Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 17, 2007

Tonight, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveils a $110
billion-a-year plan for universal healthcare. Clinton led a
failed attempt to reform our nation’s healthcare system during
Bill Clinton’s administration in 1994. Sen. Clinton is facing
opposition once again—not only from Republicans who say it
would create a massive bureaucracy, but also from critics in
her own party. We’ll have that special report tonight, plus
coverage of President Bush’s nomination of Michael Mukasey to
replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general.

Last year the Border Patrol deported nearly 89,000 criminal
illegal aliens, including 70,000 who had committed a prior
crime here in the United States. Those numbers are on the rise,
and thousands more criminals are believed to slipping into this
country undetected every year. We’ll have a special Broken
Borders report, on the stunning numbers of criminal illegal
aliens entering—and re-entering—the United States.

In Washington D.C., plans are afoot to use $500,000 of taxpayer
funds to build a day laborer center next to a Home Depot. But
the plan is facing protests, and it comes just as nearby
Herndon, Va. makes plans to shut down its own controversial day
laborer center. Tonight, we’ll report on the heated debate
about day labor centers in our nation’s capital.

With friends like these, who needs enemies? President Bush has
faced harsh words from a series of former aides and colleagues,
several of whom have penned books distancing themselves from
the administration and its policies. Add Mexico’s former
president and the respected former head of the Federal Reserve
to that list. According to U.S. News and World Report, Vicente
Fox called Bush “the cockiest guy I’ve ever met,â€