right now lou dobbs, can i hear him.he hyperventilating over the prospect that taxes might be raised. i mean, this is what is going to happen next week, leslie. >> i'm scared heart attacks and hyper ventilation. at least i'm healthy with you at the moment, bill. i have to tell you the president has a responsibility, especially if he wants to be reelected of having a great economy. the reality is the bush tax cuts were set for a decade and the bush tax cuts did not help to stimulate the economy. >> bill: they did in the beginning. they got us out of the 2001 recession. >> where are they now? >> bill: we're here because of a big wall street con, not because folks are paying taxes or not. look, leslie. >> that's debatable. it's so fallacious it hurts my ear lobe. the taxes were $4 billion more or a trillion dollars -- i don't know. they were much higher than they are under president obama. the government took in more money under bush than under obama because the economy was better. the better the economy is, the more revenu

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lou dobbs my former and now new colleague goes on the record about a red hot topic he has come under fire about. illegal immigration. lou, nice see you. >> good to be with you greta. >> greta: strange twist of fate. who would have guessed this one? >> not a soul. >> greta: longtime since we've been on the air together. >> it has, i haven't calculated the exact time. i think it is a decade or so. >> greta: welcome to fox news channel. let me get right to the topic for tonight. many americans of the republican -- many members of the republican party are opposed to birthright are you in favor of changing that or not? >> absolutely not. i'm one of those who is very, very reserved when it comes to the idea of changing the constitution for any reason. greta, the idea that we would tamper with the 14th amendment, it application to illegal immigrants. it begs the question why are we not securing our borders? why are we not effectively enforcing immigration laws? to tammer with the constitution and take an -- to tamper with the constitution and take away constitutional rights >> greta: no one

statue of liberty and praised these virtues, of the alien and sedition act could have been written by lou dobbs. our culture being debased and changed by the french. that anger was turned towards the irish, the italians, the russians, than the asians. agents in california could not own property in the 1950's -- asians in california could not own property in the 1950's. there is this periodic fear that they will change america. but the truth is that people that are fearful think it will change their culture. but american culture has never been static. it has never been static. it is dynamic. i had a woman say to me the other day -- how can we get our american kids to study as hard as the asian immigrants in our classroom? [laughter] >> when we talk about this melting pot idea and this nation of immigrants, is there any other country that is like ours? >> australia has always been a country that has welcomed immigrants. and canada. in fact, today, both of them are doing something smarter than we are. we have a program called hv visas that go to highly educated graduates. we limit this in a very f

lou dobbs is a syndicated radio host and soon to be. >> reporter: soon to be.gyn: star of the fox business network. have you started yet? >> reporter: i think i started. megyn: i was in italy last week. >> reporter: i know i started. i wasn't in italy. had i been fortunate enough -- i've been fortunate enough to talk with a lot of folks. i'm so excited about being on the fox business network i can't stand it. megyn: we are happy to have you on our sister network. basically the report says it's great, okay we need to tax a little bit more and we need to reduce spending, but the "wall street journal" in an article says, hold on, because historically they say when you look at the number of dollars the feds pull in from increased taxes, they then out spend that, they take it and instead of putting it toward the deficit and the debt they actually go out and spend it. >> reporter: with the exception of 1999 and 2000 we've been running a deficit in this government throughout the last 40 years. i mean it is on it's face it's absurd to suggest that raising taxes fixes t

bill: thank you lou for coming in out of florida, lou dobbs. we'll see new new york real soon, right? member of our team officially at fox news. martha. martha: we welcome him here. how about this? it has been eight years since they've started dating but prince william has finally popped the question. get ready for royal wedding mania, the next generation, folks. bill: going to be huge. martha: here we go. and a new book reveals how it all really happened. bill: also, should airline security trump public opinion? the viral video sparking a national debate over the patdown. >> hand on your inner thigh, two times in the front and two times in the back. >> you touch my junk i'm going to have you arrested. bill: we are two full weeks after the legs and still counting votes and alaska's senate race, write-in candidate lisa murkowski currently in the lead, she's about 1700 votes ahead of the tea party favorite joe miller. there's a dispute over how some of the ballots were filled out and state election law requires voters to fill out an oval and spel

lou dobbs tonight with me on captioned by closed captioning services, inc. >> i hunger for quality news. i'm tired of the right and the i'm tired of the right and the there is a little bug inside of me which wants to get the fcc to say to fox and to msnbc out, off, end, goodbye. be a big favor to political discourse to be able to do our work in congress and to the american people to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and in their, more importantly, in their future. glep glen who is that cute little senator who wants to do us all in? you are. the best way to restore trust in the government and to restore the level of discourse in america is to shut down discourse in america. like it's the media's fault that we have this gigantic debt. yeah. yeah. jay, may i call you jay? jay, i think of this as kind of like bank criminals saying do you know how many banks we could rob in a day if we could just get rid of the police? you know, jay, i have a little bug inside of me, too it wants to stop control hungry progressives in our lives and pushing us into a gian

shannon: let's talk about it with lou dobbs he is now with the fox news business network.t to see you today. >> reporter: great to be with you. shannon: it's not like this crisis is a surprise. we have known for a long time system is in trouble. when will we really get something done? >> reporter: i think when we stop the nonsense, like this deficit commission and its recommendations. here is an outfit, brought together, shannon to reduce the deficit and stop silly runaway government spending. what do they do? they go to a program, social security, off budget. has nothing to do with the budget or national debt and instead the focus is on social security. and their brilliant solution is to raise the retirement age and increase those taxes to pay in to social security. shannon, it's an absolute disgrace that intelligent, well-meaning people come together like haoes public servants on thlike these peopled talk about social security. senator conrad exaggerates, if i may say the issue here. at its first deficit and that is going out almost just about 25 years, it will only amou

lou dobbs, you guys remember him from his cnn days, left in november of 2009, after 30 years with thet of folks had speculated, maybe he's going to make a run for public office, become a huge voice in the immigration debate in this country. he does have a new job lined up. he's headed over to the fox business network where he will start his own brand-new show in the first quarter of next year. he's not going the political route, he's jumping back into tv. and apparently he's going to revive his long tv career. >> speculation he might go into politics. >> yeah. >>> so keith richards is doing -- of course, from the romming stones, is doing an interview. ten minutes into the interview he realizes the someone he's doing an interview with was a guy who gave him two of five stars during a concert and described him as an amateur. he ended up hitting the guy during the interview. [ female announcer ] swiffer 360 duster attracts so much dust, you'll never go back to your old duster. [ funny voice ] hey, duster! wanna attract dust like swiffer 360 duster? then try the magnet hat! ♪ whoa! wow! [

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lou dobbs is in the hot seat, go to foxnews.com/happeningnow to get your questions in for lou.inutes. bill: jon, thank you, florida republican john mica pushes for airports to beat the tsa. there is an airport in florida doing just that already, orlando's sanford international. northeast of orlando, near the town of sanford telling them to pack up their bags. the airport's president replacing federal workers with private security firms, he says it will lower costs and improve customer satisfaction. will it? watch that story, huh? martha: meanwhile, even pilots are fed up with the new tsa enhanced pat-down procedure thing and two commercial airline pilots are suing the federal government saying the process of this screening violates their 4th amendment right, protection against unreasonable search and seizure. michael roberts is the pilot who is suing the homeland security department, here is his reaction, about all of this, on hannity, this week: >> i have been going through the checkpoint and walking through the metal detector and not setting off alarms and the 15th, and no al

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>> rick perry, lou dobbs and geraldo rivera.the same time or the same room. >> i wouldn't put them in the same building, judge napolitano. >> it will be something to watch. judge. >> thank you, guys. >> put a spy cam in the green room. >> meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, america fighting a third war on the mexican border but we're hearing the obama administration wants to pull back the national guard. what's going on, i ask? >> a view like you've never seen before. wait until you hear how these pictures were taken and they were not taken -- that's cool, by the hubble telescope. >> and i think it's -- we're putting our political panel on ice this morning. can they still bring the fire? we're outside all morning long where we stuck the judge and he's still angry in our very own ice castle. the history of moms has ever turned down a hand-made ornament. that's why we've set up santa's wonderland at bass pro shops. where kids can get their picture with santa. and, this weekend, make a chrismoose ornament. and it's all free. [ d ]

with your h1-2b visas, on lou dobbs about a year ago it showed why it -- how there was so much low-level education used with those visas and how the indians who were coming over here -- welcome indians, pakistanis, chinese, they were paid 20% less than the average american. there are lots of engineers who are qualified to work who are not working just because the companies want those h1-2b visas to pay a cheaper wage. you can deny that but i think you are wrong. when i was going to college -- i now totally disabled. i it was a nursing school. got a bad infection. i was listening to the women talking about how their kids could not get jobs at fast-food places to help subsidize their living expenses as a teenager and go to school. enforcey don't need to -- we need to and force our immigration laws, or at least change them. host: but look, we got your point. thank you. mr. liebmann? anything you want to add to what you have not said before? guest: the immigration and national -- and naturalization service has traditionally been fairly incompetent and what you say probably illustrates that.

lou dobbs on taxes. can nancy pelosi fight back insurrection in her own party?port is a wrong debate, america. guess who is getting married? we'll see you in ten minutes with martha and me right here on "america's news room." >> eric: we're back with jets quarterback mark sanchez. that un. he's about to show us the secret to staying in shape without going to the gym. >> brian: we'll compete. guess who he's pulling for. >> eric: i'm going to help you out. >> brian: this is the x box knkt. this is amazing. >> you're touching everything on the screen right here. >> gretchen: okay. >> you got to punt opposite and kick opposite to dodge that thing. >> eric: you're in the hard level, too, mark. >> yeah, i know. >> brian: you know who is sweating? brian. he shows your ankle hurts and she wonders why you're kicking. are you going to jump in here? are you ready? >> brian: yeah, sure. here it comes. >> it's going to be a blue box and then you'll be up. >> brian: all right. eric, give me the play by play. >> eric: get in there, brian. here comes the blow. green. punch. pun