>> former soprano star spills the beans on real life assassins. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee! >> thank you. thank you very much. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. well, it turns out that some really stupid things are happening in our country, and they aren't all happening in congress. in my home state of arkansas, paul crowder of forest city was being celebrated as catching the new state record large mouth bass, 16 pounds and 5 ounces, but it turns out he bought his fishing license three hours after he caught the big fish. so instead of having a state fishing record, he might end up with a different kind of record. in fact, he's facing a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail. he's not getting credit for the cash h. he didn't even get to keep the fish. we heard an aw in the audience. somebody is really sad. in another moment of unchecked stupidity, a tsa officer didn't like that a passenger was traveling with an empty breast pump. that's right. you usually get in trouble for bringing liquids through the security line. this genius was upset because the breast pump bottles were empty, so the officer ordered amy strand to go to a public restroom and then in front of other people coming in and out of the restroom, she had to pump milk from her breast to prove that the pump was what it was. the tsa officer who was forced to apologize proved what he was. to quote that great american fill loss ferflossphilosopher fd is as stupid does. holder seemed more disturbed by commissioner kelly's attempts to prevent terrorism than he was to take responsibility for a program run by his department called fast and furious that put illegal guns in the hands of mexican drug lords and resulted in the murder of an american border agent. and finally, there's the really stupid vote of the senate this week to kill a bill by senator tom coburn which would have implemented a government accounting office recommendation that would have eliminated $10 billion of duplicative government programs. sounds real simple. a government agency finds $10 billion of pure waste of your money, and recommends we turn off the leaky faucet. the senate's response? defeat the bill and turn the spigots on full, and that is stupid. comedian ron white has it right when he says this. >> you can't fix stupid. >> that's right, ron. you can't fix stupid. and you know, in most cases, you really can't, but when stupid gets elected, you can fix it. you can vote stupid out and send him home. there is an election coming up, and i think it's time to fix stupid. [ cheers and applause ] >> well, that's my view. and i welcome yours. you can get a hold of me. contact me at mikehuckabee.com. click on the fox needs feedback section. you can sign up on my facebook page, post your comments on the wall. follow me on twitter. all of that information is at mikehuckabee.com. a reminder. paper back edigits of my -- edition of my new book, a stupid government -- i mean a simple government. i'm writing about the one we wish we had, not the one we've got. it's in paper back, a "new york times" best seller. copies available at book stores and amazon.com. during last week's huckabee special forum, a small business owner dave mcarthur asked presidential candidate mitt romney a question that turned heads. >> my son received a traumatic brain injury wound in afghanistan and suffers from severe post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. the government has repeatedly denied services because his wounds aren't visible. he will never be able to return to the regular work force. this week president obama's administration again cut his benefits. sir, will you look me in the eye and tell me who will be taking care of him? >> david, my -- my heart breaks for you and your family. it's -- it's just hard to imagine what it could be like. i have five boys, as you know. having one of them injured that way, having one lost his life, it's just something you can only imagine. you can't know unless you've really experienced as you have, and i want you to know how much i appreciate your son's sacrifice for our country, and i appreciate your sacrifice, your family's sacrifice for our country. to those who put everything on the line, we owe everything they need. >> joining us once again is dave mcarthur. dave, that was a very powerful and a very emotional moment. not just for you and mitt romney, but frankly, for every one of us who was there. you could sense a palpable energy that i've rarely seen in doing television, but something happened as a result of that conversation that you and governor romney had. you got a contact the very next what, monday. >> monday. my son moose, i call him moose. to the world he's moose, okay. his real name is david, but moose got a contact from our local va, his local va rep, and suddenly his claim that was ten days before that when he contact yelled them, four to six months off was in process. it's being taken care of. then tuesday morning the phone rings again. it's not only the month, it turned into a day, the claim has been processed, and now the check is in the system to be cut. it was actually on his mol which is a military on line thing. you know, as great as that is, governor, it shows the pa theticness of how the system is run. >> i know you're grateful that moose will get his benefits. that's wonderful. that's what you operate prayed . at least it appears, and i can't say this definitively because i don't know, but it appears that you having talked about this on television and had such a powerful emotional moment there got moose's case the attention that it should have had from the moment he got back from afghanistan. there are thousands of families out there, lots of fathers whose kids are not getting that attention because they haven't been on tv. >> i could pass the e-mail that i got to you. a gentleman out of bloomington, illinois. his son waited a year. a year. i feel like i know you. i'm a small business owner, i'm a christian, my son is a marine and is wounded, and we both like bud light. i'm a real guy. the dad says i didn't get the attention you had and my son suffered. what joand i don't understand iw they can go through the process, the dod, department of defense, has them in the system a year and a half. they say goodbye, now you're on your own, and there's nothing for these men and women to support themselves. we talk about the suicide rates in the military and the scret veterans. this is it. this is why. the american public have no clue of what we, the american people, are doing to our wounded men and women. >> it was very obvious to those of us sitting here that this had a very profound effect on governor romney, and i said in all the times that i've seen him on the campaign trail, and i've seen him more than most people, quite frankly, from four years ago and now, this was one of those times when you could see that there was not the candidate mitt romney, there was the father, mitt romney, father of five boys, talking to you, dad to dad. he mentioned to you in his speech in boston, and i want us to play the clip and get your reaction to it. here's mitt romney. >> i met parents like david mcarthur. maybe you saw him on the huckabee show. his children have served their country in war. david's son was seriously injured in afghanistan as he described. he only returned from the front lines to face a new fight, to get the medical care he needed, and he assuredly has earned. as i told david, i believe that to those who put everything on the the line for us, we owe everything to them that they need. >> dave, when you were watching television, suddenly you see your name mentioned by a presidential candidate in a victory rally, how did you respond? what was going on inside of you when he this happened? >> thank you, lord. that says it all. when i saw that, moose was right here. you know what it's like to sit beside your boy -- sorry. to sit beside your boy who is going through that and to know him and to know his brothers and sisters that he fought with are still fighting that same fight? my heart goes out in appreciation to governor romney. i hope if he makes it to the -- to be our presidential candidate that he makes this an issue. you know, we're still fighting a war over there. >> yeah. >> this administration doesn't talk about it. when is the last time you hear about it on the news? as i say, those benefits, they talk about cutting that tri care. people think that's the 50-year-old retired man or woman that can go to work. no. that's a 19-year-old kid that got his legs blown off yesterday and he's in an induced coma. when he wakes up in a week, what are we going to tell him. thank you for sacrificing your legs, and by the way, we raised your tri care fees? >> i hope not, dave. if it was for the 50 or 60 or 70-year-old. >> we broke our promotes. >> we owe it to them. they did their part. they kept their promise to this country. we have a moral obligation to keep our promise to them. i'm glad it worked out for moose. i want to say thanks again for bringing up the issue not to only mitt romney but for bringing it up to america and bringing a great deal attention. great to see you again. thanks for coming back. >> appreciate it. thank you. for three ohio residents who were undecided before the state's primary on super tuesday, they peppered the candidates with questions in our forum. were their questions answered, and did the answers help them decide on candidate? why don't we just ask them? so we'll bring them here right after the break. ♪ ♪ pop goes the world ♪ it goes something like this ♪ everybody here is a friend of me ♪ ♪ everybody, tell me, have you heard? ♪ ♪ pop goes the world ♪ pop goes the world [ female announcer ] pop in a whole new kind of clean with new tide pods... a powerful three-in-one detergent that cleans, britens, and fights stains. pop in. stand out. the day starts with arthritis pain... a load of new listings... and two pills. after a morning of walk-ups, it's back to more pain, back to more pills. the evening showings bring more pain and more pills. sealing the deal... when, hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. it can relieve pain all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lois... who chose two aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. 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>> i'm a student in college, and your comment about obama being a snob for wanting everyone to have the chance to go to college really didn't sit well with my campus. >> sure. >> i wanted to give you a chance to explain what you meant by that because personally, i'd really like to know. >> joining us here in our new york studio with reaction to last week as forum and what's happened since, former dhl driver and knife maker, and a home maker, and a senior from ohio state university. good to have you guys back with me in new york. i've got to be honest with you. i had a lot of fun in wilmington, ohio. what a wonderful community. the nicest people, and maybe we ought to do the show there more often. i know wilmington and new york are a lot alike. you probably feel at home here. first of all, let's talk about some of the reactions that you had. devin, what feedback did you get after being a part of the forum? >> i mean, a lot of people reached out to me that i knew. people from my home town, people from my church, stuff like that. a lot of students at school found out about it, you know, through facebook or twitter and stuff like that, and then there were some professors who reached out to me, some former alumni from ohio state. >> did you get some extra grades out of it? you shoul should have. >> if any of them are listening, i'd appreciate it. >> i'm going to write ohio state a letter. i think they ought to take your f and make it a d. >> i would love that. >> tammy, what about you? you probably had some folks bumping into you in wilmington, ohio last week saying i saw you on tv. what did they say? >> i talked with lots of folks. one of the fellows i talked with actually said that his wife was pretty a political usually, but she watched the show. she saw me answer or asking the questions. she saw what she thought were real questions and real people asking them, and so she had questions of her own after that, and she actually voted in the primary which is something she usually doesn't do. >> so you at least pulled one more voter. >> every vote counts. >> mike, you look a little different this week. what happened to the rest of the facial hair? >> spring has sprung. >> what kind of reaction have you had and what's happened in your world since a week ago? >> well, i got dozens of phone calls from people all over the united states, and a lot of them were asking me. you have set, you know, face-to-face with these guys, and you're just a real person. what's your gut feeling, you know? can i get your reaction and your gut feeling to try to give me an idea of who to vote for. >> they wanted to know what you felt. what did you tell them? >> i told them that, you know, i got a lot of sincerity from mr. romney, from governor romney. i felt a little bit of that reagan grit, and you know, he didn't have his game face on. he didn't have his tv face on. he was talking to me, and you know, i formulated my vote from that panel, you know. i was completely unaware of who i was going to vote for until after that, and also, i've been blessed tremendously. my phone hasn't stopped ringing since i was on the show from people all over the united states wanting to order custom knives. i went from about a six to an eight-month wait to 16 months. it's just been -- that's just god. >> well, what a great affirmation of your presence there. tammy, was there any answer that you got from one of the candidates that either surprised you positively or negatively? >> i think what surprised me the most was the passion that all the men brought to the forum, and there was a little sidestepping. i do have to say that, but i think that happens. i was impressed with some of the answers concerning the taxation of manufacturing. it went anywhere from senator santorum saying he would institute the zero percent to governor romney which i felt did a more realistic taxation, and that was from 35 to 28%. >> devin, just real quickly, i want to ask if there was anything out of this that as a student who is facing a long future and a tough job market, anything out there that made you say that answer made sense to me? >> i was actually sort of disappointed by the answer that i got to my questions. not necessarily romney, but specifically rick santorum's answer. the next day the la times ran an article about the question i answered. it fact checked the statement he repeatedly cited obama was making. it came back faults. either santorum, either he distorted the truth or he just didn't know the truth. sitting five feet away from me. i wasn't satisfied with that. >> well, i want to say i thought all the candidates were very candid with you guys. i thought the energy they brought was exceptional. it's tough being a candidate. you know he what? i think it's tougher having questions from guys like you than it is the media types because they kind of know what the media people are going to ask. they had no idea what you were going to ask. your questions were not from following them around on the trail. your questions came from your life experience struggling with an economy that's in the toilet because this whole country's economy has struggled, and i think it was a powerful moment. i want to than thank all of your helping to make the forum an incredible success. great to have you back. have fun in new york. i want to go back to wilmington. you come back to new york, i'll go to wilmington, because we had a blast there. >> thank you very much. coming up, former senator rick santorum and his lovely wife karen join us. we'll have a great conversation with them. stay with us. is this what we're doing now? i don't want a pluer anywhere near my coffee. not in my house. with maxwell house french roast, you let gravity do the work. 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