be a favorite of the obama white house, kirsten -- who hold's hillary's old new york senate seat and amy -- who has made several exploratory trips to iowa. all three democratic senators signed a letter to hillary, pledging their support if she does definitively throw her hat in the ring. but the challenge to hillary from the democratic left would help her redefine herself as a political -- a shift that some say is already underway. >> question, would hilly clinton be better off with a strong challenge in the democratic primary ris or better off facing a field of white weights that she can easily beat? >> i think she would be better off facing a challenger, but i've got to tell you, john, she just looks like she's gaining steam, and polish, and all of the criticism that's been hurled at her when she was secretary of state, it's still there, but it is not gaining steam. so -- >> why do you think she would be better off? >> well, because i think it

another concrete example, bill daley was the chief of staff of the obama white house. he said after he resigned, that he and obama would come to an agreement and then valerie jarrett would go upstairs to the residents that night, spend the evening up there talking to barack and michelle and the next morning the president would come down and contravene and throw out the idea that daley had an daley resigned because he said he couldn't function that kind of white house. >> host: we talk about that already have subjects and "blood feud" the clintons vs. the obamas. the author edward klein who joins us in new york for this discussion. mr. klein, thank you. >> guest: it's been a great pleasure pleasure. thank you for having me on. up next on booktv seyed hossain mousavian a former high-ranking member of iran's national security council talks about the conflict between iran and the united states over the past decades and suggests ways for the two countries to improve their relationship. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we have a

is that six months evidence that obama, the white house, knew all along about the borders? ly, that they would be swamped? bat buchanan. >> john, it is an argument that fulfills what people have been saying, that barack obama is a slooeb sleep at the swip, he is not a hands onment. things are -- president. things are going on -- benghazi and all the rest of it. more than his failure or refusal not to call and go down to the border when henry quellar, a democrat congressman, a border district down there said come on down and comparing him taco tri na, indicates this is a serious problem for thement, he's not running again. this border issue job is this issue is going to me tas size and this is going to, be, i believe, border security, whole immigration security, it will kill reform and going to be a major issue in the republican, in the politics of 2016. >> well, the administration knew for many months that the numbers of unaccompanied minors were flowing across the border. soit was not a surprise and they were trying to put the resources in place to deal with it. he didn't g

>> it does answer question. >> coverage of the obama white house looked very different as her post of "the five." we sat down in new york. >> dana, welcome. >> how different does the environment seem than when you were stand there? >> a last it is the same. you see a lot of different faces. when i was there, there were journalists who covered self white houses including one of my very favorite, terry hunt and from reuters. >> same level of confrontation? >> well, probably not. if you were president obama's press secretary you would say "yes." if you were i, look, i was there to watch tony snow and scott mcclelland but it was a good back-and-forth, and snow loved to win a debate. my briefings tended to be more clinical. you ask the question, i will give you the answer. if why have it i move on and get you something by the end of the day. i tried to turn down the temperature in the briefing room a little bit. look, that was my style. some think it wasn't a good idea >> i much prefer t thing. the press secretary is for the entire united states. you are not the spokesman for the republica

now the obama white house has started the white house office. political strategy and outreach. four government employees with federal taxpayer dollars started. we want to bring the director. now the white house is claiming something new we haven't seen before. they said they have immunity. they don't have to testify. they are not claiming executive privilege about content. they are saying they don't have to testify because they are an adviser to the president. >> what's next? >> take it under advisement. you have legal eagles out there but trey goudy and others make a compelling case that says where are the bounds of newfound immunity. just because you advise the president doesn't mean you can bypass the constitution and ignore a subpoena. at the same time the white house is claiming to be the most open and transparent investigation in the history of the world. they can't allow a person to come uh. we haven't accused them of wrongdoing. >> i don't know if you heard joe a bramson on the issue are of transparency. thank you, sir. >> thanks, greta. >>> developing new illegal immig

libya and still no permanent ceasefire in the gaza complex, the list of headaches facing the obama white house continues to mount. let's go to the correspondent andre mitchell. how is the obama administration juggling all of these crisis? >> reporter: this emergency in libya is just the latest example of what happened after a dictator is toppled, unleashing more violence and vying for power. in syria, much overlooked. 1700 people died only last week and two years after the president first said assad must go, assad is stronger than ever. the most critical is in gaza. the president is increasingly impatient. this is america's ally. the relationship is becoming frayed. what could end up being the biggest problem of call is vladimir putin and artillery across the border into ukraine. the pentagon and the cia are working on a plan to help the government target rebels's surface to air missiles like the one bringing down the malaysia airliner. >> that's a full plate. thank you. a program note. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will be david gregory's guest tomorrow morning. the eastern half o

obama is affected by -- and might be ignored by the obama white house. the president, using republican inaction to defend acting on his own executive authority. immigration activists believe he will move to reduce deportations bus mr. obama's aides won't say if that's accurate. >> there's a chance that meeting will wrap up and if it does and the news warrants, we kole -- wallace is here from washington. what is it like inside that meeting right now? just yesterday the honduran president criticized the white house immigration policy, calling it ambiguous, without clarity. i wonder what the mood is inside that meeting right now? >> well, with three presidents from central america and president obama and some of them don't speak english and the president, don't think speaks fluid spanish. my guess is it's fairly formal. not terrifically with a bark off. having said that i kind of agree with what josh ernest said. i think it's a real chance you could get nothing out of all of this. the president is calling for $3.7 billion, both in humanitarian aid and beefed

being a polling turnout at the most recent council elections so despite all of your wonderful obama white house people coming here probably a great expense being paid for by party members on the tories and the labor benches . they fail to enthuse certainly young people and more and more people generally in this country. are. journalist thank you for coming on break you know a lot about down. thanks for watching you guys are sure to follow me on twitter at abbey martin join me tomorrow night break all over again. so. we can. choose the. choose. choose the stories to. choose. when i grew up. demeans a forest on. my playground. i knew it intimately. people say this for just quiet or a. forest. music in the forest. music is in the tree. when you cut down the street stream making a thousand each i was. all that means is that tree is seeing in a thousand different places. greenpeace has been campaigning on forest issues around the planet for a long time and when we came into alaska we were willing to get arrested for our cause. the option at this point is for folks to worry the longer you stay the hi

. >>> war in the middle east after a failed peace push by the obama white house.cretary of state john kerry if the president's foreign policy vision is up to all of these global tasks. >>> later, the blow to aids research. some of the world's top experts killed in the malaysia airlines disaster. i'll get

cease-fire in the latest gaza-israel conflict, the list of foreign policy headaches facing the obama white house continues to mount. let's turn to our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. andrea, how is the obama administration juggling all these crises? >> reporter: it is a real crisis for this white house and for the state department. this emergency in libya, lester, is just the latest example of what happens when a dictator is toppled when militias vying for power in a videocassette qume. in syria much overlooked here late, 1700 people died only last week. and two years after the president first said assad must go, assad is stronger than ever. the most critical problem right now is of course israel and gaza. and clearly the president and john kerry are increasingly inpatient with israel's tactics given the disproportionate human toll. of course israel is america's ally, but the relationship is becoming frayed. and finally, what could end up being the biggest problem of all, vladimir putin and russia's artillery shelling across the border into ukraine the past few days. the pen

. >>> president obama today trying to divert attention from all of his scandals and controversies during a six-minute appearance in the white house press briefing room. president obama announced new economic sanctions that target not russia but russian energy firms, financial institutions, some and a few russian companies that make weapons. european leaders also ordered up sanctions. steve stockman in the broadcast, stay right with we'll let you know if they work. >> fox news national security expert katy mcelderry forland, next. >>> israel has resumed air strikes against hamas and hamas rejected seize fire proposed by the government of egypt. netanyahu vowing hamas will quote, pay the price for its decision threatening to exert great force after the first israeli was killed in the conflict killed by a hamas rocket. joining us now, fox news national security analysts katy mcfarland. this is now a full on escalation at least in rhetoric, the number of strikes and your thoughts about where we're headed? >> i think we can be going, hamas turned down the deal that was offered, seize fire. why? i think very cynsi want to stac gasties.

you asked republicans do you want to see bill clinton back in the white house even with all his infidelities or do you want to see obaman the white house still, i think a lot of people would say i'm going with the clinton economy. >> they did that while he was in office. sandra is right. >> i think we've moved beyond it. >> what do we see in poll after poll after poll, the number one thing people are concerned about is the economy, jobs, get us back to work, making more money, get this economy turned around. i would completal gree with you that people are willing to turn a blind eye if the guy or gal is doing a good job in office and if they're answering their voters. >> i want to see the duck dynasty's guy take this guy's seat. >> he has a strong work ethic. >> that's a whole other segment. all right. with president obama well into his second term, the big newspaper in one state apologizing for backing his promise of change in 2008. why the paper is saying it misses the good days . now some intelligence officials are nervous. listen up... i'm reworking the menu. veggies you're cool... mayo, corn dogs...you are so out

white house. specifically, this was at the eisenhower executive office building. president obama himself walked over from the white house to the building where they were holding the watch party at one point today and dropped in unexpectedly on the federal workers there watching the game. before sitting down in the room there to watch some of the game himself president obama led the crowd in a round of i believe that we can win. i believe that we can win. which is apparently the american fan chant that you hear most often now at our international soccer matches including at the world cup. i believe that we can win did not start as a soccer thing. i believe that we can win was invented as a chant by a navy mid shipman serving in annapolis. he came up with as a way to support the navy football team. now it has become an all-american sporting chant including the one led today by the president of the united states. >> i believe. i believe. i believe. i believe. i believe that we can win. i believe that we can win. i believe that we can win. i believe that we can win. >> so the white h

obama. white house officials said they agreed the investigation should be transparent and not disrupted. they also said the leaders agreed russia is still providing weapons to the activists, and there's a need to impose more sanctions on russia. officials from the netherlands and ukraine are also discussing the investigation. they're trying to determine the safest way to proceed. sachiko takeda, nx healthcare world. >>> the prime minister of ukraine has designed. he told lawmakers he's lost the support of allies. some fear his resignation could further delay the investigation. he made the announcement after two parties said they would leaf the governing coalition and push for elections. he said the government can no longer exercise its leadership. the vice prime minister will take over for the time being. volodymyr groysman leads the investigation of the shooting down of the malaysian airliner. >>> let now turn to the latest business stories with ron madison. >> thank you, shery. people across japan are starting to realize they're paying for more the things they want. government official

if it's a lesson to martin o'malley, is it a lesson to the obama white house?ley goes left, nancy pelosi, who said last week it's not a deal breaker if you change the 2008 law which allows to you send the kids back faster. she says the president wants to do that. is it a lesson he may be beginning to experience what george w. bush wanted to experience in the last couple years, wanted to do social security and not only did his party say no they picked fights. republican started to think it was a good thing to fight their president. >> the politics of immigration overall have been scrambled by what has happened and you're seeing with all of the democrats who are running away from this issue how an issue that democrats have run on very aggressively for years and years, and some would say exploited in order to win hispanic votes is now being turned against them now that public opinion has swung very strongly in the other direction and public outrage, public attention to this issue has increased dramatically. i think o'malley has done something very sort of opportun

. >>> president obama today trying to divert attention from all of his scandals and controversies during a six-minute appearance in the white house press briefing room. president obama announced new economic sanctions that target not russia but russian energy firms, financial institutions, some and a few russian companies that make weapons. european leaders also ordered up sanctions. steve stockman in the broadcast, stay right with we'll let you know if they work. >> fox news national security expert katy mcelderry forland, next. wondering what that is? that, my friends, is everything. and with the quicksilver card from capital one, you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase. not just "everything at the hardware store." not "everything, until you hit your cash back limit." quicksilver can earn you unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you could possibly imagine. say it with me -- everything. one more time, everything! and with that in mind... what's in your wallet? >>> israel has resumed air strikes against hamas and hamas rejected seize fire proposed by the government of egypt. netanyahu vowing hamas will quot

jon: a battle over transparency at the white house as growing number of journalism groups say the obamatration is giving out too little information and too much misinformation. but the new white house press secretary josh earnest sees it differently. he is doubling down on the transparency issue. listen. >> i have a responsibility in this job to try to help the president live up to his commitment to be the most transparent president in history. if you look at steps we've taken -- >> i'm surprised say that line. >> absolutely. >> he has been criticized so many times saying that given prosecutions of whistle-blowers and other steps. >> yeah. >> you all still stick by that line? >> absolutely. absolutely. jon: joining us jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for the "american conservative" magazine and alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show, author of the "thank the liberals for saving america." both fox news contributors and both quite transparent. >> that is why i'm wearing a light suit today. >> what do you think, jim, about josh earnest's claim that yes indeed this is the mo

. >> but they both have something the obama white house desperately lacks, real ideas. the debate starts now. >> announcer: tonight, political war hits washington. rick perry versus rand paul on iraq. >> it's a preamble to be ready to rumble. >> announcer: and eric holder versus sarah palin. on the left, paul begala, on the right newt gingrich. in the cross fire, a democratic strategist and tim phillips a republican strategist. summer's political heat. plus, the outrage of the day. tonight on "cross fikrocross fi" >> welcome to "cross fire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> and i'm paul begala on the left. tonight, a pair of terrific political strategists to discuss a battle of republican heavyweights. in the right corner, senator rand paul, an eye doctor who some call an isolationist. in the far right corner, governor rick perry who is called for reinvading iraq. it worked so well the last time. senator paul has a medical degree from duke, governor perry was on scholastic probation at texas a&m where he studied animal sciences. governor paul says perry is dead wrong.

another concrete example, plan bill daly was the chief of staff of the obama white house, he said aftere resigned that he and obama would come to an agreement and then valerie jarrett would go upstairs to the residents that night, spend the evening up there talking to barack and michelle and the next morning the president would come down and contravene and throw out the agreement that daly had an daily resigned because he said he couldn't function with that kind of white house. >> host: we talked about a friday of topics and other topics in "blood feud" support the author edward klein who joins us in new york for this discussion. mr. klein, thank you. >> guest: it's been a great pleasure. thank you very much for having me on. >> my first reaction was surprised because i had worked for mr. sterling. i coach the clippers in the ear 2000. he invited me to his daughter's wedding. i had no idea exactly what was going on but i also, because of my association i know lg baylor and i know what he was complaining about so i was confused not knowing exactly which set of facts mr. sterling stood be

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. >>> president obama today trying to divert attention from all of his scandals and controversies during a six-minute appearance in the white house press briefing room. president obama announced new economic sanctions that target not russia but russian energy firms, financial institutions, some and a few russian companies that make weapons. european leaders also ordered up sanctions. steve stockman in the broadcast, stay right with we'll let you know if they work. >> fox news national security expert katy mcelderry forland, next. thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. and thank you for your bravery. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer. but hurry, offers end july 31st. share your su

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we know that the obama white house does not pay women the same as men.t saying it does not happen, i do think that women hit a glass ceiling they go out and start businesses, so guess what women create,ed own more businesses in fortune 500. you will have -- >> that transcends whole gender thing. you are a small the business owner it is about providing opportunity to benefit men and women. >> we don't need workers, men women paid equally? >> absolutely it is paided on the job, we do not have any women operating a press right now, but when i was working we did she was fabulous, and got paid based on merit not a government intervention to how we should pay people. i think women deserve to be based on merit not a government regulation. neil: how did this get mixed up in the debate. >> if you look at actual metrics, obamacare, that .epublicans rail against, but more woman are affected by min minimum wage. neil: a small component. now then, are you saying that republicans would look people in the eye say, i think you are worth less than a man. >> i don't think

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white house put together this video about that dinner. >> is this becky? >> yes, it is. >> this is josh calling from the white house. >> hi. >> don't forget president obama stopped a photo op in delaware hours after flight mh17 was shot down. >>> do you not believe in ghosts? try explaining this. spooky surveillance footage from a british theater showing a chair moving backwards right there apparently unaided in the third row. it happened hours after a psychic medium took the stage. theater workers noticed the chair was out of line knowing they left them perfectly in line. they checkled out the video and you can see a table in the room also appears to get pulled slightly as well. what do you think? >> the time now 25 after the top of the hour. beware before you head to the beach. ocean water at popular vacation spots a breeding ground for deadly bacteria. going grocery shopping today? pump up the jams while listening to music while you shop can help you shed pounds. >> she can barely talk but what caused her major melt down? that will make you smile all day. >> a controversial victory for jessie ventura. the widow of slain american hero chris kyle has to pay him

. >> the obama white house today blowing up a congressional subpoena. darrell issa, one of the president's top political advisers to testify on whether his work is in violation of the hatch act, a law that bans federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty. chairman darrell issa revealed that he heard he had bombshell evidence that the obama administration has a history and the record of illegal fund-raising activities. ice is forming the committee in 2012. told a soleus asking a subordinate to help with obama's reelection campaign. >> hello, this is how the calling and wanted to ask you if you could help us to get folks organize to come forward and organization at 6:00 p.m. we wanted to ask you if you would help to contribute or get other folks to help out. >> the white house would will not comment on the reporting, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation. and the head of the centers for disease control also facing questioning on capitol hill to explain a series of troubling errors of government laboratories involving dead

is that six months evidence that obama, the white house, knew all along about the borders? mely, that they would be swamped. pat buchanan. >> john, it is an argument that fulfills what people have been saying, that barack obama is asleep at the swit. he is not a hands on president. things are going on that he never knows about until afterwards. ben ghazi and the rest of it. more than that, his failure of refusal not to call an audible and go down to the border when a democratic congressman who has a border district down there said come on down and is comparing him to katrina, indicates this is a serious problem for the president, but more important, he's not running again. this border issue, john, this issue is going to matastasize, it's going to be a border issue, kill reform, and be a major in the politics of 2016. >> eleanor. >> well, the administration knew for many months that the numbers of unaccompanied minors were flowing across the border. so it was not a surprise and they were trying to put the resources in place to deal with it. he didn't go to the border. if he h

two reports tonight that the obama white house repeatedly ignored warnings on the crisis now unfolding on our southern borders. according to the reporting of "the washington post." saying that those warnings stay back to full years. and texas governor rick perry taking the administration at his word today taking action, sending 1000 national guard troops in to help securing the border. >> you are either disengage her disingenuous, one of the two, and americans lives are at stake. this is about the security of the country. lou: the vast majority of illegal immigrants into the united states with the help of coyotes and that industry is booming. a new united nations report estimating that human smuggling is raking in some $6.6 billion per year charging each person they smuggled across the border up to $2000 to be guided across the border. we are coming right back. lou: still all talk and no action telling vladimir putin to stop meddling in the ukraine my mother made the best toffee in the world. it's delicious. so now we've turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea an

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white house. when you switch administrations, how much of the white house staff stays and how much leaves? can we hang this all on obamave it or not, you stepped right in -- >> there's not that many people. they're taking the averages, right? there are a lot of senior women. i think both the white house council, she left, staff secretary is a woman, they do have some -- josh earnest said they could maybe do better. but from my opinion, i don't care. i just want them to hire the best people that they have for the job. >> i agree with you. i only care because they are huge hypocrites at the white house. >> there are a lot of people who stay between administrations, one of them is the people who answer the phones at the white house, the wonderful -- >> they're not making 100 grand, i hope. >> no, that's not the point. if you take the average of everybody that works there -- >> i see that. i see that. it should be better than that. i agree with that. but there are a lot of women who stay there between administrations. >> can i ask you this, bob. we agree on this one. matt lauer from the "today" show taking heat for asking

. >> does the coverage of the obama white house look very different as her co-host from the five? sat down with her here in new york. dana perino, welcome. >> thank you. glad to be here. >> when you watch reporters in the briefing room nowadays, how sdirchbt does that seem? >> i think a lot of it is the same. they've picked up a lot of different faces. when i was there, there were still some people, journalists who had covered several white houses, including one of my very favorites, terry hunt as an ap and steve ollands of reuters. >> but same level of confrontati confrontation. >> well, probably not. i guess if you were president obama's press secretary, you would say yes. if you were i, and look, i was there to watch ari fliesher, scott mcclellen and tony snow's briefing. a lot of those, in particular tony's, were confrontational in which i watt a good back-and-forth debate. my briefings tended to be a little bit more clinical. you ask the question, i'll give you the answer and if i don't have it, eye move on and get you something by the end of the day. i tried to turn down the

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obama. chief white house correspondent ed henry has that part of the story from the white house. >> reporter: president obama went forward with his planned schedule of two fund-raisers in new york tonight, calling the ukrainian president aboard air force one on the way. earlier the president was pushing for more highway funding in delaware where he stopped in at a barbecue joint. >> i hear the burgers are pretty good. >> reporter: and paused for 28 seconds to note the downed jet. >> it looks like a terrible tragedy. right now we're working to determine whether there were american citizens onboard. that is our first priority. >> reporter: the president also had vice president biden call por shenko to call for assistance, including a team headed to the region to determine what happened. >> there are many questions that need to be answered. and we'll get those answers. and we will take the next steps accordingly. >> reporter: the president heard about the crash from russian president vladimir putin who passed along air traffic control reports during a phone call to discuss sanctions. the white