year. that's a pet peeve of mine. a stage play. it's a play. >> is it a play, victor? >> yeah, it's a play. the family behind that wildly popular show "duck dynasty" suggests the series may be over. maybe it's done. they say they cannot imagine going forward without phil robertson. >> yeah. a lot of "duck dynasty" fans not happy about the prospect of that happening, a&e suspended robertson for homophobic and racist comments, but robertson isn't the first celebrity to trip on his tongue. here's national correspondent gary tuchman. >> i'm not in to dainty things. >> reporter: "duck dynasty"'s phil robertson certainly isn't the first celebrity whose mouth has gotten him or her in trouble. >> get eway from my wife and baby with the camera! [ bleep ] that is. >> reporter: alec baldwin recently lost a program. >> you know what's going to happen to you, don't you? come on! [ bleep ].
point, we'll put it up on the screen: gregg: the optics favor the white house. >> look, who cares about the optics? if she went out and told a story which wasn't true, which everybody now can see, you have administration officials who say what susan rice said on september 16th was not true. we now know that. that is the consensus. if she goes out and tells a story that's not true, not only should they, but they have an obligation to make sure that we understand how that came to be, and i think, by the way, they should also look at what james clapper said in those, in those, in his testimony before congress. gregg: oh, they surely will. stephen hayes, good to see you as always. thanks. >> you bet. patti ann: a dark cloud as holiday shoppers hit stores on
offer this since we deliver to every address in america every day. we look forward to a successful test. the trial follows recent moves by ore beg retailers -- big retailers including wall rt, e way and -- ebay and amazon. the postal service addressed the issue saying there is no reasonable expectation that the postal service's metro post service would offer, would create an unfair or otherwise inappropriate competitive advantage for the postal service or any mailer with regard to any other party including small businesses. of course, the post office stands to make a half billion dollars a year if this program is expanded to ten cities as they plan, but at the same time it's losing $16 billion a year, so this still would be just a drop in the bucket, a small step forward, gregg. gregg: i don't know how you can do it with different time zones and so on and so forth and flight time. steve centanni, thanks very much. >> reporter: you bet. patti ann: well, they kept their promise.
dad was a bartender. i washed dishes as a kid. we worked easter, okay? easter's a big italian-american holiday, by the way, but we did it because those were the conditions of the job. like i said, these are not coal miners, they're not risking their lives over at wal-mart. they work in retail, and guess what? black friday is a big retail day. patti ann: all right. gotta go. charles gasparino, thanks so much for joining us. >> you got it. gregg: and now a fox news alert. new violence erupting in egypt after president muhammad morsi grants himself new and far-reaching powers. live pictures as the president speaking right now. that's muhammad morsi, as hundreds of egyptians are protesting in tahrir square today. morsi's opponents clashing with supporters in cities all over egypt. we're now hearing protesters storming the office of the muslim brotherhood and throwing out books and chairs and other things onto the streets.
patti ann: steve, morsi democratically elected, but the tide turning against him in a big way here? >> reporter: certainly egypt's first democratically-elected president, but really a stunning move -- [inaudible] [audio difficulty] anything he issues is legal and anything he issues -- [inaudible] patti ann: all right. steve harrigan, unfortunately, we had some trouble with him streaming live for us from egypt where as you can see those protests now growing, thousands of people, and we will keep you up-to-date on the latest. gregg: well, a prison evacuated after several dozen inmates suddenly got sick. patti ann: also, halle berry making headlines, cops called to her house on thanksgiving day. the brawl that had to do with her bitter hus key battle -- custody battle. gregg: senator lindsey graham
spending, republicans have to compromise on revenue, and it depends on what your definition of rich is. we happen to believe that hurting the middle class and hurting small business at 250,000 is not fair. perhaps upper income individuals have to pay more, not necessarily in rates, but close those deductions, increase income into the treasury. there's lots of things that can be on the table on revenue. it must be on the table in order to get the compromise we need to get over this cliff. gregg: juan, why not force wealthier americans to pay more in taxes not by raising the rates, but by eliminating the loopholes, putting a cap on deductions and exemptions? depending upon the cap, it would actually raise even more revenue than raising rates which the president demands. and by the way, the studies show it would only hit the top income earners. isn't that the real compromise? >> yeah, i think that's out there, and i think that's what you'll see in terms of what's being called a bridge that will take these negotiations past the fiscal cliff safely and then allow longer-term negotiations
opinion piece in the cincinnati inquirer where he says, quote: poot path do you agree? >> yeah. i think the speaker is right, because the fundamental roots of our big debt problems, especially going forward, are the health entitlement programs, the medicares, medicaid and the new affordable care act. it is estimated to cost about a trillion dollars over the first ten years, and i think analysts who have looked at that estimate understand it has a risk of being much larger than that. my own work suggests the costs have already gone up by about 25%, they could easily double over the next ten years. and if you're going to undertake a real fix to the debt, you have to take on spending programs like that. patti ann: all right. so "the washington post" among many other entities says that there is no way the democrat-controlled senate is going to vote for full repeal, but the post says, quote, there
despite posting billions of dollars in the losses, the postal service is looking to take on competitors offering now same-day service. steve centanni is live in washington. sounds wonderful, but does it work? >> reporter: well, we'll find out. it's a test program that starts this month in san francisco then possibly will expand to other cities. the postal service calls it metro post. the post office picks up items once a day that are ordered online from certain retailers, and then they'd be delivered to customers' homes between 4 and 8 become the same day. instead of going through the usual processing, these packages would be transferred directly among the postal workers who pick them up and deliver them all for a flat fee of $10 a package. a spokeswoman told fox news this morning that metro post is an exciting new venture for the postal service. it gives retailers a way to provide a valuable additional service for their customers. we're in the best position to
>> yeah. i mean, i think she does. look, this was -- the administration will tell you that this was something of a tryout for susan rice as a potential secretary of state nominee. and if that's the case, she failed in the tryout. she has an obligation to go and make sure that the information she's presenting to the american public is as true as can be. and we also have to go back and look at how these talking points that she relied on came to be. i mean, why was it that james clapper, to choose just one person, had testified under oath in front of congress that he had no idea how the words al-qaeda and other phrases were removed from the talking points that cia prepared and later were reinserted. he said he didn't know how that happened, and he put out a statement earlier this week saying it happened in his shop. those are two totally contradictory things he's saying. gregg: and by the way, it's a crime to lie to congress. but let me move on. the president's news conference last week, he said the people
implementation to the feds. that's the choice. but they write there's a third alternative where states set up their own markets for health insurance in a way that he feels would get around a lot of those problems. are there other options here? >> i think there are really two options. there's the one that was mentioned, but also when the supreme court decided that the medicaid expansions were optional, they really dealt the states back into the game on the future of obamacare. they now have the chance to go to the administration and say, yes, you want these expansions, here's what we want. we want greater flexibility in setting up these exchanges, we want some relief from the regulatory burden. we don't want insurance products to be turned down by health and human services. so the more states can get in the business of generating flexibility, setting up their own exchanges and using them for better competition and choice, the percent off the end game will be. patti ann: all right, douglas holtz-eakin, thanks for joining us.