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Rick: welcome back everybody. since taking office president obama has bumped hundreds of billions of stimulus dollars into the economy trying to spark a recovery. so far it's not really working out. democratic strategist doug shoen says the president's programs are failing but not all agree. doug shone is a fox contributor. and rob is with us also. i read your post on the daily beast. something tells me you are not getting an invite to the christmas party this year. >> i didn't write it to get an invite. i wrote it to tell the truth. we haven't had economic stimulation, we haven't seen private...

For all those, all those, who have fought in america's wars, this work, your work, and this not hyperboly, this work and your work, as never been more important than this very day over the past decade our military embarked on a long period -- longer period of sustained combat than at any time in all of american history. more than 2 million service members have deployed to iraq and afghanistan, more than half of whom have returned to civilian life with the honored title of veteran. of those men and women, the very -- >> rick: vice president joe biden in indianpolis this morning addressing the n...

Jenna: bottom of the hour, here is what is happening right now. federal investigators hear testimony today from bp executives on the mass i will oil spill in the gulf. they are trying to figure out what caused the explosion that eventually led to the big leak. tropical storm danielle getting stronger far over the atlantic. it could turn into a hurricane tonight. we're keeping a close eye on that one. rick: a close eye on the middle east and a brand-new threat from palestinian leaders there to pull out of next week's middle east talks. they say there won't be talks if israel resumes building se...

>> reporter: it's not exactly instant gratification. coral does grow somewhat slowly, it is about a million a meter a day. rick: as far as jobs as a result of this program funded with federal stimulus money, how many jobs are we talking about. >> reporter: we are talking about a little bit more than 50 jobs. most of these are staffers making 30 to $40,000 a year, and for many of them they actually took pay cuts to do this work. it's a two-year federal stimulus $3.4 million budget and around the keys and even in the u.s. virgin islands you have these nurseries now that are being sustained growi...

3 million. executive arrested, down by half. critics say it makes no sense to allow illegal employees known to use stolen or fake identification to walk away. >> when ice is not following up on the aliens you have the situation where they can go down the street and get another job. >> the vast majority of the workforce has not committed any crime. >> reporter: ice gave us new numbers in morning showing 580% decline, not 90%, that's from numbers they gave us last week in employees arrested and an increase in the number of employers. critics, rick, will still tell you that these high profile rai...