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steven moore is a senior economic writer for the "wall street journal" to explain that. n, good morning to you. >> hi, bill, good morning. bill: how would this work. >> the big issue with respect to legalizing these 8, 10, 12 million people who are here illegally is will they become eligible for all these government benefits this. is a big concern. i'm as proimmigration as anyone, i think immigration is one of our great sassett as a country. i have a concern offering food stamps, health benefits, welfare benefits to immigrants who come here we. want immigrants who want to come here and work and be productive citizens. we don't want our welfare system to become a nag net. this will be a big issue in that bill that you were just discussing with brit hume. bill: i'm reading from the hill.com. assuming a final deal paves the way for undocumented immigrants to receive papers, assuming, do we know that to be the case? >> well the bill is still being written. we don't know exactly what kind of benefits these immigrants will be eligible for. these are people who are already in th

steven moore had an exclusive with john boehner. inside the president's mind set.t has to be kind of scary for those who worry about our he can numberic outlook. matt damon says frak something bad. we have another document tate tore who says it is good we should ignore matt damon. we will show you how to be rich. bring a pen to the show. she gets taken on by a marine on her no gun stance. my first weekend with a pocket hose. how did it change my life? i will share back with you only on "fox & friends." >> good morning to you. it is 10 minutes before the hour. president obama for president in 2016 in that could actually happen if a democratic congressman gets his way. he is reintroducing a bill to repeal the 22nd amendment. that states that no president could be elected to more than 2 terms in office. he tried repealing this 7 times since 1997. the proposals never even made it to a floor vote. >>> check this out. this is the world's first cash d -- dashcam video. it is footage of firefighters back in 1926. someone mounted a camera on the truck as they rush to do a f

>> that was a great piece by steven moore. having watched this and reading that piece i'm worried that the republicans could bend more to your point. but i think the general public needs to be worried because there are other types of taxes coming. nancy pelosi said something that was really interesting about how to get the taxes. she says she was fairly agnostic about it. in other words, just throw the hook out there and whatever we pull up in the net that is what we pull up. any one out there that doesn't think that personal ex. exemptions won't eventually be on the table. when you talk about healthcare, problem your employer that is paying for your healthcare that is an economic benefit and the government will come after that, too. a gas emissions tax and national sales tax. all of this stuff is still on the table. where the republicans draw the line and continue to fight remains to be seen. i do know all of these things are on the quivers. >> neil: but when taxes start going up they don't stop cold. >> and they want that tr

steven moore, let me welcome you back, thank you for joining me today. senior economic writer at the wall street journal. taxpayers, they bail out aig, now aig may be suing the taxpayers, ie you and me. what is the deal? >> sounds like one of those no good deal goes unpunished. the federal government stepped in with $180 billion bailout that was in late 2008 during the height of the financial crisis. and now it is actually a healthy company again. it has been nursed back to profitability. and, you know, look, the alternative to this bailout would have been almost certainly federal bankruptcy court. and the issue here, just to give both sides of the story, is that the directors and some of the shareholders are saying we might have come out better if we had gone in the federal bankruptcy court than the deal we got in terms of the return on the stock that we got with this bail. because what happened is the federal government became a 70% shareholder -- majority share holder in the company. hank greenberg, the former chairman of the company is one of the peo

joining me now to discuss this is steven moore, an anti-tax crusader and editorial board member at "the wall street journal." steven, let me start with you. president obama says the debt creeling is nonnegotiable, but republicans in congress are going to use it as a negotiation tactic. you always say the government needs to get out of the way and let businesses grow. suspect not raising the debt creeling to pay for bills already incurred standing in the way of the economy? >> well, you know, ali, you said the republicans view this as a good tool to try to discipline spending. i don't think they view this as a good tool, but i think they view it as maybe the only tool that they have right now to try to get president obama to negotiate on spending cuts. as you've quite correctly said, we just lived through the first of these cliffs, which was the fiscal cliff. we got by that one. you know, democrats feel they had their day there and they did. they got their tax increase. republicans are still wondering when are we going to get around to reforming these big giant entitlement programs and m

i met her in september, popped the question in november ♪ ♪ i'll soon ha' her all to masel' ♪ steven moore, and it's your turn today to tell us if, heaven forfend your house should go up in flames, which two objects would you rush from the house clutching in your hands? i'm tempted to say it would be your clothes because look at you! resplendent as always! ( laughs ) absolutely amazing. but it's these two objects here, isn't it? it is, exactly. which one should we start with? well, this is my first object. and it's not the box it's what's in it. maybe you should have a look inside yourself. oh, okay. a little... a little book. "company squad roll book". what's this? well, exactly. my great-grandfather was a sergeant in the grenadier guards during the boer war, and during the battle of belmont, this was his squad roll book, and this was in his chest pocket-- what was a squad roll book? well, it's a list of all his men. oh, right. so, this was in his chest pocket. he was shot in the hand, and he was shot direct in the heart. the bullet passed right the way through, out the other side and int

"wall street journal" steven moore joins us now. he had an exclusive report.ight? >> i did. over in the capitol outside of the house chamber. the bomb he dropped that's been getting so much attention was that the president told the speaker hold on to your seat there. the president said, we don't have a spending problem. john boehner's jaw sort of dropped and my jaw dropped when the speaker told me that story. the speaker said that he kept telling the president during those five weeks of negotiations, steve, we do have a spending problem, mr. president! and then the president said to him, mr. speaker, i'm getting tired of you telling me that. but look, to say we don't have a spending problem would be like the greek president saying we don't have a debt problem. the first stage of recovery, steve f an addiction is to at least acknowledge that you got a problem. and maybe that's why these negotiations broke down, because the speaker told me not once during all of those five weeks was the president ever really very serious about cutting spending. >> steve: the pre

that critic being steven moore, editorial board member and writer for the "wall street journal."ing us now. yes man for the president? what's wrong with that? >> well, there's nothing really wrong with that in terms of -- look, the treasury secretary probably should reflect the yesterdays and philosophy of the president. and i agree with the others on your unanimously it's very likely that he's -- your unanimously it's very likely that he's going to be confirmed. we were critical for a couple of reasons. one, look, we kind of were hoping this would be a new start for the president. that the second term might be a departure from some of the policies of the first term. this suggests that it's going to be more of the same. when you heard the discussion about how many republicans really just don't get along with this guy, they don't agree with his philosophy, they think he's really hard to deal with in negotiation, i think that could prestage real fights to come. i wanted to mention one other point if i could, wolf. one of the things that bothers me about the president's cabinet in h

shortly after that was actually passed, our friend steven moore from the "wall street journal" sat down with john boehner, speaker of the house, who was shortly -- after he sat down -- before reelected. john boehner revealed essentially the president's mind-set. john boehner kept talking about, look, mr. president, we've got a spending problem in this country. and the president said we don't have a spending problem. we've got a problem with health care. health care is the big driver of all the big price tags in this country, he said. and john boehner obviously disagreed. >> a lot of people should agree actually with that. a lot of people say because of obamacare, this is probably not where the president was going with it, but because of obamacare health c and taxes wil go up. it's interesting that he would believe that would be the reason for the spending problem. a lot of people think that's going to be exacerbated with obamacare in full force. >>brian: he goes on to say in what i think is an exclusive interview, he repeated the message so often he said toward the end of the negotiatio

ali velshi and i spoke with steven moore about why his newspaper is no fan of lew's. >> we were verycal of him in our editorial this morning, wolf, for a couple of reasons. look, we kind of were hoping that this would be kind of a new start for the president, that this second termite be a departure from some of the policies of the first term and this suggests that it's going to be more of the same and when you heard the discussion about how many republicans really just don't get along with this guy, they don't agree with this philosophy, they think he's really hard to deal with the negotiations, i think that could presage fights to come. one other point if i could, wolf. one of the things that bothers me about the president's cabinet in his first term and the one coming forward in the second term is you just don't have the business experience. you've heard that complaint by business men and women around the country. where are the people who know how business works, who now how to meet a payroll? and jack lew does have private sector experience at citi but he's never really run a comp

may ultimately hurt middle class workers, and coming up in the next hour, senior economic writer steven moorel join us with a look at who's ultimately going to get hit the hardst by the new senate deal and what it means for the nation's economy. ♪ heather: well, new insight on what may have led to the shifting narrative in the obama administration's early accounts of that deadly terror attack on our consulate in benghazi that left four americans dead including ambassador chris stephens. and now the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee says that the fbi, the cia and other intelligence officials contributed to the confusion. joining me now to discuss this, ambassador john bolton, fox news contributor and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. thank you for joining us and happy new year. >> happy new year. heather: so i have this report here, roughly 30 pages long. i've read through it a couple of times, actually, now. it's called flashing red. in part because of something that a high-level administrator said that libya and benghazi were flashing red around the time of the att

my friend, steven moore, was on tv today. he's at the "wall street journal.", you don't have to worry about people coming in and being a public charge. there's a law against that. well, mr. moore, there may be a law against it but it's not being enforced. we need to know it's going to be enforced in the future. younger people in canada get a priority. well, pretty soon people will be on social security, medicare when they reach those ages. shouldn't we, as a rational nation, look to give priority to younger people who will work a little longer and pay more into the system before they draw these benefits? they give preferences to investors, those who create jobs and bring factories and -- and manufacturing to our country. those are the kind of things i think we ought to be talking about. this bill makes reference to guest workers in their outline. it's a very delicate issue. let me just tell you what was in last year's bill last time in 2007. and reason to my mind was one of the greater errors in the legislation. people would come into the country for three yea