Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, February 7, 2008

Please join us tonight for a special 8 p.m. broadcast,
"Independents Day: Awakening the American Spirit." We’ll take
an in-depth look at the struggles of middle class Americans,
and ask: Are the presidential candidates addressing the issues
that matter most to you? Why not?

We’ll have stories on how the foreclosure crisis is devastating
a suburb of Cleveland; the battle over illegal immigration in
the Virginia legislature; efforts to improve teacher quality in
New York schools; and on state leaders’ efforts to address our
crumbling infrastructure.

On the 7 p.m. Lou Dobbs Tonight, we’ll have the latest on the
presidential race, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney’s decision to suspend his campaign.

Also, the city of Danbury, Connecticut voted last night to give
its local police the authority to train with ICE agents and
begin enforcing federal immigration laws. But the protest
against this measure has been huge. We’ll have all the latest.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman testified before in Congress
today on rumors that the U.S. taxpayer dollars spent to help
denuclearize Russia’s energy program have been given to Iran to
fund their nuclear arms buildup . That story, tonight.

The Teamsters Unions launched a national campaign today to fire
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters for continuing to allow
unsafe Mexican Trucks to drive on U.S. highways even after
Congress voted against it. We’ll have that report.

And foreign governments are buying pieces of the U.S. economy
through sovereign wealth funds. With an estimated $2.5 trillion
in assets, they are bigger than the entire global hedge fund
industry. Today the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission
held a hearing to examine the economic and security concerns of
China’s huge stakes in U.S. banks, technology and
infrastructure companies.

Lou’s new book INDEPENDENTS DAY is now on sale in bookstores
and on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. In Independents Day,
Lou issues a rallying cry to American citizens eager for a
change, focusing particularly on the critical issues and
challenges of the 2008 election.

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