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from mike in the control room. can we get a shot of mike "fox & friends" christmas party today, pictures on monday. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gretchen i have already made the personal decision that i'm drinking diet coke. there will be no good pictures of me. brian: you will be taking it all in and dominating monday's talking points. steve: because we won't remember anything. gretchen: i didn't sleep last night fire department was at my house. brian: what happened? gretchen: something blew up. steve: our house didn't have heat. it was 12 degrees outside. brian: i flif a tent so i never have heat. [ laughter ] i'm a journalist by trade. i see a story here. what happened? gretchen: my light in my closet blew up. steve: and the fire department showed up. gretchen: well, because there was a very bad smell and we were worried there was smoke. so evacuate the kids and the 12-degree weather. steve: oh, man. brian: if that happens again, steve will come over. steve: just call. gretchen: giving a helping hand. i didn't know he dressed up in a fire suit. steve: i'm not one of the village people. i could come in civilian clothes. [sirens] steve: we have had a fantastic 21 hours since we saw you last. none the less, we're going to start this friday morning off with headlines. gretchen: top al qaeda operatives have been killed in a drone attack in pakistan according to a top government official. the target of the attack was not identified. sources tell fox news it's not osama bin laden or ayman al zawahiri. pakistan's media says six people died in the attack, four of them foreign fighters, a term used to mean al qaeda. a fox news alert again, secretary of defense robert gates is now heading home after visits to afghanistan and iraq but not before leaving a parting shot for neighboring iran. secretary gates seen here meeting with iraq's prime minister says he expects the international community to impose significant additional sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. this as gates tells u.s. service members in iraq that their mission remains critical and plans reduce forces next year. right now president obama returning home from oslo, norway just one day after receiving the nobel peace prize. this morning the president and the first lady greeted u.s. embassy employees after a dinner last night in his honor. the president thanked them for the award and reflected on its meaning. >> our destinies are what we make of them. and that each of us in our own lives can do our part in order to make a more just and lasting peace. gretchen: the president will return to europe next week for the climate summit in copenhagen copenhagen. officials fear a child who got swept away by the current in an arizona canal may be dead this morning. all because he tried to help a friend. four young boys were playing along a mesa canal when an 11-year-old fell. in that's when 7-year-old aldo dove in to help. the older boy was able to get out but rubio disappeared. >> by the grace of god, like i said, i hope that he is hanging on to a side somewhere or a branch somewhere and he is just hasn't been found yet and he will be cold and he will be found but he will be ok. gretchen: crews will begin searching again today but say it will likely be a recovery effort and not a rescue. a gigantic iceberg approaching australians coast is prompting officials. satellite captured iceberg off australia's southwest coast. the iceberg broke off from antarctica about a decade ago. they expect it to break apart as it moves into warmer waters. those are your headlines. brian: can we just blow it up? we got plenty of missiles. steve: we heard it will melt as it moves on into warmer waters. brian: get a blow drier. steve: obama administration considering a spin off of the bank bailout changing the tarp that set asset relieve program to help small businesses. can ey do at legally? live from washington, malini wilkes joins us. fill us in. >> this is new report about how the tarp money might be used to try to create jobs. now, earlier this week the president spoke about job creation, indicated that he wanted to financeome kind of a new jobs package with unused portions of tarp. that's the $700 billion in emergency money that was set aside to rescue ailing banks. now, today's "the washington post" is reporting that onelan under consideration would spin off a new entity from tarp. the paper quotes unnamed officials who says this entity would give access to federal funds without restrictions as long as the money was used to support loans to small business. the report says that without restrictions, essentially means there would be no limits on executive pay. as an alternative, officials reportedly might ask congress to modify tarp, easing those limits and other restrictions that would be imposed on lenders to small business. now this week the treasury department announced that the bank bailout would cost about $200 billion less than expected. president obama said that would allow us to help pay down the deficit and do something to create jobs. fox news poll shows that 41% of americans think the money should be used to reduce the deficit only. 40% say it should be returned to taxpayers just 14% think it should be spent on other programs. house republicans say they want to shut down tarp entirely and require that the funds be used for debt reduction. minority leader boehner says republicans will bring that up on the floor today. back to you in new york. steve: all right, malini, we thank you very much for that thorough report. brian: admiral mullen said it on monday and then he said it was a mistake. we are not winning in afghanistan. if we are not winning, we are losing. he said it's time to stop debating and ship out as he addressed those soldiers. let's listen. >> the 2009 levels of violence up 60% from 2008 to speak to one measure of that. it's tied as well to general mcchrystal's assessment of what he found when he was there. and certainly from that standpoint, we're not winning. and in an insurgency, you are either winning or losing. if we are not winning, we are losing. steve: monday he said to soldiers at camp. 1400 marines going to be asked to go fight this war. gretchen: i don't understand these comments. is he actually saying that we're losing. is that in an attempt to say we have got to get their quickly? brian: yep. i think so. steve: time to ship out and get going. that whole date of july 20, -- 2011 describing it as a pullout date not a trabsz session date. he thinks the strategy can win and we could started pulling people back much sooner than that meanwhile the president of the united states was on "fox & friends" yesterday. ok, we showed his acceptance of the nobel peace prize. brian: i think he tossed to sports. steve: he didn't toss to sports. gretchen: he killed sports. as he kept going and going speaking in a nice way he killed sports. steve: one of the things he said, which, you know, the kum ba yah crowd at the nobel peace prize award ceremony probably didn't want to hear was about war. he said sometimes war is necessary. because we have got one going right now in afghanistan and here's what he has to say about it on 60 minutes this weekend. >> the answer is that in the absence of the deadline, the message we are sending to the afghans is it's business as usual, this is an open-ended commitment. and, very frankly, there are, i think, elements in afghanistan who would be perfectly satisfied to make afghanistan a permanent protect act of the united states. carrying a burden in afghanistan that preserves their security and prerogatives. that's not what the american people signed off for when they went into afghanistan in 2001. they signed up to go after al qaeda. steve: that's right. brian: sets a deadline but coming up shortly in about 10 minutes, what lead phares is going to be joining us and telling us how the taliban contract reacted to the deadline set because they were listening to the speech. gretchen: how did the american public react to the president's last speech to send troops to afghanistan. this is an interesting poll. do you approve or disprove of the diswrob president obama is doing in afghanistan. 49% approve of that latest move. 44% disprove. and 7% haven't made up their minds yet. steve: that number is good for the president, because just in october he was down 8 points from that so, clearly, when he went up to wers point to make his case and talk about adding the 30,000 men and women, people said we like that. brian: steve additionally, editorial today. guy support the president. 62% of republicans support the president after his speech on december 8th. meanwhile, let's talk reality show because, once again, it is out of control. gretchen: apparently a new york city school teacher is now in a little bit of difficulty for being part of a reality show that took place in new jersey. somehow they were in a bar. now, that's a woman that he just knocks to the ground. steve: i watched the show. brian: what is it? steve: jersey shore. it's brand new on mtv. we were watching it at our house and we said this is the end of civilization. this is just about the worse reality show. and as it turns out. that guy smacked that woman. the guy is a teacher. and now he apparently was popping off in some mtv promos for the jersey shore that premiered not long ago. he wound up -- there he is punching her again. he wound up getting in trouble. but he apologized to his students. he said i don't know what i was doing. brian: drank too much. steve: i will never drink like that again. gretchen: he is not drinking right now. is he in one of those rubber rooms. where they sanction teachers in a room. sometimes they have done nothing wrong prepare brian never heard of that. gretchen: we have done stories on it before. brian: the woman he hit, his decision was to punch her after he had taken her drink because the bouncers had cut him off. in the end, he was arrested, fined $500 for assault. so they aired it. responses are headed to the door. i don't want to be a sponsor on the show. and the question is should the producers, the dad says, they say the brewsters pushed him that way. steve: instigator on the mtv crew did it they add alcohol. his father said he did something do. when they instigate something like that and alcohol is involved, it's not surprising. gretchen: tonight as many of you have may know is the first night of hanukkah. and so we decided to dig a little into the history books to give some meaning to today and what it all means. hanukkah means rededication. it is the jewish festival of lights, of course. it's an eight day jewish holiday. it common rates victory of the maccabees a jewish grouch warriors over the syrians in 165 bc. brian: seems like yesterday. steve: also as we continue to tell you about this. hanukkah common rates the rededication of the holy temple in jerusalem. some of the traditions that start tonight, they will light the first candle of the menorah. they exchange gifts, one each night. they enjoy foods that are cooked in oil. the oil is symbolic. brian: this is great. because we have someone who did all of this research for us. up until this time adam sadler's song was my big lookback what hanukkah is. the festival of lights. he runs through a chronology and hanukkah and where it comes from. hanukkah overwhelmed by christmas. steve: only holiday song i know of that was william shatner in it. brian: good point. gretchen: good trivia question. brian: we can't listen who to the whole song and stay on the air. gretchen: good news, because we have to tell you what's coming up. the president and the military set a clear strategy in afghanistan. what's going on in the taliban's war room now that a type line has been set? fox news terrorism expert walid phares is here with his insight. steve: 50 hunters stranded due to a storm in arizona have apparently all been accounted for but another storm coming. could it happen? it has to do with elk season. the story straight ahead. brian: in arizona have been accounted for this morning but another winter storm could hit this weekend. authorities say the 50 hunters were trapped which two to three feet of snow fell in northern arizona. no one hurt. officers said even though elk steven just ended, stragglers could be affected by this weekend's storm. and they're warning everyone to take the proper precautions or go to a supermarket and get your own elk. get online. i'm pretty sure it's next to meats or actually in meats. the stress not disrespect. that's what navy veteran robert luke lucas says is he flying his flag outside massachusetts. is he worried about health care, the economy, and the way the military personnel are treated overall. lucas complains the country today is not the one he grew up in or that his children grew up in. glenn beck should take that one up. steve: promotion day finally has arrived for a group of firefighters from connecticut. 14 firefighters sued the city after it threw out test results for advancement back in 2003 because too few minorities passed the test. gretchen: we are joined by matt marcelli captain now and bill, the new captains. both of them of the new haven fire department. good morning, captains. >> good morning. gretchen: this must have finally been a thrill after waiting this long for the supreme court decision. >> it was a culmination of a lot of hard work on the part of our legal team we garnered a lot of support from the public. the case was rather disturbing to most people when we told them the story. so, it wasn't very difficult for us to gain the sympathy of the public when they heard what was going on. steve: captain bill when the public heard that you and a number of other firefighters had passed the test and you should the way the system works advance to the rank of captain. but they were going to throw out all the results when not enough minorities passed the test. when you told people that, what did they say? >> they couldn't belief it my family members and friends and people couldn't believe that, you know, in ts day and age that that was still occurring. and, you know, it was a tough pill to swallow it really was. gretchen: for you, one of the regrets that you have is that your father. >> yes. gretchen: could not see the supreme court decision through. >> yes. professionally it was the most important day of my life yesterday. personally, it was bitter sweet. my dad 33 years on the fire department retired battalion chief. passed away just about a month before the supreme court decision came down. so, it was bitter sweet in that respect. gretchen: but it's here. >> it's here. steve: how many were advanced yesterday, promoted? >> within the new haven 20, 14 of us were promoted yesterday. overall there was 25 promotes yesterday. steve: get back pay. >> eventually we will, yes. that stuff has got to be worked out. steve: you have gone through a lot. it's hard to put a price tag on stuff. at the end of the day the cash doesn't hurt. >> yeah. it's not over for us, too. there is still going to be back and forth. the armchair academia, they would like to see our profession marginalized. they wouldn't see it for their own profession but they are willing to sacrifice ours. gretchen: the interesting thing is that others who were not part of the lawsuit were also promoted. >> correct. gretchen: they gained from your experience. we should mexico that you were number one on the test. >> yes. gretchen: you were number 5. >> correct. gretchen: you guys did extremely well on this test. we should also mention there was hispanic gentleman who was part of the lawsuit. >> yeah, ben vargas. he is a good friend of ours. gretchen: i needed you guys at my house last night. >> we heard. gretchen: thankfully the fire department in the town where i live are wonderful firefighters. thank you so much for your service. >> thank you very much. steve: glad there is a happy ending to that story we have been talking about for years. 20 minutes now after the top of the hour. five americanuslim men under arrest in pakistan allegedly wanting to join a jad. well, now it looks like they are going to be sent back home. what sort of charges would they face? judge andrew napolitano is going to come on by and fill us in. gretchen: then new reports tiger woods has told his wife now everything that she hasn't seen in the newspapers. but did he confess to paying for high priced escorts? steve: oh brother. meanwhile the president sets his agenda for afghanistan and rest assured the taliban set their strategy against america. terrorist analyst walid phares takes us inside the taliban war room when "fox & friends" rolls on for this friday. #ñ#ñ#ñ#ññññ brian: all right. glad you are up. baghdad night life is coming to a screeching halt and with a lot of complaining in the process. gretchen: our dominick dinatel is live from baghdad with the latest on that story. good morning. >> good morning. you betcha. baghdad is getting dry. by the look of things major clamp down by the government on night clubs they have been shut down or under orders to close down. the many booze shops we have across the city are also looking like they are going to be closed up it too. the simple reason nouri al maliki issued a personal edick saying that alcohol has got to come to a stop. what's very strange started off green zone to the fortress like safe haven for a lot of westerners here. he closed the booze shop down there. trying to appease his very conservative shear supporters in the runup to elections. why he picked on them first, we have absolutely no idea. it's gone throughout the city. we are hearing that the police and iraqi army are going around smashing bottles. smashing stock through the door. people in baghdad whether you you are sunni, she a or a christian do like a good drink. gone to the point some people are starting to panic. i know of one western organization as soon as they heard about the ban raided petty cash allowance to the tune of a thousand dollars and bought every bit of beer and booze they possibly okay people here on the hop when it comes to have a bit of -- brian: would that organization be the fox news organization that went into their petty cash? >> i couldn't possibly comment. brian: of course not. >> it was a western media organization. brian: enough said. brian: i almost broke him. steve: prohibition in baghdad. thank you, sir. 25 after the top of the hour. straight ahead, today the pay caesar expected to cut the pay of high paid executives. details are leaking out about which big wigs will be targeted and you have got to figure they are not happy. gretchen: report shows the cia had a little bit of help in iraq and afghanistan when it came to trying to catch and kill insurgents. we will tell how may have been assisting and the concern that it is now causing. brian: and you can call it a bad bet. a man made bet on hometown team who are undefeated. wait until you see what the end result is. steve: a shootout at a gun range? brian: don't bet against the saints. that's your clue. steve: happy birthday to jermaine jackson the singer and older brother to michael jackson is 55. happy birthday germane. brian: he was probably 20 in this video. ♪ (announcer) time brings new wisdom new aches and pains, ...and new questions about which pain reliever is right for your body. tylenol 8 hour works with your body, with one layer that dissolves quickly... ...one layer that lasts all day ...and no layers that irritate your stomach the way that ibuprofen can. it's tough on your body pain. not on your body. you hungry? 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[gunfire] brian: does it still work? steve: yeah it's a little fuzzy. steve: take as licking and keeps on ticking. funny. gretchen: on to other headlines for a friday. controversial security contractor black hawk was apparently working more closely with the cia than anyone thought. blackwater personnel participated in snatch and grab raids over a two year period in iraq and afghanistan starting in 2006. government official says that blackwater now known as xe services only provided security and was there for -- steve: meanwhile five american men arrested in pakistan will likely be deported. pakistani police say the men, including howard university student rami zam zam apparently tried to join an al qaeda terrorist group. but they were turned away from training. they were arrested in this house in pakistan and secretary of state hillary clinton says officials have met with the men. >> we have had access to the five detainees. that is part of the usual outreach by the united states government. steve: meanwhile, the u.s. officials say there is evidence the men wanted to join with militants and fight u.s. troops in afghanistan. do jihad. coming up, we are going to talk to judge napolitano about the case and what could happen to the men in the u.s. justice system. brian? brian: they didn't have terror references. steve: i know. brian: yale university officials are searching for 47-year-old lab technician who went missing from the same building where another lab tech went missing three months ago. john hasn't been seen in at least three days and he may need medication like maybe medication he regularly takes. police are treating this as a missing person's case. the body of yale grad student anny lee was found stuffed behind the wall. police say the cases are not related. gretchen: pay caesar -- czar wane feinberg is expected to slash overall compensation by 50% for executives. meantime goldman sachs has bowed to pressure and switch its bonuses from cash to stock. i think somewhere i read that the highest salary will be $500,000 not sure if that includes bonus. steve? check out this video from a chemical explosion at a texas citgo refinery this summer. kaboom. the video just being released by the u.s. chemical safety board. the board now issuing urgent safety regulations. they are demanding that citgo improve emergency water system in case there is another accident. in july, 21 tons of hydrogen floor ride were released after the explosion. seriously injuring one worker in the accident. not surprising. and those are your headlines now it's time for brian and walid phares. brian: 26 minutes before the top of the hour. the president and top military officials seemed to have agreed on a war time strategy in afghanistan. >> these additional american and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of afghanistan in july of 2011. brian: i don't think the troop surge is a step in the right direction but how will the taliban react to the new plan of action, especial whether i a deadline for a pullout. joining us right now with his analysis, fox news terrorism analyst and senior fellow at the foundation for the defense of democracy is walid phares. walid, welcome. >> thank you. brian: i want to go through some the tactics from this day forward in afghanistan and you, if you would, tell me what the taliban's reaction has been because have you been monitoring overseas. meanwhile, here is what the u.s. says, retraction of troops in outlying regions, outposts gone and refowsing them in high population centers. we announce that what's the taliban going to do. >> the taliban are going to do just the opposite. we focus on the cities and the urban areas. they will be focusing on the countryside and have their guys in the city lay low as long as we told them to lay low 2012, 2013. bill. brian: they will do what they did in 2003. slowly infiltrate back in perhaps. >> exactly. brian: direct application of troops into high density enemy areas that intersecond with the poppy crops, the economic driver of the insurgency. the taliban heard that what's their reaction? >> well, the taliban heard that and they would like to drag u.s. and coalition forces for a higher level of fight with the war lords or drug lords so we can deploy massively in hostile areas while they are going to be striking in the cities that we said earlier before. brian: so they're reacting. they have gotten more sophisticated in the last eight years. u.s. says 10% of the new troops will be to training the afghan police and eamplet the tall badge know that when the police stand up u.s. can get out. what's their reaction? >> their reaction is going to be strategically. this number one, they are going to target specifically those 10% training centers that have done that in the past. at the same time, they are going to infiltrate the trained troops. so, while we are training the afghanis, if we do not deradicallize those schools, we may be training taliban as well. brian: screening them will be so vital that is a tactic to counter ours. meanwhile, the fourth phase. border operations we are going to start putting troops there disrupting the sanctuaries in pakistan. we know about the afghan, pakistan border area. sanctuary. what's the taliban going to do knowing we are coming? >> we are going to try to have movement. we are going to come from the afghan side and the pakistani army is going to come from their side. what the taliban are going to do. two taliban from both sides. take the fight to the pakistani cities. they have begun to do so so their army do not concentrate much on the borders. take the fight and terrorist strikes to afghan cities so that our forces cannot always concentrate on the border. brian: the danger in our transparency with our war plan is the enemy sees it. walid, what should americans know about our enemy? the difference in your mind between the taliban and al qaeda? >> well, the taliban and al qaeda are actually one network with a tip being al qaeda that can move freely from one country to the other while the taliban are in afghanistan and in pakistan. what is really missing in the strategy is the taliban production line going to basically strike at them, the next generation of the taliban is going to be educated, indoctrinate that degrees savment if we don't should down the madrassa, we will be there for a long time. brian: the taliban and al qaeda have never been closer. thank you for listening to what they are saying so we know how to counter what they are doing. thanks, walid phares have a great weekend. >> thank you. brian: all right, steve. now let's talk domestic snow. can we? steve: find out where it is snowing right now. old radar and satellite image. put them together. first get some pictures. heavy snow in buffalo, new york makes for a horrible evening commute as you can see the visibility was down to practically nothing. meanwhile, high winds in charleston, west virginia knocked down trees and left residents without power. and when it is cold like it is right now. no power, that is a bad thing. let's take a look at the maps now. find out where it is snowing a little bit lake-effect snow in erie and ontario. otherwise the main precipitation is coming into california at this hour. little action across portions of the gulf coast. otherwise, it is nice and dry across the balance of the country. at this hour. and the temperatures throughout the northeast and the northern plains chilly. the actual air temperature in minneapolis is 2 below. it is 9 in chicago. 22 in new york. brrr it certainly feels like issue with the. and winter is not even here yet. meanwhile today's daytime high also be 30 in new york. perfect weather for our christmas party. the "fox & friends" christmas party we should say. 45 in raleigh. it will be 63 in tampa. as you can see across the central plains, temperatures in the 30's and the 40's. speaking of chilly, it has been very frosty. at tiger woods home. and now there is new information that you can understand why. there is a story out that apparently a hollywood madam michelle bram, we know that's her business because she was recently convicted for money laundering and transport ago woman across state lines for the purposes of prostitution. there she is she says that tiger woods paid her a lot of money for girls. gretchen: the plot continues to thicken unfortunately for tiger. this is going to remain on the front cover of a lot of newspapers as long as these stories keep coming out. and this is getting a little more dicey when you are talking about exchanging money for sex. brian: you just wonder if he can be charged with something and if you are charged with something and legal problems that would certainly directly affect his sponsorships and give sponsors on the fence a legitimate out. not that they don't have one already. the sun is reporting that they have decided to stay together. yes, elin and tiger have agreed to stay together and that tiger woods reportedly has told her everything. she is a child of divorce. and she is going to try to work it out for the kids. also, gloria al red, according to radar online is representing at least one other woman in her 40's. she also represents rachel uchitel and evidently rachel uchitel got a seven figure payout to keep quiet and call off that press conference. gloria al red is going to be going down that money trail again it looks like. gretchen: apparently they need a representative. if in fact they are trying to get money for not telling their story that's probably why they are hiring gloria al red. ii don't know if i would put a lot of creed cents in that story she is going to stay with tiger woods. steve: now that there are hookers involved this is a crazy story. a columnist by the name of hank gullah he says that the pga commissioner has got to suspend tiger woods for. brian: for what? steve: behavior of conduct unbecoming a professional. brian: that's a very murky road. steve: it is conduct unbecoming a professional. gretchen: whether or not that is conduct on the golf course is a different story. we will continue to cover if you want to hear about it. steve: should they suspend something for something they don't do on the play but way off e field? gretch: comi up on the show, tracking the stimulus. track pair money went to fun and dance clown ensemble. a good use of your money? the man who dolled out the cash next. brian: who said this? >> here are your quick headlines. actor gene bary known for bat masterson. he died asisd living center in los angeles. he not only played a lawman on it v. 60 year career included roll roles on broadway. actor gene barry died at 90. notre dame, brian kelly arising star in the coaching ranches. leaves the university of cincinnati to become the new head coach of the fighting irish. he led the bearcats to back-to-back big east titles. steve: all right. paper for puppets? that could be the description for newest round of stimulus spending. puppet theater got $25,000 of federal money from stimulus package which was intended to create jobs. now in pennsylvania, $25,000 of our money is going to philadelphia's pig iron theater which is described as a dance clown ensemble. but tom caden says the money is well spent and he should know. he is the ceo of the greater pennsylvania cultural alliance which received a total of a quarter of a million dollars in stimulus cash and decided to give the pig iron theater 25,000. tom, how many jobs were saved with 25,000 to the pig iron theater? >> steve, the pig iron theater is a small theater. in particular $25,000 grant saved one job at their organization. but just to clarify one thing. you raised their grant came from the national ebb document of the arts. it didn't come from the greater philadelphia cultural alliance. steve: so, you know, ever since the story came out that senators coburn and mccain had looked at some of these things that they deemed as silly, i know a lot of attention has looked at the puppet theater in minneapolis, a brazilian stake house in saint joe, missouri that got $75,000. in fact, we had the mayor on from saint joe yesterday he said there are other places in his town where that money could go to good use rather than the steak house. and some people watching right now, tom, might be saying you know, there are probably other things in philly that could use $25,000 other than the pig iron theater. how do you respond to people like that? >> well, i think the question is about jobs. the stimulus bill is about generating jobs. the question is, appropriately asked, is this a good investment for the american taxpayer and i would make the argument that yes it is. the arts and culture sector generates 5 million jobs in this country. so it's an important part of our economy. i don't think we can say that those jobs are any less important than any other job in the economy. in fact, we're talking about positions that are held by our friends and neighbors. these aren't just painters and performers. these are also people who work at arts organizations who take tickets, who are engineers, who are accountants and the spillover jobs that creates it n. other sectors so the ability for the arts culture sector to generate jobs in hospitality and dining in retail. other activity in the economy that matters. steve: exactly right. so the one job that this particular grant saved, what does that person do? >> right, so pig iron theater does physical comedy, right? so the work that they do has been widely recognized and appreciated throughout the country. i acontinueded one of their performance attended one of their performances recently i sat in a theater for 90 minutes for people who probably worked hard all day for 90 minutes got a break, got some comedy and. [ laughter ] and going back to work the next day. i don't know that there is anything necessarily wrong with folks getting a break before they go back and work hard again. steve: ok. there you go. tom hayden the ceo of greater pennsylvania cultural alliance. sir, thank you for joining us today from philly. >> thank you. steve: you bet. straight ahead, five american muslim men under arrest in pakistan accused of meeting with al qaeda and trying to train with them. looks like they are going to be sent home. what could they be charged with? we are going to talk to judge napolitano next there is a battle on the border with mexico. it's about drugs, murders, and kidnapping. national geographic correspondent lisa ling got a first-hand look at the violence. she will be joining us our next hour. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx brian: quote of the day. who said this? brian: the answer clinton eastwood talking about pop super star lady gaga. >> is that her real name? gretchen: i don't think so. still with it very serious terrorism story because five american men all young muslims arrested at a house in pakistan all with auto ties to al qaeda. either seeking training from al qaeda or already affiliated with al qaeda. in a court of law, would it make a difference? brian: judge andrew napolitano joins us now. they are being detained in pakistan. they have had access from our ambassador there. so where do we go from here? >> it's a very unusual case. basically, as we were talking during the break these guys knocked on the door and said i want to join and the terrorist groups in pakistan say we won't let you in because you don't have good enough references brimp -- brian: terror references? >> terror references. there are cases in this country where some have tried to join the mob. some have been prosecuted for conspiracy to commit criminal activity and some have not been prosecuted. should they be prosecuted in pakistan? would they be prosecuted in pakistan? remember, the same country that arrested them, has these terrorist camps, knows where they are and isn't doing anything about them can they be prosecuted here for what they did over there? yes. the law is very clear you can provide material assistance to a terrorist organization in pakistan. never pull a trigger, never harm anybody but help them by joining their group and still be prosecuted for that here. gretchen: here is the interesting thing. they must have been following these five guys when they were still back here at home. and so then they watched them go to pakistan. so, why did the u.s. want the arrests to happen in pakistan? >> i don't know why the u.s. wanted the arrest to happen in pakistan. but i can tell you why they wanted them to do something, because to prosecute for conspiracy, you need an agreement. the three of us conspire to destroy one of those cameras. that conspiracy can only be prosecuted if one of us takes an action in furtherance of the conspiracy and goes after the camera. so, if they agree in virginia. gretchen: you play that role. >> if they agree in virginia to join a terrorist camp to provide material assistance to terrorism. they have to take some step in furtherance of that agreement. in this case the step was travelling to pakistan. brian: also cut a tape that seems like a jihad tape. >> when a government wants like this it's the best thing they can do is pull the trigger before anyone is hurt. brian: coming up on brian and the judge. >> chris stewart, geraldo rivera, and varney and brian kilmeade. brian: along with the judge who i also think is hard to imitate. >> i'm going to do some of my immy stations now. gretchen: developing story about al qaeda. senior al qaeda leader killed in pakistan. details at the top of the hour. brian: crack down on politics. new report found nearly 3 million bucks spent on surgical operations in space? gretchen: brian climbed a mountain? did it pay off? you bet. we'll show you the proof. look at you go. and that was the first time you ever did it. brian: yes. the other guy is better. gretchen: not by much. gretchen: tgif. friday december 119, 2009. how much pork is in the house's new 1 trillion-dollar spending bill? well, minority leader john boehner wheeling out the evidence saying it is full of earmarks. the dems said they would crack down on. brian: is there a dangerous loophole in the senate health care bill being crafted. limit coverage for things like cancer. steve: you are kidding. brian: i wouldn't kid you. steve: growing battle on or border with mexico. americans being kidnapped. journalists and national greesk correspondent lisa lynn arrived as a kidnapping was in progress and she was there as it unfolded. she will be here to bring us inside the trouble down on our southern border. meanwhile our slogan comes from mark in north carolina. i'm a fox and friend fan and i'm ok, i like minus in a fair and balanced way. they begged me to sing it. i'm never going to do that again. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> this is trace adkins, you are watching fox and my friends and brian. brian: i don't get along with trace adkins. there was a long pause between the slogan and he sang. this is a moment where steve said ishis going to destroy my career? steve: murel said in my ear do it to the tune of monty python. she sang it in my ear. she said please don't make me sing. there she is in the control room. today is our holiday party day. our christmas party day. where all the hosts are throwing it for the staff. brian: oil worried the salahis are going to crash it i will throw them right out. steve: find out how salahi has become a verb. brian: so exciting. gretchen: top al qaeda operative has been killed in a drone attack in pakistan. according to a u.s. government official. the target of the attack was not identified. sources tell fox news it was not osama bin laden or his second guy in command ayman al zawahiri. pakistan's media said six people did die in the attack. four of them foreign fighters that is a attorney mean al qaeda. another fox news alert for you. at least 19 people killed in an explosion in a turkish coal mine. officials say the minors were buried more than 700 below the ground when a a chamber collapsed. four members working outside the chamber did survive the blast. recovery efforts have been hampered by the flammable gas inside the mine. the man accused of secretly taping espn sideline reporter erin andrews through various peep holes at various hotel rooms has agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking. michael barrett an insurance executive from ill faces up to five years in prison. one tape of andrews ended up on the internet and downloaded thousands of time before it was taken down. andrews plans to speak before the court at barrett's hearing. the father of the american student jailed in italy for murdering her british roommate speaking out. kurt knox is already preparing for his daughter amanda's appeal after sentenced to 26 years behind bars. knox is outraged over what he calls a lack of evidence and says his daughter is a good person. >> she has been in jail for two years. for something she didn't do. and she is worried about us as a family versus her as herself. to me, that's pretty good kid. gretchen: knox's appeal likely won't start until next september or october. south carolina governor mark sanford says he wants to reconcile with his wife and doesn't blame her for venting on national tv. he says he knows it was very hard on her. jenny sanford says she told her husband to leave and have no contact with her or her sons for 30 days hoping he would get over his argentinian lover. she is writing a book now about the aftermath of his admission of having a mistress. only fitting that kanye west and taylor swift have been named billboard's top artist of 2009. they did give us the most musical moment of 2009. remember this display of class. >> i sing country music so thanks so much for giving me a chance to win a vma award. [cheers and applause] >> taylor, i am really happy for you. i'm going to let you finish but beyonce had one of the best videos of all time. one of the best videos of all time. brian: is that when the president called him a jack ass after that. gretchen: kanye later apologize for his actions. as for taylor swift she is laughing all the way to the bank. her a album has sold almost 4.5 million copies. you think her career actually took off after. brian: unbelievably. she wouldn't be hosting snl. steve: i think she was supposed to anyway. brian: you think so? steve: i think they had that months in advance. it hasn't hurt. brian: it hasn't helped him though. steve: sounds like the senate could pass the omnibus spending measure. brian: it's an emergency. steve: either rush limbaugh or michelle malkin refers to this as porkulous rather than omnibus. john mccain has senior staffers who have been going through the fine tooth comb with the omnibus bill and located so much pork. the thing about pork is things are tough right now. and do we really need to be spending $0,000 for the woodstock film festival youth initiative? sure it may help at risk kids. aren't their other uses, for instance of that money? brian: they have two major sponsors, underwriters let them pay. meanwhile $200,000 for the washington national opera, evidently they were running out of opera stuff. 2.7 million for supporting surgical operations in outerspace. gretchen: from a way i don't fault these organizations for asking for the money. for goodness sake the government has been dolling it out to anyone. i don't fault these organizations for saying hey, how about me, too? brian: you know what, gretchen, i do. you have got to have a little bit of responsibility. gretchen: this is the lifeline for a lot of these organizations. they apply for grants and they get these particular grants. i don't know, it's a two-way street and not just democrats either. republicans have a lot of pork built into stuff they are asking for as well. steve: luckily the president could veto it. remember, he said famously in november 25th of 2008, he said this. >> we are going to go through our federal budget as i promised during the campaign page by page, line by line. eliminating those programs we don't need and insisting that those that we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way. brian: therefore we need the emergency money for the woodstock. steve: and we saw at the beginning of our program john boehner with a blue hand cart wheeling out the bill. and he said there are 500 earmarks in here that simply should not be there. and there he comes and you can see it's a big bill stuffed with pork. brian: health care is the other thing got so many worried cost so much and control a great deal of our economy. revolutionize the way we live our lives. perhaps. definitely when it comes to this loophole that was just pointed out. in the senate bill that's now working its way through and week away from a vote. it turns out there is a loophole that would show that there will be a cap on how much money you receive if you are undergoing cancer treatment. if you have cancer you could spend $100,000 or more getting the treatment that will keep you alive. steve: the key though brian is that this loophole and you know they thought it was gone but suddenly it's back again it would place, it would allow the insurers to put an annual limit on treatments. we don't -- it doesn't specify what that limit would be. it would be up to the government to say ok. it would be $100,000 or it could be $50,000. it could be $75,000 it could be anything they want. some of these things, you know, we had heard that there would knob lifetime cap on coverage. but that doesn't count if you have got annual limits. gretchen: it's interesting because the government seems to have no problem spending all of our taxpayer dollars for the other topic we were just discussing. then when it comes to health care reform we are talking about the fact they may not spend our dollars to keep some of us alive. interesting dichotomy there. brian: just one thing, the american cancer society said we were taking, called up, taken by surprise to this. we are going to look into it two patient advocate groups say we are going to speak out about it. can't be a patient advocate and allow that to be through a bill. gretchen: what does the american public feel right now about health care because we have been talking about it for so long . steve: meantime today -- tonight is the first night of hanukkah. and i know a lot of you out there know exactly what it is. some of you have may not. we would like to tell you a little bit about the history of hanukkah so you know what it means. hanukkah actually means rededication. it is of the festival of lights over the next eight evenings. brian: it will be celebrated for the next eight evenings. also hanukkah foods, for example, if you were celebrating hanukkah what would you be eating? the dishes would use oil. gretchen: latkas. steve: potato. brian: potato pancakes many. potatoes mixed with onions and friday oil. hanukkah donuts. jelly donuts dropped into oil as well. gretchen: look they come out in all those different shapes. that is something i ate way too much of as a child. steve: we all did. those are delicious. brian: the draddle is a four sided spinning top with hebrew letter inscribed on each side. steve: there you know more about hanukkah as they start to celebrate this evening for the next eight nights. brian: dreidel is a german word it means turn. steve: thank you. if it's a top they should turn. brian: i took german in high school. steve: that's why when you say dreidel three times it means turn. gretchen: from hanukkah to christmas which of course many people celebrate on december 25th. there was a christmas party already for the brook army medical center the wounded heroes and their families. they raised money. remember when brian did this? i happen to be -- this is a wonderful picture here of some of the folks with santa claus. i was off this day that you decided to climb the rock wall. i understand you did pretty well and raising money for this cause. brian: this gentleman decides to climb a wall army read brooks army medical center not have a christmas party. have parties for the kids and streamers and gift and food for the christmas party they needed $15,000. thanks to our viewers and listeners on satellite radio they got 17,000. the brooke army medical center had it. sent over some pictures. steve: with it was very impressive. we put that up rock wall in front of the building. the former mayor of new york city rudy giuliani stopped by to do a play-by-play commentary on brian kilmeade and his rock climbing produce ease. >> what do you think of brian's form? >> i think he is getting the job done. let's put it it that way. in fact he is doing the great job. not bad, brian. both of you. whoa, one more, baby. bloin brian i will not talk politics. i will come down and support the cause. he said this is about the men and women who serve. steve: it was a great event and help them have a very festive christmas. brian: thank you very much viewers and listeners. president obama accepts no bell peace prize acknowledging it was a difficult choice. mixed reaction pouring in from all over the globe. some say he shouldn't have even gone to oslo in the first place. we're going to debate that next. gretchen: decorated war vet wins battle against homeowner's association and gets to keep his flag pole. we will talk to one of his neighbors who came to his defense. steve: the "fox & friends" studio has been taken over by some fluffy little four-legged friends this morning. i was just in the green room playing with them. find out why these dogs are here and why they need our help that's straight ahead. brian: they look so much alike. steve: they're cute. you hungry? 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>> yeah. you know, i think the president -- i call it the mud by reality speech. i think the president laid out why sometimes we need to go to war. in many ways it was a justification for what george bush did in the sense that, you know, there is evil out in the world. and we need to confront it i think it was actually helpful speech. a helpful speech he is specialtily to the folks in the audience who really didn't want to hear that message. you know, the one thing i would say about the speech i wish the president had done is i wish he would have thanked the american people. they are the ones who actually did something to earn this award. they actually elected president obama president. gretchen: penny, the interesting thing was a that a lot of critics were waiting how long in the speech it would take before the president would talk about it was a controversial choice. that he had won this award before he had done anything. i think it was the third paragraph the speech where he addressed that. >> yes. i mean, he -- this was impassioned speech. it was defiant moment. he had a dose of humility. he understood this was maybe early in his career. and he even acknowledged that third paragraph it was a long speech as john acknowledged as well. so it was early in the speech. he had to go through acknowledgments who he needed to thank and the nobel peace prize but he did show that dose of humility in saying that there are many others that had the body of work but he was being chosen for what his ideals were and the hope we had for america for not only unit unity of the world. gretchen: news breaking right now where sarah palin giving interview where she praises president's speech. the t. could have been taken from the pages of her memoir. she says that her thoughts are exactly what he said yesterday. do you find that interesting? >> well, i think what the president did was he -- like i said, when you get to be president, you see all of the problems out there in the world, all the threats and the sense you have to confront those threats. i mean, as i said, very pointedly in the speech all the peace in the world would not have stopped hitler's armies. and i do think that you do need to have force. you do need to have aggressive action sometimes against bad actors. and you know i i think that sarah palin newt gingrich said the same type of thing. a lot of republicans can feel very comfortable that the president has finally gotten that message. gretchen: penny, news flash sarah palin and barack obama agree on this? >> this is a great wonderful bipartisanship that we all love. what it did was again, what barack obama did well in his campaign was speak to not only america's fears which he did address in his speech as well in saying that he will go and eradicated evil where evil is. it was a good speech. gretchen: penny and john, thanks for your thoughts this morning. >> thank you. gretchen: a place where police are not trained to investigate. they are trained to shoot and kill. that's what national greesk correspondent lisa length says is happening on the u.s. mexico border. she saw it firsthand and she is here with her story next. check out dash cam video about to give birth. she jumps in to help a cop who is in trouble. we'll hear why. @f brian brian war on drugs getting out of control. police trained not to investigate but rather shoot and kill. steve: national greesk correspondent lisa ling teamed one law enforcement to see this first happened she joins us live on the curvy couch today. when you landed in phoenix, you got a blackberry message kidnapping in progress. >> 8:00 a.m. i landed from los angeles. we went straight over to the investigation. and the city of phoenix has deployed this team known as the hike team. and they are designated specifically to investigate kidnappings because they become quite rampant in phoenix. it's important to note that these kings are all directly related to the drug trafficking that's become so rampant throughout the united states. steve: distributors kidnapping who. >> phoenix is a distribution point. the drug also come up from mexico to phoenix, it will be parcelled out and sent to different parts of the united states. brian: you mentioned in this story you were totally engrossed in it you weren't observing. you felt a part of it from the text message steve just talked about. what do you mean? you were part of it? >> we were embedded with the hike team. and they really do extraordinary work. and what happens with kidnapping for ran some is typically a phone call will come within 24 to 48 hours to the family of the kidnapping victim. and that's when the hike team acts right away. and they have actually been very successful at solving a lot of these kidnapping investigations. but the reality is that we are now seeing that the drug war has spilled over into parts of the united states. steve: sure. so these kidnappers are they kidnapping anybody on the street who they think has money or both in some cases. >> it is directly affected to the drug trafficking sort of circles. people in phoenix, i don't think, should feel nervous. steve: like i could be next. >> it's a great city and actually is very safe. it's targeted but it has been happening. last year they averaged one a day. brian: watch your special that premiers on sunday. what alerted you? what do you know now that you didn't know then? >> we hear so much about the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the truth of the matter is our country is so hugely invested in a war that is on our kant tent continent and spilling over in the united states. it's a very, very violent war. war reds south of el paso is considered the deadliest city in the world. steve: before you go, how is your sister doing. >> she is doing great. thank you. brian: your family must be thrilled. now you are out and you are at the border. >> oh stop. steve: check it out national nationallographic channel premiers this sunday. a 90-year-old war hero fought for the right to raise his flag in front 6 his house. you know what? he won. we will talk to a neighbor who took a stand for the vet coming up next. brian: miley cyrus could be giving her fan as new sound. we will tell you what she has planned next. her dad will be here. steve: check out dogs all decked out for the holidays. brian: they needed a loving home. find out how you can help. they are ready to take some action. what's our favorite part of honey bunches of oats? 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we did the hair and makeup for their wedding and they stiffed us on the bill. they never paid us. none the less they did that and then we found out that the salahis have run up debt all over. brian: landscaper they owe about $2,000. there is a law in sea virginia that allows you to exchange an item that might be worth that debt or more for the balance. in this case it was to a landscaper. this landscaper was given a watch. gretchen: he was given supposedly a very expensive watch i'm not elitist enough to know the exact pronunciation similar to this. apparently it costs about 25,000 dollars apiece. this take as lot of you know what to go no the court and hand over a watch and say here you go. it's worth 25 grant and-grand and then they find out it's a fake. this watch is one of those kinds you can buy on any new york city street here. the best value they give it is $100. looks like they are still in arrears about $1,900 to that poor landscaper. steve. steve: steve the judge came and said give them the watch back. enough to what they are going to do because they have got such money trouble mr. salahi said he would either pawn a 1985 bottle of wine for 2,000 bucks. brian: got a vineyard. steve: that's not wine in a box or what he would do is try to pay it off 150 bucks at a time monthly payments from her, michelle's mother. so they are strapped at least that's the presentation they made in court. brian: here is something else. if you are out of money, mow your own lawn. seed it yourself? so these -- the audacity. that's why the brother was on television saying yeah, this couple, my brother, scammers. they are just looking for publicity. gretchen: very interesting. now they have gotten it. because guess what the new word is of the week at least. it's salahi. in other words, that's their last name but it's turned into a verb now. to be salahid. it means to audaciously gate crash. brian: a red event. gretchen: a secure event. notice secure is in quotations. steve: i'm going to salahi the kilmeade christmas party at your compound is it this weekend? brian: if you salahi at my place i do have people at the door to toss your hine right out of there. gretchen: are we actually on the list? brian: absolutely not. just for people that are in my neighborhood. don't even try it. steve: how did you know i was going to bring heineken. brian: very good point because i know you love the germans. now your headlines here. let's begin with a fox news alert. secretary of defense robert gates is now heading home after visits to afghanistan and iraq. but not before leaving a parting shot for neighboring iran. secretary gates seen here meeting with iraq's prime minister says he expects the international community to impose significant additional sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. this as gates tells u.s. service members in iraq that their mission remains critical and that plans are on track to reduce forces next year. they should be out in july 2011, too. steve: north korea says it's ready to talk about its nuclear program and will cooperate with the u.s. and other members of the so-called six party talks. this comes after a three day visit by special u.s. envoy steven boss worth on his return to south korea. he said both sides reached common understanding on the need to restart the atomic talks. the north walked away from those talks earlier this year. gretchen: another storm on capitol hill. this one is over banking regulation. the house could vote today on the biggest overhaul of laws covering banks and the financial industry since the new deal. it is designed to reign in the risky behavior some say caused our economy to head into a recession. but there are plenty of people on both sides upset with it liberals want more control. conservatives less. still to be decided is the future of a consumer financial advocate. whatever happens in the house, the senate is tied up in knots over the bill. brian: the "wall street journal" says after five months in prison bernie madoff has become a star. the newspaper says other con men in jail treat him like a don. and he is the godfather to them because of the billions he fleeced from investors. steve: you mean like he is their hero? brian: he is the man. madoff still has to scrub pots and pans. still other inmates says he walks around the yard with his head high. madoff was arrested one year ago today. and evidently that upsets the dogs for still -- stealing billions of dollars in a huge ponzi scheme. steve: this texas woman nine months pregnant is being hailed as a hero this after stopping teenagers from beating a police officer. she was all caught on the dash cam video seen here. police officer beaten on the ground and out of the picture. and that is when angela gutierrez apparently saw the commotion. jumped out of the car and ran over to get the teens away. thanks to guterres, the officer is recovering at home. three teenagers have been arrested. gretchen: between singing sensation miley cyrus ready to do something edgy. currently working on last pop album. after that, she plans on taking a break to explore other musical styles. no word on what she is going for. she recently recorded a cover of poison every rose has its thorn. and her dad billie ray that's not him in the background there yet. the first star of the cyrus family joins us next hour to talk about his latest role and more. but right now we're with brian and his furry friends. brian: billie ray cyrus with a deeper voice. instead of buying your family sweaters or ties this christmas that they don't even like and that they are going to return anyway. why not give the gift of a dog rescue. you can do it. rescued more than 7500 buy -- bishons. largest rescue in the country. robin is the executive director of small paws and here is w. giovanni, you might recognize him with snoop dogg, bars and great britain grill.-gabriel. we have rosy and gabriel and boris. boris is jewish. brian: hanukkah segment. >> that's right. this is giovanni he is for adoption. he loves everybody. he loves people. he loves children. we tell people that at christmas time if you choose to adopt a pet at christmas time, it's not something that put away afterwards. it's a commitment. the shelters see lots of dogs come in in march and april that were christmas gifts because, you know. brian: they go right back. it's got to be a commitment for a lifetime. brian: you brought with you today cathy who is 12 and snoop dogg who is between 11 and 12. >> actually cassie is the one that had a little car sickness this morning. she didn't come in this morning. brian: you could have duped me. >> i could have. but one -- i want to be honest. this is giovanni. he is standing in for cassie. giovanni is 11. but they live to be quite old. sometimes 20, 22. brian: as someone who bought a burmese mountain dog as a puppy. it's great as a puppy. but a lot of people are better off with older dogs. >> puppies are darling and lovely. when you buy a puppy. they most likely came from a commercial kennel. brian: let's back up a little. what's your goal with small paws? you are taking dogs who were in many cases abused and give them another shot at life. >> that's right. what we do, they have such a great life. and they are such a blessing to people so not only are we saving the dogs but we are also basically, you know, enriching a human being's life. what we do is take them in in various shapes. people go into nursing homes. they pass away. some of them come from commercial kennels and we get them vetted and ready to go and become a blessing to a human being. >> that is so good. say you are in an apartment building. they don't take dogs but want to help out. >> our vet bills are running between 40 and $50,000 each and every month. we are funded solely by donations and private fundraisers. and we always need people to volunteer to help transport. to drive. and we do need foster parents. brian: we are going to do this every week and the bishons. look at this. brian: loves the camera. it cannot be emulated. >> can't be taught. either they have it or they don't. they are born that way. brian: you are born to do this? so robin, thanks so much. we are going to get these homes. foxandfriends.com to find out more information. >> thank you. brian: also, your web site. small paws rescue.org. >> come and visit us. brian: wow. how cute. gretchen, tell me what's coming up next. gretchen: i'm going to tell you trivia about humans. something they are born with did you know you are either born with being able to roll your tongue or not. figure that out in the break, brian. dropping the public option. senate democrats coming up with a new idea. some calling the plan even worse. the prescription for truth is next. then that decorated war veteran we have been telling you about wins his battle against a homeowner's association to keep flying the stars and stripes. we'll talk to one of his neighbors who came to his defense. first though, the aflac trivia question of the day. it's not about rolling your tongue. it's about this. this country definitely needs to focus on other ways to get energy. we should be looking closer to home. we have oil on our shores. natural gas can be a part of the solution. i think we need to work on wind resources. they ought to be carefully mapping every conceivable alternative. there is an endless opportunity right here. steve: president obama praising democrats on the progress they have made on his health care reform plan. >> the senate made critical progress last night with a creative new framework that i believe will help pave the way for final passage and an historic achievement on behalf of the american people. i support this effort. especially since it's aimed at increasing choice in competition and lowering costs. steve: democrats have tentatively agreed to drop the government-run option plan reportedly from the bill. as a compromised a an expansion of medicare so that you can start doing it as age 55 and be up. well now the question is expanded medicare just a big step toward a single payer universal healthcare system? peter johnson jr. is here with a look at this. peter, this is a little complicated but if you lower the limit so that you start in your 50's, what does that do? >> it is complicated. and it's also mysterious. no one has seen any proposal. there is no written proposal that any american can go to any web site or press release to say this is what we are talking about. we have a group of 10 or 11 senators who said, yeah, we have got it all worked out. we have got a tremendous resolution here. the president pipes in and goes yeah, this is really good. i don't know what it is. because no one has said what it is. what the mayo clinic says the mayo clinic that the president and others in the democratic party have looked to for leadership and an example of health stewardship in america, they have said that this will push the best providers and hospitals closer to the brink of financial ruin. so what we intend to do, under this proposal, is for americans 55 to 64, to have the capacity to become medicare recipients. medicare is paid for by employee and employer tax contributions. we already know that the employee tax contribution for some is going to go up under this health proposal. and so what we're seeing, in my opinion, is the boldest, the boldest step yet, more bold than a public option to go to a single payer, universal healthcare system like you have in the united kingdom. like you have in taiwan. like you have in canada. like you have in some other countries around the world. steve: ok. so congressman here in the new york city area anthony weiner, he said of this, where you would actually expand medicare to include people 55 and up. he said medicare is an unvarnished complete victory for people like me. it is the mother of all public options you look at ted kennedy back in 2005. he said that doing this, essentially, would be the first step toward medicare -- >> congressman weiner who is a very bright guy and he understands politics. he has said that this is on the way to the single payer system. steve: for everybody. >> for everybody. so now what we are talking about is people from americans from 55 on up, on medicare. now, medicare is a social insurance that's paid for by tax dollars. what we are saying now to three or four other million americans, you can be in it but your daughter can't be in it. your wife can't be in it. we don't know what exactly it is. we do know though that the ama has flip flopped. they were for the health care plan. they are against this medicare expansion. the hospitals they were kind of for the health care reform. they are against this. because they think they are going to go bankrupt on it. in some portions of the country, try and find a doctor that's going to take medicare in some portions of the country, really try and find a doctor who wants to take medicaid you need to go to hospital settings and the hospital settings are suffering. the point is they say begin 2011 let people 55 to 64 accept medicare. some moderates in the democratic party are rallying against it although nancy pelosi came out strong for it yesterday. no real proposal, no real numbers. won't know until next week. but we do know that this is the savior of the health reform and we have got to have it even though we don't know what it is. steve: great. peter johnson jr.,. >> happy hun call. steve: thank you very much. thanks, pete. >> straight ahead he fought in three wars. won the medal of honor but this decorated veteran fought his toughest enemy perhaps his homeowner's association. they wouldn't let him keep his flag pole. we are going to talk to his friend and neighbor who helped him win the fight. but, first, on this date back in 2000. the bush presidential campaign argued before the u.s. supreme court that the florida election recounts should be stopped. bush won. and in 1985 mr. mr. had the number one song in america broken wings. ♪ . . remember that one gift? 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(laughter) steve: the answer to the question of the day, tom hayden. brian: in murmuring colonel talk -- a marine colonel fallen in three wars and won the medal of honor. all he wanted to do was lie his american flag at his home but the homeowners association demanded that he removed it because it violated the rules. steve: things to his supporters, he has won the fight to keep his flagpole. with me now is the neighbor, the colonel. good morning to you. -- the neighbor of the colonel. we understand the homeowners' association can do what they want to. i know he originally asked to put in his 25-foot pole and originally he was denied, but he put it up anyway. what do the communities think? >> most people really did not care. we live in a cul-de-sac away from the main drag. i can look out my kitchen window in the morning and i see his fine on one time, nine on the other. nine is attached to the house. the bride was already there when i moved in. brian: why was it important for you to fight for him? >> well, i come from a military family, you might say. i have a grandson who is stationed in germany. my late husband was in the navy. my uncle was a rear admiral. we just had a legacy of military service and patriotism. steve: was there someone in the home owners' association board that did not like the idea of going against the rules, the fact that there was a big american flag on it? >> our board of directors are all volunteers, elected by the home owners. i think they feel it is a tremendous for small stability. they do a very good job with me then, taking care of the property. and their defense, they thought they were making a good the fifth -- decision. they are charged with keeping the covenant. my husband and i have talked to them to ask them to amend the covenant to allow the colonel to retain his flagpole. he is 90 years old. probably -- not certain -- but most of us are going to outlive hiim. -- him. brian: thank you. >> but he did not win. you do not understand. in was just tabled until june. steve: well, he gets to keep it for now. thank you for straitening that out. brian, we will be calling you in june. -- brian: we will be calling you in june. sarah palin just finished her new book and there are some recent comments. steve, a man punches a woman in the face. this is part of a reality tv show. should this be on tv? brian: and we want you to vote for the best rock show in the past year and 02 foxnews.com -- in the past year. go to foxnews.com [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gretchen: don't you love it when you get to friday in you can say tgif? good morning, everyone. sarah palin commenting on president obama's speech. and is she getting ready to get back into politics? steve: 50 hunters go missing in a powerful snowstorm. finally, they have all been accounted for, but what happened, and how are they? brian: billy ray cyrus is here. we have lots to talk to him about. a new movie, holiday plans, and miley, changing her tune, literally. meanwhile, our slogan comes from allie. when you wake up, turn on the tellie. fox and friends is the best friend to keep. gretchen: he is a pro. this is a fox news alert. intel is what the way i in turn in arizona and he could be dead after try to help a friend. four were playing along the canal when the seven-year old dough in to help. >> by the grace of god, i hope he is hanging on to the side, her. he has not been found but we are hoping he will be okay. gretchen: crews will begin searching again today and they say expected to be a recovery effort. pakistani officials say that the five americans they arrested this week were apparently turned away from al qaeda training. they were resting in his home. -- arrested in this home. >> [inaudible] gretchen: they say that they wanted to fight with al qaeda in afghanistan. pay czar kenneth feinberg will be making an announcement today cutting compensation for bank executives. in the meantime, goldman sachs had decided to give it their bank executives their bonus and stock, not cash this year. and tonight is the first night of hanukkah. the word hanukkah itself means rededication. traditionally, people like the menorah and exchange gifts and the holiday season. steve: share to department and in arizona says that the hunters -- the sheriff's department in arizona say that the hunters that were stranded just to have all been down in. with me now is a spokesperson. good morning, gerry. we saw the headline this morning that 50 hunters were stranded. what happened? >> and during the week, we had a big elk hunt here. then we got hit with a snowstorm on tuesday that left as much as 3 feet on the dirt roads and 5- ft snow drifts. we had a number of people stranded. steve: they were not together. neighbor all over. >> that is right. at one point, we had over 22 after reagaacted rescues under . steve: this has all to do with all season. i understand in the future this will not be a problem? >> there is a deer hunt coming up this weekend but there will not be the same number of people. we could also be getting another storm this weekend, but it is not expected to be as severe. steve, thank you for joining us. brian: in the meantime, geraldo rivera made his way over. it is amazing that you have not done something because you have done everything. >> i shot a squirrel when i was a teenager and a traumatized me. brian, do you have any pictures? steve: he turned it into a special. brian: sarah palin's just released a new book and her approval ratings have been going up. she does not rule out running for president. >> you cannot overstate her popularity. i think she showed herself to be a good sport, some with some debt, someone who has passionately-held views, very charismatic in her public encounters, and most importantly, she has bolted past mike huckabee to be the leading candidate among republicans for 2012. i think she is a budget, if she chooses to run. a palin-huckabee ticket could be interesting. she has put away all of the negative vibe with her. gretchen: i do not know about that. there are still a lot of women who have a visceral reaction when they hear her name. she also said that she loved obama's speech yesterday. >> first of all, i thought his speech was brilliant. it could have been given by a republican than it was given by this man, our first african- american president. in every regard, i thought it was eloquent, noble, and perfectly delivered. i think her praise is well- merited. in terms of 2010, republicans, a lot depends on the economy. if on and on it goes down to 5% time, the stock market -- unemployment goes down to 5%, the stock market share to back up, the democrats could do well. also, latinos are a very conservative group and in most part, they voted against gay marriage. steve, the president is going to copenhagen. -- steve, the president is going to copenhagen. he is -- steve: the president is going to copenhagen. he is racking up the sky miles. with all of this climate change data, what are we to believe? >> the issue is not the substance. the issue is, this is a devastating blow to the movement to recognize climate change because it gives the skeptics substance to hang their hat on. i was at dinner last night with a friend of mine who does biofuel diesel, and a feeling this is a severe blow to the green industry because cap and trade is in question. what the president says in copenhagen will be much more moderate than what he would have said. i think this is a body blow to the movement. i think it slows it way down. i do not to cap and trade coming down the session. this will really have a profound effect. that is not to say that global warming is not real, it is logical that there is global warming with pollution, and everything else, but this money is the water. -- muddies the water. gretchen: there is a reality show in new jersey. >> it is a pejorative look at the italian youngsters. you never hear any mention of samuel alito, antonin scalia, our own people. you have growing up gotti, this show -- it is the lowest brow four young italians. brian: that is my people. i am half italian. gretchen: apparently a teacher from new york city was in the show in he punches a woman in the bar. take a look at this. >> he deserves to be taken outside by every guy in the bar. steve: his father says that they gave him too much liquor and he punches the girl in the face. that is a felony assault. >> $500,000? get out of here. steve: people will do anything these days to be on tv. >> specifically with italian americans, i think the fact that they can still be portrayed in this to the -- dormitory way on a regular basis -- shame on mtv. it is a ratings ploy. unbelievable. gretchen: coming up, is the public option out? senders claire mccaskill and john thune will be here for a debate. steve: and you can be a little late for work today. he will talk about how he cannot kenny rogers, and we will be talking about his daughter. as i get older, i'm making changes to support my metabolism. i'm more active, i eat right, and i switched to new one a day women's active metabolism. a complete women's multivitamin plus more for metabolism support. and that's a change i feel good about. new from one a day. gretchen: pena fox news poll showing 57% of americans would rather congress do nothing about health care reform but the senate has come up with a compromise, but in a bipartisan? joining us now is claire mccaskill and john thune. great to have both of you here this morning. there is talk over the last few days that this group of 10 democrats had come up with a new plan that they thought for sure would pass. the public option would technically be out and there would be a medicare expansion. you are a moderate democrat. are you in favor of this plan? >> i have to see the numbers. this bill has to say no. government some money. it has to stabilize health care costs were americans. those are the two things that this bill has to do. we are waiting to see the numbers to come back -- the number that will come back from the cbo. gretchen: and earn less of what that number is, you will -- regardless of what that number is, you will not like it, right, mr. thune? >> correct. this latest suggestion of expanding medicare might be one of the person just and yet. medicare is destined to be bankrupt. you are going to be cutting it by $1 trillion over 10 years and then you aren't going to put more people into a program that is destined to be bankrupt? we are like everyone else on the republican side, waiting to see how much this will cost. not all the details are being shared with us. hopefully, we will be able to see what the latest iteration of the proposal is. gretchen: on its face, it does the curious. to cut medicare and then add more people to get, how would that work? >> first of all, the people that would be in there where that money to it, and it would also be a healthier group of people because we are bringing more healthy people into the pool. in the long run, this could help medicare. by the way, this is what this is about, paying for a program. a few years ago the republicans passed an expensive entitlement program and put the whole thing on a credit card. we are taking away profits from insurance companies, of course. they are getting too much money in the medicare advantage program right now. gretchen: i want you both to stick around. we are going to get your thoughts as well on the troop surge in afghanistan. in is going to cost billions. is there a way to pay for it without increasing the debt? gretchen: we are back with claire mccaskill and john dewey. -- john tune. i promised you in response to our question. >> if you want to see government running health care, there is a reason that hospitals and doctors' groups have come up against this. it will limit access to care for many americans. we even have the chair of the senate budget committee kent conrad saying this would close a lot of hospitals in north dakota. you would have more and more people in government-run health care which means hospitals and physicians would be an underpaid or health care. that means the cost would be pushed on to us. it is a train wreck waiting to happen. it is one of their worst ideas they have come up with so far, but that is also a pretty low standard. the only thing that we have seen so far are massive government expansions. gretchen: i do want to talk about another cost topic, afghanistan. how do we pay for that war without putting it on, and grandchildren, and their grandchildren? what do you think about the idea of a war tax? >> i do not think that is a good idea. there are things that we can do going forward, that we did not do in iraq, that we can do better in afghanistan. hundreds of billions of dollars were wasted in the contract process. ultimately, this is the best thing we can do for our security, and i'm confident congress will support it. gretchen: i want to talk about the t.a.r.p. fund. there is word that the president of the accused those leftover funds for his jobs program >. >> t.a.r.p. was meant to stabilize the financial collapse. that time has passed. it is time to end the program. i have a bill that would do that. we are afraid that this would become a political slush fund. they consider this found money. a lot of our democratic colleagues have ideas on how to spend the money but we think in need to go back to the taxpayer by paying down the federal debt. that is what we ought to be doing with any t.a.r.p. money that gets paid back. gretchen: have a fabulous weekend. thank you for joining us. steve, coming up, and good news, you are bailout money is being paid back. the bad news is we are not going to see any of it. brian: and he fought for this country only to return home to find that he lost everything except $30. steve: billy ray cyrus is here to talk about his new movie. @3 still tired of morning coming in the middle of the night? 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critics say that this is becoming a slush fund that. >> you have $2 billion that was either not spend or spent and paid back in it is burning a hole in the democrat's pockets. it is a good political argument. there are a couple point here. if the democrats do not get unemployment down, they are coast in november 2012 anyway. the have to do something about that. by taking this money that was meant for wall street and using in on main street is a good political argument, but you can understand republicans on the other side saying we have this massive debt. now we are going to increase the debt ceiling? the fact is, they want to take this money and actually pay down the debt. brian: for the first time in my life, american people seem to be concerned about the deficit and spending. don't you think there is a bit of tone deafness to all this spending? >> i am not saying this is all politics but if i was a democrat, -- people have complained about deficits as long as i can remember. in the 1980's, the democrats used to complain about one on reagan -- ronald reagan's unemployment. if i am a democrat and i am facing 10% unemployment in 2010, that is job won. gretchen: we have this news of climategate and all said the president is going to cope in to talk about climate change. does bill whole tone -- the whole tone change due to this? >> you can say that it might, but it will not. he will call for major reductions in emissions, 17% by 2020. he will support the idea of the u.s. and other developed country giving as much as $10 billion in year -- a year to the developing world. they are full speed ahead on climate change. we are going to have our copenhagen conference here with james inhofe who has been leading the fight against cap and trade. we will also be speaking to one of the authors of the climate change legislation. if i was to go for the cheap segment, like brian wood, i would say that it is going to be -- would, i would say that is going to be hot. brian: thank you so much for your intellect, your professionalism. >> brian, has jon stewart ever done a story about you? maybe you are brighter than you pretend to be on the show? gretchen: that is funny because i think that is someone else they were talking about. it was reverse psychology with you, to get you back on his team. >> i came on the show determined that if he did not start with me, i would not start with him. it was insincere, and i knew it from the start. steve: that is what we do every friday. check your local listings for showtime. brian: gretchen and briasteve, e are some of your hand lines. the presidensecretary gates sees thhe expects the international community to pass additional sanctions against iran gretchen. gretchen: officials say that lab technician was bouncing from his home this morning. john dinello worked in the same building where annie le was found murdered and stuffed behind a wall. officials say that the two cases are not related. >> kurt knox is preparing his daughter's appeal after she was sentenced to 26 years behind bars. he is outraged that a lack of evidence and says that his daughter is a good person. >> she is in jail for something she did not do and she is worried about us and a family, versus terror, has herself. to me, that is a pretty good kid. steve: the appeal will not begin until september or october. brian: a soldier comes home and finds someone who had been keeping his storage option of his stuff. is bank recently froze the account and the facility stop receiving payments. the facility sold his stuff for $35. >> 22 years of military service, gone in of vanish. what can you do about that? >> they said that he signed an agreement to update them of an address change or telephone number. gretchen: experts say there will be in influx of abandoned dogs this spring as many people give them for christmas present who should not be having them. shelters have gotten so jammed they have started shipping the dogs outside of the state. steve: take a look at what is going on. a bit of activity along the east coast -- gulf coast. if you are in california, you have some rain all the way from northern california through southern california. here is a look at the tcurrent temperatures. eight degrees in chicago. here is what the day looks like. the net and it will warm up into the 40's. across the northern plains, very chilly. in buffalo, very chilly with a high near 20. heavy snow in new york made for atrazine evening to me last night. it was a slow ride home. and in west virginia, high winds knocked down trees and left residents without power. when it is cold and you do not have power, that is trouble. brian: billy ray cyrus is coming on the show. he has a brand new movie. he always looks cool, and yes, he is miley's dad. gretchen: and why a cow makes a great christmas present. allison, this weekend, this has been a crisp -- alisyn: this weekend, this has been a christmas tradition for two decades, but now it is being banned. clayton: and the food that your kids get at school could be worse than fast food. an investigation no parent can afford to miss. rick: and recession-proof gadgets for new families. that is all coming up this weekend. and finished all our vegetables for. bass pro shops has great deals on great gifts, like redhead long sleeved chamois shirts for only $19.94. and the wildgame innovations scouting camera for only $79.94. gretchen: you know him as a country singing superstar and the father of hannah montana, but now he is making a movie. steve: he plays a with a were in the 1960's in texas and things in interesting approach to disciplining his son after he gets into a fight with a black boy. >> what we were to punish them by instead of keeping them apart, putting them together? make them live together? half year, half at the other home. steve: billy ray is with us now. what is the connection between kenny rogers? >> he wrote the book along with danny davenport. hallmark step up and decided to make it into a film. what excited me once i had never seen a christmas story that was based around civil rights. i just fell in love with the story. gretchen: in the beginning, you were not going to do the part, but then called back in bed for it. >> in got turned down before it even got to me. long story short, i just felt like my intuition was saying, i just need to read the script. page by page, i fell in love with the story of bringing people together. in my background, it has always been we are created equal. my characters philosophy of instead of separating them and explain their difference is, let's bring them together. brian: so they live together for one week who maybe show some racist tendencies -- they get together and they end up respecting each other? >> early on they are still fighting each other and then they hear a gunshot and then they find this puppy dog that has been shot in the woods. it becomes a common bond of their friendship. it is a bit like "brian's song." gretchen: right after that airs you are going to iraq. you do a lot for the troops. >> i love and respect them. yes, we are spreading some christmas cheer, spreading some love to them, singing some christmas carols. what ever they want to do, i am there for their party and pleasure. steve: so you go to the stage and you say, what do you want to hear? general mills? ok. >> i am public going to start with a song called "where am i going to live at home?" then i will go into "it could have been me." then i will go from there, start talking, maybe somebody will want to tell a joke. we will do some christmas carols. early on, when it went into baghdad, the day and up a banner. i look forward to being in that spot and singing their song. brian: you are going to be celebrating with your family in london? >> if all things work together, i will be able to arrive in london on christmas eve. brian: your daughter says she wants to change this genre of her music? steve: maybe do something more and you? >> -- edgy? >> whatever she wants to do now. i know that my sound of music is changing. that is part of growing as an artist you do not ever want to stay in the same place. gretchen: just another report that you have not heard yet. >> as far as the music, i know what she is doing. i new "party in the usa" was going to be a hit. steve, that is my daughter's ring to own. congratulations. check out the movie on the hallmark channel. brian: and this by next door. -- "the spy next door" is also coming up in the summer. gretchen: and we are not kidding, why a california makes a great christmas gift. brian: martha maccallum was up watching our show this morning. martha: sometimes i like to send them some corrections. we are going to talk to karl rove. we are getting word that the white house could be putting more sanctions on iran much sooner than anyone thought. we will talk about that, health care. also, gen hensarling has dropped out of the t.a.r.p. program he was a part of. why? steve: so many people these days say what am i going to get someone for christmas? they have just about everything. we have an idea that you may have not bottomed out. we have someone from heffer.org. tell us about your organization? . >> you can give a farm animal to a family. when you give a hungry family like a cow, they will have milk to give to their family to drink, but also they can sell the surplus milk, so they have been in come. steve: each have four is $500. you can buy a flock of chickens, i think it starts at $25. >> yes, and that can make a big difference for a family. that donation gets more than just the animal but also extensive training to the family on how to take care of the animal. steve: where do the animals come from? let's say and a village in africa will be getting a heffer. where does it come from? >> it will the appropriate, from nearby. they will be doing this in a way that is right, ecologically correct. steve: for instance, with the california, you can have the milk, in some cases, and they use it for plow? >> a water buffalo in southeast asia can keep a family very healthy, they are like a tractor. steve, do we have a permit for this cow in midtown? >> every family who receives a gift agree to pass on their gift. if they give birth, they will give it to someone else as well as give them training. you can honor someone by buying an animal for a hungry family, in their name. steve: my wife has been giving me one of these for christmas for the past 10 years. >> a pleasure to be here. steve: we will be right back ♪ brian: you are listening to a bit of a foreigner. we want you to vote for your favorite rock bands who appeared on our shows. here are the nominations. foxandfriends.com. gretchen: neighbor all fantastic but one of them had to be a winner. brian: coming up on that radio show, we are going to sit there with her brother rivera for 40 minu