to do it for them. kristen says i think the 9 p.m. curfew in baltimore city is a great idea. however, i think baltimore city needs a lot more than a curfew to handle what's going on there. thank you for responding. we appreciate it. "fox & friends" starts now. bye. good morning. it is wednesday, may 14. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck.ç @&c@ an afternoon of fun turns to horror when a bounce houpbs -- house gets thrown 50 neat in the air, catapulting kids to the ground below. how this happened and the latest on their condition ahead. >> the left slamming karl rove for questioning hillary clinton's health calling him pathetic and scared. but where was the outrage when the same questions were asked of republican candidates? >> a motorcycle slams into an s.u.v. head on and the guy on the motorcycle walks away. that was no stunt. that wasç real. and mornings, as far as we
know, are real, and they're better with friends. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> thanks very much, don king. welcome aboard ladies and gentlemen. it is national biscuit day. >> that means a lot. it goes back how many -- is this the first year? >> ever since popeye's louisiana kitchen developed a special one, today you're going to get one. >> i cannot believe they're still working to improve the biscuit. to me, it peaked. >> repeat what's out there already. >>ç bisquick, that was your choice in your house? >> growing up we had biscuits until bisquick came along and that changed everything. >> they have gluten-free biscuits? >> yeah. >> biscuit day, something
to talk about around the family table. >> i was watching "fox & friends" this morning. ainsley and heather were on. what does ainsley do after the show? >> i think ainsley does this, fill in for heather nauert. >> were you really watching? >> yes i was. >> let me tell you what happened overnight. bigç developments overnight that will affect the mid term elections. clay aiken won the congressional democratic primary in north carolina. the former singer and actor squeezed out a narrow victory one day after his point chris kisko died. aiken faces an uphill battle against a popular republican incumbent. over in nebraska, key party favorite, ben saff won the republican nomination for an open seat after a heated primary. in west virginia seven-term
congresswoman won the republican primary. natalie tenet won the democratic nomination. whoever wins the general electionyu)s& make history. west virginia never elected a female senator. one minute it was staked to the ground. the next it was swept off the ground. a gust of wind lifting an entire inflatable house with three children inside 50 feet into the air. a 10-year-old girl did escape just with scrapes right before it went into the air but the two boys left eup -- inside ages five and six are in the hospital. one broke both arms after the other has a head injury after hitting a parked car. >> i heard him hit the ground and i heard screaming everywhere. >> little tykes is the maker of the bouncey house. this is their statement. we're looking into what happened. our thoughts and prayers are with the children and their families. a major health scare in
florida. 22 hospital workers at a hospital in orlando ordered to stay home now for two weeks after their exposure to a saudi patient that is infected with mers. the 44-year-old man reportedly developed symptoms of mers mid flight from saudi arabia to london. he sat in the emergency room for hours before being admitted into the hospital. this is the second confirmed u.s. case of that deadly and rareç virus. a happy update to a story we told you about yesterday. the 21-month-old boy with leukemia who desperately needed a lifesaving drug will get his meds. the company, chimerex, is changing its mind after first refusing to provide the trial medicine to him that would t virus. >> i was very emotional. it's been tough knowing there is a drug out there and we couldn't get it atç
first. i hope we don't have to wait as long as us and joshua's parents. >> you might remember the company chimerex that repeatedly denied drugs for josh hardy. they eventually changed course after eup tense public scrutiny. >> ainsley, thank you very much. in both those cases, our own peter johnson jr., america's attorney was key in helping them get it. >> we're going to talk about something that has a little bit of sickness in everybody's belly. talking about health, karl rove kicking off a political firestorm in a war of words with hillary clinton. he's getting slammed for suggesting clinton might have brain damage or some sort of damage after a fall she suffered, as you recall, in 2012. but he says his words are being twisted. elizabeth prann is live in
washington to explain. >> reporter: "the new york post" reported that karl rove did make those suggestions last week at a conference, and rove clarified on the channel he was never claiming clinton had brain damage but he did suggest details are not forthcoming on what medical issues then-secretary of state hillary clinton was dealing with. clinton's team is quick to fight back, oneç spokesperson saying -- quote -- "they are scared of what she has achieved and what she has to offer. time for them to move on to their next decks pratt attack." rove said senator john mccain faced similar questions when he ran in 2008 and it's not an uncommon inquiry for such high-profile candidates. >> i didn't say she had brain damage. she had a serious health episode. this was a serious deal. she's in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the czech republic but then it begins an over a month-long period where she
has a serious illness ending up putting her in the hospital. >> jay carney mocked rove during the briefing yesterdav3 >> you're asking the question based on the assertion of a political consultant which is a kind waive putting -- kind way of putting his job. here's what i would say about cognitive capacity, which dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge the president had won reelection including the state of ohio, so we'll leave it at that. >> this incident stemming from a fall clinton took back in 2012 after returning from a european trip where she fainted, fell and did suffer a concussion. we have a lot to seeç on this story. >> elizabeth prann, thank you very much. >> she was supposed to testify in the benghazi situation and they said she was not feeling well. then she shows up with the glasses on. i thought it was one of the
most unreported stories. the secretary of state passes out; we don't know why. she comes back and testifies after delay. she wasn't feeling away. karl rove said she was in the hospital for 30 days. not straight. she had to go back and forth for observation. >> i remember working with barbara walters after she suffered a fall in the same season. hillary clinton sent her a letter explaining, saying barbara you know how it goes, throwing a casual comment out there when you fall and hit your head, sort ofç softening a bit primarily to a female audience. this is not something that is unusual to question the president's health. >> absolutely not. >> it is hypocritical for attacking somebody for looking into the records of somebody who may be candidate for president of the united states. >> the way i recall, bill clinton never released his medical records. i think they released a medical summary when he was running because people wanted to try to figure out what was going on with him for a variety of reasons. but there does seem to be
hypocrisy between the right and the left. but you know this. president obama talking about john mccain back in the day when obama was still a senator and how mccain lost his bearings. >> for him to toss out comments like that, i think, gives an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. >> a little hypocrisy checkup there. >> can you imagine if a candidate said my point lost their bearings. >> can you imagine -- let's go back all the way -- it's not thursday yet but we're going to throw back to the 1980's, 1984 i believe it was when it was the second debate between ronald reagan and mondale. brit hume said let's try to understand what it was like for someone to questionç someone's age when they would be president. >> look back at ronald reagan running for reelection in 1984. he loses his debate to
walter mondale and i'll never forget the night richard threlkeld, the question was on the air as to whether reagan was okay. there were questions about his mental acuity at that point which he managed to take care of in the next debate. but all president's health records become public. age sharpens the issue. hillary clinton will be the age ronald reagan wasç when he was running in 1980. >> that's right. essentially i think what we have seen is a preview of perhaps a presidential election. if you pick on hillary for any reason, some will say you're picking on her because of her age, so you're an ageist. if you're picking on her because she's a woman, you're a sexist. >> she knows what it is like to be the target when she ran against obama. i think she is going to get competition.
governor o'malley of maryland is going to go at it. let's see if he starts calling out hillary maybe that she's too old or more of the same. later on the show we're going to have a guest who says maybeç the biggest obstacle that hillary clinton has is that people have obama fatigue. >> fatigue is a real condition. >> very good point. >> there are conditions that should have been investigated, so we're going to shift gears to the v.a. debacle. jeff miller, a representative out of florida, wrote a letter to president obama explaining, daily we are hearing about the inaction of the v.a. and how veterans, 40 reportedly, died waiting on a secret list. this is just getting too awful to wait on. we should have a select committee to investigateç here. and eric holder, though, attorney general, says no, we're not going to do that. we're going to hold the offer on looking into why these veterans are being left to die after serving our nation. >> meanwhile you've got
bernie sanders out there, and he's figured it all out, what's going on with all these people dying, waiting on these secret lists. you know who you can blame? the koch brothers. >> there is right now as we speak a concerted effort to undermine the v.a. so the point is you have government entity itself, social security enormously popular. medicare enormously popular. postal service popular. v.a. popular. what are theç problems? the problems is that all of these are large governmental institutions, and you have folks out there now, koch brothers and others, who want to radically change the nature of society and even make major cuts in all of these institutions or maybe do away with them entirely. >> amazing too, the guy talked about changing major
portions of society. he happens to be a socialist. a lot of people think in his view, we're all on the wrong side of society. but i think it's also important toç understand. this reminds me of, remember when you used to get spelling words and you had to memorize them and to help you do it, you had to use it in a sentence and you couldn't possibly think of a way to use this word on your spelling assignment in a sentence. it is as if he starts the day thinking how do i use the word koch brothers in a sentence? >> then he calls harry reid. >> right. and he says harry, i got my sentence in. >> coming up, he founded the weather underground, but no one complains when he'sç asked to speak. coming up next. >> why did alec baldwin end
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the list of canceled graduation speakers is growing this morning. we just learned international monetary fund chief christine le guard is withdrawing from smith college's graduation. she joins secretary of state former condi rice who dropped out as rutgers commencement speaker as well because of protests from a handful of kids. joining us to talk about what's going on, the president of the foundation for individual rights in education. good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. >> what's the matter with these kids? why don't they want to hear somebody else's opinion? >> it's amazing. much so we call it
disinvitation season. students get together, and sometimes faculty. i think it's the long term result of students believing they have the right not to be offended or even challenged. >> when you look at the woman who ran the i.m.f., you would think they would want to hear from such a powerful woman who ran the i.f.m. they feel because they discriminate against women or condi rice, because they feel like she had a hand in getting us into some wars we shouldn't have been in, they shouldn't hear that. it's almost likeç the students are trying to figure out who can we have speak to us who sounds just like us. >> that's exactly right. and it's amazing the purity test that students are implying. the chancellor of berkeley just got disinvited, just withdrew from haverford college. it is hard to imagine who is going to be allowed to speak on campuses anymore. >> kermit the frog.
they love "sesame street"; not too political. how big a factor, greg, is the fact that on these college campuses you've got all these lefty professors for four years beating into their heads a certain ideology and they want to hear that when they say the big so longç everybody? >> sometimes the professors are right in front. when it comes to condoleezza rice, that wasn't student led. that was faculty led. i think the entire campus environment and the problems of speech code teaches students to think like censors. this is a natural result in some ways of what they're being taught. >> i looked at the list. it looks like more conservatives or right-wing speakers get disinvited than to the left. but there is a number of of lefties as well who are left not speaking. r&c@ what does this say about where we are on college campus stph-s >> it says there is a real
intolerance for different points of view. students are not taught to say why don't i hear this person out? >> we send our college for four years for a different opinion, so they can see everything. greg lukianoff, sir, thank you very much. if i ever run a college, you're going to be my speaker. you hear me? >> i might get disinvited. >> you never know. straight ahead it is an olympic sport but the fencing team at one college is now kicked off campus and wait until you hear why. nearlyç 22 million millenials, the young people, still living at home with mom and dad. our next guest made millions of dollars in real estate before he turned 30. why he says moving out is the best thing you can do. ♪ ♪
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quick headlines now. celebrities behaving badly. overnight justin bieber accused of attempted robbery. ♪ ♪ >> this isn't live, by the way. the pop star is accused of trying to take a woman's cell phone at a golf course in california who was taking pictures ofç him. alec baldwin arrested after he allegedly screamed at cops who caught him riding his book in the wrong direction down the street in new york city. he then tweeted this. new york city is desperate
for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign. his wife tweeted him back, shhhh! all right elisabeth. >> a record number of millenials, more than 30%, admit they're still living at home with their pare%ts. between college loans and cost of living for not taking the initiative to move out. when they do many choose to rent thinking that is a better option. blake sloan is a reality expert, also a millenial who has been recognized by forbes and the "wall street journal" as one of the best in this business. good morning, blake. your story is interesting. by the time you were 27 you were a self-made million. your mom is one of your employees. what was the secret to your success? >> just a lot of hard work in the beginning. a lot of sleepless nights in the beginning. out learning from the best and make sure we're innovative in our real
estate business as a whole and work very, veryç hard to do so. >> you talked about your mom moving into your business and you hiring her. many millenials are moving back home with their parents. 13% only say having their own home is a priority according to recent studies here. why do you think it is a better idea for them to get out of the basement and buy a home? >> right now such an unprecedented time regards to opportunity for millenials to buy, the a affordability of the housinghmarket. you can get a mortgage for about 4.25%. let's say you're too busy and you want to wait a year, and now you wait a year later, that same house, maybe about $270,000, with rates going up you're looking at a rate of maybe about 5.7%. now that same mortgage payment is about $1,500.
overall it can cost $100,000 more over the life of the loan by waiting one year. >> let's go over cities here. you say charleston, south carolina, is a good place for a millenial on a starting salary to look. >> it's been dubbed silicon harbor, the silicon valley of the eastç coast. it is a startup for tech companies. there are 200 miles of pristine beaches. average commute is 10 to 15 minutes. it has a great restaurant market. you can get a starter home for $145,000 or $700 a month. >> the second place you talk about is austin, texas. >> austin has a cool, young vibe. in the past five years, a big increase in millenials going there. a great music scene. you can get a starter home for about $200,000 or about $1,000 a month to buyç
there. >> nashville, tennessee? >> nash vegas is an awesome place. starterups come and thrive. it is an easy-going life. you can get a great starter home for about $150,000. >> orlando, florida? >> everybody loves orlando. everybody loves the weather. it is great in the hospital ity industry. >> we thank you for being with us today. nash vegas. coming up transgenderç national security officer about to get special treatment. have you seen this video? a motorcycle slams into an s.u.v. head on. how did that motorcycle rider walk away?
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>> it does? >> yeah. it's our shot of the morning. >> that's your driveway. >> my driveway. yesterday i posted this on instagram. i came out and my kids said to me, mommy, is it okay if i use all my talk to make -- use all my chalk to make a big american flag, make our american flag? i said oh yeah, it's quite o that.ht"uz i hash tagged it raising patriots. it is so good to see that. it is so big. one of them ran over it on a bike and there was a big argument about that. >> and a little trail, red, white and blue. >> i just thought that how great that is what they decided to use all their chalk on. i'm going to buy them more chalk. >> you didn't tell them to do it. you let kids be kids. you let them decide what to do with their time. from 6 p.m. from 6:17, you didn't say make a flag. from 6:17 to 6:26 prepare
for dinner. that is not the elisabeth hasselbeck way.ç >> some people refer to them as helicopter parents. others call them the beta parents. >> the beta parents will do anything they can, even when the kids are two years old, to make sure they get into harvard. they'll hire bilingual nannies, make sure they get the right foods. some serve them fish for breakfast? >> beta fish? >> yeah. here's the thing. that's what alpha parents do. jen nesser has written a book. she is saying the way parents areç raising their kids these days is a far cry from how we are raised. >> she says beta parents sometimes leave them alone with a crayon, a piece of string and cardboard box. beta parents let their kids eat processed cheese.
beta parents own televisions. they don't make cupcakes out of cantaloupes with frosting. >> they're saying back off, let kids be kids. there is a school of thought with parents that you basically have the kids and then let them get busy. don't bother me unless it's important for ten years. and now you have people, maybe the kids of those parents saying i didn't like being a kid, being ignored so they're overdoing it with theirç kids. they're scheduling their free time. there is no such thing as free time anymore. >> beta parents are the parents like we had growing up. when you look back to the way we were raised, we weren't the centers of the universe like many parents -- >> my mom didn't even like me. >> there you go. >> not at all. >> a couple of days ago -- she loves you. one time i tried to make ice cream out of bananas. it didn't go well. that was an alpha moment. >> as a mom orç kid?
>> as a mom. when our first child was born we looked at all those books for alpha parents. we were convinced the child should never have a fried food before the age of six. by the time our third child rolled around, we stopped at the mcdonald's drive-through when sally was born on the way home to get her fries. >> no teeth yet but we're stopping. what's your favorite beta parent moment? and what's your favorite -- the beta parent is somebody who is? >> hands off. >> and what's an example of looking back at what steve just said, maybe you were too -- >> there are two. alpha. beta. meanwhile, let'sç start with the "a" ainsley earhardt in for heather nauert. >> i was the b child. >> you're the a team.
>> he screamed "i am god, i am god! " before ramming a stolen landscaping truck into a tv station in baltimore. the 29-year-old then barricaded himself in an editing room for five hours while he was watching himself on the news coverage. police eventually cuffed him while he heldç a golf club. no one was injured. the man who has not yet been identified is being treated now at the hospital. she was charged with attempted murder. and the exact moment she was attacked was caught on camera. this happened off the coast of hawaii. a man trying to rip out the diver's air supply. she was reportedly filming another diver stealing fish
under water when the man detached her oxygen. she was able to reattach it without shooting to the surface which can be deadly. the daughter of radio legend casey kasem makingç a desperate plea to get her dad back from her step mother. she last saw her dad on may 6. his health is deteriorating. and the daughter says the trouble with the step mom isn't anything new. >> we told her if it is about the money, take the money, take the house. we won't contest anything. take it all, have it all. give us our dad back. >> the family plans to file a missing person's report this morning. they think their dad might be at an indian reservation in washington state. it's the video we've all been talking about. surveillance video capturing a horrific motorcycle crash in missouri.ç that rider slamming head on into the side of that black s.u.v. amazingly the biker wasn't seriously injured. he% himself up as you can see, and he walks away.
brian says what was he looking at? >> he came out of nowhere. >> what's happening in sports. >> thanks for asking. i guess we're on speaking terms again. nba playoff, a controversial call in the final seconds. the clippers against the thunder, game 5, 104-102, clippers. reggie jackson ends up with what appears to be fouled. the ball ruled off the clippers out of bounds. westbrook pulled up for 3, no good.ç he fouled. he goss a handle on 3. he does. the thunder wins. the wizards beat the pacers 102-79 forcing game 6. looks like charles barkley and shaquille o'neal won't meet in the ring for martial arts. last week during their inside the nba show, gave fans a preview of what they
can expect. shaq said barkley backed out. i would kill him. i would definitely kickç his "a" because i'm from the streets of newark and he is not. plus he's seven foot and over 300 pounds and barkley is like 6'4" and not. everyone writes me about hockey. hockey will be in the next sportscast. i promise. >> is there a score you want to give? 20 minutes before the top of the hour. transgender national security leaker chelsea manning. >> it gets more than 10,000 criminals a month but what do you know about u.s.ç marshals? next the fascinating details you never knew.
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the pentagon approving a transfer for private bradley manning to get gender treatment after being convicted of leaking top secret military documents, manning changed his name to chelsea and requested hormone therapy. the treatment is not possible in a military prison, only in civilian prison. okay. convicted killer van der sloot is reportedly set to marry his pregnant girlfriend in prison. there is speculation the baby is not his. a judge sentenced van der sloot to 28 years in prison for theç murder.
>> the little bit you know about the u.s. marshals probably comes from a movie. >> i did not do what they said i did. >> if you thought the chase was over, you've got another thing coming. >> what are you going to attempt to do? >> a u.s. marshal is considered the most dangerous job in law enforcement and it's been around since 1789, but there isn't much known about what they do untilç now. this man served 28 years with the u.s. marshals. his book is out, "u.s. marshaled: inside america's most storied law enforcement agency." what you don't know about them and what they do. mike, first off, you write this book, the sheer numbers of people that you capture is staggering. >> we arrest an average of around 23,000 fugitives a year. that's 10,000 a month
throughout the united states. these are the most violent of fugitives. they are wanted for murder, rape, homicide, child abductions, sex offenders. you name it, they are the worst of the worst. >> your jurisdiction is anybody, anything in the u.s.; right? >> correct. weç do also international fugitives, fugitives wanted in the u.s. that have gone abroad. we're responsible for finding them abroad. also foreign fugitives that come into the u.s., we're responsible for apprehending them. >> united states of america founded the witness protection program? >> that is true. since about late 1970's we've been in charge of protecting all the witnesses within the program, their families. that can include 24-hour protection while they're in danger. >> this is the ultimate reality show. there's only 4,000 of you guys? >> correct. there's actuallyç less than 4,000. in the fugitive program we have a task force network
of about 4,000 also that assist us. >> the bigger names that you've captured, been a part of? >> the u.s. marshals arrested general manuel noriega during the invasion of panama. the d.c. sniper case, we identified two individuals in their vehicle they were in. guzman, most of the drug cartels. it goes on and on. >> just the organization and execution is something every government agency could learn from, don't you think? it seems like your chain of command is very pure. >> we do the most we can with the resources ue have. the marshals are very effective at it. one of the reasons is we get along with all other agencies and our state and local task force officers are such an integral part of what we do. >> you are related to wyatt earp. this is the legend.
>> i don't know exact what the relationship is. 30 years i've been called wyatt more than i have mike. >> kevin costner had fun playing that. mike, the book is fascinating. thanks so much for your service to@-ui country. look what i've got. my own patch. i'm going to start speeding as soon as i leave here. coming up, they serve this nation only to be hahn pherd with out-of--- only to be hammered with out-of-control student loans. have you ever heard of a drinking game that uses skee ball as its theme. ♪ ♪
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a controversy is brewing this morning over america's favorite arcade game. ski ball. there is one calls brewsski ball where people drink alcohol. joining us for a fair and balanced legal debate, arthur aidala. welcome this morning. before we get to some playing of the game here, this is a big deal. it's going to come down to a lot of money. what's the problem? i'll start with you, with brewski ball using the name or is this fine? no trademark infringement? >> the line they're taking in
the beer league that did this in the ski ball people should zip their lips. aspirin, yoyo, zipper, are names no longer trademarked. they're genericked. and the idea in this case is that the brewski ball people are saying it's ski ball. we call this game ski ball. they can't trademark it. and brewsski ball doesn't confuse anybody, so go away. >> they say nothing going on. >> and nobody is harmed. >> this is what i say. first of all, it says right here, skiball, u.s. patent office. it's not a trademark, but there is a patent on this design and there is a company that actually owns the name. but the reason why he's correct, why all the names, yoyo and things like that are household names is because nobody went and did this and went to court to challenge it.
yoyo never went to court and said this is my did she this is our name. >> what would happen if they did? >> we don't know. so skisexual going to court and -- ski social security ball is going to court saying this is our name. they don't want somebody playing and getting in a wreck and kill somebody. now their good name, all kids love to go and play skiball are ruined. >> so let me ask you this, what's next? beer pong is something for ping-pong. should ping-pong be worried about their name being used -- >> there is no ping-pong name. if that's your example, it's not a good one for ski ball because there is no ping-pong trademark. we play ping-pong, you can call it beer popping, call it anything you want. >> ping-pong is more like football. whereas this is a thing. >> what if it looked completely
different? >> it's not the machine. it's the league that -- these people are not manufacturing a machine that looks like a ski ball machine, but isn't. so there is no confusion and when you got a trademark case, the issue is, are you confusing people? are people going to think hey, the ski ball company is running this league? there is no possible way you could think that. >> what happened between 2005 and now, because they the league founder, he gave the blessing in 2005. >> this is the interesting thing. when we ran an investigation into our company, life is lived chronologically. these guys did nothing to defend their name. then they went in to an agreement with the brews ski ball people. >> it was a handshake agreement. >> a week after they start to reveal confidential information. this is what's in the superintendent all of a sudden they say hey, our trademark, our good name and went to court. >> initially it was a publicity stunt for them to get a name and
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good morning. it's wednesday, may 14. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. an afternoon of fun turns to horror when a bounce house is lifted 50 feet off the ground with three children inside. how this could have happened and the latest on the kids' conditions up next. they called karl rove pathetic and scared. what was the outrage when the same questions were asked of republican candidates? we report. you decide. but steve's got to talk first. >> that's right. then from the front lines to the nfl, meet the army ranger who is trading in his fatigues for a helmet and shoulder pads. yep. that's him right there. we got a busy two hours on this wednesday morning because wednesday mornings are better with friends. >> it's time for "fox & friends" one hour ago i revealed it's national biscuit day and i've just been told by the people at
popeye's that in addition to biscuits and gravy, they're bringing chicken. we've been up since 2 or 3:00 o'clock in the morning. it's lunch time for us. period of time near supper time. >> i had no idea that popeye's loved chicken. i thought it was all spinach. >> maybe that's a different pop eye. >> i remember something about when popeye was in the blue uniform, he was much more entertaining as opposed to the white uniform. >> you spent a lot of time analyzing cartoons, haven't you? >> how about pink? here is someone in a pink outfit. >> he has a bicep focus. >> good thing mine are covered. let me tell you what's happening in the news. a fox news alert. big developments overnight that will affect the midterm elections. tea party favorite won the republican nomination for an open senate seat in nebraska.
in west virginia, seven-term congresswoman shelly moore capito won the republican primary. secretary of state natalie tenet won the democratic nomination. whoever wins the general election will make history because west virginia has never elected a female senator. former "american idol" runner up clay caken won the democratic primary, one day after his opponent died. aiken now faces an uphill battle against the popular republican incumbent, renee elmers. look how high this is. a gust of wind lifting an entire inflatable house with three children inside 50 feet up into the air. a ten-year-old girl did escape with just scrapes just as it was taking off. but two boys, ages five and six, they were inside and now they're in the hospital. one broke both of his arms after hitting the ground. the other has a head injury
after falling on to a parked car. >> then he hit his head off the back of my car. then i heard him hit the ground and i heard screaming. >> little tyke the manufacturer said we are looking into what happened. our thoughts and prayers are with the children and their families. a happy update to a story we've been following. the 21-year-old boy -- 21-month-old boy with leukemia who needed the life saving drug will get it. the company changing its mind after first refusing to provide the trial medicine to him that would treat his adeno virus. >> i was very emotional. it's been tough knowing that there is a drug out there and we couldn't get it. it should be easy. i hope the next people don't have to wait as long as us and
joshua's parents. >> you might remember the company from the case of josh hardy. it repeatedly denied him the drug as well. eventually that company did reverse course after intense public scrutiny. the 9-11 memorial museum opens up tomorrow, but we have this brand-new video just into "fox & friends" of what it looks like. the museum dedicated to honoring the tragic events of september 11 features more than 20,000 photographs, 500 hours of footage, and thousands of artifacts. >> 25 bucks. >> to get in. >> it should be free. it's five minutes after the top of the hour. >> karl rove kicked off a political fire storm yesterday in a war of words with hillary clinton. so he's getting slammed for people suggesting that he said hillary clinton might have brain damage after a fall she suffered in 2012. but he says his words are being
twisted. >> to sort it all out, we fetched elizabeth prann who explains what's going on. >> karl rove came on the channel this week to clarify what the "new york post" is reporting saying he never claimed former secretary of state hillary clinton had brain damage. listen here. >> she had a serious health episode. i mean, this was a serious deal. she basically is out of action from -- she's in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the czech republic. but then begins over a month long period where she's got a serious illness, ending up putting her in the hospital. we don't know what the doctor said about what does she have to be concerned about. >> so you see there that rove says details surrounding her medical issues are not forth coming, especially when it comes to the fall she took in december of 2012 after returning from a trip to europe where she fainted, she fell and suffered a concussion. he we want on to say that senator john mccain faced
similar health questions when he ran back in 2008, that, in fact, it's not an uncommon inquiry for high profile candidates. clinton's team is quick to fight back, one spokesman saying they're scared of what she has achieved and what she has to offerment time for them to move on to their next desperate attack. the white house even chiming in, jay carney took a jab at rove during the press briefing just yesterday. >> you asked the question based on a political consultant, which is a kind way of -- it is medical evaluation. shear what i would say about cognitive capacity, which is dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president won reelection, including the state of ohio, so we'll leave it at that. >> clinton has yet to say if she'll even run in 2016. back to you. >> thank you very much. look, it wasn't karl rove, the first to on the national scale
to mention hillary's problems. i think it was two or three months ago, drudge report mentioned is she sick and people were talking behind the scenes about a myriad of intentional health problems for hillary clinton. will she release her medical records? i bet not. think about her husband, bill clinton, when he was running for president. he was asked to repeatedly and to the best of my knowledge, he never did. they did release a general summary about his health. but that was it. >> you want to talk cognitive capacity, which we just saw jay carney refer to, perhaps we need to check on memory because this isn't first time this has been tossed around because of cheap shots. remember when president obama was saying that mccain lost his bears because he was too old. listen to this. >> for him to toss out comments like that, i think it's an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. >> i mean, that's important to bring up. the other thing is, i said this
last hour, it was one of those underreported stories i can remember because we were just waiting to see if she was going to testify for benghazi. all we heard about is she wasn't up to it. somehow she had a virus. then she turns out, well, she hit her head. whoa, did someone hit her head? did she fall? yeah, she hit her head, fell. then comes back with these glasses. they go, it's just going to be temporary. that's how hard she hit her head. i'm thinking to myself, that's huge. if that was in my family, that would be huge news. all of a sudden you're wearing glasses for months, you can't go to work. you're in and out of the hospital for 30 days. so i think ha as a consultant if you're asking karl rove to give his prognosis and he's on stage next to robert gibbs and other experts and ask him to talk about prospects in 2016, i think her health is only natural to bring up, especially her age. it's an issue. >> especially as it relates to benghazi. is she still not okay? still haven't heard anything as it relates to decisions made prior to, during and after. >> i'm sure she'll be subpoenaed, though. brit hume took us way back
here, a little throw back tuesday it was. we're going to bring it to you on wednesday when he said look, this has always been called into question. remember when president reagan was facing mondale in the second debate in 1984? check him out. >> look back at ronald reagan running for reelection in 1984, he loses a debate to walter mondale and i'll never forget the night that richard thrill kill of abc news said on the care, the question was whether reagan was, you know, okay. certainly there were questions about his mental acutity at that point which he managed to take care of in the next debate. but all presidents' health records become public. age raises that and sharpens the issue and hillary clinton will be about the age i guess that ronald reagan was when he was running in 1980. >> surely it will be an issue, her health. and it has been for a while. it's funny how rumors have a way of getting injected into the campaign. remember back in 2008 the suggestion that barak obama was
not born in this country. that actually came from supporters of hillary clinton. of course, here we are years later, people are still talking about that. >> just let's change gears and talk about your house. let's talk about your household perhaps. the author of "good night nanny cam" has come out with a fascinating look at overparenting perhaps in today's society, called a beta parenting where you are pretty much a beta parent is somebody that is laid back, kind of like the 1970s parent or the 1960s parent, or every other parent in america. >> alpha parents are the helicopter parents. they want to do everything for their kids so that the kids go to mit by the time they're seven years old. the beta parents, more like the way we were all raised. >> remember this? there is dvd's and videos out for the baby when it's in the womb, to play certain music. >> we had that. >> you did that? >> sure. >> see, that's an example of
alpha parenting. >> that's why i was doing a story on it. it didn't work, by the way. >> so this is what she said the beta parent said, they don't try to engage their kids every second of the day. sometimes they leave them alone with a crayon, string and cardboard box. they let their parents eat processed cheese. beta parents don't hide pumpkin puree in the pancakes. >> sometimes you let your kids color the flag on a driveway like you did. >> the way she has written this thing -- she wrote this beta parent manifesto in the huffington post, you really want to be a beta parent when you look at it as opposed to an alpha parent. we asked you what you thought. one said let kids be kids. that's how they learn. give guidance when needed, but let them be themselves. >> doug said when i was a kid, my parents were beta. i'd be jumping off the roof onto
the trampoline and then into the pool all day. >> excuse me, i think that's a little bit out of control. do not do that. jerry e-mailed, my older brother and i used to travel by subway from the bronks to brooklyn to watch the dodgers play. we were 11 and seven and it took about two hours each way. i guess we had beta parents. that was the story back then. >> sure. these days that would be regarded as child abuse. anita writes on facebook, building forts in the woods, ice skating on frozen ponds, good lord, how did i ever survive a childhood like that? somehow i remember occasionally going swimming less than a half hour after i ate a meal. >> wow! that is incredible! >> somehow i made it. >> that's akin to joining a gang today. >> being beta may you betta at being a parent? keep them coming. >> i actually think i was definitely too alpha.
>> really? >> yeah. i think katy, my youngest, is benefitting from the fact that maybe i was too alpha with brian and in between -- i canned of lost interest with -- kind of lost interest with the last one. >> it's a perception that a lot of parents have. in the beginning they push as much as they can. >> i remember sitting at the table going what's her name again? >> coming up, america, what's hillary's biggest issue heading into 2016? other next guest says it's not benghazi. we'll talk to doctor, professor, genius larry sabato who predicted nearly every presidential race correctly. the brawl between jay-z and beyonce's sister raising eyebrows. we'll break it down for you. ♪ ♪ you, my friend are a master of diversification.
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we all remember hillary clinton's response to the benghazi terrorist attack. remember? >> what difference at this point does it make? it is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again. >> benghazi may not be her only hurdle for a potential white house bid. could it be her health or just general fatigue with the president's policies? dr. larry sabato is the director of the center of politics at the university of virginia, joins us with a look inside his crystal of people are going to be saying we need a change after barak obama. what do you think? will that hurt hillary? >> here are hillary clinton's real challenges, brian. not benghazi, not monica lewinsky. it's the fact that president
obama, at least right now -- has low approval ratings. if those approval ratings continue to be low in 2016, she will be held accountable. people say, well, she ran against barak obama. she has a separate identity. john mccain ran against george w. bush in 2000. didn't help him in 2008. the second factor, brian, is that there is some good research in this field. just a party running for a third consecutive term actually subtracts a point or two from that party's popular vote total. >> why? >> americans are inclined to switch out parties at regular intervals because the truth is, they don't fully trust either one and they want to avoid corruption. >> yeah. bush 41 followed ronald reagan, but did not get a second term. look at this pew poll now. 65% of the country said they would like to see a president who offers different policies and programs from the current president. 30% want to see a president with similar programs and policies.
that's right now in 2014. how much do we care about being the election is in 2016? >> we shouldn't care overly. you're right. polls can change. but americans do get tired of the same direction. i always like to compare it to tv series. not talking about morning shows, of course. talking about comedies, sitcoms and cops and robbers shows. how long do they last? very few go eight seasons. most go two, three, four seasons and people are ready for a change. >> right. except for "cheers." i wish that could have gone on. i got to ask you, when karl rove brought up the health of hillary clinton, do you think that's out of bounds or is that up with tradition for a 68-year-old that did pass out in her last few months in office? >> here is something that most people don't know. hillary clinton, by the time of the election in 2016, is going to be exactly the same age, 69,
that ronald reagan was in 1980 when he was first running for his first elective term as president. so health questions are always legitimate. we never want to go back to the situation that we've had that i studied in 1960 when john f. kennedy had some very serious health problems that were covered up and even denied, lied about. i know of nothing that would prevent hillary clinton from being president. she seems very vigorous to me. but every presidential nominee should have to have a thorough examination and the results of that examination should be revealed to the public. we ought to require that for presidential detainees. >> it does make sense. the kids are graduated and you can take the rest of the summer off. thanks so much. >> this weekend, brian, is graduation. i'm not free yet. >> sorry. after that. straight ahead, veterans being cheated when it comes to student loans. they were charged more than anyone else. this morning we have a huge
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welcome back. time for news by the numbers. $100 million. that's how much student lender sally mae will have to pay for charging veterans excesstive rates on student loans. 60 million of that going straight to service members. a medicare fraud team. 16 doctors accused of making $260 worth of false billing. and two. that's how many paper applications obamacare contracts
process a month. a whistle blower said the employees are being paid to basically do nothing. steve has something special for us. >> i do. thank you very much. he was left embarrassed and humiliated, starving in school after his hot lunch tossed out. the reason? he was 45 cents short and didn't know he also owed 4.95 from a meal back in april. school didn't notify them. but his mom wouldn't let the school standard slide. she not only paid his debt, she also paid the balances of 18 other students. that mother, amanda cowan, joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let me get this straight, your son is 45 cents short and they won't give him the lunch? >> correct. >> why? >> they have a no charge policy, as a lot of other schools do. >> did you know that he owed
4-point -- about five bucks from something he charged in april? >> no, i didn't. it was his last charge was april 15. >> you never got a notice that your son was delinquent, right? >> no, i didn't. >> okay. so he comes home and he tells you that not only was he short, he didn't get the lunch, and not only that, but the lunch person took the lunch out of his hand and threw it in the garbage, right? >> well, he actually called me from the school and told me they weren't allowing him to eat. i asked him what was going on. he said they wouldn't -- he tried paying the $2. they wouldn't accept it. so they took the lunch, threw it in the trash and that's when he called me. >> oh, man. here is what the school says. although we do not encourage the charging of school lunches, the union schools do allow charging many schools across the nation have very strict policies that say if a child does not have the money, they do not eat. we are proud to say we do not
have that policy. i can't imagine they're proud of what that lunch person did. i mean, they threw the lunch in the garbage and then your son went hungry. you're being calm right now. but you were really agitated the day this happened. what did you do first? >> first thing i did is i went to the school to talk to the lunch lady. i asked her, why wasn't he allowed to eat? she just basic -- well, he didn't have enough money. >> right. >> i was to the point i didn't even know what to say. >> sure. so you went back on friday and talked to one of the bosses at the school. what did they say? >> i went back on monday and talked to the vice principal. >> and you said? >> she told me -- i needed to understand that at the end of the year, they're stuck with the bill if parents don't charge, pay the charges. >> sure. and so you decided you were going to make good. fair and square, you did owe, although the school never let
you know ahead of time that you had an outstanding balance. so you wanted to make sure this did not happen to any of the other kids in the school. so what did you try to do? >> well, what i tried to do is give her $250 to not only pay the bill, but distribute the rest of it in the accounts of the 19 kids on the list. she told me they couldn't do that. >> sure. but they wouldn't take 250 bucks, would they? >> no. she took 60. she paid the $53 tab and put the rest on my son's account. >> well, now he can have lunch for the rest of the year. but the damage is done. i know he was humiliated. but you made it very clear that it was not appropriate, although the school doesn't feel like they did anything wrong, which is crazy. >> well, they said they followed within their guidelines. no disciplinary action will be taken. >> yeah, but he was 45 cents short. just give him the piece of pizza. >> i know. i don't understand throwing it
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>> yes, they are. free biscuit today at any popeye's with a purchase all day long. >> you can't beat that. why is it you love the biscuit? i know the guy who started pop eye's worked on it for two years in a culinary lab. >> well, my biscuits are the best tasting in the known universe and my popeye's customers are the best customers in the world. >> you're taking credit for the entire organization? >> the entire organization because i love my biscuits. so come on in today at any popeye's for any purchase, you'll get a free biscuit. >> it's perfect with the chicken. >> of course. >> i grew up on the popeye's spicy chicken. i love that stuff. you got locations across the country. so drop by a popeye's, buy something and you get a free biscuit. >> very nice. >> honey on it. >> we'll have to do that. that's the way i like it. perfect. >> yes. >> amy, annie, thank you very much. >> thank you.
>> now to ainsley, time for the news. >> thanks so much. we're going to start with this, a major health scare in florida. 22 hospital workers at an orlando hospital ordered to stay home for two weeks after they were exposed to a patient infected with mers. the 44-year-old man developed symptoms of that virus mid flight from saudi arabia to london. he sat in the emergency room in orlando for hours before being admitted into the hospital. this is the second confirmed u.s. case of the deadly rare virus. rubio for president? the republican florida senator now admits that he would still enter the 2016 race even if it meant running against former florida governor jeb bush. he says the presidential candidate doesn't make decisions based on what someone else does. >> i think when someone contemplates running for president of the united states, you too so based on a criteria that you set for yourself. i don't think they're decisions
based with someone else's decisions in mind and i bet if he was here, he would give you the exact same answer. i think that's the way you approach a decision of that magnitude is based on your own criteria. not what someone else might or might not do. >> he admits jeb bush would make a formidable president, a candidate at least, for president. newly discovered letters revealing 14 years of secrets from jackie kennedy bearing her soul to an irish priest that she met only twice, but had written to for years. she opens up about her fears of marrying jfk because he might be like her father, she says. she goes on to say, quote, he loves the chase and he is bored with the conquest and once married, needs proof he's still attractive, so he flirts with other women and resents you. the unpublished letters are up for auction next month. fencing might be an olympic sport, but tell that to the officials at north dakota state university because they have
banned it, saying the sword-like equipment known as foils are deemed weapons and as such possession or use on the university campus owned or controlled property is prohibited. the sword, however, has no actual blade and does not have a sharp tip. the team is now forced to move off campus. and those are your headlines, my friends. over to you on the sofa. >> is it arthur? >> it is. >> we got to get ainsley a monitor. she should have seen awe long time ago. >> leave ainsley alone! >> that's for tomorrow's segment. >> i'm with you on that. >> let's talk about this. so we've seen it on television. >> important case. >> surveillance video, it looks like beyonce's sister is beating up jay-z. that's an elevator at the standard hotel in new york. so we have many legal questions. first of all, there is a story out there that tmz paid $250,000 for that video.
>> to whom? that's the question. do they pay it -- first of all, let's get this out of the way. it's not jay-z's video. it's not beyonce's video. when you're in a public hallway, on a public street, when you're in a public elevator, you have no expectation of privacy. so it's not your video. you're basically consenting by being there that you could be videoed in today's day and age. >> known a hotel? >> in a public place, yes. this was in their room, in the bathroom or maybe even a phone booth, some expectation of privacy. >> does that mean they can't sue for this video? >> that is correct. >> but wherever they had access so to that video monitor, that would not be a public place. that could have been a private place. >> here is the real thing, who sold the video? or who got their hands on it? is it the hotel who probably owns the video. it's their video. >> what if it is? >> or is it an employee of the hotel who stole the video? if it was an employee who stole
the video, they may have some big problems. criminal problems and civil problems 'cause it's not their property. >> but if i'm tmz and i write the check to that shady person who did something that's a fireable offense and despicable, do i have to say who i bought it from? am i responsible to say -- >> you guys are the journalists. you're asking me that question? it depends if they say listen, this is our source. i don't think they would reveal. >> what if the people in the hotel, those individuals, be it jay-z or two other people involved in a domestic issue in an elevator, can that video that was wrongly sold, assuming that it was, be used to then prosecute one of them? >> yes. there would be an evidentiary hearing if it ever went that far about its add -- admissiblity.
jay-z could pick up the phone and press charges against her and she would be arrested for assault in the third degree, which it's a no brainer, which is a misdemeanor. all you have to do is cause harm and pain, substantial pain. so it looked like he got a little substantial pain in there. and on the civil side, if he wanted to be a jerk, he could sue her and for his injuries. >> and just for the record, it seems as though the story in the daily news today is solange was mad at him because he was going to rihanna's party after the big event. the undercurrent is he was supposed to help so dlange's career get on track. >> there is one more part. solange brought some of her friends to this party, the met party and they were using jay-z' name to try to get in and he had just found out about it. he said, don't you have your friends using my name to try to get into any parties. that was what started the whole
thing. why do you have to go out to riri's party? why can't you go home with your wife? i can't believe we're talking about this on "fox & friends." you were talking about the u.s. marshals doing all this good. >> your rights are not what you think when you're in an elevator. >> or hallway or any public place. >> you're never private. >> anywhere anymore, in my opinion. >> thank you. >> i just know this, this conversation was private, just between us. straight ahead, from the front lines to the nfl, meet the army ranger who is trading in his fatigues for a helmet and shoulder pads and hopes to put an eagle on that helmet. can you pick him out? >> yes, i can. but first the aflac trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1944, the film maker is best known for creating "star wars." who is he? be the first to e-mail us with the correct answer. >> i've got it, by george
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time for the celebrity's behaving badly edition of headlines. first overnight, justin bieber accused of attempted robbery. ♪ ♪ >> okay, it's not like he tried to knock over a bank. he is accused of trying to take a woman's cell phone at a golf course in california who was taking pictures of him. and alec baldwin arrested after he allegedly screamed at police officers who caught him riding his bike in the wrong direction here in new york city. he then tweeted this, new york city is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
>> it looks like 190. now to a great story. >> when the battlefield from the playing fold, our next guest spent the past four years defending his country in the u.s. army. now he will spend this offseason trying to make the philadelphia eagles 53-man roster. joining us in his first tv interview. we are so thankful to have you here. what an exciting time for you, sir. >> thank you. appreciate it. yeah, absolutely. a good opportunity here with the eagles and something i've been waiting for a long time. >> three tours of duty in afghanistan. now it looks as though you will have the time to go ahead and try to make this team. how now after serving overseas are you perhaps better prepared to be successful in the nfl? >> well, that's something that obviously the coaches will have to determine here in the next couple months. i've been in shape as much as i
can, it's given me a little maturity and taught me a lot of things i can possibly use here on the football field. bottom line, obviously a lot of this is going off potential. i haven't been working out as a football player should have for the past couple months, just like everybody else has. but it's great opportunity and i'm very excited to see what happens. >> they've got to be excited to have you come there. this is something you've long wanted since you were 16. but you were playing offense. are you going to switch from defending our nation to defending on the football field in terms of preparation, i know june 17 starts the mini camp there. what does this mean for your transition from the battlefield, just coming back to citizenship? >> obviously right now, i can stop dwelling on this and start hitting the weight room. a lot of that stuff, obviously
the coach also have to decide where they want me weight wise and how to make this transition a little easier. it's a path that not a lot of players have done. i know there was a couple players who play in the nfl. but it's a little bit of a complicated process. so i'm trying to learn day by day and try to make adjustments as i go. >> you're a wide receiver, outstanding wide receiver in college and now looking to be a defensive lineman. you kind of stood out even with the fatigues. i imagine in afghanistan. but amongst these guys, these eagles, you won't. they have a bit of a history there of taking some risk. look at the size of you in that pick. what about the fact that they did a movie about a guy that was just walking on and made it and called "the invincible requesting," now you're coming in off the battlefield trying o make it with the eagles. what is the key for to you adjust to this level of play in a position that you haven't been at before? >> listen to the coaches
obviously and understanding what they want me to do. obvious will he they saw something to make that decision, to move me to defensive end. coaching staff here is unbelievable. i've been very pleased with everything they have to say and listen to their advice and work every day. it's a day by day sort of routine. i improve my technique. i go against the guys here and i try to get better and see where it goes from there. >> we can't wait to follow up with you. we thank you for your great service to this nation and we wish you well in that mini camp. >> thank you so much. >> he won't be like every other rookie. thanks so much. coming up straight ahead, his wife won't throw away any junk mail. she insists on opening it all. is this normal or nuts? dr. keith ablow will examine. >> first this day in history, 1973, sky lab, the united
states' first space station launched in 1998. "seinfeld" aired its last episode. in 1979, "reunited" by peaches and herb was the number one song. that's how brian and i felt in this segment. we were reunited. >> we felt like peaches and herb. >> i was two. >> oh. ♪ ♪ ♪
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ablow every week and he joins us now with some answers. good morning, dr. keith. >> so we meet again. >> we do. so we have an interesting to st. why is it that young people, especially girls, add so many useless words to their sentences. examples are like, you know. is this normal or nuts? >> well, it sure is annoying, but it isn't nuts. like here is, like, what, like, this is like the problem is, i think, we're so uncertain as a culture about everything now that literally our uncertainty and our sense of having no autonomy is creeping into our language. it's all about, like, this, like, do you know. it's all about doubt. there is nothing certain. we better get our heads screwed on right. >> all right. sounds good. you just don't know when to start correcting that.
>> i do now. >> let's go to our secretary e-mail and talk about men and women. my wife won't throw out any junk mail. she insists on opening all of it and we currently have three garbage bags full of unopened mail. she has not had the chance to open yet. is this normal or nuts? >> for this you call a psychiatrist? she's nuts. okay. because you have three bags of garbage that she won't throw out. she either has ocd or those traits. here is the metaphor. she's been searching for something important in junk for a long time. maybe she thinks there is secrets in her family that are worth uncovering when there is really no love there. she's got to get to a therapist and find the truth about her life. not some publisher's clearing house letter she forget to open. >> maybe she forgot to open the big check. finally, here it is, when i'm alone, i start thinking about loved ones and how they will be eulogized. i even think about how i will be remembered, too. that's cheery. thinking about the end.
>> normal or nuts? >> it isn't cheery, but it isn't nuts. in fact, i like it because you know what? here is the thing, here is someone who is not running from the ultimate truth that we're all mortal. that can guide your life. if you're thinking about how you'll be eulogized, you might just make good choices. i think probably more of us should do exactly what this viewer has asked about. >> that makes perfect sense. think about the impact you're making right now and ultimately how they will remember you. good advice. very nicely done. >> well, thank you. >> so you applaud the last ones steve. the other two you weren't too happy with. >> just e-mail dr. keith and he will have more advice coming your way. >> he does one of our favorite segments. >> keep that mail coming. >> thank you. still ahead, is senator joe manchin throwing in the towel on politics? he will join us live coming up shortly. russia firing back on the u.s., cutting off access to the international space station. by the way, i thought we owned
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good morning. it's wednesday, may 14. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. huge developments overnight that will impact the midterm election. we're going to tell you what happened in three big races, one of them will be a showdown for the ages. and just one minute it was staked to the ground. and the next minute it was 50 feet in the air. that is a bouncy house. >> kids are in there. >> three kids inside. so how can that happen? the company that makes the bounce house just spoke out. you'll see it live coming up. then should the health of a presidential hopeful be fair game? not if it's hillary clinton. why the left and some others on the right are hammering karl rove for something that all candidates we thought went
through. we'll examine. first let me tell you this, mornings are better with friends. float our pictures. >> it's time for "fox & friends" >> i cannot tell you how many -- that's a commercial on our air all the time. pinocchio would be a terrible -- what kind of speaker? motivational speaker. >> that's right. >> oh, boy. >> how many times have you been in -- a couple of times we've rented those bouncy houses for our kids' parties. those pictures right there, the first thing they do is pound it in the ground. how does that happen? >> they staked it down. >> i know! how does that happen? heather is off today. we've got ainsley earhart in with the breaking news and we do have some. >> yes, we do. let's give you that break news right now. we're going to start with a fox news alert. big developments overnight that
will affect the midterm elections. tea party favorite ben sass won the republican nomination for an open senate seat in nebraska. in west virginia, seven-term congresswoman shelly moore capito won the republican primary. secretary of state natalie tenet won the democratic nomination. whoever wins the general election will make history because west virginia has never elected a female senator. and former "american idol" runner up clay aiken won north carolina's democratic congressional primary. this just one day after his opponent, the former state commerce secretary, keith krisco died. aiken faces an uphill battle against the republican incumbent, renee ale meres. and one minute it was staked to the earth. the next swept off the ground. a gust of wind lifting that inflatable house with three children inside 50 feet high. a ten-year-old girl was able to escape with scrapes, but two boys that were trapped inside
ages five and six, are now in the hospital. one broke both of his arms after hitting the ground. the other suffered a head injury after falling onto a parked car. >> then he hit his head off the back of my car and then i heard him hit the ground and then i heard screaming. >> little tykes, the manufacturer, released this statement. we're looking into what happened. our thoughts and our prayers are with the children and with their families. we do have a happy update to tell you about to a story that we've been following here on fox. the 21-month-old boy with leukemia who desperately needed the life-saving drugs is finally getting those meds. the company is changing its mind now after first refusing to provide the child medicine to judson shepherd to treat his adeno virus. >> i was very emotional. it's been tough knowing that there is a drug out there and we couldn't get it at first.
it should be easy. i hope the next person doesn't have to wait as long as us in joshua's parents. >> you might remember the company from the case of another young boy, josh hardy. the drug was reapedly denied to him and eventually the company did reverse course after intense public scrutiny. the 9-11 memorial museum opens tomorrow. but we have this brand-new video just in to "fox & friends" of what it looks like. inside you'll see piece of history from that day, including a destroyed fire truck from ground zero and personal items, like a teddy bear. the museum also has more than 20,000 photographs and 500 hours of footage. those are your headlines. back to you. >> you walk into it, it takes you right back to that day. >> sure does. >> thank you. karl rove kicked off a political fire storm in the war of words with hillary clinton. he is getting slammed for suggesting clinton might have had brain damage after a fall
she suffered in 2012. but he says his words have been twisted by the press. >> elizabeth prann will break it down because that's not what he said. >> good morning. let's start from the beginning. new york post reported that republican strategist and fox news contributor karl rove made the suggestions at a private conference last week. not long after he clarified here on the channel. he says he never claimed clinton had brain damage, you about suggest details are not forth coming about her medical issues back in 2012 and early 2013. take a listen. >> she had a serious health episode. this was a serious deal. she's in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the czech republic, but then begins over a month long period where she's got a serious illness, ending up putting her in the hospital. we don't know what the doctors said about what does she have to be concerned about. >> hillary clinton's team has not hesitated when responding. one spokesperson said, quote,
they are scared of what she has achieved and what she has to offer. time for them to move on to their next desperate attack. white house spokesman jay carney even took a jab at rove during the briefing yesterday. listen. >> dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president won reelection, including the state of ohio. we'll leave it at that. >> he also said senator john mccain faced similar health questions when he ran in 2008 and is not an uncommon inquiry for high profile possible candidates. back to you guys. >> all right. elizabeth prann live in the gray dc bureau today, thank you. >> thank you. karl rove saying it will matter because it has mattered. as elizabeth prann noted, saying we need to take a step back to 2008 when president obama actually kind of took a shot at john mccain, saying he was losing his bearings because he was getting older, in fact. take a listen to this.
>> for him to toss out comments like that, i think it was an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. >> okay. so where is the press attacking then senator obama for suggesting that john mccain was off his rocker? there wasn't any because there is just a double standard when it comes to the left and the right and the mainstream media. >> is it amnesia or hypocrisy? >> i'm not sure. i will say this, karl rove was at an event. now the next thing you know, he's talking about it here, expanding on his comments. what he brought up was something barely reported. the secretary of state in the final days in office disappeared when she was supposed to be testifying. many people thought she's trying to get out of testifying. later they found out she fell, had a blood clot behind her ear, so there was a legitimate health situation here. so was it the fact that it was fatigue or was it after four years of rigorous tension and stress that she was in bad
health? she was worn out by the end. she didn't look like the same person competing for the nomination with barak obama. so i think that was an interesting point to bring up. and the fact that she's going to be that age, is going to be doing this again eight years later, i think health is a legitimate issue. i think when they talked about brain damage and something wrong with her, they're trying to corner karl rove into an explanation of saying you're out of bounds. i know nicole wallace who worked with president bush came out and said i thought that was out of bounds. i actually don't. especially after hearing karl rove explain himself yesterday. >> the biggest statement that was made about it at the time were the glasses she had on that people can use if they have traumatic brain injury, concussion. nothing was truly explained. the most explanation that we're look at them right here, the most explanation that anyone was given, as i recall, was a letter she actually wrote to barbara walters. she read it on air after barbara suffered a serious fall and she said you know how it goes, sort
of aligning their two situations, trying to be more casual about it. but there were not explanations. therefore, there were speculation about the spectacles and questioning going into an election is normal. >> so with all that speculation, it would be nice for us to all know what exactly did happen because when people had asked at the time, you got vague answers but nothing specific. bill clinton when he ran for president, he did not release his medical records. they released a summary of his health, but they didn't go deep enough for many into his personal health history. so don't look for hillary to do it either. the funny thing is as dr. larry sabato told brian about an hour ago, questions about a person's health is always legitimate when you're running for president. here he is. >> hillary clinton, by the time of the election in 2016, is going to be exactly the same age, 69, that ronald reagan was in 1980 when he was first
running for his first elected term as president. of course, health questions are always legitimate. every presidential nominee should have to have a thorough examination and the results of that examination should be revealed to the public. we ought to require that for presidential candidates. >> you like my input during the interview? got, which ha. it was on the cards. >> but it is an issue. people do need to know about the health of the person running for president. karl rove was really reminding hillary as well, look, you really want ten years of this? the road to the presidency is bumpy. two years running, eight years if you're reelected. do you really want that? that also is something that goes into the equation whether or not to run. >> speak of, is senator joe manchin giving up on politics?
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after last night's primaries, west virginia is on its way to electing its first female senator. while they campaigned for a shot in the senate, joe manchin says he might be done with politics all together or just changing positions. he joins us now. senator joe manchin known for the man who gives straight
answers and doesn't really care what his party thinks. always great to see you. >> hey, brian. how are you? >> first off, the partisan divide, i know you've been on before ask radio and tv talking about how you want to get this xl pipeline done and you also want a fair shot at clean coal because it means a lot to people of west virginia. right now do you believe you have the votes to get the xl pipeline passed through the senate? >> i do. i believe that we can pass it. the bipartisan fashion, brian. that's the way it should be done. the other thing is when i say clean coal for west virginia, clean coal for america. we still depend on coal. we can do it better. we have done it better. cleaned up the atmosphere and the climate more than in the last two decades than ever before. we can do more if the government will work with us. they need what we have. we want to produce and provide what we have. the partisanship is another story. >> listen, in this issue, you have democrats -- i don't care what they think. if it's about the election, doesn't matter. you have democrats lined up to
get over 60 votes and make the president do this, to get it back to his desk saying this is the sense of the senate. but your majority leader won't do it. when you looked him in the eye and said harry reid, why don't you do it, what does he say? >> i've said harry, i came here to vote. i can take any tough vote. i can explain myself, i can look every west virginiaian in the eye and said this would help our country and state. i can do that. and i'm asking him to open that process up. there is other reasons behind the scene, maybe we don't know about. but him and mitch need to get together and work and move forward as leaders are supposed to do. we're hoping that will happen. >> you're a straight talking guy. when harry reid -- when you ask him why, what does he say? >> basically he says it's a moving target. he makes one deal and they change to another deal. i guess it would be mitch and the majority on the republican side. i'm not in those conversations, so i have to say okay, harry.
sit down and work through it. five bills, five amendments, they're all germane to the bill. that should be something we could vote on. i would hope that we could. let me just say this, i think the keystone pipeline is a very extremely important vote for our country and i think also portman and shaheen's bill is very important for energy importance. if we had to forsake and vote on those bills clean we should do that for the sake of this country. >> i would hope it would get done, but we've been waiting for this for four years now. >> i know. >> let's talk about what's happening with coal. are you like marco rubio very much saying to yourself, i'm not sure about global warming, weather has always been erratic and we should not give up on fossil fuels because maybe the environmentalists are putting pressure on us? >> let me just say this, i believe that 7 billion human beings on mother earth here have affected the environment and we're responsible for that.
with that being said, you got to find the balance. i'm not a denier. on the other hand, i asked my friends from really the far left if they will, are you a denier? are you denying that this country can continue to provide affordable reliable energy without using fossil or coal or any of that? it's going to take all of us working together. so deniers on both sides are wrong. you don't get anything accomplished by just pointing fingers and saying this person is wrong. we can go along. if we go through another polar vortex that we won't through this win and they take off the fossil fuel, reliability of 10,000 megawatts of power, we're going to have people that their life is in danger and many people will die. we shouldn't let that happen. reliability is the name of the game. reliability, affordability, what we can provide in this country to keep us competitive. it's going to take everything. i don't want to be relying on foreign oil anymore. we don't need to be. >> senator, when are you going to decide if you're going to stay in that chamber? you're out in 2016. people are talking about --
>> 2018. >> i'm sorry. i know it's been frustrating for a governor. might you run for governor again? might you run for president? >> brian, here is all i've said. basically i don't want my time here to be nonproductive. and it has been a nonproductive time for me. that's frustrating for me. but yet i'm seeing things differently. i'm prepared to do things, i'm prepared to work across. i will not go and campaign against a sitting colleague. i won't raise money against a sitting colleague, whether democrat or republican, whether they're my dearest friend or maybe not. i'm not going to do that 'cause i think it's disingenuine to look them in the face the next week and say, listen, will you work with me? how can you work with me if i was raising money against you and trying to beat you? i'm not going to do that. i'm putting myself in a position that i can work with anybody coming together. i have said this, i want my time to be productive. i have an awful lot of good, productive quality public service to give. i'm going to wait until the 2014
elections are over. i'll see the lay of the land in washington and west virginia and hopefully i'll see where i can be the most productive and where i can be, that's where i'll go. >> very much up in the air. >> very much. >> with the mine disaster on monday. >> it's horrific. i called both of the families last night. i don't know the details on it. we'll get to that. the safety of our miners is the foremost thing and we'll continue to do everything we can to make our mines as safe as possible. >> that's when you were kind enough to join us for the first time after that mine disaster when you were governor. senator joe manchin, thank you for joining us. >> still joe, that's the most important thing. >> that i know for sure. thanks. straight ahead, brand-new calls for a committee to investigate the scandals at the v.a. hospitals. but eric holder says no thanks? then it's not just a problem for the kennedy family. christopher kennedy battled alcoholism and addiction and he's winning. he has firsthand advice for every kid and every parent out there. he's here with his brand-new
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motorcycle crash in missouri. the rider slams head on into the side of a black suv that was turning to the left. amazingly the biker was not injured, got up, as you can see right there, and walked away. elisabeth, over to you. >> incredible video there. no family in the political spotlight has been there more than the kennedys. drugs and alcohol fueled the family through scandals and tragedy. for john f. kennedy's nephew, getting arrested during his uncle's presidential campaign, led to a moment of clarity that would change his life forever. joining us is the nephew of jfk and the best selling author of what addicts need to know. christopher kennedy lawford joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. good to be here. >> your story, your family story is so well-known. and actually related to you. your story, you started drinking really entering into addiction at what age? >> at 13. my story isn't that unique.
even today. most kids begin this process early on, believe it or not. the issue becomes whether parents and society is paying attention. >> why? >> because at that age, between 13 and 18, you can really make a difference in a kid's life in terms of changing trajectory. >> in terms of statistics, one in four young people that use alcohol or drugs before the age of 18 technically becomes addicted. so when you think about right now the big conversation, legalization of marijuana, will that help or hurt addiction? >> i don't think legalization is a good idea. the two most damaging drugs on the planet to the individual and to society are both legal, nicotine and alcohol. so do we really need another legal drug? and big business is definitely going to take this over in terms of the money that's involved. it's huge amounts of money. >> most people when they're walking through adick and
running to or from drug, alcohol or nicotine, are doing it privately, but it affects everyone. 'cause it affects their whole family. it really affected everybody when you were arrested during a major election time. how did you get through that and what was your rock bottom? >> right. the -- people have to remember is this is a brain illness and also a genetic piece to this. i was 13 when i began this process. so i had the genetics. i also had what -- we know today that trauma, an adolescent who suffers any kind of trauma in their adolescence is much more susceptible to this illness and culturally it was an entirely different situation back then. we know much more today, we're paying attention and there is good science today. kids have a real opportunity to avoid this issue if it's picked up early. >> it can cost them their life. it almost cost you yours.
>> absolutely. >> your rock bottom moment as you describe it is? >> there is a lot of rock bottoms. what we try to do today is elevate the bottom. i hit bottom and bounced along that bottom for six years. addicts have an enormous capability to tolerate the intolerable. but today we're looking to elevate the bottom. we're telling people, you don't have to go there. you don't have to go to the bottom. there is ways out. >> how do you break the cycle and advice for the parents who right knew are looking at these statistics need it? >> i work with great team centers. these people -- treatment centers. they know how to talk to parents. it's important that parents pay attention and don't sweep it under the rug. know your genetic legacy. know where you come from. my kids know their genetic legacy. my kids, if they go down that road, they get talked to and there is boundaries that are set. this is what -- this is really
an issue that has to be dealt with in the home. >> sometimes it's dealt with with shame. how do you address that? >> the science addresses it. this is not a shame-based thing. this is not a moral issue. this is a brain illness. american society of addiction medicine calls this a brain illness. it's not a matter of bad choices or bad behavior. >> i would say the first step here that you discuss would be to check out this book for so many parents and people out there who literally have family members suffer from addiction. this will be a life -- >> what addicts know is this book will show people what addicts know and will help normal folks live an enhanced life. >> christopher kennedy law ford, we thank you for inc. bringing -- bringing us this great book. >> thank you, elisabeth. coming up, brand-new calls for a committee to investigate the scandal at v.a. hospitals. but eric holder says no thanks. is it political cover for another scandal? and it's an olympic sport. but the fencing team at one
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this is kind of cool. new research suggests people who are more ambitious will live longer, while people who are less ambitious will live longer with their parents. >> late night with seth myers last night. i'm just shocked that the same background as the "tonight show" in the same city as the "tonight show." two guys who look the same. >> all those shows look exactly the same. >> i have to do a double take every time. >> you do. you may do a double take on this. we have been detailing over the last week or so what's going on with veterans affairs hospitals. first we discovered in phoenix 40 vets sounded like died on a secret waiting list because they never got the care. now it turns out it's all over the country. extraordinarily, now the department of justice has announced no, you know what? we're not going to investigate this, even though it could be criminal. we're going to go ahead and let the v.a. do it first. then if we need to get involved, we'll get involved. >> so you have jeff miller op
one side, wrote a letter to the president saying, hey, this is serious enough. we've got long delays, preventible deaths, botched care when it comes to our veterans. this deserves an independent commission to look into it. then you have eric holder who is saying no, we're just going to monitor it. it's on our radar. no need to jump in. i thought monitoring was for something that actually felt as though it was running smoothly, just in case something is going on. we now know something is going wrong here and our veterans have their lives at risk as they return home under this care system. >> this is the most political justice department that we can remember. having said that, there is nothing political about this. veterans are apolitical. they are wearing these veterans out hoping they would die to keep their percentages die and it continues to grow. every day we come in, there is another state with another problem. the attorney general walks away. so senator bernie sanders starts to speak about it and i'm wondering, what's this socialist who holds caucuses with the
democrats have to say and harry's assignment every day is bring up the koch brothers. >> there is right now as we speak a concerted effort to undermine the v.a. so the point is you have government entity itself, social security, enormously popular. medicare enormously popular. postal service popular. v.a. popular. what are the problems? the problem is that all of these are large governmental institutions and you have folks out there now. koch brothers and others, who want to radically change the nature of society and even make major cuts in all of these institutions, or maybe do away with them entirely. >> way to go, bernie. so he's been able to, in his mind, successfully connect the
koch brothers with what's going on at the v.a. that is one of the dumbest sound bites i've heard in a while. for him to say that they are undermining the v.a., that's wrong. we need to investigate the v.a. there are dozens of people who perhaps have died because the v.a. in the management was doing something that was not up to snuff and now for him to say that, that's just crazy. >> to put them in the victim seat. he's saying the v.a. is the victim, under attack by the koch brothers. go figure. >> he listed everything that's not working. medicare is buried in red ink, social security is buried in red ink. you have the post office, they invented red ink. and now he's pointing to them as institutions that might be popular. but none of them is effective. they all have to be streamlined and reformed. it's not a matter of getting rid of them. nothing is work! >> next time you see story about what's going ton at the v.a., remember, it's the koch brothers, according to senator sanders. >> right. >> let's turn to something that
works quite well, ainsley, she's here. >> thank you. filling in for heather. the pentagon approving a transfer for private bradley manning to get gender treatment. after going to prison convicted of leaking top military documents, manning changed his name to chelsea and requested hormone therapy. the treatment is not possible in a military prison, only in civilian prisons. and new this morning, american astronaut back on earth after a six-month stint on the international space station. but russia says that he might be the last one to go up, at least from america. they're cutting off america's access to the space station. vladimir putin firing back over ukraine sanctions, saying russia will not help the u.s. launch astronauts into space, this despite america paying them $60 million per launch. we just learned
international monetary fund chief christine lee guard is withdrawing from speaking at smith college at their graduation. she was derailed by protesters. she joins secretary condoleeza rice who decided not to speak at rutgers for the same reason. >> students get together as among faculty to make sure students who have opinions they don't like get disinvited. >> earlier we said whether underground founder bill heirs spoke at a graduation in 2008, but he was disinvited as well. and take a look at this picture. it will melt your heart. a firefighter saving this kitten, giving the animal oxygen after being rescued from a fire in washington state. thankfully the kitten is going to be okay. the owners also escaped unharmed. what a sweet story. all right. now i am told i'm handing it over to you, brian. >> all right. thank you very much. everyone is writing me for the
last month and saying, what about hockey highlights? i'm waiting for them to get deep in the playoffs. rangers, penguins game 7, winner take all. the third period, 2-1 rangers. things getting hairy when the puck rolls close to the penguins' net. it's almost kicked in. but the penguins keep on coming. rangers won a dramatic game 2-1. let's talk basketball. looks like charles barkley at 6' 4, 260, and shaquille o'neal, 7-foot, 300 pounds, won't meet for a mix the martial arts match. they floated the idea last week and even gave fans a preview of the type of fight. is there a script and rundown on that show? the reason they canned it, quote, shaq says, barkley backed
out. i'm serious. i would kill him. i would definitely kick his blank because i'm from the street and he's not. you're also seven foot and outweigh him by 100 pounds. fencing may be an olympic sport, but tell that to a north dakota state university. they're banning it, swaying the sword-like equipment, known as foils, are deemed weapons. and as such, possession of use of university owned or controlled property is prohibited. the sword has no actual blade or sharp tip. the team is now forced to move off campus. that's a quick look at the world of sports. i guess the biathlon would be out. >> you don't shoot people. you shoot targets. >> that's a quick look at what's happening in sports. coming up, veterans being cheated when it comes to student loans? they were charged more than anyone else. this morning we have a huge update for our military members. i'm sure bernie sanders would blame the koch brothers. he raised $100 million to push
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tasked with processing per month. a whistle blower coming out to say employees are being paid to basically do nothing. that means zero. >> way to go. they just refresh their screen. tom styer pledged to raise $100 million for democratic candidates to push his anti-keystone pipeline climate change agenda. but where did stier make a lot of his money? fossil fuels. here to explain, charles payne is here. he made his money how? >> a large chunk of it from investing in things like coal. in fact, listen, his fund right now is worth about 19 billion. about 10% of that is still invested in energy. they won't say what exactly. don't necessarily have to. coal projects all around the world. indonesia. there has been this build up for coal demand. the tar sands out of canada. pipeline deals. it runs the gamut. so it's so amazing in this golden age of hypocrisy, this
guy climbs rapidly to the top. >> what's that message? just not here? it's okay everywhere else? >> that's an interesting message for all the democrats who is going to back them. maybe they'll tell their friends outside of this country, coal is not good enough for us, but okay for you guys. it's the worst form of hypocrisy because we've had a war on coal in this country that devastated thousands of american families. great paying jobs gone. it's decimated them. coal is the fastest growing form of energy in the world. right now, the fastest form of energy growing in the world. a couple weeks ago, ge wanted to take over a french company that grinds coal because there is never going to be a treaty upon coal. all the stuff we're trying to do to be great global neighbors by crushing people in these great jobs is a farce and it's nuts. >> and for all the lefties who are driving their electric cars, those electric cars are running
on electricity generated by coal. >> absolutely. again, for me it's all the jobs that have been lost. the companies that are going bankrupt. for what? and for this guy to talk about this, i guarantee you, if we could follow him for a 24-hour period between a private jet and the mansions, he probably has a global foot print that sucks up more energy in a day than the average person watching this show in a year. give us a break on this. >> seems so disingenuous, sort of crushing these jobs and then also taking a back seat to the rest of the world when it comes to innovation. >> yeah. listen, the environmentalists, i don't know how they did it. they pulled it off. they have the upper hand with respect to the white house right now. they get their way. listen, this guy wa his money, $100 million this way, he should give that to some of these veterans that we're talking about all day long. there is a lot of other things you can do with that. >> in reality, you have enough votes in the senate to pass the
keystone pipeline, this guy doesn't want to get it done, he has enough money. >> the energy revolution in this country has been a god send and it really is the only thing that's keeping us out of recession right now. >> all right. charles payne, king of payne from fox business, thanks a lot. >> thank you. he seems nice. >> he sure does. coming up, she turned around the failing school system in dc, so it may surprise to you learn michelle rhee supports the common core. she'll join us to defend that. first, we'll check in with bill hemmer for what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> good morning. interesting discussion there with charles payne. leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. tea party comeback. we will analyze these election results. we'll see what they tell us in a moment here. breaking news, mining disaster. seems to get worse by the day on this story. and new information on the virus outbreak, what you need to know now. martha and i see you in ten minutes, top of the hour i make a lot of purchases for my business.
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creators and supporters say it's an educational initiative designed to level the playing field for students all across the country. but not everybody likes common core. >> i feel like the common core is driving a wedge between parents and their children. >> we don't like common core. it's a federal power grab. it's an unconstitutional mandate from the federal government. >> so what does our next guest think about common core? former dc schools chancer, michelle rhee joins us from san francisco with her take on it. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we've had a number of parents on who were puzzled by -- a couple weeks ago we had on an engineer father who said that he cooperate even help his son with a problem like this. this is an example of a common core math problem. it was jack used the number line
below to solve 427 minus 316. find his error. and write a letter to jack telling him what he did right and what he should do to fix the mistake. the father threw up his hands and said i can't figure it out. that's one of the common complaints is the math is so hard for the kids. >> look, i don't think that we should be complaining about having higher standards for kids. the bottom line is that the u.s. is falling behind. we are 17th, 21st and 26th in the globe in reading, science and math respectively. 26 out of 34 developed nations is not a place that we want to be if we want our kids to compete in the global economy. so are we going to have to raise our standards? absolutely. >> no doubt we need standards, but there are some who, for instance yesterday we had governor mike pence of indiana. they were the first state to opt out of common core. now i think there are over three dozen states that have said we just don't like the national
standards. we would prefer statewide or local standards. >> i think what people have to remember is this is not a set of national standards that was a federal mandate or anything like this. the common core was actually developed by governors coming together, local states coming together and saying, we want to do something differently. we need higher standards for our kids. and so it was really a locally-driven process. >> but one of the problems is the teachers are having trouble with it. in fact, here in new york state, the teachers union is now against common core. i believe it's illinois, they're against common core in the union as well. that's got a lot of people saying, if the teachers can't even do it, if the big unions are saying no, maybe we ought to start over. >> let's be clear that the vast majority of teachers actually support common core. in fact, by the unions' own admission, 75% of teachers are saying that the common core is a good thing. the reason why union leaders are trying to avoid this is because they don't want accountability
now that the common core is actually being tied to teacher performance, the upleaders are saying wait. we don't want any of this. we shouldn't have a situation where we are allowing the union leaders to shirk responsibility. we have to have them accountable for insuring their kids are getting a great education. >> sure. well put. all right. we do need to do that, but none the less, the common core debate continues. it's great to have your opinion, michelle rhee, thank you very much. >> thanks. more on "fox & friends," about two minutes away. ♪ ♪ ♪ (woman) this place has got really good chocolate shakes.
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that's it for today. we got a busy show tomorrow. >> how do canine dogs train? she'll be here to show us all of that. bob massi live and also real life models for charity. >> what else is tomorrow? throw back thursday. >> and it's graduation pictures. bill: good morning, everybody. busy show as the tea party making a comeback? that is the question after ben sasse, a tea party-backed candidate, won a key senate primary. watch here from last night. >> you told us that you still believe in the nebraska way and the american creed because it wasn't just a hope and promise of yesterday but it is hope and promise of our kid for tomorrow. you also told us that you wanted to turn the minority leader into the majority leader. [shouting] and it is time to fire harry reid. >> more from that now. good morning, everybody, welcome here to "america's newsroom." we have a busy day. martha: good
report," fair, balanced and unafraid. greta goes "on the record" right now. tomorrow the israeli ambassador to the u.s. right here on "special report." this is a fox news alert. multiple capitol hill sources confirming that the vote tomorrow to allow john boehner to sue president obama. republicans accusing president obama of abusing his executive power with unilateral decision to delay the obamacare employer mandate. while the planned lawsuit is limited to the president's action on obama care. republican is outraged about the threats using pen and phone to bypass congress to take action on his own. only hours away from the vote. house republicans getting ready to take action. karl rove joins us. good evening, karl. >> good evening. karl, is this something you would advise the house republicans to vote for?
yes this is not the end all be all. constitutional way to try to get clarity on what many feel is improper use of executive power. president obama has unilaterally decided not to impose the so-called employer mandate contained in the affordable care act nor to have the tax that goes along with it i have read the affordable care act. there is no language the president has the latitude to employer mandate and when that tax begins to be collected. yet the president has. why? because he doesn't want it to fall -- it would be enforced now and cause people to lose their coverage and create a great deal of consternation he wants that to happen after the election and not before the election. that's not a good enough reason for the president to violate a law, take a part of the law that was passed by the house and passed by
the senate and that he signed into law and say i'm not going to enforce that law. there is no such privilege to a president under the constitution. the lawsuit as we understand is narrowly written as to obama care. there has been a complaint from the republicans that this is not the president's only time where he has been rather expansive with executive orders, likewise other presidents have done executive orders your boss as well and presidents for decades have. >> right. well, look, this is an executive action that doesn't even take place -- he didn't even issue an executive order. he had the treasury department say they were using authority under the internal revenue service code that gave them authority to help with the transition to changes in rules. they are using that as the authority that they are using not to impose the employer mandate in the affordable care act there is a con stand tension between the executive branch and
legislative branch. in this instance the legislative branch is arguing in the house lawsuit that powers as the legislative body in section 1 article 1 of the constitution. so-called vestment section that those powers to be the legislative body are being valted by the president when he takes a law and blatantly ignores it and implementation of that law enforcement the supreme court has held this year that the president has overstepped its bounds did. so when they claimed that he got to decide when congress was out of session and he could make recess appointments on a 9-odecision they slapped him back. my suspicion is that this is going to be a very seriously heard and very seriously considered case. so clear that the president has taken a unilateral action that is not contemplated in the law. >> let me ask you about the impeachment that we have heard that's been discussed a a little bit by some in the past week turns out it looks like it's a great fundraiser for the
democratic party. >> you have to take your hat off to the cynic in chief who sits in the oval office of the white house. the president of the united states is cynically suggesting a constitutional crisis in order to fatten the bank accounts of democratic fundraising groups and in order to try and energize democratic turnout for the fall elections. the speaker of the house has said we will not -- we will not consider or take up this issue. there is no serious republican leader who stepped forward and said here is the bill of particulars that justifies his extreme action. yet, the president of the united states sends out his press secretary last week to stir the waters and suggest this is real. how cynic kel, how pa theted thick, this man is playing with the american people by suggesting a constitutional crisis where none exists. shame on him and the people in the administration who participate with him. shame on conservatives and republicans who help him along. the president wants nothing more than congressman yoho of florida to step forward
and say we must do it. he wants nothing more than republican and conservative leaders to step forward and say we agree. we ought to try and impeach him. that's what the president's. just like he wanted people to step forward on the birther issue because he knew it undermind the credibility of republicans and conservatives and served his, president obama's purposes. >> karl, as always, thank you, sir. >> thank you, greta. this is a fox news alert. it is escalating. israel bombarding gaza with air strikes hitting hamas control including a power plant and siren wailing across israel as hamas launches response. and with more rocket attacks. fox news correspondent conor powell live in gaza city with the latest. conor? >> well, greta, israeli officials have warned in recent days that they were going to escalate. this comes after failed truce negotiations over the weekend. we have seen both the pace and intensity of israeli air strikes and artillery increase in recent days.
we are hearing many more planes flying overhead and we have seen them target some new spots across gaza, including hamas house owned by senior leader and also this power plant that was hit yesterday as well. what we have seen really across all of gaza is an intensive campaign by the israeli military. now the military is also working on the -- there are a lot of cross border tunnels. the israeli military says they have destroyed about 60% of them. they think they will finish up the ones they have discovered in the next three days or so. the real big question though is what happens next? hamas is announcing today that they will not back down until the blockade is lifted around gaza, that they will not stop fighting. israeli officials have even said that this is the chance, this is the chance to push the fight to essentially go after hamas to finish them once and for all. but in order to do that, israel is going to have to expand its military operation here in gaza from the areas they already control. that raises the possibility
of even more blood shed, a much longer protracted violence conflict here it really does cause problems for both sides, but most of all for the civilians here already more than 1100 civilians have been killed. most of those, greta, women and children. the danger here, of course, is that we're going to see extended violence here. we are already into week four which, for israeli, hamas conflict is very very long. >> conor, thank you. >> and today president obama refusing a chance to defend his secretary of state as secretary john kerry cease-fire talks crumble. >> what do you think about israel's attempt to discredit secretary kerry? >> you can answer that one. did secretary kerry mess this up? and joining us political panel national journal ron fournier, nina easton and "the weekly standard's" john mccormick. ron, the president didn't want to answer that question about secretary kerry. secretary kerry getting hammered in the "the
washington post" op-ed page today. >> that was a damned if you do, damned if you don't question. if the president did defend kerry, he would be undermining our ally israel and he didn't speak up so, therefore, sending kerry out to drive. agree with ignatius dlawm they want to bring the president into it. rushed him into it. can you understand why they want to bring end to this violence. way embolden the hamas and turkey and qatar. it hasn't made the situation any better it might have made it worse. >> nina, it seems like an impossible situation. the president secretary of state have been trying to do this forever. what seems to be profoundly different here and criticism is that secretary kerry by the manner in which he has gone forward, he has now given much more status to hamas. >> yeah, of course though what you don't want to do if you are a top american diplomat, top american officials is to suggest that there is a moral equivalency between israel, which is is a democracy and our ally in
the middle east. and hamas, which is a terrorist group, which uses women and children as human shields for an armaments that they are building up and tunnel system they are building up, specifically to attack israel. so what you don't want to do is go down that path. that's what john kerry did. unfortunately, this past weekend, when he turned to hamas supporters, qatar and turkey, and asked for their input on a cease-fire agreement, and, thereby, pretty much turning his back or was perceived as turning his back on our allies like jordan, like saudi arabia and egypt, which is actually a hamas, you know, enemy and is trying to broker a deal that would disharm hamas. that's where he got in trouble this weekend. he has been derided in the israeli press as everything from inept to betraying israel. so they are already in a very difficult situation when it comes to israel. i'm not surprised the president didn't answer that question today. >> john, can he back out of
this problem? this is an impossible situation dealing with this. but now, unfortunately, this hamas empowerment by giving him more recognition, is there a way to back out of this? >> i don't think can he undo the damage that he has done. i don't think the president has given any indication that he necessarily opposed what john kerry did. this administration has always put ending wars as something more important than winning wars. that's what happened in iraq where they cared more about getting all the troops out rather than securing the gains that were made. preventing a terrorist takeover of the country. happening in afghanistan right now. and the administration also seems to care more about avoir diring war with iran than keeping iran nuclear weapon. care more about ending wars even if it puts news a dangerous pose position. israel came back and said hey, there is no way that peace can actually happen as long as hamas terrorist tunnels are still intact. rocket kachs are well stocked. i don't see any indication that the president opposes this. >> panel, thank you. sorry it's so short. so much to talk tonight. sorry.
post columnist slamming president obama accusing him of abandoning israel. he goes further calling secretary of state john kerry as just noted inept. columnist joins us. good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> let me start first with your head lynn on your column that says obama, meaning president obama is abandoning israel. why do you say that sir? >> i say that because we feel that we would have expected the president of the united states to stand by an ally and not create a situation in which hamas gets a feeling that the united states will somehow rather get them out of trouble. if he would have stood forward, instead of -- he went through the ritual of stating that he understands our need to defend ourselves but then came down very hard on our efforts to defend ourselves and to move into any kind of military activity and now he has been putting enormous pressure on us and calling for unilateral cease-fire. we have accepted a series of unilateral cease-fires.
but this unilateral cease-fire, if it suggests that it's going to be based on no change in the present system is, to my mind a betrayal, i think one has to understand we are not two entities facing one another. the state of israel is a democratic country and we are facing a group of people who are dominating a small area but they are effectively the worst terrorist one can imagine. they are sending thousands of rockets on our civilians, they are sending people in to kill women and children. >> lead me ask you about your comments also about secretary kerry. in your article you say the uninvited presence of kerry. meaning our secretary, who many israelis now regard as unguided missile and has been making off the cuff sarcastic avoid palestinian casualties only encourage hamas to main taint missile attack. almost like you are saying he is on the other side and is he deliberately, the way
i read this is that you think he is deliberately trying to hurt israel. >> well, if he is deliberately doing it or not deliberately doing it, i don't know. is he certainly hurting us because i agree that there is a tremendous human tragedy involved in the casualties. one has to understand that we are defending our own people and it has to be put in the context. a context in which unilateral -- in which it's unique. you have never had a situation where a win-win situation for our enemies is kill as many israelis as possible. if that doesn't work, kill as many of our own and we will use it for propaganda. that into context. it has to be put into context. they are being used as human shields, these people. the command post, the rocket launchers, they are all in the center of civilian activity and why what are we supposed to do? i just wonder what the united states would do if cuba started reigning a couple thousand missiles upon them and sending terrorists into the united states, how they would respond. and if there is way of
responding in which we could respond with less imawcialts, let us know, because i believe that this israeli army has behaved in a manner unprecedented in the history of warfare. no one has taken as many steps as we have taken to try to minimize warfare. we have the fire power if we wanted to, to take the whole country out and we are doing our best to minimize it unfortunately, there are tragedies, and they should be pointed towards hamas, who are responsible. not towards us. >> mr. lieber, thank you very much for joining us, sir. >> my pleasure. let's all go off-the-record for a minute. how weak, at least they could step up and vote. i'm talking about our friends in europe and that midnight vote at the u.n. by its human rights counsel. it was a vote on a heavily unone sided resolution condemning israel in actions against hamas. it said zero about hamas
doing anything wrong whatsoever like using civilians as human shields. only one nation voted against it, we did. the united states and good for us. the united states stepped up and voted against condemning israel. we don't forget our friends what is disturbing is the weak and cowardly members not voting instead abstaining sticking their hands in the sand. nine european countries did that. france, ireland, great britain, germany. these countries didn't have the vote to vote and courage to vote no to condemning israel. they hide. says a lot about our country, don't you think? that's my off-the-record comment tonight. developing now, more than 100 border patrol agents are headed to our southern border. a live report from the crisis zone next. also the deadly ebola virus is spreading to american aid workers in lie beer i don't already stricken. can we stop this deadly virus from reaching the u.s.? the latest is coming up. new controversy from the nfl suspension of ray rice of the ravens, one tv host how
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on your show before. that's about 12 hours away here from el paso. some of the border patrol agents will in fact be coming from our sector here. their tour of duty will be about 30 to 45 days here. while that won't be costing taxpayers overtime, it will be costing them per diem. we are talking about staying in hotels down there in the south texas border as well as getting meals paid for. >> where are these border agents coming from? they being pulled off other areas? >> he they are being pulled off of areas like el paso as i mentioned as well as throughout all of their sectors here and again they are not going to be getting any overtime which is the good news, they are going to be getting per diem here. they are going to be doing things just like helping, in fact, the south texas border here their agency operations here because they are being so overwhelmed by the amount of central american immigrants here talking about doing the regular border patrols.
not just people and manpower costing taxpayers money. it's equipment as well such as boats being sent from the del rio valley area. why only have 10 seconds left but reallocation of resources from one area to the other with added expense like the per diem and maybe some equipment movement, right? absolutely correct and about 30 to 45 days. i asked officials if they planned on having more tours of duty here adding additional people to this operation they said it's not sure they are not clear yet all right, josh. thank you. oklahoma governor mary fallon is fed up. she just wrote a letter directly to president obama demanding that he end the secrecy surrounding the detention of immigrant children in states like her own. and governor fallon joins us. good evening, governor. >> hi, greta. governor what's with the secrecy? what isn't the president 'telling you. >> we just want straightforward answer for the governors of our state. we want to know what the
president's end game is and what's he planning on doing? get us the facts and information on secrecy that some of our states were facing. we were told originally that we would have migrant children and youth who would stay in oklahoma about 120 days until october 10th. but we hear through back channels that it could be extended longer than that we have asked where are the children from we're told it's a privacy issue we can't know. we have been asked where are the children going once they leaf oklahoma, we know there has been about 212 teenagers have been released into oklahoma. we don't know where. we don't know if they have been released to legal people or illegal people. we are asking the president to be forth right. give us the information. we have a right to know as citizens of the state of oklahoma. we know it's going to cost us some money in our state even though they say it's not going to cost us some money. i just sent is the president a letter saying tell us what the end game is. tell us what's going on. >> i should add that today
governor pence of indiana sent a similar letter to the white house asking for information. i mean, why aren't you getting the information? i mean, the questions you are asking don't seem to be so -- it's not national security. i mean, why aren't they just giving you these answers? >> i think they just don't want us to know, frankly i think the president's policies on the border security has failed. it appears to me that he is for open border. it appears to me that he is for amnesty and, of course, we know that once these children or youth are released into our state, or into any other state, more than likely they are probably not going to show up for a hearing with immigrant attorneys themselves. and so, you know, we know they are going to be in oklahoma. we just want some answers to some questions because it is going to have impact on our schools. it could have impact upon our healthcare facilities if they show up in our emergency rooms. and we just feel like we have a right to know those questions. >> all right. from what i understand you have -- there are more than 1200 of these children have been held at fort sill in
oklahoma. what's the plan for them? >> well, that's part of what we don't know also. you know, one of the things i did do. and it was right after it first -- the children first placed at fort sill i wept down there about six weeks ago and took my health department director and toured the facilities because we certainly want to make sure that the children are being well taken care of and make sure they are receiving appropriate care and services. we felt very comfortable with that. but the questions that we have is, you know, where are these children from, where are they going? how much is it going to cost the state of oklahoma? and, just give us those answers. you know, i have been told that there have been some children who have come through oklahoma from india. reports through back channels that migrant children are coming from cuba, costa rica. not only coming from those three countries that we originally heard about. but we just don't know who is coming across our border. we know there are some adults that have been coming across our border. so, i also started online petition to to send to the
president basically saying enforce our laws, no amnesty let's get our borders secured, basically. >> governor, thank you. i hope you get your answers soon from the white house. thank you, governor. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> efforts to fire senate majority leader harry reid a #fire reid campaign is a full fledge protest. you will hear from people who want senate majority leader harry reid fired. that's next.
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this is a fox news alert. giant water main break in los angeles. splitting l.a. water still gushing can you see big hole in the street and flooding one ucla athletic field and moving close to classrooms on campus. wow, look at that here in washington, the #fire reid campaign going straight to the capital states. the rnc holding a rally protesting what they call senator reid's failed leadership. >> i'm here to support republicans and to fire harry reid. >> i'm here to encourage everybody to vehicle republican this november and fire harry reid. >> the message is under harry reid obstructionists pass bills that have bipartisan support in the house. >> he has approximately how many bills? 300 bills that he has yet to pass on the senate floor. and 43 are jobs bills. that's pretty upy setting if you ask me. >> yeah. >> it doesn't take a rocket scientists to figure out why all these bills haven't been passed. the reason is there is one guy in the u.s. senate named
harry reid who is not letting them come up for a vote. we want them up for a vote. >> one of the rally leaders representative marcia blackburn joins us nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> you are in the house and you are rallying to have the senate majority leader fired. >> absolutely. >> why? >> he needs to go because he will not do his job. there are 356 bills as of tonight that we have passed if the house. 98% of those are with bipartisan votes i don't understand. this so why not put the house bills on the floor and beat the republicans. just have them get beaten down, at least have a vote. he won't even -- he puts a pocket veto on these. won't even let them be considered. >> you are exactly right. he won't bring them up. 356. >> we keep saying why? what is he afraid of? >> you know, why won't he clean off his desk?
why won't he do what other people do when they're getting ready to leave town or be away from their office for a while? clear it off o. put these things on the floor, call the vote. a 5 of them are bills that are authored by democrats. and he will not call the vote. >> why? >> i guess he is trying to protect the president. these are things that he does not want to have passed. greta. we have got energy bills. here is one. keystone pipeline, three page bill. three page bill. >> what i don't understand is that he put the republican house bill on the floor and obviously that one is controversial. but a lot that aren't quite that controversial and he can can win and that's the end of it instead he doesn't get to incident that to. >> exactly right. as if he is trying to protect his members that he is fearful that they don't have the ability to make a decision. that he doesn't want the american people to have their point of view >> what i don't understand is there was last week they appointed some man to a board who investigates international plane crashes. that's a result of flight 17 going down in ukraine. that had been pending, maybe not so long but since may.
well, when they finally brought it up last week, that the plane came down, it was unanimous. i mean, nobody even objected to it. there are are things that he could put on the floor that everybody agrees on. >> right. well, 98% of our bills in the house have bipartisan support. and very few. >> yeah. but you call it bipartisan support if you find one democrat. >> two thirds have been unanimous or two thirds vote. so, look at it like that. we have many bills, suspension gone over on a voice vote. 178 of them. >> so. i that he has great passion about. and then i will see him -- i will watch video on the floor and i'm sure i'm getting selected video where he is complaining about the koch brothers. i have heard that over and over. give it a rest. argue about some the issues. i don't mind if he beats back the republicans. >> you are right. and if he wants to deal with the energy issues, the high prices, well, we have got 16 bills over there waiting on that. looking at taxes, we have seven bills that would rouse the tax burden on hard
working taxpayers. we have got 31 bills that deal with government waste, waste, fraud, and abuse, which is one of my big issues, you know, the list goes on and on. red tape four more bills. >> like the number two senator dick durbin out of illinois he would want the job and people nil know might get frustrated. tell senator harry reid to step aside if he doesn't want to do the job. >> the american people are incredibly frustrated. do you know one of the number one things that we hear when we are out doing town halls is people will talk about the border situation, retirement issues, job security, national security, and they will say tell me what you are going to do about this. and, of course, we in the house have been taking these issues up. and moving them over to the senate. and they are just languishing on harry reid's desk. the thing is about to break because it's got so many bills ton. >> i don't get it. it on the floor and beating back the republicans. i don't see the pocket
people consider it anyway. congressman, nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> see much more from the #fire reid protest including interview with ryan priebus on greta wire.com. dangerous world health crisis ebola. hundreds of dying a miserable death, bleeding from their eyes, so ugly. news ebola striking two aids workers in africa. can ebola be stopped from reaching the u.s.? >> a case of ebola is only a plane ride away from coming to this country. >> it's one of the deadliest diseazs on this planet. >> the centers for disease control is closely monitoring what's become the largest ebola outbreak in history. >> the lancasterest ever. >> there is no cure for it the symptoms can be frustratingly vague, fever and headaches, vomiting, weakness and stomach pain. at the end kidney failure and then hemorrhage and death. >> two americans are fighting for their lives.
>> the spread of a dangerous illness like ebola is no longer someone else's problem. >> and the "wall street journal" jason be bellini joins us. jason, is there a risk that this deadly virus is going to come here? >> hi, greta. is there a risk? , well, there is a risk because now, we have seen at least one person travel out of this infected area in west africa. who to nigeria. one of the real difficulties here is that you can be without symptoms for many weeks, caring this carrying virus. travel abroad and be symptomatic and present a danger. the top doctor we just learned died of this disease. this comes after liberia's top doctor died of this disease as well. >> all right. and there is incubation period of 2 to 21 days. but you are not contagious, as i understand, during that period. it's not until the person begins showing symptoms. so, at least that is a little helpful in identifying the problem or at least trying to contain
it. >> right, it really requires direct contact. one of the reasons why it is spreading so quickly in this part of the world. there is a tradition of family members taking care of those with the disease directly. with that said, the cdc is saying keep an eye out, asking doctors to keep an eye out for americans who travel that part of the world. >> i will tell you i know some people. i know how strict they are and the fact that two of them have it. i know how careful they are shows how contagious this is if the two of them have it because they have the strictest of regiments, thank you. >> thank you. >> deep sadness gripping friends and family and co-workers of two americans just diagnosed with ebola. both measures have been helping to treat other stricken patients in liberia. one is is a doctor for samaritan's purse. the other a missionary. joining us from library beer i can't. the country director for samaritan's purse in monrovia, good evening, sir, can you tell me how your two members of is a mayor tan's
purse, how are they doing? >> good evening, greta. yeah. dr. the other missionary is -- they are doing okay. considering the circumstances that they are facing. the likelihood of death with this very dangerous virus, we always heard 90%. we are hearing now 60% with this strain. is there any improvement in the two who have the symptoms? >> at this point, the -- we snare tan's purse are providing every possible care that we can for them and we keep hoping and praying for improvement at this point we see little improvement and then they go down a little bit. so we just, at this point, they are holding on and we keep praying that they have a full recovery. >> do you see this ebola
spreading? i know that the liberia government is trying to contain it. closed many of the borders. do you have a sense that there is enough tension on this that it might be contained or still so many things that need to be done trying to contain this epidemic? >> this epidemic is unprecedented. it's now the largest ebola outbreak in the history. and i think the government of liberia is doing all they possibly can do. the truth remains that if there is not a very large international response to this, there be many more liberians that will suffer. >> any sort of wish list tonight in terms it of what could be done to contain it? because you are there on the ground. what do we need first? >> at this point, there is just incredible need for
awareness and understanding of the disease. how it is spread. we -- there is desperate need for doctors and nurses. clinicians that have experience in hemorrhageic fever. there is is a need for supplies in order to protect your staff and follow protest the coals to clinically respond just takes a lot of supplies. there is just a number much resources that is needed international response is really what i believe is required at this point. >> ken, thank you, and, of course, snare tans purse.org is the web site where you can learn more about it and be kept up to date on the two samaritan purse people who have ebola. ken, thank you. and will russian president vladimir putin stop at nothing? the u.s. now officially accuse russia of violating a landmark arms control treaty. ambassador john bolton is here next.u'yi
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nice to it be with you. >> why are we hearing this now? what's been the big secret where whether they are violating or not violating it? >> i think we have believed for quite some time that they have been violating the treaty, but, you know, it goes against the grain both at the state department and certainly in the obama administration ever to accuse the russians of violating any arms control agreement. because that breaks through this theology that these agreements by and large work. the violations of the imf treaty have been known on the hill for quite some time. i think the administration finally decided they had to fess up to one violation
and, by the way, there is another that they don't mention in the report that they issued today because, otherwise, it would leak and be even more embarrassing to them. but there is no indication that president obama understands the gravity of this violation or for what it means for the larger issue of u.s./russia relations or russia's broader efforts to advance its interests around the world. >> all right. so you talk about -- what does it mean for the broader picture? i mean if they're violating this? >> well, the president was asked today is there a new cold war between the united states and russia? and he said no, this relates to a specific issue we have with them over ukraine. when he proposed additional sanctions. now, these sanctions and the entire obama administration policy on ukraine have not deterred the russians one iota from using military force to try and change borders in europe. they have already annexed the crimea. you add to the it the
violation of the imf treaty and i would add near certain violations of the chemical weapons convention and other treaties. the actions that russia has taken in syria. opens the question whether the syrians adhered fully to their agreement on chemical weapons. iran nuclear weapons. the list goes on and on. it forms a pattern of russian behavior under putin that's very threatening to american interests. >> all right. we only have a short time left. the sanctions they have now been stiffened by the europeans and by us. does that mean anything in recent time? >> basically. no these are marginal increases in the sanction. they have been talked about for weeks. the russians have already tried to mitigate them. i don't think there is any evidence they are gonna slow putin down. in some respects these minimal sanctions are worse than no sanctions at all it reinforces putin's view can he do what he wants in ukraine. >> ambassador, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> and nfl star ray rice from the ravens suspended
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probably deserves more than the two game suspension which we both acknowledge. at the same time, we also have to make sure that we learn as much as we can about elements of provocation. not that there is real provocation but the elements of provocation. you have got to make sure that you address it because what we have got to do is do what we can to try to prevent the situation from happening in any way. and i don't think that's broached enough. >> well, those comments sparking range across the web, smith's espn coworker tweeting i'm thinking about wearing a mini skirt this weekend i would hate to think what i would be asking for by doing. so even whoopi goldberg giving her view on "the view." >> do not live with this idea that the men have the chivalry thing still with them. don't assume that that is still in place. don't be surprised if you hit a man and he hits you back. you don't you hit somebody,
they hit you pack. don't be surprised. if you make a choice as a woman 4-foot 3 and decide to hit a guy who is 6-foot tall and you are the last thing that he wants to deal with you that day. and he hits you back, you cannot be surprised. let's not hit anyone yesterday smith delivering this apology before his show. >> good morning. on friday, speaking right here on first take on the subject of domestic violence i made what can only amount to the most egregious of my career, i'm truly, truly sorry. particularly the victims of domestic abuse and female family members and loved ones i have disappointed and who know i know better. you all deserved a better profession and quite frankly a better man last friday sitting on this very set in this very chair. my heart filled apologies to each and every single one of you. >> so, what do you think about smith, rice, and the whole mess? tweet your thoughts to hash tag ray rice.
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place this morning state parks nearby. people on facebook have been coordinating their efforts making lists of where they have searched and what their results have been so far. so we do understand that police have some new leads. they aren't saying exactly what they are. they did release a more specific time line of her whereabouts on thursday night. 5:45 she leaves her home in dundee. she drives will three miles to a community credit union in newburgh where i am right now. 6:10 she to the some gas and 6:25 they say her phone was either shut off or stopped working all together. we know that police have been arrested in surveillance photos. they do have a couple of her at a gas station filling up her green lexus suv. we they were reaching out to additional businesses hoping they would find more photos of her that could lead to a path of which way she was traveling. we also know they are looking at court records to cell phone records will leave them additional clues. >> ben, thank you. an thanks for being with us. see you tomorrow might right here at 7 p.m. eastern. go to gretawire.com and
the ugly. mets fans surprised after receiving this gift. that little image is a phillies logo. oops. >> thanks for joining us. "fox & friends" starts now. bye. good morning. today is friday, the 8th of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. the president takes action on the crisis in iraq. >> earlier this week one iraqi in the area cried to the world there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. >> he says he's ready to strike, but when and how? we break down all the angles. >> then hawaii bracing for two summer storms, one of them now a tropical storm. the other a hurricane. a tropical hurricane. maria molina is going to explain it all because it is changing in the pacific.
>> she is right behind you working on that very storm. then this principal asks her students to speak english in texas and this is what she got for it. >> you crossed that moveable red line, you will be drummed out of public life. perhaps you will be terminated. you'll be fired. you'll be harassed. you'll be called all sorts of names. >> why is no one coming to her defense? we'll look at that in about 30 minutes. meanwhile, mornings are better with friends. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> we begin this day with a fox news alert. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama at 9:30 last night announced to the nation he has authorized targeted airstrikes against isis. doug luzader is live in washington, d.c. with what the president said last night. douglas. >> reporter: good morning. a couple of aspects of this, one has to do with
the humanitarian mission but the tricky part here is the possibility of airstrikes. based on what the president said last night he is looking at the city of rabbil as his trigger point. strategically important. when you look at this red area controlled by isis militants irbil is the last holdout. there are u.s. military advisors stationed in irbil and there is no question the white house was under enormous pressure to do something. >> earlier this week one iraqi cried to the world there is no one coming to help. today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> while a lot of focus on the president is on irbil we also want to talk about the city to the west of there, mosul. there is a dam just north of mosul. it is strategically
important and it is a very complicated facility to operate. there are reports that isis militants have now gotten control of that. why is that such a big deal? look at where this dam is located. again, north of the city of mosul upstream from baghdad along the tigress river. if they control the dam, they control water supplies to a good portion of the country of iraq. this is one of the reasons why some administration critics say there needs to be a more robust response to this threat that isis poses. >> i think we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and we need to very aggressively go after isis. and by defeating them significantly in that region, they will pull back. i believe we can do it with bombers and with their precision weapons. and we ought to have very liberal rules of engagement and not this restrictive rules of engagement that they've come up with in iraq and afghanistan.
>> the president, though, last night making it clear that he is taking a very cautious approach to this kind of one step at a time. also making it clear that this will not involve any u.s. combat forces on the ground in iraq. anna, steve, brian, back to you guys. >> last night around 9:30 the president got heend the microphone. you knew it had to be serious. he gives a live address, talks for about 22 minutes. in that address he says we're moving into iraq. and i thought he is very direct, concise, and then afterwards goes out of his way to say we're not starting another war there. engt humanitarian -- i think the humanitarian effort is laudable, typical of what we do. also i think we have to recognize that isis is an enemy of america, let alone the iraqis, who at this hour are in the process of replacing their prime minister al-maliki, about four years two late but replacing him. >> the president last night
announced he was going to allow these targeted airstrikes. but the curious question is why now? where has he been? this has been going on with isis building steam over there for months now and we've seen genocide, and yet he's acting now. this is a far different tune than what he's been singing so far about the many successes in the country of iraq. >> we've removed 100,000 troops from iraq. we've ended combat missions. we are on track to remove the rest of the troops, bring them home by the end of this year. >> in iraq we've succeeded in our strategy to end the war. we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant iraq. ending the war was a mistake; i disagree. bringing our troops home was the right thing to do. the war in iraq is over and we welcomed our troops home. we have removed our troops from iraq. we are winding down our war in afghanistan. >> that is clear that was a mistake kicking everybody
out in 2011. big mistake because look at where we are now. >> isis is gaining steam in syria and iraq as well. we've noticed this seven or eight months now. in fallajuh, isis took over. is this a campaign of the president in the middle east. the people in the world that want to kill us, the majority of them are aware they're in the middle east. and yes we need to save these 35,000 people because we're america. they either die at the hands of terrorists or die of thirst or hunger on the mountaintop. yes, we need to help them but what are we going to be doing long term? >> the kurds, our true allies in the rejn, people we can couldn't -- we can count on, looking for
autonomy, their economy was thriving. now they're getting killed; guess what? by the weapons that isis took from us because the iraqis ran in fear and are now beating up on the kurds and taking those regions and threatening their existence. joining us, a man who knows this region. how grim do things look and do you think the president is taking the right step with this move announced last night? >> if we analyze the two steps, one says if isis gets closer to irbil where we have staff and diplomats, we will do our strikes. what if isis goes to other cities and other places, control the dams and beyond? two, we can drop aid to those 40,000 or so on the mountain. and if isis interferes with that operation, we're going to strike them. so these are the measures to stop isis from coming into the capital of
kurdistan or interfering with that refugee problem. my question is how are we going to bring the refugees back home into the valley of sinjar? the president did not cover that point. that is an issue now. >> clearly it was a strategic disaster on the president's part to bring everybody back. there should have been some sort of residual force. now we look at where we are given the fact that isis has a lot of our hardware now. they've robbed the banks in their way, persecuting and killing christians left and right. then you've got to wonder where has the president been on this? >> in your introduction you said very clearly it was a strategic mistake on how we exited iraq. not the principle of exiting iraq. we did not leave behind us -- in the sunni area where isis is in control, allies and mad ras gave everything to mr. maliki and he suppressed the
sunnis, took care of the madras and isis was able to seize half or one-third of iraq. >> a lieutenant general yesterday said they are a 10,000 man army. there is only way to defeat an army. with an army. do you see it as something we have to do now, bigger than the insuj is i that we won -- bigger than the insurgency? >> absolutely, an enemy of iraqis, of the arabs, of the middle east, of israel and the international community. european union officials told me that they are concerned that isis already has somewhere between 1,800 to 3,000 jihaddists, half of whom are going to go ba to the west. we're talking about hundreds. remember, two guys with the bomb in boston, one guy in fort hood. we have hundreds of jihaddists. if isis is successful in
iraq they're going to come back to the west. not good news. >> in iraq clearly christians are being persecuted. but it is not just there. it is all over the world. in mosul we have 30 churches and monasteries under isis control where at one time there was tens of thousands of christians. now there's close of zero there. this is a problem around the world. what needs to happen? >> first of all, what we see is that the jihaddists are on the rise in many spots as you saw on the map. we see it in the boko haram in nigeria going widely against christians and the females. we see it in egypt. we see it in sudan. would he see it in syria of course. as you mentioned, in mosul and iraq. if you time it, of course persecution has been there for many years. if you time it and go back a few months, when we released those taliban leaders, it put the jihaddists on steroids around the world and you see persecution going high. you can look at the archives and make that
judgment. >> it certainly did embolden them. walid farris joining us live. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> we have other breaking news out of israel. heather nauert joins us with more on that. >> good morning. so much going on overseas today. after three days of peace, the war in gaza is back on, this after hamas launched rockets at israel. israel responded by resuming airstrikes on targets across gaza and the i.d.f. is mobilizing at the border. police in gaza saying israel launched ten strikes and that seven people have been hurt. this all unfolding after peace talks that had been brokered by egypt hit a deadlock. while you were sleeping tennessee senator lamar alexander cruised to another primary win with 50% of the vote. during his victory speech alexander said the problems facing our country can be
overcome. >> you read much history, you know there's much more, that we have many more difficult problems back in the earlier days of our country. we're just as strong as we ever were as a country. we just need a different kind of leadership. >> also cited last night the matchup of the governor of tennessee. voters will choose between governor haslem and charlie brown. sad news out of the west coast. it is a tragic end in the search for missing jenise wright who vanished from her home in washington state. authorities found her home in the woods a short dance from where she lived. >> i cried. she is just a little girl. say a little prayer for her. >> just six years old. investigators say they hope the autopsy today will provide answers. here we go again. a top obamacare official
who oversaw the botched rollout admitted to losing important e-mails. marilyn tap ner who works for the centers of medicare and medicaid telling congress she may have accidentally deleted e-mails instead of saving them and because it wasn't initially reported it may have broken the law. this comes after the i.r.s. admitting to losing thousands of e-mails that belonged to lois lerner. >> heather thank you very much. right now tropical storm iselle had been a hurricane, now closing in on hawaii, while reyes didn't take cover -- while residents take cover. it outer bands wreaking havoc in paradise, these images from yesterday knocking down trees, causing power outages on the big island alone. >> whoa! that is huge. >> if it makes landfall it will be the first tropical storm to hit hawaii in 22
years, and there is a category 3 hurricane right behind it. >> maria molina, nothing like we mentioned surprises you. you talked about it yesterday. and you are in the weather center to give us the latest. >> take a look at this radar image. i want to look at the eye which continues to inch toward the big island of hawaii. you can see right there on the radar image, a lot of rain around that eye and it is continuing to move there. over the next couple of hours we expect landfall in the big island of hawaii. by the way, there has never been landfall in that island of hawaii in recorded history by a tropical storm or hurricane. there are other areas of hawaii that have seen storms rolling through but this could be the first time in history we're seeing this happen. a lot of rain associated with the storm. we're talking about up to a foot of rain possible in higher elevations. we're talking 13,000 foot high mountaintops across the big island. that is a big concern in terms of flash flooding, mudslides and landslides.
maximum sustained winds at 70 miles per hour moving 10 miles per hour towards the west. it was moving quicker in the overnight hours. now it slowed down. over the next few days it is forecast to continue to weaken and move south through the rest of hawaii. that is welcome news for places like honolulu. julio, category 3 hurricane, maximum winds at 120 miles per hour. that storm is forecast to stay north of the hawaiian islands but still several days out. we'll keep an eye on it. >> remember fast and furious, that scandal the u.s. government put in the hands of mexican cartels a lot of weapons. brian terry, as you know, was murdered with one of those guns back in 2010. now another illegal alien has been charged in his murder. the department of justice announced yesterday that rosario alvarez, in this
country illegally was indicted. he recruited mexican bandits to prey on people stealing their drugs and cash. >> the vice president of the national border patrol council outraged. listen. >> we catch people and due to prosecutorial discretion, we let these people go. why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die, robert rosas and now javier vega? what do we have to do to take this threat seriously and be able to do our job? >> javier vega an off duty broarm agent was -- proarm agent was killed in front of his family.
that catch and release policy causing problems in more ways than one. >> if you catch somebody and they are in the country illegally they depot them but time and time again that does not happen. in a couple of cases guys have gotten murdered. >> 17 minutes after the hour. this story is insane. a driver shot behind the wheel but that didn't stop him from chasing down the gunman. >> 911 emergency. >> i just got shot? >> are you hit? >> yes. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> wait until you hear how it ended. >> in god we trust is america's national motto but having it on a simple energy is causing a major controversy. stick around for this. you're watching "fox & friends" on this friday morning.
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says he wants to leave the army and go to college. his lawyer says bergdahl wants to get back to his normal life and, quote, make up for lost time but first he has to overcome an investigation into why he deserted his base in afghanistan if indeed he did. steve? >> thank you, brian. one county in texas has decided to add our nation's motto which is in god we trust to some of their official paper work and the decision has some people up in arms. tarent county's tax assessor made the decision to add the motto to his office's envelopes and it will be prinked on tax statements last year. critics call this a clear violation of the separation between church and state. joining us right now is tarent county tax assessor ron wright joining us from dallas. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what were you trying to do by putting "in god we trust" on your
correspondence? >> the surprising thing is that this is controversial. it shouldn't be. it is the national motto, and i think it is a timely reminder of the values upon which our nation was founded. it's historic. it's iconic. things that are iconic to americans like the motto and the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem, these things helped define us as a people, as a nation. >> last night at the conclusion of the president's speech on iraq, he said god bless america. he said god bless our troops. he invoked god right there. all you're doing is invoking the national motto, which is on the money, but you said it's been controversial. what have people been bugged about regarding this? >> well, they have claimed that it violates the constitution, it violates their constitutional rights, that i'm inserting religion into a secular
office and things like that. they've -- you know, there are people that are perpetually offended and agrieved. they are always going to be bothered by things hike this that don't -- by things like this that don't bother most americans because most americans like the motte taupe and want it continued. the beauty of the motto is it speaks to all religions. it doesn't favor one over the other whether you're christian, jew, what have you. it speaks to all of us. >> i read in one of the local papers down there that at one point even though your county has two million people in it they only received one complaint. somebody did write an open letter to the fort worth newspaper and it said in part, i consider that a violation of the doctrine of the separation of church and state. it is true my coins and bills contain this phrase but it has been on those for years. this is something new and a lot closer to home. those are my tax dollars and i don't want them
funding a religious opinion. is it a religious statement or do you think it is a patriotic statement? >> it can be both. one could view it as a religious statement. one could view it as a patriotic statement. i see it as both. the thing is her mention of cost, the total cost of this was $3. >> what? >> $3 for the plate. yesterday we received a letter from a lady in kansas who was very supportive and included a check for $3 to cover that cost. >> look at that, ron, you caused all this trouble with $3. here's a five. i would have gotten change back. do you have any intention of changing this? >> absolutely not. absolutely not. god stays. >> all right. good enough. ron wright joins us from dallas, texas, today to talk about how they have put the national motto on the local tax bills. thank you very much, sir.
>> thank you. >> what do you think about that? e-mail us friends@foxnews.com. coming up, this story is insane. a driver is shot behind the wheel but that didn't stop him from chasing down the guy who shot him. >> 911 emergency. what are you reporting? >> i just got shot? >> are you hit? >> yes, i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> did he? wait until you hear how this all ended. this principal asked her students to please speak in english in texas. and you know what? she was fired. how did that happen? we'll be right back. ♪ ♪
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it is 6:30 in new york city and we've got a fox news alert for you right now. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama last night in the white house
authorized targeted airstrikes against isis if necessary. elizabeth prann up already in washington, d.c. elizabeth, what is the president saying? >> good morning. like you said, the president pulling the trigger calling for airstrikes if necessary against islamist militants in northern iraq, specifically if advancements are made toward irbil. the u.s. is dropping humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of religious minorities homeless and stranded on or near mount sinjar. >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre -- and i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. i directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> those who are being persecuted are christians and other minority members of a religious sect called gaziti. many convert to islam, pay a tax, flee or die. the humanitarian aid being
dropped overnight includes bundles of fresh drinking water and thousands of meals ready to eat. >> thank you very much. >> tropical storm iselle closing in on hawaii. the outer band knocking down trees and knocking out power to some 5,000. this is the first tropical storm to hit hawaii in 22 years. >> we got this picture from space. there is a cat 3 hurricane behind that. right after one you got another. >> and we've got maria molina to make sense of all of it. >> good morning. you pointed out julio, that category 3 storm. that one has been intensifying over the past 24 hours and it looks very impressive on satellite. you can clearly see the eye right there and a lot of outer rain bands starting to wrap around it. it does have moisture to work it. it looks like dry air on the western side of it is trying to influence it. right now that forecast for that storm is for it to stay north of the hawaiian islands as we head into this weekend.
we hope it continues to move away from the island over the next computer model runs. iselle does look rather disorganized but it doesn't matter what looks likes on the satellite image. it is about the impact. in hilo we are receiving reports of 55 mile per hour wind gusts and we're expecting that to ramp up. maximum sustained winds with iselle at 70 miles per hour. it's very close to hurricane status. that would be 74 miles per hour. that movement, it is slowing down. ten miles per hour. that was a lot quicker yesterday and during the overnight hours. that is why landfall originally anticipated several hours ago has not happened yet. on the radar image you can clearly see that eye starting to inch towards the big island of hawaii. a lot of heavy rain with the storm system. we're looking at up to a foot of rain. along some of the higher elevations that is going to be a big issue in terms of possible mudslides occurring out here. we have mountain peaks as high as 13,000 feet.
steve, you pointed out something important earlier. it looks like there is a cutoff there with the radar image. those are those mountains. they cut off the radar so you can't see that rain falling down out this but that rain is there and is going to be there for the next couple of hours. >> maria molina with the latest on the two big storls out there. -- big storms out there. first tropical storm in recorded history to hit the big island. >> this story coming from the houston chronicle. a principle named amy lacy was fired from hem stead middle school for telling students in her classroom they need to speak english. it is a heavily populated hispanic community. it doesn't seem like anybody is coming to her aid. this is what she says. i informed students it would be best to speak english in the classrooms to the extent possible in order to help them prepare for these tests. this is not my rule or that of the district but per state regulation. even so, i did not suggest that there would be any adverse consequences for any students speaking
spanish at any time. i merely encouraged students to speak english in classrooms by advising them it would be to their advantage to do so especially with regard to state testing. she has been put on administrative leave. according to the houston chronicle, not allowed to speak publicly. >> laura ingraham debated that last night with bill o'reilly. >> there's a red line that the left will establish and reestablish. maybe one day it will be you can't tell people to speak english. the next day it will be you can't refer to the washington redskins as the washington redskins. the next day it will be you can't ever say that bilingual education is a bad thing. we don't know where that red line is but if you cross that moveable red line you will be drummed out of public life. perhaps you will be terminated, you'll be foyersed, you'll be harassed, you'll be called all sorts of names. >> this principal now, her contract was not renewed so she's speaking out because the gag order has been
lifted. it is extraordinary. she says -- she said i didn't tell them they couldn't speak spanish. i simply said it is a state law. you should speak english to prepare for the test. it's absolutely true. she also said that apparently some of the kids during class would talk in spanish and she would say please don't talk and they said it's our right to speak spanish. and to that, she responded, wait a minute, we're teaching class. it's our right as the teachers for you to please shut up unless you're inquired to give an answer. >> think about how your kids learn french, german, in any classroom. the teacher, professor makes sure the students speak that language. >> go to facebook. we're going to put that question up. we want to know how you feel. does the teacher have a right to do that and keep her job? i thought it was impossible to fire a teacher these days especially if you've
been doing it for so long. 24 minutes before the top of the hour. heather nauert has been following a blizzard of news. >> we have a lot of news going on. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. after eight hours of deliberations, jurors in detroit found theodore wafer guilty of murder. wafer shot a teenager who showed up on his front porch screaming and drunk. he says he was fearful for his life. the teenager's family says thesm vindicated -- they feel vind ceated. >> we have what we need to move on with our lives. >> sentencing is set for august 21. this story we're about to tell you is revolting. police say a group of teenagers attacked a school bus driver in baltimore using a trash can and a fire extinguisher. after the attack the teenagers took his bus on a joy ride. the three eventually ditched the bus. they took off but didn't
get far. police catching up with them and then arresting them. the driver scraped and bruised this morning but otherwise okay. some terrifying moments in florida. that is an alligator lurking in the water. there were people there attacked by this alligator. a nine-year-old boy was bitten three times while swimming in a lake south of orlando. >> he knows we're looking for him so he's taken off and trying to stay in safe water. this guy is a big boy. he's not aprayed of people. i think -- not afraid of people. i think somebody has been feeding him. >> the second attack happened in tampa. a woman was bit while canoeing on a river there. both are in stable condition this morning. neither gator has been caught but they're on the lookout for that guy. this story is insane. a gunman opening fire on another driver on a california freeway. that driver was shot three times but he wasn't about to let the suspect get away. he went after the guy. >> 911 emergency.
what are you reporting? >> i think i got shot. >> are you hit? >> yes i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> that is kenneth baker going as fast as 98 miles per hour. >> i didn't want this man to get away. i knew if he were to leave me or if i were to break off from the pursuit that i would never see him again and he would get away with his crime. >> police eventually arresting the gunman. they have no idea why he fired at baker. the two don't know one another at all. and that is the suspect right there. and those are your headlines. brian, what have you got? >> you know summer is coming to a close when the interns have to say goodbye. it is sad news. chris has to say goodbye today. you chose as your final appearance weather or sports? >> i actually chose the weather but because of the hurricanes today, i get to be with brian for sports.
>> it only took two hurricanes to hit hawaii after 22 years. it was the second one that put her over the top. that hurts me to the core. with that i'm going to move aside, kristen, this is your time. >> a scary moment at the pirates-marlins game last night. marlins pitcher dan jennings hit in the head by a line drive. he struggled to get up, then puts his hands on his knees. medical staff say he suffered from a concussion. jennings was carted off the field but gave a wave to the crowd. he later tweeted the scans were negative. seems i'm going to be okay. the support shown tonight has been unbelievable. speechless. god is amazing. landon donovan considered one of the best american soccer players ever is calling it quits. donovan announces he will retire at the end of the m.l.s. season. the 32-year-old played in three world cups for the united states but was left
off the roster this year. donovan is the top goal scorer in the m.l.s. history. >> that was great. >> thank you. >> is this what you want to do for a living? you want to be on air? >> i would love to do that. it's a dream. >> you're a senior. after this people can bid for your services. >> thanks so much. i loved it. it was fabulous. >> finish out strong. thanks, kristen. >> a fox news alert. another one as we wait on how wall street is going to react to the president authorizing airstrikes if necessary, in economy. he says the economy getting stronger. >> there's almost no economic metric by which you couldn't say that the u.s. economy is better. >> what about the dial metric? are people buying what the president is selling? we break down the details and the dials next.
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15 minutes before the top of the hour. all eyes on wall street to see how the stock market will react to the news. the president authorized airstrikes against isis in his humanitarian effort. this as the president makes a case that the nation's economy is stronger and americans are better off today. here to take a closer look
is is lee carter. you have a unique way of dialing in and looking at the president's words and how it relates to leadership. here's the first one. >> let's look at the track record. let's look at the facts. since i have come into office, there is almost no economic metric by which you couldn't say that the u.s. economy is better and that corporate bottom lines are better. >> the red lines republicans, the blue lines democrats. that is how they respond. >> that was a steady decline. people felt he was completely out of touch. i think any time a leader starts with let's look at the facts, let's look at my track record, you sound defensive and out of touch. people say i'm going to tune you out. >> the numbers reveal he is not saying something incorrect. it is about how you feel? >> it is a visceral gut reaction and people say i
don't buy it because i don't feel the way you're telling me it is. people feel jobs aren't growing and they think he is out of touch and being defensive. >> hillary clinton said people don't feel the economy is recovering so she feels something maybe the president doesn't. you grade that how? >> a d plus. just because the facts are on your side doesn't mean they're accurate to anybody else. >> let's move on to something else. here's another thing with the president talking about being in touch with the american people. let's listen. >> so if in fact our policies have produced a record stock market, record corporate profits, 52 months of consecutive job growth, 10 million new jobs, the deficit being cut by more than half. >> speaking to the economy, these numbers are right but you give him? >> a "c."
>> why? >> he has the facts on his side but he has his facts, woaf our facts and -- we have our facts and you're never going to win when people don't feel the same way. he's got to show the path forward because people aren't feeling it right now. >> the numbers show there's 52 months of jb growth -- job growth. however we have much more to go because not a lot of people are feeling that. that would have given him a higher grade? >> much higher grade. people would have felt where they are and where they are going and that would have shown leadership. >> we'll have you back here to grade what he said last night. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> 12 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, terrifying moments on a busy highway. flood waters rush in taking cars along the way. watch. >> get out! >> oh my gosh!
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good morning. 52 minutes after the hour. some terrifying moments on a busy highway. check out this incredible video. flash flood waters rush in, taking cars along the way leaving an elderly couple stranded in their prius seconds from disas whenever a few brave -- disaster when a few brave airmen step in n get out! >> get out! get out! >> joining us now are three of those brave heros, sergeant adam dixon, first class christopher jones and airman first class christopher fitzgerald. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> adam, i'll start with you. you see this water, initially it's about boot height and then goes to waist height and you see this elderly couple in a car not able to get out. what's going through your mind at this moment? >> well, i first saw them, there was no water. we were just trying to push them out. that's when i started talking to
them. but then when the water came, we tried to get them out of there. >> and airman first class christopher fitzgerald, what do you see happening and what made you decide to spring into action to help? >> i was back in the truck and when i saw what happened, like the water started going over the grand marquee, so me and my supervisor, we both jumped out of the truck and ran down there to help out. didn't know what was gog -- going to happen. never expected the water to get there before we got them out. >> christopher jones, do you feel like your training as an airman, did that help new that scenario and give you the gumption to go at it? >> yes, ma'am. basic training definitely teaches you to perform under pressure. i also learned a lot from training with my supervisor and my ncose, seeing them spring into action kind of helped me
follow that example and do it when it applied to me. >> adam, how difficult was this and were you scared? i see another car coming down, too. were you worried that was going to pin you? >> no. for some reason i was kind of calm. i knew what i had to do. i knew i had to get these people out and that was the only thing i was really worried about. >> christopher jones, do you feel like a hero this morning? a lot of people are calling all three of you by that term. >> hero, no. i'd like to think that -- anyone would have done the same thing in that situation. it just came down to being at the right place at the wrong time, being able to help out when you're needed. >> it's a great thing the three of you guys did. thank you so much for your time and i know that that elderly couple is so happy you happened to be in the right place at the right time and decided to spring in action. we appreciate you being here this morning. >> thank you. 55 minutes after the hour on
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hello. good morning. today is friday, the 8th of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. president obama taking america's military back to iraq. >> earlier this week, one iraqi cried there is no one coming to help. today america is coming to help. >> what happened to a stable self-reliant iraq? all the details coming up. hawaii bracing for impact. residents and tourists holed up in shelters as two storms bear down on the islands. we're tracking it all. another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry, but is it too little too late and will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to
enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? >> great questions. brian terry's uncle is here this hour and says enough is enough. it is 7:00 o'clock in new york city and you're watching "fox & friends" right here on the fox news channel. >> hey, america. this is famous dave and you're watching "fox & friends". we've got a fox news alert. overnight the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama has authorized targeted air strikes against isis. doug luzader in washington with the latest. >> reporter: up with has to do with humanitarian mission, but the tricky part here, this possibility of air strikes and based on what the president said last night, he is looking at the city of rabil as his trigger point. strategically important because when you look at the red area all crawled by isis, it's the
last big holdup, plus also there is a u.s. presence. there is no question the u.s. was under enormous pressure to do something. >> earlier this week one iraqi cried, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> while a lot of focus from the president is on irbil, we want to focus to mosul to the west of there. there is a dam just north of mosul. it is strategically important and it's a very complicated facility to operate. there are reports that isis militants have now gotten control of that. why is that such a big deal? look at where this dam is located. again, north of the city of mosul, upstream from baghdad, for instance, along the tigris
river. if they control the dam, they control water supply to a good portion of the country of iraq. this is one of the reasons why some administration critics say there needs to be a more robust response to this threat that isis poses. >> i think we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and we need to very aggressively go after isis. by defeating them significantly in that region, they will pull back. i believe we can do it with bombers and with their precision weapons and we ought to have very liberal rules of engagement and not restrictive rules of engagement they've come up with in iraq and afghanistan. >> reporter: the president last night making it clear he is taking a very cautious approach to this, kind of one step at a time. also making it clear this will not involve u.s. combat forces on the ground in iraq.
>> so doug does an effective job of spelling out how bad this crisis is. we also got an e-mail from general garner in the area. he says they're running out of ammunition, are the kurds. isis forces are using america's stuff that we gave to the iraqi army, cutting edge equipment that they just left there and ran for their lives to overpower the special forces in the area and were thought to be the protective force for everyone. right now they have to cover 600-mile area. meanwhile, christians as well as small sect is being crushed and they're taking the lives of the dead fighters and they're making them marry the isis fighters who happen to be available. that's how insidious and ugly this group is that is spreading through the area ten to 12,000 that we should look at for what they are, an enemy of the u.s. and the west, along with the iraqi people. >> this is something that's been going on for months now.
we've known about this for seven or eight months, isis picking up speed in iraq. but why are we just now acting now? the president taking to the state dining room last night speaking for about 20 minutes, speaking reluctantly. there were hundreds of protesters. ed henry said outside the white house yesterday, a woman advocating for these 40, 50,000 religious minorities on the mountain who are faced with either dying on top of the mountain of hunger and insist this and heat exhaustion or having their heads cut off if they go to where the terrorists are. the president heard their cry and he spoke. but what have we been hearing for the last couple of years from the president? he campaigned on getting out of the middle east and here is a listen to it. >> we've removed 100,000 troops from iraq. we've ended combat missions. we are on track to remove the rest of the troops. bring them home by the end of this year. in iraq we've succeeded in our strategy to end the war. we've leaving behind a
sovereign, stable and heavy-reliant iraq. ending the war was a where is stake, i disagree. bringing our troops home was the right thing to do. the war in iraq is over. we welcome our troops home. we have welcomed our troops from iraq. we are windowing down our -- winding down our war in afghanistan. >> this morning after the president ordered targeted strikes on isis, the problem is not that we got out. the problem is how we got out. clearly it was a strategic disaster to pull everybody out. there should have been some sort of residual force left there so that what is happening right now didn't happen. of course, it's happening right now and now we've got to figure out what to do about it and the expert on this topic joined us one hour ago and said if isis continues their march, which it looks like they will unless we stop them, you know what? once they're done with iraq, they're going to move throughout the middle east and we are next.
>> european union officials told me that they are concerned that isis already has somewhere between 1800 to 3,000 jihaddists, half of whom are going to go back to the west. we're talking about hundreds. remember, two guys what they've done in boston. one guy what he's done in fort hood. we have hundreds of jihaddists if isis is successful in iraq, they're going to come back to the west. it's not good news. >> that is somebody who really understands that region and called the arab spring before it was the arab spring and knew it would be a disaster. also last night the "new york times" reporting that in the green zone they had emergency meetings about replacing prime minister al-maliki and we know how terrible he has been for a leader so far. >> we also know there has been at least one air drop over the mountains. that's what it was all about 'cause you got 40,000 people stuck in the mountains. there has been an air drop. they got some water there, but it's only to a fraction of the people there. also there have been some air strikes, but we understand they have been from the iraqi air
force. >> some say the turks are taking action. >> that was some speculation, but iraqis said that was us. it could be both. somebody who has been calling for action for eight months is illinois congressman and iraq war veteran, adam kinzinger. he joins us right now live from chicago. congressman, good morning to you. >> thanks for having me. how are you? >> what did you think of the president's remarks last night? >> well, look, i want to have cautious optimism here. this may be the beginning of a broader campaign. he's always reluctant. you can never imagine the president coming on national television and saying he's going to crush isis because he doesn't frankly have the courage to do that. but this may be the beginning of a small move. i commend this. but look, this is going to be more than just creating humanitarian corridors or saving the 40,000 on the mountain right now. this is going to continue to happen until isis is crushed and
this is only going to grow. they're not going to stop. their blood loss is not going to be satisfied. the only thing that can happen is that the west, the united states has to provide air power to iraqi troops. one thing to keep in mind, when american forces get engaged on the battlefield, the first thing they coo is call for air power to come in and crush the enemy. the iraqis are going to need the same thing if they're going to take their territory back. >> it sounds like at this point the air power is -- i heard from somebody in washington last night, the air power is there. essentially to clear the way so that these humanitarian air drops, they don't get shot out of the sky when coming in. beyond that, that could explain why it's targeted. it's not going to be very broad. is that really enough to crush isis, because if you can't do it, then what? >> yeah, no, this is not going to be enough to crush isis. again, i think -- the president is a very cautious person to a fault. i think he's just kind of toe in
the water a little bit. this will continue to spiral out of control and the longer he takes to make the decision, it's a -- isis is a very bad group, and also in syria. this is going to continue to get worse. there are hundreds of western passports fighting for isis that are clean that could come back into europe or the united states. it is their stated goal to attack us here at home. this is in our core interest not only to prevent genocide, not only to save people, but to perfect our home land here. this is dead serious. i called for these strikes eight months ago and only continues to get worse. >> let's talk about that because the urgency is coming from the 40, 50,000 people on the mountain top that we want to try to help aid so that they don't die, right? but the real issue is americans are worried about putting troops back on the ground, boots on the ground in iraq. the president saying he doesn't want to do that, but at the same time, yes, everybody is sick of innocent -- our heros dying, but we need to protect our homeland.
what's the long-term strategy here? crushing isis, how are we going to do that? >> look, i don't know what the president's long-term strategy is. i would never take the idea of boots off the ground off the table. you can do it personally, but to say it, you're only telegraphing to the enemy what we won't do, which gives them an opportunity to do what they will do. america has this idea we're war weary. i understand it. but the reality is we can't pick the world that we live in and we live in a world with very evil people that want to kill us, want to kill our families and want to right now create a genocide on 40,000 ethnic minorities. i wish we had a different world. we don't. >> one thing we have to do is get the kurds modern weaponry. they know how to fight and organize. they are unbelievable at it. but they're using antiquated equipment. they are our true allies in the area. they would help secure that 600-mile border. what do you think to people who say we're war weary? guys like you are the ones who
fight the war. shouldn't you guys have a say? >> i fully agree with you. i hear this idea of war weariness and it shocks me that the president of the united states is on television telling the american people how war weary they are when the military, the ones that should be war weary are the ones saying we have to defeat this, we have to protect the home lapped. you're absolutely right. the military members i know, i still serve, do not like to see this happen. and frankly, understand that this is a major threat to their homeland and their families and we're ready to crush them. >> they assemble in open right now. isis is sitting this wide open. we have drones in the area. this is the time to hit them, before they start hiding. >> and they're murdering people, innocent people, they're murdering in droves. it's just a sad thing to see. it's time for the president to stand up and say america, i know you're tired, but it is in our national interest because in ten years, history is going to judge us very, very harshly. >> what he did last night was a
step in the right direction. the big question is what comes after that? congressman from illinois, thank you very much for joining us on this important friday. >> thanks for having me. and a fox extreme weather alert. we're going to tell you about now. tropical storm iselle close not guilty on hawaii. the outer bands knocking down trees and cutting power to thousands of people. this is the first tropical storm, believe it or not, to hit hawaii in 22 years. maria molina is tracking it for us. >> good morning. you mentioned the downed trees and power outages. now they're also getting reports of damage to roofs across parts of the big island in hawaii. so we are seeing those tropical storm conditions increasing and even though iselle is a tropical storm, we do have hurricane warnings in effect out here across the big island. that's because we could see hurricane force winds and a lot of heavy rain as well out here. flash flooding also a concern. there was a warning that was just issued out there across northeastern parts of the big island. flash flooding already starting to occur. we could see up to a foot of
rain in some of the higher elevations, especially up on top of some of those mountain peaks. they're as high as 13,000 feet. there is a look at those warnings you can see across the big island. tropical storm warnings across the rest of the portions of hawaii. i want to show you an update that we did receive. that's iselle has weakened a little bit more. right now maximum sustained winds at 60 miles per hour. you have to wonder what impact those mountains are going to have on this storm. we do think that should help to weaken it. it has also continued to slow down, moving to the west now at 7 miles per hour. here is a better look at the center of circulation, continuing to get closer and closer to the big island. i do think that we could be looking at landfall coming up before the end of the show this morning. you can see it right there getting closer and closer. a lot of heavy rain around that eye as well. >> all right. thank you very much. it is now about quarter after the top of the hour. we turn to heather nauert who joins us. >> good morning. we've got a lot of things going on this morning. i want to start in the middle
east. after three days, the war is back o. this after hamas launching octobers at israel this morning. israel responded by resuming air strikes across gaza and mobilizing at the border. israel launched ten strikes and seven people have been hurt. this all unfolding after those peace talks that were brokered by egypt hit a deadlock. back here at home, while you were sleeping, tennessee senator lamar alexander cruised to another primary win. he defeated joe carr with 50% of the vote. alexander says the problems facing our country could be absolutely overcome. >> you read much history, you know there is much more that we have many more difficult problems back in the earlier days of our country. we're just as strong as we ever were as a country. we just need a different kind of leadership. >> the matchup for the governor of tennessee come november, voters will choose between
republican governor bill haslam and charlie brown, the same name as the cartoon character. a tragic end to tell you about in the search for a missing six-year-old girl in washington state. police found the body of the girl in the woods not far from her home there. >> i cried, sad. she's just a little girl. say a little prayer for her. all we can do. >> investigators hope that an autopsy will provide some answers. our prayers to that little girl. just days ago she vowed to never try sneaking on a plane again. >> obviously they'll be on the watch for me, so i wouldn't dare attempt this again. >> they were on the watch for her. that is a serial stow away. she has been arrested again at the airport in los angeles. police say she was on a scouting mission. earlier this week she slipped past three tsa agents in san
jose, california and flew to l.a. without a ticket. why can't we do that and save some bucks? those are your headlines. >> because it's illegal. let's start with that. thank you very much. we told you a little while ago about this former principal in texas, amy lacey. she made national headlines last year when she reportedly told her students at this texas middle school you got to speak english. well, she was placed on administrative leave. there was a gag order. eventually the school board decided, you know what, let's not renew her contract. she was fired. she is now speaking out and telling exactly why she told kids you really should speak english in class. >> she says i informed students it would be best to speak english in the classrooms to the extent possible in order to help prepare them for these tests. this is not my rule or that of the district. but her state regulation. so what she was saying was that the teachers were telling her, these hispanic students were speaking spanish not just to
each other about what was going on in their day, they were doing it while the teachers were giving instructions and it was her belief and the teacher's belief that they were thinking they could get away with this by claiming racism. so she put this out there and a lot of folks on facebook talk being it. >> here is an example of this. say we speak other languages. it's not her place to say that. she should lose her job. >> as she said, it is, however, a state regulation down in texas because it is the official language of texas. phyllis said on facebook, of course she should keep it. her job. if we go to another country, they don't change their language to adapt to us. we are the united states. we speak english. learn it. >> when we go to other country, we speak english anyway. >> you can use your google translator. it works very well. >> uh-huh. >> coming up straight ahead, another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry. but will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol?
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we have seen devastation that tornadoes can bring to a town and now a new movie that opens today brings the terror of actually being inside one of those twisters to the big screen. >> get down! cover your head! stay down! >> that is just one of the scenes from "into the storm." here to tell us whether or not it's worth you going to is fox news contributor and founder of nerdtears.com, kevin mccarthy. this is an update on the movie from, what, 15, 20 years ago? >> that's correct. by the way, i have to bring up the cow in that movie. they have homage to that sequence. if you watch this movie closely, there is a cow flying around.
>> kevin, in "twister" that, cow flying was really fake. >> right, right. but now adays, the effect -- it's 18 years later. the effects look so much better. this is a film that you just need to turn your brain off and go in and enjoy the special effects. the acting and the script and the dialogue are absolutely horrendous. but it's a pure -- it's a popcorn movie. you go in and enjoy it. the movie basic israeli about a huge storm system hitting a small town in oklahoma and it's documented by people trying to survive the event. here is the cool thing. they used a lot of practical effects, so all the actors, they were getting wet. they had 140 miles per hour wind machine. they were being flown out on wires. it looked really, really cool. it adds to the realism. it's a movie you just go to for 85 minutes, sit down -- >> how many stars? >> three out of five. it's fun. it's a fun movie. nowhere near as good as
"twister." >> what was their extra budget? >> yeah. that's a good question. i don't know the budget. >> i was watching some highlights from the teenage mutant ninja turtles. pretty funny, right? >> here is the deal, i grew up on this particular film. all these characters, it was an animated show in the '80s. there was a movie in the '90s i watched 100 times. i had the bed sheets and t-shirts. going back and watching this, it was aeneas stale i can't thing for me. this time around, they're rebooting the series. the reporter takes down the evil villain. if you're a fan of those movies, i definitely recommend it. it's a nostalgia thing. a lot of parents ask, is this appropriate for my children 'cause it's pg-13? it is a little violent at times. but not too much bad in the movie. i would recommend for ten and up. i do not recommend the 3d. do not waste your money on the 3d ticket. i gave it three out of five.
>> does it stay true to the '80s cartoon? we all remember the song. do they all have the same characteristics as they did back then? >> of course. they're doing the whole cowabunga thing. they digitally create them from wearing suits. if you're a fan, i recommend it. three out of five. >> sir, thank you very much. 26 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, wonder where all your mail is? you better check a dumpster. a postal worker caught on camera chucking letters into the trash. is one of those yours? we don't know. and another arrest in the murder of border agent brian terry. but is it too little too late? will more innocent americans lose their lives? >> why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a boarder patrol? why do people like brian terryft
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a fox news alert at this hour. the u.s. poised and ready to strike in iraq. the missions have begun. president obama authorizing targeted air strikes against isis if necessary? >> when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, and i believe the united states of america cannot turn a blind eye. i directed our military to take targeted strikes against isis terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> specifically if advancement is made towards irbil, a northern city in iraq, home to american servicemen and women, then we're going to get even more aggressively involved. >> while you were sleeping, u.s. cargo planes escorted by fighter jets dropping aid to a group of 40,000 religious minorities trapped on a mountain top. >> apparently only a fraction of them wound up with the water. also for the past eight weeks, religious minorities have been haunted by isis, or isol, faced
with a choice. convert to islam, flee, or simply die. the humanitarian aid being dropped overnight included bundles of fresh drinking water for thousands and meals ready to eat. the big question is when will the next batch come and the batch after that and what are we going to do about isis? >> ultimately if we are able to feed them on the mountain, how do we get them off the mountain if we're not going to do anything except for give them food to live? >> this could be their last meal if we tonight do something to get them off. >> here is the problem, we only have one aircraft carrier in the area right now and the good news is, over the last few weeks, we've been putting a lot of drones in the air. so we have been moving them in the right direction. >> we'll stay on top of this all morning. also this trop iselle, just 30 minutes from making landfall in hawaii. right now the outer bands are knocking down trees and cutting power overnight to thousands of people. >> surf is up out there obviously. take a look at this picture from outer space.
the satellite shows you got a cat 3 hurricane right behind the storm that's about to make landfall. maria molina tracking both of them. it's going to be a crazy weekend in hawaii. >> yeah, that's right. you have these two storms that we're tracking across the pacific. i have to say, taking a look at the radar here, we've been talking about how imminent that landfall is with iselle across the big island. you can already see that center of circulation starting to creep on shore. within the next 30 minutes, it should be official. we're going to be hearing word from the national hurricane center and surrounding that center of circulation, you do also have areas of very heavy rain. that red yellow shading is where we could be looking at very significant rainfall and as much as a foot of rain is possible, especially along some of the higher elevations of the big island of hawaii. it has weakened some. now maximum sustained winds at 60 miles per hour. we still do have those hurricane warnings in effect because you could see hurricane force wind gusts. a hurricane is just 74 miles per hour. so you're very close here. you're looking at a strong tropical storm making landfall.
it's moving rather slowly as well, at 7 miles per hour. it moving slowly means that you're going to be seeing those impacts for a longer amount of time across the big island. here is a look at the forecast over the next few days. continues to move westward and continues to weaken and then of course, julio right behind it. category 3 hurricane. forecast now to stay north of the hawaii islands as we head into the weekend. we'll keep tracking it. let's head over to you. >> thanks. heather nauert is following the rest of the news. believe me, there is a lot of news this morning. >> good morning. it is a busy news day. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars after eight hours of deliberation, jurors in detroit found theodore wafer guilty of murder. he shot a teen-ager who showed up on his front steps screaming and drunk. he said he was terrified for his life. so the woman's family says they feel vindicated by the jury. >> we have now what we need to move on with our lives. >> justice was served today.
>> it was. >> the sentencing is august 21. here we go once again. a top obamacare official who oversaw the botched rollout admitted to losing important e-mails that congress needs to investigate. she told congress that she may have accidentally deleted e-mails instead of saving them and since it wasn't immediately reported to the national archives, the health department may have broken the law. this comes on the heels of the irs admitting to losing thousands of e-mails that belong to lois lerner. this video is pretty crazy. it's an out of control car and it goes over a wall and then into the air, crashing into two police helicopters. take a look. okay. you see part of it right there. this unfolding in arkansas. people ran to save the 71-year-old who was trapped inside the car. no word on why he lost control. then caught on camera, u.s. mail carrier going postal.
look at this right here. yeah. tossing in paychecks and other hail into a dumpster. residents in cincinnati say we knew something was up. we haven't been getting our mail lately. they decided to ask questions. this guy recorded the postal worker and ended up catching her in the act. the post office says they're investigating and that worker has been put on leave. she now could face federal charges. >> lois lerner said she should have thought of that. >> that's probably where my publisher's clearinghouse check is. >> it's not just those checks and paychecks coming in, it's bills. so is that a viable excuse? like the dog ate my homework? >> i hope so. >> thank you very much. meanwhile, the fast and furious fallout continues years after the murder of that man right there, brian terry. another person indicted in the murder of the border patrol agent back in 2010.
the seventh person indicted in the murder and by the way, he is in this country illegally. >> this all coming on the heels of the death of another border agent killed this week at the hands of two illegals. shouldn't this serve as a warning? our border isn't secure enough and the consequences can be deadly. >> everything that we told you is not new to our guest. his name is ralph terry, brian terry's uncle and founder of the brian terry foundation. ralph, what's your reaction to this latest catastrophe? >> we were shocked to learn that border patrol agent vega was murdered by illegal aliens and these two men here illegally in the country have been deported between the two of them, six times in the last four or five years. each time serving 30, 60 or 90 days in jail and a $10 fine.
this time they did the ultimate. they committed murder. they told police that they're guilty. the real tragedy is that border patrol agent was murdered in front of his wife and children and his father and his father was also injured in the incident. brian terry foundation will be helping to support the vega family, the widow and children. that's one of the things that we do at the brian terry foundation. we support agents that are killed. >> sure. and we just showed brian terry, your relative. of course, the other news is that a seventh illegal has been charged in connection with the murder of brian terry as well. but what's curious -- you've done such a good job describing what's going on down there. over the last couple of months, sir, we've heard so much regarding this invasion on our
southern border with these kids and their families and stuff like that. we've heard from a number of people on capitol hill, the border is secure. really? >> i think recent events -- >> it's not secure. >> they are not secure. >> ralph, i want to get your thoughts on this, we just recent ly had sean moran, the vice president of the national border patrol council on the channel saying what's the point of even having these border laws? listen. >> we catch people and due to prosecutial discretion or custody redeterminations by ice, we let these people go. why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? robert rosas, louis aguilar and now javier vegas if we are not going to be serious? what do we have to do in this country to actually take this
threat seriously and be able to do our job? >> so the two suspects who actually have admitted to killing javier vega, one arrested four times for entering illegally and another twice for the same thing. what do you think about this touch and release -- catch and release policy? >> i'm sorry. could you repeat that? >> what do you think about this catch and release policy? they've been arrested. they go out of the country and just come right back in. >> i think it's ridiculous. i don't know what the policy should be, but i think the policy that are in effect today are failing the public miserably. people are dying because of it. >> we want to help with you the brian terry foundation. how do we do it? >> honorbrianterry.com. there is a number of tabs there that will let you know wt we're doing, what we've been doing, how you can help us
monetarily so we can help the border patrol agents and their families. we just now recently awarded the 2014-15 scholarships for the brian terry foundation. we ordered five scholarships to young college kids going into criminal justice and law enforcement. these students go anywhere from -- i think we've got one in alaska, two out of california and two here in texas. we're real proud of that. >> great way to salute brian terry. ralph, thank you for joining us today from dallas. >> thank you for having me. 41 minutes after the hour. still ahead, should parents teach their kids about gun safety or leave them in the dark? you will meet some families on the other side of this break about this heated debate. yep. al sharpton's good buddy in hot water this morning. serious charges that could land him in jail for 20 years. ♪
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after 72 hours of peace, the war in gaza back on. this after hamas launched rockets at israel early this morning. so for the very latest, let's go
to conner powell who is there at the israeli-gaza border. conner, are you surprised by this? >> reporter: not particularliful there was hope this 72-hour cease fire would hold. there were negotiations going on. despite the sort of brief calm here of the fighting here has resumed and the negotiations between israeli officials and palestinian officials have actually broken off just before 8:00 a.m., which was the deadline for the cease fire to be extended. israeli officials left cairo and hamas began firing back into israel. we've seen at least 30 rockets be fired from gaza into israel today. four israelis have been injured in one of those strikes. israel has responded by firing into gaza. just in the last few minutes, we've seen several strikes into gaza. big ones. at least one palestinian has been killed that we know of. but the fighting here resuming and both sides seem to be digging into their position. hamas saying until the blockade
around gaza is lifted by israel and egypt, they will continue firing rockets into israel. israel saying that as long as rockets are being fired, they're going to continue to respond in firing air strikes into gaza. both sides really not backing down, brian. fighting here continuing, at least 1900 palestinians have been killed and 67 israelis during this fighting. five weeks now. one of the longest conflicts in this region. >> conner powell giving us the absolute latest. thanks. it turns out the u.s. learned about this truce breaking up on twitter. coming up, should parents teach their kids about gun safety or leave them in the dark? meet the families on both sides of this heated debate next for over a decade,
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heartache this morning. a small oklahoma town after an accident so tragic, even the local police chief had a hard time holding back his tears. >> the young lady was searching or looking around, found the weapon, was pulling it out of the drawer and the gun discharged as she was pulling it out of the drawer. >> a nine-year-old girl dead after finding her father's gun.
nearly 2 million children under the age of 18 are living at homes with loaded and unlocked firearms. so when it comes to educating our children about our guns, where do you fall? is it a hands off policy? is that the way to go, or should we be arming our kids early on? you're about to meet two families, one on either side. dan roberts with his daughter and colette martin with her son. good morning. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> even the five and nine-year-old up early with us. thanks for being with us. which side of this debate are you on? >> clearly cheyenne has been around firearms since five or six years old. as an instructor, i knew it was important to remove that curiousity factor. they're secured when she's not using them. by law i have to keep them secure from her access unless she's using them. don't necessarily agree with it, but i have to do it. however, i don't think that it would be a risk for her to have a loaded rifle or access to it
if she needed it. i grew up that way. my father gave me a rifle when i was seven years old. he made it very clear what would happen if i didn't use it properly. i never had a problem. >> okay. colette, how about you? >> i would say i'm, as gun owning family as well, i'm not antigun. so i want to be real clear on that. i am very pro-gun safety. i am very pro-responsibility. and as gun owners here in new york, ours are locked up at all times. ammunition is separate. this is over and above state requirements and most responsible gun owners i know have a similar storage plan. because even though i know the likelihood is that nothing would happen, i can't take that risk with a five-year-old who is my joy and my responsibility. so we go over and above the storage requirements of our state. >> dan, i wanted to get your response to the news that we just had about the
nine-year-old. imagine that hits home with you if you have a nine-year-old. >> sure. >> does that make you doubt at all your decision to not just teach your daughter about them, but to arm her? >> she's only armed under direct supervision. it's not like i'm running out to run errands and say okay, you're in charge. but no, i don't think that the decision for our family brings any questions about that. it's certainly a tragic situation. but the flip side is you had an incident last year in oklahoma where a 14-year-old girl was home alone and someone broke in and found her hiding in the closet. she fired her mother's gun through the door and by all accounts, including from law enforcement, probably saved her life. >> right. we talked about that story earlier this week during the series, young and armed. your reaction to this news this morning? >> i've been following these accidents because as i said, i'm very pro-gun safety and i do try to work with guns working toward that. so once that happens -- the story came out that this is a
girl who grew up in a home with guns. obviously i would think any of us, the responsibility is incumbent on us, both to teach our kids about gun safety and store them appropriately, which was not done in this case. so the tragedy of it is that most of tes, and we've had ten children accidentally shot this week alone in this country. that to me is a tragic number. it doesn't have to happen. almost 100% of them are preventible. >> what do you do when other kids come over to the house to play with your daughter? curiousity can get the best of kids. >> yeah. again, they're always secured unless we're actively at a match for her or taking her to practice or something like that. so any of her friends that come over, they have no way to get to them anyway. it really hasn't been an issue that's come up for us. >> we need to wrap things up. we want to hit home with everybody is that parents ought to talk to their kids about this and also talk to their friend's parents about it. say, do you have allergies? do you have a pool? do you have a pet? do you have a gun?
and that way it's all out on the table. >> thank you. >> thank you. 55 minutes after the hour. fox news alert, the president says he's ready to strike terrorists in iraq if necessary. but is this tough talk strong enough? geraldo and his brother almost lost their live when is they were ambushed there in 2004. he's live top of the hour with his take. man: thanks, captain obvious. captain obvious: i'd get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. even 10 miles away. they can see the light of a single candle. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins for your eyes, heart and brain. now, with a new easy to swallow coating.
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good morning. today is friday, the 8th of august, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. the president finally announcing action in iraq. >> earlier this week one iraqi in the area cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. >> he says he's ready to strike, but when and how? geraldo is here live with his take. also landfall is being made right this hour, the state of hawaii, the big island, being pounded by the first tropical storm there in more than 20 years. that's right. we're tracking the storm's path and the cat 3 hurricane right behind it. and the principal asked her students to speak english in texas. and this is what she got for it.
>> if you cross that moveable red line, you will be drummed out of public life perhaps. you will be terminated, you'll be fired. you'll be harassed. you'll be called all sorts of names. >> wow. fired. this is the united states of america. i think we speak english here. according to all reports, the gin box are here and mornings are better with friends. we start with a fox news alert. the crisis in iraq exploding. president obama has authorized the targeted air strikes against isis if necessary. wendell goler is live at the white house with what the president is saying. in particular what the president said last night at 9:30 to all of us. >> reporter: no indication of any air strikes yet. but the president spoke after american military planes had already dropped food and water to tens of thousands of people trapped on a mountain top in northern iraq. he said the u.s. will protect
the embassy in baghdad and several hundred special forces he sent to northern iraq last month. he was, however, clearly reluctant to take the action and he assured the american people he was not resuming u.s. involvement in the war in iraq. >> american combat troops will not be returning to fight in iraq because there is no american military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. the only lasting solution is reconciliation among iraqi communities and stronger iraqi security forces. however, we can and should support moderate forces who can bring stability to iraq. >> reporter: the president said the isis terrorists have been especially brutal, rounding up families, conducting mass executions and enslaving women. his aides say the u.s. military involvement is only possible because iraq's leader have made progress toward a more inclusive government, collect ago kurdish president and a sunni to a
senior position in parliament. still some critics think the threatened air strikes are not enough. >> i think we need to give 24/7 air power around the kurds and we need to very aggressively go after isis and by defeating them significantly in that region, they will pull back. i believe we can do it with bombers and with their precision weapons and we ought to have very liberal rules of engagement and not this restrictive rules of engagement that they've come up with in iraq and afghanistan. >> reporter: senators lindsey graham and john mccain say mr. obama should order air strikes on isil forces in iraq and syria and provide military aid to sunni iraqis and nonshould be inclusive on a different government in baghdad. >> wendell goler live at the white house. four minutes after the top of the hour. the part of iraq we're talking about, nobody knows better than geraldo rivera.
>> we have just been attacked. we've just been sniped! we've been hit! we've been hit! wait a second! wait for the bus! where is the bus? okay, go! go! >> that apparently was in 2004. geraldo joins us live. that was pre-isis. >> pre-isis, but it was the same people. sunni extremists. we were going to mosul. the striker brigade had replaced the 101st airborne. it was a time of great flux and turmoil. as we were approaching the base, we got bush whacked. our car got hit 14 times. a driver in the second vehicle got hit in the arm. it was pretty hairy stuff. but that region so close to syria, so important to the oil industry, a big, big thriving city. when isis crossed the syrian border, and i sat right in this same seat, i urged president obama then to hit those columns
flying their arrogant black flags. >> wide in the open. >> in the open, unlike gaza where you have civilians and military bunched together. there were the columns in the desert. that's the high desert. you can see them for 30 miles away. why he didn't do it i think is really shameful. now thankfully to save this christian community and these other minorities, he is contemplating it. we have not yet heard that he has done it. but i just don't understand why -- i understand the revulsion americans have about getting involved in another war. but this is an existial thing for the united states. >> did he not define the enemy. he said there they are. that's not our problem. when they get reconciliation in baghdad, then we're going to see some reform. >> i don't give a damn about reconciliation. this is an extremist terrorist enemy that has global ambitions. this is an enemy where rarely do they put themselves in a
concentration where they can be vulnerable. they have done that for two months. we have held back. we took our finger off the tricker. as a result, they've taken over a third of iraq now. >> they took over our humvees. >> let's hit the abrams tanks they're using so arrogantly. hit them now. hit them hard. even if maliki and iraq go to hell in a hand basket, this is an enemy. there is nothing bad that happens when you kill sunni extremists who are vowed to kill you. >> should we be rallying the british and french to join us? >> i don't give a damn about them either. >> we do need some help. why should we shoulder it all ourselves? >> i appreciate that, brian, but i think if we wait for them, if we vacillate and wait for them -- this is not like libya where the french dragged us kicking and screaming. this is a situation where it's us against them in terms of the sunni extremists. we've got to hit them when what we have now.
>> the president pulled on american heart strings, the 40, 50,000 people, these religious minorities on top of the mountain. they were either come down and be beheaded by terrorists or die of thirst and hunger up on the mountain. that gives us the urgency. but it's the bigger picture and if americans are reluctant about putting boots on the ground in iraq what, does he need to say to americans with how the world is interconnected and this could be a disaster? >> i think the president should have taken the cue from the pope. pope francis called this a humanitarian crisis weeks ago. this is not the first time christians have been assailed in northern iraq. it's just the most egregious and the most urgent because this big community has been displaced. but they were being taken over, these christian villages weeks ago. the pope said this is horrible. >> he had an urgent appeal to the international community to end the tragedy now underway, to act to protect those affected or threatened by violence and to
provide aid, especially for the most urgent needs for the many. so the pope is asking the world to react. we're the only ones reacting. but we're doing it in such a limited way. >> we have a great weapon that they don't have. we have the drones and we have the hell fire missiles. these are effective weapons against infantry in the open. we must have -- we should have unleashed them many weeks ago. we should use them yesterday, today, tomorrow. we have to stop -- imagine, we went to war in afghanistan after 9-11 to root out the al-qaeda cells that were hiding in the desert of afghanistan all the way in south asia, thousands of miles from anything of u.s. interest. we went after. here we have iraq 300 miles from israel. 300 miles from the suez canal on top of the world's greatest oil reserves, a place where europeans and north americans with -- maybe with bad
intentions come and go, with clean passports. they come through, they get laundered. then they come here. i think this is really -- >> what about the kurds sitting with antiquated weapons right now and they're being attacked by u.s. weapons with isis behind them? >> last week you had the very good fighting force, i've been with them. you could go to kurdistan now, there is mcdonald's. there is peace in the streets. there is integration. why didn't we help them last week and the week before? i just don't understand. it is as if the revulsion over war and the reluctance of the american people to get involved in another war is holding the president back. last night was interesting in the sense that he urged the saving of the 40,000. but this could be -- it's too late. it may be too little, but we have to urge them to do something now. >> it's not that we got out. it's how we got out. obviously it was a disaster. >> i was on the last convoy out. >> you were.
we're going to switch gears. there has been troubling news. an off-duty border patrol guy was murdered by a couple of illegals. now there is also news that another illegal has been arrested and indicted. actually was -- >> in the brian terry case. >> exactly. he was in custody, but he now has been -- a grand jury handed up an indictment against another illegal. all these illegals involved with the murder of our border patrol guys. sean moran is vice president of the national border patrol council. he says look, that southern border supposed to be secure, it is not. >> we catch people and due to prosecutial or determination by ice, we let these people go. why do we have immigration laws if we're not going to enforce them? why do we have a border patrol? why do people like brian terry die? robert rosas, louis aguilar, now javier vega, if we are not going to be serious? what do we have to do in this
country to actually take this threat seriously and be able to do our job? >> they want to do their job, but the word from washington is let them in. >> i don't think that's the word from washington. >> well, that's what's happening >> i understand how unpopular my views are on this topic. let me preface -- i get it. i understand that most people don't agree with me. unlawful immigration, undocumented immigrants, the trend was way down until this children's crusade in recent months, which is driven largely by a misunderstanding and sometimes an intentional propagandizing of the president's leniency and compassion toward the dream act students here. he said okay. if the kids were brought here through no fault of their own, they can stay. that message was then taken, perverted by the coyotes and the smuggling network in central america to mean kids, if you can get there on your own, you can
stay there and it led to the unintended consequence. the president should have responded to this a year ago and should have made clear to these students and these youngsters that this was not the reality that they would be deported even after they made the 1400-mile trek from guatemala. so the president should have done something a year ago. it is his fault largely now because of the misconception that he allowed to metastasize. >> whatever, it's happening. >> but i have to say this, people have to look at the big picture. from 1990 to 2010, that 20-year span, violent crime in the united states dropped dramatically. every survey from 1990 to 2010 showed that undocumented immigrants commit far fewer crimes than citizens of the united states. they are not driving a crime epidemic here. a case like brian terry's tragic murder give that impression and
it's false. >> there is also the impression that why is it that these guys involved in these heinous crimes against our people, they were deported. they should have been -- >> they keep coming back again and again. >> remember, fast and furious and brian terry and what happened there and why it was so outrageous. brian terry was probably killed with weapons our agents gave to mexican drug criminals. >> right. >> it was more tragedy because of bureaucratic craziness than it was a story about undocumented immigrants, i maintain. it was drug gangs and there was a shootout and it was u.s. -- >> it was a dumb idea. >> it was a dumb idea. no one truly held responsible for it. we lament the passing of brian terry. but to continually hit, and i took on matt drudge the other day, continually hit this situation at the border as if it was this extensionial crisis for the united states, i think just
exacerbates the situation. >> geraldo rivera joins us every friday. >> i do. >> opinions all over the place. that's why we love him. >> i love you all. >> trop iselle making landfall in hawaii. the outer bands are knocking down trees and knocking out power to thousands. take a look at this satellite image that's a cat 3 hurricane to the right of the screen. and it's right behind the tropical storm. maria molina taking a look at both. maria, it's making landfall in hawaii right now and it's going to be a rough weekend. >> yeah, it's going to be a rough weekend and a rough day today, especially. we're looking at flash flooding occurring here. once that center makes landfall across the big island of hawaii, it will be officially the first time that that island has seen a direct landfall from a tropical storm or a hurricane. the toll that the mountains are taking on the storm system right now are significant. it's starting to look very
disorganized. maximum sustained winds right now at 60 miles per hour. you can see right there, that's the center of circulation just inching closer and closer and we'll see whether it officially makes landfall. a lot of heavy rain around that eye wall. we're going to be seeing significant flash flooding being a concern and rocked by the mud slides also because some of the mountains are high as 13,000 feet. so there is a look at the latest. the pressure has been also rising. so that's a sign that the storm weakening, moving toward the west northwest at 9 miles an hour. there is the forecast track. but i quickly want to show you the track for julio because this one is forecast to move farther off toward the north and that will be very welcome news. right now that storm, a category 3 hurricane. let's head over to you. >> the one-two punch. meanwhile, as we told you this morning, the truce is broken in the gaza strip. israel and hamas are going at it again. heather nauert has got more. >> good morning. this is a fox news alert. after three days of peace, it's now back on. this after hamas launching
rockets at israel early this morning. israel saying 33 rockets were launched. take a look there. israel responding by resuming air strikes on targets across gaza and the ids is sending tanks to the border there. police in gaza saying that israel has launched ten strikes and that at least seven people have been hurt. we'll watch the story throughout the morning. here at home, tennessee senator lamar alexander cruised to another republican primary win. he defeated tea party challenger joe carr with 49.7% of the vote. carr got 40.5% of the vote. also last night it was decided the matchup for governor of that state in november, voters will choose between republican governor bill haslam and charlie brown, the same name as the cartoon character. we'll watch that one throughout the year. investigators have some tragic news. an autopsy they hope will give new clues as to what happened to cause the death of this six-year-old girl. her body was found in the woods not far from her home in
washington state. you may recall she went missing last weekend. >> it's sad. she's just a little girl. say a little prayer for her, you know. all we can do. >> that is so hard for folks in that community there. investigators say that this is a criminal investigation. an old pal of reverend al sharpton is now facing charges of lone sharking, extortion and illegal gambleing. he was arrested in new york. he faces up to 20 years behind bars. pagano was reportedly linked to an unsuccessful mob attempt to recruit sharpton to distribute drugs. those are your headlines. >> a lot of stuff going on. >> absolutely. thank you very much. he's now running new york city. >> sure. that other channel also. a driver shot while behind the wheel. you're not going to believe this. he ends up chasing down the
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quick headlines now. group of teens using a trash can at a fire extinguisher to attack a school bus driver in baltimore. police say the teens took his bus on a joy ride. they were all arrested. the driver walking away with some scratches and a couple of bruises. a texas principal fired for asking hispanic students at her school to speak english. now amy lacey is telling her side of the story. she says she wanted to help students with standardized testing that's only in english. and it's not the kind of show and tell you would expect at a school. oklahoma teacher is arrested after police say she showed up to work drunk and without shoes or pants. sounds like scotty. police finding an empty vodka
bottle in her car. she was booked on public intoxication charges and forced to get dressed. anna? continuing our fox news alert now. president obama vows that america is ready to strike in iraq. >> earlier this week, one iraqi in the area cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> with christians on the run all over the middle east, is this too little, too late? here to break down the crisis in iraq, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. >> it's been very little and it's been a long time coming and it may be too late, but this is the president's beginning, miss opening salvo on his war on terror. he declared in a legitimate way a war on terror that is very
much his and that he owns forever. this will have dramatic consequences around the world and dramatic consequences with regard to the jihaddists who will see this as a ramped up attack again by america on jihad. >> what we're seeing the beginning of is this humanitarian aid. is this just something, a smoke screen? >> the humanitarian aid is something that has promoted and provoked the president. he understands finally the hardship that christians have been undergoing in iraq. in june of 2014, 35,000 christians living in mosul. now mosul is empty of christians. 12 or 13 years ago there were about a million or million and a half christians in iraq. now estimates of two to 400, thousand. all churches and monasteries in mosul are under the control of isis. >> because isis has told christians you either convert so islam, you pay this religious
fine, or we're going to kill you. >> correct. but the president can say this is humanitarian. he can say i'm waiting on the reunification of iraq. he can say i'm looking for a more inclusive government. but what he is understanding for the very first time and he can't go back on it -- is the per knishes, evil power of this al-qaeda affiliated organization called isis that has designs on the middle east in a califate. will they take syria? will they take jordan? can they take israel? when he talks about genocide, he's understanding and believing that genocide and jihad are equivalent entities and he's acting in a way that he's going to have a very hard time turning back. first humanitarian aid. then he's saying he's going to strike convoys going to towns and cities in northern iraq. the kurds. this will continue.
this will get larger over time. it will be difficult for him to turn back once he's acknowledged the power of isis. >> we have known about isis gaining steam in syria and iraq and all over that region for months now. you wonder why now. is it too little too late? >> dramatic turn of events that may not be able to be turned back. >> thanks so much. 26 minutes after the hour. still ahead on "fox & friends," the story is insane. a driver is shot behind the wheel, but that didn't stop him from chasing down the gunman. >> are you hit? >> yes, i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> wow. wait 'til you hear how it all ended. then it's the story that everybody is talking about. a bear walking like a human. we know the video is real. do we? the reason why he's walking like that. you're going to have to stay tuned to figure this thing out
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earlier this week one iraqi in the area cried to the world, there is no one coming to help. well, today america is coming to help. we're also consulting with other countries and the united nations who have called for action to address this humanitarian crisis. >> that was the president addressing the nation last night at about 9:30 eastern time. an extraordinary address in that i'm sure he never expected to do it. chris wallace joining us right now.ould you rate those remarks last night in its goal and its candidness? >> well, look, i don't know. it's obviously something the president didn't want to do. he very much pride himself on being the man who ended the war
in iraq. but sometimes even when you're president, you have to bow to reality and the reality was the situation in northern iraq was collapsing, both in a strategic sense, there is a humanitarian sense. i think the president felt he had no choice but to react and i suspect most people -- i think a lot of people in the country are going to have problems with it because they don't want us to get involved again. but i suspect most people in washington will support at least a limited u.s. role again in terms of trying to blunt the isis attack. one specific thing that's interesting, the president didn't want to go after isis in mosul, for instance, in some of these cities it's taken over because they very much integrated into the civilian community. it would be a situation like hamas and gaza. but if they're on the march in places like approaching irbil, or on the march in sinjar mountains, then they're more
exposed and that's when he talked about attacking the convoys. they're an easier target and opportunity to reach them and take them out. he hasn't actually launched any air strikes yet. he's simply authorized them. >> sure. chris, cbs is reporting a top white house advisor are predicting u.s. intervention in iraq will be part of a very long military campaign. of course, right now all we've heard is targeted air strikes. but the big question is, how much can they really do with that and how do they get those people off the mountain if all they're doing is shooting at the people down on the ground, the isis guys? >> i suppose if people are surrounding them at the bottom of the mountain, if you blast them to bits, then you're going to have opportunityies to evacuate the people who are there. look, what this is going to do is it doesn't take -- it stops the isis advance if you want to pursue it going toward irbil, there are hundreds of thousands
civilians there, there are kurds who are maybe our most reliable allies in the mess that is iraq today and there are americans there. so you can stop the advance. you can't actually reverse the gains they've already made and the decision as to whether to do that, and there are a lot of people who think we have to, that would involve a very prolonged military involvement and that gets us back to the situation we had a month ago which is you've got an iraqi government which is very divisive, that the sunnies feel dealt out of and despite our best efforts and the best efforts of a lot of other people, including the iraqis, they've been unable to get maliki to step down and put a unity government in there. so i'm not sure that in terms of really rolling back isis you're able to do that. you can maybe stop them, but you can't roll them back until you get a situation in baghdad that's more stable. >> this one of many crises going on around the world. >> no kidding. >> what is our action going to say to our adversaries around
the world? are they watching how we handle this right now? >> absolutely. there are different people who will give different arguments about it, having covered ronald reagan for six years, i kind of believe in peace through strength, which is the idea to the degree that your enemies fear you and your allies are certain they can rely on you, that you're able to project strength and often times that's the way to get peace. obviously there are a lot of critics of the president who feel that this president has done the exact opposite of that. best example being setting the red line in syria and then not enforcing it. you can't draw a direct line and say that therefore caused, but it is interesting to note that after that, we've had the situation of isis and syria and iraq. we got the situation of putin in crimea and eastern ukraine. so you bet people are going to be watching to see is this just a speech by the president? are there just a few token air
strikes? is it really a muscular effort to project u.s. force? that's going to have an impact not only in iraq, but around the world. >> not a slow news weekend. what's on your show? >> well, we're going to have the very latest on the situation. we're going to talk to general jack keane who will give us a talk. we'll talk to senator lindsey graham of the senate armed services committee who has been a critic in asking for u.s. action and by sunday we'll have a better sense as to whether this is a token or whether it really is, as i say, a new policy. there you see talking about this question of tax inversions where u.s. companies reincorporate as foreign companies with millions of dollars in taxes. chris koonce, who thinks it's a failure of economic pate idealism. and john angler says look, it's legal and it's legitimate. >> tell that to apple. see if chris koonce will do that. it will be interesting to see your show this weekend because you're going to have to be at the top of your game. america is counting on you. don't let us down. >> you know, that's the way i
feel every week, brian. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, chris. and over to heather nauert with a look at what else is making headlines. >> really putting the pressure on there. this first story is insane. coming out of california. a gunman opened fire on another driver on a freeway there. that driver was shot three times. but he wasn't about to let that suspect get away. he went after him. >> 911 emergency. >> i got shot at. >> are you hit? >> yes, i'm hit. they took out my window and i think my arm is shot. i'm trying to catch up to him now. >> despite getting shot, look at that bullet hole in his car. he hit speeds of 98 miles an hour to go after the guy. >> i didn't want this man to get away. i knew if he were to leave me or if i were to break off on the pursuit that i would never see him again and he would get away with his crime. >> police eventually arrested the gunman. they have no idea why he fired at baker.
the two have no history with one another, but good thing nobody else got hurt there. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars after eight hours of deliberations. jurors in detroit found theodore we'ver guilty of murder. he said he was terrified for his life. the woman is the victim, her family says they feel vindicated by the jury. >> we have now what we need to move on with our lives. >> justice was served today. >> it was. >> sentence not guilty that case is august 21. new developments in the irs scandal. federal judge has just refused to allow a conservative group to hire a forensic expert to locate lois lerner's lost e-mails. this happening at the same time that a top obamacare official at the center for medicare and medicaid who oversaw the botched rollout of obamacare admitting to losing some of her e-mails.
she told congress that she may have accidentally deleted them. we showed you this story earlier in the week. mystery solved about this bear. we just found out why that bear in new jersey is walking around like a human. we all thought it was a human in a costume. but animal experts say it is a bear and that this little guy hurt his front paws, pablo when he was hit by a car. they say it hurts him to walk on all fours. so locals tell us that they're used to seeing him. they've nicknamed him vinny. he's apparently a baby, barely three years old. don't you feel awful about that now, guys? >> there was speculation whether or not it was fake. there was a guy in a suit. that's vinny, folks! it's just vinny. >> it's just vinny. >> he's not going to "let's make a deal." >> coming up straight ahead, what's the latest on beau bergdahl?
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that's the news. now it's time for music and some stars, brian. >> absolutely. i don't know if you know it, but the gin blossoms are here and these people couldn't be happier or prouder! this is robin, their lead singer. he's been playing all morning. we're thrilled to have you here. you sound fantastic. >> thank you. >> you played in 25 countries, about 120 dates a year. you're here this morning. but what is the journey been like to get here in -- here we are in 2014. do you remember the early days in the '80s? >> yeah. we remember everything. being here now is in a way better because we know more than we did and we're much better band than we were before. >> i think i -- i guess i understand we get a lot better when you're making your way up. through the '80s, ten years. today the story goes in your industry, you can get famous on youtube without a record deal. is that true and would you rather come up now or the one
you guys came up? >> i'm glad we came up when we did. we were part of the old music industry where they would groom bands and you recorded on analog tape and stuff like that. having the internet levels the playing field, but at the same time, it's easy to get lost next to the nabisco cookie web site, or whatever. >> i understand. you went to iraq and played for the troops in 2010. what was that like? we've got some photos to go through. >> the food was great at the commissary. we really enjoyed the food. >> what about the soldiers and the troops? >> of course, they were awesome. we were filled with pride to be able to perform for them. i got to start a show by saying, happy thanksgiving, baghdad. so that will never happen again. >> hopefully not. it's great you're here and you're safe. "follow you down" you'll be playing in just a few minutes. you guys like that song, right? gin blossoms are here. bill hemmer is coming up in ten
minutes. what do you have planned? >> good morning to you and a big friday morning. breaking news friday as well. the latest from iraq and those on the run from islamic terrorists. will the help get there in time? in the middle east, the cease fire is off. hamas is back at it today. here at home, a leading republican holds up a tea party challenge. we'll talk to senator lamar alexander live. and we'll talk to the border patrol about the killing of an innocent agent in front of his family this week. see new about ten minute, top of the hour here vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come.
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>> two more ukrainian fighter jets were shot down. >> many wondered if whoever shot down the malaysian plane would lay low. today they got their answer. >> this airport is open. there's no reason whatsoever for the mistake in faa decision. >> asian authorities have now lifted their ban on the flights to tel aviv. >> i think security is overreacting. >> i feel very secure. >> one plane did land. secretary of state john kerry's jet. >> through the dawn of a 16th day, the shelling shows no sign of ending. >> and hamas sees no ceasefire unless the israeli blockade is lifted. >> we need to find a way forward, and it's not violence. >> good morning. it is a busy thursday, july 24th.
welcome to "morning joe." with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, senior political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" sam stein. john heilemann and thomas roberts. you're here and not running in. >> i know. thank you for that. >> we gave you some time. also with us from washington, senior fellow and former deputy of secretary defense ian brzezinski. i know him. so much news to get to. we'll begin with a situation in the middle east. late last night the faa lifted a ban on american flights into tel aviv. critics of the administration accuse president obama and the faa of enforcing the ban as an economic boycott. but former new york mayor michael bloomberg who flew in a show of solidarity to israel was
outraged when asked if there were ulterior motives. >> if you're not safe here, i don't know where you feel safe. i think the administration is reacting in political reaction. >> political reasons for that? >> of course. why would you think that? why would you accuse your agencies -- by asking the question you're implying that our government does things for political reasons. maybe every once in awhile they do, but it's your job to prove it. i personally take it as an offense. >> okay. let's try and understand what's going on here. i believe the former mayor who you know i love went there critical of the restrictions. correct? are we all in agreement of that? some fear with benjamin netanyahu and is critical of the restrictions. so what's with being so
difficult on the questions? why go? >> well, i think he was making a straightforward point. >> what's his point? >> he thinks that the restrictions are mistaken but not driven by a political motive by the administration or faa to try to punish israel for what it's doing. >> but why'd you laugh when you watched that? >> i didn't laugh. it's always interesting to see two great men in a state of haggling on television. >> what's the haggling over, sam? >> i have no idea. i think they were in agreement there. >> what happened? >> it was a weird interview. i don't know what to say. >> he had a long flight. didn't feel safe. >> it's an 11-hour flight. >> i think he accused wolf to drum up a controversy when he's asking a question to a politician who has direct ties to washington, d.c. >> what's this about? >> exactly. and then the blames wolf for asking him a question. i saw that live yesterday. i was amazed.
>> john kerry claims headway is being made in a ceasefire. but leaders are casting doubt on a potential breakthrough. one member says it will take at least 15 days to neutrali izize tunnels in the country. until then the bloodshed will continue. 724 palestinians dead. 29 since midnight alone. this morning a school in gaza was hit by incoming israeli fire. a boy lo-- man lost his sons, mother, sister in a fire over the weekend. >> i found my mother was thrown in the wreckage of the flat. and i found the leg of my son coming out of the wreckage.
so i realized at this moment that nobody's going to survive from inside. >> the all-out assault on both side continues so much so that an astronaut tweeted this photo taken from the international space station of explosions and rocket fire. let's go now to gaza. ayman mohyeldin is standing by. we saw part of our interview with that grieving father and husband. bring us to the latest so far today. >> reporter: good morning. as it has been, every morning you wake up and you get a sense of what happens overnight. most of the time it's some disturbing news as results of the overnight air strikes. this morning has been no different. today's concentration was in the southern part of gaza. we are getting preliminary reports from eyewitnesses and residents in the area in the southern part of gaza that overnight at least several
israeli shells landed in a neighborhood killing up to 40 people. again, we're still getting the initial reports. according to eyewitnesses on the ground, palestinian eyewitnesses on the ground. overnight there was intense shelling. a group of families huddled together to try to make their way out of that scene of where the shelling was taking place. according to some of those who survived, they, too, were under attack. we don't know what the motivations were or whether or not there was gunfire being returned back. but horrific descriptions we're getting about what may have happened overnight. the death toll you mentioned now well above 700 on the palestinian side and at least 35 israelis killed. the humanitarian situation continues to worsen. i know it sounds like we're saying it over and over again. but the u.n. is making an appeal for the international community. today the spokesperson frp one of the agencies here said, quote, there is no place safe left for any civilians in gaza.
it gives you a sense of the desperation that even the u.n. is working under as one of their own facilities today came under attack by israeli fire. mika? >> all right, ayman, thank you so much. we'll have guests on both sides of this conflict out here. moving on now, the eu will be debating sanctions against russia today amid fresh concerns about how much that country's aiding pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. the rebels say this video which nbc news could not verify shows the wreckage of the ukrainian fighter jet. it's one of two taken out near where flight 17 went down one week ago. the two war planes were shot down from russian territory. a leader of the rebels now says they had possession of the buk
missile system that was used to take down flight 17. the crisis led to a brawl in ukraine's parliament. lawmakers fought in the aisle over a presidential decree to call up more reserves to defend the border against russian troops. the majority of the lawmakers approved the measure. let's stop right here. want to get to ian. first of all, what do you make of the reaction in ukraine? the downing of the jet liners? then i want to back up to the big picture in what we're waiting to see from europe, specifically germany. ian? >> well, mika, good morning. it's been six months since russia invaded ukraine ab annexed crimea, and got this insurgency in ukraine. it's been seven days since the strikedown of mh-17. the response has been nothing
but stern rhetoric and limited action. that's not going to change putin's copulous. we need to see if they will impose sanctions that will really hurt the russian economy. i don't think they're ready to do that. >> what will hold them back at this point and what exactly -- everybody says we have to wait for germany. what exactly are we expecting? >> the problem with u.s. policy is it's been allowed to be shaped and limited by the lowest common denominator in europe. that's been the hesitancy of the germans and the french to impose for sanctions. that is not a recipe for success. leading from behind is not going to lead the europeans to a more forceful, more firm, more resolved posture.
>> sam stein? >> the problem right here is can you have a united sanction? doe you go guard or try to provide all at once. the key on that yesterday was this fighting between france and england over who is the one with respect to russia. france coming back saying russian oligarchs are resting in london. when you don't have a united european front, it puts that pressure on putin to stop influencing what's happening there. and i think the question remains. how do you get europe to act in one cohesive, comprehensive step? >> ian, what would tougher measures include in your estimation? >> i think we have to move from -- we have to move beyond parking sanctions which impose asset freezes, financial
restrictions, travel bans on individuals and entities to more systemic sanctions that really attack the russian economy on a sectoral basis. it should be the energy sector and the financial sector. similar to what we did in iran. we were able to create a context that made it easier for the europeans to fall behind and support us. this should be the approach the administration takes. >> all right. i want to show now some of the most poignant pictures you'll see so far in this story. it was a day of national mourning in the netherlands as the first bodies of the victims arrived. the country's king and queen joined the mourners as 40 coffins were taken to 40 different hearses. two more planes with victims are expected to arrive later today. the ceremony also involved -- if you'll call it that -- the hearse driving through the streets and just thousands and thousands of people standing to show their respect. >> it was very moving, actually.
the hour and a half drive from the airport to the mortuary where the remains are received. such a small country as you indicated. thousands upon thousands of people lining the highways and overpasses. it was quite a moving scene. >> and after seeing these pictures, you wonder if the netherlands are perhaps the leaders in europe on the levels of sort of dignity in the face of this and moral high ground. i'll show you a poll that will back that up at this point because they are invested in russia and they are saying so what, crack down. let's bring in a dutch-american journal u.s. who has been following the story in the netherlands. first of all, your response, and your thoughts as the victims are being brought home. >> we are a very small country. holland is a small country. it's true. we're basically 16 million people. twice the siess of new york
city. in holland everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who was on the plane. everybody on those overpass on the way of the hearses is looking at somebody that they know, somebody they may know or may have known through somebody else. that brings together a small country. and then there is this sort of sign or this signal of dignity after those five, six days of undignified behavior in eastern ukraine. holland was set up perfectly to show the world we can do this different. we can actually do it in a dignified way. >> you have companies like shell, the netherlands' largest corporation. dutch pension funds are also heavily invested in the company's stock. and yet in the largest dutch newspaper you have this poll that shows a majority support new sanctions. 78% of dutch are in favor of
sanctions even if it harms their economy. it's interesting we can get that from a country who has been so deeply impacted in every way and would be deeply impacted by sanctions. are there questions about why it's taking so long for others to follow suit? >> yes, there are questions. but we were slow ourselves. we're very small. we're not used to talks -- like america. when america talks in a tragedy like this, things happen, the world moves. when holland talks, nobody really listens for the first few day. we need the american president to do it for us or the european union. and that's hard. you need all the companies to line up for you to express the outrage. being small is a disadvantage in this tragedy. and we also don't have the american senators who directly say on tv we need to do military action, we need to secure the perimeter, secure the crash site. we, the dutch, they don't do that. there's none of that on television or in the national debate.
so it took time. and now finally, yes, we are heavily invested in russia. i think after china and germany, we're the biggest trade partner with russia. if we put ourselves on the line and beef up the sanctions that would happen today, we would get hit. and the people still want it, because they're mad. they're angry. and they want to show the world. but if we can't, i don't know. >> let me turn the question around. if there are not severe sanctions, if for some reason russia passes through this without being impacted greatly, vladimir putin personally, what do you suggest is next? >> well, i think what will happen is what's happened in the past. in the past our responses have been tactical sanctions. and russia's response has been to stoke up further the insurgents to arm them. as we saw providing them increasingly sophisticated weapons including the buk
missile that shot down mh-17. if the response continues to be weak, we should expect putin to continue and perhaps go against other countries in the space of the former soviet union. >> thomas? >> ian, as we look at what's taking place with the european union and as mikhail points out there, holland's influence on the eu. when the lesser is not listened to there, what is the point of the muscle, the collective point of the eu if they cannot do something to sanction russia to get its attention? >> it would be left lying to waste, so to speak. i'm amazed at the disproportion in this situation. the eu is an integrated global
economy. it gets 78% of its imported gas from russia. russia is a $2 trillion gas station with only one customer. the eu. so there's a lot of leverage the eu has. if there was an economic showdown, yes the eu would have a price to pay. it would be painful, but the eu's been on three years of growth. small growth, but positive growth. russia is a teetering economy. if there was an economic showdown built around severe sanctions by the west, it would be a body blow to the russian economy. >> all right. we're going to get to other news and return to this. there is renewed scrutiny this morning over lethal injections after what opponents of the death penalty are calling another botched execution. this one happened in arizona where it took joseph wood nearly two hours to die. witnesses say it was a troubling scene as the convicted murderer repeatedly gasped and snorted. >> to watch a man lay there for an hour and 40 minutes gulping
air, i can lighten it to if you catch a fish and throw it on the shore. >> he was clearly struggling for breath. and that's atypical. usually an execution takes 10, 11 minutes and you see virtually nothing. >> wood's attorney filed for a stay which the supreme court denied after he was pronounced dead. it was the first time arizona used the drug, but three other states encountered problems in the past. woed was convicted in 1991 of killing his ex-girlfriend debbie deets and her father gene at the family's body shop. it's interesting to get this perspective which makes sense, the family says it's wrong to focus on how he died instead of the crimes he committed. >> everybody b here from what i heard said it was excruciating.
you don't know what excruciating is. what's excruciating is seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister lying there in a pool of blood. this man deserved it. and i shouldn't really call him a man. he deserved everything he had coming to him. >> according to the arizona department of corrections, medical professionals in charge confirm eed wood was comatose through the procedure and never in pain or distress. republican governor jan brewer says -- >> how would they know? >> i know. then the question is after you hear the victims' relatives speak is the question she posed. brewer said wood died in a lawful matter but is concerned about how long it lasted and will order a full investigation. sam stein? >> listen, i sympathize with the victims' family. >> i do too. >> i don't need to say this, but just because we're questioning the execution of this man doesn't mean we sympathize with
this man. he's a monster, he was sentenced to die. but this is the second or third really botched execution in recent memory. in which we've had had to wonder whether we are actually doing this properly. and there's a shroud of secrecy of lethal drugs in the bodies. because the courts won't let people say who manufactures the drugs. but if we're going to legally kill people, if that's going to be our law, we need to figure out how to do this in a more humane practice. we are, i think, the fifth most executions behind china, iran, iraq, and saudi arabia. that's quite a list to be on. >> one of the most interesting things about the death penalty is this series of controversy around how it is carried out were preceded by controversies
of wrongful convictions. we've had 20 years of successive blows to the credibility of capital punishment. wherever you think about it, clearly there are people who have been put to death wrongly. and people worry about the way we put people to death is wrong. we're getting to the point we may have a debate that is a debate that's been in the offing for a long time about whether there is still a national consensus behind the practice in general and the principle behind it. >> the estimate for the wrongful deaths, the most recent strieste is 1 in every 12 people are innocent. >> someone who had 20 years to prove his innocence. he was on death row. again, as we look at -- >> yes, correct. >> as we look at the criticalness of what it means to put people legally to death and humanely, obviously there is something going wrong. that this is not the way it's supposed to happen effectively.
it's not working. seeing the family members talk about what it means to them, what they had to endure does help put it in perspective as this is evaluated. >> the problem with the national debate over the death penalty is it's an internal problem. it becomes so highly emotional that you lose any threat of common sense. the death penalty for my money is a deterrent only to the person being executed. the vast majority of homicides are committed in an instant, in a rage, an emotional rage among lovers or partners or strangers, whatever. deterrence plays no factor in that. the ultimate deterrent if we were to choose to use it is the certainty of life in prison. no parole. the certainty of life in hell of prison. >> that would do it. still ahead on "morning joe," distinguished for extraordinary acts of heroism,
the most recent medal of honor recipient sergeant ryan pitts joins us. plus we'll get to the bottom of this brooklyn bridge flag mystery. heilemann? >> i have no comments on my whereabouts. >> let's just say the news on this is not better. it's ira means for the future of facebook. and how police were able to bring down a carjacking suspect. but first bill kairns with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning to you, mika. we finally had a hot summer day across much of the country yesterday. great lakes, you're the exception, of course. we had big thunderstorms rolling through the northeast last night. now those have pushed off the coast and dissipated. but down in virginia, from d.c. southwards, we saw rain to greet you this morning. it's crossing i-95 as we speak. just some showers this morning. improving this afternoon.
in virginia and north carolina we'll keep the storms right through the day. here's your forecast for today. going to be a beautiful day especially in the afternoon after we get rid of the clouds. from philadelphia northwards, just an enjoyable day. it was a very hot day. now, just because the great lakes is chilly, we've been very hot in the west. it was 103 in salt lake city yesterday. 97 in dallas yesterday. and today the heat continues to bake. we should be 100 in dallas. here's what's interesting. we're stuck in this weather pattern, and even as we go into next week, another polar invasion. can you believe it? this is two in the month alone. but next week we're looking at minus 10 to minus 20 degree temperatures compared to average in the great lakes and ohio valley. they're complaining they haven't had a summer from chicago to detroit. it doesn't look like it'll return any time soon.
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as thought to relieve back pain. found that difference between the recovery it took that took acetaminophen and a placebo. >> i could have told you that about back pain. >> nice. u.s. today, evauthorities say t suspects in stub hub would use stored credit card information to rack up ticket orders which they would later resell for a profit. the thieves are accused of stealing more than $1.6 million worth of tickets, john heilemann. was that you? >> i'm his stubhub. >> mike is my stubhub. >> go ahead, thomas. >> "wall street journal" is now reporting that facebook is trying to make it easier for you
to find content on the web without leaving its website or app. they're working on new ways to incorporate all sorts of content searches. it was last week that facebook celebrated shakira's 100 millionth like. that's a first for the company. the page has become the page of facebook where fans can watch her music, buy her music, and get updates about future appearances. >> the daily mail, chances are you may be standing next to a millionaire in new york. one out of every 25 new yorkers make seven figures. new york city ranks fourth on the worldwide list behind monaco, zurich, and geneva. >> and they say we're out of touch with the real people. >> the new york daily news is reporting rich or not that a study out suggests new yorkers have the blues. >> i think they do.
>> new york city is the unhappiest town in the u.s. according to a study. researchers asked residents how satisfied they are in their lives and factored in race, marital status. the unhappiest are pittsburgh, louisville, milwaukee, and detroit. >> i don't get it. >> detroit maybe. they're shutting people's water off in detroit. >> unbelievable. >> milwaukee is full of happy people. >> absolutely. >> people love their brewers. >> why are people unhappy in new york, you think? >> i found out i'm unhappy i'm walking next to millionaires. >> that might be one of them. >> the happiest places include richmond, norfolk, virginia -- >> no. >> okay. this study is just bogus. >> stop it. >> i have lived in several of those places. very happy people.
>> people are happy in washington because they're so self-aware. >> that could be. >> they are clueless. >> they have no idea that they're wreaking havoc on our country. >> they know it's a misery pit. >> i don't think they do. >> it's not a happy place. >> i live there. >> yes. and maybe the reason people are so unhappy is stanwood is there. >> let's move to the los angeles times. a family was asked to get off a southwest flight after tweeting a negative review of the airline's service. the father says he sent his tweet after he experienced poor service from a southwest employee at their their departing gate. they were later told to delete the tweet in order to board. after the employee mentioned she felt, quote, threatened for her
safety. we weren't there. shush. southwest says -- yeah, what was the tweet? i think we know. it wasn't -- they made him delete it but i think it was something about the rudest -- you know -- >> how big was his twitter account? some random dude, nine followers, take down that tweet. >> this doesn't make sense. >> makes me want to follow him now. >> it kind of proved the guy's point. >> exactly. >> that's something you would do. >> people who run those twitter accounts at the airlines are crotchety sometimes. >> it's hard. >> let's take you to the denver post where a tv news helicopter got the last moments o after dramatic run. a man broke into a house with a gun crashing through the garage in the stolen suv. police had been looking for the guy in connection with a string.
the suspect makes his way towards a busy interstate where after being stuck in a ditch he attempts to steal another vehicle. police catch up to him. and with help of bystanders, he is taken into custody. but he's armed there. running down the street with the gun. but the cop takes him down. >> that's when you would use that choke hold. >> there you go. >> i don't know why you like that so much. >> i like the guy in the shorts coming to help out. >> because the cop wins. >> okay, fine. the whole thing's sad. okay. joining us now with the politico playbook, the ceo of politico jim vandehei. jim, we're starting this morning politico with the clinton wars. really? now, why? what's going on? in the d.c. suburbs? what's going on? >> this is a house race to watch. barbara comstock who anybody from the old clinton days knows. she was the lead investigator.
and now she's running for a seat. i think she's on the odds on favorite to win in virginia. it's sort of a rehash of the '90s wars. she's got all the ken starr figures from the '90s supporting her. running against her you have terry mcauliffe who is involved with the clintons in the '90s. paul begala in this piece trashing her. she's saying shes going to come back to washington and be a reprisal of what we saw in the 1990s. and it's one of the closer races. she's an interesting person, a workaholic, and been a thorn in the clintons' side. >> is this northern virginia, jim? >> yeah. frank wolf's district not far from d.c. relatively a swing district. it's one that mitt romney won. it's one republicans should win, but it's close enough if you
have terry mcauliffe and others pouring money into it, given her name it makes it one of the few competitive house races. >> jim vandehei, thank you very much. coming up, round two of the tony dungy explanation tour. the former coach's message to michael sam next in "morning joe" sports. he doesn't stop. ♪ you make a great team.
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♪ welcome back, everybody. here we go. time for sports. trying to explain away his comments tony dungy told dan patrick his words would not have been a big deal if they were about jonathan martin who left the organization after being bullied by a teammate. >> if we had the same quote or comment, nobody's going to play those quotes two months or three months later and try to say that, you know, there's any more to it than what was actually said. >> dungy also went on in that interview with a message specifically for michael sam. >> i would want to wish him the best and let him know, you know,
i have no bitterness or animosity towards him even though i don't agree with his lifestyle. i love him. and i wish him the best and i'd love to say that to him. >> you know, couldn't he just have left out that one comment? couldn't he? why you got to? why did he have to go there? feels the need. sorry. am i wrong? am i out of place here? >> he's always been straightforward about his beliefs. >> that's fine, but we're trying to -- i think we're trying to make amends right now. >> he clearly doesn't stop talking. >> just i love him and i wish him the best would be really nice. right? probably the right thing to do opposed to what he did which was the wrong thing to do which was to just get another dig in there on his opinions that he should keep to himself. anyhow. >> okay. >> i'm going to clean my purse out now. >> okay. let's switch gears. to baseball in atlanta.
one out and a man on third. >> full count. and right to the shortstop on contact. hayward headed home. he avoided a tag and safe. >> would get a great move there making it back to third thanks to slick base running. >> talk about lazy defense. look at that. what a lazy tag. >> like the matrix. >> they can't conduct a rundown. >> guys never played pickle? come on. >> scary moment in seattle between the mets and mariners. takes a fastball to the helmet. that hit him in the forehead. he laid on the ground for several seconds before walking off the field under his own power. this is the second game in a row he's been hit by a pitch. he stayed in after getti inting plunked on the hand the night
before. a strange game to show you between the nationals and rockies where one member of each team refused to leave the field. >> there's one player from each team not about to leave the field. >> we've got a standoff going between barnes and barrett. providing sun screen. the game's about to start, so barrett put a helmet on. >> and look, barnes wants to do rock paper scissors to see who leaves the field first. >> there's no way they can let him stand there. barnes is on the field. >> denard span steps out, jordan baker just whistled at brandon barnes and told him to get off the field. >> this is going to be everywhere on every highlight reel. and barrett wins. >> i don't know what he won there. the nats lose the game 6-4. not sure what all that was for. coming up next, mika's must
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>> taxpayer dollars are paying for the trip out west. there is a right to have some sort of coverage here. i agree with the press. they're clamping down way too much on things like this. >> some might argue why. >> not asking to sit in the room but give us a sampling of what they're doing with their time. >> at least the garage or something. >> do we know what portions are paid by the democratic national committee? >> you're right. a portion is paid by the dnc. they say, you know, they siphon off that stuff. but, you know, these are divvied up between actually presidential events, these trips. the speeches that he gives and the fund raisers. and so just to get out west there is a portion of taxpayer money that goes to it. but even without that i think the press is entitled to know who has the president's ear. and, you know, getting a little bit of access from the white house on that front is an
important thing and shouldn't be stifled. >> here's some opinions on the president's fund raising. this is from "the wall street journal." obama to the world, drop dead. as the world burns the president spent this week fiddling at fund raisers in the living rooms of five democratic party fat cats. as white house communications director jennifer malmieri famously explained, changing the president's fund raising schedule can have the unintended consequence of unduly alarming the american people or creating a false sense of crisis. who's alarmed in what false sense of crisis? putin's masked men in eastern ukraine shot an ash out of the air just about the time israel and hamas commenced their death struggle. this week the original 9/11 commission put out an update
saying the complacency that led to 9/11 is happening again. how to explain to someone who claims he can run the country out of his back pocket while he flies from fund raiser to fund raiser. not even the white house of lyndon johnson was so purely politicized. >> seems over the top. >> i think that is over the top. i think he can run the country wherever he is. given the fact he's fund raising, might it also make sense to set up situations where you talk to the press and make statements about it. if you don't want to unduly scare the people. aren't you supposed to send messages? make statements? calm the american people? speak to us? make sure he leads? >> yeah. and i think the claim of the white house are two things. one of which is hypocritical
which is this notion we don't want to engage in political theater yet they're constantly engaging in polite theater. if you're going to say this president has the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time. he should walk and chew gum at the same time. and the truth is in the president's case, he needs to do both. >> it's really, really hard to -- you know, the fund raising aspect of it is -- it's necessary, quite frankly. i don't think it's being balanced with el. >> with the midterm elections coming up, the president has a right to raise funds for democratic candidates. democratic candidates want him to do that. he should be doing that. there's no reason to not be doing both things at the same time. plenty of hours in the day. coming up, a group of kayakers go for the ride of their lives. news you can't use next. ♪ st signed up for your credit report site and i have a problem. i need to speak with your fraud resolution department.
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♪ the dutch people today paid tribute to their own. >> six days of confusion and indignity ended at last. >> a solemn procession across the dutch countryside. >> the sight of 40 hearses tells one painful story. but the dignified silence of those who stood and watched tell another. >> i can't say good-bye. they're in my heart forever. >> two more ukrainian fighter jets were shot down.
>> many woundered if whoever sht down the malaysian plane would lay low. today they got their answer. >> this airport is open. there's no reason whatsoever for the mistake in the faa mistake. >> they have now lifted their ban on american flights out of tel aviv. >> if you don't feel safe here, i don't know where you'd feel safe. i think the state department is overreacting. >> how secure do you feel? >> i feel very secure. >> secretary of state kerry's jet landed. >> through the dawn of a 16th day the remorseless shelling shows no sign of ending. >> hamas sees no ceasefire unless the israeli blockade is lifted. >> we need to find the way forward, and it's not violence. >> welcome back to "morning joe." joining the table now the editor of the weekly standard bill kristol is with us.
good to have you with us. joe kline. the cover of this week's new issue is cold war ii. and in washington nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. thank you so much for that. >> you bet. >> we're going to get to all these major developing stories in just a second. we're also a little bit later going to get a live report because police in new york are still trying to figure out who swapped out the american flags on top of the brooklyn bridge for these white flags. dozens of special team detectives have been assigned to the case. some of whom normally work counterterrorism operations. officials say they have the nicknames of this four or five suspects and are trying to find exactly who they are. andrea, i have some people saying this is art let it be. i don't think so.
it's a big problem. >> it's a big problem. they've got the video so presumably they're going to get to it. and we expect that the nypd is supposed to have counterterror operations in all of these places. iconic bridges. nothing could be more iconic than the brooklyn bridge. >> i find it astounding. so we'll be getting a live report from the scene there. we're going to begin this hour with the situation in the middle east. late last night the faa lifted the ban on american flights into tel aviv. critics of the administration accused obama and the faa of enforcing the ban as an economic boycott. but former new york mayor michael bloomberg who flew to israel was outraged when asked if there were any ulterior motives behind the restrictions. >> if you don't feel safe here, i don't know where you'd feel
safe. i think the state department is overreacting. >> political reasons for that? >> that's -- why would you think that? >> did you think that? i'm asking you. >> ridiculous. it's an outrage for you to accuse one of our agencies. by asking the question you're implying our government does things for political reasons. maybe once in awhile they do but it's your job to prove it. i personally take offense. anybody want -- bill kristol? >> i think mike bloomberg was rattled by having to fly commercial for the first time in 20 years or something. >> i don't understand though. >> it's a legitimate question to ask. that was ted cruz's question. did john kerry talk to the faa those are reasonable questions to ask. >> joe? >> it's a reasonable question to ask. >> okay. then he might have been a little tired. all right. let's move on. secretary of state john kerry
claims headway is being made in reaching a ceasefire. but they are casting doubt on a potential breakthrough. one israeli cabinet member says it will take at least a few days for them to neutralize militant tunnels into the country. until then the bloodshed continues. 724 palestinians dead. 29 since midnight alone. this morning a u.n. school in gaza was hit by incoming israeli fire. one man lost his mother, sister, two sons, and his wife pregnant with their third child in a strike over the weekend. >> i had a look on the corridor of the flat. i saw my mother was flown on the record of the flat. and e found the leg of my son coming out of this wreckage. so i realized at this moment that nobody's going to survive
from inside. >> i want to go to andrea mitchell. the assault on both side continued so much that a german astronaut tweeted this photo taken from the international space station showing the rocket fire and explosions as they were happening. andrea, what is the hope in terms of john kerry's efforts especially when you see such unspeakable tragedy? a family decimated. this isn't stopping. >> it's overwhelming. but there doesn't seem to be anything except so-called marginal progress. yesterday he was meeting with the palestinian authority. but he's not meeting with hamas. i mean, hamas is under influence or alive gned in some ways. but hamas is brokering this so-called deal. it doesn't strike me from talking to people on both sides that either side has an interest
right now in a ceasefire. hamas is still demanding long-term changes to the black kad -- blockade of gaza. and israel wants to do something about the tunnels that are much more extensive than originally thought. neither side wants to stop it at this point. >> joe kline, if one of hamas' goals was to ensnare, enmesh the army within gaza -- >> that was their main goal. >> -- and to raise this specter of civilian casualties, they've succeeded in that one goal. >> i think there's been a failure of reporting on our side about the extent of the israeli operation. which compared to 2009, that was really want destruction. the ground offensive is in only
one neighborhood of the east gaza city. the targets, schools, mosques. that's where they store the guns. that's where they store the arms. and it's terrible that families and children are being killed, but that is precisely hamas' purpose in starting this mess. >> andrea? >> let me just say that one thing -- first of all, from the perspective of our people on the ground, joe, it's not one neighborhood. but i'm not there. i can't verify that. i can just tell you what our reporters are saying. richard engel has reported ambulances being targeted, schools, hospitals. but i don't think there's any denying that there have been misfires. >> it's war, andrea. >> i know it's war. but let me make one other point. they have now taken one step further which is going back to their policy of demolishing the
homes of relatives. relatives in the west bank. relatives of those who are the alleged perpetrators. and this is a very controversial policy because it is ascribing guilt to relations who are not even on the scene. and the long-term impact of that to the future -- the reporting comes not only from our own people but from all of the respected newspapers. i'm not talking about either side's claims. either the idf or the so-called gaza health authorities. i'm talking about what "the new york times," "the wall street journal," "the washington post" correspondents on the scene are reporting. >> you know, i think that it's pretty well known that i've been very critical of israel in the past. especially their activities on the west bank and the expansion of settlements and i still am. but in this case i spent the last couple of days talking to
members of the israeli peace movement. you know, people like orrin neer who is the spokesman for americans for peace now. and he called this a just war. he studies these things very, very carefully. and i think that in this case we have to present more nuanced reporting. you know, i see no evidence that the ground war has expanded the ground war. not the air strikes. the ground war has expanded beyond that one neighborhood. >> quickly, andrea. >> the air strikes from outer space, from 200 miles up the air war is a very big part of piit. i'm not saying who started it or a whether the rocketing from gaza isn't part of it. both sides are now a vested interest. what israel has discovered is the most extensive underground tunnel operations well beyond what their intelligence indicated. and they are determined to get that out and hamas is using
human shields. there's no question about that. but the people who are caught in the middle are the people of gaza. that's the asim industymmetry h. >> there's no mystery. it was started by hamas. israel has no belief in going back into gaza. they got out of gaza. i the last thing they want to do is send any young israeli into gaza. israel said this has to stop. egypt said it had to stop. u.s. government said it had to stop. it didn't stop. >> much more to get to. the eu today debated top new sanctions against russia which could include a ban on stock purchases on russian banks. it comes amid fresh concerns about how much that country is aiding pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. the rebels say this video which nbc news could not verify so far
shows the wreckage of a downed ukrainian fighter jet. it's one of two aircraft taken out yesterday about 20 miles from where flight 17 went down one week ago. a top commander for the rebels now admits they had possession of the buk missile system that was likely used to target flight 17. we are getting more and more evidence here. joining us now, nbc news correspondent keir simmons live from eastern ukraine with the latest. keir? >> reporter: good morning. the fighting, those jets came down about 15 miles in that direction. so the war has erupted again as you say. but what really takes your breath away is that even after a week from when mh-17 went down, i'm still able to stand this close to the wreckage. and that if i just take you over in this direction, on the other side of the road here, people's possessions are still lying by the side of the road
uncollected. you can see what a fire ball this was. this is just one of them. across in the field up there, our camera man will give you a look, those are the inspectors who are here doing their work. the investigators who are doing their work looking for evidence about what happened to the plane here. but mika, toi have to tell you, while we were here this morning we found a piece of human remains marked by a white flag and hadn't received it. next to it was a child's shoe. it looked like the age of one of my daughters, actually, two years old. it's really, really disturbing. because you're looking at those pictures in the netherlands of those bodies being taken back and trying to give them some dignity but even though these investigators over here are
working, it's a really slow process. >> a slow process, keir, and you are able almost to walk on the wreckage. i mean, i know you're not going to, but it's not cordoned off. and it doesn't seem to be being protected. >> reporter: that's right. you're right. we've been really careful to not touch anything while we've been here for obvious reasons. but you can just walk on this road. when you say car donned off, that's the cordon there and that's it. there are men armed down the road here. and they are guarding the investigators who are working in the field. so at times these pro-russian rebels do arrive on the scene escorting the western investigators. there are times we're here and there isn't anyone here at all. you wonder when the process is going to start of them clearing this wreckage, maybe taking it somewhere to be analyzed and
when perhaps is someone going to come and get people's things. that's the kind of questions you find yourself asking when you're here for this many days. >> bill kristol, across the street where keir started his report, he was literally standing amidst the wreckage. >> it's terrible. let's be clear about who's starting this war. it's russian-backed separatists who are firing now, having taken down a civilian airliner a year ago. they are cheerfully firing missiles at ukrainian planes. i suppose ukrainian civilians not on military missions as we know are legitimate targets and no one cares about them. but of course understandably when a huge civilian airliner goes down, it's a bigger thing. as in the hamas case, the destruction is terrible, war is terrible. but let's be clear about who is responsible for this. this is putin providing these arms to russian-backed separatists as part of his
strategy to snatch back part of ukraine. and the question is is the west going to be serious about dealing with putin at all? >> on the cover of the magazine is this story. a reporter on the ground there makes a strong argument that the u.s. isn't going to be willing to do anything. you know, it's in the europeans' back yard and, you know, they have been enslaved by russian oil and gas. you know, before we get to sanctions, before we get to putin, you have to ask yourself has our culture, has our world become so desensitized to basic elements of human life and death that we can sit there and watch this field still filled with body parts and belongings to the dead, 298 of them, and there's no real visible sense of international or certainly european combined with american
outrage. >> condemnation. >> at what is going on here for a week. >> well, the netherlands is offering it up. >> it's outrageous. >> let me ask you a question. what's the cover line? >> cold war ii. >> so we all know the cold war was the fundamental aspect of it was the threat of nuclear annihilation on both sides. so how far can this go? how much like the old cold war could this new cold war get to? >> we'll see over time. it depends on how ruthless putin wants to be. my feeling about this particular case is there's an argument that could be made that eastern ukraine have been historically part of russia. and, you know, they should be able to determine their own destiny. but, you know, if putin uses this and as a lesson if he takes this as an educational moment as
the president would say and moves into other areas like the baltic states and so on, you know, there's going to come a time when the west is going to have to respond. >> our thanks to keir simmons. joining us now from amsterdam, katy tur. katy, you've been covering the scene as the bodies of the victims started to come home. a poignant, heart breaking scene that has happened there over the past 24 hours. >> reporter: you know, it's the exact opposite of what keir's seeing in the ukraine. all of that inhumanity that he's observing in that wreckage where he's unfortunately and disgustingly still finding bodies and remains and the belongings of these people. the opposite of that is here in the netherlands where the dutch people have really come together to show some respect and restore some of that dignity. 40 bodies landed yesterday. they were given 40 separate coffins. they were loaded into 40 hearses
and they were taken along this really solemn processional through the dutch countryside where people came out to pay their respects. people were asked not to line the streets, but they came out anyway to say good-bye, to honor those that were lost to pay tribute and to watch as they came here just outside of amsterdam. this is where the identification process is going to begin to take place. now depending on the condition of the bodies and we're told the condition is not good, it could take days, weeks, or months. these families still have quite a bit of time before they're going to see some closure. once they do positively identify them, though, there's not going to be a lot of red tape. they'll be given back directly to e the families so they can have their funerals, memorials, ceremonies. they can begin to put this behind them and remember them. if they're not from the netherlands even though most of these passengers were, they will be immediately repatriated. but im tell you. you see a lot of funerals in
this business. you see a lot of really solemn things and the dutch have just come out in full force. and they have shown the world how to honor people. especially when they've been so dishonored given what we're seeing still in the ukraine. >> katy, the netherlands obviously mass a close relationship with russia economically were more so than other countries. yet there seems to be a support for sanctions where you are. >> reporter: which is a big deal for them to come out and support sanctions. they're russia's third biggest trading partner. the biggest importer of oil and gas is the netherlands. as for exports, they do a lot of exporting. agriculture mostly. flowers to cheese and eggs to machinery. since putin took power, the expoerts of this country have quadrupled to $7 billion. that's quite a lot of money and quite a lot at stake. so boycotts or sanctions or a
bad relationship with russia would be very costly with them so they're treading on very thin ice. they're having to weigh what the people of this country want and what they're demanding that there's some justice for their loved ones. and the economic safety of this country. >> really when you think about it, that does say it all. the west has gotten very good in honoring victims and paying due respects. we're a civilized nation, so we treat the dead appropriately and so forth, but are we not willing to fight for it. the dutch is one of the most -- they've done everything for putin in the past. but now it took this to be serious about it. if they're going let economic relations overcome the killing murder of -- >> evil. that's the choice here. sacrifice in the face of evil or not standing up to evil. and the netherlands seems ready to do that. according to polls there in a
major dutch newspaper, 78% support sanctions even though it hurts them directly economically. waiting on other countries. katy tur, thank you so much. bill kristol, thank you as well. bill klein, thank you as well. still ahead, police are looking for five suspects wanted in can eonnection to the brookl bridge flag swap. plus he's the survivor of an attack. sergeant ryan pitts will join us in a bit. next. you're watching "morning joe." when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well:
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ways is unprecedently isolated. hamas is isolated today in the arab world. it was hamas that said no to a ceasefire proposal. it was hamas that said no to a ceasefire that abbas endorsed. i think hamas has a major problem today we the people of gaza. you've seen tin the papers they can't express their opinion. the people of gaza didn't want that war. >> that was yesterday on "morning joe." this morning the palestinian liberation organization's representative to the united states. mr. ambassador, thank you for being on this morning. >> thank you. >> i believe it was a week ago that you said it was a matter of time before there would be a ceasefire. has that type passed?
>> well, i think no, the time has not passed. i think our intensive efforts being undertaken right now by different parties including president abbas in coordination of the secretary of state, egypt, and other regional players. iss reel has intensified its attacks against the gaza strip over the last week. so far 735 palestinians have been killed. 4500 wounded. including 160 children, 90 elderly. 82% of the casualties are civilians. the excessive use of force is not contributing positively to the efforts to reach a ceasefire. >> i understand that you believe that. what are the requirements necessary from your perspective for the fighting to stop? >> we always perceived this as being a political problem. i listen to the gentleman who
was earlier on. he said israel withdrew from the gaza strip and the palestinians are attacking israel. this is not true. israel pulled its troops in 2005 but it's still under israeli military occupation. palestinians are living in an open jail air prison there. they are not allowed to move in and out. there is a political problem that needs to be addressed. ceasefire is a necessity. is an urgent necessity. but in addition to that, the root causes, underlining causes of this conflict must be addressed. >> andrea mitchell, jump in. >> ambassador, because of the death toll and the obvious fact that gazans are trapped there and subject to the fire, the return fire from the rocketing that began with gaza, why not a
ceasefire now and then address all the issues of the blockade? because if hamas continues to insist on going beyond the egyptian proposal that the arab league and palestinian authorities and others did support for a ceasefire first and then negotiate all of the outstanding obvious issues. this will continue and more and more people -- your people will die. >> well, two things here. first of all, all the efforts now are being focused on the egyptian initiative introducing elements into the initiative that egypt proposed ten days ago in order to be satisfactory to all parties. the second thing, andrea, as you recall israel in 2012 accepted the 2012 understandings. everybody including u.s. administration, include israel, are looking for a return to
2012. one aspect of that that understanding was lifting the blocka blockade. and did not comply with the aspect of lifting the blockade. so the palestinian people, the palestinian leadership all agree that there must be a lifting of this blockade on the gaza strip as part of any agreement to reach a ceasefire. of course we are interested in stopping the bloodshed. israel is much more powerful than the palestinians. we understand that, but there has to be a political aspect with guarantees. >> joe klein. >> yeah. ambassador, how has -- how have these events affected the relationship between the palestinian authority and hamas? early on president abbas said if it were established as it pretty well has been now that hamas kidnapped and murdered those three kids that the unity deal
would be broken. also that -- you know, those sanctions were imposed only after the government was overthrown by a hamas coup. is there still a unity government there? >> well, first of all i would disagree with you on who kidnapped the three teenage settlers and murdered them. even israel is saying today whoever acted acted individually and that hamas did not issue the order. so i would be cautious here not to assign blame. secondly we do have a national consensus government formed on june 2nd. i think that development is playing a positive factor in the ongoing efforts right now to reach political solution to this conflict. the fact that president abbas is the head of that national consensus government has proven to be a positive factor in these
efforts. >> okay. sam stein. >> first off i want to say i don't think you actually answered andrea's question about why there can't be a ceasefire and then negotiation of the blockade. i'd like you to take a second stab at that. the question i want to ask is do you believe that the u.s. government, secretary kerry specifically, should be talking directly to hamas. i know he's talking to netanyahu, but hamas has been the one that scuttled the previous attempts of a ceasefire. in your estimation, would it make any sense for the u.s. government to be directly engaging hamas? >> well, i think the u.s. is engaging president abbas who represents the palestinian national consensus government. i think eventually the united states and all the parties should be talking to all different factions within the palestinian society. and back to the ceasefire, i think i did answer. i said that we need a ceasefire. it's an urgent necessity for the
palestinian people because we are paying a heavy price in erm t terms of civilian casualties. at the same time there has to be a political solution to this problem. we don't want this to happen again in a year or two years. there has to be a political solution in order to end the conflict. >> can you do that after the cease foo ir? zblit can be done together. >> no it can't. >> it has to be a ceasefire and very clear follow-up steps. in the previous attacks in 2008, 2009, and in 2012, israel promised to work to lift the blockade and they have not kept their promise. >> ambassador, thank you very much for being on the show. >> thank you. coming up, more questions surrounding the brooklyn bridge flag swap. police are looking for suspects and believe it may have been an inside job. those details next when "morning joe" returns. ♪
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were bleached white. nbc news correspondent jeff rossen has the latest. >> reporter: good morning. as we've been talking about, this has become a real headache and embarrassment for the city of new york. so the nypd trying to double down on security this morning on the brooklyn bridge. these counterterrorism officers positioned here. there's a scooter going back and forth on the walkway and we've seen an nypd chopper flying in the air too. also new information on the investigation itself. police still don't know who it is, but sources tell nbc news that the suspects four or five of them on the videotape are in their early 20s. one of them carries something that looks like a skate board. it all comes down to grainy surveillance footage now. the nypd comparing security footage from the incident from footage from other cameras in that area hoping to make an identification. they know it was multiple people, they just don't know
who. >> though the official footage may be grainy, there are ways in which to corroborate that footage given that time who's in the area. eyewitnesses may come forward. >> reporter: the nypd is also going online scanning social media for any leads. hoping the suspects will brag about their exploits. >> this does not look like a drunken stunt. that type of planning targeting this structure indicates that others might want to copy cat or see it as a vulnerability. >> reporter: police believe the cowl pretties know the bridge well and may have been in restricted areas here before. they may have climbing experience. advanced enough to get around a locked security gate. and they now the exact size catering tins to bring to cover the lights on the towers. for all the talk of security at landmarks, new yorkers now losing their patience. >> it is a concern because it could be a security issue. >> that's what it leaves me with
is curiosity about what else could possibly happen. >> reporter: investigators are also working on forensics here. are there any fingerprints on the flag or anywhere else up and down the brooklyn bridge seeing to identify the suspects. if it was a stunt to get the attention of officials, it certainly worked. not only here in new york city but across the country. think about it, brooklyn bridge one of the biggest terror togethers in the nation. one of the biggest land marks. they were able to pull this off here. what does that mean? would they pull things off in other cities? you can bet many are paying close attention this morning. >> that was jeff rossen. thank you. andrea mitchell because i'm not taking you guys seriously. to jeff's questions which are quite serious, how did that happen? >> well, they've got to figure this one out. but just yesterday and the day before we were here in
washington hearing a report from lee hamilton and tom cain ten years after their 9/11 report saying that some of the key recommendations had still not been implemented. the most important one being that homeland security reports to more than 90 congressional committees and subcommittees. so congress has refused to streamline the oversight of all of these homeland committee actions. and that they still have a lot of work to do on the fixes from 9/11. so you just have to ask yourself how could new york city, the biggest target potentially in the nation not be more secure than to let perhaps their pranksters and kids with skate boards, but it can be even worse. we saw the dive from the top of the freedom tower. there have been too many incidents. >> when you climbed up the side of the bridge, did you wear that black rubber body suit? >> seriously. >> i'm the only one at this
table probably that goes back and forth along the brooklyn bridge. >> this is not funny. >> they have cop stations on each side of the bridge. as you might know, after a lot of years in which nothing has happened, a lot of those cops are taking a nap. there's a lot of -- there's not a lot of intensity in the surveillance that's going on there. the cop cars are stationed there at the end of the bridge, but there's a fair amount of the cars might be empty on some occasions. or snoozing. >> it's not sleeping. my husband did a story on this. it's texting. they're on their phones a lot. and it's something to look at. another thing the nypd should look at. >> it took a lot of planning. really. >> somebody missed something there happening at the brooklyn bridge. andrea mitchell, thank you. we'll be tuning into "andrea mitchell reports" today at noon. thank you so much. up next, for nearly two hours he defended his post until the very end holding off taliban fighters until re-enforcements
could come in. the latest recipient of the medal of honor joins us next with his story.
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corporal pruit rainey. >> very poignant moment there. it was earlier this week that president obama awarded the medal of honor to retired staff sergeant ryan pitts for defending an outpost in afghanistan all by himself in 2008 during one of the deadliest conflicts in the u.s. mission in afghanistan. and retired staff sergeant pitts joins us on set here in new york. great to have you here. congratulations. that had to be a huge honor for you to receive this medal. but you take the time there to talk about those who lost their lives on that day. this was in 2008. take us back to that day. >> it was early morning and it seemed like almost any other day. and then heard a burst of machine gun fire from the north. and then rpgs hit our position and the whole valley erupted as about 200 fighters attacked 40
americans. >> you were 22 at the time. you're now just 28 years old. but 22 at the time. what was going through your mind at that time? because this was towards the end of the time that you were supposed to be there, correct? >> we'd be there about 14 months app and we were about three weeks from going home. you know, for me what was going through my mind, i was wounded early on, but i'm watching all these other guys fight, returning fire. running to reinforced positions. i just felt i had to do my part like everybody else. >> you know, ryan, you know obviously what happened that day never leaves you. the memories of it, the noise, the clamor, the casualties. talk to us about the weight that you carry each and every day. you mentioned your brothers who died that day. talk about how they must be with you at moments of every day.
you see a cloud formation, you hear a song on the radio, something that will trip wire your mind back to them in that day. >> there are different triggers. but i think of all of them every day. some days i think about certain ones more than others. i remember funny stories if there's another similar experience. when i play poker it reminds me of rainey and phillips. they like to play poker. but i think of them all the time. >> can i ask you what reintegration is like? what does our army, political system do helping people get back into society. how has the medical care been for you personally six years after this event? >> there was a lot of support for reintegration.
there were numerous classes we took for us to get out and to do internships. as far as medical care, it was phenomenal at walter reed. it's been positive. >> so there are also ways in which you try and move on, but keep the men that you lost, your brothers, with you. you've had some beautiful moments in your life since you came back. including receiving the medal of honor which was also two years to the day, correct? that the you married to amy. who is standing behind you there. hi, amy. >> hi, amy. >> how are you? and also i noticed you had a very firm hand shake. and then we have this. this is you -- we have video of you i think at the stock exchange yesterday. was that yesterday morning? >> yes. >> what the -- you broke it. >> he told me to make sure everybody could hear it. that's all i was trying to do. >> it snapped.
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♪ >> the dutch people today paid tribute to their own. >> six days of confusion and indignity ended at last. >> a solemn procession across the dutch countryside. >> the sights of 40 hearses tells one painful fraction of this story, but the dignified silence of those who stood and watched tells another. >> two more ukrainian fighter jets were shot down. >> many wondered if whoever shot down the malaysian plane would lay low. today they got their answer. >> this airport is open. there's no reason whatsoever for the mistaken faa decision. >> aviation authorities have now lifted their ban on american flights in and out of tel aviv. >> if you don't feel safe here, i don't know how you'll feel safe. >> how secure do you feel? >> i feel very secure. >> one american plane did land in tel aviv, secretary of state
john kerry's official jet. >> with hopes of a cease-fire, through the dawn of a 16th day, the remorseless shelling shows no sign of end. >> and hamas sees no cease-fire unless the israeli blockade is lifted. >> we need to find a way forward, and it's not violence. it's 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west coast as you take a live look at new york city. with us on set, mike barnicle, sam stein and john heilemann. and in washington, ian brzezinski. so much news to get to. let's get right into it. we're going to begin with a situation in the middle east. late last night the faa lifted a ban on american flights into tel aviv. critics of the administration accuse president obama and the faa of enforcing the ban as an economic boycott. but former new york mayor michael bloomberg, who flew el al in a show of solidarity to
israel was outraged when asked if there was ulterior motives behind the restrictions. >> if you don't feel safe here i dhn where you'll feel safe. i think the state department is overreacting. >> political reasons for that? >> don't be ridiculous. why do you think that? it's an outrage for you to accuse one of our agencies by asking the question. you're implying that our government does things for political reasons and maybe every once in a while they do but it's your job to prove it. just the allegation against our government i personally take as an offense. >> okay. let's try and understand what's going on here. because, i believe, that the former mayor, who you know i love, went there critical of the restrictions. correct? are we all in agreement of that? >> yes. >> and did some theater with benjamin netanyahu to let everyone know how safe it is and is critical of the restrictions, john heilemann.
so what's with being so difficult on the questions? why go? >> well, i think he was making a straightforward point. >> what's his point? >> he thinks the restrictions are mistaken but not driven by a political motive by the administration or by the faa to try to punish israel for what it's doing. >> okay. but why did you laugh when you watched that sound bite. >> i didn't laugh, it's always interesting to see two great men in a state of -- a bit of haggling on television. >> what's the haggling over, sam? >> i have no idea. i think they were in agreement, i couldn't really tell. >> what happened? >> it was a weird interview. i don't know what to say about it. >> he had a long flight on a commercial airline. >> exactly. it's an 11-hour flight. >> it's a contradiction of trying to accuse wolf to gen up a controversy when he is asking him a legitimate question with a man that has direct ties to washington, d.c. i saw that live yesterday, i was amazed by the interview.
secretary of state john kerry meanwhile claims headway is being made in reaching a cease-fire, but hamas leaders and israeli leaders are casting doubt on a potential breakthrough. one israeli cabinet member says it will take at least a few days for them to neutralize militant tunnels in the country. until then, the bloodshed continues. 32 israeli soldiers killed, 724 palestinians dead. 29 since midnight alone. this morning a u.n. school in gaza was hit by incoming israeli fire. hassan lost his mother, sister, two sons and his wife who was pregnant with their third child in a strike over the weekend. >> i had to look on the corridor of the flat and i found my mother was thrown on the wreckage of the flat. i found the leg of my son coming out of the wreckage. so i realized at this moment
that nobody is going to survive from inside. >> the all-out assault on both sides continues, so much so that a german astronaut tweeted this photo taken from the international space station of explosions and rocket fire. let's go now to gaza. nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin is standing by. ayman, we saw part of your interview this morning with that grieving father and husband. bring us up to date on the latest so far today. >> reporter: good morning, mika. well, you know, as it has been every morning, you wake up and you get a sense of what happens overnight. most of the time it's some disturbing news about some of the results of the overnight air strikes. this morning has been no different. today's concentration has been in the southern part of gaza. we are getting preliminary reports and we emphasize these are preliminary reports that we're getting from eyewitnesses and residents in the area in the southern part of gaza that overnight at least several israeli shells landed in the
vicinity of a residential neighborhood, killing up to 40 people. now again, we're still getting the initial reports. according to eyewitnesses on the ground, palestinian eyewitnesses on the ground, overnight there was intense shelling. a group of families huddled together to try to make their way out of that scene where the shelling was taking place. according to some of those who survived, they too came under attack as they were trying to leave under the cover of darkness. we don't know what the motivations were or whether or not there was any gunfire being returned from the palestinian side to the israelis, but some horrific descriptions about what may have happened overnight in the southern part of the gaza strip. the death toll well above 700 on the palestinian side and at least 35 israelis killed, including 32 israeli soldiers. the humanitarian situation continues to worsen. i know it sounds like we're saying it over and over again, but the u.n. really is making an appeal for the international community. today the spokesperson for one of the u.n. agencies here literally said, quote, there is no place safe left for any
civilians in gaza, so it gives you a sense of the desperation that even the u.n. is working under as one of their own facilities today came under attack by israeli fire. mika. moving on now, the e.u. will be debating tough new sanctions against russia today and the fresh concerns about how much that country is aiding pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. the rebels say this video, which nbc news could not verify, shows the wreckage of the downed ukrainian fighter jet. it's one of two aircraft taken out yet about 20 miles from where malaysia airlines flight 17 went down one week ago. a top ukrainian official says the two warplanes were shot down from russian territory. a top commander for the rebels now admits they had possession of the buk missile system that was likely used to target flight 17. he also says it is possible the system was sent back to russia after the tragedy. the crisis led to an all-out brawl in ukraine's parliament.
lawmakers fought in the aisle over a presidential decree to call up more reserves to defend the border against russian troops. the majority of the lawmakers approved the measure. let's stop right here. i want to get to ian. first of all, what do you make of the reaction in ukraine, the downing of the jet liners, and then i want to back up to the big picture in terms of what we're waiting to see from europe, specifically germany. ian? >> well, mika, good morning. good morning to you all. you know, it's been six months since russia invaded ukraine, annexed crimea and stocked up this insurgency and it's been seven days since the tragic shootdown of mh-17. the sad reality of the west response has been nothing but stern rhetoric and limited action. that's not going to change putin's calculus. so it's really europe's moment
today. it's going to be interesting to see if they can stand up, buck up and really impose sanctions that will hurt the russian economy. i'm not confident they're ready to do that but we should keep our fingers crossed. >> what would hold them back at this point, and what exactly -- everyone is saying we will have to wait for germany, it will be so key what angela ameriinela m. what are we expecting? >> the problem with u.s. policy is been allowed to be shaped by europe. they need to provide harsher sanctions, to provide more tangible support for ukraine security. that is not a recipe for success in european policy. leading from behind is not going to lead the europeans to a more forceful, more firm, more resolved posture. >> sam stein? >> i mean the problem right here is can you have a united sanctions regime essentially. do you go lead forward as we an
said or do you try to build a coalition and then try to present all the sanctions at once. the key development that i saw yesterday was this fighting between france and england over who is the purer one with respect to dealing with russia and england sniping at france for selling helicopters and france saying russian oligarchs are resting comfortably in london. so when you don't have a united european front it becomes a lot tougher to put that pressure on putin to essentially get out of eastern ukraine, stop influencing what's happening there. i think the question remains how do you get europe to act in one cohesive, comprehensive step. >> ian, what would tougher measures include in your estimation? >> i think we have to move from -- we have to move beyond targeted sanctions, which basically imposed asset freezes, financial restrictions, travel bans on individuals and entities to more systemic sanctions that attack really the russian economy on a sectoral basis.
the primary targets should be the energy sector and the financial sector. in a way similar to what we did with iran. we were able to create a context that made it easier for the europeans to fall behind and support us. this should be the approach the administration takes. >> all right. i want to show now some of the most poignant pictures you'll see so far in this story. it was a day of national mourning in the netherlands as the first bodies of the victims arrived. the country's king and queen joined the mourners as 40 coffins were taken to 40 different hearses. two more planes with victims are expected to arrive later today. the ceremony also involved, if you'll call it that, the hearse driving through the streets and thousands and thousands of people standing to show their respect for the victims. >> yeah, it was -- it was very moving actually. i mean the hour and a half drive from the airport to the mortuary where the remains are received.
it's such a small country, as you indicated thousands upon thousands of people lining the highways and the byways and the overpasses. it was quite a moving scene. >> and after seeing these pictures, you wonder if the netherlands are perhaps the leaders in europe on the levels of sort of dignity in the face of this and moral high ground. i'll show you a poll that will back that up at this point because they are invested in russia and they are saying so what, crack down. let's bring in michiel vos. first of all, your response and your thoughts as the victims are being brought home. >> we are a very small country. holland is a very small country and it's true. we're like basically 60 million people, twice the size of new york city. so everybody in holland either knows somebody who knows somebody who was on the plane, so a day of national mourning is an instant community bringer. everybody on those overpasses,
along the way of those 40 hearses is looking at something that they know, somebody that they may know or may have known through somebody else and it brings together a small country. and then there is this sort of sign -- yeah, this signal of dignity after those five, six days of undignified behavior in the eastern ukraine. so holland in a way was set up perfectly to show the world, okay, we can do this different. we can actually, you know, do it in a dignified way and that's what happened, i think. >> so you have companies like shell is the netherlands largest corporation, $7 billion in oil and gas assets that are in russia, dutch pension funds are also heavily invested in the company stock and it goes on, and yet in the largest dutch daily newspaper, you have this poll that shows a majority support new sanctions. 78% of dutch are in favor of sanctions, even if it harms their economy. it's interesting we can get that from a country that has been so
deeply impacted in every way and would be deeply impacted by sanctions. are there questions about why it's taking so long for others to follow suit? >> yes, there are questions. but we were slow ourselves. we're very small. like we're not used to talk -- like america, when america talks in a tragedy like this, things happen. the world moves. when holland talks, nobody really listens for the first few days. we need the american president to do it for us or the european union and that's hard because you need all those countries lined up to do something for you, to express that outrage. so being small is a disadvantage in this tragedy. we are basically never heard of, and we also don't have the american senators who directly say on tv we need to do military action, we need to secure the perimeter, secure the crash site. we, the dutch, they don't do that. there's none of that on television or in the national debate. so it took time. and now finally, yes, we are heavily invested in russia. i think after china and germany, we're the biggest investor in
russia, the biggest trade partner with russia. so if we put ourselves on the line and, you know, beef up the sanctions that would happen today, we would get hit and the people still want it because they are mad. they're angry. they want to show the world. but if we can, i don't know. >> so let me turn the question around. if there are not severe sanctions, if for some reason russia passes through this without really being impacted greatly, vladimir putin personally, what do you suggest is next? >> well, i think what will happen is what's happened in the past. you know, in the past our responses have been tactical sanctions and some limited support to the ukrainians and russia's response has been to actually stoke up further the insurgents, to arm them, as we saw providing increasingly sophisticated weapons, including the buk sa-11. if u.s.'s response and the
europe response is weak, we should expect him to ramp up and go against other countries in the space of the former soviet union. >> thomas. >> so, ian, as we look at what's taking place with the european union, and has michiel points out, what's the point of the e.u. if the least among them or the lesser influential among them is not listened to, what is the point of the muscle, the collective point of the e.u. if they cannot then do something collectively to sanction russia to get its attention? >> well, in this case the enormous potential to the e.u. would be left lying to waste, so to speak. i'm amazed by the economic disproportion between the e.u. and russia in this situation. the e.u. is a $12 trillion globally integrated economy. it gets what, some 30% of its imported gas, not total use but imported gas from russia. russia is a $2 trillion gas
station with only one customer, the e.u. so there's a lot of leverage the e.u. has. if there was an economic showdown, yes, the e.u. would have a price to pay. it would be painful. but the e.u. has been on three years of growth, small growth but positive growth. russia is a teetering economy. if there was an economic showdown built around severe sanctions by the west, it would be a body blow to the russian economy. still ahead on "morning joe," the latest on washington state's wildfires. what officials are now doing to contain it. and a family is kicked off their flight after dad sends a disgruntled tweet. we'll show you -- we'll show you what he said. some might agree with what the father tweeted, you never know. plus the city one survey has named the unhappiest in the united states. which one could that be? >> new haven. >> new haven, connecticut? what's wrong with you. that's terrible! most awesome pizza.
>> frank peppy's and sally's. >> oh my -- >> what, the pizza place? but first here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> misbehaving right, mika, as always. good morning, everyone. we're happy today. it's not a bad day across the country. we don't have a lot of severe weather to talk about, nothing in the tropics to worry about, it's just a hot summer morning in many spots of the west. yesterday, by the way, salt lake city, you don't think of that as a hot location, 103 degrees. phoenix 114, so that's even hot by your standards, and much of the country saw a steamy day. it has changed in the east. this weather pattern has been with us ever since the spring. the great lakes, ohio valley continue to be unusually chilly. indianapolis, by the way, is on pace for their coldest july ever recorded. with this forecast coming towards the end of july, that's not going to change so the cool weather pattern remains in the great lakes today. as we go towards next week,
especially talking monday, tuesday, wednesday, another polar invasion from the north, the second one in july. it was bad enough with the first one and now we're getting a second one, but it does look like temperatures are going to be very cool. chicago, detroit, all through michigan. not a great time to be on vacation up there if you want to go to the pool or lake. look at indianapolis on monday with a high of only 73 degrees in the middle of the summer. let's take you to the west coast where you're going to enjoy another pretty quiet day there in l.a. the interior west is hot but you haven't had a hot summer in l.a. with a lot of marine clouds. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas.
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time now to take a look at the morning papers from our parade of papers, "the seattle times," president obama has declared a state of emergency in washington as one of the worst wildfires in state history continues to burn. over 2500 firefighters are battling the massive fire which has spread across more than a quarter million acres. one person was killed and nearly 500 homes have been evacuated. officials say the fire is over 50% contained. "the new york times," a new study showing acetaminophen, the active ingredient in tylenol, may not be as effective as once thought when it comes to alleviating lower back pain. research conducted at the university in australia found no difference between the recovery time of those who took acetaminophen and those that took a placebo. the medication has been proven effective for headaches, toothaches and pain after surgery. >> i could have told you that about back pain. >> all right, "usa today," seven
people have been arrested in connection with the global cyber crime ring which illegally accessed 1600 stubhub accounts and purchased tickets. authorities say the suspects would access customer accounts and use the stored credit card information to rack up ticket orders which they would later resell for a profit. the thieves are accused of stealing more than $1.6 million worth of tickets, john heilemann. is that you? >> i'm his stubhub. >> mike is my stubhub. >> mike barnicle. go ahead, thomas. >> "the wall street journal" is reporting that facebook is trying to make it easier for you to find content on the web without leaving its website or app. the company's engineers are working on new ways to incorporate all sorts of content searches beyond person-to-person connections. it was last week that facebook celebrated shakira's 100 millionth like. the pop star's page is a prime
example of facebook where fans can buy her music, and get updates about future appearances. "the daily mail" if you're walking on the streets of manhattan, chances are you may be standing next to a millionaire. a new study says one out of every 25 new yorkers makes seven figures. that's nearly 5% of all individuals living in the big apple. new york city ranks fourth on the worldwide list, behind monaco, zurich and geneva. >> and they say we're out of touch with the real people. so "the new york daily news" is reporting that a study suggests new yorkers may have the blues. >> i agree, i think they do. >> according to the national bureau of economic research, new york city is the unhappiest town in the u.s. researchers asked residents how satisfied they are in their lives and factored in race, education, marital status and family size. rounding out the top five unhappiest towns are pittsburgh, louisville, milwaukee and detroit. >> i don't buy that at all.
pittsburgh, louisville, milwaukee, no. detroit, maybe. they're shutting people's water off in detroit. >> unbelievable story. >> milwaukee, people are very happy there. people love their brewers. >> why are people unhappy in new york. >> i just found out i'm unhappy because i'm walking next to millionaires all the time and i'm not one of them. so let's turn that frown upside down and into a smile. the happiest places include richmond, norfolk, virginia. washington, d.c. >> no way. >> oh, my god. >> okay. this study is just bogus on every point. >> i have lived in several of those places. very happy people. >> atlanta. >> my god. >> maybe they're happy in washington because they're so unself aware. >> that could be. >> that could be a little bit of a psychosis. they're so clueless that they're happy. they have no idea that they're wreaking havoc on our country, getting nothing done. >> they know. >> no, i don't think they do.
>> it's a misery pit. >> it's not a happy place. i lived there. >> people are so unhappy because sam lives there. >> all right, fine. let's move to the "los angeles time" a minneapolis family says they were asked to get off a southwest flight after tweeting a negative review of the airline's service. the father says he sent his tweet after he experienced poor service from a southwest employee at their departing gate. the family was later instructed to delete the tweet to -- >> oh, no, come on. >> this is america. >> after the employee mentioned she felt, quote, threatened for her safety. i don't know, we weren't there. what was the tweet? i think we know. >> how nasty was it? >> they made them delete it, but i think it was something about the rudest, you know -- >> how big was his twitter account? that's the key. >> what the heck? >> nine followers. >> some random deal with nine
followers. >> did they go to his twitter? this doesn't make any sense. >> it makes me want to follow him now, though. >> it kind of proved the guy's point. >> exactly. >> what thin skin, geez. >> i know. >> sounds like something you would do. >> i wouldn't tweet it. people who run those twitter accounts at the airlines are a little crotchety sometimes. >> it's hard, though. it's hard dealing with people. let's get to "the denver post" where a tv news helicopter captured the final moments of a dramatic manhunt. wait until you see. this a carjacking suspect broke into a house carrying a gun, crashing through the garage in a stolen suv. police had been looking for the guy in connection with a string of alleged crimes. so he makes his way toward a busy interstate where after getting stuck in a ditch he takes off on foot attempting to steal another vehicle. police catch up to him and with some help of bystanders the man is taken into custody but you can see he's armed right there. the cop gets him, tackles him, takes him down. >> chokehold. >> that's when you would use
that chokehold. >> down you go. >> i don't know why you like that. let's move on. the whole thing is sad. okay. joining us now with political playbook, the president and ceo of politico, jim vandehei. jim, we're starting this morning, politico, with the clinton wars. really? what's going on? in the d.c. suburbs? what's going on? >> it's a delicious house race to watch. barbara caomstock who people in washington knows from the clinton days, she was the lead investigator and now she's running for a seat she probably will win. i think she's the odds-on favorite to win in the suburbs of virginia. it's sort of a rehash of those '90s wars. she's got congressman burton, david bossi, ken star, all these figures from the '90s supporting her. running against her you have terry mcauliffe, who is now the
governor but was intimately involved with the clintons. you've got paul pegala trashing her. he's been saying she'll come back to washington and be a reprisal of what we saw in the 1990s. it's one of the closer races. she's an interesting person, a workaholic and somebody who's been a thorn in the clintons' side forever. if hillary clinton were to win, this town never changes. >> is this northern virginia, jim? >> yep. she's not that far out. frank wolf's district, not far from d.c. relatively a swing district. it's one that mitt romney won, it's one republicans should win but it's close enough that if you have terry mcauliffe and other democrats pouring money into it, given who she is, given her fame especially in democratic clinton circles, it makes it one of the few competitive house races to actually watch. >> jim vandehei, thank you. the flight ban into israel has been lifted but does a threat still persist? we'll speak to someone who knows a lot about keeping airlines
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we are following breaking news this morning out of africa. yet another missing plane.
an air algerie flight went off radar about 50 minutes into the flight. there are said to be 110 passengers and six crew members on board. dozens of french passengers are believed to be on that flight. a french minister says the plane was lost over mali. the faa considers flying over mali risky given fighting with al qaeda-linked insurgents. if there's more information we'll bring it to you immediately. while we're on the issue of air safety, it's certainly a topic of concern following the downing of malaysia flight 17 and the u.s. decision to halt flights into tel aviv for 24 hours. that flight ban was lifted overnight. joining us to talk about this the former director of security for el al airlines, isaac yeffet. thank you very much for being on the show this morning. first of all, your thoughts on
the ban into -- it was in response to a rocket -- a strike that landed about a mile from the airport. that seems to make sense, does it not? >> no. >> no? >> i don't think this is the reason to instruct the u.s. airlines to stop flying to israel. two weeks the war between israel and the terrorist organization hamas was day and night and every day hamas sent rockets toward israel. between 100 and 150 rockets every day. nothing happens. the airlines are flying in a secure area. the rockets cannot hit the aircraft. israel invented anti-missiles by the name of iron dome that blow any missile that might cause any
damage. so nothing happened in the war so -- >> i understand where you're coming from here. but from the other point of view, from the american point of view, from our point of view in terms of airline security. we're not talking about passengers getting on a plane going through security. we are talking about an occasion during the calamity, the chaos of war, when close to an airport a rocket-propelled grenade carried by someone from hamas or some terrorist organization having come through the tunnel with an rpg, a shoulder-held rpg could take a plane out of the sky just as it landed in its most vulnerable point like that. not missile, not nothing, boom, like that. >> i just spoke this morning with the captain from iran 747 and he made it very clear that these rockets cannot hit any aircraft within our air because these rockets are only against land, not against anything on air.
>> i understand. please try to understand this point of view. a rocket-propelled grenade is not a missile. it is something that within 200 yards, most vulnerable point for a plane coming in right on the runway, you can be right beneath it or taking off, an rpg, you can hit a plane. >> my answer to this, that's why we invented the anti-rockets that take any rockets on air. >> you're not understanding what i'm saying. >> i think i do understand. if you will allow me just to finish. >> sure. >> the anti-rockets invented to hit any rockets or any missile that will be sent toward israel and there is any chance to damage or to cause any harm to human being or anyone else, this rocket by the name of iron dome will hit and destroy the
rockets, so the chances are so slim that i don't think that for this we have to stop flying from the united states to israel and the results, all the european immediately follow the instruction of the faa. now, the faa, thank god, i'm glad that they cancelled -- they changed their decision and they allow the american airlines to fly back to israel, and immediately after that the european decided and made a statement they are going to fly pack to israel. >> sam. >> you've said that you think this was a political decision, correct? >> i don't want to say now -- i don't want to go into politics. >> you said there is politics behind this. >> i don't want to discuss about politics, but i think that from security point of view, i don't think -- >> well, i just want to make sure. you said in the fast forum that you thought there was politics behind this. >> politics? >> yes. >> no, i said i hope there is no
politics behind this. that's what i said. >> i was just wondering. there's a historical perspective here which is in the '91 gulf war flights were suspended into tel aviv because of concerns about safety and i think the viewers would want to know that it wasn't just american airlines that suspended flights but air canada, for instance, also suspended their flights. so you would agree there was widespread legitimate concerns and dismiss the idea there was some u.s. boycott going on. >> we know who is leading in this world. when the united states decides to cancel flights for security point of view, do you expect canada to continue flying or european? once the usa decided to allow now the u.s. air carriers to fly to israel, look, magic, canada and -- all europe decided now we can fly back. >> magic or just, you know, confirming that it was safe. one or the other. >> but the contradiction would be if iron dome is so successful
and that it is safe, security concerns aside from the faa, then what is the reason that we're watching israel go into gaza and try to decimate hamas because of the rockets that they're launching? it's a contradiction in terms of safety concerns, it's a contradiction in terms of the incursion. >> it's not only the hamas rockets. it's all of the tunnels. dozens of tunnels that they did and spent all the millions of dollars instead of giving to the refugees, to their people, they spent it to build a tunnel that go from gaza strip toward israeli territory. and in no time when they cross the tunnel, they go to innocent families that live in the israeli territory and do massacre. this is what caused israel to go to war. and number two, israel just said they would not withdraw until they will clean all of the
tunnels that are risking the life of the israeli citizens. >> i think we all can agree we're hoping for a cease-fire sometime soon, isaac yeffet. thank you so much for your perspective. still ahead, apple's smart watch, facebook's earnings and geopolitics weighing heavy on the markets. business before the bell next. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh there's good more... honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy.
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>> are you excited that it's always in airplane mode? >> oh, yeah, that's good. >> i just like that it has an apple insignia on the back. >> so you would buy anything? >> pretty much anything from apple. >> it is an embarrassment -- >> wow, that is embarrassing. >> an embarrassment of riches talking to good people. business before the bell with cnbc's sara eisen. sara, so that was a good ad for apple knowing that people will pretty much buy anything with their name on it. brief us on what's going on with apple and how the markets are looking. >> i don't know with apple. i just want to tell you that apple was a major topic of discussion on wall street because people here are really excited about the new product refresh, including the iwatch, as claim as some people think it may be because apple is spending 36% more on r & d in the last quarter and that was sort of a hint, hint that something big
and exciting is coming because they're spending more. so maybe, maybe it will be a game-changer like the iphone. >> mika, you had that, didn't you? >> no, i have the samsung. it actually works pretty well. >> but you don't wear it anymore. >> i don't. i like it right here. a nice big tablet. tablet phone. tab phone. >> some are bigger than the 1950 de soto. >> beyond apple i just want to mention good news on the economy here just breaking. jobless claims, the number of americans filing for unemployment claims, below 300,000. in fact the lowest level since february, 2006. it's a big deal. it continues to point to improvement in this labor market. also want to mention some breaking news on walmart, a company that we follow obviously very closely here. the head of the u.s., the ceo of the u.s. division of walmart, bill simon, has resigned this
morning n his place will be the head of the international markets. he covered china and japan. it's just an interesting move because walmart has been suffering with decreased traffic, with trying to match those low prices and it's been having trouble with its u.s. sales. so potentially an interesting strategy change by walmart. we'll have to watch. the stock didn't react too much but it does look like we're starting off positive here on wall street. better earnings. >> thanks, sara. sara eisen, as always, great to see you. coming up next, new questions about death penalty procedures after an arizona inmate stayed alive long enough for lawyers to file an emergency stay. we'll have reaction to that. keep it locked in on "morning joe." we're back in a moment. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been at the forefront of advanced electronics. providing technology to get more detail... ♪ detect hidden threats... ♪
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there is renewed scrutiny of lethal injections this morning after what opponents of the death penalty are calling another botched execution. it happened in arizona where it took joseph wood nearly two hours to die. witnesses say it was a troubling scene as the convicted murderer repeatedly gasped and snorted. joining us now nbc news correspondent hallie jackson. what's the latest in terms of especially what arizona officials are saying? >> what the governor is doing, mika. the governor wants a review now of this execution and a district court is ordering the state to preserve evidence.
witnesses described the scene during the hour and 57 minutes it took to execute joseph wood. >> you could hear a deep snoring, sucking air sound. and this went on for more than an hour and a half. >> family members of his victims see nothing wrong with what happened. >> everybody is more worried about did he suffer. who really suffered was my dad and my sister when they were killed. >> wood had been on death row since those murders in 1989. his lawyers appealed, questioning the controversial cocktail of drugs that put him to death. the same combination used in an execution that took 25 minutes in ohio in january. >> why the state would pick those two same drugs for mr. wood's execution, i don't know. >> reporter: arizona's state aclu wants executions put on hold. the corrections department says it followed protocol and governor jan brewer says while she's concerned about the length of the execution, it was legal. for jeannie brown, who has waited years to see her family's
killer put to death, it was simply two more hours waiting for justice. >> this man deserved it and i shouldn't really call him a man. he deserved everything he had coming to him. >> remember, it was a botched execution in oklahoma this spring that really set off that national debate about lethal injection. in that instance clayton lockett was pronounced dead after 43 minutes, mika. >> thank you very much. you know, it's hard to believe that they still use that caulk -- that drug cocktail at this point. it didn't work now obviously more than once. >> well, the issue is they don't have a cocktail, a set of -- a mix of drugs they know that is foolproof and people have been asking to get more information about what drugs are being used. authorities are saying no, you can't have that information because we're worried that the manufacturers would be targeted by groups, by people concerned about the death penalty. but we are a country is very rare in the fact that we do
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well, the clock is ticking on congress to see if they can do anything on a border bill before heading home. we'll get the latest on what kind of bill can make it through the house or the senate with democratic congressman jim clyburn as well as a senator. the ban on u.s. airliners into israel ban has been lifted as secretary kerry tries to bring the violence to a temporary end. and also this morning, democrats are hoping for a wave of women voters to bring them success in november. how much of an uphill fight will that be? good morning from washington. it's thursday, july 24th, 2014, this is "the daily rundown." just seven days before congress heads home.
hey, everybody. good morning, it is sunday, the 11th of may. i'm anna kooiman. a fox news alert, new shocking details of what happened after a hot air balloon collided with power lines and burst into flames. two of the victims have been identified while crews search for a third. a live report straight ahead. and brand new members of benghazi's select committee vowing to deliver justice finally. >> the american people want to know the truth about what happened that night in the early hours of the next day. they want to know the truth. and we owe the truth to them. >> the democrats agree.
will they even participant? we'll have the latest on that coming up. if you disagree with common core and you are a right extremist, so does caring about your child's education make you a bigot? we'll tell you who said those words. not me. "fox and friends weekend" begins right now. >> i love you, mom. >> love you, mom. good morning. >> it is mother's day. >> happy mother's day, everyone. a live look down vacant sixth avenue while people are hopefully spending time with their moms today. >> everyone is making their mama breakfast in bed today. we want to say a big thank you to 1-800-flowers. i've been fighting with the makeup and hair ladies today. they are amazing.
>> can you send in your photos this morning if you are making breakfast in bed for your mom this morning? show the disaster that will be your kitchen this morning. i want to see those photos. send them to us on twitter, ffweekend, we'll show photos of your mom's breakfast in bed if you can pull it off. first, a fox news alert this morning. heartwrenching details for the final moments of members aboard a hot air balloon that caught fire in virginia. >> revealing pictures of more of those who died on board at the time. peter doocy has more. >> reporter: good morning. the three people who took flight in the hot air balloon that caught fire in the frightening scene on friday waited around all day to liftoff. and that very sadly reflected on the social media accounts of one victim, jenny doyle, who tweeted this, tried it at 6:30 a.m. but was too foggy. we'll go up this evening,
#anxiety. almost 12 hours later around 6:00 p.m., they did go up but after two hours in the air during its decent the balloon hit a power line, caught fire and crashed to the ground. the body of genny doyle and the woman's basketball coach for the last 16 years and the former player herself has been recovered. so has the body of the balloon's pilot unidentified. another passenger, 24-year-old natalie lewis who coached with the university of richmond basketball's team is still missing. and investigators are now combing an area of thick woods in virginia looking for her. more than 100 rescuers are joining in the search effort down in caroline county. and the parents of natalie are quoted asking for prayers still holding out hope their daughter survived the scary accident where two of the people in the gondola were seen by people in the ground jumping or falling
from the gondola while the pilot tried desperately to control the flames before the balloon separated from the gondola sending it crashing to the earth. the whole time people on the ground could hear helpless passengers crying for help and screaming that they thought they were going to die. back to you in new york. >> such a sad story. thank you, peter. peter, you have something special for somebody special in your life today, it is mother's day after all, right? >> it is. >> you have a photo? >> oh, are we going to haul it up right now? there it is. that is my sister. i'm there on the left. that is my sister sally in the little carriage, and mary is in the car seat. that's the first mother's day altogether. >> are you driving? >> i was driving, yes. they start them young in fairfax county, virginia, when i was little. >> you must be in the u.k. or australia or something on the other side.
peter, thank you so much. >> yep. we have other stories making headlines this sunday morning. we want to get to the embattled phoenix v.a. is getting a new health chief. steve young who is head of the salt lake v.a. will shift to phoenix tomorrow as interim director. young will now oversee health care for 85,000 veterans. the move comes after heavy criticism over allegations of hiding treatment delays that alleged to the death of 40 veterans. many organizations have called for the resignation of v.a. secretary eric shinseki. and shoppers at a mall think they hair gunshots. it turns out that noise was actually exploding car tires. paramus police say a car went up in flames at the garden state plaza mall and minutes later
people reported to hear the mall was evacuated as a precaution. police found no evidence of gunfire or a gunman. this is the same mall where a 20-year-old man fired shots into the air in november before turning the gun on himself. and the search is on for three missing boaters in falsom lake outside of sacramento, california. the 40-foot boat capsized and the three passengers aboard haven't been seen since. windy weather and choppy weather hasn't helped the search earth as boats, helicopters and divers scour the lake. they called off the search as darkness fell with the search resuming this morning. well, tomorrow marks the first day in almost three years a tourist will be allowed to visit the washington monument. the national landmark closed in the summer of 2011 after an earthquake shook the entire structure damaging it quite badly. repairs cost $15 million, half of which were paid by
philanthropist david rubenstein. those are your headlines. paid for by an individual, that's the only thing working in washington. pretty unbelievable. we have been following from the very beginning the aftermath of the benghazi tragedy almost two years ago. here's the very latest, so there is a special committee that has been formed by republicans. democrats have not decided whether they will be part of that. seven republicans have been selected for the select committee. there will be five democratic seats, but nancy pelosi has nod decided whether or not to allow members of the caucus to join them. the congressman of georgia made this point in response to what you heard from democrats lately, who cares, it's over. here's her response to that. >> it's just a continuation of the message that secretary of state then clinton said what difference does it make? well, it makes a big difference to the american people. the american people want to know the truth about what happened
that night and in the early hours of the next day. they want to know the truth. and we owe the truth to them and we owe it to those four families that had loved ones murdered in this attack. >> and the idea of how many investigations are we going to have? we need to figure out exactly what happened and when the promise of the most transparent presidency in history doesn't seem to be coming to fruition when congress can't get the same documents that a nonprofit judicial watch had to sue for, even the freedom information act, points to a cover-up. >> right. and the documents continue to trickle out as late as last week they continue to come out. so i find it amazing the democrats are continuing to criticize this and yet to tucker's point, they have not decided to join the select committee or not. so they will just insult it and mock it to say it's a political stunt. last night on "judge jeanine"
this man has this to say about the entire process. >> i would scream from my lungs forward. justice deserves to be served. if they don't, they have so much to lose, it tells americans they are not interested in the truth and interested about a video, and that includes the president, judge, as well. he was the one that went in front of the united nations to talk about the video, even back then, two weeks after benghazi. so they are not interested in the truth, they are only interested in their narratives. >> and not participating in this seams like the political stunt that nancy pelosi is accusing john boehner of doing. it seems like just the opposite is actually happening. >> we are a long way of healing these wounds. if somebody, anybody were taken into custody for these murders. news organizations have been able to interview suspects in this case, but the u.s. government -- >> we can't track them but we can track american citizens. here's a question, have you been critical of common core?
many have. i might be, but there's a legitimate debate about common core, but not according to the southern poverty law center. the self-described civil rights group in georgia issued a report recently that said groups that criticize common core, the federal education standards are right-wing extremists. >> they specifically point out fox news and by having a discussion say this, the disinformation campaign is being driven by the likes of fox news, the john burkes society, tea party faction and the christian right. we've had healthy debates on both sides of the common core debate. parents are outraged about it and also administrators like common core. we have had a healthy debate about it here. so it is fox news to blame for the problem of common core, not the implementation of it across states across this country, the way educators are not implementing it, it's been done by administrators, but it is our fault as fox news. >> here's the problem, again, there's legitimate debate about
common core. this does not abate that debate. this shuts it down. this is another example of the left using bigotry to get people they disagree with to shut up. this is not inviting people to have a rational discussion about anything. it's saying, be quiet, you disagree with you, you're a bigot. >> we are trying to get the same kids to learn the same thing at the same time across the country, and have this uniform set of standards, but it doesn't work for everyone. so clearly that's one of the biggest problems. one of the great things about it is they are trying to get more people to graduate and be able to pass the tests in order to get their high school diploma and then go to college and graduate from there. >> coming up, we'll show you a math problem that takes six steps to do and it takes one step to do it. so there could be issues. >> one less thing you saw from president obama the other day on
global warming, there's no debate. anyone who engages in it is a neatndrethal. >> you can weigh in on foxnews.com. and let's go to rick reichmuth and his mother's day forecast. >> or there's not enough meteorology in common core. we should have a lot more of that. this morning you're waking up to things better that yesterday on the east coast. it will be a nice day for all the moms across new england and the southeast. things are clearing out. the central part of the country is where the problems are going to be. big storms moving in near i-80 near nebraska. some are already severe. and we have the storm pulmoing into the rockies bringing snow from the wasatch of utah to the colorado rockies. and it will be heavy. big-time winter snow still. take a look at this. today's severe weather threat anywhere in yellow with the
threat for severe weather, but the red bull's-eye could be a large track tornadoes, especially across nebraska and iowa. starting midday today, we'll have to watch for the tornado threat in that area. >> thank you, rick. coming up here on the show, it's the latest veterans affair bombshell. e-mails revealing employees at the v.a. hospital in wyoming were instructed to manipulate patient records. and worse, the head of the v.a. knew about it for years. how the veterans react, next. and this story will make you smile. a tiny dog gets a big helping hand. now he and the man that saved him are getting their 15 minutes of fame. it's a good story. ♪ scott: appears buster's been busy. man: yeah, scott. i was just about to use the uh... scott: that's a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and
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hello and good morning. 16 minutes after the hour on your sunday morning. a v.a. employee has been placed on administrative leave after an e-mail surfaced on directing his staff on how to, quote, game the system. the e-mail from david newman reads this, yes, it is gaming the system a bit, but you have to know the rules of the game you are playing and when we exceed the 14-day measure, the front office gets very upset. well, this is just the latest in the string of problem that is have been surfacing with the v.a., so how is the veterans office helping and reacting? we'll can jesse james guff, a member of the concerned veterans of america. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> finally some action has been taken. the secretary made the action on may 9th when he found out about this, but jesse james duffy, our producers uncovered a report from december showing that there
was some information revealed saying the very same thing. >> you know what? i find this has been going on continuously and veterans are aware of this. this has been going on in the past year alone. five deaths were associated with a lack of care and dorne medical facility. we have had multiple deaths due to ligoniers disease in ohio. and 1.5 million records have been deleted for appointments by the v.a. and the secretary is acting like, now i am coming in to save the day? that's apalling to me. >> it is inarguable that he's a war hero with good intentions, so where is the disconnect on all this? >> i applaud him on being a veteran but many of the veterans have served multitell tours overseas and put their lives on the line also. so to give him special privilege because of his status, how about
what the v.a. is possible for? when the v.a. cares more about numbers than its lives, it has lost its soul. >> the media has been asking tough questions and finally some action is what we're seeing with some accountability, but how do we get more of this? nobody's lost their job. >> that's another thing. it's a v.a. accountability management, manageability and accountability act. it's the same thing that secretary hagel can do, fire executives. sharon hagel out in phoenix who allowed the secret list of 1600 veterans? she was promoted after fudging numbers out of seattle, washington, on veteran suicide. so instead of moving them out, they move them up. >> just move them to a different state making sure nobody will notice is what a lot of critics are saying. how high do you think this culture of alleged corruption
with cooking the books goes, how high up you think? >> when 1.5 million records were found by the government accountability office to have just disappeared, it's as if the veterans don't exist. 1.5 million records were deleted and we don't know whether the veterans ever received care. the 40 veterans dead in phoenix and the 5 in dorne medical facility, i think it is thousands of veterans that have lost their lives. >> when they signed up to serve, they certainly were thinking they would be taken care of when coming home. we want to make sure they get some great care. jess jessie duff, thank you. a kindergarten bullying? one city wants to make it a misdemeanor for 5-year-olds. good idea or gone too far? and it doesn't get any closer than this. a church just inches away from destruction by a boulder. call it a divine intervention, what do you think about this?
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time for some quick headlines this sunday morning. first up, is this divine intervention? >> he missed it by 1 foot. >> holy smokes. this happened in a church outside boston in a nearby demolition. the massive 20-ton boulder started rolling to the church and came to a stop just a few inches from the building. and st. louis rams michael sam is the first openly gay
player drafted in the nfl. he tweeted out this photo thanking the rams and he gets to stay in missouri where he played in college for mizzou. one city in california going the extra step in the war against bullying. carson city is making the act a crime for children as young as 5. the city council has given preliminary approval to make it punishable with a ticket and $100 fine, second is $200 fine and third is a criminal misdemeanor? is it too much and too young? dr. charles william, thank you for being here. welcome. >> good to see you. >> dr. ablow, what is going on here? >> a step too far and only in california i would say, clayton. the idea that you're going to criminalize bullying for kindergartners, what about empowering parents? what about schools taking on the responsibility to teach kids
civic responsibility and empathy? this is basically empowering the state as parents and traumatizing kids. guess what? if i'm in carson city, i'm not showing up in court with my 5-year-old to be charged for bullying. he's going to learn his dad doesn't subject him to traumas even if the state wants it. >> dr. charles williams, is that the responsibility of the state to basically do the parenting for them? is this not an overreaction? you disagree? >> look, let me be the first to say that to some extent it does seem like an overreaction, but as my colleague mentioned, he's going to step in and do the right thing. the problem is far too many parents have not stepped in. they are not doing the right thing. and because of that, kids are dying, they are killing themselves all over the country from tyler clemente. so the state is stepping in when parents don't do their job. they have an obligation to step in and do the job and this is a
result of that. >> we are not talking about putting a 5-year-old in jail, but intervening the bully's life, who is the person hurting two and the victim's life. forgive all the commas there in that, but he's kind of supporting what doctor williams is saying here, right? if parents don't step in, we have to do something. >> chief, for a second, i thought this was the normal or nuts episode. nuts, right? intervene then. provide counseling. rehabilitate the potential would-be bully so you show that child empathy. the criminal justice system is a miserable failure at resurrecting the life of people. and for a colleague of mine to suggest turning over the healing of bullies, would-be bullies, 5-year-olds who seem mean to the state and the criminal justice system is folly. >> dr. williams, i'll give you the final word. >> i think that's a bit -- i don't think a kindergartner is going to jail.
but the message is sent that far too many parents all over america have advocated the responsibility and the state is stepping in to -- >> the state must control everything. what a prescription for disaster. >> all right. we'll leave it there. thank you for a heated debate at 6:30 in the morning eastern time. dr. ablow, dr. williams, have a great sunday. it may be legal, but one doesn't care deciding to ban guns because they, quote, create an uncomfortable situation? do you agree with that? and fighting in front of the kids, good or bad? new research mothers need to see this morning. how to parent your children the right way. ♪
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mom. that's a cool picture. >> and writer matt leach, sister katie and mother mary. >> an oldie but goodie. and one of the production assistants here with her mother, priscilla. >> and here is another one of our writers and his mother, robin. >> and here is heather from our show, happy mother's day. >> that's a happy life. we have a happy life here on "fox and friends." when dunkin donuts shows up, and we have the flowers for mom donuts. instead of making breakfast, just go get mom a box of these. >> like you can improve on that? you can't do better than this. that's the flowers for mom donut made especially for mother's day. when the cameras go off, these will be consumed so fast. >> one bite at a time.
>> is that on a ice cream cake? look how well -- >> you have two dunkin donuts ladies here that you can't see on camera. thank you, guys. happy mother's day, everyone. parenting tips. according to a new study, here are six or seven research-backed tips. praise kids for the effort they make, not for their innate intelligence. >> this teaches them that they have a control over their success. >> right. then you are not rewarding them -- research shows when rewarding kids for just doing things or you're giving them money or awards for things that they don't learn to want to improve, but when they see efforts behind their work, they did a great job and worked really hard. then they are likely to do it again. >> don't mindlessly praise kids. you are wonderful and incredible. kids aren't stupid. they are not incredible.
>> they are mediocre. >> i'm serious. kids overpraised don't take risks. >> exactly. that's the word i was looking for, risk. they don't take risks and don't want to fail in front of other people. if they are rewarded improperly -- get enough sleep. something we didn't do enough of last night. kids need snuenough sleep, liken hours. >> a sixth grader who gets one less hour of sleep will have an i.q. that day of a fourth grader, two grade levels lower. rest is rest. tucker, thanks. >> parents, give your kids 15 hours of sleep. >> and kids need rules and structure. you don't need to be overbearing but they need to know this is what time you go to bed, these are when things happen around this house, this is how we do things, fall in line, soldier. >> so lax parents who are more permissible end up having poor-behaved children. >> wild kids.
>> wild child! >> fighting with kids is normal say researchers. and fighting is probably not the word, but debating. kids as they get older get saucy, i have heard. and it's okay to debate them to keep it rational as long as you can. and researchers say that's fine. they also say, and this is completely insane, that fighting in front of kids is a good thing. >> i totally disagree. i'll fight with you now on it because fighting with a resolution in front of your kids, having a healthy debate, not punching, having a healthy debate and then resolved it in front of your kids, so your kids can see how you're able to resolve conflict. >> that makes sense. >> but i'm not sure kids can process it. i don't think kids have the perspective necessary to say, everything is okay. mom and dad are just resolving something reasonably. i think a lot of kids feel like, oh, my gosh, the foundations of my world are shaking. >> i think you're right on that. it probably depends how old. 3 years old, maybe they are not ready for that.
>> and it depends on what you are fighting over for dinner and came to a resolution, one wants chicken and turkey, then you say let's have burgers tonight instead. >> just remember, daddy's ranks because you cry. >> that was not on the list. go to friends@foxnews.com. more international help arriving in nigeria to find the 300 school girls kaidnapped by the extremists. they hope to find where the terrorists are hiding. the u.s. officials believe the girls could have been split up and may be in other countries. the same group now being blamed for bombing a bridge in northeastern nigeria killing several people and abducting the wife and two children of a retired police officer. utah, the latest state to join the fight against the
bureau of land management. du du dozens of atv riders are protesting the closure of a trail since 2007. they claim riders have damaged ancient artifacts on what were sacred native american lands, but protesters say the bureau is cheating them out of outdoor recreation. the blm is looking to punish any of the riders. and jack in the box caving to opposition joining starbucks in banning guns inside its restaurant. this happens after a group called moms demand action launched a petition forcing the company to change their policy. quote, the presence of guns inside a restaurant could create an uncomfortable situation for our guests and employees and lead to unintended consequences. and a smooth move from a police officer rescuing a scared
with my with chihuahua. he was coaxing the dog toward him and brought it to a local animal shelter. they believe someone intentionally left the poor pooch on the median but turns out he already has several people wanting to adopt him. >> there's no way he got up there by himself. >> out of the highway? >> must have been a good one. that's how we coach them, with a protein bar. >> or a donut or something. hey, guys. it is mother's day and most of the country is looking good, but we have a couple trouble spots. as you wake up, 75 degrees in kansas city. and you might be thinking, that's amazing, and it is, but that's also to cause the problems today. very warm air, very juice sis air. we'll see the severe weather firing there later on. the east coast we have showers and thunderstorms move through yesterday behind it with a nice day. i'll tell you what. enjoy it. this week and across the east
coast is not looking good. a very rainy week tuesday into wednesday for four to five days. severe weather across parts of southeastern areas of nebraska. and then look at all the snow falling across parts of utah and in towards colorado. here's what the future radar looks like. this is how we think today will play out. we are going to start to see the severe storms fire this afternoon. do expect to see potentially a few large tornadoes for lincoln, omaha, and over to des moines. if you are in the area, watch it. but notice all the rain in this area. so unfortunately moms across the northern plains and central plains are looking rainy. what we do every year is show pictures or talk to our moms, but my mom said to me this year, any chance you can not call me this year? >> my mother's day gift this year is for you not to call me. >> she didn't want to wake up at 3:40 in the morning in arizona. >> they are camping this weekend so she would have to get up from their camping trailer and do it,
but they sent in great pictures. they are camping and hiking. looking absolutely beautiful. this is my mom with her great-grandchild. it's hard to believe my mom has a great-grandchild there. that's unbelievable. >> thank you, rick. very cool. coming up, christians fleeg the middle east in droves. really? but not because they want to but because they are being driven out. a shocking report. and i watched this shocking video. the most shocking of the day. the 18-wheeler tossed around the highw highway. how the driver managed to stay on course somehow. ♪
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hey, everybody. 44 minutes after the hour. some quick headlines. heavy winds nearly knock over this 18-we'ller heading down a highway. the truck driving was just one side touching the ground as it careens out of control. somehow the driver keeps it from flipping over but ends up off the road. and voting for the next president online? it may happen if iowa democrats get their way. state party leaders are looking into a listening tour. some conservatives argue the internet is not secure. we all know how well the government-run website fared for obamacare. new reports show how badly christians are under siege in the arab world. the number of christians in the middle east has plunged to just 10% of the overall population. this is down from 25% in 2011.
well, in february 40 kris chaps were in prison, obtained or awaiting trial because of their religious beliefs. so what is the obama administration doing about any of this? middle east expert and fox news contributor lisa depp, thank you for joining us this morning. >> my pleasure. >> the obama administration is not doing much about this, is that your impression? >> it seems that in order for the obama administration to acknowledge christian persecution in the region would require them to first acknowledge we have a problem with extremism and terrorism, and that's something we have seen time and again with this administration having a hard time acknowledging and believing and bringing to the public. and we have a great example of that right now with the nigerian girls abducted. hillary clinton, the administration and the white house declined to put on the u.s. list and now everyone is jumping on the bandwagon to
bring back our girls. and now it's becoming something to get more attention. but really, at this time when we need to focus and acknowledge where in the world these terror groups are functioning and how they are becoming stronger and really taking over the population. that's where we really need to put our attention and focus. >> it seems like part of the problem in the middle east are unintentional acts. is the obama administration making specific efforts to get the christians out of the country or would that be wrong to specifically help a christian? >> right. what the obama administration is wrong about are human rights overall. they separate it from the political issue. and what the muslim world has is connecting the two issues and we know christianity is a threat.
why is it a threat? religion is a tool. how do they know that? >> it is an infallible coat and they keep the control over the population through religion and seek kris chapty as a threat. the obama administration comes to engage with iran. look at the nuclear issue. they don't use their leverage in order to talk about human rights. in america, christians are being held. with syria, we drew a red line about chemical weapons and not about the 150,000 killed or the churches being built. it was not about the christian tax put on the syrians. and go country by country, pakistan is seeing them as an allie, but we don't talk about the suicide bombers that went into a church and killed more than 100 christians last year. and the list goes on and on. so there is definitely this lack
the acknowledgment that extremism begins. terrorism is on the right and you need to speak out to use as well. >> it will be interesting to find out if those groups alarming were born before the civil war. thank you for joining us this morning. the new v.a. hospital under new management after the treatment that killed some veterans. what about the rest of the agency? and these young buys and girls are designing their own robot. anna b. coy man got up and close to the new intention inventions. we'll have that, next.
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tv and internet together like never before. good sunday morning. they are letting girls get in on the boy scout action. take a look. >> robots, you see them in the movies and in the headlines. but now the boy scouts aviation explorers are getting their hands on the technology of the future. >> wait, hold on, you built this? yourself? >> we all did. >> here at the illinois science and academy, students 6th through 12th grade can design, build and maneuver their own copter. how they would love the robots
to do the homework for them -- squad copters like these are being used in real-life situation situations. >> we are seeing them used as surveillance vehicles, delivery vehicles, patrol vehicles, aerial mapping, and i think the future is unlimited. >> the exploring program is preparing kids for careers in aviation by getting them excited about science and technology. what kid wouldn't think it's cool to fly a copter. >> here they are able to play with them. that's what we really need for students. boys will be boys. >> if you crash, don't worry about it. that's what we are here to do,
is to learn. this is teaching science, engineering and math. and the government has identified this as a big need in our society nowadays. businesses can't find the workers with those skills. >> three, two, one, blastoff! and think this is just for boys? think again. >> i started the robotic programming and want to build on an app for my phone. this is cool because some day i can use this to make a change. >> these kids are fantastic and what excites us is when they see what the copter will do, they are thinking of things we have never thought of. >> yeah, i can fly. >> maybe kids will help us to all fly one day. the boy scouts of america are opening the first of its kind discovery activity center at the woodfield mall in schaumburg, illinois, on may 31st. visit foxandfriends.com if you would like to get your kids
started at and aviation club at your school. the boy scouts are just starting the new clubs and they meet after school. extra curricular activities are good to keep kids out of trouble, but i think it is cool they are doing this. >> i think it is, too. the additional technology clubs that get the merit badges were cool. when you were in boy scouts, you build fires, camp and fish, but this is a cool addition to it. coming up on the show, terrorists kidnapped hundreds of girls, but when hillary clinton's state department was in charge, she refused to label the group as a terrorist group. why? we'll take a look. and who would win between godzilla and "breaking bad's" walter white? here's brian cranston's ans, coming up.
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i'm an anyway kooiman. new details about the hot air balloon that collided with power lines. the people on board were not supposed to be there, and was the balloon supposed to take off at all? breaking details. and his hospital had a secret list that let veterans waiting for care die. now he's gone. but what about his boss? what about accountability? we have the latest on the v.a. scandal coming up. and a pooch named major called 911 when his owner collapsed. the dog picked up the phone and called 911. those two, yes, that happened. they will join us live this friends" hour two starts right now. i love you, mom.
>> there it is, times square on this mother's day. happy mother's day. we are live from new york, this is "fox and friends." thank you for waking up with us. >> live from new york -- >> it is mother's day. and thank you for decking out our studios, 1-800-flowers. they look festive and floral. coming up in a few minutes on the show, we'll be talking godzilla. i know that's what moms want to see this morning. >> i think we get to skype with your beautiful wife, too. >> that and godzilla. my wife said, now i have to put on makeup. yes, that's right. >> well, you don't have to. it was made for sweatpant interviews. first we have headlines for you. this sunday morning, social media folks reveal the final hour of the two women on board the hot air balloon that crashed in virginia. natalie lewis and genny doyle
were both on the coaching staff for the university of richmond university's basketball team. the two tweeting and sharing instagram pictures hours before the balloon hit the power line and caught fire. turns out they were sprupposed fly earlier friday morning. ginny tweeted, tried it at 6:30 but was too foggy. will go up this evening. #anxiety. crews are searching for the third victim today. and investigation is underway after an emergency landing caused the crew to become ill. while flying from venice, italy, to philadelphia a flight attendant complained of nausea and dizziness. the pilot turned the plane around in dublin, ireland. nine crew members were rushed to the hospital after landing. 185 passengers aboard at the time. and ups workers told to lie
to customers? that's what a new delivery service is claiming two. brothers who owned and operated in new york city said the company told them to lie about the price and size to jack up the prices. ups ended up pulling the franchise deal in fresh. the brothers believe it's because they blew the whistle on the policy to dupe customers. what's the only thing cooler than an astronaut giving the commencement speech in the astronaut giving the speech from space. >> i'm in a weightless environment, so maybe i should give the speech in a different orientation. >> this astronaut here currently aboard the international space station took a break to give the university of connecticut grads some words of wisdom. the uconn alumni returns to earth this week. >> that's great. all right. well, we have been following the scandal out of the veterans
affairs department. and finally someone has lost their job, we think, at this hour. the interim director for phoenix v.a. health system has been let go, but this is just one person. what about wyoming? of course, we reported yesterday about colorado. the person in charge of the phoenix v.a. health care system has been let go. >> has been actually fired. >> actually fired. >> they are not still taking this person. >> not administrative leave? >> no, actually gone. actually gone, right? >> there she is. >> very hard to believe. >> can you believe in government someone losing their job? >> he's the only one, she's the only one. the only person in the entire federal government to be fired. >> yesterday we heard reports as general shinseki said he look into the e-mails.
a person is on administrative leave while they look through e-mails. >> and our producers uncovered a report from december 2013 out of colorado and wyoming where some of these revelations were clear but no action was taken. jess ie james duff was on the show earlier and here's what she said. she's fed up. >> 1.3 million records were found by the government accountability office to have just disappeared. it's as if the veterans don't exist. 1.5 million records have been deleted and we don't know if the veterans even received care. the 40 veterans dead in phoenix in the dorne medical facility, it is thousands of veteran that is have lost their lives and secretary shinseki is saying, now i'm coming in to save the day? that's apalling to me. >> and the president responded to -- no, wait, the president
didn't respond. the other day is when the nba owner's team is out of my head. >> donald sterling. >> scores of immigrants have died and the president has said, absolutely nothing. maybe they should say something. >> a number of people have come forward and members of congress came forward demanding that he be asked to leave, kicked out, fired, gone. would he just be taking the fall? we'll talk to a veteran later on in the show and whether or not this is the right response. >> he doesn't run the executive been ch. the president does. >> the head of the v.a. system, there are problems across the country in colorado, wyoming,
that sharon heldman was in washington. they moved her to another state. so he should have a handle on this. some say he's getting a pass because he's a war hero, but that's not an excuse for it to happen. if you have been critical of common core, a ton of people have. the debate is raging on the question. common core is good for kids. according to a group called the southern poverty law center outside atlanta which is taking this very seriously by american liberals across the country is saying people who criticize common core are almost by definition right-wing extremists to members of the john bercer society. dangerous figure iing. this information is being driven
by the likes of fox news, but some of both sides of the debate here, many angry parents are talking about the implementation of this. >> people need to teach their children well and let them lead the way. so let's talk about it and make sure that the standards are good standards. >> if you disagree, you're a bigot. if you disagree anything, therefore. meanwhile, rick reichmuth is standing by with a look at the mother's day forecast. he's out among the strong. there's a very large garbage truck with a cool decal on it, almost like a comic book, clayton, that could be your next
career. >> i like garbage trucks. >> we'll take a look at the weather maps this morning, a couple things to cause problems. tonight, heavy snow and wind and maybe five to eight inches here. this is a look at the storm, a really cold day across cheyenne and casper. the higher elevations, up to two feet of snow, and across the midwest, very warm air across the east. anywhere you see yellow, we have a threat mostly for wind and hail. could see an isolated tornado in southeastern parts of iowa and
kansas, be prepared for that. and towards the east, not much of a threat for tornadoes tomorrow, but we'll see likely a few. and we'll see very heavy rain. some areas from that omaha area up toward minneapolis, 3 to 4 inches. by monday into tuesday, down across parts of federal and eastern tickareas are looking f rain. we'll take a closer look at why hillary clinton dropped the ball. and look at this incredible video you've got the see. whoa!
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never used the "t" word about boko haram. joining us is author of the book "lords of the sky," colonel hampton. thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning, tucker. >> do you find it odd how she says this is a group that commits terror and when she had a chance to fix their wagon, she took a pass. >> well, nothing hillary does or doesn't do really surprises me. you know, in getting to the bottom of it, the list that she put them on or didn't put them on really, from a practical standpoint, is immaterial. she's not nearly as important and influential as she thinks she is or her few vocal supporters do. a lot of things go on in the government behind the scenes, thankfully, to take care of issues like this. it wasn't an issue at the time for us, which is why nothing was
done. and let me preface this by saying human rights are important, i'm not being callous, but there's a big difference between human rights and national security, okay? and an indigenous terror group in africa doesn't affect national security, which is why nothing was done then. >> the same is said to groups doing bad things to people that are around the world. hillary clinton was the voice and had the opportunity to highlight this group against women and she didn't. >> yeah, i think any clinton setting themselves up as a moral leader is laughable. so i'll let that one pass. the real issue here is hypocrisy in her basic ineffectiveness as secretary of state. she ran around the globe for years doing absolutely nothing. she looked busy, but when you got to put your finger on
something that she actually accomplished, what do you got? on the other hand, you can say, what about the russian reset? what about egypt? iran? libya? honduras, we'll talk about that if you want to talk about hypocrisy in the white house and the state department. this is more about her not really caring about something until it becomes an issue like it has now. what happened in nigeria is less about the girls than it is about 40 billion barrels of crude and oil reserves and 190 trillion barrels of liquid gas. that's what this is all about. >> on the other hand, we do have a terror list and put certain groups on it and we keep certain other groups off of it. and as long as you'll have such a list, boko haram seems like it would be included. in 2011 they bombed the headquarters in abuja. in may 2012, justice department official lisa monaco wrote to
the state department to urge them as a terror designation. and in june 2012, boko is likely sharing funds, training and explosions with al qaeda. >> these are more than bread crumbs. i have spent a lot of time in that part of the world connected with the military. boka o /* is part of the war. they are afraid to ask for help, up until this point, it would make them infragmented. >> colonel dan hampton joining us live.
we look forward to your back. thank you for coming. >> appreciate it, tucker. a democrat running for office in wisconsin builds herself as a champion in business but forgot to mention she didn't pay state income taxes on her family business in three decades. we'll get details on that. plus, what happens when mothers take the night off leaving fathers in charge? holy smokes! a closer look at the movie perfect for mother's day, coming up. >> you are getting a little angry and it's doing something ugly to your face. when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. two full servings of vegetables the shingles virus is already inside you. you should know that 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime.
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>> wow. the most terrifying force in nature. or certainly in japan. godzilla returning to the big screen next week. >> but we are getting the inside scoop this week with fox news contributor and founder of nerdtears.com, kevin mccarthy, good morning, kevin. >> i can't watch that clip without thinking about "breaking bad." if you watch "breaking bad," brian cranston is awesome in that clip. i love that scene top. >> so you have seen this fill system? >> i have my full review next weekend on "fox and friends," but i'm a big "breaking bad" fan. i love it. clayton, you are with me on that one, it's an amazing show. i sat down with brian cranston and wanted to figure out how to figure in a "breaking bad" question. i was thinking hypothetically, but what if walter has a
potential battle with the guy from "breaking bad." here's what he said, check it out. >> it would be mind over matter, right? so he's this massive, takes up a lot of room and massive destruction and very careless of where hizenberg is methodical. and he'll find the weakness of godzilla and exploit it. godzilla versus walter white? walter white would win. >> i think you should deliver the knox line to godzilla. >> this summer, only this summer. one man, hizenberg, one monster, godzilla. >> you guys would have been out for lunch together. >> that's so good. that's competely real. >> he honestly should do the movie trailer voices. he really could pull it off. it sounds great.
>> a lot of the non-traditional movie theaters are playing the original "godzilla." >> back in the day a guy was in the suit walking around, and now it will be incredible to watch. >> mom's night out, new movie, what did you think? >> this movie really surprised me in the sense of the message it had about how a many moms are. we all know how awesome moms are, but i love the appreciation to moms who have a night out to leave the kids home with the fathers. and everything goes wrong. now, if you get to spend your disbelief, it gets unrealistic at times, but the overall message of how awesome moms are really drives the movie home. i love trace atkins in the movie. sarah drew is great. patricia keaton is great. it's a fun movie, it's pg and great for the entire family and really does give you a deeper
appreciation for how tough of a job moms really have. >> so it's not like the reverse which would be "the hangover" with the men going to vegas. >> exactly. and i give this movie 3.5 out of 5. it's fun for the entire family. i do want to mention, it is mother's day. every day should be mother's day, but today specifically it is. and i love you, mom, jill, watching right now. you're the best mom ever. thank you for being so supportive of my movie career over the years. it's because of you that i am where i am today. so i love you so much. thank you so much for being the best mom ever. >> that's sweet. >> so your mom gets five stars. >> which one is your mom? >> she's on the right, jill, she's gorgeous. she looks 30 years old. she really does. >> she raised a wonderful son. kevin, we love you. thank you so much. enjoy your sunday. >> happy mother's day to every mother in the country. thank you for being an awesome mom. >> he just gave a shout out to every mom. >> such a good boy. coming up, the lawyer for
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i love you, mom. ♪ >> happy mother's day, everybody. we are sharing some of our staff and our crew's family pictures today. brothers, mom and daughter. >> and ian taylor and mom. happy mother's day. that's an oldie but goodie. >> and producer morgan's mom and her doggie. >> is that a puppy? >> our producer samantha and her mom cheryl and her family. >> hey, sami. happy mother's day. >> and lisa is from england. mum. >> and nicole and her mom, mary ellen. happy mother's day. >> they look a lot alike, too.
are they sisters? >> it is not just mothers and children who look alike. sometimes spouses when they really fit together and get along welcome to resemble one another. you may not know that. >> natalie may not take that as a compliment. >> it's true. natalie looks -- there she is. happy mother's day. there's my mom on the right, verna, and my lovely wife natalie. do you think they look alike? >> no, but i have heard that. people said our son looks like both of us, and i'm like, what? i'm puerto rican. >> you could be mother and daughter, which is amazing. >> it's the dark hair. >> my hair is not as dark as hers. >> she's much more behaved as a child than i was. i'm sure she would rather have cooped her than me. >> who pulled up in a taxicab yesterday? >> it must've been father's day
early. my dad showed up for my daughter's birthday. i laid the guilt trip on him and said, maybe you should show up to my son's birthdays. so we threw a big madeline birthday party. i didn't know whether to cry or punch him. >> you know all the children in the house were awake. >> the real motive for bringing you on is mother's day, but we want to get dirt on clayton. any embarrassing stories to tell us about him? >> no, please. >> i think over the years i have told many of them, but just some of the fun ones are that now that he has a son who loves spider-man plays right into what clayton used to do as a child. and i always used to tell him, your daddy used to do that. too. >> he used to jump on the door
jams and dump downon my sister. >> was he ever into aquaman or just superman? >> ever more into batman, spider-man. >> i'm still not an aqua man fan. >> yes, there was a specific tier. it's a whole spectrum. don't get him started. >> if you have a aquaman party, something is wrong in your house. it's all in the water. >> how is the family doing? >> they are recovering from ava's birthday party yesterday. they are recovering from all the food. >> i'll see you guys soon. i have a broadcast to do, but after the show is over i'll come home and see you guys. >> oh, that. what did you get us for mother's day? that's what we want to know. >> coming up --
>> thank you, love you, honey. >> can i take some of these flowers from the set? and we have 40 pounds of dunkin donuts. >> oh, i have a box of dunkin donuts. just for you guys. flowers for mom from dunkin donuts. i love you, guys. see you soon. >> bye, honey. >> thank you, dunkin donuts. >> no one touch them. >> we have the donuts and rick. rick, where are you? i will tell you natali is way prettier than clayton. >> there's no debating that. >> maybe they look alike in bizarre world. come on, natali is hot. we'll be honest. so we also have a mother out here. happy mother's day. >> thank you very much. >> and your daughter is in broadway here. >> she's in matilda the musical.
she's from snuggle, georgia. a little girl from georgia. made it big here on broadway. this week she's the civic center. >> sounds like she had a good mom here. >> well, i don't know. >> definitely. >> all right. happy mother's day to you. we'll take a look at the weather map this morning. here are your temps. it's a pretty nice day tempwise across the eastern half of the country, but the central part of the country will see 74 degrees in kansas city. that is kind of the foretelling of very severe weather we'll have coming in later today. the eastern seaboard, we have showers and thunderstorms yesterday. they rained on claytop's daughter's birthday party. well, it's gone. now we have storms across the plains moving across right around the north of interstate 80 in nebraska toward omaha. a very rough morning. then out across the west, this is the energy we need for this storm. you can see all the snow sliding across the central rockies. later this afternoon, that will set up the stage for severe weather.
potentially large and damaging tornadoes anywhere you see the red. so from des moines and towards ames, waterloo, omaha, lincoln, down to salina, kansas. then more wind and hail across parts of texas and oklahoma. tomorrow that moves a very little to the east. less of a tornado threat for your day tomorrow. we want to quickly show you temperatures because across the east it's really a nice day. and it will be a nice couple days temperaturewise with cooler air out west, but things are about to heat up out west. in fact, los angeles, you're going to be pushing 100 degrees by the time we get to wednesday and thursday. breaking all kinds of records. then we'll cool down across parts of the northeast as rain settles in again. back to you inside. thank you, rick. >> we have some stories making headlines to get to this sunday morning. the lawyer for the pakistani doctor who helped locate osama bin laden calling it quicks after receiving numerous threats from militants. his decision was made after a
final warning was given. the lawyer also claiming undo pressure on him hurt his case. utah, the latest to join the fight against the bureau of land management. dozens of atv riders protesting a riding trail closed to vehicles since 2007. the blm claims riders who damaged ancient artifacts on what were native american lands. the protester says the bureau is cheating them from outdoor recreation, but the blm is looking to punish any of those riders. it is not a medical degree bringing him the big bucks, but it is his headphone business. the beats co-founder doctor dre will soon be a billionaire. apple is reportedly paying $3.2 billion for the company. the oil tycoon tweeted out,
congratulations, @drdre. welcome to the 1%. #youbuiltthat. and this driver put this video online clearly showing a runner with zero regard for traffic. the driver said he try to find the runner afterwards but he was already gone. maybe he had on his dr. dre beat headphones. >> he was in church giving thanks for still existing. >> who jogs horizontally against traffic. >> someone who wants to die. that's crazy. new evidence showing the v.a. secretary eric shinseki knew about the cover-up last year. many say he has to go. mike kaufman is joining us, next. and this dog named major
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abo about being single. >> she graduated at the top of her class with a degree in psychology. back over to you. we just learned that 40 veterans were left to die on a secret waiting list. now a new e-mail reveals an employee at a v.a. hospital in wyoming manipulated records to make it seem like patients were being seen sooner. what's worse? eric shinseki knew about the problems since last year. joining us is the gongman calling for shinseki's resignation. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me.
>> a world war ii retired sergeant often said the ones that were the best are the ones who took care of their troops. has secretary shinseki been taking care of our troops? >> no, he hasn't. for those who made sacrifices in defense of our freedom and left in the administration, he's not focused on them. he certainly a senior bureaucrat that runs the organization, but certainly not there to serve the needs of our veterans. critics have said, look, he's in charge of veterans affairs but this is much higher than him. he's a west pointe graduate and serving in vietnam. it doesn't fall with him but the white house. is he just the fall guy here? >> i go marine corps veteran. he's the man in charges.
ultimately the president of the united states needs to be making a decision, and if secretary shinseki doesn't resign, i think the president has an obligation to fire him because of all that the extraordinary problems with the situation in fort collins. i want to say first, are there a lot of men and women who work for the city and a third are veterans but the leadership is at the top. how do we know this information that general shinseki new abou this. how much did you have access to? >> the phoenix issue, we learned about it when the whistleblowers
stepped forward, but there have been problems before that. there have been lots of problems where patient safety was compromised because of the fact that the veterans administration, the leadership at the top, wanted to produce a narrative like in phoenix that they were doing better than they were. and in every instance, it wasn't about let's get down to the bottom of this and fix it so it doesn't happen again. it's let's cover-up and lie to congress. let's be defensive. so certainly i join with the largest veteran service organization in this country. the american legion. in calling for its resignation. >> self-systemic. all the cover-ups and lies is not one person. they have to clean house in order to clean the veterans affai affairs. it seems like a mess that one person cannot respond to. >> what he has to do, you have to bring in something willing to
fight the bureaucracy that surrounds unless he has led the bureaucra bureaucracy. >> check out his piece at fox's website. look at this. being tossed around by the wind. how the driver managed to stay on course. plus, this, a veteran service dog turned lifesaver. pooched named major. picked up the phone and called 911 when his owner collapsed. those two will join us live, next. ♪
our next guest suffered a brain injury and battles ptsd and memory loss. >> when he became unconscious, his dog knocked his cell phone from his pocket and called 911. >> here with us is the sergeant and his dog. tell us what happened. it is almost unbelievable. how did it unfold? >> i was actually getting ready to take him for a walk, so i took him out in the backyard to let him go do his business. and he -- next thing i know i'm waking up to the police department and all that being there because he had managed to get my cell phone out of my
pocket. and he stepped on it and called 911 a total of ten times because they kept hanging up thinking it was a crank call. >> we have a major dog trained to sniff out seizures but not trained to call 911. did he just do this or how do you credit this behavior? >> i think it was a lot of instinct. >> how smart is this dog? >> he is really, really smart. one of his tasks, i tell him it is bedtime and he makes sure to check the doors and if i forget to lock, things like that. >> i guess your cell phone had a lot of bite marks on it and stuff, so unbelievable thing
here, do you think you would be alive if he didn't help you right now? >> no, i don't. >> how does it feel to have him in your arms? >> it's great. >> how does having a service dog change your life? >> well, i was actual before i got in -- i was actually in a really, really dark spot. i was one of those suicide detectives. the organization i received him from rescued him from a horder situation. and we kind of met each other and kind of hit it off. so basically now, he's an
extension to me bringing my confidence back, all that. >> sergeant, we are saying it is so cool for you to help each other from a terrible situation and he's battled you. we want you to vote for major as a hero dog. >> we enjoyed it. sergeant and major, thank you for coming on this morning. >> thank you. the door opens for democrats to join the special committee investigating benghazi, but will they use it or ignore it? and believe it or not, this is not rhetoric rhetorical. we'll have it for you, coming up.
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hey, everybody. it is sunday, the 11th of may, 2014. i'm anna kooiman. a fox news alert. this morning, shocking new details on what happened moments after a hot air balloon collided with power lines and burst into flames. two of the victims have been identified while crews search for a third. a live report, straight ahead. and brand new members of the benghazi select committee vowing to deliver justice. >> the american people want to know the truth about what happened that night and early hours of the next day. they want to know the truth. and we owe the truth to them. >> so will democrats join that search? should they? that debate, coming up. and the amazing save, watch this video, the 18-wheeler is tossed around the highway by high winds. how the driver managed to stay
on course. "fox and friends" hour three starts right now on this mother's day. >> happy mother's day! >> those are tucker's adorable children. making cakes. >> a little old at this point, but happy mother's day to all you mothers out there. a beautiful look at midtown manhattan as we are in for a beautiful day, i hope. we'll check in with rick reichmuth to see if it will rain on your mother's day. here's a lovely picture. >> the lovely and talented elisabeth hasselbeck and her three kids fittingly wearing football helmets like her husband. i hope she's sleeping in this morning with her feet up.
>> happy mother's day, elisabeth. and for all the men in the studio who get to take the flowers home to pretend they bought them for their wives. >> i think we need to leave them to the hair and makeup ladies who are mothers. >> shoot. >> we are going to talk to my mom in a half hour. i sent the producers some lovely pictures of my mother and myself, but then my dad sent me incriminating photos. >> can we see those? >> one of them you have a mullet back to here. my nickname was pig face at the time. and i'm standing here like this because i was such a tomboy not happy in my dresses. >> we are going to be calling your mom later in the show. but first the inside scoop on anna kooiman. heart-wrenching details for the final moments of the passengers on the hot air balloon that crashed. >> photos revealing more about the women onboard that died.
>> peter doocy is joining us from washington knowing exactly what is happening in this investigation. what's going on? >> we know now the fireball in the sky was sparked when the hot air balloon hit power lines duri during the decent. the pilot tried to put it out and could not. as the situation got worse, witnesses could hear crying from the gondola and heard someone screaming they thought they were going to die. shortly before two people were seen jumping or falling from the doomed basket, which still hasn't been found. >> they are still looking for the basket. we continue to collect various items and debris throughout the afternoon. and as soon as we are able to locate and recover the last occupant. we'll notify family members. >> so far the bodies of two victims have been recovered. 1500 yards apart. one was the pilot who remains up identified. and the other was ginny doyle, a
44-year-old coach of the university of richmond's basketball team who was tweeting before taking off writing this, quote, tried it at 6:30 a.m., but was too foggy. will go up this evening. #anxiety. the other passenger was a member of the university of richmond's basketball family, 24-year-old natalie lewis. natalie is still missing and her family is quoting in today's "washington post" as the families stay hopeful asking for prayers. there are 100 people in the search party focusing on natalie focusing on a heavily wooded park in west virginia. that's a little two hours south of washington. back to you in new york. thank you, peter. meanwhile, we are continuing to follow what is unfolding around the benghazi select committee. seven members were selected by
house committee member john boehner. seven of them are republicans. many of you went to bed wondering if by the time you woke up would democrats come on board and fill the other positions. no, in fact, the news is that democrats are continuing to mock the select committee calling it a political stunt. >> still trying to discuss what the participation will be and wonder how this is really a political stunt. that the republicans are trying to do with other investigations, but it seems like we have the smoking gun where we found out where some of the items were. conservatives now say this is about getting justice for the four innocent americans who lost their lives. representative lynn westmoreland was on the channel yesterday
with this to say. >> it's just a continuation of the message that secretary of state is saying, the americans want to know the truth of what happened in the early hours to the next day. they want to know the truth and we owe the truth to them and we owe it to those families who had loved ones murdered in this attack. and to the rest of the country, we have the absolute right to know what happened and why the white house lied about the cause of these attacks. why reinforcements weren't sent. and by the way, what they are doing there in the first place if it turns out we were taking the u.s. government arms from the stockpile and sending them to various locations.
there's a lot going on in our na name. and the representative from arizona was on "justice with judge jeanine" last night weighing in on that. listen. >> i would scream on the top of my lungs to move it forward, absolutely. justice deserves to be sold. if they don't, they have so much to lose. it tells america they are not concern concerned. he's the one that went in front of the unit ed narrative. putin, egypt, arab nations across the world, this is problematic for democrats.
i would challenge them and do justice a favor, sit at the table and get to the answers and be proud about the answers. >> so many questions left up answered. 4:40 in the afternoon. we new knew the president was doing debate at the time and responding on the talk shows with the narrative put out there. the e-mails are still trickling out. so we have a lot of questions that we don't have. you know, who is being protected here? is it the president? he's not running again. secretary of state, hillary clinton, former, will she be running? is that what it is about. >> the basic answer is, who did this?
>> basic.com/ffweekend. weigh in there. is it a political stunt or do you want answers as well? the embattled phoenix of veterans affairs is getting a new chief. steve young will shift to phoenix tomorrow as interim director. he'll oversea health care for 85,000 veterans taking over for sharon hellman put on leave after it was revealed she hid these secrets. and many at the mall in paramus thought they heard shots at the garden state plaza mall. the mall was evacuated with no evidence of dpup fire or a gunman.
this is the same mall may hawhey had problems before. boats and divers are scouring the lake looking for three missing boaters. the search was called off last night and will resume this morning. and check out this wild video of a truck. >> oh [ bleep ]! oh, my gold! >> heavy winds nearly knock over this 18-wheeler heading down a highway. the truck drive iinging /* here ends up flipping off the road. >> maybe that's how he always
takes a turn. >> that's unbelievable. let's go to rick reichmuth outside with a look at the forecast. he can do that. >> sure, he can. do you remember yesterday on a the show we had the miami chance chancers. but they are not dancing so he have changed their mind. >> please call me, casey. i love you. >> call your mom for mother's day. take a look at the tornado possibility in the month of may. this is exactly where we'll see the chance for tornadoes today and tomorrow. the tornado alley, it is may, the highest month of activity for tornadoes. and where you see the red today, we could be looking at the
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welcome back. speaker john boehner announced the seven republicans who will sit on the benghazi special select committee which leaves five spots open for house democrats. >> but will they participate? if it were up to nancy pelosi, the answer might be no. >> the fact is this is a stunt, this is a political stunt, and the facts that -- issa just damaged goods. they had to move from him to another venue with another chairman. that's what this is. we've been there, done this, over and over again. >> joining us with his thoughts is the host of "fox news sunday," chris wallace. good morning to you, chris. >> good morning to you, guys.
>> why is it important that the democrats do participate in this and get to the bottom of it? >> well, it's interesting, nancy pelosi is playing kind of a double game here. on the one hand, she's negotiating saying there should be even numbers if they are going to be seven republicans on the committee. there should be seven democrats. republicans reminded nancy pelosi and selected them 9-6 over republicans, and now she's saying the democrats should have say whether the people subpoenaed or want access to interviews. we'll see whether or not the republicans are willing to bargain on that. then also there's a split inside the democratic caucus. some say it's good to have at least one or they have
teleconferences to help out other witnesses. and they are saying we can make it look more partisan with no democrats on it at all. we'll be talking at the top of the hour with the head of the house democratic office, javier beseda. >> are republicans united in the support of the select committee? >> well, i don't know if united is the right word, but there were some who thought, well, we are doing really well in the midterm election and obamacare is working well for, but we know the democrats will accuse them of playing politics instead of solving people's daily problems. so there was reluctance on it, but after this latest e-mail from benton in the house
oversight committee, there was a feeling of frustration and we need to get to the bottom of this. let's go forward. >> chris, you'll be tackling n benghazi and the latest on your show. who else is coming up? >> we'll be talking exclusively to the house committee on benghazi. we'll be talking to him as well as the head of -- as you can see on -- >> we move fast here. >> there we go. nigeria and the terrible situation there. former ambassador to nigeria john campbell and shiza shahid. she and her friend malala have said for a long time the radical groups are threat upped and attack women like malala who want an education. so we'll talk to her about the flight of the school girls in nigeria. all they wanted to do was go to school. >> chris, i know you're working
today. so that is cutting into your mother's daytime, but how will you spend the rest of your mother's day? i hope it's in honor. >> well, my wife and my mother -- there's lorain, i didn't know you had that picture. that's my wife, not my mother, but she takes care of all my children. as they say, happy wife, happy life. so we will be celebrating with her and with my mom today. very special day. moms are special. so we should all celebrate. >> thank you, chris. happy mother's day to your family. >> that was cool to have them on "fox and friends" talking about their cookbook. 20 minu, a new danger for airlines after a passenger flight almost crashes into a drone midair. hear from a commercial airline pilot who says this dangerous trend is only growing a ten government isn't doing anything about it. then a new poll ranks which
mothers, frank lunks is in line with that.
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most in this country. tell us about this poll and how you broke it all down. >> well, thanks to the paternal order of eagles, one of the most significant foundation and fund-raising groups which you have never heard of, they wanted to know, not just which moms you liked the most, but they wanted you to focus on which moms you respected as moms. as you can see there, michelle obama comes in first, the two bushes are second and third, but i want to vote viewers' attention to how divided we are by party. that even when asking which mom you respect most, if you are republican, it's all about the bushes. if you are a democrat, it is about obama and clinton. and angelina jolie is fifth. but her supporters are all from democrats. here on this mother's day, we are as partisan and as divided as ever even when it comes to moms. >> but are we surprised? >> this is really divided. there's not one of these moms
that has double-digit support from the opposite party. >> correct. we gave them a choice of 18 different moms to choose from. and it's that way across the board. and tucker, i don't think that there's any issue, any attribute or anything to talk about in this country in 2014 that isn't so polarized. and i think that's kind of sad. we all love our moms. and on this mother's day, we should be finding things to bring us together that you night us rather than those things that divide us. >> that sounds so great, but during a presidential election, a lot of times people say, who would you like to sit down and have dinner with or have a beer with? who seems most down to earth? it doesn't seem very shocking to me that voters would stay toward their party line. >> well, it may not be shocking but it's disappointing. i lost my mom last month and i will never have another mother's day. and i would say say to the listeners out there, you never
know when it's going to happen. you want to celebrate every moment every day that you possibly can. and that there really are things out there that are more important than day-to-day politics. and that love, respect and appreciation, let's give thanks to the moms that did so much for us. >> well said, frank. well said, frank, sorry so much for your loss there on this mother's day. thank you for breaking that down for us. and a good message to think about this morning, forgetting politics. we can honor moms all across the political spectrum. >> dr. frank luntz. then fighting in front of your children, a good idea or a bad idea? believe it or not, there's new research on this question that will shock you. and have you ever wondered what anna is like when she's not sitting on the couch? on this mother's day, we found someone to spill all of her secrets. ♪
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sist sister. that's her mom, anna. >> ashley, our producer, and her mom. >> and producer andrea lewis and mother gloria. they look a lot alike. >> our senior producer shawn and his mom naomi. >> executive producer jen and her mom lori. >> happy mother's day. >> here we go. senior producer gavin and his wife tracy, sons gavin and cole. >> happy mother's day. they all look like gavin. >> we have the best music. thank you for your ipod, tucker. backstreet boys and britney spears. let's go to rick with the mother's day forecast. >> i want to go through the rest of your ipod playlist. >> you heard britney spears earlier and couldn't stop
dancing. it's true. we'll take a look at the weather picture waking up this morning. here you go. here's your temps, not looking bad unless you are near the rockies where it is cool. 38 in denver. 73 in kansas city. starting out great. we'll show you problems in a second. here's the forecast. take a look at your city and look at the day going through. a few wispy clouds across ohio into west virginia. but for the most part, temps are great across the northeast. and plenty of sunshine. a really spectacular day. down to the southeast, we'll see scattered garden variety showers and thunderstorms pop up throughout the afternoon from around mississippi eastward. nothing to be a washout of day. much of texas is looking great. here into the northern plains, look at heavy rain moving in across nebraska. and thunderstorms firing later in the afternoon and some will be severe. and finally out across areas of the west, snow moving in across utah, wyoming and colorado. pretty much everybody else is looking good. all right, back to you inside. unbelievable.
thank you, rick. here are the stories making headlines this morning. france is joining the united states and british in nigeria to find 300 school girls kidnapped by the boco terrorist group. when hillary clinton was secretary of state, she fought against labeling the group terrorist, so why the change? earlier on the show a retired air force weighed in. >> it wasn't an issue at the time for us, which is why nothing was done. and let me preface all this by saying, human rights are important, i'm not being call police about it, but there's a big difference between human rights and national security. >> this morning boco is also blamed for bombing a bridge and killed several people and abducting the wife and two children of a retired police officer. hey, parents, listen up. a new social media trend likely to blame for a 16-year-old
minnesota boy's death. his friends say he took part in the cold water challenge. it begins with an online challenge. those being challenged have 24 hours to report themselves jumps into the water or they are supposed to make a $100 contribution to charity. well, police say the boy dove into a freezing lake and never came back to the surface. awful. birds, lizards and tortoises, oh my. more than 100 animals are removed from what authorities call filthy conditions near a home in buffalo, new york. the spca director says many of the animals need extreme veterinarian care. the house was so filthy it was deemed uninhabitable and condemned by the city. in the house, six cats, five dogs, four tortoises, one lizard and almost 100 birds. and a new study pulled together the top research-backed tips including praising your
kids for their efforts, not their smarts. make sure they get their sleep. give them rules and fighting with kids and in front of them is good, normal and not a bad thing. we asked your thoughts about all the tips. albert says, if you have more than one child, you will know they are different. what works for one child may not with the other. and lee sa says, you should never fight in front of your kids, period. >> thank you so much. >> my parents never really fought in front of me growing up. we are actually going to bring her in, my mom. happy mother's day, mom. they even work together, too. they have a small business in charlotte. good morning, mom! >> good morning! hey, this is great to see you on tv and talk to you at the same time. >> where are you? >> we had a great time at the beach last weekend, didn't we? >> yes, we went down to hilton head, south carolina, and took mom on a nice sailing trip and saw a bunch of dolphins down there. >> and that was our picture right there.
>> so how are you celebrating? how are you going to plan to celebrate mother's day today? >> well, i'm in new york! >> oh, my gosh! mom! we came back from hilton head early. >> oh, mom. >> happy mother's day. >> i love you. >> and your dad is here, too. >> come sit down. >> come on, dad. good to see you again. >> nice to meet you. >> have a seat. the power of fox news. >> i just have to say one thing. shut the gate. that was the new phrase i learned at the beach. that means, you have arrived. >> shut the gate, this is it. >> you have an amazing daughter. we love her so much. >> what did you bring here?
>> i brought little tubs of love. >> this is my mom, the southern sweetheart that she is. >> i'm going to snack, if you don't mind. and the flowers have different meanings. all of these mean love. >> we know that you're -- >> i didn't have time to go shopping, so thank you. >> anna is one of the nicest people i've met. loves dogs and children. her niceness is very close to the surface, was she always that way? >> yeah, i think so. >> always a little bossy. >> yeah, well, she also didn't really keep a lot back. >> what we really want to know, did she ever get into trouble with the law? >> remember the time i was down in charleston? >> havstory? >> there was law involved in this, right? >> well, she had a little honda
that was in wally's name. and she had a boyfriend that was in charleston. of course, this is when cell phones just -- not everybody had a cell phone then. the high school kids were just kind of having them all the time. well, i get a call middle of the day on this friday or whatever it was, and she says, hi, mom, i'm at school. and i thought she was in charlotte. >> i told her i was going to work at the senior project and wouldn't be home until after dinner, but i was really in charleston. >> a month later we get a parking ticket in the mail when she was in charlotte. >> and what was your question to her? >> well, her mother handled that, actually. >> anna banana, what were you doing in charleston in september, blah, blah, blah. >> one of her closest friends went with her down there, and we knew the other girl very well,
too. they grew up and we knew the family. >> the model child, i thought. >> the model child. >> here are two honor students, very upright students cutting class and we didn't know. >> i don't believe it. >> she's clever. >> that's the worst thing she did, but there's probably stuff we don't know about. >> we'll reveal that in the 9:00 hour. >> i was very sneaky. i just didn't get caught. >> what a surprise. >> are you totally surprised? >> yes, that was amazing. thank you. we can have dinner tonight or something? >> i asked if she could sit with my dog this afternoon. i know you have better plans now. great to meet you guys. >> thank you to fox for bringing me here. and happy mother's day to my mother, margaret, and wally's mother, mary. my sisters and sisters-in-law and all the moms. >> that's what the day is all
about. >> thank you, guys. coming up here on the show, the mainstream media made a big deal claiming the pope is calling for a redistribution. father john is here and says they got it wrong. they'll explain that. and the new danger after a passenger flight almost crashed into a drone. we'll hear from a pilot who says the trend is growing and the government isn't doing anything about it, coming up. [ male announcer ] a long weekend is just an excuse... to get a long way from boring. with models up to 62 horsepower or room for four. go rugged. go big. go gator.
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44 minutes after the hour for quick headlines. talk about divine intervention. take a look at this. >> missed it by 1 foot. >> do you see that? this happening at a church
outside boston during nearby demolition. the massive 20-ton boulder started rolling toward the church and came to a stop just a few inches from the building. and you may need to camp out in front of that apple store sooner than you thought. a new report says the next iphone could be released in august. that's a month earlier than expected. the supposed iphone 6 is rumored to have a much bigger screen. is that right? >> i don't buy the august thing but i do buy the larger screen thing. imagine this, turning on your tv and seeing a channel dedicated to atheists. >> believe it because a new jersey atheist group is doing just that. >> here to discuss is fox news religion contributor father jonathan moore. >> anna's family walked in, it was unbelievable. >> her reaction was great. >> talk about this channel showing up on the roku box with the apple tv, a little black box with a bunch of channels. it is not on broadcast
television. the @iatheist tv channel launching, what do you think about this? >> this is my own prejudice, i don't find it exciting. it would be like anything anti-anything channel. so to have an anti-ufo channel. you couldn't show ufos because they don't exist. >> so what would you make of the success or failure of this channel? >> well, i don't think it will be a great success. if they are all about the anti-something, but if they are talking about the search for meaning. if they are talking about deep issues in life, sure, absolutely. >> here's the statement from the american atheist group putting this together. quote, there's a glut of religious tv programming out there from televangelists to christmas specials, but there's no it aist channel. we wanted to fill that void. we'll ask you about a pope and
talking about the redistribution of wealth. he appears to locals, here's the exact quote. the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state as well as indispensable funds. this involves resisting the economy of exclusion, the throw away culture and the culture of death which nowadays is sadly becoming accepted. what did he mean? >> tucker, you made mention of this and we very quickly jumped to the pope saying redistribution of wealth. go redistribute money rich made and give it to the poor. he didn't say that and never used the term redistribution of wealth. what he said was legitimate meaning not illegitimate like taking money from the rich and giving to the poor. the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits, let me give you an example of that. in china, is it a very wealthy country? absolutely. is it just that people don't have an opportunity for personal
development? it's injust that it happens. but what about the economic benefit of education in a civil society? we are seeing what's happening in nigeria, women can't get educated without major danger to their life. that's unjust. that is an economy of exclusion. and so the suggestion that the pope is there for a mark of this is just a bad reading. >> what do you think of a liberal jumping on this and saying, the pope says a redistribution of wealth, when he mentions sex before marriage, they act like he's an archaic figure that isn't relevant anymore. >> he talked about the culture of death, including abortion. that didn't get -- i don't think there's just liberals in this case. a lot of conservatives on front page of drudge reports or the big headline was redistribution of wealth. the pope basically calls it legitimate. it was poor reading.
it was superficial and i'm glad we could clarify. >> are you doing a mother's day sermon today? >> many are surprised that i have a mother, like priests don't have mothers or something, but i have haver a mother. this is my mother in the center. and this is my mom right there, sharon. mom, i love you so much. if i weren't taking care of my parish family here at my church, i would be there with you. i love you and will see you next weekend. >> wonderful. your sisters are invited on fox any time. >> thank you very much. >> and susie will be on the show for mother's day in a bit. coming up on the show, a new danger for airlines after a passenger flight almost collides with a drone midair. our next guest says it's a serious threat and something needs to happen about it right now. and throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game, if that isn't cool enough, see who
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imagine this, you're out flying, gazing out the window, you think you might see a bird, no, instead, you almost collide with a drone flying near your aircra aircraft. that happened. listen. >> it was so close to his jet, he was sure he had collided with it. thankfully, inspection to the airliner after he landed. imagine that object going into a
high-speed turbine engine. the results could be catastrophic. >> there are a lot of drones in the sky these days. are we facing a serious threat to air travel? joining me now is robert. thanks for coming on. whose drone was this? >> they never did find out whose drone it was. and that's one of the real problems that we face is that we don't know who's operating these things and when and some people follow the rules and some people don't. but you know, that's still -- it's still the early stages for these things. >> on the screen here, we're looking at some of the drones i think we've seen in circulation over the skies of afghanistan and yemen and other places that our cia uses to track terrorists. is that the type of drone we're talking about or are we talking about the toy drones that are maybe this large? >> the one in this particular case from what the report was is
that it was much smaller than that. however, it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference. if one of those things of let's say even 15 or 20 pounds came through the windshield of an airplane or got sucked into the engine, it's not going to be pretty. look at what happened to the u.s. airways flight when it sucked a couple of geese a few years ago. >> right. as the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan wind down, a lot of military harbor manufacturers have switched to police departments in the u.s. which are buying drones all over this country. should the feds have some oversight there, do you think? >> well, they've got to have it. that's one of the reasons that the only people that are legally allowed to use them right now are basically law enforcement officers and departments. because they can kind of control them. right now, the faa is still working on regulations. the reason i think we saw that clip of jim williams from faa talking about those drones is that faa really feels like
they're caught in the middle. people like me that fly big airplanes don't want these things in the air space unless we can be absolutely certain they're not going to be a conflict like this one was the other day. then you have the manufacturers and the users saying, no, come on faa, it's not a big deal. we can make this work and they're pressuring the faa. so faa is not ready to make a decision yesterday. >> and the faa is predicting 7500 small commercial drones will be in circulation by the year 2018. you have real estate companies using them for surveying and we even have the boy scouts about them building small drones. i don't know, it could be a bigger issue. robert mark, we appreciate you joining us this morning. we'll try to stay on top of this story. >> thanks, robert. >> he's the definition of a hero, putting his life on line to save his fellow soldiers. kyle white, the soon to be medal of honor recipient joins is live. and the customer is wrong.
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great to be with you. today is sunday, the 11th of may, 2014, i'm anna kooiman. her hospital held a secret list that left veterans waiting for care to die. she's been put on administrative leave but what about her boss? the latest on the v.a. scandal coming up. if you disagree with common core, you're a nut case, a right wing extremist. think that's right? we'll break that down, coming up. he put his life on the line more than once to save his fellow soldiers. army sergeant kyle white joins us live to tell the story earning him a medal of honor.
"fox & friends" hour four starts right now. >> happy mother's day! ♪ the best day with you >> a live look at times square here in midtown manhattan on this mother's day. a lot of families out enjoying sunshine here. happy mother's day to all of our lovely mothers who are "fox & friends" fans and watch our show and make us the number one show in america. thank you. >> we just had my family live on the set, surprised me. >> tears. >> tears in your eyes. >> real tears. >> it was pretty nice. if my girls grow up and get teary every time i show up unexpectedly, i'll be thrilled. >> we talked to your wife, natalie and your mom on skype and susie carlson waiting in the wings. >> just saw her. >> tucker's wife will be out here in a little bit.
we'll say hi to her. we'll get to the bottom of the tucker carlson mystery. >> come on. >> and 1-800-flowers, we want to thank them for decking out our studio and anna's mom for bringing lovely flowers. >> all the way from north carolina with three races of flowers. pretty impressive. >> social media posts revealing the final hours of two women on board a hot air balloon that crashed. they were both on the coaching staff for the university of richmond's basketball team. the two tweeting and shara instagram pictures hours before the balloon hit a power line and caught fire. tornadoes out they were supposed to fly earlier that morning and ginny doyle tweeted this, tried it at 6:30 a.m. but was too foggy. will go up with evening. witnesses telling officials the pilot did everything he could to stop the balloon from crashing.
an investigation is under way after u.s. airways flight forced to make an emergency landing after fumes caused the crew to become ill. while flying from venice, italy, to philadelphia, nine flight attendants complained of nausea. the pilots turned the planard to make an emergency landing in dublin. nine crew members were rushed to the after l hospital after landing. u.p.s. workers told to cheat and lie to customers? that's what a new lawsuit against the delivery service is claiming. two brothers who owned and operated 11 stores in new york city say the company ordered them to lie about the size and weight of packages in order to jack up the prices. u.p.s. ended up pulling its franchise deal in february. the brothers leave it's because they blew the whistle on the policy to dupe customers. she threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the charlotte knights game. for an 8-year-old north carolina girl that wasn't the highlight of her day.
>> it's in there. let's hear it for her! >> is sel isabella's soldier da the catcher. after she flew him the first pitch, he took off the mask and surprised her. >> i thought it was a normal catcher but it suddenly appeared to be my dad. >> he's a 27-year-old veteran with the navy. he works for a transition program in germany but was able to return home for a visit. >> how cool. >> yes. >> that is awesome. >> that is pretty great. an update on story we've been tracking on fox news channel about the department of veteran affairs and the absolute mess that has unfolded. we brought you the news yesterday about what unfolded at the wyoming veteran affairs hospital there where e-mails were laid out -- laid it all out, if anyone wanted to get care, here's how we backdate the computer program, 15 days, if
you want your date on the 15th, we'll back date it to make it look like this particular veteran had service while they didn't. >> the update is really not that much has happened. one person has been placed on administrative leave. there is still no public reaction from the president of the united states who oversees all of this. who took time out of his busy schedule to attack an nba owner over comments he made that were ugly but he hasn't taken any time to talk about veterans who died from neglect at the v.a. mike kaufmann had this to say about the scandal. >> ultimately it's the president of the united states. the president of the united states needs to make a decision and if secretary shinseki doesn't resign, the president has an obligation to fire him. you have to bring in somebody who is willing to make the change, willing to fight the
bureaucracy that surrounds that individual at the top. he's unwilling to do that. he's been led by the bureaucracy. he has not led the bureaucracy. >> numerous lawmakers and veterans and groups have spoken out about this, asking for the resignation of secretary shinseki. he did take action on the 9th. when he found out about all of this. producers uncovered a report where some of these revelations had come forward already from wyoming and colorado. >> it seems like just a really systemic problem, right? in arizona and colorado, wyoming, washington, this sharon holeman, initially when she was in spokane washington miscounted suicide numbers. they just moved her to another state instead of losing her job. >> shinseki, when i asked
representative coffman about that very thing, is this more system systemic? isn't there a larger issue here? he said you have to start hear, get rid of him and you need someone who is brave enough to come in and change the entire culture. >> it would be nice to hear from the president. >> yes. the tendency on the left is to shut down debate with name calling. you saw it with condoleezza rice. you saw it with the president the other day. he said anyone who disagrees with his position on global warming is just crazy. you're seeing it now on common core. i'm not sure what i think of common core. i value my right to have an opinion. according to the southern poverty law center, anyone who disagrees with common core, is crazy. >> you're an extremist, tucker. it says it is being driven by the likes of fox news, the john birch society, tea party
factions and the christian right. if you disagree with it. we've had healthy debates, angry parents, supporters of common core on this show discussing it and debating it. fox news is perpetrating these lies about common core? no. >> we had a huge supporter of common core on our show who took questions in our green room from facebook and twitter and e-mails. he stayed here for four hours. he missed church for crying out loud because he staid here doing it. the idea is that we need to make sure that there can be healthy debate. we want to make sure our kids get educated because they are our future. it seems like it's worth debating and should not be silenced. >> you can't have a debate if you presume people who disagree with you are not wrong but evil. you see this with harry reid, for example, where the people who disagree with him are not just wrong, they're unpatriotic or dry destroying the earth.
the president makes this point constantly, the people who disagree with me want to hurt the poor. if you presume the people you're debating with are evil, it's not a debate. it's a name-calling session. you shut down rational discourse. that's a distressing trend. >> well said. e-mail us at friends@foxnews.com.com. rick, one of the best meteorologists in the country. i asked him for my daughter's second birthday party? he said it will rain like ten minutes. bingo. on the dot. >> you did say it rained for ten minutes twice. >> twice. you were a little wrong. >> i didn't get the second part on there. we have a lot of people here for mother's day. two generations of mother's days? >> i'm from georgia and this is my mom today here for mother's day. this is my daughter. >> this is your mother? >> there you go.
>> and more here? >> sue michaels from ohio. this is my mother from florida. >> happy mother's day. >> thank you very much. >> very good. mother's day, all around here at "fox & friends." guys, let's take a look at your weather map. we have a storm out across parts of the west bringing snow, may 11th. you get snow out across the rockies this time of year. you can get it into june. this is a pretty significant storm. seeing 1 to 2 feet of snow falling across the higher elevations. denver, maybe 5 to 8 and a little bit towards the northeastern part of the state. we'll see 3 to 5 inches, even up towards the panhandle of florida -- of nebraska, we'll see that as well. not florida. today your forecast 39 degrees in denver, cold, cold tomorrow. we'll see that wind. you will warm up eventually by wednesday or so. we'll take you through the temperatures. there will be big changes going on. heat across the central part of the country. it moves to the east this week. 85 tomorrow in chicago, 85 in new york, cooled down a little bit across the northeast. we'll have a wet week across
much of the northeast. but take a quick look at what happens out across the southwest by thursday, phoenix 101 and l.a., 100 degrees. that is very, very hot this time of year. they had that drought. not good news for them. >> back to you. >> thanks, rick. playing politics with race. the democratic congressman slams senator tim scott for being black and a republican saying he votes against his race. is this over the line? we'll have a day bait on that, next. >> and caught on camera, a near miss that almost caught this runner his life. look at this. incredible video. an ending you have to see. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
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but some don't see it that way. democratic congressman james clyburn complained to the "washington post" saying this, if you call progress electing a person with the pigmentation that he has, which is black, who votes against the interest and aspirations of 95% of the block people in south carolina, then i guess that's progress. was this over the line? lyburn politics? joining us now rnc deputy press secretary and radio talk show host, richard fowler. it seems that he can't have any political opinions he wants. just because he's black doesn't mean he has to believe one set of things, does it? >> i agree with you. i think what representative clyburn was trying to say is that what we've seen from tim scott and his voting record is a voting record that votes against not only african-americans and hispanics but a voting record that votes against the 24% of
south carolinian children who are in trouble here. >> that's not what he said, at least as i read it. he's black, he has a vote a certain way. no? >> what he said is the bottom line and tim scott is fight for all south carolinians. that's his job, what he's supposed to do. he's doing that through a jobs program, job training bill he just signed with corey booker. he's doing that through education access which is supported by the black community overwhelmingly. >> this is not exactly out of the blue. you hear this stuff all the time, ugly stuff aimed at black conservatives like clarence thomas, who's routinely called horrible names, i won't repeat them here, because he diverges ideologically from the majority of black voters. isn't that a sign of progress that you have a black person who has his own views on things? isn't that what we want? >> i don't think that's what
we're arguing against. i have no problem with clarence thomas having his own views or tim scott having their own views. the argument clyburn is traying to make, folks in the civil rights movement are trying to make, within you have a member of congress that votes against protecting people's voting rights or a member of congress that will cut wick programs, cut programs that benefit the african-american, latino, lgtbq community, you have a serious problem on your hands. that's the argument representatives are trying to make when they call them out for horrible decisions they've made or the horrible voting record they have in the united states senate when it comes to the issues affecting the inner cities. >> this is all subjective, isn't it raffi? the programs might be a disaster. can't we debate this stuff or no? >> we should be able to have a debate. these are two people, both supreme court justice thomas and senator scott who came up from nothing. they've achieved the american dream and they've seen how they've done it and understand how they best can expand access
to the american dream for all americans. doesn't matter what color or race you are. that's what they're doing out there and doing. people are saying oh, because he did "x," that means he doesn't like black body. that's not true. >> this guy is getting -- this is racial bullying. clyburn wouldn't have said this if he was white and you know that, richard fowler, come on now. >> like i said, i don't speak for the representative or what he said. i think the point he's trying to make is the same. you have a member that votes against the interest of african-americans. >> wait, wait. >> people in south carolina -- >> who defines what that interest is? [ talking at once ] >> that's not true. that's not true. >> that's true. >> programs that allow expanding voting for people does not -- the voting rights act is not a failure. tim scott tried to vote against it and obstruct it multiple times. >> why are you obstructing school choice, not allowing access to kids to get the best education possible so they can succeed?
>> wait a minute now, wait a minute now. we're mixing apples and oranges. let's talk about school privacy if you would like. >> chris, response? >> when we're talking about access to public schools, what we need to do is invest in our teachers and treat our teacher as professionals. that's what we're not seeing from tim scott. >> thanks for the debate. i appreciate it. we could go on much longer. >> thanks. >> thanks. he is the very definition of a hero, putting his life on the line to save his fellow soldiers, army sergeant kyle white, soon to be a recipient the medal of honor. this nation's highest award. he joins us in a moment with his amazing story. this would be one long subway ride, china to the united states by train. how does that even work? the chinese have an idea. we'll tell you what it is ♪ i'm going off the rails on a crazy train ♪
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so honored to have our next guest, u.s. army sergeant kyle white, the firefight began without warning. >> he put his own life at risk in an hour long effort to try and save his fellow soldiers during an ambush in afghanistan. >> he will ab warded this country's highest honor, on may 13th, the medal of honor. joining us now in his first television army, a true american hero, army sergeant kyle white. we're honored to have you first of all, second, congratulations for the recognition you deserve. tell us how this started. you were dismounted. it was 2007 in afghanistan. and what happened? >> well, first of all thank you for having me on. second of all, happy mother's day to all the mothers watching. on the mission that day, it was actually on 8 november 2007 we were moving to the village of aranas to engage in what's known
as a sharaa meeting. we were going to speak with them and move back to base the next day. and we left on the evening of 8 november, moved to the village, engaged in the meeting the next day and we were ambushed on -- about 3:30 in the afternoon on our way back to our home base. >> so you then -- all hell broke loose. the taliban ambushed your patrol while leaving this meeting. what happened next that changed your life forever? >> yes, how it started was, just a single shot to the far left of us, two shots and then the entire valley erupted. and you know, over the next few hours, those events would change my life forever. and you know, during that time, during the ambush, we'd lose six american heroes and --
>> sergeant, you could have easily lost your life. you leave a covered position and expose your yourself to enemy fire to save your comrades. at that moment was there ever a thought that passes your mind that says i'm going to stay oregon was the courage so strong that you knew what you had to do? >> during that time, especially the moments before i ran out to try to help marine sergeant box, you don't think what you're you're doing, especially in that moment with that much fire coming in. your adrenaline is pumping. all you know is you have a fallen comrade out there who needs your help. and in that situation, you fall back on your training. you know? i knew at that moment that if the roles were reversed and i was out there, that sergeant box would come out and help me as well. really, there was no decision as to what i had to do. >> meanwhile, when this all
unfolded, a rocket propelled grenade landed and knocked you out, knocked you out cold. you were unconscious. describe what you saw when you woke up from that? >> yes. as the rpg came in, it knocked men conscious. that was in the first probably 30 seconds of the ambush. as soon as i came to, i was about -- face down on a rock that was buried in the trail and as i was picking my face up, probably a couple inches from the rock, an enemy round landed on that rock and ricocheted into my face. that brought me back to reality pretty quick. >> so few americans receive the medal of honor and fewer still who are still alive, only receiven from iraq and afghanistan. your father was a special forces soldier in the vietnam era. what was his response? how is he feeling about this? this must be amazing for him. >> he's very proud of me.
he makes it a point to text and call me every day to tell me that he's proud of me. >> good for him. >> he's excited and excited to be a part of it. >> we're excited to have you here and share in all this with you. good luck to you. in 2011 you went to unc charlotte and used the gi bill and now you're an investment analyst. we wish you well in all of those endeavors, too. >> thank you very much. >> thank you so much, sergeant. congratulations. unbelievable. coming up here on the show, first it was the bundy ranch in nevada, then another piece of land in texas. are the feds now looking to take over land in ut snut. and they're going to bat against breast cancer today. these mothers and cancer survivors will be major league baseball bat girls. they'll bring us their story and their pink bats, next. [ female announcer ] who are we?
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and her mom. happy mother's day. >> and producer ryan actutully his mother, joanne, with all her boys. >> marissa dunn, retiring next week after 35 years of teaching. >> congratulations. >> you raised a wonderful daughter. marissa is lovely. >> they look like twins. >> they're in italy, having fun. >> look at that. >> look at this, senior producer megan and her mother joy. >> she looks beautiful. beautiful there. >> i love it. >> i'm saying that not because she's talking to us in our ear. i want her it know she looks beautiful. >> speaking of looking beautiful, gorgeous. >> rick. >> megan has one of the coolest moms you'll ever met. she's a blast. not all moms are a blast. do you think all moms are fun?
or are all moms fun or great. >> they're both. they're both. absolutely. >> great. >> you're a fun mom? >> oh, absolutely. yes. >> do you have a child here who can attest to that? >> no. >> perfect. okay. let's take a look at the weather map. we do have severe weather today unfortunately for some moms across parts of kansas and nebraska and iowa, i think we're looking at the chance for pretty significant tornadoes today. this afternoon into evening, we need to watch that. anywhere you see the yellow could see severe weather. the tornado threat is where the red was. the threat moves a little to the east, not as big of a tornado threat tomorrow, more wind and hail. we can't rule out a tornado. just be prepared. the northeast, spectacular. if you are here, enjoy it. it's going to change. by wednesday we have rain that will move in and last for four to five days. enjoy today. down across the southeast, we'll see scattered garden variety showers across parts of mississippi, alabama, into tennessee, as the day heats up.
most of west texas, where the drought is, very warm. towards the northern plains, the worst of the severe weather, iowa, nebraska, kansas area as the day heats up, we'll see significant thunderstorms and we're also going to see a lot of rain. be prepared for a lil' bit of flooding possibly and then down towards the southwest and the west coast, the coastal areas looking great. we have the snow across the central rockies, towards the denver area today. back to you. now to the headlines, france joining british and u.s. forces in nigeria to help find those nearly 300 school girls kidnapped by the boko haram terror group. they hope to lauocate where the islamist extremists are hiding. this morning, boko haram being blamed for the bombing of a bridge in northeastern nigeria that killed several people and abducting the wife and two children of a retired police
officer. utah, the latest state to join the fight against the bureau of land management. dozens of atv riders protesting the closing of a trail. protesters say the bureau is cheating them out of outdoor recreation. the blm says it's looking to punish any of those riders. well, look at this. this is a runner just inches away from really getting killed by a car. the driver posted this video online. it shows a runner with zero regard for traffic or a death wish. the driver says he tried to find the runner after but he was gone. couldn't find him. elin nordegren getting in a jab at tiger woods during a college commencement speech.
she talked about how much her life has changed since enrolling in rollands college in 2005. >> today, nine years later, i'm a proud american and i have two beautiful children but i'm no longer married. >> nordegren graduated at the top of her rollins college class with a degree in psychology. winter park, florida, divorce jokes aren't typically that funny but in this case -- >> she pulled it off. >> it kind of is. let's get outside to anna who has some special guests. >> we are going to bat to bat out breast cancer. every mother's day, major league baseball selects an honorary bat girl, one whose commitment is strong to eliminating the disease. we have stephanie and elizabeth as well as mlb network reporter
and host, sam ryan. looking beautiful in pink today. >> good morning. >> sam, i'll start with you. tell me about the program and how you judge. >> we received numerous submissions from so many women battling breast cancer or have battled breast cancer and are willing to share think struggles with us and their commitment to the cause. myself along with freddie freeman, elongoria and numerous others, we've received several entries and wanted to see who represented major league baseball as a fan but yet could share their story in a creative way. >> in ballparks across the country, what are we going to be seeing? >> the teams with home games will be honoring their honorary bat girl winner such as stephanie today at citi field with the mets. the players, they'll be wearing
pink wristbands. >> i love that. >> there will be the pink logo breast cancer symbol decal on all the on-field personnel. the bases will have the logo and the lineup cards will be in pink today. >> just like we see with the nfl wearing the pink cleats. >> exactly. >> stephanie, congratulations. >> thank you. >> it's amazing that you're sharing your story. you were diagnosed with a routine mammogram. >> yes. >> tell bus that. >> i went for a mammogram last year in may. it was my son's birthday and i figured i'm usually there half an hour, so i set aside half an hour and they kept sending me back in for more and more images. she said we want to do an ultrasound. i said, okay, let's do the ultrasound. they said we need to do a biopsy. was stage one, very treatable. i had a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and and radiation. i'm incredibly honored to be named the honorary bat girl for the mets. >> it's amazing that the rates have decreased by 34% since
1990. a lot of it is because of efforts like this, raising awareness and getting women to get mammograms just like you. liz, tell us your story. you were diagnosed in 2011. >> i was. i found a lump in my armpit. i went to my doctor and she sent me for a mammogram. i figured it would be routine. just maybe a sift or something of that nature. they told me they found a lump in my left breast. i remember crying. being like, okay, i'm 32 years old. i'm not supposed to have breast cancer. i don't have any family history. i went back to my car, i was supposed to go back to work but i didn't. my doctor called me within 20 minutes and i was in her office and my father was the closest. he came to me with -- to my gynecologist, we went from there. i was at the surgeon that night. the next day we were supposed to go for an mri. it spiralled from that. that was april 13th, 2011.
i was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. we did what we needed to do from there. >> cancer free? >> yes, three years. >> that feels good, doesn't it? >> yes, it does. i go back for checkups, do what i want to do, troy to avoid doctors at all costs. being here with the yankees and proud to represent all women and men who have battled breast cancer and are survivors. >> liz and stephanie and sam, thank you so much for your time today. we'll toss it back to the boys. let's give them a swing. can everybody get up and give a swing. >> this could be dangerous. >> how are we looking? >> someone is going to lose an eye out there. one major fast food chain banning guns because that makes other people feel uncomfortable. do you agree? we'll debate it. and maria bartiromo is here. she sat down with house speaker
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investigation and others have not. what he said was ethics and a commitment to get to the truth. we still do not know what nancy pelosi is going to do at this point. you know they've been saying this is politicizing this horrible attack and they want six and six. why didn't you go six and six, republican/democrats as opposed to seven, five. he was coy on that and had -- he said, look, the house has a majority, bottom line. this committee should have a majority. i asked him if clinton is going to get subpoenaed. then we went into other subjects, talking about tax reform, the economy and lois lerner. what happens now that she has been in contempt of congress? >> i think we have a preview, a tease. >> you whetted our appetite. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm getting all wound up. >> this is from the interview you'll see next hour, maria with the speaker ever the house. >> i tried to find people who
had worked on this investigation and others who, frankly, had not. but bright, energetic. and people committed to getting to the facts. this is a serious investigation. i don't want theater. i don't want a side show. i want the members of this committee to find the facts for the four families who lost their loved ones. >> why seven republicans and five democrats? why didn't you go six and six? >> well, because republicans have the majority in the house. and the way the house operates, the majority has more members and as a result, on each of the committees we have more members. now, leader pelosi, once she created the so-called climate change committee, i think it was 8-5. >> there have been some people saying, you know, how many investigations do we have to have? until we get to the bottom of it. for crying out loud. do you think this smoking gun e-mail that came out last week
had anything to do with him pauling the trigger and going ahead and doing this? >> 100% it was the e-mail. it's indicative of the fact that there were lines changed, words changed. there was the communication after the attack on september 11th. the days and weeks that followed did not jive with what we are learning now. so he just wants to find out exactly what happened, why was our embassy attacked? four americans killed. and how come there was a cover-up right after? >> what does he say about keystone? >> i say how do you move the lever on job creation? he said we have 40 bills sitting in the senate. >> where are the jobs? >> he said how about keystone? we have spoken in the past. this is low-hanging fruit. high paying jobs, this will put 40,000 plus people to work. he thinks this is one of the easiest ways to get jobs right now in america. we talked other areas of job creation as well. >> working hard on this mother's day. we'd be remiss if we didn't ask
you to give a shot out. >> this is when my mom josephine and i were at a health spa. we went to arizona together. i figured let's take a picture. >> is that canyon ranch. >> yes, in tucson. it was awesome! my mom and i enjoyed that very much. >> that is so cool. >> happy mother's day. >> thanks for showing that. how swede are you guys. >> your show starts in 11 minutes. "sunday morning futures." beginning at 10:00 a.m. >> a fantastic show. coming up, a graduation speech like no other. easy for me to say. it's not about what was said but where. we'll show you that, next. and what's tucker like when he's not sitting on the curvy couch? we get the skinny skate from the source. his wife, suzie, coming up. ♪ i'm picking up good vibrati s vibrations ♪
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some words of wisdom while upside down. >> that's better than snooki. >> you know what's better? >> what's better than that. >> we have been celebrating mother's day all morning with special moms in our lives. >> and now it's my turn. making her debut is tucker's wife, sue susie. >> look at them holding hands. >> it's too much. >> you have just given us some insight. what is tucker like at home. >> i wouldn't know what to say. can you be more specific? he is always cheery. >> always? >> abss lawsuitly. >> it's a little bit hard for us
to imagine what it's not like. >> how did you guys meet? is it true you guys have been together since you were 15? >> yep. >> who are we seeing on the screen? >> off the air and on the air but off the air and commercial breaks and stuff. we both married up significantly. he's a great father, a great father and a great co-host. >> he says the same about you guys, i have to say. >> there are things between a husband and wife that we can't
do ourselves. i mean, i didn't mean to go through but. >> susie always goes there. >> our oldest daughter did text her and say i hope pop is getting you jewelry. >> diamonds. yeah. >> we have three daughters. >> did you get her something special this year? >> always. >> well happy mother's day to you. >> coming up on the show, more fox and friends. ♪
sunday. a fox urgent, we're hearing now from a widening circle of people into how some of our veterans may have decide awaiting medical care. a whistle-blower going on the record just a few hourgs right here on fox. >> is it possible that all this was going on in phoenix and now we find out in other va facilities around the country and that washington didn't know about it? >> no. they have been cheating about this. the cheating has gone on for a long time. there was a memo in 2010 where she showed all the various cheating schemes and he told
everybody not to do this anymore. they knew this was a big problem. >> and with that, we're coming to light about claims in at least 11 states now across our great nation where allegedly secret lists were kept to hide massive wait times for our veterans who needed life-saving care. tonight, both the white house and congress gearing up for a new week to press for answers and accountability we hope. the top official for veterans health care, dr. robert petzel is out. he was set to retire later this year anyway. eric shinseki is resisting growing calls to resign. a growing line behind the white house which we know is stand behind shinseki for now. >> nobody is more outraged about this problem than the president of the united states. he will continue to press as it
relates to the question of timely access to care until it is fixed. >> peter live with the news in washington. anger is not enough at this point. what's next? are there any plans in the near future to move ahead from the white house on this? >> the focus seems to be figuring out how many victims there are and families may have been impacted by improper scheduling procedures. this morning, veterans advocates were complaining that there have been issues for a long time and they think hire-ups must have known. >> i think it's naive to think they didn't know what was going on. the vfw has been screaming about this for years. >> the va is so big, it's tough to make things work even with so many official who come from military backgrounds on hand. >> you would think an organization made up of veterans would understand how to follow orders, but there has been
definitely a let down by the senior management team to the secretary and the people under him. we don't have an accountability system or a chain of command within the veterans administration, veterans medical services, and it's showing, that's why our veterans are not getting the services they should. >> reporter: anyone looking to leave an ano, ma'am mouse tip. >> i mentioned president obama and exactly what the white house was doing thus far. >> and the white house, harris, chief of staff said that they have ordered additional personnel to help the investigation at the va. here's why. >> i did not leave you with any impression that the president was satisfied. in fact, the president is demanding we get to the bottom of the exact allegations that you are talking about as it relates to whether veterans are getting the timely access to care that they have earned, that they deserve, and that's exactly what we're digging into.
>> mcdonough didn't announce any new resignations or plans for president obama to speak publicly about this. >> one of the elements of the story that we haven't heard from, if you will, has to do with those victims or their families. any plans to bring any of them maybe for a hearing on capitol hill in the near future? >> reporter: we haven't heard anything like that announced, harris. so far you've got people defending the bureaucracy, who say they are looking into this and within three weeks we should have answers and then you've got victims families pressing for answers. so far, no invitation so far that we know for a big public hearing and line people up and explain how they were told the wait was going to be this long and it turn out to be this long. >> that is the voice that's really missing in all of this. we have heard from the lawmakers, the whistle blowers, members of the obama administration, and va secretary cinco de mayo -- -- since --
shins shinseki. what about your thoughts on this. we want to hear from you while you are watching fox report weekend tonight. chime in and tune in for when the fox news political insiders join me later this hour. we'll include you in the conversation. twooet -- tweet @harris faulkner. interested to get those military voices in here. >> now, let's go to ukraine. people there are looking ahead to next sunday's presidential election. the rest of europe and the world hoping ukraine and russia don't go to war. as you might imagine, there's concern for fresh violence. hundreds of people still grieving after last week's clash.
ukrainian troops and pro russian separatists exchanged fire there and leaving people dead. doe nesk holding their own vote last week declaring independent people republics in two regions. >> for more on all of this, let's go to greg who is in donetsk. >> pro russia separatist leader said there will be no presidential elections held in donetsk next sunday. there are some towns in this region that are standing up against a rebel militants at a cost. take a look at one. ukrainian flags flying at the city hall in eastern ukrainian town, in a land racked by pro russian separatist sentiment. majority in the east are still
behind a united ukraine. troops are posted outside. still, dissent is seen too. a police station was assaulted. >> this is what pro russia separatists did to the car of one member of a pro ukraine self-defense unit in this town. they told us this just means they are going to fight harder. >> someone doesn't like the fact that we are defending our city this militia member says. they are traitors. it's also patrolled by car and at night they are well armed for trouble. among the residents, support for ukraine is cautious. yes, we are for a united ukraine this young man says but sometimes with everything happening people are afraid to express their opinion. others openly call for a break from kiev. we are threatened by our government this woman says who cause terrorists and bring
violence here. >> they are planning to go ahead with the presidential vote and they are also getting threats. democracy a little bit difficult and dangerous in this neck of the woods. >> more on the situation as some american lawmakers now are looking to take further action against russia for its role in the crisis in ukraine. the senate is now weighing legislation that would cut off pentagon contracts with a state-owned arms dealer. the pentagon reportedly has a contract with that dealer to buy 30 helicopters for afghanistan's air force. that deal said to be worth a half billion dollars. >> back in our nation's capital now. a shake-up could be in the works at the white house. reports president obama will nominate san antonio mayor julian castro as the next secretary of housing and urban development. it would be an interesting move
for that mayor. more from washington. >> reporter: hi, harris. a second term shuffle is expected to happen in the president's cabinet and a potential pick. most of the speculation revolves around three-turn san antonio mayor castro who is set to be to be selected for the housing and urban development. the 39-year-old is already considered a ridesing star within the democratic party, with talks of him being a potential vice-presidential candidate in 2016. >> it begins with reelecting barack obama. it begins with you. it begins now. may god bless you and may god bless the united states of america.
>> this nomination would also make castro one of the highest-ranking hispanic officials in the obama administration. if confirmed by the senate, he will replace shawn donovan. burwell is nominated to lead the department of health and human services after kathleen sebelius resign. just last week, castro was asked to become the transportation secretary to which he declined. >> right now, a lot of chatter on wall street has been confirmed. at&t is moving ahead to buy directv for $49 billion. a merger of epic proportions. with more than 20 million u.s. subscribers, directv is the nation's largest provider. at&t will offer bundle deals
with phone and internet service the way cable companies do. some consumer groups are urnling the feds to proceed cautiously with corporate marriages of this kind. it is so big, they are concern about the competition. >> watching space for the latest on the dragon as it roared back to earth today. the aamazing images of the first private cargo ship in action carrying a very special package. and wildfires leave its mark on southern california. >> harris, i'll have details of how far firefighters have come in tackling what has turn out to be an openly i nous start to the
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cooler temperatures that may or may not hold at this point. it is for now helping crews get an upper hand on the flames. they have scorched 40 square miles. >> harris, you know, there are scenes there that resemble a holocaust and for people returning today, it was a very close call. one family we caught up with and that was todd and emily price and their 10-year-old son had been watching the fire race toward their house as they looked with binoculars on the other side of the valley with an incredibly close call. they actually saw firefighters attacking the flames that would have consumed their house. we caught up with them just as they got back and all they really saw surrounding the house was a view of rolling canyons covered in ash. >> it's torched. >> when you look at it aerial
view, there's areas of green and then it's a giant moonscape. >> the house is actually up for sale and in fact they had one inquiry today whether somebody could have a come and have a viewing. that's actually quite common here. this is almost -- this was a close call. >> i don't want to glaze over this and make it all rosy because it's not yet. there's right now an active fire at camp pendleton. >> yeah. it's still raging on. it's about 65% contained. the marines taking care of it himself. the marine releasing some incredible footage actually. about 23,000 acres have been completely consumed.
incredible aerial shots that we've got coming in. the marines were able to take care of t a fifth of the base has been torched. fortunately, the marines and families are safe on the base. >> we're in the third year of a very dry season. we're getting ready for the worst. we don't want to anticipate before we know, but we need a full complement of fire-fighting capacity. the state's climate appears to be changing. the scientists tell us that definitely, so we got to gear up here. >> and here's how much they knew it was going to be a difficult season. they had a full complement of firefighting staff in the beginning of april. normally they don't have that many people until mid-may, harris. >> tender box, you just hate to hear that word. one of the most reclusive
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government officials in north korea are offering a rare public apology after the collapse of an apartment building under construction in the capital city. reports of the building was 23 stories tall with some 92 families living there.
no official death toll yet but south korean officials say hundreds of people are dead. north korean media said the accident was so great that it upset their leader. former rutgers football player eric le grand finally took the stage at his university's commencement ceremony. the one time football player paralyzed at a game in 2010. there were students who first proceed tested former secretary of state condoleezza rice. le grand follows some other
controversy. finally he ended up on the stage. brian, it's not supposed to work out like this. >> no, it isn't. first of all, it was supposed to be secretary of state condoleezza rice. then thomas cain was invited and after outcry, eric le grand was reinvited. he just wanted to speak to the students today. bottom line, it's been a long road for eric le grand. the rutgers start defensive tackle had nfl hopes until october 16, 2010 when he became paralyzed from the neck down after a tackle during a kick return. but today, eric graduated, speaking in front of the class of 2014 in a packed football stadium. he recalled how doctors told him he had a zero to 5% chance of ever walking again. >> they told able to do, i want to be able to
do that and i'm doing so many other different things now. i'm living a normal life. i'm moving my shoulders here and i'm moving myself on. they told me what had happened, know every single day when i get out of bed, i try to get up and walk again and i continue to fail and fail, but that has not stopped me from continuing to believe in myself that is one day that is going to truly going to happen. >> it just gives you chills. just three months after the accident, eric began his intense therapy classes while taking college courses over skype and meeting with tutors, his mom constantly by his side. >> no one thought that after he was injured that he would go on and graduate and for him to graduate is just, you know, another accomplishment in the long line of accomplishments to come. >> eric graduated with a
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veterans affair secretary eric shinseki promised a thorough investigation. you are very active on this subject on twitter right now. i asked you those military families to weigh in on this and i'm reading your comments and blown away by some of your words. i'll share some of it live. we want to hear from you who are in the military, a proud veteran or a member of a military family on twitter. the under secretary for health has already resigned over this. is that enough? what needs to be done to fix the problems at our nation's veterans hospital? tweet your commons -- tweet your comments. stay close. vo: david's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor
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to the press again. >> there was talk a year ago should we ask for shinseki's resignation. i don't jump on the resignation bandwagon but this has gone from an incompetent to a bag log to something criminal. >> petzel should have been forced out after the debacle with legionnaire's in pittsburgh. in terms of secretary shinseki this is a guy who certainly at some point in his career knew how to take names and hold people accountable and that's the guy we need in there. >> our fox news political insiders are here and can join the conversation on twitter as many of you are already doing. john, pat, and doug, former
pole -- gentlemen, i want to go to you first before i even start to share some of what's on twitter because i've asked people who were in the military or with military family members to speak up because we're not hearing their voices yet. pat, your first thoughts on this. >> my first thoughts are this is a surprise. the va has been mistreating and not helping our veterans since i can ever remember. we've had scandals since the 70s and 80s. remember the problems they had at walter reed -- excuse me, bethesda with george w. bush. it doesn't serve the people. it serves the people who run it and this is terrible. >> as a retired vet with 30 years service. i brought tri care. it's a joke. >> this is a national shame. pat spoke eloquently to the challenges we face but when we
ask people to put themselves in harms way, they suffer and they come back and we don't offer them the care that we promise, it is a national tragedy. >> army chief p writes #veteran, reported these problems for years and were ignored until the whistle blowers came forward. john, these people are critical. >> can i give you a suggested solution that the three of us talked about? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> what pat said is so true. this is nothing knew. this has been going on. i've never found one veteran who is happy with how they are treated with the va. it doesn't matter who the president is. it's been bad under both parties. so here is a solution. we are going to abolish the va, harris, get rid of it. close it down. get rid of it. hand every veteran an insurance card, and the insurance card gives them the exact same insurance that every member of
congress has. and they can go to any hospital, any doctor, like a congressman can or a senator, and that's it. >> that's interesting. >> and they get that level of care and they deserve that level of care. >> i'm going to watch twitter and see what people think about that. >> i think it's great idea. i think the chances of it happening are nil and none. my dad was in the coast guard for 31 years. when he stayed in, he said if you stay 30 years into this, you will have free medical care, you will have the best thing all the way through and then he didn't, they took it away. two administrations george h.w. bush and bill clinton went to court to knock out the promises they had made to veterans on what they would have and they did this as late as the 90s. >> i want to intercede here because i hear all three of you saying this, democrats, republicans and the like, that everybody wears this. i'm seeing on twitter i'm a military veteran, president
obama is the commander in chief in the military, the va scandal is his responsibility to fix. but this has been going on for so long. why did it have to come to this? >> it had to come to this because of what kim was saying, we don't have leadership or integrity in washington. no one is willing to step forward and say we've got to solve these problems on a bipartisan basis, make government particularly the veterans health care system work. pat's story is illustrative of what needs to be done. we really need to do it. do something do something now. >> independent on twitter says i like that. this idea of giving our military veterans the same care that congress gets. how come we haven't heard that before? >> god knows. >> maybe we have. >> government is priorities. who is going to get what first, because you can't give everybody everything, and don't we think that the four of us here at the table, that if you are asked and
you've put the uniform on and risk your life for the country, when you come back, you are at the head of the line for everything that the government has to offer. education, health care, job opportunities -- >> all of it. >> the only time we really took care of our vets was after world war ii. the gi bill, all the stuff that was done, and it changed america. scpnchts it changed confidence in government. people believed government kept its promises in the 50s. >> look, we have more scandals. look what's happening. we have an nsa that spies on american citizens. we have an irs that chooses to go after whoever it chooses to go after. we have people in the field a year ago who gave their life and we have a massive cover up going on, the media says benghazi never happened or what difference does it make. this is the way government treats its people. they treat us like we're their subjects, not the -- they don't
treat the american people like they are their bosses or their sovereigns. >> it's interesting, kd writes. the first part of it is funny why not give them obamacare, because everybody knows it would be inferior to whatever you are talking about. >> va medical care is a precurser to obamacare. it's a bureaucratic second rate care. it's what the you are going to get under obamacare. you will definitely get it under medicare and medicaid. >> excuse me. medicaid is good. >> nancy writes, the veterans absolutely deserve equal coverage as congress, if not better. >> let's move to the next point of this and you are bringing up more of annum brel la issue, that's the government being trusted. right now the trust in the federal government, look at the
percentage and how low those numbers are. this is according to a recent fox news poll. for democrats right now it's 55%. you would think with their party in charge in the white house, it would be higher than that. republicans just 19%, but look at independents. and that's pretty steady across the board. >> look how it dropped from '02 -- when it was 53% with independents and pretty high with everybody after 9/11 and that was a temporary bump. it's been like this forever. >> this is a har binger of ill for president obama and the democrats. with confidence and trust in government at only 31%, this says that independents in november have deep seated doubts about government and administration. >> you think the democrats wear this more than anybody. >> they are imperilled eventually to something. we saw it this week, enthusiasm compared to even 2010 was like
from 50-some percent to 35%, except democrats are still less enthusiastic than republicans. that's what they think about our system. why should they be? both parties treat them like they are idiots. >> john. >> well, i agree. >> i hear john want to go hold up a sign that says what he said. >> no. i think -- first of all i have said this before, the passion differential this year favors the republicans. there's more anger against obama, against obamacare, against these scandals. >> they call it voter enthusiasm and we've seen polls recently that republican polls have much bigger edge than the democrats. >> there is an over arching crisis of confidence in this country. the va scandal bears out the point. people don't trust the
government. they are cynical about our president and congress. we'll see it in the polls. it will help the republicans, but make no mistake it's across the board level of disaffection and dissatisfaction. >> twitter is alive. we'll share more of those comments from military families in a moment. critic are claiming that hillary clinton is unfit to be president due to her handling of boko haram and benghazi. >> she clearly bears responsibility for whatever the state department or didn't do with respect to that crisis. >> all this despite the fact that clinton has yet to announce a presidential run in 2016. yeah, we haven't heard it officially yet. our political insiders are coming back. we want to hear from you. is hillary clinton the democratic presidential nominee until she says she isn't? i mean that goes farther than an heir apparent. that's an inevitablity.
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you guys have your own graphic sign up inside the fox report now. we'll get more to the elections that are coming up in 2014 and 2016, but i really want to go back to twitter right now because i had asked everybody to weigh in and chime in if you would if you were in the military family or loved somebody who is in a military family and john, they are loving your idea about giving our military veterans -- skipping away with the va hospital system and giving them access to what every congressional member has. benghazi matters, and that's this person's name on twitter. i will be calling my congress members in the morning first thing. same coverage for veterans as
members of congress. i've seen two marriage proposals for you, john. >> this could be the beginning of a draft john, getting him back into the house or perhaps the senate because this is a specific solution to a real problem, giving ordinary people, and i say ordinary in terms of the extraordinary service they offer access to the same benefits members of congress have. >> it's so common sense. they will oppose it all and that's why the people could throw everyone out over it. >> one more, great idea to give veterans the same insurance as congress and senate. we'll see what happens to it. will you follow up on that? >> yes. >> let's move on. let's talk about hillary clinton. past and future, if you will, dominating sunday morning talk shows. it was all over the place today. from the benghazi and boko haram tragedies, to alleged health
issues. is this a ploy to sway the presidential election one way or the other? our political insiders are back. any thoughts on that. >> here's what i say, politically i think karl rove who began with the assertion, somewhat, where he said she was quoted as saying she had brain damage, then back tracked that. this was a way to raising the issue early, potentially causing her problems. as far as i can see it ultimately worked to her advantage because what rove said was so over the top that ultimately i think it has taken the issue, gotten it aired and ultimately i think she will be the nominee, and has at least a 50% chance of being elected. >> i want to ask our team of producers in the booth if they could pop up that president clinton sound bite, do we have a little bit of what he said about her health. let's talk more about it. let's watch. >> now they say she's really got brain damage.
if she does, i must be in pretty tough shape because she's still quicker than i am. >> doug, you mentioned it. we just happened to have it in the hopper. pat, i'm curious to know, does this mean, well that means she's running, if the president shas already answered back on something like this -- >> he's done more than that. not only was he effective in doing that, by the way, i heard juan williams on fox this morning suggesting to karl rove's face that he was doing it to help her get elected. the conspiracy theories run great on this thing but bill clinton has done more than that. if you notice in parts what he has been doing saying carefully as all week he's been defending her on benghazi, saying, hey. >> she wasn't in the front line. that was by suggestion the president and the pentagon. protecting her. and the subtle rebuke of the obama administration on the verge of these hearings. and remember these hearings, we
now know, fox had a poll this week, again as we said before, overwhelming majts want to have the hearing, including 55% of democrats. she is in the line of damage there because also in that poll half the people say she was trying to deceive too. >> you would agree, would you not, that hillary clinton benefited this week by president bill clinton going out there. >> yeah. >> defending her on benghazi and taking the health issue -- >> but it's so early. >> it is. >> it's so early. it's may. although the groundhog -- >> may of 2014. >> and it's still cold outside here in new york. it's may of 2014. john, have vps republicans maybe moved on this a little too early. >> i don't think this country could take year after year after year where it's all hillary. when are we going to get sick of the thing and the bushes and we can't take any more of them and i think there's going to be a
time when something new is going to crop up. america loves new stuff. we like new i phones, new cars, new computers. they are going to want someone knew. >> there are members in the democratic party say jeb bush is probably the greatest challenge to someone like hillary clinton because he's so moderate compared to her. >> one thing i have to say, every poll like they showed in ohio this week, hillary was beating every republican name and she was beating jeb bush the worst and that has been showing up everywhere. >> even in florida. >> even in florida, and i think the democrats want him because they want another guy that they can just roll over. >> you know what i don't -- >> it's early though. >> it's way early. >> these polls that we use and what we talk about shows deep distrust for the federal government, for incumbents, for people who are in the beltway all the time. why are we for hillary when she's a pseudo incumbent for 30
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>> with the last couple of minutes of the show, into bring back our fox news political insiders. i want to start with this notion of what we learned about hillary clinton from president clinton. because you guys kept talking during the commercial and from that conversation you said did we even know that she needed six months of rehab, doug? >> i think he may have misspoke. it may have been six weeks but i think we've learn a couple of things. first, that the defense on benghazi is not in the immediate chain of command, set up a review panel, and implemented the recommendations, and second that the health issues, while
obviously serious ones have been dealt with in a serious professional way. i think to the good for the clintons, ultimately, bill clinton has become the defender in chief and to john and pat's question about why the clintons have credibility? one answer. bill clinton's record in office. >> all right. pray without ceasing asked the same question. do we know hillary had rehab for six months? >> pat, they like to give bad news -- >> if that was the case, they got it under the radar. kind of got it out there, get it out there yourself, float it -- after you are making a general positive -- but i want to go back to what john said. here's where i disagree with doug. look, the country, the problem is hillary clinton is the establishment wing -- the democratic wing of the political class, just like jeb bush is the republican wing of the political
class. the country has had it with all of this. she is surrounded by guys with blue hair trying to get their guys on contracts to quote what was one written to bobby kennedy about lyndon johnson and the people in office. here's the problem. people that are hangers-on, whatever, what the people want is something new. that's what all these polls say. that's something we're all going to deal with. >> they tawlk for an -- we talk for an hour. >> good to see you all, and by the way the conversation on twitter is going on. i know you guys stay up late on sunday night so people get excited about that. at fn insiders. you can watch them every monday morning at our website, fox news.com. click on the logo at 10:30 a.m. eastern. that is our fox report on
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a amy, thank you for being with us. that's "the ed show." "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. \s. thank for tunes in. tonight's lead, a collision course in washington. that's what we're seeing, because on just about every issue, every policy, every day republicans try to stand in president obama's way, and then they blame him for washington's dysfunction. it seems too far-fetched to be true, but just listen to senator mitch mcconnell today. >> the actions of the next few weeks would help set a positive tone not work of the next congress, a tone that will depend largely on the administration's willness to send a -- >> senator mcconnell is accusing the president of setting a bad tone? is that so? this from the man who made an
art out of obstruction, and who said this in 2010. >> some have said it was indelicate of met to subject that our top political priority should be to deny president obama a second term. >> it wasn't indelicate of him to suggest their top priority was denies the president a second term? it was, to use mcconnell's own term, not setting a positive tone, and what about -- what about this line from 2011? >> if the president is willing to do what i and our members would do anyway, we're not going to say no. >> if the president does exactly what republicans want, they'll work with him. i wouldn't call that much of a compromise or a positive tone. they refuse to work with the president, so he's seg forced to
do things on his own. he's working on an executive action on immigration reform. last night in china, he announced a bold new plan to tackle climate change. >> today i am proud that we can announce an historic agree. i commend president xi, his team and the chinese government for the commitment they are making to slow, peak and then reverse the course of china's carbon emissions. today i can also announce that the united states has set a new goal of reducing our net green did not house gas emissions by 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by the year 2025. this is an ambitious goal, but it is an achievable goal. >> the president making real problem, but what we -- what would we heard from the gop? >> that's why i think moving forward with the unilateral action on immigration he's
planned would be a big mistake. as was last night's announcement to essentially give china a free pass on emoises while hurting middle-class families and struggling minors. >> a big mistake. to help the environment? a big mistakes to fix or broken immigration system? i don't think so. but it sure was a big mistake to blame the president for the nasty tone of today's politics. joining me now are congressman jim mcdermott, a democrat of washington, and jonathan capeheart. thank you both for being here. >> thanks. good to see should be. congress mast, mitch mcconnell sets it's he's doing that by dealing with the chinese and the iranians around the nuclear deal, and doing it a lot of
places where he's taking on the load that the congress refuses to be involved in. all they do is snipe. they're sniping partly from the region that they come from, but they -- they spend six year trying to destroy him, and they're continuing -- they're going to do it right on until 2016. i will be very surprised if they allow anything. they'll always find an excuse why the president did the wrong thing. >> you know, jonathan, as mitch mcconnell, he wants a positive tone. that just means the president should agree with him? >> yes, from his perspective. the one thing you have to understand is that senator mcconnell and speaker boehner for that matter, have to deal with a caucus, especially senator mcconnell, dealing with a caucus that wants to take the fight to the president, that doesn't want to compromise with the president, that doesn't want to do anything with him, and so
that's why we're seeing the president plotting out things that he can do to move things forward without congressional approval, or things that he can do by executive order or under executive authority, especially when it comes to climate change. the president has broad authority under the statute authorizing the epa to do a lot of the things he's been doing since the climate bill collapsed er8y in his term. >> you know, let's get down to the fact that the president is moving on since clearly the republicans and congress don't want to cooperate even on things that they have agreed with. rep politico reported today that we're about to see a, quote, climate on slaught, with president obama preparing a sweeping list of executive actions on the environment. this seems like a rational response to gridlock.
how will republicans respond, do you think, congressman? >> well, i think they're going to reject it all. you know, earlier this fall, senator, secretary paulson, once the secretary of the treasury, came out to seattle saying he was for a carbon tax, because he realized that it was something that needed to be done. people on the right, center and left are dealing with climate change, but not the republican congress, because if they do, obama will look good -- and it won't be so easy. everything you look at has to be viewed in terms of the 2016 election. that's all they're thinking about. how will this play in 2016? they're not going to let him look good. in the past, jonathan, republicans used china as an execution not to move on with the environment, saying we couldn't act until china did as well. check out this video from climate desk.
>> we can't do it alone as one nation. >> the problems are in china, in mexico, in india. >> they won't be engaging. >> this motion, what it does, it would prevent congress from passing any law with new mandates on greenhouse gas emissions unless both china and india have the same mandate. >> i mean, so now president obama has reached a deal with china standpoint like the congressman said, they'll disagree with anything. they reached a deal with china, and they want they wouldn't because china wouldn't. now that there's an agreement, do you think the republicans should be happy? >> they should be happy, but this is part of a continual republican play that we've seen where they demand something that the president do, he does it, and then they go against it. so, you know, it's have i important. leave aside the republicans,
this deal is huge because other nations around the world have said they won't do anything with regards to climate change, in reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the united states and china both reduce their carbon emissions. china is the number one carbon emitter in the world. the united states has gotten decades worth of a headstart. the fact that the president and president xi jinping came out today and said we have an agreement and we're going to do these big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, that is a huge success for the admiration, a huge success for the united states and the world, and the fact that the republican majority on capitol hill is all right pooh-poohing it is just of the same, but also distressing. i have to bring up immigration before we go,
congressman. because it's been 503 days since the senate passed immigration reform, and speaker boehner won't even let you and your fellow members take a vote. isn't that the real problem? washington, not the president's tone? >> yes, it is the problem of speak boehner. he wants to remain a speaker. he thinks if he goes to nancy pelosi and says i'll give you 120 votes, can you give me 100 votes, it would pass, but he's afraid that when they have the election this week, he would no longer be speaker of the house. he is really only holding on to his own private power base at the expense of thousands of immigrants who should be get a better dealing in this country than they are? >> congressman jim mcdermott and jonathan capeheart, thank you both for your time tonight. coming up, should police be allowed to seize your property even if you're not found guilty of a crime?
it's already happening all across america. also, disturbing video, u.s. sailors brutally attacked in turkey. why did it happen? and how will the criminals be brought to justice? also reaction to that dramatic rescue at one world trade center, 69 stories above the ground. and what exactly was kim kardashian trying to do today with this photo? it's in conversation nation. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts?
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developing news out of the turkey tonight where u.s. sailors were assaulted by a turkish nationalist. video of this disturbing incident was posted online, showing three sailors being verbally and physically attacked by the angry mob. the sailors were in istanbul where they were approached by about 20 turks in civilian clothes. and now -- -- we want you to get
out of our land. [ chanting ] enchs those are plastic bags and red paint being thrown at them. the sailors managed to escape and get back to their ship without injuries. we're told that members of the turkish union which took responsibility for the attack are being questioned at police headquarters. joining me now is nbc chief pentagon correspondent jim mcle she was can miklaszewski. what can you tell us tonight? >> first of all, this had to be terrifying for the three young enlisted sailors off the america destroyer "ross."
they were on shore leave when, as we saw in that video, they are accosted, physically assaulted, fortunately not seriously, no punches thrown. they were not injured. but once they made it back to their ship, the "ross" suspended any other shore leaves before they leave that port in istanbul tomorrow. now, the state department, the navy having talking to turkish government and security officials. as you want 11 are currently being questioned. it's obvious their faces westbound on camera. they're a well-known group. it will. one would expect, anywhere, that turkey would take some criminal action against these individuals. what the navy and the pentagon is saying about those sailors, however, that they responded by the book. they didn't get provocative. they didn't strike back. when they had their opportunity,
they fled. you said it's a well-known group. what can you tell us? >> all we know is even though those sailors were not in uniform. that's standard operating procedure arounded world when any u.s. military service member goes on leave overseas, they don't wear their uniforms. otherwise, as you can well imagine, they could become a target. this group, the turkish student union, is a far right-wing anti-turkish government radical group and organization. they called the sailors murderers and said "yankee, go home." so obviously there's no clear connection to any terrorist group fighting in syria or iraq, but clearly not only are they anti-turkish government, but anti-american as well. >> before we go, i want your take on the navy s.e.a.l. who claims that he shot osama bin
laden, breaking his silence last night. here it is. >> standing two feet in front of me with his hands on his wife, was a face i had seen thousands of times. my first thought was we got him, we got him, we just ended the war. i'm still trying to figure out if it's the best thing i've ever done or the worst thing i've ever done. what's the reaction? >> the reaction from the pentagon, and from the navy s.e.a.l. and special forces community is one of major disappointment.
there were some details about the wray, but moth of those have already been out, where in terms of in his book, he in fact according did release some classified information. the book that he wrote was not presented to government censors beforehand. the justice department has a criminal investigation to determine if this improperly revealed classified information. nobody expects a prosecution of a s.e.a.l. who laid his life on the line to kilosama bin laden, but they're going through the emotions anyway. but the s.e.a.l. community, the silent service, the quiet professionals, they never talk about their exploits and their achievements publicly for any kind of financial gain or personal are personal notoriety.
all those people around them, including their families. >> for the record, the tape we showed was not o'neal. that was another s.e.a.l. >> oh, okay. i thought you had shown the o'neal tape. >> that is o'neal on the tape, but who you were referring to was the other guy that was -- >> matheson and then o'neal on the tape. >> right. jim miklaszewski, thank you very much for being on the show tonight. >> okay. coming up, they can take your cash and belongings without even charging you with a crime. it's legal, and you won't believe where it's happening. and bill clinton talks tv on "house of cards" scandal and getting away with murder. stay with us. ok, if you're up there, i could use some help.
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allowed to seize your cash and belongings, even your home, without arrested you? sometimes without even charging you with a crime? it's called civil asset forfeiture s it lets authorities seize property they suspect if linked to a crime, even if they don't have proof. a new five-part seesies in "the washington post" reveals how the practice among police has exploded in recent years. the polls obtain dash-cam video showing what it looks like in practice. there's nothing. would it be okay if i did a quick search of vehicle to make sure there's nothing in there. >> for what reason? >> just part of what we do out
here. >> have to get to the u.s. bank before 5:00 to find out how much courage sill is in there, but there's five stacks you are letting go. >> chalk it up to experience and go about your business. >> it raises big questions and has sparked a civil rights lawsuit. the post highlights another kay in virginia where please seized over $17,000 in cash from mandrell stewart, money he was planning to invest in his barbecue restaurant. >> one night in august 2012 when stewart and a good friend head to do d.c. to buy equipment and supplies for the sdraunt in cash. >> we got pulled over in fairfax. the officer said my window tint was too dark. >> proves to me his had already purchased something that maybe you were gig to go buy -- >> i still -- >> got to -- something, maybe.
>> i don't do drugs, man. >> mr. stewart eventually won a case forcing police to return the money. the post reports there have been over 61,000 cash seeshies since 9/11, totalling over $2.5 billion. now, of course authorities should have every tool at that i disposal to go after criminals, but they need to respect due process. and our constitutional rights as citizens. >> joining mess is the reporter who headed up the investigative team behind the five-part series, and mark clacken, a former nypd officer and now director of the black law enforcement alliance. thank you both for being here. robert, you did some amazing reporting here.
how is it legal -- >> it's legal until very old laws that were enhanced in the 1980s to fight the war on drugs, and it lets police, if they have a suspicion that the money or a car or other property is tied to a crime to take your property or money, and it puts the onus on you to prove it wasn't related to criminal activity. >> mark, you know in a seminar, he described the speed as goodie. listen to this. >> we always try to get every once in a while maybe a good car. there was a stake outat a bar, and this guy drives up in a 2008 mercedes, brand new, just so beautiful. the cops were undercover and it was like, ah, and he gets out, just reeking of alcohol. they're like, my goodness, we can hardly wait.
that's just one of the little goodies we got. >> unbelievable. >> is that now what some police view this tactic as a way to get goodies, mark? if you were bounty hunters, profit policing is the way to go, and it really sets up a climate that is ripe for corruption, and severe abuse, especially when you don't have -- robert give viewers some sense of the scope of this you while you were doing -- of what they do with this law? >> well, i can say this for starters, my partners like mike sala, and some of the others, none of us could believe that
this was really unfolding the way we were finding. and, the scope is pretty much in every corner of the country. it's small, officers -- small police department. it's sheriff offices, state troopers, all participate, and they do it with the xwri matt i mater. and it's a tool that can be used for making all of us safer, but it's clear, the evidence shows that some police have used it to go after cash in the name of fighting terror and their war on drugs. you know, mark, they have even seized some people's homes, even people that had nothing to
do with an alleged crime. watch this story from philadelphia. >> chris showed us the holes in his door tonight where philadelphia law enforcement installed a padlock in may. law enforcement officials seized the northeast philadelphia home where he raised his kids. after his son was arrested for selling a small amount of drugs outside, law enforcement deemed the family home connected to crime. >> i mean, with civil asset forfeiture laws designed to do things like this? >> not at all. as a matter of fact, as sfa has indicated, the impetus was the increasing drug problems of the '80s and '90s, so you had these lower-level interdictions. what evolved into a situation where people are just throwing out fourth amendment
protections, and of the profit tiering going on. you have a situation you havely where even the department of justice stands to make to% of profits. so until there is additional regulation, until the assets themselves are put into a general fund as opposed to going directly back to the acquiring agency, really the situation is prone for corruption and is guaranteed there is abuse widespread across the nation. >> the post mentions some of the ways that authorities have used the cash they seized, robert, your team did. a million went to a mobile command bus in one maryland county. $637 went to a coffee maker in the randall county sheriff's department in texas. $252 went to to hire a clown for a community relations event in -- i mean, sparkles the clown? a coffee maker? this is how the money gets used? >> well, the armored cars in the
small towns that don't have meaningful crime problems, it's really important to note that a lot of this stuff is hidden in plain sight, because the data has not been accessible. working with our data guy, steven rich, we were literally able to get hundreds of thousands data points. 43,000 records on spending. it's only that way that you can geb hind the scene. when you do get be4i7bd the scenes, you realize a lot of police departments have come to rely on this money to balance the budget and to buy the extras. >> all right. robert o'hara jr. and mark classen, thank you for your time tonight. >> obviously we will follow this story. >> thank you. coming up, they're back! and picking up right where they left off. got to wonder if it's too late for compromise. plus did you know bill clinton was a "house of cards"
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burns, and msnbc abby huntsman. thank you for being here. thank you. we start with congress, congress coming back to washington, the president vowing to act on immigration, the environment he's ready to take executive action. so is it already too late for compromise? jim inhofe is now the -- he is a climate denier, so i think back in the 2012 campaign, mea dad send out a tweet, but it was call my crazy, but i believe in science. >> i actually remember that. i've always been a fan of her dad. nobody cares about the environment. the midterms are over.
that is what this is all about. he's not going to get along with the gop. that's it. >> i glare. i think it's legacy time, the opposition in congress. i think there's no other option. you clearly see there's a member of congress, as abby said, that don't understand the impact. they think there's constant deniers, and the president is right, moving forward -- >> but if the concern of the president is his legacy is the concern of the gop to deny him a good legacy? >> i think it depends on which member you're talking about. you have members like mitch mcconnell who are talking about getting things done. some generally don't want anything good to happen to the president. so it depends. when it comes to science and the environment, it's a millennial issue. i think we'll look back -- and you believe that actually was a
thing. in time that will have to evolve. >> i think what abby is saying makes a agreed point. there's that push toward the millenni millennial, and i think the republicans will stop to promote obama's legacy. he doesn't just doesn'tary more. >> it's about undermining the legacy? >> i totally agree. >> they undermine them every step of the way. >> it's just a continuous undermining of the president nonstop. >> the good news i think is he's going to get things done, whether they try to block it or not. >> that's what it's there for. next topic -- 'tis the season, but not for some students in maryland. the largest school district has voted to remove any mention of religious holidays from the school's calendar. it capes in response to the
requests from the muslim community to give equal billing to the their own holy days. >> the school board basically stripped any decidingation of christmas, easter rosh hashanah and yom kippur. >> we not allowed to gives students the day off for a religious holiday. >> did they go too far? >> the christian and jewish holidays they still have off, but not acknowledges them. nobody cares about religion. they care about having off from school and from work. rev, i'm a hindu, i don't get off for my holidays, so if i have to seam i'm seema horrid oy wits, and it's 2:00 and i want to leave. i'm not joking. >> you speak for so many. >> that could be replayed in court. i know.
rev likes to call any seema ire. >> but they weren't just looking at religion, but absences. so they based their decisions on the in umber of absences. so you look at some jewish holidays, kids are absent, so it wasn't taking favoritism to religion. >> but is there some islam-phobia here? >> i think they don't want to disrespect anybody. let's not celebrate any hole daze. >> but still days off -- >> a lot of it depends on where you live. if you have a population where the majority of the schools they ares muslim, i think they would have handled it much differently. if you have one student, it's more challenging. >> i thought we lived in where all men are created equal and everybody -- >> i send out kwanzaa cards. >> there you go. let's get to that. the next topic, mucher presidents are just like us? bill clinton was on "ellen" he
revealed he's a big fan of some of the hottest political dramas like "scandal" and "house of cards" but not for the reason you think. >> it makes it fun to watch, is that i can't imagine that either the president, spacey, or the president's chief of staff on "scandal" could get away with murder. i wish i had known that, you know, think of all the opportunities. >> so many people to get rid of. >> so little time, so many people that have it coming, you know? >> that would make it so easy. >> crazy. >> get away with murder? i mean, abby, who knew he was a scandal or house of cards fan. >> first of all, this interview is probably my favorite ever with president clinton. she did a phenomenal job. itis a huge fan of "scandal" and "how to get away with murder."
i'm thinking there is no way this possibly could happen, no way it could be a reality, and you think about bill clinton in the years, that actually happened. many of these represent his life. there's something intriguing -- >> how would you go there? >> i think there's something intriguing when people kill for ambition. i think it's something that we are attracted to and drawn to. when you commit murder under an an dix or anger, but when it's because of your ambition, that's kind of sexy. >> and we're obsessed with these shows. >> this is or guilty pleasure. >> so you think people are -- >> living -- living out their own fantasies. sex and crime, i mean, that -- >> i am saying that i often feel like killing people. i feel -- >> bring out the couch. >> i think everyone feels this
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we're back now with our panel. our final topic tonight -- i thought i could get out of the show without talking about it. but kim kardashian is trending worldwide all day for this --
yes, that's kim kardashian baring her backside on the cover of "paper" magazine. we've use a tv-friendly version. the magazine was trying to, quote, break the internet, but at the moment she at least owns a good chunk of it. she has over 25 million twitter followers. the magazine also released her hidden talent, the ability to balance a champagne glass. it seems he broke the internet and water coolers around the world today. what is the false nations -- >> no, i'm knoll doing it. i'm not talking about someone's tushie. >> i think it was a great marketing campaign. we all know "paper" i think it makes her more relevant. >> i didn't know "paper" until that. now i know.
>> it's on national tv, and kim kardashian, her whole business is staying relevant, using her image. >> what do you do next? maybe don't tell me. >> what did she do first? >> she got her start from the sex tape. she owned that moment. and she has -- i don't know what her butt would be worth today, but j.lo started this whole butt movement. >> that's become a thing. and kim kardashian, she has really done everything she can. she braces what we love about her. he embraces her figure, and in today's world i think women like the fact she's kept her curve. i don't know what's all over the body, maybe oil or something? >> she's shined up, definitely. >> well, i'm sorry, you don't want to talk about tushies.
you know how i don't talk about it. i don't even know how to say it, but her celebrity, how does she do it? >> she, like john was saying, she continually makes herself relevant. she keeps herself in the eye. she's a marketing genius. she surrounds herself with people who can promote her image, and in that sense, she does work hard. >> she works very hard. >> she is working. >> she works hard on that. she doesn't say a lot. >> doesn't it say something about the public? >> full disclosure, i watch the kardashians show. on my free time i watch it sometimes. she doesn't say a lot of interesting things. actually the other characters in the family are -- >> i like the drama. >> but i think she's beautiful. she is a flawless beautiful woman. >> one of the prettiest faces i have ever seen. we have to go. we'll have you back. >> we'll talk about it. >> thank you for your time tonight. we'll be right back.
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remembering one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. john dahl was a legendary figure at the justice department as head of the civil rights division. he personally escorted james meredith to integrate ole miss. he had been living with him to guarantee his safety. when gavins was assassinated, he stepped into the street alone to defuse a standoff between protesters and police officers, standing with guns drawn. he called out "i'm from the justice department and anybody around here knows i stand for what's right." he let the prosecution of goodman shall waner and cheney, and with thurgood marshall, he went to the supreme court to defend the voting rights act. he described himself as a
lincoln republican, but still served as the top lawyer for the commute -- and his side, a young hillary clinton. in 2012, he was awarded the medal of freedom. . >> in the words of john lewis, he gave civil rights workers a reason to not give up on those in power. i think it's fair to say i might not be here if it wasn't for his work. >> he passed away yesterday at the age of 92. as i've studied the civil rights movement and those before my time and have worked with those during my time, i try to tell young people that the movement was not just the character mattic figures that we read about that were out front, or that are out front now, but it took different people playing different roles. yes, thank god there was a martin luther king and roy
wilkins, but there was a john door in the justice department. there were though students that no one ever knew their names. it took all kinds of people playing different roles, but had one firm commitment for justice that turned this nation in the right direction. that ought to be instructive to us today. we all can't play the cosmetic roles that make you known in celebrity, but we all can do something. john door had no problem working with the martin luther king juniors and the good man and shall westernen and cheney. he had no problem working with thurgood marshalls. he played his role. if you play your role for the greater good, the world will remember when you pass on, knowing that by your coming this way, you had changed things. it's not only blacks that form the civil rights movement. there were rights. there were all kinds of people.
"morning joe." clintons will be in little rock to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their library. there's a free concert. later we'll hear from the two window wash who are had to be rescued from the 67th floor of 1 world trade center on wednesday. they are expected to hold a news conference. that will do it for our friday edition of "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ good morning, everybody. it's friday. >> this is the jam. >> november 14th. welcome to "morning joe." what a difference a day off makes. >> what a great day. >> i need to do that more often. with us on set -- i never have. it's time -- >> was it a spa day. >> a day with my daughter day.
no other reason. yep. i spent years not doing that. >> what was that like >> it was amazing. we had the best time. >> i'm going to try that. >> we watched videos in bed. just youtube videos. like funny things. stupid stuff. >> did you see the person impersonating matthew mcconaughey. >> no but we'll do that the next time. >> all right, all right. >> we watched the apparent kid on ellen. whatever. senior political editor sam stein is here. donny is here. in washington we got jeremy peters here. how is that >> you were right. >> what? oh, i know. >> dude is on his cell phone. >> mark my words. >> dude on his cell phone. >> he was texting, i bet before the phone call. >> so he's on the cell phone the secret service guy while the other dude is breaking towards the white house and he's on his
cell phone. he left his back up radio inside. he turned off the radio he was supposed to have on because he's on his cell phone and doesn't want -- it's unbelievable. talk about the scathing report, mika. it's just been released. >> that's the bottom line. this is on the white house security breach that happened in september. the department of homeland security faults secret service agents for nearly a dozen performance organizational and technical failures. those errors allowed omar gonzalez to jump the white house fence with a knife, run across the north lawn and enter the first family's home. he then overpowered a female secret service officer and ran across the 80-foot east room before he was apprehended. the report states the secret service' alarm system and radios did not work properly and many officers on duty didn't see gonzalez as he climbed the fence. a uniformed secret service officer with an attack dog was
allegedly talking on a cell phone instead of listening to a two way radio. his stand by radio was in his locker. >> what else i understand they had agents that drew guns on this guy and they go well we don't think he's armed. so they drew their guns. he ran past them. i think it was even an agent in the white house, inside the white house where he came in, drew his gun and said he doesn't look armed. donny, oh, my god. first of all the guy had a knife on him. that equals armed. if there had bean civilian or somebody walking around the white house he could have grabbed them. list jenks i'm sorry, i don't care who it is. if they are racing there the presumption has to be they are armed. not that they are not armed. >> either way shoot them. you're running into my house, if i have a gun i'm going take you down. it's almost beyond comprehension. >> they can teach them how to
shoot in the leg if you don't want to kill them but shoot them. >> we talked about this. let's call it a snafu to be nice. one more example. >> like a dozen snafus. >> whether it's the irs, you know, whether it's the universities administration, the secret service -- when does it get right? and it's stunning. it's really stunning. >> i think the story here really is about tablets and cell phones and as we move forward, security jobs and other jobs that demand complete focus and attention the question is are they going to be allowed to have -- >> there's also the question of why you don't shoot somebody once they are inside the white house because you're presuming they are not armed. >> i read somewhere -- i forget why there was an article i read but it said it's really a lot more complicated to shoot somebody in the leg than you think it is. at the same time don't they have taser guns or something they can
do to impede a man with a knife that's entering the white house front door or lock the door or don't go into the car with your cell phone with your k-9. >> we call president obama the president but at the end of the day he's a dad. can you imagine what must have went down that day with his kids. can you imagine? >> the guy ran right past the staircase to go upstairs where the kids are. >> that's not even the first thing. there's a shooter that shot at the white house from way down the street that they covered up essentially for a while. the first family must be just absolutely aghast. >> let's get to the big story on capitol hill. oh, boy, fireworks. i think so. are we going to see more of the same or is there going some sort of diversion from the norm. president obama said this morning he'll move to overhaul parts of the immigration system by the end of the year and it's already raising the prospect of a government shutdown within some circles of the gop. the "new york times" reports the
white house plan would prevent the deportation of as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants. it would reform the role of law enforcement, add more security to the border and allow the parents of children born in the u.s. to get work documents. the plan would also boost opportunities for more legal immigrants with expertise in technology. yesterday house democrats called on the president to take decisive action fein it came without full congressional backing. some republicans are threatening a shutdown. >> let's not do that, guys. >> you got a w. big w. >> check the win box. let's see. let's listen to what they say about this because perhaps their tone shows they know they've won and time for a new approach. >> your setting somebody up here? >> no. i'm hoping what we're about to see is a real change. so they say unless there's language restricting the
president's proposal. >> will not be shutting the government down, threatening default on the national debt. >> even if he goes forward on immigration. >> will not be shutting the government down or threatening to default on the national debt. >> we're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. this is the wrong way to govern. all the options are on the table. we're having discussions with our members and no decision has been made as to how we will fight this. >> i think mitch mcconnell said it pretty straight. no government shutdown right, jeremy peters. >> he did although it may not be entirely his choice. john boehner once again is having to wrestle with the tea party faction in his caucus and i think what's going, what's likely to happen here is the president will wait until after congress deals with the budget to do anything, so congress, therefore, can't shut down the government in response to what the president has done on
illegal immigration but i do think there's a serious, serious amount of caution inside the republican party right now, especially among the new senate majority or the incoming senate majority that shutting down the government would completely squander all of the gains that they just made, all the goodwill that they have among the public right now. >> explain that. why do you think that is? >> i think the first thing they want to do or the first thing they do when they come back, after they are elected the majority party in congress for the first time since 2006 they come in and shut down the government. i think that would look horrible. republicans would get blamed for that. >> they did the last time. >> they certainly did. i will say it's a little bit different this time because when the president acts unilaterally on just about anything that has less public support and we've seen that in the past, this whole notion of executive action on immigration to allow these people to stay here without
going through congress, that has proven unpopular. not just in states like arkansas, but in states like colorado and iowa. i do think that's a concern for democrats. >> we're showing -- this was the republicans blame for the government shutdown last time in october of '13. we've heard a couple of republicans talk about this. but the overwhelming majority just are not going to go there. >> the senate is obviously different than house to. look what mitch mcconnell has to deal with in the senate. he has people up for re-election in very blue states. he has to grapple with that calculus. that's not the calculus that john boehner has to grapple with. but, again, even though the dynamics are different, it's not a shutdown fight would go straight to the president's desk. even those dynamics are in, i can't imagine -- >> not going to do it. >> would be coming in. >> just not going to do it.
>> much more likely put this into the law so they are going after the president for his executive actions on health care. >> take the win. don't talk about a shutdown. don't talk about impeachment. don't talk about default. you know, you're now moving towards 2016. have a chance to win the white house and keep it away from the clintons for eight more years. don't talk about those things. >> all republicans have to do is stay center right and not show. the interesting thing about this immigration thing is two fold. number one, i felt very strongly a republican win would energize obama. we saw with it net neutral thing. he's starting to double down. he's backed into a corner and coming out fighting. the immigration thing could set up the republicans to fraction themselves. you have the hispanics. the republicans started to make inroads in the last election. this will force republican
candidates how harsh do they come out against the president and now spotlight is back on the fraction republicans. >> i have a prediction. i think they let it pass. write it down. they let it pass. they are skraemg and yelling from the right. and it just becomes the law because they don't want to pass their own immigration bill. this becomes the law of the land. the people that are running in the blue states like you said the republicans running in the blue states say yeah i didn't oppose it. i didn't like the way he did it but there are some good reforms there. the right-wingers can scream and yell and say he should be impeached. people running for president the governors running for president they can all go yeah these were things that needed to happen. it sort of eases it along like the gay marriage debate, the courts are taking the gay marriage debate out of the hands of the republicans. it makes it convenient. there are a lot of republicans that to run in 2016 that will say let that pass. >> i totally agree with you.
that's the smart strategic move because it's much easier to say we're against executive action and put aside the policy. we're against presidential executive action on that scale while not dealing with the specifics of the policy. that way you don't enrage the hispanic population but you can talk about obama's overreach. simple play for mcconnell and anybody running in 2016. >> people in the right-wing districts can talk about impeachment. >> then the keystone pipeline which is set for a vote in the house today and the senate is nearing the 60 votes needed to pass it early next week. tissue was fast tracked in large part due to louisiana senate runoff between mary landrieu and bill cassidy both trying to show they can provide for the state. supporters say it will create thousands of american jobs but some analysts suggest the falling price of crude means its market value may be less than it costs to transport and produce here in the u.s. the president who retains his veto power weighed in on the issue this morning while on his
trip to asia. >> as a policy matter, my government believes that we should judge this pipeline based on whether or not it accelerates climate change or whether it helps the american people with their energy costs and their gas prices. and i have to constantly push back against this idea that somehow the keystone pipeline is either this massive jobs bill for the united states, or is somehow war on gas prices. understand what this project is. it is providing the ability of canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the gulf where it will be sold every where else. it doesn't have an impact on u.s. gas prices. >> major environmental questions as well. do you think he should veto it. >> i think if he vetoes it he
proves he's capped big money on the left. no other way to put it. you look at his own state department. they say this is more environmentally sensitive having a pipeline than continuing to allow trucks and tankers to move this oil around. they say it's going to create 45,000, 50,000 new jobs. is this going to cause this great renaissance of like american, you know, american workforce? no. >> a massive bargaining chip is that what you're saying? >> no. what i'm saying is that there's no logical reason whatsoever for the president to veto this other than hard core ideo logs on the left who spend billions of dollars on democratic campaigns. this is, donny and sam, a growing problem, i think for democrats. you know, as a republican i've
seen for some time oh, gee this issue is breaking against republicans. we talked about gay marriage before. this is an issue that will break against republicans with the younger generation. this growing energy revolution where we're going to be the number one producer of oil by 2020 will cost manufacturing and everything go down, democrats are actually on the wrong side of that issue of a historical trend and somebody has to help them, in my opinion. >> i tend to see the politics here which is that there's enough support for this thing to probably pass and the question comes what did the president get as a leverage point for it. in a logical political world couldn't you see a trade off we'll pass keystone, we'll do these environmental regulations on our coal plants. we have a net neutral carbon deal in place. we don't live in a logical political view.
>> if i'm the president i would veto this. you give me minimum wage wage increase. >> company have leveraged that for something. we're at a point where we may end up with a veto proof majority in the senate. >> the president still has the power to say i'll veto this bill, i'll send it back to you, attach $9.15 minimum wage increase to it and sign it. you'll see a lot of those republicans in the senate that are in those blue states running in 2016 saying i'll be a part of that. we'll see what the house does. >> two other political dynamics in play. joining us now from washington chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen. mike, let's start with elizabeth warren. what are the expectations for her new role and then chris christie and wall street. what's going on. go. >> mika, first things first. happy friday. >> happy friday micky. >> playbook is play on birthdays
cond iis 60 and valerie jarrett is 60 today. >> it's valerie's birthday. >> happy birthday valerie. >> i knew that valerie had a birthday. >> start with elizabeth warren. >> elizabeth warren is coming to the democrats rescue. these democrats are so reluctant, dragging their feet in voting for harry reid as their leader so there's so much excitement about her. she's been added to leadership. she has the made up title of senior policy adviser to the senate democrats. but she came out talking about working families, bashing wall street. you saw where that was going. also yesterday at the mandarin oriental here in d.c. you saw her talking to big democratic donors saying run, liz, run. a lot of excitement about her, pushing her for president among some of the biggest check books in the democratic party.
>> what's going on between chris christie and wall street? >> they are worried about what this story calls as unusual frankness. the big question is that a liability for him or an asset. chris christie is feeling great coming off these big republican governor wins. he feels bridgegate is behind him. republican donors are ppra"gma" ists. >> what do you think? >> i think he's got a temp temperament problem. >> wall street sees that. we never elected an angry person.
>> zero chance this guy will get elected. >> he's not a thug. you know, we went after the teacher. >> fantastic. >> you're asking about my kids and where they go to school. went to a town hall meeting and starting screaming at that guy in the crowd. that's like wall street people didn't say good for him. he can send his kids to a damn catholic school if he wants to. you start yelling at people in press conferences. >> where was the line. you knew he would cross it at some point. >> so it just seemed off kilter. scott walker there's a reason he's scott walker. scott walker won. he's won in wisconsin now three times in four years. his star is now eclipsed, chris christie's with most conservatives i talked to and money people. and even in the "wall street journal" today, they were
talking this is scott walker's moment. >> you end up getting to know the people you cover. you become friends with some of them. i've talked about this. the romneys, the clintons, the obamas, we criticize them a lot. we're also very friendly with them. and they come back sometimes after the most, the biggest -- >> oh, my gosh. let me put it this way. i tore mitt romney to shreds in 2012 for one of the most ineffective lousy campaigns and mocked him and laughed at him when he did really stupid things on the campaign trail. just sort of having fun. you know what? the romneys never once took it personally. and we talked and i would say hey listen -- we kept communications open. we consider them good friends. we love them. >> this was on big stuff.
like running for the president. >> running for the president. chris christie on the bridge thing. we catched so much hell for being supportive of chris christie, mika especially. >> we generally like him. >> he walks past at parties, he's angry because there was that 1% that said well inis bad -- again this is a question of temperament. if you got a problem with mika supporting you only 99% of the time you got a problem. >> mike is laughing. >> 99% of the time. what does that tell you, seriously >> to be honest he's a jerk. >> no he's not a jerk. he's very thin skinned. >> governor of wisconsin scott walker will join us. scott is coming on even though sometimes i'm tough on him. >> you've been very tough on scott walker. >> actor alan alda, and retired
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♪ that's funny. >> did the "new york post" really -- >> he was late for a very important event. >> he was. i think "new york post" gave the mayor an alarm clock. he's smiling. >> he needs one. can't be late. i'm never late. >> he took it in stride. you're always late. it's rude. you can't be late. >> i haven't been late to memorial ceremonies where you ring a bell to commemorate the deaths of people killed in a
crash because i overslept. i may be late once in a while not as much as i used to. i'm never late because i oversleep. that first event, that's a one event you have complete control over. >> so, i think it's also a man/woman thing. i think women are always on time. >> your're so punctual. >> went come late and waste time talking about stupid stuff. >> "wall street journal" indicates justice department collecting data from thousands of phones from devices installed on small airplanes. the airplanes are equipped with dirty boxes that have technology smim lar to cell phone towers
allowing the home track calls. this report says while spy planes are targeting criminals a large number of innocent americans are also getting snagged by their dirty boxes. >> "los angeles times," amazon has reached a deal over ebook and print sales after a huge six month -- >> is it a good deal? >> hatchet can set their own prices for ebooks which may help keep the struggling publisher afloat. amazon will continue sales of hatchet books. >> there's a lot of competition. >> authors got squeezed in that. >> "the washington post," the presidential bromance between bill clinton and george w. bush has spilled over to social media. clinton sparked somewhat of a hash tag dual when he tweet ad photo of himself reading his successor's book. clinton called it a touching tribute before using a hash tag
asking how are you still not on twitter. bush took to instagram writing thanks 42, using hash tags how are you still not on instagram and brother from another mother. >> instagram is cooler. >> kind of hip. but bill clinton's advisers obviously trying to keep you from posting pictures. you can understand, right? >> yes. >> all right. >> bush also had this to say about a potential 2016 match up between his brother and hillary clinton. >> i still would like him if jeb beats hillary. >> your betting on that? >> if jeb runs. i don't know if he'll run, i really don't. i hope does because he would be a great president. >> there you go. >> like when your son is competing against your best friend's wife. >> it's just a little too close.
>> sibling. >> unbelievable. >> coming up. excited for the american electorate. 25 years later we get another bush/clinton. please. just bury the white house now. unbelievable. we're all doomed. republican leaders shift positions. his may be the most important. senator roger wicker. hotty toddy. how o le miss beat crimson tide. >> what the top columnists in the nation are writing about. don't go away. we'll be back with much more "morning joe".
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joining us for the must read op-eds, eugene robinson. what are your looking at? >> i have peggy noonan here. "wall street journal." peggy writes this.
i'm really skeptical. she said it's possible the president is responding to changed circumstance with a certain rigidity because no one of stood in his way before. he had family challenges and an unusual childhood but as an adult and a professional he never faced fierce concentrated resistance. he was always magic. life never came in and gave it to him hard in the swrau. he done know how to get up from the mat. he doesn't know how to struggle frl his feet and regain his balance. he only knows how to throw punches but you can't throw a punch from the mat. gene, i'll let you take that. >> i'm very skeptical of all this sort of -- it was his childhood. this pop psychoanalyzing this president and other presidents is basically pretty worthless. i'm a great admirer of peggy's writing -- >> me too. >> but this one i don't get.
also keep in mind the president of the united states is never really on the mat. the president of the united states is still the president of the united states and can, for example, as he did this week make this sort of landmark climate deal with china that will have huge implications. he can do it on his own powers because we give the president a lot of power. i think it's a mistake to read short term political game loss and say the president is on the mat. he's done. he can't do this. he can't do that. he can do a lot. >> it's easy to look at other people's careers and say it came easy for that person and their lives and that's not ever fair or true. having said that to defend this point, i think when he came in he was so absolutely idolized that it might have been hard to imagine that he would have a hard time. >> running against the clintons not easy. >> the guy got elected in 2004. and he was state senator.
he got basically the primetime spot as a state senator on the democratic national convention in boston. nobody gets that. as a state senator. >> his speech in europe. >> hold on. let me finish my point. he gets elected to the senate. everybody says including harry reid he's bored a month later and decides he wants to run for president of the united states when he's in the senate. he doesn't do any work in the senate. as harry reid said you're bored you just need to get out of here and then he gets elected president and, of course, it's tough. yes it's tough. but come on. this guy politically i'm not going to talk personally but politically this guy has been on a magic carpet ride. he's gone to the best institutions on the planet. and went to a great prep school in high school. >> you talking about george w. bush or obama. >> i'm talking about barack obama which, by the way, thank you for making my point. george w. bush had a similar
problem. he rode on a magic carpet ride from the time he was young. compare that, sam stein, to bill clinton. who really did have a rough and tumble. he scratched, he clawed and he got elected in arkansas and he had to fight like hell for his political life every day. >> that's a great point. >> i'll give you a little more time to try to come up with something to go against that because i'm so right. sam, you first. >> let's separate the personal from the political. politically you're probably right. >> i don't know the personal. >> we do know about the personal. he wrote a whole book about the absence of his father in his life. that's a challenge enough in your life. it's an obstacle that a lot of people don't overcome. >> that's why i said political. >> we started with the column. now to your point yeah i think there's something valid to be
said if you're from a blue state, if you've not run, you know, really contested elections he lost his first election for congress that you don't learn the art of the compromise, you don't learn what it's like to negotiate when you're in a bad position, sure i think that's fine. but he has overcome some fairly decent political obstacles which you have to recognize. hillary clinton is not a formidable opponent. >> name me a president, joe, who doesn't come in to office with the possible exception of harry truman who comes into office think i'm really special, they love me. >> gene, they were talking in my ear when you were making the point. ask me the question again. >> name a president with a possible exception of harry truman who has come in to office not thinking i'm special. they really love me. i can do everything. it's an occupational hazard. it comes with the office.
all of a sudden you're president of the united states and you have the, you know, u.s. government at your beck and call and they play hail to the chief whenever you walk into the room. so, yes, it goes to your head because it goes to everybody's head and you think well of course people ought to, you know, ought to accept what i say and i'm just saying -- >> so everybody gets drunk with that power when they walk through the white house. i've had this discussion with people inside this white house saying do you really think the bu bushs didn't think the same thing. when things go bad what political background do you have to fall back on. richard nixon had a political background to fall back on. he learned the wrong lessons from that. bill clinton again the best example. >> scrappy. >> got elected in '78. lost in 1980 he went too far left. self-corrected and was governor for another 12 years of arkansas. he got elected in '92.
conquering hero. two years later he got laid out. adjusted radically. he had that in his background. barack obama doesn't. >> speaking -- >> i'm sorry. >> speaking -- >> okay. >> don't get the hook. >> with us now from -- >> speaking of a magic carpet ride i mean my god. this guy. republican senator from mississippi, senator roger wicker joins us. he's the incoming chairman of the national republican senatorial committee. >> roger we'll talk about the senatorial committee and what you'll be doing over the next two very difficult years for you. but first we need to talk about the sec west. no sec west has lost any team outside of the sec west and we should be number one through four in the playoffs. >> for once i want florida state to play a whole season in the sec west and see how they do. >> oh, my gosh florida state
would have about five losses by now. let's talk about, you for some reason decided to take on one of the tougher tasks in the republican party. we fought, we republicans fought on our grounds on our home field in 2014. 2016 is the opposite. this is a senate map dotted in blue states. what do republicans have to do to win those blue states. >> first of all the reason the map is so tough for us is because we did so well in 2010. so, we have 24 seats to defend and, you know, i feel real good about mark kirk being re-elected in illinois, pat toomey in pennsylvania. new hampshire looks good for us. you take them one by one i think we can defend. >> you're talking about a lot of states, those where the voters, especially the swing voters that come out in '16 won't take kindly to government shutdowns
and threats of impeachments and defaults. do you agree with mitch mcconnell that there's no way in heck that the republican party is going to shut down the government? >> you know they asked mitch two ways about that and the answer was the same, we're not going to have any government shutdowns, we're not going to have any threats of impeachment. we're going return to regular order and show america how the senate is supposed to work, how the founding fathers intended us to move legislation through, an open process, unlimited debate, working in to the night, working on mondays and fridays for a change like the american people do and sending legislation to the house and on to the president for, hopefully his signature. >> jeremy? >> hi, senator. good morning. congratulations. i won, one of the races you didn't mention is nevada where harry reid is up in 2016. if he chooses to run again, will you guys go after him with the same force that he went after mitch mcconnell this time around. >> well absolutely. but you know more importantly i
think that the citizens of nevada will go after harry reid. i think he's out of step with state. we had a real good run this year in the governor's race, lieutenant governor's race and captured a lot of the down state tickets. so to me that state is going republican. i think governor sandoval has a real good opportunity now after a great run as governor, perhaps to run for senator. so, i'm really, frankly i'll say this. i think harry reid may decide to retire. that's my prediction. >> let us see. >> all right. senator roger wicker great to have you on the show. >> thank you roger. >> eugene robinson thank you as well. >> thank eugene. >> thanks. >> gene set me straight. you made me a wiser man. >> comfort food. >> i don't know what that means at all.
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parents and when your parents had you. this process of change is called evolution. it's the reason why we look the way we look. >> a clip from the emmy award-winning series bill nye the science guy focused on evolution. evolution and the science of creation. it's author bill nye joins us now the book already doing well. >> yes. number eight. >> that is good. tell us about the book. why did you write it? >> to change the world. >> really? >> and has the world been sufficiently changed. >> we'll see. >> is it over? >> so evolution is the fundamental life in all of life sipes and we have a large fraction of people most advanced nation in the world that don't accept it. >> that's his party, by the way. his crazy whacky party. just saying. >> we have more in common -- we're more alike than different.
>> exactly. thank you, bill nye. >> that's one of the points of evolution that really in a sense no such thing as race. >> tell his crazy party that also. >> donny, we'll have to pull you from the set. >> for example, just by way of example, just run the star experiment. if a norwegian woman interacts -- can we say interact. >> yes. >> what do we mean by interact. >> have sex, procreate. >> from guinea you'll get a human not a new thing. this is sort of a fundamental idea. >> let's get to the crux of your book. what do you want to accomplish here? what message do you want to send? >> that evolution is the fundamental idea in life science
and it's humbling and empowering. when you realize you're a product of trial and error then i hope you cut yourself some slack. everybody you've ever met has made it this far. everybody you've ever met is good enough to get here. even my old boss. it's that simple. i was never sure. >> let me ask you a question. does the fact that fewer people are believing in evolution suggesting we aren't evolving. >> the pendulum will swing. see here's what keeps the united states in the game economically. we don't manufacture things here the way they did when i was a kid or especially when my father was a kid. what keeps us in the game is innovation. new ideas. if you want an iphone, if you want that computer you're enjoying, if you want that plastic that your boston red sox cup is made out of, you got to have innovators, new ideas,
scientist, engineers. engineers make things and to solve problems. if you have a group of people that continually suppresses science, then you'll fall behind economically. this is why i'm concerned about young people. >> so, i am a southern baptist, orthodox in my believe. terrible southern baptist. >> i'm not keeping record. >> black sliding southern baptist. you're not the one to keep records, the big man is. this debate has always come up and it's always been either or, black or white. you either believe in jesus or you believe in evolution. you either believe in god or, blah, blah, blah. the pope said something a couple of weeks ago that i've been saying since i've been 8 years old, why does there have to be a conflict. if you believe in the power of god, you believe god has the power to set events in motion. how helpful was the pope's
statement. >> it was good. it's good. also good that the pope accepted the findings of g alileo. this organization especially in kentucky has this diligent and complete program to indoctrinate young people that the earth is somehow magically 6,000 years old and it's not. it can't be. so if you question that when you question everything in geology. like the philae spacecraft, amazing thing. billions of kilometers out in space. taking astonishing pictures. if there's an steroid or comet with our name on it we need a space program to give it a nudge. if you don't believe in this stuff you won't do anything about it. >> i saw are a me ged don't. >> the book is -- >> don't want to blow it up. give it a nudge. >> bill nye, thank you so much.
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♪ welcome back to "morning joe." don't you love this song? can't hardly wait for replacements. the ending of what i believe to be the best rock album of the 1980s. >> a bold statement. >> "pleased to meet you." >> it's a great record. >> managing editor of bloomberg politics john heileman, good to have you on board. >> hi there. >> don't you get happy when john shows up? >> i do. >> the whole set gets elevated. >> the pixie dust i sprinkle every where. >> that's what you call it? >> that's what i call it. >> senator mitch mcconnell's argument for re-election was opportunity to become majority leader and now that's a reality. >> despite some senators refusal to say who they would back, mcconnell was elected unanimously. harry reid was elected senator minority leader but politico reports he had to convince some
skeptical democrats he would be more open to policy and messaging. some members tried to delay the vote and six defect preponderance of the evidence when asked if he shouldered some of the blame for the senate flipping reid said does anybody in nebraska know me or kansas? >> yes, they do. can i answer that for him? yes, they do. they don't like you. >> stop. >> in fact, they know you a lot more than they know the koch brothers and the people that gave you hundreds of millions of dollars to win the election from the democrats they are very angry at you because you blew all of their money chasing after the koch brothers and making it personal. you should have watched the godfather. never make it personal. he made it personal. he cost the democrats a lot of seats. >> i just don't think he was asked. i don't know. he also says i don't think it had much to do with me. >> it had everything to do with me. >> people don't know who i am. he created a position for
senator elizabeth warren as a policy adviser in a nod to the progressive wing of the party. >> they like her. >> house minority leader pell was elected again but unleashed a long rebuttal when a reporter asked if she considered stepping aside when the democrats failed to make the majority for a third election. >> what was the day that any of you said to mitch mcconnell when they lost the senate three times in a row. aren't you getting a little old, mitch, shown you step aside? have you ever asked him that question? have you ever asked, have any of you ever asked him that question? so i don't understand why that question should even come up. i'm here as long as my members want me to be here. it's just as interesting as a woman to see how many times that question is asked of the woman and humanities that question is never asked of mitch mcconnell. >> mika, is that fair? >> yeah. in a big way. the question is has it been asked of mitch mcconnell? i don't know the answer. >> he's never been majority
leader before. >> but has it been asked in other -- i think it's a very good point. >> it's a good question to raise except for the fact if mitch mcconnell had lost this time, i think you know, that would have been third, fourth time in a row, then i think the question would have been asked of mitch mcconnell. i think mitch mcconnell would have been run out of town. >> i love nancy pelosi. i consider myself a feminist. i didn't see that as a gender related question. mitch mcconnell lost he would have been asked. >> would have asked the question of john boehner whether he should stay there or not and nancy's place here you got to look at the fact republicans have more seats in the u.s. house than they've had since 1929 and certainly at that point you have to start asking questions do we need to get new leadership? we ran newt out of town and we had a majority of four. >> if you listen to the rest of
the bite because it's amazing she goes on to make this point which is accurate as we discovered yesterday. she points out that they have not put on the cover of "time" magazine when she became the first female speaker of the house in the history of the house of representatives on the day that the republicans won and boehner became speaker he was on the cover of "time." last week when the senate became republican mcconnell was put on the cover of "time." she goes on length on this topic. she never occupied the cover of "time" magazine solo. it doesn't have to do with these questions whether she should step down now. but she had a burr under her saddle and not wrongly comparing the attention that those leaders got. >> i would agree because jeremy i was on the floor the day she got sworn in as the first female speaker of the house. it was an extraordinary day. >> that's right. i don't think you with minimize the very real hurdles and bias
she has faced, any woman in politics in a leadership position. that said i've been there when that question has been asked of mitch mcconnell. i know it has been asked. >> there you go. >> the other thing is that before the election, we were hearing very real concern, kind of nervousness that if republicans lost just how much bedlam would let loose and there would be a leadership purge, i garage you. >> i heard more discussion about ronald reagan running for office and being president in '69 than i've heard to date about hillary clinton. i don't see it. >> speaking of today top clinton aides, friends and donors with an eye to 2016 will descend on the bill clinton presidential library. they are celebrating its tenth anniversary. event also reflects the talk of the next potential clinton campaign another white house run by the former first lady. still there's some concern that democrats are getting ahead of themselves. during panel discussion former obama adviser david axelrod
urged the former secretary of state to quote get out of the cocoon of inevitableability. he added i think the danger for secretary clinton is that as was the case in 2007, her zandcy is out in front of the rationale for it. does it match? >> it's a fair statement. >> good way of putting it. >> she did not have a clear rationale in 2007 other than it was her turn and she was the inevitable candidate. that was a huge problem for her. she eventually found the message but too late in the spring of 2008. right now a lot is demanded of her to come up with a message early. she still has time. david's point seeing right at this moment beyond now it's her turn, her time there's not a clear articulating rationale for the candidacy. >> how do you get out of the
cocoon of inevitableilty. >> you shouldn't have come out with a book. >> how do you know everybody assumes you are. >> elizabeth warren has got to stake out her turf because there's no assumptions she will be the candidate. if you're hillary clinton you have to act as if. you run a successful business even when it's doing great as if it's in trouble. that's what you have to do with a presidential campaign. the great key to success in business even when you're on top run it as if you're going out of business. >> run scared. >> ask yourself the question, right now if elizabeth warren decided tomorrow she was going run for president nobody would have any lack of clarity why she was running. you could explain that in two sentences. right now hillary clinton you can't explain in two sentences. >> one of the famous moments, mika, in presidential history over the past 30, 40 years was when ted kennedy was going to
run in 1980 and everybody presumed he was going to destroy jimmy carter and he was interviewed by roger mudd who he considered to be a friend and roger mudd asked him the question, why do you want to be president? and it was the most pained tortured awkward response. he could not answer that simple question. and bluntly his presidential campaign never really took off and never recovered. hillary clinton right now couldn't answer that question. if somebody got a microphone in her face and asked her why do you want to run for president it might be the same thing. she couldn't even promote a book this summer. >> that's my question. >> without falling over herself. i'm wondering for somebody who has world renowned status like bill and hillary clinton they are known internationally, their name recognition will never go away. >> right. >> if for the past two years she had not come out with a book, had taken time off, kind of
disappeared almost and gone into hiding, do whatever she needs to do to sort of recover from serving as secretary of state which is a recovery process, it's exhausting, those jobs, would she be in a weaker position to run or a stronger one when she comes out of the box? >> if i were in her position -- >> or a book that comes out later on a real issue. >> if i were in her position i would be glad that i went on the book tour and had as many mistakes as i had because that would tell me boy i am not in mid-season form. this is not june of 2008. i better get ready this time. so maybe it was a disastrous pre-season. >> that was useful. >> and that's going to be useful. >> she was good on the stump for candidates this fall not to the point where she has a rationale for a candidacy. she was going good. she was very good --
>> what would she have lost by not doing anything? >> very hard for her, i think, to dropout of sight and go into a reclusive posture. >> she was campaigning, basically, in a shadow campaign form, coming out with a book. what would she have lost -- >> had not written the book? not very much. she might have learned a lot. she learned a lot even from the mistakes she made. >> as much as it's rationale, part of the problem is obama. you have to be -- she was part of his administration. he's been in office for years or will have been. clearly voters have soured on the guy. if he's in bad straits with poll numbers. >> you give us the answer. >> just tired of people just are ready to change. >> that's what i mean. >> it's as simple as that. her picture comes on, i just want to see -- >> she and jeb bush represent, i
really do believe this, a sort of sclerosis that's not only begun to clog up washington, d.c. that doesn't work, but american society at large. look at the fact that the rich keep getting richer. poor keep getting poorer. washington doesn't work. the irs doesn't work. the va doesn't work. there are no new ideas. this was the most shallow campaign that's ever been run other than the one that was run two years before that, other than the one that was run two years before that. they are campaigns about nothing but spending more and more money, more and more crony capitalism, more and more about k street throwing in money and wall street throwing in money and your answer is for an american electorate that are starving for something new, another bush and another clinton 25 years later. it's like south america somebody said in the 19th-century.
think about this. a bush in the white house in 1980. in 1984. in 1988. a clinton '92. a clinton in '96. a bush in 2000. a bush in 2004. not eight, not 12, in 16, in 20 you would have had a bush or clinton in the white house in 36 of 44 years. that is the definition of political sclerosis and that, to spend half a century that way between two warring political families, that is about as bad of a condemnation on this constitutional republic as i could imagine. >> except they are not warring. they are. >>gram friends. >> that makes it worse. actually that makes it worse. >> don't forget the last clinton in the state department. >> there's new information coming in on the fight against isis. iraqi officials tell the associated press that government
forces have just driven isis militant from a key oil refinery town 140 miles north of baghdad. isis is joining forces with an al qaeda linked group in syria. according to the ap the militants met at at that farmhouse last week and audiotape goode to stop fighting each other. new audiotape which nbc has not yet verified suggests leader of isis was not severely injured or killed in an air strike. joining us from across the syrian border in turkey, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard? >> reporter: well, a lot of things that you just mentioned. first, the town where isis has been holding on to a key oil refinery the iraqi army has been trying to take it for months. according to iraqi officials justin last 24 hours or so they have managed to take another portion of the town, but frankly iraqi officials have claimed
this before. the iraqi government does not have much credibility in announcing its offensives. i would give it more time to see how much they really control the town and how much authority they have on the ground. the other report that isis and this al qaeda-linked front in syria are now making peace, eve also heard that before. those groups have a very similar ideology but they've had leadership issues in the past and it is not clear at all that they are now on the same sheet. i think eventually that will happen but i'm not sure if it's happened yet. in terms of the latest abu bakr al-baghdadi audiotape, i think that is probably the clearest development that we have so far. this is a recording, sounds very much like abu bakr al-baghdadi. in it he's making new threats, calling for new recruits and certainly does not sound as iraqi officials said last week that he was killed. >> you can catch richard engel
recording the battle against isis tonight at 9:00 p.m. on msnbc. richard, thank you very much. and jeremy peters, thank you as well. still ahead on "morning joe," alan alda, governor scott walker and yao ming join the conversation. plus kim kardashian's break the internet moment will finally be addressed here on "morning joe." >> we've been waiting. >> you know who will help us with this? suzie essman. she joins us in a few minutes. an odd couple for the ages. what brought the world's tallest and shortest living men. we'll being right back. >> love that picture.
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providing the officials with personal favors. >> sam -- >> this is not fair. i get the fifa story. >> "daily mail" world's tallest and shortest living men joined forces yesterday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the guinness world records. two metaphor the first time ever in london. the tallest 8'3" and the world's shortest at 21 1/2 inches tall. the men have a height difference. seven feet came together for a photo shoot. both plan to meet again. who would you rather be? >> definitely 8 feet. >> independent reports say there's a tiger loose in paris. french officials say it was spotted near disneyland and since there are no big cats at the theme park they have no idea where it came from. animal experts say judging by the pawprint the tiger is still young and weighs about 100
pounds. a helicopter is now assisting in the search and people in the area are being told to stay indoors. really? tiger on the loose? okay. still ahead, senator-elect cory gardner joins us in a few minutes. two tv legends working for the fundraiser time under the bright lights of broadway, alan alda and candice bergen join us on set. more "morning joe" straight ahead. ♪
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♪ i want to ask you something. >> what? >> it's a favor. >> so ask me. >> it's a big favor. [ laughter ] >> oh, come on, murph you want to borrow my junior walker album -- >> i want you to father my child. >> excuse me >> i've eaten so much liver i can only make love if i'm smothered in bacon and onions. are we going to stand for this? we're not going to eat this any more. we want something else. we want something else. we want something else.
we want something else. >> it is now, we got emmy award winners alan alda and candice bergen. that's huge. they are now sharing the stage in the broadway show "love letters." this is an extraordinary concept. it's not fathom of the opera. there's not fog. a lot of broadway lately has become catchy and effects with people dangling from the audience. concept here pretty radical by 2014 standards. i can't wait to see it. tell us about it. >> we come out on stage and we read the letters between these two people who met in -- >> fourth grade. >> fourth grade. and then their letters extend over their whole lives and in the course of that you find out that they have never -- they are drawn to each other just like any two people in the world, they are drawn to each other but
can't quite fall into total sync. >> it's two actors you don't ever look at the other actor u-sit facing the audience side-by-side at a desk. it sounds thrilling, doesn't it? >> it actually does. you all just sort of look at each other for a little bit at the end, right? >> i never see her. never see her. the brilliance of this, your can't describe it. you got to experience it. the brilliance of the writing is such that given this minimal thing we're describing of the way we do it, you feel these people's lives. >> you go through christmas cards and you go through all this correspond and you always wonder was true love a lot closer to me than -- >> they are more in love than they know they are in ways that they don't understand. >> when we think about the two you doing this, who signed on first. did you know, candice that al
was going to do it? >> we have the same agent. >> there are different pairings doing this. how did you know you guys would get to be this love couple. >> we both said yes. that's the way it works in life. you have to say yes you just can't not say no. >> at the same time knowing you guys -- >> it just seemed ideal. >> the addition of the audience has been so much fun. >> it helps a lot. >> they not only laugh all through the play which sometimes came as a surprise to us because lines we thought were just normal speech turned out to be funny. because we are just playing the scene. but then you get the audience, when these characters get in trouble, last night a woman started sobbing and you could hear it from the stage. one night when they got in trouble a guy in the house went, oy! >> just quickly about the black list. >> yeah. >> i lost my head on the black
list. >> people watching lost their head over that episode too. they western expecting what was going to come with that. >> that's one of the fun things with that show. you don't know what will happen again. you get involved with somebody, they die you get used to him being dead and he's back again. >> i don't know if america is ready to do that to alan alda. >> they don't mind. >> you can see alan alda and candice bergen in "love letters" through through december 18th. we'll be right back. ♪ mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm here we go, here we go, here we go.
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and i indicated to speaker boehner several months ago that if, in fact, congress failed to act i would use all the lawful authority that i possess to try to make the system work better. and that's going to happen. the minute they pass a bill that i can sign, that fixes our immigration system, then any executive actions i take are replaced. >> i had maybe naively hoped the president would look at the results of the election and decide to come to the political center and do some business with us. i still hope he does at some point. but the early signs are not good. let me tell you who did get the message. and that was senate democrats. i think they got the message on the keystone pipeline. that's why you've seen the current majority in the senate have an epiphany and have a vote
that they have been blocking. >> president obama and mitch mcconnell talking about immigration and keystone pipeline two big topics dominating the conversation on capitol hill. one of the lawmakers who helped give republicans control of the senate, senator-elect cory gardner of colorado. congratulations, sir. >> congratulations, cory. great to have you with us. we heard so many great things about you. many people said you ran the best campaign of 2014. that's like going on the air and saying i'm not a witch. >> had a lot of good people around me. >> one of the things that was striking to me on election night, when you won, you know, so many times people get elected and they clinch their fist and say this is our time. but you said something that really stuck out to me and i thought it was great. you said this isn't about republicans, this isn't about democrats, this is about a washington that doesn't work. we have to fix it. how important do you think that was to your victory, not some
ideological wave. >> i think it's the colorado way. if you look at colorado in 20808, 2010, 2014, this is a state that's electing people based on what they think they will do to break the gridlock not what they will do for their party or deposition or republicans and that's what we have to do as a whole as a nation as congress is making sure we're approaching at any time same way for all of america. >> we covered your race closely. i talked about the "denver post" endorsemen. what did do you when you opened up the newspaper and found out the "denver post" had endorsed you. >> i'll never forget where i was. i was at a press conference with the governor. we were at one of the roads that had been destroyed in the flooding last year. and my staff came up and told me right there and i was stunned. so for the first time at a press conference i was really, really quiet. they were very happy with me. >> let me go down the checklist here. unfortunately, there's some voices out there that mitch
mcconnell doesn't appreciate. talk of a government shutdown. is there anyway you could support a government shutdown or a default on the debt as mitch mcconnell was saying yesterday there's no way he ever could. >> absolutely not. there's no time, place or purpose of a government shutdown or default. that's ridiculous. something that a mature governing body doesn't even contemplate. so over the next several weeks, over the next several days as we put together that agenda the first 100 days of accomplishment to the american people, we ought to make it very clear that simply is not acceptable. >> if republicans have a rob with immigration then they need to take it up that way and not by shutting down the government >> republicans need have a solution. republicans have to have ideas on immigration reform. i support immigration reform making sure we start where american people want to it start, border security. bring a small guest worker program because that has to be part and parcel of border security. but to simply say no i believe is unacceptable. just to say no to everything is
unacceptable. that's the message that american people sent on tuesday night. the president needs to do the right thing and work with congress. >> you say you just can't say no to everything. what issues do you think you can meet in the middle on that perhaps your party didn't do so much of in the past. >> i think there's opportunities to put a number of bills on the president's desk in a bipartisan fashion whether it's the keystone pipeline that we're about to do with bill cassidy or making sure we repeal the medical device tax, making sure we're putting solutions forward to grow our economy, get our country back to work and prove to the american people that tuesday night's lessons won't be forgotten. i said on election night coloradans are not red or blue but krystol clear like the rocky mountain air. they want congress to do its job and get out of the way. >> i'm curious the exit polls were screwed up in colorado. we don't know in a definitive way what percentage of the hispanic vote you got.
have you guys done that, do you know what the answer? >> there's various reports showing higher than what mitt romney had in terms of 2012 but the bottom line is this. we were reaching out. we went into the hispanic communities across colorado in one county in pueblo county in colorado one of the largest counties in the state, we did very well. in fact i think we may have tied with senator udall or lost by a couple hundred votes. we made significant inroads and because we've talked about the need to grow our economy, education, opportunities, things we can do together. >> if the president goes ahead and goes this executive action on immigration do you feel the next step is for congress to take it up as he's suggesting and try to do a bill that would meet the president's criteria have a pathway to citizenship or do you think immigration reform be dead if he goes ahead and does this executive action. >> i hope to president will do the right in this. tuesday night sent the message to all of us we should work
together. to me the right thing isn't to use a bully pulpit to force your way or maintain the monopoly because you think your ideas are the only ideas. the bottom line the house and senate should work together. people said we've tried to do that. it can take time. let's get together. let's work. let's use this new era of goodwill if that's what you want to call it as an opportunity to do something instead of talking about it or do things that create bigger problems. >> congratulations on winning. your position of work together. what do you say to a ted cruz in your party who basically says the president is a man of lawlessness, we need to repeal health care, the entire direction of the party should be to stop president obama at any cost. so, let's give mr. cruz a little religion, if you will, on kind of your -- >> what's your obsession with ted cruz. seriously. everybody in the mainstream media brings up ted cruz. >> everything is opposite -- >> ted cruz is like alone in his
own caucus. >> i want this new wave. >> he's running for president. >> i want this new wave of republican main stay to say like people like me say boy you were out of line. >> cory, donny wants you to correct a sitting senator before you even are sworn in. >> that's how you make a lot of friends. one of things i think we have to do is simply this. republicans can't object posed to everything. if we're opposed to something let's come up with an idea how we do it better or why our ideas are better in terms of not doing that but doing something different. what we have to do is present that opportunity front, the opportunity agenda, the ways we can do something that matters to the american people. we can't simply say no or be opposed. that i hope is the new way forward for the next two years. >> that's the message for ted cruz. >> for all of us. >> that's the message to american people.
>> he's stirring the pot. >> there's an obsession with ted cruz you and so many people on the left have. >> ted cruz feeds it. >> senator, chow what he stands for, he stands for running for president and getting a conservative faction to follow him that feel disenfranchised up. >> senator i want to follow up on what john was asking. i want to get more specifics out of you which is if you do respond, the republican party does respond to the president with some sort of immigration reform plan to supersede his executive action what do you envision is in that plan. >> i haven't been part of those discussions with the senate or house leadership in what they would do to supersede any kind of executive order. we heard people talk about what it may or may not be. bottom line is we have this opportune in time for the president to do the right thing. to work with congress and the
house and senate and for republican leadership, republicans in the house and senate come together and realize we have to do something. whatever the president does by executive order it won't be the kind of fixes we need to the overall system to make sure it's built to last for the next 30 to 40 years instead of having the pieces and parts that we have today. >> let me skit another way. i know you don't want to shut down the government. there's been some news reported that house republicans may consider a lawsuit over it. is that something that you think is appropriate? >> again, i don't know who is considering a lawsuit and i don't know the extent of executive power. the bottom line is this instead of charging each other with lawsuits or executive action or abuses of power why don't we do what the american people sent us to do, let's work together. be the grown ups in the room. get the job done. >> thank you. >> thank you so much, cory. great to have you with us. senator cory gardnering thank you. bob costas wrote in "the
washington post" that's what john boehner will do. let the courts decide. which seems actually if you got a political question that seems like the way to do it. >> bob costas is not covering football. >> robert costas. >> coming up, our next guest explains what the mid-term elections were really about. >> donny -- >> orchestrate my god look at this. comedian and actress suzie essman from curve joins us next. a secure retirement. a new home. earning your diploma.
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♪ hey. >> yeah. >> is this something >> yeah. congratulations. >> thank you. >> beautiful house. >> so come on i'll give you tour. >> that's okay. in get it. >> what do you mean? >> you know, bedrooms, bathrooms. i get it. i see it. it's beautiful. it's great. >> you don't want a tour? >> you don't need to walk me around. [ bleep ] get out of my house larry. get the [bleep] >> fine i'll take tour.
>> i'm done. i'm over it. i'm turned off. leave. get the [ bleep ] out. okay. >> i'm turned off. leave. joining us now from "curb your enthusiasm," comedian susie essman. >> who says no to a house tour? was i wrong? >> no. >> i do feel -- >> you know what, though, everybody is like -- larry does what everybody wants to do. >> exactly. where is larry. >> he's in l.a. but he'll be back because he has a new broadway play starting february 2nd. yesterday. die the voice over. i know the exact dates. >> how much of that is good. is it like okay you guys are going to fight about a house tour. >> it will say something like larry comes in, gives something to jeff. susie says want a tour of the
house, larry says no, susie gets mad. i'm turned off we just make it up. >> susie, you're at the comedy club tonight, tomorrow. i have a feeling you're going to talk about kim kardashian. >> i'm not. i don't talk about -- because i don't care. that's all she's got. let her flaunt it. what else does she have? that's her talent. >> look how big that blur has to be. >> donny, don't you think she's kind a brilliant advertising person? >> actually, her mom is actually -- although i did, one night, i have to say this, i was on leno. following them. >> oh, my god. >> i turned to her and she said, what's your brand? and she said, my fans. so the answer's no. but her mother's brilliant actually. >> i don't talk about -- i can't give them energy. it annoys me that i even know who they are. >> why does it annoy you? >> because why do i have them in my head? why do i know their napes? i don't follow them.
why are they taking up space in my head? >> exactly. why? what have they done to us? because i know -- i know kris, the mom. and then the kids, kourtney and -- i know this stuff. >> why, why? >> because you can't avoid it. >> i've somehow avoided it. >> no you haven't. who's kim kardashian. what size panties does she wear? you know. >> i don't know. so what are you going to talk about? >> tonight? >> yeah. >> i never know. i'll probably talk about my kids and my husband and my mother who's driving me crazy. >> you got four kids. three of them out of the house. not sure what they were doing. i was asking if they were coke dealers. you said they could be. >> well, you never know what you're doing. >> you never know with kids. you do know you're not paying their rent. >> no, it's incredible. three out of the four. by the way, the empty nest, which you have not experienced yet, every day feels like you're
on vacation. >> really? >> it's amazing. they'll all be home thanksgiving. what's going to happen is all of a sudden what are we doing for dinner? what's for dinner? like i'm the menu planner. they live on their own. they shop, they cook. they come home -- >> they revert. >> three meal, a day, i have to plan. >> you don't miss them? >> no. look, i had dinner with them the other night in the city. i love the adult relationship. i still pick up the check, you know, and then we go to the supermarket and i pay for everything there. but when i'm not there, they're on their own. >> i've been having kids for 26 years. >> you did it wrong. >> i will never be an empty nester. >> how old is your youngest? >> 6. >> i have a 7-year-old. i love it. >> it's wrong at your age, donny. it's so wrong. >> joe, why do i have the kids, you know. >> because donny actually uses the kids, like a lot of people -- >> they're props. >> in college, guys buy cute puppy dogs, walk them across the quad. donny actually had kids, he
actually gets women pregnant because he wanted three, four, five years from now, to be able to go through central park and pick up women. >> he's right. >> he uses his children as props. >> donny, again -- >> -- pathetic human beings. >> i do love them. >> if that's the only way you can get women. what's going to happen is they're going to see your kids, they're going to see you, they're going to think you're grandpa. you have to explain yourself. it's not going to be pretty in the end. >> they think i'm a renaissance man. >> they think you're grandpa. >> good lord. >> can i say honestly i understand the old guys wanting younger women, but i find it absolutely repulsive. >> i always date age appropriate women. >> really? >> i'm not that old, first of all. >> uh-huh. okay, sure. >> 47 is not that old, okay. >> 47? >> 47 is not -- >> get out of here. in what lifetime. >> i'm going to be 57. >> he's lived a rough life.
>> what is your tinder profile say? >> i'm not on tinder. >> liar. >> all right, so susie, when you're talking tonight and you're doing your stand-up routine, you're not going to go the kim kardashian route and you say you don't know who taylor swift is. but you stay away from pop? >> i don't stay away from anything. it's just what's interesting to me. taylor swift doesn't enter me. >> does ted cruz? >> ted cruz interests me. the fact that joe is a denier of ted cruz. >> yes. >> thank you. >> joe's humiliated by the existence of ted cruz so he doesn't -- you just want to say, ted cruz, pooh pooh it, when the reality is he's your guy. >> thank you, susie. >> i like ted cruz. >> what do you like about him? >> he's a good guy. >> what is this good guy? >> this whole i'd like to have a beer with this guy does not fly with me. >> why not? because he doesn't believe what you believe? >> not only does he not believe what i believe, he doesn't believe what he believes.
>> how do you know that? >> i don't. >> you know what, thank you for admitting that. >> i love her. >> really, half of these people i think are char latins. . i think it's just an attention-getting device. i don't think they really believe these things they're saying. >> it's like kim kardashian pulling down her -- >> my husband and i watch you every morning. >> that's nice. >> with our coffee in bed with our little puppy dog. who we have not to pick up people but because we love the animal. it's a sincere -- >> i don't not love my children, i'm just going back to the motivation for having them. >> keep on having them, populate the world. >> you were saying how you don't believe in science. >> i was joking. >> i hope so because if you don't believe in science, then you have to give up everything that -- you can't go to a hospital. you can't have a cell phone. you can't have a toilet that functions. >> susie, you're making me so tired right now. >> you can't have coffee. >> you weren't denying science
yesterday, were you? what happened when i was gone? i took the day off. >> i was so bad -- >> tomorrow is 8:00 -- >> i saw you took a day off. you took a mental health day. >> i took a mental health day. i haven't done that -- i can't remember ever. i always come back on my vacations. i never really take time off. >> well, that's not good, mika. >> i'm going to now. >> what's like your relaxation? >> i went to see my daughter and it was so nice. >> in college? >> yes. and we sat in bed and watched youtube videos. >> she runs like six or seven miles. that's how she relaxes. that's just not good. >> no, who wants to run? >> not me. >> not me either. >> unless somebody's chasing me. >> maybe i'll go to the gotham tonight. >> come, it will be funny. >> this is my girl crush. u.s. is susie, thank you so much. also come back when larry come because we need to keep him in check when he sits here and says nothing and is totally uncooperative. >> does he do that?
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it is 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. welcome to "morning joe." we have donny deutsch and in washington jeremy peters. >> you were right. >> what? >> oh, i know. >> dude's on his cell phone. >> mark my words -- i'm going to take it a step further. he was texting, i bet, before the phone call. >> so he's on his cell phone. the secret services guy, while the other dude breaks into the white house and he's on his cell phone. >> these cell phones are changing our society. >> -- his backup radio inside. >> distracted -- >> he turned off the radio he's supposed to have on because he's on his cell phone and he doesn't want -- it's unbelievable. talk about the scathing report, mika, that's just been released. >> that's the bottom line. this is on the white house security breach that happened in september. the department of homeland security fault secret service
agents for nearly a dozen performance organizational and technical failures. those errors allowed omar gonzalez to jump the white house fence with a knife, run across the north lawn and enter the first family's home. he then overpowered a female secret service officer and ran across the 80-foot east room before he was apprehended. the report states the secret soips's alarm systems and radios did not work properly. a uniformed secret service officer with an attack dog was also allegedly taking -- taking on a cell phone instead of listening to a two-way radio. his standby radio was in his locker. >> what else i don't understand is they had agents that drew guns on this guy and he -- they go, well be we don't think he's armed. so they drew their guns. he ran past them. i think there was even an agent in the white house, inside the
white house, where he came in, drew his gun and said, well, he doesn't look armed. i mean, donny, oh, my god. the guy had a knife on him. that equals armed. if there had been a civilian or somebody walking around the white house, he could have grabbed them. listen, i'm sorry, i don't care who it is. if they're racing there, the presumption has to be they're armed. not that they're not armed. >> either way, shoot them. you're running into my house, if i have a gun, i'm going to take you down. it's almost beyond comprehension. >> shoot 'em. >> look -- >> they're in the white house. >> we talked about this and, you know, this -- let's call it a snafu to be nice. it's just one more example -- >> like a dozen snafus. >> institutions, you know, whether it is the irs, whether it is the veterans administration, whether it is the secret service, you know, where -- >> government doesn't work. >> when does it work? when does it get right? it's stunning.
it's really stunning. >> i think the story here is really about tablets and cell phones. as we move forward, security jobs and other jobs that demand complete focus and attention. the question is is are they going to be allowed to have -- >> there's also the question why you don't shoot somebody once they're inside the white house. because you're presuming they're not armed. >> i read somewhere that it's hard -- an article i read. it's really a lot more complicated to shoot someone in the leg than you think it is. >> yeah, okay. >> at the same time, don't they have taser guns or something they could do to inpempede a ma with a knife? >> we are tracking -- >> at the end of the day, he's a dad. can you imagine what must have went down that day with him, with his kids in there? can you imagine? >> the guy ran right past the staircase to go upstairs to where the kids are. >> that's not even the first
thing. there was a shooter who shot at the white house from way down the street that they covered up essentially for a while. the first family must be absolutely gassed. >> we'll be following that. let's get to the big story. oh, boy, fireworks. >> i think so. >> are we going to see more of the same? is there some sort of diversion from the norm? president obama said this morning he'll move to overhaul parts of the immigration system by the end of the year and it's already raising the prospect of a government shutdown within some circles of the gop. "the new york times" reports the white house plan would prevent the deportation of as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants. it would reform the role of law enforcement, add more security to the border, and allow the parents of children born in the u.s. to get work documents. the plan would also boost opportunities for more legal immigrants with expertise in technology. yesterday, house democrats called on the president to take decisive action even if it came
without full congressional backing. some republicans, meanwhile, are threatening a shutdown, saying they want to hold up the budget. >> let's not do that. >> you've got a "w." a big "w." >> well, let's see. let's listen to what they say about this. because perhaps their tone shows they know they've won and it's time for kind of a new approach. >> are you being sarcastic? >> no, i mean, i'm hoping what we're about to see is a real change. >> -- shutting the government down, threatening default on the national debt -- >> even if he goes forward on immigration? >> we will not be shutting the government down or threatening default on the national debt. >> we're going to fight the president tooth and nail if he continues down this path. this is the wrong way to govern. all the options are on the table. we're having discussions with our members. there are no decisions made as
to how we will fight this. >> i think mitch mcconnell said it pretty straight. no government shutdown, right, jeremy peters? >> he did. although it may not be entirely his choice. john boehner once again is having to wrestle with the tea party faction in his caucus and i think what's going -- what's likely to happen here is the president's going to wait until after congress deals with the budget to do anything. so congress therefore can't shut down the government in response to what the president has done on illegal immigration. but i do think there is a serious, serious amount of caution inside the republican party right now. especially among the new senate majority or the incoming senate majority. that shutting down the government would completely squander all of the gains that they just made. all of the good will that they have among the public right now. >> explain that. why do you think that is? >> i think the first thing they want to do -- the first thing they do when they come back, after they're elected, the
majority party in congress for the first time since 2006, is they come in and shut down the government? i think that would look horrible. i think republicans would get blamed for that. >> well, they did last time. >> they certainly did. i will say, it's a little bit different this time because when the president acts unilaterally on just about anything, that has less public support. and we've seen that in the past just this whole notion of executive action on immigration to allow these people to stay here without going through congress. that has proven unpopular. not just in states like arkansas. but in states like colorado and iowa. i do think that's a concern for democrats. >> this was the republicans, blame for the government shutdown in 2013. we've heard a couple of republicans talk about this. but the overwhelming majority are just not going to go there. >> look at what mitch mcconnell
has to deal with in the senate. he has people up for re-election this year in very blue states. mark kirk, ron johnson, pat toomey. they're all in predominant -- obama won state. so he has to grapple with that calculus. that's not the cam k lus john boehner has to battle with. even if the dynamics are different. a shutdown would go straight to the president's desk. i can't imagine -- >> it's not going to do it, they're just not going to do it. >> much more likely for them to put this into the lawsuit they're already going after the president on for his -- >> don't talk about a shutdown. don't talk about impeachment. don't talk about default. you know, you're now moving towards 2016 and have a chance to win the white house and keep it away from the clintons for eight more years. don't talk about those things. >> all the republicans have to do is just stay center right and
not show -- >> the interesting thing about this is twofold, number one, we talk about this -- the republican win would actually energize obama and we're seeing it with that neutral thing. he's starting to double down. he's like, you know, kind of backed in a corner. he's coming out fighting. you've got the hispanics. obviously we know how crucial there are. this will now force republican candidates -- how harsh do they come out against the president? and now the spotlight is back on the fractured republican -- >> i have a prediction. i think they let it pass. write it down. i think they let it pass. they're screaming and yelling from the right. and it just becomes the law. because they don't want to pass their own immigration bill. this becomes the law of the land. the people that are running in the blue states. like you said, the republicans running the blue states say yeah, i didn't oppose it. i didn't like the way he did it.
there are some good reforms there. the right wingers can scream and yell and say he should be impeached. the people running for president, the governors running for president, they can all go, yeah, these were things that needed to happen. it sort of eases it along. the courts are taking the gay marriage debate out of the hands of a lot of republican candidates. >> conveniencconvenience. >> a lot republicans want to win in 2016 who will say let that pass. >> i totally agree with you. i think that's probably the smart strategic move. it's easier to say listen, we're against executive action and put aside the politics on this. that way you don't enrage the hispanic population. but you can talk about obama overreach. it's a simple play for mitch mcconnell and anyone running in 2016. >> oh, lord. and then there's the keystone pipeline which is set for a
house vote today. the issue was fast tracked in large part to the runoff between landrieu and cassidy, both trying to show they can provide for the state. supporters say it will create thousands of american jobs. some analysts suggest the falling price of crude means its market value may be less than it costs to transport and produce here in the u.s. the president, who retains his veto power, weighed in on the issue this morning while on his trip to asia. >> as a policy matter, my government believes that we should just this pipeline based on whether or not it accelerates climate change or whether it helps the american people with their energy costs and their gas prices. and i have to constantly push back against this idea that
somehow the keystone pipeline is either this massive jobs bill for the united states or is somehow lowering gas prices. understand what this project is. it is providing the ability of canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else. that doesn't have an impact on u.s. gas prices. >> major environmental questions as well. do you think he should veto it? >> i think if he vetoes, he proves he's captive to big money on the left. there's just no other way to put it. you look at his own state department. they say this is more environmentally sensitive. having a pipeline, continue to allow trunks and tankers to move this oil around. they say it's going to create 45,000, 55,000 new jobs. is this going to cause this great renaissance of like american -- you know, american
workforce? no. but it's 45,000, 55,000 jobs. >> a massive bargaining chip, is that what you're saying? >> no, what i'm saying is there's no good -- there's no logical reason whatsoever for the president to veto this, other than hard core ideologues on the left who spend billions of dollars on democratic campaigns. don't want him to do it. that is the only reason why. this is donny and sam, this is a growing problem i think for democrats. as a republican, i've seen for some time, oh, gee, this issue is breaking against republicans. we talked about gay marriage before. this is an issue that's going to break against republicans. we're the younger generation. this growing energy revolution where we're going to be the number one producer of oil by 2020 and it's going to cause manufacturing and everything to go down. democrats are actually on the wrong side of that issue. of an historical trend. and somebody has to help them, in my opinion. >> i tend to see the politics
here, which is there's going to be enough support for this thing to probably pass. and the question becomes what did the president get as a let me leverage point for it. in exchange, we'll do these types of environmental regulations on our coal plants so we have a net neutral carbon deal in place. we don't leave in a logical political world. we live in a world where landrieu needs to be rescued in her senate race. >> i've been saying this for a year. you give me minimum wage increase to $9.15 and i will -- >> the crazy part is any point he could have leveraged that for something. now he may end up with a veto proof majority in the senate and have no leverage. >> the president still has the power to say i'm going to veto this bill. i'm going to send it back to you, attach $9.15 minimum wage increase to it, and i'll sign it. you'll see a lot of those
republicans in the senate that are in those blue states that are going to be running in 2016 saying, i'll be be a part of that. we'll see what the house does. >> still ahead this hour on "morning joe," republican governor scott walker join us fresh off his successful bid for re-election. former nba great turned animal activist yao ming will be here on set. coming up, americans are quitting their jobs at a higher ration than any other point for the past six years. >> i've been thinking about it for the past six years. i have quit, i seriously have. at one point, they're going to let me. >> time off. we'll tell you why that's a good thing, next. first. >> bill karins, it is cold out there, my man. very cold. >> it's been a brutal stretch, joe. the snow continues. i mean, when the temperatures are like midwinter, we're going to get midwinter weather. we've got a lot of snow and ice. yesterday, this was very impressive. this happened in ohio. a very strong lake-effect snow band. take a listen.
that wasn't a tree falling. that's thundersnow. the thunderclap you heard. it's pretty cool it happens at night because of the colors of the lightning and snow, it actually shows an eerie green. usually you get really heavy snow rates. in erie pennsylvania, they had 14 inches. bear alaska, there's three hours of daylight today. the sun doesn't come up until about 11:30 and it sets at 2:00. it's 30 degrees. that's balmy by bear standards. it is colder in hot-lanta than it is in bear, alaska. so we're still cold. it snowed a little bit last night but an inch or two from connectic connecticut, rhode island. we're still dealing with the really chilly air in the northern plains with windchills around zero. let me take you through your weekend forecast. today, really not too bad. still cold but not horrible.
saturday, light snow from kansas city to chicago. 1 to 2 inches is likely. by sunday, we're watching temperatures still kind of cool but not horrible. the next cold blast, by the way, comes in monday, tuesday, wednesday. it's targeting the great lakes and the northeast. the northeast kind of avoided this last one. it's going to be really cold next week. we're in the middle of winter, it seems like, doesn't it? you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back.
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did "the new york post" really give the mayor -- >> he was late for an important event. >> i think "the new york post" gave the mayor an alarm clock. he's smiling. >> he needs one. it's rude to be late. >> at least he took it in stride. >> it's rude. you can't be late. >> i have never been late to memorials where you ring a bell to commemorate the deaths of people in airplane crashes because i overslept. no, you know what, i may be late once in a while, not as much as i used to. i'm never late because i oversleep. that first event, that is the one event you have complete control over. >> so i think it's also a man/woman thing. i think women are always on time. >> are you punctual? >> that is so sexist. >> like a job interview, a woman will be there 45 minutes ear
ye earlier or a meeting. whenever i have meet holdings that are all women, we're all early. i'm like, oh, my god. then a bunch of guys -- >> joe, will you apologize -- >> i am actually feeling objectified right now, donny deutsch. >> like talking about stupid stuff. >> "the wall street journal." a new report indicates the justice department is collecting data from thousands of phones through devices installed on small airplanes. equipped with so-called dirty boxes which have technology -- that sounds nice. that have technology similar to cell phone towers allowing them to track calls. a large number of innocent americans are also getting snagged by their dirty boxes. >> oh, my. >> we look at the "los angeles times." hatchet and amazon have reached a deal over ebook and -- >> is this a big deal? >> will allow hatchet to set its own prices for e-books. amazon is going to resume the
sale of hatchet books immediately. just in time for the holiday season. which is most likely -- >> but, you know, there's some really good competition. >> a lot of good authors got squeezed in that. >> "the washington post." the presidential bromance between george w. bush and bill clinton has spilled over into social media. somewhat of a hash tag duel. clinton called it a touching tribute before using a hash tag, asking bush 43, quote, how are you still not on twitter. that's when bush took to instagram write, thanks, 42, using the hash tag, how are you still not on instagram. and brother from another mother. >> wow. >> i think it's funny because i think bush burned clinton because instagram is a little bit cooler. >> it is, it's kind of hipper. >> but you know what, bill clinton's advisers obviously trying to keep him from posting
pictures. i mean, you can understand, right? >> yes. >> bush also had this to say about a potential 2016 matchup between his brother and hillary clinton. >> can still like him when jeb beats hillary. you betting on that? >> if jeb runs -- i don't know if he's going to run, i really don't. i hope he does because he'd be a great president. >> there you go. >> nothing tests a bromance like when your son is competing against your best friend's wife. >> it's just a little too close, you know. >> sibling, yeah. >> just weeks after winning re-election as governor of wisconsin, scott walker is already planning some big change, for the badger state. he'll tell us ways first on his agenda next when "morning joe" returns. they're still after me. get to the terminal across town.
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lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. basically call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass. >> professor numbnuts here wasn't the worst thing to happen to obamacare this week. on friday, the supreme court agreed to hear another legal challenge that could kill the law. the last two times i declared
obamacare dead, i dropped balloons and twerked on the grim reaper. looking back, i think that was a little immature. so tonight we're going to slow dance. jimmy. ♪ just close my eyes and i need you ♪ >> all right. joining us now -- >> weird segue. >> that was a -- >> republican governor scott walker of wisconsin. that had nothing to do with you. good to have you on the show. nice to see you again. >> mika, i'm with you. i like to be early. we call that lombardi time in wisconsin. i don't think men are usually on time ever. that's nice to know. >> it's a safe -- >> coach lombardi used to say if you're not 15 minutes ahead of time, you're not there on time. >> i don't think i would have been able to play with the packers in the 1960s.
>> you need to learn. >> scott, obviously, a lot people talking about you this morning. kimberly strasle has a great article about you in "the wall street journal." she says this, scott walker's 2016 challenge still give a lot of republican leaders pause about scott walker as well. the wisconsin's dynamo's good but the knock on him is he knows it. he has a reputation as a one-man band. chief fund-raiser. and chief political analyst. he's known to listen to a few trusted wisconsin gurus. for the most part, it's an -- i could go on and on. that is actually the only negative part in an otherwise very strong -- very strong article about you. but obviously the age of obama, we worry about sort of these lone wolves that don't have a lot of other people around them. do you agree with her assessment? "the wall street journal's"
assessment? >> i thought it was a pretty good column. the one part, no surprise, i disagree with. i'm going to be meeting with a number of members of my cabinet. you can see it. i'm going to talk with them again. just as i did last wednesday, the day after our re-election. in fact, one of your biggest fans is my secretary of tourism, going to meet with this morning. an emmy award winning former host of a tourism show here in wisconsin. that's the people we surround ourselves. my political team, i've expanded the circle of folks on the team. even after the initial election. we added some folks nationally because we knew we'd have to raise the funds and get the interest that -- >> so scott if somebody had told me that in 2008, in wisconsin, that the next election, you'd have a guy run who would win
three statewide elections in four years that conservatives loved in wisconsin, i would have told them they were crazy. what's happened. how have you done it over the past few years without betraying your conservative ideals? >> certainly wisconsin at best is a swing state. we're probably more of a blue state. more democrats than republicans four years ago. everything was democrat. governor, assembly, senate. majority of seats in the house of representatives. we changed things because we focused on fiscal and economic issues that were challenging our state and really our country at the time. and then we did something unusual in politics. i think more than anything the reason why i've been elected three types, the reason why the legislature added republican seats even after adding them two years ago, added them again this time, is because we're leaving. our reforms are working. $3 billion worth of savings. property taxes are down. tuition is frozen.
110,000 new jobs. all those things are real tangible results. i think people like the reforms. they like results. they like the fact that unlike washington where it's largely dysfunctional, we're largely getting things done. >> a lot of factors that go into a decision to run for president. so i won't ask you if you will run. i'm just wondering, do you want to run for president? >> well, i get a kick out of this. i'm pretty candid. you almost have to be crazy to want to run for president. my belief is -- >> are you crazy? no. do you want to do it? would you want to run for president? do you want to run for president? >> the difference is i think you shouldn't -- that's not something you should want to do. anybody who's been close realizes the tremendous sacrifice. but it's one of those where if you feel called to -- right now, i feel called to be governor. 2, 6, 12 years from now, who knows. we could be called to do that.
it's really something, when you think about taking a decade and committing that to the public service that's required to be effective in that job, i mean, you look at this president, look at the former president you were just talking about. there's a lot of gray hairs that come after a decade of seeking and being in that office. >> you've gotten -- there's been some attention given to some criticisms you've leveled towards governors who decided to take the medicaid expansion. you've made the argument kind of in practical terms. you said you don't want to count on congress to deliver those funds. i'm curious, in ideological terms, republican governors deci decided are not genuine conservatives. is there an ideological criticism to this? >> i'm not going to criticize fellow governor because i recognize there's 50 states. what's good for wisconsin may not be good for other states. besides the practical reality you mentioned, this president
and congress until now hasn't been able to fund the current medicate commitment. beyond that, i just ask the basic question. why is more people on medicaid a good thing? i'd rather find a way, particularly for able-bodied adults without children, i'd like to find a way to get them into the workforce. i think ideologically, that's a better approach, not just as a conservative, but as an american. have more people live the american dream if they're not dependent on the american government. >> could you be a support of the common core and be a good conservative? >> again, everybody's got a different view in my viewpy don't want standards set by people from outside of my state. that's what we're continuing to pursue. my state has the second best act scores in the country. so i'd like high standards. i just like the parents and members of our communities here in wisconsin to set them, not people outside of my state. >> there's interesting talks earlier today about wall street
worrying about governor christie in part because of his testament. we sort of contrast that with your even keeled approach. i'm wondering what role do you think temperament plays not just in a presidential campaign but in governing and how important it is. >> it's a little different state by state. christie's a great friend of mine. one of the things i point out -- i've said this in front of chris. i said chris and i are a lot alike. we like to be bold. we like to speak out. i have a little bit of a midwestern filter. that's a little different from the state i'm in versus new jersey where i think it's appropriate. that's why i love him for it. he's straight forward. i like to tell it like it is. i just tell it in midwestern terms which is a little different than what works on the east coast. that's one of the great things about great leaders. they fit the states. >> that new jersey filter works for him. governor, thank you. still ahead, we've got a behind the scenes look of a great of
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gets out of the way. >> these two impulses of having a mission and being a successful business don't need to be at odds. they can be aligned. and if the mission is chosen appropriately, they should be. >> generation flux. >> cool. >> generation flux. >> coming in very nicely. >> it is. >> it's a very heavy -- >> what do we have next? >> time for business before the bell. cnbc's sara eisen joins us open in. let's talk about retail sales. >> showing .3% gain. it shows strength in the american consumption. important, makes up most of our economy. if you take out oil, which has been lower, sales were even better. they were up half a percent. it showed broad-based strength. americans buying autos, spending more at restaurants.
spending more on clothing. on health care. the only sort of negative one was electronics. but that was partly because the last month actually showed the spikeup with the release of the new iphone 6. that was expected. overall, painting a solid picture of americans and retail spending. it just follows on some better day that weem seen it looking at the jobs number, you can go in and find more color. for instance, this week, we got a report showing most americans are actually quitting at the fastest rate that they've been quitting in years. 2% of employees are quitting. that's actually a good sign because it means they have the confidence to go out and find a job elsewhere. hopefully, that will lead to increased wage growth is really the missing piece of this labor market recovery. i just thought it was interesting that more americans are feeling good about their jobs so they can quit. >> i like it. that is a good sign. up next -- >> i quit, by the way. >> take this job and -- >> people won't believe you if
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yao is a man of action. he doesn't just want to be a part of the message, he wants to lead the way it as he has always done. and that means walking side by side with fants and ry s eleph rhino in africa. >> really it's a race against time to get people to care su sufficie sufficiently. >> i believe if you want to learn what the truth and also the situation about an animal, you have to go to africa so we can see how they live, how they've been hunted and what is the consequence of them. >> a new approach is needed.
can yao carry this message home and carry thousands of years of tradition putting ivory on the no go list for millions of consumers? >> that was a clip from the animal planet special saving africa's giants with yao ming. here with us now is retired nba baseball superstar yao ming and the executive producer of wild aid peter knights. it's a fantastic special you put together. especially for people who are not familiar with the poaching epidemic happening internationally. so explain for us first why you wanted to put this documentary together and why you wanted to partner with yao ming. >> we worked together for a long time, mainly on shark fin soup. so as you said, people don't know about this. they don't know where it's coming from. especially in china. this film has aired in china. it's going to go worldwide.
it's really about education. most people when they know they wouldn't go near ivory but they don't. they don't understand the process. >> so american consumers can know what to stay away from. >> well it's elephants are being poached at the rate of 30,000 a year it 96 a day. one every 15 minutes. at this rate, we're going to lose the elephants in the next decade or so. and then the others are under huge pressure. if we don't do something soon, that will be the case. >> how do you get involved? >> peter came to me, like he just mentioned, almost ten years ago. we have moved to the next part, which is try and change the approach of the elephants and the rhino. we had a lot of the paper to show people how many elephants and rhino are being poached per year, per month, per day or per
minute. so it's really hard to just -- i mean, sit there. we like to film this, go to africa, film this and bring back and try to reach many people as we can and have more people join us. >> i heard edward norton there narrating. you say you've got a lot of people. a lot of high-profile people involved. >> it's been amazing to -- the pickup in china. also the chinese government has donated tens of millions of dollars of media space. we have messages going out at 7:00, prime time. >> fantastic. >> has the chinese government taken an aggressive anti-poaching approach? >> it is very aggressive. i think we started a law that the penalty can be death if you ship any of the ivory or rhino horn back to china.
but still there's a black market there. and demand there. you can't change that. when the price is there, there's people doing that for money. >> again, it's about education. the awareness. i didn't know about this. i went on safari over a year ago and i learned when i was in south africa. the porous border especially with mozambique where you can find where the poachers are coming in. there was definitely an issue with the rhino and the fact they were losing the population of the rhino. speak to what's being done to protect them and also repopulate. >> the thing is, it's a bit like the drugs trade. the demand is strong. the killing goes on. people are losing their lives. rangers. some of the money is going to finance groups like al shabab and things like that. the efforts on the ground, you know, it really is an uphill battle. obviously, i was in africa two days ago. all the governments are saying we have to address the demand. if we don't address the demand, we're not going to succeed. >> we hope everybody pays attention to this.
it's fantastic to have you on board. as a part of this. because you have a successful campaign with what you did with the shark fin issue. >> fantastic. >> yes. you can watch saving africa's giants with yao ming on animal planet next tuesday, november 18th, at 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific times. yao ming and peter knights. gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> really good work, we really appreciate it. >> up next, it we learn anything today? >> i think so.
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it's unbelievable. >> donny deutsch is not on tinder. >> what did you learn? >> i learned something in the green room. interviewing susie for my book. first of all, no is the most powerful word in hollywood. she gave me the most amazing negotiating advice. >> what was that? >> it will be in the book. that's all i'm going to say. she's amazing. >> all right, kids. thank you so much for watching this week as always. we really do appreciate your patience. >> no, everyone likes you. >> tomorrow. alabama against mississippi state. "daily rundown" is next. we'll see you monday. multitasking on the other side of the globe. president obama comes out even stronger on keystone and lets republican leaders know he's not budging on immigration. meantime, back at hope, a
citizen. well done, my friend. >> he's a great man. all right, everyone, have a fantastic weekend, that's it for us. "special report" with bret baier next. the president goes to las vegas to try to tell what could be the biggest gamble of his political life, go it alone action on immigration, this is "special report." good evening, i'm ed henry, bret b araier is on assignment. president obama is hoping that what happens in vegas does not stay in vegas. unfortunately, for him, outside his event, passions against him are running high. a good share of the action on this political roll of the dice outside of sin city is coming up snake eyes.
we have fox team coverage tonight. casey steegal is on the u.s.-mexico border. we start with wendell goler traveling with the president in las vegas. >> reporter: the president returned to this las vegas high school which is where he started the clock on his push to -- his goal today and in the weeks and months ahead is to rally support for the executive actions this week. >> it has now been 512 days, a year and a half in which the only thing standing in the way of that bipartisan bill and my desk so that i can sign that bill, the only thing that's been standing in the way is a simple yes or no vote in the house of representatives. >> he signed the actions on the way and he was preaching to the
choir here, though outside the school, hundreds of protesters shouted no amnesty and back in washington, there was anger and frustration that he'd done in the minds of republicans what he couldn't do on his own. >> you can't ask the elected representatives of the people to trust you to enforce the law if you're constantly demonstrating that you can't enforce the law. >> reporter: what he can do they say is prioritize who gets deported on his authority of what branch of government is doing the deporting. >> felonies, not families. >> reporter: the president says he must prioritize since it's impossible to rt all 11 million people in the country
said to be at odds, a senior advisor said that mr. obama didn't do enough to help democrats in the midterm elections. reid told the "new york times" that white house staffers should get a life and get over what the president did or didn't do in 2014. they may need to if they're going to help democrats win back the senate in 2016, when republicans have the most seats to defend. >> must have been an interesting ride with the president and harry reid. now to the consequences on the ground. indicationy
indicationy -- >> reporter: amid the hustle and bustle of main street here in mcallen texas, many are celebrating obama's controversial executive actions on immigrations. after all this is one of the largest border cities in the country. >> i think it's good that president obama is doing that. >> reporter: behind california, texas has the largest illegal immigrant population in america. out of the nearly 1.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the lone star state, about 100,01 v. >> some of my friends are not legal here e and they want to go to college, but they're scared they're not going to gets the help they need or criticized. >> reporter: but some members of law enforcement are already bracing for the worst. the mcallen police chief victor rodriguez points to this
summer's rush of unaccompanied mine novembors to his region, h we could see that again, only in larger numbers and more adults. >> do you think the world could spread and you'll see moreg to ? >> if the policy or the actions are not clear enough on its face, that will happen. >> you think people will start flooding the border trying to get? >> reporter: texas republicanwa
executive actions in court. ed? >> thank you, casey steegal live for us in texas. the republicans are not just going after the president over immigration, they are taking him to court on obama care, we'll have a live report from mike emanuel on capitol hill about that shomplt. but first the shous intelligence committee says the initial reports on the benghazi terror attacks was accurate. it says cia and obama administration officials later supported the incorrect scenario that the attacks were motivated by an internet video and stuck with that for several days. also today a new united nations reports re-enforces the -- a suggest change of plans for vice president kbiden today in the ukraine. a scheduled appearance with the kiev president -- biden's secret service detail turned his motorcade around, though he met
with port then coe. while moscow does more to enforce a cease fire. secretary of state john kerry has decided to remain in vienna today. earlier it was decided that the two sides were going to leave town and take a break. >> reporter: it's down to the wire time for talks aimed at reigning in iran's suspicious nuclear program. earlier today, both zarif and kerry had said they were leaving, some thought that meant trouble. >> any luck today, secretary? the uk's foreign minister had a bit more to say. >> these are very complex issues and still a very significant gap between the parties. >> reporter: the main sticking points how much nuclear capacity
will the west allow iran. how will sanctions against iran be lifted? >> i think both sides want a deal. they certainly don't wanting to go back to a period where sanctions are increasing, the nuclear program in iran is increasing. >> reporter: iranians want a deal, their economy is on the ropes due to those international measures, those hard liners are worried about coffin sessions but the became administration wants -- >> it's very obvious that they are desperate for a deal and a misguided belief that somehow they do that then things are going to be fine inner rang. >> reporter: while talks are expected to continue through the weekend, annists tell us there probably won't be a deal on monday. more likely a face saving announcement and a decision to talk some more. still they caution, stranger things are happened. the foreign minister of the
united arab emirates is not so opt mission tick about the iranian deal or no deal. to go in depth on the rapidly changing powder keg that is the middle east. >> reporter: greedings from abu dha dhabi, the capital of the united arab emirates. this is actually a coalition of seven emirates run by different royal families. iran is just across the persian gulf and a u.s. nuclear deal with iran that's coming to a head in just three drays is a major, major worry here. as is the us-led -- that is seen as an es sis citizen shall threat here in the uae. i started by asking him about the uae efforts against isis. >> they're tryings to hijack our
religious. it's not about them not liking other religions, no, they don't like our religion. they don't like the way we practice our islam. they would like to force their interpretation of islam on our values, on our countries, on our families. >> theis enough being zone to ft isis? >> we cannot get rid of isis if the situation is syria is not dealt with in the proper manner. and that's -- i mean that's a trajs, seeing over 200,000 syrians slaughtered, almost 10 million syrians either are refugees or displaced. >> reporter: you're taking a leadership role obviously on the fight goengs extremism. you recently came out with a list of terrorist objections, two of them raised some eyebrows as you can imagine in washington, care, council on
american muslim relations and muslim american society. why do that? >> our threshold is quite low when you talk about extremism. we cannot accept incitement or fu funding when we look at some of these organizations. i mean for many countries, the definition of terror is that you have to carry a weapon and terrorize people. for us, it's far beyond that, we cannot tolerate even the smallest and tiniest amount of terrorism. >> so you have a zero tolerance on terrorism, on extremism, but do you think that the u.s. is even as tough as you all are on
some of these groups? >> you should ask them. >> reporter: you worked alongside egypt to launch strikes against extremist groups in libya and that took a lot of people by surprise in washington. >> we -- especially the countries who played a role in getting rid of gadhafi, first of all should have played a far bigger role than they v they haven't. today they have a huge responsibility in getting libya on the right side. i don't see the situation where libya -- forget being useful and helpful for the region, but libya could be a huge ticking bomb for the region. >> so do you think the u.s. dropped the ball there?
>> i don't want to mention one country or the other, but the entire coalition had a bigger responsibility, which unfortunately they didn't live up to? >> let me talk to you about iran, your neighbor just across the persian gulf, now it's coming to a head on monday, this nuclear deal, what are your thoughts, concerns got that deal? >> the question that us in the region will ask more than what that deal will contain or not is what's our role going to be the day after? we wake up tuesday morning, and everyone -- i mean most of us ask the question that what iran is going to get out of it, not on the nuclear front, but on the regional front, we would wish, obviously, that such a zeal would look like very much what
we have here in the uae, where we have no enrichment, no reprocessing, but obviously that's far from what's going to happen. >> have you seen how the u.s. plays in this region? how it's perceived in this region change? and if so, how? >> i think we have to move away from a period where brussels, washington, longed and paris believe that they know the people of the region better than the people of the region. >> james maddis, former sent co sent come commander said -- i don't think it's fair. we have challenges of extremism, radicalism, fascism, and we have
social challenges, we have political challenges, and i think these matters have not been discussed in a way where the region can rely enough to its historical partners. it just looks to me that the west, our historical partners, either they are preoccupied with their internal matters or they're a -- with with their efforts in the region. i don't think they have given up, but i think they're in a shield room or a glass room. which the -- which they think that their interpretation of the region is -- >> reporter: in the words of another former sent come
commander the uae is all in when it comes to military terrorists. al more air strikes have been launched here from doha than any other area in the region. ed, back to you. >> bret baier, great interview. coming up next, what congress can do and not do to fight immigration and obama care. concern over roof collapsing and flooding, after as mitch as seven feet of snow fell in the area. fox 59 in indianapolis, where crews spent hours gathering over 2,000 pigs from a truck that overturned. got 700 twiswine were killed.
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here's chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel with all the details. >> reporter: house speaker accused obama of violating the law. they're willing arguing the administration will illegally transfer $175 billion over the next decade to insurance companies under the health care law. last week in australia, the president mocked congress. >> it makes about as much sense as my decision to shut down the government if they decide to
take a vote to repeal health care reform for the -- is it 53rd or 55th time? >> reporter: today speaker john boehner promised he will respond to president obama's new executive action on immigration. >> we will listen to the american people, we'll work with our members and we will work to protect the constitution of the dwroouts. >> reporter: there's another lawsuit arguing the president exceeded his authority in vlgts of the separation of powers which will take a long time. >> the courts will decide the constitutionality of this. >> reporter: so far key conservatives including alabama senator jeff sessions pledges there won't be an overreaction. >> i'm going to impeach president obama for his actios s
thanks. >> no, we're not going to impeach or have a move to immaech. >> reporter: some suggest another option would be to carve up the federal budget. >> if the president wants to veto it, he can shut down dhs, that would be a wrong ander responsible response but listen, but a presidential temper tantrum is not a rational response. >> reporter: not clear, though, that they can enforce a -- there's also a concern among some in leadership that a fight the president picked could potentially derail the gop agenda. >> mike, some late breaking details from the washington examiner about lois learner's e-mail? >> reporter: i have confirmed with republicans on capitol hill that at least 30,000 lois learner e-mails have been recovered on disaster recovery tapes. lois learner, the former irs
official has claimed she has done nothing wrong and has taken the fifth twice. investigators are interested to see who she was communicating during the time period that the irs was targeting conservative groups. five months ago the irs told lawmakers that these e-mails were gone forever, now that appears not to be the case. the obama care architect who has brought -- correspondent doug mcelway tonight with the latest problems for and from jonathan gruber. another day, another jonathan gruber insult. this one against red states for their rejection of medicaid expansion. >> they're willing to sacrifice billions of dollars into their economy in order to punish poor people. it's really almost awesome in it's evilness. >> reporter: north carolina's
auditor fired him and said in a statement, gluber's kmempblt that it was all right to mislead people led our auditors to -- marilyn tabner had been called to testify. 400,000 people added to the roles had purchased not health plans, but inexpensive dental plans, boosting the appearance of success. >> reporter: this is one of the questions for gruber is, are his models sel models self serving. >> reporter: that question has already been answered in colorado where a watch dog group found medicaid enrollment for 2016 is already 20% higher. gruber used a survey model for 10,000 coloradoans to pro diblgt enrollme enrollment. not the tried and try methods.
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visitors, locals are exempt. any tourists caught dragging baggage can be slapped with a $575 fine. finally a rebel leader in the ukraine wants to settle a war the old-fashioned way, with a duel. i would not be against the duel being shown live on tv, i will let you choose the place and the weapons. not so sweet for president port then coe. while much of the world focuses on the rancor on the immigration law. amy kellogg takes us for an inside look from longed. it's a true melting pot.
foregirls, it s it's. but immigration on this island is reaching a breaking point, netting nearly a quarter of million new residents a year. they are finally taking on the issue. >> people have tried to put it away in a box and say let's not talk got immigration, that's totally the wrong approach. we have a democracy of people who are concerned about immigration which should be opening a conversation about it. >> reporter: a recent surge of my glags to relatively prosperous britain. that puts huge strains on health care and education systems. >> britain's policy had always been to let people come into this country and live as they chose, something called multiculturalism. some extreme segments of tote
are actually suggesting militantly british values. recent terror arrests have led to concerns about decades of liberal immigration policy. there are unknown numbers of illegal immigrants too, but no talks of amnesty for them. >> it's not popular talk among the public. but it hasn't worked when it's been tried elsewhere in the european union, because when people have the hope of -- >> reporter: as long as people work hard and do their best to embrace the way of life. in london, amy kellogg, fox news. >> the immigration uproar here in the u.s., we'll dissect the controversy with the panel when become back next. people with type 2 diabetes
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idly by and not do at least what i was authorized to do. >> with this action, the president has chosen to deliberately sabotage any chance of enacting bipartisan reforms that he claims to seek. and as i told the president yesterday, he's damaging the presidency itself. >> damaging the presidency. let's bring in our panel, steve hayes, senior writer for the weekly standard, and singd indicated columnist charles krauthammer. he's damaging the presidency, and i feel like i have heard this before on obama care and the republicans can't stop it. are we going to see a replay? >> they're pretty limited in what they can do right now in terms of the actions they can take, particularly when we're not even into the new congress. but if you look at what the president said today in his speech, particularly in response to the heckler, he made this very clear that he wants this to be the first step.
that's crazy, this is not the first step to anything. >> the heckler on the left said you should be doing more. >> the president responded in effect saying, i want to do more, you should understand, there's a lot more to come, i would like them to pass a bill, i want comprehensive immigration reform. republicans at this point should be very aggressive and not stupid, and finding the balance there is going to be key. but they should -- this is an up popular president pushing an unpopular proposal at a time when you had polling repeatedly show that the voters want republicans to be driving policy agenda, not only on immigration, but on these other issues. republicans at this point would be crazy to do anything that gives fuel, that adds fuel to the fire that democrats and i think the media are trying to stoke. >> how does the president navigate this politically, when you've got the anger on the right that steve's talking about, and you've got hecklers on the left saying this is not
good enough. you have joe donnelly and joe manchin of west virginia saying we want congress to do more, but saying that you should not have done an end run. >> i think most democrats support this. you're always going to have people on the les r left who are going to be complaining, and you also have the joe manchins who are going to be complaining on the right. he was pushed very hard by democrats obviously latino democrats to do this and it's been a long time coming. and i think he did have to ultimately do something, if you want to talk politically, i think it's good for the dprak party, because i think it was bad that he didn't do anything sooner and it was really upsetting the constituency and i probably going to react it to badly and it will probably end up being bad for them. you know, they can either end up shutting down the government or end up putting themselves in a position where they have a presidential candidate who has to run saying they're going to overturn this, which is i think
going to be not a great position to be in with latino. >> charles, i was on with you last night. you were pretty fired up, i feel like i don't even need to question where are you today? >> all you have to say is obama. >> and that will stir you up? >> i feel like i sound as if i'm at the bottom of a well. but i'll try to get this rolling. look, i think the key point is this is about con stitch wen skies. this is all about political positioning. this is a president who wants to -- separation of powers, to create a president which he knows he's creating, doing something that he has said 20 times publicly he is not allowed to do in order to gain advantage with a constituency. i think it's a travesty that the important line of his speech last night was obama saying congress certainly shouldn't shut down our government again
just because we disagree on this. this is what he's trying to do prettiy. >> you think he's trying to go ahead republicans? >> he got shellacked in the ewlekation, he's a lame duck, he has no control of the agenda. what are we talking about exclusively? obama and immigration. that's what he wampbls and he's homing he will get a repeat of what happened with obama care. there will not be a shutdown, there will not beism peachment. >> let's look at the midterms and go to kirsten. the spanish language papers, my spanish is not good, but i think that's yes we could, not yes we can, like it already happened. the san antonio express news, president obama peachireaching 5 million immigrants, avoiding
deportation. the republicans lost the hispanic vote big-time in 2010. to kirsten's point, is the president setting up for trovk failure with hispanics in 2016? >> i think he's tried to and i think there are ways that republicans can handle that, there should not be the reaction he had in the last cycle where they sounded extremely anti-immigrant. what they can do and should do, but what the house had wanted to do when stopped by harry reid when the senate was under harry reid's control, was to pass inge crememental bills. a way of showing they are interested in regularizing, in trying to make it a more humane system and trying to make sure shs the last cohort of 11 million. >> a quick 30 seconds from steve, then kirsten. steve, you earlier said, no, don't pass legislation and charles ask saying they should. >> i think they should pass
border enforcement. i actually think the conventional wisdom on the politics of this is totally wrong. if republicans handle this well, this is 100% to the advantage of republicans. in the nbc wall street journal poll, i believe latinos, the people who supported this, the dwitd was 43-47. ive you look at the -- democrats are more divided. you had five different democratic senators come out and opposed what the president did. that's not something you shrug off. i think it's likely play to the advantage of republicans particularly if there's this wave of immigrants coming over the boarder, we're looking at this next summer or a year from now, democrats are going to have why the president did this. >> i don't think that's true, i think it will end up being something, if republicans have to run saying they're going to overturn this, and you have people coming out of the shadows who are now going to be
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and each week we ask you to vote for the lightning round poll for the favorite topic and this week it is inflated obamacare enrollment numbers and this is how dental only plans with were included when the numbers were included a and have asked sylvia burwell said that there was an apology and the numbers were inflated, and this is the embarrassing moment of the tooth. steve? >> at the risk of standing like anti-dentite, this is a problem for the obamacare, because this is the most important thing for obamacare is to establish or
re-establish credibility for those applying or re-applying and the stories that they are inflating the numbers and they don't know what is going on and signaling the incompetence is the wrong thing at the wrong time. >> and the website seems to be working now, keirsten? >> yes, for now. and the other thing is that it is suspicious, and they it is a is an accident, but it puts them up to the numbers they were trying the reach, so that is prob are lematic, and like steve said, more bad news for obamacare. >> and the pep rally when he crossed the finish line there. >> and the cbo chairman said, you want the numb with bers to approximate the projections, but with obamacare, you want the projections to approximate the rea al ti. >> and so, steve, just about anywhere in the world, secretary kerry is hoping to get a deal with iran with the nuclear deal, and the first deadline has been
extended, and will anything come of it? >> i have long thought they would need to extend it, but eventually there would be a deal, but there is a chance of some kind of a deal before the deadline, but the obama administration is a deadline for deal, and the president is hoping to validate the world view when so much of it is collapsing, but will is some kind of a deal, and the iranians know we are desperate for the deal. >> kirsten? >> not now, but will is a deal at some point. and have another extension, and the problem for obama is that the deal he reaches is not going to be a deal that the republi n republicans are going the like, and maybe not even a deal that senator schumer or anybody else likes. >> and like that as kirsten says, you have democratic like w bob me nnendez saying, bring ito vote. >> and the uae, and they are
saying they are going to be sold out, and this is what they fear, and if you look at the terms of the negotiations, that is what it looks like, iran is a threshold nuclear state. >> and we have 2:00 to go will through the winner ss and the losers which is a very important feature, and kirsten, the ladies first, because it is a cheat sheet and you have an interesting loser. you can start with the winner. >> the winner is the undocumented workers with who can come out of the shadows and the terrible news is that winnie the pooh has been banned from the playground in poland, because he is a asexual and somebody said he is half naked which is wholly inappropriate for children. >> i agree with that. okay. ban him. >> and the loser is jonas gray, the first-year new england running back who got the first touchdown and runs for 200 yards
and wakes up for late to practice, and sent home. this guy who has a fant sick debut and may not play this week. and the win ser the seven deadly virtues including jonah joelberg, and andy ferguson, and p.j. o'rourke, and this book was selected by amazon as one of the best books of 2014 and it is laugh out loud funny. >> and charles? >> my favorite is james madison turning over in the grave in montpelier when he sees how obama has separated the separation of powers and conceived the powers of thet presidency. and the winner is barack obama, because he is going to get away with this. he will, and it is not going to be overturned, and no way to do it. he can be hampered and you can hold back the judicial appointments, but overturning the executive order is extremely difficult, and he will.
he will succeed, but the history is not going to judge him nicely on this. >> and breaking news despite steven hayes intimate knowledge of picking up the nfl fantasy, and my team beat yours. >> my record is better. >> and he can be beat badly. >> and so that is itt for the panel, and stay tuned to see the pictures of the man i covered, the president, and they really are worth 1,000 words.
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finally tonight, most of the press corps will tell you that president obama is easy to read, but jimmy fallon did some analysis on some of the lesser known facial expressions. >> and the first lesser known expression is from a week ago. this is the "just picked up my copy of paper magazine." and this is the joe biden "give daddy some sugar." and this is the favorite "and we coul could we we shouldn't, we can't, we must." and this is the favorite expression "what's up, girl." and this is the "seriously, you guys are my best friend look, i think that i was at the
>> oh! >> harold square. >> somebody gave my mom that coat. >> happy thanksgiving. thanks to bass pro shop. log on to our web site for our after the show show. >> a fierce storm hitting the east coast snarling thanksgiving travel as folks try to get home in time for the holidays. i'm ed henry in america's newsroom. heather: i'm heather childress. bill and martha are off. the storm stranded travelers for hours and the delays had ripple effects all across the country. >> i started down the runway and
we got shut down and we had to sit there and wait for them to open the air space again. >> reporter: that woman you just heard, it took her 12 hours to fly direct from austin, texas to newark, new jersey. and she was one of the lucky ones. much of the east coast was hit with a sloppy, wintry mix making for a miserable commute on one of the busiest travel days of the year. 751 flights were canceled nationwide. there were nearly 5,000 delays. put that in perspective tuesday. there were only 140 cancellations. the new york city airports were up to 3 hours and in boston delays were an hour and a half. as of this morning i'm happy to report there are 55 flight
cancellations and 352 delays. according to triple aaa we are talking about up to 10 inches of snow. authorities across the east coast are warning drivers to be careful of slick, icy roads today and tomorrow, even if the storm has passed. ed: there are also hundreds of people without power. how are they doing? >> reporter: 200,000 people are without power. in maine they have woken up to total darkness. it's unlikely those customers will be able to restore power in time to cook their turkeys. public works officials were out
in full force in new jersey yesterday. there were 200 traffic accidents when they declared a state of emergency. >> we always like it after thanksgiving. but we are here and we are geared up and the crews are ready to work. >> we thought it might be safer to wait for everything to be cleared up. >> good news from the thanksgiving day parade. it will be a cold day but the wind won't be bad. >> in other news things are cool off in ferguson after -- things are cooling off in ferguson after last night. three days after a grand jury announced it would not indict
officer wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. de -- demonstrators are still taking to the streets including los angeles. dominic, after a mostly quiet night is there a sense evenings could reignite? >> reporter: there most certainly is. details are coming out about the two men arrested friday, the feds picking them up with explosives. it appears they were plotting to blow up the st. louis arch and assassinate the county prosecutor robert mcculloch. we have bad weather on this thanksgiving morning. the temperature will go up a lot. it will be 61 degrees saturday
and the -- and the improvement in the weather will bring the protesters out. as the weather conditions change and people are able to come out it increases the possibility of confrontation here. heather: what is being done to catch the looters, arsonists, vandals, the businesses that were leveled and all the people who don't have jobs. >> reporter: they are calling on the state police to help them round up the people we saw monday night and tuesday night going around damaging and looting the buildings here. you can see on the screen at the moment, this is a liquor store that was looted for the second time. you can see how the rioters came rushing in and started helping themselves and trashing the place. incredible video of a woman
calmy pouring milk on the flames and saving the building from burning down. they will be using video evidence to identify the culprit and the from there they will start arresting people hopefully. the community wants to get over this. you are hearing people in the community that they are helping parole billings get back on their feet with charitable donations and financial contributions. heather: so unfair to all those good people who do live there in ferguson trying to celebrate thanksgiving. thank you so much. ed: the republicans crafting their response to the president's executive action on immigration. this is the next big spending bill and a possible government shutdown looms. oopters warn those tactics have
backfired on the gop in the past. daniel, when the president was in chicago a couple days ago you think he might have slipped up and given republicans tam anything. >> he went off the teleprompter after being heck manied by immigration activists. he said why are you heckling me. i just took an action to change the law. previously they had been arguing president obama's amnesty order was within the confines of the law and here was an admission he is change the law. ed: on that very point, congressman bob goodlat is one of the republicans leading in the the hearings. listen to what he had to say. >> the constitution says all
legislative authority shall rest in the congress of the united states. pts article two says the president shall take care to faithfully execute the laws. it doesn't say the conscious can act and if the congress fails to act then the president can acting. either he has authority understood the law or he does not. i and a great many other people say he does not and that will be the subject of the hearing. ed: we heard republicans say that again. there will be a lot of hearings and criticisms but in the even the republicans won't stop the president. >> reporter: republicans are unified in the fact they are against obama's executive order. i haven't heard a single republican say they are for it. there are 6 democrats in the senate saying they are not sure they are in favor of president obama's actions. there are some disagreements as to whether or not it should be tackled in this congress or she
should do a small stop gap funding measure and tackle it in the next congress. but i think these are small disagreements. i think ultimately they can send a bill to president obama's desk that funds the rest of the government that isn't controversial and make president obama make a decision as to whether he signs the bill and keeps government open or whether he chooses not to and closes the government. ed: the incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said there will not be a government shutdown. he tried to take that off the table. this is an early test for mitch mcconnell, isn't it? >> if they send president obama a spending measure that keeps the government open but doesn't fund these prove moves and president obama decides not to sign the bill, who is keeping the government open or closed?
i think republicans like mitch mcconnell make the argument president obama just closed down the government. ed: i feel like we have been down this road before. but for today we'll take a break. happy thanksgiving *. good to see you. heather: u.s. specialal forces leading a mission to rescue hostages held by al qaeda in yemen. ed: brazen robbers crashing a store into a target store. police say they were after one thing. hetd * at the white -- heather: at the white house, executive action of a different kind for the holiday. >> i don't call this amnesty. but don't worry, there is plenty of turkey to go around.
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ed: an american airlines plane make an emergency landing. pet plane took off again for chicago just a few hours later. heather: we are getting reports that u.s. special forces conduct a raid attempting to free an american and briton *. but al qaeda says those two
westerners were moved by the time the troops arrived. but they still rescued 8 hostages. happy thanksgiving. it will be a happy one for these 8 hostages. we used drones before in yemen but apparently this was a boots on the ground operation. >> this operation requires precise intelligence in order to be effective in order to have a good outcome, much like the bin laden raid, intelligence was the key. in this case it appears the hostages we were trying to get have been moved a few days earlier. i'm sure haul other aspects of -- i'm sure all other aspects of this op were.
heather: if the hostages were moved it means there was some sort of leak along the way. >> we were in syria trying to rescue hostages and they had been moved. but in this case this was an operation being run in conjunct yemeni forces. -- in conjunction with the yemeni forces. you have to start wondering whether somebody there is tied to al qaeda and put the word out we were going to run that mission. heather: we talked about the amount of the money received by these groups, al qaeda in the arabian florida specificall -- n peninsula received from hostages. many times it's not just al qaeda that's taking these
hostages, they are being assisted by tribesmen there in the yes then region. how much can we rely on the government there to assist us. >> that money issue is big all over north africa. where our nato allies who have pledged never to pay ransom have paid $25 million to get their hostages out. when it comes to these radical elements operating outside the government's control, anyway they can get a hostage, any way they can make money. al qaeda has a handbook out teaching people how to take hostages. isis is using ransom as a way of making money. it's spread out virtually anywhere there are groups or tribes or clans willing to take westerners, knowing they can get money out of them. heather: you have been involved
in numerous operations in the middle east. you were specifically involved in the release of the beruit hostages. is there anything we are not doing correctly at this point when dealing with these groups? >> we have seen a lot of activity. i give credit to the white house for returning these missions. it's always going to go back to intelligence. i think it's critical as in the bin laden mission that we try to share nothing with the host country. not that we don't trust them all the time. but it only takes one person inside that group of people knowledge toobl say on -- to sa. and before you know it the bad guys are up and they tried to penetrate the government. we need to continue to do it.
we do not want to pay ransom to get hostages out. it sets a bad precedent. heather: what should it say to other terrorist organizations? >> not only did we free 8, we killed as many as 8. that should be a warning. we grabbed guy in downtown tripoli who was involved in benghazi. we can go anywhere in the world often with the help of another government, often without. i wish we were doing that against isis targets in iraq and syria. we can do these things and do them well. we have the force and we have the capability. we just need the leadership that says let' let's -- let's do it. at some point we'll have more decisive leadership that wants to do this. we have run these kinds of missions in iraq and afghanistan
continuously throughout the war. nighttime missions, day time missions by our most elite special operations forces working with the afghans, sometimes working with iraqi special ops. heather: it makes me proud to be an american listening to you now. happy thanksgiving and happy thanksgiving to all our troops serving overseas today. ed: buffalo, new york coping with major damage after that epic snowstorm. we'll show one business that potentially lost millions. heather: some bold robbers couldn't wait until black friday. >> i would like to wish happy holidays to my family in queens new york and my girlfriend. happy holidays to all. i'll be home soon.
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heather: a bold smash and grab robbery caught on camera. you can see a minivan crash into a store. 20 people rush in and out twice make off with thousands of dollars of designer jeans in 23 minutes. this is just a string of smash and grab robberies. thieves drove cars through the stores. ed: cleanup continues after buffalo, new york was in the bull's-eye of a pre-winter storm. 7 feet dumped in the area last
week and one business getting hit extra hard. >> reporter: twisted metal, and shattered glass. 2 1/2 acres of greenhouse smashed. >> we have never seen 6-7 feet of snow in 30 hours. it started wet and heavy. >> reporter: mark is a fourth generation farmer learning from this brother and uncle. they grow fruits and vegetables on hundreds of acres in eaton, new york. the estimated damage is in the millions. >> the focus is on demolition. >> and stabilizing the water pipes, shutting down down and draining them before they freeze and are a total loss.
>> reporter: the weight of the snow was too' for the glass panels. this is the result. workers are trying to spall vaj at least one of the struck -- are trying to salvage one of the structures. >> we have a lot of work to do and 20-degree nights are not going to be working in my favor. we always build them in july and august. but there is no choice. i hope to see the sun come up tomorrow. >> reporter: he says understand will cover some of the losses and the kindness of friends and neighbors is helping put the farm back on track. ed: when you think about how long it will take to go through the demolition so they can end the dig out process and try to rebuild. heather: they needed things to warm up, but they warmed up so
quickly it caused all that flooding. our hearts go out to those folks. struggling -- startling new details. court files reportedly revealing why the ferguson police officer did not use a non-lethal weapon on michael brown. ed: holiday humor at the white house. president obama taking jabs at the republicans and not everybody is laughing. >> you are hereby pardoned from the thanksgiving dinner.
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end. a nor'easter forcing the cancellation of 700 flights and delaying thousands more. residents in ferguson hoping for calm this thanksgiving day. the town cleaning up after last month's violent protests that saw a dozen buildings burn to the ground. heather: president obama poking fun at immigration critics at what he says is sure to be his most talked about executive action. pardoning two turkeys this thanksgiving. >> i know some will call this amnesty. [laughter] but don't worry, there is plenty of turkey to go around. heather: monica crowley is a fox
news contributor and reporter for the washington times. mac and cheese were the two turkeys' names. do you find amnesty funny? >> i'm always up for a great joke but leave to it this president to take a lovely and charming and sweet and non-political event like the annual pardoning of the turkeys to take a sarcastic jibe at t republicans and something deadly serious like amnesty and what many believe to be a grave violation of his presidential responsibilities. he just can't help himself. he can't even enjoy a moment like this. he has to inject politics into everything. i'm always up for a good joke
but this seems inappropriate. heather: this isn't the first time he has been accused of politicizing something. he has been accused of politicizing ebola. do you recall last year when he par dornd the turkeys, the organization for action which was a non-prove it social welfare group? they came out with this list, the things people should talk about around the thanksgiving dinner. and they were talking about how you should talk about obamacare with your relatives. they did that last year to politicize the holiday. >> we got lectured on how we should gather around the thanksgiving table which they are still doing. if you want to go out today and do a little shopping after dinner you will get bombarded with people who have clipboards asking to sign up for obamacare. last year they had pajama boy with his hot chocolate. christmas morning took you your
family about obamacare. the politician are everywhere with this administration. especially with policies that are highly unpopular with the american people like obamacare and amnesty. heather: i think it last numbers we saw. 5%. people think the executive packs on immigration was not the right move for the president to do. >> he's always been flippant when it comes to his routine abuses of power and disregard for the constitution. the will of the merit can people. he's lad these sarcastic asides. now, though, i think he's grappling with the final two years of policies that are unpopular with the american people. i think he feels if he jokes about them they will become more palatable. and it's not going happen with something as serious as the future of our country. heather: people are going to
hear this segment and get on twitter and say come on, it's just a joke, don't you have a sense of humor? does it speak to something on a wider platform? that being the president's regard for what the american people say and have to believe. the chat evening republicans on this. >> sure he is. like we say, i heard the president be very funny. he has great comic timing. my hat is off to him on that. when you are talking about unilateral executive action on amnesty. a lot of people on both sides believe is unconstitutional. believe of violated his oath of office to execute the law. the republicans he has been taunting them, he did yesterday with the par dorng of the turkeys. taunting the republicans to try to do something about it. try and stop me on this. there are tools the republicans do have to bring this to a halt
including defunding his unilateral action on amnesty which is something the conscious at research service over the last 24 hours have come out and said in an analysis that the republican congress does have the constitutional authority to do that. when he says bring it on. you might want to be careful what you wish for because the republicans have some instruments they have to use. >> there are several democrats concerned about that executive action. i wonder what the first lady has to say about the names. mac and cheese. i don't think that's on her menu and the president pardoned them. mac and cheese, it's okay. >> did you notice mrs. obama was not present. so maybe she did have an issue with mac and cheese. maybe she wanted spinach and
broccoli. ed: i don't think the first lady boy cod the event. i think monica is a good addition to any table. i have had lunch with her before. she is awesome. heather: do you think the first lady would eat mac and cheese? edwhere no, she made -- ed: no, she made it clear. maybe pop the turkey in the oven. we have unique advice you might enjoy. >> reporter: they know how turkeys sound. >> turkeys are smart so you have to sneak up on them. >> i think they run away because they don't want to get eaten. >> you get a bow and arrow.
>> twas the night before thanksgiving. these first graders know all about thanksgiving and what it takes today to cook a turkey. >> i like turkey. >> you bake it in the oven, and then you get all the bones out. >> it's just one of my favorites. >> it tastes really good. >> you put it on the microwave. and i cook it with a frying and. >> 20 minutes. >> reporter: what do you put on the turkey to make it taste good? >> i don't really put anything on it. >> maybe some spicy stuff. or maybe ... >> reporter: these and 7-year-olds say turkey isn't the
only thing on the table. >> what's that type of -- is it stuffing? i never tried stuffing. >> i like to eat stuffing and cookies and bread. >> you get other stuff like sometimes just ham and sometimes you have rolls and you have all kinds of stuff. including corn. a lot of people like. >> i guess carrots. i can eat them any holiday. any day. i'll eat apples, of course unless they are just -- i really like it. report prr vision of turkey legs dance in our heads. one lesson they will take away from this special recipe. thanksgiving is about more than just the meal. >> i invite my family over to my house and gather around them. and say what i'm thankful for. >> i'm thankful for texas. >> reporter: that's from our
affiliate in austin, texas. of course they are going say barbeque sauce. do you put barbeque sauce on the turkey? heather: no, but we do fry them. do you put barbeque sauce on your turkey? ed: i have never done that. my daughter is 10 and she loves vegetables. my son is 13 and he never met a vegetable, ever. the first lady would not like it. he's pretty skinny, by the way. heather: i like the giant turkey leg. we have some new details from the grand jury files on ferguson. including why officer darren wilson was not carrying a taser the day he shot michael brown. ed: a new recall over faultiy pair bags affecting tens of thousands of vehicles.
>> i'm deployed with the 18th airborne core. tip would like to wish my family and friends in san antonio, texas, a happy thanksgiving. i miss you so much and i'll see you soon. i love you.
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bates was too heavy and clunky. is this an important revelation? does this tell us anything in terms of maybe he should have had that tears and could have used non-lethal force again michael brown? >> i think at this point it's important to remember these new detail are the highly speculative about the effect of what it would have meant if he would have had the taser available. the grand jury did consider that testimony. darren wilson went on record saying he didn't carry the taser, it was too clunky. even despite that the grand jury decide not to indict. so the question isn't what effect it will be in a criminal context. it will be a question of what we can do going forward as part of this federal investigation into the probe and practice. ed: was he supposed to have the
taser? >> i don't believe he was supposed to have the taser. that's the type of fundamental change we need to see implemented as part of this pattern and practice probe into the ferguson police department. we have seen in the past these types of investigations can result in agreements being reached between the local law enforcement agencies and the justice department where improvements are made to the police operations and this is the type of positive change president obama keeps calling for and the brown family keeps calling for in the wake of their son's death. ed: criminal charges were not brought on the local level. but you mentioned the potential federal case led by eric holder. eric holder is planning to step down. i know the bar is much higher to bring federal charges, but with eric holder stepping down soon, is he under pressure within the
administration to bring a case even if it's not there? the legacy item? >> it many an excellent question. many in the legal community view the recent statements by the attorney general about the ongoing federal investigations as being more after political gesture than an actual viable legal avenue. recently the attorney general reminded the public that there are independent investigations going on that hah been going on since day one. and by doing that, he's trying sea swimming some of the massive -- he's trying to assuage some of the disappointment but he might have inadvertently created a false sense of hope that there will be more criminal charges brought against officer wilson. ed: michael brown's family has been doing a series of interviews. their attorney said the community brown lived in.
and benjamin croft, the attorney for the family, he was talking about the african-american community and it might suggest that he was profiling due to a racial bias. i'm not saying he was, this is the allegation being raised by the brown family. could that play into a potentially federal case. >> i'm sure itments being reviewed by the justice department. they are conduct their own independent investigation. unfortunately the legal burden is so high with the federal ross cuter would ultimately have to show -- the federal prosecutor would have to show officer wilson intended to violate brown's civil rights. ed: state of mind. in the heat of the moment it's hard to figure out. >> the evidence we have seen
being released, the testimony, the forensic evidence, it just does not appear to have enough to suffice to carry that very heavy evidentiary burden. ed: we appreciate you coming in. a lot of people hoping for peace and quiet over this holiday. heather: the world's top oil producing countries meeting in austria as fuel prices continue to fall around the world. some leaders calling for drastic measures to reduce excess supply. what it could mean for prices at the pump. ed: that holiday gift that's strengthening more than just a boy's hand. introducing the new philips norelco shaver series 9000
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edrrp a 7-year-old being fitted with a robotic hand after being born with only a thumb on his right hand. it was developed by high schoolers in a tech class. after 9 months of work, the students use the school's 3d printer to create the design. >> to help a person with their disability and to give them a feeling of wholeness it's a great feeling inside. >> if it gives them something and strength to move forward. that's huge. ed: his family says the robohand is changing johnny's life and giving them all something to be thankful for this thanksgiving. heather: the global economy on
shaky ground as opec meets in vienna today. they are look at the steep decline in oil prices which is creating winners and losers. is opec cutting production and will we see lower prices? >> it has dropped from $115 a barrel to $75 or so. a big reason for that is the boom in the production of american shale oil. depending on what opec decides today, prices could drop even further. it's a very long meeting. the world's leading oil producing nations are expected to leave productions at its current level. in the past when oil prices have dropped. other oil producing nations cut production to shore up the prices. the united arab emirates said
they are comfortable with these oil prices. demand is slogan production is increasing. heather: why is saudi arabia willing to accept lower prices? >> reporter: they say production is high and demand is slowing but saudi arabia is looking beyond the oil price and look at what's going on around the world and some of these conflicts we are watching in the middle east and europe paint a good picture why saudi arabia is willing to accept a lower price. russia and iran are big backers of the assad regime. so an effective strategy to hurting assad is to hurt his financial backers both iran and russia. a lower oil price would hurt iran and russia and disrupt their ability to fund and supply weapons and money to assad.
it also may help rediewlts aggressiveness of russia in the ukraine and also keep iran as at the negotiating table over its nuclear program. there are a lot of reasons for saudi arabia and the gulf countries to want to keep the powell prices lower. among them is russia and iran. whether that will stay long term or whether they will respond to these lower oil prices isn't clear. but russia and iran need high oil prices to balance their budgets. by bringing count price of oil it does hurt iran russia. iran -- iran and russia. ed: lawmakers on capitol hill are away for the holidays. a firestorm continues to grow over the president's executive actions on immigration. heather: a thanksgiving travel nightmare.
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working families. the details are important. it goes right to the heart of president obama's statement during the rollout of immigration reform by executive action. the white house said illegal immigrants who go through pratt sells of applying for work permits will be eligible for social security and medicare, essentially those who are deported and get work permits along with a social security number will pay into the system. the catch comes with the 10-year rule which requires recipients to pay in for at least a decade before becoming eligible for benefits. compare that to what president obama said a week ago. >> it does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently or offer the same benefits citizen receives. only congress can do that. all we are saying is we are not going deport you. >> reporter: since president
obama leaves office in 2016, congress would have to extend the benefits so the immigrants who start paying in would be legal. the white house said they aren't eligible for benefits under obamacare. republicans point out those who have been allowed to stay and work by president obama are older, lower waged and lower skilled. that means the workers will draw more in benefits than they would ever pay into the social security system. ed: the white house has been saying you have millions of illegal immigrants who are not paying into the system and it could actually help shoirp these social programs. what are republicans saying about that. >> that's the issue of the path mere in terms of how much money goes into the social security program and how much money will end upcoming out. how many people will apply for these permits.
how many people will actually pay in and how many people will stick around come 10 years from now as republicans are on the other side of this thing. this math doesn't work. the question is is this the law you have unintended consequences or intended consequences by the white house. he's got the pencil, he's adding up the math. happy thanksgiving. heather: i'm glad he's adding it up. bob cusak who is the editor-in-chief of the hill, he can speak clearer to this. what are your thoughts on this. you just heard leland reference the sound from president obama where he said this amnesty, this immigration deal, executive order does not offer the same benefits citizens receive, only says that we'll not deport you. now that appears to not be the case.
>> president obama went big on this immigration action as the left want him to do. the white house says we want to get these people out of the shadows and paying their taxes and as leland mention they are making the argument this is going to help the federal coffers. but a lot of republicans are saying this will cost the federal government a lot of the money. there are similar provisions in the the senate-passed immigration bill. as we are learning more about this executive order. we have a presidential elect coming up and hillary clinton will be pressed by locals to expand it to have these illegal immigrants be eligible for obamacare and some maybe senator bernie sanders who may run for president may embrace that. this is just the beginning of the story. heather: we heard that before with obamacare and a lot of the
americans are wondering are we being grubered all over again and bees by piec -- and piece bs more information going to be coming out. >> if a republican is elected he or she can retract this executive order. but politically that be very difficult. once you give people benefits it's politically impossible to take it away. at least very, very difficult. so that's going to be the rub. this will and hot issue in the 2016 election. as president obama says, you can pass a bill but that's not going to happen anytime soon. i think republicans might pass small immigration bills but nothing like the senate-passed immigration bill. heather: we are being told this does not allow for federal benefits like student financial aid. food stamps or housing subsidies. could that change?
>> that could change and immigration activists are going to be pushing for this so the first step was pressing this white house to make this change. remember president obama initially said he couldn't do this. then political pressure was applied, he did it. their next strategy is to add to the benefits that have been given and that be something that will be pushed through the 2015. but republicans do have control of congress so they will be doing oversight of this and some republicans are looking to defund aspect.of this immigration order. but they don't have the votes to override a veto. >> is the incentive that you won't be deported? when i hear the president say this is your chance to come out of the shadows, get right with the law, it's your chance to come out and pay taxes. many of these folks, they are already here, they are getting paid, they are not paying taxes. what is the incentive? is it just the deportation, the lack of deportation that he believes will make them come out
and do this legally? >> that's a great question. there are concerns people won't come out of the shadows. they will be concerned about deportation even though they have been guaranteed they won't be deport. then how much do you prove you have been here five years. the documentation that goes along with that. some said there could be some fraud with that. how this is implementland be very, very africay. heather: seems to be a lot of planning that needs to take place. thanks for joining us on this thanksgiving. see ya. ed: heavy snow and cold weather keeping many protesters off the streets of ferguson. meantime the past and present mayors of ferguson criticizing governor jay nixon of missouri and his response.
>> he failed the city of ferguson, he failed the state of missouri. he should resign. >> there were many elected officials in the region, sphaid wide and others who -- statewide and others who tried to help us reach out to the governor and eventually those troops were deployed, unfortunately too late. ed: the governor taking a lot of heat about it was pretty quiet last night. >> reporter: i think the authorities were glad to have a cold but boring night. this is florissant avenue, where the concentration of the gunfire and the looting and burning was. now it's a ghost town but for the police officers standing sentry. you did have some demonstrators last night who braved the bad weather. they mostly confronted the national guard. a lot of foul language. a lot of attempts to provoke the
marching up and down the street. but no major incident. authorities are glad to report only one arrest. >> reporter: this could go one of two ways. this could be a lull and then the protesters would come back and it could get violent the days ahead. then they are hoping they will turn the corner and everything has calmed down. >> i think the intelligence the authorities are getting, there are planned demonstrations for friday, saturday with the intention of disrupting commerce for black friday and the holiday shopping period. a lot of people are hoping it continues with peaceful demonstrations. but there is that element that wants to come out here and wants to start trouble. ed: mike tobin we appreciate your reporting this past week.
heather: critics slamming missouri's governor for not doing enough to prevent the violence in ferguson. >> he was and isn't during this process and was not on top of it. being the lead spokesperson is frankly beyond me. heather: did governor nixon get it wrong? we'll took you his second in command. ed: your forecast for this long holiday weekend. heather: top democrats divided over balk care. >> democrats blew the opportunity the american people gave them. we took their mandate and put our focus on the wrong problem, healthcare reform. it says here that a won's sex drive increases at the age of 80.
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the mayor shouldn't have had to call the governor. the governor should have if not physically been there, been right on the phone. i can go through so many different innocences during my 10 up. >> whether it was a tornado or flood or school shoot where the communication lines were absolutely open. ed: missouri lieutenant governor peter kinder. we'll get to the gosms response and your criticism of him. we have breaking information overnight. things have been quieter. there are only two arrests. what are you seeing on the ground today? >> pretty much precisely as you indicated. happy thanksgiving to you, too. this is one time when we are grateful for a little cold weather moving in. there has been light snow in st. louis the past day and a stiff wind. and that apparently has helped
some folks decide to stay inside. meanwhile, only two arrests last night, and the people of missouri are still scratching our heads about our governor's non-action monday night, where was the guard and where was the governor. >> you have been sharply critical of him. has he responded to you in the last 24-4 tight hours? >> the pattern of the last six years of no communication has held. this governor has a very tight circle of the lawyer hospital surrounded him during this 16 years as attorney general. he pretty much talks to them. and very few others who he doesn't have to. and forget me. i'm not the issue here. the issue is that the desperate pleas by the mayor of ferguson, mayor james noles. during the critical evening, he
could not get the governor. i spoke to him yesterday, he's still trying to cope with the situation with no communication. i can't understand the governor's failure to communicate with the mayor of the city affected. ed: you are a republican and government is democrat. he says this is all politics. what is the explanation he has given for why the national guard was not out in full force that first tight? why did it take 24 more hours? >> it's not me he owes the explanation. it's to the people of missouri and we have not had one. there was a press conference mid-afternoon. day before yesterday in which he dodged and did this usual dodge. the news media in this state its starting to get on to that. and they are not going to accept empty cliche's. and that denial that you just
referred to was sort of a non-denial denial. i never alleged anything was a political motivation. then he denied it was political. he was denying what was never alleged. it's simply the fact.are there for everyone to see. it involves no political charge. the governor did not communicate with the mayor. when the mayor was desperately trying to get his attention. not only did the governor not. but he could not get any member of the governor's staff top respond. ed: let many get down to whether there will be account bibilityd on what yo -- will beany accounu are talking about. it appears to be getting bert as you noted. but in the days ahead do you expect some sort of hearings on the state level to get to the bottom of what went wrong so this doesn't happen again? >> hearings are coming early in the new year. the legislature convenes the
first week of january. a panel will be convened to look into this. that panel will have seen a power to compel the testimony if it's not voluntary from all members of the governor's administration. ed: what is your message? we have been talking a lot about the governor. i want to end on two hopeful floalts beyond all that. what is your message to michael browns family? >> a message of great sadness at their terrible loss. it's a tragedy when anyone dies and the circumstances we witnessed here in august, and we pray for that family. we pray for peace and healing and reconciliation. our loving arms are around the brown family. and we wish them all the best as they come forward and deal with this terrible loss that we all mourn. i was -- the only statewide *
elected official at the funeral and i mourn for everyone else there. ed: i asked our correspondent on the ground mike tobin about this. you talk about the lull overnight. this could be a calm before the storm and this weekend we could see more trouble or things could be getting bert. what's your sense? >> i hope and pray and i can say i believe we have seen the worst. we turned the corner that brighter days lie ahead, that we can have some peace and reconciliation. surely in the thanksgiving and in the coming holiday season for all concerned. ed: lieutenant governor peter kinder, we thank you for your time today. heather: an american teenager busted. accused of trying to hop a
flight to the middle east to fight with isis. ed: a wild predator on the loose in china killing farm animals.
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cubs two years ago nursing them to health and teaching them to hunt. wildlife experts are taking measures to protect them from hunters, and farmers are being warned, keep their distance. heather: yes. ed: unbelievable. there's a russian bear joke in there somewhere -- [laughter] heather: i just want to see a bare-chested putin -- ed: that is inevitable that he's going to ride to the rescue. heather: we'll have that story tomorrow for you. well, a teenage terror suspect out of jail this morning. he is out. a magistrate released the 18-year-old into the custody of his parents. the minnesota teen accused of trying to travel to syria to join isis. tom linden from our affiliate kmst, fox 9, is in minneapolis with more. >> reporter: when no one was looking, this teenager slipped out a side door of the federal courthouse, the first local terror suspect anyone can remember who's been released before trial. astonishing even his attorney.
>> i was very surprised. i was very hopeful, i certainly gave kit everything i had. >> reporter: in court, an fbi agent detailed how they intercepted him last may before he got on a plane to turkey. another man believed to be fighting for isis in sir or ya. but the timing may be critical to the case. he got his passport on may 5th, but the state department didn't declare isil a terrorist organization until may 15th. ten days later, just 13 days before he tried to fly to turkey. >> how does that make you a terrorist? it just might make you show that you want to fight, but it doesn't make you a terrorist doing atrocities by any means. >> reporter: fbi agents had surveillance of him as he left school and walked two blocks to this mosque here in southeast minneapolis, including right before he tried to get on the plane to turkey. and if it sounds familiar, well, it's come up before. it's part of the alpha rook
enter of will mixton -- wilmington where he was radicalized, becoming much more religious and talking about jihad. the center kicked out a subject for allegedly radicalizing their young people. >> it's reopened, it attracts good people but sometimes, you know, bad people do slip through the cracks and actually do go there. >> reporter: and the attorney believes ultimately that's why prosecutors wanted to keep her client locked up, in hopes he may start naming names. >> will i think that's why they want to keep him in custody, so he's forced to help them out in some way. >> reporter: to literally squeeze him so he would cooperate? >> i would imagine that's one of their intentions. heather: you know, this area has constantly targeted, you know, back since 2008 they've been targeting these young people, young girls, young teenage
boys -- ed: so why in the world they didn't do more to stop it, it's insane. heather: we'll find out. ed: airline pilots say drones are coming way too close for comfort near runways at our busiest airports. heather: and it was a sloppy trip for a whole lot of people trying to get home for thanksgiving the, but mother nature might, maybe, end up cooperating for the holiday weekend as we take a live look at new york's times square all dressed up for christmas. ♪ ♪ introducing the new philips norelco shaver series 9000 with contour detect technology that flexes in 8 directions for the perfect shave at any angle. go to philips.com/new for savings on shavers and trimmers. innovation and you. philips norelco. americans drink 48 billion that's enough plastic bottles to stretch around the earth 230 times.
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>> reporter: you know what? it looks a lot better after the nor'easter brought significant snowfall, and i want to share some of these totals because they're pretty significant. in portions of west virginia we saw 20 inches of snow, new hampshire seeing more than 18 inches, and the same goes for places like vermont, maine and also massachusetts. many areas seeing over a foot of snow. so that nor'easter is now out of here, behind it we do have some very chilly temperatures in place, and there are some lingering snow showers. you can see them right there on the radar across parts of pennsylvania, new york and even farther west off of the great lakes. some of those are lake-enhanced, these systems move through and pick up moisture and produce snow showers behind nor'easters typically. otherwise farther off towards the west we have another storm system bringing in showers across places like seattle, portland and higher elevation snowfall. but across the country the weather looks overall much better today than it did yesterday. you're looking at windy conditions across the northeast, temperatures reaching the 30s.
cold across parts of the midwest and also into the plains. take a look at this, you're looking at highs in the teens in fargo, 20s, in chicago, you factor in a breeze, and it's going to feel a lot colder, but take a look at parts of the south. beautiful weather, sup shine, highs in the 60s -- sunshine, 60s for tampa, houston, and even farther west in l.a.84 degrees, not feeling like fall across southern california. a beautiful day for them on this thanksgiving. ed: wish i was there or las vegas. good to see you, maria. happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: happy thanksgiving. heather: well, temperatures may be plunging, but thankfully so are home heating oil prices. they are actually at their lowest levels in four years. however, yeah, we are also hearing that natural gas prices are rising. so will that mean that your bill drop, your bill will drop like the temperatures, or will it rise like all those floats outside right now? the macy's thanksgiving day
parade. maria was out there earlier. the managing partner at chapwood investments joins us with more on this and, hopefully, some good news. so let's start first with the heating oil prices which are falling, but as natural gas prices are rising. >> right. and they sound like they're one and the same, and they're not. right now is happening is anything that is oil related is going down in price because there's a lot of oil being put onto the market, and the world market -- don't think about just the united states concern is slow. so when you have a lot more supply and a little bit of a tempered demand, not a lot, but a little tell perked demand, you're going to see prices go down. natural gas is a very different animal, okay? and natural gas prices are not affected by opec. you're starting to see the demand for natural gas is picking up a little bit, and you've seen those prices rise. yo all, this is a very good thing -- overall, this is a very good thing at a very good time. heather: why? i'm sitting around my kitchen table talking to my husband, why is it a good thing? >> because if oil prices are
dropping, the one thing we're missing here is gasoline prices are tied to oil prices. we don't use too much natural gas, so that's not too much of a concern, it's the oil as we enter into, obviously, the cold season and at the same time at the gas pump, we have a little bit more money in our pocket. not a lot because prices are still rising across the board, but it's a good thing and, quite frankly, even better because as we enter this time of year we often times think oil prices are going to rise. it's not. more money in our pockets. heather: is that something that's going to stick around or short lived? >> you never know. i believe this is going to stay around for a little while because we do have a slow global economy, more oil going out there, and opec just a little while ago -- heather: yes. we talked about that. >> they talked about how they're not going to cut the supply. overall right now it looks really good going into, you know, the first quarter of next year. heather: okay. so you mentioned gas prices. we, you know, have to get to the grocery store, get the kids to
school, get to work, and gas prices continue to slide. we take a look at some of the states specifically five states across the country, arkansas, alabama, florida, illinois, louisiana. will this slide continue? this is good news. >> it's good news, and i don't know if the slide continues, but i think the price point is going to stay this way for a while which is good. and there are a lot of people who come to my office where they drive quite a while, and this is going to help everybody, you know? they off times tell me how much -- they oftentimes tell me how much it costs them to come to work -- heather: they want to stay home and work from home. >> there's a little bit of that. at a time like this right now, thanksgiving, this is really good news for everybody. heather: and the chi overall because that means people will do some shopping. >> we certainly hope so. maybe the presents will be 10% better this year than last year. heather: is it true that traditionally, you know, at the beginning of the year the gas prices will start out lower but then increase as we approach, say, the memorial day holiday?
>> we like to say there's a rule of thumb, and some people look at charts and say so, but right now it's all dependent upon opec because we're dependent upon what they do. until we get more oil produced in this country, we're dependent upon what they do and what they say through opec. heather: all right. throw the charts out, but right now definitely something to be thankful for. we appreciate it, ed. happy thanksgiving, by the way. >> you too. ed: there's a new danger in the skies, those small remote-controlled drones. in the past six months, pilots reported more than two dozen close calls, many of them at our nation's busiest airports. our favorite reporter -- i think they put that in there -- mike emanuel takes a look at washington. happy thanksgiving, and where are these close calls happening? >> reporter: well, ed, many of them are during takeoffs and landings when commercial airplanes and aircraft are at altitudes where drones are also flying. the washington post obtained records revealing some 25 incidents since june 1st where small drones came within a short
distance or a few seconds of crashing into a much larger aircraft. the data indicate a lot of these close calls are happening near major airports including new york's laguardia and jfk, washington's dulles international and reagan international airports. and the 25 close calls are among more than 175 sightings since june by pilots and air traffic controllers spotting drones near airports or restricted air space. while many of these sightings are from general aviation or helicopter pilots, airline cruise have also reported them. ed: most of these drones are not very big. what makes them dangerous when they get close to a commercial airliner? >> reporter: you're right, they're made up of plastic and are just a few feet in diameter. most of the drones that have been spotted are small equipped with cameras which are becoming more and more popular with photographers and those who like flying them as a hobby. the real danger is if it gets sucked into a jet engine or
crash into the propeller of a smaller plane, and on a few occasions pilots have changed their course to avoid an unmanned aircraft. with drones becoming more up popular, this could become a bigger challenge. e d: happy thanksgiving. heather: who's the favorite? ed: we're buddies. heather: yes. and we love you both. ed: thank you. heather: democratic senator chuck schumer taking some heat after he takes aim at obamacare. >> to aim a huge change in mandate at such a small percentage of the electorate made no political sense. so when democrats focused on health care, the average middle class person thought the democrats are not paying enough attention to me. heather: that didn't sit too well with house minority leader nancy pelosi, and she is firing back at senator schumer. ed: going to want to hear more about that.
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heather: thanks for joining us here on "america's newsroom" on this thanksgiving. one woman look at her father in a whole new way, as her superhero. she had been on dialysis for nearly two years until her father learned that he was a match, and he did not hesitate to donate her a kidney. >> there was no thinking at all. let's get it going. >> he would, um, go to all his appointments that they asked of him, and he did it without grumbling. >> they want children, and the longer she's on dialysis, she couldn't do it. heather: that's a great story. the 35-year-old says she is excited to start planning a family of her own and this
thanksgiving she will definitely indulge. ed: top democrats, meanwhile, divided over the president's health care. house minority leader nancy pelosi taking aim at democratic senator chuck schumer after he said this: >> but unfortunately, democrats blew the opportunity the american people ghei them. we took -- gave them. we took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem; health care reform. now, the plight of uninsured americans and caused by unfair insurance company practices certainly needed to be addressed. but it wasn't the change we were hired to make. ed: ah, lead arer pelosi, one of the law's biggest cheerleaders, pushed back. she said in a statement: we come here to do a job, not keep a job. there are more than 14 million reasons why that's wrong. jest -- jessica tarlove is a consultant, least that booth is executive director of blackrock group. happy thanksgiving to both of you.
>> happy thanksgiving. ed: jessica, you know, quite interesting that democrats are fighting over this. i spoke to someone at the white house a couple days ago who said that reference from nancy employeesty, 14 million reasons, the sign-ups are going pretty well right now. they feel like they're turning the corner, and yet now somehow the leaders are fighting over it. why? >> i think it's difficult times. there's conflicting messages everywhere. i mean, the latest polling on obamacare, it's only popular with 37% of americans, so there is room for what chuck schumer said. that said, i don't think it's helpful, i don't think it pushes the democratic cause, and i think what he should be saying is talking about ways we can reform obamacare to make it better, to make more americans excited about it and to boost already, sign-ups that are already going well. ed: lisa, interesting because some democrats, former white house aide like john favreau immediately went on twitter saying, quote, i don't remember chuck schumer giving that advice when he was privately and
publicly championing the affordable care act in 2010. dan pfeiffer, meanwhile, said the broader point is obama ran to so long-festering, politically-hard problems that others shy away from, a direct shot there at chuck schumer. i thought democrats were saying before the midterms this was going to be an asset for them. >> they absolutely were, and chuck schumer was one of those individuals. this is a stunning add admission from the senator -- admission from the senator. this is someone who really has his finger on the pulse of the democrat party. so for him and someone who once said it would be a liability to vote against obamacare to now intentionally reverse course is not only, is not only an example of just to be unraveling and unpopularity of obamacare, but it's also a repudiation of his earlier statements and comments. ed: jessica, the broader point that senator schumer was trying to make among others was he felt like the president and democrats writ large should have been focusing on helping the middle class more on economic measures but, again, that's a flip from what he said in 2010 about
health care. at one point on "meet the press" he said it really does help, of health care, deliver for the middle class. the parade of horribles, particularly the worry that the average middle class person has that this is going to affect them negatively. how in the world did democrats back in 2010 say this is going to help the middle class, republicans said then, no, it's not, and now you have people like chuck schumer admitting four years later it didn't really help the middle class, he seems to be saying. >> yes, and i think it's part of a larger strategy as we head towards 2016. we've shown that we can't win necessarily on just obamacare, so he wants to bring economic reforms back into it. we've done really well on things like raising the minimum wage. i wouldn't be surprised if we heard more from him about immigration reform which he's been a champion for, we need a comprehensive bill in congress and not just go it alone on executive actions the whole way through. so i think that you're seeing, you know, a new election cycle. we have an election to win in 2016. i think the democrats can do it,
and obamacare will be part of that, but more broadly speaking, as senator schumer said, we need to think about all middle class issues and not just health care. ed: lisa, i wonder if you see democrats here, we've been focused on arguing themselves into a corner on what's supposed to be an asset for them, health care, what about republicans? you've got one minute on immigration. is this something we are going to see republican leaders in the new year actually pass a bill, strengthen the border, or are they going to let that issue fester out there? democrats have their problems, but what about the republicans? >> right. well, i think what we've seen is house leader speaker boehner has said that republicans will pass something. i don't think it's going to look like what president obama decade because what president obama did is against the will of the american people and against the will of congress, and it's not really helping americans, and it's not really helping hispanics because, ultimately, what it's doing is not solving any of the root problems that we're facing with immigration. if anything, it's going to incite more problems like we saw
along the southern border this summer. ed: lisa, jessica, happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving to you as well. heather: shopping malls could be pushing a whole lot more than black friday deals. how obamacare could become a frustrating part of your holiday bargain hunting? ed: are they going to put that in brookstone? i want to see that story. black friday shoppers already lining up, sometimes without clothing to snag the -- now, wait -- heather: i want to see that one. ed: we've got an expert to give you the upperhand so you don't have to expose your upper body. >> my name is major kevin evans, i want to wish my family, friends in indianapolis, indiana, happy thanksgiving and happy turkey day. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ]
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heather: it is game time, and i'm not talking football. it is thanksgiving and black friday shopping time, and this year it is on a whole other level. retailers upping the ante, extending black friday, discounting new items and expanding online deals. web sites upping their game too, hopefully helping you shift through all the sales, and they include -- some of these web sites, take notes -- shop adviser.com, price watch.com, shopping.com, price grabber.com and the buy via app can help you search for local deals and coupons on specific items. so joining us now is andrea warric, a consumer savings and personal finance expert, and you have got to help us get through all of this. >> thank you, and happy thanksgiving. you're right, black friday is a game. it is a game to find the best deals. so the first thing that i recommend doing is once you have your list together of the items you plan to purchase, check and
research prices with all those sites that you just mentioned. it's important to know where the cheapest prices are offered, plus get an average for the cost of those items, because some retailers may inflate the original price to make that doorbuster deal look like a better value. if you do your homework, you won't get fooled by misleading promotions. and if you're in store, the buy via app will help you with local deals, red laser offers price comparison and some stores like walmart and radioshack are ad match on black friday. and then, of course, the mobile coupon app, coupon sherpa, will help you with extra savings. heather: is there one web site that will kind of take all of these into account and give you the lowest price? >> you know, unfortunately, i find that i run a couple of comparison searches maybe on price grabber and then on shopping.com to get an idea of where the cheapest prices are. so you can just use one of those
search engines, and it'll help pinpoint the best deal. heather: all right. so what is best, to go out on black friday or to wait until cyber monday? >> you know, it depends on what you're shopping for. if you're shopping for popular items, you might want to get out there early before they sell out to. in fact, stores are releasing doorbuster deals today so you can burn off the turkey and start snagging up the sales. kmart is offering $50 off a samsung galaxy 7-inch tablet plus $20 in rewards points for loyalty members, and they have a buy one, get one a dollar off footwear. so there are lots of deals, but certainly you can save on cyber monday too on gadgets, on clothing, even on airfare. heather: andrea, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. pack your patience if you're out hitting the mall. appreciate it. >> thank you. ed: too much turkey shouldn't be the only thing slowing us down on thanksgiving, but mother nature clearly does not agree. how the weather is snarling travel and how long the extreme
conditions will last.
♪ ♪ ed: happy thanksgiving, everybody. thanks for joining us on "america's newsroom," i'm henry in for bill hemmer. heather: and to everyone at home as well, i am heather childers in for martha maccallum. thanksgiving dinner just a few hours away for folks on the east coast, and now the race is on to make it in time for the turkey. and you're looking live at times square which was a wintry mess yesterday. ed: indeed. and that bad weather sparking hundreds of cancellations all around the country, thousands of flight delays at the airports. while the weather has improved in spots, the travel trouble may not be over yet. heather: brian is live in our new york city newsroom. please give these folks some good news. >> reporter: how are you, heather? remember last year much of the northeast was hit with a storm, but it appears this storm has
caused a bit more travel havoc while knocking out power for hundreds of thousands. now, as of this morning an estimated 400,000 people are now without power in states like virginia, up the coast to new jersey, new york, pennsylvania and in maine where more than 83,000 customers woke up this thanksgiving to total darkness. now, thanks to more than 10 inches of heavy snow in some parts, officials say it's unlikely those customers will be unable to restore power in time for thanksgiving dinner. meanwhile, the sloppy wintry mix of snow, rain and ice making for travel havoc, one of the busiest -- on one of the busiest travel days of the year as some 46 million people hit the road and skies for thanksgiving. yesterday 751 flights were canceled nationwide according to flightaware.com. to put that in perspective, on tuesday, the day before u there were only 140 canlations. -- cancellations. in new england a foot and a half of snow in the mountains fell,
some 20 inches in west virginia and records were broken in albany, new york, and concord, new hampshire, where there's more than 10 inches of accumulation. and to the roads, well, they were icy i and slippery. about 90% of travel hearse choose to drive during the holidays, and new jersey governor chris christie declared a state of emergency in his state where more than 200 accident were reported on new jersey roads. so far we have about 67 cancellations and over 60 delays at airports -- 600 delays at airports nationwide today, and we'll monitor that as many people have rescheduled their flights to take off today. thankfully the good news is it looks like the worst weather is behind us, and that's just in time for people heading back home, you know, in the coming days, heather. heather: yeah, for some of that turkey and stuffing. something to be thankful for. thank you, brian. >> reporter: no problem. ed: fallout overnight around the country from the ferguson grand jury decision. police in los angeles arresting at least 130 people who refused to disperse during a third night
of protests there as hundreds took to the streets downtown l.a. for several hours. and in oakland police arresting 35 protesters following a martha spiraled into some incidents of vandalism. therethere were also scattered protests in ferguson last night, but no additional property damage thankfully. one question sure to be on the many minds there, can this be, you know, a day of peace on a day of thanksgiving? let's go to mike tobin live in ferguson. it seems like the weather kept protesters home last night, pretty chilly out there. >> reporter: yeah, cold, wet and boring, and i don't think the authorities out here were complaining at all. we saw the demonstrators show up particularly in front of the ferguson city police department, and mostly what we saw is them standing for a long time taunting the national guardsmen who were standing century in that miserable -- sentry in that miserable weather. in the end, updating my number from earlier, two people were arrested. no major clashes with the authorities. as you come back out here live,
look up the street, this is where the concentration of the trouble really has been throughout the process. you can see now it's a ghost town but for the police officers. no indication things are going to change today. ed? ed: mike, we spoke to the lieutenant governor of missouri last hour as you may have heard, and he said there were hopeful signs as you're reporting now, although they were still concerned about what might happen around black friday and into the weekend. >> reporter: a lot of the information what the cops are looking at is some demonstrations are planned for black friday and planned for saturday and the subsequent days with the intention of disrupting commerce. so that is some of the obstacles that the police are looking to tackle here in the coming days. ed mike toe by on the ground in -- tobin on the ground in ferguson. thanks for that report. heather: well, after word today that ferguson protesters may actually crash the macy's thanksgiving day parade underway in new york city, going on right
now outside of our studios, and we are getting reports that they may have done just that. with six people arrested after something was thrown from a roof. organizers had reportedly been using social media to encourage people to make a statement using the hashtag stoptheparade to fuel the fire. one twitter user calling for protesters to, quote, stomp right over the macy's thanksgiving parade. this after thousands of protesters marched for a second night in manhattan chanting "no justice, no peace, jail for killer cops." and justice for mike brown. ed: and the protests over ferguson even reaching across the atlantic with more than 1,000 demonstrators marching through london to condemn the decision not to prosecute the police officer who shot and killed michael brown. tearing down fences in parliament square after demonstrating outside the u.s. embassy. some of those relatives of black britons killed in incidents involving police there.
heather: the white house is rolling out a new obamacare outreach program targeting you, the consumer. listen to this. the malls around the country, they are now allowing promoters to approach black friday shoppers and urge them to go to healthcare.gov to enroll. it is a big change from last year's celebrity-driven ad campaign. but critics say one thing is the same, the holidays are being politicized. leland vittert live from washington. i would not want to be one of those folks approaching somebody and all of these black friday crowds. i mean, come on. >> reporter: yeah. people on black friday are crazy, heather, and i don't think they want to talk about health care, but you never know. [laughter] in addition to the great deal on clothing, you, too, may be inundated by fliers on health care. the much-lampooned health care navigators are being allowed to hawk obamacare around the country, and as we explain, the
very crowds of black friday -- tough to get anything done in there. the move comes in open enrollment version 2.0 which at least appears to be going a little smoother than the disastrous web site rollout that we saw last year. the new program focuses more on outreach in these types of events than it does the celebrity advertising that went on. still at least one democrat is having a little bit of second thoughts about pushing obamacare through right after president obama's win in 2010. >> but it wasn't the change we were hired to make. americans were crying out for the end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs, not changes in health care. >> reporter: and if you are wondering if there are any doorbuster deals on obamacare, no dice. it appears even on black friday you, as well as the taxpayers, will be paying full price. heather: all right. well, you know, we can wish for anything. happy, leland. happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: and to you. ed: can you imagine being a guy in the middle of the crowds saying, hey, you want to get
some health care? get out of my way. [laughter] house republicans are crafting their response to president obama's decision to go it alone on immigration. a look ahead at what's expected to be a very busy week on capitol hill. heather: plus, a thanksgiving tradition at the white house, the annual turkey pardon doesn't always go as planned, as you can see here. [laughter] but what actually happens to those lucky birds after they are spared from ending up on this dinner table? >> hi, my name's crystal neely. i just want to wish my dad happy holidays in fayetteville, north carolina. love you, bye.
heather: welcome back. millions are mourning in australia today after beloved cricket star phillip hughes died in a sydney hospital two days after being struck in the head by a ball during a match. prime minister tony abbott paying tribute saying hughes was, quote: a man living out his dreams. >> obviously, our thoughts and prayers are with his family, with his friends. he thought the player in his prime should be killed playing a national -- the thought that a player should be killed in his prime playing a game is shocking and sobering. we should be conscious of the risks that our sports people run to give us the pleasure that they do. heather: hughes was wearing a
helmet at the time, but the hard leather ball hit an unprotected area on the back of his head. deaths are rare in cricket, but hughes is now the second player in two years to sustain a fatal blow. phillip hughes was just 25 years old. ♪ ed: meanwhile, the house republican leadership is getting set to respond to the president's executive actions on immigration with both the house judiciary and homeland security committees getting set to hold big hearings next week. meanwhile, over in the senate senator ted cruz of texas is saying republicans should not fear a government shutdown over immigration. let's bring in byron york, washington examiner chief political correspondent. first of all, i think you're down in alabama with your family, happy thanksgiving. >> good morning, ed. happy thanksgiving to you too. ed: these hearings are coming up, what do you think republicans will actually do though? can they do anything to stop the's actions, or will this just be a whole lot of talk that we see at times in washington from both parties and they actually
don't end up doing anything? >> well, there's two important things to remember about this. one, republicans will, indeed, respond. that is going to happen. and, two, they don't control the senate yet. democrats control the senate right now. harry reid will be the majority leader until the first week in january. so republicans are in no stronger position today to do anything about this than they were, say, during the shutdown battle in october 2013. so what you're seeing is i think they're focusing on, republicans are focusing on a funding battle to try to do a very targeted, surgical move to defund the specific offices inside the department of homeland security that will enforce the president's order. but they can't do anything now. and you remember, the government's going to run out of money on december 11th, so what they have to do is pass a bill to fund the entire government until next year, and then in january when there are probably 54 republicans in the senate, they will try to strip away funding from those specific
offices dealing with the president's order. ed: byron, you make an important point about the overall government running out of money december 11th. last time there was a lot of back and forth who was to blame for the government shutdown. the fight that ted cruz led in the senate over the president's health care law. what's your sense now when the incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says there's not going to be a shutdown this time, there are other rank and file republicans who seem to want to leave that option on the table. what's your sense about the mood of the republican leadership, what's the likelihood this time? >> i think mitch mcconnell said it all, they don't want a government shutdown. i do think there's been a little rethinking about that october 2013 shutdown can among republicans because if you remember at the time, there were people who said, you know, the republicans have just shot themselves in the head. they've thrown away any chance they had of winning the senate in 2014. well, look what happened. they won the senate in pretty spectacular fashion. but i think what you'll see the senate leadership go along with in january once they're in
control is a measure that would fund the entire government except for this very specific office to defund the president's order. and remember, even to do that if they have 54 seats, they're still going to need some democrats to go along with them. we know there are democrats who are opposed to the president's order, but we don't know if they'd go along with the republican measure to fight it. ed: byron, there's been another element added to this, but republican lamar smith said, quote: ed: what do you know about this ston the washington times about this? and how this may be a big deal at these hearings coming up this week? >> well, this is more an obamacare issue really than an immigration issue, but it is true the employer mandate is
coming, and employers who have large numbers of employees will have to provide coverage to their employees or face a penalty. now, illegal immigrants are not covered under obamacare. republicans did not want them to be covered under obamacare. so an employer could hire them and not have to pay a penalty. it's like there's an incentive to hire an illegal immigrant. now, some democrats would say, well, gee, let's just make obamacare cover illegal immigrants in this country. republicans don't want that, so this is basically another argument from republicans that the employer mandate plus the individual mandate are, in obamacare are just bad law and should be scrapped. ed: byron, we just showed a live picture of the capitol. m looks awfully calm, it's bubbling and getting ready when they come back next week. >> things are really going to change. ed: happy thanksgiving, good to see you, byron. >> thank you, ed. heather: president obama keeping with tradition this thanksgiving, pardoning turkeys at the white house.
this year's lucky birds mac and cheese. you can see cheese getting his pardon on yesterday. so what happens next? well, the turkeys will retire to morvin park in virginia. in past years the birds went to george washington's mount vernon, before that some even headed to petting zoos, even disney world and disneyland, not a bad way to retire. pardons date back as far as the 1800s, but president reagan back in 1981, that might be one of the most memorable. this turkey clearly getting a little spooked out on the white house lawn. ed: yeah. he sort of jumped up. you see the feathers pop up. what people don't know, the retirement is pretty cool, but a little secret before they go to the white house, the night before they usually stay at the w hotel, they get them a little suite, and they have to -- how do i say this -- they have to put some special plastic covering on the floor -- health health why -- heather: why?
ed: the turkeys are not exactly potty trained. they get a sweet night and a suite at the w hotel. the animal activists know they get pardoned -- heather: do you get a discount if you have the room next to them? ed: i think you should get a free room. they're pretty loud. heather: and what about this menu that's been released? ed: oh, the white house has all kinds of traditional things, but there's about a dozen pies on the list. you were talking about that, the turkey, the ham, the stuffing, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoeses, mashed potatoes, green bean cass casserole. i think i must have seen banana cream, pecan pie, cherry, you've seen this hashtag thanks mrs. obama over the school lunches, there's been a lot of division over that. i'm not sure -- heather: i want a photo op of the first lady eating the pie. you know what's missing? fat back and chicken and dumplings. ed: you see that down south. you don't see that at the white house. heather: i'd like to see that there. ed e ed a new concern at some of
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around and, n., even after this heart procedure gets out today, and shannon has previously been reporting that justice ginsburg is planning to get right back to work at the supreme court monday morning. heather: she got right out of the hospital. well, a new danger in the skies. with the faa now reporting a surge in new collisions between passenger planes and small drones. many of the close calls happening at our nation's busiest airports. mike emanuel's life for us in -- live for us in washington with more on this disturbing story. >> reporter: the faa currently receives about 25 reports per months from pilots who have seen drones or model planes operating near their aircraft. some sightings are from general aviation or helicopter pilots while others are reported by commercial airline crews. in a statement the faa says, quote:
>> r eporter: the faa data indicate a lot of these reported sightings are happening near some major airports on the east coast including new york's laguardia and jfk and washington's dulles and reagan national. and the 25 close calls are among more than 175 sightings since june by pilots and air traffic controllers spotting drones near airports or restricted air space. if you're wondering about the drones, in many cases they weighless than 10 pounds, are plastic, have cameras and are just a few feet in diameter. a group called the small uu a v co-- uav coalition notes that with more than a half million unmanned aerial vehicles in our air space for recreational use, there have been no reported accidents. their concern is this reporting of close calls may lead to a very revective rule -- restrictive rule which would stifle innovation. a vast majority of these reports are just sightings, and pilots
did not have toalter their course, and the increase can be attributed to three things; pilot awareness, better reporting and better recordkeeping. heather: yeah. this morning we reported one came within a foot of a plane, so that's pretty disturbing. >> reporter: that's right. heather: happy thanksgiving to you, by the way, too. >> reporter: thank you very much. ed: mike is our chief congressional correspondent, and many folks wondering what republicans on the hill may accomplish or not accomplish to take control of both chambers in january. i had the pleasure of moderating a panel for the jack kemp's annual dinner, with discussed with republicans paul ryan, tim scott and democrat cory booker. congressman ryan got his start working for kemp, and cory booker was inspired when kemp visited his college campus. kemp played quarterback, of course, for the buffalo bills, so we talked a little politics and a little football. >> i will be thankful for a
bipartisan solution for kids trapped in poverty living in the wrong zip codes to have real education reform be it public, private or both. [applause] >> jack kemp really was a leader on healing and confronting the -- he was a strident civil rights activist when he was a football player, had a wonderful quote that i just found hilariously slightly off color about having showered with people of different races, you kind da gotta love and get a love that comes out of that closeness that you have. [laughter] i don't want to get myself in trouble with his family. ed: we're going to air that one. >> in this space right now which will contribute so much to the unfinished business of bias against, around race and poverty in america that's locked people in a caste because it's so hard with a criminal conviction in america, my hope and prayer is
we actually can do something on this issue. >> i'll see him on that and go to tax reform: this is an idea whose time has come. it's an idea that jack kemp championed. i would be remiss if i didn't say a year from now i think i'll be very thankful for aaron rogers -- [laughter] on fire these days. i had to find a way to sneak that in there. if we start the year on a good footing, if we start the year on the right tone, then i think there are a lot of good things that can get done -- >> let's find a way to take that, those trials and lift them to a higher level. >> that's right. >> that's what this country needs. >> when this new hand is outstretched from this new majority, give us a chance to -- >> well, i've been a minority for a long time. -- [laughter] and i'm about to be one in the united states senate. i will take your hand anytime you outstretch it to me. [applause] ed: you can see that outstretched hand from paul ryan to democrat cory booker.
now, they're talking a good game, we'll see, about prison reform, tax reform which a lot of our viewers are interested in, whether republicans in the house and senate can get that done -- i'm not sure where senator booker was going with the shower analogy but, of course, paul ryan from wisconsin had to get aaron rodgers and the packers mentioned. the packers aren't playing until the weekend, but our colleagues at fox sports would want us to tell you cowboys/eagles -- heather: who do you pick? ed: i'm going to actually go with the eagles. my fantasy team, i've got the eagles' defense. heather: i'm going with cowboys just because you're not. [laughter] well, a tough going for millions of americans. we have been telling you about this, a nasty nor'easter delaying hundreds of flights on the busiest travel day of the year. and for some the rough weather is far from other. ed: plus, you know how it goes, you can't wait to dig into that turkey day feast, and when it's all over, you feel -- well, a little bit awful. we'll tell youou exactly why, bt
more importantly, what you can do about it.
>> happy thanksgiving. guess what, it is a messy one for hundreds of thousands of americans now without power. after a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow in spots, the stormy weather making for a lot of travel troubles with hundreds of flights cancelled, thousands delayed. driving also a big problem with the snow slicked roads causing dozens and dozens of crashes, and the snow may not be over. and the weather's for not much better in the west where a powerful rainstorm is looming. meteorologist three molina his life for us. can i just say by humbug to you? >> good to see you. we have picked up some significant snowfall totals.
more than a foot of snow accumulation from west virginia all the way to maine. we are still dealing with the snowfall in eastern portions of maine. behind the system, much colder in parts of the east. current windchill temperatures in the 30s as far south as places as atlanta. a chilly thanksgiving day for you, current windchill temperatures in the 20s in new york city, much colder in the northern plains and in the midwest. 8 degrees below zero in minneapolis and single digits in rapid city. exiting parts of maine still producing rainfall. some lingering snow showers across parts of the northeast and also in maine. brand-new storm system arriving at it his areas of heavy rain across oregon and even into western parts of washington
state and portions of the northern rockies. the forecast for today is relatively quiet especially when you compare it to yesterday. some showers in place across places like north carolina in rally. chilly temperatures for your highs only in the 40s, cold in the northern plains. teams for the fargo's. look at the forecast for l.a., highs in the 80s with sunshine, beautiful weather in store for them out there in southern california. >> something for them to be thankful for. thank you, maria. jon: a study finds excess weight accounts for 5% of new cancer cases in developed countries, half a million new cases worldwide every year. dr. debbie, i was trying to do it slowly.
happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. bill: what can people do about to sit down at the thanksgiving table. tell us about this study. >> we don't know exactly why it causes cancer. if people have other risk factors, it might take them over the edge so we think it can prevent 10% of cancer. bill: not the only, but i he cod be the biggest risk. >> why do women have a bigger risk? it probably has to do with estrogen. before menopause women have estrogen from their ovaries. after menopause they should have less estrogen. you can ask a get estrogen produced by the fatty tissue. you can see it in men as well, same thing can happen with more estrogen.
the biggest thing is actually weight loss. that wouldn't be related to one thanksgiving meal, that would be more of a long-term commitment. now the city also talks about developed countries versus developing countries. second with our diet and lifestyle, makes a huge difference. developing countries people die a lot younger they may not live long enough to develop these cancers. bill: talking about things giving dinner, you cannot have too much of a good thing. around 700 calories. a single holiday dinner can easily top 2000 calories, which is the recommended daily calorie intake for an entire day. americans like to get their fill on thanksgiving and christmas but it can leave you feeling pretty awful afterward. what his recommendation for people first on the meal itself. how do you deal with it?
>> if you want to try things, go ahead. better to go slow and steady because the huge rush of food and calories usually makes people feel worse. and how do we control our blood sugar? insulin regulates it, when you eat your body produces insulin to control your blood sugar but if you have a ton of calories all at once it is not sure how much to put out there, so it usually overshoots. they usually feel really tired, so if you eat a little slower, your body, just a little better to that. bill: short-term and long-term. when you are at work on a normal day should not be sitting at your desk all day. likewise you shouldn't be sitting on the couch immediately after a big meal like that, what can you do? >> he can walk before the things giving meal because that helps the body burn more calories and
get adjusted so if you are eating if you can spend more time standing, walking or take a walk afterward, that will help. for people you don't want to go sleep right after even if you are tired. you won't burn as many calories, but if you think about gravity, eating more and bolger out a little more in the middle but also can bolger out upward. it pushes on your lungs a little, you feel short of breath and when you lay down if you think about your stomach acids, gravity helps plummeting downward, otherwise it is like heartburn. even when you go to sleep you want to use as many pillows as possible. bill: you mentioned it is not just one meal, it is a long-term deal with exercise as well. >> of course. bill: you cannot exercise tomorrow for an hour and everything will be better. >> short-term i can stay active it will help the symptoms today but overall it is much more of a long-term issue.
bill: good to see you. heather: still to come, the feds uncovering chilling terror plots targeting one of the national treasures and a local press good with ties to the ferguson grand jury. why sources are questioning whether the suspects were even capable of carrying out the alleged plot. our legal panel weighs in. plus, vladimir putin facing new troubles over a deadly cross-border raid. this has nothing to do with ukraine and everything to do with a very large cat. >> i am here at afghanistan and i want to say hi to my family back at salt lake. i love you, happy thanksgiving.
heather: well, and unusual protest in paris, farmers releasing sheep under the eiffel tower as a statement on the government policy on protecting will. this heavy printers are killing many of their animals, estimate is 250-300 wolves currently living in france, and wolf attacks apparently on live stock have been on the rise since 1990. bill: vladimir putin also blamed for another cross-border raid this time it is not ukraine. here is putin with a tiger cub raised in a special animal protection program. that cute little guys all grown up now. they were released into the wild earlier in the year and now reportedly on a killing spree in northeastern china suspected of slaughtering at least 18 goats on a farm since sunday alone. the farm's owner says he knew something was up when his dog started barking but when he checked, he found nothing
unusual. >> unlocks the shelter after hurting the goat yesterday but the tiger enter the shelter by breaking the wooden fence and killed the goats. >> piece of a plan to compensate him, but urging him move the goats to a more secure location, obviously. heather: some new details and a suspected terror plots in missouri. two men facing federal weapons charges accused of planning to bomb the gateway arch in st. louis. investigators say they planned to kill st. louis county press getting attorney robert mccullough and ferguson police chief tom jackson. the suspect allegedly bought what they believed was a pipe bomb in an undercover sting. joining us now defense attorne attorneys, thank you both for joining us and happy things given to you. >> happy thanksgiving, heather. heather: i understand has been an indictment in this case but
it doesn't mention the bombing or the potential killing. where do we stand right now, david? >> they have them on the purchase of a stra strawman fora firearm. one of these guys bought a firearm for another guy able to possess a firearm. that will hold them without bail. that is really nothing compared to the attempt to purchase what they thought was a bomb with a commitment to purchase two more bombs and the big charge they are going to face no question about it is conspiracy to create mass murder. they planned on place the palms in the arch at st. louis, a tourist attraction at could have killed dozens, hundreds, who knows. also to kill oppressive and police chief adding enhancements to the charge of attempted mass murder, so they are in big trouble. i would advise them don't talk anymore. i have been talking to the
media, zip it, stop, don't dig a hole any deeper. heather: their names brandon baldwin and holly david. any chance they could get out before they face is much more serious charges? >> let's talk about these alleged more serious charges. speaking of that things giving meal, i got a little bloated reading because of all the hot air about this alleged purchasing of pipe bombs. as i see it right now, there is no evidence these guys purchase any pipe bombs, in missouri conspiracy to commit murder requires an overt act in pursuance of the crime. right now all you have are these two guys purchasing guns, we think, for somebody else. absent some audio surveillance, video surveillance, possibly some social media blogs where these guys are talking about an actual time, place where they were going to carry out these
alleged mass acts of terrorism, i don't see them facing any additional charges. heather: a pair of the there was a second hearing argument should be held in jail. from what i understand, the fbi was there, and agent presence and they have photographic and video evidence they were ready to play. am i wrong about that? >> that is exactly right. i have videotape of these guys purchasing what he thought was a bomb committing to buy two more. obviously they are not what you sell him an actual bomb, but he attempts to purchase the bomb is the act that you need for a conspiracy. that is what will get them and i am telling you now as a defense attorney, which i would advise him to do, stop elaborating on what happened because right now they have videotape, photos, the federal firearm form. they are toast. they have the videotape, that is
what they say. >> if they had it, i think theye would have seen it. unless we have some other evidence to support this, i think this might be the media generated story that isn't there. heather: we will see because i am sure there is much more that will come from it. thank you both for joining us and happy thanksgiving to both of you. bill: a key part of turkey day. the act of being thankful, so how can you do it and make it part of your life not just today. it has to do with being grateful more than one day a year. heather: good idea. ♪
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heather: it is thanksgiving, that is a day for expressing gratitude for our families and for other loved ones. but sometimes being thankful is easier said than done. pastor at first baptist church in dallas, he joins us with more on this. thank you for joining us first ofirst ball and happy thanksgiving to you. >> thank you, happy thanksgiving to you. heather: is there one main thing we should bear in mind to express gratitude every day and be thankful? >> we need to be honest. there are a lot of things to be stressed out about today. fox was revealed 58% of americans believe the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and yes, heather, there has been a proven relationship between expressing gratitude and reducing stress, by the way that is nothing new, it says be anxious for nothing but in everything with prayer and
thanksgiving let your requests be known to god. if we will make gratitude a part of our everyday life instead of just once a year accordin gorgin turkey and cranberry sauce we can experience less stress in our life. heather: we actually have three tips as you just mentioned, make gratitude part of your daily routine. guard against the tendency to go negative. negative molly or debbie downer. express appreciation to others who have made a difference in your life. >> i think it is interesting to talk about the power of prayer, a lot of people say we are so busy running around, we don't have time. bret baier interviewed a colonel in washington, d.c., a few months back and said you should see it not as a big, long prayer you do every day, it can be like a text message, you cannot even
do a small prayer? >> this a practical suggestion for our viewers. before you drift off to sleep, reflect on two or three positive things that happened to you that day and thanked god for them. studies have shown that people who will do that reflect on the positive each night will experience greater level of satisfaction than those who don't. some of our viewers may not feel thankful right now. it is a lot easier to ask yourself into a feeling than to feel yourself into an action. if you start expressing gratitude, you will feel that way. there is a reason this holiday is called thanksgiving, not thanks-feeling. heather: thank you so much, we appreciate your words on this day.
bill: good to see you, pastor. a group of turtles with a lot to be thankful today after getting hypothermia. you're going to want to watch this after the break.
bill: people not only one giving thanks today. 30 endangered sea turtles recovering from hypothermia at a turtle hospital key west, florida, days after they were rescued from cape cod bay in massachusetts. heather: they are among more than 193 flown to orlando in banana boxes by the u.s. coast guard this week with the restaurant to four other marine animal revocation centers. bill: thank you for not great me for not saying the pecan pie correctly. heather: thanks to my family is
at home right now having pecan pie. bill: we are going to to regulate cap. heather: happy thanksgiving fewer family as well. "happening now" is starting right now. bye. ♪ >> well, the great american migration is underway, splitting time with our family and friends. welcome to "happening now." >> it was a sloppy trip to grandma's house for many americans and no trip at all for many others. dropping heavy snow and rain along the east coast forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and delay thousands. in new york mother nature playing along for the most part at the annual macy's things giving day parade.