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lead. jenna: all right. carl cameron off the road, back on capitol hill. carl, great to see you. thank you so much. >> reporter: thanks, jenna.jon jon i think they call that job creation, don't they? a jury is back at it, a live report from the federal courthouse next. also, we've seen the scary ads from those who want to fight global warming, but do they go too far? a brand new documentary that might make you want to see the issue in a whole different way. >> if you want to get people's attention on a complex issue, you scare the pants off them. >> if we only listen to worst-case scenarios, we're likely to be spending most of our money on the people who shout the loudest. jon: we are also taking your questions for our town hall usa panel. it's all about the lame duck congress and what you hope they
goingo thee it used to have. >> i promise first of of all i will not serve 30 years. i think age will catch me before then. but i think that we'll have some events that will give me the kind of impact that i feel connecticut deserve, the expertise and background i bring to this work as someone who has reached across the aisle to form coalitions of attorneys general, to box above my weight, so to speak, in uniting republicans and democrats to fight big tobacco or work for internet safety, causes that li bring to the senate, as well as education reform, and of course, economic recovery. there's no democratic or republican solution to that finding people better jobs and putting america back to work. i think we ought to use the good common sense progress mattic realistic solutions that are available regardless of whether they are republican or democrat. jon: well, let's talk about that a little more, because
like food and clean drinking water and health care. jon: yeah. that was fascinating. you sat a bunch of really smart people down, nobel laureates some of them, and gave them a list of the world's most intractable problems and where did global warming fall on that list in terms of ability to solve it? this. >> what we said was, you know, where would you spend money first? they told us there's lots of really important things we need to fix. we should also fix global warming, but it was somewhat far down the list on what they have to do smartly. we're not right now. we're actually not tackling it at all. jon: my little daughter came home from school and said, daddy, the polar bears aren't going to have a place to live in ten days. that's not accomplishing anything. >> are well, it's not even true. listen, polar bears have increased about four times since the 1950s, so we've seen a quadrupling of their size. even if we accept they're going to have problems with disappearing, what should we do? if you do the kyoto protocol,
that. what is the issue with setting up a fund like that? >> there's no problem with it, except that it takes time to set up and then hire a lawyer and the trial began today. congressman rangel says some lawyers have offered to defend him for free, but that would violate the house ban on gifts so he can't do that. now, a legal defense fund would allow lawyers to be paid a sum of money which would avoid running afoul of the gift ban, rangel argues it isn't fair to go forward without legal representation but the committee chair fired back that rangel has had plenty of tile and advice about how to set up and pay for his legal team, so the committee, as you just saw, is going forward. jenna: a developing story today, molly henneberg, live in d.c., thanks molly. jon: a fox news alert, and the death toll rising now in that terrible skyscraper fire in shanghai, china, a residential building caught fire earlier today. take a look at these pictures. it's a 28-story building, apparently it was under
they're essentially serving as extra eyes and ears of the border patrol agents. they're looking for people attempting to jump the fence and enter this country illegally. also looking for people trying to smuggle drugs into the homeland. u.s. border patrol saying there's no such thing out here as too much help. >> we assign them to some of our mobile surveillance systems which allowed us to take border patrol agents out of those vehicles and put them out on the border so it enhanced our deployment posture along the border. >> reporter: now, of course, this is going to be an issue we're monitoring closely for you. this deployment, by the way, expected to last just about a year. jon? this. jon: casey steegal live on the border there, thank you, casey. so in the light of the increasing violence in mexico, would you favor increasing the u.s. military's role along the southern border? you can weigh in on today's you decide and check out our special new section of original fox news stories about america's third war. it's all on your online
but are more troops actually making a difference? this here with our brand new series titled america's third war, casey steegal live in arizona. so how effective is the military presence, casey? >> reporter: well, jon, the boots on the ground have only been here since, oh, the beginning of october, so at this point it's difficult to measure any failures or successes. but one thing we know, history does tell us that a strong military presence along the southwest border is a good deterrent because back in 2006 a lot of people might remember when president bush ordered roughly 6,000 troops to the southwest border under operation jump-start, and over that two-year period the number of illegal immigrant arrests went down by more than 20%. the other thing that we're already noticing, we're seeing an immediate effect according to officials, the bad guys already taking note of the hundreds of armed soldiers at work out here. >> we're an additional part of
order to separate insurgents from the population. president karzai's spokesman said today it was not a criticism of this strategy, but many u.s. officials and and western officials see it as a direct criticism of this strategy. now, it comes at a time as general petraeus is trying to sell the success of the surge, not only to americans, but to the international community. and u.s. officials feel president karzai's comments are undercutting general petraeus' ability to sell the success of the surge and press for more time. there is a growing disagreement here between what the future of the surge and the future of the u.s. strategy should look like in terms of what the international community thinks it should look like and what afghan president hamid karzai thinks it should look like. jon: i know the white house and pentagon are reviewing the current surge strategy, so when karzai comes out and says something like that, what's the impact? >> reporter: well, president karzais has made comments like this before. earlier in the year he said he
jon: a jury continuing deliberations today for the first gitmo detainee facing a civilian trial. iowa med ghailani is accused of attacking the united states. david lee miller, what's the latest from this jury today, david? is. >> reporter: jon, just moments ago i got word of what could be a significant and curious new development in this trial. the jury began meeting at 9:30 this morn, and just a few moments ago u.s. marshals brought into the jury a note. not clear at this time who wrote the note or what the note says, but as we know this is the first note going in to the jury.
lawmakers are going through orientation. six house races are still officially undecided. of the 94 incoming freshman, 85 are republicans, nine democrats, and at least 24 of the newcomers were backed by the tea party. and the tea party is gearing up for action when the new congress convenes in january. tea party leaders plan to flex their muscles on some key conservative issues like a move to ban earmarks. so how much influence will they actually have once they get to capitol hill? let's talk about it with bret baier. he, of course, is the anchor of "special report." it seems like they are going to have more than the usual amount of influence, bret. would you agree? >> reporter: yes, jon, no doubt about it. it's already changing the environment up on capitol hill. as you see these incoming freshman arrive and, of course, as you mentioned, they won't be sworn in until after the first of the year. but the fact that republicans are going to vote on banning earmarks for the next congress and the fact that there is so
the punishment is if he's convicted. and secondly, he has known about this trial date for months and months. the evidence against him was presented as a courtesy to him under the rules back in june. here we are in the second half of november. right now the case is going forward without anyone challenging the evidence, without anyone presenting congressman rangel's view. and they're not going to try this twice. so this is either a stunt or one of the most ill-guided maneuvers in a courtroom that i've ever seen. jon: but it could, i mean, he could go to trial under, presumably, the gavel of a speaker boehner, right? if this thing gets dragged out? >> no. i think they will finish it this week whether he's there with his lawyers, whether he's there alone or whether he leaves. jon: interesting. judge andrew napolitano. >> pleasure. jon: check hit out tonight on from "on freedom watch" 8:00 this evening, and you'll hear the answer to that question.