light heart joke. but appleby s is down one fine waitress and appleby s is sorry abouthe whole thing. i say no more notes. let them do the math. gretchen: you would know formerly working at bennigan s, you would know all about that. look where you ended up. brian: right. with waitresses, alligators and the u.s. national guard. so it s fantastic. gretchen: i know. coming up on fox & friends, talking about pay to play, if you ve got dreams of being a u.s. ambassador, it will cost you big bucks. steve: plus, is the honorary mayor of new orleans. now drew brees live with brian as we roll on from new orleans and new york. morning, ladies look what mommy is having.
overtime last year and very close to the super bowl and now have to watch from the side lines? i have to say this, when i got benched, i did enough things to lose my job. alex smith never did anything to lose his job. brian: he had a head injury. he only all did he was play well and got a concussion and that opened up the opportunity for collin. obviously that was controversial at the time. which guy do you go with? you ve got the young talented guy that is only going to get better with reps and then this veteran guy in alex smith. but they got two great quarterbacks. they re playing for it all right now. so you can t really argue the decision. but i think alex smith is a tremendous quarterback. a tough guy that brian: he ll be starting somewhere next year. no doubt when you re done in four or five years, you go into the booth and doing this. drew brees, thank you for coming down. congratulations on your success, contract and look for the saints to be back soon. thank you
steve: we ve got a split show from new york and new orleans because sunday is super bowl when millions of people will be watching to see if jim nance does lip sync his play by play. gretchen: beyonce making it clear she will be singing live. steve: who? gretchen: beyonce. now to the headlines. one of the president s former top officials under investigation for possible insider trading. securities and exchange commission subpoenaed e-mails and messages from the marwood group to clients from 2010. the sec booking to see if the official who works for marwood kicked off clients about delays in a diabetes drug which may have led them to profiting from the stock market. steve: meanwhile, you bruise, you lose. the government is suing anheuser-busch to put the merger of budweiser and corona on ice. the justice department says the $20 billion move would likely lead to higher price for suds because the country would control nearly half the u.s.
year. x box. i m always fascinate to do see players play with themselves because you re depicted in x box. what s that like? do you do that a lot in your down time? a lot of guys play, x box. but the new thing is kyect for x box. that s really what s so great about this interactive gaming. it s not sitting on the couch working your thumbs. you re actually out, running, boxing, you re dancing, they got the nike knkt. it s great way to stay in shape. for kids, especially in the wintertime, it s getting dark early and maybe you can t go outside to play, it s a great way to stay inside, get your 60 minutes of exercise a day. brian: real estating your book, i understand you can relate to alex. can you relate to alex smith, who started, brought him into
point where i questioned myself, why do i do this? then i go to practice, and i see the kids, and i say, that s why you do it. martha: that s the coach of the team. pat is a yahoo! sports national columnist, and he joins me now as he has in the past on the penn state story. what do you make of this whole thing, pat? wow, martha. [laughter] i m not sure the football coach has a very good interpretation of what a nightmare is. i think that would be best asked of the young men that were assault inside this case. if there s a police investigation for the coach to, whether he strong armed the board or whatever he did into letting these guys play, i think that we ve got a complete subversion of the way things should be working and who should be making the call here. martha: you know, there s an opportunity here that would have been a lesson, perhaps, for all the boys. and everybody understands that not all the boys were involved, and there s a lot to to be determined still about exactly wh