I go to bed. You never miss an episode. Thats it for us. Youve got about ten seconds to wave goodbye. Breaking tonight, another video and another selfinflicted wound by one of the principals behind obamacare. Members distance themselves from a member they celebrated five years ago, so now what . This is special report. Good evening. Im bret baier. New video on tonights story line as whats being described as the unbridled arrogance and condescension. Its not just republicans. Causing big problems for the
president right now could lead to each more in the very near future as republicans map a way forward to deal with the law. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight. Ed henry traveling with the president in burma with reaction there and here to the emerging scandal, but we begin with correspondent Doug Mcelwain and the latest discovery on a blast from the past with the president. Good evening, doug. Good evening. Bret. In this one he points out what he believes is the key to obamacare in massachusetts. The dirty secret in massachusetts is the fed pays our bill. We had a powerful senator, ted kennedy. They basically have figured out a way to rip off the feds for about 400 million a year. When he signed that into law he thanked Jonathan Gruber. Jonathan gruber at m. I. T. Devoted hours and hours. How does a nerd get in a game like this . Through numbers. Reporter having designed a program. Susan connecticut, delaware, kansas, and oregon came calling. Almost immediately i was called by governor schwarzenegger in california. Among his fans, a young senator named barack obama. One meeting led to another. Before long he was elected president and gruber was summoned to the oval office. He realized he had to take on Health Care Costs and that this law could be a vehicle for doing so. Reporter but gruber knew just as mitt rollny did that the massachusetts model wouldnt work nationally. Massachusetts had extra money to pay for it secured by its influential senator ted kennedy. Ted kennedy who had been delivering 400 million a year in flush funds to our safe net hospitals that the Bush Administration was threatening to takeaway. The Romney Administration went
there and said can we keep the money to use it to pay for the uninsured and they said yes very he knew the only way it would nationally is through mandates. For americans the idea of mandates was toxic. Congress found out just how toxic during their august recess of 2009. In drafting obamacare, gruber demonstrate thad he is brilliant at the numbers game. He was well paid, earning almost 300,000. But his blood talk of stupid voters and hidden taxes in front of hot mikes painted a different picture of both him and obamacare. Bret . Doug, thank you. Now to how theyre handling this mess and a clear effort to get as far away from Jonathan Gruber as possible. Chief correspondent ed henry is traveling with the president tonight. Hello, ed. Reporter while the president
is here to focus on Foreign Policy, the republicans think the gruber fallout will fund the fuel. The president posed in front of a buddha statue that looked like a massive gold throne as they stepped up their attacks against grubers comments. What this insider is saying, confirms that they were spinning tales from beginning to end because they knew they couldnt tell the truth about obamacare and have a chance of passing it even with the Democratic Senate with 6 60. The president spokesman was actually trying to shift blame to the gop. Its been the republicans who have been less forthright and transparent about what the proposed changes before affordable obamacare act would do. Except it was gruber, an
architect of the president s health law who said the opposite. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Basically call it stupidity or whatever but basically that was really, really critical. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who famously said you needed to pass the bill to find out whats in it today tried to say she knew nothing about gruber. I dont know who he is. With all due respect to your question, you have a person who wasnt writing our bill kmejt on what was going on when we were rising the bill who has withdrawn some of the statements that he made, so lets put him aside. One little problem. She seemed intimately familiar with group never 2009 when she was selling the benefits. I dont know if you have seen Jonathan Grubers analysis and what the comparison is to the status quo versus what will
happen in our bill for whose who seek insurance within the exchange and our bill takes down those costs. Now, democrats are running from gruber. To suggest that voters are stupid and thats how you passed it, you dont feel bad about that at all . I disagree with the assessment. The fact of the matter is this was a difficult undertaking. The republicans say the ends do not justify the means. I would think were going to strip out most, things that have already passed the house with bipartisan support, the mandate, get rid of that. Focus and try to work on the individual mandate. Another of the law Kathleen Sebelius ducked the question about grouper. You can talk to gruber about what he said but i dont have a comment about his comments. Anything else . They went on to say that republicans still do not have
the votes to repeal. As for pelosi, her staff insists gruber did not help write the law even though she and others praised his work. Bret . Eds traveling with the president. Ed, stand by if you will. After obamacare, the next big issue sure to enrage republicans is Immigration Reform. Tonight chief Congressional CorrespondentMike Emmanuel has reaction. Speaker john boehner today, lit jeopardize Immigration Reform and other issues as well. Were going to fight the pretty tooth and nail if he continues down this path. The draft order obtained by fox calls for allowing up to 4. 5 million Illegal Immigrants of children born in this country to stay in the u. S. It would expand deferred action for children brought to this country illegally by their
parents. Im confident that what the president will do will be consistent with our laws. In the absence of congressional action as the president has indicated, he is prepared to use in an appropriate way the executive power that he has. One border state republican warned activists they should be careful what they wish for regarding executive action. Being from arizona, a border state,ly tell you if this president goes unilaterally, i believe hell make the subject of immigration absolutelydecade and sh week earth said the cost will be more than political. Our school districtnd and all the other things that go along with that. There are concerns in other ways. The current measure runs out at midnight ott december 11th. Arizona republican congressman matt salmon sent this letter with 63 members to the chairman and ranking appropriations. Quote, we write to even courage
you to include language that would prohibit funding for the president s reported intentions to create work permits and green cards for undocumented immigrants currently in the united states. If he passes the reform bill there will be an explosion on capitol hill but rogers says a shut joup is not an option. Theres no one more strong than me. However, like its been said before, dont take a hostage you cant shoot. In burma White House Press secretary josh earnest didnt reveal when the president would act. In some ways the timing of the president s decision is not nearly as important as the decision facing House Republican leaders on whether they want to continue to block Bipartisan Legislation that has already passed the senate and would do so much more to address the challenges of the broken immigration system. He said there will be no
default, no Government Shutdown but clearly theres a concern about the impact on this congress and the next one. Bret . Thanks. Lets bring back chief White House Correspondent ed henry from Early Morning in burma right now. Lets talk more about this immigration issue. Ed, youre hearing theres a split over some of the president s advisers about whether to move this month or next . Yeah. Circle december 11th, 12th on the record. You heard mike emanuel says basic funding for the government runs it right about then. Im told some of the advisers are saying dont blow up that budget deal by doing the immigration executive orders in the next few days. They dont believe either party will shut the government down over this. There are a lot of nominations that the president wants to get through while harry reid is in charge of the senate. Theyre saying dont do anything in the short term. Wait until middecember. But im told there are other senior advisers saying go
forward in the next week or next few days and get this done, rip the bandaid off. Republicans are going to be mad either way. Get this done and over with, bret. It could happen as early as next week. Thanks. Do you believe the president will go through with the executive order next week . Let me know on facebook or on twitter bretbair. Small business enrollments are much lower than expected. It says just 76,000 people had signed up for 12,000 plans by the end of june. One of the reasons . The perception that the tax credit for Small Businesses is too small and too difficult to get. Up next, the leader of isis is not dead and hes vowing to keep fighting until he is. First heres what some of our fox affiliates across the country are covering tonight. Fox 29 in philadelphia with terrorism charges against a man
accused of ambushing the State Police Barracks and killing a trooper. Eric frein had already been charged with firstdegree murder. He told them he wanted to wake people up. A former executive who oversaw a mine that exploded in 2010 kill 20g people. Don blankenship facing several charges that could get him 31 years in prison. Blankenship has denied wrongdoing surrounding the accident at Upper Big Branch mine. And this is a live look at st. Louis. The big story. A warehouse on fire east of anheuserbusch brewery east of the city downtown. The building has been evacuated. Theyre still fight it. Thats a live look from outside the beltway on special report. Well be right back. [ fishing rod casting line, Marching Band playing ]
[ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat . Campbells healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ mm. ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. Campbells healthy request. Mm mm good. ® fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car campbinsurance. Thy request. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know genies can be really literal . No. What is your wish . No. Ok. A million bucks oh no. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Its time to get to work are finally over, fixing our longterm National Debt to help build a stronger economy. With a solid fiscal foundation, we can create more jobs, invest more in innovation and infrastructure, and make america more competitive,
giving our kids a better future. A bipartisan solution to our longterm debt means more growth today, more opportunity tomorrow. And the time to start is now. The leader oi isis terror said hell fight to the last man. No, hes not dead. It comes about after possibles plan to defeat them and whether changes are being considered. National correspondent Jennifer Griffin hath that story tonight from the pentagon. As dempsey and they face lawmakers for making a case for fighting the war against isis, a new audio tape of isis leader abu bakr al gagdy appeared online after officials claimed he was badly wounded or killed. The tape appears to have been
recently made. Baghdadi vowed to fight to the last man as u. S. Lawmakers threatened not to Fund President obamas military request. Someone had restrictions on u. S. Troops as advisers or trainers. I will not send them in in harms way with their arms tied behind their backs. So far its costing the pentagon 300,000 an hour. Where is it coming from . Please explain to the america people and to this congress how this war is going to end some day . We need to be clear on what with are asking and will ask of our brave servicemen and women what the cost might be. General dempsey opened the door for potentially asking u. S. Combat forces to fight alongside the iraqi army. Im not predicting at this point that i would recommend that those forces in mosul along the border would need to be accompanied by u. S. Forces but
were strongly considering it. He denied theyre considering a major shift in strategy that would focus onremoving assad. No, there is no change in the strategy. Isis meanwhile may be changing its strategy. Reports from syria indicate its leaders met with the al qaeda n knew fa front. Thank you. News tonight that isis fighters are flowing back and forth to the middle east with very little resistance. Michael mccaul says europe is on the brink of becoming a jihadist super highway. Today eric holder said justice departments oversees will help nationings fight back. Theyre to increase the
capacity of those nations to investigate in these kinds of cases and to work with them in partnership and then determinations made at that point as to where if charges are to be brought. They acknowledged that the air campaign against isis has not released the flow of recruits to the organization. No surprises tonight in the congressional leadership congressions. Republican much mcconnell won. Democrat harry reid switches jobs with mcconnell becoming the minority leader. Four democrats actually voted against read. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren now joins the team of democrats as a policy adviser. On the house side they rejected their lep with john boehner wchlre told there are at least three descenters on boehner. Nancy pelosi is expected to be reelected next week. All the changes take effect next year. Still ahead, how Congressional Republicans may
put the brakes on plans for a nuclear deal with iran. First is russia going to invade ukraine . Has it already . Well take a look. U cant breate through your nose suddenly, youre a mouth breather. A mouth breather well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. Cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38 more. So you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do, sleep. Add breathe right to your Cold Medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. And look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender, in the sleep aisle. You crane says the security situation in its rebelheld east is steadily worsening. One official says a russian attack could come soon. Moscow continues to deny any such intentions. Heres Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent amy kellogg. The fighting in Eastern Ukraine has fired sporadically but now nato says significant number of russian tanks, troops, and weapons are crossing the border again. Its claimed that russia wants
to consolidate. It is our first guess that these forces will go in to make this a more contiguous, a more whole and capable pocket of land. Russia again denies any of this is happening. Translator there are no military forces or any military Movement Across the border and mo moreover there is no. Meanwhile they say they cant do their job. Their drones are being shot at and jammed by sophisticated actors. Russian president Vladimir Putin may be escalating the situation now according to this analyst because he feels hes losing political influence in kiev which means a further ukrainian drift. I see it as being in competition with the united states. His enemy is not keyer. Its the united states. So he wants to upset this development of democracy, human rights, but also between the united states. The question remain as what is the end game here . Does russia want to pull the strings on ukraine or exit . Either way, while many refer to this as a frozen conflict, many ukrainians will tell you its still very much a hot one. Thank you. Back here at home stocks were up today. The dow gained 41 for another record close. The s p finished at 1. The nasdaq was up 5. A 9 million video game about a fat kid who wants to get out of town. People with type 2 diabetes
come from all walks of life. If you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. Its a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. Along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. With one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. And, although its not a weightloss or bloodpressure drug, farxiga may help you lose weight and ma pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. Do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling or difficulty breathing or swallowing. If you have any of these symptoms, stop taking farxiga and seek medical help right away. Do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems, are on dialysis, or have bladder cancer. Tell your doctor right away if you have blood or red color in your urine or pain while you urinate. Farxiga can cause serious side effects, including dehydration, genital yeast infections in women and men, low blood sugar,kidney problems, and increased bad cholesterol. Common side effects include urinary tract infections, changes in urination, and runny nose. Do the walk of life yeah, you do the walk of life need to lower your blood sugar . Ask your doctor about farxiga and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. Nothinchocol