Steve the texas tenors just did that great song god bless the usa. What about lee greenwood, has he ever talked to you about that . Were friends with lee. We had dinner with him last week. Hes excited about us being on the show. He endorses our song and he loves it. Peter i think he would love that version. You were fantastic. Especially on this day. Steve thank you. Thank you. Steve stick around for the after the show show cause we want to talk about how much you guys do for the vets because we know thats been great. Peter god bless the usa. Steve god bless all of you for joining us today. Gretchen and brian will be back, anna and peter, thank you very much. Also tomorrow, Laura Ingraham joins us and we hope you do, too. So long, everybody. Anna bye. Bill Country Music world is mourning one of its troubled stars. Mindy mccready whose rise to fame was sidetracked by personal problems apparently taking her own life. She was only 37 years old. Good morning im bill hemmer. Welcome on a monday edition. President s day of a americas newsroom. Good to be here. She may have been young but leaves behind a legacy. Im in for martha today. Police are saying that mindy shot herself on the very same porch where her boyfriend had taken his own life. After rocketing to fame in the late 90s mccready was in and out of trouble for a decade, arrested multiple times. Doing stints in rehab for drugs and alcohol bill she told abc news back in 2011 that she was trying to get back on the road to redemption. I have vigorously gone out and tried to learn from my mistakes and tried to better myself every way possible. There is nobody that wants to be better at being me than me. Bill casey stiegel is live for us this morning. She had a lot of struggles at the end of her life, casey. Reporter bill, she did, struggles that really started and came to a head back in 2004 when she pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining the powerful prescription meld sin oxycontin. She was put on probation. She violated her probation after being arrested for drunk driving in florida. After being put on probation, her boyfriend severely beat her so badly she he was charged with attempted criminal homicide. She tried to take her life in 2005 and 2008. Mindy mccready was hospitalized in 2010 for a drug overdose. She did a stint on celebrity rehab with the dr. Drew, the tv show. She made apologies to her fans and judges throughout the years. Just want to say thanks for the continued support. My fans are unbelievable. They have sent me letters of encouragement that have truly been touching and just one more step getting all this over with so i can go back to being a singer and a mom and concentrating on things that are good for my life. Im sorry that i have to keep seeing all of you guys in court. I hope in the future i get to see you guys elsewhere performing or Something Like that. Reporter she took her own life in kleburn county, arkansas where she had been living. Coroner said she died from a single gunshot wound to her head. Disever coulded on the front porch of her home where her boyfriend died last month. Bill she had a public custody battle over her two children, casey. Reporter she did. In 2011 she took her oldest son away from her mother. Her mother was the boys legal guardian and fled with him to arkansas. Authorities took the boy back there. Last month her father told a judge that mccready was no longer taking care of herself or her two boys because of her substance abuse. And at that time, the two boys were taken away from her all together. And they were put into foster care and bill, obviously with two little oneses this tears your heart out even more. Bill indeed it does. Casey stiegel leading coverage from dallas. Casey. Jamie mccready shot to flame very quickly and sadly burned just as quick lift after arriving in nashville as a teenager in 1994 earning a recording contract just on strength of her karaoke tapes. In 1996 the single, 10,000 angels went double platinum. There were four top singles, including the number one hit, guys do it all the time. That was the same year mccready was nominated as top new female vocalist at the Country Music awards. News spread quickly on twitter with many country stars expressing condolences. Care reunderwood dweets, i grew up listening to Mindy Mccready. So sad for the family. Many prayers go out to them. John rich from big and rich. When i was in lone star she was our label mate and we were friends. A tragic end to a talented life. Leann rimes, my heart goes out to Mindy Mccreadys family. I knew her well. It is a horrible tragedy. May peace be with her sons. Especially the children after a troubled young life. Jamie she is with the angels she sung about. Meantime, fox news alert. There were thousands of protesters that flooded the National Mall and they are demanding that president obama reject the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. Listen. What . Jamie organizer are saying this particular protest to remind the president of the pledge he made in his inaugural address to act on climate change. But the pipeline backers, they say it would create jobs and could bring down gas prices by transporting hundreds of thousands of fall license of oil per day from canada to refineries in texas. The protests come as aaa reports the price of a gallon of regular unleaded is now 3. 73, a 43 cent jump from just a month ago. Stuart varney is the host of Varney Company on the fox business network. Stu, good morning. How does the pipeline debate link in with those rising gas prices . Thats a very good question, jamie. Heres the story. The price of gas is going straight up. That slows the economy. That makes the job market worse. We need jobs obviously. If the president says yes, go ahead and build the pipeline, you do get jobs. So thats the connection between the pipeline debate, rising gas prices and jobs. Its not that building a pipeline would necessarily bring the price of gas down in the near term. It almost certainly would not. That if you build the pipeline you create jobs that make up for the slowing economy because of high gas prices. Circular argument but thats the way it is. Jamie the pushback clearly is in his campaign and inaugural speech he promised clean energy and greenfriendly jobs and this could potentially stop him from doing the pipeline. Well, i dont know about that but, you got to ask, why are gas prices going up right now . The answer has nothing to do with the pipeline. The answer is refineries with very tight supplies of gasoline coming onto the market, refineries are closing for maintenance and closing so that they can switch over to the summer blend of gasoline which we start using in a couple of weeks, a couple of months. That takes gas out of the system. That raises the price of gas. So the real question here is, is this gas price spike going to continue . And the answer is, in the near term yes it is because were changing our refinery runs. That is whats happening. It really hits folks in the pocketbook at a time of year, but unexpected to rise this much early in the year, isnt it . It is very different. Yes, a 43 cent rise at this time of year is very unusual because you dont normally get gas prices rising sharply until the spring and early summer. It has come early this time around and come big. Never before with very paid 3. 73 for a gallon of regular in midfebruary. By the average price of regular in california, 4. 16 a gallon right now and rising. Jamie that is huge. Yep. Not so much driving. Stu, have a great show. Thanks for joining us. Thank you, jamie. 4 clin 15 in suffolk county, new york, and it is climbing. Hawaii is seeing some of the highest price, averaging 4. 26 a gallon followed by california as stuart mentioned there. Some of the cheapest gas is found in montana and wyoming where a gallon of unleaded averages only 3. 18. Huge stuff. Jamie another fox news alert. There is an Al Qaeda Affiliated terror group that is claiming responsibility for a string of car bomb attacks weve seen in baghdad. Coordinated bombings killing at least 37 people and injuring many others. According to statements they posted online, the attack was retaliation against a shiiteled government for alleged crimes against sunni muslims. More than 100 people hurt in the homicide blasts. Bill we have a jampacked hour straight ahead. The white house leaking the plan for Immigration Reform. Why marco rubio says it is doa, it is dead on arrival and it does not help. Well debate that in a moment. Jamie . Jamie it also lit up the sky, sent a city into a panic. Check this out. Scientists say they have recovered the first fragments of the meteor that crashed into the planet but is that really what it was . Bill outrage high in the sky when a Airline Passenger is accused of slapping his toddler that wasnt even his own. Now the little boys mother is telling us why. His mouth was in my ear and he said it again, but even more hateful and he was in my face, so i pushed him away. That is when he slapped john. [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents are awesome. But when i cook up some beef, ketchup, relish and cheese, cover it with crescent dough and pow cheeseburger crescent casserole. Double awesome. Pillsbury crescents. Let the making begin. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. 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If actually proposed the president s bill would be dead on arrival in Congress Leaving Us with unsecured borders and a broken Legal Immigration system for years to come. What about this . Kirsten powers, columnist for the daily beast, Fox News Contributor. Tony sayegh is former press aide to vie president ial nominee jack kemp and. Good morning to both of you. Who is your favorite president . Well save it for later. Tony what is it going on here . Was it intentional leak . Is anything unintentional in washington. This is a intentional, bill. The president is outlyer in this debate where there is ton of bipartisan consensus in capitol hill at a time we dont have consensus on much. Comprehensive Immigration Reform is for a opportunity to score. I fear he is snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. Marco rubio has a very tough job to sell a plan being endorsed as you saw in the press conference, senator menendez, senator schumer, among the most liberal. For the president , while senator rubio is trying to make the case to more conservative colleagues in the house, president float as parallel bill that frankly stops short of amnesty, if not is total amnesty does not help the effort to really pass bipartisan reform. It undermines it. It makes it difficult for Senate Democrats will have more liberal members saying wait a minute, the president s plan is much more appealing to us than yours, why should we compromise . I dont know why the president saw fit to really kind of confuse the situation when there is really bipartisan concensus. Bill let me bring in kirsten. I will get details why rubio will oppose it. Tony says youre snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Did you say it was like amnesty, the president s plan . The president s plan follows kennedy, mccain plan of 2007 which was amnesty. I thought i misheard you because it is not, saying it will take eight years to become a citizen is the about the fartherest thing i can think from amnesty. I support amnesty. There is nothing about this of amnesty in my mind. There wasnt amnesty in the kennedy bill either. I think the president gets criticized when he doesnt have a plan for health care. Now he gets criticized for having a backup plan for immigration. I dont think this is something that, not something he submitted or released or anything like that. I think it is good they have a plan in case it comes to that. Bill well the white house is saying that it is an incomplete draft. Obviously. Bill cbs news is reporting that it was not anmaed leak. Why compete. Bill i dont know about what unplanned leak is out there. Rubios problem says the idea on its face does not secure the borders number one. Which leads to a multitude of problems down the road and it creates a pathway for those who came here illegally first of all to jump ahead in the line who are awaiting legally from overseas. Tony. It runs potential someone here in undocumented fashion getting a green card quicker than someone who goes through the Legal Immigration process. Number one. Number two, the absolute nonnegative goshable variable for republicans is border security. President makes unsesfied promise he will dedicate resources to border security. This is 1954mile long border. It is very finite. It is a solveable problem. Republicans say lets secure the border so we dont have future ilLegal Immigration issues and solve the issue of current undocumented people in america right now by having a bipartisan bill. Why would we do it, why would the president s plan be necessary if we already have people agreeing . Bill does rubio have a point, kirsten . You have to secure the border first to prevent issues from coming back on you years down the road . Yeah. Obama done a pretty good job securing the border. I dont really, i dont really think that is the most important thing. I think it is more important to bring the people out of the shadows. I dont think it should take eight years for them to become a citizen. Bill when does he do it . Im for amnesty. I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan. Bill right now . Yeah. I would do exactly what Ronald Reagan did. What reagan did, didnt fix the problem. I dont, honestly understand what the complaint is here by republicans that the president is putting together a plan on the off chance that congress cant get something done. Congress has shown that theyre actually pretty bad at getting things done. So i think it is smart for the president to have something to, have a plan. This is not the final plan. So it is a draft plan. And i think it is a responsible thing for them to be doing. Bill first review was not favorable. I have to go. Thanks for coming in on a holiday. Doa was the operative acronym out of rubio and think that is the way this one is headed. More to come, tony, thank you, kirsten as well. 18 past the hour. Jamie has a bit more now. Jamie meanwhile senator rubios infamous waterdrinking moment to the republican response for state of the union it has become a unique opportunity for him, since taking that sip, senator rubio has sold 3,000 branded Water Bottles and raised one 100,000. They are available on line for anyone making a 25 donation to his Political Action committee. Bill that must be tasty water. Great placement. There is new details now on the murder charges against the blade runner. Why police are said to be reportedly want the sprinter to undergo blood tests for steroids. Also theres this. Oh . [sirens] jamie scientists found pieces of meteor that crashed into earth. Now there are people, as you can imagine, who are trying to cash in. 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The Scientists Say the rocks are a mix of iron, sulfite and other materials and theyre searching for bigger pieces of it. They will find it eventually. People are trying to sell what they claim are fragments on ebay, imagine that. 1200 people were injured when the meteor hit. Mostly from broken glass. Jamie pictures are incredible. There are some new twists and turns in a stunning murder case against South African sprinter oscar pistorius. Theres word now that the 26yearold olympic athlete will reportedly be tested for steroids after the banned substance was found at the house where he is accused of killing his girlfriend, here she is. Police