we're always listening, if matt welch and kmele foster, i'm kennedy. it's already a good night. thanks again. watching, see you tomorrow. john: and so republicans vote to raise the minimum wage. >> alaska arkansas nebraska and south dakota all voting in favor of raising it. john: some americans say business hurts poor people. >> might be the problem to create poor people. john: famous actors tell the united nations fossil fuels will kill us. >> accelerated climate change is here right now. john: it is? some people believe all kinds of things. you believe in ghosts? >> yes, people have seen ghosts i don't need proof for it. john: no proof? be reasonable. that's our show tonight. and now, john stossel. john: we like to think that we are rational creatures, we're logical, we form our beliefs based on facts. >> you consider yourself a rational person? >> very rational. i don't know about him, i'm very rational. >> rational? yeah, absolutely. john: so many americans believe ridiculous things! >> do you believe in ghosts? >> yes. >> yes. >> people have seen ghosts. >> the house i grew

independents@fbn e-mail us if you are crazy and drunk this holiday season for kmele foster and matt welch i'm kennedy, wishing you the most glorious season, you are the reason we are here. good night. dobbs. >> good evening everyone tonight a public official is telling radical islamist terrorists exactly how he feels about them and the mayor of rotterdam happens to be muslim. , he is issuing this profane directive to the radical islamist terrorists who carried out the attacks killing 17 people in france last week. and the same words to all that support them. [speaking in native tongue] [bleep] lou: a defiant "charlie hebdo" magazine. good thing the probable comment on this week's cover. as you can see he is betrayed as crying and holding a sign that read that i am charlie, with the words i am forgiven. words that the surviving members that "charlie hebdo" says are open to interpretation. and president obama absent from the terrorist rally. he remains absent when it comes to identifying the threat that his radical islamist terrorist. and more appalling is the damage control campaign by lef

"the independents" at foxbusiness.com for matt welch and kmele foster. i'm kennedy wishing you the most glorious season. you're the reason we're here. good night. evening, everybody. president obama conducting his annual year end news conference today and not surprisingly he declared this year to be one of his best. president obama began his press conference by acknowledgeing that north korea was behind the massive breach of sony's system. >> sony's a corporation. you know it suffered significant damage. there were threats against some employees. i'm sympathetic to the concerns that they've faced. having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. i wish 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 criminal attacks. >> i have to give the president credit first. he's never given a more direct answer to any question, but he displayed no perceptible sign of the irony of his response to sony's response. it was mr. obama's white house that then asked google to remove the moham

we need your hate mail for matt welch and kmele foster. so helpful. i'm kenn you. ♪ ♪ john: don't you need to mop the floor? elta cao buy groceries? so you can rest assured that they are reliable and trustworthy -- what? why would i believe them? political individuals want us to trust government. but didn't margaret thatcher pop that bubble years ago? >> and this actor says privatize everything. privatize the fire department and the police department. >> but that upsets the left. but the private sector does things better. that is our show coming up tonight. ♪ ♪ no. >> now it is time for john stossel. john: trusts. a lot depends on it and families often succeed because we trust families more than strangers. government works and people trust the government rules are fair. commerce works when customers trust that it will work. these are delicate relationships developed sometimes over a million years, but sometimes the internet is changing things for the better. i would argue that here is one example. >> do you need to mop the floor, by the groceries and

we're always listening, if matt welch and kmele foster, i'm kennedy. it's already a good night. thanks again. weekend. neil cavuto coming up next. neil: welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. as the new year comes up, how about we americans make a resolution to man up and woman up and quit acting like we don't measure up. quit kowtowing to china because they own so much of our debt. and focus on the fact we buy so much of their crap. quit tolerating lectures on the europeans on how to grow an economy. while we're at, quit bad-mouthing ceos here for being evil when they're about the only guys doing anything financially good. a lot of them are hiring. their stocks are soaring. now, we are not perfect. i will tell you what, we're not pathetic, and we certainly do better than this negative naval gazing nausea that says our best days are behind us. take a look at an economic recovery beats a world that can't remotely keep our pace. i think it's time to quit making excuses for what we're not and celebrate what we are. because compared to these other losers, we're on fire. so america qui

we're always listening, if matt welch and kmele foster, i'm kennedy. it's already a good night. thanks again. every night at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. in the meantime, have a great weekend everyone. >> good evening, everybody, i'm cheryl casone in for lou dobbs tonight. the obama administration finally retaliating against north korea for hack attack against sony pictures possibly the costliest cyberattack ever on an american company. the white house slapping new economic sanctions on pyongyang's arms industry and intelligence operations. reaction from general jack keane whether sanctions are the right move. >>> protesters taking to the streets from the east to west coast marching against brutal police tactics and a lack of accountability. the demonstrations come as the new york police department proves excelling at keeping america's largest cities safe with the new york murder rate falling to a record low. >>> prominent black conservative niger innis is here to explain why he thinks cops are black america's best ally. >>> and the president making the most of his vacation with lots

reason magazine's matt welch, special correspondent kennedy, and camille foster with free think media, actor charlie sheen asked president obama to investigate whether 9/11 was instigated by george w. bush. real or fake? >> real. >> yes, he did that. he made a six-minute video about it. he said osama bin laden might have been working with the cia. next, bell gates offered $100,000 to the person who could invent a more pleasurable condom. three fakes. no, he did. he called it the next generation condom challenge to improve uptake and regular use. >> uptake. great news. >> next one, actress evangeline lily to raise money for street kids auctioned off sexy underwear. real or fake? sfwroo no doubt about that, and yes, we have a picture of that. this didn't surprise you. >> that's just too random of a celebrity for that not to be real. next -- >> if you said whoopi gold burg. >> miley cyrus played strip poker to raise money for a children's music charity. kennedy got that one right. that's one that we made up here. >> come on now. >> it sounded so real, though, doesn't it? since president

matt welch and kmele foster, i'm kennedy. thank you so much for being a part of the show, and good night. lou: good evening, everybody. breaking news tonight. the manhunt under way in paris three radical islamist terrorists on the loose killed 12 people earlier today. a raid in reims france reportedly happening at the moment. the gunmen stormed the office of the satirical newspaper "charlie hebdo" known for caricatures of islamic figures like mohammad and islamic state leader abu bakr al baghdadi. two hooded men armed with kalashnikov rifles viciouslyg a french police officer in the street as he lay wounded. after calling out the names of would-be victims as they stalk them inside the "charlie hebdo" offices. president obama comdemned the terrorist attack, pledged america's help in tracking down the perpetrators. >> our counterterrorism cooperation with france is excellent. we will provide them with every bit of assistance that we can going forward. i think it's going to be important for us to make sure that we recognize thes

for matt welch and kmele foster, i'm kennedy, good night. dobbs. this is fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. the republican controlled 114th congress and u.s. senate sworn into service today. president obama didn't even wait for results of the speaker's election to start issuing veto threats, a bipartisan senate bill to authorize the construction of the keystone pipeline has enough cosponsors to break a filibuster and has the support of nearly 70% of the american public. but the white house not budging and acting quickly. press secretary josh earnest confirmed president obama will ignore the will of the people, a true bipartisan congressional compromise and he will veto the bill if it's passed. >> the fact is the legislation is not altogether different than legislation introduced in the last congress. and you will recall we put out a statement administration position that the president would have vetoed the bill had it passed the previous congress. the president wouldn't sign it either. lou: ernest also confirming that congres define a full-time work week as 40

we need your hate mail for matt welch and kmele foster. so helpful. i'm kennedy, thanks for being a pa night. here and watch lou dobbs next. . lou: good evening, everybody. breaking news. french police took out three terror suspects in simultaneous police rates on two separate hostage situations earlier in the day. the radical islamist terrorists responsible for killing 12 people at the "charlie hebdo" newspaper in paris are dead, along with another radical islamist believed to have murdered a french police officer yesterday before taking five people hostage in a jewish grocery store. a manhunt is still under way for a female suspect believed to have collaborated in those attacks. and evident is piling up at this hour that the event and the terrorists who committed these murders are not only associated, but were part of an intricate plan put together by international radical islamist terrorist groups al qaeda in yemen, telling associated press they started and funded the "charlie hebdo" itself. and despite all of this president obama today again refus

now these people were not matt welch and nick gillespie the current editors of reason. diapers by then. if you are now. [ laughter ] >> how did you become reasonable so much more quickly than i did. >> for me, it was that my brother who's older than me went to college, found it in the college bookstore and started sending it home to me. john: it meaning the magazine. >> the magazine. and like you, i was hearing a lot of stuff about how the right is always right or the left is always right, and none of that spoke to me and "reason" magazine which talks about free minds and free markets, the founder hated hippies and hated cops who beat up hippies. john: he thought they were emotional and foolish. >> and destructive and hateful towards capitalism. >> and totalitarian in the way they try to censor free speech. it hit home to me after living in central europe for eight years in the late 90s. when i came back looking for the same politics that you saw there, people hated communism, they loved capital markets and free markets and thought there should be personal freedom to do

for matt welch and kmele foster, i'm kennedy. have a great night. ng you in the hands of lou dobbs. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening everyone i am sure sony in for lou dobbs. breaking news. united states military has been hacked by isis supervisors. suspended after an apparent cyberattack, promoting a radical islamic group. also here tonight, french authorities cautioning six suspects in the terror attack from last week are large. and the white house tonight under fire from a liberal national media. and it fellow democrats after declining to send a high-level official to a massive anti-terror rally in paris is weekend. having the white house admitting that they are wrong. taking all of this up on the program tonight. and we begin with new threats to the homeland. the u.s. military overseas operations in the middle east. hackers claiming the islamic state had a so-called cyberjihad on by attacking youtube and twitter accounts. jennifer griffin has the latest details from the pentagon. >> a cyberattack hit this youtube page are virtually the same time the presid

for matt welch and kmele foster, thank you for making "the independents" a part of your life. i'm kennedy. good night. ♪ . lou: good evening, everybody. president obama claims he is turning the page but he's been outmaneuvered by the republican-led congress who have already turned a very important page. republicans moving on a host of issues, ranging from illegal immigration and border security to foreign policy and support of our middle class. we'll be taking up these issues with some of the country's foremost thinkers and leaders. our guests. congressman bob. and house foreign affairs and intelligence committee member, congresswoman, ross late man. former senior advisor to president george w. bush and republican strategist, karl rove. and foreign reagan white house political director and republican strategist ed rollins. we begin with a rant. and john boehner says the white house is ignoring this threat. the administration in the midst of seemingless endless negotiations with iran and they continue to loosen economic sanctions with no conditions attached. the white house rel

we need your hate mail for matt welch and kmele foster. so helpful. i'm kenn ducks. >> welcome, everybody. i'm neil. wicked cold and wicked terrorists. tonight, a look at what happens it ended in france. it's warming up here. there's not much new under the sun when it comes to terrorist scenarios. this is something, this attack in paris the design of this attack and sort of the extent of it. this is something we're talking about uright after 911. it was a big fear in people in the counterterrorism business. this sort of attack involving a handful of people involving just enough training. it wasn't the scale of 9/11. we thought, look, this is the sort of thing they'll try next to kind of spread the fear. and we didn't see it. we've been working extremely hard over the years. not a matter of luck that we haven't had on the us soil. it surfaces again the same concerns that we've been having and some things have changed. the logistics for the terrorists their capabilities their reach because of isis's success. and the numbers of people, the sheer numbers

we have matt welch co-host of "the independents." thanks to all three of us joining us. charlie, you just slipped in here. talk about the markets first. i know you have breaking news. >> i should point out it was up 300 points just a few moments ago, and you blink it is now up only 250, 260 let me say this. i think second half of fed minutes yesterday peter barnes presented us with where the fed was very cautious about the global economy and basically said if we have to, we would love to do this, if you read between the lines we'll keep interest rates where they are and print money, forever. >> forever. the market loves that. decouple the economy which i think economy is not doing that great, with the markets of the markets love low interest rates, low inflation. and a modestly growing economy or crumbling -- melissa: this chart we're looking at screen making a big difference. crude oil there trading lower. >> perfect example to yesterday and today, perfect examples of what charlie is talking about. decoupling the market from economic realities on the ground. crude going

matt mat welch is editor-in-chief of reason magazine along with carrie sheffield from "forbes" and thesident of advantage payroll services. thanks to all of you for joining us. mat what do you think? >> let's just tax the rich and give people free stuff in quotation marks free. the thing that strikes me beside the fact that it's not going to pass, almost none of this stuff is going to go anywhere, is that he actually thinks we need to make community college free by taxing our college savings plan. melissa: yeah. >> which is just gonna go nowhere for those of us who are not in the 1% and who have who take our college savings plans pretty seriously. melissa: it is amazing because when you drill down on the details that are available at point,s that is one that really makes you scratch your head. you're going to go ahead and tax savings for college to pay for other free college? i mean -- >> shell game at its finest. mat's absolutely right, this is dead in the water, dead on arrival. i think he's setting the stage for 2016 to say this is our talking point, this is what the campaign will b