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States and going to the u.n. next week. he still has not been able to get a meeting with the president, something the white house has taken criticism for, but the president did speak to him by phone for an hour. chris stirewalt, thank you. >> you bet. megyn: mitt romney coming under harsh criticism for his comments on government dependency. now stu varney has the numbers behind those remarks and what the explosion of entitlement spending is actually doing to our economy. plus, an alarming new ...

Adverse health effects. and the reason, by the way, that rice has more arsenic than other grains is because rice is grown in water and, of course, water contains arsenic. megyn? megyn: well, this pediatrician at new yorks mount sinai school of medicine apparently spoke with cbs news and said outright he recommends in the coming months and years parents avoid rice altogether or just rice grown in those areas, texas, louisiana and missouri, saying stay with california or asian rice. the smart thin...

Megyn: we are tracking an alarming new report about dangerous levels of arsenic in rice. consumer reports magazine warning now that this type of arsenic is linked to bladder and lung cancer among other problems, and even brown rice -- which is supposed to be healthy because, well, for other reasons -- but they said thats actually even worse on the arsenic scale. trace gallagher watching this from our west coast bureau. trace? is. >> reporter: and for the context, megyn, we should note that arsen...

Thats not the way to go. grow the economy with free market capitalism. its a very stark choice in this election. megyn: were going to talk more about that at 2:30 because just as mitt romney was caught on tape the other day, president obama was caught on a tape thats just now surfaced from 13 years ago, but hes talking about how he believes in redistribution, and well talk about how thats been a theme from him over not just the past 13 years, but more recently as well. stuart, thank you. well,...

Quoting here: worrisome levels of arsenic. you eat it once a day, and the levels go up up to 44%. eat it twice a day, your levels could go up by 70%. its interesting because as you noted, brown rice -- which is supposed to be healthier -- has higher arsenic levels than white rice, but look at this. white rice grown in arkansas, missouri, texas and louisiana have higher levels of arsenic than those grown in other areas. nestle issued an unsolis fitted statement saying it only buys white rice from...