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"fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ god bless america. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. welcome in on this memorial day weekend. take a moment this weekend take more than a moment this weekend to honor the brave men and women in uniform who have given so much for this country the quantico band performing throughout the show today. >> if you are out there barbecuing we don't expect to make your whole day, don't forget the reason that you don't have to go to work that we will be at work. don't forget the reason this is a holiday i think so often people do it's easy to forget. >> if you in the new york area and you feel like coming down and doing something cool in the morning with your kiddies, coming over to 48th and sixth. beautiful day. a lot going on including this polo chang champ. do you know nacho? >> yes. i said you have seen this hottie nacho? >> quite attractive, ladies. >> come on inside. >> nacho is this polo player. he he is the face of ralph lauren. it's going to be difficult for you i'm sure. >> it's not going to be difficult. he's okay. >> the most beautiful polo player in the world. is he gorgeous. >> get to the point. you are going to learn how to play polo. former water polo player. >> you asp water polo player. >> we were east coast champions, baby. >> where? >> like al bundy. >> in high school or something? >> yes high school. >> what high school you go, to richie rich. >> you don't have water polo. >> you don't use a horse in the pool. >> i'm aware of that. >> only so many lifelines i can throw. first, we start in washington, d.c. memorial day weekend means motor cycles, of course. thousands of riders expected to attend the 25th annual rolling thunder rally in support of veterans and those missing in action. >> peter doocy live in morning in washington, d.c. with a preview. >> when you guys say thousands it's almost 900,000 motorcycle riders are going to take part in rolling thunder. we had a chance to talk to a retired marine and he solutes every single person who rides by. it's going to be a hot day and it's going to go on and on and on and this is what he had to say. >> a salute is a gesture of respect. i have done it, like i said, at a lot of funerals. it's way too late for me to show those old souls my appreciation considering they didn't get it when they came home. it's a form of respect. i respect those veterans. i respect those family members. and i respect those concerned citizens. >> and, you know, back in 1988 when this all started, only 2500 riders took part in the rolling thunder. it's now nearly 50 times that size. we are going to be there with all of the riders later on today. we will keep you posted on everything that goes on. back to you guys. >> peter doocy, by the way, your hair looks really good. you said 900,000 people will be doing this. >> yeah. >> all in one place. >> last year our position was in the pentagon, one of the pentagon parking lots and the way that it works is people are lining up now, they line up all very orderly but on their motorcycles and they get hundreds of thousands of people in these two parking lots. there is only one way that they ride out. it is two motorcycles wide it takes all day long. the festivities in d.c. where people come and speak and there are different events are done by the time that some of the people are still riding out. it's really something to be seen. you talk to people and they say rerode in from michigan. we rode in from wyoming. we rode in from wisconsin. people ride their bikes for days to get here. it's a great honor and it's a great salute to the troops. >> we expect to see you on a bike later, peter, thank you. >> yes assume he can get the helmet on. >> speaking of. >> you were worried about the hair. >> doesn't want to mess up the hair. >> it's messier than normal. usually it's very stayed in place. it's very edgy today. >> let's talk about veterans today. memorial day weekend. folks are going to focus on heading into the election. mitt romney and president obama going for this veterans vote. and there are a couple battleground states in play that deal with the veterans vote that have north carolina, ohio and virginia. those states just happen to be battleground states. >> the key swing states. as you might imagine, that is at the heart of the president's message over the weekend. he is saluting those troops, listen. >> even as we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. we reaffirm our commitment to care for those who served alongside them. the veterans who came home. this includes our newest generation of veterans from iraq and afghanistan. we have to serve them and their families as well as they have served us. by making sure that they get the healthcare and benefits they need, by caring for our wounded warriors and supporting our military families and by giving veterans the chance to go to college, find a good job, and enjoy the freedom that they risked everything to protect. >> so does the president have a chance though with that veteran vote? that's interesting. it's not as open and shut as it once was. john mccain won by 10 points for the military vote in 2008. but it's a different game now. i think the president has done very well by some marks in terms of foreign policy. >> usama bin laden, that type of thing. >> got bin laden. doing drone strikes. assassinations over in the mideast. it's not as clear cut as it once was. >> we just saw rolling thunder there apparently some of the members with rolling thunder were upset with the president or the white house because they were supposed to go and do this meeting thing with the president they said they were disappointed because they just got a photo op. they thought they were going to it be able to sit down and talk with the president. be engaged in the president. but also, you know, doesn't bode well for romney on the other side. romney said he wasn't going to meet with them at all. >> meanwhile vice president biden speaking at the west point graduation. parts of the administration doing their part for the military. a new "wall street journal"/nbc poll out this morning show interesting numbers as it relates to the campaign right now among veterans, president barack obama 42% who say they would vote for the president and mitt romney up to 50%. >> clearly mitt romney at this point want to go to the right, run to the right of president obama when it comes to the military, when it comes to it foreign policy. hitting the president on some of those defense cuts and mitt romney will be out with john mccain campaigning on monday. will that make much of a difference? it certainly doesn't hurt as far as the military vote. but there are a lot of issues at play when you think about don't ask, don't tell. the post 9/11 gi bill. the drone strikes. it's more complicated, i think, than it was before. >> yeah, definitely. also the president and michelle obama will also be tomorrow, memorial day, will be out at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. keep an eye on that. we will be covering that on fox news. >> david brooks long time conservative columnist with the "new york times" is talking about these bain ads. we have all been talking about these bain ads, the reason we have been talking about it for a second week now cory booker brought it back out again last week on meet the press. they tend to have a week long length. cory booker saying he was nauseated by this from the president's side of things and the bain attack ads. david brooks long time conservative columnist says he thinks these things are disengenius and completely full of falsehoods. take a listen. >> i just think the obama administration or campaign has demeaned itself with a series of falsehoods. they released this ad with a whole series of falsehoods one that the steel company was a healthy company until bain took over which the ad suggests completely untrue. >> also interesting that politico wrote a piece. the president has started an unsteady campaign. this is a lot of democrats quoted in this piece saying they feel that this guy's narrative is to be big. how do they get captured in all this small politics isolating one group at a time rather than a big overarching narrative. these are democrat operatives, veterans of the 2008 campaign frustrated with the small ball that obama is playing as opposed to where it was with the hope and change. >> meantime, moving on the president is speaking out right now, he insists that hope and change is still alive. let's listen to what he has to say. >> congress is still arguing our politics is still polarized. you are the antidote to that that's the spirit we need again. so if people ask you what this campaign is about. you tell them yes, it's still about hope it is still about change. it's still about ordinary folks who believe that in the face of great odds we can make a difference in the life of this country. don't let them tell you different. >> so to dave's point about the politico piece saying that this campaign has stumbled out of the gate. the president is trying to say no, no, hope and change is still alive. >> spur ago positive message out. >> there the campaign going with all of these negative attack ads attacking mitt romney. real question are we going to see a shift in strategy here in the goal from the campaign is to define mitt romney in these first two months before mitt romney has a chance to define himself over the summer. >> is that what you want it to hear, people? do you want to hear the negative attacks on the past? do you want to hear about what these guys are thinking about for the future what their plan. >> i get emails from people saying so sick of the negative. obvious they don't like each opener. the other side going to say -- you know what? let's just hear about what you are going to do. how things are going to change and how our lives are going to be improved. >> super pac money folks get used to t. it ain't going away. >> it's going to get worse. >> the reality of where we are. >> look at your headlines this morning. >> i guess it's my job and i will take it four nato service members have died in separate roadside bomb attacks. nato not revealing nationality at this time. 32 troops have died in afghanistan so far this month. now to another developing story overnight. a massive manhunt underway after four bodies were found in the woods in nicholas county, west virginia. the victims are believed to be a missing man, his girlfriend and his 2 young children. the suspect is identified as james roy belknap. word is he may be driving a ford f 150 or chevy monte carlo. if you know anything about this guy, his whereabouts or anything at all call police. >> security institute finds iran has enough uranium for five bombs. think tank tracking iran's nuclear program says the country has significantly stepped up output of low enriched uranium in the past five years. enough for the weapons -- it lee fined a little bit further. comes after another report that found a higher enrichment of uranium at iran's fordo plant. iranian officials down played the report. once again something bizarre. they say it was a technical glitch. our brave men and women in uniform honored with a special musical tribute in washington, d.c. listen to this ♪ i'm going home ♪ a place where i belong ♪ where your love has always been enough for me >> chris daughtry leading his band daughtry singing his song home to the crowd during the national memorial day concert. ♪ without me tomorrow. ♪ you'll be fine. ♪ just let it shine. >> a guy beloved by the military, trace atkins performed on the west lawn in front of the capitol building. he dedicated his hit if the sun comes up to america's fallen soldiers. those are the headlines. that guy has done so much for the military, for wounded warriors. >> he was here on the program earlier this week. always a great performer and good guy. >> let's talk about something that is a little hard to swallow. we are continuing our coverage of this story because it just gets more horrific and we learn more details about this. the etan patz case. yesterday we were saying on the show one of the keys to the casey -- case is whether or not the confession was enough. is there something in the confession that led politics to say wait a minute we never put this out there publicly. this was never in the newspapers. only police officers knew about it we now know this morning that, in fact, he did tell the police things that only about 12 people within the police department ever knew. >> right. and we say this because to clayton's point a confession is not enough to convict. not in new york state. you need more evidence than that there is no body, there is no d.n.a., there is no blood. anything like that. what could t it be? we don't know. we are left to speculate. this is what sources speculate in the "new york post." it could be a scar on etan patz' body. birth mark, a mole, maybe something he wore on the day he disappeared. it is odd because he was right there in this bodega, pedro hernandez. and he wasn't questioned in detail in the day and the day after the disappearance of etan patz. boggles the mind they didn't question him more. ray kelly is furious. he doesn't understand how this man wasn't given more scrutiny. >> he has a long psychiatric history. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, hallucinations. a lot of people come out and talking about him. he would sit in the same seat of the church. had his daughter there, his wife. he was a guy that hadn't really been talked about. the name really never came up. a woman who wrote the defining book on this case. she said she is a little skeptical. she never heard the name before. >> today's point, police sort of dismissed him and called him quote a nut job. if you look at it today a nut job. >> that's the kind that would -- >> and the 1979 new york city police commissioner robert mcgwire in an article this morning says he thinks there are more than one victim. he says this: if you have that uncontrollable urge towards children, you do that more than once in your life. you are not a happily married guy a member of the pentecostal church. moved and shows up in church and just a church-going guy with his family. he says he was troubled by this the rest of his life. he says this never happens. this happens way more than one time. >> what is so disturbing about him and so many things disturbing about. this one of the suspect's sisters has been out there saying that years ago she heard through family members that he had said that he had done this. hadn't specifically said hot child was, but he did say he killed a child. and that the family decided we're just not going to get involved. >> they didn't even say anything about it. >> a brother. >> schizophrenia bipolar he may have been speaking out of turn. >> i remember this story i was 9 years old. >> why did i say that? >> i remember just taking over the news. it was just so horrifying. i remember my parents being disturbed by it awful case. >> concerned that other kids would be walking to school and be able to do that on their own. more on that. >> is the obama administration and specifically the labor department trying to redefine the term unemployed? is this another way, perhaps a back door way of lowering the unemployment rate? here is what the plan would allow for? it would allow for you, if you want to say start a business and out of work right now and say i'm going to start my own business. can you still technically collect unemployment benefits even though you are employed running your own business. it would take some of the risk out of the equation because you would have some money coming in while you start this business. >> or could this be an incentive for people who are scared to go out and become an entrepreneur, you finally have that incentive to go in there and take that risk and have a little bit of a safety net there. >> it's hard to argue. if you are a republic and you are running for office, it would be hard to maybe vote against this. or to come out and talk against this because i could see the campaign ads. right? he voted against helping you become an entrepreneur. but on the other side of it is is this government waste? is this a way of defining what unemployed means so that labor numbers look better for president obama. if labor numbers drop more people are just back to, woman of achievement we just redefine the definition. >> it could also open the door to a lot of fraud saying well i'm starting my own business. >> it just didn't work out. >> what's the burden of proof i'm starting online business. i need my unemployment benefits for another 26 months. >> you know what it takes like an llc. it's like $120 depending what state you live in. fill out a form and i have got my own business now. >> the good news here is that this is a plan based on a model in oregon, delaware, maine, new york and new jersey that has actually worked out quite well. >> that's good. so we actually have some track record there. and it's interesting because if you look back a little bit in history we actually talked about this on the show a few months ago where the administration had a plan where they would test out workers still collecting unemployment checks but while they are testing out new job. so this idea that you are sort of, i don't know, double dipping. here you are getting benefits from a new job also collecting unemployment benefits from the state. >> trying to get people to take jobs they ordinarily would not. would that be the incentive of that one. >> perhaps or just to cover the overlap because some people are out of work and that's an incentive maybe for them to get extra cushion. i don't know. >> let us know what you think, i guess. >> go work at a coffee shop. that is one such place you can go get a job in this economy. but you may not be able to work at this coffee shop called mary lowe they are under fire from the fed's from hiring waitresses that don't necessarily have that skill although that's very talented. >> this is one of their terrible commercials. >> they are bad. >> but they are under fire because they seem to hire all the same type of waitress. >> what type are we speaking of? >> blonde, bucksome, beautiful, and the feds have been looking into them. ongoing investigation as to whether or not mary lieu's which owns 29 coffee shops has been hiring on discrimination basis. >> hotties. >> like if dave and i were to go in to get a job there would they hire us or put us back to wash dishes. >> they would put you back to wash dishes for sure. >> reminds us of what happened on the seinfeld episode well, take a look. >> have you noticed anything else that's different since the new management? look at the waitresses. >> yeah. >> what physical characteristic would you say is common to all of them? >> you know what? that's discriminatory. that is unfair. why should these women have all the advantages. >> hey, that's life. good-looking men have the same advantage. you don't see any handsome homeless. >> good point. >> is this a problem for you. >> it's not for the gender discrimination. guys, give me a break. go get a job somewhere else. it is a problem if it's racial though. if it's racial discrimination, then we may in fact have a case. >> if they are only hiring white blonde women. >> i saw brunettes in there. >> yeah. okay. mary lou's coffee put out this statement has not had a complaint in the 25 years years we have been open. the implication in the report is absolutely false. we hire only the qualified applicants in total compliance with the state and federal laws. >> it's not like hooty's with the short shorts. t-shirts and shorts. big deal. >> equal opportunity employment commission. >> eoc. >> went after hooters as well a few year