Into next year, despite his proclaiming of bringing the wharf to a responsible end, but karzai has refuseed to sign a bilateral agreement, offering for troops to stay. President also running to criticism from both parties for the decision with some democrats calling for a vote to authorize military to stay, and republicans calling announcement, a mistake of policy, over strategy. Wen dolwendell at the white hou. Reporter in a rose garden announcement, president said half of the force in afghanistan will come home in 2015. And rest by time he leaves office. We now been in afghanistan longer than Many Americans expected. Were finishing the job we started. Reporter Administration Officials want to prevent the weaken authority they are seeing in iraq. Afghan force will acts as trainers and go afternoon terrorists but not go after terists but not everyone is convinced they can do the job. Responsible level is 30,000. Sunday, president obama told the commanders on the ground, he wanted to me
College students cheered. In some places your words can get you killed. Is it okay to tell a man to man up . Or tell a woman that she is bossy . That is our show tonight. Now it is time for john stossel. Obviously the offensive speech story this week was the owner of the los angeles clippers, things like dont show the public pictures of people with you with black people like magic johnson. There was Quick Reaction from the head of the nba. There is absolutely no place for ignorance, and intolerance. I am banning mr. Sterling for life. Within days he is banned by the nba. And yet, its a little confusing. Because what got him into trouble. Things that he thought were private conversations were what do you do regarding race . He said he may not live in my apartment building. The government sued them for housing discrimination, adding that he refused to rent to black people in beverly hills. None of that much made news. This private conversation got him banned from basketball. So what is u
Like the new 1,000 per pill hepatitisc drugs. Everyday drugs to treat conditions like Blood Pressure more than doubled over past few years. Those prices are expected to go even higher. Despite the promise of generics to bring prices down. For more on this, lisa gill, prescription drugs editor at Consumer Reports joins me now. Lisa, welcome back to the show. Thanks. Gerri weve had 11 increase in drug prices since 2007 and that is despite the fact that generics comprise 86 of all pharma out there. So i thought prices were supposed to crater, not go up . It is true. A lot of blockbuster drug prices have dropped but meanwhile other prices on some of those key remaining branded drugs and specialty drugs are boeing way up. Gerri theyre driving overall Prices Higher . They are. A couple of other things. More people are taking medications first of all and you have a aging population. That is another issue. Gerri well that adds into the mix too. I was looking forward to some of these prices act
The down payment for future homes. If you dont have that, youre not in any rush to get out of your home or to try to buy another home because you simply cant. That means millions upon millions of americans would like to be part of the housing recovery who simply cannot. Welcome, everyone, i am neil cavuto. We have our fox business allstars here tonight. Thank you all for being here. How big a deal is this . It used to be close to 35 at the height of this meltdown. So we have slides that almost in half. It is extraordinary how much there is out there as far as people under underwater. We are right on the precipice of yet another housing crisis area the terms of affordability, we are going to watch politicians offering programs lowering credit standards. If they go tre, we are in trouble and we are going to see ourselves in the economy be impacted. Neil so it will put us in a deeper fix. But the argument for extending that repayment plan, if you dont want all these guys suddenly in the m
Machine, boots on the ground in key races and the Insurance Industry bthe establishment med us. Varney and company is about to begin. We watch retail very closely on this show especially brick and mortar, some of them in decline, some of them not. First office years, down to nearly 3 , big discounts not helping sales. Higher profits but more customers at dollar to 3. A bit dozy . A big beat for best buy and that stock is up 5 so it is a mixed bag for retailer, brick and mortar this morning. Check the big board this thursday morning, were 26 points, 16559. We are waiting for a chinese retailer called j. D. Com going public today, hasnt started trading, you will know when it does. You see that sign . The Treasury Department reveals the irs workers spent more than 500,000 hours on Union Activities last year. That cost taxpayers 23. 5 million. That cost taxpayers 23. 5 million. Monica crowley is here. You call the irs scandal, let me get the quote right, the worst scandal in u. S. History.