Report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record right now. Tomorrow the israeli ambassador to the u. S. Right here on special report. This is a fox news alert. Multiple capitol hill sources confirming that the vote tomorrow to allow john boehner to sue president obama. Republicans accusing president obama of abusing his executive power with unilateral decision to delay the obamacare employer mandate. While the planned lawsuit is limited to the president s action on obama care. Republican is outraged about the threats using pen and phone to bypass congress to take action on his own. Only hours away from the vote. House republicans getting ready to take action. Karl rove joins us. Good evening, karl. Good evening. Karl, is this something you would advise the House Republicans to vote for . Yes this is not the end all be all. Constitutional way to try to get clarity on what many feel is improper use of executive power. President obama has unilaterally decided not to impose the socalled employer mandate contained in the Affordable Care act nor to have the tax that goes along with it i have read the Affordable Care act. There is no language the president has the latitude to employer mandate and when that tax begins to be collected. Yet the president has. Why . Because he doesnt want it to fall it would be enforced now and cause people to lose their coverage and create a great deal of consternation he wants that to happen after the election and not before the election. Thats not a good enough reason for the president to violate a law, take a part of the law that was passed by the house and passed by
the senate and that he signed into law and say im not going to enforce that law. There is no such privilege to a president under the constitution. The lawsuit as we understand is narrowly written as to obama care. There has been a complaint from the republicans that this is not the president s only time where he has been rather expansive with executive orders, likewise other president s have done executive orders your boss as well and president s for decades have. Right. Well, look, this is an executive action that doesnt even take place he didnt even issue an executive order. He had the Treasury Department say they were using authority under the Internal Revenue service code that gave them authority to help with the transition to changes in rules. They are using that as the authority that they are using not to impose the employer mandate in the Affordable Care act there is a con stand tension between the executive branch and
legislative branch. In this instance the legislative branch is arguing in the house lawsuit that powers as the legislative body in section 1 article 1 of the constitution. Socalled vestment section that those powers to be the legislative body are being valted by the president when he takes a law and blatantly ignores it and implementation of that Law Enforcement the Supreme Court has held this year that the president has overstepped its bounds did. So when they claimed that he got to decide when congress was out of session and he could make recess appointments on a 9odecision they slapped him back. My suspicion is that this is going to be a very seriously heard and very seriously considered case. So clear that the president has taken a unilateral action that is not contemplated in the law. Let me ask you about the impeachment that we have heard thats been discussed a a little bit by some in the past week turns out it looks like its a great fundraiser for the
democratic party. You have to take your hat off to the cynic in chief who sits in the oval office of the white house. The president of the United States is cynically suggesting a constitutional crisis in order to fatten the Bank Accounts of democratic fundraising groups and in order to try and energize democratic turnout for the fall elections. The speaker of the house has said we will not we will not consider or take up this issue. There is no serious republican leader who stepped forward and said here is the bill of particulars that justifies his extreme action. Yet, the president of the United States sends out his press secretary last week to stir the waters and suggest this is real. How cynic kel, how pa theted thick, this man is playing with the American People by suggesting a constitutional crisis where none exists. Shame on him and the people in the administration who participate with him. Shame on conservatives and republicans who help him along. The president wants nothing more than congressman yoho of florida to step forward
and say we must do it. He wants nothing more than republican and conservative leaders to step forward and say we agree. We ought to try and impeach him. Thats what the president s. Just like he wanted people to step forward on the birther issue because he knew it undermind the credibility of republicans and conservatives and served his, president obamas purposes. Karl, as always, thank you, sir. Thank you, greta. This is a fox news alert. It is escalating. Israel bombarding gaza with air strikes hitting hamas control including a power plant and siren wailing across israel as hamas launches response. And with more rocket attacks. Fox news correspondent conor powell live in gaza city with the latest. Conor . Well, greta, israeli officials have warned in recent days that they were going to escalate. This comes after failed truce negotiations over the weekend. We have seen both the pace and intensity of israeli air strikes and artillery increase in recent days. We are hearing many more planes flying overhead and we have seen them target some new spots across gaza, including hamas house owned by Senior Leader and also this power plant that was hit yesterday as well. What we have seen really across all of gaza is an intensive campaign by the Israeli Military. Now the military is also working on the there are a lot of cross border tunnels. The Israeli Military says they have destroyed about 60 of them. They think they will finish up the ones they have discovered in the next three days or so. The real big question though is what happens next . Hamas is announcing today that they will not back down until the blockade is lifted around gaza, that they will not stop fighting. Israeli officials have even said that this is the chance, this is the chance to push the fight to essentially go after hamas to finish them once and for all. But in order to do that, israel is going to have to expand its military operation here in gaza from the areas they already control. That raises the possibility
of even more blood shed, a much longer protracted violence conflict here it really does cause problems for both sides, but most of all for the civilians here already more than 1100 civilians have been killed. Most of those, greta, women and children. The danger here, of course, is that were going to see extended violence here. We are already into week four which, for israeli, Hamas Conflict is very very long. Conor, thank you. And today president obama refusing a chance to defend his secretary of state as secretary john kerry ceasefire talks crumble. What do you think about israels attempt to discredit secretary kerry . You can answer that one. Did secretary kerry mess this up . And joining us Political PanelNational Journal ron fournier, nina easton and the weekly standards john mccormick. Ron, the president didnt want to answer that question about secretary kerry. Secretary kerry getting hammered in the the
washington post oped page today. That was a damned if you do, damned if you dont question. If the president did defend kerry, he would be undermining our ally israel and he didnt speak up so, therefore, sending kerry out to drive. Agree with ignatius dlawm they want to bring the president into it. Rushed him into it. Can you understand why they want to bring end to this violence. Way embolden the hamas and turkey and qatar. It hasnt made the situation any better it might have made it worse. Nina, it seems like an impossible situation. The president secretary of state have been trying to do this forever. What seems to be profoundly different here and criticism is that secretary kerry by the manner in which he has gone forward, he has now given much more status to hamas. Yeah, of course though what you dont want to do if you are a top american diplomat, top american officials is to suggest that there is a moral equivalency between israel, which is is a democracy and our ally in
the middle east. And hamas, which is a terrorist group, which uses women and children as human shields for an armaments that they are building up and tunnel system they are building up, specifically to attack israel. So what you dont want to do is go down that path. Thats what john kerry did. Unfortunately, this past weekend, when he turned to hamas supporters, qatar and turkey, and asked for their input on a ceasefire agreement, and, thereby, pretty much turning his back or was perceived as turning his back on our allies like jordan, like saudi arabia and egypt, which is actually a hamas, you know, enemy and is trying to broker a deal that would disharm hamas. Thats where he got in trouble this weekend. He has been derided in the Israeli Press as everything from inept to betraying israel. So they are already in a very difficult situation when it comes to israel. Im not surprised the president didnt answer that question today. John, can he back out of
this problem . This is an impossible situation dealing with this. But now, unfortunately, this hamas empowerment by giving him more recognition, is there a way to back out of this . I dont think can he undo the damage that he has done. I dont think the president has given any indication that he necessarily opposed what john kerry did. This administration has always put ending wars as something more important than winning wars. Thats what happened in iraq where they cared more about getting all the troops out rather than securing the gains that were made. Preventing a terrorist takeover of the country. Happening in afghanistan right now. And the administration also seems to care more about avoir diring war with iran than keeping iran nuclear weapon. Care more about ending wars even if it puts news a dangerous pose position. Israel came back and said hey, there is no way that peace can actually happen as long as hamas terrorist tunnels are still intact. Rocket kachs are well stocked. I dont see any indication that the president opposes this. Panel, thank you. Sorry its so short. So much to talk tonight. Sorry. Post columnist slamming president obama accusing him of abandoning israel. He goes further calling secretary of state john kerry as just noted inept. Columnist joins us. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Let me start first with your head lynn on your column that says obama, meaning president obama is abandoning israel. Why do you say that sir . I say that because we feel that we would have expected the president of the United States to stand by an ally and not create a situation in which hamas gets a feeling that the United States will somehow rather get them out of trouble. If he would have stood forward, instead of he went through the ritual of stating that he understands our need to defend ourselves but then came down very hard on our efforts to defend ourselves and to move into any kind of military activity and now he has been putting enormous pressure on us and calling for unilateral ceasefire. We have accepted a series of unilateral ceasefires. But this unilateral ceasefire, if it suggests that its going to be based on no change in the present system is, to my mind a betrayal, i think one has to understand we are not two entities facing one another. The state of israel is a democratic country and we are facing a group of people who are dominating a small area but they are effectively the worst terrorist one can imagine. They are sending thousands of rockets on our civilians, they are sending people in to kill women and children. Lead me ask you about your comments also about secretary kerry. In your article you say the uninvited presence of kerry. Meaning our secretary, who many israelis now regard as unguided missile and has been making off the cuff sarcastic avoid palestinian casualties only encourage hamas to main taint missile attack. Almost like you are saying he is on the other side and is he deliberately, the way
i read this is that you think he is deliberately trying to hurt israel. Well, if he is deliberately doing it or not deliberately doing it, i dont know. Is he certainly hurting us because i agree that there is a tremendous human tragedy involved in the casualties. One has to understand that we are defending our own people and it has to be put in the context. A context in which unilateral in which its unique. You have never had a situation where a winwin situation for our enemies is kill as many israelis as possible. If that doesnt work, kill as many of our own and we will use it for propaganda. That into context. It has to be put into context. They are being used as human shields, these people. The command post, the rocket launchers, they are all in the center of civilian activity and why what are we supposed to do . I just wonder what the United States would do if cuba started reigning a couple thousand missiles upon them and sending terrorists into the United States, how they would respond. And if there is way of
responding in which we could respond with less imawcialts, let us know, because i believe that this israeli army has behaved in a manner unprecedented in the history of warfare. No one has taken as many steps as we have taken to try to minimize warfare. We have the fire power if we wanted to, to take the whole country out and we are doing our best to minimize it unfortunately, there are tragedies, and they should be pointed towards hamas, who are responsible. Not towards us. Mr. Lieber, thank you very much for joining us, sir. My pleasure. Lets all go offtherecord for a minute. How weak, at least they could step up and vote. Im talking about our friends in europe and that midnight vote at the u. N. By its human rights counsel. It was a vote on a heavily unone sided resolution condemning israel in actions against hamas. It said zero about hamas
doing anything wrong whatsoever like using civilians as human shields. Only one nation voted against it, we did. The United States and good for us. The United States stepped up and voted against condemning israel. We dont forget our friends what is disturbing is the weak and cowardly members not voting instead abstaining sticking their hands in the sand. Nine European Countries did that. France, ireland, great britain, germany. These countries didnt have the vote to vote and courage to vote no to condemning israel. They hide. Says a lot about our country, dont you think . Thats my offtherecord comment tonight. Developing now, more than 100 Border Patrol agents are headed to our southern border. A live report from the crisis zone next. Also the deadly ebola virus is spreading to american aid workers in lie beer i dont already stricken. Can we stop this deadly virus from reaching the u. S. . The latest is coming up. New controversy from the nfl suspension of ray rice of the ravens, one tv host how
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on your show before. Thats about 12 hours away here from el paso. Some of the Border Patrol agents will in fact be coming from our sector here. Their tour of duty will be about 30 to 45 days here. While that wont be costing taxpayers overtime, it will be costing them per diem. We are talking about staying in hotels down there in the south texas border as well as getting meals paid for. Where are these Border Agents coming from . They being pulled off other areas . He they are being pulled off of areas like el paso as i mentioned as well as throughout all of their sectors here and again they are not going to be getting any overtime which is the good news, they are going to be getting per diem here. They are going to be doing things just like helping, in fact, the south texas border here their Agency Operations here because they are being so overwhelmed by the amount of Central American immigrants here talking about doing the regular Border Patrols. Not just people and manpower costing taxpayers money. Its equipment as well such as boats being sent from the del rio valley area. Why only have 10