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"fox & friends" for this thursday starts right now. >> as it turns out, lumberjack is on a list of the worst jobs, tv hosts got to be high. >> you know who loves being a lumberjack? the beaver can chop down a tree according to the cartoons with his teeth. >> what about paul bunion? from minnesota, a huge statue of paul bunyon next to the blue ox. >> apparently he was miserable. that's a job that people don't like. >> that might have been a better job back in his day. we'll tell you about the top 10 worst jobs that you don't want to be looking for if you're unemployed. let's get to the headlines. major turn of events in the trayvon martin case. neighborhood watchman george zimmerman set to make his first court appearance today after officially being charged with second-degree murder. zimmerman arrived to the county jail in sanford, florida, late last night hours after turning himself in. his new attorney, mark o'meara met with him at the jail and said zimmerman will plead not guilty. >> he's concerned about getting a fair trial and fair presentation. there's been a lot of information flowing. i think a lot of it has been premature and maybe inappropriate. i don't think a case like this should be tried here and it's not going to be. >> so that lawyer also saying he gathered some new information after meeting with zimmerman and he will likely present that today in court. second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars and unlike a manslaughter charge, it will require prosecutors to prove zimmerman killed martin intentionally and not in self-defense as he claims. criminal trial for former presidential candidate out today. once picked, it will determine if edwards violated campaign finance rules by using campaign money to hide his relationship with rielle hunter. edwards denies knowing about any of those payments. two earthquakes hitting on the border of california. rocking the baja coast. people as far north as tucson, arizona felt that quake. minutes before that, a 6.2 magnitude quake hitting nearby in mexico. no reports of injuries and damage and no tsunami warnings have been issued at this time. just yesterday, a magnitude 6.5 quake hit the southwestern part of that country. bruce springsteen may be one of new jersey's favorite sons but even the state's other boss reportedly couldn't keep it together for his entire concert at madison square garden. concert goers swear they saw governor chris christie jamming it out in the stands before then dozing off for a brief nap. cut him some slack, he's exhausted from turning around the state. and voters agree, a new poll shows governor christie is more popular than ever with 58% approval rating. >> he's the boss. >> it's interesting. i think he's been to over 100 bruce springsteen concerts. >> let's talk about this once again. the president of the united states was making his pitch that we should pass the buffet rule, the rule where millionaires who pay at least 30% on their capital gains. so what did he do? he brought up a very popular republican, brian, to try to sell it. >> yeah, he did. his name was ronald reagan and he took an excerpt from a speech. let's hear what president obama did yesterday to try to get ahead of monday's vote on whether the buffet bill would actually be passed. listen. >> several years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. this president gave another speech where he said it was crazy. that's a quote. but certain tax loopholes make it possible for multimillionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary. that wild eyed socialist tax hiking class warrior was ronald reagan. if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffet rule. >> interesting thing is that all the chips will go down on monday. that's when congress will vote on this buffet rule. it's not going to pass in congress. what will the president be saying next week? let's blame it on congress again. that's going to be interesting turn of events. now, let's get back to the actual details of whether or not ronald reagan actually said that. did he actually say that? or was he talking about something else? listen to this from think progress, they released excerpts from reagan's speech from june 6th in 1985. >> we're going to close the unproductive tax loophole that allows some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share and bury some of those loopholes in practice somehow made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary and that's crazy. do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver or less? >> well, see, that's a very convenient little excerpt. but think progress which is a leftie organization, they took the president -- former president completely out of context. what reagan was trying to do at that point was he was pushing not just, you know, adding one little layer of government like the buffet rule would for millionaires, he was talking about broad tax relief. he was talking about lowering taxes, flattening them out. >> tax reform. >> absolutely. and eventually he wound up getting it. >> you know how he did it? he went to the treasury and said come up with a plan and went to democrats and said come up with a plan and they hatcheted together a plan that ended up working. did he say it? yes, would we like to see -- i think president obama's staff has got to say listen, let's not focus on the buffet rule like carol ford brought up the other day, a democrat, he said why not do tax reform? >> because that's too dismantling and actually tough. i've made this argument for the last couple of weeks. >> i don't think so. >> no one else is doing it. it's tough in the sense -- >> paul ryan proposed it. >> people want tax reform. >> they do! what i'm saying is congress is afraid to take it on. politicians are afraid to take it on because like talking about entitlements, people think you should do something about it but nobody does because it actually might lose some votes along the way. that's what i mean by not taking it on. as far as simplistic, this might work for president obama, this argument because it's a populist message and not only is it populist but to talk about ronald reagan in the same message, come on! >> a democratic group called the third wave did a study and they asked independents, what do you think about this fairness on tax? 15% say tax equality matters. 80% say they prefer their candidate to focus on job creation. >> it is clearly another brick in the wall as the president tries to build up the class warfare argument that he's going to make through election day. you want to know what reagan really meant regarding tax reform? here he is a little later back in 1985. this is what ronald reagan wanted. lower, flatter tax rates will give americans more confidence in the future. it will mean if you work overtime or get a raise or promotion or if you have a small business, and are able to turn a profit, more of that extra income will end up where it belongs, in your wallet, not in uncle sam's pocket. when he was done reforming taxes, ronald reagan with, of course, the help of congress, they reduced the number of brackets from 14 to 2. his top tax bracket is 28. this president would like people on the upper end to be closer to 40. >> people actually worked together back then. fox news alert right now as you might have known from watching "fox & friends" first, north korea defying to launch a rocket. >> the former asian affairs director for the national security council and author of "the impossible state." good morning to you, victor. >> good morning. >> why do they need their own weather satellite? can't they just look at the weather channel? >> you know, i think it's a good question. i think what people forget is they say they're launching a weather satellite but they don't have a space program. they don't have a civilian space program. so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. they're trying to launch a ballistic missile. >> why now? >> it's in part to solidify the position of this new young and untested leader. this 28-year-old who took over after his father died last december. and they have a big celebration this month which is the equivalent of new year's and christmas and july 4th wrapped into one. >> why should we be worried about this? they're going to send a rocket straight up to the sky. why should the american watching right now be keshd -- concerned? >> the thing that concerns me, if they lift the satellite into orbit, that means they have the ballistic missile technology to produce a weapon that can reach american soil so it's for a military application and this is what the soviets and the chinese did decades ago when they first started a rocket program. it had an immediate military implication once they can lift it into orbit. >> you're talking about parts of alaska or the hawaiian islands, right? >> or possibly the western coast of the united states, that's right. >> what about the threat to south korea? is there any sort of a threat by launching this missile for that country? >> i mean, there's an immediate threat if the missile -- if they make a mistake, if it blows up and pieces of it all on the flight path. and they're good at that, right. the broader concern is, of course, is, of course, the artillery they have pointed at seoul. >> according to "the new york times" today, it seems as though the american policy will be to down play this and not play -- pull out all the stops to get russia and china to put the pressure on north korea. we don't want to play that card yet. what do you think? >> i think that if they are successful in launching the satellite, it is a new strategic reality for the united states. it will be the first country besides russia and china that can reach the u.s. with icbm's and it looks like they're preparing for a third nuclear test. so that is a very serious situation and i don't think patience is really the right answer. >> well, we'll find out what they actually do. thank you very much for joining us early on this thursday morning live from washington. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> you bet. >> coming up on "fox & friends", talk about a get out of jail free card. this guy using his welfare card for bail? 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[ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ >> many americans getting a taste of pricey gasoline especially in major cities like honolulu, hawaii where prices on average are $4.47. santa barbara, california, $4.63 a gallon. now they are saying shock at the pump could get a whole lot worse. what are three things that president obama can do right now to lower gas prices? jack gerard is the c.e.o. of american petroleum institute. you would think he knows. welcome. what should he do first? >> first, the president has to send a positive signal to the marketplace and suggest help is on the way by approving other operations to produce here in the united states. second, what he can do is immediately approve the keystone xl pipeline and the last thing he should do is quit talking about increasing taxes on energy companies. that tells the marketplace the president's desire is to increase costs, not to decrease costs. >> so a lot it was is symbolism and shows intention. how does that matter in your business? >> well, our business is much like the market. it's built on expectation. if we expect that the president of the united states is going to increase our costs of producing oil here in the united states, we're likely to move those investment dollars elsewhere in the world. we need a clear signal, a long-term signal that we're going to be allowed to produce the oil and natural gas the country needs and that will put downward pressure on prices. >> let's talk about deep water drilling. we hear it's up. it's back up to where it was before the b.p. disaster. what is the truth? where should it be heading? >> well, the truth is we're nowhere near where it was pre the unfortunate disaster in the gulf following the b.p. spill. what they're talking about now is they're saying gee, we have more rigs coming back to the gulf. many of those rigs are waiting on permits by the administration to allow them back into the gulf. the better way to measure it, rather than say, well, if we have the same, don't we have the same, let's look at production. based on where production was supposed to be today, we're down 30% over where it was expected to be at this time just a few years ago. that's the way to measure our success, what are we doing to bring supply to the marketplace to truly put downward pressure on the price. >> jack, listen to the president of the united states talking in january of this year. >> over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration and tonight, i'm directing my administration to open more than 75% of our potential oil and gas resources. >> so did he? will he? >> not at all. in fact, brian, it's unfortunate. that statement is very misleading. what the president has allowed us to do is look in only 15% of the off shore of the united states and what that statement really meant was i'm going to give you access to 75% of what we already know exists in 15% of where there's ability to produce oil and gas. >> jack, i don't know -- >> very misleading. >> that's true. jack, i want you to take a look at the monitor if you have one there. here's a map of where president bush was drilling and here's a map of where president obama is drilling. bush is on my screen left. and president obama my screen right. so a bit of a difference there. >> very significant difference. in fact, it was interesting in the middle of 2008, at the last year of the bush administration the price of gasoline began to rise, president bush announced lifting the moratorium, all those red areas that you saw in the map there dealing with president obama, that announcement over the course of three days, the price of crude sale dropped $15. that's what we need, a signal to the marketplace, help is on the way. we're serious about producing u.s. resource for the benefit of all americans. >> and the red is the closed part. jack gerard, everyone is talking about your business. great to have an expert on it and thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you, brian. >> next on the rundown, one congressman can't pay back his bank loans. guess who might bail him out. you the taxpayer. how is that possible? 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stuart varney here is details. this guy apparently has a history of not repaying loans. >> this is a politician who wants a bailout for himself. that's kind of new. he wants a bailout for a business that he bought with taxpayer support. he wants a bailout for a car wash that he bought back in missouri in the year 2002. he didn't have a good history of running that car wash. and he didn't make the payments on the loan to bank of america which was backed up by the taxpayer. eventually, march of this year, bank of america says we want the money back. you haven't been paying. we want it back. about $1 1/2 million, we want it back plus penalty and interest. mr. cleaver can't pay. they sued him for the money. now, if he can't pay, he can't come up with the money, we, the taxpayer are on the hook. >> why? >> because the small business administration backed up the original loan to buy the car wash. we went in, the taxpayer, went into this loan to support the loan in the first place. >> loan guarantee? >> yeah, like solyndra got. >> somewhat similar but only smaller. when it goes belly up, we are on the look hook for over a million dollars. >> how many of these are existing around the country? how many loans did we give that people cannot pay off and the taxpayers have to? >> that, i don't know. the small business administration regularly makes loans to small businesses and tries to get the money back. not a direct loan. this is a loan guarantee. when the business goes belly up, you have a problem for the taxpayer. >> you probably figure the small business administration thinks ok, we'll land a member of congress. >> he wasn't a member of congress. >> a future -- wasn't he in the law business at that point? >> the loan was made in the year of 2002 mr. cleaver was elected to congress in 2004. it's not a matter of a conflict of interest. >> why don't they simply garnish their wages with congress? >> they would. that's what they would do for us. >> would the small business administration then garner his wages from congress because he owes via the bank of america the taxpayer? >> how embarrassing. >> it would take a long time to pay off a million plus on the member of congress' salary. >> would you like us to try? >> exit question. how do you become -- how are you -- how do you apply for these small business loans? like if i go and apply for it, do i get it? what are the qualifications? do you know? >> i don't know. i do know you'll have to fill out a stack of forms yea high and there are some preferences given to who gets the loan and who does not. the interesting question is how much money did mr. cleaver have in that car wash of his own? did he have any skin in the game? >> sure. >> i don't know that. interesting speculation. >> absolutely. all right, thanks for bringing that to our attention. >> ok. >> stuart does this every day at 9:20 eastern time over on fox business. in fact, he's got to run there right now. >> i do indeed. see you later. >> thank you very much. we don't know how to tell you this but there's more from outrageous g.s.a. group wasting taxpayer money. how do you call making music videos at work and partying it up in vegas. how about a 10-day trip to hawaii? 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the low price tire guarantee. wait for it, there goes another one. get a $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. look at that. it's happening right there every five seconds. your not going to run out are you? no. >> i read that harvard law school will soon offer a class called "understanding obama." while barnum and bailey clown college will offer a class called understanding biden. and it's just -- >> but seriously, folks. here's something interesting. at portland state university, they are now for you parents out there who are paying thousands of dollars for your kids to go to college, how would you like one of your children to call you up and say mom, dad, guess what i'm studying at portland state, revolutionary marxism where i learn all about marxism and i apply it to daily life? >> some of the things here on the syllabus there, the fundamentals of marxist theory. to apply marxist analysis to current events, to apply marxist theory to local political and community organizing. >> we also go on to say they examine the onset of the arab spring. i assume they support it. revolts in european capitals and they equate it all to the occupy movement in the u.s. >> and in fact, we understand, apparently, if you want to be in this class, you've got to be involved in a local organization like occupy portland or the mayday celebrations or what not. interestingly enough, although not surprising, the instructors are both admitted socialists so if you want your kid to know more about marxism, they're the ones to learn the stuff from. >> all right. let's do some other headlines for your thursday. the fight for religious freedom. speaking of another college going through something like this, vanderbilt university is getting even more heated today. one of the largest religious groups on campus, vanderbilt catholic being forced to change its name. the order put in place following the group's decision to leave campus after the university decided to enforce this all comers policy. what does that mean? it means all groups including religious ones must be open to all students so even atheists like an atheist could run the christian organization on campus. a university spokesperson saying those student groups who choose not to comply with the university's nondiscrimination policy do forfeit the privileges associated with registered student association status and that includes the use of the vanderbilt name. >> all right. a government plan to help home owners fight foreclosure was severely flawed. a new report from the inspector general finds the treasury department rushed out the revamped plan in 2010 which limited its ability to help people who are out of work at the time or those who owed more on their homes than they were worth. the hardest hit was part of the controversial $700 billion financial bailout, we know it as tarp. >> extreme weather alert. tornado touching down in northern california. take a look at that funnel cloud, the national service confirming it hit outside of stockton, california. the twister destroying a lot of thin in its path including barns, roofs, power lines in the area. thankfully, no injuries reported. >> call him a spared rib? a cow that tried to escape from a jersey slaughterhouse getting the last minute pardon? we first told you mike the steer yesterday running wild until police finally tranquilized him. it turns out the owner of the slaughterhouse took mercy on him. mike now going to live in an animal sanctuary in upstate new york. ok. >> good luck. >> mike, you have no idea how lucky you are. >> almost as lucky as the husky that escaped neutering earlier this week. >> temporarily. >> well, we're not sure whether or not the knife is coming to jack. >> we have a newtutering correspondent. >> bad news for the procreation hopes. >> he'll be less hyper. >> i guess. he'll slow anyone down. >> i was trying to think of the right word to describe that. something else that's getting ridiculous, new details about the g.s.a.'s spending so outrageous, it sounds that it could be made up but apparently it's all real. >> and "the daily" uncovered exclusive details of the travel expenses of the senior official at the center of the scandal, jeff nealy. >> turns out he was enjoying 10-day trips to hawaii on our dime. the white house and congressional correspondent for "the daily" miles miller joins us from washington, d.c. good morning to you, miles. >> good morning, guys, how are you? >> doing ok although it sounds like the job to have in government, jeff nealy. tell us about this character. >> well, he is the number two guy over at the g.s.a. in the pacific rim region. his job is to go inspect government buildings in the pacific rim which includes california, nevada, some of the pacific islands and, of course, hawaii where he spent 10 days. in all fairness, his job is to inspect these buildings and he went for a ribbon cutting ceremony to do the ribbon cutting for this f.b.i. building just last year. he stayed for 10 days. our records also show -- >> in hawaii? >> yeah, hawaii. and, you know, this is -- this is sort of the case and this is where the investigation has led now. he's taken 131 trips from march of 2007 through september 2010 and it costs taxpayers a total of $108,980. so that's a big price tag. >> yeah. >> it's my understanding on one of these trips, miles, that -- of that 10-day trip, he did one event for work. he went to a ribbon-cutting ceremony, right? >> right. and according to transcripts received from a congressional committee that's actually investigating this, it showed that one of his -- one of the employees at g.s.a. said that, you know, it was one of these things where he'd leave on a saturday and come back on a friday and do one ribbon cutting. and, you know, there's only two million square feet of buildings in hawaii that are federal buildings so much remains to be seen about how much he did in terms of inspecting these buildings and in terms of, you know, going there. all he needs to do is meet with the employees, see what's happening and then head home. >> a lot of this is coming out in testimony on capitol hill. this is one embarrassment after another. >> right, the capitol hill testimony will come out next week. what's really shocking is we saw this one trip to napa and it was really interesting because napa is just an hour's drive or hour 3 minutes drive from that building in san francisco where he works at the g.s.a. so that was really shocking as well. >> no kidding. what about the political equation here, miles? this is not good for the obama administration. because this is all happening on the president's dime. >> well, as i told you, this started in 2007 and it lasted until -- >> it's really mushroomed. >> so this is not about the obama administration or the bush administration. this is about -- about a bureaucrat who likes to take trips. and in all fairness, it is his job but this isn't about a specific administration. this is about going on -- >> it is about the oversight. where is the oversight? >> right, the oversight and all of this kind of stuff will come out in those hearings next week. but this is really about -- about, you know, just a spiralling situation going on at the g.s.a. >> it's about a culture of corruption potentially within government-run businesses where nobody was paying that close of attention until now. because we're suddenly talking about the deficit and being out of dough. that is why we are looking at this so closely right now. >> right. and you saw that las vegas conference just back in 2010 and that cost taxpayers $822,000. that was a big thing. and you know, at a time when there is this big push for austerity, it's really something that you see this kind of numbers being spent. >> the good news is i don't think it was a new clown outfit. i think they did get a secondhand one. >> they recycled and they're green. >> possibly. >> miles miller from "the daily" available on your ipad and your device. thanks for joining us live today from our bureau. >> thank you. got to get it. >> we have it. >> coming up on "fox & friends", when you get into trouble, we're talking monica lewinsky trouble, there's only one person to call. washington's top scandal fixer. the inspiration for the new show "scandal" is here live to share her story. i heard it's an incredibly good tv show. >> we hope your lawn company is good. you're spending millions to mow the lawns of vacant properties, too, is that legal? 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[ female announcer ] ready for a taste of what's hot? check out the latest collection of snacks from lean cuisine. creamy spinach artichoke dip, crispy garlic chicken spring rolls. they're this season's must-have accessory. lean cuisine. be culinary chic. >> welcome back. the new primetime show "scandal" highlights the people behind the scenes that helps the most powerful people survive career ending crises when they do bad stuff. >> it's an honor to work for your law firm. >> we're not a law firm. we're lawyers but this is not a law firm. we solve problems. >> manage crises, save reputations. >> right, of course. it's still an honor. >> feed you a line about being a gladiator in a suit? >> he did and i am ready to gladiate or whatever. >> you know how to gladiate a diaper change? >> our next guest is the inspiration for the show and the author of the brand new book "good self, bad self. crisis communications expert judy smith joins us live. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> since we just saw a clip from the new "scandal" show on abc, you worked in the bush white house. >> i did. i did. >> and you had to give the president a call recently because why? >> well, i just wanted to call him to let him know because when the first episode which everybody has seen now, they're seeing one having a kiss with the president. i want to make sure everybody knew there was a difference between carrie washington and judy smith in a presidential relationship. >> that never happened when you were working at the white house. >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> you have had a very long career in washington and elsewhere, bailing people out of trouble like monica lewinsky, michael vick, marion berry, you were involved in helping enron, the sars epidemic and stuff like this. you've written a book about how people can bail themselves out of bad situations. it's not just the high and mighty. it's the ordinary person and a family man as well. >> absolutely. what i try to do in the book really is to take the 25 years of crisis experience that i've been giving to sort of the high profile people and really give everyday people tools to help navigate their life in crises and problems that might come up. >> we were talking a little while ago in the green room about john edwards, he's a guy that dug himself in deeper and now he's looking at a jury trial down there. what was his fatal flaw in this? >> his was a combination of it. it was ambition, good thing. certainly got him to be in a position to run for president. but it was a combination of ambition, fear and denial that i think really led to his downfall. and it's the same issues with the book. you know, the things that can propel us to success can also bring us down. >> when somebody gives you a call. >> yes. >> and you -- until the tv show came out, you know, you're almost invisible on the internet. people would call your company and say, look, judy, i'm in big trouble. generally, before they'd call you, have they already dug themselves in such a hole they are way in over their heads? >> yes, they are! and it's always so difficult. i really wish i would get that call prior to them digging themselves into deep into the hole. but, you know, some of the things that we often tell clients which also work with everyday people is the first thing you have to do is sort of face the music. one, you need to admit that you're in trouble. >> to who? >> to yourself, to yourself, that's the first thing. people are usually in denial about that. i think the second thing you want to do is to tell the truth because it has a funny way of staying around. it never goes away. and it always surfaces as we've seen with all the scandals that we've been involved in. and i think another key thing that people really want to do is really understand what the facts are. you know, when you get into trouble, we sort of have a tendency to let the facts be something we want them to be and not what they really are. yeah. >> that's good advice. what's your number one go to thing that you would suggest to anybody, not per se a get out of jail card but it is the one judy smith secret that never fails you. >> truth. >> tell the truth. >> mom was right! >> that's exactly right. she used to scare you and say you better tell the truth where you've been because i'll know. that's the truth. >> so many times, for instance, people in washington d.c. and the capital is behind you, they tried to squash the truth and they tried to massage the truth. we were talking earlier about anthony weiner, there he goes out there. i didn't do that. he did that. >> that's right. who believed that? that's the whole thing. sometimes people think the american public, they're not smart. but did anybody believe those pictures were not his? maybe his mom? nobody else did. >> that's crazy. it's a great book. check it out. 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we just eat whatever tastes good? like these sweet honey clusters... actually there's a half a day's worth of fiber in every ... why stop at cereal? bring on the pork chops and the hot fudge. fantastic. are you done sweetie? yea [ male announcer ] fiber one. >> good morning, everyone. today is thursday, april 12th. hope you're going to have a fantastic day. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing part of it with us. the obama campaign has been talking about the war on women. now they got one of their own attacking stay-at-home moms as people who have never worked a day in their lives. as one mom to another knows, moms are going to fire back, right? >> i would think so. due process? don't bother, just hours after neighborhood watchman george zimmerman was charged with murder, attorney general eric holder offers al sharpton some praise. >> great. and ladies, listen up don't be so hard on your man next time he bellies up to the bar. new research shows beer makes men smarter. than his sober friends. are you ok? >> i'm sorry. >> "fox & friends" hour two, it's happy hour! starts right now. >> the first part of that study is i'm going to have to start liking beer. >> you don't like beer at all? >> how many years have you known me? >> i know you like one but you don't like beer? i didn't know you had a dislike of beer. >> yeah, i had a one time run-in with beer. that was it. >> really? >> uh-huh. >> mine was with tequila so. >> who hasn't had one of those? >> this is confession now. >> steve, have you had a run-in with anything that kept you away forever? >> let me put it this way, on capitol hill, they've been talking about the buffet rule. i thought they were talking about the jimmy buffet rule which means less than four margaritas probably a good idea. >> that's tequila. we have something in common! >> i'm surprised, gretchen, the story about how beer makes you smarter is not your number one story. but it's coming up. >> we'll get to that eventually. here are the other headlines. the criminal trial for former presidential candidate john edwards getting under way. jury selection begins today and once picked, the jury will determine if edwards violated campaign finance rules by using campaign money to hide his relationship with filmmaker rielle hunter. edwards denies knowing about any of those payments. the son of hollywood legend clark gable answering to police this morning after his girlfriend was found dead in his malibu mansion. 51-year-old john clark gable jr. says his girlfriend told him she wasn't feeling well and then went to sleep. by the time he tried to wake her, gable says she was already dead. right now, police do not suspect foul play. overnight, two powerful earthquakes hitting near the border of california, the biggest a magnitude 6.9 rocking the baja coast. people as far north as tucson, arizona, felt that quake and minutes before that, a 6.2 magnitude quake hitting nearby in mexico. no reports of damages and no tsunami warnings have been issued thus far. yesterday, there was another earthquake in this region. 6.5 magnitude hit the southwestern part of that country, mexico. men, here it is. listen up and women, too, there are a lot of women beer drinkers. beer may actually make you smarter. researchers at the university of illinois have found that guys who drank 2 pints of beer were better at solving brain teasers than men who were sober. >> or have had 25 years. >> guys who had the beers got 40% -- this is scary, guys who had the beers got 40% more right and also solved the problems quicker. i sense that beer will be allowed in every college classroom coming up. researchers say it shows there's more creativity when people are less focused. >> i think that study was done by annheuser busch and they're trying to tip the scales a little bit. >> oh, man. >> you'll be the new spokesperson for it. >> i'm angling. >> bud-wiser! the wiser part. >> you are a genius. >> i'm signing up. speaking of genius -- >> in german, that means smarter, i think. >> is this a genius -- >> you must have had a beer! >> is this a genius thing for a democratic strategist who works for the d.n.c. to do? keep in mine, they've been trying to say that the republicans are waging a war on women, right? that's phony, that's made up. but when you look at what a democratic strategist who works for the d.n.c. by the name of hillary rosen said about stay-at-home moms last night over on cnn, you realize she's clueless. watch. >> what you have is mitt romney running around the country saying well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues. and when i listen to my wife, that's what i'm hearing. guess what? his wife has actually never worked a day in her life! >> ok. game on! >> that set everything on fire. i find it interesting that one of the top -- two of the top two advisors of president obama immediately went to twitter to say how wrong that was but first, ann romney herself went to twitter. here's what she said." i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. believe me, it was hard work. i have to tell you i sat down one time at her home and did an interview with ann and mitt romney a couple of years ago and i specifically remember, she told me all these stories about how difficult it was to raise these five boys. she was young when they were born and one particular story stands out in my mind where she was going to college after she had had her first son and she was sitting in the back row breast-feeding him while she was paying attention to class. so, you know, i think that there was a little bit of work going on in raising five children and anybody who is a parn parent knows that. >> i think that's interesting, too, david axelrod immediately came out and said wait a second, i see a huge advantage of our female vote going out the window. he said that was inappropriate and offensive and jim mussina followed right up. >> speak of the -- speaking of the war on women, take a look at this. according to the annual report of the white house staff, women who work at the white house actually make 18% less than men. the average guy makes $71,000. the average woman makes $60,000 at the white house. then, you know, add to something we were talking about yesterday where the governor, former governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts, mr. romney said and i looked it up, he was citing the department of labor statistics which said that since barack obama has been in office since the day he took office up to the end of march 2012 of the women who have been losing jobs under president obama, 92% of the people who have lost jobs have been women. 92% of people who have lost jobs since that guy took office have been women. >> i think that one full screen graphic we just had up is even more damning if you are going to do this war on women as one of your main talking points. that one right there. because how do you defend that? if you're president obama going around the country saying the republicans have a war on women, how do you defend this disparity in the wages that you're paying right at the white house? i think that that -- well, if the republicans want to have a defense, they should get a hold of that graphic. >> if you read the books written about the inner workings of the white house, the women didn't feel appreciated often but if you look at the "washington post" poll, they don't seem to be paying the price. the advantage that president obama has over mitt romney is substantial. 19 points. 53% to 44%. let's see if he can chip away at that. >> dee dee myers said women are his base and they don't have enough women at the base that work in the inner circle. >> in the meantime, mitt romney will try to capitalize on this so he has been packing his events with female business leaders, you know, so there are female who's are in the work force as well as stay-at-home moms who might actually like mitt romney and at the event yesterday, he had a lot of them there supporting him. >> in connecticut, in hartford so a big event because there's a primary coming up there. >> there is and then it's on to the general. meanwhile, brand new information this morning on the other big story everybody is talking about, neighborhood watchman zimmerman now officially charged with second degree murder for shooting trayvon martin. >> he'll be making his court appearance today. there will be some drama today. what is going to happen besides the symbolism and the ceremony? >> first of all, this guy is in protective custody. they don't want anyone near him. he has gotten so much media attention. there's a lot of people out there that want to harm him. george zimmerman actually arrived at the county jail in sanford, florida, late last night just hours before he turned himself in. the sheriff there deciding to keep him in isolation away from the general population while he's behind bars. it's going to be a while. zimmerman's new attorney mark o'mara meeting with him at the jail. he said he learned new information at that meeting that he'll bring up in court when zimmerman pleads not guilty. listen. >> he's concerned about getting a fair trial. and a fair presentation. there's obviously been a lot of information flowing. i think a lot of it has been both premature and maybe inappropriate. i don't think a case like this should be tried here and it's not going to be. >> zimmerman will invoke florida's stand your ground law claiming he killed 17-year-old trayvon martin in self-defense. that's the same law that has protected him from legal action for the last month and a half or so since the shooting. of course, all that changed yesterday when special prosecutor angela cory announced the charges. trayvon's mother calling it a huge victory. >> i want to say thank god. we simply wanted an arrest. we wanted nothing more, nothing less. we just wanted an arrest and we got it and i say thank you. thank you, lord. thank you, jesus! >> the special prosecutor in the case not detailing exactly what evidence might have emerged that caused her to charge zimmerman. she insists she was not influenced by public outcry. many legal experts say they overcharged him and they are surprised by the severity of the charge because second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars. and unlike a manslaughter charge, it will require prosecutors to prove zimmerman killed martin intentionally and not in self-defense and so you remember the casey anthony trial, a lot of people say that she been charged with a lesser crime, she would have been convicted. but instead, she walked. >> the interesting thing will be whether or not the jury is given the ability to look at several different charges. and decide on manslaughter or second-degree murder. >> i wonder if there's going to be a jury that's unbiassed enough to be -- they got to get 12 people? >> that was quite a press conference last knnight. >> it's going to be tough. to prove intent is where they'll have their work cut out for them. >> thank you very much. continuing on talking a little bit about the trayvon martin case, al sharpton has been very, very vocal. he has said, you know, we need to move to the next level if george zimmerman is not arrested. he said that before he was arrested. he's been a rebel rouser on this for the most part. >> but the attorney general has pointed out he's -- he is a person who just praised him up and down for his entire career yesterday. and i thought that was relatively different. >> at the same time, people are asking, well, will the attorney general have any action with the new black panthers? because remember, they had put $10,000 to a million dollar bounty on the head of the suspect in this case, george zimmerman. well, here's the response now from michelle williams, the new black panthers chief of staff. >> right, she was -- she has been very nice publicly but this is very interesting to see when she was -- a message was left where she lets her feelings known. i was stunned by this. >> i just want to say to all the listeners that on this phone call, if you are having any doubts about getting armed up for this race war that we in that has never ended, let me tell you something, the things that's about to happen to these honkies, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these [beep] people, it has been long overdue. my prize right now this evening is going to be the bounty, the arrest, dead or alive for george zimmerman. >> let's tell you a little bit about michelle williams once known as michelle conyers, several run-ins with the law. she had been arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a handgun to fraudulent use of personal information, fraudulent use of a credit card, two counts of forgery and exploitation of an elderly person. she entered guilty pleas to several charges and was sentenced to restitution and probation which she completed successfully. >> but you have to ask the question, where is the attorney general eric holder on this? when you hear that kind of language, i mean, do you open an investigation, then into the new black panther party and what they're saying? that sounds like pretty vial language to me and it's kind of scary, it really is kind of scary. >> he had a chance to investigated the new black panthers party after the voter intimidation in pennsylvania after the last election but he chose to pass on it. >> all right. 13 minutes after the hour. coming up, though, the list of the 10 worst jobs in the country, e-mail us, should yours be on the list? >> let us know if you're a lumberjack. on. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >> welcome back, everyone. is the president banking on speeches and slogans in his bid for re-election? this week, he's bringing the old fairness argument back front and center. >> fair share. >> fair shot. >> fair share. >> fair shot. >> fair share. fair share in taxes. >> but should he be digging deeper into more details and be more specific about some of these issues or is fairness a fair enough argument to one a second term? here to weigh in, our co-host of "the five" juan williams and andrea tantaros. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> andrea, it seems to me part of the campaign strategy is to keep things on the surface. to use buzz words that seem to be resonating in internal polls like millionaires and billionaires and fairness and not getting to the nitty-gritty of this whole buffet rule. your thoughts? >> exactly. that's how he got elected. remember, gretchen, it was all bumper stickers, hope and change and the fierce urgency of now. this administration is not one of details and his 2008 campaign stayed away from the details and they're doing that again. in fairness, to use the word fairness that he likes to use, all politicians like to use buzz words and message discipline and go by what resonates with voters. but gretchen, it's not going to get him elected these gimmicks that he's doing. you have the buffet rule and the payroll tax cut extension. these aren't real things to get the economy going and i will point out, though, when they've tried to get into the details, they always lose. for example, they said if we pass this stimulus, unemployment won't go above 8%. very specific. well, that wasn't true. so they do not want to get into specifics because they assume, too, that we're dumb enough to believe what they're pushing. >> juan, are we dumb enough? is that why they don't get into the details? >> i just disagree with the premise, gretchen. i think andrea is right, politicians love buzz words and slogans but in this case, there's lots of meat on the bone because it's very clear that they've laid out that the buffet rule, you know, 30% tax on millionaires so they would not be paying a lower tax cut on investment income and people pay on earned income is the heart and soul of the rules so i don't know how you can complain that there's not meat on the bone. >> they change the meat on the bone, though, juan. at first the president -- >> you can say they change -- >> at first the president said it was going to go to reduce the deficit. now they're admitting it has nothing to do with reducing the deficit. when you do the math, it doesn't and now they're saying it's just all about fairness. that billionaires should pay more because it's fair. >> that's exactly right. it has something to do with the deficit. it's not a huge chunk of money, by the way, if that's your point, you're right. when you look at things like the bush tax cuts and you look at the payroll tax cut that andrea was referring to, those amount to bigger shares of dollars and over the years, this is something that the white house has been very clear about, the president is clear about this week. if you look at over the last 50 years, the rate of taxation on the very rich in this country has remained very low. in addition to cutting entitlement spending to reduce the debt, we also have to have some increase in tax revenue from people who have been less -- >> juan, you have "the washington post." you have media outlets that typically a lot of times carry the president's saying this is a gimmick. dana wilback from "the washington post" came out and said so. bloomberg, reuters, national journal. this is not going to work. i will say this, look at how this white house treated the american public last week when he bungled the precedent on the commerce clause. you know what the excuse was? we, the american electorate, we didn't understand what the president meant. that is the core and the crux of liberalism. they know better. we don't know how to spend our own money. we don't know how to make decisions about our health care. that is what liberals truly believe. there's this elitist attitude and that comes out in the -->> i got to make the decision, unfortunately, that we got to go! we're running out of time. >> well, i just -- >> that's fair, right? juan? >> andrea, you might debate this later on, on "the five" and we'll be watching for that. thanks so much. >> have a great day. >> thanks. $1 gas too good to be true? nope, we'll show you where it's happening. and so do you think you can do a better job than the government running your own life? john stossel takes a look at what happens when we the people are put in charge. the results coming up next. your finances can't manage themselves. but that doesn't mean they won't try. bring all your finances together with the help of the one person who can. a certified financial planner professional. cfp. let's make plan. >> time for a little math. now news by the numbers. first 48,000, that's the number of copies madonna's new album sold in its second week making it the largest second week drop in chart history. next, one. that's how many floors are left to complete before the freedom tower will be finished. it is now 100 floors. and finally, $1. that's how much a gallon of gas was at a station in pasadena, texas after a computer glitch. oh, darn. naturally work quickly spread and we heard the station actually ran out of gas. yep, everyone racing there to cash in. guys? >> the buck stopped there. >> all right. thanks, gretch. 24 minutes after the hour. from airport security to health care, the government continues to take over more and more industries by claiming we'll be better off with them involved. but let's look back, have things gotten any better? >> don't ask me. let's talk to john stossel, author of the new book "no, they can't. why government fails but individuals succeed" and host of "stossel" on fox business. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this is kind of a no brainer, isn't it? given the choice between whether the government runs stuff right or private industry, private industry does a lot better job. >> i think so. but our instinct when we're scared is to say government has to do it. after 9/11, we were scared and we said government had to take over airport security. tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize. how is that working out for them? >> of course, representative john michael also brought up who was in control of the t.s.a. and it passed the senate 100-0, he brought up the fact that it's not even working. >> we go to san francisco where one big city where they've opted out of using t.s.a. screeners and passengers tell us, hey, these people are friendly. and the lines move quickly and the t.s.a.'s own tests say they're more likely to find contraband so these screeners are friendlier and better at their job because they're working for a private contractor. and they know if they don't do a good job they can be fired. if they do a good job. they can make money, that's how israel and europe do it. in the united states, we turn it over to the federal government and then worse, put in his bill, cities get to opt out if they want to. but the t.s.a. ignores the city's request. a bunch have asked to. they ignored it for a year and they finally say, we don't think this is useful for the federal government. wouldn't mcdonald's like to say that to burger king? >> look at john stossel doing voices. very impressive. what would you like to see happen going forward? >> limited government. the founders' vision. that's why i titled the book "no, they can't" after the politicians yes, we can. but we think they can but they almost never do. leave it to the people. leave it to private sector competition. the government can manage it. but i mean, the government can supervise it. but let private actors run life. we do it better. >> even in health care, you see that happen? >> look at lasik eye surgery, the one tiny piece of health care where we have a free market. prices go down and quality goes up. doctors even give out their e-mail addresses and phone numbers because they want to please the customer. >> i got a feeling you would like to see u.p.s. and federal express run the postal service as well? >> well, i'm happy that they're at least allowed to compete with the post office. obamacare doesn't let anyone compete with government health care. >> all right. got a new book out called "no, they can't." also, join john on his program thursdays at 9:00 on fox business. thank you, mr. stossel. >> thanks, john. >> meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, we're following a fox news alert. north korea about to launch a rocket in defiance of the world. so what does it really mean? 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ask your doctor if spiriva can help. >> you heard the rooster crowing. time to get up. thanks for joining "fox & friends" this morning. we'll kick off this half-hour with headlines for you. a home grown terrorist that conspired to help al-qaida is going to find out his fate. for some reason, federal prosecutors is seeking 25 years. he grew up in a wealthy suburb of boston went to yemen to seek training at a terrorist camp. when that plan failed, he returned to the u.s. to promote violent jihad on line. >> police are releasing the 911 calls made at the beverly hills hilton hotel moments after the singer was found in the bathtub. >> also this morning, police officially closing the investigation into whitney houston's death saying they will not be pressing any charges. >> heard about road rage but this man's rampage happened off the road. watch this video. whoa! >> destroying the show room and several cars at a dealership in russia. you can see him just plowing into vehicles with the shop's loaner car. and the man was angry since he waited 20 minutes to pick up his car after repair. >> good luck. >> even longer to wait for bread. he was retrained after the car got stuck. thankfully -- he was restrained after the car was struck. no one was hurt. he said he probably won't need that car anymore. he will have to use the subway for a while. so -- >> if of a job this morning, do you hate it? now you can find out if that feeling is warranted or if you need to quit complaining. that's because job advice web site career cast has released this year's list of the 10 worst jobs in the united states based on a few factors like stress, working conditions and availability of positions. well, they say the worst job is lumberjack followed by a dairy farmer, enlisted military soldier, oil rig worker and newspaper reporter. several restaurant positions like waiter and dishwasher making the list and the worst job in america what we do right here, broadcaster. >> we're right behind butcher. >> probably because we have to work -- things go on tv year round. you miss a lot of holidays with your family. >> wow. >> those are some of the things but the reason that you went from probably the butcher to actually h how you lived your life. >> what do you mean? >> you worked at a meat packing plant. >> like tom arnold. >> i was scraping flank steak for a long time. i wrapped it up and i made chopped meat. i sat in the refrigerator and jammed it through the grinder. >> and interestingly enough, today you do not eat red meat. completely unrelated. >> if you don't want to eat red meat, work with a butcher. >> recent wave of wildfires popping up across the country. what's going on? janice dean here with a closer look. good morning bright and early to you. >> good morning. a lot of us have loved the fact that we have seen a very warm winter with hardly any snow, right. that's part of the reason we're seeing active wildfires so early on in the year plus a lot of states that we don't typically see wildfires this time of year. take a look at this. wildfire season starts early this year due to warm temperatures across the country, blazes that usually start in late spring have been popping up along the east coast. several states east of the rockies saw their warmest temperatures on record between january and march. and those high temperatures combined with dryness from little snow this winter and wind is a perfect recipe for out of control wildfires. in the east, parts of florida, georgia, north carolina and virginia had red flag warnings on wednesday. but warnings also headed west as arizona, colorado, new mexico, utah, wyoming, montana and north dakota were on alert. earlier this week, long island, new york was hit hard and a state of emergency was declared in certain areas. other hot spots included new york city's staten island where nearly 20 acres burned and new jersey's burlington county. two dozen homes were threatened before the blaze was contained. and in florida, almost 100 wildfires affecting nearly 16,000 acres were ablaze on just tuesday alone. ironically, it's wildfire awareness week in several states including florida. >> take a look at this map, this is where we have red flag warnings up for the southeast including parts of florida, up towards georgia, and mississippi, alabama, as well. you could see the potential for wildfire danger and across the four corners region where we have dry conditions, breezy conditions and still very warm. you're seeing a lot of moisture but not in the areas that we need to see it. across the west, the central u.s. and then across the northeast, a little bit of precipitation here but not really helping things. we need to see some of that moisture hitting the ground. just want to point out, guys, we're also seeing the potential for severe weather not only today but tomorrow and in through saturday, not only are we going to see hail, damaging winds, and the potential for tornadoes but we could see large, long lasting tornadoes through the weekend and as we head through saturday, see that red area, that bull's eye, that's where we think conditions are going to be very favorable for large, long lasting and possibly very destructive tornadoes so very active season already on a lot of threats in the weather center. back to you. >> all right. wildfires and tornadoes, thank you very much. my wife called me yesterday about 1:00 and said something big is on fire over that way and you could see this great big plume of smoke. the meadowlands. >> wow. lot of volunteer firemen fighting this fire, too. >> no stranger being in front of the camera, ali fedotowsky is best known for her quest for love on the reality show "the bachelorette". but now the tv star is taking on a decidedly different role trading romance for travel on nbc's show called "1st look." >> she joins us live to talk about it. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> first we saw you fall in love with that guy and now we see you fall in love with travel? >> fall in love with travel, food, nightlife, entertainment, really fall in love with traveling all over and having a good time. >> can i point out your observation where we were rolling where he was on one knee and proposing to you, you kind of giggled, right? >> yeah, i -- >> it's history. >> yeah, it was a happy moment. i like looking back on it. that was a happy day for me. >> what happened to you two kids? didn't work out? >> it didn't. that happens. >> you looked on the show like it was real. >> it was real! and it absolutely was real. i was with him for a year and a half after the show. >> a lot of people who loved "the bachelor" and "the bachelorette" get so involved in the show with you while you're living this moment and i think so many of them feel so distressed that most of these relationships don't end up working in the long run. what can we do to change that or why don't they work? >> i think that they have the same probability of working as any other relationship that you start anywhere. it's no better or worse. i think staying in a relationship for a year and a half is actually considered a pretty successful relationship in the sense that you learn something from that relationship. so i think it's like any other odds. >> it seems so natural to line up 10 guys, 20 guys and weed them out week by week with music in the background. >> and have all the men and women living together. >> it's fantastic. >> is there pressure, though, after that final scene to make it last because you worry well, you know, on tv, we have all those people counting on this working out. >> no, not at all. i mean, i really didn't feel any pressure. i felt pressure from fans a little bit but for the most part, you got to do what's right. >> what did your family say about you being on that show sf>> they were happy for me but more happy about my new show "1st look." >> tell us about "1st look." >> you travel all over the place. >> i'm traveling all over the country trying amazing things like from food to nightlife to entertainment. and that bowl you just saw was a four pound bowl of noodles, food eating challenge and one of the three girls in this clip, either one or the other two girls finishes that whole bowl. >> is there a trip to a hospital after that? >> i wasn't feeling good after that. do you think i did it? >> no. >> you did it. you ate the whole darn bowl. >> why? we're looking at your body and there's no way that body could ingest all those noodles. >> those girls were smaller than i was. >> yeah. >> they don't have your figure. >> oh. that's nice. >> you can win at eating contest. >> you'll have to tune in it and see. >> maybe she'll surprise us. when can we catch this show? >> it's on nbc after "saturday night live" it premieres this saturday so please, if you don't stay up that late, set your d.v.r. and you can watch it. >> is this something you always wanted to do? >> i worked at facebook before "the bachelorette" and i worked in advertising. i loved working with people. that's a skill of mine talking with people and working with people so i'm taking that on the road and doing what i love which is getting to know people and trying new things. >> ok. so everybody, you can friend her and you can watch her show. 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>> first of all, let's be clear what this bill does not do. this bill does not change in any way the curriculum in the state of tennessee. this bill does not change the science standards in the state of tennessee. what this bill is designed to do is teach students critical thinking, engage students in good discussion in the science classroom and create an environment where all ideas are open for discussion in the science classroom. >> right. >> it's really about giving teachers teachable moments with students about a myriad of subjects, not just evolution or global warming or creationism or intelligent design. it's really about creating teachable moments for teachers. >> as i understand, senator and you can correct me if i'm incorrect, they're in tennessee which is where the scopes monkey trial was many, many decades ago, going forward, if a kid asks a teacher a question about, for instance, creationism, well, teacher, you're talking about evolution, what about god created man? then they can get into a dialogue about creationism vs. evolution, right? >> sure, and the idea there is that students need to learn how to think critically about subjects. in today's world, we have to recognize that students have far more information from the internet and other sources when they come into the classroom than they did in the past and teachers need to be comfortable in engaging students in discussions about the information that students are bringing in to the classroom. so what you would hope is if a student asks that kind of question is that teacher would address the question and -- but still remain within the curriculum framework, for example, the teacher would explain to a student, this is the difference between science and religion. this is the difference between science and other ideas. this is why science chooses evolution vs. intelligent design or flat earth theory is because science uses empirical data in order to come to a conclusion. it's not about introducing religion into the science classroom. that's been totally mischaracterized by the scientific establishment. >> you should be able to talk about it. i gotcha. >> right. right. and no state in this country is doing more to challenge the status quo of how we deliver education in this country than the state of tennessee. we've made tremendous progress and are making tremendous progress in providing the best education possible to the citizens of the state of tennessee and we're committed to doing that. >> all right. very nicely put. senator bo watson from there in tennessee. thank you very much for joining us live. >> you're welcome. >> meanwhile, we've got to get to this. we have a fox news alert. officials on edge watchings on north korea prepares to launch a long range missile. greg palcott is live in north korea right now. what's happening? >> hey, steve. sorry, i got in with you a little bit later than expected. i got held up by about 100,000 troops rolling by in trucks. how about that for an excuse? only in north korea can you come up with an excuse like that. you're right, we're looking at a hold in the countdown of that launch in what the folks here say is a peaceful civilian satellite but what the united states and other country says is something else, a test of a ballistic missile. north korea has admitted to having an arsenal of nuclear weapons and has people here very nervous. it's all about politics here, too, steve. the launch marking the anniversary of the birth date of the north korean founder and trying to shore up support for the new young leader of this country. and they're laying out everything here, steve. they're dressing up this city like i've never seen it before. the country is impoverished but in fact, we saw lights, we saw cars, at least for these couple of days, the impression that they're trying to give is that this is a strong country, a prosperous country but with a country again that is struggling, that's a very hard image to hold up. again, we're waiting for the launch. could happen as early as tomorrow. we'll keep you posted. >> all right. greg palcott live in north korea with 100,000 troops marching by. thank you very much for that live report. all right, now at 10 minutes before the top of the hour. he's an exceptional high school athlete who also happens to have down's syndrome but he may be kicked off the basketball team because of 100-year-old rule. his father here to explain the fight to keep his son on the court. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. gives you a 50% annual bonus. and who doesn't want 50% more cash? 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"fox & friends" starts right now >> steve: brian, i'm looking at your twitter and it says that in the next hour, we're going to welcome the women's national team captain for soccer. >> brian: that's true, steve. you can also read the rundown. you love your social media. >> steve: thank you. >> gretchen: you sound surprised, is it because of the guests or because he got it right? >> steve: it's because i'm going to be the goalie. >> brian: we're setting up the field right now. >> gretchen: you must admit, the tease he did, it was a good thing you didn't hear it. he dissed you as being the goalie. >> brian: i did, but i also know your opponent, if we can get gretchen in sneakers, gretchen carlson will play the other goal. >> gretchen: i'll travel really far in this skirt. rip. criminal trial for former presidential candidate john edwards getting underway. jury selection begins today and once picked, the jury will determine if edwards violated campaign finance rules by using campaign money to hide his relationship withry yehl hunter. he denies knowing about those payments. neighborhood watchman george zimmerman set to make his first court appearance after officially being charged with second degree murder. he arrived at the county jail in sanford, florida late last night hours after turning himself in. his new attorney met with him at the jail before midnight. he says zimmerman will plead not guilty. >> he is concerned about getting a fair trial and a fair presentation. there has obviously been a lot of information flowing. i think a lot of it's been premature, maybe inappropriate. i don't think a case like this should be tried here and it's not going to be. >> gretchen: he also said he gathered new information after meeting with zimmerman and he will likely present that today in court. second degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars and unlike a manslaughter charge, it will require prosecutors to prove that zimmerman killed him intentionally and not in self-defense as he claims. the son of hollywood legend clark gable answering to police this morning after his girlfriend was found dead in his malibu mansion. 51 year old john clark gable, junior told them his girlfriend wasn't feeling well and when he tried to wake her up, she was already dead. police do not suspect foul play. bruce springstein may be one of new jersey's favorite son, but even the state's other boss reportedly couldn't keep it together for his entire concert at madison square garden recently. concert goers swear they saw governor chris christie jamming it out in the stands before dozing off for a brief nap. but maybe people should cut him some slack. some say he's exhausted from turning around the state and voters appear to agree. a poll shows governor christie is more popular than ever with 59% approval rating. those are your headlines. >> brian: very democratic state. >> steve: yep. >> brian: really says ising. >> steve: let's dial in michelle malkin. she joins us every thursday at this time from colorado springs. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: hey, i know you have weighed in on your blog about this phony war on women that the democrats are saying that the republicans are waging. yet when you look at what a strategist for the dnc, a woman named hillary rosen said last night, it looks like she's got a war on working moms. she was taking a shot at ann romney. we'll play the clip. listen to her tell folks that ann romney as a stay at home mom has never worked a day in her life. yeah, right. >> what you have is mitt romney running around the country saying, well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues and when i listen to my wife, that's what i'm hearing. guess what? his wife is actually never worked a day in her life. >> steve: okay. >> brian: your reaction, michelle? >> a mother of five sons. anybody with a son knows it's a full-time job. you've got your hands full when you've got that much testosterone in the house, for goodness sake. this is not a coincidence, by the way. and it needs to be pointed out and we pointed it out when this thing exploded on twitter last night when ann romney joined twitter to push back at this frontal assault that hillary rosen, who is a career dc lobbyist and a woman of great elite privilege in the dc community is somebody who works alongside anita dunn, who just happens to be the former obama communications hit woman and this idea that somehow stay at home moms and conservative moms deserve this kind of vitriol is part of the strategy of the democrats. >> brian: i think it's bad strategy because they started winning the female vote. and now they're insulting housewives across the country. >> of course it is. but these leftist women cannot help themselves. as i pointed out, both at michellemalkin.com, this is a page from an old playbook. hillary clinton did it when she went after stay at home moms who bake cookies and have tea. this happened in 2004 when theresa heinze carey disparaged laura bush and said she had never had a quote, unquote, real job in her life. although laura bush worked both as a teacher and librarian. now you have hillary rosen echoing hillary clinton. these people don't just are contempt for conservative stay at home moms, they have contempt for all conservative moms and yes, it's going to backfire. thanks for doing us all a favor, hillary. >> gretchen: by the way, there are some stay at home moms who might vote democrat, too. that's what's being missed in this entire discussion. they might be voting for barak obama, but maybe not after that kind of comment. i just don't know if -- do you think hillary rosen got some sort of marching orders from the administration because they came out firing pretty heavily right after, david axelrod, strident twitter saying this was a total mistake. we should not be getting into this battle at all. >> yeah. we have that all documented. i think that what these people have not expected, the white house and the obama administration, is that the right and conservative activists on the line would push back the way they did. thank goodness we have social media alternatives now like twitter to give voice to the women who don't make it into the front pages of the liberal media every day. >> steve: speaking of twitter, you mentioned a moment ago ann romney with her debut twitter response said this of the comments: i made a choice to stay home and raise five boys, believe me, it was hard work. all right. let's talk more about -- >> brian: she just said this, bill hemmer and martha mccallum will have her on next hour. >> steve: that's right. you mentioned anita dunn. interestingly enough, of it in that rounces kind book where she said having worked in the white house, it meets the legal standard for a hostile work environment and then you look at this and this supports the idea that maybe there is a war on women from the white house, where if you are a woman at the white house, you are making on average 18% less than your male counterpart on an average basis. >> yeah. that was reported by the washington free beacon and it's not a surprise that this comes from the do as we say, not as we do white house, that passed the so-called lily ledbetter county to mandate equal pay for everybody else. but apparently somehow the white house got a waiver for that, like they get waivers for everything else. >> gretchen: let's change gears for a moment because there is more stuff coming out now about the general services administration, the gsa, the waste. it keeps getting worst, michelle. now there is a new report out by the daily here saying that one of their top executives went on a ten-day boondoggle to hawaii and did ten hours of work at a ribbon cutting ceremony. what are we to make of this additional information. >> brian: what she called snorkeling work, then it would be double. >> steve: unless you're lloyd bridge, no. >> well, last week the joke was that you can't spell las vegas without gsa. this week we're learning that that was the tip of the iceberg and this all came out in the inspector general's investigation and it was one of the top officials who spilled the beans on this, that one of the administrators who -- and some of the people recently fired, were involved in this junket to hawaii and i think it was five or ten-day trip for a one-hour ground breaking ceremony. i think that there is a larger question that needs to be asked about the entire enterprise of the gsa because i'm hearing from a lot of people who had to deal with this administration that the junkets are really a proxy for all of the waste and cronyism that goes on with the contracting at gsa, which costs billions of dollars as opposed to the millions that are involved here. >> gretchen: you have to wonder about other agencies. not just this one. didn't off book "culture of corruption"? >> i sure do. >> gretchen: you have to wonder if this is part of the culture and only now we're paying attention to it because we have this huge deficit. >> brian: and a smoking clown. >> steve: there go. we do. michelle malkin, we thank you very much for weighing in. check out her web site, michellemalkin.com and the other is twitchy.com? >> you got it. >> brian: big feature on me to kick off. >> that's right. take care. >> steve: thank you. >> brian: straight ahead, have you heard america is in the middle of a major drug shortage? what's causing it and should the government get involved? the medical a team is here to break it down. >> gretchen: ever dream of buying a house, fixing it up and making your own dream home but think you can't afford it? bob massi says don't stop dreaming. he'll show you how to make it happen cording to the signs, ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a few things with fiona. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big in your own words, with respect to selection, what would you say? big okay, let's talk rebates mike, they're big they're big get $100 rebate, plus the low price tire guarantee during the big tire event. so, in other words, we can agree that ford's tire event is a good size? big big yeah, but the feeling wasn't always mutual. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind. we're armed, and inexperienced. people call me an over-waterer. 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[ female announcer ] everyone grows with miracle-gro. >> gretchen: 15 minutes after the top of the hour. did you ever dream of buying a house, fixing it up and making your own dream home? who hasn't? now that dream can come true thanks to a loan that will cover the cost of your home and the repairs that come with it. bob massi here to explain how. bob, it's one of those things that sounds too good to be true. what is it? >> it's a hud program that's been around for many years, gretchen. and because of what's going on in america with so many homes being foreclosed on and have been destroyed, this program was designed years ago to revitalize neighborhoods. but i want our viewers to know it does exist. what it basically means is that a buyer could go in and qualify for a loan to rehab or repair a home and can not only get qualified for the loan, but also for money to do the construction and repair of the home. so i wanted to talk a little bit about that today to inform our viewers of this program that has been on the books for years, but it's used more now than before. >> gretchen: who can participate in the program and are there any requirements for participating? >> yeah. the minimum requirement has to be a minimum of $5,000 in repairs to the home, which today day and age is not much. but also somebody who is in a position to buy a home. and by the way, this is not a program designed for investors. this is designed for people who have to live in the home. if, in fact, they do, they qualify for the loan and the construction, the rehab or repair, there is actually part of this program where you could take a home, believe it or not, from the existing foundation and move it to another foundation that will cover it. and also you can refinance existing loans on the property to do the repairs for the home. here is the down side. it's a federal program which has about four-inches of paper to fill out. but again, it's something that not many people talk about, which is why i want to sort of get had information out to the viewers today. >> gretchen: all right. final question, can you increase the mortgage amount to cover additional questions then? >> yeah. that's one thing i want our viewers to know. if you qualify for this, you have to get a good appraiser, the contractor, people that know exactly what the cost is going to be because once you get approved for this loan, gretchen, for purposes of rehabbing it, that's it. if the contractor comes in and says, oh, by the way, we missed this, you have to come out of pocket to do that. so if you are eligible for the program, you get qualified people in there to do the appraisals, the estimates, so that if whatever moneys you get, it's going to be used for the improvement of the home. >> gretchen: i lied. ann core question. if our viewers are interested in the program, what do they need to do if they're interested in it? >> go to the web site, hud.gov has a web site that explains the 2 or 3 k program, the process to do it. i think it's important for all of to us know about it. i'veen educated more about it in the last six months, which is why i want to throw it out. some may qualify, some may not. some may not be interested. but it's better to know than not know. >> gretchen: thanks for your help. you can e-mail bob your questions. see you next week. have a good one. coming up on "fox & friends," talk about get out of jail free card, this guy using his welfare card for bail. wait until you hear this one. and america is in the middle of a dangerous drug shortage and it's getting worse now. is it time for the government to get involved? could they help? the medical a team tackles that topic next this is delicious okay... is this where we're at now? we just eat whatever tastes good? like these sweet honey clusters... actually there's a half a day's worth of fiber in every ... why stop at cereal? bring on the pork chops and the hot fudge. fantastic. are you done sweetie? 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>> steve, it's not a result of, but i'm definitely concerned that that's going to make it worse because the more regulations you have and the more insurance companies don't want to cover expensive drug, the more pressure there is on the drug companies not to produce them. if they don't make a profit, they're not going to want to make them. more and more of these drugs are going generic and you have to have so much sterilization on top of it to make sure that you can actually put them into someone's vein. they're finding glass particles, fungal particles. so it costs a lot of money for the drug company to make sure these drugs are safe. understandable. but where is the profit in it? also a lot of them went overseas for the war effort. with iraq and afghanistan off the top, understandably, the antibiotics and the steroids went right to the war. >> brian: let's go over some of the drugs that really concerned you. fighting for cancer, cancer drugs, infections for treating cardiovascular diseases. managing psychiatric condition, pain medications in anesthesia. >> sedatives. >> brian: so what you're saying is, that the drugs are out there. they're just not getting here. correct? >> they're out there, except that there is also production problems. the drug companies are not making them the way they were before because the patents are running out. >> steve: and because the drug companies, they look at the bottom line. we're not going to make that much money on that drug, so we're not going to make it. >> as you mentioned, they look toward the future and say wait a minute. we see drugs being cut and not going to be covered and more and more regulation. now, what is the solution to this? that's the biggest question. the solution is the f.d.a. is saying we're going to march in and we want to know in advance so we can get emergency supplies from overseas. we can ask the drug companies to make more. but that's like a finger in the dike when the holes are coming everywhere. you can't solve the problem that way. we don't need more drugs coming from overseas. >> brian: biotech companies investing all types of money to come up with new drug also no long have an incentive. >> that's great point. they're seeing that and saying, wait a minute, if i'm not going to make a profit, why should i put a billion dollars in developing this drug? on the front lines, in the trenches, i'm worried because a patient comes in with an asthma attack, i don't have the steroid to give him. someone comes in with a life-threatening infection, i don't have the antibiotic to give him. i have patients calling every day saying i'm one of the super responders, but i can't get the chemo any more. >> steve: are these shortages going to kill people? >> they already are. 82% of hospitals believe these delays are life-threatening. 82%. >> brian: dr. siegle, thank you very much for coming in. now you're back to your other job, seeing patients. >> trying to work with the shortages. >> brian: straight ahead, fox news alert. major breaking news on the economy. jobless numbers due out any moment. eric bolling will be here to analyze and break them down. >> steve: and we showed think video yesterday. a cow on the run from the slaughter house. there is an update you definitely don't want to miss. go. go. not toward the cop. in my line of work, it's not uncommon for the term "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? 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>> no. i don't know. the only thing i can think of is maybe there is a big push, people are look to get back into the labor force. this one is not a good number. >> gretchen: does it have anything to do with the jobs created number that we saw last week, which was lower, even though the unemployment rate had gone down from 8.3% to 8.2%, the number of jobs created was about 100,000 less than they thought. it was in -- >> again, that number that they put out is called the situation report, unemployment situation report, labor report comes out. it's a telephone survey. they literally pick up the phone and survey 60,000 homes and say are you working? are you looking for work? have you given up? there is a lot of room for leeway in that number. some say it can be skewed, has become partisan, which would be a scary thing if the bureau of labor statistics has become a partisan tool. >> steve: no kidding. what about this, the president has been making his pitch to have the congress pass the so-called buffet rule and yesterday, interestingly enough, he's trying to get it through the senate. it's not going to pass. but he tried to make the connection between this is exactly what ronald reagan proposed back in the mid 80s. here is the president trying to do that. listen. >> some years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. this president gave another speech where he said it was crazy to quote, certain tax loopholes make it possible for multi-millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary. that wild eyed socialist tax hiking class warrior was ronald reagan. if it will help convince folks in congress to make the right choice, we could call it the reagan rule instead of the buffet rule. >> gretchen: is that disengine with us? >> more than that. to look over here while i do something here, it shouldn't be called the buffet rule because warren buffet doesn't sign on to this. for some reason, president obama took this one piece, this tax, people making over a million, when warren buffet told us clearly, simpson-bowles, a massive tax reform, tax and spending reforms is what he would recommend to tackle the deficit. president obama is being very, very political with this and now to try and attach ronald reagan's name to increasing the tax is disingenuous and unfair and conservatives like me are unfair about it. mark levine, one of the most vocal voices for conservatives will be on neil cavuto, i can't believe, who also worked for ronald reagan. he'll attack this. this is outrageous. >> brian: it's also important to know that ronald reagan speech he was referring to is the tax reform, which is something the president should be talking about. >> and subsequently to that speech, the following year ronald reagan passed tax reform that dropped top marginal tax rates from 50% down to 28%, which by the way, had a -- was met with a lot of success. he brought growth back to an economy. >> brian: basically he admitted it was a gimmick, the president. it's only going to bring in $50 billion over ten years, if it does pass. >> yeah. >> gretchen: originally they were trying to sell it as a definite sit reducer. when somebody did the math and figured it out it wasn't, now they're actually admitting that it's just all about fairness. >> fairness. a class warfare tool. it's one of the few arrows in president obama's quiver right now. but they're going to still do it. they're going to call it a war on women by the republican. it should be called obama's tax on success. that would be a great name for his new proposed tax. >> steve: it's not exactly a tax on everybody, but it affects everybody and we're talking about the high cost of gasoline. yesterday when you were hosting the program, you mentioned that coming up on friday, you got a special on gas with former governor sarah palin. >> the governor and i are going to sit down and -- there is a special -- gasoline, 139 billion gallons we use a year. that means during the presidency since president obama took office, gasoline went from 1.83 to 3.93, 3.92. that means $200 billion per half year so -- almost $500 million. almost half a trillion dollars we're shipping overseas to the middle eastern dictators instead of americans spends it. governor palin and i will sit down and break it down from regulation, speculation. >> steve: what can we do right now to bring down the price? >> the most important part is at the end of the show, we'll put together a four-part plan, present it to president obama and see if he takes it. >> gretchen: that's in your envelope. >> that's in the envelope. >> gretchen: i know what's in that envelope. >> you do? >> gretchen: yeah, i saw it. >> steve: this is a new envelope. >> we're going to open it tomorrow night at 10:00 o'clock and honestly, this will drop gasoline prices. he's had the opportunity. president obama has had the tonto call us up. but now he's gog have to do it with governor palin and i. >> steve: this is your expertise. for many, many years, you worked on wall street trading oil. >> not only on wall street, i bought and sold gasoline, took deliver, made deliveries of it. 23 years i was in the oil business and governor palin was in the oil business for the better part of two decades as well. it's coming from very qualified people. >> brian: how many barrelyou actually fill up yourself. >> steve: 'cause you didn't do a very good job with this. >> for a period of four or five years. >> steve: the price of natural gas now at a historic low cost. this is great for us. >> this is what we should be doing. looking at natural gas instead of necessarily buying oil from foreign dictators. >> steve: he'll open the envelope tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. right here on the fox news channel. >> gretchen: figure it out while we're reading headlines. >> brian: this is an airing. the fight for freedom of religion at vanderbilt university is heating up. one of the largest religious groups on campus is being forced to change its name. the order put in place following the group's decision to leave campus after the university decided to enforce an all groups -- it must be open to all students. even atheists. they would even be allowed to lead those groups. wouldn't that be fascinating? the university spokesperson saying, quote, those student groups who chose not to comply with the university's nondiscrimination policy forfeit the privileges associated with the registered student association status and that includes the use of the vanderbilt name. >> gretchen: government plan to help homeowners fight foreclosure was severely flawed. that according to a new report revealed this morning from the inspector general' office. the treasury department rushed out the revamped foreclosure plan in 2010, limiting its ability to help people who are out of work or those who owed more on their homes than they are actually worth. the hardest hit fund was part of the controversial $700 billion financial bailout known as tarp. >> steve: from tarp to twisters, a tornado touching down in northern california. take a look at that funnel cloud. the national weather service confirming it hit just outside of oakland, california. it destroyed everything in its path, including barns, ripping off roofs, knocking down power lines in the area. nobody was hurt thankfully. >> brian: call him spared rib. a cow tried to escape from a new jersey slaughter house getting a last-minute pardon. we showed you mike, the steer yesterday, running wild until police tranquilized him. it turns out the owner of the slaughter house took mercy on him. mike going to live on an animal sanctuary in upstate new york. so it will be boring, but you won't be slaughtered. that's good. >> gretchen: seems animals are getting smarter and smart. we had jack the husky dog who escaped newtering. we don't know whether he was neutered. but make gets saved. >> brian: do i have permission to update the mike story? the miniature husky escaped after the newtering, was caught after -- he was caught after the newtering. he was so upset by the newtering, he ran away. when he came back -- >> gretchen: that's a fox news alert because before we thought it was before the newtering. >> brian: do i have that right? >> steve: apparently so. here is the thing, the copy said that particular cow -- not a cow, a steer, which means it's gone through the newtering process. >> brian: but he's alive and he will not be cut up. >> steve: well, not yet. >> gretchen: he almost got cut up with that truck. >> brian: look out for the chevy. >> gretchen: you guys know a lot about newtering. >> steve: know a lot about cows. >> brian: we just perked up when that happened. >> steve: this is what happens when you join the future farmers of america. >> gretchen: i wonder if you guy also have enough testosterone to do this soccer match coming up. >> brian: the captain of the u.s. women's team. >> steve: straight ahead, it sounded like a plot of catch me if you can. a teen-ager stealing an airplane and pulling off an international crime spree. up next, incredible inside story of the so-called barefoot bandit. that guy. >> brian: the real soccer mom, the captain of the u.s. women's national soccer team here to take on, well, the captain of "fox & friends." >> steve: you! >> brian: yes. she's a real life mom and a real life superstar player. incredible. >> gretchen: pretty good moves, brian. >> brian: looks like she stretched out already. she's got an advantage of me. i'm in a lot of trouble all multivitamins give me the basics. they claim to be complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just the essential nutrients, so i'm at my best. centrum. always your most complete. so i'm at my best. economically, it seems like a good choice now. we need environmental protection. we've got more than 100 years worth of energy, right here. 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he learned how it fly a plane not in an actual airplane, but with dvds and he read a book and video games and stuff like that. eventually fast forward, i understand his mother contacted you and at one point you asked for him to give you a sign that he was still alive. what did he do? >> yeah. i did the first national magazine story on colten for outside magazine. once i did that, he was still running full speed. so i started a blog where i could update the story. i had been talking to his mom. i had actually been in the trailer where he grew up and she told me and friends who i was in contact with of colton, told me he was reading the blog, kind of obsessively every time i would write something, he would read it. and at first i used that just to try to talk him in. everybody was pretty sure he was going to wind up dead. but there was a chance that a police officer or a homeowner would wind up dead. i didn't want that to happen. soy tried to talk him in. at one point, the f.b.i. had kind of let on to his mom that he had probably died in a boat accident. so she called me up and she was all upset and said could you use your blog to try to talk to him just to see if he's alive. so i put a little note in there saying, colton, people are worried, can you give us a sign? that was one evening. the next morning i got up and i live in a tiny cabin in the woods. the only way i can get anywhere on the island is cross this little bridge and when i get there, there is a 13-foot barefoot print spray painted on the bridge. it was a sign. >> gretchen: he had given you the message. well, the movie rights are now coming from your book and in the end, you say that he wants to go to college for aerospace engineering and probably is to go to prison for a while first. fascinating story. bob friel, author, good luck with the book. >> thank you very much. >> steve: all right. i think we're going outside to talk to brian kilmeade. what's coming up? >> brian: coming up, he would say the captain of the national women's soccer team is here. she's the ultimate soccer mom and she's taking brian on in a shootout. she's good shot with that foot. >> gretchen: let's check in with martha mccallum for what's on at the top of the hour. >> i bet the rest of the soccer moms feel inadequate. good morning, everybody. we have an america's news room exclusive today. ann romney will join us live with her reaction to the explosive comments that are heating up the campaign trail this morning. we're going to talk to her coming up here live. and the president says that the buffet rule could really just easily be called the reagan rule. really? bill and i join you at the top of the hour that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. ♪ one, two, three, four ♪ ♪ you say ♪ flip it over and replay ♪ we'll make everything okay ♪ walk together the right way ♪ do, do, do, do >> brian: this might be one of america's finest athletes and here is why. kristy is here, 36 years old. i don't mind giving your age 'cause you are captain of the u.s. women's national team. a round of applause for this young lady! [ applause ] very nice! a real life soccer mom. correct? >> yeah. >> brian: you have two children while raising while traveling the world playing the best. >> i have two daughters, reilly and reese, six years old and two years old. they travel around. reilly has been through two passports already. been amazing. >> brian: they watched you at the world cup, losing a penalty kick. >> i know. i tell her every day, mommy has to keep training and getting better. we lost some, but it's motivation for this upcoming olympics. >> gretchen: how did you become captain of the team? >> just chosen. respect for your teammates. they think i'm the mom of the team. the one that looks more toward the team than themselves. >> brian: tell me about this soccer for success program. that's the one that you have sponsored. but it's all part of a city bank program. >> yes. the program is every step of the way, 13 olympic athletes. and what you can do to get started is go on the web site, city web site. it's about tweeting, facebook, giving back to the organization that gave to us. aspiring organizations. you have the team kristy shirts on, support me, support the organization, but most importantly, making aware of the organizations. >> steve: i hear you're good, but i just thought it would be a good idea -- >> brian: let's play one on one. here you go. >> steve: don't kick it too hard! >> brian: let's go back a little bit right here. >> kick the shoes to the side. >> gretchen: what am i doing? >> brian: after kristy is lucky enough to steal the ball, you have to play it back. >> gretchen: all right! >> brian: play it back. play it back today, though! >> steve: it's not going well for me. wooo! >> gretchen: whoa, brian's got some moves! look at steve. all right! >> brian: i had to shot at that. one more time, gretch. >> brian: what is it, 2-1? >> gretchen: 30 seconds left, guys! who is going to score? >> steve: she's going for it! >> brian: it's a great program. best of luck. when can we see you on television again? >> we'll be on tv -- not sure when. we play in may against philly. back in a moment is making lorenzo very snippy. oh! seriously?! ♪ [ male announcer ] hunger getting to you? oh... 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"and if i need help, i can find it online, by phone or at one of over five-hundred scottrade locations." "it's why more investors with i.r.a.s are saying.." "i'm with scottrade." ♪ [music] >> steve: tomorrow on our program, the guy who wrote the best seller "women are from venus, men are from mars" will be joining us live, along with geraldo rivera, who we're not sure where he's from. >> brian: also you're going to stick around for the after the show show? >> yes. >> brian: if you pull anything, we're pulling in short. >> love it. >> gretchen: hopefully i don't have to go into goal. >> brian: you never know. >> steve: see you tomorrow. bill: i think kide
VietnamRepublic-ofMontanaUnited-statesAlabamaNevadaMeadowlandsGeorgiaAlaskaMinnesotaChinaCalifornia >> that's ok. from time to time, brian -- >> looked at my hair. is there something wrong with my hair? >> from time to time, brian has been referred to as the brown haired guy on "fox & friends" so you're the brown haired guy. >> ok! i'll take that. i'll take that. >> the name of eric today. >> you're the brown haired -- >> i was pointing out, i walked in and it was like oh, they crossed his name out and stuck my name down there. >> that's all it takes for a substitution. >> that's how i found out. i was walking in early. oh, my gosh! >> eric, great to have you brown haired guy who is not steve doocy. >> correct. i'll be the guy who is not steve doocy today. >> all right. and the blond haired girl will read the headlines and the fox news alert this morning because a powerful 8.7 magnitude earthquake hitting off the coast of the northern indonesian island about an hour ago. tsunami warnings in effect now for 28 countries across the indian ocean. here's a look at video just in showing the tense moment as the earthquake hit. people were seen running out of buildings. electricity has been knocked out. we're also learning an aftershock of 6.5 magnitude has hit. that's a big quake in and of itself. rescue teams are on their way as people are being told to move to higher ground now. another developing story overnight. a korean air jet making an emergency landing after a bomb threat was called in. the flight headed for seoul with 149 passengers on board. it had just taken off from vancouver when the threat came into the airline's los angeles offices. two u.s. fighter jets scrambled from oregon to escort the plane to a canadian military base. korean air says it received a similar bomb threat on monday both reportedly delivered in english. no word yet if there was actually a bomb on board that aircraft. self-proclaimed mastermind behind the september 11th terrorist attacks finally going to trial now. finally. khali shaikh mohammed and his four co-defendants will be arraigned on may 5th at guantanamo bay. they were first charged by a military commission back in 2008. but the case was suspended after president obama tried to have it moved to federal court. they face the death penalty for murdering 2,976 people in new york, d.c. and shanksville, pennsylvania. and they may be an odd pair but that isn't stopping burger king from putting them together! check out this advertisement for the new bacon sundae. >> huh? >> delicious! >> that's right. soft serve vanilla ice cream drizzled in chocolate and caramel sprinkled with bits of bacon with a strip of bacon for the finishing garnish. right now, it seems the bacon sundae will only be available in nashville, tennessee. yeah, they need a bit of a test market first. if you live in nashville, tennessee, this morning, let us know if that sounds good to you. do you think it will be a hit down there? >> gretch, i had one of those at the minnesota state fair. >> oh! >> couple of years ago when we were up there for the big convention and it was fantastic. >> it was delicious. >> had to be great. >> did you follow it up with a deep fried bacon strip? i think they had those, too. >> fried butter. >> i remember the bacon and the chocolate bacon as well. we were in st. paul, minnesota, four years ago for the big convention, there's a big convention coming up this november and it is now clear it will be mitt romney vs. barack obama. rick santorum apparently decided on monday night that it was in the cards for him. so he has dropped out making way for mitt romney who wasted little time last night in wilmington, delaware, he made it very clear there is a war on women in this country and it is being waged by barack obama's economy. watch. >> you look at the experience of this administration in the last 3 1/2 years and you can see that something is seriously wrong with his perspective. not only have 92% of the job losses been among women, but you've also seen 800,000 people overall lose jobs. home values decline. the median income of americans in the last four years has dropped by 10%! these have been tough years. you have failed. we have seen it. you can't hide it. we're going to change it. >> so officially, mitt romney does not become the nominee until he gets the 1144 delegates. keep in mind, newt gingrich still in this race. he continues to vow even though he's in debt with his campaign to take it all the way to tampa and to the convention. >> he's bouncing checks ooment auto ron paul is still in the race as well. the interesting thing about santorum getting out of the race yesterday is that he did not endorse mitt romney in that speech when he said that he was getting out. and he hasn't released his delegates yet. so 188 of the 200 some delegates that santorum has, he could release. they become free agents so it would be up to them as to who they decide to follow at that point. >> right. almost 200, there's also 84 that were really free, they're committed to santorum but at the convention, they could actually vote for whoever they throw their support behind romney. so a lot of swing there but you're right. it looks very, very good for mitt romney at this point. but president obama has his own ideas on what things should look like. listen to what he had to say last night at a -- an event that we paid for. watch. >> they keep telling us that if we just weaken regulations that keep our air or our water clean or protect our consumers, if we would just convert these investments that we're making through our government in education and research and health care, if we just turn those into tax cuts especially for the wealthy, then somehow the economy is going to grow stronger! that's the theory. and here's the news -- we tried this for eight years before i took office. we tried it! it -- it's not like we didn't -- we didn't try it. >> so there is the president yesterday at florida atlantic university talking about the -- >> go back to -- the unemployment, would people like to go back to some of those eight years? i mean, forget who was president. look at the economy! would people like to go back to a lower unemployment rate? i mean, i think this is what mitt romney now needs to start giving the counter opinion to that kind of a message. >> may i just point out, what he was trying to say is that was a taxpayer funded trip. that was supposed to be official business. you couldn't be more partisan than the comments he made right there. i mean, they took air force one down there and brought the entourage down there. we paid for it. you paid for it. what was it? it was nothing short of a campaign speech. >> but had he mentioned mitt romney, then they would have had to pay for it. instead, we talked about that. he was unveiling as if we didn't know enough about the warren buffet rule and what that would do is that would make sure that if you are a person who makes over a million dollars a year, you pay at least 30% of your income in taxes but when you take a look at who pays the taxes right now, and apparently, if the president wants to talk about fairness, is this fair? look at that, the top 1% of earners in this country pay close to $4 and $10. and the top 10% pay 70% of the money. what the president says repeatedly is it's just not fair that warren buffet's secretary pays more than he does. but when you look at the facts, the average middle class person pays just under 15% whereas the average person who makes over a million dollars pays 26%. so already, they're paying close to double what the president says they are. >> but i think the heart of this issue comes down to this. what is the purpose of calling for this buffet tax rule? >> politics! >> what is the purpose? because somebody needs to ask that question. here was the first example of why this administration wanted to do it. stablize our debt and deficit for the next decade. ok. but then somebody called him out on it and said, well, it will actually only give you less than .5% of the $1.2 trillion budget deficit for 2012. even if you have this tax in place, you don't begin to put a chink in the deficit we're currently experiencing. next reason they gave for wanting this was to establish a basic issue of tax fairness. so which one is it? if you want to check out "the wall street journal" editorial today, it's one of the best i read explaining whether or not the buffet tax rule is actually about fairness or is it actually about paying down the debt. >> it can't be about paying down the debt. if it's only helping $5 billion. up to $5 billion. could be a lot less than that on a debt we're adding $1.2 trillion. it's not doing a dent or anything. this is a class warfare tool in the obama era -- in the obama era. let me do this, warren buffet, why don't you come to "fox & friends" and sit on the curvy couch right there and let us talk about whether or not you think this idea that president obama is pitching as the buffet rule should be called the buffet rule. i will tell you unequivocably right now, warren buffet doesn't think taxing people that make over a million dollars at 30% will do a darn thing for the economy. what he does think, though, and i've heard him say it is we need complex tax reform. we need simpson-bowles like tax reform and we need massive spending cuts but you don't hear president obama pointing out those other two. talk about the raising the taxes. >> and you don't hear warren buffet say i think rich people should pay their fair share. ok, my company berkshire hathaway owes close to a billion dollars in tax money going back to 2002. he's been in a big squabble with the i.r.s. so while he's out saying rich people need to pay more, yeah, i'm currently disputing my taxes with my big company. so just keep that in mind as he calls for fairness. is that fair that he wouldn't pay a billion dollars for close to 10 years? >> keep in mind, come january 1st, the bush tax cuts will be no longer. so essentially if this buffet rule went into place, it would be like a double taxation happening come january 1st. remember, the president was against the bush tax cuts and then he was for them, voted them in, and then he was against them again. here is a snippet of that. remember this? >> and if the goal is private sector growth, you got to recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators. secondly, if you raise taxes -- if you let the -- i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called someone's other tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised. >> he makes a good point. exactly. and you know, president -- now president obama ran on, i'm going to get rid of those bush tax cuts and they're scheduled to sunset at the conclusion of this year. >> it was great to see former president bush weigh in on it. it's been a long time in between and it's fantastic to see him up there weighing in. >> let's talk about the g.s.a., the general services administration, we've been telling you for the last couple of weeks about that $800,000 taxpayer funded boondoggle in las vegas. well, now, it's coming out more information as these things usually start to do just that, and employees apparently got bonuses for planning that g.s.a. event. $500 to $1,000 for taking part in planning those videos. >> one spent an extra night in a $1,000 suite and they only paid $93 and taxpayers picked up the rest and an official by the name of martha johnson ran the agency, she's been squeezed out since. she was unavailable to go to las vegas but instead, they had to pay $3,500 for a video link. apparently, she was at solyndra and she was talking to solyndra about buying a whole bunch of solar panels to put on the roofs of federal buildings in what some are seeing as a last ditch effort by this administration to prop up solyndra that was bleeding money so if nobody else is going to buy them, have the federal government buy a bunch of them and putted them on the roof. >> can i .1 more thing out? by the way, you can't make these stories up, they're crazy. they make themselves up. g.s.a., you know there's 12,500 employees in the g.s.a. 12,500 employees we need to buy stuff for the federal government. really? that's a $20 billion boondoggle. >> we're writing a lot of checks. they got to spend it on something! >> continue to follow that story throughout the morning. meantime, coming up, we told you rick santorum is out of the presidential race. but does that mean conservatives will finally rally around mitt romney? former advisor to bill clinton, dick morris has a good idea and he'll share it coming up next. >> all right. we'll be back. it's not uncommom "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? 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>> we've got a fox news alert for you if you're just getting up. a tsunami warning off the coast of indonesia this morning following a powerful 8.6. that's a gigantic magnitude earthquake. david piper is live in bangkok, thailand. how soon will they know whether or not a tsunami wave is going to hit? >> good morning, yes. they should know very quickly because that earthquake of the province was only about 250 miles so we understand that, perhaps, this first tsunamis could be hitting there any time soon. there has been one report of a very small tsunami. but nothing like the 2004 quake and tsunami that killed over 250,000 people. but that's in the same region so massive concern here and lots of people have been evacuating the coast including here in thailand because they felt the quake here and they lost a lot of people back in 2004. back to you. >> did you feel the earthquake, david? >> i didn't personally. i was driving at the time but i understand that many people here in bangkok felt it. and also countries like singapore and malaysia and that was the same as what happened back in 2004. people don't usually feel earthquakes in this region. and a place like thailand is very nervous at this time because this is the religious holiday, the water festival. everyone has gone to the coast to places and now with all the tsunami warnings, people have been told to go to higher land because there is a real danger still, the tsunami warning hasn't been dropped yet. >> all right. david piper live in thailand with the very latest. thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on that, obviously. >> now for the other headlines this morning. he's been denied parole 11 times but later today, mass murderer charles manson will try again. the notorious cult leader refused to leave his cell to meet with his attorney to prepare for the hearing. the state appointed attorney will argue that manson should be moved from the prison to a psychiatric hospital. >> and we're getting a rare glimpse into the lives of usama bin laden's family. this new video showing his three wives under house arrest in islamabad pakistan. you can see them praying and reading the quran. their children playing nearby. bin laden's wives and two of his daughters are serving 45 day sentences for illegally entering the country. after that, they will be deported back to their home countries of yemen and saudi arabia. steve? >> meanwhile, eric, thousands of americans looking for work are missing out on jobs because of faulty background check information. that's according to the national consumer law center. it's releasing a report later today that states that new and inexperienced background check companies are causing sloppy handling of the data. oh, great! problems include arrest records showing up for someone with the same name who was never arrested. the group wants the government to let people know what possible employers can see so errors can be fixed before they're not hired. >> perhaps he knew what was coming. you're looking at a cow that's busted out of a slaughterhouse in paterson, new jersey last night. the cow weighs only 750 pounds. you can see it running through the streets, even banging into a cop car. eventually police and animal control officers were able to tranquilize the cow and send it back. >> was that really the cow noise there or was that toba, the cow noise? >> that's definitely the cow noise. that sounds like a cow in paterson. >> it's a cow. >> you know that? you know that exact sound? it's a paterson cow? >> i live a couple of towns over. >> moo-ving right along. stock market seeing the sharpest decline in months. the dow jones, nasdaq and s&p taking a big hit but the president was out hitting the campaign trail yesterday. his message -- you guessed it, tax the rich. >> and finally, we've got to make sure that we've got a tax system that reflects everybody doing their fair share. all right. let's follow what we call the buffet rule. they may call it class envy and that's just being fair. >> well, he says it's fair but stuart varney says it's just a ploy to distract people from his record on the economy. so wait a minute, stu is calling the president's bluff this morning or is the stock market doing that? >> wait a second, step back a moment. the economy has just started to turn south again. we don't have 3% growth. we've got much less. we don't have strong job creation. it's been cut in half. we don't have strong disposable income, it's flat and it's being eaten into by high food prices and high gas prices. we're getting worse off so what does the president do? does he come up with a new policy that gets the economy going, manage the debt and get things working again? bring us back to prosperity? no, he comes up with class warfare. beats up on the rich. that's the way to prosperity. i don't think so. >> ok. how does the stock market factor into that? >> ok. i'll answer the question. >> it took a nose dive after that jobs report came out. >> the stock market has taken a nose dive in the past four or five sessions because it perceives the economy now getting weaker all over again. yeah, there are problems in europe with spanish debt. that's true. but the economy in america is heading south. and we do not have an administration that's prepared to deal with it. >> well, let me give you a little bit of a silver lining. the stock market did take a little bit of a dive and lost 400 and 500 points in the last four or five days but on very low volume. i know when the volume is low like that, that's not necessarily an indicator of things to come. it feels to me, 23 years in, that things are getting better in the stock market. not because of anything president obama has done, in spite of everything that president obama has done. >> are you long on stocks? >> no, it has nothing to do with the trading position at all because i don't trade anymore, stuart. it's essentially, look, an average recession is, what, 18, 20 months. 30 months into what is a recession. >> if the stock market has done well so far this year, up until the last four or five days, you're right. it has. that's because american companies are making record profits overseas. not in the united states but overseas and as our currency gets less of value, the dollar goes down, those overseas profits are better because they're in foreign currencies which again are more expensive. >> and one of the reasons that the stock market has floated to this level is the fact that ben bernanke & company have made so much free money available to the banking system, it's quantative easing but that's artificially brought it up to where it is right now and he's trying to back off from that. >> i'm sorry, eric, but now the economy is heading south again for the third time in three years, all those spring fresh green shoots of recovery trampled all over again. >> it's about 12,900 or so. >> it's going to go up. >> we'll come back and revisit this one month from today. and we'll take this as the base line, stuart and the loser buys dinner. >> if it's below this level, i buy you dinner. if it's above this level, you buy me dinner. >> i'll reverse that. if the economy is getting weaker, you buy me dinner. if the economy gets stronger, i'll buy you dinner anywhere you like. >> oh, my gosh. >> i know one thing for sure, though, i'm going to leave it a secret where that dinner will take place. >> yeah. ok, stu. thanks a lot. we'll watch you at 9:20 a.m. on the fox business network. coming up on "fox & friends", we've been following this one closely for you here on "fox & friends." one university forcing christian groups letting anyone, even atheists join their clubs like run a christian club. up next, we have an update on that story. >> and recycle or else! wait until you hear one city's bright idea to improve the cycling rate. some say it stinks literally. how can you just stand there? 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>> make it every month. save even more money. all right. we've been telling you about the religious firestorm at vanderbilt university over that school's anti-discrimination rule. the policy says student groups cannot take religion into consideration when students apply for leadership positions and now, 11 faith-based student organizations are banding together to protest. >> joining us from nashville is anld rube -- andrew harris, a baseball player at vanderbilt and leader of the fellowship for christian athletes, one of the 11 organizations that are protesting. how are you doing? >> good, how are you? >> i'm doing ok. we've been following the story for a couple of months now but we're a little concerned. what's your main concern with the fellowship of christian athletes that i used to be a member of that going forward, vanderbilt would require f.c.a. to do what? >> well, the main issue is that we have with the new policy is that we cannot -- we cannot require our leaders to affirm their faith. and at f.c.a., we allow anybody to come and we'd like to keep it that way and because we allow anybody to come regardless of religion, sexual orientation or anything, because we allow anybody to come, we believe it's really important that the leaders do affirm the faith. so that they can be a light to those people. >> right. because the way the university wants it to be is any organization, anybody from the outside can join the organization and eventually wind up the leader. for instance, the leader -- and we talked to the folks from vanderbilt catholic a couple of weeks ago. under these rules, by vanderbilt, an atheist could wind up running vanderbilt catholic and so they've decided to step out of the group. what's the fellowship of christian athletes going to do? >> we have banded together with 11 other organizations on campus and we actually had to apply for -- to be a registered group, i think, two nights ago and we all submitted a similar document saying that we do abide by the nondiscrimination policy. yet, we did add another clause saying that we would -- we are asking the administration to reconsider and say it's ok for us to require our leaders to affirm their faith. >> sure. you know, also, under the same ruling, i would imagine a republican could wind up being the head of the young democrats and vice versa. >> exactly. right. >> have any atheists to your knowledge tried to join the fellowship for christian athletes? >> not to my knowledge. i mean, i do know that we do have plenty of nonbelievers who do come to our meetings. again, f.c.a. is open to anybody and we would -- and we believe that's the reason for christianity, that anybody can come and learn and learn about the love of christ. and we believe that that's why it's so important that our leaders are grounded in that faith. >> sure. so going forward, if you're not going to be one of the recognized groups on campus, will you meet off campus? >> we meet pretty much off campus already. i think some of the ramifications would be -- i know for other organizations on campus that they would not get funding. also, i know that we would have issues with people -- with our -- one of our leaders -- some of our leaders having meetings with coaches or we would have issues trying to get space on campus. >> sure. >> logistical here. >> if you're not a registered group, i think that that could -- that could have some problems. >> thank you very much, andrew harris for dropping by and telling us your story from nashville. he, of course, a member of the fellowship of christian athletes. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you very much. >> you bet. >> what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. good idea? bad idea? let us know. up next, weight loss solution that much of america has been waiting for. a diet specifically for short people. and coming up, talk about going to the dogs. a ton of government cash going to the dog training school? 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>> it's been a disadvantage in the past. you know what's interesting? if you're smaller, every pound you lose really shows. so with a program that i put together that the combination of eating and exercise, you can really shed the weight and you can really see the difference in your body. that's exciting and it's motivating. the disadvantage of being a petite is that you can't eat like the big girls which actually was the first working title of the book. and if two women are both 45, both 160 pounds, one is 5'9" and one is 5'3" the difference in your daily calorie needs is only 40 calories. doesn't sound like a lot. but when you look at it over a year, you can gain four pounds of fat. over 10 years, 40 pounds of fat. over 30 years, 120 pounds of fat just because you're a smaller statue. >> with your diet, you have high calorie days and low calorie days. it's breakfast time. >> what you do at breakfast is front load the biggest meal of the day. mistake most women make, they want to save their calories. that's the recipe to gain weight. by front loading, this is eggs, the whole eggs, by the way, i love whole eggs with the yolk. it's vegetables, avocado, the good fat. cottage cheese. 40% of your daily calories should be in your breakfast. >> that's psychologically hard to do. >> it is, gretchen, but boy, does it work? it lets you eat less later in the day. it tips your mechanisms, your feeling of fullness. if i can keep you full and you should only be hungry first thing in the morning. if you're hungry later in the day, you're behind the eight ball already. >> interesting. >> salad, spinach, chicken, lots of vegetables great dressing, and you're getting 30% of your calories at dinner. that's your protein and your vegetables, the right carbohydrates. carbs should not be maligned. they're necessary for your body. >> i can eat that piece of salmon in one bite. >> that's a great comment. the thing is you'll be full because of your bigger breakfast which exactly is most women don't do. they save their calories and then you're starving at night and let's face it, if you're doing that strategy a lot of times you're gaining weight. i want to bring the weight back down. >> love this book and so many other women will love it, too, because half of all of us fit into that. >> no cardio when it comes to your exercise. strengthen to lengthen. do the strength training exercises and i'll give you a full body workout three times a week for 31 minutes, most women are shocked. i only ask you for an hour and a half of exercise a week and it gets the job done. >> check it out, the petite advantage diet. >> we hit "the new york times" bestseller list. very excited. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a big two hours of "fox & friends" straight ahead. we're talking about this. is hybrid fever stalling out now? >> and the dramatic video you have to see to believe. armed robbers using an 80-year-old woman as a human shield in a police shootout. come on! >> good morning, everyone. today is wednesday, april 11th. hope you're going to have a great day. thanks for spending part of it with us. people running for their lives after a magnitude 8.6 earthquake hits overnight. now a tsunami warning for the same areas devastated in 2004. we will have a live report for you. >> and rick santorum forfeits his fight for the g.o.p. nomination and it didn't take long for the showdown between mitt romney and president obama to begin. right now, the gloves are already off, steve. >> all right, eric, and meanwhile, a masked gunman in a shootout with cops uses an 80-year-old woman as a human shield. the wild video you don't want to miss and we've got the story. hour two for a wednesday, "fox & friends" live from new york starts right now. >> using an 80-year-old woman for a human shield. come on. >> that's desperation. something we're not desperate over is having eric bolling here. >> it is a good day. there's a lot of information come out today. you get it? you have it? 411. april 11th. information. >> you're too quick for us, bolling! >> all right. >> even on little things. >> unless you're in europe and it's 11/4. >> that's true. what does that mean? >> while those true to figure out the mass equations, let me bring you the headlines. start with the fox news alert. tsunami watch in effect for the entire indian ocean this morning following a powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake that hit off the northern indonesian island of sumatra about two hours ago. 28 countries will be affected now by those watches. but right now, there are no signs of a major tsunami hitting. meantime, new video showing the tense moment as the quake hits. people seen running out of their homes and offices. electricity has been knocked out. there are also reports of several aftershocks. people being told to move to higher ground now. at this time, there appears to be little damage. another breaking news story to tell you about right now to sky fox, first on the scene of a fire in paterson, new jersey. you can see firefighters trying to get water on the flames right now. that's a warehouse that's gone up in flames. a commercial building behind a loews store. no word of any injuries. we're keeping an eye on this one and keep you posted. more shocking details out of the general services administration, the g.s.a. spending scandal. not only did they blow massive amounts of taxpayer dollars for a conference near las vegas but now it's coming out that they got bonuses to come up with that plan. 15 employees of the g.s.a. got between 50 or $500 and $1,000 for their work planning that lavish bash. we know from testimony martha johnson, the former head of the g.s.a. didn't attend that conference because she had meetings scheduled with all companies allegedly solyndra. solyndra got a loan from the obama administration before going bankrupt. we've learned that the g.s.a. planned to return to las vegas for a conference coming up on april 25th but now that conference has been canceled. some terrifying video out of ohio. a masked gunman using an 80-year-old woman as a human shield all while he shoots at police. the whole thing going down at a dollar store. the suspect and his cousin just robbed the place when the cops showed up, guns drawn. that's when the guy grabs the 80-year-old woman and drags her out with him through the back door before shoving her to the ground near a dumpster. both suspects managed to escape but they were caught two months later. >> special place in hell for guys like that. >> all right. we're probably watching it live now on the fox newschannel yesterday after a long night on monday night, rick santorum there in gettysburg, pennsylvania, decided that he was going to suspend his campaign. apparently, he realized, you know, texas was not going to be a winner take all state. newt gingrich not getting out of things. his daughter ill. he decided that it was time to call it quits. and some aides told abc it had nothing to do with the fact that there's a potential that mitt romney wins his home state. he said look, you know what? he has lost that state before. a loss again would not devastate him. >> it was interesting timing because the primary in pennsylvania, his home state is not until april 24th. so, you know, you're looking at two weeks away, maybe he just felt like the pressure would continue to mount and the polls would continue to show he was maybe going to be slipping and the pundits would continue to say hey, if he loses his home state, it's really all over. i think it's interesting timing and you have to wonder about who got to him, you know, who got to him to try to convince him? was it just his family? maybe so. or maybe there's some sort of a back room deal going on. >> let me play devil's advocate and let me say that rick santorum did the right thing for the g.o.p. and he got out before, you know, mitt romney or the -- who will probably be the presumptive nominee, before he spends too much money and we've heard about a $2.9 million ad buy he has to make for pennsylvania. he may be able to get some of that back, i'm reading, but why not? if it's going to be mitt romney, why not get out now and -- >> a big winner here. >> behind the one that's going to be president obama. i find the timing interested. in the last 10 days or so, rick santorum seemed to be energized and seems to have an extra bounce in his step. maybe things changed over the last 10 days. >> santorum had a big gap over romney and it was starting -- >> it was growing. >> yeah, it was -- >> in the gap in pennsylvania and, you know, that -- >> if you're going to spend money, you want to make sure you're winning. if he's not going to win it, that would have been tough for everybody involved. >> it looks like it's going to be mitt romney unless, as brit hume said last night, mitt romney falls into the orchestra pit or breaks his neck or something like that. karl rove was on the sean hannity program last night and said what does this now mean for the campaign? look for the president to get even more partisan at events that we pay for. >> this now makes it clear that the general election has begun and we're likely to see the president's rhetoric tonight in florida, you know, he made two appearances. he made an appearance at a campaign fundraiser and then he went to the florida atlantic university where, if anything, his rhetoric at a taxpayer sponsored event was more harsh, more negative, more partisan and clearly connected to the campaign. he literally talks about candidates running for president. he all but -- the only thing he didn't say was romney but everything else in this taxpayer funneleded event was a direct attack. >> it was. >> so now you have mitt romney and barack obama going after one another but let's not forget, we still have ron paul in the race and we still have newt gingrich in the race. newt gingrich who has fewer delegates still deciding to be in. he said he's going to take it all the way to the convention in tampa which is at the end of august. i guess money will play into that. >> very interesting you say that, money, because within minutes after rick santorum stepped aside the podium, newt gingrich tweeted, hey, it's down to a two-man race meaning the g.o.p., he completely ignored ron paul, by the way, how about a donation and asked for donations so he's apparently -- >> because he announced a check yesterday to register in utah. brit hume talked a little bit with greta last night about what's going to happen. will the party coalesce around newt? here's brit. >> he still thinks that there's some extreme possibility that lightning could strike, romney could falter in some way and that the -- that the party would turn to him. my sense about that is if lightning struck and romney were not able to go forward, that the party probably would not turn to him. but hey, a guy can hope! >> so it looks like it is now game on as rick santorum said, and it's mitt romney vs. barack obama. >> all right. let's shift gears, no pun intended right now. and talk about hybrid cars. we know that there's been a big push to try to get electric cars, more of them, out on the road but there's a new study out that shows that people who actually purchase a hybrid car, hybrid drivers, do they really end up liking their cars? so in other words, do they go back to those dealerships and purchase another one after they've had the experience? well, here's the question. how much do hybrid drivers really like their cars? 35% who bought a hybrid purchased another one. 2.4% of new cars are hybrids down from 2.9% in 2008. 35% of those who bought one purchased another one. i don't know, that's 1 out of 3. i guess you could determine maybe they weren't completely happy. >> and of course, the number does go up as gasoline prices do go up. $3.92 a gallon today approaching the record of $4.11, all time high so they may start to like their hybrids a little better. i drove the new toyota camry hybrid. they've had hybrids before. this is a new car. there it is right there. >> you're a tough critic. they let you do that? >> i drove the volt and i liked the car. it needs a lot of work. this one right here, this camry now, the difference between an electric car and a hybrid is this. the electric car, the volt, drains all the electric power first and then it switches itself over to gasoline. the hybrid, this toyota uses both so when you're idling it goes back to electricity and when you take off, you need the extra power, you use gasoline and when you brake, it throws energy back into the battery. it charges its own battery. fantastic car. i really, really liked the car and it was about -- the one i drove was about $13,000 to $14,000 less than the chevy volt and this car on a full tank of gas and power gets somewhere around 650 to 700 miles going. >> my neighbor has one of those cars. so if you had one of those and then, you know, it was time to buy another car, would you buy another one of those? >> i would. only question i have and something we need to address is what happens with the battery technology? do you have to replace -- some people say around 100,000, you have to replace it and it could get very expensive. i don't know that. but as far as the drive, the ride, big fan of the hybrid. >> wow. so the harsh critic is giving a positive response to something. >> there you go. >> back in 2009, the united states government started this great program to help military spouses. and the spouses of some enlisted personnel where they would get $4,000 over three years to help earn a certificate or some sort of professional training. as it turns out in this program, it's helping a lot of people but there is very little scrutiny, very little oversight because when you look at the list of organizations that have gotten money, the number 5 recipient of funds for this military spouse program has gone to a dog program. >> the animal behavior college in 2011, $2.7 million came from the federal government. for people there to earn certificates, licenses and associate's degrees. here's the interesting thing. you have a democratic senator from iowa, tom harkin, who says this -- the program is a terrific proposal designed to help meet president obama's goal of america once again having the highest proportion of college educated citizens in the world by 2020 but taxpayer funded dog walking classes do not help meet that goal. so maybe there should be a little bit more oversight. i mean, how many more stories like this do we have to do before we realize that one way to cut all the spending in this country is to actually get rid of the fraud that's going on. >> oversight is good. but so is a program like this. also happens to be good. i'm in favor -- i'm in favor of these programs. >> but the money is supposed to go to military spouses and so -- >> supposed to get education to go to college. i'm not sure -- >> gretchen, i have a very soft spot for the animals and the service dogs. >> i believe it does train people to train dogs and stuff like that so it trains them in this. >> i don't mean to be the dissenting voice on the curvy couch. >> believe me. >> this guy has looked at what the requirements are and he has fulfilled them and he said, the owner of this dog college says he understands why the program might raise eyebrows. he says this is not a fly-by-night organization. he has followed the rules so this dog college has wound up the number five recipient in the military spouse money. >> extremely important program, the service dog program. just pointing it out, that's all. >> another important thing to point out, 26% of military spouses are unemployed so that is the reason this program may be necessary. coming up on "fox & friends", a perplexing new poll finds independent voters like president obama but agree more with mitt romney. how do you please those all important swing voters? 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depends on your income, doesn't it, dave? >> well, neither -- i mean, the roth i.r.a. will not offset your income. it's not tax deductible this year. it's an after tax investment. only thing that will offset income this year is the traditional i.r.a. and in spite of that, i'm going to say hey, pay a little more in taxes now and do the roth i.r.a. for most everyone. unless you're a little bit older in your 60's or something, the map on the roth works out beautifully because most of what is in your account at retirement is growth and with the roth, the growth is all tax free so i would give up the tax break this year. >> can anyone get a roth? i thought if you made a certain amount of money, you're not eligible for a roth. >> you're right, if you make over $154,000 married filing jointly you can't do a roth or $95,000 as a single, can't do roth. those of us who make more than that we're evil and must be punished because of buffet's secretary. >> dave, we're trying to pay down our debts but we have little in savings. my wife wants to put all our tax return money in savings about $8,000. i would like to pay off a couple of credit cards. how should we use this refund? i know what's coming. go ahead. >> well, you should pay off the credit cards as long as you're going to work an overall plan to finish getting out of debt so that then you can do what your wife is saying which is build up the emergency fund. so the answer is you're both right as long as you work a game plan. i would do the credit cards first so that, i've got more money later to build that savings, that emergency fund in what we call baby step three but both are right. it's a matter of the order you get at it. >> and the final e-mail in our order is from anita in baltimore. she said we've been blessed this year and would like to make a contribution to a local charity. we don't know where to begin. how do you determine which charity to donate money to? that's a great question. >> thank you, anita. you're a great american. this is how we put the government out of business. we outgive them. this is what you should be doing. when you get ready to do investments in into a charity, that's how you should look at it. study the charity as if you were studying an investment. is it a quality charity? is there bang for the buck? if i give them $10,000, do they spend $9,700 of it on a luxury office or do hungry children get fed with most of that? so look at the ratio of administrative fees to actually what goes to the ministry or to the actual use of the people. and study the quality of the character and the leadership just like you were studying a company to invest in it. >> very quickly, you can donate property and stocks below market value and get a tax writeoff, right? >> absolutely, huge tax writeoff. you can write it off at market value, not what you've got in it. not your basis. good point, eric. >> great to talk to you. we'll see you next week. >> hey, good to be with you. thank you. >> thank you. >> straight ahead, the president wants the rich to pay more as dave just mentioned. but the facts show that won't help our deficit barely at all. so why make that his main message? peter johnson jr. knows and he'll spill them beans coming up. >> and imagine this, we've gotten into the college of your dreams. >> only to find out it was a glitch? 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we told you about several of these kinds of stories. should the kids be allowed to get into the school even though they weren't supposed to or should they just accept the mistake and say sorry, i got to choose another one. >> this is one of the toughest times of the year when you're waiting for the big envelope to come from the school. the little envelope, you don't really want. for these 894 high school seniors to get this note that says congratulations you're in, a lot of people are saying look, the admission class is 15,500, what's another 894? come on, figure a way, pull the chairs together. admit them all! >> that's a lot. >> it is a lot. let's see what ucla said. we sincerely apologize for this mistake that may have led some of them they were admitted when they remain on the waiting list. spokesman for ucla. >> says you're in. yeah, that would lead to believe you're in, right? >> bigger question if you dig a little deeper. this is much more controversial and folks in california have been talking about this is whether or not there were a lot of illegals who were allowed to come into that school vs. citizens. now, that might be a serious argument. as far as just on the surface, those 800 kids, i mean, i don't see how you do it. california is so strapped for cash right now, i don't know if they can increase their class size to accept those extra kids. >> let us know what you think. >> i wonder if somebody is going to get fired. a lot of kids' hearts broken. in the meantime, fox news alert for you. we've been following this this morning. a tsunami warning is in effect for the entire indian ocean following a powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake. it hit off the coast of indonesia. our man in that region is david piper live in bangkok, thailand, where the night there. any idea that if a tsunami wave is going to come ashore it will? >> well, there's still great concern at this moment. indonesia has now issued a second tsunami alert after an 8.2 magnitude aftershock which is a large earthquake in its own right. a few hours ago, there was that 8.6 quake but it doesn't seem to have created any tsunamis. but there was panic on the streets particularly in a province of sumatra in indonesia. they were trying to get to higher ground and getting people out of hospitals, just like that, in order to escape a possible tsunami. you have to remember that area was devastated back in 2004 when there was a great indian ocean tsunami that killed over 230,000 people. now, this 8.6 quake was so powerful, it was felt here in thailand, malaysia, and singapore. and there were tsunami warnings and people have been told to evacuate areas like puket and here in tie land, a lot of thais have gone to the coastline, this is the start of the water festival and they really want their holidays but now many of them have had to escape possible tsunamis but at this time, we haven't seen any tsunamis but there is still alerts in place. back to you guys. >> all right, david piper live in thailand with the very latest. thank you very much. the worry is, of course, you've got a warning and night is falling. it will come in the night. >> and maybe a little more warning this time than last time. all right, we're giving you a rare glimpse into the lives of usama bin laden's family. this new video showing his three wives under house arrest in islamabad, pakistan. you can see them praying and reading the quran. their children playing nearby. bin laden's wives and two of his daughters are serving 45-day sentences for illegally entering the country. after that, they'll be deported to their home countries of yemen and saudi arabia. >> the special prosecutor in the trayvon martin case down in florida will make a big announcement as early as today. meantime, george zimmerman's lawyers calling it quits. saying zimmerman hasn't contacted them in days. one person who has spoken to zimmerman, fox news anchor sean hannity. >> yesterday, i was contacted by an individual that we thought was george zimmerman. he reached out to me and we spoke on the phone about his case and i agreed not to report on the contents of that conversation. that's it. i know nothing about his relationship with his now former attorneys. >> so far, zimmerman is protected from legal action saying that he killed trayvon in self-defense but we'll await that big announcement from down in florida later on today. >> meanwhile, goldielocks has nothing on this guy. take a look at a black bear roaming a southern california neighborhood when he comes face to face with a guy texting on his phone. the guy hightails out of there as fast as he can. the bear -- thanks, scott. the bear eventually tranquilized and returned to jellystone forest. i'm kidding. back into the woods. >> i will not fight a plan that adds one dime to our deficit either now or into the future. >> the obama administration continues to tout the so-called savings obamacare will bring as well as the benefits of his buffet rule adding more taxes on the rich. is he making promises he just can't keep? joining us now to discuss, fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. >> good morning, you know, eric, i think the president is pushing aside harry houdini and david copperfield. he has become the master illusionist. this is about cynical misdirection and redistribution not only of wealth but of blame. he's saying listen, i can't create jobs. i can't instill confidence in america and their economy. i can't reduce gas prices. but i can blame the rich. and i can incite americans to say listen, i don't have a job for you. i can't reduce the gas prices. but look at what these rich have done! look at how they're not paying their fair share and we know through the tax policy center and others, that in fact, most millionaires are paying what they're supposed to pay under the law, we know based on statistics we saw yesterday what the true cost of all of this is going to be. let's talk about obama and what he's deali with, there was someone who said yesterday based on his study, a great conservative economist, he said that spending under obamacare is going to increase by as much as $1. $1.25 trillion and that federal deficits will be as much as $530 billion. so on one hand, the president is talking about saving $50 billion in benefits by taxing a few thousand people more but we're talking about a half a trillion dollars in new deficits at a result of obamacare so it's a cynical misdirection in my view and it doesn't go to the heart of what we need to be doing in this country. >> well, it doesn't attack the debt at all. none of these programs attack the debt at all. what they do is attack the fairness or the class warfare or enabling the class warfare rhetoric to continue forward. >> it does. and so what it does, it provides that satisfied for a target for their anger and recrimination other than the white house. that's the body that's supposed to help create jobs and reduce the deficit. but if you can create a target and misdirect people's emotions and anger, that's an effective political tactic for centuries. >> the target that they -- the redirection they create is on about every corner in america, there's a gasoline station and most of them say $4 and something a gallon. that will be a hard one for them to redirect. >> i think it is a one and to reach out to an audience of a few thousand people and say blame the rich. blame the rich. those folks still leave without a job. and they still go to the gas station paying the prices that you talk about. and that's the unfortunate part about what we're seeing. >> thank you very much. >> good to see you, eric. why wait for the t.s.a.? one woman stripping down at the airport on her own. really? plus the veep stakes are on and denial is the name of the game so when does no really mean no? a look at the frontrunners coming up next. 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>> with the republican convention away now, the clock is ticking for mitt romney to choose his running mate. when it comes to the veep stakes, denial seems to be the name of the game. >> no, i'll stay in the state and continue doing what i'm going to do. >> i won't rule it out only because i think that i owe it to governor romney if he would ask me the question to sit and listen to him. >> i would have to consider it. it's not something i'm even thinking about right now. >> so why are they playing so coy? joining me now, dr. larry sabado, professor of political science at the university of virginia. denial is the name of the game if you're a possible v.p. pick, is that how it goes? >> for the most part, look, they don't want to be embarrassed if they're not picked. if they're out there actively campaigning for the position and then romney doesn't pick them for it, you know, it is embarrassing to them and they get a lot of ribbing for it. so the right position to take at least for most of them is to say oh, it's all theoretical, why, i'd never be called anyway and i just love my current job. i wouldn't dream of giving it up except they'd accept in a nanosecond if they were asked to join the ticket in the vast majority of cases. >> all right. so let's take a look at some of the possible v.p. picks. i guess we're going to be parsing through this list for the next couple of months, larry, because this will be the next suspenseful thing. so you have governor haley, south carolina, senator rubio, gornor chris christie, congressman paul ryan, former senator rob portman of ohio and then the governor of virginia, bob mcdonald. now, the only difference there, bob mcdonald has actually been very forthright in saying he'd be up for the job. >> yes. my governor has been very, very forthright and we have nicknamed him "i'm available". bob "i'm available" mcdonald because he's been so forthright about his willingness to accept the vice presidency. there's a reason. keep in mind, virginia is the only state left that has a one term -- one consecutive term limit so he's out of a job at the end of 2013 regardless and he's looking to the next thing as most politicians do. >> so what do you think with all the history that you've looked at, what's the most important thing, the number one factor that the nominee would look for in picking a v.p.? >> this is not necessarily conventional wisdom but gretchen, i'm convinced having studied the vice presidential selection over many, many cycles that a presidential nominee is best off when he ignores all other factors and picks a person who is clearly, clearly qualified to step into the presidency on day one. >> wow! >> that's what most americans want to see. now, it's wonderful if you get a packet of electoral votes along with that. >> right. >> it's wonderful if you get new peals to a certain demographic groups that a candidate may have to attract to win the presidency. that's great. but you can't forget the fundamental of picking somebody who is qualified to be president. >> yeah. very interesting. one heartbeat away from that top job. before you go, real quickly answer this for me. is it any different this year around because there appears to be this split in the republican party. if romney is the nominee, he has to pick a more conservative v.p. any logic to that? >> well, we hear that. and, you know, honestly, gretchen, we hear it every four years because there's always a split in the republican party, there's always a split in the democratic party and people play these games and i'm as guilty as anybody else. but in the end, it will -- it will be mitt romney's judgment. he is singularly responsible for this decision. we'll be held accountable for it. >> ok. very interesting. dr. larry sabato, see you again very soon. thanks so much. >> thanks, gretchen. >> coming up on "fox & friends", no desire to have kids? are you missing a maternal gene? dr. keith ablow will rule if that's normal or not. but first on this day in 1974, elton john had the number one song with "benny and the jets." sing it. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> normal or not? do you ever wonder if your zany hab habits, impulses and unique behaviors are crossing the line from normal to nuts. this is our favorite segments, weekly analysis of the quirks and fears that make us human. good morning to you, sir. >> hey, steve, how are you? >> i'm doing fine. >> first e-mail, i have no desire for kids. i didn't have a bad childhood and i certainly wasn't abused but i don't want children. am i just missing a maternal gene or is something wrong with me? they want to know. >> well, here's the thing. look, people make all kinds of life decisions. and the one thing you would want to do because look, the viewer is very careful to say look, i wasn't abused. you don't have to be abused in order to decide my family was too stressful. i don't want another family. and if that's the case, then a little therapy might help you to see hey, you could create a very different kind of family and free you to have kids. look, you can give birth to lots of things in your life. parts of yourself, businesses, ideas and you can take care of other people. no, that's normal. >> ok. we got one normal. next up, how about this? my wife is crazy for "star wars" figurines, especially darth vader. she has tons of them in the den and they're showing up in the bedroom mantle as well. she spends a fortune on them. more than we can afford. normal or nuts? >> number one, sleep with one eye open. you have darth vader in your bedroom, you have to be careful. bottom line is this guy and his wife can't afford these. this is a sign of a kind of obsessive compulsive hoarding mindset. we got to call this what it is. it's focused. it's about figurines you can't afford. it's nuts! >> ok. there you go. and finally, guy writes in. my business partner is the most suspicious person i've ever met. he thinks everyone is either against us but now i worry he can burn bridges. >> there's that famous saying in psychiatry even, you know, paranoid people have some enemies. so sure, your partner helped build the business and he's got a sixth sense for when people are against you folks. but the bottom line is now it's overgrown and you're getting the downside from it. paranoia is paranoia. that's nuts! >> that's nuts. all right. always entertaining and interesting as well. dr. keith ablow joining us from boston. thank you very much. if you have a question for the doctor, log on to foxandfriends.com or e-mail him right here. he'll answer them every week. meanwhile, the hits keep on coming. the geniuses who use taxpayer dollars to make these videos apparently got cash bonuses for their efforts. and that's not all. more insults top of the hour. the cain train stopping by our green room! herman cain live. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower olesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? 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store. a stretch of the road closed in both direction. two powerful earthquakes hit off the northern indonesian island of sinatra. it happened earlier today. a 8.6 magnitude, then 8.2 magnitude nearly two hours later. the entire indian ocean under a tsunami warning now. it's affecting 28 countries. video in the short time ago to fox shows people running out of their homessen their offices. electricity has been knocked out. so far, no reports of major damage. people being told to move to higher ground. master mind behind the september 11 going to trial after more than ten years. khalid shaikh mohammed and the other defendants will be arraigninged. in the middle of a court case when mohammed said i did it, the case was suspend after president obama tried to have it moved to federal court. now they face the death penalty for murdering 2976 people in new york, dc, and shanksville, pennsylvania. this may not be the best use of your tax dollars. the department of homeland security spending your money on ads warning mexicans not to enter the u.s. illegally. >> steve: about time. >> gretchen: they focus on dangers of trying to cross the border illegally. there has been a surge of violence near the border. most blamed on drug cartels. it's not clear how much of an impact the outreach campaign has had on thwarting the crossing. if you come over lyrics you have a better life. race right over. >> steve: danger of dying out in the desert. four minutes after the top of the hour. there was good news and bad news in politics yesterday. the bad news, newt gingrich apparently bounced a check. he was trying to register for utah. the good news for mitt romney, that guy right there, rick santorum, who did a great job wage ago great campaign against mitt romney, mr. santorum yesterday said it's the end of the trail for him. he's going to suspend things and now the question is what is going to happen with all of his delegates. >> eric: very quickly, what happens to his delegates legally, or according to the gop, is 84 of them are free to vote whoever they want to at the convention in august. 197 or so, ballpark, if rick santorum releases them, they have the option to vote for who they want. get their support behind who they want. but rick santorum has to -- i have a hunch he will for the good the party. it's important to note, money wise, he's suspending the campaign because if he were to quit the campaign, he'd have to come up with the money to pay all his -- >> steve: i think that's when hillary did. >> eric: when you suspend, you can bide more time. >> gretchen: i find it interesting timing that he chose yesterday to do this. it was somewhat viesing to me, pennsylvania's home state works weeks away, even though people were saying that would be horrendous if he lost his home state. but also his daughter was ill over the last couple of days. maybe that is what made his family sit down and look at priorities. but also i felt like he had sort of a spring in his step the last ten days or so. he seemed to be more fired up in the last two weeks than previous. so the timing was a little surprising. the other thing is that newt gingrich has vowed he's going to stay in this race. so had he gotten out, maybe then santorum could have edged -- picked up some of the gingrich supporters and edged along a little more. but the timing is a little interesting. >> steve: dick morris says this is a net gain for mitt romney because at the end of the contest, the republicans will all get on the romney band wagon. listen. >> there can be no doubt that mitt romney is going to get the votes of more than 90% of self-described republicans and that there is going to be an enormous turnout among republicans, motivated by the fear of obama and his presidency. i do not think there is a serious chance of any kind of major deinfection from romney. >> gretchen: i think that's interesting because if you ask conservatives that today, they might not agree with dick morris. >> steve: they want obama out. >> gretchen: maybe eventually they would come over, but you have to somehow, if you're mitt romney, you have to somehow get that base behind you because why? you got to get them out to vote! >> steve: they don't like the president. they want the president out. i think that's going to be the motivation for tuesday in november. >> eric: watch these polls. lately the last few polls are showing president obama with between a 5 and eight point lead over mitt romney. now that rick santorum dropped out and some of the conservative emphasis going toward mitt romney, i p bet you that tightens and you start to slip a little bit. i would agree, steve. i think the true conservatives are so concerned about the obama policies, fiscal policies that they're going to get behind anyone and it looks like it will be romney. >> steve: mitt romney knows in his heart it's going to be him and he continued yesterday in wilmington, delaware, the thing he has been doing. he hasn't been attacking his fellow republicans. he's been going right after the president of the united states and he uses for the first time we have heard a statistic that is absolutely jaw dropping. he's going to mention that 92% of the people who lost jobs during barak obama's 3 1/2 years have been women. listen to this. >> you look at the experience of this administration and the last 3 1/2 years and you can see that something is seriously wrong with his perspective. not only have 92% of the job losses been among women, but you've seen 800,000 people over all lose jobs, home values decline, the median income of americans in the last four years has dropped by 10%! these have been tough years. you have failed. we have seen it. you can't hide it. we're going to change it! >> steve: 92% of the women of the people who lost jobs on barak obama's watch have been women? that's big. >> gretchen: it seems impossible. >> eric: yeah. >> gretchen: 'cause i thought all along that more men had lost jobs. >> eric: he may have misspoke a little bit. there may be another qualifier. >> steve: i think the gop put out something talk being okay, mr. obama says that the republicans have a war on women? now the republicans have turned it around to say, who has got the war on women. look how many women lost their jobs during this administration. >> eric: we'll see if there is a clarification. but again, the one thing that was important that he did say is that median income has dropped over the three years that president obama has been president. clearly the policy he's put in just aren't working. >> gretchen: what you need to focus on really is just the unemployment rate in general. it's still 8.2%. >> eric: and the cost of gas. >> gretchen: you have to look at the jobs created. >> eric: the cost of gas. >> gretchen: even though the employment rate has come down by a point from 8.3 to 8.2, the jobs created were fewer than expected and that's really where you see the pulse of the economy. >> eric: there is still almost a million fewer jobs in america today than january 20, 2009. so no matter how you spin it, you can call it the last six months, pick a few months out, job creation is coming back, but there is still fewer jobs in america right now and the population is growing. so they're not work. just not work. >> steve: something that the president hopes works is class warfare and yesterday he went down to florida, atlantic university in boca to talk about the buffet rule. this is supposed to be nonpolitical. supposed to be just policy. it sure sounds political. >> they keep telling us that if we just weaken regulations that keep our air or water clean or protect our consumers, if we would just convert these investments that we're making through our government in education and research and health care, if we just turn those into tax cut, especially for the wealthy, then somehow the economy is going to go stronger. that's the theory. and here is the news: we tried this for eight years before i took office. we tried it. it's not like we didn't try it. >> steve: especially policy, it was all politics. >> eric: you know what else we tried? we pride spending $6 trillion in deficit spending and that's not working either, president obama. i think you need a new victim, a new villain. >> steve: you're speaking directly to the president? is he watching right now? >> eric: yeah. >> gretchen: as long as that populist -- internal polling must be showing that message is work 'cause he keeps saying the same thing. it's a story we've been following closely. one university forcing christian groups to let anyone, even atheists, run their club. up next, we'll have an update on that story. >> eric: and the king train is here. the former presidential candidate on where the race goes from here and his pick for the vice president. that's next ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new 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>> paul ryan's reputation for being very good at budgets. he's very good at that whole financial area which you're going to need. plus he knows how to navigate the legislative process. marco rubio because he's an excite young senator that everybody loves in florida and the other thing is you got rubio and west both from the state of florida. that does not hurt. but i just happen to think that even though as west indicated, he feels as if he's far apart in some ways from mitt romney, they can come together on some of those things. that's part of the process if he is selected. >> eric: you left one name off the list. he needs someone to invigorate the party, a guy who does a lot of that ask he's a couple miles across the river, chris christie. >> no way. i think that that would be perceived, with all due respect to chris christie, i think the rest of the country, which i see a lot of speaking around, they would perceive that as two northeastern governors, president and vp candidate. i don't think perception wise that would be a good thing. >> steve: you mentioned a couple of guys from florida, marco rubio and colonel west. what about a third guy from florida, jeb bush? >> i don't think so, because that would also create a perception -- you know, unfortunately, in politics, perception is a big part of it. >> steve: is it just too soon? >> it's too soon for another bush. i'm just going to say it. this is what what i'm hearing. no disrespect, but i just think from a perception standpoint, that would not be good. >> steve: he's a good leader. >> good leader, good manager. did a good job as governor of florida. but i think for the rest of the country, they wouldn't evaluate it on that. >> gretchen: what about newt gingrich? you endorsed him for president. we just had larry sabato on the show, professor at the university of virginia who studied this type of thing and he said that most important factor is who can step right into the role and become president. so could newt gingrich be a good pick? >> newt gingrich could step into the role, but i believe that that is 50% of the decision. the other 50%, who is going to bring some excitement to the ticket? with all due respect, i don't think newt would bring that excitement because he has been one of the candidates and where he is right now. >> eric: governor palin is a good friend of pipe and i asked her, true conservatives are looking to get behind the person that's going to beat barak obama. with rick santorum dropping out l the real conservative, far right conservative finally get behind mitt romney? >> if -- let me give you two ifs. if governor romney continues to clearly delineate the failed policies of the obama administration and clearly talk about what he would do instead, the second is if he adopts many of the good ideas that came out of this primary process, some of the things that ron paul said, some of the things that newt gingrich said, like the 2.50-gallon with the plan. if he adopts some of those ideas, their followers and supporters could get excited about mitt romney. that's how he brings the party together. >> steve: one of the things you spoke out against is government waste. i'm sure you've seen the video of the guys from the gsa out in vegas last year living it up, spending close to a million dollars. now the report is apparently some of those people got cash bonuses. 500,000 bucks for doing such a good job wasting our money. >> the obama strategy, based upon the class warfare, snippets you all showed. instead of hope and change is turning out to be more like waste and welfare and fear. fear, welfare and waste. this is outrageous. the american people are going to make note of it. they're trying to slough it off and worse, they're trying blame the bush administration! the american people are not that stupid. >> gretchen: you got to wonder if we're exposing that, how much more waste. >> it's probably a lot more than that. >> steve: tip of the iceberg. >> you got it. >> steve: thank you, cain train for dropping by. >> gretchen: in person, the tie is yellow. >> it's gold, gretchen! >> gretchen: better yet. good to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, should our kids be admiring today's celebrities? are they the right kind of role models? are all the true heros gone? our next guest has a plan to bring them back. >> eric: former president george w. bush once again entering into the debate over tax cuts. he says leave my name out of it. 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[ applause ] did you notice on the news they say, american bubba watson. you ever met anybody named bubba who wasn't an american? i mean, what are the odds? please welcome from london england, sir bubba windsor, ladies and gentlemen. who else but an american would be named bubba? >> steve: he's got a point. >> eric: bubba gump, bubba clinton. americans. >> steve: 28 minutes before the top of the hour. president obama set to make yet another attempt this morning to sell the buffet rule to voters as he tries to shoot down criticism he's engaging in class warfare. >> eric: doug is live at the white house with more. what's the latest? >> the president will be speaking at 10:15 on the buffet rule. very clear at this point that he's going to make this a major campaign theme regardless of its potential political liabilities. after all, when was the last time you heard a president campaigning on a tax increase, even on millionaires? under the so-called buffet rule, people making more than a million dollars a year would pay a tax rate of at least 30%. it would result in $36.7 billion per year in additional tax revenues. yesterday in a campaign rally, an important swing state of florida, the president again championed the buffet rule. >> and finally, we've got to make sure that we've got a tax system that reflects everybody doing their fair share. let's follow what we call the buffet rule. they may call it class envy or -- that's just being fair. >> with mitt romney freed up from his intraparty battle with rick santorum, it appears he is welcoming a battle over the buffet rule, which he considers to be a tax on small businesses and on job creators. here is mitt romney. >> and the president is going to use all sorts of terms oh, we're going to be more fair in the model that he has. and yet, it is my viewing, a model which does not designate fairness when the government takes from some and gives to others. >> some analysts believe the president's emphasis on the buffet rule is tailor made for opposition to a candidate like romney. warren buffet is a billionaire who is willing to pay a 30% tax rate on his income. mitt romney, a millionaire, who is for the past two years o'clock paid an effective tax rate of about 14% on his investment income. but what you won't hear from the white house is that mitt romney's investment income is taxed at least three times. first when he makes the money, secondly, when it's taxed as investment income, and thirdly, he'll be taxed again when he dies on an estate tax or death tax. so the battle has been joined, gentlemen. >> steve: doug live on the north lawn. he's absolutely right. it's double taxed. they don't bring that up. i had forgotten about the death tax, which is substantial, going up. >> eric: this is class warfare because it's clearly not attacking the debt because even if you were to do what's called -- what president obama is using as the buffet rule, you're only going to come in around $4 billion a year. we're adding $1.2 trillion this year and maybe about a trillion dollars next year on to the national debt. it's really not about solving the debt crisis. it's all about pointing out a fairness kind of doctrine, if you will. so is it fair. >> steve: let's talk a little about who actually pays taxes in this chrism we've got a graphic right over there that shows that the president is trying to get people who are the job creators to pay more in income tax. but the top 1% pay close to 40% of all the taxes in this country. and the top 10% pay 70%. and eric, about half pay zero. >> eric: keep that up there for a second 'cause that top 1% not only accounts for 36.7% of all taxes paid, if you add in the 4045 or 46% of the people households who don't pay tax, that 1% pays the same amount as 95% of the bottom half. so if you go from the bottom up to 95% of the people in america, that 1% is paying the same amount of taxes. >> steve: the president -- how is that fair? it's not. the president has been using warren buffet because he says he pays less in taxes than his secretary. but when you look at the facts about the amount of money that -- let's say his secretary is probably highly compensated. but the average person in the middle class, according to the irs data, pays under 15%. we're talking about people, 50, 60, $70,000. they pay 15%. whereas the average person who makes over a million dollars a year pays close to 30%, which is -- they're already paying that. clearly the president is not interested in policy. he's interested in pushing politics. >> eric: let's talk with warren buffet for a second. he says he pays less than his secretary. what he's saying is not in dollars, he's saying that the rates he pay social security lower than his secretary. that's because he takes advantage of tax loopholes. >> steve: all legal. >> eric: also because he pays 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends. you don't hear him talking about that. i did this a couple hours ago. i'll do it again. warren buffet, come on to the curvy couch, let's have a discussion about whether or not president obama should call his plan of taxing people over a million dollars at 30%, should he call that the buffet rule because i know and i've heard you say it before, you've said it's got to be a revamping of the tax code along the lines of simpson-bowles which also includes massive spending cuts. so is it fair to use the buffet rule as a name when it has almost nothing to do with what you would do to solve the debt crisis? >> steve: from the buffet rule to the bush tax cuts, george w. bush was in new york city yesterday and he wanted to talk a little bit about what the president is doing and how the president wants to end the bush tax cuts. here is w. >> if the goal is private sector growth, you got to recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators. secondly, if you raise taxes -- if you -- i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. they're called something else, they're probably less likely to be raised. >> eric: good point. barak obama tax cuts and maybe they'll stick around. >> steve: okay. you can start that. >> eric: i shall. he was caught in a 14-hour battle against insurgents in afghanistan before calling in air strikes, clearing the area and ultimately saving the lives of his fellow service members. now this brave american hero is earning the air force's highest honor, the air force cross. joining us now, captain barry crawford. captain, first of all, thank you for your service. you're a hero. can you break it down? i was reading that, you actually within into an open area, exposed yourself to incoming fire and helped remove some people, some casualties. is that right? >> that is correct. first thank you for having me and the special forces teammates and i attached to the afghan commandos were completely surrounded and were in a dire situation and my teammates, as well as myself, did the actions that needed to be continue to take flight to the enchristmas eve get out of there as best we could. >> eric: set the scene for us. so you go out there. there is some casualties that you need -- that need to be air lifted. you get out there and you start helping a helicopter that lands to pick up the casualties. you helped them remove the casualties from the area? >> my job as a combat controller, as the helicopters are coming in, everyone under fire, so i knew i had to get their eyes on me and once they were able to see me, i was able to get the eyes on the hlz. so i had to move out into the open so they could see me. i knew i was going to be a giant target, but it was worth it 'cause we were able to get the commandos out and save their lives. >> eric: at one point you took incoming fire. is that right? did i read a bullet had taken off one of the antenna on one of your devices? >> correct. when i moved out into the open, i became a large target, as well as a helicopter's and it took it right off my shoulder. >> eric: tell us about the award. what does it mean to you? >> it's an immense honor. at first it came as complete shock and i thought people were joke. but once it was confirmed, it was a humbling experience, but even though it's an individual award, it's team effort. it's about the commando, my teammates that were fighting that day because if everyone didn't go above and beyond what was needed, we would have suffered catastrophic casualties and i wouldn't be here today. >> eric: do you have any injuries from your service? >> few scratches here and there and swollen joints. but other than that, nothing significant. >> eric: all right. we did a segment a couple minutes ago, a gentleman with a book who said that he left a back page empty, blank for your hero, fill in your hero right here. i got to tell you, before i give this to my son, i'm gog put your name here. we thank you for your service and glad you're on our side. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. it's my pleasure. >> eric: thank you. coming up, while the president is talking about raising taxes on top earners, ohio's governor is busy lowering income taxes for his state. john kasich is here next. then how to eat more of what you love without packing on the pounds. we're talking about chicken fried chicken steak chicken fried chicken steak. with the capital one cash rewards card you get a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more cash -- well, except her. no! but, i'm about to change that. ♪ every little baby wants 50% more cash... ♪ phhht! fine, you try. 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>> eric: new jersey governor chris christie says americans are becoming couch potatoes and couch potato nation. listen. >> american people no longer believe that this is a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity determines their success in life. then we'll have a bunch of people sitting on the couch waiting for the next government check. >> eric: well, is he right? republican governor of ohio john kasich, who is turning the economy around in his state joins us now. sir, thanks for joining us. how are you doing it? >> you know, we're doing great. ohio, we got a long way to go to get totally out of the woods and i worry about the federal government and i worry about europe in terms of their difficult, horrible problems over there. but here in ohio, look, we've gone from number 48 in job growth to number 1 in february and number 4 over the last year and our credit improved, while the agencies have downgraded the entire world, they've improved our credit rating and, you know, when you're growing job, you're helping people, building stronger families and getting kids out of poverty, you feel good, but we got a long way to go. >> eric: i'm sorry, steve, just follow up, you're doing it by lowering taxes, right? >> well, we're doing it a number of ways. it's really the way the federal government ought to look at what we're doing and in fact, europe as well. we derecollected. with he -- he deregulated. we made them simpler. they reflect common sense. we killed the death tax. we balanced our budget. we figured out better ways in which to deal with our entitlement programs. for example, in medicaid, instead of forcing mom and dad to a nursing home, if they can stay in their own home, we give them help at a fifth of the cost where they're healthier and happier. there are ways to deal with entitlement programs to get them under control, to serve the taxpayer and yet, also at the same time save money. so we don't play a lot of politics out here. we look at a problem and we go to fix it. lowering taxes, balancing budgets, deregulating part of your economy, bringing in common sense and providing a sense of the fact you have stability is what leads to job growth not only in ohio, but what happened in america, it will happen in europe and they don't seem to pay much attention to it. >> eric: i don't get why you can do it in ohio, but we can't do it as a nation. >> steve: governor scott walker over in wisconsin has tried to make big changes with his legislature's help. now he's facing a recall. you have made very big changes as well with the help of your legislature. why is he facing a recall and you're not? >> well, because we don't have that provision in ohio and the fact of the matter is, is that -- it's been a blur for him. here we've been able to settle things down and let people see the fact that we're doing well. ohio for a long period of time was a place where it was really a flyover state. now people are beginning to look at ohio and feel good about it. our number one job growth area in the state of ohio has been the medical area. not autos or manufacturing, although we welcome them. we're building a diversified economy and when you do that and people see it, they begin to respond positively. >> steve: yeah. no kidding. all right. we know you got a busy day. governor john kasich who once upon a time used to be the fill-in host for "the o'reilly factor." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> eric: don't be a chicken. throw away that crummy breakfast. how to eat more of what you love even comfort foods without putting on the pounds. >> steve: somebody who loves that gravy? bill hemmer. >> it's lunchtime for you guys anyway. >> steve: it is. >> dive in. good morning to both of you. in their first interview since rick santorum suspend his campaign, we will talk live today. mitt romney, he is here in studio. newt gingrich is live as well. so romney and gingrich and how this campaign goes forward. where is george zimmerman and new polling on health care that shows how political this law has become. martha and i will see new a jam packed show in ten minutes >> pizza hut is sell ago pizza with a hot dog stuffed crust. hot dogs stuffed in there. how fat are we getting in this country? when even our food is stuffed with food! i mean, we take food and we stuff it with more food. >> gretchen: good question. so how do you have that good stuff without packing on all the pounds that you might get if you eat all that other stuff? our guest shows us eat more of what you love. she's our guest to you. >> good morning. >> steve: my wife bought this book. it arrived by amazon before easter. we've already had some of this stuff. the key is you take the foods that we love and you figure out how to make them healthy so people don't feel guilty about eating them. >> exactly. i cut the sugar, the fat, the calories plummet. they have the points for people who use points in the book. it has weight watcher exchanges. it has diabetic exchanges. the idea is i come from a family of nine and i want everybody to enjoy all of the foods they love, guilt free. >> eric: guilt free. steve? >> steve: chicken fried chicken. >> eric: i'm still debating whether steak should be in the name. >> it's a chicken chicken fried steak. here is what's fabulous, what you do is i worked for four days on this coating. get the perfect mix of a coating. it has a little corn flake crumb, but i mixed those fine with a lot of the chicken fried seasonings. what you get is something that tastes exactly like chicken fried chicken, but here is the idea. >> gretchen: you bake it or fry it? >> i move it into a saute' pan with a little oil to brown it and move it to the oven. but when i give my portions, i'm not talking about a little teaspoon or tablespoon. you get a quarter cup of gravy on a portion and an entire piece this big for 280 calories. so the idea is if you were to switch every day from going to a diner instead of it being 1,000 calories for chicken fried steak on potatoes, this is only 380 calories. >> eric: there is no way this is healthy. >> steve: my family is so excited about this. >> mac and cheese muffins. they take 15 minutes to make and they're 125 calories. so if you're a mac and cheese fan, you tonight have to worry. no matter what your diet, diabetes, losing weight, it all fits. >> gretchen: what about these? >> eric: amazing. >> better hot warm and gooey. this is a cupcake. this is what i call my gooey, goy, peanut butter stuffed chocolate glazed double cupcake. you want to cut into the middle of this and show what you here. a little messy in the middle. you've got peanut butter mousse. >> steve: we love what you cook. congratulations on your new cookbook. all the recipes are on our web site. >> thank you. >> gretchen: we'll be right back with more good food. stick around. >> eric: and delicious ! >> gretchen: tomorrow, michelle malkin, bob massi, and the story behind the barefoot bandit. >> steve: that's right. plus, if you want to learn how to cook food you love, in a healthier way, marlene cook will be with us in the after the show show. log on right now. >> eric: i will see you at 5:00 o'clock today. >> gretchen: have a great day. bill: let's get
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"fox & friends" starts as soon as i point out that brian is not here but eric is in for him. right now! >> that's ok. from time to time, brian -- >> looked at my hair. is there something wrong with my hair? >> from time to time, brian has been referred to as the brown haired guy on "fox & friends" so you're the brown haired guy. >> ok! i'll take that. i'll take that. >> the name of eric today. >> you're the brown haired -- >> i was pointing out, i walked in and it was like oh, they crossed his name out and stuck my name down there. >> that's all it takes for a substitution. >> that's how i found out. i was walking in early. oh, my gosh! >> eric, great to have you brown haired guy who is not steve doocy. >> correct. i'll be the guy who is not steve doocy today. >> all right. and the blond haired girl will read the headlines and the fox news alert this morning because a powerful 8.7 magnitude earthquake hitting off the coast of the northern indonesian island about an hour ago. tsunami warnings in effect now for 28 countries across the indian ocean. here's a look at video just in showing the tense moment as the earthquake hit. people were seen running out of buildings. electricity has been knocked out. we're also learning an aftershock of 6.5 magnitude has hit. that's a big quake in and of itself. rescue teams are on their way as people are being told to move to higher ground now. another developing story overnight. a korean air jet making an emergency landing after a bomb threat was called in. the flight headed for seoul with 149 passengers on board. it had just taken off from vancouver when the threat came into the airline's los angeles offices. two u.s. fighter jets scrambled from oregon to escort the plane to a canadian military base. korean air says it received a similar bomb threat on monday both reportedly delivered in english. no word yet if there was actually a bomb on board that aircraft. self-proclaimed mastermind behind the september 11th terrorist attacks finally going to trial now. finally. khali shaikh mohammed and his four co-defendants will be arraigned on may 5th at guantanamo bay. they were first charged by a military commission back in 2008. but the case was suspended after president obama tried to have it moved to federal court. they face the death penalty for murdering 2,976 people in new york, d.c. and shanksville, pennsylvania. and they may be an odd pair but that isn't stopping burger king from putting them together! check out this advertisement for the new bacon sundae. >> huh? >> delicious! >> that's right. soft serve vanilla ice cream drizzled in chocolate and caramel sprinkled with bits of bacon with a strip of bacon for the finishing garnish. right now, it seems the bacon sundae will only be available in nashville, tennessee. yeah, they need a bit of a test market first. if you live in nashville, tennessee, this morning, let us know if that sounds good to you. do you think it will be a hit down there? >> gretch, i had one of those at the minnesota state fair. >> oh! >> couple of years ago when we were up there for the big convention and it was fantastic. >> it was delicious. >> had to be great. >> did you follow it up with a deep fried bacon strip? i think they had those, too. >> fried butter. >> i remember the bacon and the chocolate bacon as well. we were in st. paul, minnesota, four years ago for the big convention, there's a big convention coming up this november and it is now clear it will be mitt romney vs. barack obama. rick santorum apparently decided on monday night that it was in the cards for him. so he has dropped out making way for mitt romney who wasted little time last night in wilmington, delaware, he made it very clear there is a war on women in this country and it is being waged by barack obama's economy. watch. >> you look at the experience of this administration in the last 3 1/2 years and you can see that something is seriously wrong with his perspective. not only have 92% of the job losses been among women, but you've also seen 800,000 people overall lose jobs. home values decline. the median income of americans in the last four years has dropped by 10%! these have been tough years. you have failed. we have seen it. you can't hide it. we're going to change it. >> so officially, mitt romney does not become the nominee until he gets the 1144 delegates. keep in mind, newt gingrich still in this race. he continues to vow even though he's in debt with his campaign to take it all the way to tampa and to the convention. >> he's bouncing checks ooment auto ron paul is still in the race as well. the interesting thing about santorum getting out of the race yesterday is that he did not endorse mitt romney in that speech when he said that he was getting out. and he hasn't released his delegates yet. so 188 of the 200 some delegates that santorum has, he could release. they become free agents so it would be up to them as to who they decide to follow at that point. >> right. almost 200, there's also 84 that were really free, they're committed to santorum but at the convention, they could actually vote for whoever they throw their support behind romney. so a lot of swing there but you're right. it looks very, very good for mitt romney at this point. but president obama has his own ideas on what things should look like. listen to what he had to say last night at a -- an event that we paid for. watch. >> they keep telling us that if we just weaken regulations that keep our air or our water clean or protect our consumers, if we would just convert these investments that we're making through our government in education and research and health care, if we just turn those into tax cuts especially for the wealthy, then somehow the economy is going to grow stronger! that's the theory. and here's the news -- we tried this for eight years before i took office. we tried it! it -- it's not like we didn't -- we didn't try it. >> so there is the president yesterday at florida atlantic university talking about the -- >> go back to -- the unemployment, would people like to go back to some of those eight years? i mean, forget who was president. look at the economy! would people like to go back to a lower unemployment rate? i mean, i think this is what mitt romney now needs to start giving the counter opinion to that kind of a message. >> may i just point out, what he was trying to say is that was a taxpayer funded trip. that was supposed to be official business. you couldn't be more partisan than the comments he made right there. i mean, they took air force one down there and brought the entourage down there. we paid for it. you paid for it. what was it? it was nothing short of a campaign speech. >> but had he mentioned mitt romney, then they would have had to pay for it. instead, we talked about that. he was unveiling as if we didn't know enough about the warren buffet rule and what that would do is that would make sure that if you are a person who makes over a million dollars a year, you pay at least 30% of your income in taxes but when you take a look at who pays the taxes right now, and apparently, if the president wants to talk about fairness, is this fair? look at that, the top 1% of earners in this country pay close to $4 and $10. and the top 10% pay 70% of the money. what the president says repeatedly is it's just not fair that warren buffet's secretary pays more than he does. but when you look at the facts, the average middle class person pays just under 15% whereas the average person who makes over a million dollars pays 26%. so already, they're paying close to double what the president says they are. >> but i think the heart of this issue comes down to this. what is the purpose of calling for this buffet tax rule? >> politics! >> what is the purpose? because somebody needs to ask that question. here was the first example of why this administration wanted to do it. stablize our debt and deficit for the next decade. ok. but then somebody called him out on it and said, well, it will actually only give you less than .5% of the $1.2 trillion budget deficit for 2012. even if you have this tax in place, you don't begin to put a chink in the deficit we're currently experiencing. next reason they gave for wanting this was to establish a basic issue of tax fairness. so which one is it? if you want to check out "the wall street journal" editorial today, it's one of the best i read explaining whether or not the buffet tax rule is actually about fairness or is it actually about paying down the debt. >> it can't be about paying down the debt. if it's only helping $5 billion. up to $5 billion. could be a lot less than that on a debt we're adding $1.2 trillion. it's not doing a dent or anything. this is a class warfare tool in the obama era -- in the obama era. let me do this, warren buffet, why don't you come to "fox & friends" and sit on the curvy couch right there and let us talk about whether or not you think this idea that president obama is pitching as the buffet rule should be called the buffet rule. i will tell you unequivocably right now, warren buffet doesn't think taxing people that make over a million dollars at 30% will do a darn thing for the economy. what he does think, though, and i've heard him say it is we need complex tax reform. we need simpson-bowles like tax reform and we need massive spending cuts but you don't hear president obama pointing out those other two. talk about the raising the taxes. >> and you don't hear warren buffet say i think rich people should pay their fair share. ok, my company berkshire hathaway owes close to a billion dollars in tax money going back to 2002. he's been in a big squabble with the i.r.s. so while he's out saying rich people need to pay more, yeah, i'm currently disputing my taxes with my big company. so just keep that in mind as he calls for fairness. is that fair that he wouldn't pay a billion dollars for close to 10 years? >> keep in mind, come january 1st, the bush tax cuts will be no longer. so essentially if this buffet rule went into place, it would be like a double taxation happening come january 1st. remember, the president was against the bush tax cuts and then he was for them, voted them in, and then he was against them again. here is a snippet of that. remember this? >> and if the goal is private sector growth, you got to recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators. secondly, if you raise taxes -- if you let the -- i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called someone's other tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised. >> he makes a good point. exactly. and you know, president -- now president obama ran on, i'm going to get rid of those bush tax cuts and they're scheduled to sunset at the conclusion of this year. >> it was great to see former president bush weigh in on it. it's been a long time in between and it's fantastic to see him up there weighing in. >> let's talk about the g.s.a., the general services administration, we've been telling you for the last couple of weeks about that $800,000 taxpayer funded boondoggle in las vegas. well, now, it's coming out more information as these things usually start to do just that, and employees apparently got bonuses for planning that g.s.a. event. $500 to $1,000 for taking part in planning those videos. >> one spent an extra night in a $1,000 suite and they only paid $93 and taxpayers picked up the rest and an official by the name of martha johnson ran the agency, she's been squeezed out since. she was unavailable to go to las vegas but instead, they had to pay $3,500 for a video link. apparently, she was at solyndra and she was talking to solyndra about buying a whole bunch of solar panels to put on the roofs of federal buildings in what some are seeing as a last ditch effort by this administration to prop up solyndra that was bleeding money so if nobody else is going to buy them, have the federal government buy a bunch of them and putted them on the roof. >> can i .1 more thing out? by the way, you can't make these stories up, they're crazy. they make themselves up. g.s.a., you know there's 12,500 employees in the g.s.a. 12,500 employees we need to buy stuff for the federal government. really? that's a $20 billion boondoggle. >> we're writing a lot of checks. they got to spend it on something! >> continue to follow that story throughout the morning. meantime, coming up, we told you rick santorum is out of the presidential race. but does that mean conservatives will finally rally around mitt romney? former advisor to bill clinton, dick morris has a good idea and he'll share it coming up next. >> all right. we'll be back. it's not uncommom "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? 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>> we've got a fox news alert for you if you're just getting up. a tsunami warning off the coast of indonesia this morning following a powerful 8.6. that's a gigantic magnitude earthquake. david piper is live in bangkok, thailand. how soon will they know whether or not a tsunami wave is going to hit? >> good morning, yes. they should know very quickly because that earthquake of the province was only about 250 miles so we understand that, perhaps, this first tsunamis could be hitting there any time soon. there has been one report of a very small tsunami. but nothing like the 2004 quake and tsunami that killed over 250,000 people. but that's in the same region so massive concern here and lots of people have been evacuating the coast including here in thailand because they felt the quake here and they lost a lot of people back in 2004. back to you. >> did you feel the earthquake, david? >> i didn't personally. i was driving at the time but i understand that many people here in bangkok felt it. and also countries like singapore and malaysia and that was the same as what happened back in 2004. people don't usually feel earthquakes in this region. and a place like thailand is very nervous at this time because this is the religious holiday, the water festival. everyone has gone to the coast to places and now with all the tsunami warnings, people have been told to go to higher land because there is a real danger still, the tsunami warning hasn't been dropped yet. >> all right. david piper live in thailand with the very latest. thank you very much. we'll keep an eye on that, obviously. >> now for the other headlines this morning. he's been denied parole 11 times but later today, mass murderer charles manson will try again. the notorious cult leader refused to leave his cell to meet with his attorney to prepare for the hearing. the state appointed attorney will argue that manson should be moved from the prison to a psychiatric hospital. >> and we're getting a rare glimpse into the lives of usama bin laden's family. this new video showing his three wives under house arrest in islamabad pakistan. you can see them praying and reading the quran. their children playing nearby. bin laden's wives and two of his daughters are serving 45 day sentences for illegally entering the country. after that, they will be deported back to their home countries of yemen and saudi arabia. steve? >> meanwhile, eric, thousands of americans looking for work are missing out on jobs because of faulty background check information. that's according to the national consumer law center. it's releasing a report later today that states that new and inexperienced background check companies are causing sloppy handling of the data. oh, great! problems include arrest records showing up for someone with the same name who was never arrested. the group wants the government to let people know what possible employers can see so errors can be fixed before they're not hired. >> perhaps he knew what was coming. you're looking at a cow that's busted out of a slaughterhouse in paterson, new jersey last night. the cow weighs only 750 pounds. you can see it running through the streets, even banging into a cop car. eventually police and animal control officers were able to tranquilize the cow and send it back. >> was that really the cow noise there or was that toba, the cow noise? >> that's definitely the cow noise. that sounds like a cow in paterson. >> it's a cow. >> you know that? you know that exact sound? it's a paterson cow? >> i live a couple of towns over. >> moo-ving right along. stock market seeing the sharpest decline in months. the dow jones, nasdaq and s&p taking a big hit but the president was out hitting the campaign trail yesterday. his message -- you guessed it, tax the rich. >> and finally, we've got to make sure that we've got a tax system that reflects everybody doing their fair share. all right. let's follow what we call the buffet rule. they may call it class envy and that's just being fair. >> well, he says it's fair but stuart varney says it's just a ploy to distract people from his record on the economy. so wait a minute, stu is calling the president's bluff this morning or is the stock market doing that? >> wait a second, step back a moment. the economy has just started to turn south again. we don't have 3% growth. we've got much less. we don't have strong job creation. it's been cut in half. we don't have strong disposable income, it's flat and it's being eaten into by high food prices and high gas prices. we're getting worse off so what does the president do? does he come up with a new policy that gets the economy going, manage the debt and get things working again? bring us back to prosperity? no, he comes up with class warfare. beats up on the rich. that's the way to prosperity. i don't think so. >> ok. how does the stock market factor into that? >> ok. i'll answer the question. >> it took a nose dive after that jobs report came out. >> the stock market has taken a nose dive in the past four or five sessions because it perceives the economy now getting weaker all over again. yeah, there are problems in europe with spanish debt. that's true. but the economy in america is heading south. and we do not have an administration that's prepared to deal with it. >> well, let me give you a little bit of a silver lining. the stock market did take a little bit of a dive and lost 400 and 500 points in the last four or five days but on very low volume. i know when the volume is low like that, that's not necessarily an indicator of things to come. it feels to me, 23 years in, that things are getting better in the stock market. not because of anything president obama has done, in spite of everything that president obama has done. >> are you long on stocks? >> no, it has nothing to do with the trading position at all because i don't trade anymore, stuart. it's essentially, look, an average recession is, what, 18, 20 months. 30 months into what is a recession. >> if the stock market has done well so far this year, up until the last four or five days, you're right. it has. that's because american companies are making record profits overseas. not in the united states but overseas and as our currency gets less of value, the dollar goes down, those overseas profits are better because they're in foreign currencies which again are more expensive. >> and one of the reasons that the stock market has floated to this level is the fact that ben bernanke & company have made so much free money available to the banking system, it's quantative easing but that's artificially brought it up to where it is right now and he's trying to back off from that. >> i'm sorry, eric, but now the economy is heading south again for the third time in three years, all those spring fresh green shoots of recovery trampled all over again. >> it's about 12,900 or so. >> it's going to go up. >> we'll come back and revisit this one month from today. and we'll take this as the base line, stuart and the loser buys dinner. >> if it's below this level, i buy you dinner. if it's above this level, you buy me dinner. >> i'll reverse that. if the economy is getting weaker, you buy me dinner. if the economy gets stronger, i'll buy you dinner anywhere you like. >> oh, my gosh. >> i know one thing for sure, though, i'm going to leave it a secret where that dinner will take place. >> yeah. ok, stu. thanks a lot. we'll watch you at 9:20 a.m. on the fox business network. coming up on "fox & friends", we've been following this one closely for you here on "fox & friends." one university forcing christian groups letting anyone, even atheists join their clubs like run a christian club. up next, we have an update on that story. >> and recycle or else! wait until you hear one city's bright idea to improve the cycling rate. some say it stinks literally. how can you just stand there? 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>> make it every month. save even more money. all right. we've been telling you about the religious firestorm at vanderbilt university over that school's anti-discrimination rule. the policy says student groups cannot take religion into consideration when students apply for leadership positions and now, 11 faith-based student organizations are banding together to protest. >> joining us from nashville is anld rube -- andrew harris, a baseball player at vanderbilt and leader of the fellowship for christian athletes, one of the 11 organizations that are protesting. how are you doing? >> good, how are you? >> i'm doing ok. we've been following the story for a couple of months now but we're a little concerned. what's your main concern with the fellowship of christian athletes that i used to be a member of that going forward, vanderbilt would require f.c.a. to do what? >> well, the main issue is that we have with the new policy is that we cannot -- we cannot require our leaders to affirm their faith. and at f.c.a., we allow anybody to come and we'd like to keep it that way and because we allow anybody to come regardless of religion, sexual orientation or anything, because we allow anybody to come, we believe it's really important that the leaders do affirm the faith. so that they can be a light to those people. >> right. because the way the university wants it to be is any organization, anybody from the outside can join the organization and eventually wind up the leader. for instance, the leader -- and we talked to the folks from vanderbilt catholic a couple of weeks ago. under these rules, by vanderbilt, an atheist could wind up running vanderbilt catholic and so they've decided to step out of the group. what's the fellowship of christian athletes going to do? >> we have banded together with 11 other organizations on campus and we actually had to apply for -- to be a registered group, i think, two nights ago and we all submitted a similar document saying that we do abide by the nondiscrimination policy. yet, we did add another clause saying that we would -- we are asking the administration to reconsider and say it's ok for us to require our leaders to affirm their faith. >> sure. you know, also, under the same ruling, i would imagine a republican could wind up being the head of the young democrats and vice versa. >> exactly. right. >> have any atheists to your knowledge tried to join the fellowship for christian athletes? >> not to my knowledge. i mean, i do know that we do have plenty of nonbelievers who do come to our meetings. again, f.c.a. is open to anybody and we would -- and we believe that's the reason for christianity, that anybody can come and learn and learn about the love of christ. and we believe that that's why it's so important that our leaders are grounded in that faith. >> sure. so going forward, if you're not going to be one of the recognized groups on campus, will you meet off campus? >> we meet pretty much off campus already. i think some of the ramifications would be -- i know for other organizations on campus that they would not get funding. also, i know that we would have issues with people -- with our -- one of our leaders -- some of our leaders having meetings with coaches or we would have issues trying to get space on campus. >> sure. >> logistical here. >> if you're not a registered group, i think that that could -- that could have some problems. >> thank you very much, andrew harris for dropping by and telling us your story from nashville. he, of course, a member of the fellowship of christian athletes. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you very much. >> you bet. >> what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. good idea? bad idea? let us know. up next, weight loss solution that much of america has been waiting for. a diet specifically for short people. and coming up, talk about going to the dogs. a ton of government cash going to the dog training school? 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>> it's been a disadvantage in the past. you know what's interesting? if you're smaller, every pound you lose really shows. so with a program that i put together that the combination of eating and exercise, you can really shed the weight and you can really see the difference in your body. that's exciting and it's motivating. the disadvantage of being a petite is that you can't eat like the big girls which actually was the first working title of the book. and if two women are both 45, both 160 pounds, one is 5'9" and one is 5'3" the difference in your daily calorie needs is only 40 calories. doesn't sound like a lot. but when you look at it over a year, you can gain four pounds of fat. over 10 years, 40 pounds of fat. over 30 years, 120 pounds of fat just because you're a smaller statue. >> with your diet, you have high calorie days and low calorie days. it's breakfast time. >> what you do at breakfast is front load the biggest meal of the day. mistake most women make, they want to save their calories. that's the recipe to gain weight. by front loading, this is eggs, the whole eggs, by the way, i love whole eggs with the yolk. it's vegetables, avocado, the good fat. cottage cheese. 40% of your daily calories should be in your breakfast. >> that's psychologically hard to do. >> it is, gretchen, but boy, does it work? it lets you eat less later in the day. it tips your mechanisms, your feeling of fullness. if i can keep you full and you should only be hungry first thing in the morning. if you're hungry later in the day, you're behind the eight ball already. >> interesting. >> salad, spinach, chicken, lots of vegetables great dressing, and you're getting 30% of your calories at dinner. that's your protein and your vegetables, the right carbohydrates. carbs should not be maligned. they're necessary for your body. >> i can eat that piece of salmon in one bite. >> that's a great comment. the thing is you'll be full because of your bigger breakfast which exactly is most women don't do. they save their calories and then you're starving at night and let's face it, if you're doing that strategy a lot of times you're gaining weight. i want to bring the weight back down. >> love this book and so many other women will love it, too, because half of all of us fit into that. >> no cardio when it comes to your exercise. strengthen to lengthen. do the strength training exercises and i'll give you a full body workout three times a week for 31 minutes, most women are shocked. i only ask you for an hour and a half of exercise a week and it gets the job done. >> check it out, the petite advantage diet. >> we hit "the new york times" bestseller list. very excited. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a big two hours of "fox & friends" straight ahead. we're talking about this. is hybrid fever stalling out now? >> and the dramatic video you have to see to believe. armed robbers using an 80-year-old woman as a human shield in a police shootout. come on! >> good morning, everyone. today is wednesday, april 11th. hope you're going to have a great day. thanks for spending part of it with us. people running for their lives after a magnitude 8.6 earthquake hits overnight. now a tsunami warning for the same areas devastated in 2004. we will have a live report for you. >> and rick santorum forfeits his fight for the g.o.p. nomination and it didn't take long for the showdown between mitt romney and president obama to begin. right now, the gloves are already off, steve. >> all right, eric, and meanwhile, a masked gunman in a shootout with cops uses an 80-year-old woman as a human shield. the wild video you don't want to miss and we've got the story. hour two for a wednesday, "fox & friends" live from new york starts right now. >> using an 80-year-old woman for a human shield. come on. >> that's desperation. something we're not desperate over is having eric bolling here. >> it is a good day. there's a lot of information come out today. you get it? you have it? 411. april 11th. information. >> you're too quick for us, bolling! >> all right. >> even on little things. >> unless you're in europe and it's 11/4. >> that's true. what does that mean? >> while those true to figure out the mass equations, let me bring you the headlines. start with the fox news alert. tsunami watch in effect for the entire indian ocean this morning following a powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake that hit off the northern indonesian island of sumatra about two hours ago. 28 countries will be affected now by those watches. but right now, there are no signs of a major tsunami hitting. meantime, new video showing the tense moment as the quake hits. people seen running out of their homes and offices. electricity has been knocked out. there are also reports of several aftershocks. people being told to move to higher ground now. at this time, there appears to be little damage. another breaking news story to tell you about right now to sky fox, first on the scene of a fire in paterson, new jersey. you can see firefighters trying to get water on the flames right now. that's a warehouse that's gone up in flames. a commercial building behind a loews store. no word of any injuries. we're keeping an eye on this one and keep you posted. more shocking details out of the general services administration, the g.s.a. spending scandal. not only did they blow massive amounts of taxpayer dollars for a conference near las vegas but now it's coming out that they got bonuses to come up with that plan. 15 employees of the g.s.a. got between 50 or $500 and $1,000 for their work planning that lavish bash. we know from testimony martha johnson, the former head of the g.s.a. didn't attend that conference because she had meetings scheduled with all companies allegedly solyndra. solyndra got a loan from the obama administration before going bankrupt. we've learned that the g.s.a. planned to return to las vegas for a conference coming up on april 25th but now that conference has been canceled. some terrifying video out of ohio. a masked gunman using an 80-year-old woman as a human shield all while he shoots at police. the whole thing going down at a dollar store. the suspect and his cousin just robbed the place when the cops showed up, guns drawn. that's when the guy grabs the 80-year-old woman and drags her out with him through the back door before shoving her to the ground near a dumpster. both suspects managed to escape but they were caught two months later. >> special place in hell for guys like that. >> all right. we're probably watching it live now on the fox newschannel yesterday after a long night on monday night, rick santorum there in gettysburg, pennsylvania, decided that he was going to suspend his campaign. apparently, he realized, you know, texas was not going to be a winner take all state. newt gingrich not getting out of things. his daughter ill. he decided that it was time to call it quits. and some aides told abc it had nothing to do with the fact that there's a potential that mitt romney wins his home state. he said look, you know what? he has lost that state before. a loss again would not devastate him. >> it was interesting timing because the primary in pennsylvania, his home state is not until april 24th. so, you know, you're looking at two weeks away, maybe he just felt like the pressure would continue to mount and the polls would continue to show he was maybe going to be slipping and the pundits would continue to say hey, if he loses his home state, it's really all over. i think it's interesting timing and you have to wonder about who got to him, you know, who got to him to try to convince him? was it just his family? maybe so. or maybe there's some sort of a back room deal going on. >> let me play devil's advocate and let me say that rick santorum did the right thing for the g.o.p. and he got out before, you know, mitt romney or the -- who will probably be the presumptive nominee, before he spends too much money and we've heard about a $2.9 million ad buy he has to make for pennsylvania. he may be able to get some of that back, i'm reading, but why not? if it's going to be mitt romney, why not get out now and -- >> a big winner here. >> behind the one that's going to be president obama. i find the timing interested. in the last 10 days or so, rick santorum seemed to be energized and seems to have an extra bounce in his step. maybe things changed over the last 10 days. >> santorum had a big gap over romney and it was starting -- >> it was growing. >> yeah, it was -- >> in the gap in pennsylvania and, you know, that -- >> if you're going to spend money, you want to make sure you're winning. if he's not going to win it, that would have been tough for everybody involved. >> it looks like it's going to be mitt romney unless, as brit hume said last night, mitt romney falls into the orchestra pit or breaks his neck or something like that. karl rove was on the sean hannity program last night and said what does this now mean for the campaign? look for the president to get even more partisan at events that we pay for. >> this now makes it clear that the general election has begun and we're likely to see the president's rhetoric tonight in florida, you know, he made two appearances. he made an appearance at a campaign fundraiser and then he went to the florida atlantic university where, if anything, his rhetoric at a taxpayer sponsored event was more harsh, more negative, more partisan and clearly connected to the campaign. he literally talks about candidates running for president. he all but -- the only thing he didn't say was romney but everything else in this taxpayer funneleded event was a direct attack. >> it was. >> so now you have mitt romney and barack obama going after one another but let's not forget, we still have ron paul in the race and we still have newt gingrich in the race. newt gingrich who has fewer delegates still deciding to be in. he said he's going to take it all the way to the convention in tampa which is at the end of august. i guess money will play into that. >> very interesting you say that, money, because within minutes after rick santorum stepped aside the podium, newt gingrich tweeted, hey, it's down to a two-man race meaning the g.o.p., he completely ignored ron paul, by the way, how about a donation and asked for donations so he's apparently -- >> because he announced a check yesterday to register in utah. brit hume talked a little bit with greta last night about what's going to happen. will the party coalesce around newt? here's brit. >> he still thinks that there's some extreme possibility that lightning could strike, romney could falter in some way and that the -- that the party would turn to him. my sense about that is if lightning struck and romney were not able to go forward, that the party probably would not turn to him. but hey, a guy can hope! >> so it looks like it is now game on as rick santorum said, and it's mitt romney vs. barack obama. >> all right. let's shift gears, no pun intended right now. and talk about hybrid cars. we know that there's been a big push to try to get electric cars, more of them, out on the road but there's a new study out that shows that people who actually purchase a hybrid car, hybrid drivers, do they really end up liking their cars? so in other words, do they go back to those dealerships and purchase another one after they've had the experience? well, here's the question. how much do hybrid drivers really like their cars? 35% who bought a hybrid purchased another one. 2.4% of new cars are hybrids down from 2.9% in 2008. 35% of those who bought one purchased another one. i don't know, that's 1 out of 3. i guess you could determine maybe they weren't completely happy. >> and of course, the number does go up as gasoline prices do go up. $3.92 a gallon today approaching the record of $4.11, all time high so they may start to like their hybrids a little better. i drove the new toyota camry hybrid. they've had hybrids before. this is a new car. there it is right there. >> you're a tough critic. they let you do that? >> i drove the volt and i liked the car. it needs a lot of work. this one right here, this camry now, the difference between an electric car and a hybrid is this. the electric car, the volt, drains all the electric power first and then it switches itself over to gasoline. the hybrid, this toyota uses both so when you're idling it goes back to electricity and when you take off, you need the extra power, you use gasoline and when you brake, it throws energy back into the battery. it charges its own battery. fantastic car. i really, really liked the car and it was about -- the one i drove was about $13,000 to $14,000 less than the chevy volt and this car on a full tank of gas and power gets somewhere around 650 to 700 miles going. >> my neighbor has one of those cars. so if you had one of those and then, you know, it was time to buy another car, would you buy another one of those? >> i would. only question i have and something we need to address is what happens with the battery technology? do you have to replace -- some people say around 100,000, you have to replace it and it could get very expensive. i don't know that. but as far as the drive, the ride, big fan of the hybrid. >> wow. so the harsh critic is giving a positive response to something. >> there you go. >> back in 2009, the united states government started this great program to help military spouses. and the spouses of some enlisted personnel where they would get $4,000 over three years to help earn a certificate or some sort of professional training. as it turns out in this program, it's helping a lot of people but there is very little scrutiny, very little oversight because when you look at the list of organizations that have gotten money, the number 5 recipient of funds for this military spouse program has gone to a dog program. >> the animal behavior college in 2011, $2.7 million came from the federal government. for people there to earn certificates, licenses and associate's degrees. here's the interesting thing. you have a democratic senator from iowa, tom harkin, who says this -- the program is a terrific proposal designed to help meet president obama's goal of america once again having the highest proportion of college educated citizens in the world by 2020 but taxpayer funded dog walking classes do not help meet that goal. so maybe there should be a little bit more oversight. i mean, how many more stories like this do we have to do before we realize that one way to cut all the spending in this country is to actually get rid of the fraud that's going on. >> oversight is good. but so is a program like this. also happens to be good. i'm in favor -- i'm in favor of these programs. >> but the money is supposed to go to military spouses and so -- >> supposed to get education to go to college. i'm not sure -- >> gretchen, i have a very soft spot for the animals and the service dogs. >> i believe it does train people to train dogs and stuff like that so it trains them in this. >> i don't mean to be the dissenting voice on the curvy couch. >> believe me. >> this guy has looked at what the requirements are and he has fulfilled them and he said, the owner of this dog college says he understands why the program might raise eyebrows. he says this is not a fly-by-night organization. he has followed the rules so this dog college has wound up the number five recipient in the military spouse money. >> extremely important program, the service dog program. just pointing it out, that's all. >> another important thing to point out, 26% of military spouses are unemployed so that is the reason this program may be necessary. coming up on "fox & friends", a perplexing new poll finds independent voters like president obama but agree more with mitt romney. how do you please those all important swing voters? 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depends on your income, doesn't it, dave? >> well, neither -- i mean, the roth i.r.a. will not offset your income. it's not tax deductible this year. it's an after tax investment. only thing that will offset income this year is the traditional i.r.a. and in spite of that, i'm going to say hey, pay a little more in taxes now and do the roth i.r.a. for most everyone. unless you're a little bit older in your 60's or something, the map on the roth works out beautifully because most of what is in your account at retirement is growth and with the roth, the growth is all tax free so i would give up the tax break this year. >> can anyone get a roth? i thought if you made a certain amount of money, you're not eligible for a roth. >> you're right, if you make over $154,000 married filing jointly you can't do a roth or $95,000 as a single, can't do roth. those of us who make more than that we're evil and must be punished because of buffet's secretary. >> dave, we're trying to pay down our debts but we have little in savings. my wife wants to put all our tax return money in savings about $8,000. i would like to pay off a couple of credit cards. how should we use this refund? i know what's coming. go ahead. >> well, you should pay off the credit cards as long as you're going to work an overall plan to finish getting out of debt so that then you can do what your wife is saying which is build up the emergency fund. so the answer is you're both right as long as you work a game plan. i would do the credit cards first so that, i've got more money later to build that savings, that emergency fund in what we call baby step three but both are right. it's a matter of the order you get at it. >> and the final e-mail in our order is from anita in baltimore. she said we've been blessed this year and would like to make a contribution to a local charity. we don't know where to begin. how do you determine which charity to donate money to? that's a great question. >> thank you, anita. you're a great american. this is how we put the government out of business. we outgive them. this is what you should be doing. when you get ready to do investments in into a charity, that's how you should look at it. study the charity as if you were studying an investment. is it a quality charity? is there bang for the buck? if i give them $10,000, do they spend $9,700 of it on a luxury office or do hungry children get fed with most of that? so look at the ratio of administrative fees to actually what goes to the ministry or to the actual use of the people. and study the quality of the character and the leadership just like you were studying a company to invest in it. >> very quickly, you can donate property and stocks below market value and get a tax writeoff, right? >> absolutely, huge tax writeoff. you can write it off at market value, not what you've got in it. not your basis. good point, eric. >> great to talk to you. we'll see you next week. >> hey, good to be with you. thank you. >> thank you. >> straight ahead, the president wants the rich to pay more as dave just mentioned. but the facts show that won't help our deficit barely at all. so why make that his main message? peter johnson jr. knows and he'll spill them beans coming up. >> and imagine this, we've gotten into the college of your dreams. >> only to find out it was a glitch? 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we told you about several of these kinds of stories. should the kids be allowed to get into the school even though they weren't supposed to or should they just accept the mistake and say sorry, i got to choose another one. >> this is one of the toughest times of the year when you're waiting for the big envelope to come from the school. the little envelope, you don't really want. for these 894 high school seniors to get this note that says congratulations you're in, a lot of people are saying look, the admission class is 15,500, what's another 894? come on, figure a way, pull the chairs together. admit them all! >> that's a lot. >> it is a lot. let's see what ucla said. we sincerely apologize for this mistake that may have led some of them they were admitted when they remain on the waiting list. spokesman for ucla. >> says you're in. yeah, that would lead to believe you're in, right? >> bigger question if you dig a little deeper. this is much more controversial and folks in california have been talking about this is whether or not there were a lot of illegals who were allowed to come into that school vs. citizens. now, that might be a serious argument. as far as just on the surface, those 800 kids, i mean, i don't see how you do it. california is so strapped for cash right now, i don't know if they can increase their class size to accept those extra kids. >> let us know what you think. >> i wonder if somebody is going to get fired. a lot of kids' hearts broken. in the meantime, fox news alert for you. we've been following this this morning. a tsunami warning is in effect for the entire indian ocean following a powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake. it hit off the coast of indonesia. our man in that region is david piper live in bangkok, thailand, where the night there. any idea that if a tsunami wave is going to come ashore it will? >> well, there's still great concern at this moment. indonesia has now issued a second tsunami alert after an 8.2 magnitude aftershock which is a large earthquake in its own right. a few hours ago, there was that 8.6 quake but it doesn't seem to have created any tsunamis. but there was panic on the streets particularly in a province of sumatra in indonesia. they were trying to get to higher ground and getting people out of hospitals, just like that, in order to escape a possible tsunami. you have to remember that area was devastated back in 2004 when there was a great indian ocean tsunami that killed over 230,000 people. now, this 8.6 quake was so powerful, it was felt here in thailand, malaysia, and singapore. and there were tsunami warnings and people have been told to evacuate areas like puket and here in tie land, a lot of thais have gone to the coastline, this is the start of the water festival and they really want their holidays but now many of them have had to escape possible tsunamis but at this time, we haven't seen any tsunamis but there is still alerts in place. back to you guys. >> all right, david piper live in thailand with the very latest. thank you very much. the worry is, of course, you've got a warning and night is falling. it will come in the night. >> and maybe a little more warning this time than last time. all right, we're giving you a rare glimpse into the lives of usama bin laden's family. this new video showing his three wives under house arrest in islamabad, pakistan. you can see them praying and reading the quran. their children playing nearby. bin laden's wives and two of his daughters are serving 45-day sentences for illegally entering the country. after that, they'll be deported to their home countries of yemen and saudi arabia. >> the special prosecutor in the trayvon martin case down in florida will make a big announcement as early as today. meantime, george zimmerman's lawyers calling it quits. saying zimmerman hasn't contacted them in days. one person who has spoken to zimmerman, fox news anchor sean hannity. >> yesterday, i was contacted by an individual that we thought was george zimmerman. he reached out to me and we spoke on the phone about his case and i agreed not to report on the contents of that conversation. that's it. i know nothing about his relationship with his now former attorneys. >> so far, zimmerman is protected from legal action saying that he killed trayvon in self-defense but we'll await that big announcement from down in florida later on today. >> meanwhile, goldielocks has nothing on this guy. take a look at a black bear roaming a southern california neighborhood when he comes face to face with a guy texting on his phone. the guy hightails out of there as fast as he can. the bear -- thanks, scott. the bear eventually tranquilized and returned to jellystone forest. i'm kidding. back into the woods. >> i will not fight a plan that adds one dime to our deficit either now or into the future. >> the obama administration continues to tout the so-called savings obamacare will bring as well as the benefits of his buffet rule adding more taxes on the rich. is he making promises he just can't keep? joining us now to discuss, fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. >> good morning, you know, eric, i think the president is pushing aside harry houdini and david copperfield. he has become the master illusionist. this is about cynical misdirection and redistribution not only of wealth but of blame. he's saying listen, i can't create jobs. i can't instill confidence in america and their economy. i can't reduce gas prices. but i can blame the rich. and i can incite americans to say listen, i don't have a job for you. i can't reduce the gas prices. but look at what these rich have done! look at how they're not paying their fair share and we know through the tax policy center and others, that in fact, most millionaires are paying what they're supposed to pay under the law, we know based on statistics we saw yesterday what the true cost of all of this is going to be. let's talk about obama and what he's dealing with, there was someone who said yesterday based on his study, a great conservative economist, he said that spending under obamacare is going to increase by as much as $1. $1.25 trillion and that federal deficits will be as much as $530 billion. so on one hand, the president is talking about saving $50 billion in benefits by taxing a few thousand people more but we're talking about a half a trillion dollars in new deficits at a result of obamacare so it's a cynical misdirection in my view and it doesn't go to the heart of what we need to be doing in this country. >> well, it doesn't attack the debt at all. none of these programs attack the debt at all. what they do is attack the fairness or the class warfare or enabling the class warfare rhetoric to continue forward. >> it does. and so what it does, it provides that satisfied for a target for their anger and recrimination other than the white house. that's the body that's supposed to help create jobs and reduce the deficit. but if you can create a target and misdirect people's emotions and anger, that's an effective political tactic for centuries. >> the target that they -- the redirection they create is on about every corner in america, there's a gasoline station and most of them say $4 and something a gallon. that will be a hard one for them to redirect. >> i think it is a one and to reach out to an audience of a few thousand people and say blame the rich. blame the rich. those folks still leave without a job. and they still go to the gas station paying the prices that you talk about. and that's the unfortunate part about what we're seeing. >> thank you very much. >> good to see you, eric. why wait for the t.s.a.? one woman stripping down at the airport on her own. really? plus the veep stakes are on and denial is the name of the game so when does no really mean no? a look at the frontrunners coming up next. 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>> with the republican convention away now, the clock is ticking for mitt romney to choose his running mate. when it comes to the veep stakes, denial seems to be the name of the game. >> no, i'll stay in the state and continue doing what i'm going to do. >> i won't rule it out only because i think that i owe it to governor romney if he would ask me the question to sit and listen to him. >> i would have to consider it. it's not something i'm even thinking about right now. >> so why are they playing so coy? joining me now, dr. larry sabado, professor of political science at the university of virginia. denial is the name of the game if you're a possible v.p. pick, is that how it goes? >> for the most part, look, they don't want to be embarrassed if they're not picked. if they're out there actively campaigning for the position and then romney doesn't pick them for it, you know, it is embarrassing to them and they get a lot of ribbing for it. so the right position to take at least for most of them is to say oh, it's all theoretical, why, i'd never be called anyway and i just love my current job. i wouldn't dream of giving it up except they'd accept in a nanosecond if they were asked to join the ticket in the vast majority of cases. >> all right. so let's take a look at some of the possible v.p. picks. i guess we're going to be parsing through this list for the next couple of months, larry, because this will be the next suspenseful thing. so you have governor haley, south carolina, senator rubio, governor chris christie, congressman paul ryan, former senator rob portman of ohio and then the governor of virginia, bob mcdonald. now, the only difference there, bob mcdonald has actually been very forthright in saying he'd be up for the job. >> yes. my governor has been very, very forthright and we have nicknamed him "i'm available". bob "i'm available" mcdonald because he's been so forthright about his willingness to accept the vice presidency. there's a reason. keep in mind, virginia is the only state left that has a one term -- one consecutive term limit so he's out of a job at the end of 2013 regardless and he's looking to the next thing as most politicians do. >> so what do you think with all the history that you've looked at, what's the most important thing, the number one factor that the nominee would look for in picking a v.p.? >> this is not necessarily conventional wisdom but gretchen, i'm convinced having studied the vice presidential selection over many, many cycles that a presidential nominee is best off when he ignores all other factors and picks a person who is clearly, clearly qualified to step into the presidency on day one. >> wow! >> that's what most americans want to see. now, it's wonderful if you get a packet of electoral votes along with that. >> right. >> it's wonderful if you get new appeals to a certain demographic groups that a candidate may have to attract to win the presidency. that's great. but you can't forget the fundamental of picking somebody who is qualified to be president. >> yeah. very interesting. one heartbeat away from that top job. before you go, real quickly answer this for me. is it any different this year around because there appears to be this split in the republican party. if romney is the nominee, he has to pick a more conservative v.p. any logic to that? >> well, we hear that. and, you know, honestly, gretchen, we hear it every four years because there's always a split in the republican party, there's always a split in the democratic party and people play these games and i'm as guilty as anybody else. but in the end, it will -- it will be mitt romney's judgment. he is singularly responsible for this decision. we'll be held accountable for it. >> ok. very interesting. dr. larry sabato, see you again very soon. thanks so much. >> thanks, gretchen. >> coming up on "fox & friends", no desire to have kids? are you missing a maternal gene? dr. keith ablow will rule if that's normal or not. but first on this day in 1974, elton john had the number one song with "benny and the jets." sing it. wake up! that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. >> normal or not? do you ever wonder if your zany hab habits, impulses and unique behaviors are crossing the line from normal to nuts. this is our favorite segments, weekly analysis of the quirks and fears that make us human. good morning to you, sir. >> hey, steve, how are you? >> i'm doing fine. >> first e-mail, i have no desire for kids. i didn't have a bad childhood and i certainly wasn't abused but i don't want children. am i just missing a maternal gene or is something wrong with me? they want to know. >> well, here's the thing. look, people make all kinds of life decisions. and the one thing you would want to do because look, the viewer is very careful to say look, i wasn't abused. you don't have to be abused in order to decide my family was too stressful. i don't want another family. and if that's the case, then a little therapy might help you to see hey, you could create a very different kind of family and free you to have kids. look, you can give birth to lots of things in your life. parts of yourself, businesses, ideas and you can take care of other people. no, that's normal. >> ok. we got one normal. next up, how about this? my wife is crazy for "star wars" figurines, especially darth vader. she has tons of them in the den and they're showing up in the bedroom mantle as well. she spends a fortune on them. more than we can afford. normal or nuts? >> number one, sleep with one eye open. you have darth vader in your bedroom, you have to be careful. bottom line is this guy and his wife can't afford these. this is a sign of a kind of obsessive compulsive hoarding mindset. we got to call this what it is. it's focused. it's about figurines you can't afford. it's nuts! >> ok. there you go. and finally, guy writes in. my business partner is the most suspicious person i've ever met. he thinks everyone is either against us but now i worry he can burn bridges. >> there's that famous saying in psychiatry even, you know, paranoid people have some enemies. so sure, your partner helped build the business and he's got a sixth sense for when people are against you folks. but the bottom line is now it's overgrown and you're getting the downside from it. paranoia is paranoia. that's nuts! >> that's nuts. all right. always entertaining and interesting as well. dr. keith ablow joining us from boston. thank you very much. if you have a question for the doctor, log on to foxandfriends.com or e-mail him right here. he'll answer them every week. meanwhile, the hits keep on coming. the geniuses who use taxpayer dollars to make these videos apparently got cash bonuses for their efforts. and that's not all. more insults top of the hour. the cain train stopping by our green room! herman cain live. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower olesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? 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store. a stretch of the road closed in both direction. two powerful earthquakes hit off the northern indonesian island of sinatra. it happened earlier today. a 8.6 magnitude, then 8.2 magnitude nearly two hours later. the entire indian ocean under a tsunami warning now. it's affecting 28 countries. video in the short time ago to fox shows people running out of their homessen their offices. electricity has been knocked out. so far, no reports of major damage. people being told to move to higher ground. master mind behind the september 11 going to trial after more than ten years. khalid shaikh mohammed and the other defendants will be arraigninged. in the middle of a court case when mohammed said i did it, the case was suspend after president obama tried to have it moved to federal court. now they face the death penalty for murdering 2976 people in new york, dc, and shanksville, pennsylvania. this may not be the best use of your tax dollars. the department of homeland security spending your money on ads warning mexicans not to enter the u.s. illegally. >> steve: about time. >> gretchen: they focus on dangers of trying to cross the border illegally. there has been a surge of violence near the border. most blamed on drug cartels. it's not clear how much of an impact the outreach campaign has had on thwarting the crossing. if you come over lyrics you have a better life. race right over. >> steve: danger of dying out in the desert. four minutes after the top of the hour. there was good news and bad news in politics yesterday. the bad news, newt gingrich apparently bounced a check. he was trying to register for utah. the good news for mitt romney, that guy right there, rick santorum, who did a great job wage ago great campaign against mitt romney, mr. santorum yesterday said it's the end of the trail for him. he's going to suspend things and now the question is what is going to happen with all of his delegates. >> eric: very quickly, what happens to his delegates legally, or according to the gop, is 84 of them are free to vote whoever they want to at the convention in august. 197 or so, ballpark, if rick santorum releases them, they have the option to vote for who they want. get their support behind who they want. but rick santorum has to -- i have a hunch he will for the good the party. it's important to note, money wise, he's suspending the campaign because if he were to quit the campaign, he'd have to come up with the money to pay all his -- >> steve: i think that's when hillary did. >> eric: when you suspend, you can bide more time. >> gretchen: i find it interesting timing that he chose yesterday to do this. it was somewhat viesing to me, pennsylvania's home state works weeks away, even though people were saying that would be horrendous if he lost his home state. but also his daughter was ill over the last couple of days. maybe that is what made his family sit down and look at priorities. but also i felt like he had sort of a spring in his step the last ten days or so. he seemed to be more fired up in the last two weeks than previous. so the timing was a little surprising. the other thing is that newt gingrich has vowed he's going to stay in this race. so had he gotten out, maybe then santorum could have edged -- picked up some of the gingrich supporters and edged along a little more. but the timing is a little interesting. >> steve: dick morris says this is a net gain for mitt romney because at the end of the contest, the republicans will all get on the romney band wagon. listen. >> there can be no doubt that mitt romney is going to get the votes of more than 90% of self-described republicans and that there is going to be an enormous turnout among republicans, motivated by the fear of obama and his presidency. i do not think there is a serious chance of any kind of major deinfection from romney. >> gretchen: i think that's interesting because if you ask conservatives that today, they might not agree with dick morris. >> steve: they want obama out. >> gretchen: maybe eventually they would come over, but you have to somehow, if you're mitt romney, you have to somehow get that base behind you because why? you got to get them out to vote! >> steve: they don't like the president. they want the president out. i think that's going to be the motivation for tuesday in november. >> eric: watch these polls. lately the last few polls are showing president obama with between a 5 and eight point lead over mitt romney. now that rick santorum dropped out and some of the conservative emphasis going toward mitt romney, i p bet you that tightens and you start to slip a little bit. i would agree, steve. i think the true conservatives are so concerned about the obama policies, fiscal policies that they're going to get behind anyone and it looks like it will be romney. >> steve: mitt romney knows in his heart it's going to be him and he continued yesterday in wilmington, delaware, the thing he has been doing. he hasn't been attacking his fellow republicans. he's been going right after the president of the united states and he uses for the first time we have heard a statistic that is absolutely jaw dropping. he's going to mention that 92% of the people who lost jobs during barak obama's 3 1/2 years have been women. listen to this. >> you look at the experience of this administration and the last 3 1/2 years and you can see that something is seriously wrong with his perspective. not only have 92% of the job losses been among women, but you've seen 800,000 people over all lose jobs, home values decline, the median income of americans in the last four years has dropped by 10%! these have been tough years. you have failed. we have seen it. you can't hide it. we're going to change it! >> steve: 92% of the women of the people who lost jobs on barak obama's watch have been women? that's big. >> gretchen: it seems impossible. >> eric: yeah. >> gretchen: 'cause i thought all along that more men had lost jobs. >> eric: he may have misspoke a little bit. there may be another qualifier. >> steve: i think the gop put out something talk being okay, mr. obama says that the republicans have a war on women? now the republicans have turned it around to say, who has got the war on women. look how many women lost their jobs during this administration. >> eric: we'll see if there is a clarification. but again, the one thing that was important that he did say is that median income has dropped over the three years that president obama has been president. clearly the policy he's put in just aren't working. >> gretchen: what you need to focus on really is just the unemployment rate in general. it's still 8.2%. >> eric: and the cost of gas. >> gretchen: you have to look at the jobs created. >> eric: the cost of gas. >> gretchen: even though the employment rate has come down by a point from 8.3 to 8.2, the jobs created were fewer than expected and that's really where you see the pulse of the economy. >> eric: there is still almost a million fewer jobs in america today than january 20, 2009. so no matter how you spin it, you can call it the last six months, pick a few months out, job creation is coming back, but there is still fewer jobs in america right now and the population is growing. so they're not work. just not work. >> steve: something that the president hopes works is class warfare and yesterday he went down to florida, atlantic university in boca to talk about the buffet rule. this is supposed to be nonpolitical. supposed to be just policy. it sure sounds political. >> they keep telling us that if we just weaken regulations that keep our air or water clean or protect our consumers, if we would just convert these investments that we're making through our government in education and research and health care, if we just turn those into tax cut, especially for the wealthy, then somehow the economy is going to go stronger. that's the theory. and here is the news: we tried this for eight years before i took office. we tried it. it's not like we didn't try it. >> steve: especially policy, it was all politics. >> eric: you know what else we tried? we pride spending $6 trillion in deficit spending and that's not working either, president obama. i think you need a new victim, a new villain. >> steve: you're speaking directly to the president? is he watching right now? >> eric: yeah. >> gretchen: as long as that populist -- internal polling must be showing that message is work 'cause he keeps saying the same thing. it's a story we've been following closely. one university forcing christian groups to let anyone, even atheists, run their club. up next, we'll have an update on that story. >> eric: and the king train is here. the former presidential candidate on where the race goes from here and his pick for the vice president. that's next ♪ [ male announcer ] want your weeds to hit the road? hit 'em, with roundup extended control. one application kills weeds, and stops new 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>> paul ryan's reputation for being very good at budgets. he's very good at that whole financial area which you're going to need. plus he knows how to navigate the legislative process. marco rubio because he's an excite young senator that everybody loves in florida and the other thing is you got rubio and west both from the state of florida. that does not hurt. but i just happen to think that even though as west indicated, he feels as if he's far apart in some ways from mitt romney, they can come together on some of those things. that's part of the process if he is selected. >> eric: you left one name off the list. he needs someone to invigorate the party, a guy who does a lot of that ask he's a couple miles across the river, chris christie. >> no way. i think that that would be perceived, with all due respect to chris christie, i think the rest of the country, which i see a lot of speaking around, they would perceive that as two northeastern governors, president and vp candidate. i don't think perception wise that would be a good thing. >> steve: you mentioned a couple of guys from florida, marco rubio and colonel west. what about a third guy from florida, jeb bush? >> i don't think so, because that would also create a perception -- you know, unfortunately, in politics, perception is a big part of it. >> steve: is it just too soon? >> it's too soon for another bush. i'm just going to say it. this is what what i'm hearing. no disrespect, but i just think from a perception standpoint, that would not be good. >> steve: he's a good leader. >> good leader, good manager. did a good job as governor of florida. but i think for the rest of the country, they wouldn't evaluate it on that. >> gretchen: what about newt gingrich? you endorsed him for president. we just had larry sabato on the show, professor at the university of virginia who studied this type of thing and he said that most important factor is who can step right into the role and become president. so could newt gingrich be a good pick? >> newt gingrich could step into the role, but i believe that that is 50% of the decision. the other 50%, who is going to bring some excitement to the ticket? with all due respect, i don't think newt would bring that excitement because he has been one of the candidates and where he is right now. >> eric: governor palin is a good friend of pipe and i asked her, true conservatives are looking to get behind the person that's going to beat barak obama. with rick santorum dropping out l the real conservative, far right conservative finally get behind mitt romney? >> if -- let me give you two ifs. if governor romney continues to clearly delineate the failed policies of the obama administration and clearly talk about what he would do instead, the second is if he adopts many of the good ideas that came out of this primary process, some of the things that ron paul said, some of the things that newt gingrich said, like the 2.50-gallon with the plan. if he adopts some of those ideas, their followers and supporters could get excited about mitt romney. that's how he brings the party together. >> steve: one of the things you spoke out against is government waste. i'm sure you've seen the video of the guys from the gsa out in vegas last year living it up, spending close to a million dollars. now the report is apparently some of those people got cash bonuses. 500,000 bucks for doing such a good job wasting our money. >> the obama strategy, based upon the class warfare, snippets you all showed. instead of hope and change is turning out to be more like waste and welfare and fear. fear, welfare and waste. this is outrageous. the american people are going to make note of it. they're trying to slough it off and worse, they're trying blame the bush administration! the american people are not that stupid. >> gretchen: you got to wonder if we're exposing that, how much more waste. >> it's probably a lot more than that. >> steve: tip of the iceberg. >> you got it. >> steve: thank you, cain train for dropping by. >> gretchen: in person, the tie is yellow. >> it's gold, gretchen! >> gretchen: better yet. good to see you. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, should our kids be admiring today's celebrities? are they the right kind of role models? are all the true heros gone? our next guest has a plan to bring them back. >> eric: former president george w. bush once again entering into the debate over tax cuts. he says leave my name out of it. 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[ applause ] did you notice on the news they say, american bubba watson. you ever met anybody named bubba who wasn't an american? i mean, what are the odds? please welcome from london england, sir bubba windsor, ladies and gentlemen. who else but an american would be named bubba? >> steve: he's got a point. >> eric: bubba gump, bubba clinton. americans. >> steve: 28 minutes before the top of the hour. president obama set to make yet another attempt this morning to sell the buffet rule to voters as he tries to shoot down criticism he's engaging in class warfare. >> eric: doug is live at the white house with more. what's the latest? >> the president will be speaking at 10:15 on the buffet rule. very clear at this point that he's going to make this a major campaign theme regardless of its potential political liabilities. after all, when was the last time you heard a president campaigning on a tax increase, even on millionaires? under the so-called buffet rule, people making more than a million dollars a year would pay a tax rate of at least 30%. it would result in $36.7 billion per year in additional tax revenues. yesterday in a campaign rally, an important swing state of florida, the president again championed the buffet rule. >> and finally, we've got to make sure that we've got a tax system that reflects everybody doing their fair share. let's follow what we call the buffet rule. they may call it class envy or -- that's just being fair. >> with mitt romney freed up from his intraparty battle with rick santorum, it appears he is welcoming a battle over the buffet rule, which he considers to be a tax on small businesses and on job creators. here is mitt romney. >> and the president is going to use all sorts of terms oh, we're going to be more fair in the model that he has. and yet, it is my viewing, a model which does not designate fairness when the government takes from some and gives to others. >> some analysts believe the president's emphasis on the buffet rule is tailor made for opposition to a candidate like romney. warren buffet is a billionaire who is willing to pay a 30% tax rate on his income. mitt romney, a millionaire, who is for the past two years o'clock paid an effective tax rate of about 14% on his investment income. but what you won't hear from the white house is that mitt romney's investment income is taxed at least three times. first when he makes the money, secondly, when it's taxed as investment income, and thirdly, he'll be taxed again when he dies on an estate tax or death tax. so the battle has been joined, gentlemen. >> steve: doug live on the north lawn. he's absolutely right. it's double taxed. they don't bring that up. i had forgotten about the death tax, which is substantial, going up. >> eric: this is class warfare because it's clearly not attacking the debt because even if you were to do what's called -- what president obama is using as the buffet rule, you're only going to come in around $4 billion a year. we're adding $1.2 trillion this year and maybe about a trillion dollars next year on to the national debt. it's really not about solving the debt crisis. it's all about pointing out a fairness kind of doctrine, if you will. so is it fair. >> steve: let's talk a little about who actually pays taxes in this chrism we've got a graphic right over there that shows that the president is trying to get people who are the job creators to pay more in income tax. but the top 1% pay close to 40% of all the taxes in this country. and the top 10% pay 70%. and eric, about half pay zero. >> eric: keep that up there for a second 'cause that top 1% not only accounts for 36.7% of all taxes paid, if you add in the 4045 or 46% of the people households who don't pay tax, that 1% pays the same amount as 95% of the bottom half. so if you go from the bottom up to 95% of the people in america, that 1% is paying the same amount of taxes. >> steve: the president -- how is that fair? it's not. the president has been using warren buffet because he says he pays less in taxes than his secretary. but when you look at the facts about the amount of money that -- let's say his secretary is probably highly compensated. but the average person in the middle class, according to the irs data, pays under 15%. we're talking about people, 50, 60, $70,000. they pay 15%. whereas the average person who makes over a million dollars a year pays close to 30%, which is -- they're already paying that. clearly the president is not interested in policy. he's interested in pushing politics. >> eric: let's talk with warren buffet for a second. he says he pays less than his secretary. what he's saying is not in dollars, he's saying that the rates he pay social security lower than his secretary. that's because he takes advantage of tax loopholes. >> steve: all legal. >> eric: also because he pays 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends. you don't hear him talking about that. i did this a couple hours ago. i'll do it again. warren buffet, come on to the curvy couch, let's have a discussion about whether or not president obama should call his plan of taxing people over a million dollars at 30%, should he call that the buffet rule because i know and i've heard you say it before, you've said it's got to be a revamping of the tax code along the lines of simpson-bowles which also includes massive spending cuts. so is it fair to use the buffet rule as a name when it has almost nothing to do with what you would do to solve the debt crisis? >> steve: from the buffet rule to the bush tax cuts, george w. bush was in new york city yesterday and he wanted to talk a little bit about what the president is doing and how the president wants to end the bush tax cuts. here is w. >> if the goal is private sector growth, you got to recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators. secondly, if you raise taxes -- if you -- i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. they're called something else, they're probably less likely to be raised. >> eric: good point. barak obama tax cuts and maybe they'll stick around. >> steve: okay. you can start that. >> eric: i shall. he was caught in a 14-hour battle against insurgents in afghanistan before calling in air strikes, clearing the area and ultimately saving the lives of his fellow service members. now this brave american hero is earning the air force's highest honor, the air force cross. joining us now, captain barry crawford. captain, first of all, thank you for your service. you're a hero. can you break it down? i was reading that, you actually within into an open area, exposed yourself to incoming fire and helped remove some people, some casualties. is that right? >> that is correct. first thank you for having me and the special forces teammates and i attached to the afghan commandos were completely surrounded and were in a dire situation and my teammates, as well as myself, did the actions that needed to be continue to take flight to the enchristmas eve get out of there as best we could. >> eric: set the scene for us. so you go out there. there is some casualties that you need -- that need to be air lifted. you get out there and you start helping a helicopter that lands to pick up the casualties. you helped them remove the casualties from the area? >> my job as a combat controller, as the helicopters are coming in, everyone under fire, so i knew i had to get their eyes on me and once they were able to see me, i was able to get the eyes on the hlz. so i had to move out into the open so they could see me. i knew i was going to be a giant target, but it was worth it 'cause we were able to get the commandos out and save their lives. >> eric: at one point you took incoming fire. is that right? did i read a bullet had taken off one of the antenna on one of your devices? >> correct. when i moved out into the open, i became a large target, as well as a helicopter's and it took it right off my shoulder. >> eric: tell us about the award. what does it mean to you? >> it's an immense honor. at first it came as complete shock and i thought people were joke. but once it was confirmed, it was a humbling experience, but even though it's an individual award, it's team effort. it's about the commando, my teammates that were fighting that day because if everyone didn't go above and beyond what was needed, we would have suffered catastrophic casualties and i wouldn't be here today. >> eric: do you have any injuries from your service? >> few scratches here and there and swollen joints. but other than that, nothing significant. >> eric: all right. we did a segment a couple minutes ago, a gentleman with a book who said that he left a back page empty, blank for your hero, fill in your hero right here. i got to tell you, before i give this to my son, i'm gog put your name here. we thank you for your service and glad you're on our side. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. it's my pleasure. >> eric: thank you. coming up, while the president is talking about raising taxes on top earners, ohio's governor is busy lowering income taxes for his state. john kasich is here next. then how to eat more of what you love without packing on the pounds. we're talking about chicken fried chicken steak chicken fried chicken steak. with the capital one cash rewards card you get a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more cash -- well, except her. no! but, i'm about to change that. ♪ every little baby wants 50% more cash... ♪ phhht! fine, you try. 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>> eric: new jersey governor chris christie says americans are becoming couch potatoes and couch potato nation. listen. >> american people no longer believe that this is a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity determines their success in life. then we'll have a bunch of people sitting on the couch waiting for the next government check. >> eric: well, is he right? republican governor of ohio john kasich, who is turning the economy around in his state joins us now. sir, thanks for joining us. how are you doing it? >> you know, we're doing great. ohio, we got a long way to go to get totally out of the woods and i worry about the federal government and i worry about europe in terms of their difficult, horrible problems over there. but here in ohio, look, we've gone from number 48 in job growth to number 1 in february and number 4 over the last year and our credit improved, while the agencies have downgraded the entire world, they've improved our credit rating and, you know, when you're growing job, you're helping people, building stronger families and getting kids out of poverty, you feel good, but we got a long way to go. >> eric: i'm sorry, steve, just follow up, you're doing it by lowering taxes, right? >> well, we're doing it a number of ways. it's really the way the federal government ought to look at what we're doing and in fact, europe as well. we derecollected. with he -- he deregulated. we made them simpler. they reflect common sense. we killed the death tax. we balanced our budget. we figured out better ways in which to deal with our entitlement programs. for example, in medicaid, instead of forcing mom and dad to a nursing home, if they can stay in their own home, we give them help at a fifth of the cost where they're healthier and happier. there are ways to deal with entitlement programs to get them under control, to serve the taxpayer and yet, also at the same time save money. so we don't play a lot of politics out here. we look at a problem and we go to fix it. lowering taxes, balancing budgets, deregulating part of your economy, bringing in common sense and providing a sense of the fact you have stability is what leads to job growth not only in ohio, but what happened in america, it will happen in europe and they don't seem to pay much attention to it. >> eric: i don't get why you can do it in ohio, but we can't do it as a nation. >> steve: governor scott walker over in wisconsin has tried to make big changes with his legislature's help. now he's facing a recall. you have made very big changes as well with the help of your legislature. why is he facing a recall and you're not? >> well, because we don't have that provision in ohio and the fact of the matter is, is that -- it's been a blur for him. here we've been able to settle things down and let people see the fact that we're doing well. ohio for a long period of time was a place where it was really a flyover state. now people are beginning to look at ohio and feel good about it. our number one job growth area in the state of ohio has been the medical area. not autos or manufacturing, although we welcome them. we're building a diversified economy and when you do that and people see it, they begin to respond positively. >> steve: yeah. no kidding. all right. we know you got a busy day. governor john kasich who once upon a time used to be the fill-in host for "the o'reilly factor." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> eric: don't be a chicken. throw away that crummy breakfast. how to eat more of what you love even comfort foods without putting on the pounds. >> steve: somebody who loves that gravy? bill hemmer. >> it's lunchtime for you guys anyway. >> steve: it is. >> dive in. good morning to both of you. in their first interview since rick santorum suspend his campaign, we will talk live today. mitt romney, he is here in studio. newt gingrich is live as well. so romney and gingrich and how this campaign goes forward. where is george zimmerman and new polling on health care that shows how political this law has become. martha and i will see new a jam packed show in ten minutes >> pizza hut is sell ago pizza with a hot dog stuffed crust. hot dogs stuffed in there. how fat are we getting in this country? when even our food is stuffed with food! i mean, we take food and we stuff it with more food. >> gretchen: good question. so how do you have that good stuff without packing on all the pounds that you might get if you eat all that other stuff? our guest shows us eat more of what you love. she's our guest to you. >> good morning. >> steve: my wife bought this book. it arrived by amazon before easter. we've already had some of this stuff. the key is you take the foods that we love and you figure out how to make them healthy so people don't feel guilty about eating them. >> exactly. i cut the sugar, the fat, the calories plummet. they have the points for people who use points in the book. it has weight watcher exchanges. it has diabetic exchanges. the idea is i come from a family of nine and i want everybody to enjoy all of the foods they love, guilt free. >> eric: guilt free. steve? >> steve: chicken fried chicken. >> eric: i'm still debating whether steak should be in the name. >> it's a chicken chicken fried steak. here is what's fabulous, what you do is i worked for four days on this coating. get the perfect mix of a coating. it has a little corn flake crumb, but i mixed those fine with a lot of the chicken fried seasonings. what you get is something that tastes exactly like chicken fried chicken, but here is the idea. >> gretchen: you bake it or fry it? >> i move it into a saute' pan with a little oil to brown it and move it to the oven. but when i give my portions, i'm not talking about a little teaspoon or tablespoon. you get a quarter cup of gravy on a portion and an entire piece this big for 280 calories. so the idea is if you were to switch every day from going to a diner instead of it being 1,000 calories for chicken fried steak on potatoes, this is only 380 calories. >> eric: there is no way this is healthy. >> steve: my family is so excited about this. >> mac and cheese muffins. they take 15 minutes to make and they're 125 calories. so if you're a mac and cheese fan, you tonight have to worry. no matter what your diet, diabetes, losing weight, it all fits. >> gretchen: what about these? >> eric: amazing. >> better hot warm and gooey. this is a cupcake. this is what i call my gooey, goy, peanut butter stuffed chocolate glazed double cupcake. you want to cut into the middle of this and show what you here. a little messy in the middle. you've got peanut butter mousse. >> steve: we love what you cook. congratulations on your new cookbook. all the recipes are on our web site. >> thank you. >> gretchen: we'll be right back with more good food. stick around. >> eric: and delicious ! >> gretchen: tomorrow, michelle malkin, bob massi, and the story behind the barefoot bandit. >> steve: that's right. plus, if you want to learn how to cook food
VancouverBritish-columbiaCanadaDelawareUnited-statesMinnesotaCaliforniaWashingtonDistrict-of-columbiaWest-virginiaMexicoSouth-carolinanondiscrimination policy would force them to lie. the policy says student organizations must keep leadership positions open to all students regardless of their backgrounds including religious beliefs. we're joined by the chaplain of vanderbilt catholic, father john sims baker and the student president of vanderbilt catholic, p.j., thanks for joining us from nashville. >> good morning, how are you? >> father baker, let's start with you. the way things are now, if you want to be in a campus organization at vanderbilt, you got to say, ok, anybody regardless of background could be the leader including your organization, you might have to have an atheist head up the catholics. >> that's a theoretical possibility but we have to allow, according to this policy, anyone to apply for leadership and we're saying as a faith based organization, faith based
PolicyFatherJohn-sims-bakerBeliefsChaplainStudentsVanderbilt-catholicLeadership-positionsBackgroundsStudent-organizationsPresidentWayask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. [ doctor ] enbrel, the number one biolog medicine prescribed by rheumatologists. >> 45 minutes past the top of the hour. couple of quick headlines for you now. sobering new statistics. a report out by the cdc finds 1 in 88 children in the u.s. have autism. the hardest hit -- boys. the figures mean autism nearly twice as common as health officials said it was five years ago but experts say part of the increase is due to wider screening and better diagnosis. and mattel announcing it will be giving bald barbie dolls to children who lost their hair to cancer. you may remember the idea was first inspired by a movement on facebook. steve? >> thanks, gretchen. next fall we were telling you one of vanderbilt's largest student religious organizations won't be on campus. that's because vanderbilt catholic decided not to re-register as an official student organization after deciding that complying with the university's new
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