Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Tonight, President Bush seems to be riding high again. With the
Democrats in Congress unable to move any legislation on the
Iraq War, it’s clear that Bush remains the one controlling
policy. And in a press conference today, Bush sounded sometimes
confident, sometimes cocky in exchanges with reporters. We’ll
have all the latest from the White House and Capitol Hill,
where Bush appears to be the one running the show, whether
lawmakers—or the American people—like it or not.

The so-called virtual fence to be built along the southern
border is still not operational. Boeing missed its deadline to
deliver surveillance equipment to the U.S.-Mexican border by
two months and now nine camera towers on the border in Arizona
are not functioning due to a software glitch. Is this new
virtual fence protecting our borders against illegal aliens,
drug smugglers and terrorists—or is it just another costly
government blunder? We’ll bring you that story tonight.

America continues to face the consequences of an unsecured
southern border. Earlier this week, Phoenix Police Officer Nick
Erfle was shot dead by Erik Jovani Martinez, a criminal illegal
alien who had been deported from this country once before. The
confrontation began when Erfle stopped Martinez for jaywalking.
Tonight, a special Broken Borders report on the deadly
realities of letting criminal illegal aliens cross our borders.


The government of Dubai has just won a significant stake in the
largest American electronic stock market, the Nasdaq. Bourse
Dubai will become a 20 percent shareholder in Nasdaq – the
largest single shareholder, and will hold 5 percent voting
rights and 2 board seats. It will also take a 28 percent stake
in the London Stock Exchange. Will this foreign government
investment in US assets be any more successful, less than two
years after Dubai Ports World lost its bid to control American
port operations? And does it raise the same national security
concerns? Tune in for that report.

And we’ll be joined by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sen. Bob
Casey (D-Pennsylvania). In response to the recent flood of
dangerous imports into our country, Sens. Brown and Casey today
introduced the Food and Product Responsibility Act of 2007—a
plan to keep Americans safe. We'll discuss our broken import
safety system and the senators’ plan to fix it.