i'm martha maccallum. the minority leader mitch mcconnell called the president out for what he says is a campaign-style blitz instead of negotiations between both sides. >> rather than sitting down with lawmakers and working out an agreement he's back on the campaign trail. we are not going to solve this problem by creating villians and drumming up outrage. >> he will be out trying to i'm sure zero in on those states represented by members of the house and the senate to try to get public support. bill: democrats upping the ante, looking to raise taxes, protect entitlements and raise the debt ceiling all at the same time. stuart varney, hello, there, sir. you think there has been a shift in those negotiations. >> i don't mean a shift in position. i mean a shift in focus, what they are focusing in on on the last couple days it's been taxes now it seems to be we are focusing in on entitlements and spending cuts. the democrats and the republicans are presenting a united front saying no cuts to entitlement. no

martha: i'm martha maccallum. here are the basics when they put forth through tim geithner yesterday from the president. 1.6 trillion in new taxes. that is the opening part of the deal. 50 billion in new stimulus spending. we already had a lot of backlash in stimulus in previous packages. this is interesting element here. new executive power to raise the debt limit. that is what caused so many of these discussions because they bump up against the debt limit and not be able to go back this. there is executive power plea to be able to do that without going back to confess. republicans are saying where is the balance? where is the spending cut side of the equation. the president said he wanted it to be a balanced deal. watch. melissa: so right now all eyes are on the white house. the country doesn't need a victory lap, it needs leadership. it is time for the president, congressional democrats, to tell the american people what spending cuts they're really willing to make. melissa: republicans have made some nice, posi

martha maccallum and you compete for bragging rights. kwame or nothing. >> maccallum won. be a good sport. >> test your knowledge on the great american news quiz. factor style. you picked. >> teddy bear. >> hi. can we replace doocy? is it too too late? >> you are about to enter the no spin zone. of the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching this special edition of the factor. the great american news quiz spectacular. for the next hour you will get to test your knowledge and play along with us. so let's begin. first topic, will he general gather actor john wayne. >> all right. here is question number one. movie fans all over the world idolize john wayne for his nonsense attitude. >> get out of the way, carrie. >> i haven't got a gun on me. >> no? then we will do it the hard way. that had to hurt. >> yeah. >> many don't know that john wayne was a stage name. what the hollywood legend's less macho birth name? the a is a, that's correct. marianne, the brarn the librarian. don't call him that to his face. e was an imposing character who was

. >> i'm heather childress in for martha maccallum. a bus bombed in tel aviv after a terrorist tosses an explosive device. leland, is there an established link between the tel aviv bus bombing and what's going on in gaza? >> reporter: so far there hasn't been a credible claim of responsibility. but inside hamas they praise the bomber, they passed out candy to their children. it's a celebration tradition that went back to the second intifada. people's faces say, "here we go again." this is the raw intensity that we saw during the second intifada. it's a suicide bombing. all the glass has been knocked out. while the iron dome has protected tel aviv from hamas' missiles it did not protect it from this, bringing back memories of the second intifada and brings fear to the streets of the country's second largest city. there has yet to be an arrest. but it has serious consequences. the focus of the cease-fire talks in terms of rockets but also other activities from these militants around israel. gregg: what's the latest on the gaza offensive?

martha: good morning, i'm martha maccallum. you have got these nominees getting ready for a long day of hoping and waiting. a lot of nerves frayed. governor romney plans to do a little bit more campaigning. but before heading out the governor voting in his home state of massachusetts. the romney team is headed for three pivotal swing states. as kevin madden said this morning, if you know this guy as he does, he won't spend the day waiting around. he and paul ryan will make an 11th hour appeal to voters. bill: paul ryan meets him in pittsburgh before leading to richmond, virginia. wendall goler is live in chicago where president obama will await election results. john, yesterday was not the last day of campaigning. how did this decision to campaign today come about for governor romney? >> reporter: it's not over until it's over. we talked to campaign advisers who said they are sitting on the tarmac in virginia. governor romney said i don't want to sit in a hotel room and wait for something to happen. he said let's do something t

martha maccallum and you compete for bragging rights. kwame or nothing. >> maccallum won. be a good sport. >> test your knowledge on the great american news quiz. factor style. you picked. >> teddy bear. >> hi. can we replace doocy? is it too too late? >> you are about to enter the no spin zone. of the factor begins rig now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching this special edition of the factor. the great american news quiz spectacular. for the next hour you will get to test your knowledge and play along with us. so let's begin. first topic, will he general gather actor john wayne. >> all right. here is question number one. movie fans all over the world idolize john wayne for his nonsense attitude. >> get out of the way, carrie. >> i haven't got a gun on me. >> no? then we will do it the hard way. that had to hurt. >> yeah. >> many don't know that john wayne was a stage name. what the hollywood legend's less macho birth name? the a is a, that's correct. marianne, the brarn the librarian. don't call him that to his face. e was an imposing character who was u

i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer.th us at home tk a today as we chew through the numbers and find out where we go next as a country together. we heard a similar message in both of the election night speeches late last night. governor romney called on washington to put the partisan bickering aside and the president says in chicago he is willing to do just that. >> we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. >> we looked at democrats and republicans in government and at all levels to put the people before the politics. i believe in america, i believe in the people of america. [cheers and applause] martha: that was the theme of mitt romney's campaign. fox team coverage starts right now. john roberts with the future for mitt romney. we start with wendell goler live from chicago. both sides promising bipartisanship. is that a pre at? >> we'll see, martha. quite frankly the changes are modest the president returning for four more years with a slig

playing the role of bob beckel will be martha maccallum.evin mccarthy was threading the needle carefully during that interview. but his bottom line is the president is not saying what nancy pelosi is saying. >> i think nancy pelosi represents a more liberal wing. and i think the president is closer to coming to a deal with john boehner. if bob is here he would say that deal has already been done. i think that has to do with revenue. the republicans have been hesitant to come to the table eliminating deductions. will it be an enormous package? probably not. i think the president has blinked on tax increased before. i think he's likely to do it again. i just don't think there is the political appetite within the democratic caucus, particularly in the senate where harry reid has a number of moderate democrats to actually pass big tax reforms on the wealthy. bill: you would argue the president is more willing to do a big grand bargain more so than democrats in the house or maybe even democrats in the senate. >> the problem and we don't know how

i'm martha maccallum. lawmakers are hoping petraeus will set the record straight what the administration knew and when they knew it. many people are already skeptical about that. take a look. >> what is clear, this administration, including the including thencluding administration itself. read that lied, to the american people in the aftermath of that tragedy. now president obama has the gall to float the name as possible of secretary of state the name of the person who is the actual vehicle used to misinform the american people during this crisis. bill: now we move to today. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live on the hill. good morning there. what do we expect to get from general petraeus today behind closed doors now, catherine. >> reporter: thank you, bill. the former cia director arrived here on capitol hill an hour and 20 minutes ago and a source close to the general told fox news the expectation he will tell the house intelligence and senate intelligence committees he too believe

new hour starts of "america's newsroom" i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. ving ourselves crazy with this stuff. martha: we can't help it. bill: the president trying to win over as many last minute voters, as they possibly can. in my world this is a tie, martha, the president with 47.9, governor romney with 47.4. moments ago governor romney making his closing argument by promising in florida now to deliver on one of the president's own pledges from 2008. >> that's why i'm running for president. i know how to change the course the nation is on. i know how to get us to a balanced budget and how to build jobs and make rising take home pay happen again. accomplishing real change is not something i just talk b it is something i havabout, it is something i will do as president of the unitette states. martha: how do they still have their voices hanging on there. chief correspondent ed henry traveling with the president. what us the mood this morning with 24 hours to go inside of president obama's team? >> well they are tense but excited as well. they think they will

i'm martha maccallum in "america's newsroom.". >> i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. that information may contradict information that general petraeus gave to congress just days later. martha: doug luzader joins us live with this report from washington. good morning, doug. >> reporter: good morning, guys. at a very basic level this is the store of an affair between general david petraeus and his biographer paula broad well. it gets complicated. there may be national security implication including into the broad investigation into the consulate in benghazi on september 11th. there is no question she would have had prime access to one. key players. she made a couple of public appearances to talk about that. that was at the university of denver, her alma mater last month where she spoke about the benghazi attack. this was came as ci a-team were asking for help but were denied. here is what she said. >> i don't know if a lot of you heard this but the cia annex had taken a couple of libyan militia members prisoner and they think the attack on the consulate was an effort to

good morning everybody, i'm martha maccallum.: i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer who is on assignment right now. former cia director david petraeus will testify at a closed-door intel committee hearing tomorrow on the terrorist attack. this as we learn the identity of the fbi agent who got the ball rolling on the investigation into the threatening e-mails sent to a friend of petraeus that ultimately cost him his job. martha: national security correspondent general fir griffin joins us live from the pentagon. jennifer, where does this investigation into general john allen stand at this point? >> reporter: as you mentionedded david petraeus will be on the hill tomorrow morning at 7:30 in front of the house intel tell committee. he will not speak of the affair with paula broadwell but talk about benghazi. john allen investigation remains in the hands of the dod inspector general. that investigation is still going on. the president expressed confidence in his top general yesterday at that press conference and the pentagon will not

i'm martha maccallum. a big piece of unfinished business, helping to push the dow below the 13,000 mark. a ugly day yesterday. washington failing to deal with the monster tax hike issue coming down the pipeline. mapped door budget cuts kick in in 54 days. house speaker john boehner says it is time for the president to lead. here he is is talking about that. >> mr. president, this is your moment. we're ready to be lead, not as democrats or republicans but americans. we want you to lead, not as a liberal or conservative but as president of the united states of america. we want you to succeed. bill: stuart varney, anchor of "varney & company", fox business network. the issues on the table are the same issues as monday. we want you to succeed by the way. what did you hear or what are you hearing based on the statements out of the washington now? >> three statements to listen to very carefully. speaker boehner, senate majority leader harry reid, and the big union boss, richard trumka. if you add them all togeth

i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning to you martha.have a mouth full again today, folks. i'll begin with the jobs news this hour. president obama will face the highest unemployment rate since any incumbent since franklin roosevelt. you can see where our nation has been since december of 2007 when the economy started faltering. back then the jobless rate 5%, today 7.9%. martha: very interesting historical point there. let's bring in charles gasparino, fox news senior correspondent. >> not a pretty picture. things are better but how could they get worse? there is nothing new in this report. what is confirmed is that the economy is confirming in spite of a massive stimulus, spending money. the obama administration printing moan, a big stimulus from the fed. even with that we have an extremely weak recovery. i tell you i don't know how you sell this other than say things could be worse. when you pwreupbt tha print that much money and spend that much money i don't know how they could be worse. martha: the big question right now with four da

martha: i'm martha maccallum. about five days after our consulate was attacked on september the 11th we all remember ambassador rice went on all five sunday shows and said the killing of the ambassador and three other americans was actually the result of a spontaneous mob sparking outrage, those comments did, from top gop lawmakers including these three senators, mccain, graham and ayotte. >> don't we all have the responsibility before we go out and talk to the american people on all five sunday morning shows for verifying those facts are true? >> the most basic information about what happened on the night of the attack, and what survivors had to say after the attack is not being provided and we'll talk more about that. bill: so you wonder then whether or not they will get the answers they're looking for. whether or not some of these questions will lead to even more questions. they will sit down in about 20 minutes from now. kelly wright is live in washington there. kelly, you're covering this morning. what is the

i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. how are you hanging in there. martha: i'm doing okay.resident hit new jersey yesterday afternoon getting his first look at the storm ravaged state and trying to draw attention to the garden state to get its back on its feet as quickly as possible, which we know will take a long, longtime. martha: our rick leventhal has been riding this thing out on the new jersey shoreline since the beginning. now he's getting a sense of how devastated things are there. rick, what can you tell us today? >> we actually have good news to report from ocean city, new jersey, martha, which considers itself america's family resort. we are on the boardwalk which is in remarkably good shape, i mean it's in great shape actually. a number of other board walks, including atlantic city's was torn up pretty badly. this community is doing okay even though the ocean met the bay. we'll show you where the storm surge came through, washed much of the sand away from the beach and on to the boardwalk. the downs are being credited with protect th-ing this barrier island. we

good parents martha maccallum playing for ken. and steve doocy playing for kyla.e want you to explain you were put on hiatus because of campaign coverage. >> we were told probation. >> bill: is that right? now you both are back. you must be thrilled. we missed this segment. we were all busy covering the election. >> we were all busy. >> now we are back to the really serious stuff. >> other thing why we couldn't have the culture quiz every week is because doocy, very few people know this because set rhode island governor. they are the same person. all right? keep running up to providence to do it. stop the foolishness and more foolishness. ma barker was the mother of four sons who terrorized the midwest in the 1930s, she helped her her sons plan robberies. big bad momma was based on ma barker's life. >> momma lunches, sandwiches, donuts, fresh coffee compliments of momma's lunches. >> thank you, little lady. >> boys going to take a long lunch today. >> turn around, mr. and never trust a woman giving away her donuts for free. >> bill: bad parent. they kidnapped a we

i'm martha maccallum. >> i'm bill hemmer.ope you had a great holiday, everybody, and you as well with your family. more republicans say they will consider closing certain loopholes in order to raise revenues if democrats compromise on some of the big issues. have a listen. >> to do this i want entitlement reforms. republicans always put revenue on the table, democrats always promise to cut spending. we never cut spending. i'm looking for more revenue for entitlement reform before the end of the year. martha: how do you get that rev few? that is the big question here folks. doug mcelway joins me live from the white house with more on this. it sounds like the white house report is just not warning abouo putting tremendous pressure really on congressional republicans, is that true? true. it's putting tremendous pressure on congressional republicans. the report in fact in some ways preemptively blames congressional inaction not white house inaction as to any tax hikes that would affect americans if we do indeed fall off the fisca

martha maccallum declared absolute power saying any decree he issued would be legal and not able to be courts. on paper basically putting himself above the law. supporters of morsi say it's a temporary move until egypt comes up with a new constitution. but some call it a grab at dictatorship. some calling him the new pharaoh. morsi says he will not step down so it' a test of will we have seen before in egypt between angry people on the square and the leader in power. only the names have changed. rick: that scene in tahrir square so familiar from a few years ago. the state department reacting to morsi's new powers and the violence it sparked. virginia nuland saying morsi's new powers raise concern for many egyptians and the international community. she adds that aspirations of the revolution that allowed morsi to take power were meant to be sure that power would not be concentrated in the hands of any one person. hamas is accusing israel of breaking the rules of a cease-fire. two days after a truce was reached we are hearing reports that a palestinian man was killed and 19 wounded after

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good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. f you to spend your time with us today. good morning, martha. one of those questions today, republican senator susan collins is concerned that the incident in benghazi is similar to the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in east africa. she was the region statel state-of-the-state liaison at the time of those attacks. >> in both cases the ambassadors begged for additional security. i asked ambassador rice what her role was. she said she would have to refresh her memory, but that she was not involved directly in turning down the request. martha: who was? right? that's one of the big questions here. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington this morning with us. what are we expecting in terms of possible answers this morning from all this. catherine? >> reporter: thank you, martha and good morning. senator collins is raising a key issue whether ambassador rice has baggage beyond benghazi, especially the knowledge of the conditions and the bombings in tanzania

good morning i'm martha maccallum. you will need a flow chart to follow this story as it develops because the cast of characters in this growing saga. the pentagon we're told is sorting through 20 to 30,000 pages of e-mails between this woman and general allen. she got, the fbi involved in the whole thing because she said that she was receive ofing harassing e-mails from this women, petraeus's biographer and ex-mistress, paula broadwell. bill: got all that? martha: i think so, you need a pen. catherine herridge is live in d.c.. tell us where we are today on the investigation. where is it. >> reporter: thank you, bill and good morning. so far virtually every publicly threat in the case leads back to jill kelly, a woman described as this unpaid social liaison for the military in tampa, florida. this morning it is alleged the commander of international forces in afghanistan, or isaf, general john allen, sent between 20 and 30,000 pages to kelly. e-mail traffic described as potentially inappropriate nature. it was jill kel

. >> caller: about 20 minutes ago martha maccallum announced that republicans said that democrats havement. i just heard it like 20 minutes ago, but the comment i want to talk about is i heard the biggest card, religious card on the hannity show, about how people he spun something a comedian did or said, misinterpreted it and said the democrats were worshiping obama now, you could tell, he spun it and didn't even understand. it was weird. >> oh, yeah, that's because jamie fox. >> stephanie: he called obama our lord and savior. it was a joke, sean. a joke. >> sean notoriously known for his sense of humor. >> stephanie: yes, that's right. >> i'm a literalist, really? am i? wow! >> stephanie: ok. >> i take everything seriously? do i? am i gullible? really? hmm. >> stephanie: yes in fact, yes you are. susan rice, meeting this morning with grumpy. >> policy, policy! >> stephanie: ok. julia, our good friend julie in seattle tweeted rice meeting with vile senators who used her as a politicalle chew toy. >> when she comes over, if she does, there will be a lot of questions asked of her about t

i'm filling in nor martha maccallum.: i'm jair jair filling in for bill hemmer new reaction from the white house less than 24 hours after that cease-fire was put into effect and after eight days of rocket fire and bloodshed. ainsley: celebrations breaking out in gaza. hamas hailing the truth, they see it as a victory over israel. mike emanuel is live from the white house with more on this. whou are officials reacting to this so far. >> reporter: history suggests that this could unravel at any time so they are being very cautious and careful with their language, but the white house has been giving us a behind the scenes look at recent events, including president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton in cambodia about 48 hours ago, when mr. obama told the secretary of state he was sending her to the middle east. we've also got even a look at the president aboard air force one working the phones, talking to egyptian president mohammed morsi on his flight back from cambodia with tom done lyn done donalan on. they are

count the numbers as we await the next poll closings, we want to take a minute to check in with martha maccallumat the national election polls and what's mattering to the voters today, martha? >> we are trying to read the tea leaves here, megyn. let's get another look at some the national exit poll numbers. we will get a little bit of a mood in the country about these two candidates. we have seen tonight that voters believe that president obama, quote: cares about people like them. we told you about that one earlier. here is another one that was a theme hit very hard by the obama campaign on the trail out there. that his policies favor the middle class. he talks about growing the economy from the middle out. so you see that that has clearly registered because 43% believe that his policies do indeed favor the middle class. now, how about handling an international crisis? this is sort of the only place in these numbers where we night have some indication of how people felt about what happened in benghazi on september 11th. we really don't have any clearer focus than this but this is a general inte