraqi government approval for the use of u.s. apache attack helicopters in the battle to retake ramadi from the islamic state. president obama has al

lou dobbs is next. this is fox business. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. federal authorities tonight trying to determine the motive behind the shooting rampage in a social services center in san bernardino. officials say the married muslim couple who stormed into an office holiday party in a conference room at that center fired as many as 150 bullets into the crowd, and they killed 14 people and wounded 21 others. within hours, a san bernardino police had located them, authorities then pursued the killers as they raced down a busy thoroughfare not far from the scene of the attack at the services center. tonight we learned the fbi is treating this investigation as a possible terrorism case. here's something of an inventory of what the police and other agencies now know. at the scene, investigators found three connected pipe bombs set to be detonated by a contraption linked to a remote control car. that type of device is featured in the al qaeda online magazine inspire that teaches radical islamist terrorists how to build bombs. >> my understanding there was

lou: i am lou dobbs. president obama opening a summits of world leaders in paris, declaring that fighting climate change is in his opinion, the only way to fight terrorism, pledging billions of dollars for a climate deal. it is not clear where he will get that money, this is our president's way of conducting diplomacy without a paper trail, without a role for congress there is no treaty, nothing signed but our president's announcement that quote, an agreement has been reached. we take up this leadership at a time of global terrorism and cyberattacks. senator is joining us to take up that as does fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland, and the u.s. tightening visa waiver rules that have permitted millions of investors here -- visitors here without a visaa. >> many of refugees no longer asking to be let in, they are now demanding entry into the e.u., and clashing with police as european nations strug told begin to enforce their borders. and donald trump a passion for controversy, did black pastors

lou: i am annoyed a little bit. he did all that you said but what about hillary clinton getting shot at inco's ago? when about president obama accounting to. lou: states? or president obama talking about the special olympics? lou: the national media has a selective best to attack incorrect your stupid statements in everybody is judged the same way then go ahead. >> i don't disagree i am not trying to exonerate. lou: specifically all that you said was true. i am saying treat everyone exactly the same.. >> but my point was despitee those media going after him incessantly it has notng offered him at all. lou: so when will lead on on the media that it is not what he is saying but it is what he is doing in the way he dealt in his is the attention of the american public. and the other people are not doing. is a settlement of this stands up. >> the national senatorialal committee is starting to get the picture and that he identifies the issues that our important to voters and climate change is not one of them. i'm sorry ob

lou: whatever. the establishment resistance to trump will be met by a candidate that loves a good fight, who has as well overwhelming voter support as we are now less than two months from the iowa caucuses. trump is still dominating in the polling, all polling. a new cbs "new york times" survey shows trump dominating the republican field with 35% of the trump's showing is improved by 16 points since october. i'll be talking about the republican race with one of trump's challengers, senator rand paul joins us tonight. also tonight, growing outrage on capitol hill over how the federal government's visa screening process failed to stop one of the san bernardino shooters from entering our country. authorities are now certain that tashfeen malik was radicalized years ago. so how was she able to obtain a k-1 fiancee visa? and why should any citizen believe that our immigration system is effective? that this administration can assure public safety and our national security? we'll have a full report for you

lou: yeah. i see the problem, the frustration of some of the folks of homeland security because the very idea these men with pull off this action and then escape within a matter of moments and three of them with tactical gear, body armor, if that is, in fact, the case as was reported by nearly all of the witnesses, and be precipitated by an argument within a holiday luncheon, and these two just happen to be on-hand to carry out such an atrocity. >> reporter: i know, there are elements of it that don't quite make sense, but here in washington, homeland security as well as the white house team for homeland security, at this point, as frustrating as it is, they are not in the lead, full, on this investigation. this is still being led by the local police and that means that a certain amount of information is just not reaching these teams in washington because it hasn't kicked up to that level where the fbi would be in the lead, and that's always the case when they believe there is some kind of terro

lou: i am lou dobbs, a development on campaign trail tonight, one that is likely to cause a huge amount of controversy for donald trump. trump due to appear at a campaign rally. we're looking into the auditorium right now. mount pleasant, south carolina. we'll go there in a moment, when trump arrives, today he called for a ban against all muslim immigrants into u.s. until as he put it, until we can figure out what going on, those comments have kicked off a firestorm of criticism, and condemnation from his republican opponents and beyond. jeb bush called trump quote, unhinged. governor kasich said the idea, quote should disqualify him from the presidency. governor chris christie said much of the same senator lindsey graham calling on all can doubts -- we'll go there live when he steps up, also tonight, new warnings about rising threat of the islamic state, just a day after president obama try -- tried to quell concerned about radical islamist terrorism, a intelligence report commissioned by obama white house predicts the islamic state will spread around the world and grow in numbers, unl

here is lou dobbs. lou: good evening. i am lou dobbs. the race for the republican nomination is donald trump's to lose now 41% with no candidate pulling your his numbers. but in i was the appearance of a two-man race. new polls show traub and senator ted cruz virtually tied for first place. but ted cruz has a surge mean he is also the newest target and he didn't wait to cross and strike at the candidates and tall now was given up past. today he called ted cruz save a little bit of a maniac. we take up the republican race tonight and former drug advisor stowe and. and then to go over to the pentagon to assure the american people with the questionable strategy the short speech went like this. >> this strategy is moving forward with a great sense of urgency on both fronts. to train and equip syrian forces to fight isil on the ground. stop the operations by financing end propaganda and persistent diplomacy so everybody can focus on destroying isil. lou: i will repeat logical when he goes deep in foreign-policy. so everyone can focus on destr

lou: it's too late. the political candidates, hillary clinton and the president obama weighed in with their ideological and partisan views. let me read a couple of them quickly. donald trump. he said california's shooting -- this is early on -- looks very bad, good luck to law enforcement and god bless. praying for the victims said jeb bush. their families and first responders. if anything is to be said at all. mike huckabee, bringing a for those affected by the shooting in california. ben carson my thoughts and prayers. then we get down to, you know -- i'm not going to read the comments of those who i think thought too much in the way of politics. but the country has got respond to this. and it has to be beyond the usual nonsense of we have to destroy the second amendment and we have got to have that ideological fight when we are talking up until today, we are talking about the mentally ill. we are going to find out what we are talking about here today. we are told in matter of moments we'll have long a

lou: you're doing that dog gone karl rove-mckinley stuff again. >> oh! i'm not saying the 18 '96 election. i'm saying with the rhetoric and talk represents extinction event for the republican party and they'll get together and either he'll change or they beat him. lou: when you say they beat him, that's going to be a sorry mess. if you need a committee to run for president, that would be an interesting committee of candidates, i mean. i'm not sure folks would look favorably upon that. i'm just guessing, one country reporter's view, chris stirewalt. always good to talk with you. >> this pundit is happy to be with you, brother dobbs. lou: we say good night with full heart. >>> be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you believe president obama and congress should order an immediate suspension of refugee programs into the united states until public safety and national security can be assured?

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i'm lou dobbs. the republican establishment appears ready to risk turning the gop presidential primary contest wrup side down and upset millions and millions of republican voters while the holy alliance attacks donald trump's candidacy and his campaign. in doing so will frustrate the american public. least those that support trump for president. the gop elites have simply lost their minds if the washington post reporting is accurate. "the post" reports that more than 20 top republican officials and leading figures in the gop this week met to talk about the possibility of coalessing around a trump alternative and having a brokered primary. some want to have trump banned from the party altogether. this is republican e. o'brien murray. >> to deliver this kind of message and double down from keeping americans out of our country if they are muslim and just out of the country when he did that on monday shows that i believe his lack of being genuine running for president. >> whatever. the establishment res

sullivan is in for lou dobbs. tom: i am tom sullivan in for "lou dobbs tonight." >> i takes this up with kt fantastic far land, also war of words between donald trump and hillary clinton getting personal. republican frontrunner accusing bill of having quote, a terrible record of women abuse. that remark days after mrs. clinton said trump had a quote pe penchant for sexism. deadly weather brings parts of the country to a halt, more than 40 deaths reported nationwide. with tornadoes from the south to midwest, we have latest coming up. >> top story tonight, circrack forces -- iraq forces today declaring victory in their battle to retake ramadi from the is lambic state -- islamic stat state. iraqi soldiers raise their country's flag, and celebrate today. they regained control of the center government there. ramadi has been quote liberated about we're told there are still pockets of isis militants and more work needs to be done flushing out isis fighters hole up in buildings,ry retaking central ramadi is a major gain f