, politics, your livelihood, lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. a new pentagon report makes it clear, crystal clear, that president obama's most recent public assessment of the islamic state is not only misleading, it's utterly wrong. according to the pentagon report, the islamic state is not shrinking but, in fact growing, growing stronger in afghanistan. the pentagon report says the islamic state is now openly fighting the taliban there and trying to establish territorial control in large regions. i'll take up the administration's terrorist strategy with general jack keane right here in just moments. >>> also tonight, donald trump has climbed to new heights in another national poll. a new "washington post"-abc news poll puts trump at 38% support. 23 points ahead of his closest rival, senator ted cruz. this is the second poll this week showing trump with a massive lead over his rivals. >>> and los angeles officials tonight forced to defend their decision to cancel classes across the entire city today after they received an e-mailed threat. new york cit

. lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama says don't blame him for not winning the war against the islamic state. mr. obama tells npr it's the media's fault, national public radio listening respectfully to the president's excuses in an interview that aired this morning, and certainly didn't raise the possibility that the president was avoiding appropriate acceptance of his own responsibility for the failure of his administration to fulfill his promise of more than a year ago to, quote, degrade and destroy the islamic state. no. mr. obama instead declared the media have lost a sense of proportion about it all and stoking the fears of american citizens. here's the president now talking with npr before taking off on his two-week vacation in hawaii. >> post-paris, you had a saturation of news about the horrible attack there, and you know, isil combines viciousness with very savvy media operations, and as a consequence, if you've been watching television for the last month, all you've been seeing, all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks

the business. he is the best in the business. keep it right here on fox business.. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama wrapping up his appearance at the climate change conference in paris. he declared his strategy to defeat the islamic state is working. the president insisted his strategy and used the words degrade and ultimately destroy when talking about the islamic state. the president's comments in paris in stark contrast to what generals were saying in washington. at a house armed services committee, the joint chiefs chairman, joseph dunford said, we have not contained the islamic state, at the same hearing defense secretary ash carter said the united states will send more special operations forces to syria and will expand special ops in iraq. we'll take up the obama administration's ever evolving strategy with former cheney national security adviser john hannah. and tonight, how long can the obama justice department seemingly prolong the hillary clinton investigation? newly released e-mails shed more light on her handling of benghazi and what she was tr

night at 6:00 p.m. so far it's a trump train. we hand it off to the man himself, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. donald trump may be unstoppable. brand-new "fox news poll" shows the republican front-runner increasing lead yet again in the race for the republican nomination. trump netted the support of 39% of republican primary voters. that is up 11 points from only a month ago. the increase comes after his controversial remarks about temporarily stopping non-american muslims from coming into the country until we can figure out what we're doing. and the "fox news poll" shows 7 in 10 republican primary voters, 70% are in favor of such a ban. we'll have the full report tonight. >>> also, bernie sanders's campaign accusing democratic party leaders of trying to undermine his white house bid, and to boost that of rival hillary clinton. they're angry that the dnc denied sanders access to their own voter data after a sanders staffer improperly, quote, end quote breached the clinton files. >> the leadership of the democratic national committee is now actively atte

up, that's how you get the guys in boston and tennessee. all right, guys. here's lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. the republican establishment has spent the past five months trying to take down donald trump. now they and trump's republican rivals have a lot of help. it's all about trump's proposed temporary ban on muslim immigration to the united states. while trump has considerable experience with controversy, he may have outdone himself this time. politicians are piling on from every quarter, his ban plan drawing widespread condemnation here and abroad. british, french, egyptian leaders, even the u.n. refugee agency denouncing trump's remarks, but as for the donald himself he seems unperturbed and today he doubled and tripled and quadrupled down. >> calling very simply for a shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> i have no doubt that we have no choice but to do exactly what i said until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. we don't know what's going on. you had the world trade center. remember this, you had the wo

very much for catching us, and here's lou dobbs. keep it on fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. raging demonstration in chicago tonight, despite the decision to prosecute the police officer who shot and killed a young black man more than a year ago. and just hours after the mayor apologized for the young man's death. protesters and demonstrators filling the city's streets as you see there, they're demanding that rahm emanuel resign as mayor of chicago. we'll have the latest on the demonstrations and what is likely to happen next in chicago. >>> also tonight -- the republican establishment, the democratic leadership, and the national liberal media have joined forces to create what i call an unholy alliance, and together, they're attacking viciously their common rival and foe, gop presidential candidate donald trump. trump has been the front-runner of the large broad field of candidates for five months now, and trump appears to be only getting stronger. his support growing. that unholy alliance is mendaciously attacking mr. trump, certainly viciously try

p.m., tell your friends about the show, here he is, lou dobbs, keep it on fox business. lou: i am lou dobbs. president obama opening a summits of world leaders in paris, declaring that fighting climate change is in his opinion, the only way to fight terrorism, pledging billions of dollars for a climate deal. it is not clear where he will get that money, this is our president's way of conducting diplomacy without a paper trail, without a role for congress there is no treaty, nothing signed but our president's announcement that quote, an agreement has been reached. we take up this leadership at a time of global terrorism and cyberattacks. senator is joining us to take up that as does fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland, and the u.s. tightening visa waiver rules that have permitted millions of investors here -- visitors here without a visaa. >> many of refugees no longer asking to be let in, they are now demanding entry into the e.u., and clashing with police as european nations strug told begin to enforce their borders. and donald trump a passion for controversy, did bla

i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." and, remember, you can't take it with you. . lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the obama administration tonight looks more than a little confused about the direction and the progress of its so-called fight against the islamic state, or as this administration weakly calls it, isil. two days ago, president obama said he was dispatching his defense secretary ash carter to the middle east to press the fight against the islamic state, a fight that president obama intimated was being well thought and going well and that america was about to take the fight to the enemy. but tonight, we learn the u.s.-led coalition has suffered an unexplained reversal, and american forces are arguably worse off than monday. the pentagon announcing it's withdrawing 12 f-15 fighter jets deployed to turkey to carry out airstrikes against the islamic state. and in his talks with iraqi officials today, defense secretary ash carter failed to win iraqi government approval for the use of u.s. apache attack helicopters in the battle to retake ramadi from the is

two of the best out there, and appreciate you. speaking about the best, lou dobbs. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. the mainstream liberal media tonight acting like delicate little flowers recoiling in apparent outrage at donald trump's rude language on the campaign trail. they appear to be all worked up over trump's bastardized usage of a vulgar yiddish word to attack hillary clinton in campaign event in grand rapids last night. >> everything that's been involved in hillary has been losses. you take a look. even a race to obama, she was going to beat obama. i don't know who would be worse? i don't know. how does it get worse? but she was going beat. she was favored to win and she got -- she lost, she lost. lou: the national media doing best impression of outrage at such language suggesting rude words are less to be tolerated, much less than mere lies to the american people, and tonight we'll have the latest national poll that unexpectedly shows a tightening in the republican race. brand-new quinnipiac poll showing trump leading the race, a four-point lead. last month les

home, thank you very much, appreciate you watching. lou dobbs is next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. donald trump has a message for republican leaders who reportedly are planning for a brokered convention next july. trump says he's going to win, and the party establishment needs to deal with that. here now is the republican front-runner as he talked with fox news sunday host chris wallace. >> they're kidding themselves. i'm going to win, i think i'm going to win. i'm not one of the other guys that goes down, i don't go down, i go up. >> do you have a warning for gop leaders? >> i say folks, i'm sorry i did this to you, but you got to get used to, it one of the little problems in life. lou: trump doesn't seem overly concerned, does he, that he's the target of some of the most powerful moneyed people in this country and paid political assassins. trump knows well that the unholy alliance of the republican establishment, the democratic leadership and the national liberal media will only intensify attacks against him. trump also knows he can reasonably expect his numbers t

i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." and remember, you can't take it with you. ♪ lou dobbs is next. . lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. president obama and his administration today continuing their campaign of comfort, aimed at americans unsettled or outright afraid of the growing threat of the islamic state. the obama comfort campaign landed at the national counterterrorism center today, using the center as a backdrop, a centerpiece if you will of the administration's readiness and the president's strong leadership. he made it clear if nothing else that the white house knows how to build optics for its point of view. a week and a half ago mr. obama gave an oval office speech on islamic state, and it was the islamic state's much doubted and not always obvious strategy that did not impress many americans. monday, a visit to the pentagon, today, a visit to the counterterrorism center, but all of that for not. because officials of his administration shockingly could not tell a congressional committee the whereabouts of thousands of foreigners who have had their visas r

keep it right here. lou dobbs is next. this is fox business. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. federal authorities tonight trying to determine the motive behind the shooting rampage in a social services center in san bernardino. officials say the married muslim couple who stormed into an office holiday party in a conference room at that center fired as many as 150 bullets into the crowd, and they killed 14 people and wounded 21 others. within hours, a san bernardino police had located them, authorities then pursued the killers as they raced down a busy thoroughfare not far from the scene of the attack at the services center. tonight we learned the fbi is treating this investigation as a possible terrorism case. here's something of an inventory of what the police and other agencies now know. at the scene, investigators found three connected pipe bombs set to be detonated by a contraption linked to a remote control car. that type of device is featured in the al qaeda online magazine inspire that teaches radical islamist terrorists how to build bombs. >> my understanding th

every night at 6:00 p.m. if you can't see the show, make sure you dvr it. it's been a bi >> lou: it took three days but the fbi announced it is trading the massacre as an act of terrorism. that is something president obama has done great lengths to avoid but the fbi director address the media. >> the investigation so far has indication of radicalization of the killers and the potential as pressure by foreign terrorist organizations. so far we have nullification the killers are part of an organized larger group or part of the cell there is no indication they're part of a network. lou: the director's comments after it'' the fda bail sugar declared her legions of facebook o:00 in the morning wednesday roughly the time the shooting began. investigators saw of that's farook tried to cover their tracks in their cell phones and a hard drives the falls were founded the trash can near their home and the media against the unexpected book today it to their home after the couple's lamp board unexpectedly opened it up to reporters we will have the full report what has bev berndt so far in this i

hands of lou dobbs on fox business. lou: good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the republican establishment appears ready to risk turning the gop presidential primary process upside down, and upset millions and millions of republican voters while the unholy alliance attacks donald trump's candidacy and his campaign. in the doing, will also frustrate the will of the american people, it appears, those who support trump for president. the gop elites appeared to have lost their minds, if the "washington post" reporting is accurate, the post reports more than 20 top republican officials and leading figures in the gop this week met to discuss the possibility of coalescea around a trump alternative and forcing a brokered convention, and in new york state some establishment republicans, so-called, want to have trump banished from the party altogether. this as republican consultant e. o'brien murray, you can tell he's establishment, considering filing a complaint with the party. >> the message about keeping americans out of our country if they're muslim and out of the country when he d

a lot of news and only one person can put it all together. lou dobbs. he's next. lou: good evening, everybody, i'm lou dobbs. it took three days but the fbi today announced it's treating the san bernardino massacre as an act of terrorism. that's something president obama has gone to great lengths to avoid saying. fbi director james comey today addressed the media. here he is. >> the investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. so far we have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or formed part of a cell. there's no indication they are part of a network. lou: the director's comments come after investigators learned that the female shooter, tashfeen malik, declared her allegiance to the islamic state on facebook, about 11:00 a.m. wednesday, roughly the time that the shooting began. investigators have also learned that malik and farook tried to destroy hard drives in a bid to cover their tracks and communications, and crushed cell phones crushed in a tra

i'm jamie colby. thanks for watching "strange inheritance." today. lou: i am lou dobbs, a development on campaign trail tonight, one that is likely to cause a huge amount of controversy for donald trump. trump due to appear at a campaign rally. we're looking into the auditorium right now. mount pleasant, south carolina. we'll go there in a moment, when trump arrives, today he called for a ban against all muslim immigrants into u.s. until as he put it, until we can figure out what going on, those comments have kicked off a firestorm of criticism, and condemnation from his republican opponents and beyond. jeb bush called trump quote, unhinged. governor kasich said the idea, quote should disqualify him from the presidency. governor chris christie said much of the same senator lindsey graham calling on all can doubts -- we'll go there live when he steps up, also tonight, new warnings about rising threat of the islamic state, just a day after president obama try -- tried to quell concerned about radical islamist terrorism, a intelligence report commissioned by obama white house

i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." and remember, you can't take it with you. ♪ . lou: and a downright strange choose conference today foram the farook family attorneys cautioning against rushing to do judgment about the sane bernardino couple as alleged shooters a number of times. one even tried to paint a picture of teeeighteen as a soft-spoken traditional housewife. >> a typical housewife. she did maintain certain traditions from what i understand with prayer five times a day then chose not to drive. but it's and then the muslims do and it does notot mean anything. had suggested lou: nobody suggested did read anything but pledging allegiance to the leader of the islamic state before she and her husband carried out the massacre as well. that does mean something. we justin to interfirst image of the shooter teeeighteen obtained by abc news the first picture now comes in and. joining us now the former assistant former fbi agent an extraordinary day inhich, frt which is all declared an act of terrorism to reiterate that point how important it is it that it is declared an act o

described as a church with a s.w.a.t. team outside of it. we'll leave you with lou dobbs right now. keep it right here on fox business. lou: good evening. i'm love dobbs. at least one suspect confirmed dead after a shootout between police and suspects in the san bernardino office massacre. one suspect reportedly still on the loose. these are pictures of the suv, the black suv in which the suspects escaped the crime scene. the crime scene in which 14 people were murdered. and another 17 wound in san bernardino. the inland regional service center, a government facility in which almost 700 people daily try to administer the needs of disabled adults. and in a conference room, a large conference flooment inland regional center, the center building you see there at 11:00 a.m. pacific time, 2:00 eastern. three men walked in with semiautomatic aupon and opened fire killing and wounding 31 people, and fleeing the scene within moments of opening fire. we are expecting a news conference from the police department, the police chief is expected to be speaking in just a few moments. we'll be going the

>> people all stores why should they get away with it? >> we have to brace for it. here is lou dobbs. lou: good evening. i am lou dobbs. the race for the republican nomination is donald trump's to lose now 41% with no candidate pulling your his numbers. but in i was the appearance of a two-man race. new polls show traub and senator ted cruz virtually tied for first place. but ted cruz has a surge mean he is also the newest target and he didn't wait to cross and strike at the candidates and tall now was given up past. today he called ted cruz save a little bit of a maniac. we take up the republican race tonight and former drug advisor stowe and. and then to go over to the pentagon to assure the american people with the questionable strategy the short speech went like this. >> this strategy is moving forward with a great sense of urgency on both fronts. to train and equip syrian forces to fight isil on the ground. stop the operations by financing end propaganda and persistent diplomacy so everybody can focus on destroying isil. lou: i will repeat logical when he goes deep in fore

. lou: they run to danger, they don't run from it. and they protect the public every day and do their very best to say living. it's getting damage, we are waiting for -- it's getting dark and we are waiting for the press conference to bring us up to date. as we assess what happened and the departure of what this day represents, it sounds horrible, but as we have come to expect when we have a shooting, and we expect shootings now in this country. i'm not quite sure what that noise was, but i apologize for it. but this is a departure. three people working together to kill innocents. >> you are right, lou. we hear about this time after time, not just in our country. but other country. you look at saint-denis, and the point is we approach, we don't sit around on a per relationshipper and wait for the shooting to subside. now they walk into the shooting. we have come to expect that, and that's a horrible way to have to live in this country in this free democracy. but because it's a free democracy, thing like that will continue to happen. god bless the police for the training they have to a

nasty weather here and where you could run into problems in the holiday travel. lou: i'm lou holder in sports. what does a training camp brawl have to do with the playoffs and why jay gruden says it was a fight that united the team. when "abc7 news at 6:00" continues. alison: anne arundel county police arrested a sex offender they say is a brazen thief. michael leonard accused of stealing a package in front of a police station lobby. they saw him and then they found it when they searched his car. he is charged with theft. >> a crime alert on metro after a beating aboard a train on rush hour that left someone hospitalized. as stephen tschida reports this attack with the stabbing death in the same station last summer has the riders on edge. stephen: witness say's at it approached the station the teenagers got rowdy. >> scary for the rest of to us try to have a decent commute. stephen: they apparently pulled a man from the seat and beat him so badly the witnesses say that it left him unconscious. stephen: the train stopped and they ran. but they nabbed several on the station. >> they were

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home of night 6 p.m., tom su sullivan is in for lou dobbs. tom: i am tom sullivan in for "lou dobbs tonight." >> i takes this up with kt fantastic far land, also war of words between donald trump and hillary clinton getting personal. republican frontrunner accusing bill of having quote, a terrible record of women abuse. that remark days after mrs. clinton said trump had a quote pe penchant for sexism. deadly weather brings parts of the country to a halt, more than 40 deaths reported nationwide. with tornadoes from the south to midwest, we have latest coming up. >> top story tonight, circrack forces -- iraq forces today declaring victory in their battle to retake ramadi from the is lambic state -- islamic stat state. iraqi soldiers raise their country's flag, and celebrate today. they regained control of the center government there. ramadi has been quote liberated about we're told there are still pockets of isis militants and more work needs to be done flushing out isis fighters hole up in buildings,ry retaking central ramadi is a major gain for iraq's military, and a major loss for

. tom: and good evening, everybody, i'm tom sullivan in for lou dobbs tonight. donald trump bragging about how little he spends on his campaign, all this is about to change. trump says he is planning an ad blitz that could cost more than $2 million a week. >> starting around january 4th, we're spending a lot of money. going out and spending a lot. i love the concept of saying i spent the least and i'm best result because that's what it's all about. tom: and that has to be troubling for his rivals. today donald has spent $5.5 million on his campaign but he's in first place nationally in the new hampshire as well. in south carolina as well, and in iowa, he's just behind ted cruz. i'll have a full report on the state of the race closer to the iowa caucuses. >>> also tonight, the obama administration touting progress against the islamic state saying its airstrikes have killed, ten islamic state leaders over the past month. that development coming a day after the iraqi military said its forces recaptured the main government complex in ramadi from islamic state fighters, but is the adminis

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. the host of lou daabs tonight. comedian joe devito and it is tv's andy levy. let's cart the show. let's start the show. the muslim killers in san bernadino fired more than 150 bullets at police and built a dozen pipe bombs and stockpiled thousands of rounds of ammunition. i am starting to think this wasn't a workplace grudge. the horrific attack was different than anything we have seen before. and there was a woman involved. the reaction on twitter we have seen before. democrats lectured on gun control and republicans offered prayers. hillary clinton, i refuse to accept this as normal. we must stop gun violence now. martin o'malley, enough is enough. it is time to stand up to at nra. on the other side jeb bush, praying for victims. john kasich, my thoughts and prayers. done thald -- donald trump, praying for those impacted. yes, republicans all went there. they prayed for victims controversially. the left mocked. a democrat senator tweeted your thoughts should be about steps to take care to stop this carnage. your prayers should be for forgiveness if you do nothing again. they ra

washington. lease a, thank you very much. before we take a break, i want to get some reaction from lou who is a retired detective from nassau county here in new york. lou, you were just telling me a little earlier, you are confident that law enforcement will identify who is responsible for this and do it fairly soon. explain why? >> because of the sophistication of our fbi and our intelligence community. and the one thing i do think that is important to note is an investigation of this scope or scale goes well beyond the resources and the ability of the san bernadine county sheriff's office. this will take legs. it will be a domestic investigation. it could be rooted with contacts on the other side. country. potentially foreign. this is going to be a very substantial investigation. i know from my relationships with people in this organization, the fbi has their hands in many things, as does our intelligence community. i am highly confident they are going to identify who did this. and i am confident even further that they will apprehend them. one of the things that they haven't really s

sullivan is in for lou dobbs. tom: i am tom sullivan in for "lou dobbs tonight." >> i takes this up with kt fantastic far land, also war of words between donald trump and hillary clinton getting personal. republican frontrunner accusing bill of having quote, a terrible record of women abuse. that remark days after mrs. clinton said trump had a quote pe penchant for sexism. deadly weather brings parts of the country to a halt, more than 40 deaths reported nationwide. with tornadoes from the south to midwest, we have latest coming up. >> top story tonight, circrack forces -- iraq forces today declaring victory in their battle to retake ramadi from the is lambic state -- islamic stat state. iraqi soldiers raise their country's flag, and celebrate today. they regained control of the center government there. ramadi has been quote liberated about we're told there are still pockets of isis militants and more work needs to be done flushing out isis fighters hole up in buildings,ry retaking central ramadi is a major gain for iraq's military, and a major loss for isis according to the officia

sullivan in for lou. tom: good evening, everybody, i'm tom sullivan in for lou dobbs, and the obama white house playing defense over an explosive report that president obama authorized spying on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and in the process swept up communications with congress. that's according to the "wall street journal" which says the national security agency's monitoring the such exchanges sparked what one official called an oh bleep moment. i'll take it up with john bolton tonight. >>> donald trump declaring war on political opponents, one he does not intend to lose, speak at a campaign event in south carolina today, trump once again took aim at the clintons. >> i consider them enemies, we view this as war. don't we view this as war? it's war. the husband wants to come and accuse me of things and the husband is one of the great abusers of the world? give me a break. give me a break. tom: i'll discuss that with former reagan political director ed rollins. >>> and bill cosby charged with allegations he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman at his pennsylvania home in

>>> good evening, everybody. i'm lou dobbs. the republican establishment appears ready to risk turning the gop presidential primary contest wrup side down and upset millions and millions of republican voters while the holy alliance attacks donald trump's candidacy and his campaign. in doing so will frustrate the american public. least those that support trump for president. the gop elites have simply lost their minds if the washington post reporting is accurate. "the post" reports that more than 20 top republican officials and leading figures in the gop this week met to talk about the possibility of coalessing around a trump alternative and having a brokered primary. some want to have trump banned from the party altogether. this is republican e. o'brien murray. >> to deliver this kind of message and double down from keeping americans out of our country if they are muslim and just out of the country when he did that on monday shows that i believe his lack of being genuine running for president. >> whatever. the establishment resistance to trump will be met by a candidate. it was