Creating havoc at a soccer match in switzerland. Tkafpg on to the field after the dark on to the field after the game started. The player dived to cash the critter. What the heck is that . I dont know. Called a martin or Something Like that. A lot of you have written in to fox news to tell us how much you love the fact that were playing the National Anthem right before the beginning of our show every day. We want to read more of your comments. Please keep the starspangled keep the starspangled banner as your opening. It is heart warming to hear first thing in the morning. Jay tweeted i love fox and the greatest country on earth and the greatest news team ever. God bless the u. S. A. And the staff at fox. Linda on facebook wrote it is refreshing to see this on television. I served 20 years in the u. S. Air force. Still get cheers and teary eyed when i hear the song. Thank you so much. Thank you to everyone who responded. Keep your comments coming. And well keep putting that on the air every morning. Fox friends starts right now. Have a great day. Gretchen good morning everybody. Glad to be with you today. March 11, 2013. Im gretchen carlson. Fire fighters rushing into a burning building never expected this. What went wrong . The video, the story moments away. Steve thats like in a movie. Our new secretary of defense makes his first trip to afghanistan, and hes greeted by bombs. Our partner there, President Hamid karzai says its our fault. What . Should we still be giving this guy our men and women not to mention our money . Details straight ahead. Brian you cant go to the white house, but can she . Brian well have the latest this morning on whos been invited while youre shut out and maybe who has not been invited. Well explain in a little bit. Fox friends starts right now. Steve welcome to the program. Brian kilmeade is on vacation and in his spot is the guy with no tie. Gretchen sometimes you wear it, sometimes you dont. Steve donald trump tie. Donald trump will be with us one hour from now. Gretchen by the end of the show that tie could be on that guy. In the meantime, lets get to headlines. 18, ages 14 to 19 were trapped in a car, landed on a guardrail and ended up in a pond. Two escaped. The family, as you can imagine, devastated. [crying] pick up the phone and tell your family you love them because you never know what will happen. Tomorrow is not promised to anybody. Police believe the car was taken without permission. The video you will see will knock you over so imagine if you were a fire fighter on the scene. Watch this. A back draft causing a massive explosion. This is harrison, new jersey, sending dust and debris everywhere. Five Fire Fighters are hurt after being tossed into the air. They were literally thrown out of the building. A smoke explosion threw them out of the building. It was very scary. Flames coming from every single window. Gretchen the Fire Fighters will be okay. The fire started in a restaurant before it spread to a neighboring Apartment Building. Bet you havent heard this one before. Playing video games saved the lives of two teens. A small plane slammed into a garage feet from where two teens were playing video games. One said the entire house shook. Just knowing my son was so close to the accident, he was just above it. It really came home how, you know, fleeting life can be. I feel very bad for the family that had this happen. Gretchen the pilot of the plane killed in the crash. The passenger, the pilots nephew, just upgraded to serious condition. Witnesses saw the propeller stop before the crash. The white house may be close to tours but Michelle Obamas 50th birthday bash is wide open to hollywood. Gretchen according to reports beyonce and adele will head her party. They will allegedly sing at a private party paid for by the obamas, but the white house is shooting down the story saying it is false. Steve that story is out there everywhere. Im looking at huffington post. It says theyre booked. Someone had to come up with the idea. Im sure this didnt pop up out of thin air. Steve if it is true, when it came out, people are going let us get this straight. They closed the white house to the tours, but the first lady can have a gigantic, very Expensive Party with adele and other very big celebrities . It just seems wrong. This is the first weekend the white house is closed to the tours. Im still trying to figure it out, why they would use that. Steve did they ever call you . No. We started something here. Ill do it again here. Open our white house. Hash tag open our white house. It trended. It came on the show friday morning. People are outraged at the white house tours. A lot of kids on spring break go to washington, d. C. With either their classmates or their parents or their families. They want to see the white house. Gretchen just to remind people, eric tofrd pay for one week offered to pay for one week, specifically iowa kids. They went on facebook and said let us come to do our tour because they were coming to d. C. Over spring break. I guess with regard to the party it would matter if the obamas were paying for it privately. If it were taxpayers dollars, that would be a huge problem. It takes a lot of money to secure the white house. The 30 Service Service agents, i guess they would still be on staff during the party; right . Steve donald trump has also made a big offer and hell tell you about it. It involves 5 million out of his pocket. Coming up. What is up with the president of the United States . Remember we were talking to you about two weeks ago about how the night of the election, the president made it very clear his numberone priority was to make sure that nancy pelosi was returned to the speaker of the house. And they would do whatever it takes to make sure that the republicans lose control of the house. And then suddenly things started going wrong. The sequester not so bad. Starting to take hits in the media. And his polls numbers fall. Suddenly hes decided, wait a minute, im going to start being nice to those Republican Leaders who i havent talked to. Im going to invite a bunch of them over for supper and stuff like that. Whats he up to . Gretchen i love having eric fill in but if brian were here he would be saying i told you so because he was the one optimistic person saying maybe this was a new president obama who would be reaching out to republicans and showing the olive branch so to speak. Other people were more skeptical about whether or not this was all for play or whether or not there was going to be something done. Are we sure . President obama decides to invite 12 republican senators to the white house. By the way, you know what was going on simultaneous to that dinner . Rand paul was filibustering on the senate floor. I got to tell you, if that were going on and im a republican senator going, hold on, president obama, thank you very much. I have some important business to take care of, and show some support for rand paul. Gretchen two of the people at that dinner came out and said negative things about what rand paul was doing. For me, still krafpg my head why senators mccain and graham are steve the big question is what is the president up to . Republicans on the chat show yesterday dont know. If you say these draconian cuts which, by the way, were increasing spending by an average rate of 3. 4 a year, that does no good to get to common ground. That makes it impossible for parties to come together and bridge the gaps. If that kind of rhetoric resumes, well know this was for show and it wasnt sin saoefrplt i hope this is and it wasnt sincere. I hope this is sincere. I think hes genuinely reaching out but youve got a lot of scabs and sores on people that will take awhile for that to heal. The senate is not near as dysfunctional its made out to be because theres great relationships in the senate. Our problem in the senate is the leadership of the senate, not the members of the senate. Great. To build trust is a good thing. To be honest with you, bob, what the president needs to do is to reach out not just to republicans but to democrats and makes sure he gives them the political cover to do frankly what most of them know needs to be done. Gretchen it will be interesting to see whether this trend continues. Will the president continue to reach out . Will there be anything that will happen . That will be the bigger thing . Its nice to reach out and have a dinner but how about putting something on the table . How about putting one of the entitlement programs hes refused to touch through this whole process, put it on the table. Youve got 600 billion or 700 billion in tax increases each year. I guess he wants more. Steve i think hes trying to be bipartisan now because next year when things go belly up he can say blame the republicans. Gretchen another huge story because all eyes on vatican city as the cardinals gather for their last day before the conclave to elect a new pope. That will start tomorrow. That final preconclave meeting is underway in vatican city. All 115 cardinals gathered. They are about an hour and a half in. They are expected to meet for about three hours this morning to talk about the needs of the church and what the characteristics of the new pope will need to take on the challenges the church faces in this modern time. Theres other indications a decision is near. They are preparing the balcony for the presentation of the new pope, whoever these cardinals cast twothirds of their votes. There are 77 votes they will need to elect the new pontiff. All across rome yesterday we were talking to people from all around the world who have come here to watch this play out, they would like to see it happen sooner than later. I really hope that we will have a pope as quickly as possible. We hope its going to take a really short time, that they find a compromise. While its impossible to predict, there are frontrunners and odds makers that love this. A two to one favorite is angelo skola. And peter turkson, a four to one odds. The americans are in the running. There is a phrase called popeable. I dont know how to say it in latin but it translates to popeable. Interesting and intriguing times to see how this plays out. Its not a hightech deal. It is basically a rectangular sheet of paper where it says across the top i elect as the most high pontiff. The cardinal will write his name, fold it and that will decide the vote. Tomorrow should see first puff of smoke indicating how that vote turns out sometime tomorrow evening. Guys, back to you. Gretchen very interesting process. Thanks for breaking that down. Steve what is hamid karzai, the president of afghanistan, up to . Did you hear this . There were some explosions that killed 19 people on saturday. And then yesterday, what does he do . He says, look, the United States is working with the taliban, and the taliban is working with the United States. Why . So that we realize now my people do were going to need the americans here in the country after the get out of town date which is 2014. He also says the United States wants very valuable afghanistan resources. Gretchen you got to wonder how long this guy can be in a powerful situation when hes lobbing those threats against the United States and accusations. What is it like to deal with this guy . That must be a thrill if youre one of the people in the state department and otherwise, including the president who has to deal with this uncertainty as we move forward. The big question is why is he so ungrateful . Hes always been this way. But my question is the timing of this. Chuck hagel went over there, had a big meeting. Was supposed to have a meeting with president karzai. That ended up being canceled. They said because of the bomb that happened a couple days ago. It may be because of the outright disrespect he showed for the American People on the day before that press conference was supposed to be delivered. Steve there could be a little of both. It looks like the bad mouthing of america remember hes not going to be in the job forever. And when he leaves, right now hes trying to appeal to the antiwesterner, antiamerican factions in his country and in that region. Once upon a time he also said he would like to join the taliban. The president of afghanistan. Gretchen okay. Coming up on our show, Tuition Assistance has been suspended for our nations military because of the sequester. But guess whos still going to get help . Illegal immigrants when it comes to swigs. Whos in . Whos out . 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I understand 200,000 activedue members of the army were taking advantage of this money. Theyre in the middle of a course of study, and they found out late last week the funding they have been getting maybe one of the reasons they enlisted is not going to be there once this semester is over. They are kind of in the lurch. Gretchen it is the army and marines who are going to be cut from this. The air force and navy have not yet done this. They may follow suit. Gretchen how much money was it to an active duty of the military . 250 per credit hour, gretchen you bring up an important point that maybe this was the i am impetus for people wanting to get into the military knowing part of their education would be paid for while they were there. They go to college while on active duty and then become an officer. Some of the great officers are those who have gone up the ranks much were going to lose that in large part by cutting this program. Its not just a benefit cut. Its a quality of military cut. Gretchen you are proposing here at least in new york state that the state pick up to fund the rest of this . That is correct. What were saying is if we have new York Military personnel enrolled in state universities or city universities, were going to say were going to let you stay, continue out your degree because, one, youve been serving our country. And, two, we dont want to pull the rug out from under you. The cost will be minimal. Theres a bill making its way through the assembly to allot 25 million to give Financial Aid to Illegal Immigrants in new york state. For a fraction of that cost we can let u. S. Military in our state finish their education. Gretchen what kind of dichotomy do we have here where were going to cut off funding for members of our military but Illegal Immigrants will get that money to go to school . Its a real clear indication of bad priorities at the state and federal level. Gretchen what has been the response so far to your bill . Unbelievably positive especially when you juxtapose it to 25 million in aid. In new york, we already give instate tuition to Illegal Immigrants. Theres funding going there without this extra 25 million. We can find a few dollars. The cost is minimal. The teachers are already being paid. We want to keep the spot for this military person open so he can finish his education. Gretchen youre a veteran so you would know firsthand and now youre a new York State Assembly man. Thanks for your service in both ways. Coming up on frock coming up on fox friends, you know about the benefits of aspirin, but ladies this is for you. Our next guest wants to make it mandatory for all citizens to have a gun. Thats an interesting proposition. Come on, nowadays lots of people go by themselves. No they dont. Hey son. Have fun tonight. 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