on this sunday night, the final 48 hours in the race for president. a frantic final push on the campaign trail, obama and romney making a mad dash through the swing states. meantime, tempers flare. tonight a final poll on where this race stands and how sandy could impact the election. plus the new big storm closing in threatening to disrupt a massive recovery operation. and making a difference, the marathon may be off, but the race is on to help some of the hardest hit victims of the storm. from our election home, "nightly news" begins now.
good evening. in just over 48 from now, the first polling places here on the east coast will close in the presidential election. the final "countdown" is on and the gut check moment has arrived for president obama and governor romney as they make the crucial decisions as to where and how to marshall their resources into places they can still make a difference. and tonight, we're about to release the results of our time poll in this race, a last-minute snapshot that could give both camps a reason for hope and anxiety. and how the hurricane sandy disaster has affected this race. let's start with our political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd who's just below me here on democracy plaza. >> let's get right to the numbers, the president with a very narrow lead, 48% to 47%.
this is almost last close presidential election we had which is when president bush also had a 48% to 47% lead. among early voters, president obama with a seven-point advantage here. four in ten voters may vote early this year. and in the battle ground states, the president's got a four-point lead and that's within the margin of error. in the northea let me show you where there may be a sandy effect, and that is the idea of which candidate has better leadership qualities. a week earlier, governor romney led the polls, but now you see
president obama leads. in the middle class, the president leads by n'k11, value versus the economy. and watching the exhausting travel schedule has been like watching a pair of prize fighters in the 12th round. let's get right out on to the campaign trail, along with kristen welker with the president in cincinnati. >> reporter: good evening to you lester. president obama campaigns here in must-win ohio tonight with music legend stevy wonder kicking thing off. with this race too close to call, president obama is enlisting his biggest su egest s and supporters to help him close this deal. president obama in the final sprint of this deadlocked race, stopping first in concord, new hampshire today. >> let's go get them, new hampshire. >> and then to hollywood, florida. >> are you fired up?
>> reporter: mr. obama will travel several thousand miles, stopping in ohio, colorado, wisconsin. today the president enlisted one of the most high profile democrats to fire up voters. former president bill clinton. president obama even borrowing president clinton's campaign song. president clinton slammed romney. >> he's tying himself into knots saying he didn't oppose what he didn't oppose. >> reporter: and obama -- >> we know what change looks like and he ain't it. >> reporter: and president obama
confused the former presidents. that ad th that. >> that ad that you have seen that president clinton bankrupted the auto industry so that china could buy it. >> we're in commanding position, but our big challenge new is to make sure that we execute and get our vote out. >> reporter: michelle obama will join the president in iowa for his final event tomorrow night. kristen welker, nbc news, traveling with the president in cincinnati, ohio. meantime tonight mitt romney is barrelling through a few states of his own. >> reporter: anticipating a dramatic finale -- >> two more days. two more days and we can get to work rebuilding our country. >> reporter: mitt romney this weekend is racing through eight
events in seven states. >> we have got to change course because unless we do, we may be looking at another recession. let's make sure we get everyone out to vote on tuesday. >> reporter: governor romney's carefully crafted final pitch that he would be a bipartisan leader. and he has this new line -- >> don't boo, vote. voting is the best revenge. >> they asked their supporters to vote for revenge. for revenge. instead i ask the american people to vote for love of country. >> reporter: and while upbeat, mr. romney made this acknowledgement. >> if the president were to be re-elected. >> boo! >> it's possible. but not likely. >> reporter: this afternoon, new jersey governor chris christie
who praised president obama's leadership in the aftermath of hurricane sandy, said he's still voting for mitt romney. >> i am voting for mitt romney, but that doesn't mean that i can't turn to president obama and say thank you. >> reporter: romney advisors are projecting confidence and claiming a more enthusiastic base. >> there's a gap on the side of republicans. >> reporter: late saturday mrs. romney rallied supporters in cleveland. >> i'm feeling it r you feeling it? >> reporter: i'm peter alexander
traveling with governor romney in pennsylvania. >> i want to first talk to you about those numbers, about the leadership question, saying that president obama may have gotten a sandy bounce. is there anything that romney can do in that case or does he have to be on the sidelines? >> he is on the sidelineses, there's no question about it. in talking to the president today, they maintain that their zeta is unchanged. he would win bagsd on -- the reality is chris christie is now having to go out of his way to say he's still voting for mitt romney. he did provide him a boost. mitt romney needs to lead, let's face it the country is starved for it at the moment which is why i think it resonates. >> they both really have reason to be confident now, don't they?
>> they have reason to be confident because you saw our poll, it's deadlocked, neck and neck. now it's whether they get their supporters to the polls, this very sophisticated report that the president has had years to vote on. building for mitt romney, perhaps stalled a bit when attention was taken off of him during sandy and during the recovery, whether that passion can be reignited and in his closing message, reaching out to moderates, reaching out to bipartisanship whether that ignites people and gets them to the polls. >> and your thoughts quickly on president clinton's appearance on the campaign trail. >> having covered bill and hillary clinton, this is the anniversary of bill clinton's '92 race. you can see him absolutely energized and igniting these
crowds, he's the closer for barack obama. >> they have got to get young people and might norities out t vote. in florida, anger and frustration today in miami where voters lined up to cast absentee ballots after being cut off from the early voting deadline yesterday. what happened there and other potential election problems. >> reporter: frustrated voters juice the miami-dade election office this afternoon. they had come after the county announced it would open its doors to provide an accept absentee ballots today. but so many voters showed up that election officials were overwhelmed. they shut their doors and then decided to reopen.
the democratic party ensued to extend early voters after some voters were stuck on line for hours. >> i have waited five hours now. >> reporter: election officials are bracing for lots of potential voting problems on tuesday, especiallily in the key battleground states n ohio, experts say because of confusion over new absentee ballot rules, more than 200,000 voters may be forced to cast provisional ballots that won't be counted until ten days after election day. >> there's a realistic chance that we will not know which candidate won the election in ohio. >> reporter: citizen groups like tea to vote, a tea party offshoot who says it's trained more than a million poll watchers to look out for voter fraud. liberal activist groups are saying they're employing their own poll watchers. >> we will be watching the poll
watchers to make sure they are not acting as bullies. >> reporter: meanwhile hurricane sandy's devastation has swamped election plans in the northeast. officials are faced with flooded buildings and power outages are besieged. >> actually the timing of the storm was horrible for us respecting people's ability to get to the polls. >> reporter: this weekend the state announced it will let voters displaced by sandy e-mail or fax their ballots in. and military trucks may be deployed as backup polling stations. all these issues could lead to an election storm that leads to confusion and even chaos at the polls on tuesday. we want to let you know that brian williams and our entire political team will be with you every step of the way on election night. our coverage begins at 7:00, 6 central on tuesday night. amid the long lines for gas
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we're back now with a long road to recovery facing thousands of families hit hard by superstorm sandy. in addition to the immediate needs of food and gas, there's a new emerging crisis. where are they all going to live in the weeks and months ahead? nbc's michelle franzen is on the jersey shore tonight. >> reporter: good evening, lester, aside from our light this neighborhood is in darkness. an hour earlier thanks to the time change and also an early cold night for residents hunkering down in their homes, those still without power. now tonight, new jersey's governor says fema has extended public assistance for all 21 counties in the state a big step as officials here and in new york try to overcome a challenge. in the blue collar fishing towns
of highlands, new jersey amber moskowitz is surrounded by debris. >> we're safe, but it killed us, we lost all our pictures and memories. >> what we're worried about right now is that it's so cold they can't stay? their homes. >> the reality of not know what's next has set in. >> look at that, i don't know how that's going to be repaired. >> reporter: today homeland security secretary janet napolitano toured neighborhoods. >> our goal is to get people out of the shelters now as quickly as possible into something more stable, more satisfying. >> reporter: meanwhile the crisis at the pump continues, with drivers lining up at the
pump to fill up and rationing in place in new jersey until supply can catch up with demand. >> part of the gas thing is that people are worried it's going to run out, it's not going to run out. >> in new york city, ferry sciee back online for tomorrow's commute. but for thousands still without power a crisis is emerging. >> one of the great fears we have with cold weather coming we have to make sure that people can stay warm and among the hardest hit, the rockaways in staten island. >> governmetonight the first ma donation from pepsico and walmart. >> reporter: in staten island, victims waited five days before help arrived. >> please start going door to door and ask some of the owners
if they need anything. >> reporter: in queens more than 100 homes burned to the ground in a raging file fueled by sandy, a church service offered comforting words and a new determination. >> we don't have any crystal balls that will tell us how breezy point will be rebuilt. do not abandon your hope because only hope sustains us. >> reporter: volunteers and military teams continue to travel across the country to help in the recovery effort. the latest, 400 marines helping out in staten island. >> there is another big storm headed toward the region. we're joined tonight by w channel meteorologist kelly cass. >> this is the last thing we need in the northeast, and remember all those protective dunes have been washed away by
sandy so obviously we have some store fronts and residential areas that could be hit with another storm. we'll be dealing with a lot of rain and very windy conditions. it's going to start off on the southeast coast, affecting basically election day. that nor'easter co-moves up the coast, very strong winds traveling up the northeast and those winds will be sustained between 25 and 30 miles an hour, but gusting as high as 50 miles an hour. we could be looking at two to three inches of rainfall. coastal flooding is a huge concern. right now it looks like ohio will be clear, back to you, lester. >> kelly, thank you and we're back in a moment with some of the other day's news.
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the view here in democracy pla plaza, finally when they cancelled the new york marathon, many found themselves with nothing to do after the storm. many felt they could make a difference in the lives of those hardest hit. >> reporter: after the staten island ferry, it felt like the marathon. >> 600 garbage bags, if everybody can take a garbage bag. >> 1,000 runners suddenly with time on their hands were ready to deliver supplies.
this is the boat that could have taken them over to the starting line this morning. instead they're going to statten island to help, they're man thonners, they have a lot of energy. the father-daughter team from the west coast, they were relieved when the race was cancelled. i didn't think could have felt good about it knowing that all these people were cold and carrying all they own on their backs. >> so they were running. baby wipes, batteries. >> flashlights whatever people need. >> there was anger in this community last week when michael bloomberg said the race would go on, especially with food, water and generators were piled up for the race, not the residents.
now the runners delivered those same supplies and lended a has been where it was needed. >> i'm glad the run was cancelled and they're just able to lend a helping hand. >> in some ways canceling it did the same thing. that's nbc "nightly news" for this sunday. up next, football night in america, followed by sunday night football, the cowboys take on the falcons. i'm lester holt reporting from democracy plaza here in new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night.
this is "world news" and tonight "your voice, your vote," tens of millions of americans going to the polls. lining up for hours to choose their president at schools, homes, laundromats, even car dealerships. and even americans in the storm zone doing what it takes to make their voices heard voting by flashlight in the shelters. after this long and tough road, the president appears at the end of his final campaign. >> we've made real progress these past four years. >> the challenger, governor romney fighting for the last vote. >> that's when you know you'll win. getting ready for this historic night. our abc news political team here and reporting across the nation as tonight it is the vote, the big picture, election day in america.
good evening from the crossroads of the world, pulse of the nation, abc news election headquarters in times square on this historic day for democracy after one of the toughest elections ever, americans are choosing a president. and our great abc news team of analysts and experts have taken their posts eager to tell you would won, how and why throughout this evening. and it is "your voice, your vote." it will be lighting up our maps here at election headquarters. and we also thank you all day long. you have sent us pictures proving how much you care about this vote and we saw you lining up before dawn in virginia, braving lines, rain in florida, children in tow and even guys with surfboards and bare feet as in chicago a woman who went to
the polls while in labor then went on to the hospital. talk about the candidates in these last moments, the two men who have been racing to the finish line spent the day proving determination and stamina and abc's white house correspondent jake tapper starts us off in chicago where the president is with his family waiting for results. jake. >> reporter: good evening on this exciting night, diane. president obama and his campaign are gurding hem thfls for a long night and the president said this might spill into the morning but he fully expects by tomorrow he will be re-elected. it is out of his hands and in yours. >> my name is barack obama, you know, the president. >> reporter: at a chicago campaign field office president obama called volunteers in wisconsin to thank them for their hard work. >> hi, is this annie? hi, this is barack obama, how are you? [ laughter ] i'm doing -- you know -- i don't
think she knows it's me. >> reporter: his message has been one of staying the course. forward. painted himself as a warrior for the middle class. >> are you fired up? >> all: fired up. >> are you fired up? >> reporter: but today another message, an olive branch. >> i also want to say to governor romney, congratulations on a spirited campaign. >> reporter: later today joined by scottie pippen and his old friends the president played basketball, an election day superstition. he did not do so the day of the 2008 new hampshire primary and has not repeated that mistake. also not taking anything for granted vice president biden who made a quick stop in must win buckeye battleground ohio. the son of scranton, gave clevelanders part of his folksy charm. >> running for county council.
>> reporter: it's been an emotional home stretch late last night with his wife in the state that launched his national career, iowa. >> as you know this is a pretty emotional time for us because this is the final event of my husband's final campaign. >> reporter: sleep deprived in the battle of his life standing in the freezing cold, the president saw old familiar faces in the crowd of 20,000 before him. >> to all of you who've lived and breathed the hard work of change, i want to thank you. >> reporter: tears streamed down his face. >> that's the spirit that carried us through the trials and tribulations the last four years. >> reporter: and now president obama is in a suite at the fairmont hotel. he is waiting for his family, his girls have arrived. they flew here after school with the president's mother-in-law. they'll be watching the returns at the hotel. the president is expected to return to washington, d.c., diane, tomorrow afternoon. diane?
>> okay, jake, thank you so much. and again, we have been following you on social media and so many of you wrote us to tell us about epic lines you encountered at the polls coast to coast. you can see some of them right there in washington, d.c., but people did wait hours and hours to vote and the voting remained in full swing and does now, but it hasn't stopped governor romney from squeezing in a few more campaign stops and abc's david muir was there with him. david? >> reporter: diane, good evening. can you believe the day is finally here and as you mentioned a frenetic pace for governor romney right up the end he just landed here in boston after stops in ohio and pennsylvania today. they do believe pennsylvania is now in play for the republicans but i got to tell you it all started this morning when he walked into his own polling place in his neighborhood in belmont, massachusetts and was hummed when he saw his name right there for president of the united states. mitt romney and his wife ann
back home this morning walking in to cast their vote. a quiet moment side by side after nearly six years of campaigning, two runs for the white house and tonight he is one step away. outside a kiss and then a question about ohio. >> yeah, i feel great about ohio. thank you. >> reporter: but not taking that state for granted a last-minute dash today back to ohio. his body man taking this image on the plane proudly wearing this pin and the plane and running mate's plane paul ryan and vice president joe biden's plane in a state both sides want to win. it's been a race to the finish traveling 15,000 miles in 4 days. overnight on my iphone capturing this moment, the romney plane pulling into this columbus, ohio, hangar and soon after we were all back on the plane. we're headed to new hampshire. headed to new hampshire where his candidacy began for a rally lasting past midnight. >> this is where our campaign began.
you got it started a year and a half ago. >> reporter: we were standing right there as he worked his last rope line as a candidate but now to us for that giant bear hug. if anyone is revealing the rigors, it is ann overcome last night by the support. >> i'm so moved. so emotional to have this kind of reception from ohio, a state that is going to make the next president of the united states. [ cheers ] >> reporter: in the final hours romney is sticking to his playbook. >> it's all coming together today. >> reporter: all about the economy, pushing his vision of lower taxes and working on his ipad on tonight's speech and one more stop, pennsylvania, once considered a long shot now they believe within reach and unexpected moment in pittsburgh, a parking garage filled with supporters. the governor with his hand to his heart and a wave telling abc news afterwards. >> that's how know you're going to win. >> reporter: i can tell you, diane, right here in the hall they're beginning to gather at
the romney victory party. they're hoping a few hours from now later here in evening and i can tell you the governor, his wife ann and five sons are holding at the westin hotel and the speech he was working on on his ipad, it's 1100 words long and asked if he had two versions. he said, diane, he has one and it's a victory speech. >> all right, david. but tell me again, he's going to be watching with his family right there? >> reporter: yes, the five sons are all here. the big number i've got to get for you, how many grandchildren. as you know that number is much larger. we will track that down as the evening goes on. they're waiting in the hotel right next door. >> good luck with all those grandchildren. now i want to bring in the co-anchor, george stephanopoulos, right here, so, george, we have the first window on to what people are saying as they come out of the polls. >> i saw a surprise in the first window. when we asked people where they think the country is going on the right track or in the wrong direction, a year ago 77%
thought we were on the wrong track even as late as august it was 69%. today, down to 52%. pretty dramatic increase in optimism over the last several weeks and asked them about the candidates and the economy. president obama has a small advantage, you see it right down in front of us, 52-44% on empathy being in touch but overall trust to handle the economy it flips a little and governor romney has a slight advantage over president obama, 50%-47%. different views on the candidates and the economy. >> so i'm calculating, your first campaign, 1988. >> that's right. a little over 25 years ago. >> so what's the most important thing you'll be watching? >> i'm looking at three things, the first one is a number, 74%. that was the share of the electorate four years ago in 2008. down every year. if that goes up, that is good news for governor romney. if it continues to go down that will be good news for president obama. the second thing i'll be looking at is a state, early state,
virginia, the polls closed there at 7:00. governor romney has to win that state to be in the hunt for 270 electoral votes. if he doesn't, president obama does, he will be on his way to victory and finally going to be looking at an issue. that is the issue of the auto bailout. big dramatic action. president obama took early on. many jobs across the industrial midwest, president obama's fire wall, ohio and wisconsin and michigan were dependent on the auto industry. if you see a favorable ritting for that that's good news for the president. >> we will be right here bringing everybody the big news tonight. because it is a once in a generation election. a changing america election and rarely have the stakes been higher and not just because the white house is up for grabs so is control of the senate and abc's jonathan karl, our veteran capitol hill correspondent is here and we ask in the three places he'll be watching tonight, the states also voting by the way on some pretty far-ranging things.
we'll get to that in a moment. jon. >> that's the other big battle is the battle for control of the u.s. senate so very early in the night i'm going to be looking at two senate seats especially. the first one up in massachusetts, this is scott brown against elizabeth warren. the most expensive race in the country. the most high profile. it has been a bitter race. if republican scott brown loses in massachusetts, the republicans have a much harder time to win control of the senate. the other one also early in the night is going to be in the state of indiana, this is richard mourdock running against donny. they controlled it for 36 years. should have been a slam dunk but he made controversial comments on rape and abortion now it's at risk for republicans. if they lose both of those it will be virtually impossible to win control of the senate. my third one is actually a house seat. all 435 members up. that's in minnesota, michele bachmann running for re-election, of course, a year
ago she was a front runner to run for president now fighting for her political life for her own district in minnesota. >> the states putting up referendum some wide-ranging things. what's number one you'll be looking at. >> we could have legalized marijuana in three states at the end of the night. that's what i'll be looking at. >> real possibility. >> it's a possibility. [ laughter ] >> all right. i'm going to see you later. >> we'll talk later. >> put you down for a talk. you're going to be with us, of course, all this evening. jon, george, the abc news political team standing by, analysts and experts ready to roll as "your voice, your vote" rolls in starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern. coming up next here, election day in the storm zone, the amazing ways americans are making their voices heard against all odds.
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and on this big day in america we ask all of you to give us three words, and here's a photo of three words. take a look. we loved it. we the people coming up after people are showing you voting here right now. we the people turning out even in the shelters showing a unity that is strengthening family as cross the storm zone even in the darkness and the cold. images that poured in to us all day long from our voting -- our voting colleagues, our voting americans in the shelters and the tents with their flashlights, family suffering
after sandy a. as you know vo n unbroken to vote. linsey davis tells us what they're facing tonight. >> reporter: without power, but not power-less. in some of the areas most devastated by hurricane sandy, we saw images like this of the victims, eager to show with everything they lost, they still have a voice. in rockaway park, queens, when the generators ran out of gas, voters had to cast ballots in the dark. some new jersey voters climbed into winnebagos to cast their ballots. overwhelmed by applications, state officials there extended the deadline for casting votes by e-mail until friday. hard-hit staten island residents are still trying to catch their breath. did you get a chance to vote today? >> vote. no. look at this. who's got time to vote? >> reporter: now with the added burden of another storm on the way, expected to hit tomorrow night, this devastated coastline is in the bull's-eye of a nor'easter bringing rain, high winds, coastal flooding, even
snow to an already battered region. >> we could have some snow on the ground and certainly snow on the trees. that makes the trees that already have their bases flooded more likely to fall over. >> this is the new york city police department. >> reporter: new york city is prepping again urging residents in the lowest lying areas to move out of the storm's path ago as parks, playgrounds and beaches are expected to close for 24 hours beginning at noon tomorrow. new jersey officials are watching the path of the storm closely. >> just when i thought i was going to start to get some more sleep we're going to get the nor'easter and i think it's going to be all hands on deck again. >> how much more can we take? >> reporter: at the peak of the power outages, more than 8.5 million people were without power. today, close to a million are still in the dark. and now the fear is that those who just got their power back may lose it again. >> why does it always happen we get creamed with a storm and then two days later there's another storm? >> reporter: elinda restaina, a mother of seven, is trying to work fast to salvage what she can before the next round of
rain and wind. >> you can take our home but you can't take our heart. >> reporter: linsey davis, abc news, staten island. >> thank you, linsey. all of us at abc want to make sure help is on the way for those families and thanks to your extraordinary generosity, all of you and the abc family coming together for a day of giving, listen to this. we have raised more than $17 million to help families suffering in the storm zone and, by the way, it is not too late to help. the phone lines are still open, call 1-800-help-now or go to our website, abcnews.com and thanks to all of you for your incredible generosity. coming up, something to make everyone smile on this election day. we asked which song plays into your head as you go to the polls? an election day playlist. you gave it to us today. ♪ born in the usa
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>> that's right, diane. we are in the nerve center of our election headquarters at abc news and what a nerve center it is. we do want to show you where we will be parsing all the information tonight as it become as valuable as we elect a new president. here to my left the insiders, matthew dowd, nicolle wallace, donna brazile, george will and barbara walters will tell us what it means when a state turns one way, what it might mean four years from now. to the right of our set we also have our insiders' desk. remember, there are many key house and senate races still to be decided and they will be parsed and synthesized, as well. the banks of seats, we have our analysis desk and ballot watch team. the analysis desk is really the first point of entry for the raw information, the exit poll numbers that will become the real numbers that you will see and then you see the ballot watch team led by pierre thomas
looking for any irregularities at voting and polling stations around the country and that flows to our twin pillars of rome as george and diane will then bring it to you and as you can see here technology will play a part, the information will spring from the floor. this huge l.e.d. screen, in fact, george with a touch screen in front of him has the ability to tell us when a state turns and maybe why it did. county by county parsing it for you as best as we can. obviously technology will be a star and to that end social media which has had an impact on this election unlike any other will have a place with us, as well. this is our social media corner, you see. a touch screen and katie couric will be with us tonight monitoring what you are talking about on facebook and on twitter as we have all come to see history tonight, as our president will be re-elected or the republicans will have taken
back the white house and we do hope you joins at abc news till the very last, diane. >> we thank you. and our election 2012 coverage will begin right now. george stephanopoulos, the powerhouse political team standing by. we will be here with the latest minute-by-minute results as they come in and see you after a short break. good afternoon, i'm cheryl jennings with this abc 7 news election update. all eyes on prop 30, education funding measure, supporters greeted the governor as he arrived to vote in the oakland hills. it would boost sales tax a quarter percent, increasing taxes on individuals that earn
more than $250,000 a year. the governor says if it fails, california schools will be in big trouble. prop 30 opposers say it will drive business out of california. >> election officials divided into two locations pushing some vote dwrorz a precinct down the street. san francisco's big ush yu is proposition f which wants the cities to transition away from hetch hetchy as a primary water source. in richmond supporters say measure n will help fight childhood obesity. you still have four hours to vote in the bay area when polls close tonight at 8:00. abc 7 news will be live with the first returns and you can get realtime results at abc 7 news.com also, live updates at facebook.com/abc 7 news and through twitter. our next update is in less than 30 minutes.
i said my deal with the devil hadn't changed anything. well, i was wrong. all those people... they would still be alive if it wasn't for me. just... just put me out of my misery. just--just take me. stuart, listen to me. we've still got 24 hours. ah... there's still hope. hope? you know what? i wish i'd never listened to you. it hard enough dying... without knowing all the misery you caused to others. thanks for nothing. [ car door closes ] [ engine starts ]
[ dance music playing ] excuse me? i feel totally directionally challenged. could you, like, tell me how to get to the corner of straight and narrow? go away. ooh, touchy much? get over it, morgan. it's just a game, even if you are stretching the rules. what are you talking about? like, duh. you just refused your client's request to jump-start his eternal reward. i didn't turn him down. i talked him out of it. you know, that is so like you, just giving in to your fluffy-bunny feelings for your client, except that is so not the deal. i gave you permission to offer them redemption, not force it on them. look on the bright side. this way, you get to see him squirm for another 24 hours. oh, my god, that is, like, so true. hey, are you trying to trick me? get real, morgan. you lost.
i know it. your soon-to-be-ex-client knows it. everybody pretty much knows it but you, so, like, chill. go swap some bodily fluids with maya and enjoy life. bye. the photos of wei lee's killer were worthless. no one recognizes his face. we're starting to wonder if there's a reason for that. i don't know what you're talking about. maybe someone paid you to doctor the photo-- a little darkroom magic to protect the killer? look, i'll show you the negatives if you want to see them. i didn't do anything to those photographs. i want that guy caught as much as you do. you know, the one thing i like about the western culture is the philosophy of an eye for an eye. if i had a choice, i'd kill wei lee's killer,
and everything would be back in balance, but now...some other member of the born to kill will have to do. no, no, no, no, look, if you do that, you know they'll come back at you. this no longer concerns you, mr. sanderson. if you want to live a long and happy life, forget we ever spoke. look... oh, god. oh, god. excuse me, what do you think you're doing? i know you. i saw you with that supermodel. you're morgan pym. stuart had one of your cards. you know where stuart is? i have to find him. that's his private stuff. it's all right. i've been talking to him about private matters. yeah, like what? if i told you, it wouldn't be private anymore, would it? wait a minute. is this some kind of anonymity thing?
are you one of those a.a. guys? is that what this is all about? are all those people that you hang around with drunks? i used to be a priest. i still talk to people about their souls. if you care about stuart sanderson, you'll tell me where he is. just tell me this. where does he go when he's upset? this is...this is where i proposed to my wife. i was just sitting here, thinking how it was the one thing i've done in my life that was good... and i realized that if i'd never met her,
she'd have been someplace else that day. one thing leads to another, you know? she'd still be alive. it's done. all the death, all the destruction, it's over. the only question now is what are you going to do about it? you're wrong. it's not over. it's just starting. what are you talking about? that asian kid that got killed two days ago, he was a member of a chinese gang, and his buddies, they can't find the killer, but they're using my picture as proof that a vietnamese gang was behind it. don't you see? if i'd never taken the picture, they'd have no idea. now they're going to start a gang war. they'll kill each other, and they'll kill bystanders, and it'll go on for years.
show me the photos you're talking about. why? we still have a few hours left. if nothing else, we can try and prevent more deaths. what's the point? i've already been over the photos. that chinese gang has been over them. nobody recognizes the killer's face. the face isn't what i'm interested in. what is it exactly we're looking for? i'll tell you when i see it. blow that up. see? nothing. try the next one. there. [ sighs ] try the third one. enlarge it there.
what's that? a reflection in the mirror. i think it's the killer's arm. what are those markings? could be a tattoo. most...most gang members have them. can you move in closer? i can sharpen it. flip it. what? what is it? what does it mean? it means no one's ever going to find this killer, no matter how long they look. how do you know that? because i can read chinese.
. sanderson, i didn't expect to see you again. what do you want? this tattoo was on the killer's arm. that's impossible. this is chinese. it isn't the mark of the born to kill. that's why no one recognizes him. the killer's from out of town, and his intention was to start exactly the kind of trouble you're contemplating. a gang war would only serve his interests. you know, we could kill the both of you right now, and no one would ever know. why did you come here? it was a matter of honor. well, i will speak with the born to kill, and if what you say is true, we won't avenge wei lee's death.
you thought that was my redemption. it made sense. we were preventing more violence. i feel like i'm missing something. maybe you're missing the truth. which is? that i deserve to go to hell. no. when you made your deal, you had good intentions. yeah, i hear the road to hell is paved with those. you didn't cause all this death and unhappiness. you didn't pull the trigger. you didn't hire the arsonist. the devil did. what's the difference? all those people still died so i could get the shot. there's no way i can bring them back to life. we accomplished something in there. that means something. we just have to figure out what. if you quit now, your wife's death was for nothing. don't you get it yet?
my wife's death was always for nothing. [ grunts ] what's wrong? nothing you can fix. let me try. where
[ drawer banging ] uh, she's beautiful. i'm guessing she's not your sister? i'm sorry. i should have known a guy like you would have somebody, and it wouldn't be somebody like me. maya...
it's okay. it's okay. i mean, at least now i know why you keep pushing me away. i don't want to hurt you. too late. [ door closes ] [ dialing ] [ telephone ringing ] hello. stuart, it's morgan. i've got it. i know what we missed. i don't want to hear this anymore. just leave me alone. no, wait. don't hang up. just hear me out. the devil chose a vietnamese form
to shoot wei lee instead of a chinese one, because he knew shen au would be able to tell the difference. why would he do that? to give them a new target, okay, to start more killing. yes, but your photograph did more than give them a target. it proved to them that the vietnamese gang wanted them dead. it proved that they could never get along without killing each other. it confirmed their worst fears, and when we convinced them that they were wrong, that the photo was a lie, we undid the damage. we stopped the war. all right, you know, but i still caused all that violence, all that death... when we talked to those people yesterday, all you heard them saying was how the violence came out of nowhere. now we know why they didn't see it coming, but what you didn't hear was their hopelessness. "that's the way life is." "your photos show people "how rough it is out here in the real world." "why do things like this always happen to people like us?" that's what your photos did. they preserved those moments of pain and death so expertly that they overwhelmed people, confirmed their worst fears about the world.
the devil killed their families. that's the damage he did, but you killed their hope. now you've got to give it back. morgan, look, those pictures were published in the paper, right? thousands, hundreds of thousands of people saw them. how am i supposed to make up for that? i'm not sure, but we still have a little time left to figure it out. maybe the star could publish your old photos from before your deal, show people that there's happiness and beauty in the world, too. whatever the answer is, i'm betting your redemption is in those pictures. call jeri slate. talk to her about it. i'll be there in five minutes, and this time, we'll get it right. all right. [ gunshot ] mr. leclaire? it was you, wasn't it? "i just happened to be driving by." isn't that what you said? well, i got to thinking
after you came to see me. i did a little research. well, it seems like you're always just driving by or walking by or standing right there when something's going to happen. it's not what you think. oh, isn't it? well, what exactly do i think, anyway? do i think you get tipped off before something bad happens so you can get there and just get your shot? or do i think you're some kind of sick scumbag who sets these things up yourself? which is it? put the gun down, mr. leclaire. killing me's not going to make anything better. they'll just-- they'll just put you away. why do i care about that? i've got nothing to live for. everybody i loved died because you had to get your damn pictures. i'm sorry. you've got to believe me, i am so sorry, and i would make it up to you if i could. try.
please, please. mr. leclaire, we have to go. i've got nowhere to go. i should have died like this a long time ago. all right, man, we'll talk about it... outside, okay? if all we have left is the past, there's no hope for either one of us. no, no! [ thud ]
[ coughing ] why didn't you just let me die? i've already got enough to answer for. you and me, we both lost what mattered most, but there's more to this world than pain, roy. there's beauty. there's goodness, hope. we can make a future out of that if we try, roy... or anyway, you can. roy, promise me you'll try, roy, please.
promise me you'll try. the photographs are all gone... negatives, too... so i guess that's it. what does that mean? it means i was wrong about the photos. you found your own redemption. it's hope. and you have to come back. the place is dull without you, and all the pictures are out of focus.
maybe i will...someday. there are a few things, though, i have to do first. errands? no... no more errands. wow. i haven't seen you do work like this in a long time. yeah. all the people i've photographed, i need to see them again, you know, talk to them, take some new pictures. it might take a while, but...i'll be back.
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we'll see you next funds dsh "fox news." i'm harris faulkner. it was supposed to be a fun day of family entertainment under the big top. instead, we now know hundreds of spectators, many of them children witnessed an amazing and frightening scene in rhode island. in just a moment we'll share some images and they may be tough to look at. this is just a warning. we know 11 people have been hospitalized. many of them the acrobats. one of them listed in critical condition. now here's that video. it happened quickly, tragedy caught on camera. the acrobats performing as high as 40 feet above the ground,
plummeting, when an aerial platform gave way. one dancer on the ground seriously injured. brian has more from our new york city newsroom. >> nothing of this scale involving this number of performers has ever happened. 11 people were sent to area hospitals, nine with serious injuries. oneperson is in critical condition. it all happened at 11:45 a.m. in providence, rhode island. the curtain drops, the performers all women tumble 40
feet below. it's called the human shan did he leer, where the women are attached to a contraception with their hair. in this performance, the metal frame appears to come free, causing this terrifying fall. the lights in the arena going dark. ringling brothers says this act began in january and is performed 12 to 14 times a week. witnesses report seeing some 35 emergency service personnel being lifted on to gurn nis. at at least one had blood on his face, and another waved to the audience being carried out. the cause of the accident is still officially unknown and an investigation is under way. >> since we were young, many of us have seen these shows over and over and you know they have safety measures so talk about
what those measures were in place for this particular act. >> you are right. when we're used to looking at these acts in circuses, you would think in some cases there's a safety net, but in this particular act, the apparatus itself in which the women had their hair looped into that metal frame apparatus, they were being held on by hair and nothing else. that apparatus was there safety net so in this case the only safety net they had failed them. the circus said peel on the ground that are there to spot. the circus said they inspect the equipment for every show. and they will be reinspecting everything in the coming days. all of their thoughts and prayers on those performers, remember the circus is a tight knit family, live, work, and travel together. so that's it. >> that's an excellent point to make. thank you very much. now we'll move on to
benghazi libya. it appears there may not be a bipartisan effort after all to fully discover the facts surrounding that terror attack that left four americans dead at our u.s. consulate in libya. that's according to congressman adam schiff who is urging his fellow political party members to boycott a select committee on the matter. just hours ago he says it would be aco last sal waste of time. and the7ve back on forth on th sunday got pretty heated. new york congressman peter king said if democrats were to boycott that committee it would be a big mistake. >> if the democrats boycott this committee and refuse to take part, the american people are going to conclude that they have something to hide, that they cannot defend the administration. >> many republicans, including
the house speaker said the obama administration misled american people on the days after the attack. they point to botched talking points claiming the killings were as a result of an anti muslim video. an email released last week indicated the white house helped shape those talking points, whichóác we know are not true. steve, what are republicans hoping to learn from the committee? >> they say the white house was playing politics in the after math of benghazi and they want to find out who was behind as what they see as a deception followed by a coverup. that attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi killed four americans, including the ambassador. the white house portrayed what was a terrorist attack as a
demonstration that got out of hand. >> they were trying to create an impression to the american people that wasn't a broad irforeign policy failure and it was totally disconnected with reality on the ground. they saw benghazi, i think, bob, as a threat to his re-election. they created a political smoke screen. >> and senator kelly ayotte said the truth didn't fit the white house narrative at the time. >> democrats calling this aco last sal waste of time. what are others saying? >> john boehner said this select committee would be bipartisan. democrats say it would make no sense for them to participate. democrats say there's already been enough hearings including the one where former secretary
of state hillary clinton testified. >> i think it's a tremendous red herring and a waste of taxpayer resources, i hope the speaker will reconsider, but it looks like he has bowed again from the farthest right of his conference. >> no matter what happens, of course, benghazi is bound to be a hot political topic in the upcoming mid term elections. >> thank you very much. "fox news" digs in deeper. tune in tonight, benghazi, white house coverup revealed. that's tonight only at 9:00 p.m. prime minister of ukraine says russia is waging a real war against his country. pro russian supporters have stormed a building and set free pro russian activists.
apparently, there's focus on a threat russia made last week to cut off gas supplies to ukraine. >> reporter: the unrest in odessa continued late into the night and it's importance to understand just how quickly the pro russian separatist movement has moved, 500 smiles south -- miles south and west from where it began. today, the separatists stormed the local police station demanding the release of their comrades who have been arrested in that violation and to show you how much power they have, those separatists were released. we heard in the evening that pro ukrainian groups had gathered, possibly, for another showdown on the streets of odessa. the ukrainian government of course blames russia for
beginning this violence, instigating this entire movement. they have tried to take on these pro russian separatists. yesterday they drove personnel carriers into one of their strongholds. today those carriers retreated. ukrainian army really p seems to be outgunned and out manned in this battle in the ten days since they began their operations, the ukrainian military has taken back precisely three buildings from the separatists. meantime, the separatists have gone ahead and gain another to buildings under their control. it is just as bleak when it come to the numbers for the ukrainians. the russian military has some 40,000 troops on the ukrainian border simply waiting the order to invade from president vladimir putin. if push came to shove, military analysts would be only six to ten thousand ukrainian troops
who are combat ready. not a good odds. a special honor for former president george bush. president bush could not be there to accept the award in person but his granddaughter lauren was there on his behalf and said people in washington today should learn a lesson from his policies. >> compromise is a dirt word in washington today because we live in an age of the perpetual campaign. but once we get back to realizing the importance of actual governance, i suspect this too will pass. >> the aim to create the largest -- the award is named for president kennedy's 1957 book "profiles in courage" which tells the stories of eight u.s. senators who took unpopular stands on issues. right now, new video
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spectators were hurt from this. it was immediately canceled. a wrong turn near the mexican border led an american marine veteran into trouble. he's in a mexican jail locked up since april 1st. when he got lost driving in zaig and ended up accidentally in tijuana. don, tell us more about what these congressional efforts at this point. >> well, you know how it's going to take some governmental level effort in a situation like this because these cases are often very sensitive given the relationship with united states and mexico when it comes to situations surrounding guns here, that's why you are seeing congressional members offering support for andrew perisi.
the mvems are taking -- mexico mexicans are taking this very seriously. they have written to kerry kploeg him to help. it is absolutely critical that andrew's release is achieved as soon as possible. he seved his country faithly as a u.s. marine and he is own the same commit by the u.s. government in return. john kerry is now touring in africa. it's unclear when he may be able to tackle this. there's certainly a sense of urgency because of the state that andrew is currently in at the moment. >> what about the conditions that he's being kept in? because i'm reading there some real concerns about his health at this point. >> yeah. he injured himself trying to escape from one part of the prison into another because he was under mortal threat from some of the gang members who are inside there. he cut his neck on razor wire.
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this is the fox report. s it's the bottom of the hour. if you are just joining us, a circus stunt left 11 people badly hurt in rhode island. an aerial platform holding eight acrobats fell on top of a dancer below. one person is in critical condition this hour. we're told the safety equipment somehow malfunctioned. reaction from capitol hill john boehner has a select committee set up to investigate benghazi. democrats say democrats should boycott that select committee. others are saying americans need to know the truth.
here's a sample of what we've been hearing and seeing. >> we have to rebuild their trust. it's a big part of what why i want to be here. we need to say to them we should have done more, and we owe it to the memory of those four people that are fallen and to those that were hurt and wounded. >> what i will say is, again, diversion, subterfuge. benghazi, benghazi, benghazi, why around we talking about something else? what i know is what i've read in the press about the -- those emails were very consistent with what -- what was put out there before. i don't think there's anything new there. >> did you also change attackssg point? >> maybe, i don't remember. >> you don't remember. >> dude, this was like two years ago, we're still talking about a mun day process. we're talking about the process of editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. >> i think it's a collossal
waste of time. the republican conference is to fractured. there's only two things they have agreed on.ak6d obamacare and benghazi. >> it would be terribly arrogant and show they are not taking this issue seriously and most at this they are going to show they are afraid to confront the issues when the public is watching. >> our political insiders are here and you can join the conversation. pat kadel, doug schoen, ed roll ins is in the house, all of our fox news contributors. it is sunday, you know it is. do we need a select committee?
>> i think we probably do to get at the facts and i think that's the key issue. how do we get at the facts? i think this committee with subpoena power is probably a step in the right direction. i say regretly because i think all americans would like to move on. we can't till we learn the facts. >> ed, tell me about this select committee and what happens if in fact it's not bipartisan? is that important? >> i wish the democrats would participate and i would think they would want to participate but at the end of the day, there's been four or five hearings on the hill as the speaker said. the problem is nobody knows what came out of each one of those hearings. it's important for one story to be told and bring those people together, get a document together and we owe it to the ambassador and three other americans who were murder. >> why would democrats like adam schiff tell their members to boycott a committee that is
investigating the night our u.s. embassy was attacked in a foreign country? >> i am for a committee. i look at adam schiff and i remember it's hard to remember watergate. that's how bad our politics have come. the truth is we know we were not told the truth. we don't know what the president was doing that night except he he was not in the situation room. the talking points were a fantasy imposed. my frustration with the press we'll get into this a moment. the republicans have a real challenge. they need to run this. particularly the democrats don't participate, they need to run this and even if they lddo, nos a political show, which is what they normally do, but as a
fact-finding, uncover the facts, 1, 2, 3 and build the case of what we were not told and what really happened that night and what happened afterwards. if they do that, then the democrats don't participate, then the democrats will be hurt. if they don't and republicans put on a political show, people will say there you go. that's what we expect. it behooves them all to act like american leaders instead of a bunch of hacks. secretary kerry has now been subpoenaed by the house oversight committee. the question now is he wasn't on duty at the time, so what can we tell? >> i don't know. i think he owes it to the american people, certainly to the committee -- >> to what? >> to tell everything he does know and everything that's state department might well have that has not yet been disclosed as pat and ed were suggesting. but i tend to agree with the kprems premise of your question, harris which is the bulk of the fact finding will come from the
select committee that has a lot of work to do. >> the bottom line here is if this email had been subpoenaed, all the documents were supposedly subpoenaed had been put forth months ago, we wouldn't be having this discussion. but clearly they hid this document. they decided this do you mean was a political document, and so we want to know what else was out there. in the fog of war sometimes, this was in the fog of a campaign, what didn't get told to the american people and i think secretary kerry owes it to his foreign service, again his ambassador who was killed, we have an obligation to find out the facts and not let this april again. >> you hear some of the democrats coming forward and we know all that we know on this, you are not going to know anything else, this is a collossal waste of time. what kind of impact will this have on the mid term and really the presidential elections?
because hillary clinton instead of kerry was actually on the job that night. >> and was promoting the story about the video. this was the biggest coverup in washington since watergate and sadly some of the things that have not happened, bob woodward and the rest of the national press have taken a walk on this to protect the obama administration, only fox has pursued this and a few other outlets seriously. it will never go away. this argument, there's nothing new. that document was covered up on purpose. it was covered up the president was going to a fund-raiser. i say this about the press, ben rhodes did not work in a vacuum. he worked for tom donlin. he was running the national
security council and i said that's over and over. that's where you are going to do. he was the person designing and running this and anyone who knows him and knows the players just like if you knew the nixon white house and the players you would know and that's the truth we need to get at. >> part of that kind of sound bite timeline that we put together moments ago that we all got to watch, a former white house staffer tommy vietor all bureaucrats do all day long is edit talking points and we've got asz on twitter, if that's what bureaucrats are doing all day long, we have blank too many of them. >> we may have too many of them. that's another discussion for another night. but here's what we do know and pat and ed will certainly weigh in. we've all been in the white house. we've all worked at a high level for democratic and republican presidents and we have all been involved in editing talking points, and when you are involved in a big matter like this, let me assure you remember
what you do, you remember the words you pick, and you remember the process. i don't think i'm interper lating too much to say tommy vietor is not necessarily telling what i believe to be the full truth. >> they made a deliberate decision not to release that document. there are two paragraphs that are basically all politics. the national security council is not supposed to be about politics, it's supposed to be about governing and national security. we spend billions of dollars on intelligence. why didn't we have more intelligence? that's another thing you can get to the bottom of that. peter king who was on your show would be a perfect member to have on this committee. i don't know who the members are going to be. you need someone who knows about intelligence is and why we are not getting your monies worth. >> we at fox have taken some ribbing. now the wider media are starting to ask questions, well you know, fox well maybe they were right
to ask on behalf of the american people and to actually do our job. katie hugh says on twitter dude what planet are you from? >> a long time, my experience in washington was part of the nixon administration, richard nixon didn't conduct the burglary, but he certainly was involved and created a tone and was involved in a cover up. my sense is i'm not blaming the president. but political people in this white house and there's way too many of them basically are always thinking about campaigns and that clear is what they were doing here. >> and this was in the middle of a campaign after all. this was a month, month a half before the election and i think pat is right, the national security advisers, certainly his deputy twoontd insulate the president from blame. they chose that approach rather than being more candid. >> i know it's interesting and i know our viewers know this. when they hear you, doug, say
that, does this make you pessimistic where we are with our washington leaders in general and you sound like you are not too happy with your own party? >> well, i'm not. i speak more and foremost as an american rather than as a partisan. i think that's very important. when you look at the tragedy unfolding slowly but i dare say in eastern ukraine and the problems around the world i think most right-thinking americans worry that our country is suffering, not improving our position in the world. >> something has come up on twitter and i want to share this with people, at top libertarian writes could the political insiders please do on a portion of show lobbying and campaign financing. no one gets it. i want to shift with a couple of minutes that we have to talk about where we are with that issue because it comes from the audience. where are we? >> well, we have spoken a great deal about it. pat will weigh in a second. i think it's very clear that the role of big contributors, the
role of lobbyists is so disproportionate the average american is disenfranchised the system has become rigged and corrupt. >> the truth of the matter is we have way too much money for campaigns today. reagan had $40 million as well as monday dale. the president and romney spent over a billion dollars on each side to run an eight-state campaign. congressional races are gigantic. it's all paid for by lobbyists and the fact we no longer have financial constraints on campaigns. >> the viewer is asking a lot is being made about financing. what do we need to know? >> go back to the first question. we have in washington an atmosphere of both parties in which everyone and irm a poll on
this, americans believe that lying -- government and people in washington lie about everything all the time, big or small and it's endangering our democracy and that's true. so are the lobbyists. 90% of americans believe the rules in this process is rigged against them and it is the point is what we see in the benghazi thing is illustrative of this. no sense of duty to the country and to the truth. i have said since day one this thing will never go away until you get to the bottom of it. four people died and the truth is the american people are being disserved by a political class of both parties who put politics and political ambition ahead of the united states and its safety and the future. that is the bottom line and it's all about money and about power. >> doug. >> oh, pat, is absolutely right. with unregulated super packs, donations bundled by lobbyists and big donor, the ordinary
voter does not have the say or influence that he or she had. it's just a fact. >> ed, i'm curious, everybody has to raise money to run. it's not for free. so i hear democrats pushing against sometimes republicans, like they are the only wawns ones who are doing this. the president is the first one to say i'm not going to taking the finance money. he raised an enormous amount of money. he opened the gates. the court said there are no limits anymore. in a federal campaign, you are allowed $2,600. someone gives $10 million or, they want more than that. they want some access to something. and they want some specific line in that bill. nobody plays at that level without wanting something in return. >> you know what? it's getting worse, not better. >> you don't see this as necessarily a partisan thing. >> no, it isn't. i think the american people are the loser. the political class, democrat
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please. magnus campos says the u.s. needs to worry more about the u.s. and solve our own health care before we start worrying about other country's problems. an interesting perspective. i'll pop some numbers. your response? >> a large percentage of the american people do feel as that tweet from magnus suggested. there is a but though and the but there has not been an assertion of america's role in the world, our values and the enduring importance of our leadership to animate public opinion. >> well, i believe this has been going on for some time in part, when you is a see the way the way bush administration mishandled the war in iraq and then with the ongoing ten-year conflict in afghanistan. americans are naturally tired of this. yet at the same time the foreign policy are very complex and i can't
simply put them in that one question. that same poll showed that 55% of american believe we should assert our values, i believe, rather than the question of negotiating all the time with everyone. americans are concerned to the extent as doug said that someone makes a case. the republican party desserted american policy. this is the first time we've seen a pleurality on this. 47% of americans feel we should become less active. ed roll ins, i'm curious, i'm hearing pointing out the bush administration, what we're looking at red lines that weren't carried out by the current administration. a lot of people are criticizing where the obama administration has maybe not shown us fully what its foreign policy is.
>> historically there's always been a consistency and there isn't one now. we now have a military that basically is almost dispatched from the american society. it's a great military but it's all voluntary. our military is strained and broken. i think basically we're handicapped by our finances. we have a very big shatter fall in our almost trillion dollars a year. we can't be the police everywhere. we can preach and advocate dems accuracy but can't impose it. >> if america had a stronger stand right now with regard to russia, would people feel differently? differently? stay close.
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fox news political insiders are back. if americans were looking at different leadership like different crisis, would that poll which says they would like to see america disengage more be different? >> i'm certain it would. the american people want results. so far they have not seen results in satisfactory, in ukraine, when they don't get results, they say back off. when we had a leader like ronald reagan, he asserted american values and produced results. that's what we need on the internationalen stage. it's what we lack sadly. >> said,". no one is afraid of us anymore. european should be doing these things. not us taking the lead on them. we don't have the allies. >> why not? >> germans are undercutting this. >> we spied on them.
that's problematic. >> we don't want tougher sanctions. putin knows what's going on and basically he's won this battle for the short run. >> interesting because they were talking today about gas and they were having that economic conversation. >> when america doesn't lead, i'm sorry, the europeans will never lead anything. we couldn't get out of a wet paper bag together. if we don't lead, then nothing will happen. in the european allies will all splinter. everyone looks at us, as doug said, both doug and ed said being weak. when you are weak, don't want to follow you. they don't take you seriously and the problem is that makes things more dangerous. look what's happened in libya, which we don't talk about, turn over from gaddafi and is apparently going to become an al qaeda state on top of that in
benghazi. what a disaster. this leading from behind doesn't work. neither does massive intervention everywhere under george bush's policy work either. you have to be strong and discerning with what you do but you cannot be like this administration is and the truth of that is found in the polls which show "the washington post" showed less than a third of americans give a positive rating to obama on handling ukraine. >> gentlemen, you speak your minds and we read this tweets here. we're glad people played along with our discussion tonight. thank you very much. >> by the way, you can continue the conversation with the political insiders on twitter at fnc insiders. they tweet for a while. you never go to bed. by the way, our website every monday morning has them 10:30 a.m., eastern at live@fox news.com. that is going to do it for us on sunday night, may 4th, 2014.
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denial. >> the documents released are explicitly about the broader areas separate from the attack on benghazi. >> dismissal. >> benghazi, benghazi, benghazi, why around we talking with something else. >> spins. >> like so many of the conspiracy theories this one turned out to be bogus. >> we did know early on this was a hostile action. now the house begins a new investigation into the attacks. the fall out on benghazi tonight. >> plus as
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discuss the craziness that happened at the conclusion of brian'sç birthday. it's been written on the blogs. this fine young lady went crazy yesterday. it was a birthday celebration no one will ever forget and we'll tell you all about it. >> i have two things to show, something the crew gave me and something you gave me, which we have to review. the look in your eye at the end of your show is something i still can't get over. i called keith ablow. i said try to make sense of this keith. >> wait until you hear about it. this is really something. we've with been telling you about this terrorist group called boko haram out in afrhsa, how they killed an entire village. in the last couple of weeks they have kidnapped 300 young girls. they're going to sell them into slavery. they burned a bunch of boys. they burned down a village. it's all bad. and now word is because we did not place them on the terror list of officially
known terrorist groups, it is going to be harder to go after them. and who exactly made sure that they were not placed on the terror list? hillary clinton. >> she has enough going on. this can't be added to the list. question as well, can she cover this on twitter? she tweeted this week with the hash tag bring our girls back. >> that brought a lot of attention to this. everyone is lauding her saying isn'tpá great. >> and the rights of women and young girls, those are pillars of what she wanted to accomplish in her time at the state department. but right here what she didn't actually tweet, and perhaps because it was over 140 characters, was the fact that her own state department did not place boko haram on the list of terrorist organizations which would have forbidden authority to increase security to them, increase assistance to nigerian security forces in nigeria and perhaps could have
saved these girls earlier. >> here's the statement. it says there was a concern. and the reason why the state department did not do it, there was a concern thatç putting boko haram on the foreign terrorist list would be in fact, raise its profile, give it greater publicity, help with its recruitment and drive more assistance in its direction. there's all types of theories about how to deal with islamic extremists, which this group is, and they are listed as an al qaeda affiliate. so i don't think giving them additional publicity and credibility might be the number h-p one priority on the surface, especially the f.b.i. called me, the c.i.a. is on my voice mail, all these people are doing it. if you do it and you're in the state department, i feel pretty good i have good backing in washington. >> she did not take that advice. >> mr. carson's explanation on how it would raise their profile notç only with all of us but the bad guys as
well, that is crazy. it is audacious for hillary clinton -- keep in mind, and there are some of the people from that boko haram organization. for hillary clinton now to over the last couple of days to talk about how bad they are, given the fact that she could have done something a couple of years ago and did not and the fact that her big initiative last week was to help women and girls, there is a little hypocrisy going on. >> what is the theory if you continue to say it does not exist it won't be there? this once again proves that is not the case. >>ç we're sending people over there now. it is going to be a lot harder. even china has responded. >> we're sending 20 people over and it sounds like without guns. >> if anyone can, we can. but this is, again, something that was a spark early become full flames now. >> she's got a lot of on
her plate. yesterday she was here in new york city and sat down with robin roberts of abc news, and she was at the ford foundation, and she was asked about that pesky benghazi thing. you know those darned republicans, they keep bringing it up. here's what she had to say about answering all the questions regarding benghazi. listen. >> of course there are a lot ofç reasons why despite all of the hearings, all of the information that's been provided, some choose not to be satisfied and choose to continue to move forward. that's their choice. and i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way, but they get to call the shots in the congress. >> darned republicans. >> so as lindsey graham says if she doesn't want to come and answer the questions, then she shouldn't run for president because there's going to be a lot of people asking the same questions in small towns in new hampshire and
big towns in florida. >> whenç asked why, and provide the explanation for the deaths of, vicious murders of four americans there in benghazi, she didn't want to be there. susan rice was sent with talking points, with a narrativ. that's where you get that quote of saying if she can't handle that, if she can't handle looking at the american people and telling the truth, how dare she consider herself qualified? >> trey gowdy is going to head up the benghazi select committee. he says he is going to call her. he has been receiving death threats as well. he said as long as they're not for my wife, i can handle them, as a former prosecutor. we want to know regarding benghazi, when will you be satisfied? what is it you want to get out of it? is it just for it to be over? is it to finally know about the security lapses or the connection with the whiteç house and it looks like a conspiracy coverup? e-mail us. facebook us. tweet us. >> or is it just that you
want these guys killed or captured. >> the families lost their loved ones that day, at least for them the truth shouldn't be so hard to get. >> heather nauert will be delivering the news. >> i've got a horrible fire to tell you about that police believe was intentionally set. there are new developments on this story. was someone trying to kill a famous tennis player? investigators trying to figure out who set the fire to james blake's house in tampa that left four people dead? and did theyç know that he was not home at the time? that he was renting out his mansion? dramatic 911 calls were released. listen. >> i was walking my dog and the house exploded. oh my god! >> calm down and take a deep breath. >> it is just so horrible. >> police say there were four victims in the house, two parents and their two teenage children. they were brutalized before the fire was set.
this home is in an exclusive area known for its heavy security in the tampa area. we'll keep you posted. new overnight, the country of uruguay is offering to take six gitmo prisoners, but there is a bit of a catch here. the country's president says he will take these terror suspects only ifç washington agrees to let them live free. no response from the white house just yet. the president of uruguay is set to meet with president obama on monday. will lois lerner face prosecution? that's the big question this morning after the former head of the i.r.s. was held in contempt. the vote in the house was 231-187, all republicans voted in favor as well as several democrats. lerner is being held in contempt for refusing to answer questions about the i.r.s. targeting of conservative groups oefrp their proposed tax-exempt status. oklahoma city thunder'sç russell westbrook and m.v.p. kevin durant plan to
wipe out basketball. those were not the only lights going off. just before half time the arena lights went out. 2002 teams playing the final 27 seconds of the half in the dark. finally about halfway through the third quarter the lights went back on. oklahoma wins 112-101. those are your headlines. didn't look like people were too nervous about either. >> that's called panic. >> it was half the stadium. they had to use hand signals instead of electronics to get the plays in. >> they all came out with coal miner hats. >> a little distracting. ten minutes after the hour. let's change gears and talk about something you're quiteç passionate about. that's the state of the v.a. right now. it turns out that if you look at the average that has to get medical care,
about 26 minutes if we walked into the e.r. it's two times longer than that if you are a veteran of service and waiting in a v.a. hospital. >> right. startling information, an accusation that 40 veterans died as a result of waiting in the hospitals. the v.a. department didn't get to them. and those lists thatç were destroyed providing the path to death when it comes to those that have given their life so bravely for this nation. so why is this the case? really it's about a promise that's made. >> 23 veterans throughout the country they say at least have lost their lives waiting for medical care. >> the government is not being forthcoming with statistics on this so "the washington times" took a look. they reviewed eight veterans affairs inspector general reports. it shows the average wait at v.a. e.r.'s can be ten hours. ten hours for the vets to
wait. jim nickolson who used to run veterans affairs says this is awful. >> the real serious term is young americans who we depend on to enlist, men and women who come into our armed services, we have a compact with them that we're going to take care of them if they're hurt while serving urbgs and that's the -- serving us and that's the v.a.'s job, if they become cynical about that they are not going to show up for the rigor we put them through to show up in uniform. >> by the way, the guy who runs it, shinseki, even though the american legion is calling for him to go, also a number of republicans are saying he's got to resign, he says i'm not goingç anywhere. and the white house says we're standing behind him. he's doing a great job. >> jeff miller, who chairs the committee on house affairs says this proves
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it happened in 2011. we show it all the time. it's a prime example of wasteful spending. the group citizens against government waste highlights all kinds of outlandish federal spending inç its annual congressional pig book which is now out. here to take us through this year's porkers is the president of citizens against government waste. we finally for the first time after years of efforts have yielded the booking of a mascot called pig foot. pig foot, wave to your audience. all right. or not. whatever you choose. there you go. tom, let's get to it. pork pick number one, and play along, pig foot, $90 million to upgrade the a1a1 tank. the problem? >> the army wants to wait three years. 2,000 of those tanks sitting in the desert in california unused, and they are susceptible to i.e.d.'s, however we're
still usingç them. they need to modernize the whole tank system, the whole fleet. so they don't want to do anything right now. the congress, where these are being built, wants to keep the money going. >> so who wins? congress? >> well, the members that think the defense department is there just to create jobs feel good about it, but it's not doing anything to improve national security. >> get ready for this pig foot because we have to throw out $2.6 million all part of the denali commission that even obama identified as something that could be cut. >> there are agencies that deep indicate theç work of the denali commission. $2.6 million this year, almost $300 million in earmarks. >> that stayed. pig foot only threw out
about three bucks. symbolism. the last one is the pacific coast recovery salmon fund. it seems to recover salmon is admirable. what's the problem? >> this is money added on by senator patty murray, a member of the appropriations committee. the grouper in florida, lobsters in pha*eup, -- maine, they probably deserve help too. but we don't want them to create new programs to helpç them. just another example of pork. we found more than 109 projects worth $2.7 billion in this year's appropriations bill. >> you have this book out. over the years of having done this, do you see it making a dent on the consciences of those in washington spending the money. >> we have found items, the congress says there are not any. this is way down from the record, $29 billion in earmarks in 2006. the year before we found
14,000 individual earmarks. we're down to just over 100 earmarks worth less than $3ç billion. we're concerned people will keep doing it again. harry reid said the other day let's start earmarking again. we've got to watch them. >> pig foot, i've heard a lot about you but to see you in person is almost a thrill. thank you. tom shatz, good job. go get his book. let me tell you what's straight ahead. speaking of your money, congress can live without a pay raise but there is one thing they cannot live without. having their cars paid for by you. we'll explain. does your mom always tell you not to sit too close to the tv. is that really a health issue? we'll separate mom advice from fact advice with dr. marc siegel. withç mother's day a few days away, he's a brave man.
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we've got headlines for you. colorado lawmakers just approved the first official banking system for pot shots. until now shops could not anksusiness with bigç because marijuana is illegal under federal law. remember? and remember last week when members of congress bragged about blocking their latest pay raise? turns out there was a catch. they removed the amendment that would have blocked their monthly allowance for car payments. bet you didn't know about that. >> because i said so, that's why. did your mom always say that? >> in honor of mother's day this weekend, we are finding out the truth. this is such a dangerous segment. about all the health advice
you remember her doling out while growing up. >> here with mommy myths, dr. marc siegel from our medical a team. good morning to you. >> i know brian's mom and i'm going to speak directly to her. >> the thing about brian's mom right now, she is probably sitting close to the television to watchç brian. when we were growing up, we were told by moms and grandmas don't sit too close to the television. it will screw up your eyes. >> maybe the original tv's from skwrefplt -- general electric caused too much eyestrain. now no. kids that are sitting close to the tv may be showing they need glasses. >> right. that was me. >> pay attention. but the tv is not causing it. >> what about the iphone when i see kids looking like this? >> it is not causing a problem. it can cause eyestrain temporarily. goes away ifç you rest your eyes. >> this one brian wants to be true.
does gum stay in your stomach for seven years if you swallow it? >> that's another myth. it actually gets digested. it's the part that doesn't get absorbed. it's like vegetables. it goes through. it doesn't get absorbed. like celery. it doesn't attach to the stomach walls. you pass it out. >> what about about the gum when you bite on it, it squirts into your mouth? soda will settle your stomach? snacking will ruin your dinner. sugar willç make you hyper. is that a fact? >> soda is bad for your stomach. my mom used to say have a coke, you'll feel better. no. it's acidic. it will aggravate your stomach. sugar bloats you. >> what about the other
one? >> he read them too fast. >> snacking will ruin your dinner. that's true. >> no, it's not true. if you actually have in between like some seeds or some nuts, something to regulate -- >> seeds? >> something to regulate your glucose, a little cereal. something in between. you want to snack on crackers, you want to snack on nuts. fruit isç great to have. fruit is great in between. just don't load up on candy bars. >> sugar makes you hyper? >> i'm calling that a fact. science says i am wrong but i'm positive that's true. there was a study from yale that if you take kids in the morning and give them a lot of sugar it will interfere with their attention span. science, i want you to catch up with mom on this one. >> then you're wrong about the snacking fills you up because it does. >> i'm not wrong about
that. >> time-out. >> the only one that is a fact is that last one. sugar makes you hyper. >> what just happened? i don't even know. >> you read themç all at once. >> don't get over the fact that you just dissed your own study. >> i'm trying to say that mom is sometimes right. if i don't give her one fact here, they're all going to write in. >> dr. marc siegel, thank you very much. >> straight ahead, a chaotic crime scene gets even crazier when this happens. [screaming] >> wait until you hear who is behind the wheel of that car. >> the government needs to tax you more to repair the country's highways. whatç happened to the stimulus? stuart varney says the money is all gone. good morning. all rise. >> happy birthday not to
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always love my mama" has to do with this picture. it is mother's day weekend. they said bring in throw back thursday pictures. this isç the first selfie i did with my son peter. back in the old days when you did a selfie you had to wait to get the pictures back from the drug store to find out if it turned out. >> you get double. >> look at him drooling on my sunglasses. >> oh, that is precious. >> who's that? >> heather nauert. >> mother's day of course is this sunday. i sent in a picture to honor my mother. >> very nice. >> there's maria, i believe, at graduation. >> looks like it could be. >> do we have clarification on that? >> any way, because it is throw back thursday, hash tag tbt, we would love to see your throw back pictures.
we have inç the past given you assignments. send to us whatever you want to. e-mail us at friends@foxnews.com. >> are you saying you gave assignments and they let you down? >> no. we asked for prom pictures, baby pictures. >> we don't want to coach you. later we're going to find out the story behind maria's picture. steve: i want to nope who who -- >> i want to know who those individuals are. >> i'm guessing it was his graduation. i've got news to bring you. it is sad news coming out of houston. there was a real chaotic; @fc @ scene that erupted yesterday at a murder scene in texas. there was a suspected killer's father who plowed his car through a crowd of people. take a look at this. [screaming] >> you can hear the
witnesses, the onlookers and even the journalists screaming as they run for their lives. there were about a hundred people gathered out there as cops were investigating that crime scene. cops arresting that driver after he tried to jump from his moving car. neighbors say he simply snapped after he was taunted by a member of the victim's family. >> the pilot who crashed into a house in colorado walked away. we told you about that story earlier. he actually used to live in thatç house that he crashed into. how bizarre that? 52-year-old brian beach was towing a banner in the sky when the plane lost power and then crashed into that home. the homeowners were not there at the time. certainly a good thing. beach says it wasn't until he ran around to the front of the house that he looked at it and realized he used to live there. it is going to cost you more to ship things with fedex. there will be new prices that will be based on size and not weight. here's the idea. to hit customers who ship all those bulky packages,
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in the universal they took it out. the shark finally got one guy. >> i can't even play sharks in the room. >> welcome back to confessional thursday. heather, thank you very much. 23 minutes before the top of the hour. extreme weather making its way across the country in central kansas. a severe thunderstorm brought powerful winds that were so strong, they threw train cars right off the track. >> that's inç mcpherson, kansas. two people were on board at the time. nobody was hurt. maria molina is out on the streets of new york city where currently it is a little drizzly but p's not the kind of rain we had last night. >> it was pouring last night across parts of the northeast. here in new york city we're going to be dealing with on and off showers not only today but also over the next few days. we have a little bit of a stretch here across the northeast of unsettled weather but across the
plains, that's where we can see possible severe weather. take a look at current temperatures. this is one of the signs that we could be seeing strong to severe storms. in kansas city, you're currently in the 70's. it's very early in the morning. you're in the 60's in chicago. later this afternoon those temperatures are going to continue to warm and we could be seeing severe weather anywhere from texas up intoç minnesota. that area shaded in red across iowa and southern minnesota, that's where the storm predictions think we could see possible long track tornadoes. that is a big concern. if you live in des moines, southern part of minnesota, make sure you have a way to get the warnings today. let's head back inside. >> maria thank you very much. did you know that every time you fill up your gas tank, part of what you pay goes to the government. that's right, 18 cents per gallon is sent to the highway trust fund which is supposed to help build and keep our nation's roads safe and up to date. >> i thought our infrastructureç is falling
apart. we have no financing. except is now the obama administration says these funds are set to run out in august. how can that be? >> what happened to the money we gave during the stimulus? stuart varney has the answers. >> spent it. borrowed more, spent it. we're now out of money by august. we have no more money left to rebuild the nation's infrastructure and highways. >> where did the money go? it obviously didn't go to the highways. >> we don't have a full accounting of whether we got our money's worth. we run out of money come august to rebuild the highways so guess what? what do you think we're going to do?ç borrowing more is an option. >> just raise taxes. >> thank you, steve. >> here's the option. you raise the federal gasoline tax from 18 cents a gallon, you add on 10 to
15 cents per gallon. that's a short-term fix that's what the c.b.o. says you need to give us $18 billion a year for the next ten years. raise taxes. that's interesting because that taxes everybody. everybody who buys a gallon of gas, you pay that tax. this is not tax the rich. this is tax everybody who drives. >> it's people at the lower end of the food chain who hurt the most. you've citedç this in the past, the day that george bush left the white house, i think the price of gasoline a gallon was $1.85. >> that is correct. >> now it is $3.50 a gallon? >> no. the average price now is $3.65 to $3.70. long term there is the option of bringing back tolls on interstate highways. bring back those tolls. we haven't seen that in like 40, 50 years.
bring them back to raise money. or tax drivers for every mile they drive. not every gallon of gas they buy but every mile they drive. >> sending this back to the american people over a mistake. >>ç absolutely. >> people react. are you going to do that? going to drive less? that mean vacation stops are going to be less. people are going to need less tires, less maintenance. everything is link to link to link. they don't see down the road. >> cats and dogs will be living together. the end of the world is nigh. >> you are minimizing my point. >> this is the first time you've quoted "ghost busters." stu varney check him out on fox business today, 11:00. >> coming up, do you want your 14-year-old daughter read[ng porn in school? this dad, he sure doesn't.
>> what are you charging me with? >> disorderly conduct. >> that dad looking out for his daughter was arrested. he joins us next. >> speaking of porn, we have no time to finish that. an e.p.a. worker not fired but rewarded. ♪ ♪
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a father shows up to his school board meeting to express concerns about a risque novel that his daughter who is 14 years old was required to read. watch what happens there. >> what are you charging me with? >> disorderly conduct. >> disorderly conduct.
[inaudible] >> my arm is messed up. my arm is messed up. disorderly conduct. >> joining us now to share his story is that father there in cuffs, williamç bair. good morning. what was your reason for being at that meeting in the first place? >> very simply, the school basically dropped the book on us monday last week, and wednesday we saw some passages in there that were very troubling and they really wouldn't address it. the principal, i wanted to meet with him immediately, and for whatever reason, maybe a scheduling problem, we didn't meet. at that point i realized this was a much more significant issue than just my daughter. i knew at some point we could just not read the book. it's not like they were going to force us technically to read the book, but it was required reading for ninth grade. the story got out and it was all over the papers. and basically what happened
then is i met with the principal monday, this pastç monday, and i asked him about somebody reading the passage so we all know what we're talking about at the school board meeting that was scheduled for this past monday evening. and he didn't want to read it. he said it had to be put in context and all the nuances have to be communicated. i said put it in context, talk about the themes and then read it. finally he, the president at gill ford high school told me in private, he said i don't feel comfortable reading it. my retort was if you don't feel comfortable reading it, why are you requiring my 14-year-old daughter to read it. it is pageç 313 of the book 19 minutes. from my perspective it should not be in the hands of a 14-year-old. if other parents want them to read it, i don't have a problem with this. at the same time i don't need this to be thrust upon my family.
i feel like they violated my family and it continues. >> your daughter is 14 years old. the egg was already out of the shell. it is not as though there was a permission slip that went home. i would have read the material. most parents have a right to do that. i actually couldn't sit here on this program and read it verbatim because it is so explicit, definitely not fit for children, uncomfortable and graphic to say the very least. >> elisabeth, i was going to say that the editor ofç the local paper basically said -- and he's also the mayor of the town, ed engle said in quotation in the lincolnia sun, pretty much no paper in the country could print something like this. the idea that this is not fit to print in a daily paper, but the school board thinks it is appropriate to have this required reading.
even if it were required reading, if that is what the community determined, that's okay. but give us notice. real notice, realç consent. the school, the principal admitted that, he said there was notice in the past and now i find out there was no notice in the past. they said there was notice in 2007 when it was issued and i would like to see that notice because it was probably kind of no-notice notice. >> we hear so much about the need for fathers to step in and what happens when they don't. bill o'reilly has been greatly vocal about the effects of when a dad is not in the picture, how it can lead to devastating results, particularly young women. you as a father step in, you want to say my kid should have the right about reading this. do you feel your first amendment rights were null and void there, completely erase stph-d >> i totally think there is a first amendment isqu and my legal team will be
looking into this. i'm an attorney as well. i was licensed in new jersey for 20 years. there are serious issues here. there is no question this was the quintessential public forum, a school board. and they -- every indication is that two-minute rule was implemented just they don't answer any questions. they refuse to answer questions. there is no accountability. if you meet withç somebody, it is in private. no cameras, no people, no accountability. there's no question there is a first amendment violation here. they compounded it by arresting me for pointing out that it was a first amendment violation. now i'm being prosecuted by the state. i mean, there's violation after violation. rape.
this violation by the state, as far as i'm concerned -- >> i did read that, sir. we're going to stay on this. please let us know what's to come. we wish your daughter well. she's 14. stay with us here. thanks. >> thank you very much. i do a lot oresearch on angie's list before i do any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.
president obama is sending a small team of u.s. military and law enforcement to nigeria to help recover almost 300 kidnapped school girls. the president says it's an opportunity for the world to bring down a terror organization. but judge napolitano says what about that? he joins us live right now. do you thi'k it's a good idea we get involved there? >> i don't think it's good idea that we get involved in nigeria. i don't think it's in our national security interest.
i think it establishes a terrible precedents. i say this with my heart bleeding, figuratively, over what's happened to these young women. now, i don't know if the government of nigeria is behind this, is afraid of these people, or is protecting them. but if we enter nigeria absent an invitation from the government, it's the legal equivalent of an invasion, whether we send the nypd, special ops. the president knows that. i honestly think, one of the rare times i'm going to say, this the president's heart is in the right place, but he has to think twice before he uses american power to solve what is basically a domestic police issue in that country. >> i saw on television yesterday, there are a number of democrat congressmen who are calling for the president to go and doñi whatever it takes, drones, whatever. where does that come from? >> i think it comes from their heart's aching over this situation where these young
women, god only knows what's happened to them, absolutely no equity, no benefit, no argument on the side of the bad guys and alt equity, all the sympathy is on the side of the women. but you have to think of the legal and geopolitical consequences of entering another country without a treaty justifying it, without the law justifying it and against the wishes of the authorities there. it's going to have unintended consequences we don't want to live with. >> it was big news yesterday. lois lerner was found in contempt of congress. we want to talk to you a little bit about the ramification of that. can you stick around? >> of course. >> more with judge napolitano coming up. also straight ahead, we're going to be talking about that and you saw brian's big birthday bash on the show yesterday. there it is right there. so what happened after the show and that cake? oh, my goodness. okay. that's not the crazy part. the crazy part comes later. stick around
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good morning. today is thursday, may 8. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. they are vicious criminals accused of killing off entire villages and the white house wanted them designated as terrorists. but hillary clinton said don't use the t word. now the fallout of that decision ahead. and remember when president obama said this about the irs. >> no mass corruption? >> not even mass corruption. not even a smidgen of corruption. >> tell that to congress, the house. now charging lois lerner with contempt. is jail the next stop for her? and if you think things got heated on our set, wait until you see this. that's why we don't have a desk. what led to the table flipping fight seen around the world on
that tv show. this tv show has a motto and the motto is mornings are better with friends. >> this is bob eubanks from the newlywed game. you're watching fox "friends." whoopie. it's my favorite word. >> that is a good word. whoopie. >> you know what? i don't think lois lerner was saying whoopie yesterday. it was bad news for the administration. bipartisan households her in contempt of congress and they have, in a separate resolution, urged the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor. republicans are hoping this would be a way for her to finally answer their questions about the targeting of conservatives. there were a number of democrats who voted against their own party. so this was bipartisan. >> one of the biggest things to happen is the judge is refusing tother sit-in. >> the judge here to help us with the legal agele and whether
she'll turn up in jail. what also is significant is some democrats say i have a probable with her taking the fifth and not transparent with the irs. >> politically it's significant that the democrats did this. so it doesn't look like it's one party ganging up on her because in reality, what she is accused of doing, accused of doing is abusing authority and tampering with the first amendment. that cuts both ways. nobody can favor that, republican or democrat. it's very complicated where she is legally right now. the house cannot prosecute her. the house can only ask the united states attorney for the district of columbia, a federal appointee, an obama appointee who works for attorney general holder, to prosecute her. >> the irony is that holder is quite familiar with being held in contempt. >> he was held in contempt by the house for the earn ma in which he subpoenaeded to subpoenas over fast and furious. this same u.s. attorney said i'm not going to prosecute my boss, not 'cause he's my boss, but because he has a claim of executive privilege.
he discussed these documents with the president. lois lerner does not have that claim. if she makes it, if she says i discussed that with the president, whole new ball game because you saw what he told bill o'reilly. not a smidge or smidgen. i'm not sure what he used -- of corruption. >> you're saying it would imply there was -- >> coordination between the irs and the president of the united states. her only defense is her statement, i didn't break the law. i followed irs regulation, is not a waiver, a giving up of her right to remain silent. candidly, case law goes both ways. some case law says you invoke your right to remain silence, you can't say anything else. if you say anything else, you've given up the right to remain silence. in other cases, a general denial is a general denial. >> if she didn't break the law, republicans say, she should have testified in fronts of them. what's extraordinary is it all started with an apology. out of nowhere she planted a
question and said i'm sorry about this. >> it's an effort to make herself look good. remember the movies where the mobsters used to read a statement, i'm not going to testify 'cause my lawyer told me i have a right to remain silent? that's what you have to do. you have to be sigh lentz persistently. if you say anything above that, you get yourself in trouble, like she did. i don't know where it's going to go, but my guess is that the u.s. attorney who refused to prosecute his boss will refuse to prosecute her. >> you know with a? darrell issa, who heads up the oversight committee on the house, a republican from california, he tweeted this out yesterday: unless president asserts executive privilege, there is no precedent for the u.s. attorney for dc to do anything but pursue this criminal case. #irstargetsing. >> that's a correct statement of the law. but we're dealing with a very, very, very political department of justice that will find some way to protect its own.
if they prosecute this lady, the statement that the president made to bill o'reilly will be germane to that prosecution. >> this is something that she does, cross party lines. everybody should be concerned about get to get bottom of the truth and admitting, at least giving some information out there. and nancy pelosi missed the boat. she was at a fund-raiser, but there were six democrats who voted for this, voted to hold lois lerner in contempt. >> you have a lot of purple and you have a lot of red states. >> keeping with the colors there. blue dog democrats there basically moderate, centrist democrats who have difficult reelections and don't wants to be perceived as sticking with the party line come november. i don't blame them. part of this is congress' fault. they give the irs a little bit too much leeway to invade
people's lives and scrutinize what they say. >> between benghazi and now the irs, it looks like the white house is on defense. >> i think so. and i don't know that the president can stick with that statement he made to bill. >> all right. judge napolitano, thank you very much. >> pleasure. >> if not, we'll call bill back in and change it. what i meant. >> pleasure. >> look who is over there with the headlines today. hello, mrs. nauert. >> hi, mr. judge. great to see you. i have some news to bring you. some disturbing news. coming out of the state of florida this morning, here is the question that investigatessors are asking: why would someone want to kill a mother, a father and two teenage children in their rented mansion in a ritzy part of tampa, florida? the home was owned by former tennis star james blake, but he wasn't there at the time. he had been renting it out. investigators say there was a fire that was intentionally set and that some sort of accelerant, possibly fireworks, were used. this is the 911 call that's been
released. take a listen. >> i was walking my dog and there was a house exploded. oh, my god! >> take a deep breath. okay? >> it's horrible! >> the four victims tentatively identified as 49-year-old darren campbell, his wife, kim, and their two teenage children, collin and meghan. they were in high school together. police say the victims were brutalized before that fire was set and that home in an exclusive area known for heavy security. we'll keep you posted on developments. the islamic terror group that has been terrorizing nigeria kills once again and this time possibly as many as 300 people in a nigerian village. this as we learn former secretary of state hillary clinton fought to keep the al-qaeda-linked terror group off the state department list of official terror organizations. under clinton, the state department repeatedly refused to go after the group now responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.
we've been telling you a lot about that story. that refusal was despite the urging from the f.b.i., c.i.a., and more than a dozen senators and congressmen. new overnight, the country of uruguay is offering to take some prisoners at gitmo. he says he will take them if washington agrees to let them live free. no response from the white house on this yet. the president of that country is set to meet with our president on monday. what do you think of that? no, this is not an episode of jerry springer. it's just an average day in the life of jordannian television. take a look at this. yeah. that fight was over freedom of the press. the guests traded insults and then started tearing apart that table. the host then had to end the
program. keep it going. those are your headlines. >> felt like that. >> that's unbelievable. >> you know what? actually there was some tension on the set yesterday. it was -- >> on the veranda. >> it was in the after the show show. we had guy fieri on from "diners, drive-ins and dives" and he was presenting brian with a birthday cake. i don't know if you heard about it. out of nowhere, elisabeth decided in the after the show show, you were going to take that cake and destroy it -- >> i don't recall any of that. >> i don't know who was in her ear or what took over her body. >> steve doocy. >> but this woman called in her survivor training and went after me like there was no tomorrow. >> my aim was a little off. >> then as weird as that got with her running down 48th street with this cake, out of nowhere came a stranger and it just got weirder. watch. >> it does have a scent of
licorice. it has a -- >> i can't believe it! look out, people! there's a crazy lady in high heels! look out! >> who is hiding brian? >> oh, my gosh! what happened? >> rock'n'roll! >> so what happened? so elisabeth is running by and that guy just grabs the cake out of her hands and smashes it into his face. >> it wasn't his birthday. >> no, it wasn't. and then he gave you a high five, which could have broken your wrist. >> it was behind the bush. i didn't know what else to do but hi five. when in doubt, give a high five. cake everywhere. >> i went over to the guy afterwards and i said, why did
you do that? he said nobody else had. as it turns out, this guy is a prankster from the opie and anthony show. that is an image off of their instagram where he went on in the studio to describe how he screwed up your birthday. >> right. >> he took your cake. >> right. i didn't even know what was happening. i'm on radio and i see this thing pop up on tv news and all of a sudden chaos broke loose. but the look in your eye, i don't know if someone said if you don't throw this cake at him you're going to be fired. so the speed you have is incredible. >> you gave a push and a jab there and a duck. you got out of it. >> elisabeth is unbelievablably creative. she made me this for my p birthday. the whole family. what's behind? >> this is, because of your 50th birthday, we took page 50 from your book and put the
secret 6 in many places to form a 6. kilmeade goes, why a 6? because the book is number one. it should have been a one. >> yesterday during the show, i get a card from the crew. look at this. this is from the crew who i never met in person. brian, in honor of your birthday, i want to show you a side you don't often see. >> of the crew. >> they showed me the back of their heads. >> our generous side. >> this will be great. i get to hang out with the crew. good job. thanks a lot. i appreciate it. that was creative. >> what a crazy party you had yesterday. >> right. as usual the party gets better when i leave. >> i tried to find you. steve made me do it. >> i did not make you do it. she did look crazy. >> team work here. >> coming up straight ahead. this french economist getting rock star status for preaching about income inequality.
but charlie gasparino says don't listen to them and he's walking down the hall with a saunter and a stare i have not quite seen before. >> and terrorism isn't the only job on his resume. the hook-handed preacher used to run a strip club. >> hard to pick up dollar bills with that. ♪ rea ♪ brings? any questions? can i get an a, steve? yes! three a's! he brings his a-game! the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! ♪
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to hear more of michael's story, visit lyrica.com. a new book on income inequality is sending shock waves around the world. french economist, capital in the 21st century, is being embraced by the left and liberal media is off and oning over his theories. saying the most important of the 21st century. the new yorker saying, you can't afford to ignore it. and the "new york times" calling it, not just important.
it's beautiful. fox business senior correspondent, charles gas free know took a look at it. he says what about this book? >> it ain't beautiful. the last thing you want to say about this book is that it's beautiful. it's 700 pages. it's probable low the most 700 legubruius pages i ever read. karl marx in every other line. basically the world is rigged against the little guy. that income inequality is against the little guy and the only solution is socialist policy. i don't know who will be the irs here or collect the taxes. maybe the u.n. but he wants a global tax on anybody that makes more than $500,000 a year. you get taxed at 80%. >> with that global tax on people making more than half a million dollars, the juicy part
is that he would have the united nations running things. they would be the world cop. >> who would be the irs? it would have to be the united nations. so america, would have to give up its sovereignty to the united nations under this plan. >> government should adopt a global tax on wealth, progressive global tax on capital around 2%, punitive 80% on incomes above half a million dollars. also what's interesting is his call for that 80% tax rate is not to generate tax revenue. it's to level the playing field. are successful are closer, beat down to people at the othernd of the food chain. >> what his general thesis is there is no way for the poor and working class to move up because the rich have the game rigged. all they have to do is not invest in companies. they have to just invest in the
stock market and sort of make money out of the games of the stock market rather than investing in businesses to help grow, because market returns will always outpace the returns of gdp, thus the game is rigged against the people that have to live on the gains and gdp. >> all we have to do is look in our rearview mirror during the eisenhower years and jfk's administration. taxes were around, what, 85, 90% back then. it was jfk himself who said this is crazy. i got to cut them. >> right. >> and did he a little bit. reagan did a much bigger job. >> i'm not for income inequality. but let's be honest here, what he forgets and misses is that people go out and earn their money. bill gates, i don't like his politics, but he created microsoft. warren buffet created berkshire hathaway. the author makes it sound like these rich guys just happened to land -- millions of dollars happened outland in their laps. >> he's a french economist in
france. what is it, 60% of the people of france work for the federal government. socialist government. >> i have family in italy. they're alt -- all on the government dole. if you want that economy, america, read this. the "new york times" calls this beautiful, read the first ten pages and tell me how beautiful this is. you can't get it in new york. >> look at that. >> i tried to get it! >> capitalism. thanks. coming up, it's the first in the world, lawmakers in this country approve the first bank for the weed industry. so looks like the country is going to pot. plus, you know her from the hit tv show "gray's anatomy." but there is a not you don't know about sarah drew, like she's a devout christian. she's coming up next. good morning to you, sarah. good job!
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work. nobody got fired. he did get, however, an award for stellar performance. congratulations. >> wow. you know her from love life on "grey's anatomy." now sarah drew is taking on the stresses and joyce of motherhood in a new movie "moms night out." take a look. >> this is me trying not to have a panic attack. i should be happy that they're making me breakfast. instead, all i see is salmonella. everywhere. on the floor, on the counters, on my children. i'm a salmonella phobe. >> wait, that's my house! that's me! >> all of a sudden it looks like john madden -- sarah drew is here. you're watching the movie and laughing at the same time. >> yes. i relate. i relate. >> how did you get into the mind and heart of every single mom? that's exactly what we see. that's you! >> i e. know.
that is me. i read the script when my son was ten months old. i had just become a mom. i don't think i could have played this role had i not been a new mom because it is such a crazy, chaotic, beautiful, terrifying experience all at the same time. i wouldn't have been able to understand it had i not been there myself. >> the movie looks hilarious. we had your co-star, sean astin on here yesterday. this move yes is never going to make it because first of all, it's not dirty. it's loan. it's got a pro-christian message. how dare you? >> how dare we. i know. we're so offensive. >> so set the scene. you guys are frazzled. as a mom, you feel like you're being shut in, so your husband says, go out. have a good time. we'll handle things here. your husbands. >> yes, yes. so we go out for a night on the town and the husbands stay with the kids. and everything goes wrong. it is one disaster after another. there is a car chase, a biker gang gets involved, people get tased. we wind up in jail.
>> typical night for mom. >> i know, yeah. after waiting and waiting for a night out. this is the one that you get. >> this is our weekend plan. i cannot wait to do this. what's exciting is it just relates, there's a strong call to see it because of that. so many moms see it with the salmonella drawing. there was an article in glamour, i believe you talked about relationship. you say sometimes -- correct me if i am wrong -- feeling hopeless doesn't mean your situation is hopeless. you talk about a relationship hiccup that you had. >> yeah. my husband and i had a really dark time in our marriage and we realized that we really needed help. and it was the moment that we realized wed intoed help was a moments when i called my dad and i was like, i feel completely hopeless. >> your father is a pastor? >> my dad is a pastor. i always turn o him when i'm feeling at my wit has end and i
need some wisdom and guidance. he's like, honey, i'm so sorry. my heart is breaking for you. but just because you feel hopeless doesn't mean the situation is hopeless. i believe that there is a way out of this and after several months of therapy, it's just so great! it's like the healing happened and then we came out on the other side so much more in love and so much better friends. such an incredible gift. >> talking can do a lot. >> yeah. >> did you meet your husband before you had all this success? >> yes. i am so thankful that i met my husband when i did. i was so young. i was 18 and it was before anything had happened in my career and he has been my rock. my rock and the person who brings my feet back down to the ground whether i get all caught up in the crazy hollywoodness of everything. so i'm so grateful for him. he loves me for who i am at my core. not for anything that i've done out in the world.
>> you've done so much, though, in addition to this movie that opens tomorrow with the pro-family message, you're in "grey's anatomy," got the big finale coming up. what's interesting is you were telling us during the commercial that when your husband, because you've got a solid relationship now -- when your husband really wants to make an important point to you, he writes you a letter. >> he does. he does. my husband pursued me through handwritten letters. we met at a camp together. >> in the beginning. >> in the beginning when we were young. it was like in a letter, he asked for my e-mail address. in an e-mail, he asked for my phone number. on a phone call, he asked to come visit me. he was very careful and very gracious and respectful of me the whole way through. >> he's a keeper. >> he's a keeper. >> he has his own christian mingle. >> mingle of one. >> thanks for sharing that story with us. >> yeah. >> good luck with the movie. it's going to be a big hit. >> thank you.
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♪ ♪ it's throwback thursday. in honor of mother's day, this sunday, we've got a few pictures for you. guess who this is, everybody. that's my mom. i love you, mom. >> i can see your face in that. >> oh, yeah. absolutely. >> my bleached hair starts growing out, i get to her hair color. >> did you just say you bleached your hair? >> yeah, i do. >> on tv-like of you. also stephanie sent us on twitter, sent a side by side pic of her and her son doug on graduation day from ohio state in both 1993 and 2014. >> congratulations. >> her graduation ends this graduation. >> this is richard on twitter. this is a pic with his mom with
a mackerel she caught off of cape cod. >> holy mackerel! >> david sends in a picture of his mom holding him in the backyard in 1967. >> in miami. >> i assume he's now off the bottle. >> don't be so sure. >> keep those coming. we love those. mom, send in your pictures, too. you can brag. >> if you can figure out how the whole computer thing works. sometimes i have a problem. i love throwback thursday. i love it. earlier in the telecast we saw heather nauert's picture. >> there is my mom right there when i was a little kid. i got a little hard turn to make here because we've got a story about the hook-handed terror preacher on trial here in new york for terrorism. he's taking the stand for the first time in his trial. he reveals -- this is
fascinating -- that before becoming that hate preacher, he ran a strip club. he's a((uáq" of organizing a terror training camp in oregon and als supporting the taliban and al-qaeda. he faces life in prison if convicted. he also claims he had worked for mi 5. chaos erupts outside of a murder scene in texas when a suspected killer's father plows his car through a crowd of more than 100 people. look at this. a whole lot of witnesses out there. even journalists and a lot of folks there running and screaming for their lives. cops availably arrested the driver as he tried to jump from the moving car. neighbors say that he snapped after he was taunted by a member of the victim's family. we'll keep you posted on the update. the country is the first ever banking system for pot shops has now been approved by
colorado state lawmakers. until now, most of the businesses were cash only because banks rejected basic services to those companies because pot is still considered illegal under federal law. and speak of drugs, toronto crack's smoking mayor rob ford is apparently having a great time in rehab. in a new interview he says, quote, rehab is amazing. it reminds me of football camp. okay. let me keep going here. he says it's kind of like washington redskins camp he went to as a kid. what? poor thing. he checked into rehab a week after a new picture surfaced of him smoke crack in his sister's basement. you can't make this up. those are your headlines. >> you can't. is rob ford at betty ford? >> i don't know where he is. >> it doesn't sound like people who everged from betty ford are healed. >> thank you very much.
>> maria, you are standing by outside to give us a peek of what's going on weather wise. >> good morning. it is still raining here in new york city and surrounding areas in the nor east. we are going to have a couple of unsettled days here across the region. it's going to be cloudy, couple of showers will be possible here and there as we head into this weekend. i want to take you farther west. look at some of these current temperatures. this is a sign of things tocome. early this morning you're already in the 70s in kansas city and in dallas. and there is a potential for severe weather, from texas up into wisconsin and minnesota, and one of the elements of severe weather is hail. take a look at this video out of colorado, large hail that came down yesterday. that was the story as well across other parts of the plains states. hail coming down, multiple reports of tornadoes as well across colorado and unfortunately, that risk is in place yet again today. the storm prediction center has issue add moderate risk across iowa and southern minute machine where we have the potential for
tornadoes. by friday, the risk spreads from arkansas to indiana. have a we to get those warnings coming up today. let's head over to you, brian. >> let me tell you about sports. another case of thunder causing a blackout. russell westbrook, who is good and kevin durant playing lights out basketball. the pair combined for 63 points. here is the bigger story against the clippers, there was a problem with the lights. they went out. during a timeout just before half time, a power surge caused the lights to dim of the they are playing for the final 27 seconds of the half in the dark. oklahoma city was put on. best play of the day, not even the player that's on the field. watch this. it's a met game. >> look at this. beautiful. >> the miami marlins' ball boy making an incredible diving catch over the wall to snag a foul ball against the mets.
the marlins won 1-0. no word if this guy's got a contract yet or how much he's being paid. i'd double his salary. have you seen this video? a soccer match in bolivia. plenty of game out of their own. unfortunately for one of the dogs, an angry player didn't enjoy their romp. he will snatch the animal and tries to get it off the field. a ball boy, again, comes to the rescue. a bolivian ball boy at that, saving the dog and the game. great day for ball boys everywhere. time to celebrate. >> he wants to win the game. >> that's all. you can't use your hands in soccer. >> coming up on radio between 9 and noon, we'll have senator chuck grassley talk about the hands off rule. chris wallace who seems nice, i've never talked to him in person. and so many other great surprises. >> i bet that is the case. coming up here, college
professor says his own university is breaking the law by basing college admissions on race. he joins us with the shocking proof next. congress wants to cut the budget. just don't touch their car allowances. they have car allowances? we'll explain. >> rob ford says he likes rehab because it reminds me of a football camp he went to as a kid. his parents said, that was also rehab. ♪
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a pay raise. bad news, they couldn't part with their monthly allowance covering their lease on their cars. the cost to taxpayers? nearly a half million dollars a year. and it's going to cost you more to ship bulky things with fed-ex. from 10.07 to 13.81. you might want to get your own toilet paper. elisabeth? >> thanks, brian. this college professor says his own university is breaking the law by basing college admissions on race instead of merit. that's illegal in california and the supreme court just ruled laws like that are okay. that ucla professor has proof and is putting it in a book. he joins us now. good morning, sir. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> so what exactly did you find six years ago and why are you bringing this to the fronts again now? >> let's see. probably eight years ago is when it all began, 2006. i was on the faculty oversight
committee for admissions at ucla. during that year, there was a significant drop in african-american admissions, like 20%. ucla implemented a new system which is called the wholistic system. then after implementing that system, african-americans admissions skyrocketed. almost doubled that year. and meanwhile, at the same time, they were touting the system, the reason it would increase african-american admissions, because it takes account of their socioeconomic disadvantages. but the strange thing i noticed, i was getting data 'cause i was on the committee, was that the other socioeconomically disadvantaged groups like latinos and vietnamese, which may be more socioeconomically disadvantaged among the applicants at ucla, their admission rates dropped. so something weird was going on. i asked for data from the admissions staff. they refused and in 2008, i resigned in protest from that
committee. >> so it was a denial of those in your findings that you thought was completely wrong. so you actually say here that the controversy surrounds this idea, that approximately 20% of the african-americans that ucla admitted would not have been admitted if it weren't for the racial differences? >> that's right. >> how can you prove that? >> well, one, when i resigned, ucla decided oh, we need to deflect attention from this professor resigning. so they did the equivalent of a blue ribbon commission. they hired a sociology professor at ucla and four years later, they released his study and this person did an honest job. if you look at the statistical analysis in his study, it shows that. now, he concludes that about 33% of the african-americans admitted would not have been admitted if it weren't for the racial preferences.
he also finds that asian americans were discriminated against. that if it weren't for the discrimination, 9% would -- their numbers would have been 9% higher. >> where is the pressure coming from, if this is indeed the case? >> you know, a lot of it is interest groups. just before the wholistic system was implemented, there was a big protest there, 2 to 300 students occupied the hallway outside the chancellor's office. i think it's also coming from the legislature. i hear rumors about that, we're going to decrease the uc budget if you don't increase diversity. the regents of the university, i have a quote in my book from the provost from the second command of the entire system said that yes, lots of regents are saying they're going to fire chancellors if they don't increase diversity. >> wow. we do have a quote from the ucla chancellor from a faculty meeting. several constituents cities of -- constituencies are
distressed. there is pressure on the numbers of underrepresented minors on campus are too small. so that was from 2008. highlighting their -- >> that was 2006. just before we implemented the wholistic system, chancellor abrams came to my committee and i don't know if you call it pressuring, but definitely lobbied our committee to change the system to a wholistic system. i might say after i resigned, the head lawyer for ucla denied what i said. i said that ucla implemented the wholistic system to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities. everyone at that meeting was agreeing with that, including the chancellor. then after i said it in public, the head lawyer denied that. one thing i found with this, it's something like the little boy who says the king has no clothes. everyone knows the truth, but no one will say it.
it's so strange. i feel like almost that the only person who will admit these things. >> wow. it is definitely hot button issue there. we thank you for joining us this morning and we'll stay on this as well. thank you, tim. >> thank you, elisabeth. coming up, did stossel invent facebook? the story of capitalism that you need to hear. but first on this day in history in 1963, sean connery starred in his first bond move yes "dr. no." in 2010, betty white is 88 years old, became the oldest "saturday night live" host. in 1977, "hotel california" by the eagles was the number within song. ♪ ♪ so's his serve, and his mandarin [speaking mandarin] xieúxieú, hou chiú but like up to 90% of americans, jim falls short in getting important nutrients from food alone.
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the left is lashing out at capitalism, claiming the system is rigged against the american dream. the american dream is dead. >> it's tough out there. it really is a rigged game. and it's set up now over and over -- >> it's probably always been. >> well. not like this. it's set up over and over and over that the rich get richer and the powerful get more powerful. they've got all the advantages of concentrated money and concentrated power. >> should i mention they're both rich talking to each other? two millionaires talk being how bad it is for the rich who are rich. john stossel says not so fast. he joins us right now to talk about this. is it really a rigged game, john >> it all has been to some extents. the rich have connections. they can now in america, you can get out of the government school monopoly and get a good education. we still are mobility in
america. most of the rich go down in the income. their kids do and most of the poor are up a quinntile. so it's not like you're locked in this position and this idea -- what they're selling is it's hopeless. government must take care of us. that's just wrong. >> it's just you inherits the money as if there are five families running the entire country. what is the exchange bar? talk about that. >> well, on tonight's show, we look at all the people who created new things and made it. exchange bar and grill is -- most restaurants fail. it's amazing that people dare start them. this place has -- puts the drinks, as you see, up on the wall and the more people buy them, like the stock market, the price goes up. the fewer people buy them, it goes down. it's gimmick, but it's working and they're doing well. >> it shows creativity and shows a fun factor which is judge people go out. you talk about people run their own businesses. yeah, they have stress of
insurance and payroll. you say studies show they're happier. >> the people who are happiest in life are people running ther own business. though they do -- odds are, p won't work. wonderful america, you can try and try again. they work longer hours. but they're happier. >> now, you said you started your own facebook, your own v of facebook? >> i started facebook, darn it! i was in college at a guy's school and i got a trip to these girls schools. i got the freshman pictures of all the girls. we published them in the book. but the internet hadn't been invented yet. >> you were ahead of your time. i saw the studythat says entrepreneurship in our country is at a 30-year low. there is less entrepreneurship in our country right now than any time since the '70s. >> i would like -- okay. since the 1970s maybe. i would like to see that study. look what we got. instagram, lift, uber, 3d printing, fracking, wonderful things are being invented all the time. >> fracking my idea.
but again, we didn't have the drill. john, tell me when we can watch you tonight? >> 9:00 o'clock. we'll talk about the beauty of starting your own business. >> and it's beautiful to see you. thanks so much. coming up next hour, you're not going to believe it
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>> how happy does that fish look? how can you tell the fish is happy? >> i asked it. mornings are better with friends. >> hear ye, hear ye! this the town cryer. you are watching "fox & friends"! >> mornings are better with salmon. >> salmon. >> welcome aboard. last hour was kind of dull because elisabeth did not come after you with a pastry. >> i know. unbelievable. >> happy birthday day after for you. >> i was just thinking about that. steve is so sick of my birthday. he had to go to my party on long island. then take phone calls yesterday. >> i had to talk to my friend todd yesterday. >> then you have to go over
elisabeth attacking me with a cake. >> it was actually steve has idea. >> stop it. it was not. anyway, happy day after birthday. >> now let's talk about what's happening in the world. >> look at the cover of the new york post today. you've got the first lady, michelle obama, holding this up in the white house that says #bringbackourgirls. what she's talking about is the group boko haram, they're the people who kidnapped 300 young girls over in nigeria. >> islamic extremists. >> right. this terror group is. and what it sounds like they're going to sell them into slavery for as little as $12. extraordinarily, michelle obama is talking about bringing them back. last week hillary clinton was talking about bringing them back, and yet it turns out hillary clinton had a chance to do something to crack down on this group and simply did not. >> that's right. against requests from f.b.i., c.i.a., a dozen senators and congressmen, she did not put them on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011.
perhaps because it didn't fit with the narrative, some would assert, that al-qaeda was dead, they were on the run. we had nothing to worry about. and they didn't want to ruffle any feathers there. this is johnny carson, his defense of why that never occurred. he said this. >> he said there was a concern that putting boko haram on the foreign terrorist list raises profile, giving greater publicity and greater credibility, help in its recruitment and drive more assistan in its direction. if you were that concerned about that, why did you put hamas on that, hezbollah on that? al-qaeda? if that was a legitimate concern, did you not care they were getting stronger and additional funding? why what is wrong with call ago terror group a terror group? then you find out where the money is going, then you have additional veins of terror to scoop up and take out. >> sure. but to elisabeth's point, remember before the election it was all about yeah, bin laden is dead, al-qaeda is on its heels.
they're on the run. but then if you talk about these terror groups and this is another one of those islamic extremist groups, makes the president's reelection look bad. of course, then there is the whole thing about benghazi. it happened seven weeks before the election against mitt romney. and we now know all -- well, we've got a lot of questions. we don't have many answers. that's why there will be this select committee. trey gowdy who will head it up mentioned yesterday he will call hillary clinton as a witness because she was running the department. she would know a lot about it. >> he was quoted as saying this is not a tea party. i'm not inviting her to a cocktail party. when i subpoena her, i expect her to be there. last night with megyn kelly with his quote. hillary sitting down with robin roberts at abc, again, dismissing those that want answers too easily. take listen. >> of course, there are a lot of
reasons why despite all of the hearings, all of the information that's been provided, some choose not to be satisfied and choose to continue to move forward. that's their choice and i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way, but they get to call the shots in the congress. >> people say this is out of balance. i don't know how anyone can have a problem of examineing hillary clinton's record. when you look at should we have a reis the with russia, that was hers. she misspelled it. that didn't work out. now you look at the situation with the terror group, i had no idea about this. no one is denying this. this is all part of the report card that matters. james writes to us on facebook and says, i want to know why the ambassador was at such a poorly defended embassy, who refused to send troops when attacks started and who start the satisfied. the question is what, do you
need to know yet from benghazi out of this special counsel? >> perhaps omission will be the next hash tag, omission of detailstails and truth. someone says, when the truth comes out and someone pays for what what they did to these men, that's she'll be satisfied. >> when robin roberts asked about benghazi, hillary clinton didn't ask what difference does it make. >> she tried that once. >> i think when it comes to those of the families killed, they're not choosing to be concerned. they deserve those answers. continue to send your responses in. >> right. there are people on the left who say it's a phony scandal. if it's a phony scandal, then they won't find anything, so calm down. >> let's see if they'll participate. that will be the big question. heather nauert is participating in news. >> we've got new developments out of florida. a horrific fire and it has a whole community in mourning today. it was a deadly fire that took place at tennis star james
blake's mansion. cops in tampa are saying this fire was sets on purpose and that explosions were heard inside that house and they possibly resulted from ammunition or from fireworks. the victims, the mother, a father and two teenage children. this is the dramatic 911 calls are released. take a listen to this. >> i'm walk my dog and the house ex plodded! oh, my god! >> calm down and take a deep breath. okay? >> it's horrible! >> this happening in the early morning hours. now our fox affiliate is identifying the four victims as 49-year-old darren campbell, his wife, kim, and their two teenage children, coolen and meghan. he was a senior in high school and she was a freshman. that home is in an exclusive area that's known for its heavy security. we'll keep you posted on these details. in the meantime, listen to this story. this coming in overnight. uruguay offering a to take six
prisoners from gitmo, but there is just a little catch here. the country's president says that he will take those terror suspects from gitmo if washington agrees to let them live free. what do you think of that? no response yet from the white house. the president of uruguay is set to meet with president obama on monday. will lois lerner face prosecution? that is a big question this morning after the former head of the irs was held in contempt. the vote in the house was 231-187. all republicans and several democrats voted in favor of it. she's being held in contempt for refusing to answer questions about the irs targeting of conservative groups over their attempts to get tax exempt status. we all remember this, the half million dollars government -- taxpayer funded actually, shrimp on a treadmill experiment in 2011. the newest congressional pig book is out and highlights all that outlandish federal spending like that. it now includes this year,
15 million being spent on pacific coastal salmon recovery fund. whatever this is. or there is this, $90 million in upgrade an army tank. listen to this. >> the army doesn't want the upgrade. they want to wait three years, save $3 billion. 2,000 of those tanks sitting in the desert in california being unused. they need to modernize the whole tank system, the whole fleet. so they don't want to do anything right now. the congress, where these are being billed, wants to keep money going. >> and we've got the pig right there. okay. another example of wasteful spending -- brian, not you. the pig mascot. >> thank you. $2.6 million for the commission which the president has said could be cut. whatever that is. but there is a whole lot of stuff that we are paying for. lot of people not so happy about. >> right. do you want to walk that clip over the daley show or do you want know?
do we make it that easy. the editor is like okay done. i can take lunch now. i was focusing on the waste. not on the pig. by the way, was cross eyed for some reason. when you have a mascot, at least make him look straight ahead. am i correct? >> didn't notice. >> the pig reps are calling in. let's move on from that to this. when you go to the emergency room, you need to see a doctor fast. people go to the emergency room because it's an emergency. as it turns out -- remember over the last couple weeks we've been telling you thousand looks like, according to an investigation, at least 40 veterans died waiting for care at that hospital, the v.a. hospital in phoenix. now according to research, it looks like the average vet waits twice as long than a civilian at a v.a. hospital to get emergency care. also according to the washington times, what they've done is they have looked at some of the inspector general reports for
the v.a. and it shows the average wait times at v.a. e.r.s can be up to ten hours. keep in mind, it's an emergency and they've got to wait ten hours. >> really just to think about why those in an instant would defend the lives of others can't have their lives protected medically whether they return here. when you hear what the former secretary of veteran affairs said about the long scope here what, this means in termination of the promise that we make to our military men and women, it will just get in your heart. >> real serious repercussion of that i think long-term is that the young americans who we deny depend on to -- pen on to enlist, we have a compact with them that we're going to take care of them if they're hurt while serving us. that's the v.a.'s job. if they become cynical about that, we're not going to have people show up and volunteer for the kind of rigor that we put
them through, the service in uniform. >> they say an estimated 23 veterans lost their lives because of this. our chairman in the house, jeff miller, says this has got to change. wed into an overhaul. he's got to start the change, demand the overhaul. stop talk being it! >> there are a number of organizations that are calling for the resignation of the guy who runs the v.a. and that's general shenseki. the white house says, he's doing a great job. and there you got him right there. he says he's not going anywhere. so it's this kind of leadership -- he says he wants to get to the bottom of it and i hope he does. but at the same time, it's like is nobody ever being held accountable by this government? >> he might be a great general, but he might not be great at management. he's probably in the wrong job. >> how long does he have to wait for an emergency? >> not long, i'm sure. >> why are our veterans putsing their lives on the line here? >> it's a dozen minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, a chaotic scene got crazier when out of nowhere,
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>> with the perfect movie season right around the corner, how do you make sure you're getsing the best deal for your money? joining me is fox news legal analyst and real estate guru, bob massi. good morning, bob. >> that's an ad that says purchase right there, isn't it? >> that will make us all feel better about the rest. when you're buying a home for the very first time or not, what should be on your brain right there? >> i have to tell you that this is not easy for any of us to do because you're caught up in the emotion of buying, but you literally have to switch your hat as to prospective seller saying the home that i'm buying, as much as i love it, what is the potential resystem value do you know the -- resale value down the road? when you're buying the home, you're excitessed, particularly first-time buyer, it fits everything. but you say to yourself, if you can, okay. i'm going to live here x amount of years, i hope. is it in the right place? will it have good resell value?
will it appreciate? the second thing that happens when you buy home, no matter what anybody owns a home we know, you're never done with the home, ever. >> no. >> are you making modifications that takes away the value of a resale? for example, someone may take their garage and convert it to a workout room. somebody may take part of an attic and put a closet in because their kids are growing up and they don't have enough space. those things that you do to your home when you're in it could take away the marketability of selling a home down the road. just keep that in mind. >> okay. so the mindset of being a seller when you're the buyer is probably really important. so look down the road. what about if the home needs repairs? how do you make sure that you're getsing the money back in the transaction, not left with a bunch of bills once you close? >> this is where a competent real estate broker or real estate attorney, if they're involved in the transaction, because you build contingencies into that offer that you make on that home. for example, if you do your walk-through and you find that
there is this wrong, this wrong, that wrong, this wrong, what do you is you put contingencies saying to the seller, listen, we want these things repaired before the close of escrow. but if they don't get repaired, we will retain a certain amounts of money after the close of escrow and you have 30 days to get it repaired, for example. if you don't repair it, we get to keep that money to fix those things. you got to make sure you get an estimate as to what needs to be fixed as a result of the walk-through so that you find out exactly what your damage could be. writing up this deal, you must think through the deal. you've got to think on the other side of the deal in order to protect yourself. that's why you need proper real estate broker agent that's competent in the area of buying a home. >> okay. then deal chasing, we want to address that briefly before we go 'cause it's important. >> well, i have a saying, a pig swallows and a hog chokes. the bottom line is, i cannot
tell you how many times i've seen good deals go by because people are so greedy, they want o grind everybody down so much that they literally blow the deal. let the next person make a little bit of money on your deal. buy it if you like it, if it's in the right place. don't worry that somebody in four, five, six years may make money. that's okay, too. >> you are the guru there. great advice. you want everybody to write in. we'll see you soon. >> thank you. coming up, mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the least transparent of them all? wait until you hear who is the best at misleading you. then, are washington politics really as cut throat as "house of cards"? could they be based on true stories? kevin mccarthy put that question straight to kevin spacey and his answer just might surprise you. ♪ ♪
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time for news by the numbers. zero. that's the score liberal bill flair george soros think tank ranks in transparency. ironically the story is funded by soros himself. i'm so confused. next $150. that's how much the supposedly cash-strapped defense department is spending per gallon on a special green fuel they have to use. it's made out of algae. it's 64 times more money than regular jet fuel, which i believe we use for jets. finally, 14. that's the number of stories networks abc, cbs and nbc combined aired on the irs targeting scandal in the ten months following the first wave of coverage. they aired more than 130 stories
in the first seven weeks. switching gears, the king of all monster movies is back. >> we are talking about "godzilla." >> because what's really happening is that you're hiding something out there! it is going to send us back to the stone age! >> the most terrifying force of nature returning to the big screen next week, but we're getting an inside scoop this week with fox news contributor and founder of nerdtears.com, kevin mccarthy. >> great to be in studio with you. before i get to that, i have to give you a birthday present. you've never seen "terminator 2". >> birthday month continues. >> how have you never seen that? it will be delivered to your house on saturday. >> wow. this is fantastic.
>> delivered by drone. >> it's a little scarey. >> i've seen the expendables. but go ahead. >> how is "godzilla." >> it opens next friday, i'll have my official review. i am the biggest "breaking bad" fan on the planet. i walk in, he plays heisenberg. check it out. >> it would be mind over matter, right? so he is this massive, takes up a lot of room and massive destruction and very careless, whereas heisenberg is methodical and he will find some little -- he'll find the weakness of
godzilla and exploit it. god. >> ill la versus waltzer white? waltzer white would win. >> i think -- maybe that could be the sequel. maybe he could be walter white, godzilla. i would pay to see that. this summer, only this summer. heisenberg, one man, one monster. >> he played that character on "breaking bad." he won three emmys for that character on the show. >> can you tell we haven't watched that show? >> i thought i watched the beginning of a new buddy movie. are you going to fight crime together? >> i saw him on broadway. he's incredible on broadway. the movie opens up next friday, i'll have the full review for in a next friday morning. >> what about kevin spacey "house of cards"? >> kevin spacey plays frank underwood. he based that clark off richard iii from shakespeare, which is
incredible. >> was he the house minority leader? this show obviously has two seasons. it's available on netflix, incredible show. he plays an incredible character. i wanted to know when you play character like this and visit washington, d.c., does it change the way you view dc? this is what he said. >> i find it amusing that lots of people in washington embraced the character and the series. i find it interesting that they say it's not like this. they say it's cynical and of course it's a fictional version of our esteemed members of congress. it's a little bit disappointing to see that we send people to washington and they don't do their jobs. it's frustrating to see. that's why i think maybe the show has become so successful because for an american audience, it's amazing to watch a congress that gets things done. >> yeah. so he's talking about now that movie in the background with the poster is a documentary about a apply he did playing richard
iii. he traveled around 200 perform ances. that interview is 13 minutes long. i'll tweet out the full version. he said the one movie that he'd like it bring to the stage is "l.a. confidential." >> as long as they don't sing. >> exactly. >> just act. >> and t 2 will be at your house on saturday. you got to send may text and let me know what you think about it. >> someone else will raise my children and i'll watch the movie. >> he'll text and we'll tweet. >> thank you so much. coming up straight ahead, it's already a crime scene, then happens. wait until you hear who was behind the wheel of that car. >> plus, the moment a great white mistakes a boat for a chew toy right here. >> delicious.
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welcome back. the labor department releasing brand-new weekly jobless numbers. nicole petallides live from the floor of the new york stock exchange with those numbers. good morning there. >> good morning. we got in our weekly jobless claims. what we saw was that jobless claims were down 26,000 to 319,000. so that versus the estimates of 325,000 claims. so that's slightly good news, fewer claims is always good news. u.s. stock index futures are pointing to a flat open at the moment, but boy, have we had action on wall street this week. social media, for everybody who loves social media, it's been a momentum group, in some cases
they're flying up 20, and 30 and 40% over the last year. however, this week has been tough. we saw groupon down 24%. twitter down 21%. these are week to date numbers. als linkedin hit a new low. this group has been hit hard. you can put aol in that category as well. >> so twitter tanks. something big on twitter today because it's thursday. they do this #tbt, throwback thursday. here is a picture of me. that is elisabeth. that's brian. now, ladies and gentlemen, for throwback thursday, nicole, there is you and your mom. >> yeah, right! for mother's day, happy mother's day, everybody. my mom, she was born on cyprus. greatest, most wonderful mom in the whole world. >> why are you all dressed up there? where are you going? >> we went to a wedding. he ran for mayor of new york. we were on our way in to the church there for the wedding. by the way, she married
christopher nixon cox, the grandson of president nixon. >> that's right. >> so it was a nice wedding. >> thank you very much for sharing that with us. >> love that pictures. >> thanks, guys. green mountain coffee roaster. that will be a winner today. >> thanks for that. >> we'll brew on that for a while. >> we're enjoy ago cup of coffee. these pictures you guys have been sending in. this is lohry patterson with her sons. both are serving in the u.s. air force. she writes zach is on his way home from the sand box. what a great mother's day gift. >> all grown up. >> tracy says with her mom there in a photo in 1968, newport richie, florida, where my curve lives. >> remember those photos out of the photo booth? it usually came with four different edges? that's just one of them. >> remember that? >> i like that moment.
>> i went to the little lady dance, my daughter chose me. >> the little lady dance? >> that's what they call it. if i have any more pictures of 4ñbacklashing.l start they give you costumes now. will give you costumes to make you look like 1920s. >> what was your era? >> the line was too long. we didn't go up. >> wait. you take your daughter to the little lady dance, she's all excited about wearing a costume and you say, sorry, mondayy, the wait will be too long. are you kidding me? >> let's go to heather nauert. >> you didn't put on a costume? >> the line was wrapped around the place. >> are you kidding? that's the whole event! years ago she'll say i remember. >> normal or nuts? >> heather will talk about those. >> i got some news to bring you. i want to bring a story out of texas. look at this chaos outside a
murder scene in houston when a suspected killer's father plows his car right through a big crowd of people. look at this. boy. you can sure they're as witnesses crime as they try to get out of the way of that car. cops arresting the driver as he attempts to jump out of his car. witnesses say that he snapped after he was taunted by a member of the victim's family. we'll keep you posted if anything new comes of that. remember the pilot who crashed his plane into a house in colorado and then walked away? he used to live in that very same house. 52-year-old brian beach, he was towing a banner from his plane when the plane lost power and then crashed that plane into the home below. he says it wasn't until he crawled out of his plane and then ran around the front of the house that he realized it was the very same house where he
used to live. and these guys are going to need a bigger boat. okay. take a look at that. that is a great white shark as it goes after an inflatable raft. kind of like a chew toy. there were film makers on board that raft. they were shooting off the coast of south africa. obviously the whole thing caught on camera. everyone made it back to land safely. can you imagination how nervous you would be? and then some other incredible video to show you this morning. everybody is talking about this. a family so close to winning $20,000 on the show "family feud," one family member scored 182 points in the final crowned anna sass, another family member, needed 18 points to win. how did she do? look at this. >> you said marriage.
survey said (buzzer). >> yeah. all the zeros down the board and they didn't win. that's what lost it for them. >> they needed 18? >> they blanked on it. >> wow. >> somewhere richard dawson is rolling in his grave. >> brian! >> only a richard dawson kiss would have made them feel better. >> heather, thank you very much. all right, meanwhile, have you seen this video? wind so strong in central kansas, a train right off the tracks. nobody was hurt thankfully. but the storm is now on the move. maria molina is outside with her gust buster umbrella. >> that's right. my gust buster umbrella. we're not expecting strong winds across parts of northeast, but we are dooling with some rain and showers that will linger across this area not just today, but over the next several days. i want to take you farther west. look at some of these currents temperatures across parts of the
plains. still early in the morning and dallas and kansas city, you're in the 70. in chicago, this is your current temperature as we head out the door, 68 degrees. very mild out there. that's a bad sign because that means that as the storm system heads into this area, it will have the fuel to fire up showers and thunderstorms. we do have the potential for severe weather coming up later today across parts of texas, up into wisconsin and minnesota. that area shaded in red right there across iowa, southern parts of minnesota, that's the greatest risk area for potentially violent weather. we could see long-track tornadoes today as the storms fire thumb afternoon and evening and eventually by friday, the storm continues moving eastward and anywhere from arkansas up into indiana, you could be looking at some severe weather. we'll keep track of it. let's head over to you, brian. >> all right. another case of thunder causing a blackout. russell westbrook and kevin durant playing lights out basketball. the pair combining for 63 points in game 1 against the clippers.
but wait, those weren't the only lights going out. during a timeout, just before half time, the power surge. the arena lights dim. so the teams went out and played the final 27 seconds of the half in the dark. later on the lights came on and oklahoma city would win. everyone wants somebody to get a foul ball. what length would you go to to get it? is it worth losing your pants over? one tigers fans almost mooned the entire crowd. he reached over to snatch the ball and leaned a little too far. luckily his friend pulled up his pants. so he was able to get the ball and he was not able to -- there you go. there he goes. he pulled down the underpants and put it back. a good friend. >> it's a low light with the highlights. >> what's the lesson there? maybe no lesson. maybe this is one highlight we don't learn anything from.
>> proper fitting clothing. >> if you have a friend going down, grab them by the underwear and pull them up. >> funny highlight there. a fire at a tennis star james blake's mansion not funny. killing an entire family. police say it was set on purpose. we are live at the scene right now. >> plus, rick springfield, the singing star about to tell us something you've never heard him say before. and it doesn't involve jesse's girl. ♪ ♪
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results. >> wtvt reporter is live in tampa. what are you hearing from the police this morning? >> reporter: detectives are combing through the house right now trying to gather as much evidence as possible. so many different questions in this story that we really don't know the answers to. was this a murder-suicide. was this family killed in cold blood? we don't know the answers, but hopefully we'll get some soon. we do know the fire, it took about seven hours to contain the flames. it was intentionally set. there appears to have been an unknown accelerant fueling the fire. small commercial fireworks were also found throughout this house. two victims suffered upper body trauma. fox 13 learned darren campbell, his wife, kim, and teenage children, coolen and meghan, lived in this house. as you said, the family was renting it from former tennis pro james blake. they've been living there for at least two years. of a will is an exclusive gated community north of tampa.
most of the homes are worth more than a million dollars. the folks in this communities wants to know what's going on and what led to all of this. back to you in new york. >> i think we all do. thank you very much. live from the tampa area. i was watching greta last night and live with greta was -- you've seen a lot. the ticking house. the boat, on lois lerner, is she -- they're voting yes or thumbs up or down when it comes to charging her with contempt of congress for taking the fifth and then making those statements prior to her taking the fifth? the answer was overwhelmingly yes with six democrats also joining the majority of republicans. >> right. 231-187. we have for you now to take a look at those six listed there. barber, patterson, mcentire, rehall and murphy. >> in addition to finding her if cements of congress, also in a separate resolution, they urged the department of justice to
appoint a special prosecutor. that means they've got to go to the u.s. attorney for dc who works for eric holder. what's interesting is remember, eric holder was found in cements of congress as well. but he was able, when he was found in contempt, for withholding fast and furious documents, he said, executive privilege. it's interesting corks lois lerner use that? if she did, it would essentially say there was coordination between the white house and the irs. darrell issa tweeted out, unless president exercise executive privilege, there is no precedents for u.s. attorney to do anything but pursue this criminal case. #irstargeting. so stand by. >> ten minutes to the top of the hour. coming up, you know this song. ♪ you know i wish that i had jesse's girl ♪ ♪ i wish that i had jesse's girl ♪ >> but we promise you, there is something you don't know about rick springfield and he's here next to tell us.
we're going to check in with bill hemmer. >> did you know yesterday was brian's birthday? i read in the blogs! well done. benghazi moves forward today, but will democrats join that investigation? we are about to find out. lois lerner found out her fate, at least her next step. and earth as you've never seen her before. we've got the pictures and they're amazing. ten minutes away when mar this and i see you at the top of the hour
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like that ♪ ♪ . >> he is a triple threat, rick springfield has sold millions of records, starred on the big screen and wrote a best selling autobiography. >> he's adding fiction writer to his accomplishments with his new book called "magnificent vibration." here is rick springfield. good morning to you. >> hello. >> so success with the autobiography, but fiction, what do you like moore and why did you want to write this? >> i started as a kid, i wanted to be a writer first and then music took over. it was the only thing i got good grades for were my essays at school. everything else, terrible grades. so they encouraged me to be a writer. then music took over and the writing went to song writing. i always wanted to get back to it. having the success of the autobiography which i wrote myself -- i was encouraged to write fiction because i don't have to apologize for it afterwards. sorry i'm such a jerk. >> you're writing about something that a lot of people think about and that is
spirituality and god and things like that that you have combined into this new book. >> first of all, it's dark humor. i hate the idea of preaching or anything. >> you're not a theologist. >> it starts with a guy having a conversation with god. he gets a phone number and doesn't believe it's god. >> maybe that's because god doesn't have a phone number. >> he may. 1-800-call god is the phone number in the book. and he called, bobby cotton calls it and his life goes completely south after that because god has an attitude and isn't quite what we imagine. >> sure. >> so you're taking the book and taking yourself and you're going on tour, and answer questions from audience? >> i do a solo tour where we do a q and a and appearing appearit benatar this summer. >> the book is called
"magnificent vibration." everybody loves rick springfield. enough of people do. you got a loft fans. >> i'm very fortunate -- a lot of fans have come out for the book signing. we're very encouraged with the prepress on it. the book list. >> you thought this was free? >> yeah. >> we wish you continued success. mighty cool cover for it. >> thank you. >> thank you ♪ ♪ get all your favorites all day, everyday. olive garden's signature favorites, just $10 including creamy fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. plus unlimited soup or salad and warm breadsticks.
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all right. what's going to happen in the after the show show? yesterday it was crazy, thanks a lot. >> it will maybe less crazy. >> tomorrow jennifer esposito will be here and chris wallace. bill: thank you, guys. more on that. rumors swirl. good morning, everybody, fox news alert now. the house is set to vote on making the investigation on benghazi official. the man who will lead the select committee said hillary clinton will testify or else. good morning. we're about to find a lot about this. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom." martha: good morning, i'm martha maccallum. tensions are reaching a fever pitch on capitol hill on what would be the first select committee to be appointed in a long, long time. democrats are threatening to boycott it. republicans are looking to hillary clinton to provide those answers. here is trey gowdy on whether
site? definitely. on facebook darrell says not at all. they must alert the customers. thanks to everyone who responded. >> thank you for watching. we'll be here at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning bright and early. "fox & friends" starts now. good morning. it is tuesday, july 29. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. residents across the nation are waking up to devastation this morning. [screaming] >> tornadoes wreaking havoc from coast to coast. >> wow. it's not the kind of ad you would expect to see from a democrat. >> where do they think their electricity comes from? i'll make sure president obama gets the message. >> you can do that? why the president's own
party now apparently campaigning against him. >> the president has played 81 rounds of golf since 2012, but does it look like those rounds are helping his game, so to speak? here's what one guy just found in the woods. >> oh cool. >> mornings are better with friends. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> that's an actual signature by john hancock. here in the studio right now, we've got a rare 1860 letter written by mr. abraham lincoln who once upon a time was president of the united states. >> it's a guy -- it's a lincoln you probably have not seen before in that he writes as if he just burst on to the scene. he gives a major spoach at cooper union -- major
speech at cooper union and talks about his newfound fame. everyone, after they hear his speech they want that abraham guy, this congressman to speak on his behalf. and you know what happened right there. >> you know what? you can buy it. there is a fixed price on it. it is not going to be an auction. $40,000. we'll tell you about that and more. we've got history in the studio. now let's turn over to heather nauert. a wild night with tornadoes. >> usually when we talk about tornadoes it's kansas or the midwest but not so on this occasion. we're talking about the state of massachusetts and we begin with that extreme weather this morning. a rare tornado barreling through a massachusetts suburb five miles outside of boston. look at this. >> look at the trees! they broke! >> that twister packing 120 miles per hour winds ripping a path of destruction nearly two miles long. take a look at this car, totally flipped offense on the sidewalk there. from above you can see the
roofs torn off the building. the national weather service says this is the first twister to hit that area since they started keeping records back in 1950. but that's not it. the destruction also out west, at least three tornadoes touching down in the denver area, one of them caught on camera near the airport. no reports of any major damage. we'll keep watching that. overseas, overnight israeli missiles striking nearly 70 targets in gaza, including a home of a hamas leader. prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel, of course, telling israelis to prepare for the long haul as the three-week campaign seems far from over. the death toll now stands at more than 1,000. in the meantime secretary of state john kerry facing harsh criticism by the israelis this morning over his attempts to negotiate a cease-fire. many say his deal favored hamas and ignore israel's key demands. the deadlocked jury in the jesse ventura
defamation trial is ordered to try again. deliberations set to resume today. it will be day six. ventura is suing former navy seal chris kyl for $15 million over a story he wrote about in his best selling memoir "american sniper." kyl writes about punching jesse ventura out in 2006 after ventura said that the navy deserves to lose a few. though kyl never specifically mentioned ventura's name in his book -- it was only in subsequent interviews the name came out. kyl was killed at a shooting range last year. his wife testified at his trial in his place. the president, you know he likes to play golf. he's played golf 81 times since 2012 but are all those rounds helping him out? a golfer at a congressional country club in maryland claims to have found the ball the president used himself and he found it in the woods. he posted this picture of the ball on instagram with comment, the president played at congressional yesterday and i just found this in the woods off hole
number one. it looks like he's off-line once again. >> who knew that the president had a potus, president of the united states, on his own ball. >> the question is how far off the track is it? >> if you watch any golf, even the best golfers sometimes shank it into the next hole. let's talk about what the president is doing when he is not golfing and that is executive orders. it's not a big mystery. when he felt as though a couple of weeks ago nothing is going to get done -- he's right -- on immigration reform, he said i'm going to take matters on my own hands. rumor has it once congress goes away he's going to do that and grant amnesty to parents, illegal parents of kids born here -- if you're born here, you can become a citizen -- that could add up to 3.8 million getting amnesty. >> upwards of five million that will get work permits that will be issued via executive action. this is astounding to many. the emphasis on amnesty as
well as work permits is shocking the nation. there is some saying this is complete lawlessness. why are we a nation of laws if we don't follow them? can we remain a nation of laws? senator jeff sessions was on the floor and says we have time to do something right now. we are not abiding by the law. he's specifically talking about the president. >> if president obama is not stopped in this action and he exceeds his power by attempting to execute such a massive amnesty contrary to law, the moral authority for any immigration enforcement henceforth will be eviscerated. it is absolutely not too late for us to restore a lawful system that treats applicants that come to america fairly and serves the national interest. this can be done. >> well, apparently what could be done yesterday was he and ted cruz, the senator from texas, were able to stir up enough support to get people, they said if you're going to do anything, do it right now.
call your senator, call your congressman in washington, d.c. for the most part they melted the phone lines yesterday. also yesterday there were a couple of protests outside the white house. but right across the street from it and also at lafayette square. what's curious about this, though, is according to reports, many of the people in attendance were illegal aliens. these are people who are not supposed to be in the country, according to news reports, and yet there they were protesting. and what's curious is apparently they didn't feel like, okay, if i'm arrested i'm going to get in trouble because for the most part the i.c.e. agents told one of our reporters that unless somebody has a serious criminal past, they're not going to get deported even though they're in the country illegally. so they had nothing to worry about, so there they were. >> they're going to protest again after that as well. meanwhile, as congress is going to work this week and then going to take five weeks off, it doesn't mean the catastrophe at the border is going to attack any time off. in fact, it's 24 hours a
day. you've got 1,000 men who are not there yet in texas. for the most part these border patrol are underfinanced, undermanned and overwhelmed. as congress takes off without providing any funds or reenforcement for the border possibly, the national border patrol counsel sean moran says we're going to work through the summer. >> we will be on doubt. we don't take five weeks off. we will be here doing our jobs. that includes rescuing people, especially kids who probably don't know survival skills. >> they're going to be working. >> no recess for them, not to mention the fact that jobs right now are a major achilles' heel in our nation and sessions also mentioned, to jump back, he asked would this effectively granting amnesty and work permits, be good for the american worker? five million people and their parents being able to work when americans here are not able to find jobs.
is it good for the african-american community? he said the c.b.o. report didn't indicate such. while they're hoping to get something done by thursday, border patrol agents working hard. >> the u.s. chamber of commerce is examining it, whether or not this is a good idea. i bet they're going to come back and say yes because they do like cheap labor. meanwhile, right there in washington, d.c., the big newspaper, the washington, d.c. post, clearly leans to the left -- it is a progressive newspaper. what is curious, though, is they're talking about the president of the united states and suddenly they're talking about whether or not he is competent. remember back in 2008 he was the guy who said, i'm going to restore competence to the white house. has he done that? no. on an editorial written by chris scalese, he said obama is faltering badly on the competence question and in doing so badly imperilling not only his ability to enact any sort of second term agenda but also democrats' chances this fall, serious events
from the v.a. scandal to the ongoing border crisis have badly undermined the idea that obama can effectively manage the government. even "the washington post" is saying that the president of the united states competence is putting his party in peril. >> they did a poll, cnn did, and only 42% said he's governing competently, 57% saying he is not. considering it was around 80% when he took office in 2008, it is pretty significant. on top of that, i always said if the president wants to make major gains, he doesn't have to go on the campaign trail. all he has to do is make quick, decisive, well thought out decisions on the myriad of crises happening in the world now. then people will say maybe i didn't vote for him, man, he is in charge. >> if he does go on the campaign trail, he might actually have an adverse effect on those that are running in the democrat party. many are stepping aside.
we showed you that ad, a west virginia candidate who is going to join us later in the program, she runs an ad right now really shutting the lights off in the white house, actually taking a stance against the president as she moves into election season. she's going to join us. >> i think that is an example of somebody in a red state who knows if i run as a democrat and support the president, i have no prayer and no chance at all. the same with senator joe manchin. he's the closest thing to a moderate democratment senate. if he was a liberal democrat, he would not have that job. and the president is as anti-coal as anybody in the country. >> he's got his pen and he's got his phone and they're talking about changing the rules so states can change down coal plants and open up solar things. the question is we hear chris cillizza writing in "the washington post" talking about there is no competence here. you've got somebody running for the senate in a state
curptly where there is a democrat who has a u.s. senate job and they're taking a shot at the president. the big question is would you want president obama to campaign for you if you ran for office. according to a brand-new fox news poll, a majority, actually by a landslide say no, stay home. go ahead, hit some golf balls into the woods. >> no photo op there. nearly six in ten that would say no. please don't take a photo with me when i'm running for your party. democrats, four years ago fully 82% wanted president obama to campaign on their behalf. that is down to 69%. they have a drop there, 13 points within his own party. please be as far away from me as possible. >> send money. just don't come. >> george bush had the same situation in his final mid term before his second term was up. meanwhile, straight ahead. >> many calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the i.r.s. but our next guest says that's a bad idea. really? he will explain why next. >> have you heard about
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i.r.s., but our next guest says that is a bad idea. here to explain is former federal prosecutor and author of this book doing extremely well, andrea mccarthy. i'm surprised to see you say that. why don't you think a special prosecutor would do a more thorough job than the justice department or the oversight committee? >> when people hear special counsel they think independent prosecutor. there is no independence from the executive branch when you're talking about prosecution which is an executive power. any independent counsel or special counsel they would appoint would have to answer to president obama and eric holder. >> we remember ken starr got to the bottom of it much to the chagrin of the clinton administration. we remember during the valerie plane investigation things didn't go swemgly for scooter -- swimmingly for scooter libby. why do you think we'll get the truth out of a special prosecutor now? >> you have very different
administrations and different attorneys general who actually let the system work. but you have a justice department who has a track record of abusing authority. the thought that holder and obama will pick somebody is farcical. >> we have a justice department that doesn't seem to be looking into the i.r.s. we see the oversight committee making progress but the nation seems not as interested as you would think. why do you think so many in congress are calling for this if the reality is as you say it? >> i like to think they probably hope the system would work and they're being naive about it. what we know about this scandal we know because of congress's investigation and because of some freedom of information act law sought going on with private litigants. if you kick this to a special prosecutor who gets kicked by holder, they're going to say grand jury secrecy, we can't talk about this anymore. the witnesses are going to
say we can't cooperate. there is now a serious criminal investigation. and then it will lapse into a black hole until president obama pardons everyone at the end. >> what options do they have? >> let's keep doing what we're doing now. it's painful, it's not as smooth as you'd like, but congress can get to the bottom of it. what i would do is expand the jurisdiction of the special committee that's already looking at benghazi and give it the i.r.s. scandal. because a special committee, unlike the subject matter committees in congress, can look at something reasonably like a grand jury and get to the bottom of what happened. >> a special committee would be the -- the other thing that would be interesting is if the senate flips, then we'll be coming at it with two bodies. andrew mccarthy thank you for showing up. 19 minutes after the hour. straight ahead, atheists fought to remove the 9/11 cross at grond -- ground
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we've got news for you. would he start with breaking news from overnight. the cousin of out going president of afghanistan hammed car -- karzai was
killed this morning. a new york city court ruling the cross at ground zero can remain at the 9/11 museum. a group of atheists filed a lawsuit arguing the cross violated their first amendment rights, but a three-panel judge disagreed saying the beams are a genuine historical artifact, not a symbol of christianity. the cross stays. and that's the news. >> the summer beach day turns deadly when light neng strikes more than a -- when lightning strikes more than a dozen people. here with health hazards at the beach, dr. david samadi. we heard that news and talked about it here. death by lightning seems unfortunate to the 19th degree. how common is this? >> number one, i want to make sure people don't avoid the beach. it's fairly safe and we
want people to enjoy. but obviously if there's a thunderstorm out there and lightning, you want to make sure you get out of the beach. water a conductor. you can get massive shock if it hits you. that shock can hit your heart and all the chambers of the heart can go out of sync and you can have a cardiac arrest. it is the biggest shock you can get. get out of the water. >> not even wet sand; correct? >> exactly right because water is a great conductor. it can affect you. if you have a car, getting getting -- get into your car because that is connected to the land and can get rid of a lot of the lightning threat you have. go out there but use common sense. that's one of the reasons as a urologist i'm covering the beach and water stuff. >> people think run under a tree. that could be one of the worst places you could be.
there was a story about a guy who was in a sand tunnel and it collapsed. ten feet of sand on top of him. he suffocated. >> this is unfortunate. don't make it so deep. obviously these sand tunnels can really collapse. what they did was they rushed to bring him out and be able to clear his airway but they were not able to save him. it is a sad story. the bottom line is if you have children around, make sure these tunnels are shallow. >> people think it's sand, it's z. you can get out quickly but if you're under ten feet of it, it's like concrete. >> about 30 cases between 1997 and 2007 that were experienced. the spring-eating amoeba. how would you get this brain eating amoeba.
how do you know if your child has been swimming and has this. how common is this? >> don't be scared, elisabeth. >> can you sense the fear? >> i can hear it. it is extremely rare. when you go to lakes that are untreated water, extremely warm temperature, you're going to see some of this amoeba. don't dive right through it because amoeba can get through your nose. if you drink it nothing happens. but if it goes through your knows it can go to the brain area. it can cause enself enselfencephylatis. it can cause neurological damage and coma and death. those are rare cases. you have to be in places full of these parasites and you have to basically get into your nose. if you put a plug and keep your head above water if you happen to be in those lakes, you're safe.
these are rare incidents, unfortunate where we see some of these amoebas getting to us. >> something a lot of people do at the beach, they step on something, it's a sea you urchin. i've done it myself but occasionally they can kill us. >> those are poisonous ones. if you see skin allergies, you want to detect it. >> you know pretty much immediately when you've stepped on it. >> exactly. go to your doctor because they can give you injection to calm the allergies and save you. if you see allergic reaction on your skin, see your doctor immediately. >> don't take the chance. >> exactly. these are rare cases. i want you to go out, have a good time. we had such a long winter in new york city. >> i know but this is great to be aware. >> absolutely right. >> thank you, dr. samadi. straight ahead action it was supposed to be a three-hour tour but turned into a nightmare.
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this guy, nathan rabb, president of the rabb collection named after himself. nathan, good job. besides lincoln, which we'll get to in a second, you brought other historical letters. you can get these letters, one price -- it's not an auction. we'll tell you how. first, what have we got here? >> that is a letter of thomas jefferson written while he's president. >> not a copy? >> the real thing. entirely in his hand. these are all original. he is attempting to establish a u.s. presence in the louisiana area. >> before we bought it? >> right. basically trying to say we're here, woaf a claim. >> that is to benjamin franklin's doctor. what have we here? >> a letter of albert einstein where he's warning against the possibility of nuclear annihilation and it would threaten the weak as well as the strong. >> jefferson how much? >> 36 thousand. >> einstein how much? >> 13 thousand. >> what do we have here?
>> that's a letter of george washington to the people of philadelphia. philadelphia had been occupied by the british and he's congratulating them they're now a free people. that's 120 thousand. >> how does a letter like that get away from the washington collection? >> in many cases they're written to private individuals. if somebody writes you a letter, you own it. >> right here? >> a document of john hancock signed around june-july 1776. it looks exactly like his sigma tour on the declaration of independence. it is a foundation document of the navy. he's appointing somebody who would be one of the first naval officers. >> he's got great penmanship. right here is the letter we're discussing. lincoln gives his cooper union address. it changes everything for him. he becomes a national figure. this letter is indicative of what? >> this captures a moment in lincoln's life where he went from being a regional politician to being a national figure. it shows him struggling with that emergence.
he wasn't from the east coast. he comes out to the east coast and all of a sudden he's inundated by requests to speak. people want his time, his attention. he misses his family, his sons are sick, he wants to return home. and he feels nervous. you don't think of abraham lincoln feeling nervous but in this he confesses i'm nervous, i feel unfit to fulfill my obligations. >> this is 40 thousand dollars? >> that's right. >> where do we go to bid. not to bid >> to buy, rabbcollection.com. >> how do you decide who gets it? >> whoever calls and buys it. >> first-come, first served. >> our customers are private and public. public institutions buy these things. private institutions like universities buy them. sometimes private collectors buy them. >> awesome. nathan rabb, thanks so much for bringing these here. great to be a part of history. hopefully somebody out there will be buying these today. heather, what else going on?
>> news to bring you now. police are hoping some new surveillance video will lead them to a possible break through in the case of a missing oregon mother of it would young children. jennifer huston disappeared last thursday while she was running errands. the tape which hasn't been made public yet shows her withdrawing cash from a local bank before she heads to a gas station. her cell phone was then turned off shortly thereafter. >> i was getting through the financial institutions cell phone video, that type of stuff. we contacted several businesses not to mention other cameras that we know of based on our routine days of patrol. >> hus top's family is offering a reward for her safe return. fury in northern california after a guy flew a drone over a raging wildfire to try to get video of it and he nearly blocked the plane's relief efforts to put out that fire. officials not issuing him a ticket but they did issue a
no-fly zone to civilians to avoid endangering any more fire fighting planes. this is a fire east of sacramento. it is now 75% contained, just under six square miles have burned so far. dating the traditional way can sometimes be tough. everybody knows that. >> hello? yes. i'm with him right now. >> no, not very attractive. doesn't make much money. >> it appears that on-line dating cannot be trusted at all either. one of the most popular dating sites called okay cupid has been conducting this crazy psychological experiment on users without them knowing about it. the website's cofounder says users photos and bios were changed and removed in the name of science they say. the site even told people they were a good match for one another when in reality they were terrible for one another. and those are your
headlines. >> i think that is not okay, cupid. >> who are you calling cupid? thanks, heather. meanwhile, 23 minutes before the top of the hour. destruction in the suburbs of boston, massachusetts, after a rare and powerful twister touched down. more than 100 homes were damaged. look at this. we're talking about massachusetts. maria molina joins us live with details. maria, they haven't seen something like this there since 1950. >> incredible images coming out of that region. that is in massachusetts just outside the city of boston. that twister was confirmed as an ef-2 with winds of up to 120 miles per hour. that was early yesterday morning making it even more unusual because it's not only a little unusual for this time of the year, typically this happens during the springtime when you start to talk about tornadoes and that type of severe weather, but it's a little unusual in july and also it happened between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
so very early in the morning for that type of weather. behind that storm system we do have much cooler air that's moved in. we have very chilly temperatures early this morning with them currently in the 50's in places like pittsburgh and buffalo. 70's in places like new york city and cleveland. very cool for the month of july. farther west we have a number of flood advisories in effect, flood watches expected from the central plains to parts of nevada. that is due to heavy rain that is in the forecast. let's head back inside. >> maria molina with the latest, thank you. >> our hearts go out to families there in massachusetts. it's a whale of a tale. nearly 160 tourists forced to stay in a boat overnight after getting stranded by about 60 miles from the boston harbor. >> more on what happened yesterday. jessica, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. we just got word in the past hour that that boat
was successful in getting untangled from the line it got stuck on this morning. 157 people on board are on their way back to boston and are scheduled to get in here about 7:30 this morning. the boat left here around 1:30 yesterday afternoon wand was supposed to get back here after about three hours. of course we know that did not end up happening. it got stuck 14 miles off the coast of salem, massachusetts, with 157 people on bored. the boat they are on is called the satacia, a whale watching boat. divers yesterday made an attempt to untangle the boat with hand cutting tools but were unsuccessful. a commercial dive team went out this morning and they able to get the boat freed from the line that it got stuck on. again, we know that boat is free. those people, 157 passengers on board, they're going to be getting back to boston in about an hour from now. we know they're safe and secure and we'll be hearing
from them in a little bit. for now, back to you, brian. >> thanks so much. now you know the rest of the story. now let's talk about sports. donald sterling is out. steve balmer is in. a los angeles court is ruling against sterling's attempt to block the sale. after the ruling his wife says she expects him to drop suits against her and the league. the deal is expected to be finalized by august 15 meaning players and coaches don't have to be affected. a dad catches a foul ball and his son is overcome with joy, goes in for the big hug. a souvenir to take home, one we will not forget. we taped it and provide a copy to the entire family. as you see, they bought up the entire section. big crowd. >> what a shot. >> that' the cool thing
about being out of it. >> these fans are in a league of their own. the team's so bad they have to put robots in the stands. >> how great is that. >> that is a little kooky. "the new york times" pushing pot calling it safer than alcohol. our next guest claims -- explains why this claim is seriously outdayed. >> the new york city times published an editorial to legal marijuana. they don't care about weed. it is the only way they can keep selling paper. you don't have to read it.
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researchers find the search engine can spot crashes before they happen. analysts looked at business searches between 2004 and 2012 and found spikes right before drops in the stock market. so there. the south korean baseball team so bad they used robots to fill empty seats. fans can project their face on to a robot from the comfort of their own home even using it to hold up signs to cheer. the hanwha eagles lost 400 games in the last five years so they need fans even if they are virtual. elisabeth, over to you. >> i'm a fan of yours, steve. drugs are safer than alcohol? that's according to "the new york times." the newspaper's editorial board pushing to legalize pot. our next guest calls this belief seriously outdated and claims legalizing pot will cause a health catastrophe worse than we can imagine. joining us is david murray. he worked in the national
drug control policy office under president george w. bush. thanks for being with us. how irresponsible is it for "the new york times" editorial board to put forward the theory that pot is no more dangerous than alcohol. >> you have to wonder what were they thinking? don't they read their own newspaper? the information is stunningly careless of them. it is negligent. it's scientifically unsound what they have said. they're taking a risk here with a serious substance and they seem to be caught in some sort of time warp of the culture. cheech and chong and hilarious hippies. they even invoke reefer madness. that was 80 years ago. today's more potent t.h.c. pot that is affecting kids in america is a serious risk. it is much more potent, much more consequential and it is industrial pot. if you look at where this is actually happening since january in colorado where they legalized recreational marijuana it is a debacle. they're having serious problems with their youth.
this is industrial dope being put out at hypoten is i and it's having -- hypotency and is having negative affects. this morning i passed by the open door shelter and haven for women. the clean and sober people who are trying to keep themselves in treatment away from dope, away from the narcotics and their effects, they are profoundly affected when dope becomes widely accessible, widely available, normalatively accepted. most importantly it is the new generation. young children 12, 13 years of age have developing brains, t.h.c. in marijuana is a neurotoxin. it costs them eight i.q. points if they smoke heavily through their lives. it puts them at risk of psychological trauma of depression, hallucination. it is a serious drug with
serious consequences. if you missed the last ten years of biomedical reporting and neuroimaging on what this drug does to the developing brain then you might come out where the "new york times" has come out. they must have been asleep at the switch for the last ten years because they've taken a seriously irresponsible posture. >> david, that is a strong position. we want to thank you for being with us. i'm just trying to figure out why high fructose corn syrup is so bad and pot is okay according to this article. david, thank you for joining us. appreciate your insight. coming up, she left her kids in a hot car to go on a job interview. all charges were dropped but now she's trying to get her kids back. does she deserve a second chance? that mom here with us live next. then president obama is ignoring congress again, this time to change his signature achievement -- obamacare we're talking about -- and it will cost taxpayers millions. judge napolitano is here with that next.
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this is not a rerun. president obama is once again ignoring congress and this time he's going to expand obamacare. the administration proposing to give thousands of temporary federal workers access to obamacare even though obamacare explicitly prohibited them from getting it. lawmakers are already suing the president for his improper implementation of the affordable care act, so is this just the latest offense to add to the list? he's shaking his head. judicial analyst judge
napolitano joins us live. >> we should reveal that in a commercial break before the camera came on, i looked at you and said, here we go again. >> you did. >> it's like a couple times a week these things happen. the congress was crystal clear. in order to get the number of votes they needed for this to pass, it was agreed, temporary, seasonal, part-time workers don't apply. yesterday the obama administration announced that today it's going to issue an administrative regulation that says, if you are a temporary or seasonal or part-time worker, and you think you might some day become full time, obamacare applies for you. this is for federal employees. guess who picks up the tab? you do. >> put the tab up. >> the taxpayer does. we've got the tab. >> we're talking about maybe a little north of 2 million federal employees, cost 8400 a year per person. so it looks like it could be up to $350 million. where is that money coming from?
>> from the taxpayer. of course we're broke, so they print more, which complicates this year. this is yet another violation of the constitution. why? because the constitution is very clear. no money may be spent by the federal government except that which is appropriated by the congress. not by the president. by the congress! we have the president yet again changing the rules, changing the meaning of the rules, changing the right of way and spending money that was never authorized by the congress. >> you know what it looks like? it looks like they're just making it up as they go because -- and you were talk being this during the commercial -- the president essentially has given up. >> it does appear -- part of my job here is to watch this stuff. >> and analyze it. >> it comes in in droves. it appears as though he has given up his constitutional role as president and has now taken on the role of ideologue in chief to change whatever laws he
can by whatever means he can in the two years he has remaining, the constitution be damned. he may have some interesting ideas, but the congress writes the law and the congress spends the money. not the president. >> all right. judge napolitano -- >> now i'm going to go have some espresso. where is chris? >> thank you, judge. coming up, it's one of the most beloved children's programs on television. look at that right there. who doesn't love thomas the tank engine. apparently he and his friends are racist! what? yeah. wait 'til we go off the rails with that. even without words, your body language can say a whole lot more. >> hi. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> don't do that. how is your handshake. what not to do if you want a job, coming up. ♪
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good morning. today is tuesday, july 29. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. we start with a fox news alert. people across the country are waking up to devastation this morning. >> they all broke! >> massive tornadoes wreaking havoc from coast to coast. then president obama using that pen again perhaps, ready to announce amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants ahead of the midterm elections. lawmakers are not buying it. why they say this is sending the wrong message to the rest of the world and they're not going to take it anymore. and does this children's television show look racist to you? >> it's thomas.
hello, thomas. hello, everybody. >> why one blogger says thomas the tank engine is making your toddler racist. not kidding. stay tuned. >> you're watching "fox & friends." that's a great way to begin your day. >> i never got into thomas the tank. but i never saw the potential backlash in the cartoon. >> there is passion behind thomas. >> all my kids grew up on it. >> how did they come out? >> they've come out okay so far. >> right. >> i haven't concluded things yet. >> based on that, one could recommend thomas the train. >> if you're a fan of thomas the tank engine, wait until you hear what somebody sees in that innocent little tv show. we're going to get that to you in just a minute. >> time to go back to maybe
speed racer? >> electric company, mickey mouse. >> two minutes after the top of the hour. right to a fox news alert. israeli missiles strike nearly 70 targets, including gaza's only power plant. john huddy is watching it all from the israeli-gaza border. john, so very big night last night for the israelis in terms of hitting targets. >> absolutely, it was, brian. good morning to you. we've been hearing artillery fire throughout the day from our location and seeing strikes in the distance behind me in gaza which has seen a lot of activity over the past 22 days. as you mentioned, there was a watt of activity overnight. there was an artillery strike on the gaza strip's largest power plant, a shell hit one of the fuel tanks that powers that power plant, erupting into an inferno. we're not sure how many people
are without power at this point. but you can expect probably a significant amount at this point. this as you mentioned, as the fighting raged on. israel's main objective throughout the 22 days has been to take out, destroy hamas' military infrastructure, in particular the cross border network of tunnels. yesterday we saw several israeli troops killed after hamas militants ambushed them, bringing the total number of israeli soldiers that have been killed up to 53. ten have been killed overnight, including several yesterday by mortar fire along the border as well. and also on the other side in gaza, about 40 people were killed since midnight, bringing that total up to more than 1100 and more than at this point, probably close to 6300 wound. although that number continues to change by the day, even by the hour. there is movement in terms of possible cease fire talks. we hear palestinian and even
hamas representatives may be going or on the ground in cairo trying to work out an egyptian-brokered agreement, something israel has been willing to accept with the stipulation it continues the objective of destroying hamas' military infrastructure. so that said, despite the uncertainty, perhaps something is in the works. this as you can see in the dance perhaps, the smoke continues to rise in gaza. brian, elisabeth, steve, back to you. >> thank you very much. last night benjamin netanyahu addressed the israeli people saying get ready for a long war. the two days ago, the big story was secretary of state john kerry digging in saying i got a great idea of how to get a cease fire. the israelis say you got to be kidding me. even a liberal newspaper in israel said john kerry is really no help here. >> there is nonstop criticism of kerry's attempts to bring in particularly turkey, who has been seen as defenders of hamas before. kerry was also accused by
israeli news of abandoning some of israel's key demands during negotiations, and one went as far as saying the plan kerry put out was a, quote, strategic terrorist. >> yeah. he is the first secretary of state in 20 years to fail at brokering a cease fire. it is embarrassing. none the less, the obama administration has got to prop up and spin this some way, so they're all out defending mr. kerry. watch this. >> our view is it's simply not the way that partners and allies treat each other. the reality is that john kerry, on behalf of the united states, has been working every step of the way with israel in support of our shared interest. >> israel has no better friend, no stronger defender. he has been tireless in his efforts and i think that israel
and many countries and friends around the world recognize exactly that. >> john kerry's error was he put so much emphasis on a quick halt, he solidified the role of hamas to the exclusion where he undercut the egyptians and israelis and the fatah movement which is trying to end hamas rule in gaza. this was a big mistake. >> dave ignatius wrote about that in the "washington post" and his connections to the middle east are without pier. brit hume went off on bill o'reilly's show. >> i think obama shares instinctively the sentiment and academic left, which favors israel's palestinian neighbors -- i guess where his instincts are. but the reason you don't see big public dustups between israeli leaders and any american president is it's terrible politics on both sides. israel depends heavily on its alliance with america for its security and its safety and israel is very popular in the u.s. congress and in the country
as a whole. >> surely. >> that's pretty much where you stand right now. that's why israel says we have got to finish the job in there and if you're going to leave the terror tunnels out, and leave them armed, we're going to be back in the same place. on a different note, one of the things you care about, immigration. >> as this week the clock is ticking as congress sets to take recessment the president set to take his p pen and announcing that executive amnesty may come into play. meaning amnesty for those crossing into the border, those have come on expired visas or illegally, as well as work permits for millions that have entered this nation, rattling the hearts and minds of the work force of americans coming forward and certainly those in congress who think this is quite unlawful. >> sure. so essentially with this would be is it would be executive amnesty and there are different versions of what the president and his men and women are proposing. it could be amnesty for the
parents of legal u.s. citizens. it could also be amnesty for the parents of the dreamers. so it could total 5 million -- >> or both. >> we don't know at this point. they've got a bunch of trial balloons out there and see which ones work and which ones blow up on them. look for something to happen shortly. >> 'cause the senate passed an immigration reform bill. the house did not. they do not believe the president is going to reinforce the border, so they see no point in coming up with a plan because that ultimately is an executive decision. so now the president is going to do this, almost baiting congress, believe it or not, to try to impeach him. the democratic mantra is look, the president is going to get impeached. >> taking an oath to abide by the law and uphold the law of this nation while at the same time violating it if he does take executive action. >> brian, to your point about impeachment, only democrats are talking about it. republicans, conservative, not
talking about it. only democrats. it's to gin up the base before november. time for some weather and we start with heather. boston? tornado? >> totally crazy. tornadoes in boston. we begin with this. a rare tornado barreling through a massachusetts suburb, just five miles outside of boston. take a look. >> look at the trees! >> that twister packing winds of up to 120 miles an hour, ripping a path of destruction. nearly two miles long. take a look at this car. totally flipped over on the sidewalk there. and then you can see the roof torn off buildings from above. the national weather service says this is the first twister to hit this area since they started keeping records back in 1950. but then also crazy weather out west. at least three tornadoes touching down in the denver area. one of them caught on camera near the airport. no reports of any major damage there.
in this ultimate story of survival, overnight rescue crews finding a 13-year-old boy. he is alive in a central california national park this morning. king's canyon national park. austin shed went missing on sunday. he was hiking with his dad and a family friend. he disappeared when they stopped for lunch after an eight-hour walk. austin will be air lifted out of the park later this morning. exact details on his condition have not been released just yet. it is just a plane ride away. health dishes are scrambling to try to track people overseas who may have come in contact with that deadly ebola virus. an infected man boarded a plane in liberia last week and traveled across west africa. he died from that virus on friday. ebola is spread by close contact. it has an incubation period of up to 21 days. those infected may not notice symptoms for weeks. >> it's possible, this is a
plane ride away. we don't know when people come in what they have. any virus could be ebola. >> there are international airports in some of those countries where it has spread. two american health workers treating ebola have become infected. being a country music star pays off pretty darn well. forbes ranking kenny chesney as the third highest paid country crooner. he earned $44 million last year. number two is taylor swift with $64 million. and the highest paid country singer is this guy. ♪ he's just made in america >> that is toby keith raking in $65 million annually. thanks to his albums, restaurants, and also his endorsement deals. he has a big chain of popular restaurants. >> sure, toby keith is watching right now, we would salute you with our red solo cup.
>> right. which we did in this studio. >> we sang along to it. from red solo cups to thomas the tank engine, the blue tank engine, it turns out there is a blogger in great britain, tracy van slike writes in the guardian, the thomas the tank engine is racist, it's sexist. it's classless. >> i've been saying this for years. >> this is a quote, if you look through the steam rising up from the coal-powered train stack, you realize that the pretty puffs of smoke are containing twisted messages. when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines are pumping out black smoke. >> he goes on to say that the train is for little white boys, sparking out demands like a controlling auto crat. how many kids looked at that and said that's a controlling autocrat. >> it has a global audience. they try to create characters people can relate to.
across the world, kids are watching this. i don't recall this being raised before as an issue. what do you guys think? were you scared, miffed? >> if anything, there is an obesity problem with him. but does she call him out? no. >> rosy is one of the trains there. i have a daughter, she never -- >> never complained? i met her, she didn't seem to have any problems adjusting. we have the whole article on www.foxandfriends.com. we wanted you to respond on our facebook page and you can read the article and get some background. are you one of the many outraged? >> troubled by thomas. coming up, the democrat and republican who agree on at least one thing. we should not have traded terrorists for bowe bergdahl. the two lawmakers with the message for the president, they're standing by live in dc next. and meet the happy seniors
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an explosion. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, just probably about a minute and a half ago, there was either a rocket or mortar launch that came right over our heads and landed in -- let me get out of the way. you can see the smoke. landed right there, right across the street from a road and also a neighborhood, large neighborhood. you could hear this thing. coming right over us. it came in and landed, hit hard. people are now -- you see some cars there, they're getting -- saw some people running out of there. this is how close we are to the border. we're obviously on the israeli side burks in the distance, we've been showing you gaza that as i mentioned earlier, has been taking a lot of artillery strikes and even just moments ago before i went live there, we heard a series of artillery fire. this, again, was very close to us. it reminds me of when i was in gaza and the missile strikes that were coming right over our heads as well on presumably
hamas locations. but now this one was definitely targeting civilian locations. this gives you a pretty good example of what israelis have to deal with and throughout the course of the last 22 days of operation protective edge, how this impacts people in the area and also how it's hit a number of locations. pretty close. very close to us. we're all getting down on the ground almost. >> i see you have your helmet on. just to be clear, this came from the hamas side into the israeli side. you mentioned 70 targets the israelis hit. but hamas is shooting back. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. i don't have the exact number so far of rocket launches. let me put it this way. we've seen throughout the morning rockets being fired from gaza. in fact, this morning in a city north of this strip where we're staying, we were woken up by the sound of the code red signal
warning about an impending rocket coming over. this amp right before we left as well there was a rocket that was intercepted by israel's iron dome defense system. so this one, whether it was a rocket -- it sounded like to me a rocket, could have been a mortar as well. it landed very, very close to our location. >> all right. john huddy, thanks so much. we'll check in again throughout the three-hour show. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, she left her kids in a hot car to go to a job interview. all charges were dropped. now she's trying to get her kids back. does she deserve a second chance? that mom here live. and say it ain't so. red lobster getting fancy. no more discount deals? what about bibs? ♪ ♪ vo: this is the summer.
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brian, over to you. congress set to adjourn for a five-week recess without an immigration deal. but one democrat and republican can agree on at least one thing. we should not have tried traded terrorists for bowe bergdahl a couple months ago. those congressmen join us now, john barrow, a democrat from georgia, and scott rijola republican from virginia. what brought you guys together. what bothered you about this deal? >> brian, the facts are not in dispute. the president broke the law when he transferred the five senior taliban commanders to the government of qatar. to prevent that from becoming precedent that either he or future administrations could rely upon, we thought it was important to put this legal marker in the ground and to repudiate, condemn clearly what the president did. >> congressman what, bothers you about the deal, that it was such a bad deal, lop sided for the taliban, or that it we want down
without your permission? >> both. both. it's not good for national security. mohammed fasul is the deputy minister of defense for the taliban. i'm confident and it troubles me to share this, that probably in a year or so, he'll be back on the battlefield when we'll still in all likelihood have american forces in afghanistan. so this is not -- that's not wise. and then this balance of powers situation here where the president is consistently going outside of his constitutional lane and ignoring the law. >> congressman bare -- barrow, they're supposed to tell you 30 days ahead of the deal. how does the law real? >> scott and i were concerned and objected to the whole violation of our long-standing policy, not to negotiate with terrorists. we were concerned about that from the get-go. but the thing that concerns us, the specific subject of this resolution is the failure to
comply with the law that the congress and president agreed to that before there would be any release of detainees from guantanamo bay, there would be a consultation with congress beforehand. checks and balances are important. it's important so both branches can get the best advice from the other when it has shared responsibility and both branches in this case agree on the process to be followed. prior consultation. >> this is more than a window dressing. there is a whole bunch of -- at gitmo, they could be out tomorrow without us knowing about it. >> the president and president bush actually released about 500 detainees from guantanamo bay and did so legally. but in this case, when the secretary of defense came before the house armed services committee on june 11, he really had no answer as to why the administration had like 80 or 90 members of the administration that were aware of this, but not one member of congress. senator feinstein hammered this and it's more than some check off the box.
there is a series of things that the administration has to give to congress to assure american security is not going in the wrong direction. and that's exactly what happened here. this is a serious matter. i appreciate mr. barrow standing with me in this. it's bipartisan effort. it's not personal to the president. but we've got to stop what the president is doing. when i go to virginia, people are saying, scott, what are you doing about this t? this is a practical step in responding to the president. >> guy, thanks so much for coming together, at least on this issue. hard to imagine in gates was in power this would have happened. just my opinion. thanks for your time. >> thank you. coming up straight ahead, she left her kids in a hot car to go on a job interview. charges were dropped. now she's trying to get her children back. does she deserve a second chance? that mom here live. and frenzy -- friendy prinze -- freddy prinze junior
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happy place. am i right? has anyone been there? >> as long as it's your image, that's all that matters. >> that reinforces it. >> it's like the happy move. >> it's hard, when you hear that song, i think a is one of the best songs of the last couple of years. we were playing it and heather nauert was over there smiling. >> i want to retire. >> what's your criteria? you like the beat, but you can't say the lyrics move you. they penetrate your being. >> no. it's the happy song. >> but the beat. >> the words. when you talk about happy, that makes you happy. >> it's too simple. >> that's the beauty of the song. >> as my kindergartener's graduation song. you should see the little five-year-olds walking down. >> they liked it. did you tape that? >> yes, i did. >> we'd like to see that. >> maybe it's not as shared as the 1.2 million views for
"happy." you're happy, heather. >> because she's newsy. >> all right. i have some news to bring you that will make iraqi christians happy. this is terrific news for them. france is now offering a asylum to iraqi christians who we've been telling you about have been under serious fire from this isis terrorist there. that terror group has been forcing christians to convert to islam, pay a massive fine that few can afford, or die. most christians forced to leave mosul, iraq's second largest city, with just the clothes on their back. france is saying they will do everything they can to protect those refugees. glad to hear that this morning. the deadlocked jury in the jesse ventura trial is ordered to try again, deliberations are set to resume this morning. it's day six. ventura is suing the estate of the deceased navy seal chris kyle for $15 million. it's all over a story in kyle's best-selling memoir "american sniper." he writes about punching out ventura in 2006 after ventura
allegedly said that navy seals deserve to lose a few. ventura was never mentioned by name in that book. but his identity was revealed in later interviews. kyle was killed in a shooting range last year. his wife testified at the trial. a fox news alert to bring you now. that stranded whale watching boat that we told you about earlier today off the coast of boston is now headed back. it was supposed to be a three-hour tour, but it turned into a bit of a nightmare when the boat got stuck in a lobster trap. about 60 miles from the boston harbor. nearly 160 tourists were forced to stay on that boat overnight. you know the actor freddy prinze, junior? he's bashing his "24" co-star, keifer sutherland. >> thanks for doing this. >> prinze saying he hated every moment he worked on the hit fox show. he calls sutherland, quote, the most unprofessional dude in the
world. okay. a rep for sutherland release ago statement saying keifer worked with freddy prinze junior more than five years ago and this is the first time he heard of the grievances. we love keifer sutherland here and his show. >> maybe he's got something to it. >> keifer madness. >> i loved his dad in "chico and the man." i don't know if that applies here. >> thanks, heather. moving on, thousands of people picking up the pieces after a rare tornado ripped through the town of revere, massachusetts. maria molina, they haven't seen a tornado around there since the 1950s. >> that tornado was confirmed as an ef-2, happened yesterday morning between 9:30 in the morning hours and had winds of up to 120 miles per hour. stayed on the ground for two miles. a little unusual there across parts of massachusetts. thankfully no injuries. there were a lot of reports of damage out there. i want to show you now your
current temperatures across portions of the great lakes and northeast. behind that storm system we do have much cooler air that moved in. we're seeing the temperatures in the 50s and 60s across the entire region, feel ago little bit more like fall. not summer. your high temperatures are going to remain below average, into the low 70s at cleveland. 70s in new york. but across the southern plains, still a hot day. 90s and triple digits. 109 for your high temperature in phoenix. out west, across portions of new mexico, colorado, and into nevada, we have flood watches in effect. heavy rain expected today. let's head back inside to elisabeth. >> thank you. this homeless mom in arizona was arrested for leaving her kids in a hot car so that she could go on a job interview. she claims she couldn't find a baby-sitter. prosecutors recently dropped criminal charges. she's grateful for the second chance. but should she have been given one? here to tell her story is the woman and her attorney. thank you both for being with us
this morning. we hear your story, read it all over the place. can you bring us back to that day in your mindset and heart of why your two little kids at six months and two years, you felt their best option was to stay in the car while you went inside? what happened that day? >> well, what happened that day was i had scheduled for a sitter to be available for the boys. that sitter was not available at the last moment, based on the time that i had, as well as the gas money that i had available, i didn't have the resources to go to the next nearest baby-sitter, which was about 30 minutes the opposite direction of where i needed to be. so it was just a lack of resources that day. >> when you look at the statistics, 120 children since 2011 that have died as a result of being in a hot car. in 2014, i think we have 17 kids that have died thus far. your two little babies, some
would say, could have been added to that statistic. you were just given a second chance with criminal charges not being on your record now. means you can get your kids back in your custody. looking back on that day, do you believe that you still did the right thing in the moment? >> i believe that i made a choice in a desperate situation. i had to choose between either providing for them or caring for them at that moment. and i made the best choice out of a bad set of options. >> would you do it again? >> i asked myself that 1,000 times and i keep coming back to the choice, on being able to provide or to care for them. that's a choice that many people are facing today. there are too many people trying to figure out how to keep quality childcare, as well as support the family and maintain all of their -- all the things they need to do as a family. so it's something that people face every day, unfortunately. >> the criminal charges were
dropped. benjamin, where does it go legally from here to getting the kids back? >> basically a couple weeks ago we were able to get the criminal charges dropped. now the next step is to focus on getting the kids back. we have a court date coming up in late august. we're going to go in front of the judge and the court and discuss with the state of arizona and child protective services the fastest way that we can unite miss taylor with her kids permanently. >> you have a nine-year-old daughter, i know this has to be extraordinarily challenging for her. what was the last thing you told her? >> the last thing i told her was i explained the situation. mommy made a bad choice and i had to pay the consequences for that. but at the same time, she knows me as a mother. she knows the efforts that i make to take care of the things that she needs. so she's not upset with me. she's just worried about the situation more than anything
else. worried that it will keep her and i separated for an extend amount of time. >> do you believe you'll get your children back? what do you say to those who say you should not? >> i believe i'll get them back because i'm doing everything and anything possible to get them back. to those that say that i don't deserve them back, i simply ask for that chance to prove myself. >> we're thankful your boys are okay. our best to your daughter. we want to thank you both for being with us today. a complex situation. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. coming up, the government issuing a dire warning on the state of religious freedom around the world. but is warning enough? peter johnson, jr. with what the white house is not doing next. and your body language could be telling a different story than your words. >> so hey, what's you doing? >> hand check what, not to do if you want to land a job ahead.
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peter johnson, jr. >> hope it gets good gas mileage. thank you very much. the state department is just issued a grim report on the state of religion and its world wide demise. the report says that in 2013, the quotation goes, the world witnessed the largest displacement of religious communities in recent memory. so what are the reports' recommendations and how can we improve on the situation? it didn't really say. here with what the administration is not doing to improve faith abroad, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. >> good morning. so what the state department did was issue a failing report card without any prescription for improving the grade. let's talk about some of the things that they focused on. syria. once had a christian population of 160,000. now down to 1,000 people. 160,000 to 1,000. then in nigeria, they focused on boko haram, killing more than 1,000 people and over 10,000
people have fled. we know what happened to those young girls and those students in nigeria because of boko haram. so then they focused on the european union. this is really interesting. a survey among jewish people in the eight-member states found as many as 48%, almost half have considered emigrating because of anti-semitism. finally, among the findings, in egypt, attacks on christians, in one week alone in august of last year totaled at least 42 churches, in addition to schools, orphanages and other christian facilities. so they've done this wide array of problems around the world in terms of persecution and discrimination. and then they've come up with their prescription to combat this. it's really staggering. i say that in a sarcastic way. they say, speak truth to power. use this report to defend religious freedom. perhaps you ball it up. then utilize programs, speeches
and statements and say, there is some moral persuasion. >> peter, 75% of the people across the globe live in countries that do not respect religion. and that's what they come up with? >> that's what they come up with and focused on certain countries. we touched on a few of them. there is something called the u.s. commission on international religious freedom, steve. they said in the past year that egypt, iraq, nigeria, pakistan, syria, and vietnam should be listed as countries of particular concern. we have nine. we pick out nine. just nine in the world to say these are countries that we have a problem with. they include burma, china, iran, saudi arabia, amongst others. but egypt, iraq, nigeria, pakistan, syria, vietnam, and we talked about a few of those, what's happening in syria, what's happening in nigeria, what's happening in egypt.
no, they haven't been listed. john kerry pointed to the problem in his own report. he says, i want to emphasize this effort is not about naming countries to list in order to make us feel somehow we've spoken the truth. i want our countries of particular concern designation to be plans to help change the reality on the ground and help people. the problem is they haven't named many of the countries that should be on that list! with regard to the countries that are on that list, this report really points to nothing tangible, concrete, substantive and effective to stem the tide of discrimination in the world against religions. especially judaism and christianity. >> the report is pitiful. >> waste of time. >> waste of time. peter johnson, jr. bringing that to our attention. thank you very much. coming up, even without words, your body language can say a whole lot more.
>> so hey, what you doing? >> isn't he handy? cheryl casone is here with what not to do if you want to land a job. a no-no. first on this date in 1983, the police had the number one song in america. you know the words. ♪ every smile you fake ♪ i'll be watching you ♪ every move you make ♪ every step you take ♪ i'll be watching you ♪
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could be sabotaging your own success. tell us more. >> have you ever had a co-worker that was just a little too handsy? >> brian! >> no, i haven't. >> okay. me neither. >> here is an example. >> so hey, rachel, what you doing? >> not everybody is comfortable being touched in the office. you got to be careful about touching your co-workers. he could have come across a little inappropriate. he could have come across a little too hands. she's like hr. >> a little too close in everything. >> some people like to hug you and you're like, oh, that's not good. the other thing is, a lot of times i do want you to look me in the eye. take a look at this. >> brian, how do you think the show has been going? i think it's been going really well for elisabeth and steve. are you happy with how you're doing? >> they're all right, i guess. i like what i do.
>> please tell me you were acting. >> i'm much more professional than keifer sutherland. >> sometimes it's better to make before the accident eye contact with your co- co-workers. if you weren't looking me in the eye, i'm wondering what's going on. >> the handshake is very important. >> sometimes it's a good time to get a grip. >> hi, cheryl casone. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> maybe they don't like germs. >> we call that the dead fish handshake. women are really actually the worst when it comes to a weak handshake at work. ladies, just go in, give the strong handshake. >> what about a fist bump? >> a fist bump, that kind of comes across as you're a bit of a bully. >> really? never mind. >> you don't want to have a too strong of a handshake.
>> i'm not supposed to do that. take a look. >> okay, so rachel, i need you to go to the production meeting for me today and i need you to take really careful notes. are you getting all of this? >> that was subtle. >> what was the message there? either she wasn't listening to what i was saying or she didn't understand a word i was saying. i'm not really sure. >> you may not realize you're giving the impression -- >> you think when you're tilting your head that you're actually listening, engaging the person. you're not. you're giving a bad impression to that person. >> good note. great tips on the body language. >> hug it out, everybody. fox news alert, it was supposed to be a three-hour tour, but it turned into a nightmare. a whale watching boat stranded at sea has just returned to the docks. live from boston we go. remember this girl? the football sensation who dominated the boys. sam gordon is heading back to
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good morning. today is tuesday, july 29. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. >> it is tuesday july 29th. i'm elizabeth hasselbeck. fox news alert, breaking news on the boat for ended at c overnight. 100 towards on board just made it back to the dock. >> president obama ready to pick up the pen. the plan, and instantly grant amnesty for millions of illegals ahead of the midterm elections. one candidate for congress and the message to the white house that can't be ignored. >> where did they think electricity comes from? i will make sure president obama gets the message.
>> great commercial. did we mention she is a democrat? this morning we're bragging a little bit. she is joining us live because according to wall statistics, mornings are better with friends. >> i am freddie prince jr. 24, you are watching fox and friends. >> thank you. the news in the entertainment world, freddie prince jr. says kiefer sutherland who he worked with five years ago on 24 just the worst actor he ever worked with. and professional do. >> game delay on the comment. 24 is now back. we have to follow that story because it looks like there's a rift he will have trouble feeling. he is not on the show anymore. >> didn't 24 come back? >> they are now in london. >> only five years ago.
i am still in first season. >> right by the side with a lot going on. they have their season finale so it is over. >> i was watching seinfeld. >> some news to bring you, we talked about this earlier this morning. the stranded whale watching boat has now returned back home. it was supposed to be a three hours tour but it turned into a nightmare. 15 hours long. the boat's prop got stuck in a lobster trap 60 miles from boston's harbor. 160 tourists were forced to stay on the boat overnight. the company is apologizing saying they will refund passengers for the trip. on the west coast police hope new surveillance video will lead them to a break in the case of a missing or again mom. jennifer disappeared last thursday when she was out
running errands. this new tape which hasn't been made public yet apparently shows her with trying cash from a local bank before heading to a gas station. herself and was turned off shortly thereafter. family is now offering a reward for her safe return. she has two young children. an alert now, a tornado barrows throw massachusetts suburbs five miles outside of boston. >> all broke. >> that twister packing winds of 120 miles per hour ripping a path of destruction two miles long. we rarely hear about this on the east coast so some pretty big news. look at this car, totally flipped over on the sidewalk and from above ec these roofs torn off the buildings. the national weather service saying this is the first wister to hit that area since they started keeping records in 1950. crazy weather out west, three
tornadoes touching down in the denver area. one of them caught on camera near the airport, no reports of any major damages. he has played golf 81 times since 2012 but all those rounds may not be helping his game. a golfer playing the congressional country club in maryland on sunday claims to have found his ball in the woods somewhere. he posted the picture, the president played the congressional yesterday and found this in the woods. full number 1. looks like he is off line again. that is the problem with gulf. no correlation between a lot of practice and being good. >> back there, very good. >> good at what? >> we know that the president has a phone and japan and the putter. apparently he will use his pen to essentially come up with executive amnesty.
according to a number of papers white house is going to use through executive amnesty action oil. they would issue work permitss to millions of illegals in the country with no threat of deportation. could be to the parents of legal u.s. citizens, the parents of a dreamer kids, nonetheless it could be five, six, seven, 8 million illegals could be impacted before the midterm is. >> the border crisis and this turning into a constitutional crisis as lawmakers on the hills stand up and say jeff sessions, one of the talk a lot yesterday about what is going on here. how is this protecting americans when we have a president working against the law. our laws say this is not possible. are we protecting american workers including legal immigrants? he pointed out again working people all over america would not be helped. african-americans would not be helped by this executive order for amnesty and work permits.
the cbo office says this is a mass amnesties that would cause america wages, wages fall for a decade. >> if we are worried about it being misinterpreted this new amnesty thing, remember the dream backed the president to get this if you are here and you are brought here as a kid you are now don't have to fear deportation. that message is essential and south america next thing you know thousands of kids coming to our borders thinking all i have to do is show up in darkens a year. the parents of kids that were born here now say i am here illegally but maybe the president will let me in. that will be misinterpreted too in the south to only exacerbate things but it might be a good thing to do before the midterm elections if you want to maximize the hispanic vote for some. see if he actually decides to do that. meanwhile there was a protest at the white house. turns out most people, the protesters were illegals who want their voice heard when it
comes to immigration reform so they had no fear coming out in front of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and will come back again. that is extraordinary to have that many people without -- keep in mind around the white house that bubble is one of the most secure areas in the world yet you have all these people without any sort of documentation who are protesting and to your point you are right, eyes agents told fox news absolutely no fear of deportation. for instance if somebody got arrested they look at their background but unless they have got some really hideous serious criminal record they would let from go. >> there should be no compromise when it comes to the law, just followed. national board patrol is still working, those in charge of the law putting it forward are about to set vacation as of the end of this week. heard from national border patrol council, who said we are not going on break. congress may be but we have work
to do. this is a big crisis. >> border patrol agents we will be on duty, we don't wake five weeks off, we will doing our jobs and that includes rescuing people especially kids who don't know survival skills. >> what we heard is he is talking about border patrol agents before the 7-10 border patrol agents not guarding the border because they are babysitting. last week we talked to the border patrol at the border and ice agents in charge of returning the. we had one agent on last week who said he essentially they are not being given any assignment. so they go ahead and stop some people but because they are not being given the assignment of returning from that is the message, they can stay, as long as you one. >> the big picture people looking at the present and the midterm elections, 98 days away. wondering how the president is doing in his confidence which was so strong in 2008 according
to the polls, so much smarter and more astute and more grounded now has reversed. >> obama is faltering badly on the confidence question and in doing so in periling his ability not only to a and actor second term agenda but democrats chances this fall. a series of events in the ongoing border crisis and the situation in ukraine, the nsa spying program badly undermined the idea that obama can effectively manage the government. two said of independents saying obama is not an effective manager. >> considering the washington post is a lefty newspaper and one of the columnists saying barack obama is box office poison for his party and we were telling you about the columnist who said the president essentially has -- this was for the daily collar and the
telegraph, the president has already checked out of the job, phoning it in, sleepwalking through his second term and is ready for an early departure. maybe that is his opinion but keep in mind he is running the country. how does that impact all of us. that is not good. not a positive thing. >> the president might be checked out but does not want to lose the senate so look to push the idea the republicans want to in peach him. wherever you go leadership, democratic leadership, there are e-mails saying republicans are trying to impeach me, look out to try to rally his base. >> when it comes to romneycare, the pending executive order as released amnesty and work papers, now we will maybe perhaps in more of a crisis when it comes to employment. millions more are granted the right to work. >> the president wants to do well in the midterm elections or his party does the immigration at least be in charge, the israeli gaza situation, there's a end in sight.
solve the situation in iraq, make a decision. all these issues would restore the president's confidence ratings. >> i don't know. it could be a little weight on some of that stuff. kind of baked into the cake. >> is he out of time? >> we are out of time for this segment. for mother who left her kids and a hot car once a second chance, does she deserve it. hear her case. >> one candidate for congress and in a message to the white house they cannot ignore. >> where did they think their electricity comes from? i will make sure president obama gets the message. >> did we mention she is a democrat? she is joining us live in our studio next. >> keep her away from our light switch. staples for back to school.
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and i'll stand up to leaders of oath parties who threaten our way of life. i'll make sure president obama gets the message. >> where is that light switch? natalie tenant wants to be the next senator from west virginia. she's currently secretary of state. welcome. >> what's behind the ad? >> thank you for having me here. >> thank you for having me here. virginia coal miners. it's sending a message. this isn't about -- you're talking about democrat. but this isn't a democrat or republican. this is about west virginia and whether the president wants to recognize it or not, coal still produces 40% of the electricity for this country. >> it fuels west virginia. and senator manchin on here before. >> i reference him, too. that we work together for our west virginia coal miners to make sure that we have jobs, 'cause when we talk about west virginia coal miners, it is
families, it is mortgages that they're trying to pay. we're getting ready to go back to school and they're trying to send their children back to school. >> we see the lights go out in the white house. so what is president obama getting wrong? how would his actions affect west virginia? >> these regulations are attacking our coal jobs and what we're asking and what i'm asking is don't attack our coal jobs with regulations that are unrealistic and unattainable. work with us because if you invest in west virginia, we will deliver for you, advance coal technologies that yes, can cut emissions and save jobs at the use that investment. >> but you know, there are a lot of people who go, we got to get rid of the dirty coal or all the coal. those people don't realize that when they plug in their electric car in the garage, they're they plug in their electric car in the garage they're planning into a coal plant. >> you see that here. where do you think your where do you think your >> so people look at you, you're in a pretty much red state. >> people with you, you are a
red state. >> i dispute that. we have a 2-1 registration advantage for democrats. ten of our 13 statewide elected officials are democrats, house and senate are democrats. >> joe mansion is close to a moderate democrat in the senate. judging by his track record and what he has been like here do you think it is to your advantage to appear with senator warren of massachusetts who is known as the liberals's liberal? >> when i look at senator warren and together we know we don't agree on everything and -- don't agree on everything and -- don't we agree on making sure our students have the ability to middle-class, we agree on making sure our students have the ability to have an affordable college education and that they be indented with student loans. we also agree on taking care of coal miners. introduced with senator rockefeller that i will continue the bankruptcy fairness law where many retirees coal miners ended up on the wrong side of
bankruptcy. >> redistribution of wealth is something also. >> with is all about opportunity and the middle-class. this is equal pay for equal work. work. of course, right now your new ad, you're standing up to the white house. don't pull the plug on coal. but your opponent, shelly moore capito, sent this picture saying this is proof that you're a flip flopper because there you are back in 2008 and you are campaigning for the now president of the united states. are you a flip flopper? >> first of all, west virginiaians know me. they know i stand up for west virginia. example, when officials in 2010 tried to steal an election, i led the investigation that put them behind federal prison. that shows that i stand up for west virginia first regardless of party, regardless of position. >> would you hold that sign again today? >> when we talk about this -- you look at it, yes, i did campaign for the president in 2008. i am disappointed and i'm hurt
with the way he is reacting to west virginia and the perfect example is today, the epa is having a hearing about these regulations. and on tuesday, they're in d.c today they're in pittsburgh. we asked mccarthy to come to west virginia, hear from people who are going to be impacted, their livelihood. do you know where they're going thursday? pittsburgh. 20 miles away from west virginia. >> would you hold that sign today? >> i didn't hold the sign. >> would you be there right now? >> i'm not sure. he's not on the ballot. that's what is about this election. >> you're not sure if you would vote for president obama. >> this is about me and capito 'cause i don't answer to the president. >> thank you for dropping by. we'll have your opponent on this >> thank you for dropping by. we will add your opponent on this program tomorrow. >> keep your lights on. >> 20 minutes after the hour. coming up, does this look racists to you?
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time for quick international headlines. fox news alert. four israeli soldiers are dead. hamas militants firing at a tank they were riding in through gaza. this comes after a night of missile attacks from israel hitting the house of a hamas leader and gaza's only power hitting the house of a hamas hitting the house of a hamas 24-hour cease fire, saying hamas agreed to the temporary peace. the politically powerful cousin of afghan president karzai was killed by a suicide bomber on tuesday. the attacker, who hid the explosives in his head gear, has
allowed into his house as a guest. the attack is a major blow to the country's ruling family. elisabeth? >> thanks. who could forget this little girl? yes, i said girl. two years ago nine-year-old sam gordon became an internet sensation barreling through all the boys in her tackle league, and barely breaking a sweat. more than 2 million people watched our highlight reel and some said she was a shoe in for the nfl. then she said she put down the pig skin and focused on soccer instead. many thought it was a mistake. but this morning it appears sam might be having a change of heart. >> i'm going to football camp at the university of michigan. they divides us up into our position groups and i chose runningback. they taught us how to hold the ball right and did drills. i wanted to impress the coach. so i ran my hardest. today we ran the 40-yard dash. the rumor going around camp is that i ran it in 4.9 seconds.
i'm not that fast. >> i think you're pretty fast. football sensation sam gordon joins me now. good morning. >> hi. >> well done. i love watching those highlight reels. so you're back to football. what was camp like? >> it was really fun. i loved going. >> oh, my gosh. you look pretty fast. you don't think you ran that fast, 4.9? >> no, i don't think i can run that fast. >> maybe almost. you played a lot of football there. you ran some drills and you mentioned devon garden. we want to let everyone watch this. >> i thought it was really cool when i got to meet quarterback devon gardner. he even asked to join our game. he made a perfect pass to me when i was all alone and i dropped it. i definitely need to spend more time with the receivers. >> so what did you feel when that happened? tell us. >> i felt like really embarrassed 'cause i just
dropped a perfect pass made by devon gardner. >> i bet he was impressed with your skills overall. i'd take that pressure off yourself. no more soccer? all football? what's your plan? >> my coach said -- my soccer coach said that i can miss a few practices to go to football. she says that football made me see the field really well. so it's a good thing i'm doing it. >> so you believe then, too, that football is good for soccer? >> yes. >> now, brian kilmeade and i can finally get along that you said that. i want you to realize. it is impressive. what's your advice to kids out there who just want to give it a try in a sport where it might not seem possible? >> it's really fun for football. i don't know. i have to think about that. >> you know what? my husband, tim, he played a lot of football, completely impressed with your film there and your skills. you're quick.
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♪ ♪ shot of the morning. prince harry trying to up the queen with his royal photo bomb. sorry, queeny. giving two thumbs up behind those men at the commonwealth games in scotland. that's when britain plays scotland and they try to go for gold medals. you may remember the grandmother's photo bomb went viral. she's also known as the queen. >> you just called her queeny? >> is that wrong? we just called her a grandmother, too. >> she's royally offended. >> should we stay overseas across the lake? >> across the pond? >> yes, why not? >> let's talk thomas the tank. the train is getting accused of being racist. british blogger posted an editorial and said that this is racist, sexist. she says if you look through the steam rising up from the coal powered train stack, you realize that the pretty puffs of smoke are containing twisted messages
when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump out black smoke and all pumping out smoke, it's not hard to make the leap into the race territory. >> but of course. so thomas the tank engine is in this blogger's and a mother's estimation, is a racist sexist, classless kind of show. we asked for your comments. we got a tweet from matt who said, seriously? get a grip, lady. thomas is a great and helped expand my son's vocabulary. >> another said, are you kidding? my kids grew up watching this and they're far from racist. >> another man says it's antiracist. the story line that steam engines and diesels are different and yet they can be friends. a lot of people don't think diesel and steam can be friends. working together appears over and over. a lot of people think the white smoke symbolizes the white man giving orders to others. >> right. that's what the blogger says. you see the white smoke. what about when they elect a new pope?
so they burn the ballots, first there is black smoke and then white smoke. is that a racist thing? >> right. and as chris chulo pointed out an "f-troop," they had white smoke and one time it came out black smoke and it was because they had a hole in the blanket. but there was no complaints then. >> nothing deeper than that. >> larry storch didn't become pope then, did he? >> no, stuck with being a corporal. and as a sergeant, made all the decisions. >> another woman thought otherwise, but we love hearing your responses. >> keep them coming. let's toss it over to that woman there in white, heather nauert, who starts with the news on that stranded boat. >> this is quite a story. a fox news alert, moments ago that stranded whale watching boat off the coast of boston has returned back home. it was supposed to be out for just a three-hour tour, but it turned into a bit of a nightmare. 15 hours for passengers there. the boat's propeller was stuck in a lobster trap 60 miles off
the coast of boston's harbor. nearly 160 tourists were forced to stay on the boat overnight. >> those things happen. accidents happen and things like that. the reaction was very slow. seemed like ages. >> what a story they get to bring back home. that tour company is now apologizing, saying it will refund all the passengers for the cost of their trip. a homeless mother in arizona arrested for leaving her children in a hot car during a job interview is now defending her decision this morning right here on "fox & friends." listen to this. >> i believe that i made a choice in a desperate situation. i had to choose between either providing for them or caring fo. and i made the best choice out of a bad set of options. >> does she deserve a second chance? you've been writing us all morning. dia says if there was ever a time for a judge to use someone
as an example, this would be the case and now would be the time. another says of course she deserves a second chance. we all deserve a second chance. carl says it was a bad choice to leave the kids in the car. but it would be punishing her kids even more by putting her in jail instead of teaching her how to make better choices. she had three children in the car. three young children. dating the traditional way can sometimes be pretty tough. >> hello? yes. i'm with him right now. no, not very attractive. no, doesn't make much money. a bit fat. >> ouch. gosh. how awful. it looks like "on line dating can't be trusted either. it's called okay cupid and it's been conducting this crazy psychological experiment on users without the users even knowing about it. the web site's co-founder says users photos and bios have been changed and also removed the name of people in this
experiment. the site told people they were a good match when in reality they were awful for one another. so a lot of people getting upset about this. this on the heels of facebook doing something somewhat similar recently. major department stores, including macy's and j.c. penney busted after an investigation found that they're actually selling customer's gems that are filled with cheap glass and referring to them as real rubies. you can see the difference after putting them in jewelry cleaner. look how it crackles on the left. the lead glass stone on the left appears to be cracked. the real one on the right sparkles. both stores say they mark the products as lead glass rubies. macy's says they're going to retrain their salespeople now. j.c. penney says they will refund dissatisfied buyers. those are your headlines. not a good idea to buy your wife for an anniversary. >> it looks like a mood ruby. it changes with my mood.
>> unlike the ruby slippers. do you know what the ruby slippers were made out of? sequins sewn on. i've seen it at the smithsonian. just stitched onto a pair of shoes. >> when my daughter asked if they were real, i said yes. >> they were bedazzled. >> if you had not seen that story, there was a spoiler alert. it would have been nice if you said that. >> maria molina joins us. we were talking about the wizard of oz that involves a tornado. there was some tornadoes making news yesterday. >> that's right. yesterday and there was one specifically just outside of the city of boston. a confirmed ef-2 tornado, winds of 120 miles per hour. a lot of damage out there. thankfully no injuries. that was in eastern parts of massachusetts. hyped that storm system -- behind that storm system that produced all kinds of severe weather on thursday and monday, we do have cooler air that's moving in. that's a very strong cold front that moved eastward.
and now look at the temperatures. a little chilly for some of you. like in detroit, you're looking at a current temperature of 55. 58 in buffalo. you're at 54 degrees in pittsburgh. your highs are going to remain below average out there across portions of the midwest and into the northeast. still hot across parts of texas and even farther west like in phoenix, 109 for your high temperature out there. we do have a disturbance that's swinging through portions of the west and even into the plains. it is going to be producing areas of heavy rain, flood watches are in effect. let's head back inside. >> thank you very much. a fox news alert talks of a new cease fire. happening now in gaza. is israel being treated as the bad guy. former israeli ambassador to the u.s., michael, joins us live ahead. before he was deployed to fight for this nation, his home looked like this. now it looks like this. all because of a code violation. that soldier joins us live next.
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welcome back. quick headlines for you. google can predict the stock market? researchers found the search engine can spot crashes before they happen. analysts looked at business searches between 2004 and 2012 and found spikes right before drops in the stock market. a golden retriever so excited when her favorite soldier returns home.
her owner was deployed for nine months. look at that reunion. heart warming. hey there, steve. >> they never forget. thank you. he served on the front lines in iraq and afghanistan, but while sergeant jimenez was away on active duty, a whole different kind of war was being waged over his property, his house in miami, florida. the city claimed james had several code violations and they demolished his house while he was at war. last week sergeant jimenez scored a big win against big government and he joins us live right now from el paso, texas, where he serves at fort bliss. good morning to you, sergeant. >> good morning. thank you for having me. >> good to have you. what a story. so a number of years ago, the county said that you needed to fix up your house or what was going to happen? >> from the beginning, it was excessive use of force from them. they said you need to bring your house up to code, current code,
even though it was built in 1947. something that wasn't doable. >> and so why were they telling you to do that while they weren't telling the other people on your block to do it? >> that's exactly where the confusion was, i tried to ask them why me? if die it, then that means i'm submitting the rest of the neighborhood to the same process. >> absolutely. so you started the process. you started to fix things and they kept coming back and kept saying, while you're at it, fix this and this. eventually you hired an engineer to help you, right? >> that is correct. >> what did he do? >> they proved that there was no structural issues with the house and everything that they wanted could be done and we had plans drawn and engineer report and once the architect went to ask for the permit, the same guy that was making the building official, he denied the permit for building. >> so you were on it.
you were trying to comply. then out of nowhere, they demolish your house. did you have notice that they were about to do that? >> negative. there was no court order for us to vacate or anything. >> how did they get away with that? >> the building department, they're their own entity. they have the power to do basically whatever they want. because this was a personal issue. they did exactly that. >> okay. so last week a judge ruled in favor of you, saying the county should have delayed the building code violation proceedings against you while you were on active duty overseas. so they smacked down the county. now that you have won, what do you want? >> i just want this to be over. it's been hard for our family. some people might think the money will make up for it.
there is nothing that makes up for a lost home and all the memories that came with it. >> okay. so i understand from your attorney you want the city to drop all the liens, including the demolition costs and suspend all code enforcement and pay $395,000 as well. is that correct? >> that is accurate. >> okay. and in the meantime, you moved on. you're in texas, right? >> yes. >> and you just want it to be behind you. what a terrible story. we hope you wind up with some justice, sergeant. thank you very much for joining us today from texas and telling us your story. >> thank you. >> good luck to you. that is just a little crazy. it is now 12 minutes before the top of the hour. a fox news alert. talks of a new cease fire agreement happening as we speak in gaza. but is the united states treating israel as the bad guy? former israeli ambassador to the united states, that man right there, michael orr, joins brian next. first let's check in with
martha mccallum for a preview of what happens on the channel in a little bit. >> good morning to you. john kerry is fighting back today as criticism mounts in his handling of israel and hamas. russia grows more bold, testing a missile that violates a treaty that we have with them. we're going to talk about that. how about this, is the irs now starting to take on churches? bill and i will see you right here on america's newsroom at the top of the hour. losing your chex mix too easily? deploy the boring potato chip decoy bag. with a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix has twenty bags of interesting. pick your mix.
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fox news alert. four israeli soldiers dead this morning as new explosions rock the city of gaza. this after israeli missiles take out a power plant and the home of another hamas leader. now the palestinian authority is calling for 24 hour cease fire, saying hamas has agreed to a
temporary peace. but our next guest says the only way to end this crisis in the middle east is to crush hamas. the former ambassador to the united states is with us. how long will it take to crush hamas? very few in the west would be sad if they were to disappear. how long would that take? >> good morning to you. it may take a while. what israel needs is time and space. we've been through this round, this cycle again and again where the terrorists shoot rockets at us. we fire back. the world imposes a cease fire. the terrorists use that cease fire to build up their rocket arsenals, then fire again with even longer range rockets and bigger rockets. the whole thing starts -- we got to break this cycle right now. to do that, you got to deliver something close to a death blow to hamas. you got to get them into a situation where they're not going to use those rockets. >> they're in charge of gaza. they merged with the palestinian authority. you have to get rid of every single one of them to ask them
to leave or killed? >> we're talking about demille tearizing the dealership. they can stay there. they don't have rockets, what goes on from gaza is their business. as long as they're not firing at israeli citizens, as long as they're not digging tunnels under our cities, our farms to come up and kill our civilians, that's their business. >> ambassador, the long run, if you destroy every tunnel, they know how to make them. they'll make them again. how do you stop that? do you look for a long-term israeli presence in gaza after the violence stops? >> i think the idea is to get out of gaza as soon as possible once the work is done. but you have to develop a type of underground iron dome defense system, iron dome is the revolutionary israeli antiballistic system that has taken down hundreds of rockets over our city, including this city, tel aviv. we need an underground version of that. the united states faces very similar challenges with tunnels under its southern border. we haven't come up with a
yet. but we came up with a technological answer for missiles, we'll come up with one for the tunnels. >> you know about the world of diplomacy and witnessing this fires. josh earnest is calling on israel to do better. listen. >> israel and their political leaders often talk about the high standards that they put in place for their military operations to ensure the safety and well-being of civilians on the palestinian side of the border. based on published reports, it's apparent that there is more that they should do to live up to those standards that they have set. >> ambassador. >> more you could do? >> i came to my job as ambassador not as a diplomat, but as a military historian. i'll tell you right off that there has been no army in the history of warfare that has done more to minimize civilian casualties, whether it's dropping thousands of leaflets, sending text message, making phone calls to palestinian
civilians, telling them to leave areas where combat is about to take place. >> having said that, are you insulted by the charge? >> i wonder what published reports they're basing them on. are they basing them on al gentleman sneer a reports? are they basing them on reports from the united nations is this which is scarcely -- which is scarcely an objective source about israel. a few years ago we had the report that had israel guilty of war crimes and then found it was false and they had to apologize for them. i personally take strong objection to the fact that we're not doing enough. we're doing a super human job to avoiding casualties. >> straight ahead, atheists vowed to remove the cross from the 9-11 memorial. the decision is in. we'll share it pain from your day can haunt you at night, don't let it.
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before we go, we have one for the road. a win for state of new york city where a court ruled the ground zero cross can remain at the september 11 museum. atheists filed a lawsuit to remove the steel beams found in that shape among the wreckage. they claim the site of the cross made them physically sick. the court says too bad. excellent. 14-year-old kayla leans over and grabs a foul ball. look at this grab. it was beautiful. it was a wonderful grab. but the problem is it might have been interference. there was some protest, but in the end, the girl gets the ball and an autograph from todd frazier for the wonderful catch. and before we go, we want you to look good. you know spanx, they're coming out with jeans. two different styles with slimming fits and strategic stomach control panels which
brian and i have been talking about. why don't they have those for guys? sounds like the spanx will be about 150 bucks. >> you chose spanx as your one for the road. >> we spanx you for it. >> thanks, everybody. >> christmas gifts not too early, is really war planes hitting targets in gaza overnight, watch this. >> those flares turning the sky orange. hamas government complex hit, fuel tanks they look like they're exploding into flames. another strike hitting in gaza city where fox news staff is saying this
favorite. about 150,000 fans are expected at churchill downs in louisville tomorrow evening. that's going to do it for "way too early" friday edition. "morning joe' starts right now. not only has donald sterling been banned from the nba for life, he's he's also been planned from the bunny ranch brothel in atlanta. >> if you want to have a good time at the bunny ranch, don't be a racist or animal killer. >> dennis hoff wants nothing to do with donald sterling. dennis hoff says the main reason why he is banned for life is out of respect for the nba players that come here to the bunny ranch. >> he has that respect. >> good morning. it is friday, everybody. it's friday, may 2nd.
>> what a wonderful day may 2nd is. >> with us on set -- it is friday this year. >> it's mika's birthday. >> happy birthday. >> i love a taurus. that's her sign. >> i'm 47. am i to be happy about this? >> of course you are. >> national holiday in at least three countries. >> it is. >> best you've ever been. have you seen pictures of her at 27? best she's ever been. >> that's nice. >> i've seen that hair. >> no, i'm three years from 50. that's the way i look at it. >> is that a positive way to look at it? >> that's not a positive attitude. >> why not? why not? i think 47 is just fine, thank you. >> you're thriving. >> i'm thriving. and i know my value. >> yes, you do. >> i remember when i was 47. >> yeah. i do too. msnbc, "time" magazine analyst
mark halperin is here. former treasury official and "morning joe" analyst, my travel agent, steve rattner. and in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist of "the washington post", eugene robinson. >> what are you going to do for your birthday? >> i'm going to go to sleep. hopefully nor a long time. >> that's a good present. >> i'm going sleep for a very long time. maybe more like a putting a dog down kind of way. >> 21st version of timothy leary. >> i like how your arianna and dr. brzezinski is the same. >> yes. one is a female voice. >> it's very zsa zsa gabor. >> your zsa zsa is very good. >> you are stunning. >> we had fun last night -- moving on away from the
birthday -- at the national magazine awards. have you ever been to that? it's really a great event. so well organized. great crowd. i think they were all drunk. >> they were not drunk. >> i do, i think they were. our friend was there. >> it was a great night. national geographic took some home. >> bon appetit magazine cleaned up. >> the new yorker cleaned up. i mean, these guys, i almost -- there's steve. columbia. the school of journalist. >> cindy leavy, glamour. then in a huge category -- >> shocker for people. big win for them. >> they had eight. and cosmo won. >> and magazine of the year. best company. >> that was awesome. that was fun. >> yeah. >> very exciting night. >> the award -- that's a big thing. >> i had no idea what it is.
>> bunch of boomerangs put together. >> let's get to the news, shall we? >> sure. >> "the new york times" is reporting this morning that u.s. sanctions over ukraine are having a limited impact on russia as vladimir putin demand troops withdraw from part of the country. the russian ruble and stock market are actually stronger now than they were before the first wave of u.s. sanctions were announced. >> that's not really the idea. >> meanwhile, an operation is underway in eastern ukraine to reclaim the city controlled by pro-russian militants. gunfire and explosions could be heard as ukrainian forces claim they regained control of at least nine check points. the militants shot down two military helicopters. at least three people have been killed including a ukrainian pilot. separatists loyal to moscow are building barricades in an
attempt to keep ukrainian forces away. it has been a violent week in the region with pro-russian militants seizing control of government buildings. yesterday the men overpowered to storm a building. they are fighting. >> they are fighting. you know it's not a good sign when vladimir putin tells you to withdraw troops from your own country. and the sanctions are having unfortunately limited effect. so we will obviously keep a close look on this. >> this is also when you see scenes like this, you are going to wonder at some point if we need to help them in a more tangible way. >> i think most people when they look at the fact -- they look at the fact that the ruble is doing better, the stock market is doing better than when the president issued the first round of sanctions, not a good sign. also not a good sign when your donors that are going to help you get elected president start talking about moving to another
candidate. that's exactly what seems to be happening and according to reports to chris christie. >> we'll go there. chris christie was leading early polls and considered a top contender to a hillary clinton run in 2016. but now a report says some republican fund raisers even some in the new jersey area with considering jumping ship from christie for jeb bush as the former florida governor looks at a bid. jeb is also getting some support from his brother. >> i hope jeb runs. and i think he would be a great president. i have no clue what's on his mind. we'll talk when he's ready. i notice he's moving around the country quite a bit. >> doing well in polls. >> yeah. that's fine. they don't mean anything. for him i can guarantee he's not looking at a poll to decide
whether or not he wants to run. it's internal. he's checking his core. as he said publicly, i'm thinking about my family. and he knows full well what a run for the presidency can do on family. after all, he's seen his dad and brother run for president. so jeb, if you need advice, give me a call. >> okay. it is worth noting according to a new quinnipiac university poll, jeb easily leads the rest of the 2016 pack in his home state. that includes marco rubio who i think people are talking about as well. >> people are talking about marco as well. it's going to be interesting to see what's going to happen there. mark halperin, this is something we've been talking about for quite some time. the only reason jeb's thinking about even running in this case is because chris christie started to fall. and when that happened, there's no establishment gop candidate and he figures perhaps maybe why
not. >> the gop establishment, the money people play in the process. and jeb still has as that story suggests, a large hold on them. and governor christie's troubles have only exacerbated the search. there's 30 people talked about as running. that was true even when chris christie looked strong. >> it's also true in 2012 and jeb didn't take the jump in for a lot of the same reasons he's thinking of not taking the jump in right now. but, you know, we have said from the very beginning this chris christie story is important. and it does have a direct impact on who may be elected the next president, tom. as chris christie goes down, that fills a void and that looks like that void right now is going to be filled by jeb bush. >> there certainly are establishment republicans that have a long history with the bush family and like what jeb bush represented when it comes to his history in florida. it also means because of jeb
bush's family ties with his wife and his kids and the fact that they have a deep connection with the latino and hispanic community, that they might be able to be the bridge that can help usher in a new wave of people to the gop. get them back interested with other people that are currently in elected office have been scaring off that demographic. >> they have. and jeb was as good or better than anybody i've seen. certainly better than any republican i've seen with latino voters. >> all right. here's an issue that could definitely impact the 2016 elections and become a little problem for potentially one candidate. overnight at least five people were killed in a militia attack at the libyan security headquarters in benghazi. the situation in that area, in that country still far from stable. 19 months after a raid on the u.s. consulate there left four americans dead. held its latest hearing yesterday in the 2012 attack.
the focus around a recently released e-mail of talking points that aimed to underscore the idea that the protests were triggered by an anti-islam video. critics say the message rees looed this week is proof there was a political agenda at play in the white house. but the administration says it was about the wider middle east and not specifically about libya. >> the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today that the protest and, again -- >> but benghazi was part of it, right? >> right. i want to refer you to the cia talking points on that. most people remember there were demonstrations around the region that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video. >> you were being cautious. you're saying there's an investigation there. that's 9/12. why on 9/14 is ben rhodes
writing an e-mail saying judgments this was inspired by a video. why wasn't it we don't know. >> do you need a copy of the cia report? >> i've read them. >> it is a cut and paste from the talking points which much to your disappointment turned out to be produced by the cia. >> mark halperin, that's just not true. first of all, here's nancy pelosi. i think she said it best right here when she said benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. >> what i will say is benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. why aren't we talking about something else? whatever was in that -- what i know of what i've read in the press about the -- those e-mails were very consistent with what was put out there before. i don't think there's anything new there. >> we're talking about it because the white house has been caught in a lie with benghazi. and one commentator yesterday
said who's often critical of republicans, it wasn't just a lie, it was a stupid lie. because it's obvious they're not telling the truth. the documents, the lawsuit that ordered them to release these documents, what did they ask for? not information pertaining to white house records involving the middle east. information involving all discussions involving benghazi. so the white house released this e-mail which clearly shows they weren't telling the truth earlier and that jay carney was spinning for whatever reasons. also, you know, the cia document they kept talking about, the acting cia chief said they weren't the ones that supplied it in the first place. this is what the white house has been doing and they've been caught. wouldn't it just be better for them to say, yeah, to come clean at some point or are they just going to keep lying? >> are you saying they can't
have it both ways? >> i'm saying that, first of all, jay carney needs to understand -- and by the way, he should understand. i'm taken by people that go in the white house and thinks the history ends when the white house ends. on the other side of the obama administration, he's going to have to come out and he's going to have to piece together his reputation. i say that as a guy i liked. i liked as a journalist. i respected him as a journalist. i still like him as a person. but i've seen this. i am getting old enough -- older than 47. >> oh yeah. >> that was doing the same thing. in 2005 i called her up. i said you know what? this administration's going to end, and you're going to have decades to deal with your credibility after it ends. stop lying to me. because you're going to have to deal with me on the other side of the bush administration. bush is going to go back to texas and i'm still going to be here. when you wonder why jay carney is doing what he's doing, i
think shattering the reputation, a well-deserved, good reputation he built at "time" magazine doing this when everybody knows he's lying. >> from the beginning, the posture of everyone around the president's been there's nothing to see here, move on. when they do stuff like this, it em boeboldens critics. how can you ask us to trust you when you say there's nothing here and then you do this? >> if benghazi's not a big deal, if people think benghazi's not a big deal -- chuck todd seemed to think yesterday benghazi wasn't a big deal. that's fine. have that debate. but if there's an e-mail directing susan rice to go and push a line and they don't reveal that, well, they've got to come clean. >> when we look at what exactly was in this specific e-mail that was released and the bullet points given to her to use as
reference points to go on these shows, that was in there. to underline the fact this was not a broader policy failure. gene, when we look at this and the ramifications that come from it, let's not forget as we get caught up in the benghazi conversation, we lost four americans. we lost four americans committed to the state department. we lost four americans that were in libya that was a rat hole after muammar gadhafi was out. so this is an embarrassment for the white house. but how do they reclaim the narrative so jay carney doesn't look like just a big liar in trying to remind everybody from that lecture the history of the time, which is okay to do, but how do they look like they're not lying about what was done? >> you know, if there are any other e-mails, just put them out. just put everything out. because in the end, this is a
scandal without a center. you know, what's at the center of this is -- was the real -- if there's a scandal, it is a state department security preparations prepositions of forces, the assessment before the attack as to what sort of danger the ambassador and the cia facility might have been in in benghazi. that's what went wrong there. and, you know, to expect there to have been a clear narrative of exactly what the motivations were of the miscreants who did this, a couple of days after the attack is ridiculous. it's absurd. nothing ever happens like that. so if the criticism is that the white house is dragging this out and is making it a bigger deal, a different kind of deal than it
ought to be, i think that could be a valid criticism. just put everything out there, because really the issue is what allowed benghazi to happen? not whether what the talking points said. what the talking points said, it's just a ridiculous sideshow. >> and by the way, go back for liberals who have been watching the show the past couple days and friends of the obama administration who have been frustrated what i'm saying about jay carney and the talking points, see what i said the monday morning after benghazi when i absolutely tore mitt romney to shreds for jumping to a conclusion. just following what gene said, for jumping to a conclusion and trying to politicize this. yes, when you hold a press conference after a u.s. ambassador is dragged through the streets without knowing all the information, you're politicizing it before knowing what's going on. i think both sides tried to
immediate politicize this. obama administration, oh, this has nothing to do with our policy. it's just an internet video by a crazy person. then you have mitt romney in the middle of a campaign saying this is the worst thing ever, blah, blah, blah. now as things get revealed, maybe mitt romney was right. but he didn't know at the time he was right. but the problem with the white house is that they're the ones sitting there now still having to clean up for some really stupid things they did and some misleading things they did. >> former national security council spokesman looked to down play his role in changing the talking points saying it's difficult to remember because it was so long ago. >> according to the e-mails and the timeline the cia circulates new talking points after they removed mention of al qaeda. then at 6:21, the white house, you, add a line about the warning of september 10th of social media reports calling for
demonstrations. true? >> i believe so. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> i don't remember. >> dude, this was two years ago. >> dude, it is the thing that everybody' talking about. >> we're talking about the process of editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. >> okay. listen, if you want to keep me off your back, do what he just said. say "dude." i love the guy, but there he knows exactly what he did. we've all been in that situation. i can remember as a lawyer editing things. i can remember as a business person we can remember -- >> that was like eddie haskell there. >> come on, he knew. he remembers everything about that. this white house -- >> dude, that was like two years ago? >> that was a very long
interview. it was a small part. >> when you cut through all this, there's two basic points or questions. one, obviously the white house should come clean. we all know the coverup is worse than the crime. drip, drip, drip. just get it all out. >> and we also know on that part, the cover up, it was the president was trying to be i'm the tough guy. we won the war on terror. they wanted to make this a spontaneous demonstration. but the fact is it's just not true and everybody knows. why don't they clean this up, steve? >> right. but the second question is is this really going -- you said at the beginning of all this 2016, is this going to become a national issue or is this inside the beltway? >> for hillary it will be an issue. because she talked about the telephone call. she got her own 3:00 a.m. telephone call and four americans are dead because of it. and if you think these are just republican talking points, talk to the family members of the
four americans who gave their lives for this country. it will be an issue. and hillary clinton and her supporters and any democrats that want to say, oh, this is just right wing -- a right wing -- to borrow one of hillary's phrases, a mass right wing conspiracy. wait until the end of the campaign. still ahead on "morning joe," bill clinton a 2:00 a.m. phone call and cursing. >> you just don't want to get 2:00 a.m. phone calls. >> congressman jim clyburn was on the other end of that call. he'll be here to explain what happened. what? >> i'm also going to ask about what a congressman had to say about clarence thomas being a, quote, uncle tom. also what he had to say about mitch mcconnell being a racist. some extraordinary things. >> plus new details that the inmate in the oklahoma execution had to be tased before the
execution. up next, new cell phone video just released from on board the south korean ferry as it began to sink. the reason why the video was actually released at this point. but first, bill kairns with a check on the forecast. bill? >> mika, i did my part. it looks like a beautiful birthday weekend for you. >> nice. happy birthday, mika. >> thank you, bill. >> last week was miserable around the country. now we're going to start to see spring taking over. warmer temperatures, too. there's a few scattered showers out there around cape cod. also some light rain around buffalo, syracuse, and rochester. temperatures are more mild today than they had been this past week. we're at the 50s in the big cities, 40s in the burbs. as we go throughout the afternoon, a gorgeous friday afternoon. low 70s to mid-60s. i know yesterday was nearly 80. it was kind of humid. today's more springlike, less
humidity, plenty of sunshine. florida's the exception. we've got a lot of rain coming your way. not the flooding stuff we just dealt with, but scattered showers and storms friday, saturday, sunday. so here's your forecast for your weekend. we're finally ending the horrible warmth out wed. it was 95 in san diego of all places yesterday. wier finally watching everything averaging out. of course the kentucky derby is on saturday. looks to be about 73 degrees. no problems there in louisville. looks beautiful and much of the country even into sunday should be looking pretty nice. there's really not any horrible weather. no severe storms, no tornadoes, nothing like that. mother nature is giving us a break as we go throughout our first may weekend. looking at a nice day across the country. more "morning joe" when we come right back. ♪ avo: wherever your journey takes you
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all right. it's time to take a look at the morning papers. look at the front page of "usa today." 8 million people have signed up for the affordable care act. 8 million. >> that's great. >> 8 million. just saying. >> that's great. what are you saying? >> i'm just saying 8 million people have signed up. that's pretty good. they need more and they need to get young people still. >> they do. >> that's a demographic they're still focusing on. why are you behaving so nicely? >> that's great. >> bill de blasio and the city's largest teacher's union agreed to a contract yesterday ending a five-year labor dispute. teachers will receive back pay of 8% of their salaries and bonuses for teachers with positive reviews. the union agreed to reductions in health care saving the city $1 million. >> from our parade of papers, the oregonian, cell phone video
recovered from one of the young victims aboard the capsized south korean ferry is giving new insight into what happened in that doomed ship. the student's father released the video to give it to the nation and let them get a glimpse into the disaster. at first the crew warns of a possible accident over the loud speaker. the video shows the students fooling around. but as the ferry begins to tilt, the mood changes to panic. towards the end of the video, you can actually still hear the crew telling passengers to stay in place. it's just outrageous. >> why would you do that? >> it's just outrageous. >> the los angeles times, the president of the naacp in los angeles has resigned in the wake of the scandal involving donald sterling. leon jenkins has been heavy criticized for his plan to present sterling with a lifetime achievement award. the group also granted sterling an award in 2009, the same year he was accused of refusing to
rent apartments to latinos and blacks. >> jeah. it was probably the second award they were giving to him. i wonder how much money he gave the naacp in return for that award? >> you've got to look at the money you're given when you're in an organization like that. because it can't be dirty money. it's not worth it as one just learned today. >> the houston chronicle is reporting 55 colleges and universities are being investigated by the department of education for their handling of sexual assault complaints on campus. such an important story. among them, elite schools like emory university and harvard law school. also florida state and ohio state university. move comes as the obama administration announces new guidelines to prevent incidents and improve reporting on campus. such an important, important story, mika. >> related news from "the wall street journal," reports of sexual abuse if had the military have skyrocketed. the pentagon says confidential
reports were 50% higher in 2013 than 2012. now, there were 86% higher among marines. the pentagon suggests it shows victims are more comfortable coming forward. but it didn't account for how many actual crimes were committed. >> i was going to say, actually, those numbers have gone up and skyrocketed. there's two ways to look at it. of course the number is going up always causes alarm, but maybe it means that people are starting to get comfortable coming forward in the military. which they've never been comfortable doing before. >> it's difficult in real life let alone the military. >> especially in the military. >> absolutely. >> and also the previous story, in college, so many young people go away from home. something traumatic like this happens -- >> all in muddled circumstances that make you embarrassed to come forward. >> they're embarrassed, there's
shame. there's all these things that hopefully the obama administration, the push is going to actually make it easier for men and women but mainly young women to come forward. >> absolutely. this weekend's parade magazine features an exclusive from mariano rivera's where he recounts his journey from poor panama kid to world series mvp. >> all right. thomas? >> thanks, guys. with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen, here with the morning playbook. give it to us, mike. >> happy friday! and happy birthday not only to mika, but also "morning joe" jesse rodriguez. 3-0 today. spotted last night celebrating. >> ooh, jesse. really? >> we shouldn't be texting jesse early this morning then. he might have a headache. let's talk about what else is
this weekend because we've got the white house correspondents dinner. and looking at president obama and his sense of humor and why he may be hesitant to poke fun at himself. what have you learned? >> todd is pointing out here that president obama likes to make fun of other people more than himself. his self-deprecating humor doesn't go very deep. yes, the president jokes about his big ears and about his bad polls and about his birth certificate, maybe his gray hair. but doesn't really go after himself in the way that some other presidents have. a more typical joke by this president is, you'll remember when he said despite the rumors that he was born in a manager, he was really born on krypton. whereas president bush really went after himself. he talked about what the intelligence briefing for him
actually meant. but todd discovered that president obama has some company in this. another president who's very thin skinned at the time, bill clinton. talked to some of clinton's writers and the writers would get the jokes and clinton would be like, these are about me. they should be about the other people. and one of the drafts that was released in this most recent clinton document dump, one they tried out that clinton liked was the white house press corps was the opposite of lake woe be gone. that all were below average. >> we'll see how it goes. joel mchale is the host, right? >> people are excited about that. the weekend is growing and growing and growing. >> it's a big weekend. mike allen, thank you, sir. coming up, he said it was an honest mistake, but now there's a good chance you'll see jameis
winston king crab legs in a grocery store near you. that's right. and later, a suspected carjacker getting the ride of his life while holding onto the side of a new york city cab. "morning joe" straight ahead. ♪
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♪ all right. pay attention. it's take a peek time. it's time for sports. >> okay. >> three teams on the brink of elimination last night in the nba playoffs. warriors and clippers. golden state's steph curry led the way with points. 14 of which scored in the first quarter. the clippers come up just short. the warriors hang on for the 100-99 victory. game seven on saturday. memphis/thunder looking to stay alive. 104-84 win to force game seven. also on saturday. to atlanta, the hawks looking to end the pacers season. david west with the go-ahead
basket right there. he led the pacers on a 16-4 run to close things out with a 95-88 victory and even up the series. game seven in indy tomorrow evening. and another set of game six matchups tonight. the raptors and nets, spurs and maveric mavericks. >> all three of those pushed to seven. >> it's fantastic. >> agreed. >> we get to the ice now. round two of the stanley cup playoffs. canadiens leading the bruins. johnny boychuk scores the equalizer right there. this one ends up in double overtime. montreal on the power play. next the game winner. take a 1-0 lead in this series. game two saturday in boston. another round of matchups tonight. the pens host the rangers. and the wild visit the blackhawks. finally for you, yesterday we told you about heisman trophy winner jameis winston being busted for shoplifting seafood.
now there is a store catching in on the hype around this. a marketing gem in alabama. jameis winston king crab legs. unfortunately the shellfish, they are not for sale. this is just an in-store joke taking a pinch at jameis. >> what's he saying? he accidentally -- >> he walked out after -- >> accidentally walked out. how do you do that? >> who amongst us has not accidentally walked out with king crab legs. >> when it falls in your pocket and you don't know, what do you do? it's just like the time -- no, i never actually -- >> look. if you're going to shoplift crab meat, do the already packaged kind. >> i don't think he meant to do it. >> whatever. >> he was framed. >> he was framed. still ahead, mika, what do we have on this special birthday edition of "morning joe"? >> the ukrainians are fighting back.
explosions, barricades, and downed helicopters as ukrainian forces are fighting back. the state department's rick stengel will be here on set live in our 8:00 a.m. hour. >> also we'll have the monthly jobs numbers released live at 8:30. also tina brown is going to be here for the must read opinion pages. you're going to want to hear about this one. it's about hillary clinton with surprising advice. we'll be right back. ♪
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>> thank you. i'm 47. it's okay, right? >> she's so young. she's so young. so have you seen tina's -- and she wrote this especially for your birthday because she knew it was a special day and this would be an op-ed that would get a lot of attention. this one is going to get a lot of attention. >> okay. you wrote a piece in the daily beast about hillary clinton being president you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover you have much, much less than you thought you'd have going in. so knowing all this, why indeed would hillary run? now that chelsea is pregnant and life for hillary can get so deep deep deeply familial and present, she is as adored as any ex-president already. it will be another press-on slot from hell and such a hog tied two terms.
only the delights of hip replacement surgery will await her by the time she gets out. leave the presidency to the people who don't know what it's really like. >> jeb and hillary discussed both of them have seen what hell this is on their families. >> it's hell, but i even think that hillary is tough enough to deal with that piece. but what you're also seeing more and more is what a static, frustrating, tied down institution the presidency now is. what can you really achieve? in a way running for presidency now is what you can do in your post-presidency. you have to get through the complete sort of hog tied status of the oval office. get beyond it, then you're free. what was great to see at our summit was jimmy carter who i've never seen a happier guy. i mean, he sat on the stage and he just wowed the audience talking about $1 toilets in west africa for women.
this is his initiative. how he's creating these for west africa. here's a guy who can talk about toilets for 20 minutes on a stage with a spell bound audience. he never seemed happier. he couldn't do anything when he was president as we know. >> has that platform to help the world. >> she has a platform already. usually you have to have the presidency to have the platform. she's got it already. why do it? >> so why do it? gene robinson, a lot of democrats will push hillary clinton to move forward. but 2008 was brutal for her. no reason to think 2016 would be any less brutal. plus she's got the fights from the clinton administration, brutal ugly fights. she's got the fights from arkansas. she's been at this a very long time. why put yourself out there again? >> well, it's a -- that's a good question. i mean, i've always thought that -- i'm disagreeing with a lot of my colleagues -- that she has not made a decision to run and she won't make a decision whether or not to run for some
time. and she's got to really think about this. that said, you know, look at the position she's in. and look at the history she could make. and i think that will really weigh heavily on her. she, by all odds are that she could have the nomination if she wants it. and she'd have an even or better than even shot according to the polls. much better than even of becoming president. as tina says, then, you know, you're president. and you've got the four years and then eight years of misery ahead of you. but through that misery, maybe you can accomplish something. so i think she is an optimistic person. if she decides to run, it would be with the idea that she's going to get stuff done. >> and, you know, both of these races are so wide open, mark halperin. much wider than any race you've covered. if hillary doesn't run, what
democrat does? if jeb doesn't run, what republican steps up? there are not any establishment candidates other than those two. >> yeah. those two are the big pieces. the missing element to me for her and whether or not she runs is what would she run to do? what would the presidency be like? >> what's the message? >> what gives her the burning desire. when her husband ran in '92, he had stuff he really wanted to do. she's been part of washington now for a long time. what is her vision? i'm not saying she hasn't had one, but she needs to make clear what it is. there's plenty she can do without being a presidential candidate. >> there's an insatiable drive as a human being that hillary clinton has to achieve. and i think this could be a really bad analogy, but we all know when we have spoiled milk in the refrigerator, we know it's spoiled but we smell it
anyway before we throw it out. i think she would know what she's getting into having been the first lady and being, you know, secretary of state. but she, i think, has a desire to achieve this and can. >> i feel there's an evolution happening somehow on that. she cease what her husband has created, realizes she wants to focus i think so much on her passion really for ending gender inequality globally. and this has been such a focus of hers. is f that is what her big passion is which i believe it is, then you can achieve more of that in your post-presidency. >> totally. >> i also think that with jeb, it's like, we cannot expect this thing to just remain static. everybody said it's hillary's nomination last night. being a black president trumped her exceptionalism in president
barack obama. she was supposed to be the first woman president but first black president was more interesting. >> tina brown, thank you. >> good column. thank you. coming up, why residents in a small michigan town are up in arms over this city-approved public statue. >> that's art? i don't know what that is. >> i should call my mom. >> you're just not going to want to miss some of the other. >> what was that?
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can't use. >> this is exciting. >> thomas, what do you have? >> we start with crazy video from here in new york city. police say the man holding on for dear life was trying to carjack a taxi in the early morning in the bronx. >> that's the way we do it here. >> they topped speeds of 70 miles an hour. the cob driver hit the gas when he tried to take over the taxi. this taxi hit traffic and the carjacker jumped off carjacking another vehicle. he was arrested a short time later. why not hit the brakes fast and that dude would go flying? catlike reflexes. this is good. a small town in michigan, this is what i think we should do around here. a small town in michigan is looking to promote the arts. the importance of art in the community. i get tongue tied because it's so exciting. the skulltuculpture is called b
human. living today we can't do it alone. we rely on other people to try to survive. >> rely on people why? >> neighbors in the town disagree. >> not just one. >> they've taken to calling this the orgy statue. >> for good reason. >> the artist said there was no intentional sexual assault in it and the harsh comment shows that the critics are thinking about it. >> well that would be -- if it's not intentional sexuality, then that just happened. >> it takes a village. >> sometimes it just happens. >> the town is going to be moving this to a less prominent location. >> let's buy it and put it on set. >> it's awful. >> that's unbelievable. >> i know. but the other big news today -- >> what? >> it's your birthday mika! >> whoo! >> oh, my god. >> i was told we have a birthday in the house today.
big birthday. >> thank you, bill kairns. >> yea! >> look at this. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday dear mika ♪ happy birthday to you >> wahoo! >> are you one? are you two? >> you got a bear. i got bill kairns. >> this is great! i love it! >> the birthday suit comes later. >> no thank you. he always goes too far. always. >> happy birthday. >> come here. come here, bill. thank you. and louis, don't touch me. get out of here. >> well, happy birthday. what's your favorite birthday memory? >> speech! speech! >> what's your favorite birthday
memory from growing up? >> i don't really have any. we didn't do stuff like this. >> was it that bad? >> we just didn't do, like, parties or anything. >> how about the year they gave you that sled? >> what sled? >> what are you talking about? >> this cake looks amazing. thank you. >> i need to blow some of the stuff off the top here. >> all right. very good. >> that way we can clean off the confet confetti. >> we'll be back with more of "morning joe." at the top of 7:00, we have much to talk about but i forgot everything because of this birthday. my. tongue. finally. (announcer) all-new friskies saucesations. a taste experience like no other. in cheesy, creamy, homestyle, or garden sauce. friskies. feed the senses.
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♪ according to the e-mails an the timeline, the cia circulates new talking points after they removed mention of al qaeda. then at 6:12, the white house, you, add a line about the administration warning of september 10th of social media reports calling for demonstrations. true? >> i believe so. >> did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? >> maybe. i don't really remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude, this was like two years ago. we're still talking about the most mundaoneundane -- >> dude, this is what everybody is talking about. >> we're talking about editing talking points. that's what bureaucrats do all the time. >> tommy v., dude. >> i like it. >> joining us from washington, david gregory. but now we have chief white house correspondent and
political director and host of "daily rundown," chuck todd. and editorial director of the journal ron fournier. >> i like the tiara it's impressive, isn't it? >> yes, it is. >> whenever she goes and weekends in south of france, she has a tiara with her. >> one day i'm going to the south of france. >> you should. >> thank you. wear that the rest of the day. >> all right. so obviously a lot of discussions about benghazi yesterday, just the political side of it. but a deadly incident last night. >> yeah. let's get right to it because there's politics all around it as well. overnight five people were killed in a militia attack at the headquarters in benghazi. the situation in that country is still far from stability 19 months a a raid on the u.s. consulate there left four americans dead. the house overnight committee held its latest hearing into the
2012 attack. it focused around an e-mail recently released. critics say the message which was only released this week is proof there was a political agenda at play within the white house. the administration, however, says the e-mail was about the situation across the wider middle east and not specifically about libya. >> ed, the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today that -- >> benghazi was part of it, right? >> right. i would refer you to the ca produced talking points on that. most people remember that there were demonstrations around the region. that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive
video. >> why then on 9/14 is ben rhodes writing an e-mail that is making judgments that this was inspired bay video? why is it not -- >> ed, do you need a copy of the cia talking points? >> i've seen them. read them out all you want. >> from the talking points which much to your disappointment turned out to be produced by the cia. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi says there is nothing to see in the new e-mails. >> what i will say is, again, diversion subterfuge. benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. why aren't we talking about something else? whatever was in that -- what i know of what i've read in the press about the -- those e-mails were very consistent with what was put out there before. i don't think there's anything new there. >> and ahead of the white house correspondents dinner, politico is out with a survey of 60 members of the press corps. nearly 60% have covered the
president for ten years or fewer. 61% say press briefings should be changed from their current form calling for fewer talking points, more questions from different journalists, and they should be shorter. many journalists scored the briefings as more lame than essential. when asked if they interviewed someone who wasn't in the communications office in the last week, more than half said, are you kidding. half of those surveyed say they've been lied to by an obama white house official. nearly 40% say they have been sworn at by an official. >> it happens. and it happens, the swearing at least, happens in lots of different administrations. ron fournier, you wrote a great column about -- and i love -- if you look at the bottom of the screen, man. this is murderer's row. this is like the 27 yankees. you've got chuck todd at the white house, ron fournier at the white house, david gregory --
>> moderator of "meet the press." >> these guys all know the white house. ron, you wrote a column about this yesterday. you look at someone like marlon fitzwater, tony snowe. they were able to deliver bad news in a way that i'll just be blunt, this current white house is not been able to deliver news. there's a hardening, it seems, of the press corps. right now the white house press corps in there and for somebody that's known jay carney for a long time and liked jay carney, it's tough to see himself conducting himself in the way he's conducting himself. what's going on inside the white house? >> thanks, dude, for having me on. >> dude, you're the one that asked to be on, dude. i'm joking. >> dude, it's been two years. >> tommy v. breaking out the northwest florida slang. i love it. >> good lord. >> joe as you know any great
corporate communications staff knows the difference between winning a news cycle and winning the public's trust. the problem with this white house is they're good at winning news cycles and in doing so they lose the public's trust. there's not a better example to illustrate that right now than benghazi. if you want to set aside for a second the important national security issues. what did the president know, what did he do, what happens when you get involved in a country like this, what's the fallback. set those aside for a second and look at the communications team that's paid a lot of money to communicate to the public. we now know beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the communications team treated this as a political crisis. not a foreign policy crisis. and in doing so put out information really quick that was really long, then didn't correct it until there was a lawsuit. they were fine having a bad narrative out there. didn't want to correct it because they were only worried about winning one news cycle at a time.
and in doing so, they've hurt their credibility. these issues splash over to the president's credibility across the board. and i think this credibility issue is why not just on benghazi, is why his numbers have been coming down. >> david gregory, we've all had the conversation at one time or another with pres people for republicans and democrats alike i remember telling a mccain person in 2008 after he'd lied to me the night before. i think i said, hey, dude, did not not think the sun was going to rise tomorrow? and mika remembers me saying that the next morning. i wasn't yelling at him. i said did you not think the sun was going to rise. and i was going to find out about your lie. am i going to trust you for the rest of this campaign? the answer is no. and we've seen it. we've seen it in a lot of different administrations. i'm just curious if it would be best for the white house to cut its losses now and get this behind us. it's only a big deal if they keep covering it up.
>> well, i'll make a comment about benghazi in a second. but i think the larger point is all of these press secretaries have their brief. when ron and i were in the front row during the bush years, we understood that ari fleischer at that point had a lot of limits put on him in terms of what he could do. they wanted him to take tough questions, but be limited in what he could say. that's part of a pr machine that comes to sell the president's agenda and the president. there's always limited terms of what you can get. look. ron said put aside some of the security concerns. the real story about benghazi is what are the consequences for having a light footprint in a chaotic country post-invasion. that's the ongoing story. and by the way, a story that candidate clinton if she becomes a candidate will have to face. those are the big policy questions at work here. we know to ron's point that the white house had a political interest in advancing a story about this video really being at
the core of all of these protests. because anything that was spontaneous and happening fast is to their benefit in the situation opposed to being caught unaware about a terror attack which they didn't know about. we don't know. we know they were interested in the politics of this. we didn't know they were somehow telling any untruth. and we know that the intelligence community was saying, in fact, that this was a spontaneous eruption that happened in cairo and then evolved into a direct attack on the consulate. so we know there was an opportunity to sell it. we don't know what all the facts of this are. but this particular memo, for instance, why did they hold that back? of course it was related to benghazi. i think it creates more problems. >> one of the ways we know it was related to benghazi, the white house admitted it was related to benghazi before it was denied that it was related to benghazi as it was only released because the lawsuit said release documents related to benghazi. chuck todd, now to you, my
friend. so we were having this discussion before, chuck, and mark halperin and i were talking. i said well, why doesn't jay carney, a guy like i an awful lot, why doesn't jay just say no? i'm not going to go out here and be put in this position. somebody said you can't do that. well, mike mccurry did it. other press secretaries have done it. it's a real balancing act, i understand. and it's extraordinarily difficult. but does jay not have a fairly tough relationship with the press corps that he has to stand in front of every day? >> i say yes, but it's not jay's doing that it's a tough press corps. this is sort of six years, honestly eight years of sort of dealing -- look. i think there has been in the worst development in white house staffs over the last two decades has been i think the entire press office is too big. i think there's almost too much. and so when you have so many
individuals dedicated to press communications, right, and communicating with press, then you're going to slip into over-spinning. you're going to slip into what they did here with these benghazi e-mails which is so paranoid about giving an inch to their opponents that they withhold too much. you know, everything about all of their -- some of these political crises if you want to call them that that the white house has bungled all has the same root issue. which is they have been reticent to engage. they say we're not going to give in, we're not going to give them more material. had they flooded the zone, had they just dumped everything out that they had including this e-mail, had this e-mail been sent out at the same time that we got that entire booklet of e-mails from state, cia, and white house. this would be much to do about
nothing. the e-mail was withheld. the e-mail itself isn't that damning. there's no smoke in this squirt gun, but it's because they didn't release it at the time and their credibility is why -- >> why didn't they release at it the time? >> everybody agree no smoke here? >> i disagree. >> i think there is smoke. >> it makes it clear at a minimum that they did what no one was surprised they did. they looked to contain the political damage. >> ron fournier? >> i agree with mark. i don't think that's a small thing. i think when you get caught spinning like this, when you get caught being incredible with the information, that's a big thing that splashes into other issues. as someone who has worked with jay and wants my white house to succeed, it was painful yesterday watching that briefing and get baghdad flashbacks. >> are we drilling down here on
benghazi in a time period where i think tommy v. used this phrase in his interview, he said collective amnesia. there was a lot going on with the arab spring in a lawless libya at the time. >> we knew the day it happened, when mitt romney went out and held a press conference that he held wsh david gregory i think it was an unfortunately press conference to say the least. he didn't know what was going on. nobody knew what was going on. and it was sort of shoot first, ask questions later on both sides. on both sides. >> and mark halperin and i -- >> they knew from the very beginning this was a huge deal. >> right. mark halperin and i were together at the moment when mitt romney started reacting. and by the way, he was reacting to the apologetic statements coming out of the cairo embassy related to the video. but i think to thomas' point, the key questions here is we look back now and understand this was an attack on benghazi.
and there was at the time information that was flowing out of there that was quite clearly a pre-planned attack. so part of it is why didn't they know? why didn't the administration know? why didn't the services know? why did they move forward to talk about a video? again, a lot of things can be true at once. the intelligence community saying this was a spontaneous attack even though they didn't use video. it's not an illogical leap to make biased on what the belief was. david petraeus is telling folks on capitol hill this was not terrorism initially. but it's also true and don't forget we lived there u an area here with how much grief did the bush white house take for the politicizing national security when this is what's going on here when you have ben rhodes saying, look, we've got to make sure this video story people understand. and this president is steady. of course. they don't want to be seen as weak on terror.
that's an obvious thing to do. >> joining us now republican representative from oklahoma, congressman tom cole. tom, good to see you. >> great to see you as always. >> happy birthday, first of all. >> thank you. >> from a fellow taurus. joe, you're a lucky man to have a taurus as a partner. >> and we're stubborn. >> so i've heard. so i've experienced. so congressman, let me ask you -- let's switch topics here and talk about minimum wage. it was voted on in the senate and voted down. there's some republicans -- we had tim pawlenty on the other day and others that believe the minimum wage should be increased, not to 10.$10.10, but should be. but that it could be raised for
compromise of keystone. >> i think you hit the formula. to put something that creates jobs with something that frankly is clearly going to cost jobs. you raise the minimum wage, you're going to lose tens of thousands of jobs across the country. second, you do have to realize in this case that, look. individual states can act on this as they choose to. 19 already have minimum wanls that are higher than the federal start. the point i made before, there's a big difference between the cost of living in new york or san francisco or oklahoma city. so whether a one size fits all minimum wages makes a lot of sense is worth thinking about. and again, states have the ability to act if they think it's in their interest. >> chuck todd? >> congressman, how you doing? >> hey. doing great. >> let me ask you this. do you think the minimum wage should be raised at all right now? would you raise it at all nationally? aren't we at one of the longest periods ever we haven't raised it? >> we're also at one of the lowest inflationary periods too. but the point is worth thinking about. i'm go i think to address it from a oklahoma standpoint.
do i think the we need to raise the minimum wage in oklahoma? no. other states have the ability to act on this on their own. would i look at a minimum wage increase if i thought there were other things attached to it that would create jobs like keystone and additional things? yeah, i think i would consider that because i think job creation is a very important thing. >> steve rattner. >> congressman, you're right we're in a low inflationary era, but we haven't raised the minimum wage since 2009. it's now lower in real terms than it was in the 1960s. so isn't there a -- and historically the federal government has been involved in times like this. >> i'm not telling you there's not a case to be made here. but there's also a case on the other side. one, individual states that want to move can move. two, we know according to cbo and other economists that raising it is going to cost a lot of jobs. losing half a million jobs is no
trivial matter in an economy that still has an unacceptably high unemployment rate. i suppose the president is supportive of doing this, but let's be real. he's using this as a political weapon to put something else on the table that would attract republican support. he hasn't done it. i think he enjoys the rhetoric of the debate. >> there is a compromise to be made here. we'll see if the president comes to the table with something other than $10.10. but put in keystone and something to create jobs, i bet he can get support. mark? >> what significance will be signed into law before the midterm elections? >> i hope a lot of appropriations bills as i'm the appropriator and we're actually doing the normal work of congress for a change. i would expect an infrastructure bill. i think we'll do something in terms of transportation issue.
because transportation fund is going to run dry this fall. don't expect a permanent fix, but i would expect an extension into early next year. but to your basic point, look, not a lot. you know, i think we've done some important things since the ryan-murray budget agreement. but i think the big things largely are being pushed past by both sides. i think that's unfortunate, but the political reality. >> all right. congressman tom cole, thank you very much. >> and again happy birthday. >> fellow taurus. taurusian, whatever you said. >> we have at least that in common. thank you very much, tom, for being on the show. david gregory, thank you as well. what's on "meet the press" this weekend? >> we'll have governor rick perry, fallout from the sterling story. and will.i.am will stop by to talk about his political
involvement. >> chuck todd, we'll watch "the daily rundown" at 9:01. >> i don't know. we'll see. >> i'm going to make joe be quiet. >> you get it before 15 i'll be impressed. >> all right. ron, if you can stay with us, that'd be good. coming up live at the top of the 8:00, rick seng el -- >> hold on a second. it is rick stengel's birthday as well. >> get out. >> rick stengel and you and jesse. >> i need more confetti. >> what a great eight. >> and white house correspondent for the a.p. julie pace. and brian sullivan. still ahead, are we being taught to love strangers and is that a good thing? but first, hillary clinton if barack obama would answer a 3:00 a.m. phone call. but it was a 2:00 a.m. phone call from president clinton that congressman jim clyburn wishes
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♪ welcome back to "morning joe." live look at capitol hill and a beautiful day in washington. it's may, and i think the sun is going to come out now. may 2nd. here with us now, assistant democratic leader, democratic representative from south carolina, congressman james clyburn. he's out with his memoir "blessed experiences: genuinely southern, proudly black." and i can't wait to hear about the book, but first i want to hear about a blessed experience you had at 2:00 in the morning. tell us all about it. it was a phone call you got in the middle of the night. >> yes, yes. and the book sort of starts with that. >> how did that go? >> it was an interesting
morning. it was the morning after the south carolina primary back in 2008. of course i received a phone call. of course i'm always up late. >> you were sleeping. >> no. i was up watching all the returns coming from around the state. that was a much-watched primary. my wife was asleep, but i was awake. and sure enough, the former president was on the phone. >> bill clinton. >> yes. >> my goodness. what was he calling to say, hey, how you doing, jim? >> not exactly. >> no? >> he was a little upset about the results that day. because hillary lost to barack. he was not pleased with that. >> so he just wanted to share his feelings or was there a message in what he was saying? >> there was a message. he thought i was involved in the. >> reporter: in losing it for
hillary. >> yes. i was not. i was neutral in the race. of course i had personal preferences, but i stayed out of the race. >> let me read about this blessed experience. i think the way you describe it in the book crystallizes it. this powerful voice came on the phone. if you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one. i needed no help identifying that voice. it was bill clinton. the former president of the united states, my longtime political friend. his wife hillary suffered a major defeat in south carolina's primary. obama had whipped her. and bill clinton wanted me to explain why. i told him i had pledged neutrality to the rules committee of the democratic national committee as a condition of their authorizing a primary in south carolina. and i had kept that promise. i asked him to tell me why he felt otherwise. he exploded using the word
bastard again and accused me of causing her defeat and injecting race into the contest. that is your blessed experience at 2:00 a.m. the morning after south carolina. that's -- >> i've had quite a few blessed experience. a few with joe. >> we've never raised our voices at each other. >> no, we haven't. >> always had great respect for each other. >> that's true. although the experiences were not always that pleasant. >> democrat on democrat violence here, this makes me so sad. so what was it like being shouted down and sworn at by the president of the united states? >> it was a very uncomfortable experience. but i've had a few of these. >> what do you say back to him? >> well, i listened for awhile. i was really caught off balance. and i told him i had pledged
neutrality. there was a big contest over who would get that primary. there was a fight against michigan, south carolina, and alabama. >> right. >> south carolina had won. but i was asked to remain neutral in the race. >> i remember. >> and i did. >> mark halperin? >> congressman, i know you'd love to talk about bill clinton more, but i'm going to switch to the title and subtitle. genuinely southern. in this big day and age, the big national media is becoming more interactive, the south is still distinctive. what does it mean today to be genuinely southern? >> the south is in transition today. i think we've seen that south carolina maybe behind georgia, but if you take a hard look at southern states. florida, take a look at arkansas. kentucky's not exactly a southern state, but a border state.
you will see in north carolina that went for barack obama in 2008 and was a close race in 2012. i think the south is changing rapidly. a lot of my classmates that left when i graduated, over 80% of my class when i graduated college left the state. they're not coming back. a lot of young people are staying. all three of my children remained in south carolina. that was not the case when i was coming along. i think it's changed because we're getting much more progressive. we're getting more jobs and the kind of jobs that young people are being trained for. now, the reason i put that in there is because i want people to understand that being southern has a broader connotation than being very conservative or being white, for that matter. i don't want people explaining
away what they said saying i'm a southerner. what does that mean? my mother and father were southerners, but they treated me with dignity and respect and everybody else. and that's why i put that in there. >> a lot of different experiences from the south, no doubt about it. let me ask you about something that's been making news this week. a fellow democrat, a fellow southern colleague vinny thompson has called clarence thomas, a quote, uncle tom. he doubled down again on that yesterday. suggested mitch mcconnell was a raci racist. said a lot of inflammatory things. does that cause you any concerns? >> no. i think thompson as you know is a very close friend. we knew each other for 20 years before he ever came to congress. >> you think it's all right to be calling a supreme court justice an uncle tom? >> all of us have ways of expressing our disappointment. i am very disappointed in
clarence thomas. >> do you think he's an uncle tom? >> i don't know. >> you don't know if he's an uncle tom? >> he's not the only supreme court justice there. >> but he's the only one being called an uncle tom. i think that's at extraordinary insult. >> you'll have to ask thompson. there are certain words and phrases i did not use. and i will never back away from this. i am extremely disappointed. you know, joe. we come to congress and these appointments, we are to bring tho toez bodies our experiences to broaden the application of justice in this country. >> well, clarence thomas has had an experience of being genuinely southern and being proudly black just like you and his experience led him to a different philosophy about government. and i don't know that he should be castigated because his
experience as a black american is different from thompson's experiences as a black american. can't we disagree with each other without calling each other names? >> sure we can. i talked to someone yesterday who told me they were highly insulted by some of the expressions that clarence thomas has made in his writings, in his opinions. a lot of african-americans find his opinions very insulting. he has a right to that. >> thompson though? you have no problems with him calling him an uncle tom? >> he is a close personal friend. we don't always use the same words and phrases. >> is mitch mcconnell as thompson thinks he is -- >> i don't know. ask him about that. i'm not going to get into that. >> you know what? you're going -- >> no. >> -- around in circles. >> i am not going around in circles. >> it's time to wrap. >> no. why should i read this book?
>> because it's a blessed experience. >> because i think you would learn a lot if you were to read this book. you will understand a lot of what it's like to grow up black in the deep south, to have no aspirations beyond being a teacher, a preacher, or an undertaker. and you will see how a little black boy growing up in that environment with a mother and father who taught him that you can break through this, and he did. and he got the hall of the house of the house of representatives with joe scarborough. >> you would have been better to be an undertaker if you knew that was going to happen. but it's also important to remember also one of the most powerful members of the united states congress, it's an extraordinary story. you're a great guy. thank you for being here. >> thank you so much. i appreciate you. >> thank you. the book is "blessed
experiences." congressman james clyburn, thank you so much. coming up, malaysian officials have released new documents on why they waited so long to search for flight 370. tom costello has that story ahead. and congressional cautions. we crunch the numbers next on "morning joe." ♪ ♪
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♪ all right. it is almost 40 past the hour. >> it is. you know, big question about the election that's coming up in november. we're six years into the obama presidency. a lot of people are looking at it going, it's goingng to be a t like 2010. that's what republicans hope. >> yeah. >> but there are some that look back to 1998 -- >> you never can tell, can you? >> they're hoping to make big gains but history suggests this november is not a sure thing for the gop. derek has more in the latest edition of mojo place. >> president obama's job approval has the gop eyeing potential takeover in the senate and adding to the house majority. they point out in 2010 when the president's numbers were even stronger, republicans picked up a whopping 63 seats in the house
and five in the senate. >> i'm not recommending they take a shellacking like i did last night. >> however, if they're relying on the president's poll numbers as an indicator, a look at history shows the six-year vote can be problematic for the gop regardless of what party's in power. in 1986 ronald reagan saw his highest numbers of his presidency with 68% approval. still the gop went on to shed five seats in the house and eight in the senate. losing control of the upper chamber. after the revelation of his affair with monica lewinsky, bill clinton was still flying high at 64%, again the gop was unable to capitalize while losing five in the house and stagnant in the senate. in 2006 george w. bush approval was down. >> look, this is a close election.
the -- if you look at race by race, it was close. the cumulative effect, however, was not too close. it was a thumping. >> november should serve as a cautionary tale for the gop considering dating back to 1958 republicans have lost seats in each of the six-year midterm elections. time will tell if history repeats itself. guys, back to you. >> all right. thank you. >> six-year itch not good for republicans. mark? >> it has not been. they've made errors. they feel they're on track. they're raising money. they're doing decent on candidates in terms of the primaries. i think the democrats have to change the dynamic or republicans will have a good midterm. >> and there were three in one election once. >> i think we're doing well. i think we're doing well. >> so far so good. still ahead, forgot the partisan divide in washington. reverend jim wallis talks about faith on fridays. but first trusting strangers to
watch our pets, sleep in our bed. >> and the whole tinder thing. >> no. the new economy of trust. >> actually, it's not just trust. it's trusting strangers. >> it's weird. i think it's weird. but apparently is a good business model. we'll be right back. ♪ honestly, i'm pouring everything i have into this place. that's why i got a new windows 2 in 1.
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>> we're talking about a gazillion dollar business, tinder where people throw themselves at the mercy of others for the purposes of dating strangers. and talk about this, because a lot of companies making a lot of money with a lot of crazy people. we got the executive editor of wired magazine. we wrote the magazine's cover story. how they finally get americans to trust each other. jason writes this, the economy has come on so quickly that economists are still grappling to understand the impact. but one consequence is already clear. many of these companies have unengaging in behaviors that some would think as unhardy years ago. where hopping in strangers cars -- >> into our master bedrooms. >> dropping our dogs off at their houses, eating their food -- >> using their forks and knives. >> we are letting them rent our cars, rent our boats, rent our
houses, and -- this is ghastly -- even our power tools. >> yes. >> we are entrusting complete strangers with our most valuable possessions and our very lives in the process. we're entering a new era of internet enabled intimacy. you said people are making lots of money doing this. >> they are. bnb is the one you get to stay in other people's houses and go through thomas' underwear drawer just raised money at a $10 billion valuation.academics are low trust threshold. >> when you engage in a trusting behavior, you do an analysis. is the benefit going to outway the risk? and what a lot of companies are doing are lowering that risk. they're linking to a facebook account. this isn't like hitchhiking. they have a rating next to them based on their previous@on these services. it's linked to a credit card like it's paid before anybody
gets in the car or goes to the house. and there's also insurance or some kind of -- if the worst should happen and your place gets trashed, there's a million dollars of insurance that they'll pay you to make up for damages. it's not just like throwing open your door to whoever comes by. there are systems in place. >> as a lawyer, thomas, though, seriously the liabilities here just making me flinch. >> the valuation that recently came out for air bnb, $10 million? there is that recourse that people can enact if they feel they've gotten a bad service. but it is really offputting to think that someone could be in your house or going through your things. logically. >> reporter: apparently not. >> instead of working from my apartment, make my apartment work for me. >> people are deciding to do it. and people are deciding they're willing to have people in their house in order to make money. >> ebay seemed totally bonkers. like you're going to send a
check to somebody you don't know and they're going to send you beanie babies. that seemed nuts. but eventually they built enough systems in place and it became common enough it doesn't seem so shocking anymore. enough it doesn't seem so shocking anymore. >> ron, would you do that? >> ron, by the way, i've got two dogs for rent this weekend and a cat as well, if you'd like to rent my dogs and cat for a weekend, let's talk after the show. >> no thanks, no thanks. i'm fascinated about this whole topic. you talk about low trust, the public has no trust in the old financial institutions. where will the sharing economy be in five years and how much of the traditional fik system that people aren't trusting is replaced by a shared economy five years from now. >> jason? >> if you're talking about faith in financial institutions, the economy right now is not poised to replace that. it's poised to replace the taxi
and hotel industry. those are the industries it's competing with. i honestly don't think there is going to be some whole scale replacement. it's a different kind of experience. it's less consistent, right? >> do you think that the hotel is going to allow air b & b to get away with stealing their clients and not be regulated and not taxed properly? >> we're seeing it in new york. the question is what kind of restrictions are they going to put in place. i think honestly at this place this ship has sailed. i don't think regulators can just shut them down. >> tons of money. >> all right. the issue, the latest issue of "wired" is out. >> jason tanz, thank you so much. for more jason time, visit the afternoon session of our mojoe.
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♪ ♪ >> i can't believe you just said that to me. t.j. told me to talk about this chopper shop and then said -- >> all i said was happy birthday. >> thank you, chopper 4. chrysler building. by the way, spring, it came yesterday out of nowhere. >> beautiful day. >> may the 1st, may day. >> finally. may 2nd.
>> joining us, chief national correspondent for the "new york times." seriously i was looking up symptoms of a stroke yesterday, but it's really just you interrupting me. >> she was. the whole thing am i having a stroke? she just kept looking and i said you've had it up for a few hours. she said my vision is blurred, i'm slurring my words. but it's all better because mark leibovich is here. >> and i'm a year older and so much better. mark leibovich, author of "this town," now out in paperback and from washington, julie pace and of course we still have rattner at the table. >> stuck with rattner. >> it's perfect timing for you to be here, steve rattner. the employment numbers are here in less than half an hour. we're hoping for good news. >> you never know which way it's going to break. we had a very flat first quarter.
a lot of people concerned about that, but the market's exploding. i guess they figure it the weather. what's the jobless report going to look like? >> we don't know but we'll find out in half an hour. i can give you background and color on what we might expect. for the last year if we look at this chart, we've had a pretty steady picture of about 190,000 jobs a month being created. but for this month the economists a little built moit optimistic for the reasons you say, joe, we're coming off a winter and hoping we're going to be more in the 220,000 range. the unemployment report did come down gradually last year but it has been pretty flat since then. you need certainly like 200,000 jobs a month just to keep the unemployment numbers from going up because of people coming into the labor force. but people should also look at
the long-term unemployed. we really have a problem. this is the percentage of the total unemployed -- >> that includes people not participating in the job market? >> doesn't even include them. >> so the situation is much worse? >> much worse. because a lot of people have dropped out. this only shows you the people who have stayed in. the percentage of total unemployed that are long-term unemployed is the highest it's ever been in history. it's come down from the highest 45% but even this number is the highest it ever been in our history. so it's a real problem and economists are increasingly worried. there was a study that just came out that a third of these people will probably never find job, a third of them will drop out of the labor force and only a third will be employed. but let's look at something that relates to washington. last december extended unemployment benefits expired for people over 26 weeks.
1.3 million people lost their unemployment insurance last december. we're talking about $286 a week, not talking about a lot of money. by june 30th, 3.2 million, by the end of the year, it's going to be 5 million. the republicans and democrats not surprisingly are fighting about this. the democrats passed a bill to extend this and the republicans won't extend it until they get what they want. >> the job participation rate is as low as it's been since the 80s and the situation looks bleak. >> first of all, i have massive telestrator envy. >> he is the john madden of -- >> if i knew he was going to be a tablet -- >> don't bring a knife to gun fight. >> or telestrator pen apparently
to a tv show. two things to add to your excellent analysis, labor force participation rate, we want it see the number go up. if it goes up, it means people are looking for a job, which means they think they can find a job. obviously the underemployed is also a number to watch, 7.4 million people working part time that might like to work full time. i can't get a full-time job so i'm going to take the work that i can get, often without benefits as well. those are two other numbers. >> minimum wage jobs. >> unbelievable. mark leibovich, what are you writing about this week? >> i actually have a column next week. bits the merging of broadcasts and politics. you have people like mike rogers leaving the house intelligence leadership to go into television. directly. who else would do something like that? it's a bizarre, trail blazing move. he actually is going directly, though. >> going rogue.
>> i've got to say, this kid show as lot of plock and fight and determination to do this. who would do that? >> it's amazing -- he had an amazing amount of -- i mean, you have an immense amount of power. >> what does that say about what it feels like to be in washington? maybe it doesn't feel so powerful anymore. >> there's that but it talks about the melding of the media world and political world. the realms are so interlocked that we have this one big people in the green room sector, which we all are. >> you talk, you tell people what they want to hear. what's the difference? >> money. you get paid a lot more money to be in the tv business. >> i'm not getting actually paid for this. they give me some coupons.
>> your food truck is bringing in plenty of money. >> i'm not getting paid. i understand why. >> hey, chris christie back in the news. it looks like some donors are thinking about dumping him for jeb. >> well, it wasn't so long ago that chris christie was leading in the polls and considered part of the contender among the republicans to challenge hillary clinton in 2016. now the "new york times" reports some establishment republican fund-raisers, as joe mentioned, even ones in the jersey area, are considering jumping ship from christie for jeb bush. meanwhile, jeb is getting some support from his brother, who knows a thing or two about running for the white house. >> i hope jeb runs. i think he would be a great president. i have no clue what's on his mind, and we'll talk when he's ready. i notice he's moving around the country quite a bit and -- >> doing well in polls.
>> yeah, it's fine. it don't mean anything. for him, i can guarantee he's not looking at a poll whether or not to run. he's checking he is core and as he says, "i'm thinking about my fami family." he knows full well what it means to run for president. he knows the toll it takes on i don't family. so, hey, jeb, if you need some help, give me a call. >> does he seem happy or what? he seems happy where he is. according to the quinnipiac university poll, jeb bush leading in his home state. let's go to julie pace down in washington. julie, this is not in the words of the grateful dead a long,
strange trip for chris christie. it has been a short, strange, rocky, turbulent trip for the new jersey governor. and it looks like a lot of his donors are starting to lose patience. >> yeah. this donor battle between chris christie and jeb bush i think is fascinating because they're both playing for money from the same pot, where you have more mainstream republicans, more business-minded republicans, who first were leaning towards chris christie but the second that this bridge scandal popped up, started looking around to see who else was out there, and they really like jeb bush. this is a guy they would love to get into this race. i just also think that the bush family dynamics on this are absolutely fascinating. you have george bush saying i want my brother to run and you have barbara bush a few months ago saying i hope he doesn't run, we've had enough bushes. i'm curious what h.w. has to say. >> h.w. i think has long wanted his son to actually run for this
office. you know, mark, a lot of people close -- well, we had tina brown here, who is not extraordinarily close to hillary, but she's always been a big hillary fan, they've run in similar circumstances. she wrote a column this morning saying basically, hillary, you know what it's like, don't run. and barbara bush doesn't want her son to run because of her son and her grandchildren. it's getting more brutal every day to do this. >> i don't know if there's momentum or if it's just chatter, but maybe hillary won't run. people have always been talking with the assumption that this is a fait de comeplete.
>> we have christie and jeb bush -- this reenforces the power of the establishment. whenever you have a bush and christie conversation, the tea party are very aggrieved, who are these establishment people? all of a sudden people do sort of line up behind them and it a very, very powerful kind of endorsement. >> it always happens. it always happens. in 1992 you had the challenge of course when pat buchanan, george h.w. bush ended up winning. in '96 it was buchanan, the conservatives hated bush, dole won. john mccain, all the conservatives couldn't stand
him, he won, he won. they at least win the primary, even if they lose the war. >> can i ask you a question? >> you certainly can. >> i don't think i want you to. >> by the way, happy birthday. >> what's your question? >> the economy has been getting better for a couple years. i mean, it's slow, right? we're not booming but we've been getting better. do you think the economy is still job one for any candidate? >> oh, my god, yes. >> is it always -- even if it's good times? >> people don't feel like it's getting better because long-term unemployment, as steve talked about. even without the long-term unemployment, real wages have been dropping. >> big banks are still big banks. >> bigger than they were. >> too big to fail has gotten even bigger. you look at working class americans, they've been losing the battle for decades now. yeah, this is -- economy is job one. and it's got to be more than just pointing at the last guy because this is a 20-year,
30-year systemic problem. i think there a lot of reasons to be excited. i'm very excited about the energy revolution, about manufacturing coming back. as steve said, it's not going to be coming back at $35 an hour, it might be $16, $17, $18 an hour, but i'd rather have it here than in china. china is having problems with growth as well, down 7%, 8%. china is not going belly up but at the same time, you're starting to hear people in america to say, wait a minute, it's starting to cost me more to send my jobs over to china. you get the shipping to get back, general electric we're talking about. >> you have the innovatiowvatio. >> i wouldn't trade this economy for any other one in the developed world. that said, as you said, joe, wages aren't going up, huge long-term unemployment, 6.5% for those even looking for work.
this is the number one issue. >> but there's two ways, without get too long wonky, there's two problems, cyclical and structural. >> this is structural. >> agree with you. if it is structural, who can fix it? how do they fix it? >> we talk about slicyclical, b look at the last two bump-ups. the late 90s it was fueled by the nasdaq, it went bust, people too excited about it and in '94, '97, you had the tech bubble. as our good friend paul krugman said, he wanted a housing bubble to replace the tech bubble and it did. for the past 20 years, we have been fueled by bubbles. >> this is what worries economists. it's like a heroin addict. each time you need a bigger and bigger dose to get some kind of
recovery to get some kind of growth happening. we're still in a cyclical phase but there are structural issues and someone has to take them on. >> so, julie pace, you have an article about pushing for data, and new privacy laws. tell bus that. >> this is something the president called for as part of the larger nsa review. it's what's referred to as big data, which basically means all the information that the government, that private sector companies pull on all of us. and there's a lot of concerns about what happens to this data. and one of the really interesting things in the white house report, which was overseen by john podessa, obama's new counsel, he found there's a real risk of discrimination. as people collect this information, they know an awful lot about us, and they fear this
information could be used to discriminate against people in things like financials decisions and housing decisions. it makes a lot of sense when you think about all the information we pump out about ourselves in social media and every form we fill out. it tells people about our age, our race, our gender. it's scary to think how that can be used against us. >> of course, mark leibovich, they follow around our habits on the internet, which is extraordinarily dangerous. >> extremely. no, we would never -- ultimately, this is about disconnect. when you talk about the economic numbers, one of the reasons people are sort of taken aback by this is these economic factors have not really touched washington, d.c. the last couple of decades. >> what state has the highest percentage of millionaires? >> washington is the wealthiest metropolitan area. >> name one major corporation
based in maryland. >> lockheed martin. >> d.c. in maryland state. >> "the washington post" post company -- i don't work there anymore. >> d.c. you get my point. the money. >> we have this gilded age going on and a lot has been inflated by the government and a lot of growth around government. i guess this is a good time to plug my back, right? >> do it! >> now out in paperback, "this town" is actually about this gilded age in d.c. we have the white house correspondent dinner this weekend so it's the perfect timing. >> everybody should walk around with "this town" as they walk around to see who is there. >> mark leibovich and julie, thank you very much. and mark, we'll have you back in about 12 minutes when the unemployment numbers are
reported, am i correct about that? >> yes. >> and coming up, does separatist really mean russian forces? rick stengel and fred kempe join us. but first here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> let's go talk about what happened this last week as far as the amazing video was concerned, we saw all the devastation in penpensacola, tornadoes. and then there was this out of baltimore. [ screaming ] this was taken from someone's porch. railroad tracks below the little river that turned into a gushing river in baltimore. unbelievable scene there. and there's this opposite view of it. literally, the houses, they're telling people they may not get back in their homes for weeks until they stabilize or literally build a new retaining wall.
let me take you to where we are now. we saw not just the east, the west had an unbelievable hot stretch. it was 95 degrees yesterday in san diego. that was the hottest temperature they've ever seen in may by five degrees. and the drought in california continues to get worse. we have a drought that's getting worse in kansas, oklahoma and texas. it's just been a lot of extremes. the eastern half of the country has been wet and stormy ey eve since the winter and the west warm and dry. tampa and orlando, you're going to get rained on in some portion of your day. showers from minneapolis and chicago. as we go into saturday, there's not a lot of bad weather to be found. we're nice even into sunday. there are no more extremes. and the kentucky derby is going to go off as we go throughout saturday. for the derby itself, you couldn't ask for a better forecast. more "morning joe" when we come right back.
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here with us now, undersecretary of state for diplomacy, rick stengel at the table in his new position and president and ceo of the atlanta council, fred kempe. good to have you on the show. >> first of all, happy birthday. as you know, i have so much affection and love for mika, that i changed my birthday to
mika's birthday. >> i have a cake for you. have some. >> how's the job going? it's great to you have back in a different capacity. >> i was telling the guys here i was just in burma and malaysia. it's fantastic. burma is a great opportunity for american public diplomacy. you know i'm going to put this in before you go to whatever you want to talk about. it may be mika's birthday and my birthday today but tomorrow is world press freedom day. the united states government is on the side of journalists oppressed everywhere. journalists are more oppressed today than any time in history. >> vladimir putin one of the terrible offenders through the years of press freedom. a lot of reporters who have reported on him have ended up dead. >> 99 journalists were killed in the line of duty last year. what's changed is journalists
used to get harmed in the line of duty and now they're targeted by governments. that's disturbing. >> speaking of vladimir putin, we have now a helicopter shot down in ukraine. vladimir putin ordering the ukraine government to get their own forces out of their own country. what's next in this downhill spiral? >> thank, joe. i had a conversation with a pretty senior figure in the obama administration today. i said what's going on? and he just come back from the region and he said, fred, it's just like "jurassic park." he's a history guy and loves preworld war ii history. he said i've been studying bones and now the dinosaurs are awake again, it's so exciting. what's happening in this latest attack is we're seeing the unraveling of something much more sophisticated. putin is not bare knuckled.
he doesn't need to invade. he's been oozing across the border with special forces and insurgents. he's been using psychological operations. he doesn't want to send tanks across because that would unify the west. that would really take the camouflage off of him. what ukrainians are doing is they're calling putin's bluff by trying to clear out these areas like in donetsk. if he comes across with more conventional forces, that will unify the west and help them enormously. what we learned today is protesters can't fire shoulder-held missiles. this is definitely special ops, well-trained troops. 25 of them go to the building, take it and bring in local activists, go to the next building, take it and bring in local activists.
>> and of course john kerry went to the atlantic council and ripped putin's russia over the ukrainian crisis. what can we do? you look at the "wall street journal" and unfortunately angela merkel is sending a message, "my top corporations don't want anymore involvement." >> i agree with fred, it's russian special operations. they're illegal and violating of the geneva agreement. but there are new sanctions that are potentially being prepared. i mean, i think the u.s. is looking at ratcheting it up to match what russia is doing there, but what we really want is for them to de-escalate the situation. >> but when you look at the record of sanctions, rick, through history, going all the way back to cuba and rhodesia
and all these places, when they work, it takes a long, long time. >> i would argue putin is making fundamental errors that in the long run are detrimental to his country. the president has said there's no military solution to this so you have to look at alternatives. >> but you're being rational. assuming putin is rational. >> i don't think we should be irrational because he's irrational. >> no, but we have to find something rational to do. >> one of the problems with sanctions here is reports out this morning that russia is not being punished at all by these sanctions. the ruble has gone up and their markets have gone up since the sanctions were announced. does this suggest we need to send tougher signals to putin's russia? >> there's no doubt there have to be tougher signals. it was interesting, we did have secretary kerry at the council this week, vice president biden
and kerry was strong but he was strong prime i recall that we wouldn't give away an inch of baltic's territory as they are nato partners. he didn't go so far with ukraine. the problem with sanctions, it's a total new battlefield now where we are using sanctions not to punish the russian for what they're doing but as military deterrence to stop them from what they might do. it's clear the sanctions aren't sufficient to do that or the threat of further sanctions. part of the problem is how dependent europe is on russian energy. we're looking at this wrong. it's not about the ukraine. it's about the future of russia, a nuclear arms state. this is going to go on for years, it's a long game. we're looking for the future of the international system. we're at an inflexion point that could be just as important as the end of world war i and end of world war ii. if we don't shape the international system, then less benevolent actors will step in to do that and that's what we're seeing in ukraine.
>> thank you, rick stengel -- >> i have a gift for mika. this is flashlight held by the great singer of ukraine where she turns it on, thousands of people turn it on and she sings the ukrainian national anthem this weekend. we honored her this weekend and we had about 800 of these in the audience. there's a nice little bow on it. >> huge jobs numbers just came out. >> thank you fred, thank you steve. that is lovely, fred. thank you. will finally this be the month for economic recovery? steve has given us a sneak peek. huge job numbers coming up on "morning joe." ♪ talk about a dream nature lover... people person.
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breaking news. the jobs numbers are a big story this morning. brian, what are they? >> i don't use the word spectacular much, except to describe you, mika. i'm going to use it for this report here. 288,000 jobs. >> are you serious? >> of course i'm serious, and don't call me shirley. unemployment dropped to 6.3. labor force participation rate, the number of people in the workforce or looking for a job rose as well. professional business services added 75,000. >> hold on --
>> labor force participation rate dropped. >> the number of under employed people stayed steady at 7.5 million. >> but 288, can you knock the number? >> it was going to be 220 and this a really good number. and the revisions for february and march were also very good. >> steve, there have been so many reports over the past three years that we've looked at and they've been disappointing, they've sort of been flat. this is one of the best slices of good news at least -- you can always fudge a 6.8 or 6.5. 288,000, that's a real number. that's something to be excited about for middle class people, working class people trying to get back into the workforce. >> it's an exciting number and it going to be an exciting number in the white house and for a lot of democrats trying to get reelected this fall, if the trend continues. >> 250 would help us get out of
this quagmire, right? we've been receiving this anemic push up and down in the hundreds. 250 is where we needed to be and above to show that we're in economic recovery, that it's stabilized. >> that's right. 200 kind of keeps us whole because of people coming in the labor force. 250 is actually a move in the right direction. now 288. it's the biggest number we've had in a long time. >> average hourly earnings also creeping up again. it just goes up a few cents. it's saying there's demand for your services. if somebody has to pay you more, it's because they think somebody else might be able to take your job or there's competition for the job so that's exciting. >> it's such good news that we baked a cake because we anticipated a 288,000 number. how is it? >> it's very good. >> you're having a taste? >> wow. >> i'm going to go for a slice.
>> since you guys are eating, i'm going to go over the numbers. >> to steve's point, the last month was revised over 200,000 as well here. keep an eye on that. i said that the economy had been getting better for about three years and rattner, you were p pooh-poohing all over me. >> talking about pooh-poohing is not the way to go on the set. >> oh, my god, i love jim gaffigan. and who knows where, joe, the conversation will take us. >> there is the vegetarian hot pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat but still would like diarrhea. ♪ hot pocket
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and we have jim wallis, author of "the uncommon good." >> jim, always good to you have here. let's talk about a friend. you wrote a tribute to your friend glen stassen, who passed away. >> you write in part, "he taught us all the meaning of jesus and the new order jesus brought into the world. he showed us what it meant to live by the values of that kingdom without ethical equivocation, false dualism or political compromise. no american theologian taught us more about jesus and what it truly means to follow christ than glen stassen. he was a formative influence to students around the world, many of whom are also professors today and all of whom were mentored and not just taught by glen. glen kept calling us all to go deeper into our faith and we will with his ideas, his passion
and his spirit." that's beautiful. >> talk about your friend. >> i remember a tall, thin young man came to visit us at sojourner's community in washington, d.c. he wanted to live with us and help us serve the poor. he said i'm a professor of ethics at the seminary. we were very close friends. everywhere he went, he talked about jesus. not just believing in jesus, but following jesus. that was something i loved about glen. he always talked about jesus. this is what it really means to be an evangelical and why pope francis has touched us all so much because he wants to talk about jesus. that's what glen stassen did. no theologian of his time thought us more about following christ than glen stassen. i'm flying taught his funeral
and we'll give tribute to a man who taught us what it means to be an evangelical, to follow jesus. >> obviously what you and others were taught by him is probably con it and in your new book "the uncommon good," how the gospel brings hope to a divided world. tell us about that. >> joe, you know this town, you were in congress. we've lost this ancient idea of a common good. the last talk hi with glen is about what i think is the moral test of our politics right now, he and i talked about this, the passage of immigration reform, which is a common good. it's keeping families together. it would help the economy, it would -- all that. but it would keep families together. so john boehner said this week glen would have been pleased with the speaker saying "we elect officials to solve problems." i agree with speaker boehner. that means we have to fix this broken system now.
as you know, this week 250 evangelicals, many inspired by glen stassen, came to washington to talk to more than a hundred congress people and they said we have to fix this now, this summer. we can't wait any longer. too much suffering is occurring. that's what glen would have said. he would have said in the middle of left, right, democrat, republican, what does it mean to follow jesus and serve the common good? jesus said love your neighbor as yourself. that's the spiritual foundation for the common good. >> certainly if you talk about a common good, too, you and i probably disagree on a lot of issues and probably disagree on immigration reform and what shape immigration reform should take. but, my gosh, you and i both want what's best for this country, you and i both want what's best for this world. if i'm a progressive and you're a tea party member, you're a
liberal, i'm a conservative, i think that's the greatest breakdown is we can't even sit down and have faith that the other person wants what's best for this country, even if we disagree. >> i remember you had myself and richard land on, a southern baptist and sojourner talking about immigration reform. we disagree on many things you but on that issue we had really come together. let's have a debate about key issue, but we don't trust each other enough, we don't trust each other's intentions enough. the nation is looking for its leaders to solve problems, and glen would talk about how jesus inspires us to -- i would say don't go left, don't go right, go deeper. go deeper. that's what glen always taught us how to do. >> and we can follow his legacy and quite frankly also the book, "the uncommon good" sounds like washington could use, or all us. reverend jim wallis, thank you so much. it's really, really nice to you have on the show. >> always a blessing to be with
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welcome back to "morning joe." it's time to talk about what we learned today. >> i learned you turned, what, 26? 27? happy birthday. >> oh, stop. i'm 47. thank you all. >> never looked better indeed. >> 47's looking good. >> thomas, what did you learn? >> i learned that the folks, the good people in michigan hate
classic art. >> why do they hate art? >> oh, no, no, that's not art. it's an orgy. it's a bunch of people doing bad things to each other. >> they're holding each other up! >> that's an orgy. >> it takes a village. ♪ the road is long >> thomas, please. >> i have high taste in art. >> high taste in something. >> steve rattner. >> i guess i learned we had a good jobs number for the first time in a long time. >> here's to that, from 1-800-flowers. >> mark? >> i learned i could tweet about mika's birthday forever. i'm endlessly fascinating tweeting about your birthday. and i've done that. even after the show i'll be doing web extra. >> thank you. it is friday. this week is completely over and it's time now to turn a page. ♪ happy birthday to you, happy
birthday ♪ >> the princess has left the arena. chuck todd is next with "the daily rundown." thank you, as always, my friends for your patience. spring has sprung for jobs, something we haven't seen in years. this morning's new report shoots way past expectations for once, but the country adding almost 300,000 new jobs in april and the unemployment rate dropping to 6.3%. plus, as the middle east peace push falls to pieces again, is anything possible any time soon? we're going to ask one of netanyahu's chief
live on. thanks to everyone who responded. someone here made a good point. they're called food stamps for a reason. >> we hope you have a great weekend. thanks for joining us. have a great day. we'll see you on monday. "fox & friends" starts right now. bye. good morning. it is friday, mayç 9, 2014. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. seven democrats breaking rank and approving a select committee to get answers on benghazi, but will the others choose to boycott? probably not. but they aren't interested in answers and we're going to tell you what they do want instead. >> and welcome to the hotel sharia? the guy who owns the iconic beverly hills hotel adopted the brutal sharia law that says it's okay to stone people to death. now the biggest names in tinsel town are calling for a boycott of the beverly hills hotel. >> even they can't take it
anymore. guys, does this sound familiar? >> the bathroom is a mess! you should probably go work out! >> it turns out your wife'sç nagging -- he seems to be chronicling her nagging -- might be killing you even though she is 100% right. i want to find out if elisabeth nags. >> we mean well. >> she has not nagged on the set so far. by the way, we're running out of music that sounds like another planet. so mornings are better with friends. >> hi, this is kenny loggins on the curvy couch. you're watching "fox & friends." >> and we're footloose on this friday. thank you as we conclude the birthday week for brian kilmeade, youç will see more pictures of the activities. it's lovable about you because all the attention makes you a little
self-conscious. >> i can't wait for this week to be over. now everybody knows my name. >> did you get a haircut? >> i got a haircut on monday. it's friday. you haven't seen much of me really. >> somebody else is doing your hair. >> do you get a haircut before your birthday every year? is it a routine? >> it is a tradition i haven't tapped into. it is just a coincidence. but we have a best-up package. last night the nfl draft ended about midnight right across the street. we'll discuss that in a little while. but first a benghazi panel. >> new news today comingç in. an update here. it's been plus 20 months, four americans killed and zero accountability here. the house voted yesterday to establish a benghazi committee. all the republicans voted yes. seven democrats broke with their party in a vote of 232-186. we're going to look at who
the party breakers are. >> it looks like the same people who voted for the lois lerner investigation and what not. the makeup will be of this new committee, is going to be seven republicans and five democrats. republicans are going toç announce perhaps as early as today who is going to be on their side of the aisle. meanwhile, the democrats going to meet at 9:30 this morning to decide whether or not to have anybody out there. and as it turns out, in the last couple of days, remember on monday we were talking about how adam schiff from california, the democrat, said we shouldn't have anybody there. this is completely bogus. it's all been settled. >> a waste of time he said. >> yes. the democrats now see some utility in seeing somebody on the panel and plus if we don't have anybody there, who is going to protect hillary? >> they should have one guy there to get into the meetings to get access.
i guess they'll have a the inside and somebody to ask questions. >> they certainly don't want to leave hillary clinton, should she be brought in to testify defenseless, the irony being they're going to ask her why four americans were left defenseless and left to die. when you look at the americans here, there is one christen cinema from arizona. nancy pelosi seeming to back off her initial strategy to completely protest in favor of defending. >> one house democrat aide said they don't want to have a moment like whenç senator joe mccarthy was being chastised during his investigation of communist activities. they need a wingman in case one of their people winds up starting to look bad. a lot of people looking in are happy this is finally happening. a lot of people on the other side of the aisle said we figured it out already. let the chips fall where
they may. let truth be their guide. had the white house, as we learned last week, as the white house not started pinning from the get go we probably wouldn't be here if they would have leveled with people. now we'll find out. >> there will be a meeting today. the one good thing is mass media will cover it more than likely if you have democrats playing a role, as it's easy to marginalize even if great things and interesting things areç taking place if it is just one party hammering a group of people. >> charles krauthammer wrote an incredible article saying this should not be political. truth should supercede partisan politics. >> a lot of people fly out to hollywood and stay at the beverly hills hotel. it is iconic. as it turns out, it is owned by the dorchester collection of fantastic,
very expensive hotels. in the last week, it's interesting, theirç owner, the sultan of brunei has introduced islamic laws where if you're gay or you are an adulterer, they will stone you to death. >> some of the great things about sharia law, the way they treat women, the way they punish people, these are all the things that maybe a single american can relate to. because of that, i was heartened to see this -- because of that you have a-list celebrities canceling up to 20 events at the beverly hills hotel in protest of the way they treat women, the way they treat gays. >> not just canceling but calleding others. for a boycott here. you have)jay. it's going to get heated. >> who wants to support a company that supports
sharia law? come on! nobody! that's crazy. it is apparently out in california there is a lot of pressure on dorchester collection. you've got to sell that thing. this is iconic. it's part of the hollywood and beverly hills fabric of history. sell it to anybody else who is not involved in sharia law. >> they're begging to keep in mind there are a lot of employees. you probably don't like the taliban. >> did they buy hotels? >> we don't know. they lost about $2 million in protests so far. if everyone continues to rally, if everyone continues to take note, i think this could make an impact. >> we wanted to update you on that and so much more. that's how we get started. in the meantime let's turn it over to heather nauert
who tells us about more bad news at the veterans administration hospital. >> a big update to bring you. the secretary of veterans affairs has been subpoenaed by congress. the veterans affairs committee voted to subpoena eric shinseki over the phoenix v.a. scandal. the goal is to get e-mails and ote[ documents about that alleged scheme we told you about that involved treatment delays that may have killed as many as 40 of our veterans. the white house still supports shinseki but lawmakers say he has got to go. listen to this. >> in his six years in secretary, there is no time left. if you can't change an agency in a fraction of that time, you're not going to do it in a year or more. that is the really sad truth. it is not that he isn't a good man. it is that he failed. >> there are new accusations this morning of similar scenes taking place at v.a. hospitals in texas and in colorado. we'll keepç watching that story. that's an important one.
here is what not to do on a dating show. admit that you killed your first wife. [inaudible] >> here is what happened. that man confessed to murdering not just his wife but another lover with an ax. he said he spent four years behind bars for killing his wife and six years behind bars for killing the other gal. he says right now he's an honest guy just looking for a new wife. the producers say they knew the guy killed someone when they let him on the show. producerrers; right? produce) on a turkish dating show that was called "luck of the draw." wow. we do love our producers. then there is this story: the show must go on. four days after nine
performers plunged 30 feet to the ground, ringling brothers is back up for business. there are eight scheduled shows through sunday. many of those injured performers remain in the hospital. that human chandelier stunt will not be performed again. you can see it right there. sad news to bring you this morning. the man behind tony the tiger has died. >>ç frosty flakes, it's part of a balanced breakfast. >> they're great! >> that's lee marshal. he began voicing the frosted flakes mascot years ago. he died of cancer in his esophagus. lee marshal was 64 years old. and those are your headlines. >> an iconic voice. heather, thank you very much. >> what about your quiz -- your quisp? >> speaking of the voice, let's talk a little bit about the voice of your
spouse. when you close your eyes, can you hear that person nagging you? does it drive you to scream? as it turns out the university of copenhagen followed 10,000 men and women for a decadeç and discovered that if your spouse is a nagger, there is a real good chance you're going to die early. >> because women talk to other women -- >> you're pointing at her. don't point at her. >> it works both ways, brian. >> no it doesn't because men don't have a network of people to talk to. you forced all our friends away. so we're forced to deal with just the voice -- women have a network of friends to deal with and get all this off their chest. >> maybe that guy on the dating show wasç nagged. 2.5 times more likely to die are men within ten years and women are 34% more likely to die if they're nagged with increased risk of strokes and heart disease.
this is serious stuff. >> it is. wasn't king solomon in proverbs who said it would be better to be stranded on a desert island than to be married to a nagging woman? >> king solomon said that? >> i think i skipped that page. >> i think it was king kong. maybe men should just listen to what women are saying and do what we're told. >> define nag. >> constantly saying the same thing over and over. >> what about listening? does that hurt wives? >> aç little charlie brown speech. i think the problem is -- it applies to both sexes. if you feel like you're being nagged you've got to talk to the other person. otherwise you're going to internalize it and the next thing you know, you'll blow a heart valve. >> men need more guy's nights out to build up that network of friends to allow
them to alleviate some of the stress they're keeping locked up inside. >> thou shalt not studies for your own benefit. >> it isç a good idea if your wife does ask you to do something about three or four times, if you're not doing it, she's going to keep repeating. >> message to women: if we haven't done it after three or four times, move on to the next topic. >> give us some advice. if you've got a nagger at your house or you figured out how to deal with a nagger, let us know. friends@foxnews.com. >> that will go well for your friday night date night. >> on the national television morning show they read out your e-mails. >> this comes from bill wilson in florida. >> coming up on this
friday, imagine seeing this on your drive to work today. cars nearlyç swallowed up after the road collapsed underneath them. >> weed is still legal under federal law, so should colorado be letting pot shops in on their banking business? stuart varney here on that. ♪ ♪ ♪
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great state of colorado, a half million in january, almost five million. you asked? >> is colorado legitimizing the pot business? the answer of course is yes. that's exactly what they are doing. they are legitimizing it. they are creating financial infrastructure for this brand-new business. as you say, the feds,ç the big banks, they can't accept all this money. >> it's federally illegal. >> it's federally illegal and the banks don't want to give the obama team an excuse to crack down on the banks by saying you're dealing in drug money there, boys, we're going to hit you hard. so they've got to come up with an alternative. and they have. >> and the thing about -- and the reason we put that graphic up a moment ago is to show you we're talking about millions and millions of dollars largely in cash. you know, there's a safety issue. i get that. but at the same time it is like what are they going to do? because they've got this carvingout in colorado, tzey've got to figure out
what to do with the money. >> it's all about the money. the politicians want to set up an alternative financial structure because of the tax money coming in. nearly $5 million walked into the door in pot shops in the month of, i think it was march. that doesn't include all the money that comes in from pot tourism which is pretty robust in colorado. that. >> people fly into colorado because they want to smoke marijuana recreationally and legally. there is a cottage industry organizing tourists to fly in, toke up and away you go. i think that is the correct expression, ladies and gentlemen. what colorado is doing with its alternate banking system -- and that's what they're setting up here, that is the template khr-l be used across the coqáry if recreational marijuana extends beyond colorado. in washington state in july they will need a similar alternate banking system. they will probably copy what colorado has come up. they are legitimizing it.
>> absolutely. some of the banks, because they've got federal regulations they are reluctant to get in bed with the pot business. >> it's here. they're going to make money with it. >> stuart varney, you can check him out on the fox business channel between 11 and 1:00. thank you very much. have a good we= ahead, they put their lives on the line, some even paying the ultimate sacrifice. don't our military members deserve more than a minimum wage? plus it's not your grandpa's boy scout troop. now these young boys and girls are designing and flying their own robots. anna kooiman here to tell us all about that. the boy scouts of the future. ♪ ♪
quick headlines now. the navy wants to exempt on base fast food workers from the president's federal minimum wage increase. they will make a public plea today echoing fears from around the country that raising the pay rate will force the restaurant out of business. republican senator marco rubio visiting new hampshire, his first stop in an early voting state in more than a year. so far rubio keeping quiet on his prospects so i should whisper thisç story. >> it's out of the bag. it used to be as a boy scout the coolest thing you could learn was to build a camp fire. >> now the scouts are learning to build robots. anna kooiman is here to tell us how they're doing. >> yes. they are evolving with the times. the boy scouts of america say 75% of america's
fastest growing careers require significant cowork in s, but 15% of kids aren't ready so they're trying to bridge that gap and even allowing some girls in on the action. watch this. >> reporter: 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. you built this yourself? here at the illinois math and scienceç academy students from 6th through 12th grade can design, build and maneuver their own quad copter. while they love for the robots to do their homework for them, quad copters like these are being used in real life situations. >> we're already seeing them used as surveillance vehicles, as delivery vehicles, patrol vehicles,
aerial mapping. and i think the future is unlimited. >> the program is preparing kids for careers in involved in sciengj-dw and technology. what kid wouldn't think it is cool to fly a quad copter. >> it drives up your [inaudible] that is what we need. boys will be boys. >> if you crash, don't worry about it. don't sweat it. we're here to leave. robotics is teaching science, tepl, engineering and math. thatr#hpá we need. >> and think being a scout
is just for boys? think again. we bring as much to the table as guys do. i want to work on building an app for my phone. >> this is cool because someday i can use this to make a change. >> these kids are fantastic. what skpaoeuts us -- ex-sites us is when they see what the quad copter will do they are thinking of things we never thought of. >> folks at home if you're interested in being part ofç an aviation exploring club visit "fox & friends".com. >> can you get a merit badge? a drone badge. >> the number-one robot? gigantor. >> that is a roomba now
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boat overturned near some rocks while they were posing for some pictures. without hesitation the groomsmen started running toward the water stripping their suits in the process. >> they were able to pull the fisherman to safety. he's okay. the groomsmen wentç back to pictures wearing only their underwear with a few bridal bouquets located in strategic shots. >> that's great. >> good for them. it is now 27 minutes before the top of the hour. we have a very busy friday, and heather has got some troubling news from those sterlings. >> yes. we're hearing more from the sterlings. there is an alleged new report from the l.a. clippers own donald sterling reacting to the scandal that earned him a lifetime ban from the nba. listen to a clip of this. >> you think i'm a racist?
you think i have anything in the world but love for everybody? you don't think that. you know i'm not a racist.ç >> the nba banned and fined him millions of dollars for that racist rant during a conversation he had with his girlfriend, and other owns are trying to fast track a forced sale of that team, but sterling not going down without a fight. listen to this. >> they're trying to force you to sell it. >> you can't force someone to sell property in america. >> oh yes they can. in the meantime, sterling's estranged wife says she doesn't want to control the team but does want to keep her 50% stake and buy her husband's half too. teachers and a principal at a philadelphia elementary school were so desperateç to make themselves look good that they helped their students cheat on standardized tests. core papers from 2007 to 2012 say that they allegedly told students to record test answers on scrap paper so their work
could be checked later. those inflated scores leading to raises and promotions for the teachers. >> kids and parents trust these people to do their job, and here's what they do. >> five educators now face criminal charges. we'll keep watching that story. unsuspecting drivers nearly get swallowed up by a huge sink hole in russia. look at this at the top of your screen. amazingly all the drivers seemed to have noticed it and so they were able to drive around it. eventually thatç asphalt caved in and created a hole big enough to swallow a couple of cars. there is a driver in boston who was busted for putting his dummy in the passenger's seat in order to use the high occupancy vehicle car pool lane. a state trooper pulled him over, he found the man
mannequin head propped up and the officer then gave him aç ticket. creepy. >> he got to work faster. where's maria? >> she's outside. >> that's right, i'm outside hanging out in new york city. it was raining earlier this morning. that has stopped now and we have areas of dense fog. we're probably going to be seeing delays at the airports in the northeast. across parts of the gulf coast, parts of the state of tennessee and up into the midwest we are expecting to see areas of heavy rain over the next several days. even over the weekend, even mother's day and some areas along the gulf coast could potentially pick up to six inches of rain. that's going to be a concern in terms of flooding and of course it is severe weather season so we expect more severe weather from parts of"tam into indiana.
it continues on saturday, a little bit more localized from missouri and northeastern portions of the state of oklahoma and eastern kansas. by sunday very widespread again from texas up into parts of illinois. i want to take you to the rockies because out here we have a tropic setting up. that means an area of low pressure. look at the forecast from sunday into monday. snow. th*erb -- they're expecting snow from the valley floor and a few inches possible in denver. some moms not going to be too happy in colorado. >> that was maria doing the weather. let's talk about sports and the big event across the last night was a big night for the nfl. it was draft day. >> with the first pick in the 2014 nfl draft, the houston texans select jadavian clowny. >> went to the houston texans.
>> who were the other picks? here is rich "big daddy" delgado. >> the word is in the building there is a sense it is not coming back next year. the draft is going on the road. >> looks like l.a., chicago, obviously jerry jones. >> like the super bowl. the big news, clowny, no surprise numberç one? >> no surprise. when you have an athlete like that, they only come around so many or so. you have to take him. you don't have to worry about two defensive ends that can bring the end. >> what about johnny football? >> they needed a quarterback. it took a little bit longer but he's in a good place. >> number 22 taken by the cleveland browns. at the last minute it looked like the vikings were moving up to take him but browns said not so fast. is this a guy that can put people in the seat? >> absolutely.
>> tell us about nike. >> he was anç adidas. nike, underarmour. he sells jerseys. >> tweeting, he's through the roof. >> who wouldn't look at that. what to you was the biggest surprise? >> bridgewater going so far. >> he was on two days ago. >> he had a bad pro day and everybody made aig deal because he didn't wear a glove. if you watch the film and those games he won, that guy's an athlete. he knows how to win. >> last year he was more valuable than this year. >> he went to minnesota and the guy who is the o.c. there is norv turner. norv turner knows how to coachç quarterbacks. >> we've seen that happen before, they don't get drafted when we thought they would and come back. >> absolutely. being the second round, the
names that are going to go today, those are going to be the core guys because there's some guys that didn't go last night that will go today, and those guys are going to be players. >> a lot of people listen to us in florida, blake portals will put some people in the seats there. >> absolutely. those tarps that cover the seats and make the stadium look full, those will come down because you've got a big constituted quarterback that won%t@5jñ big stud quarterback that won't play right away but people will come. >> and watkins. >> doug marone says we go as our quarterback goes. >> you're our party quarterback and it's great you went to the draft last night. thanks for the post game show. 20 minutes before the hour. will you be able to handle
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it's so college. burger king is now offering burgers for breakfast. they're calling it the burger at breakfast menu. it also includes chicken sandwiches, french fries and apple pie. mcdonald's is testing seasoned fries and st. louis dubbed shake and flavor fries covered in garlic, parpl is-- parmesan. here's what's different. you buy the fries andç season them yourself. >> i like that. >> have it your way. >> exactly. >> have it your way is burger king, am i correct? >> you ham burglar you. >> are you ready for a rewind? >> it's been another busy week on "fox & friends."
let's take a look back. ♪ ♪ >> live from studio e. they really pulled out all the stops. >> fun day monday. packedç house. ♪ >> check this out. this high schooler is in his own one man rail. >> our own hail mary expert, brian kilmeade, is out on the plaza. he's run over next to our building. ♪ >> jack is back! how does it come back? it was done four years ago. >> i know. you get a call four years later and you're like who's pranking me. >> god doesn't actually have a phone number. >> he may. it'sç 1-800-call god.
>> i looked to rub somebody down. >> fantastic. i need to get certified. >> can i go now? >> i'm not wrong about that. >> it's brian kilmeade's birthday. >> i am officially 50. >> welcome to the club. >> happy birthday. when you turn 30, you'll understand what it's like. ♪ happy birthday >> it's a margarita mixer. wait a minute, last time you had a lot ofç margaritas, you wound up in a towel. >> doing a selfie. >> elisabeth decided in the after the show show you were going to take that cake and destroy it. >> i don't recall that. >> there's a crazy lady in high heels.
>> that guy just grabbed the cake out of her hand and smashes it into his face. >> nothing else to do but high five. he made me do it. >> i did not make you do it! >> she looks crazy ♪ ♪ >> we're running out of time. >> we are. >> jack is back-ç and she took a whack at you. it took six months. after your first throw at me which failed, it landed up top? is that what enabled you to attack somebody else? >> you can't leave a cake on the turf. i picked it up and tried to chase you around the building. >> then you went behind the barrier. >> and met the unexpected. >> a total stranger saw elisabeth when she was running by, then this guy grabs the cake and smashes it into his own face.
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going to go up and we demand that with a happy disposition. >> what if i told you that this position now? billions of people actually. >> who? >> moms. >> joining us is american greeting v.p. and president of the mullen agency. they created that video there that was seen by how many people in total? >> just over 18 million. >> that is remarkable. >> how did you get the idea to make this happen? >> well, mother's day is a really important holiday for american greetings every year. this year we asked mullen to help us take our company mission which is to create find a way to do that in the form of an advertising campaign that would recognize and celebrate moms and all that they do for us. >> it feels like -- those are real people with real job interview. tell me about their reactions. >> the reactions were amazing.
what i love about the web cam is you can see their eyes dilate and go to joy when we reveal 2 billion moms are doing this already. immediately they start laughing. they weren't angry at all. in fact, they were filled with gratitude. some turned the camera and addressed their mothers directly. >> i think it's great interview for those 24 individuals actually moving forward, to go through all these steps and see when they would be willing to sacrifice. what's going to happen for father's day? >> well, we believe at american greetings, fathers deserve to be recognized like mothers. we will invite to you wait and see. >> i'm sure you do. >> brian is arguing that being a father is the hardest thing. >> right. and i did it off cam are hoping not to bring it up to a national audience. in the big picture, moms should feel is a lieutenanted by --
saluted by this, correct? >> absolutely. this was all shared content. we're up to 18 million views because the moms were the velocity behind sharing it. >> it's a win-win. thank you for joining us. and it's a great message with american greetings. thanks so much. >> thank you. coming up, they put their lives on the line for this nation. so how do we thank them? we're about to take away their right to smoke cigarettes. is that true? >> and kids have invaded our control room. that's right. there is a good reason. how you can use your children to lose weight. >> they're being used? i think they're having the time of their lives scott: hello!
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good morning. it is friday, may 9, 20124. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. seven democrats breaking rank and approving a select committee to get answers on benghazi. will the others choose to boycott? probably not. but they aren't interested in answers. we'll tell what you they do want instead. a veteran affected by the v.a. scandal is speaking out. >> i'm just like i don't want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. >> another whistle blower and saying it's not just phoenix. >> meet the democrat who wants you to be able to use food stamp s to buy firearms.
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with your little guy. >> so many times women are like, i don't have any time to go work out. you do them together. >> you work it in with the kid. >> there you go. that's the whole theme. what's the thing with putting them with the most ex opinionsive equipment in the building. i think anything could spill, things could come flying out. >> so it will be an exciting final two hours. >> that's right. meanwhile, also later today -- okay so yesterday, eric cantor said we need this benghazi panel because the administration has not cooperated. they've stonewalled, redacted information. this could be the only way we figure out what happened after benghazi and leading up to it. we do know that it looks like the members of the republican side, there are going to be seven. they are going to perhaps be
announced this later today, there will be five democrats. democrats will meet at 9:30 this morning behind closed doors to figure out whether or not they should show up. what's interesting is when they had this great big housewide vote, all the republicans voted for it and seven democrats voted for it, too. so it was indeed bipartisan. >> all these name you see here happen to be in states, in situations that are heavily republican. so i'm not saying they're insincere in their vote. i'm saying it's politically savio for them to vote for this panel. i say you take those men and women, pick five and put them on the panel because they are sincerely looking for answer when is it comes to benghazi as opposed to other people that might be there just to obstruct. >> remember the initial strategy was to boycott. we heard nancy pelosi say why are we talk being this? we've heard people suggest that this is just a waste of time when it comes to democrats and the perspective and looking at it again, 20 months later, four
people dead, no answers. they are now going to strategically as it seems, place their reps there in order to possibly protect hillary, which she will be called to testify. >> in fact, the democrats, given the fact this in the beginning they were saying, let's not have anybody show up, now democrats see the utility in having people on the panel. elijah cummings, waxman spoke in favor of appointing democrats and they did mention hillary would probable will he be testifying and -- probably be testifying and also said susan rice would be testifying. so they wanted -- and they talked about rosa delaro who said, i'm not so sure this is a legitimate committee, but maybe we should have one person, just have one person who has got our back. >> all right. so we'll discuss it. we'll find out today at least. this is not going to be waiting over the weekend. they'll be meeting again at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and maybe
put those name out and hopefully we'll got this panel going. we would like to see some of those who were on the ground that night and able to talk for the first time. if you can get them in fronts of that panel where we do not know the answers but we can ask legitimate questions on what it was like surviving that attack, that would be compelling. we have not seen that. admiral mullen didn't see that. ambassador pickering didn't see this. >> i want to hear from some white house people. it looks like the spin started there. >> perhaps it did. i think the important note is right questions and getting answers. let the decision be what it is based on truthful facts. the guy who runs veterans affairs, general shenseki, has been subpoenaed. he's got the support of the white house. john boehner said yesterday, it's a problem that is systemic and just replacing the guy at the top isn't going to fix things. what we're learning now is it's not just in phoenix where we heard about the situation where maybe 40 veterans died because they were on some made up
waiting list. now apparently a scheduling clerk, 40-year-old government employee is seeking whistle blowing protection. apparently they've got a situation where this looks like they're gotting to people quickly in san antonio and austin. so it is systemic. >> what happens if you're a veteran and you're supposed to get medical attention? you got 14 days to get an appointment. they've been putsing in false records and stringing out people that are in their last legs or deemed to be someone barely hanging on and essentially are on a death list. i thought it would be arizona and colorado. now it seems to have spread to texas. which makes you wonder what, could general shenseki say to keep his job next week? here with more is an arizona veteran. >> i thought at least one thing i have i can depend upon was my country to take care of me when i get older. i never knew i was going to get
this. cancer. i'm just like i don't want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. >> gosh, they risk their life going to battle for us and then here, hearts-researching to hear that their biggest fight is to stay alive under the system as it is in the v.a. >> it is so wrong. we're supposed to take care of these guys, yet the government is turning their backs on them and making stuff up. in the meantime, let's turn to heather nauert who we can counts on with the headlines. we start with a deadly house fire. >> that story we told but yesterday. we have an update for you in florida. now new developments in the deadly house fired at james blake's house in tampa. investigators are saying that all four family members had been shot. there was a gun that was recovered inside that home and it was actually reject sistered to the father -- registered to the father. police say they are now investigating the possibility of a murder-suicide. there is new surveillance video that we're getting in. it shows this, campbell buying
$600 worth of fireworks on sunday and he paid in cash. he also bought several gas cans. we'll keep you posted on the details. here is what not to do on a dating show. it's not a good idea to admit you killed your first wife. okay. this was on a turkish dating show. that 62-year-old man also confessed to murdering another lover. this time with an ax. he says he spent four years behind bars for killing his wife and then another six years behind bars for killing the girlfriend. he says he's an honest guy who is looking for a new wife. oh, boy. would you believe him? the producers apparently knew that he had killed someone when they let him on the show. this again on turkish tv show. the iron i don't here if the show is called "luck of the
draw." that's one you don't want to draw. while you were sleeping, new details about the mass kidnapping in nigeria. the government there now naming the names of more than 50 of the young girls who have escaped their kidnappers. this is considered a controversial move because the girls could now face a stigma from other groups in that area. the terror group boko haram abducted 300 girls. the girls were likely split up and sent to neighboring countries by now. here are bravest dogs you will hear. two bulldogs breaking through their enclosure when they saw giant black bear stroll to a bird feeder in their yard. look at this right there. isn't that amazing? they surround the bear and the stand-off lasts a few seconds. the bear seems to consider his options and then he runs off. way to go, bulldogs. that happened in new hampshire. >> it's like a cartoon. did that really happen? was this a machine in a bear suit -- was this a man in a bear
suit? >> i would like to hear from witnesses. >> thank you, heather. speaking of new hampshire -- >> bears travel in packs. >> wolves travel in packs. >> why are bears always alone. joel, do you know? >> e-mail us if you have the answer. >> do you have a couple of sleeping bear hibernating in the same cave, it gets noisy. >> if you know why bears travel alone, please let's us know. >> she was just talking about new hampshire. up in new hampshire, there is a democrat, tim organ is in the state house. it's interesting, they're considering legislation where you can't use your food stamp money for guns, foe back co, booze, lottery tickets, adult entertainment, tattoos or body piercing. this guy says wait a minute. maybe -- listen to this -- maybe you should be able to use it to buy a gun. >> the firearms ban is a blatant violation of the second
amendment. presumably you have the same rights to purchase guns like the rest of us for sporting or self-defense. they do have the right under the second amendment to do so. >> he actually said the inclusion of officials seemed ironic. we want to know your thoughts on this. >> food stamps are for food. >> right. i'll either get a bazooka gun or gum. you make the choice, honey. >> what happens when you runoff money for food? >> right. >> are you going to take the gun and rob a store? >> should i get something to eat oar get more ammo? >> there was the story of a woman who couldn't get dog food with her card. so raising a lot of brows. send us a post and let us know. >> let me tell you what's coming up next. we just told you that only seven democrats voted for the select committee to get answers on
benghazi. the others meeting this morning. will they boycott? one of them is here when we come back. and do you ever catch yourself talking to yourself? you're not nuts. in fact, it might be a sign of something pretty good. >> exactly. >> i wonder what she means by that. >> no idea. ♪ ♪ (vo) oh. my.
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announced today. the question, will those 186 democrats who voted against it stage a boycott or put five people up to be part of the 12-person force? let's ask one of the representatives, jerry connally. you voted against having it, but now that you have it, where do you stand? what will be your sense this morning when you meet with other democrats on whether they should participate in this? >> thanks for having me, brian. yeah. i did vote against it because i don't know that we need a select committee. we've had four committees in the house and other committees in the senate looking at benghazi since it occurred. but i think the answer to your question is frankly going to be two things. one is what happens in our caucus this morning in terms of the nature of the discussion and where we're going to head and the second is the rules of engagement. what kind of procedures are going to be in place to ensure minority rights, that we have equitable representation in the
deliberations and in the decision making of such a select panel. >> so you want to make sure you have enough time to ask the questions of whatever witnesses are forward, you want lead time to know who they were, access to prior to their testimony? >> those are some of them, yes. i would add to that, though, strict rules of engagement in terms of fair play. so we get to have our witnesses as well. we are consulted with and have some say over the issuance of subpoenas. i'm on the oversight and government reform committee and frankly those minority rights have been completely trampled over and if that's the experience, there is no way democrats want to repeat that with a select committee. >> cummings is push to go make democrats participate in this and he's a guy we always see next to darrell issa sometimes in a contentious way. that would indicate maybe that that's something you guys should do.
>> obviously we have to weigh carefully whether we're at the table or not at the table. the republicans have clearly pretty much on a party line vote. you have emphasized seven democrats, but that's pretty much a party line vote. they created a select committee in rather rushed fashion. the question is, are we better off being at the table to try to make sure it's a balanced approach and that will be determined at our caucus meeting this morning. >> we'll got an answer today and thanks so much for previewing that. let's ask you about the irs investigation. lois lerner is held in contempt. six democrats voted in favor of contempt and 26 in favor of a special council to investigate it. when she stood up and took the fifth about targeting tea party groups, you knew somebody would happen. where do you stand on this? >> you know, i think actually conservatives need to be concerned about the issue of fifth amendment rights. the fifth amendment was there not for angels, but to protect
all americans, innocent and guilty from self-incrimination. it's one of ten enumeratessed rights in the bill of rights. and we have to take that very, very seriously. i think case law no matter what you think of lois lerner, case law is very clear here. she did not waive her fifth amendment right. even though we'd like to get her testimony. >> even though she made those statements prior you don't feel that way. >> it's not a matter of how i feel. it's a matter of case law addressing exactly that example. >> having said that. as an american, does it bother you in 2013, 14, i don't care who is in power, that the irs is using their power perhaps to target any group? i thought this would be one time in which democrats and republicans were equally outraged. >> actually when we began this process, we were. unfortunately, the republican majority then took it off to try to make it a political partisan effort to try to damage the
president. it didn't work. the president got reelected. yeah. we don't want to see the irs -- we didn't like it when nixon used it. >> all right. congressman, always great to talk to you. thanks so much. hopefully we'll get something positive out of today's meeting. >> thank you. coming up, they helped him in the white house twice. so why are unions turning on the president today? we'll find out. plus, you just heard them join me this this segment. babies are invading our studio. how you can use your children to lose weight. ♪ ♪ get all your favorites all day, everyday. olive garden's signature favorites, just $10 including creamy fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. plus unlimited soup or salad and warm breadsticks. signature favorites, just $10 all week long, at olive garden.
okay, kids. i've got the headlines. everybody be quiet. like that's going to help. headlines now from the military world. the navy wants to exempt on-base fast food workers from the president's federal wage increase. the navy will make a plea, echoing fears from around the country that raising the pay rate will force the fast food restaurants out of business and the pentagon wants to force our military members to stop smoking congressman huntser is fighting back. >> if you want to make us all healthy, let's outlaw war because war is really dangerous. >> meanwhile, the marine turned law maker getting an amendment passed that would stop the pentagon's plans to ban the sale of tobacco. kids, good job. thank you very much for being quiet. elisabeth, over to you. >> we're just working out here. you can never use the excuse of i'm too busy with my kids to work out 'cause this morning we're going to show you how it
use your kids to lose weights. that's right. that's when nicky fitness did it herself. after her son jack was born, she's the creator of baby booty camp and joining me now with great tips for moms and dads alike. you're going to watch us through some moves. >> those mother's day and moms are happy when they work out and babies are happy when they're working out. so i partnered with huggies. baby help to work out. >> kids are ready to move and the moms are ready to move. we're going to try some of these out. >> we want to get the kids involved as well as the moms. you can do a plie' squat. the baby's feet are going to touch the floor and jump. my son loves this. up and down. and then after you work your legs, then we're going to turn the babies around to face you to work your arms overhead and
squat. this is the beauty of moms right here because we don't hear the screaming. >> then you put the baby's legs against your lunge and overhead. then the baby jumps off your other leg and overhead. on my dvd, my son never really likes to just be jiggled or shakes when he was fussy. he wanted me to do lunges and squats. >> so as they got bigger you can extend the move. >> as they get bigger, you get stronger 'cause they get heavier. >> can i say did you a great job helping mommy work out today? oh, my goodness. >> so you hold the arm and leg and work your obliques. your hips are forward, making sure not to lean forward to precontinuing your bike. this is for baby. they'll be able to do flips flid
somersaults. >> you like to ride up and down? >> a roller coaster for baby and mom gets stronger as the baby gets heavier. i did this from about four months until my baby was about two. then he was walking and running away from me. that was my new workout. >> and you can do races and obstacle courses. it's great to start really young with them and great for mom to feel better about themselves. you have something special for the moms today? >> all the moms have my baby booty camp dvd, a gift from my gym, and huggies diapers for a whole month. >> that's great gift. thank you. >> thank you so much. steve? >> we don't hear the sounds here, but we're awfully fit.
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>> yeah. and that is going to be interesting 'cause there is so many compelling things go on when a woman gets pregnant, everyone's schedule adjusts. >> yeah. don't surprise us. we need lead time. no doubt, when you talk about relationships, one of the most intriguing thing about the success or failure of a relationship when you talk to a guy or woman away from their spouse is how they talk about the nagging that could or could be going on -- >> away from your spouse? >> yeah. and then you find out how much they're really being nagged. is that correct? >> they're not going to say, hi, i want to you meet my wife. she nags me nonstop. >> a study came out that nagging can kill you. men are more like low to die from nagging within ten years and women 34% more likely to die with increased risk of stroke, heart disease. and they were asked these questions that really had these researchers finding their immune systems were completely sabotaged by nagging.
>> that's right. so when you close your eyes, do you hear the teacher from charlie brown? is it just a constant kind of nagging? >> yeah. is that a problem for you? we asked you for e-mail. we got a ton. >> that's right. >> by the way, you know how you define nagging? excesstive demands from partners, family or those living nearby. not adequate requests for some compliance -- >> why are you looking at me? >> i'm not saying anything. diane said, i have a husband that nags. he can't stop nagging. i'm retired, but i took a part-time job to get away from him during the day. >> that could be my grandfather with my grandmother. he'd go to bloomingdale's to work during the day. he'd rather pat people down than stay at home. >> well. mike on facebook wrote, i just ignore it. the more you nag, the less i do. >> that plays out. brian e-mailed this, that says the reason husband die before
their wives is because we want to. the theory, according to those in copenhagen, is that women chase away all men's friends so they have nobody to express themselves to and bent their spleen, so therefore, they internalize and their organs explode. >> that's the way you read it. i interpret it is guys end up putting everything into their wives and that's why they don't have any friends and that's why they don't have any friends. >> on behalf of all women, i'm going to demand we talk to heather right now who has some headlines. >> heather again. same old. can you put those papers down? thank you. >> when we go to home depot later today, what do you need? >> i need some sand for sand box and vegetables for my garden. >> don't forget the batteries. >> and take out garbage while you're at it. >> good morning to you all. got some political news to bring you. today republican senator marco
rubio is fueling rumors of a possible 2016 presidential run with a visit to the state of new hampshire. this is his first stop in early voting state in more than a year. new hampshire is where the first 2016 presidential primary is held. rubio headlining two fund-raisers at republican strongholds today. some of president obama's strongest supporters are criticizing his visit planned for today at a wal-mart in california. the president is supposed to talk about efforts to fight climate change. wal-mart is using more solar energy to fuel itself and -- but labor unions are upset with the visit, saying wal-mart pays low wages and doesn't offer its employees enough benefits. and if you're like us, you probably talk to yourself a lot. >> you talking to me? you talking to me? >> there's a new study out that
says it actual low does make a difference. researchers found people who talk to themselves using their own name or the pronoun you performed better under stress. so when we view ourselves as a separate person, we're able to give ourselves more objective advice. researchers say that motivational self-talk -- you can do it. come on, way to go, brian -- really helps. those are your headlines. brian, when you say those are great tricepts, that helps. >> it's interesting we put robert deniro in that box during that entire story. >> or we're using a psychopath from a movie to talk about self talk. >> when you talk to yourself, then maria. >> we're talking to you. yes, we're talking to you. >> good morning, everybody. i want to show weather conditions across parts of the gulf coast.
we'll be seeing some issues in southeastern louisiana and southern parts of mississippi. we are going to be dealing with areas of rain over the next several days and unfortunately out there, we could be seeing localized flooding at some of these storms could produce more than four or six inches of rain just into this weekend. there is the potential for severe weather over the next several days, including today from texas to indiana, then tomorrow to kick off the weekend on saturday. they could be looking at some strong storms. by sunday a more widespread risk yet again, from texas up into illinois. out west across the rockies, we have a trough that's setting up. that is going to produce areas of snow. heavy at times along the higher elevations. we're going to see that snow come down all wait down to the valley floor. for mother's day in denver, you could be look at snowfall and a little accumulation expected there. temperature wise across the country, look at texas. 90 for your high in dallas and across the southeastern u.s., hot as well with a high at 930
in raleigh, north carolina. let's head back inside. >> all right. i was told to do a more specific toss. shocking picks in the nfl draft. a lot of drama. number within, no surprise. >> with the first pick in the 2014 nfl draft, the houston texans select jadeveon clowney. >> he was the number one pick overall and has been for months going into the draft unless they traded it away. we knew he was going in the top spot. johnny manziel had to wait. he is the biggest name in the draft. for his time in the spotlight. in the end, the cleveland browns took him on the 22nd pick in the first round. fulfilling the team's need for a quarterback, they felt they had a young one who got hurt. suspended infielder alex rodriguez. a lot of people wondering where he is. okay, me either. he is actually shaving his legs. that's because according to his barber, he shaves his legs and arms to, quote, feel more
hygienic. jose lopez, who gives hair cuts to many yankee players, says he once gave a-rod a hand when he was trying shave his legs. as you know, that is the number one story in america. now the number two story. this soccer player hits the ball in, then sprints before -- into the seats to applaud himself. that's fantastic. >> that's not a be your own fan. >> that's one of the greatest things i've ever seen in sports. >> that's like the selfy fan. >> he knew exactly what he was going to do. >> did he got in trouble for that? >> what's electric to say? it's not like they can take ten yards away. a yellow card perhaps, but i doubt it. >> fanning yourself. >> 20 minutes before the top of the hour. you've heard the millenials don't wants to work, that they want to invent the next facebook or twitter and rake in the cash.
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of them were out of work. the majority said they'd like to work for themselves in the next five years, invent something, or become an entrepreneur. >> kind of sounds crazy. but not totally impossible. our next guest pulled it off and he knows that it took a whole lot of hard work to do it. our guest, eric, is the founder and ceo of pedal technology, he created, built and marketed the most successful smart watch on the market today. first we got to say congratulations. >> thanks very much. >> the pebble, ladies and gentlemen. this is a support version. you're wearing the fancy one. what does it do? >> it's a watch that talks to your iphone or android phone, whenever you get a new text message, it pops up so you can see who is e-mailing or calling. >> you can hear the beep of your smart phone, you got a message. but why dig it out of your pocket when you can look at your watch? it's brilliant. >> it is. this concept was done in your dorm room desk. so you made your first prototype
there. you raised over $10 million in 30 days on kickstarter. that's incredible. that's like a record. you had to be blown away by that. but i know it wasn't easy. you had four years of struggle. correct? >> yeah. we had worked up to it for quite a while up to that point. when you're working on something and finally everything clicks, that's what it was for us. >> sure. in the beginning, you went to some venture capitalists and you said, take a look at this. just imagine what it's going to do. they didn't see it, did they? >> not as much imagination. >> why do you think that is? >> i think it's risk like lot of these projects are quite risky. but in the end, a lot of people believed in us. we had over 69,000 people from 150 countries around the world support us. >> one is forbes said you'll double revenue had the next year. that's incredible. if alt companies that are probably have a strong set of eyes on you, what about a buyout? what about selling the company? do you think about that?
will it happen this year? >> i think our focus this year is on building something that's useful for people. that's what drives us. at the end of the day, we built something that we want to do build for ourselves. we wanted to use it. >> how many times have i read in the "wall street journal" about how apple supposedly is working on a smart watch. you beat them to the punch. >> i think there is quite a few people working on things like this. but yeah, we're out there. we're in stores now. >> have they called you? >> i can't say anything about any sort of acquisitions or anything like that. but die know -- yeah. >> what is your advice to millenials? i think you're remarkable on what you've been able to do sets the tone. what do you say to them? they want to do what do you. >> one of the things i realized through school is that you have to experiment. you have to try out different jobs and figure out what works for you. i worked at six different places while i was going through my undergrad. i realized that i didn't want to work at a single one of them. >> you found that out through work. >> exactly. trying things out, experiencing different jobs and realize what you want to do and don't want to do. >> i know a number of kids who
are in your demographic and they are at home right now. they are working on their app, their next facebook. they're expecting the moon shot to make some big money. it's not that easy. you got to do the leg work. you got to do the hard work, right? >> yes. a lot of work on the way. but when it clicks, you'll know. >> what's the web site? >> getpebble.com. >> we thank you for being here. >> thanks very much. >> pebble on, my friend. >> thanks for traveling here from california. >> incredible story. short of ten minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, are you looking for a movie for mom this weekend? kevin mccarthy is up next. >> first on this date in 1914, president woodrow wilson established mother's day as a holiday. in 1994, nelson mandela is elected the first black president of south africa.
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family versus fraternity in the comedy "neighbors". >> welcome. >> it's weird. >> he has the upper hand! >> kevin mccarthy joins us right now from wttt in dc with this weekend's reviews. kevin, first stop, "neighbors." what do you think?
>> good morning to you guys. thank you for having me on. the movie itself, when i think of fraternity comedy, i think of old school or "animal house," movies that are absolute classics. this deals with a couple who have a newborn baby and a fraternity moves next door and they have an all-out battle. it's a big fight. you have seen the trailers and air bag, robert deniro impressions. the trailers, i will say, give away a lot of the jokes. i'm a big fan of raunchy comedies. i love raunchy r-rated movies. i loved "pineapple express" and others. but this particular movie, i feel like the jokes are all given away. there is all no characters to root for whatsoever. none of the characters are redoomable in any way. "super bad," i cared for some of those movies. this movie, i didn't care for anybody. some of the jokes work, but i gave it three out of five. it's matinee. i would not pay full ticket price. >> you didn't like and gave it three stars?
>> no, no, no. i liked some of the jokes. overall, i didn't think it was as classic as "animal house." it wasn't a classic by any means. most people were giving it really, really high ratings, but i thought it was very middle of the road. >> i've been waiting for a review on "moms night out." what do you say 'cause i'm going. >> this is a move yes that really surprised me. it really gave me a deeper appreciation for how awesome moms are. i feel like the struggle that sarah drew's character has in this movie with her character and the idea that she deals with these tough struggles of being a mom and i love the idea of how it highlights that because she realizes that not every day is going to be great. and you're dealing with three women who go out for a night out. they leave the kids home with their fathers and everything goes wrong. everything you can possibly think of goes wrong. that part i felt was a bit unrealistic at times. but overall, it was the message is about moms and how awesome moms really are. and i love that aspects of it. for me, i called my mom when i
got out of the movie. i wanted to tell her i loved her. it made me appreciate how awesome she was. i gave the movie a 3 1/2 out of five. i really enjoyed some of the aspects of it. again, if you can suspend your disbelief a little bit and get past the unrealistic moments, you can actually get a really good message here. >> in reading your material, i didn't realize our buddy, trace adkins, was in the movie and you loved him. >> trace adkins is the best part of the movie! he plays this character called bones and he's like head of this motorcycle gang and he's absolutely hilarious. i wanted more of him in the movie. they didn't use him as much as i wanted them to. but he is the best part. i want to say in the spirit of mother's day, happy mother's day to my mom, jill. she's watching right now. she watches every single day for "fox & friends." i love you so much and thank you for supporting my obsession with movies and thank you for letting me watch "terminator 2" when i was eight years old that. movie made me fall in love with movies. thank you. >> just because you've said that on television doesn't mean you don't have to send hear card.
>> i know a strategy. >> i'm sending her >> they better be big! thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> thanks. thanks lot. >> he seemed sincere. >> did he. so that's what kevin says you should waste your money on this weekend. >> waste your money on? >> i mean spend your machine on this weekend. coming up straight ahead, your e-mails have been pour not guilty all morning on some of the topics. for example, this one. can your wife nagging actually kill you? >> geraldo has a wife. and he's going to weigh in on that and benghazi and so much more you start tomorrow? tomorrow we're booked solid.
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good morning. it's friday, may 9, 2014. i'm elisabeth hasselbeck. seven democrats break ranks and approve a selects committee to get answers on benghazi and the others wants to be on it. but they aren't interested in answers. we'll tell what you they do want instead when chris wallace joins us live from washington. a veteran affected by the v.a. cover-up speaking out. >> i'm just like i don't want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. >> he's a victim and now a whistle blower says it's not just phoenix. if you're in texas, find out where the problem hospitals are there. >> welcome to the hotel sharia. the man who owns the beverly hills hotel just adopted in his native land the brutal law that says it's okay to stone people to death. now the celebrities suddenly realize that, they're beginning
to boycott that place. in fact, it's almost entirely empty. how they're losing millions and when does the iconic hotel step up and maybe get sold? according to all reports, this is friday, and mornings are better with friends. >> i'm terry bader from the mirage in las vegas. you're watching "fox & friends." >> you don't have enough guys impersonating turtles these days. >> right. but we have sad news about impersonators. tony the tiger, the voice of tony the tiger, he's great, but he's passed away. >> he has. >> but the quisp guy is still okay. >> we've got geraldo in the on deck circle. he's on in just a moment. but first we turn to heather. you start with benghazi. >> yeah. the house of representatives passed a resolution to create a select committee on benghazi to investigate that. all republicans voted for it. seven democrats broke with their parties to vote yes.
so here is the big question now will those 186 democrats who voted against it stage a boycott? democrats are meeting about an hour from now to talk about this apparently. representstive connally from virginia talked about this earlier on "fox & friends." >> the question is, are we better off being at the table to try to make sure it's a balanced approach and that will be determined at our caucus meeting this morning. >> the members of that select committee are expected to be announced later today. we'll watch that story throughout the day for you. new information is now heading to house lawmakers investigating the irs scandal of conservative groups. less than a day after the house held lois lerner in contempt, the irs agrees to turn over all e-mails and other communications as evidence. republicans are saying that her actions could be criminal. listen to this. >> we believe that she violated people's constitutional rights, their rights to due process and
that's actually criminal in nature and so this is very serious and we want to find ou far this goes and we're going to follow these e-mails wherever they lead us. >> republicans have been demanding the documents for months now. the irs commissioner has set it could take years to produce everything that they have. the show must go on. four days after nine performers plunged 30 feet to the ground, ringling brothers & barnum & bailey circus is open for business again. there are now eight scheduled shows through sunday. that human chandelier stunts, that will actually not be performed. seven of the injured acrobats are still hospitalized this morning. and if you're married or in a relationship, listen to this one. nagging apparently can take a toll on any relationship. some more than others. >> all i ask is that you show a little bit of appreciation, that i just get 20 minutes to relax when i come home instead of being attacked with questions and nagged the whole time!
>> you think i nag you? >> there is a new study out that claims nagging can actually kill you. there is researchers who say that excessive demands from loved ones can more than double the risk of death in middle age. men are apparently at higher risk. >> of course. >> because it's said they keep all that bottled up. >> we have no one to talk to. >> what about women? we got nagged, too. >> you have people to vents to. you have your neighbors and high school friends. >> you are currently nagging. thank you very much. your e-mail and tweets pouring it. marla writes, if you do what we ask you, we won't nag you, duh. >> ashley says, i don't like to nag. i prefer to be listened to the first time. how can you ignore my wishes and expect me to be happy? >> can you tell women actually picked these out? >> no kidding. louis says, i gained some weight because my wife kept nagging that she wanted to see more of
me. so she got more of me. that's hysterical. geraldo rivera, you've -- >> stop nagging. >> you've been in relationships. >> you might say. >> right. was nagging ever a role in the destruction of those relationships? >> you know, when you're looking for an excuse to get out of a relationship, you seize on anything and nagging is an easy one. i can honestly say, they say that you're only as happy as you're unhappiest child. you're also only as happy as your unhappiest spouse. so if she's not happy, i'm not happy. so i try make her happy. >> happy wife, happy life. >> that's right. >> happy wives, happy life. >> one more thing to talk to the doctor about. >> could i just say that i see you have a boxing segment planned. i hope it works as well as the exercise with your baby segment because that was brilliant. wasn't this for birth control? i think it worked like a charm. >> you know what's even better? when you're talking to a congressman and the babies come
marching in. >> i love that. >> it sounded a little like washington. >> lot of whining. >> it sounds like the white house is surrounding general shenseki who heads up the veterans affairs administration and it looks like they've got big problems. john boehner yesterday said it's systemic. we have discovered that he's been subpoenaed. we now have discovered it's not just phoenix. it's also austin and it's san antonio as well. it looks like whistle blower coming forward. it's a big problem. >> speaker boehner is right, it is systemic. i've done the expose every decade. this is the fifth decade it's happened. the v.a. has a chronic problem. it has since the post-vietnam era at least. i just caution to tread slowly when it comes to generic shenseki. shear why: -- here is why: he was a twice decorated wounded hero from vietnam. this is the real deal.
man stepped on a land mine, went back into the service after he lost half a foot. he was the army chief of staff in the joint chiefs, the highest ranking japanese american ever in the armed forces of the united states. he's a guy that is very, very admirable. if indeed, however, he knew or should have known that these problems existed, then the american legion might be right about demanding his resignation. i just, because of this man's resume, i just say let's go slow. let's make sure that he is to blame. obviously the story is disgusting and it's malignant and it's going to go -- >> respecting that office, of course, and you know that he's possibly tried to do. so keeping an open mind is a great point. listen to this one veteran because this is heart breaking. he says he came back and he thought the very least, he could depend on his country and he's fighting for his life because of this situation.
>> i thought at least, one thing i have i can depend upon was my country to take care of me when i get older. i never knew i was going to get this, cancer. i'm just like i don't want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. >> in arizona, 40 died waiting for an appointment. >> terrible. as horrifying as that is, the fact that they kept two sets of books, that they kept one official record that showed a reasonable waiting time and a real list that showed the actual waiting time, allegedly leading to some fatalities, i think that deceit might be the heart of a real congressional investigation. >> everyone talks about edward snowedden and what he should have done. now you have whistle blowers coming forward. let's show these guys coming forward, protect their identity, let's them have the freedom to come forward and let them be effective. >> agreed. the problem with the federal civil servants is they protect themselves. we did a story yesterday. one in 1,000 members of the epa
were fired in a single year. one out of 1,000. you're more likely to die of a heart attack than to get fired. nobody gets fired in these federal agencies. the v.a. is one of them. this is a case that cries, it seems to me, certainly the keeps of the second set of records should clearly be fired. >> all right. >> what do you think about -- shifting gears -- about the sharia law in the hotel. the hotel we're looking at says you will die being stoned if you are guilty of certain crimes. we have hollywood celebrities boycotting this hotel, beverly hills hotel. it's iconic. >> it's icon iraq, along with the bellaire owned by the same owner. the dor chester in london -- i'll tell you a quick story. when the people bought norchester in london, i swear to god this happened to me. i worked at abc at the time. walked into my suite on the 7th floor in london, there
were people in full desert regalia cooking a lamb. >> in a room? >> on the balcony of their own suite. they were cooking a lamb on the balcony. i thought that the snooty dorchester in london was falling on hard times. i'll cut to the bellaire where i always stayed. it's in my contract that i stay will when i go there. whoever i work for. that's all been in my contract. i don't like boycotts generally. i didn't like when the gays boycotted chick-fil-a. you may remember. if you don't want to go to a place and you don't want to patronize a place, that's well and good. but don't pressure others to follow your lead. in this case, sharia law we hate it. it's ownerous, stoning and all the rest. i understand the argument against sharia law, but if you start putsing the politics of the owner at play in terms of whether other people can patronize it, if you don't want to, that's fine.
don't go. but when you start saying, brian, you can't go, or i stand in fronts of you, elisabeth, when you want to go and i know all the employees of the bellaire, some of them, my son was raised at the bellaire, what happens to the employees when the hotel was empty? how long did they stay employed? there are consequences. >> that's true. and i understand you always have an interesting way on this stuff. it's fascinating. but if you believe that these women are being persecuted, if you believe a whole country is oppressing a gender or an ethnic group and you want to make a stand, that's courageous. and having ellen degeneres and jay leno come forward and say, i'm taking my business elsewhere. >> that's fine. if you don't want to get the chick-fil-a sandwich because you think he's antes gay, then don't go there. go to wendy's or some other place. that's fine. but when you stand in my way and i don't believe the politics
that you have, then i think it's anti-american. i don't like it. >> a protest of getting into that hotel. >> it's intimidating. political correctness is fine and you go with the flow and generally speaking, we believe as they believe in broad strokes. it's just that you have your right to take the stand that you do. just don't stand in my way. >> geraldo rivera, who as we just learned, has that in his contract, he can stay there -- in my contract, i have to sleep in my car. >> no tell motel. >> in my contract it says stay away from geraldo. coming up, the government wants to slash pay and benefits to our military. so there must not be anything tells cut, right? wrong. try the 150 bucks a gallon it spends on green jet fuel. >> then one driver wanted in the car pool -- wanted into the car pool lane so bad, he tried to pass this thing up. it's a real person. wait until you hear how this one
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army infantry captain and ranger and senior advisor for concerned vets for america. he joins us today from pittsburgh. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. how is it going? >> going okay. although people watching this right now, their blood pressure will start ticking up. >> it's outrageous. >> 150 bucks for jet fuel, but it's green jet fuel. >> this is just another example of a wasteful government spending program and overall indicative of a department of defense that just does not have its priorities straight at all. any time i see a piece like this, i wonder why is the department of defense involved in the biofuel industry in the first place? that's why we have a department of energy. let the scientists and the laboratories research whether or not biofuel is a lucrative in the military. but what i want the department of defense to do is focus on one thing and one thing only. that's winning wars and protecting the american people. that's what i want. on top of that, let's make sure that we honor the sacrifice of
our servicemen and women who served in war. >> what are we doing on capitol hill? they're cutting the budgets for all sorts of things involving our military. but at the same time, we got money to pay 150 bucks a gallon for this algae gas. they're going to run in some jet airplanes. when i was -- we saw the headline and i started to read about it. it turns out these things are being produced -- i know of one case where it was produced by a company that had been a big democratic donor. because they're small companies, rather than giving them an outright loan, they're simply buying the gas for 150 bucks a gallon to subsidize these outfits. >> yeah. it's the government stabbing in the dark to try to pick a biofuel. what they should be doing is trying to improve the fuel efficiency across the spectrum of the military incrementsally so we don't outpace technology. that's what we want to do. that will save money. it will make our force more fuel efficient. and it will increase operational capabilities. but no.
instead we're investing a lot of time and money in biofuels that's not technologically viable in the open market and wasting time. we face a fiscal crisis in this nation, the likes of which have never been seen before. we're dealing with an administration that spends like a teen-ager with a credit card. we need leaders to step up to make tough decisions right now and there are probably 100 programs exactly like this that can be cut prior to getting to cutting the and i benefits of our military servicemen and women. >> a guy with a teen-ager with a credit card, i know exactly what you're talk being right there. if i got the balance statement and said 150 bucks, she suspense on a gallon of gas, i'd hit the roof. as america will as well when they find out about this. sean, always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining us. have a great weekend. >> steve, can i just make one more points? >> sure. >> listen, it's mother's day. we've got mothers all across this nation that aren't going to be able to be with their loved one. we are a nation that's still at war. let's remember and pray for those mothers this weekend.
>> absolutely. well put. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> to mothers everywhere, happy mother's day come sunday. straight ahead, they're paid to make our kids smarter. but some teachers and even a principal did a really stupid thing and it's happening more and more. we're going to tell you what about not making the grade. then jennifer esposito is here talking about a health struggle that affects a lot of people. you're watching "fox & friends" on this friday. ♪ ♪ those litt things still get you.
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some headlines. new developments in the arson at retired tennis star james blake's house in tampa.
investigators now saying four family members found inside were shot with a gun reject sistered to their family -- register to do their family. he was caught buying fireworks and several gas cans. police investigating the possibilities of a murder-suicide. this guy admit to go murder on a dating show. he confessed he killed his first wife and another and another. he spent ten years in jail, but is an honest guy looking for a new wife. this all went down on a turkish show called "luck of the draw." it's not a pilot. it's on the air. >> that would be a deal breaker. more than 2 million americans suffer from celiac disease. mean -- it often goes undiagnosed by doctors. on average, people with the disease wait six to ten years before they're correctly diagnosed. jennifer esposito has struggled with the condition most of her life and never knew it. she's the author of a new book.
i feel like we're soul mates right here. >> absolutely. >> when i read your story, so much of it echos with what many go through. you had a tumultous experience. you were tested for a number of diseases. what was the most difficult part of that journey? >> not knowing. i think so many of us, an average diagnosis, seven to ten years. mine was since i was a child. and hearing things that it was either in my head or it was something else. ibs, ms, lupus, everything. >> depression. >> depression. >> someone asked you if you were suicidal? >> yes. yes. this was at the height of it. i just kind of stared at her and thought, i'm sick all the time and you are the nth person that's not hearing me. wouldn't you be depressed? did you do i want to kill myself? no, i want help.
at that point i had a tooth fall out and a lump the size of a small grapefruit in my neck. i was horrible. >> jimmy kimmel said he couldn't find anything to describe living gluten free what gluten was. >> i saw that. i have a lot to say about that. i just wish the jokes would stop because when someone like him, who has such an audience and they keep making a joke about the fad, which i understand is a fad, there are people like us and people -- little people, small people, big people, people of all ages that are suffering from that kind of mentality because what happens is that waiter or server or that chef, that employer, they don't believe us and they think we're somebody who is on a diet. and it's really frustrating. >> strong message there. the silver lining is you express what you went through will help so many people. you have a bakery, jennifer's way. that's incredible. all these gluten free treats are
available. >> it's gluten free, soy free, egg free. >> yea. so i can eat. >> you can eat everything. >> that is great. i have to say, congratulations. i know you were recently engaged. and you guys are working together, a gluten free wedding is what i bet. >> i can't wait to make everything. >> look at that. so that's right out in front of your bakery. jennifer's way is the name of the book and bakery. we thank you for being here. >> thanks. coming up, democrats want to be on the benghazi panel all of a sudden. but some say it's just to protect hillary. chris wallace is standing by in washington with that. plus, skip the eggs. which fast food joint is serving burgers for breakfast? ♪ ♪ for paul ridley there's no substitute for advil.
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they've done this new study that shows if your spouse nags you, particularly guys, your wife is nagging you, you're twice as likely to die. we asked you for e-mail and we got a whole bunch of it. >> right. paul wrote in saying, my charming bride of 34 years does not refer to it as nagging. she calls it adult supervision. >> yeah, right. kevin watson says nagging is why alcohol was created. >> ouch. >> i don't think he's talking about rubbing alcohol. >> probably not. let's go down to our nation's capitol, chris wallis joins us every friday at this time. we're not suggesting that your t you. but let's just say she's making some of her buffalo chili from her soup book and tells you to pick up some crystal sauce for it that, nagging? is there some nagging going on? what defines that to you? >> listen, whatever lorraine does is perfect. i'm like a grateful dog.
she puts good food in front of me and anything i can do to help her in that intersurprise -- given the fact that lorraine and i had a little bit of a spat last night -- >> for what? >> i'm on double secret probation. >> what happened? >> i've already shared more than i should have. >> come on! >> i want to say if you're watching, i'm sorry. >> oh, wow. so chris -- >> how intriguing. that should be the lead on fox news sunday. >> i have your home number. let's call her. >> fox news i'm sorry. >> or tweet it. >> #i'm sorry. >> we sent -- this study was done in europe. as you're an american, as far as we know, do you believe that nagging can actually kill a man? >> what about a hand in your face? >> i think that any kind of stress -- i don't know if it kills you, but it certainly is not good for you, whether it's at home or work or on a sunday
morning show. i want to ask you a question, brian. you ever feel like the johnny manziel of "fox & friends"? in what way? i want to know. that you're disrespected. that elisabeth and steve are picked -- were the first two picks and you're sitting this in the room, sort of waiting with a picksar on you. no wonder you had to apologize to your wife, with a mouth like that on you. christian thank is what i say. johnny manziel will prove wbr id "wbr92700" he was better than the 22nd pick. he comes out in the fall with something to prove. that's where we start in may. by september, everyone is going to realize they should have picked me first. yeah. speaking of the draft of sorts, they're drafting members for the benghazi committee. it looks like the republicans could announce their picks today and the democrats are going to have a meeting today at 9:00 o'clock. are the democrats going to have anybody, one person, what? we're going to find out /b
because on sunday, we're going to have an exclusive interview with trey gowdy and i think today they're going to name all the republicans. the democrats, i suspect we won't know by this weekend whether or not they're going to participate. so we have booked the head of the house democratic office and we'll talk to him, along with gowdy because the democrats say it's just a political exercise, we may boycott it. i think that's a risky move for them. on one hand i can understand it does make it look partson. on the other hand, if they go ahead, the republicans and hold these hearings and bring up hillary clinton or bring up david petraeus, they may want to have a democrat there to present questions that allow these people to principal the other side of the -- present the other side of the story. interesting choice for the democrats. we'll find out whether they made it on sunday. >> they do have a list to choose from. seven democrats who voted in favor of the select committee. maybe they should say pick from them because they're probably sincere in their vote. >> i think they were, which is
probably the reason the democrats will not pick them. i suspect they're going to want people who they feel are more loyal to the democratic caucus, who oppose this whole thing and don't think it's such a good idea. >> your guest on sunday, trey gowdy, he's been long asking questions and noted this should really just fly above any sort of political partisan line and intention. so i think a he seems to be above partisan politics. >> yes. you're absolutely right. but on the other hand, at the same time that he's saying that, the national republican congressional committee, which is the campaign committee for house republicans, has been trying to fund raise off this issue, saying be a benghazi watchdog so that kind of adds some fuel to the fire the democrats saying this is just politics. there is lots to talk about on sunday. >> republicans should be embarrassed by that. >> democrats have done it in the past as well. chris, what about the suggestion by politico that the democrats are talking about we should have
somebody on there, on that committee to protect hillary clinton? that's exactly right. that's the choice they've got to make. because let's say they bring hillary clinton up and you've just got seven republicans, they could sit there and just hammer her with questions and we all know that sometimes somebody -- this goes with both parties -- that somebody from the other party, in this case, would be the democrat -- can sit there and protect and rehabilitate and say, isn't it so, madam secretary clinton, that when you did this, you had -- and kind of lead the witness in a safer direction. so it's kind of wbr-id "wbr94500" an interesting choice that the democrats have to make as to how they want to play this. chris, it will be interesting 'cause you'll have an answer by the time the show comes up. there's a big meeting today for democrats. maybe by the end of the day, they not only decide if they'll participate, but if they do, name the people they want to be part of the panel. yeah. i think there is a possibilities they won't do it because nancy pelosi is playing this very close to the chest. there is a lot of stuff that has to be done. they have to get all of the
staff that is -- what's happening is they're taking all the staff of foreign affairs and intelligence and all these other oversight and they're going to put them all together in this one committee, all the thousands and thousands of documents. so the democrats have a little time to play this out. >> i have an idea to save some time. it's been over 20 months. four of our americans are dead and we haven't gotten any answers and the account abilities. how about we tell the truth? that takes a little bit of time only, right? >> that's the last resort in washington. >> yeah. >> chris wallis, we'll be watching you this sunday. before you go, do you need to apologize to anybody else? >> no. i think that's it. and brian, i want to say that as far as i'm concerned, you are brian morning talk television. like johnny football, you're morning show television. >> thank you very much. what a nice thing to say. >> i still would pick you with a 22nd pick, i'm sorry. >> now that you made up with me. just one person to make up with and you'll have a good weekend. >> we'll see. you don't know mrs. sunday. >> she holds a grudge.
>> your dog's name is winston, that's the dog house you've been in? >> say that again. >> your dog's name is winston. that's the dog house you're in. >> yeah. we're sharing a bed outside at the dog house. >> all right. thank you very much. >> sweet heather. >> good morning. >> that's really sweet. >> i was thinking about our own marital spats. that's all. >> really? >> we're just one big happy family. >> everybody has them. >> if you have a fight this weekend, bring in a video. >> i will. good morning. today republican senator marco rubio is fueling rumors of a possible 2016 presidential run with a visit to the state of new hampshire. this is his first stop in the early voting state in more than a year. new hampshire is where the first 2016 presidential primary is held. rubio headlining two fund-raisers in republican strongholds today. this coming out of philadelphia.
teachers and a principal at an elementary school there were apparently so desperate to make themselves look good that they helped their students cheat on standardized tests. court papers say that for five years, they told students to write down answers on scraps of paper so that their work could later be checked. those inflated test scores leading to raises and promotions for those educators. >> i don't know what to say. i think it's sad. >> kids and parents trusted these people to do their job. >> all five of those educators face criminal charges. we'll keep you posted on that. talk about a real dummy. a driver in boston, massachusetts, busted for putting a dummy in the passenger seat just so he could use the carpool lane. a state trooper pulled him over and found a mannequin propped up with a jacket behind his head and a mustache on his face with marker. the driver then just got a ticket. it's what overnight workers and pregnant women have been waiting for. burger king now offering a the
whopper at some locations in the morning. they call it burger breakfast. we're so happy here at "fox & friends." that's right. includes chicken sandwiches, some barbecue stuff, french fries, apple pie. no word if this is a permanent change. if you would rather have a normal breakfast, they're still serve that food as well. those are your headlines. >> i can't wait. thank you very much. >> the rage is protein, especially in the morning. why not give people a burger? >> why don't we stop on the way home, heather? you and me. >> we got your fast food friends weather forecast now with maria molina out on the streets of new york city. >> that's right. good morning. we're tracking a storm system farther west. today will be producing areas of showers, thunderstorms, and over the next few days, we are going to see some areas of heavy rain, especially concentrated right along parts of the gulf coast, across parts of louisiana, parts of mississippi and alabama. some of you could pick up over three to four inches of rain,
locally heavier amounts. so flooding could be a concern. severe weather possible from texas up to indiana. that severe risk will stay in place as we head into this weekend, saturday and sunday. so keep an eye out for that. temperature wise, heating up across parts of the southern plains today and also the southeast. i want to show you the city of denver. take a look at this. sunday into monday, they could pick up some snow out there. more snow expected as well across the higher elevations of the rockies. let's head back inside. >> thank you very much. i was just showing brian and elisabeth the picture of my daughter, sally, was taking a final yesterday and then down in dallas -- then the tornado warning came on. and there they all are down in the basement waiting for it to blow over. >> seeking shelter. >> as a parents living 1,000 miles away, that's when you want to see.
but it's all good. we're okay now. 18 minutes left unless hemmer and mccallum overshe wants again. here is what's coming up, imagine seeing this on your drive to work. cars swallowed up as the road collapses. it happened. >> look at that. plus, getting fit one punch at a time. we're getting ready to rumble. our gloves are on. >> it's the big rage and it will be raging here. put them up. ♪ ♪
time for quick headlines. the great video edition. watch as unsuspecting drivers nearly got swallowed up bay sinkhole in russia. amazingly, all of them noticed
it and drove around it. they're blaming it on heavy rain. look at that. swallowed it up. boom. meanwhile, nearly two naked groomsmen in australia run into the ocean to save a fisherman after his boat tipped over. they got him to shore safely and then went right back to posing for pictures, only this time not so formal. they were just wearing their underwear. and how is this for living on the edge? chicago's hancock center's newest attraction let's you tilt 1,000 feet over the street -- whoa. a frightening 30-degree angle. that attraction opens tomorrow. it's closing time. for the last bar car in america. get this, the remaining commuter train serving beer, wine and spirits is ending its 40-year run tonight t. turns out nobody else wants to drink on the way home. wnyw reporter is live at grand central station in new york city with more on the last call.
how are new yorkers handling this news? >> reporter: they are quite upset about it, especially someone told me it's exactly what they need after a long day of work. good morning to all of you and good morning, everyone. the party is over, simply put. after 40 years, these four bar cars, the only bar cars that still exist are essentially hanging it out. the nta is taking them out of rotation. they're only running on the metro north new haven line they're something of a throwback to the '70s when having an after work cocktail on the way home was acceptable. it was daily culture. so we talked to some people who were riding on the train this morning. they talked about the tradition. >> it's one of those things that you do. >> fridays, thursday, whatever. it's kind of fun to do on the way home. >> reporter: the big problem is that these bars don't bring in enough money. they only pull in $357,000 a
year. a far cry from the bars on the platform. connecticut governor is trying to organize a plan to reinstitute bar cars. that won't happen for at least another year. that's the latest from grand central on this very sad day for a lot of computers. >> they're crying in their beer. thank you very much. i'm looking on amtrak. the top of the picture still shows beer and wine. >> i was just on two weeks ago. i will say i'd be surprised. i think that's the most successful restaurants in the world. >> at the last call. >> let me tell you what's coming up, you want to knock out those unwanted pounds, don't you? stick around. mar why is going to show us -- mar why is going to show us -- maria is going to show us next how to do it. >> come on, maria! let him have it
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>> new from the hill, dems mail out one of their own on the benghazi panel. we'll take you live for the latest this morning. now we will also find out just what was in lois lerner's e-mails which have been released. we'll tell you about that. and ten years ago, army sergeant matt lawton was captured in iraq. now his dad travels to washington to find out who killed his son. he will join us live. now back over to you. if you're looking to gets in shape this summer, you might want to try putting on some gloves and throwing some punches. joining us is dr. paul thompson and the marketing director of
title boxing club. nice to meet you. this is actually a great workout. i read you can burn 1,000-calories in an hour of boxing? >> therapy. great workout. one of the great things about it, it's high intensity interval training, builds muscle, lose fat, gets your cholesterol under control. one session you can make your insulin work better. >> i watched it. i saw your new gym. it's unbelievable. i saw people of all shapes and sizes taking part. a loft people think it's a young person's thing. but not the way do you it. can we go over some basics over what we'd see in a class? >> 'cause i want to punch brian. >> there is no hitting. it's very safe. >> but on our show we do. >> okay. so you want to start, if you're right-handed, start with your lead foot back. so you put your stance a little bit here and then this is going to be your power hand. start with your left with a little jab. just like that. then you bring your other hand
across. >> sorry. >> right at eye level. >> let's see you connect on the bag. >> these are 100-pound heavy bags. whether you connect, it will send a shock wave through and it's all muscle resistants. so you're here. >> you're building muscle at the same time as you're losing fat. >> okay. >> usually one person is on a bag. how long do you stay on a bag? >> three minutes. you'll come off and do something in between. maybe burpees, maybe jumping jacks. keeps your metabolism up. this not only burns calories, you're burning calories for two or three hours after. >> you also got somebody on the mitt. so you want to step out here. >> it's amazing how much you feel it in your abs. >> it's a core workout. >> that's nice. you get 15 minutes of core at thend. >> how long do you spar? >> i also see the medicine ball there. >> at thend of the class, we
do 15 minutes of core. we do this at the end on purpose because if you're using your arms and core, you can take it and do, for instance, a lunge rotate back. you're working your core as well as your upper body and legs. >> i love this kind of workout because it just gets a little aggression out, burns calories. >> absolutely. you can take your aggression out on the bag. >> guys, stay right here. brook and paul, we're going to come back with more boxing and maybe we finally got to take a shot at steve. >> that's right
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tomorrow "fox & friends" weekend, u.s. businesses are collapsing faster than they're being built. why isn't the government helping? >> also there is a lot of lazy men out there and they wait 'til the last minute -- >> why are you looking at me? >> -- last minute to get their mother's day gifts. i'll have the best gifts you can pick up on saturdays morning. >> what about sunday morning? >> 7-11, that's why we have it. >> also governor mike huckabee
will be in on saturday. >> also, in the after the show show, learn how boxing can make you extremely fit. elisabeth and maria are going to go head to head. >> we're going to go at it right here. >> have a great weekend. >> bye, everybody. happy mother's day. nice. good morning, everybody on a friday. fox news alert because the house approving a special committee on benghazi but how many democrats if any will take part it will be decided today. democrats will meet behind closed doors as you see screen right any moment. good morning from new york city. i'm bill hemmer on a friday, "america's newsroom." we'll find out something today. martha: we can see the doors are closed as we look at that. good morning, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. debate from democrats are heating up. one lawmaker says democrats should appoint one member to sit on the panel. a lot of the other are suggesting a complete boycott. bill: republicans say they're determined to get to the bottom of all these facts saying
the white house is billing the event as the largest gathering of african leaders ever in washington. a second american missionary affected with ebola is setbrants week are the only ebola patients ever treated in the u.s. ramping up for a potential presidential run, senator rand paul will continue his brief through iowa today. that does it for "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. stick around. ♪ join us in an effort to restore confidence, dignity and decorum to this institution. >> former white house press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. >> only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. >> one bullet striking reagan in the chest. another penetrating brady's skull. >> the tragedy turned brady's wife sarah and eventually brady
himself into advocates for gun control. >> what may be an emerging genocide. shiite men are herded together and executed in mass graves. >> news about the experimental drug used to treat that american doctor infected now back here in the united states. >> a doctor in liberia describes it as miraculous. >> these two americans may save a lot of lives. >> by her suffering in this, she may be able to help countless more. >> a patient came to mt. sinai's emergency room with symptoms of fever. >> doctors now awaiting the results of tests on a man at a major manhattan hospital. >> given the amount of travel, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if there would be a case that would show up here in the u.s. >> today's temporary cease-fire was a chance for gazans to bury some of those killed. >> but minutes after the israeli initiated truce began, a missile hit a house in gaza city. >> there's nowhere here.
>> israeli will honor the cease-fire and will be watching to see if hamas does too. good morning! welcome to "morning joe." it's tuesday, august 5th. a lot to talk about today. with us on set to help us do that msnbc contributor mike barnicle and former communications director for george w. bush. where is the sarah palin line in there? >> i think it got edited out. it disappears. >> who would edit that out? that would be the top thing. joe scarborough, sarah palin, what were you, sarah palin? communications director? >> tutor. >> do not say that! that is condescending. >> i think on campaigns oftentimes your staff takes on a role getting you ready. >> just a lot of different things. >> like you are for barnicle here. >> i was a staffer. >> he also helps with the clothing and it's working very well. >> thank you. >> also, we have, mike, this is impressive. the chairman of deutsche, inc.
>> i'm so xoited. >> how many chairmans do you have here? >> how many are on the board? >> my mother. >> before we get started -- >> no, no, no. >> you're wearing a bracelet. i know it's your show but you're wearing a bracelet. >> i paid for this microphone, mr. green. yeah. i wear it all the time. >> i've never seen that. >> you got the things undone? little donny deutsche going on! >> no! not even close to donny deutsche. you've got like pimp my ride like beads there and s&m. >> i can't believe we are going here already. are we going here? >> they all have children meaning. >> sensitive. >> it's all children's stuff. are we going to show my instagrams tonight? >> women see the bracelets and they know that donny cares.
>> thank you. >> and then they go on his instagram account and they know he is one -- >> i haven't seen his instagram. >> and my dogs and puppies are children. >> one on your account was so bad we couldn't show you had your two little girls right below your pecs. it was disgusting. we are going to have to raise the level. >> i agree. >> we have somebody else here, right? somebody else? >> there must be! >> in washington, staff writer with "the hill" we want to apologize, elise. >> no problem. >> here is the good news, elise. you had to sit through all of that. that is the bad news. the good news is you don't have to sit on set with donny deutch. >> it just means i can't see the bracelets, joe. i can't see them. >> oh, my gosh. >> the technology of television. here they are. >> oh, there they are. >> james brady, yesterday, he passed away. >> a great man.
>> great man. >> courageous man. >> obviously, somebody who stayed very close to the reagans throughout his life. >> a courageous man, a great man. obviously, everyone knows what happened to james brady. shot, nearly killed, in an assassination attempt on ronald reagan, and spent the rest of his life, he and his wife, forming a committee, the brady group that still, today, and has for a long, long time, promoted gun safety. never gave up, he never gave in. >> sarah brady has been also real fighter for the cause for sometime. actually ronald reagan played a very big role, you know? in 1994, they actually had great influence over ron and nancy reagan to get ronald reagan on the phone and make those calls, nicole, when they were trying to pass assault weapon ban but for ronald reagan that would never passed. the brady name also bore his
name. you know, he really did have a huge impact and is a great example of taking what happens. we had a friend of mine on last week, bob bell got paralyzed his freshman year and he had to decide what am i going to do with my life? that's what james brady did and he made a great difference. >> the debate is sorely going to miss him. one of the ugly terrains in the american debate and the bradys have elevated it. they have made it more bipartisan and made it more meaningful and i think they have helped quiet some of the more shrill voices in the debate. the debate over gun safety in this country will be less without them in it. >> no doubt about it. obviously, though, sarah brady will, obviously, continue. >> of course. >> andrea mitchell who, obviously, knew the bradys, looks back on his life. >> reporter: only 69 days after ronald reagan took office.
>> shots were fired at president reagan in washington. >> reporter: six shots were fired. the first meant for the president exploded in the head of the white house press secretary james brady. brady had always been known as "the bear." big, irreverent even at his boss's expense. when president reagan said trus produced pollution by carbon monoxide, brady joked about killer trees. above all, brady was trusted. >> i wouldn't tell you something if it wasn't the truth. >> reporter: after he was shot brady fought for his loiven and struggled to speak and to walk. the reagans insisted he keep the title of press secretary and renamed the briefing room in his honor. >> i hope this room is always filled as much integrity and good humor as jim brady has brought to it. >> reporter: nancy reagan joked about reports he gave her the job because he wasn't good looking. >> i keep giving jim my y&h.
>> reporter: jim and sarah brady worked against gun violence. the assault weapons ban lasted ten years until congress let it lapse. after gaby gifford was shot, jim brady again speaking out. >> he is still just as funny. that's a wonderful word. >> funny looking. >> reporter: his neurosurgeon remembers that fateful day. >> to me his greatest achievement was saving the life of the president of the united states. he walked right in the line of fire. >> reporter: jim brady lived for another 33 years and valiant to the end. >> he certainly was and jim brady was 73 years old. we continue now on with news on the ebola virus with another possible scare. the united states latest in new york city. officials are now awaiting test results from a man who showed up at manhattan's mt. sinai hospital yesterday after returning from west africa with symptoms associated with the virus. fever and gastrointestinal
problems. officials don't know whether the man has the disease, but say he is being isolated out of an abundance of caution. hospital officials stress the virus is transmitted only through bodily fluids and not through casual contact. you have, obviously, the newspapers in the tabloids in the city certainly talking about the ebola scare in new york. from new york to atlanta. atlanta hospital is awaiting the arrival of a second american who is infected while working in west africa. a plane carrying u.s. missionary nancy writebol left early in the morning and expected to arrive later today. one doctor, a decorated air force colonel and surgeon, says while he trusts doctors at emery emory hospital, it was foolish
to bring ebola patients to the united states. >> they could have taken the medical equipment and the experimental serum to africa and treat the patients this rather than bring the patients here and in fact, the continental united states even though the risk is minuscule. >> elise, tell us about this. >> it's an interesting interesting, joe. obviously, you see those headlines. i think what the public does not necessarily understand about this virus, even if there isn't a major danger of epidemic here in the united states or a major outbreak, by transferring a patient to u.s. soil, you create a pathway where ebola could ultimately reemerge again. it's minuscule as the doctor said, the risk is very, very small, but i think that is something that has gone unroverted about thu unreported about this outbreak. the last time we saw ebola only
in one region in western africa and probably to make it to more country's by week's end. by creating those pathways the risk arises not only to americans, but people around the world. >> elise, do we know what mode of transportation this patient is being flown to the united states with? is it a military plane, a charter flight? it's certainly not a commercial flight, is it? >> it's an evac plane going i believe, to liberia and arrive in atlanta today and she will be brought back and apparently she is doing very well because the two american aid workers who were infected were brought a ground breaking serum has that produced great results. we know that isn't something available to most people with ebola in west africa and raising ethical questions there. it's likely these two are going to survive which is pretty incredible i'd say. >> it's important to notice the between this and sars. this is not something somebody can get breathing in the air.
>> that's right. >> it has to be bodily fluids so it is something we have to be concerned about but it is not the same level of exposure just for the average person walking around. >> no, it's not. it's important for people in new york city waking up and seeing the papers and hear about this man who may or may not have ebola. health officials think he probably doesn't but people are thinking i rode the subway with this guy. you won't go to ebola what the cdc tells me. i interviewed all of the officials there. apparently people who are getting are health workers or people involved with the bury rituals in north africa. it's not like somebody could cough on you and you would get ebola. >> let's move on to more news out of new york. this is, oh, man, this is bad news. bad news, mike. two police unions today are holding events in new york city to show support for the officer who is linked to the death of a staten island make any
difference who was put under an apparent chuokehold. eric garden ner said he could n breathe. any results is in the staten island district attorney general. they are calling for the justice department to investigate with some noticing historically strong support for the nypd in staten island and that could impact the case. this is one of the things, mike, you hate to see, obviously. the supporters of the police at the same time. you look what happened on videotape. it appears from, like, it was just such an openly excessive use of force. now that it's been ruled a homicide, there's some tough decisions that are going to have to be made. >> it's the first big test for
bi bill de blasio. the cops have been identified. obviously, the medical examiner has ruled its death by homicide. >> by the way, this guy is in a choke hold because he is selling untaxed cigarettes. >> yeah. >> untaxed cigarettes. look. untaxed cigarettes. >> and all he is doing is talking to them. >> and asking -- >> right. >> there was nothing physical happening. so i think this is a test -- >> broken windows? >> well, i think that everyone -- i think there is a republican instinct to stand up for and always take the side of law enforcement because they have one of the most difficult jobs around. but i think -- >> and traditionally conservatives have stood up for police officers. >> firefighters. >> firefighters, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. and there are some on the far
left have not. let's just put it that way. >> this video, to me, i think, is a real test for whether what we all can see plainly with our eyes is going to be reflected in the outcome and in the policy, because i think anyone watching and if you're still forming your opinions about law enforcement and you see that someone gets away with that where this was unprovoked violence against someone. the original sin was selling cigarettes. >> yeah. unbelievable. the question is again you have to ask -- what if it were your son? >> right. your husband, your father. >> what if it were your father. >> and you could not talk to law enforcement. >> that was killed and not allowed to ask a question. i'm sorry. this is pretty -- unless something else comes out based on the video, this is pretty clean-cut and we have to say it's pretty clean-cut. yes we stand and salute the nypd and always support them whenever we can but when something is this clean-cut, you know what? it's not enough to say they are a cop and it's okay.
it's not okay if there is was nothing more to that. and sometimes there is more than meets the eye. i haven't heard it yet. i'm certainly waiting to hear it. >> let me be the liberal who actually supports law enforcement. my grandfather was actually a cop. obviously, that speaks for itself, but whether it's doctors, lawyers, baseball players, advertise executives, journalist, there are going to be some low lives in every profession. >> understood. >> the question is what do you do with the low lives? >> you prosecute them. >> that's where i think this becomes interesting and maybe troubling. the instinct is to rally around your fellow police officer but i don't know that you want this guy's actions to speak for the entire department. >> they need to get more information out. >> there is an investigation. >> they need to do the investigation. we need to get all of the information out there. but to blindly support a guy who did this choke-hold on this guy for selling untaxed cigarettes.
>> it looks bad. >> it looks really, really bad. speaking of looking really bad, let's go to the middle east. after four weeks, there are renewed hopes at least, how long is a cease-fire going to effect? >> five hours. >> yeah, five hours and see how long that lasts. there are hopes to end the latest round of just horrific violence between israeli and hamas. overnight, a 72-hour cease-fire went into effect. in the coming days, egypt plans to hold indirect talks with the two sides about a long-term agreement. also overnight, israeli announced all of its troops are out of gaza after destroying the known tunnels used by hamas to launch their attacks against israeli vilcivilians and soldie. they will up force outside of gaza, but warned it will respond to any attacks. let's bring in richard engel who is live in gaza.
richard, so there has been appear bit of peace and quiet for at least a couple of hours. what is the feeling on the ground? is there a chance this peace could hold? >> reporter: there is a hope here that this peace can hold. this feels different than the other cease-fires. we get a sense here in gaza that things are wrapping up. the biggest gomt wdevelopment w israeli troops pulled out of the gaza area and no foot soldiers or tanks on the ground here. in the past, we had cease-fires but they always broke down because hamas fighters and israeli troops who were here in gaza were in such close proximity that fighting almost inevitably broke out and any hope of negotiate settlement quickly evaporated. now we have a structure in place, a structure moderated by egypt and supposed to last for 72 hours while negotiations take place. hamas has said it agrees to it.
israeli has said it agrees to it. delegations are supposed to be meeting indirect. egyptians meeting with them to come up with a deal. for the entire time i've been here, this is the most hopeful moment that we have seen that this war, one month long, could be wrapping up, but the death toll has been quite significant. this has been a terrible war for both sides. 1900 palestinians almost killed. 64 israeli soldiers and 3 israeli civilians. this has been the deadliest of the three recent wars. >> it has been so deadly. and the violence so horrific. of course, you look at those numbers. 1,800 palestinians killed. 64 israeli soldiers killed. three civilians killed in israeli. there was a report in "wall street journal" morning, elise, that the obama administration, the state department finally had
enough after the final explosion at the u.n. compound where more civilians were killed after warnings that it was a u.n. compound. that's when they decided to make their public statement. i'm curious. first of all, what is the reaction been on the hill this week? secondly, if you can, pass the question to richard engel. >> yeah. absolutely. cl capitol hill has been quiet on the hill and they lost for august resaens we have not heard much from them. this is a congress less interested in foreign policy. you just don't see a lot of reaction. and the silence is deafening when you see a death toll like this. it's pretty interesting. we do know that tensions are at an all-time high between the highest ranking officials in the obama administration and, obviously, the government of benjamin netanyahu. my question for richard, i know that some senior obama
administration officials have really taken a beating on the ground in gaza in terms of public opinion and also just around the world. i'm wondering what you hear about what the white house is doing, if anything, on the ground there? >> normally, in gaza and i've covered the last three wars here, you hear a lot of anti-american sentiment, that the united states is supplying weapons to israeli, that the u.s. is backing israeli blindly, that israeli wouldn't be doing this without the u.s. that is the baseline that we have been hearing here for decades really. this time, we heard a lot less of that. instead, we heard more anger directed directly toward israeli for targeting civilian areas and we heard an enormous amount of anger directed at egypt. the egyptian factor probably has been the least understood and the least reported of this entire conflict. i think at the end of the day, what is happening, the reason we are seeing a deal now, is that
hamas finally decided it was going to go to egypt and have to go to egypt and it would deal with general cc who is against the hamas and muslim brotherhood. you want a deal, you have to go through me and kiss the ring and accept i'm here and here to stay. i think hamas finally relented to that and that's why, i think, we are seeing progress now. it was really more about israeli and egypt this time than the united states. >> richard, we realize that you're in gaza city, but in another area of the middle east which you're very familiar with, isis has taken mosul. they have beaten back the kurd. they have taken the mosul dam, which, as you know and reported on in the past, they could flood the entire area almost down to south of baghdad. the kurds seem to be in critical position here against isis. what do you think is the role of
the united states in helping the kurds? >> reporter: well, the kurds -- so just to frame the question herein i think it's an important question so thank you for asking it. i was in baghdad a month ago and seems like a whole liz ago when isis was marching toward baghdad and it looked like the militants were going to take baghdad. the is started sending in more weapons and started accepteding in advisers. the shiite militias started to fight back and isis realized they couldn't take baghdad and couldn't continue their southern march. what did they do? they changed directions and they started going north and west, even to a degree, the east, anywhere else and they started fighting against kurdish militias and they have been having a lot more success fighting with them and taking new territory.
they took new ground in tikrit and mosul and taking that dam. now the u.s. has to realize is it going to arm the kurds? is it going to not just deal with baghdad? is it going to go directly and relate to the kurdish authorities? that opens up the question of the pkk and the pkk is a militant group that is fighting isis which the united states considers a terrorist organization. to arm and help the kurds, the u.s. would have to decide it's going to work with the pkk, which it considers a terrorist group officially, and i think there is a legal problem that is helping -- that is preventing that from happening right now. >> certainly no easy answers there. no more so than where you're standing. richard engel, thank you so much. we appreciate it. still ahead on "morning joe," michael bloomberg and secretary of state of commerce are going to be here ahead of today's inaugural business
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the morning papers? the wait is over. it's 6:28 on the east coast. from our parade of papers, we are counting them down! the toledo blade. after three long days the water advisory has been lifted in toledo, ohio. the watery advisory has been lifted in toledo, but there is still obviously lingering concerns. toledo's mayor took a big sip of water yesterday. he actually died two minutes later! he fell right over. he walked inside and just -- it was all over. they have cleared the water and it's safe to drink. i've never seen it. his liver just fell right out. wait a second. actually, that is wrong. t.j. wrote that in the script. it is incorrect. he is still live and very well. toxin related to an algae on lake erie. >> that is disgusting! >> does lake erie still look like that? i remember an "snl" skit in 1977
drinking swil water out of -- oh, my gosh. it impacted 400,000 people. officials say there could be a reoccurring crisis as algae blooms are coming! >> "usa today"! >> lake erie, clean that place up! come on! >> "usa today." netflix plans to follow up its 31 emmy nominations for shows like "house of cards." and mike's show "the orange is the new black." >> do you like that, mike? >> i do. >> mika is a avid fan. >> if you think of one show, why do you start with "orange is the new black? "? >> 11 new shows are in the works that includes several comedy and drama series. they are positive another season of "arrested development" is in
the future netflix has 60 million viewers worldwide. >> it took me only a year and a half but i final finished the season of "madmen." >> did you like it? it ended okay. first four are just punishment. >> listen. you know what? this season of "madmen" has been hammered by everybody. and, by the way, the good people at amc will tell you, i was, like, from episode one. >> i'm still watching it because you guys talked about it. >> we saw it from episode one. every season is different. i thought this season, i thought it was a good season. >> last three end really well. >> it was from a dreary time and i know this sounds kind of weird but if you're a beatles fan it remind me of "let it be," where you could see everything falling apart and there weren't a lot of happy moments when they weren't singing "i want to hold your hand." this was a very grim time, '69. i love how it ended. >> the last seen was unbelievable.
>> i thought john hamlin was unbelievable this year. i started watching it, i think donny was the only one watching it when i was watching it and was desperate for all of you to watch it because i wanted it to get better and they made you hang on i think the first third of the season and then it got better. >> "the sopranos" tony would stare at the panel i don't like myself. i don't like myself. it would be like a whole season of that! people are going, it's really deep. matthew winer went through two or three episodes where he took it a while but all for a purpose. again, it wasn't -- >> the ending it well. >> i think it was a good season. only three episodes but it was a good season. when is the next one? >> a year away. i have a new one, "the nick i "on cinemax. you will love that. 1900 opium. >> donny and i still love opium
dens. >> they went away. >> they didn't. you just don't know where to look. >> this was good. this is how people watch tv. they find their show and watch it wherever it is, right? >> what struck me is how much i love all of these characters and i've fallen, john hamm, amazing. oh, my god, he's so great! and on and on. i'm so glad that christina hendricks is in washington and you were up here when we interviewed here. >> she is my dream girl. >> i need you to be quiet about it, okay? a great actress. >> we all have dream girls. ruth buzzi for you. >> your dream girls are in the corners getting ready to go to camps right now. >> oh, god. that's terrible! >> exactly. "the washington post" has a great story too. but, no, we are going to politico! >> too much to choose from
today! >> i don't know what to do. cornucopia of news today, my friends and i really don't know where to go. it's like i'm going out of the supermarket. mike, i have too much in my arms. they are spilling on the ground. there's so much to talk about. >> yesterday, everyone who was left in washington with the congressional recess, they were at mike allen's lunch with david plouffe. the biggest draw ever for david plouffe he is the next white house chief of star or not, mike? what is the deal? >> sure looks like it. you remember david plouffe. >> how could we forget? >> during the hillary contest, he was the button down calm one who complained about the bed wetters around him who were getting worried. he was stead as she goes. then in the white house, the senior adviser. we hear from people very close to the white house that he is most likely to come in as the last chief of staff. denis mcdonough who has been with the president is going back
to the campaign as a national security expert, has been in this job 18 months. it's a burnout job. people figure that around the midterms, he'll probably head out and the david plouffe, someone the president is very comfortable with, someone who knows the obama way, someone who can be there to guide the legacy. he is already on the library board, is most likely to come in. yesterday at the playbook lunch, i asked david about it and it sure sounded like it was a possibility. he said, well, we'd love for denis to stay and turn out the lights on january 20th, 2017, no for that. it would be a way for david plouffe to send out the president that he brought in. >> any other candidates? >> john podesta could do it who is in the white house right now but we think he probably will be heading out to hillary campaign. ron clain could do it and dan
pfeiffer could do it but david plouffe is closer to the president. >> he said he didn't want to make new friends. congratulations. you've made new friends. >> and shake things up when they things are going well enough they don't need to shake it. i like david. >> things going so great, why not bring in people who were complaining, and bed wetters to cease your beliefs and people who don't agree with you 100% of the time. a final two years. i can't wait. >> i can see you love the pick. >> boy, i tell you what, let's just reinforce everything going on the past six years. i can't wait. that is going to make everything work a lot more smoothly in washington. >> can i ask him a question? >> no, you can't. mike allen, thanks. yesterday, mike allen insulted the guys in the board
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this year? >> shut up! >> i haven't heard much about the red sox. world champion red sox. >> would you be quiet? this is very important. >> i want to hear about the red sox. >> before we get to sports, major announcement. >> major announcement. tomorrow morning, sometimes you just pick up the phone. i'll be really hons wiest with . i don't pick up the phone enough. i want the herd here. >> colin coward, the best sports announcer in history. >> i pick up the rotary dial phone. the herd is on "morning joe" tomorrow. i cannot wait! >> it's the greatest sports radio talk show you've ever heard. >> he is amazing. he's here tomorrow. >> espn 10:00 to 1:00 eastern time, fantastic. 7:00 a.m. west coast. let's go to baseball. >> the red sox if they keep losing, do you think you can get me two more good season tickets?
>> i can get you six. >> can you really? >> i'm giving up all of mine. >> yankees fans would not be doing this. you would not hear this. >> both teams are bad! >> but yankees are still in it. >> get a full house all weekend long. >> we are talking about fenway, all right? >> seriously. you turn it on any night and they are on the other side of the moat. three people are there. >> because so much culture in new york. late game last night, rays and a's tied in the bottom of the 10th, two out. derek norris sends one up the middle. a game winner? 3-2 win. oakland and detroit, you might see them in the fall. to the capitol. orioles trailing the nats 3-2 in the seventh. baltimore's ryan flaherty, boom. center field wall. boom. >> bong. >> gets it in.
come on! delmonday you delmon new england knocks a pinch-hit run. single to left. brings home the run. baltimore ends the inning. 5-3 lead. that was the game. in the eighth, caleb joseph lines up the middle for another two runs. orioles win 7-3. tigers and yankees scoreless in the third. jacoby ellsbury is up. watch this catch. >> cabrera on the run and still going back. dives and he makes the catch! what a catch by carerra! >> ezekiel carerra over-the-shoulder diving catch. brandon mccarthy gives another solid performance for the yankees and struck out eight and earns the victory. 2-1 yankees. check this on out. justin verlander, great guy. talking to his girlfriend kate upton behind the detroit dugout. >> are they still an item?
>> yes. >> oh, yeah. >> i didn't know they were still an item. >> "the "new york post" "says it's true. >> shut up! >> a picture of the two in "the "new york post"" today. >> t.j., pick a camera! you're bringing three cameras at me! pick a camera! >> i can't go on any more. >> this is really important. you mentioned earlier in the show that there is a picture on instagram with me and my shirt off. hold on. but it's men on instagram. >> do not step on kate upton picture. >> by the way, if i were verlander, i would still be so angry what they did last season to me during the playoffs. yanking him. the tigers should have beaten the sox. >> and karma took care of it, right? >> when jim leyland yanked max scherzer. the big one. he took out max scherzer and ortiz, boom. >> didn't he do that twice?
>> i think he did it in two games. >> the last time he did it, that was it for the tigers. >> those pitchers were lights out for the tigers. they were amazing. >> we missed the los angeles angels playing the los angeles dodgers and i had guarantarrett richardson on my fantasy team. i sat him and he gets 50 points! >> you're not helping me. you didn't hear what i said. >> i did. coming up next, live from -- >> it was important. we have mika's must read opinion pages and coming over the teletype. we will be right back with more "morning joe." don't go away. ♪
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this is not a democracy. we are going to let donny read anything. can i show this one? seriously. we do an instagram shots. this is just repulsive. this is just repulsive. >> little girls are repulsive to you? >> why would you use your daughters that way to show your pecs? >> i am not! >> this is all about you picking up women! i hate you using your children. you know, i used to think it was pathetic when guys -- look at nicole over here. >> i felt bad! >> use dogs to pick up women and you pick up girls! >> i rented those children! >> what happened to the dog? this is a business, donny. we could do this. children and dogs. >> i love children and puppies and i love the sun. >> he loves the sun! stop it! stop it! >> donny, i felt bad when they unveiled the "time" cover and
they are talking about men who have these great physiques into their 90s and it was just like free association. i said, donny is going to be like that! and i felt very bad. >> what concerns me is men going on instagram now and not women. i should be concerned about that, shouldn't i? >> you should take it for whatever it's worth. >> i don't want to! >> dana millbank, he writes this in "the washington post." bob mcdonnell is a loser either way. the legal strategy of bob mcdonnell, even if he wins in court he loses in december during his final days in office the prosecutors offering a deal let his wife off the hook and require him to plead guilty to charges unrelated to his official duties but mcdonnell chose to go to court. had he taken the deal he would look like a sleazy pol.
now he looks like a sleazy pol. i don't know. i'm sorry, nicole. this is "morning joe" so we can actually tell the truth. i hope i don't offend somebody. i'm sorry. his wife looks like the bad actor here. my god! >> this is just a story of the ugliness of the decent grags of >> her playmate? >> her playmate. >> she wants who? >> the vitamin guy. >> this vitamin guy to be her playmate. >> yeah. >> and they went to network and they shopped at fancy boutiques and it appears that he picked up the tab. it's really seedy. >> do you have a question for elise? >> yeah. >> elise, this story, i don't
know about you, but just reading about it, i felt as if it were an invasion of my privacy. >> i agree with that. i agree with that. it's made for the tabloids, right? i do agree that the wife does raise some questions here. remember when everyone rumored him to be the next gop presidential candidate? we would have been on the campaign trail. can you imagine? my favorite revelation in this story was the idea she tried it pitch one of these supplements to the romneys as a way to cure ms. >> oh, my lord. >> she just sounds really out there. i don't know what to say about that. >> i hope the romneys said i hope secret service detail was around them and put a taser to the back of her when she did that. we were just talking before about how bob mcdonnell was a guy -- >> excited about. >> i remember in 2010 with all of these people were going out there, like, setting their hair on fire and saying barack obama is a martian and come into your
house and eat your babies! you're like, let's go with bob mcdonnell's idea instead, bob for jobs and all bob talked about. the economy got better. unemployment went down. >> he was never shrill on the subject. >> he wasn't shrill. he was a socially conservative guy and had everything going for him. but, man, this is some bad news. >> yeah. >> he didn't have a very good partner. >> no. i think i can say that. woo. i'm just going to be quiet about this now. but yeah. >> wow. >> can you not see why he is saying i'm not taking a deal that lets my wife off the hook and charges me! would you do that? >> not knowing what he did, no. >> no one is like he is finding out now or what he has found out now u oh, yeah, she can get off the hook and i will be gout like where did they op? >> oscar de la renta.
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like cows. >> with us is nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of "the daily rundown," chuck todd. chuck, we are going to be waited with bated breath. you got a poll coming out later tonight? >> coming out tonight. >> debuts tonight? >> yeah. it's actually checking in and it's a little bit different. how people are viewing the great recession in the rearview mirror. it is fascinating. lately of the political stuff but this was a tough recession to recover from and you do sort of see -- >> if we have recovered. >> people still mentally haven't recovered. >> that is the question. >> they know they see the numbers of recovery. they are still supporting older parents or kids at home and, i mean, you feel -- >> stock market and the real economy, there are two economies. >> what you have in new york and everybody else. >> we people have in new york. that makes me sad. we are going to talk about that
tomorrow. in washington we have nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. thank you for being with us. >> you bet. >> pulitzer prize and winning columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," and msnbc political analyst, awe gene robinson. from the hill we have elise vivak still with us. we were talking about james brady last hour and the rest of the country and washington is remember is former press secretary james brady who passed away on monday. he was left partially paralyzed after shot on a presidential assassination attempt on president reagan. he became a fighter for stricter gun control laws. andrea, you covered the white house under reagan. talk to us about the life of jim brady. >> jim brady was irreverent. he was just so funny. he was so smart. he was so trusted.
and really loved by the press corps. which raised some suspicions among some in the reagan camp. nancy reagan had to be won over but became such a huge fan of his. he had a great relationship with the president and only 69 days after the president took office, this horrible assassination which really transformed washington. it, obviously, changed the president, the reagans. they were never the same. nancy reagan was never the same in terms of the way she felt protective and never really had a good night's sleep in the white house ever since ever after that. but for jim brady, it was a devastating wound. i interviewed the neurosurgeon who was in the e.r. and saved his life and said he had never seen this kind of injury. fortunately because he was in the presidential motorcade, jim lived because most people with both lobes -- this was of the six bullets that were fired by john hinckley, the first one hit jim brady and slammed into his
head and it was the only one that -- they were all devastating bullets but the only ones that exploded inside his head. fortunately the bullet that hit the president hit the limo handle and ricocheted into the chest and barely, within an inch, less than an inch, barely missed his heart but that's why ronald reagan was able to recover from a very, very serious injury. but brady's injury was just devastating and the fact he lived for 33 years was a miracle and his spirit kept him going, true grit. >> the work continues with sarah brady and people don't realize, we talked about it before, but jim brady is responsible, in part, for the passing of the brady bill. >> absolutely. >> but also, of course, the influence that the bradys had on the reagans. >> the reagans always stuck by him on this. very interesting. almost out of loyalty. people try to read into the
minds of -- i think this was clearly a loyalty decision. i thought it was neat yesterday. josh earnest, the white house press office, sent out their statement on jim brady from every living white house president. it was classy and well done. it was touching. the right way. they spoke as one about brady. >> what you were referring to just briefly. the fact that jim brady -- we were on the hill when jim brady got -- this was not ronald reagan's position on gun laws. he called in and that was the critical vote on that assault weapons ban. he got reagan out of retirement to make those phone calls. >> he did and it made a big difference. a lot of other things to talk about. andrea mitchell, hopefully, we have a cease-fire deal in the middle east. does it stick? >> the fact is israeli, it believes it has accomplished its purpose with the tunnels and it's withdrawn from gaza so they are not nose-to-nose.
you were talking to richard engel about that an hour or so ago. the fact this is so tenuous and all on egypt and whether hamas will let egypt be the peace broker and there is such a deep dismay in the white house and the state department toward what israeli has done, despite this ironclad alliance which, as you know, has led to 3.2 billion dollars last year alone in aid, mostly military, to israeli from the united states. there's a lot of frustration that this time israeli went too far. >> of course, chuck, you saw the "wall street journal" this morning said the white house, the last attack on the u.n. school was a final straw for the obama administration. they, obviously, sent out a state department spokesperson who basically said enough is enough. >> realistic maybe? >> i got the sense that israeli had no choice to listen.
when the state department is sending out messages as tough as the united nations. >> finally, the president went out there and gave his most supportive statement of israeli since the war began. >> yeah. >> so this was a case, which, of course, netanyahu used to his benefit the next day to basically say, hey, america is standing by us on this and then that happens. it does feel as if, you know, israeli say we accomplished our mission any way. >> let's not forgot that hamas is a terrorist organization and israeli is a democracy. just saying. >> the only democracy. there is only one. >> who disagrees with that? >> nobody, but hamas, you know, obviously, we can go on with this for hours and, obviously, seeing children killed is an atrocity. >> obviously, it is. and seeing it day after day after day after day. >> coming from shields. >> exactly. >> human shields. >> let me ask you this did oosh
-- >> who is to blame? >> hamas is to blame. if your child is being held with a gun to their head do you want the cop to shoot through your child to shoot you? >> they use human shields. somebody is shooting at my children and if that child has to die to save my child. >> it is absolutely abhorrent. the question is if the united nations warns 17 times, 17 times. >> our nation is not living in israeli. >> this is a shelter. so, donny, should this have continued? >> i think israeli accomplished its mission. >> which is what? >> which was to shut down the tunnels and keep israeli safe. hamas wants to obliterate israeli. we forget that is their mission. >> no, none of us forget that. hamas is a terror organization. i've said it. they are our enemy. they want to wipe israeli off the face of the earth. they are a scourge. but hamas is not going to be able to obliterate israeli.
you know why? because hamas is loathed by their own people. before this began, 80% of gazans who were against hamas, egypt is against hamas. >> great they are against it but when they are shooting rockets. >> let me finish my point. saudi arabia is against hamas. the uae is against hamas. >> hamas is not attacking jordan and they are not tacking those people. >> how ziltisolated they are. donny, when you continue to attack and show across the world 5, 6, 7-year-old children dragged out of rubble dead when they are running with their parents to try to hide in a u.n. school, who does that help? who does that help? >> it helps no one but -- >> no. >> a casualty. >> you are incorrect. it is a tragedy, first of all, and do not come close to saying it's collateral damage. >> i didn't say that. >> no, a lot of people call that -- >> the end result is a result of hamas aggressive moves.
>> answer my question. >> okay. >> who is helped when a young -- >> nobody. >> no, that's wrong. >> who is helped? >> hamas is helped. >> oh, yes, of course. well, when you -- i'm literally answering the question. >> israeli plays into hamas' hands. >> tunnels are shut down. >> hamas celebrates when their civilians are killed so what does israeli not do? israeli needs to figure out a way to work with the palestinian authority to minimize hamas' influence. does anybody around this set, does anybody watching on tv, andrea mitchell, i'll ask you. i know it's harder for you to answer, but have you heard anybody suggest that hamas has not been aided over the past three and a half weeks by these attacks, when they were more isolated than ever before? andrea, maybe i should ask you a news question. was hamas more isolated than it's ever been three and a half, four weeks ago and desperate to strike an alliance with the palestinian authority because it had run out of cards to play?
>> hamas was on its back heels. hamas was faltering. there is no question that in the world of public opinion, hamas has been helped by what has happened here, by seeming like a david and goliath. they have gotten world sympathy, especially in europe. >> which is my point. which is why we need to explain what is behind -- that is my exact -- they have done it and that is the shame of this. >> remember, khalid mitchell, the head of hamas, was kicked out of damascus. if netanyahu was a clever politician and comes to the peace deals he really is sort of a -- he worries about his domestic politics above all. this is the time to strike the deal with abbas and abbas alone. >> right. >> you know, just do it. >> exactly. >> and cut out hamas completely out of the loop. give the west bank almost basically, you know, offer up a deal abbas can't refuse if he
completely splits off of hamas. >> he is still brutalized. >> right now -- >> gene robinson -- >> that is the way to do this and quickly cut off world opinion and world criticism. >> it really is. gene, what i think is the most hopeful sign is the fact that richard engel reported you don't hear a lot of anti-americanism on the ground right now in israeli. -- i mean, in gaza. you hear a lot of complaints in gaza about whether it's about hamas or whether it's about egypt or whether it's about israeli. so there actually may be an opening if netanyahu was willing to strike, try to strike a deal with the palestinian authority to actually push hamas off the world stage. >> well, yeah. maybe there is a role the united states can play. here is a question that i think netanyahu should be -- here is what i think he should be concerned about. this war was very popular in israeli, but that popularity has
declined a bit as it has gone on. now he has the question of will people believe -- will israelis believe they got anything out of this war? because if the status quo just obtains now going forth, the next two years, hamas will rearm and there will be more tunnels and be back in the situation. so i think politically just in terms of his political standing that netanyahu really should show israelis that this was not in vain and that would be massive progress with abbas toward a peace deal. >> let hope. leaders from 50 african nations in washington. they will focus on trade investment and african security. the president is set to speak at a business forum tomorrow. according to "the washington post" he is going to announce a
$14 billion investment in africa from u.s. businesses. with us now from washington former new york city mayor and founder of bloomberg philanthropics michael bloomberg. with us also is u.s. commerce secretary penny pritzger. michael, are you ready to go to the middle east and strike this middle east peace deal for us? >> we couldn't hear you. we have a helicopter buzzing. say again? >> i was asking you, mr. mayor, whether you're ready to go to the middle east and strike a middle east peace deal for all of us. >> that's up to the secretary of state and the president. i can go to israeli just to lend support and i did that. >> all right. so why don't you guys tell us what you're involved with here and what kind of impact it's going to have on africa and the united states. >> penny? >> well, today is a really exciting event. we have got over 40 heads of
state coming to our business summit. we have got over a hundred american ceos and a hundred african ceos all coming together to, first of all, talk about how they do more business together. the president is announcing 14 billion worth of deals as you said. why is everyone here? everyone is here because there is real growth opportunity in africa and this is something that the president and the administration, along with bloomberg, want to highlight and get the word out. 6% gdp growth the next ten years is expected in africa and six of the ten fastest growing economies. very exciting. exports super the united states to africa support 250,000 american jobs. americans get up in the morning and go to work because we are selling things to africa. but there's so much more that we could be doing and this is why we are all together. >> i might also point out one of our main economic rivals, china, has been doing this for years
now. they recognize there is a great potential in this day and age, you cannot, if you're a good business person, avoid markets that have a chance of becoming dominant. the african market with 6 hundred million people certainly has that potential and china is going in and we are doing it now. >> mr. mayor, secretary, it seems africa is where southeast was in the late 70s and early '80s. you could feel the momentum. we know that american business wants to be there. but the biggest issue in africa, i think, that probably gives business some discomfort is governance. the idea if they invest in there, there is going to be stability in how some of these countries are run. is that the biggest road block right now between africa totally taking off and where it is today? >> well, i don't think there is any case to be made that if people stay in poverty, government is going to get better. quite the contrary.
when people have the dignity of a job of being self-sufficient, they can get a good education and they can make sure that their government is responsive and there's examples on both sides. we boycotted cuba. they are at poor as they were if not 45 years ago. we started dealing why germany. built up their economy. the east german saw something better and walked in one day and said to the army get out of here and took down the wall. where we have a good economy, you tend to have better government and that is the way we should help each other. it's good for the seller and for the buyer. >> we are seeing many, many -- you're seeing many, many leaders here who want to engage with american business. they see the opportunity. what they like is what american business brings to the table. a commitment to rule of law. transparency. treating the people that work for their companies well. as well as investment in the local communities. so there is a real interest in having us more present. a real enthusiasm how can we
work together? and that is an opportunity for both the african countries, the african people, the american companies and the american people. >> elise is with "the hill." she has a question for you. >> mr. bloomberg, i want to drill down into what you said about china. their investments have been enormous in africa and quite flashy as well. the obama administration said at the end of this summit they are not unveiling anything new and big and flash y. i'm wondering how do you think we can compete with china's investment in africa and do you think the obama administration is making the right move by making sure that this summit ends sort of on a softer note? >> andrea mitchell? >> i think no question that america's strategy has always been to let companies go out and compete and make investments that they thought were in their interests and let that invisible hand that i think was adam smith talked about, create a better world and better economy for everybody. china is a much more controlled
economy. they do things at a government level that we don't do and it's a practical reality today, giving congress unwilling to fund the basically road structure in the united states or pay for things that we really need domestically, it's hard to believe that american congress is going to vote some money to do things overseas. the president has to deal with the hand that has been dealt to him. >> the president is announcing 14 billion worth of deals and not like the united states not present in africa. that is just today and has set up an opportunity for businesses to be working directly with heads of state to figure out where the opportunities are. my conversations over the last 24 hours with heads of state, they are saying, here are the projects we want to get done and here is where we would like to see american business. why do they want american business? they like our goods and our services and our technology. they like the way we govern and run our businesses. they want us present. >> madam secretary and mr.
mayor, i was going to say i was at an event that mike bloomberg and others were hosting last night. the fact is that these companies, all of the major companies in america, global companies were there. they were saying the way they compete against china, they were saying to heads of state from africa, is that they can train workers, they can leave and create a great work force. that's is the value added that america brings to the table. mr. mayor, i just want to ask you if, you know, from bloomberg's perspective as a business, what the advantage is in africa? and also before we let you go, i wanted to ask you if you had any thoughts today about your great effort on gun laws and the impact of jim brady. >> well, number one, jim brady was a guy who was serving this country and, sadly, got seriously injured, an injury that stayed with him for his whole life when some mentally deranged person tried to kill
the president and our prayers have to go out to james' family. he has been a symbol of too many guns in the hands of people who have psychiatric problems, criminal records. that's something we have to fix in the country. in terms of your first part of your question, look. american companies will do what is in their interests. i think when you take a look at what this country's record has been in dealing with countries around the world, we are not perfect, but we have done a pretty good job of helping an awful lot of people. >> you know with the presence of the commerce department doubling in africa, the opportunity for us to help american businesses navigate the road in africa is really grown. so we are very excited. today's event is really catalytic and i'm proud to represent the department of commerce to partner with bloomberg philanthropy that i think is extremely catalytic for
new business occurring in africa. >> andrea, let me add. bloomberg, the company, has eight offices in africa. we have close to a hundred employees. we deal with 40 countries in africa and our commitment to africa is longstanding and great for us and i think great for africa and we will continue it. >> madam secretary and mr. mayor, thank you for being with us. it really is. it sounds like an idea whose time has come. elise, thank you as well. greatly appreciate you being with us. andrea mitchell, we will be watching you. >> thank you. >> at noon on "andrea mitchell reports. >> still ahead, three-quarters of people believe congress is unproductive. two congress leave their district as the other side of the country lives. plus, i don't know -- i didn't know she had any interest in me. that's how jonnie williams key witness for the prosecution described his relationship. >> that's the look. >> relationship with governor
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atlanta hospital is awaiting the arrival of a second american today who was infected while working in west africa. a plane carrying u.s. missionary nancy writebol is expected to arrive from liberia. concerns were bound by the outgoing outbreak of the ebola virus and a scare in new york city. yesterday, a man showed up in a mt. sinai hospital after returning to the states from west africa with symptoms associated with the illness. hospital officials say it is unlikely he has the virus. nbc's kate snow is live with us in atlanta. kate, what is going on?
>> hi, donnie. >> reporter: we are awaiting that plane you mentioned. nancy writebol should be here later this morning and much like the scene you saw on saturday with a motorcade and very secure ambulance. this morning, we are learning mow about this experimental medicine that both she and dr. brantly who is already here have been taking that may have saved their lives. early monday a man with a high fever who recently traveled to west africa was put into isolation at new york's mt. sinai hospital. >> it was about seven minutes from the time they hit the door to when they were in the isolation room. >> reporter: the new york city health department concluded the patient is unlikely to have ebola. since last week, the cdc has had more than 20 inquiries about suspected ebola cases in the united states about you so far no concerned cases in this country except for the two americans brought here from liberia for treatment. later today, nancy writebol will joint dr. kent brantly in a special isolation unit. >> their appetite has slightly
impok. as a matter of fact i talked to her husband. she asked for her favorite liberian meal which is potato soup and coffee. >> reporter: the two have received doses of an experimental medication never before used on humans. what is it about this medicine that is working? >> when you and i are infected with a vir us, any virus, we make antibodies to the virus and that what killed it. in this case these are special antibodies for ebola. you inject them in the human being and they hopefully, kill the virus and let the immune system do the rest. >> reporter: the rare and expensive drug is not available to the bulk of ebola patients in west africa. >> hopefully, they will scale this up reasonable soon to get more doses available. >> reporter: there are only as you said a handful of doses right now available of this drug. so it's really sought after. it's not widely available
overseas but what they are hoping, what these two patients are hoping by maybe taking this medicine and showing that it work, that perhaps has will lead to more clinical trials and save a lot more lives. >> we jump over situations like this. what is the worst case scenario here? >> reporter: the worst case scenario would be they don't do a good job today protecting this patient and somehow something gets out, but that is such a doom's day scenario. everyone here will tell you they are going to such extreme measures. they have been practicing for 12 years they have had a unit here how to deal with ebola and this is their first two cases but they know what they are doing. they have got an isolation wing behind the hospital behind me that is so locked down we can't get a picture from inside the room. i think the doctors would reassure you they are very confident if e bow ba la is going to come to this country it's not exposure through these two patients. coming up, the red flag
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♪ a lot of things mitt romney wants to do, like brought into it, right? >> it's very exciting. >> anybody running in a republican primary, you want the mitt romney endorsement. it's true. >> mitt wants to be talked about. he could do it. >> he is doing this. >> no, no, no. >> all great politicians do. >> don't talk to me about 2016. >> one area he doesn't want his name brought up. the names of mitt and ann romney have been dragged into the corruption trial of bob and maureen mcdonnell. mcdonnell's wife who is also facing charges attempted to push a supplement on ann romney. the supplement was produced by the company of a businessman who
prosecutors say brought influence with the mcdonnell's and one of the latest strange and stunning developments to emerge. nbc's peter alexander is wearing a hazmat outfit and he is live in richmond with more. peter, this goes from bad to worse, from strange to bizarre. what is the latest? >> reporter: joe, i think that is exactly right. when we first came down here, we thought this would be not an exciting trial. it has been anything but that. there has been a lot of stunning allegations already. one virginia political analyst describes the mcdonnell's as a beaver cleaver family but these new allegations in many this trial in the second week, including that pitch that you referred to from maureen mcdonnell to ann romney how this wonder drug of sorts could potentially cure her multiple sclerosis has left a lot of people here in disbelief. a sorted tale involving a former
governor behind the wheel of a fa ferrari and luxury vacations and secret cash loans. the governor's key witness wrapping up testimony. he showered bob mcdonnell and his wife maureen with gifts in exchange for their help promoting the tobacco based pill he invented and pitching as a wonder drug of sorts. along the latest details on the same day that mcdonnell endorse the romney for president and maureen approached ann romney saying the vitamin could help her sclerosis. one said i was horrified and thought it was a train wreck. williams insists his relationship with the mcdonnell was all business to help his company but maureen mcdonnell lawyers argue they were friends that the mcdonnell's marriage was crumbling and former washington redskins cheerleader had a crush on williams and an e-mail he is sent after the east coast earthquake. i felt the earth move and he
wasn't having sex. williams is challenging his recollection of his dealings with the mcdonnell's two years ago and he can't recall conversations with prosecutors last month. mcdonnell's team say they were promoting a business but mcdonnell gladly accepted the gifts and this watch that maureen bought to give to her husband. governor mcdonnell is on the witness list for the defense. he has said he is eager to testify at his own behalf. his wife maureen mcdonnell, joe, has said she is not going to testify. one of the real challenges for the mcdonnell's here only months ago we saw them hand in hand and it appeared everything was hunky-dory in wtheir relationship and sitting in court they rarely look at each other and have to impressive on the jury this was a crumbling marriage. so bad they couldn't conspire because they weren't talking to one another. just yesterday in court, jonnie
williams said there was no romantic relationship between he and mcdonnell. he said i didn't know she had any interest in me until this past week. >> peter, thank you so much. i hope you're getting paid overtime. >> that's just a yuck. >> the whole thing is. >> poor bob mcdonnell. >> how about the fact they are comfortable putting him on the stand, which tells you this is a guy who has experienced basically being an operative, a spinner and a lawyer and he knows how to answer questions. >> you're saying bob mcdonnell? >> and they won't put her on the stand, i think is a telling thing. >> i looked at it dimplfferentl. i look at it like it wasn't bob that had his hands -- >> that's what they want us to think. >> -- in the mud. it's obvious. >> i don't know. you know, what really makes this defense seem sketchy is what peter just pointed out. when they first, right after he left the governor's mansion, they are hand in hand and they
look like team mcdonnell defending themselves. as this trial -- as they prepare for this trial over the last nine months, they decide, oh, the only way we are going to stay out of jail is to do this? >> oh, no. i could give an argument as you peel back the onion, it's each man for himself. >> you find out the e-mails that were sent back and forth and you look at all of the gifts and look at the fact that she was interested in him romantically. not a lot of husbands going, hey, honey, that's cool, right? >> chuck, you're more -- >> he let her run rough shot over him and we don't know why. we don't know why. there's something there. i don't know. >> donny, you're laughing. there are a lot of men in america who let their wives run rough shot over them and it has nothing to do with politics. >> that's right. i agree. i think there is more here that we don't know about the marriage. >> donny? >> i just -- i'm stuck.
>> let the defense rest. >> i'm not talking about women. so coming up next, bipartisanship is not dead. in fact, it's breaking out all over the place, i guess. the majority of americans have lost faith in washington, d.c., but congressman elijah cummings and jason chaffetz will talk about how they plan to bridge that divide. keep it right here on "morning joe." ♪
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congress to spend 6,000 on candles? >> yes. >> were you surprised when you saw president obama in the bull pit in the presidential office this morning? >> i was extremely excited. >> did president obama look angry when he was tearing apart that vladimir putin pinata? >> he really did. >> do you like president bush's crazy rodeo party on the birthday lawn or president bush's slip and slide birthday? >> president bush's crazy rodeo birthday. >> joining us ranking member of the oversight and governor reform committee, congressman elijah cummings and from salt lake city, congressman jason chaffetz. thank you guys so much for being with us. it's good to see both of you again. elijah, so you guys actually are trying to get along together and i've worked with elijah, jason.
i know how hard that is to do. elijah, it was always striking to me that we disagree on a lot of things, but we got a lot of things done. i can't ever remember saying one thing negative about you publicly while i was chairman and you were ranking member. we would go back and forth. i think what you guys are doing is great here. i just don't understand why more people aren't doing what you two guys are doing. why don't you tell me what you guys are doing, first. >> what we did is jason chaffetz had asked about a month ago to come to my strict and that i would go to his district, and he came. he had an opportunity to meet with some patients that were, you know, struggling with aids, hiv/aids. he had an opportunity to meet with some of my seniors and to meet with some young people who were trying to get their lives back together after having some -- gone through some tough
times and trying to get back with their families. so he had the chance to actually meet with a lot of the people that i represent. i think he got an idea of what i'm fighting for when i come to the congress and the people that i have to -- that are looking up to me to solve some of their problems. then i went to utah yesterday and had an opportunity to meet with his constituents. i got to tell you that, you know, they have their sets of issues that they have got to deal with and joe had made me a lot more sensitive to what they are dealing with. i'm pretty sure, as i watched him in my district talking to people there, that i believe it sense is a tiesed him to the things i'm dealing with and hopefully that will lead to compromise and help us to work out some problems. >> congressman chaffetz, before you answer congressman cummings query about now whether you're
more sensitive to the needs of his constituents, there are those of us here at the table who remember a time in congress when members of congress, the two of you clearly now know each other much better than you did before, knew each other much i'm good at throwing political barbs. we all do in a sense. i want to get something done. seek first, understand, then be understood. if you break bread with somebody, feel, see, touch, hear, listen to the people, you figure out what you've got in common. i always tell this group we've got to find some common ground
and i liked what elijah cummings said, we can't just get to common ground but higher ground. if we're going to pass legislation that's going to be meaningful, it has to be bipartisan. you better darn well reach out, get out of your comfort zone and actually do something. >> congressman cummings, congressman chaffetz, you may be working much more closely. is this part of forging a relationship so you guys can have a better working relationship, frankly, congressman cummings, than you have with chairman issa? >> i don't know what the republican caucus will do. i can tell you, i want a relationship which will allow us to get things done and, yeah, that's part of it for me. and i'm certain that's the same thing for congressman chaffetz. we've gotten used to leaving washington without getting
things done. and, joe, you're right. when you and i worked together, we got things done and i've worked with other republicans that have gotten things done. there are issues our committee needs to be dealing with. if we can get away from throwing the bombs and really concentrate on why we're there as opposed to who we're fighting against, we concentrate on what we're fighting for, i think we can get things done for the american people. i'm determined to do that and i think it's very important. >> by the way, we got things done, it was good for the country and it was good for both of us politically, too. >> that's right. >> fewer and fewer people in washington, d.c. understand that it's actually -- you know, the screaming, yelling, pointing at each other, that's the short game. the long game is actually getting things done for your constituents. thank you for being with us. elijah and jason, thank you so much.
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join us in an effort to restore confidence, dignity and decorum to this institution. >> james brady died today at the age of 73. >> one bullet striking reagan in the chest, another ben traiting brady's skull. >> the tragedy turned brady's wife sarah and eventually brady himself into advocates for gun control. >> news tonight about the experimental drug used to treat that american doctor infected, now back in the u.s. >> a doctor in liberia describes it as miraculous. >> these two americans may save a lot of lives. >> by her suffering in this she may be able to help countless more. >> a patient came to mt. sinai with symptoms of a fever. >> tests on a man at a major manhattan hospital. >> given the amount of travel it wouldn't be entirery surprising if there would be a case that would show up here in the united states. today's temporary cease fire
was a chance for gaza to bury some of those killed. >> minutes after the israeli-initiated truce began a missile hit a house in gaza city. >> there's nowhere safe here. >> continue to attack 5, 6, 7-year-old children dragged out of dead, who does that help? >> nobody. >> that's wrong. hamas is helped. we can show you previews of what we said five hours ago. donny deutsch is with us, mike barnicle as well. over a million e-mails and tweets, thank you so much for coming back. from washington, national editor of the cook political report, amy walther. thank you so much. look at a couple of quick headlines here. we did this like 12 hours ago. here, of course, talking about the cease fire in the middle east. also the head of the -- that's
"the wall street journal," the washington post also runs with the same headline. and then, of course, what we've been talking about also, jim brady, the face of gun control, has passed away. pass add way yesterday. we'll be talking about that and much, much more. mike barnicle, very important. >> jv. justin verlander. >> and kate upton, still an item. >> still an item. i didn't know that. >> she could have at least had the decency to end it with me first. >> stop. seriously. you know what? seriously. >> how sick is he? >> the truth. >> but, you know -- >> i've got to say, if you look at the new york -- >> post. >> post and a lot of the new york tabloids and also the daily news here. there's a post, two posts, and the daily news. there's the ebola scare in the
city all over the place and many of donny deutsch's former girlfriends hoping he contracts that disease. was that tough? was that tough? >> i have children, you know. they watch this show. you just scared them. they're crying now. you made my daughter cry. >> your daughter in london? >> her name is london. you made her cry. >> he doesn't want you to come down with the virus, but we wouldn't mind if you were put in isolation. >> just a littleby until you clean up your instagram account. >> kentucky senator rand paul obviously juggling for a job for president of the united states. but he's also a republican senator with the possibility that he may run for president. rand paul has been arguing for a more inclusive gop, downplaying t issues. now he's taking that inclusive message on the road. during a three-day sweep through
iowa. his first stop, an appearance with iowa congressman steve king, a man who continues to talk about impeaching the president of the united states. king was asked about his position yesterday. >> i want to discourage the president from taking actions that create a constitutional crisis. if he does that, we can't take anything off the table. and i don't know that rand paul is much different than me on that. i think that's a fairly moderate position and i don't know that our founding fathers would have as much patience with barack obama as either i or rand paul have. >> then there was this awkward moment. paul and king were approached by two self described dreamers after introducing themselves, asking king a question about their stance on immigration, paul, mid bite, takes a cue from one of his staffers and bails. watch this. he's just out.
so, amy, that's one of the problems, i guess, trying to run as a new kind of republican and campaigning -- >> that's good. >> with what some would call an old kind of republican. >> there you go. >> one of the last guys in washington that is still talking about impeachment. >> the i word is what he used. >> yes. >> he has learned not to use the word impeachment. this is where iowa becomes such a problem for republicans as they're trying to broaden the elect orate. they still go to a place like iowa where the turnout at a caucus is incredibly conservative, they'll be on the opposite end of the issues that you were just talking about earlier, especially on immigration. how do you balance that? what rand paul has ton very well -- i think ultimately it will catch up with him. what he has been able to do very well is balance this fine line. he has a voting record that is very conservative and then he
talks about being more conservative or moderate. it works pretty well until you get confronted on it. he got confronted on it, specifically on israel. you talked in the past about cutting off aid to israel. he said i disagree. i have now voted for more money for the iron dome. he brought his statements back and said you actually did support cutting it off. he has to figure out that balancing act not only in iowa but nationally. >> did you see that shirt he was wearing? stylish. he's wearing that shirt, it looks a lot like a rainbow. i wonder if maybe steve king was upset by the shirt. >> he's an optician, isn't he? >> ophthalmologist. >> it's a good look. >> if you're rand paul and -- you know, you're trying to change the party. if somebody says something you disagree with, you don't want to embarrass them in their own backyard but at some point you have to start distancing
yourself. >> it also goes to the brand he has tried to extend for himself, which is a truth teller. not an old guard republican who goes along with partisanship but a libertarian. as you know, i was interviewing him last week. he feels the inclusion is not just rhetoric and feels strongly that he has introduced several sets of bills, legislation to change the way the republican party operates. he said, his words, he's doing more for african-americans than anyone else in congress. >> obviously he is also racing against his past. we talked about israel here. and, obviously, he said some things in the past about israel that caught up to him. he got into a big scuffle for his campaign for senator about seeming to be opposed to the civil rights act. >> at least section two and section seven, with regard to private businesses, which is what the lunch counter fights
were about. a lot of people care about that and care about the details. i managed 19 precincts in polk county when i was managing john kerry. donny deutsch, a big fan of that, always pat mes me on the k for it. iowa is more extreme, more passionate than the median base of both parties but also more informed. you had a different position and it might have dissolved the camp david accords. we know about that. we listen to talk radio. we listen to the shows, read the papers. that's an environment where you're going to continue to have voter to politician interactions and sometimes those are tougher than the media, because you just can't shoot the messenger. >> a lot tougher and he will have to figure out how to square that if he wants to move forward. chris mcdaniel, remember him? long and anticipated move six weeks after losing to senator thad cochran, now formal ly for
questioning the results. good luck there. according to mcdaniel and his lawyers, there are more than 15,000 illegal or questionable ballots, votes from democrats who voted earlier that month in their own party's primary, which would not be allowed. many of the ballots in question also believed to be for african-americans who turned out to vote for senator cochran in the runoff. >> they asked us to put up or shut up. here we are. here we are with the evidence. now, we all witnessed what a segment of our party did in the weeks leading up to. we saw despicable allegations from those that are supposed to be leaders in our party. there is no place in the republican party for those that
would -- the integrity of the elections process of the state of mississippi matters. the -- matters. but, likewise, the integrity of the republican party and its primary system, a party and a system we love so much, it matters as well. >> so his big concern was the african-american voters, it was unfair that african-american voter voters in the republican primary. >> does he have any chance at all? >> i do not think so. part of their challenge is exactly to the point that it was democrats who came out, voted in a runoff where if you vote in a runoff, you're supposed to support the republican. they say these people have no intention of supporting the republican.
this goes directly back to rand paul. here is a party or candidate in rand paul who says we need to be more inclusive. i'm reaching out to african-american voters. i've done so much, tried to increase voting rights for african-americans and then you have this race in mississippi where it does, to donny's point, it's not fair that democrats, specifically african-american democrats were able to vote in our primary. those are two messages that are clashing right there. >> let me ask you when we're talking about thad cochran, obviously a more senior republican, more moderate republican. we have two other races this week where the tea party is trying to get their first real big win of the year. you have kansas with pat roberts against a guy that was posting bizarre photos of, was it, dead people? i'm not sure. and then the other one is in tennessee with lamar alexander. are both those senior republicans pretty safe?
>> they look pretty good at this point. what both pat roberts and lamar alexander did, they were prepared for these challenges. it's not rocket science, to win these primaries. so much of it is just showing up and running really strong campaigns. lamar alexander also helped with the fact that there are a lot of candidates in the primary. much like thad cochran, he spent the last year moving more to the right in order to stave off these tea party attacks and he got helped, you're right, joe, by the fact that his opponent did post some not very good stuff on facebook, when you're mocking patients who have been shot. >> not very good stuff. >> not very good. >> some gruesome photos. >> gruesome. >> not very good stuff. so as a tea party, they can't take credit for eric cantor. so what's the big tea party win this year? >> policy. >> no, who did they knock off?
have they knocked off a single senior republican, anybody? >> i would say they've rewired the way the house votes, though, right? >> yeah. >> it's been that way for a while. >> it's proof to the point, what amy just referred to. both lamar alexander and pat roberts had campaigns up and running for quite some time. eric cantor clearly had nothing going on. >> caught sleeping. thad cochran was caught sleeping. a lot of them caught sleeping. it seems like the establishment was ready this time. washington is remembering former white house press secretary james brady. he passed away yesterday. he was, of course, left partially paralyzed after being shot during the assassination attempt of ronald reagan in 1981. brady became a tireless fighter for stricter gun control laws and andrea mitchell who, of course, covered the reagan white house and knew the bradys looks back on his life. >> 69 days after ronald reagan
took office -- >> shots were fired at president reagan in washington. >> -- six shots were fired, the first meant for the president explode in the head of the white house press secretary james brady. brady had always been known as the bear, big, irreverent, when candidate reagan said trees caused pollution, he joked about killer trees. after being fought, brady fought for his life, struggled to speak and to walk. the reagans insisted he keep the title of press secretary and rename the briefing room in his honor. nancy reagan even joked about reports she opposed giving brady the job because he wasn't good looking enough. >> i kept calling him my y & h, my young and handsome. he's still my y & h.
>> worked tirelessly against gun violence. the brady bill, five-day waiting period and background checks beforehand sales. the assault weapons ban lasted ten years until congress let it lapse. after gabby giffords was shot, again, speaking out. >> still just as funny and -- >> not to mention funny looking. >> his neuro surgeon remembers that fateful day. >> the greatest achievement was saving the life of the president of the united states, walked right in the line of fire. >> he lived for another 33 years, valiant till the end. >> jim brady was 73 years old. when reagan said trees cause pollution, some people would go around and put signs up on trees. reagan's campaign, stop me before i kill again. brady knew how to joke, sort of brush aside the criticism.
he knew how to work with the press. he liked the press. the press liked him. even though the press was fairly hostile to ronald reagan. that's a missing art. >> oh, it sure is. and it's a different time. there were none of the components of the media that are around now, twitter and all that stuff. jim brady had a way to disarm even the most hostile of interrogators in that press room. >> he sure did. all right. still ahead on "morning joe," we'll continue our conversation on teacher tenure and student rights. campbell brown was here yesterday. now we have randy weingarten and former los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. they join us in just a bit. israel withdraws all of its troops from gaza as a 72-hour cease fire goes into effect. is it a cease fire or could it actually open up hopes for a larger peace plan? you're watching "morning joe."
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israeli troops are in gaza as a three-day cease fire is in effect. it's completed its mission of destroying hamas' known tunnels. will the truce hold up this time? let's bring in right now nbc news chief correspondent, richard engel who is live in gaza. israel says, of course, that it's achieved its mission. but you have the state department coming out a couple of days ago in some of the
toughest talk i've ever heard aheard. so talk about the pressures on both these sides and whether it may give us a chance for a lasting peace. >> reporter: well, i think you've hit the factors here quite well. for israel, this came down to increasing pressure from the united states. the u.s. stepped up its rhetoric. the state department with that blistering statement over the weekend, after israel continued to fire into gaza and civilians kept getting killed. i think there was just one incident too many when, over the weekend, more palestinians taking refuge at a u.n. shelter were killed. six u.n. schools turned into shelters over the course of this conflict took direct hits. for some people at the white house and state department, that
was just too much. on the hamas side, hamas really bowed to pressure from egypt and recognized it didn't have the kind of popular support across the arab world that it thought it did. hamas, throughout this conflict, wanted to negotiate with qatar. it wanted to negotiate with turkey. it wanted to negotiate with those who are sympathetic to the muslim brotherhood. hamas is an offshoot for the muslim brotherhood and egypt said you want to relieve the pressure on gaza, lift the closure, you want egypt to open its border with the gaza strip, you're going to have to deal with cairo and you're going to have to deal with the new government in cairo, run by general sisi, who doesn't like the muslim brotherhood. at the end of the day, hamas realized it had no choice and now is in cairo, negotiating with general sisi, which it never wanted to do. >> if hamas takes a step back and allows the more moderate or
plo factions to be in charge here in some meaningful way, how will that be interpreted in gaza? >> reporter: hamas here in gaza is saying this is a great victory. hamas always declares victory, i think, in every war both sides always declare victory. but the reality is hamas had to go to cairo and is going to have to accept more presence from the other more moderate palestinian factions because the egyptians are going to impose that on them. hamas has gone to cairo. the egyptians are saying we'll open the border but we want not hamas running the border. we want other palestinian factions, mahmoud abbas' faction running that. hamas is losing something out of all of this. it's losing some of its authority here in gaza and it's having to recognize the power of the new egyptian regime. and it's recognizing as well that the muslim brotherhood's
days when they were the most popular groups all across the middle east, that the situation has changed profoundly on that. you can see the same protests. we didn't see rallies in damascus, cairo, baghdad. we saw a lot of rhetoric, distressful images but the people didn't come out in the streets for hamas this time. >> what is the sense in israel about prospective peace negotiations going forward after there was such a seemingly direct effort to diminish the efforts of the american secretary of state john kerry? >> reporter: i think israel is saying our relations with hamas are purely security based. we won't attack them if they don't attack us. we don't want anything to do with them. we'll negotiate with the palestinian authority. hamas' real problem will be with egypt. hamas will have to talk with cairo and figure out how to open the border.
after this, relations between israel and hamas -- by the way, the two sides don't officially recognize each other -- are broken glass. they're not going to be repaired or put together. >> thank you so much, richard. greatly appreciate it. appreciate your great reporting from there. richard engel, thank you so much. now with us from washington, plo to the united states, thank you, mr. ambassador, for being with us. >> thank you. >> we have been hearing for quite some time now that egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, does not want to deal with hamas. they want to deal with the plo and the palestinian authority. they want to deal with you all. is this not only an opening for more moderate forces in the palestinian territories but also an opening for peace? >> well, first of all, the palestinian delegation that went to cairo on saturday was formed
by president abbas and it does, for the first time, include very palestinian factions, from hamas, islamic jihad, and others. first in the political, you know, life or experience. and therefore what they presented to the egyptian officials over the last two days was a unified palestinian position. we have said all along that we don't want any regional alliances and realliances to impact the palestinian people. and the palestinian leadership has been very clear about neutralizing the pestinians from all these shifts in the region and political dynamics in the region. >> hamas came, obviously, to you all several months ago, out of necessity, to form a political alliance. is this -- the fact that they are now agreeing to let the plo
take the lead -- talk about the opportunities for peace. not just for a cease fire but for a lasting peace. in the past, obviously, there have been concerns that if the plo struck a separate peace with israel, factions like hamas would try to assassinate whatever leaders in the plo tried to strike that peace. now it seems that there is a unified front for -- and can we take some hope from that that maybe we can have a lasting peace deal? >> had israel accepted and also in 2014 we would have spared everybody this destruction and slaughter in the gaza strip. 1900 people have been killed, 10,000 have been wounded. the only thing that prime minister netanyahu can brag about is the killing of civilians and the destruction of gaza. we wanted to start the political
process when hamas accepted the government. we were planning on engaging them in the political dialogue that would eventually bring them into the plo. this remains to be our objective. there is enough pragmatism within hamas, political leadership, i have to say at least, to go along with the palestinian or plo national agenda for finding a resolution to the conflict with israel through peaceful means. >> so you're hopeful we won't see what we've seen before, and that is just a cycle of a cease fire and then hamas being able to rebuild their capabilities and us going through this deadly cycle every few years? >> it takes two to tangle. >> yes, it does. >> it takes two to tango. israel also needs to understand that its blockade of the gaza strip for the last seven years has left people in gaza without
any hope. what do they expect an oppressed people -- when you address an oppressed people through violence, what do you expect them to respond by? >> mr. ambassador, i think mr. netanyahu is bragging not necessarily about killing civilians but shutting down tunnels and pushing back rockets that were meant to try to hurt israel. i love when you use the word pragmatic about hamas. it's a terrorist organization. nothing pragmatic about that. >> what about members in the israeli government who are calling for the transfer of the palestinians? what about members who are calling for the death of palestinian mothers and the snakes that they have in their wombs? listen, in order to get over this cycle of violence and make sure it's not repeated we need to put an end to the root causes. you cannot tell me that this began because of hamas building tunnels or launching rockets.
>> it did start with rockets from hamas. that's exactly where -- >> it didn't start -- >> it has nothing else to do -- >> donny, hold it, hold it. we're not going to cure 3,000 year s of -- in the remaining to minutes that we have. since we just had that back and forth, chi sit here as a supporter of israel for ten minutes and say the things that donny just said. the palestinian people could talk about all the suffering that they've had to endure and theiesilation and the terrible conditions they've had to endure over the past several years. the question is, can we look forward? can we move forward and find a common ground between israel and the palestinian people for a two-state solution that might create a living environment in gaza and a secure environment in israel? >> well, i think we need to look beyond gaza, joe. this is not only issue. i think the united states has been investing a lot of efforts.
secretary of state kerry has invested a lot of time. the parameters of this resolution are clear to everybody, two-state solution based on 1967 just agreed upon resolution to the refugee problem, security arrangements that will not engage on the sovereignty of the future palestinian state. the ball is in israel's court. israel needs to decide whether they want to pursue this path of violence every year, every two years against the palestinians or they want to sit and engage to find a real end to this conflict once and for all. >> mr. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. hopefully, you will come back again some time soon. >> thank you. >> so, donny, obviously, we could sit here and debate. you're not going to have a guy that's in charge of the plo delegation going out, attacking
hamas. of course, hamas is their enemy domestically as well. why didn't you sit there and scream and wave your arms about hamas, we can do that. what they're trying to do, though, is what happened in ireland. where you actually had guys like jerry adams that basically had to drag the most violent factions of the ira over and -- drag them over, not attack them publicly and quietly say -- jerry adams, still, one of the -- it's just a shock that jerry adams has been able to keep the violent factions in line as long as he has. >> it is. >> one thing publicly but privately, don't screw with me. do not step out of line. and, donny, i know, this is a very emotional moment. we don't want to see this in two or three more years. >> no, we don't. >> hamas is a terror organization. guess what? so was ira. guess what?
there's peace now. >> i got it. >> in northern ireland. >> and it's about the violent israelis and the pragmatic hamas. >> donny -- >> that's exactly what he said. >> what do you expect him to say? >> how do you expect me to react? >> i understand. i am just explaining. if we are going to move forward, you have to understand, he represents a people who have had 5, 6, 7-year-old people dragged out of their homes dead. >> used as shields. >> that does not matter to the father of a 5-year-old child. >> it matters to this discussion. >> it does matter to this discussion, donny. don't talk to us like we're 2-year-olds. we know hamas uses children as shields. we know hamas uses people to protect their missiles and israel uses their missiles to protect people. we understand. netanyahu is right but sometimes being right does not -- >> doesn't solve the problem. >> does not solve the problem.
>> let's leave it at that. >> we'll leave it at that. coming up -- this is going to make teacher tenure seem really tame, randy. >> we got it all out. >> we got it now. now we're going to make teacher tenure seem almost boring. the lawsuit against teacher tenure nothing more than smoke screens. he openly questions why teachers unions are opposed to change. randy is here along with the mayor of los angeles. i'm not going to call him former. he's still the mayor, baby. he's still the mayor. we'll be right back. and thank you for your bravery. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life.
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it's about us beginning to treat teachers like individuals. they aren't interchangeable. they are individuals and they should be evaluated and rewarded for performance as any other person in a profession. >> teachers are the best people in the world. they love kids. they're out there, the best teachers. i think most teachers feel this way. this is not anti-teacher. people get jobs based on merit. we need to keep that merit system going while they progress. we do it in every other profession and we need to do it here. >> that, of course, is campbell brown and david boyce. teacher tenure yesterday. they're backing a lawsuit that
wants to overturn new york state's tenure laws. it's happened in a lot of other states t comes a month after an l.a. judge struck down tenure and other job protections for other california teachers. now with her own take, president of the american federation of teachers, i promised we would get you on, randi weingarten and former democratic mayor of los angeles and former organizer of the united teachers of los angeles, antonio villaraigosa. mr. mayor, teachers are -- some of your former colleagues are thinking you have betrayed them. why do you oppose teacher tenure? >> i challenge the notion we can't have disagreements among friends. one out of ten poor kids are going to graduating from a four-year college. the fact of the matter is in math, we're at 30, when you
compare us to other nations in the world. in science, we're at 23. in reading, we're at 20. we have a national crisis. and for poor kids, kids of color, they're not even competing with the developing world. so we've got to challenge one another. we've got to set high standards. >> and you think getting rid of teacher tenure does that? >> it allows us to have a conversation. i first filed the reed case, the predicate, frankly, for this case. the rest of the city was only losing 3%. >> let me bring you in, randi. i remember you telling me one time off camera you were looking and saw these great liberal icons around the table all basically going after teachers unions. now we have david boyce, the mayor. do you feel like you're on the wrong side of history here? >> let's define what the fight
is, which is that everyone, particularly people who care about poor kids, are incredibly frustrated because in a capitalist democracy, the only thing that was always the pathway to social mobility was schooling, public schooling. that's why people are frustrated. >> by the way, i saw a report today, the rich are going to keep getting richer and poorer are going to keep getting poorer until we make our education system better. >> i'm going to get back to that. it's not simply the education system but social mobility, income inequality. >> absolutely. >> we think in a capitalist democracy, okay, this is the road to social mobility, education. so what happens is it's the right debate and the wrong remedy. because if you -- >> why is teacher tenure the wrong remedy? >> what teacher tenure does is teacher tenure lets people -- i hate the word tenure. due process lets people innovate
in classrooms. it lets people whistleblow. it lets people talk about the things that teachers and kids need. where you are right, joe -- and we've had this discussion so many different times, before and after while waiting for superman, was the system that was broken was the teacher evaluation system. >> right but as far as teacher tenure goes, mike barnicle -- i'm sorry. >> let me finish one more thing, which is this. you actually helped us here. and in over -- jurisdiction after swrurd, we've actually worked to fix things and in new york, this is one of the reasons that this case is so wrong. in new york, in connecticut, in maryland, in illinois, we have actually worked -- new jersey, to change teacher tenure so it is actually not a cloak of incompetence and not an excuse of managers not to manage. >> first of all we agree, it is
not just seniority and tenure. it's also the evaluation system. in los angeles, as an example, about 99%. between 97 and 99% of the teachers were getting a highly satisfactory or satisfactory evaluation. when you asked them how many times the principal had come into their room to evaluate them, the answer would be almost never. the fact of the matter is we have to be able to evaluate teachers. we have to be able to hold them accountable. we have to hold ourselves accountable, too. i don't put all of this on the teachers union or the teachers. there's a lot of great teachers. i've worked with them. there are organizations like teach plus that are really working to reform our schools and to engage in best practices. there are charters, public charters, by the way, not as you hear from some. these are public charters doing tremendous things. the highly effective ones. i think there are ways for us to collaborate. what i saw as the lawsuit as an opportunity to do is to have a
conversation. we have uber due process, the court said, in california. when you can't fire a pedophile who has been already admitted to being a pedophile and you can't fire them. >> mr. mayor, let me -- >> mike, that's one of the big complaints you always hear about tenure, it protects incompetent teachers. >> city after city, case after case, you can prove that. my argument is this is all pro teacher. it's not anti-teacher. how do we do the following? how do we get to the point where parents, who have a child in public school, rich or poor, have a vibrant, electric, 30-year-old young person teaching and you've got -- this is not an attack on veteran teachers, but an older teacher who wants to retire, is not retiring, and the young teacher, in municipal bankruptcies, the young teacher is out the door. >> what's happening right now is our teaching force is hugely changed and you don't have a
whole lot of the people who are senior teachers anymore. the median, the number one -- the most teachers right now in america have less than two years of experience. so the issue right now is actually how do you build the capacity of the teaching force when we're throwing so much at them and how do you attract and retain great teachers? >> you pay them more. >> it's more than that. how do you attract teachers to the school that i taught in, in new york city? so when you talk to great teachers, what they say is they need their voice and they need training. they need to be able to speak. and that's what's wrong with this lawsuit. in new york, we actually did the work that the mayor is complaining about in california. the average amount of time it takes for a tenure case right now in new york city is 105 days. what's happened is that since we talked last, we actually stepped up and did a lot of work to solve some of these problems what i don't like about the copy cat cases, it ignores all of
that. let's work on attracting and row taning great teachers to high-need schools and give teachers the voice that they need to actually help kids. >> randi, thank you so much for coming. hope you'll come back. >> i will, always. >> good. we need to get a big round table and just talk this out. >> absolutely. >> we can do it. mr. mayor, thank you. >> great to be on. >> i'm glad you're on the east coast more so you get to watch the show more. >> i'm glad, too. "morning joe" will be right back.
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it! donny, what did you find? >> you and my former friend, et tu brutus don't like sunshine, puppy dogs and children. >> you use debates over israel's security to pick up women in east hampton. that is disgusting. you have been called out. you're a dog. look at him. we caught him. >> it's the truth. >> i do not. >> i'm sorry you had to see that. >> i learned something. >> what did you learn today? >> from richard engel it took a dictatorship in egypt to strengthen moderates in gaza. >> don't give an intelligent answer. >> but that -- >> don't give an intelligent answer. >> children, if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." stick around. we've got chuck todd and "the daily rundown." ♪
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all right, that's going to do it for this edition of "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >> good morning! look at that, willie. that is a beautiful view. >> beautiful day. >> it's a beautiful day. >> last couple , not so beautiful. >> it's thursday, august the 14th. great to have you here with us. along with you, we have got washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay and nick consori and then with bloomberg news, al hunt. yesterday, willie, really bad storms out there. >> did you see some of the pictures? even out here on long island. cars on the highways up to their roofs. >> looked like a river. >> it was.
yeah, parts of the mid-atlantic and northeast cleaning up and drying out after heavy rains sparked flooding across several states. the hardest appeared to be long island. islip 13.27 inches in under 24 hours and more than a foot in less than a day. more than the region receives in an entire summer. the rainfall shattered previous records and a lot of cars abandoned and a lot of people had to get out and run. bill karins, this was serious business yesterday. >> epic rains, willie. we tell you record highs and lows. this was all-time records for new york state. we have weather records back in new york to the 1800s and we have never seen in new york state's history this much rain in 24 hours in any single reporting station in the entire state. you're thinking about all of the hurricanes that have occurred. all of the huge storms. the nor'easter. this was the most rain ever officially. it did up to 13.57 inches for
islip, new york. the old record was set recently with hurricane irene when it went through in tannersville, new york at 17.5 inches. it wasn't new york we saw the flooding. last night at midnight in portland, maine, they were telling people stay off the roads and they were doing water rescues as cars were submerged, especially in the under passes, with 6.5 inches of rain. this went back to detroit with record flooding with over 4 inches. a slow moving storm and a very unusual amount of moisture in the air. the precipitation rates were very high for this storm and very unusual because it wasn't a hurricane or a tropical storm and makes you scratch your head. it wasn't forecasted all that well. we knew it would rain and rain hard but no one was expecting this much rain in this short of a period of time. when it comes down that fast, that hard, you get the pictures like you see there. today, we are much better across
the region with that shot at the top of the show. it's a beautiful day out there, it feels like fall almost the next couple of days. if you want to scratch your head for extreme weather events this was one of them over the last couple of days. >> wild couple of days. bill, get the rest of your frac in a couple of minutes. the fourth straight night, the streets of suburb looked like a battlefield. police in full riot gear and using tear gas to control crowds simmering over the death of 18-year-old michael brown by a police officer there in ferguson, missouri. two reporters in town to cover the store last night detained after police ordered them to leave a local mcdonald's. wesley lowrie and ryan reilly claim they were handcuffed after police said they were not packing up their things to leave quickly enough. lowery caught part of his episode with the cell phone. >> stop videotaping.
>> please don't do this. >> let's go. >> you see me working? please do not tell me not to use my cell phone. >> let's go. down to about 45 seconds. let's go. >> reporter: the street -- >> let's go. not time to ask questions. move your car if your car is out here. >> reporter: what i was asking. you didn't have time to ask me. >> let's go. >> reporter: i'm working, sir. >> let's go. >> here is a door over here. let's go. let's go. you can move. let's go. move. >> reporter: sir, please -- >> let's move. let's move. >> last night, lowery who shot that avoid spoke about what allegedly happened when the camera stopped rolling. >> tried to direct me toward another door. i said, officers where would you like moo to go? the bag slipped off of my shoulder. officers, i need to adjust my bag and they said let's take him.
slammed me into a soda machine and grabbed my bags. >> reilly said, in part, a s.w.a.t. team just invaded mcdonald's. >> i was given a countdown. i was told i had, you know, 45 seconds, 30 seconds, to pack up all of my stuff and leave. at which point, the officer in question who i have -- who i repeatedly asked for his name and was never -- or his badge number and never given it, decided that he was going to help me pack and he grabbed my things and shoved them into my bag and i was then -- when i -- basically, he then arrested me and he handcuff me and put them on tight. he used a finger to put a pressure point on my neck and it was just very difficult experience. >> willie, i don't know. what do you think?
well, okay let me help you out here because i'm always the one that gets in trouble. i'll get in trouble here. i'll just say if i saw that video and my son was the one the police arrested after that episode, i said, joey, here is a clue. when the cops tell you the 30th time says let's go, you know what that means, son? it means let's go. i'm sorry. you know what? we have got a lot of questions out there. we got people angry in the streets because they won't release this cop' name. we don't each know what happened. we have two sides telling something completely conflicting so there is a lot of unanswered questions here. but i do know this. when a police officer asks you to pick up -- i can only -- i can only -- i've been in places where police officers said, all right you know what? this is cordoned off, you guys need to move along. you know what i do? i go, yes, sir, or yes, ma'am. i don't sit there and have a
debate and film the police officer unless i want to get on tv and have people talk about me the next day. i am sure i am just the worse person in the world for saying this. i can only judge how i would treat my son who is a reporter who, if he were in this position, okay, well, you know what? next time a police officer tells you that you've got to move along because you've got riots outside, well, you probably should move along. maybe i'm in the minority. i don't know. >> i don't see any evidence there were riots outside that mcdonald's. >> i wasn't at that mcdonald's. >> i wasn't there either. >> i don't know why the police officers were there. i know it's bad out there. >> if you're a reporter setting up shop in a fast food restaurant you're going to have a laptop, a wi-fi card, your phone, your charger. going to take you more than 45 seconds to get it together. he was trying to imply. the question is what was the rush to push them out of there? when he slips basically and drops his briefcase, he gets
arrested and pinned. it doesn't make any sense. >> we don't know how long that is. i don't know why the police were moving them along. >> listen, i'm just concerned by what seems to be this common misperception that it's illegal to avoid a law enforcement officer or take pictures of them. it's not. >> i don't think it is, but if they are coming in and saying that we're cordoning off this area and they say you have a certain amount of time to do it and, instead, you're putting up a video phone and you're asking some kid with a gun who is 25, 26, 27, didn't make the orders. >> the only comment i'm reluctant to have journalists become the central of the story and seem to have become in this case and something more seriously is happening in ferguson than what happened to these two reporters, but i think for a police force that is trying to show the country that it is capable of exercising restraint, this was not a
particularly smart public to do to slam the reporter against the soda fountain and handcuff them. >> first of all, katty, i think it's a bad idea to look ukrainian guards. >> paramilitary. >> i'm sitting there going, boy -- by the way, i'm just talking about this one episode. >> right. >> and, no, i find it really hard to believe that they couldn't have shown a little more he subtly through this entire process. >> they were quickly released when they got there and the chief got wind of this and said let these guys go. they were sitting in the cell and the cop came in and said who is the two journalists. >> let me ask you guys something. am i a sucker for the police saying telling you to move along or should i sit there and question him? by the way, what was he packing up? if he was packing up our entire control room, that's fine. he had a friggin' laptop.
come on! oh, wait, i'm packing up, officer, let me ask you a question. i'm sorry. >> isn't there a broader question? if it happened to these two reporters, it is some indication what is happening to other people in ferguson who are not able to -- >> is it? >> there is accusations of heavy-handedness by police in ferguson amongst the local population. >> but aren't there accusations on both sides of this story? we hear the story cops bad. we had a police officer come out yesterday. they are calling basically signs holding and people calling for murder charges. and i understand, by the way, for everybody out there, going, joe just blindly know is on one side or the other. you know what? i caught hell what i said about trayvon for months. in this situation, we don't know what happened. we just have absolutely no idea and you've got people, you know,
the cops are trying to protect the identity of this cop and his family until they know exactly what happened. we have, willie, two completely conflicting stories here. one, that the officer was assaulted. they went for the gun. they shoved him back in the car. and the other that this poor young man was just walking down the street and he was gunned down execution style. >> yeah. >> what do you do with that? >> you have a couple of witnesses including his friend who gave the latter version of the story saying he was executed and the police say something. that is the core of this. what happened? we don't know. he was unarmed, we know that. until that, it's not worth of us sitting in new york or washington to debating. we can talk about what we see in the streets in ferguson and what is happening and i haven't been on the ground there looks like a heavy-handed approach by the police there. when you have -- what have been
for the most part peaceful protests. >> it seems a lot over the top. and i don't understand that side of the story and one side of the story so everybody can take deep breaths at home if you're ready to eat cheetos. >> you know what? when we talk to bill bratton the other day, you know, what would fix all of this? have police officers wear cameras. >> absolutely. >> so we know what is going on. that would do two things. that would stop this from going on. that would stop people from falsely accusing cops and put a chilling effects on cops that use their power to push people around. i'm not talking about what goes on in this case. i'm talking about what we have all seen with cops across america at times they get a little too much power and they get a little too cocky. it would have a chilling effect on that type of behavior.
i guarantee you if cops on staten island were wearing cameras, every one of them, they wouldn't have put that man in a choke-hold and killed him for peddling cigarettes. >> i agree. i can't think of a single argument left any more to not do this. it seems like good policy and it's good for the officers. and it's good for the people they serve. >> you know who it's bad for? bad cops. that is who it's bad for. if i'm a good cop, i want that. because i want everybody to know what happens. i want to protect myself. i want to protect, in this case, if -- and we don't know -- if this cop is innocent, then if he had a camera on, he would be safe, he wouldn't be worried about his family. if he had children, he wouldn't be worried about his children. >> if you're in a tough call, do you want the only camera on the scene to be a bystander? >> exactly, with a cell phone. >> he could be coming in a
minute whatever prompted the altercation. >> what you always hear from police unions and police chiefs and police officers, that shows a little part of it. okay, fine. give us the whole thing. put it on squad cars which we have on a lot of squad cars and put these cameras on cops. it doesn't cost that much. of the only group of people that it hurts are bad cops that abuse their power. >> there is another issue, with the ferguson police force and i don't know how this is replicated around the country. the fact it is ungrossly represented of the population it is serving. what is it? only three of ferguson police officers are black in a population that is 70% black in that neighborhood? i think that has got to be addressed too. how much effort are they making to diverse their police force and why aren't they hiring a more diverse police force? >> you're asking for trouble. you really are. its insanity. >> absurd. >> look at the pictures of the people in s.w.a.t. uniforms it's white guys in s.w.a.t. uniforms.
>> if you're going to police any streets in any neighborhood, you need the community to be a willing partner. that's what bill bratton talked about in l.a. and what is talking about here. you can't do that if the police force is that grossly unrepresentative. willie good night. should we turn to some politics? >> i would love to. >> it was the hug everybody was waiting for last night. >> can i just say? i wasn't waiting for it. >> i know. a bit tongue in cheek. >> i'm not much on fake physical contact. >> we don't have any evidence of it. >> no, we don't. >> i think we should have every politician wear a camera! so we know what they are doing and if they hug, we know. >> that's an idea. so president obama and hillary clinton came face-to-face last night for the first time since a public flap over foreign policy messaging and the debate to arm syrian
rebels. they sat at the same table on martha's vineyard at a birthday party. hillary clinton said she was looking forward to making amends early in the day yesterday. >> hug it out with the president? >> absolutely! yeah! we are looking forward to it. going to be there tonight. >> is it a hard choice? >> no. in the book, we agreed, we are committed to the values and the interests and the security of our country together. we have disagreements as any partners and friends, as we are, might very well have. but i'm proud that i serve with him and for him and i'm looking forward to seeing him tonight. >> there you go. just two pals getting together. >> why is it that whenever we see bill clinton come on, we do and you can't see it, we need to wear a camera so you can see what happens. every time we see bill clinton, we just start laughing because he is just a natural. i love kentucky, you know? and everybody loves him.
we were like cringing for her. >> yeah. >> after all these years, maybe she has bob dole-itis? maybe she is great in person but it's so canned. it's so calculated. al hunt, you know, hillary, i have made no secret of it. i'm not ashamed. i called hillary my girlfriend in 2008. i love her. she is great. most people that talk to her and meet her away from when the cameras aren't turned on, think she is just a wonderful, wonderful person. i mean, some people who have worked for her might not think of her like that but in this case, she still seems so awkward, so stiff and so canned. let's be honest about it, so i insincere. the book could be titled dimple.
>> i love your idea of cameras on politicians. i want to have the exclusive right to bill clinton cameras. >> oh! oh, my god. >> a lot of that has to be redacted! we need a seven-minute delay. >> how many minutes would end up on the floor? >> joe, you know, this pains me to say, but hillary clinton is having the same kind of season as bryce harper. she is underperforming and it's careless talk. i think it was careless talk in the interview. then the walk-back was almost worse. i just think she's just, whether it's sea legs, whether she is rusty, it's really been a bad several months for her. do i think she is still the favorite for the nomination? of course, she is but i think what is occurring she is pro wall street and pro intervention and says to a number of democrats this is an easy ride to get in a primary and win 35% of the vote. >> al, do you think as you've
watched the last couple of months this process of going back to be the ringer as she was in the past couple of years and giving book tours and responding to questions has given her any paws about re-entering the arena in a couple of years? >> willie, i don't know. i think it's a really good question. i doubt it because i think it's almost inevitable she is going, assuming her health is good. but i hope, for cher sake, the lesson she has learned is that she has tond that maybe there is an inner circle doesn't serve her well and think carefully about some of these things. she's a very smart woman. whether it's we were broke when we left the house or this latest, it's been a bad couple of months. >> al, whatever the calculations about president obama's approval ratings at the moment, do you think that for her there is any long-term benefit in what has happened over the last few days,
showing that she is going to stand up to the president on foreign policy and distance herself? >> i think she has to strike some distance with the president over the course of the next year on both foreign and domestic issues. the same challenge that george w. bush faced in 1987. i think, a, she is not doing it well. if her message is, guess what, i'm pro wall street and i am pro interventionist at a time when i think the country is more populous and wants to pull back, i think it's certainly important in the democratic primaries. >> we are sorry about bryce, by the way. >> so am i. >> it's kind of astonishing, isn't it? the democratic party, the grassroots does not want a hawkish, you know, she lost last time because of this, right? >> right. >> and now she is going out again saying i'm more hawkish than the president. i'm not each sure republican
voters want that. >> while you're talking about this, i see the tubes going around in the background. >> oh, no. >> i'm going to get dunked. >> are you doing it? >> yeah. >> bobby jindal, the son of a guy challenged me. i'm going to get wet and we are going to have a special guest here also. >> really? >> you guys keep one of those in the building? >> i think mika may get dunked in too. coming off of vacation. her daughter is going to be leaving, amelia, wants to get one last shot in for her mom. >> this is for the als association. the thing that is going around. it's incredible. i did it a couple of days ago. i sent one to andy cohen. he did it live on his show last night and a couple of other ones. we will show that later. >> a couple of other ones, i think we should expand on.
>> brooke shields, wanda sykes. >> 37 monkeys running around and a camera on me, i don't know. i figured it out. did you know any of those guys that got arrested last night in mcdonald's? >> yes. >> they are probably wonderful guys. >> they are professionals. >> they are professionals, exactly. have you seen any silicon valley? they sounded like characters out of sal convalley. i'm sorry, they just did. >> i got my laptop. what are you doing, sir? i don't understand. >> hold on! 3.2 gigabytes in this laptop, sir. what are you doing? i don't know. have you ever seen silicon valley? >> never seen it. >> you will love it. you got to do it. >> i trust my judge. still ahead on "morning j " joe," the creative genius behind
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samuel. >> t.j. has a long commute for those of you that don't know. >> thank you, t.j. it's time for the morning papers. sacramento bee. lawmakers in california passed a 7.5 million water bill. the drought that continues to cripple the golden state. this is epic. the new plan marks the most aggressive investment the state has made in decades. the money is allocated to build reservoirs and clean up contaminated water. residents will vote on the measure in november. >> "wall street journal," cutting back on assault in your diet to harm your health. >> this is what we have learned, okay? i'm so glad mika is not here for this. you need more assault, right? and fat is actually good for you too. you see that? >> in moderation. >> i'm sorry. >> like red wine in moderation. >> assault, fat, and red bull,
the three staple of any diet. >> and wine? >> no that is always there. those who use less than 3,000 milligrams of assault had a 27% higher risk of heart attack, stroke, even death compared to those who consume between 3,000 and 6,000 milligrams daily. >> i like assault. >> like we count the milligrams of sodium. >> the fda says it plans to review the findings. "the new york times." e-cigarette is said to be the cause of a smoking bag. boston fire marshal says recharger batteries into in the cigarettes can cause a fire. the department is considering adding e-cigarettes to the hazards material list. a texas teen was discovered living in a walmart two days after he ran away from home.
employees said he lived off food in the story and wore diapers. >> come on. can home be that bad? incident to grow up to be an astronaut? >> he changed his clothes every few hours so he wouldn't be recognized. the teen was caught after employees noticed garbage which led to the area he was sleeping. so far, no charges have been filed. >> the diapers is proof enough. >> only two days. >> is that a testament to walmart? you could live in walmart, literally live in walmart. they have everything. >> i'm stunned katty saying he was only living in diapers two days. that is like a long weekend at oxford. a bear mauling drove a girl to the hospital. thompson was hiking on thursday when she spotted a seven-foot bear that knocked her to the ground and bit her seven times. when the bear retreated she walked nearly two miles back to her car and drove to the hospital. she is expected to make a full
recovery. >> that's a tough woman. >> wow. you know what we do? alex just said, we need cameras on bears. that s.o.b. thinks he is going to get away for this. he needs to be put down. >> need accountable in the bear community. terrifying video shows the moment water races through doors at a salve fear cafeteria in a hospital. the damage, full of three feet of water. >> where is this coming from? >> doors, tables, chairs, no patients or employees hurt during the incident. what happened? >> it looks like a scene out of "the poseidon adventure." nick, that was about 20 years before you were born. >> upside down. >> under down. >> the morning after. maureen mcgovern. ♪ it has to be the morning
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welcome back to "morning joe." pause for quick sports here. mike barnicle is at the table with us. scary moment at a minor league baseball game in connecticut. minnesota twins star collides with a teammate in the outfield halting play for nearly half an hour as he lay motionless. >> oh! >> unconscious on the ground and taken off the field in an ambulance with a concussion. as if it matters his teammate hung on to the ball. we don't know the long-term prognosresnosresnosis but it wa concussion. >> number one prospect in major
league baseball. five-tool player. can't miss but he has got some problems this morning and we hope he is okay. >> a huge talent. hope he is okay. manny machado placed on the 15-day dl. a right knee big strain. took an awkward fall. >> by the way, that was thomas fault. he dumped a bucket of ice over him before the game. >> the old roberts jinx. >> exactly. >> o's jonathan scope evened things up with a solo home run. same inning, adam jones up with two men on. he jacks a three-run shot to left center for the baltimore lead. they hang on. complete the two-game sweep with a 5-3 win. mike, they are starting to run away with this division now. >> the o's are very good.
adam jones could be an mvp. >> where did this come from? they stunk about 30 years. >> they are a pretty good team but the rest of the american league east is really pathetic. >> really? >> really. >> how about old steinbrenner sounding like his old man? telling the yanks to step it up. >> might be a little too late. check out san francisco and white sox leading the giants 1-0 p.m. bottom of the seventh. crew chief reviewing a game time play at the plate. he is out by a wide margin. after the review, the umpires reversed the call because the new rule does not allow a catcher to block home plate so he was safe even though he was out. white sox manager robin ventura comes out of the dugout and gets his money's worth. a little lou piniella, a little billy martin. >> they have alter that rule. >> that is terrible. >> wait.
you're telling me the new rule and a catcher can't block the plate? >> the rule was put -- >> that's why you knock them over! >> the rule was put in to prevent any more catchers going down with concussions. it's a sensible rule but it should be the umpire's judgment. clearly there was no threat to the catcher. >> that was a little swipe tag. wasn't like he was standing in front of the guy guy. >> why don't they put dresses on catchers. come on. >> they do have catcher cam. >> giants ran away with that game and won 7-1. >> we should tell you about a brand-new documentary title. the stars are aligned and takes a look at notable graduates from the s.e.c. schools and their favorite memories. although i said notable graduates, willie geist was interviewed about his alma mater vanderbilt history. >> the finest moment for
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official in gaza reported a dozen air strikes and no casualties. >> this israeli/hamas showdown front page of "wall street journal." mike was just talking about it. a stunning story that israeli outflanks the white house. while the white house is trying to tamp down military operations in gaza, the pentagon secretly sending israeli more armaments. >> the story is filled with all sorts of nuggets, too. including u.s. officials said mr. obama had a particularly combative phone call on wednesday with mr. netanyahu who they say that pushed the administration aside but wants it to provide israeli with security assurances in exchange for signing on to a long-term deal. >> unbelievable. with us to talk about this and the cease-fire from tel aviv, martin fletcher. it appears the cease-fire is holding, one, after a rocky start right before the deadline. secondly, this story is just
absolutely fascinating that netanyahu doesn't end runaround arched the white house. >> reporter: israeli quickly denied by many unofficial sources saying that it's actually impossible in terms of the -- in terms of the -- how israeli gets its hands on the weapons. you know, america, the united states has a weapon stockpiles in israeli and they are in warehouses in israeli for any kind of strategic need, so when israel deems it necessary, they get permission. "wall street journal" report on specifically, in particular, was the hell-fire missiles which are air-to-ground rockets, laser guided or radar guided. very sophisticated weapons that penetrate armor. israeli apparently used enough
of those fired mostly from apache helicopters to need resupplied. whether or not they did it according to -- in the way they are supposed to from an israeli point of view seems unlikely. how do you bypass the white house and state department? >> on the ground, the weapons depot in israeli who has charge over this? the israelis or american presence on the ground? you have to have a permission slip to get the weapons? >> you can't walk through the door and get what you want. you need to get permission from the united states and the former israeli ambassador to the united states who was saying this morning there were strict protocols and strict procedures to get your hands on those. having said that "wall street journal" seems to be very athorough tative and a hostility
between the president obama and netanyahu. whatever the details are whether or not israeli got a hold of the weapons in the proper way the more worrying thing in the long term i believe is israeli's relationship with the white house at a time when israeli needs american help facing the worldwide hostile its to its activities in gaza to the horrific death toll. >> martin, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. we will be following this throughout the day and the hour to see if the cease-fire holds up. let's hope it does. still ahead on "morning joe," hillary clinton and president obama bury the hatchet on martha's vineyard but is a hug enough to mend fences between the democrats biggest stars? joe klein is with us in a minute. plus, it's very disturbing. this one, wow. we will be right back. >> weird. ♪ we always have the right hotel, in the right place,
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great. so, any way we are going to get to north carolina in a second. nick, you brought up a remarkable "wall street journal" story. the story of the day. talk about what you found there. >> they were trying to undercut the administration's position and kind of create a misperception about the cease-fire position of the white house to delay a cease-fire. >> basically lying about our position. who is the client state? >> are we allies here or what? it's just amazing. >> now we spy on each other an awful lot. i don't know. let's go to north carolina. senator kay hagan looking to run as the party looks to hang on to the committee that is launching 9.1 million dollar campaign in the race against republican. watch this. >> it's right there in black and white. house speaker tom tillis drew a bull's-eye on public schools
cutting nearly $500 million. he sliced and diced education and creating chaos in our classrooms and hurting middle class families while giving tax breaks to yacht and jet owners. tom tillis. cutting our schools, giving breaks to the wealthy. the democrat irsenatorial campaign committee are responsible for the content of this advertising. >> he knows jet owners? >> the war on jet owners. a recent poll shows tillis with a one-point lead so they are tied over senator hagan. well within the margin of error. what is going on in this race, nick? >> money, money, money, money, money. >> a lot of outside money. >> $43 million in outside money in this race. >> more than what willie makes in a week. >> this $9 million is about a third of the democratic party's cash on hand for senate races. that's a huge bet. >> really? >> what is amazing is all of that money, the poll numbers really are not moving very much. it's basically where it was,
like, six months ago. can you imagine if somebody spent $43 million in the tax ads? yet this race is locked in place and it's absolutely critical. >> over the past several cycles, we have learned -- talk about law of diminishing returns. >> the one thing the big donors said hold on we look back at history as joe suggests and not getting our return for that investment. if i was a small businessman putting my money on american politicians at the moment wouldn't be seen as a very good return. >> they are paying very close attention to these senate races and all of the people who run these big outside groups, karl rove, folks associated with the koch's, they have a huge amount on the line. they sell their donors we temper expectations this time and we can get definitely three or four
senate seats but we can't promise seven senate seats because, last time, in 2012 they said we will get the majority and easy to win. everybody understands the stakes and everybody is much more sense is a tiesed how their money is being spent this cycle and how effective it's going to be. >> al hunt, $43 million in a north carolina senate race, that's insanity. >> joe, i remember 30 years ago, north carolina, early january, jesse helm and jim hunt tied. they spent a record sum and jesse helms won by one point. they didn't basically persuade any voters so i think what determines that race is they have come in and i think the koch brothers have spent $20 million down there and roughed up kay hagan some. i think what is going to determine that race will be
whether the african-americans and others in north carolina are angry enough that turn out to vote and hire numbers and they usually do in off-year elections. a real roll of the dice of the democrats and it's going to be tough. >> you look at the states, al. north carolina, arkansas, alaska, kentucky, you can go on and on and on. there are so many close races this year. this is going to be a big democratic year even though nobody is predicting that. it could be a big republican year or it could be a draw right down the middle. there are some tight races out there and all of the polls seem to be very close. >> joe, i don't think it's going to be what they call a wave election because as unpopular as obama is and republican party just as unpopular but it doesn't mean the close races may not break one way or most of them. clearly if they break the republicans way they are going to win at least seven of those seats that they need to win. but it's the red states that you mentioned but it's also colorado and it's iowa.
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you'll soon discover our mighty love ♪ ♪ >> >> are you going to hug it out with the president? >> absolutely! we are looking forward to it. going to be there tonight. >> is it a hard choice to call? >> no. in the book, we agreed and we are committed to the values and the interests and the security of our country together. we are disagreements as any partners and friends, as we are might very well have, but i'm proud that i serve with him and for him and i'm looking forward to seeing him tonight. >> welcome back to "morning joe." so good to have you guys with us. on set, the bbc's katty kay and "the new york times" nick
consofori and at the table with us is columnist for "time "magazine, joe klein and chief foreign affairs and host of andrea mitchell reports of msnbc, andrea mitchell. andrea, got a couple of questions for you. and the spokesman coming up for benjamin netanyahu and ask him about the article in "wall street journal." >> i bet you will. >> joe klein, we saw hillary there hugging it out. we were talking a little earlier and get the details talking about earlier how anybody who knows hillary clinton, i like her a lot personally, but she puts on the political suit and she just seems so stiff, awkward and forced at times like yesterday. >> yes, like yesterday. >> it was just painful. >> it's been a painful situation. i think that she wittingly separated herself from the president, although i'm not so
sure that i agree with the positions she took in that interview, and it raises the question about how she is going to separate herself from another prominent democrat, her husband. >> right. >> that is going to be a much big problem for her. >> i don't know if she is on foreign policy issue. >> not on foreign policy, on wall street. on financial policy. that is going to be a far more central issue in a democratic primary. >> right. >> she is going to have to make a decision about whether she supports things like her husband refusing to regulate stock options. >> she has already been down on to goldman sachs. >> you're allowed to go to goldman sachs and take a position that they don't like. >> she went to goldman sachs and granted them absolution in her speech there. >> she said to wall street, we are not making you our enemy and that is the message they want to hear. they will accept some policy differences but they really don't want to be is on the wrong
end of a stick and to be demonized. she has given them that and it's fascinating to watch as joe points out. >> let's go to martha's vineyard and get the details there actually what happened up there, katty. >> well, when the officials say that the obama's, we don't have the actual photo, the obama's and clintons sitting at the same table last night, earlier in the day former secretary of state clinton was looking forward to making the amends. it's not clear if that actual hug was involved. officials do say the obamas and clintons had a great time and danced to almost every song. we don't know if they danced together almost every song. despite the much publicized dispute the white house defended the decision to keep reporters away. >> i believe the president and secretary clinton have had hugs over the past few years and i'm
sure some have been caught on camera. i think this is a private gathering for someone's birthday so it's hard to bring you lovely people in. >> one of the articles is titled "is this island big enough for clinton and obama?" one writes her aides are making plain she has no intention of running for obama's third term. another section, david axleford, obama's former senior adviser and analyst for nbc news is quoted as saying, i don't understand why they are doing this. if i were her, i would be be so sparing with this she makes herself a candidate and a target why she would want to be out there so early is beyond me. >> david is free to tweet his will, joe klein, the other day, a jab at hillary. >> everybody is ganging up on barack obama right now. hillary is knocking him down. >> nothing to do with his
approval ratings of course. >> according to this story another drag down knock out fight with him last week. >> let's go to that story, andrea mitchell. pretty remarkable. netanyahu and israelis went around the white house's back straight to the pentagon to get more weapons, at the same time, white house was asking netanyahu to draw down, and if you read into the article too, they were also misrepresenting america's position in negotiations p.m. this dispute obviously, getting uglier between the white house and the israeli. >> israeli and the white house are going to deny these kind of details but the fact is even from the very sanitized readouts that we have been given of recent conversations between the president and the prime minister, it is clear and certainly from what john kerry said in that caught on mike
moment that he wasn't aware of when he was taping the sunday shows a couple of weeks ago, they are very concerned that the state department at the very top, kerry and the president, very concerned that israeli was not using what the white house feels is precision weapons in these densely populated areas. there is no question about that. these are american weapons and there are rules of engagement where we provide these weapons and furl all the way back into the 1980s with sharon in lebanon when cluster bombs were being used and talk in the reagan white house because american weapons are not supposed to be used offensively in inappropriate ways. there are rules of engagement in the munitions that we sell. so there is is a lack of -- a lack of confidence here, a lack of trust, and one of the things that was really overlooked in hillary clinton's interview with jeff goldberg is that she disagreed with president obama on iran, on the iran
negotiations, and on israeli. if you read what she said about israeli, she is uncategorically supported of israeli in ways this president is not. >> let's go to israeli right now and from jerusalem, we have chief spokesman for the prime minister of israeli, mark. a great day for you to be with us. we are reading stories in the u.s. which i'm sure you guys are reading as well in israeli talking about how at the same time the white house and the state department are asking israelis to draw down a bit in the offensive in gaza, that israeli was going around the white house's back and actually securing more weapons from the pentagon without their permission. what is israeli's response to those claims? >> the response is in the story. you know, there's no man closer to my prime minister, closer to benjamin netanyahu than our ambassador in washington ron
durham. we have a close military-to-military relationship as you know. it's only natural that that sort of military request would go through our defense ministry of the pentagon. there is no one says that we violated procedure and no one can seriously claim that what we didn't dough was routine. it's simply how do you say it? it's a pile of sand not based on anything. >> so, mark, are you saying then this is more of a communication problem between the state department and the white house and the pentagon, instead of between the white house and israeli? >> my prime minister has been in office now, what is it? this his second and third term more than five years and parallels president obama's first and second term. i don't think there has been an israeli prime minister and an american president in recent history who have spent so much time working together. my prime minister respects president obama. i know that he's called the
american support during this recent conflict in gaza and called that support terrific. the iron dome which was recently pushed through again, that is extra support for our missile defense system. we greatly appreciate and so i think a lot of these reports, they are wrong both in tone and in content. >> "time" magazine joe klein is bus and has a question. >> hey, mark, how are you? >> go ahead. we got 12-second delay. >> don't ask how the weather is. go! >> military-to-military, i understand. what about politician-to-politician? what can you tell us about this angry phone call between the prime minister and the president? and there is, as you know, a lot of precedent for this in this relationship. >> i think the word they used in the "wall street journal" was combative. i don't think that's a correct description of the conversation. obviously, i'm not going to go into details of a conversation between the two leaders. those conversations have to
remain discrete and that is the way it should be. i can only tell you that since this conflict in gaza started president obama has been hearth for israeli and condemned hamas behavior unequivocally. >> mark, there are lots of times you can point to instances where this relationship has clearly and publicly not been very good when prime minister netanyahu turned up in the oval office and lectured the president and when the vice president turned up' your prime minister announced new settlements on the west bank. this is not an easy relationship and the relationship between israeli and the united states is suffering because of it. >> i disagree when you use the term lecture. i was there in the room. i don't think that was the situation and i think the situation when vice president
biden visited was also a bit different. that's my interpretation. that's my impression and i was there on both occasions. i can say the following. i heard hillary clinton at the top of the hour saying as secretary of state she not always agreed with the president. that's natural. people have different opinions. people have different policies. people don't see eye-to-eye on every issue. fountain president and the secretary of state don't see eye-to-eye on every issue, is it is not illogical to president and prime minister of my country would agree on every issue? from the bbc, all of us know about the great alliance between churchill and they were allies and partners and anybody on who reads the history know the disagreements they had and also a policy issue. if i can put a bit of perspective on this, israeli and america are so close so whenever we have a disagreement it's front page news this time in the "the wall street journal," but we agree on much more than we disagree and we work together
very closely. >> we should have actually listened to the british a hell of a lot more in 1945. andrea mitchell? >> mark, what about the fact, though, that the weapons, american weapons are used in a way that this president does not appreciate, that this president really is offended by. it's very clear from all of the statements from the white house. how can israeli defend itself against rockets coming from gaza if the united states is so upset about the tactics that israeli is using? >> you know, over the last few days, andrea, american pilots have been flying combat missions in iraq against isis and they are trying to be as surgical as they can to stop isis from committing mass atrocities. both you and me know that sometimes bombs go astray and
unintentionally and civilians get killed. we made a maximum effort we would -- we never targeted civilians, not once. >> but, mark, if you look at the situation in iraq many people think we are not doing enough because we are hitting artillery pens convoys out in the clear and letting isis gain ground like in mosul. what about the u.n. claims that there were 17 warnings or 30 warnings in one case about the particular school? can you address those? >> i can. israeli did not target u.n. facilities. i can say that unequivocally. i know they were shooting at us from a u.n. facility or shooting at us from the immediate facility of a u.n. facility and using that for shields of their terror machines. i know there was combat in the vicinity of u.n. facilities
because hamas and the other terrorists turned those fa sillities arls naturals of missiles kept in the u.n. we didn't want to see that in the first place. >> mark, thank you for being with us. we greatly appreciate it. >> he is doing his job. >> he is doing his job. >> i'm sure he is a good guy, but let's just say what has happened. this is a relationship that was fraught with problems and it has just got worse because obama has found that netanyahu is going
around him to get weapons. >> i mean, you know, this has been a lousy relationship from day one. i think it's felt on both sides. obama spent his first term not going to israeli. he did. >> you see that poll 3% of, like, israeli people believe that he had their best interests or something. got off to a rocky start. >> that people in the clinton -- state department perhaps including the secretary herself were really pushing him to go to israeli. >> right. >> and to, you know, show a little love. he had been to cairo, made that important speech there. and there is resentment on both sides, i would say. >> i like how you defined it in the negative. he spent his first time not going to israeli. like i spent my four years in college not studying. let's bring in jim miklaszewski. jim, thank you so much for being
with us. so help us out here. we just spoke with, obviously, mr. regev, netanyahu's chief spokesperson, who denies "wall street journal" report, which is pretty stunning. tell us, what are you hearing inside the pentagon? >> reporter: where this entire issue arose, people here at the pentagon were discussing it openly because, at the time, it was considered a pro forma exchange. these missions are forward located in a stockpile in israeli that are under the control of the u.s. government so that in an emergency, if the israeli government needs munitions in a hurry, it's there. >> but, jim, doesn't the commander in chief need to define what an emergency is and what an emergency is not doing? i mean, i'm surprised that somebody at the pentagon, in a
situation this political, you and i both know that the more stars are on a general's shoulders, the more political they are, the more politically astute most of them are. i'm stunned they wouldn't pick up the phone saying, hey, we got this request from israeli. >> if that happened, personally, i don't know that it happened that way. but officials here, at the time, described it as a prearranged pro forma exchange between the u.s. and israeli in terms of providing them ammunition. can i tell you when we asked questions about it here at the time, there was nobody that was attempting to side-step the issue, doing the tap dance. they said, oh, yeah, we did it, blah, blah, and here it is. so i can't tell you if, in fact, there was anybody here at the pentagon that fs trying to undercut the state department or the white house. quite frankly, with the iron hand in which the white house rules this building, they don't sneeze here without waiting for the white house to say
gezhuntite. for the minute i can't believe personally that people here at the pentagon were trying to purposely hide this transfer of munitio munitions. >> it calls into the phone call between the president and netanyahu. >> it calls into question why is the white house so ticked off about this at this point? if what jim says is true and i'm sure it is, why is the white house making a show of being really angry? the president has been doing this an awful lot lately. he is really seemed cynical, not just about the press. >> he was born cynical about the press. >> and about the republicans, but about his own policymakers and just about everything.
you're beginning to suspect this is one angry man. >> the wj say they have been getting ammunition from the pentagon without their approval of the white house. there is either an issue of communication or it's something more underhand and conspiratorial about this. there is something here that is the white house is not happy about. >> jim, we will end it with you. what it sounds like, listen to what you're saying and what the israelis are telling us this morning, it sounds like you had a pro forma exchange, at least the two parties are saying it's pro forma exchange, that the white house didn't know about maybe because they didn't know the procedure? i don't know. it just doesn't add up. >> reporter: an example how they operate on the foreign military exchanges and sales. normally, when we ask a question about it the standard response in this building is talk to the
state department. >> right. okay. >> they know the rules. they know the routes in which this is supposed to take. i find it difficult to believe. it could happen. a rogue general sitting in an office somewhere and work hand in hand with the israelis but it just doesn't add up. >> mick, thank you. joe klein, thank you. what music are you listening to? who should i go see in brooklyn? >> who should you go see? i don't know. right now, i'm just coming back and i don't know. i am going on a road trip in the fall and going through the south and listen to some great blues but also you owe me something. you told me you were going to take me to a major college football game. >> i'm going take you to an alabama football game. >> this fall? >> roll tide, this fall and do music at the same time. >> we will do music at the same time. >> andrea, thank you for being with us. a great day to have you on here. we really appreciate it. andrea mitchell's report is on at noon. nick, thank you. >> thank you.
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tear gas to simmer the crowd. joining us now from ferguson, missouri, nbc ron allen. >> reporter: good morning, mike. this is a piece of one of the munitions that the police were firing, a gas canister. we found it here. the tear gas was so intense, you can still smell and feel it in the grass and in the air here, slightly irritating to eyes. many people aren't surprised that this happened because they say that the level of hostility between the police and protesters demanding justice for michael brown and his family seems to grow deeper every day. for a fourth straight night, intense clashes turn the streets of an american city into a battlefield. tear gas sending hundreds of people fleeing for safety. dozens of heavily armed police s.w.a.t. teams, military style vehicles, enforcing an order banning large gatherings after dark. police say they responded with tear gas when bottles and
molotov cocktails were thrown at them. it had all started peacefully. demonstrators marching through the neighborhood where michael brown was shot and killed by a police officer. some weapons pointed at the crowd. >> you're subject to arrest if you do not leave the area peacefully j a man on crutches was removed by officers and this woman apparently got too close. >> we want peace and unity. we want to partner with the police to find out what happened and to bring justice for mike brown. >> reporter: police have insisted their tactics of recent days were necessary because of what they faced. >> the officers from area departments have been subject to assaults with rocks, bottles, an even gunfire directed at them. >> reporter: now some reporters also claim the police were heavy-handed forcing them to leave a mcdonald's where they were writing stories near the
protests. >> slammed into a soda machine. grabbed my bag and my phone. and put me in temporary restraints. >> what do we want? justice! >> reporter: with the investigation into brown's killing expected to take weeks and residents demanding murder charges against the officer who allegedly shot him, many here fear still more confrontation. police say they made ten arrests last night and in this area, there's so much violence that the fear of it, that the schools are closed to children today, about a thousand affected. meanwhile, the police are trying to set up a meeting with the brown family as they try to do everything possible to try to calm the situation down. joe? >> ron, thank you so much. wow. it's extraordinary that that is happening in this country. we are going to keep following that throughout the day. turning now to news overseas. the u.s. mission to help iraq rescue thousands of refugees.
debra lee james is with us. madam secretary, what a day to have you here. there's been so much bad news. we wake up every morning really early and scan through the news. it's all bad. this morning, it was like a ray of sunshine just because you never have good news. this morning, the good news came in the form of wire reports saying that actually what we're doing, what a lot of your people are doing over in iraq actually is easing the humanitarian crisis there. tels us about it. >> you're absolute right, joe. first of all, thank you for having me on the program today. you're right. overnight the news seems much, much better coming out of iraq and i think the key takeaway is that our humanitarian assistance and the limited air strikes that were ordered by the president are actually working. >> freed up the blockade, right, or the siege? >> so we and the u.s. air force, for example, have been able to deliver more than a hundred thousand meals ready to eat as well as 27,000 gallons of fresh water and the limited air
strikes have allowed some of the people trapped in the mountain to get off of that mountain so this is all good news. >> madam secretary, most people read the newspapers and they see this and say that is great, look what we do, we are great and we are great, the united states of america is great. but the logistics behind a delivery like this, the daily drops of food and water has to be enormous. where are these flights emanating from? >> as you point out there's a lot of work in the back office so to speak of our military to produce the type of operations that we see going on around the world. the key thing about mobility and that is the c-17s and c-130s that delivered this needed food and water is that they can emanate from any part of the world. they can come from the united states, they can come from europe and elsewhere in the area of responsibility. the key thing we have assets to be able to refuel and to be able tote go our people out safely to
provide that protection and to get that needed humanitarian shi assistance in there. >> madam secretary, i don't want to be the voice of gloom. >> you're british. why we have you on the set. >> isis is trying to control this region and given the chance they will probably try the thousands of people stuck on the mountain. this effort is not over for the united states or the europeans that are joining you. how do you carry on both with the humanitarian aid and the strikes against is circumstances to try to stop them from going back into the cities and villages where they are committing genocide against these people? >> the president has said this is not likely a short-term operation. >> first of all, later ask you why you're here before you go. 22,000. hi no idea.
22,000 air force personnel in new york? >> joe, i am here because of our people, our airmen. as you say, we have 22,000 airmen who either work in new york or who hail from new york. so just yesterday, i had had the opportunity to visit with our air national guard at our base and met with some terrific bronze star winners. they are combat rescue men to so these are people who rescue those on the battlefield. later on today i'll be going to rome labs for cybersecurity and the future of command and control and communications. we in the air force love new york. >> and from my friends at home in northwest florida, you also love? >> we love eglin weair force ba. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. coming up next, two years after sandy, long island got smashed by another record storm and this time, some flooding there was even worse. bill karins joins us for that. up next, things get weird
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the dude abide? let's go to our louis bergdorf. >> i'm louis bergdorf. faster unseat belts because it's about to get holly weird. we will use any excuse to show you justin bieber's mug shot from last sun. he accepted a guilty plea of careless driving and resisting arrest with that infamous miami arrest. he made a donation for a youth charity and take a course in angry management. that ought to do the trick. martin hasn't finished writing the books to his wildly popular series but he says fans have suggested the ending. martin said, quote. at least one or two of the readers put together the clues i had planted in the books and came to the right solution. you're going to pay to answer those phones and get that coffee. >> you're finished.
go. >> the weinstein company run by harvey weinstein is offering wide-eyed hollywood hopefuls an opportunity to get their foot in the gor a medoor with a mere fi figures. the dude for senate? that is exactly what thousands of people from montana are calling for in on online petition urging jeff bridges to make a run after embattled john walsh backed out of the race. they call bridges the only candidate you can post pictures of him naked and smoking pot and it wouldn't affect him. bridges told howard stern his week that his wife nicks the idea. >> i'm unemployed. >> joe, the dude does not abide. back to you. >> the dude does not abide. >> i would like to see the dude run. >> he can just keep saying, that's just your opinion, man.
>> that would be pretty good. >> yeah. >> so you were the reporters in mcdonald's? >> yeah. >> you think the cops did everything the wrong way? >> i think the clip that we showed earlier is evidence of how not to police, how not to police. >> i don't think the reporters necessarily moved fast enough and if i had been told by the cops waving a gun to move along i would have moved along before they got to the end of the sentence because that is me and i would want to do what they said. i think what they did after slam ago reporter under a soda fountain. >> was that on video? >> nobody. the guy talks about it. >> we need video cameras on cops. >> it also gets into, joe, another aspect we have talked about this earlier, and other programs, the increasing militarization of police departments in towns.
>> hard to figure out how they could handled this worse from the very beginning. they look like they are in the middle of ukraine instead of in the middle of america. >> how do you trespass in a mcdonald's? >> i don't know what was going on, mike, all right? i'm only paid to be here. that's why i'm here every day 365 days of the year. >> that's true. >> whether the little red light is over that camera or not. >> you should take a break once in a while. >> i will not do it. this is my home. i've got no life. outside of this. it's a grim existence. coming up next, the end of an era. we will ask matthew weiner about the madmen finale and a few other things to discuss when he joins us next on "morning joe." ♪
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♪ you sure i don't have to go in and talk to anyone? >> no. i have the note. happy valentine's day. i love you. ♪ >> what an incredible scene. i thought one of the more telling scenes of this past season. matthew weiner is with us. his emmy award tv work from
madmen and writing to producing "the sopranos." now behind the lens as director of a new movie "are you here." take a look. >> let's get things started with a little shot of the harbor and some sea gulls enjoying the sunshine. how are you doing there, fellows? today's high will get up to about 65 degrees with unlimited visibility which means if we could get this knuckle head out of the way you could see down to the ocean city. clearest spot of the nation? that honor goes to bismarck. >> smooth as silk. seems like you on -- >> this is the hottest and wettest spot in the nation and i guess that makes it the number one destination for teenage boys. hey, victoria? >> i guess so, steve. >> oh, my gosh. >> back to you.
>> back to you! >> matthew, we go back a long way, my friend. a long way. >> thank you very much for your -- maybe our earliest supporter of the show. i guess you had basically cable back then. >> i had basic cable and immediately called every to amc and i sat there and just watched it. talk about binge watching. let's talk about the movie first and then to "madmen." tell us about it. that looks hilarious. >> it's kind of the first thing i wrote after "madmen." i wrote the pilot for that and then wrote it right afterwards. it's sort of a -- it plays a little bit on the way that we feel like we're in a movie at some point. zach and owen play best friends. i think they think they are liverg living in a stoe stoner comedy they are in their 40s and it was a chance to play with the idea
of like what holds a friendship together. >> tell me, because i've watched the internship like during my vacation 70 times on hbo. what is it about owen wilson? >> so funny. >> i love owen wilson. what is it about that man on screen that makes everybody love him? >> i wrote the movie for him. >> did you? >> one of the thing that was kind of fun about it this plays with his on-screen persona because he is similar character. . he is a little wasted and has problems with authority and he is unreliable but he also, it sort of becomes a story about, like, what happens if that guy has to, like, look at himself in the mirror? what is going on underneath that? the thing i love about owen is he has this warmth. he has kind of like bill murray glibness to him which i love. >> he does. >> but he is also really an actor and i think a little bit of sensitivity to him underneath it and he is super smart and i
think goes against the entire character he is playing. >> can you script zach? >> zach is a real actor and he learned his lines. no, i want people to know that. you don't need to script him to some degree. he radiates a kind of warmth and he is just like a really nice guy. we shot in north carolina, which is where he is from. he was -- he's just a lot of fun. it's exactly what you would want it to be. >> in the description you gave of owen and the fact you had him in mind for this part and you wrote it for him and then the description that you give maybe not a director's dream in terms of putting a guy that could be a little dry? >> that is his character. that is his character, you know? >> but he can take direction? >> he had an oscar nomination for writing. i don't. he is really smart. and so he's playing a person so he is thoughtful about it. but there is something he does
with the silence and something about him being able -- both of these characters a lot of this movie is about telling the truth and both of these characters, especially owen's character says exactly what is going on in the in a moment most matter how incredibly awkward it is. you see that. he gets away with it. i don't even know what that quality is. i don't know if it's, you know, a childhood thing, adaption thing but there is a mystery about stardom and what people, talk about characters popping or actors getting in the screen and what they give off. i don't know. for me, he's always in this, like, a little bit of thought under neath all of that and a little bit of sadness. the movie has like this sort of change of tone and i think you will see that owen and zach are doing things they have both never done before. >> let's talk about "madmen." it was a little darker this past season. i said it reminded me of watching "let it be." the documentary you have all of these people you love but it seems to be surrounded by, what, a lot of sadness.
>> yes. but it's also a story of triumph. >> yes. >> this is the whole thing about telling a story. there is going to be 92 hours of this thing when it's done. one of the things you want to do is not repeat yourself. you wano is not repeat yourself but you don't want to mix it up to keep it interesting. part of it is to sort of take the next step in his life. the previous season he had ruined his life. it was the story of 1968, it was also the story of don falling apart. his daughter found out that he was having an affair, his drinking was out of control -- >> and how ironic don didn't get in trouble when he was lying. he only got in trouble when he was telling the truth and that was when we had that wonderful scene with sally at the end, who's just an extraordinary actress. but he asked why she had gotten fired after he kept it from her and he said basically because i told the truth. >> yes. >> at the wrong time. >> not great parenting probably to share that with your kid but she knows a lot of things about
him that we don't know about our parents, hopefully. and the story last season was kind of him working his way up inside his own business and kind of saying, well, you're waiting for him to self-destruct. you're waiting for him to act on his impulses and blow it like he always does. you're waiting for him to be selfish, and you're hoping that he can repair his relationship with peggy. telling that story, when we did that episode in particular with sally, which was directed by mike uppendahl. you're like he has to tell the truth to her, treat her like an adult. she knows everything about him. and that scene at the end which is every parent's dream. we were saying like don draper, a lot of his life is about his horrible childhood. he has just learned that you really got to work a lot harder to lose the love of your kids. every time the show can have a genuine earned emotion, i think
it distinguishes it. i think it distinguishes it from the kind of liker for formulaic stuff. >> i just want to show one more scene. i'm sorry, we're way over. >> i don't care. >> you don't have the scene? why don't you -- yes. >> which one. >> i think you can, question authority. i think one of the more -- do you have it? okay, play it. >> let's get things started -- >> no, come on. >> t.j., you suck. you did that on purpose. show me -- show me the one. do you have that one? here we go. here's one of the more telling scenes i think. i want you to tell me about it, go, t.j. >> you said you didn't know what was going on. this beatles album, start with this one. >> have fun.
♪ >> don draper in a world he doesn't understand anymore. he is a sinatra man, not a beatles man. >> i think everybody was a beatles person. this, like a lot of the stories on the show, was something somebody told me. and the guy told me this amazing story that he and his father, they had a lot of battles, but they both loved the beatles. and then revolver came out and they listened to the album and his father just said i don't get this anymore.
and to me it was like -- don is not -- does not want to be part of that. it's not just -- it's definitely part of the thing about it being a sinatra thing but that's one of the interesting things about this period and about the show. we did "my way" last year. "my way" is a number one song in 1969. i don't know that everybody is a sinatra man or beatles man or the jefferson airplane. there is a subversive streak in the united states. there's also an openness that goes with it. and you see something where our perception of what it was like is not -- it's like it is now, you know. if you want to, you can keep up with things. >> my dad -- >> real emotion wins out. >> i became a huge beatles fan because my dad had every album up until "revolver." so you tell that story, yeah, he didn't understand anymore. listen, we're excited. thank you for being with us, matthew. >> thank you. >> and the movie is "are you here." it debuts next friday, august
22nd, in theaters. i'm sure we will all be there to see that. thanks so much. what happens at the end? >> let me tell you. >> hold on. hold it right there. we'll get it right after break. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ start a team. join a team. walk to end alzheimer's. visit alz.org/walk today. [ thud ] visit tripadvisor rome. with millions of reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. hing your favorite players come on, get open... yeah... with millions of reviews,
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insisted that u.s. troops would not be put back into a combat role in america -- >> american military forces were on the ground today in the middle of a combat zone. the heavily armed green berets were there to assess what it take to put together a rescue operation. >> the question is whether american forces will get drawn into a direct slash with the militants of the islamic state. >> after dark it does get a little dangerous. >> for the third straight night the streets of ferguson looked like a battlefield. >> tear gas has been filling the air and bullets of lighting up the night. >> two reporters in ferguson, missouri, were arrested by ferguson police. >> evidently i was not moving quickly enough. >> i'm ready to take my kids and i'm ready to go. it's scary. >> are you going to hug it out with the president? >> absolutely. >> at an event in martha's vineya vineyard, it's getting a lot more attention than it might have. >> since clinton criticized her former boss in a magazine interview. >> we had any disagreement as partners and friends and i'm
looking forward to seeing him tonight. >> she still seems so insincere. >> harry reid said what you're doing is a political stunt. >> we will do what we have to do in the state of texas to protect our citizens. harry reid needs to try that on. >> yes, sir. all right. welcome back to "morning joe." great to have you back with us. do we have the clock, t.j., are are you going to screw that one up too? >> i have it. >> do you want to put it up there? >> oh, look at that. so there's the 50 minutes till i think i get in there and get ice water dumped on me, all for a good cause. this is mika's daughter amelia and graham. they're going to dump, i guess, ice on mika's head too. it's the last thing she's going to do before going off to
college. she gets one last shot at her mom. >> that's good. >> it's good to end your 18 years at home. >> it's a good negotiation tactic for the allowance discussion. >> i think so. with us on set we have fortune magazine's assistant editor leigh gallagher. also the director of the earth institute at columbia university, dr. jeffrey sachs who, wow, hillary clinton's foreign policy deception. we're going to be talking about that in just one second. first, parts of the mid-atlantic and northeast are cleaning up and drying out after heavy rain sparked flooding across several states. >> yeah, the hardest hit area appeared to be long island where islip, new york, saw a record amount of rain. 13.57 inches. that is a lot in under 24 hours. it's more than the region typically receives all summer long. let's go to bill karins for more on this horrendous wet weather. bill? >> this 13.5 inches of rain, guys, is not just a daily record or monthly record, we're talking an all-time new york state weather. think how long weather records go back in new york state, back
to the 1800s. no single location has ever recorded 13 inches of rain in 24 hours before. think of all the hurricanes that have hit, the nor'easters and all the big thunderstorms. this was the most rain ever. so islip, new york, the new record holder at 13.57 inches of rain in 24 hours. the old record, by the way, was only set two years ago when hurricane irene went through, about three years ago and that was in tannersville, new york, at 11.5 inches of rain. where else did we get drenched? maryland saw 10 inches. what's amazing about this storm, a little bit of a head scratcher with our weather extremes is that so many locations saw flash flooding. this wasn't a hurricane, this wasn't a tropical storm. this is new pictures coming in from last night all the way up in portland, maine. they picked up 6.5 inches of rain from that same storm. that's as much rain as they would typically get in three months in portland, maine, during the summer. you can see this just adds to the hundreds of vehicles that were swamped up and down the
east coast. other areas, of course two days ago in baltimore, three days ago in detroit, all from the same storm system. thankfully it's gone and we don't have to deal with it ever again but we have to deal with its aftermath for a while there. still some power outages and a lot of water waiting to recede, especially for those areas around long island and islip. >> greatly appreciate it. glad that has passed. we're actually going to have a nice weekend up here, going to feel like fall. so let's go from long island to iraq. >> obviously. >> obviously that's the next step. >> there are strong signals in iraq that the u.s. will not launch a rescue operation for those displaced civilians. a team spent 24 hours on top of mt. sinjar where waves of refugees fled from islamic militants. the pentagon said several thousand refugees are still there but far fewer than reported a week ago. ongoing u.s. air strikes have allowed many to escape. defense secretary chuck hagel says it is far less likely that
an evacuation mission will be needed. meanwhile prime minister nouri al maliki is striking a defiant tone. >> he might as well be talking to a wall. >> i think he thought iran would help him but they have ditched him to. >> the u.s. as undercut him, the military has undercut him, now he's going to the courts? >> he does have these militias and special forces and military who are loyal to him, so could he try and get them out on the streets again? politically, it looks like he's over. >> we'll see. jeffrey, boy, this is -- seems to be a much tougher call. you know, we've been against military intervention in a lot of -- been together since 2008, 2009 on a lot of issues like this. how do we respond, though, to the growing isis threat without trying to get a group of nations together to work with us to stop the spread of isis? >> well, the first thing is we
understand it. >> what is it? >> well, it is very radical, obviously very murderous group but it emerged in the context of our syria policy. our syria policy was to destabilize the syrian government. this opened up space for every kind of horror, including the isis horror. so every time we intervene we have an anti-midas touch from libya, searia, iraq. we destabilized the whole region. >> we destabilized syria and then it falls to pieces, isis grows out of that. are you on hillary's side, are you on the president's side that we should have gone into syria earlier? barack obama says it's fantasy that if we went into syria earlier we could have actually done something to stop the killing of over 100,000 syrians. what do you think? >> we went into syria. it's been hidden from the american people by and large.
we don't know how far in syria we are and have been. there's been lots of secret weapons moving, lots of secret money moving, lots of publicly announced money moving. we're in syria. we have succeeded, in quotation marks, in destabilizing a region and now there are -- >> the same way we were in bosnia, by the way. >> we got in enough to create a complete disaster. >> you've established that. so we all agree. >> yeah. >> let's agree for argument's sake that we created the disaster. >> we're one of the parties and we contributed to it. >> so what do we do after that? what do we do now? what do we do moving forward with isis? >> i think you're correct that a number of governments have a critical stake in isis not being this murderous group that it is. where are they? where's turkey? >> where's germany? >> we have something called the united nations. that's a good place to start. instead of us just taking this
on unilaterally, once again making the incredible kind of mess that we keep making, let's try to find a real solution that actually speaks to the interests of the neighboring countries. >> where are our european allies? they seem to be on a vacation from history. everybody has just assumed that the united states is going to clean up messes across the globe and when we go too far, they turn around and attack us for trying to clean up messes around the globe. why can't we drag the germans, why can't we drag the e.u. and drag other people who have more of a stake in curbing isis than do we? >> i think one of the things we have to remember is that many times the europeans have said stop, you're about to step into a land mine, like in iraq in 2003. they told us absolutely right, don't do that. we said what are you, cowards, pacifists and so forth and we ended up creating a disaster. >> it's 2014 now, jeffrey.
>> well, i'm saying we have a pattern now repeatedly in iraq, in syria, in libya that has destabilized now an entire region. it's incredible to read the interview with president obama where he says, well, yes, we overthrew gadhafi. we didn't think very much about what would come next. are you kidding? how can you say that in 2011 when we saw the experience in 2003. >> so the instability across the middle east is all the united states' doing? >> no, no. it's just that we are so not smart in what we're doing, it's unbelievable. >> did you ever see team america? >> i haven't. >> you should see it. jeffrey, you write about hillary clinton's foreign policy deception and hillary may want to walk away from this mess but she can't. t of course the u.s. is not the only failure in this story, there's failure galore among all participants. yet with all of the urgent issues the world faces, fighting
diseases, climate change, extreme poverty, high unemployment, widespread illiteracy, our political leaders have doubled down on war, including clinton's tough talk. most of us are utterly tired of the mindless call for more war that is leading the world deeper into despair. >> there's no doubt that this country is war weary and nearly bankrupt because of our expenditures in various wars. but with regard to this particular region and this particular group, katty, is it not the case this is the saudi duplicity, egyptian duplicity and even iranian duplicity, they are all our natural allies in this fight against the growing threat of isis. >> and there's been a stunning silence from around the region. from the qataris who were supporting them in syria as militant extremists. you haven't heard much from the iranians and the saudis. the only way that the situation is going to get resolved in iraq
at the moment, the only chance we have of really rolling back isis and making this an organization that is no longer a real national security threat to the united states and to europe is by getting a political regional solution from those countries. >> bravo. this is exactly right. we can't do this. this is not the u.s. job. >> and i think when -- joe, to your point when it was about syria, i do think actually there was much more pressure in europe from politicians -- >> the french and the british. >> and britain too to get involved at that stage, to get involved earlier on in the syrian operation. but iraq is still seen as america's problem. it really is. and you're right, isis constitutes a threat to europe as well. there are fighters there from europe as well, but iraq is seen as america's problem. >> joe, we sat at this table when president obama and hillary clinton said assad must go. i remember saying to you, what? what are they talking about? how are they going to do it?
what's going to happen? >> mubarak must go, assad must go, gadhafi must go. >> we talked about it and said you can't make a statement like this and think things are going to come out roses and here we are. they don't think. >> one of the big issues here that hasn't received the headlines that it ought to receive because of the ongoing conflict with isis on an everyday basis is jordan. if isis manages to control part of jordan or overthrow the jordanian government, which is very tenuous to begin with, think of israel, its next-door neighbor. what's going on in gaza is going to look like a day at the beach. >> and the thing is, yes, we started this in 2003. the reason i said it's 2014. we've got to deal with it now. the europeans have to deal with it. the saudis have to deal with it. qatar would have to deal with it but they're at the root cause of so many problems across the middle east it's stunning what
they get away with and why more people don't trace what they're doing with terrorist groups across the middle east. i'm not sure why they get a free ride on that. but yeah, the saudis, for god sake, why aren't the saudis doing more? >> and you said the crucial word, "political." not military. you said it needs a political settlement. >> jeffrey, you write in the arab spring in 2011 we were got wholly flat-footed. our policy has been completely reactive. why do you think that is? >> because nobody in washington is paying attention to on the ground. we just look at these countries only for what they mean for us in the most reactive way, oil, for example. or, you know, some immediate -- >> thank god we're going to get a lot more oil in america, huh, jeffrey? >> yeah, this is -- it's unbelievable. we've just not paid attention for years. we don't have a feel on the ground. when you're there, i travel in these countries all the time, you see a lot that isn't reflected in washington at all. then when something happens,
boom, war. overthrow them. that's what we do. >> jeffrey sachs, we've missed you. >> happy to be back. >> come back more. >> i will. >> what are they saying about "morning joe" in sub-saharan africa. >> they love it. at the vatican, the pope, everywhere. >> you say wherever you go -- >> it's unbelievable. >> we've heard this obviously from egypt -- >> i can be any place in the world. hey, i saw you last week on "morning joe." i was in ethiopia, i was in row wanda, just hearing it everywhere. >> isn't that crazy? >> i know i'm ironic a lot of times, but here we hear this all the time. world leaders from across the globe actually watch this show. jeffrey came back and he said, you know, i even get it at sub-saharan africa. >> no question. it's crazy. >> do they watch it on their phones? >> everywhere. they tweet it out,in incredible.
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♪ >> that was a scene from the 1994 movie about how quickly business can take off. the latest issue of "fortune" magazine looks at the fastest growing companies. leigh is here to take us through that. also we've got ceo and editor in chief of "business insider" henry blodget. >> thanks for having me. >> first of all, this guy is turning over the tables in the temple. >> unbelievable. >> he is making a lot of people in vatican city nervous. tell us about your story about the holy reformer. >> sure. well, we've all seen in the past 18 months what pope francis has done. the francis effect, the 4.3
million twitter followers, the way he has completely re-energized the catholic church. we made him our number one world's greatest leader a few months ago because of that reason. but what a lot of people don't know and what's lost in this story is that he is actually an incredibly savvy manager. and what he's done, he has gutted the way the vatican does business, the way it manages and in particular rearranged its finances soup to nuts. >> the cardinals never saw this coming? >> they never did. he replaced old guard cardinals. he brought people in from ernst & young. >> you're kidding. >> no. he knows how to bring in the right leaders under him and motivate them to get the job done. as a result, it's just being completely transformed. >> there had been a level of corruption and secrecy in the vatican bank that was historic. and dealing with that bureaucracy would have to have been mind boggling. >> yes.
in fact before he was named pope, he was a long-time critic of the way the vatican did business. the inside dealings, bids go to friends of the church and no competitive bids, an insular way of doing business, which is not a good way of doing business for many reasons. he's got this elite managerial skill set that i think is something -- people have no idea, for all the other things that he's done that we know about. >> he also knows a lot more about economics than most economists. he understands actually what's wrong with the world economy. we have this incredibly growing inequality gap. what even people in the united states don't understand is the wages that you pay to people who work for you are revenue for everybody else. we are now obsessed with profitability, maxing it out. we've got to start actually paying our folks more. that's one of the messages he's preaching. >> absolutely. and he says that you can't -- he can't meet his bigger need, which is helping the poor around
the world, help get needy is his biggest mission. you can't do that unless your books are in order and that's also something new. >> let's go to the fastest growing companies. >> sure. >> i'm glad henry is here. i'm going to ask henry some questions about this as well but let's talk about the fastest-growing companies. >> this is a list we do every year and we rank them on profit, revenue and stock growth over the past three years. this is who's hot in sort of the recent past. what's interesting this year is a full quarter of the companies are involved in shale oil and natural gas. so a fourth of these companies are either refining, delivering, servicing, selling, discovering, so it's really a metric of what's hot in our country. >> does one company stand out? >> no. there are probably a lot you haven't heard of. number one is actually a pharmaceutical company that's developed an anti-inflammatory drug so that's always an yar where we see a lot of growth. i just heard a funny term this
week, hopium for pharmaceuticals. >> "hunger games" very good for liongate entertainment. >> toll brothers has really risen a lulu lemon is on here. >> apple still? >> apple is still there. >> henry, let me ask you, you look at the bubble in '99, 2000, you look at the housing bubbles. when you look through these lists, how do we sort through the pets.com versus the apples versus the microsofts. >> there are pockets of incredible opportunity. energy, the united states has a huge energy boom which is driving a lot of job growth, it's been very good for reducing dependence on the middle east and so forth and a lot are in there, but it seems to be relatively widespread right now. part of the issue in the 1990s was it was centered on technology and housing, everything was tied directly to
housing. now it seems to be relatively diversified. >> so you mentioned income inequality which is a staggering problem we have to confront in this country, but how do we get through the mindset, you get these big corporations and they announce we laid off 10% of our workforce and their stock goes up. >> you have to ultimately focus people on the longer term, which is that if we keep destroying the american consumer by reducing costs to the absolute minimum we can pay people, you're ultimately destroying the buyers of your products. the reason our economy has been so strong since 1950 is that we had a very well off middle class that could support every company. if we gut it, and we're continuing to do that, there's no revenue for other companies and ultimately the economy just breaks down. if you really want to get somewhere, you can try appealing to fairness. maybe share a little bit more of the wealth that the company
creates with the people who create it. if that doesn't work, appeal to long-term greed which is companies will grow a lot faster if you put more of what you're making back into the economy with wages. >> henry ford famously figured this out over a century ago. >> his employees were customers, so pay them well. exactly. great points. >> leigh, this is great. holy reformer on the cover. thanks for being with us. >> thanks. coming up, what's the next best thing to creating your own internet startup? investing in one just as it gets off the ground. one of the top ceos joins us on the web on "morning joe." plus, you invite someone on the show and how do they repay you? by publicly coercing you to dump a bucket of ice on your head. look, the tarp is coming out, mike. obviously it's going to be wet around here. >> rain delay. >> bobby jindal, thanks so much, buddy. we'll be back with more "morning joe." so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts?
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us. >> thanks for having me. >> we were talking about a lot of different companies that were growing fast in the last segment, but you obviously, you're the founder of red swan ventures. consumer products and the way they're being sold is changing pretty radically. >> well, that's what's exciting about new york right now is you've got technology enabling the transformation of industries like retail. >> right. >> where not much has changed since the invention of the automobile. with the development of the internet and the smartphone, our belief was you're able to build a brand with the internet at its core. so we took these great-fitting pants and said let's deliver a digital model where we can deliver not only great clothes but great customer service. that was 2007. people said you can't build a brand with the internet as its core. we said not only do we think we can but we're going to offer better product and service as a result and now you see companies, transforming eyewear and harry's transforming razors
so it's not just about us. >> so here's the friction here. obviously a great idea for people that don't have tons of money, have a great idea, they can go out and have the internet as their core. stores, you don't have to hire thousands of people. and so there's a good side to that. but the bad side of it is, again, that you have less people working in retail. how do we strike that balance moving forward? >> well, hopefully they are paying the people who are working for them well and the people who are no longer working in retail can either work for companies like yours or can create new companies. the economy is always transitioned. we used to be a farming economy, then it was a heavy industrial economy. jobs have always been created as long as people are creative. the point is, the goal shouldn't be to pay the people who create the value as little as you possibly can. it should be to share the value with them. >> talk about the boston store. mike was asking about the boston store. talk about that, if you will, because it's fascinating how
your operation works. >> well, one of the things in responding to henry's point tying to the store that we found to be exciting is actually sharing the ownership with the company. so most of the time in retail what you do is you say we're going to hoard all the profits and you've got the employee peons. we flipped the script and said let's make everyone in the company owners. so coming back to our guide shops, we've got ten now. boston, chicago, san francisco, all these places. the managers are equity owners in the company. same for our customer service ninjas, which is our customer service team. most people are talking about running customer service on the other side of the planet, we're running it here in new york city. if you want to offer great service, you have to make the people who are providing that service, in case the ninjas and the guides, you have to make them owners of the company. >> but what happens in the store, to joe's point? >> our stores we think are a revelation. we think this is the future. you come in, you get an amazing customer service experience. a great one-to-one interaction. you come in, you have an
appointment, you try stuff on, you touch and feel the product but the whole thing is guided. so you're getting great-fitting product but awesome style advice as well. at the end of your time with us, we place an e-commerce transaction which fulfills through the mail. so you take all this inventory out of the store and that enables you to focus on just great human interactions in the store. i think apple was the pioneer of this with the genius bar. you were talking about lululemon earlier. they're great at offering a great experience in stores. i think stores are just changing into more experienced and customer service. >> you are hiring people in your stores. this is not just online only. you're actually hiring -- giving people real jobs and some of the -- you have a venture capital firm that you started and is investing in similar companies. one of those companies is task rabbit, which is a great counter argument and making another point what henry said is that a lot of these new companies are giving people new ways to work.
this outsources tasks. i need a dress to be picked up, i can't get out of the office. you hire someone to do it and they bid on it. now they changed the model a little bit. >> so they do your task for you. >> they are students or part-timers and they are finding new ways to -- >> is there an app for this? >> yes. >> did you get reviews on this? >> look it up. >> it's the future. i've got to get out of 1979 and get the 8 track tape away. >> get yourself a cell phone. these are pretty cool, you should get one. >> i'll try one of those things. >> try an app. >> an app? >> yeah, a-p-p. >> what's that? i'm just going to go home and watch my beta max. this is fascinating, aebd. are you wearing our clothes? >> not just our pants anymore. shirts, jackets, we're seeing huge growth in suits and blazers and button down shirts. >> all right.
fantastic. greatly appreciate you coming. andy dunn, thank you so much. you can log on to afternoonmojo.msnbc.com to hear more about andy in our exclusive web interview. henry, great to have you on, greatly appreciate it. coming up next, for the governor of a warm weather state, bobby jindal has a cool, cool sense of humor. we'll explain what i mean next on "morning joe." if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere?
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als ice bucket challenge. i'm happy to accept in honor of team gleason. i'll also be making a donation. i want to challenge les miles, willie robinson and joe scarborough. you've got 24 hours. >> oh, my goodness. with us now is republican governor bobby jindal of louisiana. governor, my goodness, is it -- i don't know, what is it? is it some past criticisms that we may have had about your esteemed office or being an alabama fan? why are you picking on me, man? why are you picking on me? >> joe, i've never been more popular with your staff and your producers. they were so excited when i did this. you know, look, as an alabama fan, you guys aren't going to be able to do a gatorade shower later this season when we beat you. >> look at this, lsu fan already talking smack, mike barnicle. >> you can take care of him this
fall. >> that's what i'm saying. >> so have you heard back from les miles. you challenged les, is he going to do it? >> i've heard back from willie robertson. i'm thrilled you're going to be such a good sport about this. i want to be very clear, there's a new trend called the naked ice bucket challenge. i'm not challenging you to that, that is not at all -- that's not good tv. so this is just the plain, vanilla, ice bucket challenge. >> mike barnicle wants to actually volunteer for that. that will really help ratings a lot. >> through the roof. >> we're going to talk about why you did this, why you challenged me. the bigger cause in a minute a little bit later on right before the ice is dumped on my head and mika's head as well. first of all, let's talk about a couple of things. let's start with common core. this is an issue that seems like a great idea to a lot of people, including conservatives like jeb bush. it seemed to take a nasty turn. i've actually heard parents from
moderate republican and democratic families walk up to me and express concern about common core. it's not just been right wing nuts, as the mainstream media would want us to believe, but a lot of concerns about common core. what's your -- what's your evolution on this? >> well, look, i originally thought the idea of standards locally was a great idea and i'm still for rigor in the classroom. the reason i'm opposing common core so strongly and fighting to get it out of louisiana is that it has become something very different than what it started. now it's become driven by the federal government, the federal bureaucracy. it was never intended to be a top down approach. the federal government has never made curriculum decisions in our local schools. i think it's a mistake to do that. a lot of times people who are for common core try to say if you're against us, you're against standards. that's not true. i'm for tests, i'm for standards. i don't want the federal government driving these standards. as a parent, i look at the math standards and some of the reading text and i'm very
worried about my kids doing these things. i think it would have been better if they had slowed down, let the teachers, let the parents have more involvement, have more transparency. i think they have rushed to do this. so i think the idea of standards is good, i just don't like the idea of a one size fits all approach from the federal government. >> speaking of high standards, the bbc's katty kay is here. >> governor, you were up in des moines, iowa, there, and "the register" there said you got a warm welcome. so how is 2016 looking for you? >> look, i'm thinking and praying about it. won't make a decision until after november. we've got to win some important races this november. if i were to decide to run, i certainly think that our country is hungry for a big change in direction. not incremental change, especially when it comes to restoring the american dream for our children and grandchildren. there's a lot of frustration with both democrats and republicans in both parties that all they want to do is make incremental changes. even in d.c. you hear from republicans you can't repeal
obamacare, you can't pal the budget, you can't grow the economy. we need stronger foreign policy. but there will be time after november to make those decisi s decisions. right now let's win the senate and these governors races. >> governor, back to the common core, where does louisiana rank in terms of education and math in national standards? >> well, historically louisiana has not done well but recently we've implemented very aggressive reform so in new orleans, 90% of our kids are now in charter schools. we have doubled the percentage doing reading and math on grade level in five years. we have got the highest ever graduation rate in our high schools. at one point in new orleans before these reforms, 60% of our kids were in failing schools. now it's less than 6%. you look across the state, record growth in the number of kids taking a.p. exams, more kits doing well on the a.c.t., so we have seen rapid improvement and rapid progress. we've still got work to do. i'm not saying we're where we want to be but we're doing better than we have before because we've done charter
schools, merit evaluations of our teachers. we do school choice. i'm all for reforms and i'm all for accountability. i think it's important. louisiana's kids learn the best math and we can compare them to kids in other countries and other states. my problem with common core is, again, the federal department of education, arne duncan through race to the top, no child left behind, has made this into a federal takeover of our local curriculum. that's what's not acceptable. >> governor, this is thomas roberts. just two quick things. first of all, thank you for accepting the als challenge that you took and thank you for challenging joe. did your other two nominees accept and have they done it? >> willie has accepted. he's going to do it later today. we've not heard from les miles. i think we can raise a lot of money for als by auctioning off the rights to dump joe. think about all the money you could raise offering people the chance to bid on that. >> bobby, you stick around.
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all right, everybody, welcome back to "morning joe." we still have governor bobby jindal with us who did the ice bucket challenge the other day and he nominated joe to take the challenge. >> thanks, bobby. >> so we've got joe's kids, kate and jack are here, we've got graham and amelia. amelia is off to johns hopkins. >> this is my college wish. >> is this your college wish, amelia? >> sure. >> so mika is here because joe, your nominations are? >> carol king, lyle lovett and mika brzezinski. >> mika, who are yours? >> mine are my brothers mark and ian and bradley cooper. >> these are all really good ones. governor jindal, do you have any final words before they get ice baths? >> i want to thank them for supporting a great cause. i think we should start dunking members of congress every time they say something stupid on your show.
>> do you support that? >> that would be niagara falls, are you kidding me? >> we should go into the ice-making business. >> okay. are we ready to do this? okay, give me this. let me take glasses. here we go. on the count of three, are you ready? 1, 2, 3. get 'em, get 'em, get 'em, get 'em! attack! attack! get 'em jack. get 'em. get 'em good. >> oh, my goodness. it's absolute mayhem! and the crowd goes wild! oh, my goodness gracious. that was a good job, jack. kate, good job. graham, good job, amelia, good job. louis, good job with the trash can filled with ice.
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welcome back to "morning joe." it's time to talk about what i learned today. i learned i have a lot of enemies around here. miss katherine got wet, as did little jack. amelia, you enjoyed that far too much. >> congratulations on going to college. i did this just for you. thank you, graham. >> graham, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> fantastic. so what did you learn? >> you're nervous. my daughter is going off to college next week. >> we leave tomorrow. >> lifting two ice buckets at the same time is heavier than i thought. >> that was really cruel. i learned that thomas' shoes are made out of plastic. those things are water resistant. >> i think they're really duck boots. this is fantastic. i love that.
thank you for pushing me in here. >> thomas, you started all of this. thank you so much, a good cause. >> that was a violent attack, by the way. i think you two suffered a violent attack. >> that's how we roll. >> but again, all for a good cause. and, you know, i had a guy -- a mentor in pensacola, a great man who passed away from this terrible, terrible disease. we want to thank everybody. we're going to be making a $10,000 donation on "morning joe." >> let's get applause for that. that's fantastic. >> we thank bobby jindal for dragging us into it. we hope you get dragged into it and take the challenge yourself. we have to cure this disease. it's been with us far too long. >> give her a big hug, she's cold. >> if it's way too cold, it's "morning joe." of course my hands are cold, sweetie. you dumped 12 buckets of ice on me. what's wrong with you too? all right.
oh, look at that. it just kept coming. look at louis. oh, my lord. >> now "the daily rundown" with luke russert. chaos in missouri. another night of protests is met with tear gas and flash grenades. this morning we'll talk to the man representing michael brown's family, attorney benjamin crump. meantime in iraq, the answer to the question of whether more u.s. troops will be needed to save iraqi refugees gets a little clearer. we'll have the latest from erbil. and back here at home, president obama and hillary clinton cross paths at a party. is the space between them getting wider as 2016 gets closer? good morning from washington, it is thursday, august 14th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." i'm luke russert in for the great chuck todd. we'll start with morning with stunning developments in ferguson, missouri, where police in riot gear used tear gas again