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of it, santa, of course, flying on the tower. when i set up my trains as a child and even currently, one by one, i'd put them together. and at first, the first four times they'd go across and then, of course, there would be a problem with the track, i'd fix the track. the problem with the train, i'd fix the train and then we'd kick into the track and by christmas day, no one cares about the trains anymore. >> that's how you learned how to problem solve in life. >> yes. i quit! >> speaking of having to know how to take on big tasks and issues, how about the candidates last night during the debate? >> ok, that's good. you can turn it down a little bit. >> right. >> as i'm screaming. here it was in sioux city, iowa, the last debate, now before we can go back to our golf voices. before the voting takes place early january in iowa and did mitt romney go after newt gingrich as he has done recently with his pundits and himself calling him zany, calling him unelectable? nope, he took on a different guy. >> 2008, the american public were convinced by barack obama that they needed someone to believe in that they could believe in. we now understand that what we need is some president who believes in them. >> if there's ever been a greater example of on-the-job training, this is it. >> we are getting screwed as americans. our president thinks america is in decline. it is if he's president. it's not if i'm president. this is going to be an american history. >> when you have a president who is too busy running for re-election, the constitution can't work oochlt . >> the whole way this thing went down, there was so little confrontati confrontation. we'll see bachmann and gingrich, i understand that. january 3rd is upon us and newt gingrich who had a double digit lead a week ago in three polls are in a dead heat with mitt romney or dead even with ron paul. he had to come in here with a different strategy. he's staying here with the strategy with not attacking. not only is he staying with it, he apologized on an iowa morning show for going at mitt romney, i give round one to mitt. i shouldn't have said that. >> that's so smart. why did you see mitt romney last night not attacking? a lot of pundits said maybe that wasn't the right thing to do. rudy giuliani said it was wrong to call newt gingrich zany. did he listen to that? then you saw a tamer mitt romney on the stage last night. >> i think that the -- if the idea was on team romney's side to make mitt romney look presidential, then they should give themselves a christmas bonus because they certainly did achieve that but then at the same time, you have newt gingrich who was much tamer, much calmer and much complimentary as he'd been in earlier debates. people like that. there was, however, confrontation in the second tier people, in particular, michelle bachmann acted as prosecutor and took newt to task over fannie and freddie and abortion. if you missed it, here it is. >> we know he cashed paychecks from freddie mac. over $1.6 million and frankly, i am shocked listening to the former speaker of the house because he's defending the continuing practice of freddie mac and fannie mae. >> what she just said is factually not true. i never lobbied under any circumstance. i never went in and suggested in any way that we do this. >> one of the concerns that i had is when speaker gingrich was speaker of the house, he had an opportunity to defund planned parenthood and he chose not to take it. that's a big issue and i think also more troubling when he was in washington, d.c., he made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial birth abortion. i could never do that. >> sometimes congresswoman bachmann doesn't get her facts very accurate. i had a 98.5% right to life voting record in 20 years. >> i think it's outrageous to continue to say over and over through the debates that i don't have my facts right when as a matter of fact i do. i'm a serious candidate for president of the united states and my facts are accurate. >> strong debate performance. >> she did. >> a lot of analysts agreed with that and then they went toe to toe on this. she needs the conservative vote in iowa. she needs it! this is almost everything for michelle bachmann in iowa. >> sure, she was talking about getting her facts straight. according to politifact, they did some fact checking and regarding what she was talking about with newt gingrich on abortion, bachmann was right regarding planned parenthood and partial birth abortion. however, when she said we didn't play this snippet of it, that she said everything i said at the last debate about newt and fannie and freddie was true. politifact came out and said she was not completely accurate in the previous debate and had not said that on december 10th in des moines so she deemed that false. we were looking at the fact check earlier regarding newt gingrich and fannie and freddie, whether or not he had taken money and lobbied. we just heard him say he had never lobbied for anybody but according to the washington examiner, his firm was a paid consultant to astra zeneca so they say that claim is false. >> paid consultant as opposed to a lobbyist. what i thought last night overall is that michelle bachmann was extremely strong when she had to be. if her campaign ends tomorrow, you'll have a hard time sidelining her as an also candidate. she knows conservative thought whether you agree with her or not, she knows where she's going on all these issues. she's taking on the best of the best in foreign policy with her own opinion and was taking on -- took santorum's place taking on ron paul. >> for so long, we've called john mccain the maverick. this is something her campaign should have thought about for her. she has stuck to her ground as i look at all the candidates, you don't hear much flip-flopping about michelle bachmann. you may not agree with her position. she's a maverick in many ways because she's kind of out there on her own defending her positions and i think she did a great job last night. >> and you know what? >> didn't go rowing. -- rogue. >> she could take maverick. >> that's right. already taken. and when it comes to newt gingrich, when he was talking about out of control judges and the courts, he was historical. he was accurate. he was brilliant. the crowd there in sioux city really ate it up. now that we're doing the post-game show, who do you think won? who do you think advanced their cause? give us an e-mail or you can send us a twitter at fox and friends. >> you don't want to miss this. 23 minutes from now, we'll show you the jokes that worked during the debate last night and those that maybe flopped. not flip-flopped. >> wa wa! >> gretch, tell us what's happening in the news. >> other headlines for your friday, for the third too year, congress reached a last minute compromise to avoid a government shutdown. republicans and democrats agreeing to a $1 trillion spending bill to keep government agencies running until next october. the plan is expected to be approved today but congress still has to reach an agreement on how to pay for that payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits that expire on december 31st. hundreds of demonstrators in baghdad at this hour waving iraqi flags. they want the iraqi government to keep its promise and kick out iranian exiles who won refuge under saddam hussein's regime. the camps are set to close as the final u.s. troops leave the country at the end of the year but the u.n. is trying to extend that deadline. the u.s. military's case against army private bradley manning begins today. manning, as you remember, accused of endangering national security, stealing hundreds of thousands of classified documents from an army computer and then giving them to the document dumping web site, wikileaks. the military wants to court-martial manning and put him behind bars for life. incredible new pictures from the top of one world trade center known as the freedom tower in new york city. it reached 90 stories this week leaving just 14 more to go. it's covered in glass all the way town -- up to the 65th floor. the building should be finished by the end of 2013. half of the tower's three million square feet of office space has been leased so far. those are your headlines. my daughter's homework assignment last night was how skyscrapers got started and it was very interesting history to read that steel and the elevator, how that came to be and here we are today building a 96-story building. >> up, up and away. coming up, a reporter asked the president why are more americans going broke! >> do you take any personal responsibility for your administration creating that condition? >> well, we didn't create the condition. >> stuart varney headed to the studio with the president's reaction. good morning to you, stu. >> the tebow mania that's sweeping the nation got these students suspended. should they be punished for praying in the hallway like a denver bronco quarterback? we report, you decide. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. >> welcome back. new data shows that 1 in 2 americans have slipped below the poverty line or scraping by on low wages. just the other day, a reporter asked president obama if he took any personal responsibility for the shrinking and struggling middle class. >> do you take any personal responsibility for your administration creating that condition? >> well, we didn't create the condition so we've got all the tools to refocus and make sure that we're growing our middle class again but we'll have to do some smart things to do it. improve our education system, invest in infrastructure and invest in basic science and technology and make sure that the rules of the world are fair. >> so it looks like the president is doubling down on his own economic policies and spending. will it work? let's ask stuart varney. stuart, are you surprised the president didn't take any blame? >> no, the man is running for re-election so he's not running on his record which is a poor record. he's running against the republicans. >> he's running on george bush's record. >> yeah, but first thing out of his mouth, though, was we did not create this situation. in other words, george bush did. it's not my fault. look, if you want to get out of this mess and it is a mess, you've got to have growth. you must grow the economy. but the president's policies have so far not grown the economy. just look in detail for a second as to what he just said in that sound bite. we must improve the education system. what's your plan? more money for the teachers union? is that how you do it? we must invest in infrastructure. what's that? more shovel ready projects that aren't ready in the first place? how about the pipeline? invest in basic science and technology. solyndra? we must make sure that everybody does their fair share. tax the rich? is that how you create the jobs? the president's policies have failed. he will not admit to that so he attacks the opposition. that's what's happening. >> that's one of the reasons why you look at all these polls out right now, he's lost so much support out of his key groups, core groups and if you looked at that harvard millenial study that came out, the young people that voted for him last time are getting the heck out of there. the jobs they can find, they don't pay much. >> the only answer here is growth. you must grow the economy to lift all boats, we must do that. we don't have growth. we've had three years of very little growth at all but a lot of spending and a lot of debt. those policies have failed. they must be reversed if you really want to fix this prosperity problem which we clearly have a prosperity problem. >> the states don't lie. 146 million americans are considered poor. that's about 46% of the u.s. population. >> i got to say, that's not my view of america. is it yours? look, i'm a new -- >> you mean, go beyond the numbers or -- >> just think, how do you think about america? i still think of it as a predominantly wealthy get up and go dynamic society. those figures suggest that we're not like that, that half of us are victims. sorry, i don't see america like that. i just don't. >> neither do i. >> when you look at something like 40 some million americans on food stamps, they're trying times. thank you very much, we're watching you three hours from now on the business network. all right. thank you, sir. >> all right. straight ahead, you might not know her name but soon it will be hard to forget. major general marsha anderson just made military history and she's here to share her story. >> then, forget living on the edge. these kayakers are going right over it and that's no accident. i love the holidays. and with my bankamericard cash rewards credit card, i lov'em even more. i earn 1% cash everywhere, every time. 2% on groceries. 3% ogas. automatally. nooops to jump through. that's 1% back ... 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>> thank you very much. she is the highest ranking african-american woman in the u.s. army. and she's the first african-american woman to serve as major general of the u.s. army reserve. i'm joined this morning by major general marsha anderson. so great to have you. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me and congratulations. >> thank you. >> it's interesting if you look back on your personal story, you were a shy, young woman. what was it about that part of your personality that changed by joining the military? >> the military puts you in leadership roles very, very early. and they provide you with the tools so you can be successful. so i wasn't really -- i was very shy. but i think they gave me the tools to overcome that. and they also made me accountable very early on so i really wanted -- i was motivated to excel and to make the people that had put me in those positions, to make them feel as though they were right for making that decision. >> so interesting, too, because you got into the military by chance. it wasn't something that you always dreamed of doing even though your father serveed in the military. how did it happen? >> that's very true. very serendipitous. i was registering for college classes back in the old days when you had to go to a gym and stand in line. and i needed a science credit and i was casting around looking for something that would fit into my schedule and i saw a sign that said "reserve officer training corps military science department." and i went over and asked, is this really a science credit? the gentleman at the table, i later found out he was a sergeant said absolutely and it was four credits. i said sign me up on the spot. >> that was rotc. >> if you look at our young people and what you can learn from our generation, some people look at the military and say it's a little bit lost and there's a high unemployment rate. is this a career you'd advise for young people? >> it's a great career. what it brings for young people, it encourages them to excel and teaches them about team work. if you're motivated in any way, you'll find something in the military to do. too often people think of the military of people who are in combat. we have individuals in the medical field, in the logistics field, in science and technology, military intelligence, communications, so there are a wide array of areas that people can explore. >> this week, we've been talking about the end of the war in iraq. after nine years, those troops will be home for christmas. as a member of the military yourself, what types of emotions do you go through this week watching this? >> like everybody else, i'm glad they're coming home and i think it's important they honor their sacrifice by ensuring they have employment opportunities and educational opportunities when they return. one of the initiatives that the army reserve leader, chief of the army reserve started several years ago was an employer partnership initiative and that is employers who commit to hiring a veteran. over 2600, many of them fortune 500 employers have committed to hire veterans. i would encourage your viewers to check out that information on our web site. >> and we have had many of those employers here on this show trying to get veterans jobs. i know, i'm just very sad to see this latest stat for female veterans. the unemployment rate is so much higher, it's 18.7%. why? >> well, about 30% of the army reserve is between the ages of 18 and 24. so that's the demographic that we know has a high unemployment rate. so as i referred to earlier, it's really important as those individuals return that thank those individuals for their service but also hire a vet. >> you're a great role model. major general marsha anderson, thank you very much for being here. she's from wisconsin so i'll say she's a green bay packers fan. >> i'll say yes to that. >> it was a little hesitant. good to know, i'm a vikings fan and the packers are doing way better this year. major general, great to see you. >> thank you very much. >> coming up on the show, rick perry channelling tim tebow? 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let me tell you, i hope i'm the tim tebow of the iowa caucuses. >> a good line. >> he got some laughs after that. >> he did. mitt romney also had a number of lines that were affable and amusing so obviously, you want the audience who is watching to think you're a normal guy. i can laugh with you. not at you. here's john huntsman. let's see how his joke works. >> i think people are coming around to finding i am the consistent conservative in this race. they're coming around to find that i'm not going to pander, i'm not going to contort myself into a pretzel to please any audience i'm in front of. and i'm want going to sign those silly pledges. and you know what else? i'm not going to show up at a donald trump debate. >> and by the way, there is none and no one really laughed at that. but another thing, donald trump is very popular in iowa and 1500 people is like why not? >> when i heard, it i thought the people were going is there going to be one? i can't -- >> didn't we already handle that? >> obvious, all of these lines are crafted in advance. >> no way! >> my question this morning is do you like that about the candidates? or do you like kind of like our show where we just have discussions? we have no idea what the other person is going to say and we kind of go with the flow. >> prepare. one thing i do say, if i want to intimidate you guys, i'm going to show up to work early. >> at 4:30, when you went through that line, i'm going to show up earlier. oh, my goodness! >> and i'm not. i know. this is early enough. let's tell you what else is happening in the world and we'll do some train talk. a courthouse in minnesota turned into a crime scene, after a man on trial for sexual assault opened fire on both the prosecuting attorney and the court bailiff. both men now in the hospital. the shooter identified as 42-year-old daniel shalinz, that's him, a former professional boxer from duluth. he's in police custody. the courthouse, by the way, did not have a metal detector. >> bernie madoff, bookkeeper coming a plea to conspiracy charges in connection to his $65 billion ponzi scheme. prosecutors say she will plead guilty on monday to making phony submissions to government regulators. she's the 11th person to criminally be charged in the madoff case. >> talk about taking the plunge. watch! oh, man, the kayakers defying death as they take a 90 foot plunge off the falls in alabama. i hope i'm saying that right. their helmet cameras caught the whole thing on tape. incredibly, none of them were hurt but one of the kayakers had the wind knocked out of him when his paddle snapped across his chest when he hit the water. >> that's it? >> the cops showed up but let him go. >> i don't do that flume ride anymore. >> you don't do that? >> the log flume? >> the log flume is too scary for me. i can't imagine that thing. >> that's why i'm doing that tuesday. they told me just to go over the edge. >> i'm doing it this afternoon. >> fantastic. hey, forget about running in the hallways. two high school athletes in new york were suspended for tebowing. it started out with just a few students striking the quarterback's iconic prayer pose after a big play or touchdown. it grew to 25 students tebowing in the hallway over in riverhead, long island, when the group's ring leaders tyler and connor were sent to the principal's office and given a one-day suspension each. they're now appealing the punishment. >> just did it to honor tim tebow. seemed like a cool thing to do. he's a leader on every aspect on the field. i don't think that we did anything that warranted a suspension. >> all the things 17-year-olds can be doing, this is not something to be concerned about. school officials say the suspensions were warranted because the boys were warned several times not to block traffic in the hallways so they got 40 guys together and they all did that, most of the guys on the football team. that's a quick look at what's happening in the tebow and high school world. let's talk about the rest of the sports world. a two month investigation found there was no sole cause that led to the death of two time indy 500 winner dan wheldon. indy officials say the 15 car pile-up was a perfect storm of events. however, wheldon ultimately died from a head injury apparently days before the accident, wheldon and other drivers expressed safety concerns about the las vegas tracks because of its oval shape. >> football now, they're playing on thursday nights. the atlanta falcons one step closer to securing the nfc west wild card spotted after last night's big win over the jaguars. quarterback matt ryan starting things off right. julio jones open drive. jones goes for 29 yards and the score. second quarter now. ryan again. this time to roddie white into the back of the end zone. we're up 27-0 at the half. third quarter, you'll see ryan and roddie white again. jags never recovered. the falcons go on to win 41-14. coming up a little later on radio, we'll have geraldo rivera joining us in those three hours. we're talking about the debate like we are right now. let's go over to steve. steve is with? >> some trains. >> that's right. i'm over here -- go ahead, hit the switch. i'm here with jay don reese who is the southern regional sales manager for lionel trains. >> merry christmas to you! >> when did trains become part of people's living rooms running around the christmas tree? >> the company started in 1900. a guy by the name of joshua lionel cowan right here in the city invented electric trains so what happened is as christmas went along, people wanted to add animation to the tree. so they took their lionel train set and put it around the bottom of the tree and created animation. it became an american tradition to do that. so now christmas and lionel go together. >> that makes perfect sense. we have a couple of -- they're called starter trains. >> yeah, these are what we call ready to run starter trains. >> we just saw thomas the tank engine. >> thomas is so popular. it has its own tv program. so the little kids really love thomas the tank. >> all right. now this one right here -- >> this is polar express. >> yeah, this is polar express right here. >> it's going right there. >> right there with the lighted cars. steve, this is the -- i want you to feel this. feel the quality and the weight that's in that locomotive. >> what's that weigh? about 10 pounds? >> yeah. that's why they last from generation to generation and they're passed down from one family to the next family. >> when i was a little boy, we had some trains and i remember once my mom bought a -- not a lionel set but i was always afraid that we were going to wind up getting a shock. good thing about these trains is it's absolutely practically impossible to do that. >> yeah, they last forever and the nice thing about it, all of these train sets that you see here and the other one that we have are ready to run. they all come in one box. everything is in a box. the track is easy to snap together and you can expand it. you can add cars. you can add tracks and as you can see from this layout, there's no end to the creativity that you can do when you have model trains. >> we have had a train that runs around our christmas tree for many, many years and the thing is they cost a couple hundred bucks but you'll have it for generations and you can hand it down to your kids. >> absolutely. that's the beautiful part about the lionel trains. >> thank you very much. >> you're very welcome, steve. thanks for having us. >> very, very nice. which switch do you they to turn them off? >> turn them off? there we go. >> very nice. very nice. merry christmas to you, sir. >> merry christmas, steve. thank you. >> over to you. >> that was cool. tracks you can actually snap together. i think i could even pull that off. because i have a little bit of problem with the little nails and the little tracks, i had some issues. >> all right. see how you do over the weekend at your house. should the president be allowed to ignore the supreme court rulings? gingrich said yes but judge napolitano says no way. gingrich is wrong. >> wrestler extraordinare is here to tell us what he's doing to honor our military. i might take him on. 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>> it's a special night when the wrestlers of the wwe give tribute to our troops with their own primetime special. >> to the ninth annual tribute to the troops. welcome to the home of the 82nd airborne. >> nice, tribute to the troops event is the wwe's ninth annual show dedicated to the men and women of our armed forces and of course, yesterday, we watched our forces get set to head into kuwait and then home and out of iraq. joining us right now is former professional wrestler and big advocate of the military, nick foley. welcome back. >> thank you. >> you're back with the wwe and you're excited, right? >> i'm very excited. for most people, i'm back home where i belong. >> right. so you are also somebody who didn't have to be an active wrestler to salute the military. you were always going over there. >> sure. yeah. to bethesda and to walter reed. >> in 2003, i read an article about some of the celebrities who stopped by and i made a call to wwe and the next day i was at walter reed and i think every person who visits there comes away with the same feeling that they're getting more out of the experience than they're putting in. and as funny as it sounds, there's always been this kind of bond between the wrestlers and the troops. it's almost inexplicable unless you're a wrestler or service member. >> you went to afghanistan and went to iraq, did a little wrestling there. what's the reaction from the men and women. >> this is the nice thing. you don't walk around saying i wonder if i'm appreciated. that's the word that you hear over and over. we really appreciate you. these guys are away from home. i mean, wrestling is popular around the world and really a very nice slice of americana and a little piece of home for guys putting their lives on the line and leaving their families behind. >> they got to come home now and they're going to need some attention and put the war behind them which is not going to be easy and people shouldn't forget. now, on december 17th, this special airs on the usa network, right? so it airs at -- it airs at -- what time -- >> i believe 9:00 p.m. >> 9:00 p.m. >> on nbc. in addition to some great matches, we'll see some of the endeavors that our wwe guys went through, some of them learned to skydive from 14,000 feet. nickelback will be playing. mary kay blige and george wallace. it's almost like a great variety show with some wrestling. >> i had a chance to catch up with you on long island. kevin james made it big. you and kevin james really pioneered the let's pretend we're wrestling mantra. two heavyweights in high school. kevin james from "king of queens." you pretended to work out. >> you know what? we were the only two guys who weren't under pressure to drop weight. we were the heavyweights and kevin, i don't want to hurt my own rep here but kevin was the toughest kid in high school. he was one of two guys bench pressing 300 pounds. in case you're wondering, i was the other guy. we saw these guys working so hard and struggling to drop weight. i don't know who came up with the concept first. i'm so much better at this when i have cooperation. we had some great matches in that wrestling room. >> and now you guys are still tight and you both have been unbelievably successful. pretty great story and it started with a singlet in a sweaty wrestling room. >> it was a sweaty wrestling room. believe me. >> you're back with the wwe. look forward to seeing you there and i know your kids are pumped about that and it's great you're doing this for the troops. >> it's really nice. we appreciate you taking the time to let people know about it. it's our honor to entertain them. >> ok. thanks a lot. nick foley, hope to see you again soon. stay healthy. bizarre sight for drivers on their way to work. >> what's the address for emergency? 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your heart melt. a police officer crawled under the bus to hold her hand and there's even more to the story and we'll share it to you on this friday edition of "fox & friends." you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day! good morning, everybody. how many of you have a train that goes around your christmas tree, something americans and people around the world have done for many, many decades as they try to put some animation with the christmas tree and the christmas will sit there. and you want to add some life to that. we're doing that today with the lionel train company. >> i can't believe the detail. you have santa flying around the water tower and you have the lights on the other water tower and you have these beautiful tunnels and christmas trees and they say if you're really into this, you actually rotate the surrounding so when winter leaves, you bring in the spring. >> some enthusiasts spend all year long building their train villages. >> that's a lot of elmer's glue! >> no kidding. fantastic. >> we'll continue to show you it to bring you christmas spirit. >> wasn't it the adams family when they used to blow up the tracks? we should do that. you have explosives? >> no, no. wouldn't that be exciting? >> when we're done with it today? >> yes, just blow it up. >> i don't know that the guy from lionel train would appreciate that. >> might have a problem with that. let's talk about the debate last night. did you watch it because it was the last one before the iowa caucus on january 3rd . the frontrunners decided to focus on president obama. many thought mitt romney would come out and attack newt gingrich as he has in the last week in the press calling him zany and unelectable but that didn't really happen last night. >> yeah. >> in 2008, the american public were convinced by barack obama that they needed someone to believe in, that they could belie belie believe in. we now understand we need a president that believes in them. >> if there's been a greater example of on-the-job training, this is it. >> we are getting screwed as americans! our president thinks america is in decline. it is if he's president. it's not if i'm president. this is going to be an american century. >> you have a radical who is a campaigner-in-chief who doesn't do the job as president because he's too busy to run for re-election, the constitution didn't work. >> he had trouble, newt gingrich with a few things. his relationship with fannie and freddie. for the most part, i was shocked, i told you this morning, i would have put $10,000 of mitt romney's money on the fact that mitt romney would have taken on newt gingrich directly. why else would he have laid the groundwork monday, tuesday and wednesday with saying he has no idea about the economy, saying newt gingrich can't be counted on. he's erratic and everything else and he used the term zany. when he came down to sitting shoulder to shoulder, he did nothing. i wonder if that could be pawlentesque in refusing to take on the guy when you see the guy. >> there was a poll that came out yesterday, a rasmussen poll that showed despite the fact that we heard that newt was way ahead in iowa, the rasmussen poll shows that mitt romney has 23%. newt has 20 and ron paul has 18. that makes no sense to me, by the way. >> maybe what was going on, the campaign just said, we don't know what's going on. let's play it safe. that's what they did. newt himself said i'm doing a lot of self-editing over here. i don't want to be zany. we were kind of expecting maybe mitt romney was going to go ahead and hit him upside the head. he did not do that. however, michelle bachmann did. there was a duel over two issues, abortion and money that newt gingrich's company had taken regarding freddie mac. listen. >> we know that he cashed paychecks from freddie mac. that's the best evidence that you can have. over $1.6 million and frankly, i am shocked listening to the former speaker of the house because he's defending the continuing practice of freddie mac and fannie mae. >> what she said is factually untrue. i never went in and suggested in any way that we do this. >> one of the concerns that i had is when speaker gingrich was speaker of the house, he had an opportunity to defund planned parenthood and he chose not to take it. that's a big issue and also, i think even more troubling, when he was in washington, d.c., he made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial birth abortion. i could never do that. >> sometimes, congresswoman bachmann doesn't get her facts very accurate. i had a 98.5% right to life voting record in 20 years. >> i think it's outrageous that -- to continue to say over and over through the debates that i don't have my facts right. when as a matter of fact, i do. i'm a serious candidate for president of the united states and my facts are accurate. >> i think it's dangerous for newt gingrich to continue to say that about michelle bachmann. you got to be careful with the female voters out there that you don't cross over that line of keep saying that a woman doesn't know her facts. that's point number one. on the flip side, newt gingrich has an answer for everything. newt gingrich has an answer when people attack him. he has an answer about how to solve america. he has an answer about how to solve social security and how to solve the economy. so, you know, i think they both did really well last night in this debate and back to mitt romney for a minute. that fair and safe kind of way of handling the debate, i just don't know if that gets you noticed again. one of the things he needs to do is get noticed and being fair and playing it safe, not -- >> after you watched him. >> absolutely. >> he looked calmer and much more presidential but i was surprised to see the difference in tone from monday to thursday. i'd like to bring something else up, the iowa public television station that interviewed newt gingrich in the morning should have given us an indication he wasn't going to be fighting this time. he says i regret taking a shot at mitt, he said, it was foolish on my part. he had taken one more shot at me and he knew he wasn't -- he knew it wasn't true, made an assertion, he knew that was absurd but it violated all the core principles i have in terms of trying to stay positive despite temptation. >> we heard in that sound bite montage where newt said i never lobbied under any circumstances. that is absolutely false, according to fact check. they talk about how "the washington examiner" says that newt visited some republican congressmen to convince them to support a bill expanding medicare including prescription drug subsidies when newt was being paid by astra zeneca and pfizer so for him to say i've never lobbied on behalf of anybody under any circumstances, that, according to the washington examiner and politifact is not true. >> let us know what you thought about the debate. you can e-mail us or twitter us. now to your headlines for a friday. we begin with the fox news alert. russian officials seizing a shipment of radioactive material headed for iran. a passenger headed to tehran now in custody. the suspect was trying to smuggle isotope sodium 22 in their luggage. the material only could have come from a nuclear reactor. radiation in the area was 20 times higher than usual. keep you updated on this breaking story as we gather more information. hundreds of demonstrators in baghdad at this hour waving iraqi flags. they want the iraqi government to keep its promise now and kick out iranian exile who won refuge under saddam hussein's regime. >> is that the mek, i believe? the camps are set to close as the u.s. leaves the country. they are trying to extend that deadline. for the third time this year, they reached a compromise to avoid a shutdown. they agreed on a spending bill to keep government agencies running until next october. the plan is expected to be approved today. you know what congress has to do now, they have to reach agreement on how to pay for the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits that expire on december 31st. talk about protecting and serving. check out this photo. come to your screen. a police officer in utah putting his own life on the line to comfort a woman trapped under a city bus. officer kevin peck crawled under the bus after seeing the woman's tennis shoes sticking out and the woman was severely injured but officer peck was able to hold her hand and distract her from the pain and from looking down at her leg until the paramedics arrived. the woman is now in the hospital. she's expected to make a full recovery. when i saw that photo this morning, i thought to myself what better time than during the christmas spirit and christmas holidays to be having a guy do something like that? i mean, that takes a lot of guts to get underneath that 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mitt has the lead when it comes to liberals and moderates. why do you believe the public perception is off? >> yeah, i don't think public perception is off and, you know, one of the things i think that the public is doing, especially the people of south carolina is they put a lot of thought into how they're going to do this. what i know is this is -- you know, we can nit-pick issues all day and i think that's what we've seen through the debates, what it comes down to is how do we get every person a job? how do we make sure our economy is back on track? the only way we're going to do that is do it with somebody that's done it. not talk about it. when i look at mitt romney and see those companies that turned around, see that he's took the olympics and made them a pride for this country, it makes a big difference but it's not -- it's easy to vote and i can say that because us a legislator and now i'm a governor. making a vote is one thing. making a decision and getting something passed and done is very different. it's that leadership that we need and it's that courage that we need and i'll also tell you, my husband michael is in the military and right now, military actions are very, very important. mitt romney knows we have to strengthen our military in a time that this president has done nothing but tried to weaken it. >> south carolina, the primary there is january 21st. and if you look at the past history, south carolina, whoever wins has a pretty good track record. how many of the candidates came to you and lobbied hard for your endorsement? >> i think we spoke with every candidate except for ron paul. i think that was -- and it was just because ron paul never made the call. but every other candidate we spoke to and what i will tell you is you put all those candidates together and you've got one perfect candidate. but you're never going to have a perfect candidate so what you do is you look at the times of the day, you look at what we need in the country and you say let's get on track. let's get behind the person and let's make this happen and what lets me know on top of that and the bonus of all this that this is right, governor romney is the one candidate that president obama tries to hit and get out of the way. that lets me know he's scared of him and lets me know governor romney has a good fight in him and that's the way that president obama doesn't want to have to go against. >> governor, i'm sure you were watching the former governor there at the debate last night in sioux city, iowa. you know, we have known for a long time he's been very successful in business but interestingly enough, we got a soundbite where he admits that he hasn't always made the right decision. listen to this. >> i understand, by the way from my successes and failures what it's going to take to put americans back to work. i remember when the founders of jet blue came to me and said invest in us. i said that will never work. kind of wrong. >> just a little wrong on that. what did you think about his performance and the performance of newt gingrich last night? >> i thought he was incredibly strong. and when someone can go and say that they've learned from mistakes and successes, that's someone that's ready to lead. you know, we're dealing with the president now that refuses to admit that he's ever done anything wrong. that there's -- that there is any need for improvement. this is a former governor that knows what it's like to deal with challenges but also get things done and when you don't get it right, you say how do we make it better? when you do get it right, it's a learning lesson you keep on pushing through. he's very much become a great candidate just like ronald reagan did in that first run, i think he learned a lot as a candidate. in this run for president, i think he knows what he's going to do to lead as president of the united states. i don't think this is about being a candidate anymore. he spends a lot of time now just thinking about how he's going to run our country and get it back on track. >> all right, governor, so we'll look forward to seeing you and mitt romney officially get your endorsement this afternoon over in south carolina. thanks so much for sharing -->> went see the haleys and the romneystogether in greenville, south carolina this afternoon and the rest of the state tomorrow. >> you'll have to show him the roads. i don't know if he has gps, he'll get lost. that's your neck of the woods. >> we'll do that. >> great to see you. have a good weekend. >> thank you so much. good morning. >> imagine seeing this on your way to work. >> 911, what is the address for emergency? 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>> i think so. >> yeah, no kidding. >> let's go out to iowa now where the debate was last night and our own steve brown was there and he joins us live from sioux city, iowa, with some of the highlights. no earmuffs just yet either. still a warm day there? >> no, it's still -- i mean, it's colder but still not cold enough yet. >> you can take a couple much weeks, it will probably be about that time, you know? i don't know. upstate new york kid. yeah, yeah. it's getting there. but it's not there yet. more to the point of the live shot was the debate last night which was noted last night and again this morning for its civility. the seven candidates up on stage who had knocked each other around in a number of debates and most recently last saturday spent a lot of time being nice and looking presidential. >> president obama we have to be talking about. he's unveiled himself as president that's not the right person to lead this country. >> i sometimes get accused of using language that's too strong so i've been standing here editing. and i'm very concerned about not appearing to be zany. >> now, if there was an aggressor in the debate, it seems to have been congresswoman michelle bachmann who went after newt gingrich on a couple of different -- couple of different instan -- instances and once it was ron paul and exchange with iran, let's listen. >> carelessly flouting it and starting these wars so often. >> the problem would be the greatest underreaction in world history if we have an avowed mad man who uses that nuclear weapon to wipe nations off the face of the earth. >> again, bachmann clearly the aggressor. the question for bachmann in a campaign is how well that performance is greeted by iowa voters who generally don't like negative campaigning. they'll tell you they don't like negative campaigning and it was in sharp contrast with the rest of the performances on the debate last night. back to you folks in new york. >> good point. >> thanks very much, steve. >> and ratings should be in. i think it's going to be extremely high. neil cavuto was on there for the first time. he looked good. did fantastic. >> now to the rest of your headlines. brand new video out of seattle that shows a violent clash between police and occupy protesters. watch closely, this all unfolded on monday night. you can see the brick being thrown at police and then from somewhere in the crowd, a flare came flying at the officers. seattle police say bags of paint and steel bars were also thrown at them. 11 protesters were arrested. they claim police used unnecessary force but the police department is standing by the officers saying they were in danger and those are the protesters on the front cover of "time" magazine. >> celebrate, guys. good job, making everybody proud. america's toughest year, firing back at the justice department. the justice department releasing a scathing report accusing him of civil rights violations against illegal immigrants. he defended his record and he says the accusations are nothing but a politically motivated smear campaign. >> let's keep talking about it and get something done in washington and congress. and resolve this problem. but don't come here and use me as the whipping boy for a national, international problem. the department of homeland security is banning his deputies from questioning inmates about their immigration status. that's a show down. >> i heard about that. meanwhile, take a look at the snow piling up in the state of arizona. look at that. this new video is from flagstaff. plows are out in force after the latest winter storm dumped 17 inches over the last two days. average high in flagstaff is supposed to be in the 40's and the 50's this time of year. but as you can see, it's beginning to look a lot like they had a blizzard. call it an early christmas visit from santa's reindeer. instead of taking over the skies, they were spotted wandering a highway in texas. that's where they were. they took off down a busy road after a trailer they were riding in became unhitched. police say they were flooded with phone calls but didn't take them seriously at first. >> 49 -- 911, what is the address of the emergency? >> i am traveling on i-45 north. i am just right by baybrook mall, there are two loose reindeer on the highway. >> and there's two loose reindeer on the highway? >> yes, sir. i know that sounds funny but they are. >> does the dispatcher believe in santa? the reindeer were eventually corralled back into the trailer and now they're back on their way north pole before the night of december 24th! >> i wonder if those two are dasher and dancer because they would probably go out on to a highway. >> they might go out on a limb. >> yeah. >> they might! all right, speaking of animals, brian? you got some cute ones over there. >> i do. and cute women as well. today is the last day in our paws for a cause series which we've been telling you about all weekend long -- week long. you always can lend a helping hand and a paw to help animal shelters in need, so to speak. deborah allrich is the founder of forgotten friends mixed breed rescue based in austin, texas and michael aramos is a board member and rescue coordinator. with them are bagel and smokey, who is who? >> bagel. >> that's bagel and this is smokey. >> he's a new york bagel. >> tell me about your organization. >> forgotten friends was founded about 12 years ago and became a nonprofit in 2004, we originally started out with bigger dogs and all mixed breeds and now we take all sizes and pu purebreds or mixed breeds. >> you can actually adopt these dogs? >> yeah. >> tell me about this one. >> bagel is a seizure dog from a puppy mill. unfortunately, his little tongue sticks out because they didn't do anything with his teeth. they had them all pulled out. he's super, super sweet. he's a senior but still has lots of life in him. >> that's a lot of shakes for dinner and smoothies. >> tell me about smokey. >> smokey is the same. he came also from a puppy mill. >> have teeth? >> yeah, he has teeth. >> got teeth. all right. >> only about 8 months old so he wasn't there that long. >> yeah, he looks like a puppy. >> yeah, he is. he's a good puppy. >> and that -- he's also available. >> yes. >> there's something to keep in mind that you just told me in the break is that a lot of people on an impulse buy will go out and get a puppy as a pet which is great on christmas day but the next day what happens? >> uh-huh. sometimes they -- the newness wears off really fast. there's a lot of chaos at christmas and everybody wants a puppy. but sometimes they regret it later. so we ask that maybe you get a -- think about what kind of puppy you want or an adult dog. a lot of people always want a puppy and there's plenty of adults and seniors in shelters. but that you plan ahead. you get a certificate to a shelter. and then you let -- you give your children like the card at one of the big pet stores and they buy all the things ahead of time and they have those for christmas and afterwards, they go out and pick up their dog. >> ok. how do the dogs feel about wearing these outfits? >> these aren't doing too bad. >> they seem to like them and they seem to adjust. the hat is incredible without a chin strap? right? it does have a chin strap. that's fascinating. how do we go to your web site and how do we click on it and find out if there's a dog there for us? >> it's www.mixbreedrescue.com. >> great. deborah and makala, thanks so much. paws for a cause series is now concluded and your forgotten friends is out there. hopefully we'll get 30 homes for you. thank you very much. bye, smokey. bye, bagel. don't get up. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, this soldier, one of the first americans to face war crimes in iraq. but we're told -- as we told you yesterday, some shocking evidence set him free. coming up, the forensic expert who saved him. plus -- who is in front of the pack after last night's debate? 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>> absolutely, yeah. on our composite, you'll see a plus and average as a more true composite in all polls. you'll see more of a gap in our composite than something like the rear clear average because we like to weigh more heavily the polls that take into account the likely voters so that's why you'll see newt with a little healthier lead than some of the other averages but clearly you're seeing a little bit of a shrinkage in the lead. he's still the number one horse. everybody would agree with that. romney obviously in the number two spot and thank you, ron paul people. you can lay off the hate e-mail this week. no empty rider in the third spot, ron paul is the number three horse. no doubt about it. >> real quickly, what did you think about the fact that newt and mitt, your top two horses in your derby pretty much played it safe last night? >> yeah, i thought that was pretty interesting. romney was pretty smooth. i heard frank luntz say he thought it was one of romney's best debates. i didn't see any major punches thrown. what people are talking about the most are rick perry's tim tebow line when he sort of made everybody cringe just a little bit. i didn't think any major purg punches were thrown. it was a nice debate. >> you mentioned rick perry. let's go to the second tier of candidates in political derby and we've got rick perry in the first position on the blue horse and then he is followed by bachmann and then santorum. all right. why do you have perry on top? >> well, it's really, really close. the editors of political derby, scott and fountain and kaiser and myself, we've been debating this for the last couple of days who is really up between perry and bachmann? i actually think bachmann had one of her best debates last night. but she's not got the money in iowa. i mean, rick perry is basically -- it's go broke or go home right now with the money he's spending in iowa. in fact, i think if he doesn't do well in iowa and shock the world, with a one, two or three finish, rick perry is probably the first horse to pull out of this thing. >> and you've got santorum in sixth place and you didn't place jon huntsman, i would imagine he's in seventh. >> i think he's half way back to the barn at this point. >> jason wright, it's always a pleasure. thank you very much for sharing your results from politicalderby.com. thanks. >> thanks, steve. have a great weekend. >> he has a book out, it's a good one called "wedding letters." check it out. we told you about this american soldier wrongly accused of war crimes in iraq. up next, the forensic expert whose discovery set him free. and on this day in 1773, you know what happened in boston harbor? 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"fox & friends" starts right now >> steve: there is the little train, rolling around the track to the junction. christmas junction. >> gretchen: all right. hey, check out these trains from lionel company. you know that name. three different ones going along our track. "fox & friends" tracks, through the materhorn and around the bend. >> steve: do you see the people there? >> brian: you can see if you pull onto a little bit, you can see santa. we did see about an hour ago, we had the crew hook up some dynamite to a track. so we'll try to time it and blow the frack try to save the family because the trains have been taken over by a renegade engineer. >> steve: look at this, something is flying around there. this is really cool. i believe that is a train from polar express, the book that we all have read our children and now it's a lionel train. >> brian: this is why i can't support that train. it's coal driven. >> steve: but you know what? it's clean coal. >> brian: joe biden says that's not possible. >> gretchen: have you ever been to the new york botanical ganders at this time of year? they have an amazing train show. check it out if you're in the area. >> brian: we had a school trip to botanical gardens in fifth grade and i was sick. >> steve: we're not really going to blow it up, are we? >> brian: that's what we're going to do. >> gretchen: put down your stick of dynamite. >> brian: the adams family was fun every week. >> gretchen: guy, i got to do some headlines, we start with a fox news alert. russian officials seizing material head to iran. a passenger now in custody. customs agents say the suspect was trying to smuggle isotope sodium 22 in their luggage. tests showed the metal objects packed in steel boxes only could have come from a nuclear reactor. radiation 20 times higher than usual. the u.s. military's case against army private bradley manning begins today. manning is accused of endangering national security, stealing thousands of classified documents and giving them to the web site, wikileaks. the military wants to court-martial him and put him behind bars for life. for the third time this year, congress reached a last minute compromise to avoid a government shutdown. they agreed to a $1 trillion spending bill that will keep the government agencies running until next october when we'll probably go through this again. the plan is expected to be approved today. but guess what they still have to do? before what is break, they have to reach an agreement on how to pay for the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. those expire on december 31. incredible new pictures from the top of one world trade center. it's known as a freedom tower in new york city. it reached 90 story this is week, leaving just 14 more to go. it's covered in glass all the way up to the 65th floor and the concrete floors have been built up to the 82nd floor. the building should be finished by the end of 2013. about half of the tower's 13 million square feet of office space has been leased so far. those are your headlines for friday. >> steve: beautiful. the headline last night was the live from sioux city, iowa, it was the gop debate. as you can see, the candidates were on the stage making their final argument. mitt romney did a fine job. he was very straightforward. michelle bachmann, she essentially was a prosecutor with newt gingrich and she really did hold his feet to the fire with some things that she felt that he had said in the past, which were incorrect, she said. >> brian: there was a lot of congressman ron paul, more than any other debate. they kept coming back to him and just when he started to make some sense, then he would make nonsense by talking about iran, our foreign policy, what we should do. that's when he becomes a side show. when he talks about politics and sovereignty, when he talks about economics, certain things he says economically that's resonating. i think he'll be a factor in iowa. but i was shocked how much he talked last night. >> gretchen: the interesting thing from this harvard study that came out yesterday, a lot of disaffected liberals, young people who voted for president obama may now be in ron paul's camp. what would that mean moving forward? is he a serious contender, at least in iowa? let's talk a little bit about what candidates didn't do last night. a lot of people expected mitt romney to come out swinging against newt gingrich because for the past week, that's what he's been doing in the press. he called him zany, unelectable. he called him a very wealthy man, just like he is. well, last night he didn't do that, guys, and i was pretty surprised that he didn't. he got a -- you got to wonder if he saw maybe some of the reaction from other people who have been commenting on the negative take and maybe he thought we shouldn't do this, or there is a new poll out now in iowa that shows that mitt romney is ahead of newt gingrich. so maybe he felt like he didn't have to do the attacks. >> steve: plus, maybe it's the fact that the people of iowa didn't like the negative stuff. when we saw newt gingrich and mitt romney going at it the week before, it was tough to take for a lot of people in iowa, at least it's when some of our e-mailers have said. >> brian: here is the problem with your theory, ron paul did the negative ads on newt gingrich. he sunk examine paul came up. rodney it attacking, but maybe their analysis showed that wasn't the reason he moved up. >> steve: you got to figure if this is the new tack going into iowa, mitt romney, his camp will continue to make attacks on newt gingrich, but done by surrogates. they'll do the dirty work while mitt romney takes on the president. >> brian: the governor of iowa, he thinks that -- he questions whether he has the discipline and focus to get the nomination. >> gretchen: it could be. but newt has come under a lot of attack from former members of congress and other elected officials and i did feel like he had an answer to every single attack last night. it's something that he is good at. so what did you think about it? let us know. you can e-mail us or twitter as well. >> steve: we were talking earlier about some of the fact checking that went on and we hadn't mentioned mitt romney, at one point last night he said that mitt did, he had created tens of thousands of jobs and when fact check looked at his record when he was at bain capitol, they were an investor in staples which created 90,000 jobs, so there had been some layoffs at some of the other k but according to fact check that, comment on mr. romney's part, mostly right. >> brian: that was mostly right. he said yesterday in a humble fashion, people use this term, he doesn't connect. there is something about mitt romney that doesn't connect. he's too good looking, too perfect. but one thing i found in my amateur psychology days, is that if you can talk about your own vulnerabilities, you can talk about stuff you've done wrong, people can relate to you better. don't you think a has a lot to do with the sound bite with him talking about jetblue. sometimes i make mistakes and sometimes i miss opportunities. for example, when jetblue came up to me and asked me for an investment, i said, that will never work. and he did not make money on it. >> gretchen: the war in iraq is over and thousands of u.s. troops are now heading home from iraq just in time for christmas. first stop, camp virginia in kuwait. geraldo rivera is there with them and he joins us live. good morning. good afternoon, geraldo. >> hi, gretchen, steve, and brian. a couple of blackhawk helicopters have just landed here. if you hear the sound track, that's why. over a million g.i.s, you guys, you know, have come through iraq over the eight years and nine months of this bloody conflict and over the next several days, i can't say exactly when, all of our combat troops will have been successfully withdrawn from that bloody conflict. what about their vehicles, what about those tanks and armored cars and humvees and all the rest of that logistics that helped support this long war? they're going home, too, or going to afghanistan, or they're going to the junk heap. we saw that operation, tens of thousands of them will be shipped before the end of march 2012. as that operation continues, i'd like to you meet the man who is the spokesperson for all our forces in iraq, he's major general jeffrey buchanan. we've got blackhawks in the background, general, but let me just ask you about this withdrawal. it seems to have been extremely successful. i haven't heard of any casualties. is it the enemy just letting us leave? >> it's been very successful. but it's because we focused on planning every one of these movements. it's a deliberate operation. we take force protection very seriously and our troops are doing an exceptional job. >> is this a bittersweet moment for you? here we're leaving after almost nine years, 4,487 deaths, 0 odd -- 30 odd thank you casualties -- thousand casualties. did we win this war? >> we'll have to have the benefit of history looking backwards. right now looking at it today, i can't help but be inspired. i served many years in iraq. i can't help but be inspired by their tremendous progress. they have a lot of opportunities. but all of those opportunities have come because of the great amount of sacrifice. my greatest hope is that they take advantage of the opportunity that they have. >> you and i ran into each other, bloody triangle, ramadi. they've come a long way since then. i remember how inspired i was when i saw them sewed voting. will -- them voting. will their democracy come together? >> one thing i have learned about democracy watching it grow in iraq, i think they've got a long ways to go still, but they started to build a democracy and they built it for their core democratic values. every year they increase. they continue to evolve, and i have great faith in the iraqi people. i think they're headed in the right direction. >> as they say around here, hopefully god will it. general, thank you very much. congratulations on a very successful evacuation. so the boys and girls, the men and women are coming home, you guys. it's a wonderful day, but it is a bittersweet moment as well. back to you in new york. >> steve: geraldo rivera who has joined us from iraq many times over the last 8 1/2 years. thank you very much. >> brian: think about it, through everything. through the invasion influence the build-up, and through the war, insurgency. >> steve: geraldo rivera was at tora bora. >> gretchen: should the president be allowed to ignore a supreme court ruling if he doesn't like it? newt gingrich said yes at last night's debate. but what does the law say? peter johnson, jr. here next. >> steve: then tebow mania sweeping the nation got these students suspend. should they be punished for praying? we'll report. you decide [ male annouer ] juice drink too watery? ♪ feel the power my young friend. mmm! 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>> i'd be honored to even be considered for that role and it's always been fun to kind of step in and be a guest host with kelly. it will be interesting to see how that whole thing pans out. in a hypothetical world if that was an opportunity, i'd be excited. >> gretchen: i think you did the toughest show ever. we were chatting in the green room, you did the halloween show which they put so much work into. you must have had ten costume changes. >> yeah, it was a blast. we came and we actually -- i think it was maybe more than ten. you don't get an opportunity to dress in drag very often. so i embraced that. >> steve: maybe you don't. >> it was a lot of fun. it was great to be part of that particular episode. it's obviously a lot of fun. >> brian: being you're interested and it's in new york and you're local, how much money would you need? let's get this thing started. >> what's your commission as an agent? >> brian: it's going to be 15%. >> steve: he needs as much as possible because you just got hitched. >> that's true, that's true. >> steve: this summer. >> we're five months in. our five month anniversary was yesterday. >> steve: did you go to nicker island? >> yes. we chilled out in the caribbean. >> steve: was that before or after the fire? >> before the fire. thankfully we got married in the building the fire was. that could be seen as a bad omen of sorts. >> gretchen: as a woman, you already won over the hearts of so many that you already didn't have because you knew when the five month anniversary was. >> you know what? thank you, twitter, for that. i woke up yesterday and some girl in the u.k. said you know, congratulations, five month anniversary today. i instantly got on the phone and said hey, happy five month anniversary, baby. i looked like a champion. >> brian: thank you, social media. >> steve: lady in the united kingdom. >> thank you. >> brian: let's talk about big brother, big sisters. >> yeah. i've been involved with them eight years. i have a little brother who is 15 now. we're doing something at times square sponsored by tostitos. field goal kicking contest. we're trying to break the record for most kicks in six hours. they're giving money. we're looking to try and raise a couple hundred grand. you can donate on-line on their facebook page. >> steve: we have a live picture of times square. where will you be and can anybody kick the ball? >> we encourage anyone in the new york area to come down and try and kick a field goal. >> steve: i'm coming. >> i went and practiced a couple days ago. my leg still hurts. >> gretchen: did you do it? >> it's harder than it looks. >> brian: you played football in your family? >> my second or third cousin, jim, was a pro bowl lineman for the redskins for a lot of years. it didn't pass on to me, but it's in our flood. >> brian: season tickets, i hope. >> well, no. i had to pay for those, too. >> gretchen: good luck out there in times square. >> thanks so much. >> gretchen: we'll see threw and continued success. we'll have to follow and see whether or not brian represents you. >> brian: should we have done that off camera? >> steve: thank you. straight ahead, the tebow mania got these guys suspended. students in trouble for praying at school? is that fair? we're going to report and you will decide. >> gretchen: then, he's no politician, but he's paid to play one brilliantly on tv. >> after the holiday, barak obama will officially appoint me husband of the secretary of state. >> you mean you'll appoint her? >> gretchen: snn darryl hammond here live after the break i've got nothing against these do-it-yourself steam cleaners. lugging around a hot water extraction unit can be a rush! that's why i'm carpet for life. but if things get out hand, there's no shame in calling us. ♪call 1-800-steemer. is non-stop to seattle? just carry preparation h totables. discreet, little tubes packed with big relief. from the brand doctors recommend most by name. preparation h totables. the anywhere preparation h. >> brian: welcome back. final 30 minutes, kind of sad. we'll see if we can get hemmer and mccallum and we'll take his hour. >> gretchen: i've been cheery all morning and i know why. darryl hammond and it's a friday and we get the weekend off. >> brian: fantastic. >> steve: i'm tearing up, too. >> brian: let's take a quick look at your headlines. new video out of seattle ha shows a violent clash between the protesters, the people of the year. this up folded monday night. you can see brick being thrown at police. then from somewhere in the crowd, a flair came flying at the officers. seattle police say bags of paint and steel bars were also thrown at them. i guess because goldman sachs needed a bailout? does that make sense? 11 protesters were arrested. they claim police used unnecessary force, but the police department is standing by the officer, saying excuse me, did you see the bricks? >> steve: no kidding. take a look at this. as we look at the weather on this friday, that is arizona and that is snow, a lot of it. location, flagstaff, arizona. the plows are out in force after the latest winter storm dumped 17 inches over that location in just 48 hours. the average high in flagstaff, supposed to be in the 40s and 50s. this time of year, but as you can see, it's beginning to look a lot like the week before christmas. but in minute money, not arizona. >> gretchen: forget about running the hallways, two high school athletes in new york suspended for tebowing. you can see it started out with just a few students. here they are. striking the quarterback's prayer pose. then it grew to 25 students, tebowing in the hallway. that's when the ring leaders, conner and tyler were sent to the principal's post office given one day suspension. imagine what else they could have been doing, like smoke in the bathroom or something. anyway, they're appealing the punishment. >> just did it to honor tim tebow. seemed like the cool thing to do. he's a leader in every aspect on the field. >> i don't think we did anything that warranted a suspension. >> gretchen: school officials say the suspensions were warranted because the boys were warned several times not to block the hallways. >> brian: it was a big night for the gop presidential candidates and now more news. a short time ago, south carolina governor nikki haley joined us as i mentioned about an hour ago to be exact, with a major announcement. >> today is the day that i am throwing all of my support behind mitt romney for president. what i want is someone who is not part of the chaos that is washington. what i wanted was someone who knew what it was like to turn broken companies around, someone that knows what it's like to make a decision and lead. not just make a vote. >> brian: governor haley was elected in 2010 with help from the tea party. south carolina, of course, a critical state for conservative republicans and newt with a huge lead currently. >> steve: we thank the governor for making the announcement right here. what did happen last night? steve brown is live there with the post-game show. hello, steven. >> hey, steve, gretchen, brian, good morning. yes, the debate was notable for its midwestern niceness by most accounts. much of the debate had a friendly kind of tone to it. if there was an aggressor in the debate, then quite clearly it was michelle bachmann who went at it with newt gingrich on a couple of occasions and then there was this exchange with ron paul. >> we have an ieae report that recently came out that said literally that iran is within just months of being obtain that weapon. nothing could be more dangerous than the comments that we just heard. >> all right. >> no report said that. it's totally wrong on what you just said. >> iaea report. >> that is not true. >> independent of that, much of the debate, again, was candidates kind of giving their closing argument, if you will, being complimentary of each other and trying to look presidential. have a listen. >> some people aren't happy with some of my leadership is, i actually worked things out with bill clinton to get welfare reform, a tax cut, and four balanced budgets signed in a way that required bipartisanship. >> to get anything done, i had to learn how to get the respect of the speaker of the house and the senate president, democratic leaders. i found a way to do that, to find common ground from time to time. >> bipartisanship, three candidates in a row, romney, gingrich and paul all talking about working across the aisle. that's something that hasn't been mentioned much in debate sos far this year. back to you in new york. >> steve: all right. steve brown, thank you very much for the live report. moving on, he's known for his dead on impersonations of bill clinton, dick cheney, and regis philbin, to name a couple of the just last saturday, he returned to "saturday night live" for a surprise appearance in one of his most famous roles. >> let's start with you. how did you come to moderate this debate? >> i'm an obvious choice, greta, because as you know, i've been very successful, got the number one show in television, which is seen like 5 billion people every week. it's huge. >> brian: snl comedian and actor, author, darryl hammond is opening up about his personal life and his brand-new book. it's called "god if you're not up there, i'm (bleep)" >> gretchen: good morning, darryl. >> good morning. >> gretchen: that was fantastic that you came back as donald trump. and the idea behind this was obviously because he was going to be having this debate and then it got canceled. but you originally got 4 hours to -- 24 hours to learn how it do donald trump? >> that's right. it was one of those friday night specials. lauren came to me in the hallway friday night and he said, trump, and walked away. [ laughter ] no, someone followed him with a bunch of research. >> steve: how do you figure out how to too him? >> -- do him? >> normally i try to be a little -- that's kind of a caricature. normally i try to print it accurately, but we were so short on time, i went straight to the character. but trump, hands, where is he from? what's he sound like? what are his hands? does he have anything weird that he does with his mouth or anything like that? trump does something unusual when he gets angry, he does sort of a... [ laughter ] which i think is fantastic. >> gretchen: i thought the focusing would be to get his hairdo. >> we have those emmy award winning hair people over there. when he gets excited... . >> brian: you like him. he likes you. so when you're trying to get funny, are you also thinking, donald is watching this? >> you don't want to take cheap shots. you bust chops a little bit. you want to make sure that you don't take a cheap shot. >> steve: one of the impersonations you do is dead on, it's william jefferson clinton. we've got an excerpt. here is darryl in action. >> i'm here tonight to make a very exciting announcement. after the holiday, barak obama will officially appoint me husband of the secretary of state. [ laughter ] >> you mean he'll appoint hillary as secretary of state. >> say it however you want to say it, seth. >> brian: he embraces this, right? he embraces your impression? >> yes. >> brian: you guys are buddies! >> we're not friends, but have always been on good terms, and the same with mr. trump. he's had me up in his office a few times. and mr. cheney had me to the vice president mansion. people have flattered me a lot. >> gretchen: i wish you had been done ours because we've been depicted on "saturday night live" not very well. so maybe you could tell them you want to either play brian or steve next time. >> since i don't tell them anything and they tell me what they want... . >> brian: you were the longest serving cast member in the history of that show. >> yeah. >> brian: your rise to prominence is really uncanny in that you chronicle in your book dealings with too much drinking, drugs and in and out of rehab and self doubt and your parents were anything but easy to grow up in that house. >> my dad was a good guy. he just was -- he had battle fatigue. he was out of world war ii. it was hard for him. my mom was probably pretty troubled and it was not easy. >> brian: that's where you learned to do the voice, right? >> my mom is a very good breastist, yeah. so i used to do impressions with her. she came home and she would do the people from the neighborhood. she came home one day and she was impersonating this man, mr. nelson and she said something like him and then i said something like him and we both looked at each other and said, wow, yeah. do you it too? really? yeah. >> gretchen: with so much tragedy and trauma in your life, was this book cathartic for you? >> well, i was into a lot of aberrant behavior. >> steve: you're lucky to be alive. >> i would say so, yeah. the cover of the book is a prayer and an answered prayer. it was my first prayer. so i didn't know how to pray too well. but i did request the bible. i was in jail at the time. >> steve: you found god through aa and a lot of introspection. >> i think i found god in a prisoner's docket in the bahamas when they said, will the defendant please rise. >> brian: right. he had that problem on the cruise line? >> yeah. you know, i didn't really know how to pray. i didn't want to offend anyone with this title, you know, but that was my first title. it was a way of saying, i'm turning it over to you. i just felt like god, the maker of trees and hanger of planets can look at this guy and go he can't do better than that right now. he doesn't mean to disrespect. he's not better than that right now. but i did get a nice bible, so i had a proper prayer to go to the docket with. >> brian: being you overcame so much, there is no doubt the best is yet to come. i look forward to your next project. where will you be? >> wtbs "are we there yet" and i have two movies. >> steve: you've got a brand-new book out there and folks can check it out. it's a best seller. >> thank you so much. >> brian: great to see you in person. i'm going to shake your hand. now what do you want to do? >> gretchen: our next story has many people outraged. a new york city police officer killed and the man who should have been jail. let's see what's coming up on the weekend. >> no co-host. solo four hour show tomorrow. coming up, the brave men and women who defend our freedoms are struggling to find their american dream. we'll tell you how you can help our veterans with higher heros usa. and put your best face forward before your next holiday party. we'll show you five ways to look younger in five hips. you've got to see this to believe it. also, country singer craig campbell here live performing a christmas classic. yes, i will have co-hosts, clayton and allison join me at 6:00 a.m. eastern time. we'll see you then [ male announcer ] if you think tylenol is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain... two pills can last all day. ♪ ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. and video chat with up to 9 of your friends with the galaxy nexus by samsung, or get the samsung stratosphere, and for a limited time, get twice the data for the same low price. verizon. >> gretchen: welcome back. one new york police officer and his partner answered a burglary call, this was monday, they never thought it would end in tragedy. the 22 year nypd veteran and father of four girls allegedly gunned down in the line of duty by this man, lamont pride. but the question today is, why was pride, a man with a search wash out for his arrest and five prior offenses on the streets anyway? joining me now with some answers, judge jeanine pirro. if anyone needs justice in this case, it's his family and those four beautiful children who now don't have a father. >> you know, this is a sad, sad scenario and i have to tell you, gretchen, it should not have happened. judge laporte made a decision to release this guy, lamont pride, not on bail, but on his own recognizance. look, setting bail when i was a judge, i did it all the time. it's not rocket science. number one, does the guy have ties to new york and what is the likelihood that he will return to court? we already know that there was a warrant outstanding for him in north carolina for shooting someone. we already know that he had just been in her court pleading guilty to possession of a knife. we know that he had two prior incidents in new york and we know that this is a guy from another state. so why would you let him out without bail? why would you release him at all? >> gretchen: why do you think? >> i think she became blase to crime and indifferent to the harshness that goes on on the street and i think this is a woman who just is not into her job and i don't say that lightly. i was a county judge. but when you got someone with a formula that is so clear under new york law, he meant none of the criteria for releasing. >> gretchen: you're not the only one who is upset about it. mayor michael bloomberg here in new york city said this. >> somebody who the rap sheet in front of you shows is potentially a dangerous person has a gun, has a criminal history, common sense says don't let him out until you make one phone call. it's not a lot of work to do to protect the public. it was not done, plain and simple. >> gretchen: what can be done? can a judge get in trouble? >> sure. you've got the commission on judicial conduct. you've got impeachment. but at thend of the day, this is going to be more about a wake-up call for judges who think that oh, this is another piece of paper going across my desk. i think that who needs to be commended here is the nypd. they called north carolina twice and they said look, we've got a guy who is wanted for shooting in your state. we want to make sure you lodge a detainer in new york. north carolina denied they got the call until new york proved they had the phone records. then north carolina calls the brooklyn d.a. five days later when it's too late, of course, and they say, we upped our warrant and the assistant d.a. never told the judge. i mean, there are four places in the system where it was messed up. >> gretchen: if this were california, you might be able to make the argument, hey, our prisons are too full. is that the case in new york? >> what is the judge thinking? i have to go cook this guy dinner so i've got one less guy at the dinner table? i'm not going to keep him in? there is no benefit. bail is for the purpose of making sure you come back and if you're dangerous and you really need to look at him twice. this judge didn't do it. shame on her. >> gretchen: all right. you heard it from judge jeanine. haul hear more from her show, "justice," saturday at 9 p.m have a great weekend. you've heard of ugly christmas sweaters? jeanine, i know you don't have any of them. our next guest says she can go uglier and now she's making money doing it. she's putting her kids through college because of it. first, let's check in with martha for what's on at the top of the hour. you want that sweater, don't you? >> i got one like that. i'll show you later. thank you. good morning, everybody. so who was the tim tebow last night and who is ready for the big game come november? byron york. jon corzine on the hot seat. now being asked the most basic of questions and having a tough time. paul ryan, what is he up to election wise? when bill and i see you at the top of the hour >> brian: take a look at your observe site and we dare you not to call her products tacky, gaudy, or the ugliest things you've ever seen. >> gretchen: you say that all in a complimentary way. in fact, if you don't call them ugly, she will be insulted. >> steve: here is the reason, ann marie is the founder of my ugly christmas sweater and she joins us live right now from new hampshire. hello. >> hello, how are you today? >> steve: i'm doing okay. but that is one ugly sweater you're wearing. >> thank you very much. >> brian: how did you get this idea that ugly was so in and profitable? >> a few years ago, i was -- my children were getting ready to go to college. i was an at home mom and looking for something to sell during the christmas season. so i did some research on google and trending and looked to see what searches were trending and i came up with ugly christmas sweaters. did a little research and it certain israeli a booming industry. that's what i jumped into. >> gretchen: here is the amazing thin, do you all these sweaters yourself and some sweats that are already ugly, you make uglier. what do you put on them? >> i add fringe, jingle bell, pompoms, 3 d things. i like to add lights. anything you might hang on your wall or tree is fair game for a christmas sweater. >> steve: yours, the sweater you're wearing right now, i understand, has lights in it. you have brought some sweaters to show us, some of the ugly sweaters because a lot of people have ugly sweater parties where they get together, everybody tries to outdo each other and whoever has the ugliest wins the prize. so let's see the first one you got there. >> sure. this is a classic '80s sweater. i didn't add anything to it. it didn't need anything added to it. it's kind of a scary toy sweater. >> brian: nothing says christmas like raggedy ann. >> gretchen: looks like brian's or steve's size. >> brian: it's a shame, but i have enough sweaters. >> gretchen: you can wear it on our christmas special. >> steve: next sweater, please? >> this is a light-up. >> gretchen: i want that one! >> steve: look at the size of that face, on the sweater. >> the lights are sewn in. that's right. >> brian: this 3 d thing i find especially scarey. the reindeer on your bosom. >> steve: let's see the final ugly sweater for our viewing pleasure today. >> gretchen: oh! >> brian: that is so ugly. >> steve: i got to have one of those! >> brian: i thought you wanted quayle. >> gretchen: that looks like a double xl at least. we can all wear it at the same time. >> gretchen: don't get any thoughts, steve. that's going to be us next christmas. this is a fantastic idea. and by the way, we should mention that you, the money you're raising pays for your kids to go to college, or at least it helps, right? >> it sure does. that was the inspiration for me. i'm starting this business and it's done a great job in getting us there. >> brian: thanks for getting ugly with us. >> gretchen: how can people find you? >> my web site, www.myuglychristmassweater.com. >> gretchen: we'll link it to "fox & friends." thanks a lot. merry christmas. >> thanks a lot. >> gretchen: right back. >> steve: we love it, it's so ugly. >> brian: that's what i mean for better nutrition. that's what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain while the otr guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. multi-policy discount. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. 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