that s it for special report. make it a great weekend. greta goes on the record right now. government contractors pretending to work and you are paying their salary. the whistle blower blowing the lid off obamacare right here on the record. somebody has figured out how to a lot of money off of this deal to do nothing. a billion dollars. your money gone. poof. they would tell us to come in dressed professionally and to sit at our desk and act like we were working. and then: this is shameful under any circumstances a night mayor at the v.a. but will anyone land in prison. if these accusations are true, someone should be going to jail. marine jailed in mexico. his desperate 911 call. i m at the border of mexico right now. i crossed the border by accident and i have three guns in my truck. his mother goes on the record. first though a whistle blower goes on the record. she says $1.2 billion of your tax money was pay to obamacare workers who were told to pretend to work. she was one of those workers paid to do nothing. paula joins us for her first national tv interview. paulla, nice to see you. hi. paulla, tell me, where did you work? how long did you work there and what did you do? i worked for a company contracted by circo to helpful fill the they have have with centers for medicare and medicaid services. i worked there from early october to just before thanksgiving in 2013. okay. in that time period, what did you see? i understand the contract was to process paper applications under obamacare. did you see that work being done? it was done in such a small scale. in the from months i was there i processed at best a dozen applications. most of the time we were sitting around doing nothing. that was the gist of it. did anybody say anything like why don t we have any work or why isn t anything being done? yes, i did. others did. early on we got a lot of excuses about the health care.gov site not working properly. once that was working properly, the case was still the same. as it is today as well as you are hearing from other employees that still work there. were they getting any specific instructions employees about the work or why they didn t seem to have a high volume of work? they mostly alcoholicked it it chokd it up to system problems chocked it up to system problems. i have been a supporter of obamacare all along. my experience there was so disappointing and i exal contacted claire miscass kill s office because i wanted them to know what was going on out there and how i felt about that. what was the response from senator claire mccaskill s office. first of all what did you tell them and second of all what was the senator s response? i told them exactly what i had been saying all along, what i told channel 4 locally in st. louis and what i m telling you now that we were sitting around every day doing nothing and applications were not getting processed and questions were not getting answered about that. they forwarded me to subcommittee on oversight of committee budgets in washington where i spoke to someone about the situation there. we tried to get some information. cms said they were committed to working wither serco. they closely monitored the work that serco was doing. it doesn t say the quantity of work or ever on site to monitor. did you ever have any sense that cmf was on site monitoring what was being done or not done? well, in the short time i was there, they came once to my knowledge. but they never visited the site of the building that i worked on. i don t know how they can say they monitored the work coming out of that building and supporting the knowing what i know and people that still work there. i want to say everybody who works in that building knows what what i m saying is the truth. the people who came forward whether they chose to identify themselves or not are telling the truth as well. why did you leave? i imagine. why did you leave? why did i leave? because i was bored out of my mind. it was driving me crazy and i have a conscience. that s not what i signed up for. that s not what i wanted to work there for. i was excited to be a part of something that i supported and i couldn t have been more disappointed. why do you think this happened? why do you think that there is no work being done? well, as i said before, i think somebody figured out how to make a lot of money off of this thing, some way, somehow. i know there is a lot of crookery and corruption and self-gain these days, for all i know maybe our own politicians are benefiting from that. i don t know. paulla, thank you for joining us. all right. thank you. and you won t believe this one. but there is new information tonight about the former top watchdog for the homeland security department. we recently told you about a blistering congressional report showing former dhs acting director altered and delayed investigations in order to help his pals. senior administration officials. now there is more disturbing question. is the whole watchdog system broken? the washington examiner susan crabtree joins us. thanks for having me. you wrote an article. explain what a watchdog is in the government. how does it work in the government? each agency, there are 73 different watchdogs that are attached to an agency. the will be in is that they have the same budget as the same agency, so they are not really independent. you would think that there is an act, 1978, that created these watchdogs after the watergate scandal. and they are supposed to act as the rooting out corruption at the agency and be independent. they are getting their salary from the same higher ups that are from the whole budget. is it broken this watchdog system? well, the ethics experts and attorneys who have experience in these cases say definitely. they point to this case with charles edwards who had multiple allegations against him. and he actually was stepped aside just recently after the secretary jay johnson called on him to step aside. he was under investigation himself and hee j? that s exactly right. it seems what we have found is that the allegations against him langished at this group, the council for inspectors general for integrity and efficiency. that s the wash dog of the watchdog. we found it is actually pretty broken. we have sources telling us that the system doesn t work that these complaints against him languished for years and years. especially. can think of anything more sick. watchdog in every single agency that at least in one agency we know that at least the one instance very helping his pals. that watchdog. then you have got for whatever reason, we now need to have watchdogs. we have a watchdog organization looking over the watchdog. the watchdog organization this watchdog looked other way because they didn t want i don t know why, they didn t do their job. why even have these watchdogs? that s why when you are the president and jay carney say the inspector general for the v.a. is going to get to the bottom of this i start to cringe a little bit. the system really is broken. the watchdog of the watchdog only meets, what i have been told, four times a year and lacks the tools and efforts really to look into this and do something about it. is sigy, are these full-time jobs? these are actually no, different inspector generals from different agencies make up the cigi. they sit on the council. jury on the their own trials? their pier s trials. overseers see if they are doing the job is themselves. you can say that definitely they are piers. they have have the transportation inspector general is looking into charles edwards problems. it took a subcommittee investigation. it took the release of the report just last month to get him on administrative leave. for a while there, he was still acting and he had all these allegations piling up against him. and he is he is the watchdog. susan, thank you. and today a resignation in the wake of the veterans affairs health care scandal, the v.a. for secretary for health. one day after he and v.a. secretary eric shinseki were grilled by lawmakers. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer, why did he step down? who is he and why did he step down? well, greta. a senior v.a. official says secretary shinseki demanded robert petzel s resignation. he was slated to retire thisser i don t. his retirement announced last september. his replacement is from the same pines v.a. medical center in illinois that came under fire this week for having secret wait lists for veterans. last september, we reported on the record petzel told it a congressional hearing he quote had no regrets when he learned veterans died of legionnaires diseases where he recommended bonuses for the hospital s drars. the two more administrators came forward. chief psychiatrist at the v.a. medical center in st. louis, he was removed from his job when he complained that psychiatrists treating veterans with ptsd were working only a few hours a day, seeing half the patients they could. as patient suicides rose. they all got bonuses, you know. so that is the sad part. because, you know in reality not doing a good job but in relation it looks like we are. he was fired when he complained that his bosses were delaying life saving clone colon ososcopies to cut costs. i i was treated like a leper, how dare you attack me or say what you are saying. congressman jeff miller who is responsible for v.a. oversight said robert petzel s resignation is the pinnacle of political double speak since he only had a few more months on the job. greta? radio accountability or show or something in between? joining us the political panel. john, is this resignation some form of accountability or, what? i think jennifer just laid out the case this is completely just for show. i think he had to go or go a little early after his performance this week before congress. you know, he was asked a simple question: would someone be fired if it were proven that they had manipulated these waiting lists and created a secret waiving list? apparently not if you are the watchdog at dhs. he couldn t answer that. he said i don t know if that would be the appropriate punishment or not. these people should be in jail. democratic senators on the panel saying why didn t you make any sentence republicans calling for it of the i.d. only has limited resource was. get in the other law enforcement agencies and this is a nationwide problem. in this isn t isolated i understand as shinawatra then secy said the other day. you need as much help as they company get. neither gave impressive performance. sen seq.y. sen seq.y is not going anywhere for a while. why this. this move was part of. i was there at the hearing and went around and talked to people about what his fate is on capitol hill. people said they are billing to give him a chance. the problem is he has been there for some time and this has been happening end his. the buck has to stop some place. i am a ventricle. choose he was very popular. let him go back to active duty. he inherited a huge mess. awful i m saying he has big problems supporters up there. people really are looking for him to start showing some action here. they don t thism he has accepted stepped up to the plate yet. we will give shinseki to do their time. i heard kathleen sebelius rit away when things blew up. this is blowing up why is he asking for his head? he has the military brass as well. this week i spoke with the current army chief ray odierno. he stood up for him and strongly defended him and said there are problems at the v.a. that s like the watchdog s watchdog standing up for the watchdog. he has a very distinguished military career. but you know the fact that the military is standing up for him. i mean, just look at this. this is his job. what strikes me about this is something john said, the bipartisan nature of these attacks. these aren t just republicans. he they are not just red state democrats worried about re-election. this is balloon that. even more question why is he still there? it wases white house worried. it comes on the heels of the irs scandal and obamacare rollout it speaks to wows official. they don t. the resignation is north going to do the trick. i know republicans and democrats both are deeply disturbed by this but the fact that people are not calling for his head when he sad all these years and people have died under. this not just that they have had to sit at their computer trying to log on for three months. people died. think were citing memos back to 2010. shuffling people around. if he knew about it if he did why didn t he do anything about it. 2013 a letter was sent to president obama yesterday the chief of staff was asked why didn t you respond to this? why did you ignore it? they went easier on shinseki yesterday than i saw at any of the hearings where kathleen sebelius was defending the health carrollout. like you say you are talking about people who died. panel, stay with us. let s all go off-the-record for a minute. washington, d.c. is the city of no consequences. i have never seen anything like it. theist targets the tea party spends $100 million on furniture, hands out millions to irs employees who owe back taxes. no consequences. hhs 1.2 billion-dollar contract to it a company serco. whistle blower says they aren t actually doing any work but no consequences. capitol hill, lots and lots of committees. they are supposed to monitor all these agencies to make sure bad things don t happen. that s almost laughable. lots of hearings, no consequences. or in the case of the v.a., lives are lost. anyone responsible? anyone know anything? v.a. chief eric shinseki after it is exposed says is he mad as hell and president obama is angry. so what if he is mad as hell or angry. that doesn t do any of you was god. each agency has a watchdog. even the watchdogs are suspect. they seem to looked other way. former edwards was under investigation for doing dastardly thing. no one owes anyone anything. no one takes responsibility,ens can sequences, admit it insane asylum. barbara walters and letterman talking barbara lieu ebb ski. call for help before he makes desperate call. you will hear from the marine s mother coming up. 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(elder couple laugh) okinawa life! david letterman is apologizing to monica lewenski. is he is sorry for all the relentless jokes and mocking like this top ten list first line of lewenski s book. like i hate hate hate hate hate linda tripp. number four, does this font make me look fat? number three, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, no, it was mostly bad. number two, by the time you read this i will be on to my next president. and the number one possible first line for monica lewenski s new book is me and my big mouth. that was then and this is what letterman and walters are saying about lewenski now. i like monica. i felt that she has never had the chance to move on. when she came back and there was ininterview or article about her. says she can t get a job. i started to feel bad because myself and other people with shows like this made relentless jokes about the poor woman. she was 21. she is 40 now. i was thinking oh lord the violence in the elevator. is it funny because they re just famous or overall with some perspective do you realize this is a sad human situation back with our political panel. these are are celebrities getting soft in their old age. date letterman has h. has said bad things about an awful lot of people. like the time that sarah palin took her 14-year-old daughter to the yankees game and he said one awkward moment for sarah palin at the yankees game her daughter was knocked up by alex rodriguez and her daughter was 14. he actually was mistaken. he thought he was talking about the older one apparently. he hasn t apologized for that one. no, and i don t think he will. lewenski is unique here in that unlike august the other characters in the situation that happened with her and president clinton. they have all been able to move on, including the woman who leaked the taped phone calls. all these people have been able to lead their lives. she has been frozen in time. she was victimized by the whole thing. she was very young, just in her early 20 s and her life just basically stopped point was a good one. it s a little bit late. career. the clintons are all doing great. everyone else is doing fine. she was chasing a story. she wanted a scoop. now she is pretending barbara walters didn t mock her. she didn t make cruel jokes not funny, like they are insulting some young girl to make them feel better about themselves who has been in this situation. obviously she was of legal age. when you step back and think about that anywhere in society a 50-some-year-old man preying on a college student practically. which monica doesn t say. she says they were two consenting adults. she s has handled it all rather gracefully in this last interview. she has not blaming anybody. it s true though that everyone else got something out of the deal except her. she stopped in time she was offered a good deal of money. she wrote a book. she certainly made the rounds for herself. what about letterman? i like suddenly, all of a sudden now he suddenly sees that maybe he was nasty. you have seen some of that. craig had a great monologue in recent years. even celebrities, even brittany spears is a human being and sometimes we should really a human moment very human moment where he said i was an alcoholic and drunk and going through these problems maybe we should think about this and be funny and not just mean to people. i would like to see him apologize to the sarah palin jokes. that was horrible to willow. she was 14. making cracks about the older daughter not being married at the time he was not married to the mother of his child. things going on on the side we learned later. is he is no angel. panel, stay with us. a u.s. marine jailed in mexico. you will hear the call and hear from the marine s mother. the cat who is now a national hero after saving a child from the dog. that s only the beginning. see what the talented cat suspect to now. stay tuned. instead of hanging out on the couch, you could be hanging ten. what are you waiting for? 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hello, are you here? i m here. what the address of the emergency. i m at the border of mexico right now. my problem is i crossed the border by accident and i have three guns in my truck and they are trying to take my guns from me. so you are in mexico? yeah. there is nothing i can help you with sir, i do apologize. you are not on american soil anymore. i can t really help you. i don t know i m not sure if i crossed yet. is it mexican authorities talking to you. mexican authorities. you are in mexico. so they have the right to just take my guns? there is huge sign that says it it is illegal to enter mexico with guns when you are driving down the five freeways. okay. there are warning signs that do state that as you are driving down the freeway before you enter mexico. glifs hoping that there would be a turn around point. there is a turn around point before you get across the border. not where i was. there was no turn around point. then that means you were way far down then if you already passed it if you didn t see the turn around point. so, yeah unfortunately you are on mexican soil there ising in we can do i apologize. andrew s mother jill joins us. good evening, jill. hello, greta. this 911 call is, it going to help you get your son out? i hope to got it does it certainly proves what i have been saying the conversation he had with me. he called 911 first as his first incorporate stingted and then he called his momma second. that s exactly what he told me that he had gotten lost. made a wrong turn and ended up at the border. what is the reaction from the mexican government or court system is the state department helping you? the tape just came out yesterday. it s literally came it literally just came out of his memory bank i think from all the trauma of the seven weeks it s the first time he had even told us there was a 911 tape when he spoke to his sister on the phone. immediately i got the tape. i gave to his attorney. i know he is preparing a motion to present it to the court. i don t have a date for when it s going to be presented to the judge. how about our state department, are they helping you at all. no new action or support since the 911 tape came out o. i haven t yet heard from the white house or the state department other than the personal support that we received from the u.s. consulate service in tijuana that we have received from day one. what have the conditions been like for your son since he got arrested march 31st? tragic, near fatal, h was almost killed. he had to escape a certain execution and then he was shackled in four point chain restraint for 35 days. so it s been brutal, worse than any of his two tours of combat in afghanistan when he left in 2012. he has been moved. they could not protect him. he moved him to a federal penitentiary there he is under constant surveillance and guard. he feels safer. that may be why he is finally able to relax a little bit and let some of the details come out sphblf when is the next time or first time is he supposed to be in court? it s just sort of languishing he has never been in court. since march 3 is 1st. does he have a court date? no. all we have is our first formal proceeding on may 28th. and that s the scheduled date where the border officials give their statement to the judge. the customs agent and the mexican military who first encountered andrew that night. jill, thanks for joining us. it s been way too long. march 31st that he is sitting in there. i don t understand this one at all. hopefully he will get out very soon. thank you. thank you, greta. the may 2011 raid on usama bin laden s house exposing direct and clear ties between al qaeda and nigeria s boko haram. so why didn t secretary clinton state department put the nigerian group on the terror list? 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no one really knows. tom wreath the story for us. he has great sources. other reported. other national security reporters places like the the washington post reported that bin laden s own files contradicted boko haram to senior al qaeda people the question is why didn t they put them on the terrorist list. they were pressured to do so by the doj, the fbi and many others and josh rogan reporting at the daily beast has indicated is that they didn t want to offend the local government. for some reason the local government didn t want them on thattist. will i m not sure about the internal dynamics of politics but that is the with excuse for why they didn t do it. they wanted to keep the influence of this group kind of a lower level. declaring them a terrorist organization that it would somehow elevate them and make it harder for the nigerian government to get rid of the problem. but, of course, it clearly didn t do any good. what the state department also isn t saying is that not putting them on that lists will set a narrative that the owe become that administration was put up to the election. al qaeda is on the run are the terrorists are on the run. when you are adding to it a terrorist list though, it doesn t help that narrative. the white house had an inventive there to play down this group, to play down the impact of this group i don t think the administration will push back very hard. going to be harder if hillary clinton disadz to become a presidential candidate to distance herself from these problems that seem to be cropping up from her tenure at the state department. from what i hear this may have been a decision made just underneath her whether to declare this a terrorist organization. it says here in the article the owe boom that administration was sitting on files that showed that al qaeda s senior leadership had been in direct contact with the group. sharing it with the state department? we don t know. she could have some kind of excuse for her rationale here. it was her state department, the fact that they weren t declared a terrorist organization was under her watch. explain that. she will have to explain it as this stuff comes trickling out, it really just points the niddle right at her all part of one gig terrorist, jihadist think that s happening in africa. she clearly understood there s what a big problem there. free bank accounts and things like that that can be used now. and actually hillary clinton she did label a few people in the organization like the head of it as a terrorist and we could take certain actions against them. use certain tools under the patriot act for espionage against these people. again, it was group 2013 on the terrorist list. we have been able to use these tools since then didn t stop the kidnapping of all these girls unfortunately. panel, thank you. here is what is being hard out right now. senior executive editor trending right now. there is more news about jill abramson. backs out of one commencement. another one backs out. brandeis university saying she decided not to attend commencement where she would have received honorary degree. she decided wake forest university. rob ford surfaces. spotted in muskota and dry cleaners. along with this photo. that s rob ford dropping off his dry cleaning, taking a pic talking with passers by. he is in a rehab facility nearby. what do you think? 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yeah, here is what we are doing. at the republican national committee and i think republicans out there in general, just kind of sick and tired of our party sitting around and doing nothing about the fact when people are purposefully and very openly lying about what they are doing. putting front groups out in front of entire country. claiming that they are for everybody. when, in fact, it s just a democrat front group. look. do you think they mentioned in their releaseds and in their documents the fact that the only two hispanic governors in hurricane happen to be republicans and martinez in mexico and brian sandovol in nevada? did they mention the two most popular hispanic politicians in our country right now which is ted cruz and marco rubio? no. why is it this is a part san group. eva longoria long time democrat. assume she is a democrat and not going to promote. why is it that the democratic party seems to have the lock on the latino vote? look, that goes back to what we have said as the republican party. we have tone gauge in a long-term year around operation to engage in hispanic, african-american, and asian communities across the can country. are you doing that? we are. what are you doing? so we are putting out a field organization in every single community across the country. on a four year basis across the country for all four years. and part of the problem is the republican party has become a party nationally that shows up about oncer four years, five months before an election. this is the entire basis of our growth and opportunity project, that we put together last year. in fact, today i was in philadelphia announcing hispanic advisory counsel still in philadelphia and something we haven t done enough of. but what i m tired of and i think a lot of people are tired of are these sort of bogus organizations that pop up and they claim they are nonpartisan. they file as a c 4. under the irs code and then they go and do interviews in the studio of the dnc. always nice to he see you sir. thank you, greta. star studded salute to barbara walters as the legend retires. walters is officially retiring. leaving herr co-hosting job on the view. today it a parade of. please welcome diane sawyer, robin roberts. spencer, elizabeth vargas. debra roberts. this is my legacy. these are my legacy and i thank you all. and they end of the show barbara saying goodbye. well, sort of. so now having had this amazing career, how can i just walk away and say goodbye? this way. from the bottom of my heart to all of you with whom i have worked and to all of you who have watched and been at my side for so many years, i can say thank you, thank you. but who knows what the future brings. maybe instead of goodbye i should say i will be in tow, which in french means see you later. so i will be in tow. by the way i don t think barbara is really going away. i think she just wanted to have a party. she will be the view s executive producer. in 2009 we paid a visit to barbara in her dressing room at the view. it gives you a feeling about yourself. that gives you a feeling about your career. i never thought i would be in front of a camera. when i think of the people that i have met because i have interviewed every president, i was going to say every president since abraham lincoln since that s not true, since richard nixon and every world leader and so on. what a blessed life i have had and never expected it to happen. it was in great part by chance. and, of course, we wish barbara a very happy retirement even if it s only a few minutes. the cat that s become a national hero but saving a child from the dog is only act one. wait until you see what the cat is doing now. that s next. life less complicated. it s about people. we are volvo of sweden. when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america. 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to do it for them. kristen says i think the 9 p.m. curfew in baltimore city is a great idea. however, i think baltimore city needs a lot more than a curfew to handle what s going on there. thank you for responding. we appreciate it. fox & friends starts now. bye. good morning. it is wednesday, may 14. i m elisabeth hasselbeck.ç @&c@ an afternoon of fun turns to horror when a bounce houpbs house gets thrown 50 neat in the air, catapulting kids to the ground below. how this happened and the latest on their condition ahead. the left slamming karl rove for questioning hillary clinton s health calling him pathetic and scared. but where was the outrage when the same questions were asked of republican candidates? a motorcycle slams into an s.u.v. head on and the guy on the motorcycle walks away. that was no stunt. that wasç real. and mornings, as far as we know, are real, and they re better with friends. you re watching fox & friends. that s a great way to begin your day. thanks very much, don king. welcome aboard ladies and gentlemen. it is national biscuit day. that means a lot. it goes back how many is this the first year? ever since popeye s louisiana kitchen developed a special one, today you re going to get one. i cannot believe they re still working to improve the biscuit. to me, it peaked. repeat what s out there already. ç bisquick, that was your choice in your house? growing up we had biscuits until bisquick came along and that changed everything. they have gluten-free biscuits? yeah. biscuit day, something to talk about around the family table. i was watching fox & friends this morning. ainsley and heather were on. what does ainsley do after the show? i think ainsley does this, fill in for heather nauert. were you really watching? yes i was. let me tell you what happened overnight. bigç developments overnight that will affect the mid term elections. clay aiken won the congressional democratic primary in north carolina. the former singer and actor squeezed out a narrow victory one day after his point chris kisko died. aiken faces an uphill battle against a popular republican incumbent. over in nebraska, key party favorite, ben saff won the republican nomination for an open seat after a heated primary. in west virginia seven-term congresswoman won the republican primary. natalie tenet won the democratic nomination. whoever wins the general electionyu)s& make history. west virginia never elected a female senator. one minute it was staked to the ground. the next it was swept off the ground. a gust of wind lifting an entire inflatable house with three children inside 50 feet into the air. a 10-year-old girl did escape just with scrapes right before it went into the air but the two boys left eup inside ages five and six are in the hospital. one broke both arms after the other has a head injury after hitting a parked car. i heard him hit the ground and i heard screaming everywhere. little tykes is the maker of the bouncey house. this is their statement. we re looking into what happened. our thoughts and prayers are with the children and their families. a major health scare in florida. 22 hospital workers at a hospital in orlando ordered to stay home now for two weeks after their exposure to a saudi patient that is infected with mers. the 44-year-old man reportedly developed symptoms of mers mid flight from saudi arabia to london. he sat in the emergency room for hours before being admitted into the hospital. this is the second confirmed u.s. case of that deadly and rareç virus. a happy update to a story we told you about yesterday. the 21-month-old boy with leukemia who desperately needed a lifesaving drug will get his meds. the company, chimerex, is changing its mind after first refusing to provide the trial medicine to him that would t virus. i was very emotional. it s been tough knowing there is a drug out there and we couldn t get it atç first. i hope we don t have to wait as long as us and joshua s parents. you might remember the company chimerex that repeatedly denied drugs for josh hardy. they eventually changed course after eup tense public scrutiny. ainsley, thank you very much. in both those cases, our own peter johnson jr., america s attorney was key in helping them get it. we re going to talk about something that has a little bit of sickness in everybody s belly. talking about health, karl rove kicking off a political firestorm in a war of words with hillary clinton. he s getting slammed for suggesting clinton might have brain damage or some sort of damage after a fall she suffered, as you recall, in 2012. but he says his words are being twisted. elizabeth prann is live in washington to explain. reporter: the new york post reported that karl rove did make those suggestions last week at a conference, and rove clarified on the channel he was never claiming clinton had brain damage but he did suggest details are not forthcoming on what medical issues then-secretary of state hillary clinton was dealing with. clinton s team is quick to fight back, oneç spokesperson saying quote they are scared of what she has achieved and what she has to offer. time for them to move on to their next decks pratt attack. rove said senator john mccain faced similar questions when he ran in 2008 and it s not an uncommon inquiry for such high-profile candidates. i didn t say she had brain damage. she had a serious health episode. this was a serious deal. she s in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the czech republic but then it begins an over a month-long period where she has a serious illness ending up putting her in the hospital. jay carney mocked rove during the briefing yesterdav3 you re asking the question based on the assertion of a political consultant which is a kind waive putting kind way of putting his job. here s what i would say about cognitive capacity, which dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge the president had won reelection including the state of ohio, so we ll leave it at that. this incident stemming from a fall clinton took back in 2012 after returning from a european trip where she fainted, fell and did suffer a concussion. we have a lot to seeç on this story. elizabeth prann, thank you very much. she was supposed to testify in the benghazi situation and they said she was not feeling well. then she shows up with the glasses on. i thought it was one of the most unreported stories. the secretary of state passes out; we don t know why. she comes back and testifies after delay. she wasn t feeling away. karl rove said she was in the hospital for 30 days. not straight. she had to go back and forth for observation. i remember working with barbara walters after she suffered a fall in the same season. hillary clinton sent her a letter explaining, saying barbara you know how it goes, throwing a casual comment out there when you fall and hit your head, sort ofç softening a bit primarily to a female audience. this is not something that is unusual to question the president s health. absolutely not. it is hypocritical for attacking somebody for looking into the records of somebody who may be candidate for president of the united states. the way i recall, bill clinton never released his medical records. i think they released a medical summary when he was running because people wanted to try to figure out what was going on with him for a variety of reasons. but there does seem to be hypocrisy between the right and the left. but you know this. president obama talking about john mccain back in the day when obama was still a senator and how mccain lost his bearings. for him to toss out comments like that, i think, gives an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. a little hypocrisy checkup there. can you imagine if a candidate said my point lost their bearings. can you imagine let s go back all the way it s not thursday yet but we re going to throw back to the 1980 s, 1984 i believe it was when it was the second debate between ronald reagan and mondale. brit hume said let s try to understand what it was like for someone to questionç someone s age when they would be president. look back at ronald reagan running for reelection in 1984. he loses his debate to walter mondale and i ll never forget the night richard threlkeld, the question was on the air as to whether reagan was okay. there were questions about his mental acuity at that point which he managed to take care of in the next debate. but all president s health records become public. age sharpens the issue. hillary clinton will be the age ronald reagan wasç when he was running in 1980. that s right. essentially i think what we have seen is a preview of perhaps a presidential election. if you pick on hillary for any reason, some will say you re picking on her because of her age, so you re an ageist. if you re picking on her because she s a woman, you re a sexist. she knows what it is like to be the target when she ran against obama. i think she is going to get competition. governor o malley of maryland is going to go at it. let s see if he starts calling out hillary maybe that she s too old or more of the same. later on the show we re going to have a guest who says maybeç the biggest obstacle that hillary clinton has is that people have obama fatigue. fatigue is a real condition. very good point. there are conditions that should have been investigated, so we re going to shift gears to the v.a. debacle. jeff miller, a representative out of florida, wrote a letter to president obama explaining, daily we are hearing about the inaction of the v.a. and how veterans, 40 reportedly, died waiting on a secret list. this is just getting too awful to wait on. we should have a select committee to investigateç here. and eric holder, though, attorney general, says no, we re not going to do that. we re going to hold the offer on looking into why these veterans are being left to die after serving our nation. meanwhile you ve got bernie sanders out there, and he s figured it all out, what s going on with all these people dying, waiting on these secret lists. you know who you can blame? the koch brothers. there is right now as we speak a concerted effort to undermine the v.a. so the point is you have government entity itself, social security enormously popular. medicare enormously popular. postal service popular. v.a. popular. what are theç problems? the problems is that all of these are large governmental institutions, and you have folks out there now, koch brothers and others, who want to radically change the nature of society and even make major cuts in all of these institutions or maybe do away with them entirely. amazing too, the guy talked about changing major portions of society. he happens to be a socialist. a lot of people think in his view, we re all on the wrong side of society. but i think it s also important toç understand. this reminds me of, remember when you used to get spelling words and you had to memorize them and to help you do it, you had to use it in a sentence and you couldn t possibly think of a way to use this word on your spelling assignment in a sentence. it is as if he starts the day thinking how do i use the word koch brothers in a sentence? then he calls harry reid. right. and he says harry, i got my sentence in. coming up, he founded the weather underground, but no one complains when he sç asked to speak. coming up next. why did alec baldwin end up in handcuffs? and guess what? he s on twitter again. it s progressive pain. first you have that, that feeling of numbness. then you get the hot pins. it got to the point where i felt like, almost like lightning bolts, hot strikes into my feet. the pain was, it was. i just couldn t handle it, so my doctor prescribed lyrica. the pain has been reduced and i feel better than i did before. 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why don t they want to hear somebody else s opinion? it s amazing. much so we call it disinvitation season. students get together, and sometimes faculty. i think it s the long term result of students believing they have the right not to be offended or even challenged. when you look at the woman who ran the i.m.f., you would think they would want to hear from such a powerful woman who ran the i.f.m. they feel because they discriminate against women or condi rice, because they feel like she had a hand in getting us into some wars we shouldn t have been in, they shouldn t hear that. it s almost likeç the students are trying to figure out who can we have speak to us who sounds just like us. that s exactly right. and it s amazing the purity test that students are implying. the chancellor of berkeley just got disinvited, just withdrew from haverford college. it is hard to imagine who is going to be allowed to speak on campuses anymore. kermit the frog. they love sesame street ; not too political. how big a factor, greg, is the fact that on these college campuses you ve got all these lefty professors for four years beating into their heads a certain ideology and they want to hear that when they say the big so longç everybody? sometimes the professors are right in front. when it comes to condoleezza rice, that wasn t student led. that was faculty led. i think the entire campus environment and the problems of speech code teaches students to think like censors. this is a natural result in some ways of what they re being taught. i looked at the list. it looks like more conservatives or right-wing speakers get disinvited than to the left. but there is a number of of lefties as well who are left not speaking. r&c@ what does this say about where we are on college campus stph-s it says there is a real intolerance for different points of view. students are not taught to say why don t i hear this person out? we send our college for four years for a different opinion, so they can see everything. greg lukianoff, sir, thank you very much. if i ever run a college, you re going to be my speaker. you hear me? i might get disinvited. you never know. straight ahead it is an olympic sport but the fencing team at one college is now kicked off campus and wait until you hear why. nearlyç 22 million millenials, the young people, still living at home with mom and dad. our next guest made millions of dollars in real estate before he turned 30. why he says moving out is the best thing you can do. really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? 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just a lot of hard work in the beginning. a lot of sleepless nights in the beginning. out learning from the best and make sure we re innovative in our real estate business as a whole and work very, veryç hard to do so. you talked about your mom moving into your business and you hiring her. many millenials are moving back home with their parents. 13% only say having their own home is a priority according to recent studies here. why do you think it is a better idea for them to get out of the basement and buy a home? right now such an unprecedented time regards to opportunity for millenials to buy, the a affordability of the housinghmarket. you can get a mortgage for about 4.25%. let s say you re too busy and you want to wait a year, and now you wait a year later, that same house, maybe about $270,000, with rates going up you re looking at a rate of maybe about 5.7%. now that same mortgage payment is about $1,500. overall it can cost $100,000 more over the life of the loan by waiting one year. let s go over cities here. you say charleston, south carolina, is a good place for a millenial on a starting salary to look. it s been dubbed silicon harbor, the silicon valley of the eastç coast. it is a startup for tech companies. there are 200 miles of pristine beaches. average commute is 10 to 15 minutes. it has a great restaurant market. you can get a starter home for $145,000 or $700 a month. the second place you talk about is austin, texas. austin has a cool, young vibe. in the past five years, a big increase in millenials going there. a great music scene. you can get a starter home for about $200,000 or about $1,000 a month to buyç there. nashville, tennessee? 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yeah. it s our shot of the morning. that s your driveway. my driveway. yesterday i posted this on instagram. i came out and my kids said to me, mommy, is it okay if i use all my talk to make use all my chalk to make a big american flag, make our american flag? i said oh yeah, it s quite o that.ht uz i hash tagged it raising patriots. it is so good to see that. it is so big. one of them ran over it on a bike and there was a big argument about that. and a little trail, red, white and blue. i just thought that how great that is what they decided to use all their chalk on. i m going to buy them more chalk. you didn t tell them to do it. you let kids be kids. you let them decide what to do with their time. from 6 p.m. from 6:17, you didn t say make a flag. from 6:17 to 6:26 prepare for dinner. that is not the elisabeth hasselbeck way.ç some people refer to them as helicopter parents. others call them the beta parents. the beta parents will do anything they can, even when the kids are two years old, to make sure they get into harvard. they ll hire bilingual nannies, make sure they get the right foods. some serve them fish for breakfast? beta fish? yeah. here s the thing. that s what alpha parents do. jen nesser has written a book. she is saying the way parents areç raising their kids these days is a far cry from how we are raised. she says beta parents sometimes leave them alone with a crayon, a piece of string and cardboard box. beta parents let their kids eat processed cheese. beta parents own televisions. they don t make cupcakes out of cantaloupes with frosting. they re saying back off, let kids be kids. there is a school of thought with parents that you basically have the kids and then let them get busy. don t bother me unless it s important for ten years. and now you have people, maybe the kids of those parents saying i didn t like being a kid, being ignored so they re overdoing it with theirç kids. they re scheduling their free time. there is no such thing as free time anymore. beta parents are the parents like we had growing up. when you look back to the way we were raised, we weren t the centers of the universe like many parents my mom didn t even like me. there you go. not at all. a couple of days ago she loves you. one time i tried to make ice cream out of bananas. it didn t go well. that was an alpha moment. as a mom orç kid? as a mom. when our first child was born we looked at all those books for alpha parents. we were convinced the child should never have a fried food before the age of six. by the time our third child rolled around, we stopped at the mcdonald s drive-through when sally was born on the way home to get her fries. no teeth yet but we re stopping. what s your favorite beta parent moment? and what s your favorite the beta parent is somebody who is? hands off. and what s an example of looking back at what steve just said, maybe you were too there are two. alpha. beta. meanwhile, let sç start with the a ainsley earhardt in for heather nauert. i was the b child. you re the a team. he screamed i am god, i am god! before ramming a stolen landscaping truck into a tv station in baltimore. the 29-year-old then barricaded himself in an editing room for five hours while he was watching himself on the news coverage. police eventually cuffed him while he heldç a golf club. no one was injured. the man who has not yet been identified is being treated now at the hospital. she was charged with attempted murder. and the exact moment she was attacked was caught on camera. this happened off the coast of hawaii. a man trying to rip out the diver s air supply. she was reportedly filming another diver stealing fish under water when the man detached her oxygen. she was able to reattach it without shooting to the surface which can be deadly. the daughter of radio legend casey kasem makingç a desperate plea to get her dad back from her step mother. she last saw her dad on may 6. his health is deteriorating. and the daughter says the trouble with the step mom isn t anything new. we told her if it is about the money, take the money, take the house. we won t contest anything. take it all, have it all. give us our dad back. the family plans to file a missing person s report this morning. they think their dad might be at an indian reservation in washington state. it s the video we ve all been talking about. surveillance video capturing a horrific motorcycle crash in missouri.ç that rider slamming head on into the side of that black s.u.v. amazingly the biker wasn t seriously injured. he% himself up as you can see, and he walks away. brian says what was he looking at? he came out of nowhere. what s happening in sports. thanks for asking. i guess we re on speaking terms again. nba playoff, a controversial call in the final seconds. the clippers against the thunder, game 5, 104-102, clippers. reggie jackson ends up with what appears to be fouled. the ball ruled off the clippers out of bounds. westbrook pulled up for 3, no good.ç he fouled. he goss a handle on 3. he does. the thunder wins. the wizards beat the pacers 102-79 forcing game 6. looks like charles barkley and shaquille o neal won t meet in the ring for martial arts. last week during their inside the nba show, gave fans a preview of what they can expect. shaq said barkley backed out. i would kill him. i would definitely kickç his a because i m from the streets of newark and he is not. plus he s seven foot and over 300 pounds and barkley is like 6 4 and not. everyone writes me about hockey. hockey will be in the next sportscast. i promise. is there a score you want to give? 20 minutes before the top of the hour. transgender national security leaker chelsea manning. it gets more than 10,000 criminals a month but what do you know about u.s.ç marshals? 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a u.s. marshal is considered the most dangerous job in law enforcement and it s been around since 1789, but there isn t much known about what they do untilç now. this man served 28 years with the u.s. marshals. his book is out, u.s. marshaled: inside america s most storied law enforcement agency. what you don t know about them and what they do. mike, first off, you write this book, the sheer numbers of people that you capture is staggering. we arrest an average of around 23,000 fugitives a year. that s 10,000 a month throughout the united states. these are the most violent of fugitives. they are wanted for murder, rape, homicide, child abductions, sex offenders. you name it, they are the worst of the worst. your jurisdiction is anybody, anything in the u.s.; right? correct. weç do also international fugitives, fugitives wanted in the u.s. that have gone abroad. we re responsible for finding them abroad. also foreign fugitives that come into the u.s., we re responsible for apprehending them. united states of america founded the witness protection program? that is true. since about late 1970 s we ve been in charge of protecting all the witnesses within the program, their families. that can include 24-hour protection while they re in danger. this is the ultimate reality show. there s only 4,000 of you guys? correct. there s actuallyç less than 4,000. in the fugitive program we have a task force network of about 4,000 also that assist us. the bigger names that you ve captured, been a part of? the u.s. marshals arrested general manuel noriega during the invasion of panama. the d.c. sniper case, we identified two individuals in their vehicle they were in. guzman, most of the drug cartels. it goes on and on. just the organization and execution is something every government agency could learn from, don t you think? it seems like your chain of command is very pure. we do the most we can with the resources ue have. the marshals are very effective at it. one of the reasons is we get along with all other agencies and our state and local task force officers are such an integral part of what we do. you are related to wyatt earp. this is the legend. i don t know exact what the relationship is. 30 years i ve been called wyatt more than i have mike. kevin costner had fun playing that. mike, the book is fascinating. thanks so much for your service to@-ui country. look what i ve got. my own patch. i m going to start speeding as soon as i leave here. coming up, they serve this nation only to be hahn pherd with out-of - only to be hammered with out-of-control student loans. have you ever heard of a drinking game that uses skee ball as its theme. 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i ll start with you, with brewski ball using the name or is this fine? no trademark infringement? the line they re taking in the beer league that did this in the ski ball people should zip their lips. aspirin, yoyo, zipper, are names no longer trademarked. they re genericked. and the idea in this case is that the brewski ball people are saying it s ski ball. we call this game ski ball. they can t trademark it. and brewsski ball doesn t confuse anybody, so go away. they say nothing going on. and nobody is harmed. this is what i say. first of all, it says right here, skiball, u.s. patent office. it s not a trademark, but there is a patent on this design and there is a company that actually owns the name. but the reason why he s correct, why all the names, yoyo and things like that are household names is because nobody went and did this and went to court to challenge it. yoyo never went to court and said this is my did she this is our name. what would happen if they did? we don t know. so skisexual going to court and ski social security ball is going to court saying this is our name. they don t want somebody playing and getting in a wreck and kill somebody. now their good name, all kids love to go and play skiball are ruined. so let me ask you this, what s next? beer pong is something for ping-pong. should ping-pong be worried about their name being used there is no ping-pong name. if that s your example, it s not a good one for ski ball because there is no ping-pong trademark. we play ping-pong, you can call it beer popping, call it anything you want. ping-pong is more like football. whereas this is a thing. what if it looked completely different? it s not the machine. it s the league that these people are not manufacturing a machine that looks like a ski ball machine, but isn t. so there is no confusion and when you got a trademark case, the issue is, are you confusing people? are people going to think hey, the ski ball company is running this league? there is no possible way you could think that. what happened between 2005 and now, because they the league founder, he gave the blessing in 2005. this is the interesting thing. when we ran an investigation into our company, life is lived chronologically. these guys did nothing to defend their name. then they went in to an agreement with the brews ski ball people. it was a handshake agreement. a week after they start to reveal confidential information. this is what s in the superintendent all of a sudden they say hey, our trademark, our good name and went to court. initially it was a publicity stunt for them to get a name and it blew out of proportion. we re going to see what happens and how it unfolds and how the game unfolds, who is the winner and the loser. we want to thank aardvark amusement for giving us a nice time to play this morning. ladies first. i came so close. coming up, veterans being cheated when it comes to student loans. they were charged more than anyone. and speak of our military, he hasn t played football in four years, but that s because he was fighting for our freedom. that s about to change. the army ranger headed to the nfl. we re honored to have him here. and the award goes to ceramics house. congratulations. thank you. the success of your small business depends on results. go vests! all organic, and there s tons of info on our website. that s why you rely on the best for your business. and verizon delivers the best devices on the best network. you re all big toes to me. so go ahead, stream and download with confidence on america s largest, most reliable 4glte network. activate any 4glte smartphone and get $100 off. for best results, use verizon. you ve reached the age where you know how things work. this is the age of knowing what needs to be done. so why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? 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[ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. good morning. it s wednesday, may 14. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. an afternoon of fun turns to horror when a bounce house is lifted 50 feet off the ground with three children inside. how this could have happened and the latest on the kids conditions up next. they called karl rove pathetic and scared. what was the outrage when the same questions were asked of republican candidates? we report. you decide. but steve s got to talk first. that s right. then from the front lines to the nfl, meet the army ranger who is trading in his fatigues for a helmet and shoulder pads. yep. that s him right there. we got a busy two hours on this wednesday morning because wednesday mornings are better with friends. it s time for fox & friends one hour ago i revealed it s national biscuit day and i ve just been told by the people at popeye s that in addition to biscuits and gravy, they re bringing chicken. we ve been up since 2 or 3:00 o clock in the morning. it s lunch time for us. period of time near supper time. i had no idea that popeye s loved chicken. i thought it was all spinach. maybe that s a different pop eye. i remember something about when popeye was in the blue uniform, he was much more entertaining as opposed to the white uniform. you spent a lot of time analyzing cartoons, haven t you? how about pink? here is someone in a pink outfit. he has a bicep focus. good thing mine are covered. let me tell you what s happening in the news. a fox news alert. big developments overnight that will affect the midterm elections. tea party favorite won the republican nomination for an open senate seat in nebraska. in west virginia, seven-term congresswoman shelly moore capito won the republican primary. secretary of state natalie tenet won the democratic nomination. whoever wins the general election will make history because west virginia has never elected a female senator. former american idol runner up clay caken won the democratic primary, one day after his opponent died. aiken now faces an uphill battle against the popular republican incumbent, renee elmers. look how high this is. a gust of wind lifting an entire inflatable house with three children inside 50 feet up into the air. a ten-year-old girl did escape with just scrapes just as it was taking off. but two boys, ages five and six, they were inside and now they re in the hospital. one broke both of his arms after hitting the ground. the other has a head injury after falling on to a parked car. then he hit his head off the back of my car. then i heard him hit the ground and i heard screaming. little tyke the manufacturer said we are looking into what happened. our thoughts and prayers are with the children and their families. a happy update to a story we ve been following. the 21-year-old boy 21-month-old boy with leukemia who needed the life saving drug will get it. the company changing its mind after first refusing to provide the trial medicine to him that would treat his adeno virus. i was very emotional. it s been tough knowing that there is a drug out there and we couldn t get it. it should be easy. i hope the next people don t have to wait as long as us and joshua s parents. you might remember the company from the case of josh hardy. it repeatedly denied him the drug as well. eventually that company did reverse course after intense public scrutiny. the 9-11 memorial museum opens up tomorrow, but we have this brand-new video just into fox & friends of what it looks like. the museum dedicated to honoring the tragic events of september 11 features more than 20,000 photographs, 500 hours of footage, and thousands of artifacts. 25 bucks. to get in. it should be free. it s five minutes after the top of the hour. karl rove kicked off a political fire storm yesterday in a war of words with hillary clinton. so he s getting slammed for people suggesting that he said hillary clinton might have brain damage after a fall she suffered in 2012. but he says his words are being twisted. to sort it all out, we fetched elizabeth prann who explains what s going on. karl rove came on the channel this week to clarify what the new york post is reporting saying he never claimed former secretary of state hillary clinton had brain damage. listen here. she had a serious health episode. i mean, this was a serious deal. she basically is out of action from she s in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the czech republic. but then begins over a month long period where she s got a serious illness, ending up putting her in the hospital. we don t know what the doctor said about what does she have to be concerned about. so you see there that rove says details surrounding her medical issues are not forth coming, especially when it comes to the fall she took in december of 2012 after returning from a trip to europe where she fainted, she fell and suffered a concussion. he we want on to say that senator john mccain faced similar health questions when he ran back in 2008, that, in fact, it s not an uncommon inquiry for high profile candidates. clinton s team is quick to fight back, one spokesman saying they re scared of what she has achieved and what she has to offerment time for them to move on to their next desperate attack. the white house even chiming in, jay carney took a jab at rove during the press briefing just yesterday. you asked the question based on a political consultant, which is a kind way of it is medical evaluation. shear what i would say about cognitive capacity, which is dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president won reelection, including the state of ohio, so we ll leave it at that. clinton has yet to say if she ll even run in 2016. back to you. thank you very much. look, it wasn t karl rove, the first to on the national scale to mention hillary s problems. i think it was two or three months ago, drudge report mentioned is she sick and people were talking behind the scenes about a myriad of intentional health problems for hillary clinton. will she release her medical records? i bet not. think about her husband, bill clinton, when he was running for president. he was asked to repeatedly and to the best of my knowledge, he never did. they did release a general summary about his health. but that was it. you want to talk cognitive capacity, which we just saw jay carney refer to, perhaps we need to check on memory because this isn t first time this has been tossed around because of cheap shots. remember when president obama was saying that mccain lost his bears because he was too old. listen to this. for him to toss out comments like that, i think it s an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. i mean, that s important to bring up. the other thing is, i said this last hour, it was one of those underreported stories i can remember because we were just waiting to see if she was going to testify for benghazi. all we heard about is she wasn t up to it. somehow she had a virus. then she turns out, well, she hit her head. whoa, did someone hit her head? did she fall? yeah, she hit her head, fell. then comes back with these glasses. they go, it s just going to be temporary. that s how hard she hit her head. i m thinking to myself, that s huge. if that was in my family, that would be huge news. all of a sudden you re wearing glasses for months, you can t go to work. you re in and out of the hospital for 30 days. so i think ha as a consultant if you re asking karl rove to give his prognosis and he s on stage next to robert gibbs and other experts and ask him to talk about prospects in 2016, i think her health is only natural to bring up, especially her age. it s an issue. especially as it relates to benghazi. is she still not okay? still haven t heard anything as it relates to decisions made prior to, during and after. i m sure she ll be subpoenaed, though. brit hume took us way back here, a little throw back tuesday it was. we re going to bring it to you on wednesday when he said look, this has always been called into question. remember when president reagan was facing mondale in the second debate in 1984? check him out. look back at ronald reagan running for reelection in 1984, he loses a debate to walter mondale and i ll never forget the night that richard thrill kill of abc news said on the care, the question was whether reagan was, you know, okay. certainly there were questions about his mental acutity at that point which he managed to take care of in the next debate. but all presidents health records become public. age raises that and sharpens the issue and hillary clinton will be about the age i guess that ronald reagan was when he was running in 1980. surely it will be an issue, her health. and it has been for a while. it s funny how rumors have a way of getting injected into the campaign. remember back in 2008 the suggestion that barak obama was not born in this country. that actually came from supporters of hillary clinton. of course, here we are years later, people are still talking about that. just let s change gears and talk about your house. let s talk about your household perhaps. the author of good night nanny cam has come out with a fascinating look at overparenting perhaps in today s society, called a beta parenting where you are pretty much a beta parent is somebody that is laid back, kind of like the 1970s parent or the 1960s parent, or every other parent in america. alpha parents are the helicopter parents. they want to do everything for their kids so that the kids go to mit by the time they re seven years old. the beta parents, more like the way we were all raised. remember this? there is dvd s and videos out for the baby when it s in the womb, to play certain music. we had that. you did that? sure. see, that s an example of alpha parenting. that s why i was doing a story on it. it didn t work, by the way. so this is what she said the beta parent said, they don t try to engage their kids every second of the day. sometimes they leave them alone with a crayon, string and cardboard box. they let their parents eat processed cheese. beta parents don t hide pumpkin puree in the pancakes. sometimes you let your kids color the flag on a driveway like you did. the way she has written this thing she wrote this beta parent manifesto in the huffington post, you really want to be a beta parent when you look at it as opposed to an alpha parent. we asked you what you thought. one said let kids be kids. that s how they learn. give guidance when needed, but let them be themselves. doug said when i was a kid, my parents were beta. i d be jumping off the roof onto the trampoline and then into the pool all day. excuse me, i think that s a little bit out of control. do not do that. jerry e-mailed, my older brother and i used to travel by subway from the bronks to brooklyn to watch the dodgers play. we were 11 and seven and it took about two hours each way. i guess we had beta parents. that was the story back then. sure. these days that would be regarded as child abuse. anita writes on facebook, building forts in the woods, ice skating on frozen ponds, good lord, how did i ever survive a childhood like that? somehow i remember occasionally going swimming less than a half hour after i ate a meal. wow! that is incredible! somehow i made it. that s akin to joining a gang today. being beta may you betta at being a parent? keep them coming. i actually think i was definitely too alpha. really? yeah. i think katy, my youngest, is benefitting from the fact that maybe i was too alpha with brian and in between i canned of lost interest with kind of lost interest with the last one. it s a perception that a lot of parents have. in the beginning they push as much as they can. i remember sitting at the table going what s her name again? coming up, america, what s hillary s biggest issue heading into 2016? other next guest says it s not benghazi. we ll talk to doctor, professor, genius larry sabato who predicted nearly every presidential race correctly. the brawl between jay-z and beyonce s sister raising eyebrows. we ll break it down for you. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? 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dr. larry sabato is the director of the center of politics at the university of virginia, joins us with a look inside his crystal of people are going to be saying we need a change after barak obama. what do you think? will that hurt hillary? here are hillary clinton s real challenges, brian. not benghazi, not monica lewinsky. it s the fact that president obama, at least right now has low approval ratings. if those approval ratings continue to be low in 2016, she will be held accountable. people say, well, she ran against barak obama. she has a separate identity. john mccain ran against george w. bush in 2000. didn t help him in 2008. the second factor, brian, is that there is some good research in this field. just a party running for a third consecutive term actually subtracts a point or two from that party s popular vote total. why? americans are inclined to switch out parties at regular intervals because the truth is, they don t fully trust either one and they want to avoid corruption. yeah. bush 41 followed ronald reagan, but did not get a second term. look at this pew poll now. 65% of the country said they would like to see a president who offers different policies and programs from the current president. 30% want to see a president with similar programs and policies. that s right now in 2014. how much do we care about being the election is in 2016? we shouldn t care overly. you re right. polls can change. but americans do get tired of the same direction. i always like to compare it to tv series. not talking about morning shows, of course. talking about comedies, sitcoms and cops and robbers shows. how long do they last? very few go eight seasons. most go two, three, four seasons and people are ready for a change. right. except for cheers. i wish that could have gone on. i got to ask you, when karl rove brought up the health of hillary clinton, do you think that s out of bounds or is that up with tradition for a 68-year-old that did pass out in her last few months in office? here is something that most people don t know. hillary clinton, by the time of the election in 2016, is going to be exactly the same age, 69, that ronald reagan was in 1980 when he was first running for his first elective term as president. so health questions are always legitimate. we never want to go back to the situation that we ve had that i studied in 1960 when john f. kennedy had some very serious health problems that were covered up and even denied, lied about. i know of nothing that would prevent hillary clinton from being president. she seems very vigorous to me. but every presidential nominee should have to have a thorough examination and the results of that examination should be revealed to the public. we ought to require that for presidential detainees. it does make sense. the kids are graduated and you can take the rest of the summer off. thanks so much. this weekend, brian, is graduation. i m not free yet. sorry. after that. straight ahead, veterans being cheated when it comes to student loans. they were charged more than anyone else. this morning we have a huge update for our military members. her son was left starving and embarrassed by the school because no one told her about her outstanding lunch balance. so what did she have to do? 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he was 45 cents short and didn t know he also owed 4.95 from a meal back in april. school didn t notify them. but his mom wouldn t let the school standard slide. she not only paid his debt, she also paid the balances of 18 other students. that mother, amanda cowan, joins us now. good morning to you. good morning. let me get this straight, your son is 45 cents short and they won t give him the lunch? correct. why? they have a no charge policy, as a lot of other schools do. did you know that he owed 4-point about five bucks from something he charged in april? no, i didn t. it was his last charge was april 15. you never got a notice that your son was delinquent, right? no, i didn t. okay. so he comes home and he tells you that not only was he short, he didn t get the lunch, and not only that, but the lunch person took the lunch out of his hand and threw it in the garbage, right? well, he actually called me from the school and told me they weren t allowing him to eat. i asked him what was going on. he said they wouldn t he tried paying the $2. they wouldn t accept it. so they took the lunch, threw it in the trash and that s when he called me. oh, man. here is what the school says. although we do not encourage the charging of school lunches, the union schools do allow charging many schools across the nation have very strict policies that say if a child does not have the money, they do not eat. we are proud to say we do not have that policy. i can t imagine they re proud of what that lunch person did. i mean, they threw the lunch in the garbage and then your son went hungry. you re being calm right now. but you were really agitated the day this happened. what did you do first? first thing i did is i went to the school to talk to the lunch lady. i asked her, why wasn t he allowed to eat? she just basic well, he didn t have enough money. right. i was to the point i didn t even know what to say. sure. so you went back on friday and talked to one of the bosses at the school. what did they say? i went back on monday and talked to the vice principal. and you said? she told me i needed to understand that at the end of the year, they re stuck with the bill if parents don t charge, pay the charges. sure. and so you decided you were going to make good. fair and square, you did owe, although the school never let you know ahead of time that you had an outstanding balance. so you wanted to make sure this did not happen to any of the other kids in the school. so what did you try to do? well, what i tried to do is give her $250 to not only pay the bill, but distribute the rest of it in the accounts of the 19 kids on the list. she told me they couldn t do that. sure. but they wouldn t take 250 bucks, would they? no. she took 60. she paid the $53 tab and put the rest on my son s account. well, now he can have lunch for the rest of the year. but the damage is done. i know he was humiliated. but you made it very clear that it was not appropriate, although the school doesn t feel like they did anything wrong, which is crazy. well, they said they followed within their guidelines. no disciplinary action will be taken. yeah, but he was 45 cents short. just give him the piece of pizza. i know. i don t understand throwing it in the trash. exactly. it s not solving the problem. it s crazy. thank you very much. summer is coming. he s not going to have to stand in that lunch line much longer. he s not. bad memory. 29 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, rubio for president. the republican senator said he may still be in for 2016 no matter who else is running. that includes somebody else. jackie kennedy s deepest secrets revealed 14 years of personal letters now made public. the intimate details, including what the first lady feared most about marrying that man, jfk. for paul ridley there s no substitute for advil. it s built to be as fast as it is strong and fights pain at the site of inflammation. advil has the strength and speed to help you move past pain. advil. make today yours. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. when sales rep steve hatfield books at laquinta.com, so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation. and when steve is perfectly prepped, ya know what he brings? 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yes, they are. free biscuit today at any popeye s with a purchase all day long. you can t beat that. why is it you love the biscuit? i know the guy who started pop eye s worked on it for two years in a culinary lab. well, my biscuits are the best tasting in the known universe and my popeye s customers are the best customers in the world. you re taking credit for the entire organization? the entire organization because i love my biscuits. so come on in today at any popeye s for any purchase, you ll get a free biscuit. it s perfect with the chicken. of course. i grew up on the popeye s spicy chicken. i love that stuff. you got locations across the country. so drop by a popeye s, buy something and you get a free biscuit. very nice. honey on it. we ll have to do that. that s the way i like it. perfect. yes. amy, annie, thank you very much. thank you. now to ainsley, time for the news. thanks so much. we re going to start with this, a major health scare in florida. 22 hospital workers at an orlando hospital ordered to stay home for two weeks after they were exposed to a patient infected with mers. the 44-year-old man developed symptoms of that virus mid flight from saudi arabia to london. he sat in the emergency room in orlando for hours before being admitted into the hospital. this is the second confirmed u.s. case of the deadly rare virus. rubio for president? the republican florida senator now admits that he would still enter the 2016 race even if it meant running against former florida governor jeb bush. he says the presidential candidate doesn t make decisions based on what someone else does. i think when someone contemplates running for president of the united states, you too so based on a criteria that you set for yourself. i don t think they re decisions based with someone else s decisions in mind and i bet if he was here, he would give you the exact same answer. i think that s the way you approach a decision of that magnitude is based on your own criteria. not what someone else might or might not do. he admits jeb bush would make a formidable president, a candidate at least, for president. newly discovered letters revealing 14 years of secrets from jackie kennedy bearing her soul to an irish priest that she met only twice, but had written to for years. she opens up about her fears of marrying jfk because he might be like her father, she says. she goes on to say, quote, he loves the chase and he is bored with the conquest and once married, needs proof he s still attractive, so he flirts with other women and resents you. the unpublished letters are up for auction next month. fencing might be an olympic sport, but tell that to the officials at north dakota state university because they have banned it, saying the sword-like equipment known as foils are deemed weapons and as such possession or use on the university campus owned or controlled property is prohibited. the sword, however, has no actual blade and does not have a sharp tip. the team is now forced to move off campus. and those are your headlines, my friends. over to you on the sofa. is it arthur? it is. we got to get ainsley a monitor. she should have seen awe long time ago. leave ainsley alone! that s for tomorrow s segment. i m with you on that. let s talk about this. so we ve seen it on television. important case. surveillance video, it looks like beyonce s sister is beating up jay-z. that s an elevator at the standard hotel in new york. so we have many legal questions. first of all, there is a story out there that tmz paid $250,000 for that video. to whom? that s the question. do they pay it first of all, let s get this out of the way. it s not jay-z s video. it s not beyonce s video. when you re in a public hallway, on a public street, when you re in a public elevator, you have no expectation of privacy. so it s not your video. you re basically consenting by being there that you could be videoed in today s day and age. known a hotel? in a public place, yes. this was in their room, in the bathroom or maybe even a phone booth, some expectation of privacy. does that mean they can t sue for this video? that is correct. but wherever they had access so to that video monitor, that would not be a public place. that could have been a private place. here is the real thing, who sold the video? or who got their hands on it? is it the hotel who probably owns the video. it s their video. what if it is? or is it an employee of the hotel who stole the video? if it was an employee who stole the video, they may have some big problems. criminal problems and civil problems cause it s not their property. but if i m tmz and i write the check to that shady person who did something that s a fireable offense and despicable, do i have to say who i bought it from? am i responsible to say you guys are the journalists. you re asking me that question? it depends if they say listen, this is our source. i don t think they would reveal. what if the people in the hotel, those individuals, be it jay-z or two other people involved in a domestic issue in an elevator, can that video that was wrongly sold, assuming that it was, be used to then prosecute one of them? yes. there would be an evidentiary hearing if it ever went that far about its add admissiblity. jay-z could pick up the phone and press charges against her and she would be arrested for assault in the third degree, which it s a no brainer, which is a misdemeanor. all you have to do is cause harm and pain, substantial pain. so it looked like he got a little substantial pain in there. and on the civil side, if he wanted to be a jerk, he could sue her and for his injuries. and just for the record, it seems as though the story in the daily news today is solange was mad at him because he was going to rihanna s party after the big event. the undercurrent is he was supposed to help so dlange s career get on track. there is one more part. solange brought some of her friends to this party, the met party and they were using jay-z name to try to get in and he had just found out about it. he said, don t you have your friends using my name to try to get into any parties. that was what started the whole thing. why do you have to go out to riri s party? why can t you go home with your wife? i can t believe we re talking about this on fox & friends. you were talking about the u.s. marshals doing all this good. your rights are not what you think when you re in an elevator. or hallway or any public place. you re never private. anywhere anymore, in my opinion. thank you. i just know this, this conversation was private, just between us. straight ahead, from the front lines to the nfl, meet the army ranger who is trading in his fatigues for a helmet and shoulder pads and hopes to put an eagle on that helmet. can you pick him out? yes, i can. but first the aflac trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1944, the film maker is best known for creating star wars. who is he? be the first to e-mail us with the correct answer. i ve got it, by george [male announcer] ortho crime files. disturbing the pantry. a house, under siege. say helto home defense max. kills bugs inside and prevents new ones for up to a year. ortho home defense max. get order. get ortho®. aflac, aflac, afc! 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nothing certain. we better get our heads screwed on right. all right. sounds good. you just don t know when to start correcting that. i do now. let s go to our secretary e-mail and talk about men and women. my wife won t throw out any junk mail. she insists on opening all of it and we currently have three garbage bags full of unopened mail. she has not had the chance to open yet. is this normal or nuts? for this you call a psychiatrist? she s nuts. okay. because you have three bags of garbage that she won t throw out. she either has ocd or those traits. here is the metaphor. she s been searching for something important in junk for a long time. maybe she thinks there is secrets in her family that are worth uncovering when there is really no love there. she s got to get to a therapist and find the truth about her life. not some publisher s clearing house letter she forget to open. maybe she forgot to open the big check. finally, here it is, when i m alone, i start thinking about loved ones and how they will be eulogized. i even think about how i will be remembered, too. that s cheery. thinking about the end. normal or nuts? it isn t cheery, but it isn t nuts. in fact, i like it because you know what? here is the thing, here is someone who is not running from the ultimate truth that we re all mortal. that can guide your life. if you re thinking about how you ll be eulogized, you might just make good choices. i think probably more of us should do exactly what this viewer has asked about. that makes perfect sense. think about the impact you re making right now and ultimately how they will remember you. good advice. very nicely done. well, thank you. so you applaud the last ones steve. the other two you weren t too happy with. just e-mail dr. keith and he will have more advice coming your way. he does one of our favorite segments. keep that mail coming. thank you. still ahead, is senator joe manchin throwing in the towel on politics? he will join us live coming up 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all the time. pinocchio would be a terrible what kind of speaker? motivational speaker. that s right. oh, boy. how many times have you been in a couple of times we ve rented those bouncy houses for our kids parties. those pictures right there, the first thing they do is pound it in the ground. how does that happen? they staked it down. i know! how does that happen? heather is off today. we ve got ainsley earhart in with the breaking news and we do have some. yes, we do. let s give you that break news right now. we re going to start with a fox news alert. big developments overnight that will affect the midterm elections. tea party favorite ben sass won the republican nomination for an open senate seat in nebraska. in west virginia, seven-term congresswoman shelly moore capito won the republican primary. secretary of state natalie tenet won the democratic nomination. whoever wins the general election will make history because west virginia has never elected a female senator. and former american idol runner up clay aiken won north carolina s democratic congressional primary. this just one day after his opponent, the former state commerce secretary, keith krisco died. aiken faces an uphill battle against the republican incumbent, renee ale meres. and one minute it was staked to the earth. the next swept off the ground. a gust of wind lifting that inflatable house with three children inside 50 feet high. a ten-year-old girl was able to escape with scrapes, but two boys that were trapped inside ages five and six, are now in the hospital. one broke both of his arms after hitting the ground. the other suffered a head injury after falling onto a parked car. then he hit his head off the back of my car and then i heard him hit the ground and then i heard screaming. little tykes, the manufacturer, released this statement. we re looking into what happened. our thoughts and our prayers are with the children and with their families. we do have a happy update to tell you about to a story that we ve been following here on fox. the 21-month-old boy with leukemia who desperately needed the life-saving drugs is finally getting those meds. the company is changing its mind now after first refusing to provide the child medicine to judson shepherd to treat his adeno virus. i was very emotional. it s been tough knowing that there is a drug out there and we couldn t get it at first. it should be easy. i hope the next person doesn t have to wait as long as us in joshua s parents. you might remember the company from the case of another young boy, josh hardy. the drug was reapedly denied to him and eventually the company did reverse course after intense public scrutiny. the 9-11 memorial museum opens tomorrow. but we have this brand-new video just in to fox & friends of what it looks like. inside you ll see piece of history from that day, including a destroyed fire truck from ground zero and personal items, like a teddy bear. the museum also has more than 20,000 photographs and 500 hours of footage. those are your headlines. back to you. you walk into it, it takes you right back to that day. sure does. thank you. karl rove kicked off a political fire storm in the war of words with hillary clinton. he is getting slammed for suggesting clinton might have had brain damage after a fall she suffered in 2012. but he says his words have been twisted by the press. elizabeth prann will break it down because that s not what he said. good morning. let s start from the beginning. new york post reported that republican strategist and fox news contributor karl rove made the suggestions at a private conference last week. not long after he clarified here on the channel. he says he never claimed clinton had brain damage, you about suggest details are not forth coming about her medical issues back in 2012 and early 2013. take a listen. she had a serious health episode. this was a serious deal. she s in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the czech republic, but then begins over a month long period where she s got a serious illness, ending up putting her in the hospital. we don t know what the doctors said about what does she have to be concerned about. hillary clinton s team has not hesitated when responding. one spokesperson said, quote, they are scared of what she has achieved and what she has to offer. time for them to move on to their next desperate attack. white house spokesman jay carney even took a jab at rove during the briefing yesterday. listen. dr. rove might have been the last person in america on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president won reelection, including the state of ohio. we ll leave it at that. he also said senator john mccain faced similar health questions when he ran in 2008 and is not an uncommon inquiry for high profile possible candidates. back to you guys. all right. elizabeth prann live in the gray dc bureau today, thank you. thank you. karl rove saying it will matter because it has mattered. as elizabeth prann noted, saying we need to take a step back to 2008 when president obama actually kind of took a shot at john mccain, saying he was losing his bearings because he was getting older, in fact. take a listen to this. for him to toss out comments like that, i think it was an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. okay. so where is the press attacking then senator obama for suggesting that john mccain was off his rocker? there wasn t any because there is just a double standard when it comes to the left and the right and the mainstream media. is it amnesia or hypocrisy? i m not sure. i will say this, karl rove was at an event. now the next thing you know, he s talking about it here, expanding on his comments. what he brought up was something barely reported. the secretary of state in the final days in office disappeared when she was supposed to be testifying. many people thought she s trying to get out of testifying. later they found out she fell, had a blood clot behind her ear, so there was a legitimate health situation here. so was it the fact that it was fatigue or was it after four years of rigorous tension and stress that she was in bad health? she was worn out by the end. she didn t look like the same person competing for the nomination with barak obama. so i think that was an interesting point to bring up. and the fact that she s going to be that age, is going to be doing this again eight years later, i think health is a legitimate issue. i think when they talked about brain damage and something wrong with her, they re trying to corner karl rove into an explanation of saying you re out of bounds. i know nicole wallace who worked with president bush came out and said i thought that was out of bounds. i actually don t. especially after hearing karl rove explain himself yesterday. the biggest statement that was made about it at the time were the glasses she had on that people can use if they have traumatic brain injury, concussion. nothing was truly explained. the most explanation that we re look at them right here, the most explanation that anyone was given, as i recall, was a letter she actually wrote to barbara walters. she read it on air after barbara suffered a serious fall and she said you know how it goes, sort of aligning their two situations, trying to be more casual about it. but there were not explanations. therefore, there were speculation about the spectacles and questioning going into an election is normal. so with all that speculation, it would be nice for us to all know what exactly did happen because when people had asked at the time, you got vague answers but nothing specific. bill clinton when he ran for president, he did not release his medical records. they released a summary of his health, but they didn t go deep enough for many into his personal health history. so don t look for hillary to do it either. the funny thing is as dr. larry sabato told brian about an hour ago, questions about a person s health is always legitimate when you re running for president. here he is. hillary clinton, by the time of the election in 2016, is going to be exactly the same age, 69, that ronald reagan was in 1980 when he was first running for his first elected term as president. of course, health questions are always legitimate. every presidential nominee should have to have a thorough examination and the results of that examination should be revealed to the public. we ought to require that for presidential candidates. you like my input during the interview? got, which ha. it was on the cards. but it is an issue. people do need to know about the health of the person running for president. karl rove was really reminding hillary as well, look, you really want ten years of this? the road to the presidency is bumpy. two years running, eight years if you re reelected. do you really want that? that also is something that goes into the equation whether or not to run. speak of, is senator joe manchin giving up on politics? the west virginia democrat is here to answer that question next. then russia cutting off america s access to the international space station? what? we got brand-new details that s going to get you going on this wednesday morning. what does that first spoonful taste like? ok. honey bunches of oats. ching! mmmm! mmmm! mmmm! wow! it s the oats. honey. yeah. honey bunches of oats. this is a great cereal. i wasn t sure what to expect at the meetings. but i really love going. i do! it reminds me we don t have to do this alone. it s so much better to have some backup and to do it together because we all face similar challenges. the meetings keep me focused and motivated. and i have a newfound determination that i m really proud of. i ve never been happier. 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i do. i believe that we can pass it. the bipartisan fashion, brian. that s the way it should be done. the other thing is when i say clean coal for west virginia, clean coal for america. we still depend on coal. we can do it better. we have done it better. cleaned up the atmosphere and the climate more than in the last two decades than ever before. we can do more if the government will work with us. they need what we have. we want to produce and provide what we have. the partisanship is another story. listen, in this issue, you have democrats i don t care what they think. if it s about the election, doesn t matter. you have democrats lined up to get over 60 votes and make the president do this, to get it back to his desk saying this is the sense of the senate. but your majority leader won t do it. when you looked him in the eye and said harry reid, why don t you do it, what does he say? i ve said harry, i came here to vote. i can take any tough vote. i can explain myself, i can look every west virginiaian in the eye and said this would help our country and state. i can do that. and i m asking him to open that process up. there is other reasons behind the scene, maybe we don t know about. but him and mitch need to get together and work and move forward as leaders are supposed to do. we re hoping that will happen. you re a straight talking guy. when harry reid when you ask him why, what does he say? basically he says it s a moving target. he makes one deal and they change to another deal. i guess it would be mitch and the majority on the republican side. i m not in those conversations, so i have to say okay, harry. sit down and work through it. five bills, five amendments, they re all germane to the bill. that should be something we could vote on. i would hope that we could. let me just say this, i think the keystone pipeline is a very extremely important vote for our country and i think also portman and shaheen s bill is very important for energy importance. if we had to forsake and vote on those bills clean we should do that for the sake of this country. i would hope it would get done, but we ve been waiting for this for four years now. i know. let s talk about what s happening with coal. are you like marco rubio very much saying to yourself, i m not sure about global warming, weather has always been erratic and we should not give up on fossil fuels because maybe the environmentalists are putting pressure on us? let me just say this, i believe that 7 billion human beings on mother earth here have affected the environment and we re responsible for that. with that being said, you got to find the balance. i m not a denier. on the other hand, i asked my friends from really the far left if they will, are you a denier? are you denying that this country can continue to provide affordable reliable energy without using fossil or coal or any of that? it s going to take all of us working together. so deniers on both sides are wrong. you don t get anything accomplished by just pointing fingers and saying this person is wrong. we can go along. if we go through another polar vortex that we won t through this win and they take off the fossil fuel, reliability of 10,000 megawatts of power, we re going to have people that their life is in danger and many people will die. we shouldn t let that happen. reliability is the name of the game. reliability, affordability, what we can provide in this country to keep us competitive. it s going to take everything. i don t want to be relying on foreign oil anymore. we don t need to be. senator, when are you going to decide if you re going to stay in that chamber? you re out in 2016. people are talking about 2018. i m sorry. i know it s been frustrating for a governor. might you run for governor again? might you run for president? brian, here is all i ve said. basically i don t want my time here to be nonproductive. and it has been a nonproductive time for me. that s frustrating for me. but yet i m seeing things differently. i m prepared to do things, i m prepared to work across. i will not go and campaign against a sitting colleague. i won t raise money against a sitting colleague, whether democrat or republican, whether they re my dearest friend or maybe not. i m not going to do that cause i think it s disingenuine to look them in the face the next week and say, listen, will you work with me? how can you work with me if i was raising money against you and trying to beat you? i m not going to do that. i m putting myself in a position that i can work with anybody coming together. i have said this, i want my time to be productive. i have an awful lot of good, productive quality public service to give. i m going to wait until the 2014 elections are over. i ll see the lay of the land in washington and west virginia and hopefully i ll see where i can be the most productive and where i can be, that s where i ll go. very much up in the air. very much. with the mine disaster on monday. it s horrific. i called both of the families last night. i don t know the details on it. we ll get to that. the safety of our miners is the foremost thing and we ll continue to do everything we can to make our mines as safe as possible. that s when you were kind enough to join us for the first time after that mine disaster when you were governor. senator joe manchin, thank you for joining us. still joe, that s the most important thing. that i know for sure. thanks. straight ahead, brand-new calls for a committee to investigate the scandals at the v.a. hospitals. but eric holder says no thanks? 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at 13. my story isn t that unique. even today. most kids begin this process early on, believe it or not. the issue becomes whether parents and society is paying attention. why? because at that age, between 13 and 18, you can really make a difference in a kid s life in terms of changing trajectory. in terms of statistics, one in four young people that use alcohol or drugs before the age of 18 technically becomes addicted. so when you think about right now the big conversation, legalization of marijuana, will that help or hurt addiction? i don t think legalization is a good idea. the two most damaging drugs on the planet to the individual and to society are both legal, nicotine and alcohol. so do we really need another legal drug? and big business is definitely going to take this over in terms of the money that s involved. it s huge amounts of money. most people when they re walking through adick and running to or from drug, alcohol or nicotine, are doing it privately, but it affects everyone. cause it affects their whole family. it really affected everybody when you were arrested during a major election time. how did you get through that and what was your rock bottom? right. the people have to remember is this is a brain illness and also a genetic piece to this. i was 13 when i began this process. so i had the genetics. i also had what we know today that trauma, an adolescent who suffers any kind of trauma in their adolescence is much more susceptible to this illness and culturally it was an entirely different situation back then. we know much more today, we re paying attention and there is good science today. kids have a real opportunity to avoid this issue if it s picked up early. it can cost them their life. it almost cost you yours. absolutely. your rock bottom moment as you describe it is? there is a lot of rock bottoms. what we try to do today is elevate the bottom. i hit bottom and bounced along that bottom for six years. addicts have an enormous capability to tolerate the intolerable. but today we re looking to elevate the bottom. we re telling people, you don t have to go there. you don t have to go to the bottom. there is ways out. how do you break the cycle and advice for the parents who right knew are looking at these statistics need it? i work with great team centers. these people treatment centers. they know how to talk to parents. it s important that parents pay attention and don t sweep it under the rug. know your genetic legacy. know where you come from. my kids know their genetic legacy. my kids, if they go down that road, they get talked to and there is boundaries that are set. this is what this is really an issue that has to be dealt with in the home. sometimes it s dealt with with shame. how do you address that? the science addresses it. this is not a shame-based thing. this is not a moral issue. this is a brain illness. american society of addiction medicine calls this a brain illness. it s not a matter of bad choices or bad behavior. i would say the first step here that you discuss would be to check out this book for so many parents and people out there who literally have family members suffer from addiction. this will be a life what addicts know is this book will show people what addicts know and will help normal folks live an enhanced life. christopher kennedy law ford, we thank you for inc. bringing bringing us this great book. thank you, elisabeth. coming up, brand-new calls for a committee to investigate the scandal at v.a. hospitals. but eric holder says no thanks. is it political cover for another scandal? 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we re not going to investigate this, even though it could be criminal. we re going to go ahead and let the v.a. do it first. then if we need to get involved, we ll get involved. so you have jeff miller op one side, wrote a letter to the president saying, hey, this is serious enough. we ve got long delays, preventible deaths, botched care when it comes to our veterans. this deserves an independent commission to look into it. then you have eric holder who is saying no, we re just going to monitor it. it s on our radar. no need to jump in. i thought monitoring was for something that actually felt as though it was running smoothly, just in case something is going on. we now know something is going wrong here and our veterans have their lives at risk as they return home under this care system. this is the most political justice department that we can remember. having said that, there is nothing political about this. veterans are apolitical. they are wearing these veterans out hoping they would die to keep their percentages die and it continues to grow. every day we come in, there is another state with another problem. the attorney general walks away. so senator bernie sanders starts to speak about it and i m wondering, what s this socialist who holds caucuses with the democrats have to say and harry s assignment every day is bring up the koch brothers. there is right now as we speak a concerted effort to undermine the v.a. so the point is you have government entity itself, social security, enormously popular. medicare enormously popular. postal service popular. v.a. popular. what are the problems? the problem is that all of these are large governmental institutions and you have folks out there now. koch brothers and others, who want to radically change the nature of society and even make major cuts in all of these institutions, or maybe do away with them entirely. way to go, bernie. so he s been able to, in his mind, successfully connect the koch brothers with what s going on at the v.a. that is one of the dumbest sound bites i ve heard in a while. for him to say that they are undermining the v.a., that s wrong. we need to investigate the v.a. there are dozens of people who perhaps have died because the v.a. in the management was doing something that was not up to snuff and now for him to say that, that s just crazy. to put them in the victim seat. he s saying the v.a. is the victim, under attack by the koch brothers. go figure. he listed everything that s not working. medicare is buried in red ink, social security is buried in red ink. you have the post office, they invented red ink. and now he s pointing to them as institutions that might be popular. but none of them is effective. they all have to be streamlined and reformed. it s not a matter of getting rid of them. nothing is work! next time you see story about what s going ton at the v.a., remember, it s the koch brothers, according to senator sanders. right. let s turn to something that works quite well, ainsley, she s here. thank you. filling in for heather. the pentagon approving a transfer for private bradley manning to get gender treatment. after going to prison convicted of leaking top military documents, manning changed his name to chelsea and requested hormone therapy. the treatment is not possible in a military prison, only in civilian prisons. and new this morning, american astronaut back on earth after a six-month stint on the international space station. but russia says that he might be the last one to go up, at least from america. they re cutting off america s access to the space station. vladimir putin firing back over ukraine sanctions, saying russia will not help the u.s. launch astronauts into space, this despite america paying them $60 million per launch. we just learned international monetary fund chief christine lee guard is withdrawing from speaking at smith college at their graduation. she was derailed by protesters. she joins secretary condoleeza rice who decided not to speak at rutgers for the same reason. students get together as among faculty to make sure students who have opinions they don t like get disinvited. earlier we said whether underground founder bill heirs spoke at a graduation in 2008, but he was disinvited as well. and take a look at this picture. it will melt your heart. a firefighter saving this kitten, giving the animal oxygen after being rescued from a fire in washington state. thankfully the kitten is going to be okay. the owners also escaped unharmed. what a sweet story. all right. now i am told i m handing it over to you, brian. all right. thank you very much. everyone is writing me for the last month and saying, what about hockey highlights? i m waiting for them to get deep in the playoffs. rangers, penguins game 7, winner take all. the third period, 2-1 rangers. things getting hairy when the puck rolls close to the penguins net. it s almost kicked in. but the penguins keep on coming. rangers won a dramatic game 2-1. let s talk basketball. looks like charles barkley at 6 4, 260, and shaquille o neal, 7-foot, 300 pounds, won t meet for a mix the martial arts match. they floated the idea last week and even gave fans a preview of the type of fight. is there a script and rundown on that show? the reason they canned it, quote, shaq says, barkley backed out. i m serious. i would kill him. i would definitely kick his blank because i m from the street and he s not. you re also seven foot and outweigh him by 100 pounds. fencing may be an olympic sport, but tell that to a north dakota state university. they re banning it, swaying the sword-like equipment, known as foils, are deemed weapons. and as such, possession of use of university owned or controlled property is prohibited. the sword has no actual blade or sharp tip. the team is now forced to move off campus. that s a quick look at the world of sports. i guess the biathlon would be out. you don t shoot people. you shoot targets. that s a quick look at what s happening in sports. coming up, veterans being cheated when it comes to student loans? 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fossil fuels. here to explain, charles payne is here. he made his money how? a large chunk of it from investing in things like coal. in fact, listen, his fund right now is worth about 19 billion. about 10% of that is still invested in energy. they won t say what exactly. don t necessarily have to. coal projects all around the world. indonesia. there has been this build up for coal demand. the tar sands out of canada. pipeline deals. it runs the gamut. so it s so amazing in this golden age of hypocrisy, this guy climbs rapidly to the top. what s that message? just not here? it s okay everywhere else? that s an interesting message for all the democrats who is going to back them. maybe they ll tell their friends outside of this country, coal is not good enough for us, but okay for you guys. it s the worst form of hypocrisy because we ve had a war on coal in this country that devastated thousands of american families. great paying jobs gone. it s decimated them. coal is the fastest growing form of energy in the world. right now, the fastest form of energy growing in the world. a couple weeks ago, ge wanted to take over a french company that grinds coal because there is never going to be a treaty upon coal. all the stuff we re trying to do to be great global neighbors by crushing people in these great jobs is a farce and it s nuts. and for all the lefties who are driving their electric cars, those electric cars are running on electricity generated by coal. absolutely. again, for me it s all the jobs that have been lost. the companies that are going bankrupt. for what? and for this guy to talk about this, i guarantee you, if we could follow him for a 24-hour period between a private jet and the mansions, he probably has a global foot print that sucks up more energy in a day than the average person watching this show in a year. give us a break on this. seems so disingenuous, sort of crushing these jobs and then also taking a back seat to the rest of the world when it comes to innovation. yeah. listen, the environmentalists, i don t know how they did it. they pulled it off. they have the upper hand with respect to the white house right now. they get their way. listen, this guy wa his money, $100 million this way, he should give that to some of these veterans that we re talking about all day long. there is a lot of other things you can do with that. in reality, you have enough votes in the senate to pass the keystone pipeline, this guy doesn t want to get it done, he has enough money. the energy revolution in this country has been a god send and it really is the only thing that s keeping us out of recession right now. all right. charles payne, king of payne from fox business, thanks a lot. thank you. he seems nice. he sure does. coming up, she turned around the failing school system in dc, so it may surprise to you learn michelle rhee supports the common core. she ll join us to defend that. first, we ll check in with bill hemmer for what s coming up at the top of the hour. good morning. interesting discussion there with charles payne. leaving a lot of opportunity on the table. tea party comeback. we will analyze these election results. we ll see what they tell us in a moment here. breaking news, mining disaster. seems to get worse by the day on this story. and new information on the virus outbreak, what you need to know now. martha and i see you in ten minutes, top of the hour i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase like 60,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards even cash back. and my rewards points won t expire. so you can make owning business even more rewarding. ink from chase. so you can. creators and supporters say it s an educational initiative designed to level the playing field for students all across the country. but not everybody likes common core. i feel like the common core is driving a wedge between parents and their children. we don t like common core. it s a federal power grab. it s an unconstitutional mandate from the federal government. so what does our next guest think about common core? former dc schools chancer, michelle rhee joins us from san francisco with her take on it. good morning to you. good morning. we ve had a number of parents on who were puzzled by a couple weeks ago we had on an engineer father who said that he cooperate even help his son with a problem like this. this is an example of a common core math problem. it was jack used the number line below to solve 427 minus 316. find his error. and write a letter to jack telling him what he did right and what he should do to fix the mistake. the father threw up his hands and said i can t figure it out. that s one of the common complaints is the math is so hard for the kids. look, i don t think that we should be complaining about having higher standards for kids. the bottom line is that the u.s. is falling behind. we are 17th, 21st and 26th in the globe in reading, science and math respectively. 26 out of 34 developed nations is not a place that we want to be if we want our kids to compete in the global economy. so are we going to have to raise our standards? absolutely. no doubt we need standards, but there are some who, for instance yesterday we had governor mike pence of indiana. they were the first state to opt out of common core. now i think there are over three dozen states that have said we just don t like the national standards. we would prefer statewide or local standards. i think what people have to remember is this is not a set of national standards that was a federal mandate or anything like this. the common core was actually developed by governors coming together, local states coming together and saying, we want to do something differently. we need higher standards for our kids. and so it was really a locally-driven process. but one of the problems is the teachers are having trouble with it. in fact, here in new york state, the teachers union is now against common core. i believe it s illinois, they re against common core in the union as well. that s got a lot of people saying, if the teachers can t even do it, if the big unions are saying no, maybe we ought to start over. let s be clear that the vast majority of teachers actually support common core. in fact, by the unions own admission, 75% of teachers are saying that the common core is a good thing. the reason why union leaders are trying to avoid this is because they don t want accountability now that the common core is actually being tied to teacher performance, the upleaders are saying wait. we don t want any of this. we shouldn t have a situation where we are allowing the union leaders to shirk responsibility. we have to have them accountable for insuring their kids are getting a great education. sure. well put. all right. we do need to do that, but none the less, the common core debate continues. it s great to have your opinion, michelle rhee, thank you very much. thanks. more on fox & friends, about two minutes away. 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thank you very much. looking forward to this. thanks for joining us. last may, last may day in fact so last may 1st the governor of oregon stood before a cheering, chanting group of very excited supporters and he waved a bill in the air that had just passed the oregon senate and had just passed the oregon house and passed by a comfortable margin and governor kit hopper was in favor of it and there to sign it in front of this and big very excited and happy crowd and the governor signed that bill and he waved it in the air and it did not become law. and that is because of this man. many people have neck and shoulder tension and they don t know why. well, i can tell you this from much experience, there are good reasons why they have neck and shoulder tension and they would be better off without it and so what i m going to do is do this little exercise for you and its purpose that man is the most prolific funder of conservative causes in the great state of oregon. every state s got one. this is oregon s. the bill that the oregon legislature and governor passed and signed this time last year would have given driver s license to any oregon resident even if you could not prove that you were in this country legally and this conservative zillion air lauren parks, he decided he was against that and so he personally funded an opposition effort. he permanently put up 70% of the money that it cost to get that law put up for a referendum. and so it would have become law january of this year. would already be law and didn t instead on the ballot this november because this one guy paid for the services of all the paid signature gatherers that it took in order to get that law delayed by getting it put on the ballot. without him, this thing would be law already. with him, it s not law. at least not yet. mr. parks, his name is lauren parks made his fortune in medical devices including doppler flow ultrasound machines and also according to the las vegas review-journal, quote, a device called the plethlismoen graph which was developed in the 1900s and used in some law enforcement and psychological experiments to measure the arousal of sex offenders. more than a hobby in being a amateur hypnotherapist and specifically sex hypnotherapist. this is about women and sexual guilt. mr. parks claims to be able to cure people of basically anything you can think of that has any remote relationship to sex and if you peruse the dozens of self-help and hypnotherapy videos he uploaded to youtube you would find he thinks everything is related to sex including his very baroque and insistent theories on weight loss. video about being fat and it s aimed at women because that s where i have the experience. i don t have experience with men. maybe it ll work. i don t know. but at any rate, there are a multitude of reasons why women are fat. a long time ago back in the 80s when i was doing large groups of people using idiomotor finger signaling, we came up with a bunch of reasons that women who were overweight gave for their being fat. you d be surprised at what some of them were. but i ll tell you this choose one of those things that came to mind to be disconnected just have it in your mind, not a bump of them, just one and when i sound the budder and say disconnect, it will disconnect all of the causes of that habit and perhaps you ll end up losing weight. [ buzzer ] disconnect. [ buzzer ] disconnect. that s him hypnotizing you on youtube. mr. parks is a very prolific donor to causes in oregon, the mother of all political donors in oregon and gives more money than everybody else according to people who study conservative politics in oregon but his sideline interests and his past do make him an awkward donor for conservative candidates and conservative causes. this is from that same recent profile in the las vegas review journal. he admits he s been sued a number of times usually he says by women who don t want me to leave. one female employee sued him he said even after she signed a contract that stipulated she would have sexual relations with hill during business travels. quote, she enjoyed our trips so much and then she turned around and said she didn t want to do it, park said. why would someone who signed a contract do that? after those remarks and that apparently true history of his own time in court, one republican candidate for the oregon house this year returned a $30,000 donation that lauren parks had given him. this guy is running for a house seat in northeastern oregon. that primary is tomorrow so we will see if he s able to overcome having had to give back a big $30,000 donation that late in the game. but generally do not think it is appreciated broadly enough just how weird oregon republican politics have gotten, oregon has its primary tomorrow. republicans have been very excited about running a campaign against incumbent democratic u.s. senator jeff merkley. but if we re honest, i have to tell you, covering the primary, the republican primary for that senate seat which is tomorrow has been like sitting in a dusking booth at a pitcher s convention. every time you think you get your bearings, boom, there you go in the tank like every time you go to check out a new news psych walthall this primary it s something new. there s lauren parks, the amateur sex hypnotherapist with contracts to have sex with him on business travels. he is a zillionaire who is substantially funded a lot of conservative causes in oregon but right now he s funning a pac supporting one of the two republican candidates in the senate campaign tomorrow. he s supporting monica wehby. the other person substantiallily funding that same pac has been widely reported to be monica wehby s boyfriend. one issue with that is anybody s boyfriend commingling with disconnect, disconnect with that guy. that s just me. it is a free country, the other issue is more pedestrian and specific. candidates are supposed to be totally legally forbidden from coordinating anything with pacs that support them. there s supposed to be no contact between the candidate and the pac supporting them including the people who fund that pac. it s very hard to say there s no contact between you and somebody you are dating. right? if monica wehby is the candidate in a romantic relationship with one of the main funders of this pac how can you have no coordination and raised all kinds of questions whether this pac is operating legally if there is close coordination of some kind between the people in that pac and candidate herself. that led, in fact, to the democratic party in oregon filing a complaint about that pac s spending on this candidate s behalf. since then, though, in the closing days of this primary in oregon just this past friday, oregon and everybody else in the world learned in a very blunt and unexpected way that actually the candidate, monica wehby and the supposed boyfriend funding the pac, they are apparently no longer in a relationship. they used to be but they have broken up and the way everybody found out about that was when politico on friday morning published the police report from when he called the police on her accusing her of stalking him and averaging the police to please come throw her out of his house because they were having a bad breakup and she was harassing him and she would not leave him alone. that does solve some of the worries about there being too much contact between the candidate and the guy funding the pac. but now there s also this other issue of who is leaking that police report four days before the primary and then later that same day also leaking the 911 call to the oregon press and the national press just days ahead of this primary and then today, one day ahead of the primary the oregonian published another police report this time not from the ex-boyfriend but ex-husband of the candidate and the report reflecting her ex-husband called the police to their home during their divorce and accuse the her of ongoing harassment of him. so the first police report four days before the primary and the 911 call later that day. the second police report one day before the primary. and the drama and the twists and turns and whatever is going on in oregon republican politics would be weird enough if that was just it, but that doesn t even start to touch the cast of characters involved here. because outside of the hobbyist sex hypnotherapist and not the boyfriend anymore pac the other pac supporting the monica wehby candidacy is funded substantially by this guy, he just got a big splashy spread in national journal magazine as the future of super pacs. this is him apparently posing with models on a hay bale from an out of take of an video posted at his winery website showing himself it s a parody of that robin i don t know it s just anyway okay, his name is john jordan. he runs a winery. very rich guy, conservative guy, republican donor and he lives in california. he doesn t live in oregon, doesn t appear to very any connection to oregon. what so doing weighing in with huge bucket loads of money in the senate race? oregon republican politics, turns out, they re just kind of like that because on the other side, the guy was running against monica wehby in tomorrow s primary a day named jason conger has his own random out of state disinterested surveillancian their helping them, as well, the pac funder on the other side tomorrow is a hedge fund guy from new york who has decided that the outcome of the oregon republican senate primary is apparently worst some of his hedge fund bucks for some reason and this is the thing in oregon. oregon of all places for some reason attracts this. four years ago you may remember we took notice of a mysterious well funded out of nowhere challenge to a democratic incumbent named peter defazio. forgive me but it s sort of perennial crank candidate who lived on a compound they called his own science institute who sent out newsletters saying things like hiv doesn t really cause aids and anybody who is hiv positive shouldn t take their hiv drugs, he says that radiation is good for you and we should in fact consider sprinkling radiation over the entire united states and there were parks and backyards and stuff that would help everybody s health. yeah, that candidate was mysteriously running a campaign with super slick flyers and well put together ads and a really professional-looking operation against peter defazio. and just none of it made sense. it wasn t like this guy was a tea partyer who was a little too conservative for the district or even that he was a rand paul/ron paul guy who want the us to have gold instead of paper money. it wasn t like that normal and well understood breed of republican out thereness. this guy wants to sprinkle radiation across the country so kids will play in it and get healthy. radiation t made no sense at all that he was able to run this campaign against peter defazio at the level that he was running it until peter defazio himself figured out that there was randomly a new york hedge fund republican zillion their who decided from three time zone as way on the complete opposite side of the country with no relationship to oregon politics whatsoever and no apparent vested interest in that congressional race that he was going to fund art robinson s self-declared superscientist to run against peter defazio and so that inexplicable new york zillionaire gave art all that money to run a big campaign against peter defazio and who knows why, and robinson did not beat peter defazio and reached out to him earlier this month to see if he is still funding art. we did not hear back but it does not seem like he is anymore. at least not yet but even after losing to peter defazio art robinson did not go away. he went on to become the chairman of the oregon republican party. that is his current job and he is now running for congress city against peter defazio apparently without the zillionaire hedge funder helping him out this time and while art robinson is running for congress this time, he is also simultaneously sending out thousands of mailers that look like this. accepting out these mailers all across oregon asking people to please send him jars of their urine. because he wants your urine for science or for his version of science. he wants you to send him your urine for five years. it s like a newsletter in reverse. the world s worst newsletter made of urine that you have to send to art robinson, chairman of the oregon republican party, yes. but, again, his apparently disinterested hedge funder in new york is not to be confused with the other apparently disinterested hedge funder in new york who s funding the other republican candidate in oregon and they are not to be confused with the amateur sex hypnotherapist guy funding the pac, funding the other republican senate candidate and who is very against driver s licenses and his is the same pac with the guy who called the police accusing the now candidate of stalking and the police report that mysteriously got leaked to the press four days before the primary. just as or gonians should be headed to the polling trying to figure out if they want any of these people to be their statewide elected officials. no republican has won statewide elected office in the state of oregon since 2002 as best as i can tell. but the beltway press keeps reporting on the merkley re-election race in oregon as if republicans, you know, got a real shot of pulling this off in oregon, you know what, take a closer look at what is actually going on in oregon. there are a lot of interesting republican partys in this country and having interesting, interesting, interesting fights among themselves. there are a lost interesting things going on in local and state republican parties but there is not one anywhere in this country more bizarre than what is happening in the great state of oregon right now. i defy you to find me a weirder one. joining us now is jim moore a political scientist in oregon. professor, thank you very much for being here. it s great to be with you. am i being unfair? are there states out there that are weirder than oregon and oregon is more normal than it seems in terms of its republican politics right now. well, let s put it this way, without a tea party faction that s strong at all, we are right up there with everybody else in terms of strange things and it s been going on like this for the best part of 25 or 30 years. well, i can can understand there being fits and starts of not just sort of impotence at state levels but in leads to a power vacuum and end up with some sort of spikes in different parties taking control. how has it been so sustainably weird and how does somebody like art robinson not get turfed out of the party when they realize who he is and end up being in charge? in oregon because we have not had a statewide elected republican since gordon smith our u.s. senator was defeated six years ago by jeff merkley and so in oregon, the chair of the republican party becomes in effect the de facto representative of all republicans. it s like they re the governor in waiting and there s always a fight about what that chair of the republican party ought to be. should it be somebody who is kind of a pure republican whose social conservative wants to cut all tax, all those kinds of things. those people get elected as the chair and then they can t raise money and they can t recruit candidates. ah. so then the party goes the other way and finds a moderate who can raise money and recruit candidates but they re not ideologically pure and the party gets rid of them after a term of being the chair so we re on the more ideologically pure side right now ainge the party is suffering because of that. in terms of the funders of these people funding pacs and have been behind robinson s candidacy on both sides of the senate primary tomorrow, why is it that oregon seeps to attract individual donors from across the country who aren t involved in any other political races or maybe just one here or there, you really picked up some strays here and there. is there something specific about oregon causing that? well, let s start with lauren parks. lauren parks ha been giving money in a big way for over 20 years but the money he gave throughout the 1990s into the 2000s was for ballot measures. oregon is one place where it s easy to get measures on the ballot. you can get big money going for them and you can change state law and he funded a lot of things for instance sentencing guideline kinds of thing, things that had to do with what gay rights ought to be, you know, all sorts of stuff out there. he was successful on a few of them. but not very many of them. but because he wasn t successful, in the past four or five years he switched towards candidates and that s what we re seeing right now. he s going especially for the congressional candidates. he s also as you said, he s going for some of the state legislative candidates, haven t gotten any elected but he said that s how i can change policy going with candidates rather than the ballot measures. the other guy, hedge fund people you were talking about, the winery guy, wow, it s clear that they are looking at oregon as a place where their relatively small for big bucks, you know, this is not california, you can spend a million or two here and make a big difference in a campaign if you were in california or new york or someplace like that you wouldn t even be noticed so oregon is a place where people see an opportunity because they perceive that in this case jeff merkley is weak and so they see an opportunity to get their ideas out there and to get their candidates out there and, so, you know, there we go. oregon republican primaries are becoming a playground for billionaire dilettantes. wow. i m absolutely. i envy you the chance to see it up close every day. jim moore, political professor. thanks for being here. you re welcome. big primary day tomorrow particularly in the great state of georgia. but also a really, really big day tomorrow for the highest technically the highest ranking republican in the whole country. lots of election news and more still to come tonight, stay with us. othbrus s are the same. oral-b pro-health toothbrushes have crisscross bristles that remove up to 90% of hard 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[gasps] there s my steps! i should stop talking. perfectly paired savings. now, that s progressive. if the death penalty weren t so secret, if it was all conducted out in the open where everybody could see it do you think we would have fewer executions this this country or more executions? part of me likes to think we can only be the last western country on earth that still has the death penalty because we don t see it, because it s so shielded from public view. if it wasn t we d join the west rest of the western world and stop doing it. part of me likes to see that but then you see the historical footage this. is what it looked like at the last public execution in the united states. in owens borough, kentucky, august 1936, hundreds or thousands of people turned out. there were hanging parties. the contemptuous press says the bars with full all day with people getting drunk and celebrating. they were not there to watch a man slowly strangle to death when the rope he was hanged from did not break his neck. when he fell from the gallows and just slowly died as he hung there over a period of 16 1/2 minutes. quote, a few persons near the gallows grabbed bits of the hood as souvenirs after the two physicians pronounced him dead. kentucky was the last tate to outlaw public executions. after that massive party in the streets in owensborough 1936 the state decided to do away with them joining the rest of the country in concluding that mass executions in public were no longer acceptable. that standards of decency had evolved past making a huge stadium-style spectacle of the death penalty. since then, executions carried out by the state as opposed to those carry out by lynch mobs state executions were all moved indoors and away from general public view. what you see here, reporters reading out what they saw while witnessing executions, reporters have been allowed in to witness executions in order to tell the public what happens, but general members of the public don t see it anymore. we don t see pictures of it the. we don t see videotape, we don t see anything. we get read out or written out descriptions. would it change anything about how we feel about the death penalty in this country if we did see it? and if so, would it be a step back toward the blood lusting mobs getting drunk and celebrating or the private pornographic enthusiasm of people enjoying a snuff film or would it put trust in the other selection and make the public disapprove of killing prisoners and put pressure on lawmakers to stop doing it? three weeks ago a prisoner in the state of oklahoma survived his execution, at least for awhile when the warden in the corrections director realized they botched the intravenous line with a prisoner neither dead or unconscious and writhing in pain they pulled the blinds to block off the view of the witnesses, they called off the execution. they still won t say if they tried to revive him behind those close blinds after they said they were stopping their efforts to kill him but 43 minutes into it they do say that he died of a heart attack. there was no protocol in oklahoma for what to do if the prisoner survives your attempts to kill him. and if you want to try to stop killing him. no state has that protocol as far as we know. but now the country is poised to do its first execution since what happened in oklahoma. it s scheduled for a minute after midnight tomorrow night and in missouri that man s lawyers is trying to hit a pause button in a motion they argue until the botched execution in oklahoma on april 29th, the possibility of a prisoner surviving an execution seemed perhaps remote. now the possibility of a failed execution is plain. the man s lawyers have further argued that this next execution, the first planned execution since oklahoma, they ve argued that it should be videotaped. they want it videotaped for evidence. they have concerns about the drugs being used the drug excuse me being used which is apparently made at a compounding pharmacy in the state won t disclose the use of it. they have concerns about tumors that the condemned man suffers from which they say may affect the way the drugs work on him in the execution chamber. the state has already twice altered its planned protocol for the execution to account for the man s medical condition. so the first execution after what happened in oklahoma is missouri trying to do it in a way that s it s never been done before with drugs from a seek source. the man s lawyer say they want it videotaped. that doesn t happen in this country but want it dong for this one and say if missouri officials are confident enough to execute russell bucklew they should be confident enough to videotape it. it is time to raise the curtain on lethal injections so says cheryl pilate, a lawyer for him and miss pilot joins us now from missouri. thanks for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time. thank you for inviting me on your show. well, first let me ask you the status of your motions and appeals at this point. is the execution still at this point planned to go forward tomorrow night. the execution is still planned to go forward. we re actually at a difficult point. we got a denial from the federal district court this afternoon on a variety of our constitutional claims under eighth amendment as well as the first and the 14th amendment, and we are now planning to go straight to eighth circuit court of appeals and if deny there had seek review in the united states supreme court. why specifically did you ask for the execution to be videotaped? why would that be valuable obviously if it was at that point it would be where your client was going to be killed. i think we need an accurate record that is not subject to witness bias or misrecollections or failure to perceive or not remembering or any of the other things that may affect a witness ability to report. i think we need an accurate record of what goes on inside the execution chamber and if executions are going to be done in our name as a society i think we as a society have a right to know what goes on in there. there is no more potent expression of any state s power than its ability to extinguish the lie of one of its citizens and i think it s in that act that we most need transparency and accountability. and a good way to begin with that is to tape the execution. do you think there is a reasonable interest in keeping executions from being performed as they once were for public consumption? i m very sympathetic to your argument and look back at the historical record and think about the snuff films that exist of executions an the world and see the way they re treated. i just wonder, are you risking that if mr. bucklew s death was taped and then that was made public or leaked. well, obviously a court could control the the circulation of the tape and say who may have it or who may not if it s done for a particular case. but we re not talking about hanging, you know, in the public square or anything like that. we re talking about a very extreme act committed in our name often on people who have either mental defects or in my client s case physical problems and i just think the public has a need and, frankly, a right to see what is being done in their name. my client has a severe and lifelong condition that causes the entire right side of his head and his neck and throat to be filled with unstable vascular tumors and the truth is that the state can t say for certain what is going to happen if he s executed tomorrow. those tumors are very unstable in his throat. they are friable. it means they rupture easily. they bleed if they re touched. cheryl pilate attorney for russell bucklew. i imagine the next 24 hours will inintense. thanks for taking time to help us understand what you re doing. thank you. thank you. lots ahead. stay with us tonight. ? 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the white house website and you go up to the dropdown menu at the top of it where it says briefing room, one of the things i do when i m starting my news reading for the day is i go to statements and releases on the white house web page, and it is usually really boring. but that is only because it is also really thorough. so like today there s a release on the president awarding the medal of honor, description of the delegation that will be sent to the inauguration of the president of el salvador. there s a letter of congress to the president about the stabilization of iraq. a just the facts transcript of a briefing of a senior official on the purpose of the vice president and dr. jill biden s trip to romania and cyprus. it s everything. statements and releases is everything that happens at the white house every day. and some of it is momentous stuff. like 348d of honor is a momentous thing. but a lot of it is just the workaday minutia of running the giant federal government. anywhere from 3 to 20 statements and releases put out on any given workday at the white house. you can always find them right there. and this statement that the white house released on may 1st, this is the prototypical boring announcement that s not going to make any news. it s a long list of 13 people, none of whom you ve ever heard of, whom the president intends to nominate to these key administration posts that you mostly have not heard of either. and this is just very easily skipped. it is just as boring as it looks. but that super-dry announcement ended up being really, really important to a really big story in the news right now. late last week you might have seen some big headlines that popped about the ongoing troubles and recriminations at the veterans administration. that big news followed the senate hearing on thursday, where va secretary eric shinseki got grilled over va health centers not only having long wait times to get doctor s appointments but those va health centers also being found to have workarounds and tricks and second sets of books to make it look like those long wait times didn t exist. and we ve been reporting repeatedly on this show that this type of problem has happened with va health care before. as va has been trying to reduce its wait times, they have created all these incentives to make their employees make the wait times not look as bad as they are. and those incentives have created systems by which employees make it look not so bad, but it s still really bad. this has happened before. this recent round of criticism. the newest revelations that this type of thing is happening even now. they started last month in phoenix before they ended up spreading all across the country. and at that initial site in phoenix the inspector general s office asked va secretary eric shinseki to please suspend the director of the whole va medical center in phoenix while the inspector general investigation went forward. that happened on may 1st. shinseki suspended that director. and at shinseki hearing on thursday the big dramatic moment in the whole thing was when senators sat there in the hearing room and told the secretary that four days after he suspended that health chief one of his own top executives at his own agency, in fact the guy sitting right next to him during his testimony, had publicly criticized and undermined the va secretary s decision to suspend that facility chief in phoenix. on may 1 you publicly stated that you had removed miss hellman as the medical director. on may 5th dr. petzel conducted a conference call with all visiting directors, all medical directors and the chief of staffs, a rather large group. i have been told by source that s were on that call that during that call dr. petzel made the statement that the removal of miss hellman was, i quote, political and that she s done nothing wrong. i was not aware of the phone call you referred to. and i ll look into it. i ll look into whether i suspended someone and then four days later this guy sitting right next to me who supposedly works for me got on a giant conference call and told everyone that my decision to suspend that person was purely political and was all bull pucky. yeah, i ll look into whether that happened. on thursday secretary shinseki said i ll look into it. on friday that guy got fired. at least that s what it looked like from all the headlines the story made when the story popped. but check this out. go back to that super boring list of the president s intention to nominate people you ve never heard of to key administration posts you ve never heard of. one of those job titles for which they announced they had found somebody new? it s that guy s job title. not even three weeks ago the white house announced who the new guy is who s getting that guy s job. and look, back in september the va had already announced publicly that that guy was retiring. grateful to dr. petzel for his distinguished service, blah, blah, blah. so they announced his retirement in september. the white house announced his replacement 2 1/2 weeks ago. and now it s big news that the guy is resigning? he may be resigning, but he was gone already. if this was the big accountability moment to make it look like they were canning somebody in charge because that s what everybody was clamoring for, this was not that moment. fixing what is wrong with wait times and record keeping at the va, which is the biggest health care system in the country, that problem is not going to be fixed at a senate hearing, and it is not going to be fixed by expressions of outrage. i continue to think that it is not going to be fixed by firing any one person at headquarters, although there are definitely those who disagree with me on that. but presumably everyone can agree that the resignation of someone who has already resigned will do nothing to fix this problem and nothing to make it even look like the problem is being fixed or taken seriously. all that sort of thing does is make everybody involved in this look ridiculous in addition to already looking like failures for their inability to address this problem which is not new, which has been around for a very long time, and that the whistle has been blown on countless times before. that does it for us tonight. good tuesday morning right now on first look. primary tuesday. key races across the country will set the tone for the midterms. martial law. thailand s military tries to restore peace and stability. cyberespionage. china fires back at the u.s. over charges that members of the chinese military are stealing corporate secrets. plus what s going on, people? oh, my. how cool is that. obama goes literally. also, a cop is lucky to be alive after this brush with death. and a big night for maya rudolph. hello, thanks for joining us. i m betty nguyen. the
inviting us. fair, balanced and unafraid. greta goes on the record right now. right now an american marine who served two tours in afghanistan is in a mexican prison. frightened and terrified. and only on the record is taking you there. we re investigating, retracing sergeant andrew s roots taking you along the identical roads he traveled the night he was arrested at the border. we are now live at the u.s. mexican border. and we are just back from two days at the mexican prison where we were ready to interview the marine andrew. he wanted to talk with us. his mother and his lawyer wanted to talk to us. even prison officials said we could interview the sergeant in the prison. but after we waited outside the prison for two full days, other prison officials decided to keep us out. refusing to let us interview him. we are with the marine s mother and she got into the prison for a family visit to see her son face to face. more on our investigation. our interview with the marine s mother jill tam resty. jill, you went inside today? i did. i did, greta. is this the first time you have been to this prison. this is the first time. andrew was in la mesa the first time i seen him april 14th. you have seen him since april 14th? no, i haven t. but you get phone calls from him. yes, i do. tell me what happened. take me step-by-step. you went inside the prison security check? many security checks. first time experience. i was strip searched. it was a female officer in a private booth, but i had to completely strip down. i take it the woman was polite to you during the strip search. yes. it was humiliating experience. i wasn t prepared for that but i was willing to do that in order that i could see my son. so it s not ever about me. it s about trying to gain his freedom back. so once i went through all of that, then there was an english-speaking military guard or prison guard who escorted me through. and so then andrew was in this big open, like a gymnasium, i would call it, but not with gym equipment. so i saw andrew. saw him from how far away? so it was a huge like gymnasium. so he was in the back. alone or were there others? no. all by himself with about six or seven guards that i could count. he had six or seven guards? yes. so in his proximity were six or seven guards. all the attention on your son? yes, yes, yes, yes. no one else was there? no one else. a wig open gym. and so then they told him he could approach me. and he didn t have any shackles on but, you know, like a mother does, started looking at him from head to tow. i noticed he had red marks on his wrist. and i thought is that from the shackles? he was shackles in 35 days from la mesa. he said, no, no, no. they just took these off. wherever he was in his private cell they had to shackle him to get him to the open gym to see me. he wasn t shackled when i saw him. what was the first thing you said to him? so we hugged, we hugged. he said thanks so much for coming out. how does he pass the day? he told me today he sleeps a lot. i mean, it s hard to maintain your positivity and your will, so he is sleeping a lot. but he says he tries to exercise and the portions are very very scant. so he is hungry most of the time. he had hoped that i would bring him food. and we did try it bring him food but they wouldn t let us bring any food into the prison. i had the food in my bag but they wouldn t let us bring it in. what were you trying to bring in? i was trying to bring in apples, fresh fruit, sandwiches, protein turkey to build him up, but i wasn t able to do that i was able to get him some more he only had one pair of pants. there is a bucket in his cell where he is he expected to wash his one pair of pants. so thank god i was able to bring him another pair of pants. so he have a pair of pants to change into while he tries to lawnder his other one. and i was able to bring him two books. what did he say about the way he is kept? he is in a single cell? much improved from la mesa where he felt he was going to be executed by the general populace and his life threatened. now, at least, he is in a private section where i didn t see it but he tells me there are 10 cells but they are all empty. he is the only one housed in this section. there is always a guard there. outside his cell? he is just sitting outside his cell looking at him. yes, yes. one of the things always of concern when i used to practice law solitary confinement is a horrible punitive measure. does he very a sense does he very that sort of frustration of being held alone or some what are the conditions? he hassen appreciation for the solitude right now because his life was threatened in la mesa by prisoners. and so he just knees to stay alive so that he can eventually have freedom. so i think he feels secure with not being around general populace. he is not a criminal. he made a mistake. made a wrong turn. he said at the border i have got guns. i don t want to be here. i want to go home. he doesn t want to be with criminals. he is not a criminal. he does have access in that area to a phone call. so i m always just so relieved when at least i am able to talk to him almost on a daily basis he calls collect. and then i talk to him about everything that s being done to build his hope up so that he doesn t feel abandoned and hopeless. he wants to tell the american public, you know, what he is going through and how he is fighting for his freedom and please don t forget about him because he has he feels abandoned. other than the legislators that are writing letters and there are plenty of legislators writing letters on his behalf. his attorney has not give him any promise of any immediate or even short-term relief. so as you got up to leave what did you say to your son? we always pray and we always put everything back that god s hands to continue to protect andrew and to protect the officers and the jail that are protecting andrew. and just pray that, you know, we ll get that miraculous relief soon back to freedom. of course, all of america is supporting him. i tell him about the whitehouse.gov petition because that s the only hope i have that the white house will acknowledge that andrew is in prison because that is a mechanisms if i get this 100 signatures. it requires the white house to respond. even if it s just we know andrew is in prison. to be able to tell him that his commander and chief. is he still a marine. he is an inactive reservist until 2016. grsh his commander and chief is president obama. i haven t heard from president obama. if you could sign that white house dotted gov petition. i will get a response from the white house about andrew s freedom. as i listen to you talk, i think what if he didn t have a mother? what if he didn t have a mother determined to come here and pound pavement. you wonder what would happen to most americans. i can t even imagine. i could only think they would literally be buried in this system. it s a foreign country. it s a foreign prison. it s a foreign legal system we still don t understand our rights and legal representation. what is still being asked of him by his legal representative we don t agree with not what we would do in america. is he so frightened because i chose a mexican lawyer that i thought would be best for him one that there wasn t a language barrier. there is so much difference. what s the story with the different statements that he has made are there some inconsistencies? yes. what happened? he was directed on what to say. not the part about getting lost and making a wrong turn. he was directed what to say. what do you mean? he got lost, made a wrong turn and ended up in mexico. telling everybody that he had three guns that s in his statement. but what the attorney directed him to say was andrew, you don t know this system here. have you got to trust me. we have got to make this simple and short. you re going to say you just got here as if it sounded like you got here yesterday and. he court reporter that he had been to mexico for the first time. that he has never been to mexico. did he correct that at some point. he has asked the lawyer to meet correct it because, when i got the phone call, greta, i got the phone call after he disclosed that false statement and he said mom, what lawyer did you get for me because he just made me lie? i said what do you mean he made you lie? he told me i had to say that i had just gotten here and i have never been to mexico and that s what i have to say and i said well i m going to call him right now. did i call him up and i said what do you mean you told my son to lie? it s the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you god. my son has nothing that would incriminate him what dlt you are lawyer say when you said that. this is america. we don t practice common law. we practice civil law. what did that have to do with the false statement. everything is going to be about oral arguments. and the prosecutors aren t going to trace back any records because i he said to i said to the attorney on the phone, and i emailed him and i said, it s a lie. i said i m pulling up his bank account right now. i can see can i see one time that he was in tijuana. i said certainly the prosecutors are going to get that. all right. one of the suspicions quite naturally would be whether or not he was trying to sell the guns in mexico or whether or not he was running drugs or something. do you know his financial situation? absolutely. when he got out of marine corps in november of 2012, active duty. he had more money than i did. he had $100,000 between a savings and his checking account. but andrew would not sell his weapons for any price because that was his self-defense that s like a carpenter that carries a hammer. and a plumber that carries a rotor rooter. a marine owho served four years, four years in the combat duty in the helmand province as a 50 caliber gunner, biggest gun on the battlefield. he carried his gun for a purpose. and that s because it was self-defense. it was u.s. legal purchased. second amendment right to carry firearms. he needed those firearms for his own sense of security. he never, not for any price would he have sold those guns he does not have the profiler of someone who needs to sell their weapons. there is natural love and sons will believe we ll always believe the best is there any suspicion at all that he is involved in any sort of drug running or i mean, just like step out a little bit. is there anything he could have been doing he? hasn t been arrested for any drug charges but this is a drug, you know, corridor. absolutely clean whistle. except for the fact that i started noticing him drinking vodka he wasn t reliant on that substance on alcohol. was he ever arrested before? never. never? no conviction? never n. never, never, never. never. never. meritoriously promoted on the battlefield just two years ago. in afghanistan? in afghanistan. and that is a very rare accomplishment. when he was in afghanistan and developed ptsd his car hit an ied? i believe one of many. one of many very violent situations was that the the m rap that got blown up in the ied. he was the driver and got the most impact. they all walked away. it was the driver s side this was the worse. they all walked away. he also has a huge scar on the back of his head where he fell off of an m rat actually hit his head going back next to one. hit his head on the way down on another mrat and out cold. so my husband always said angie, you need a brain scan. we think you have traumatic brain injury. maybe that explains why you are agitated and anxious. you think you are under some kind of surveillance. zu this hyper vigilance for self-defense. you are starting to drink. let s go get a brain scan. he was finally getting help march 12th at the v.a. had he ever sort of waived since the time he came back from afghanistan, did he ever use his guns in a threatening way? once in may, i want to say it was may 2013, there were no charges. in the family home, he always carried his concealed weapon it was always in the back of his pants or in his pocket. my daughter s boyfriend at the time. they got into an altercation. i don t know what it was about. but there was very he felt very threatened. he actually pulled his 45, but it wasn t loaded for self-defense. he literally felt like he was gonna i know this gentleman had a knife. i don t know if it was in view or not. so anyway, yes, he did pull in his home his 45. and so, of course, the police came. i have that documented record cchings called incident record because there were no charges. when he felt his life was threatened that may 2013, he did pull out his 45 but the incident documents it wasn t loaded. and we re going to take you back to mexico. we re going to travel the identical route the marine took. you will see firsthand how he ended ups croing the border and you will only see it right heres on the record continues live from the u.s. mexican border next. ameriprise asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? 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(elder couple laugh) okinawa life! this is a foreign country. it s a foreign prison. it s a foreign legal system. we still don t understand our rights we don t understand our legal representation. we are going on seven weeks. there is yet to be a hearing before the judge of any kind of evidence. so we are seven weeks and nowhere. ast marine s water in prison. we have just returned from the prison where sergeant andrew is being held the mexican legal system is very different for our own and that spells trouble for this jailed u.s. marine. nice to see you kimberly. thanks. nice to be here, greta. okay. kimberly, give me the lay out of the field. how is our system or the mexico cab system different from our own? oh, goodness, greta. our system is so different than the mexican system. for starters, the mexican system relies on the crux position that you are guilty until proven innocent. so it s the complete opposite of our system. and then everything else goes from there. there is no bond based on personal recognizance in their system. there is no jury system. there is no speedy trial act. there is no right to take the stand or to cross-examine witnesses. so, there are so many differences. also, in this system, the judge really has complete control. so he is making the final decision of guilt or innocence. but he also acts as a fact finder in the system, which is very interesting, again compared to our system where the judge is supposed to be completely neutral and we allow the prosecutor and the defense attorney to argue the facts and then present that to the judge. in the mexican system, the judge actually will order and investigate facts and then go on and make the final decision. well, you know what i thought was peculiar in talking to andrew s lawyer today is that it also is done in such piecemeal. andrew was arrested march 31st and then the following, about six or seven hours later he was brought to the prosecutor, not a-to-a judge and he had to give a statement to a prosecutor. he had appointed lawyer there. and then several weeks later he meets with the judge. and he gives another statement. and then several weeks later after that he meets and gives another statement. this feels like it could have gone on endlessly. it s not all one time so you can compare the evidence or at least look at what you have. that is very standard in their system. it is very piecemeal because you have the judge who really is the sole investigator and decision maker. the problem is, in their system, again, no speedy trial act. and if for any crime that you re looking at where the maximum punishment is beyond two years, a judge has a year to make a decision and typically that takes a year, two years, three years. and so you have a person accused person that is presumed guilty who is sitting in jail waiting on this judge to make a decision who has really no realtime limits to do that within. it s a real problem. kimberly, thank you. thank you, greta. and secretary of state john kerry is heading to mexico city on wednesday. is he going for talks on trade education security. but should secretary of state john kerry bring up the detention it of our u.s. marine? lt. colonel oliver north joins us from washington. good evening, sir. your thoughts about this marine in this prison in mexico? well, greta, sergeant may be the only person the obama administration has ever kept from entering the united states from mexico. if the state department is telling the truth, and secretary kerry is heading to mexico on wednesday, he has already screwed up our foreign policy in iran, egypt, syria, israel, and ukraine. this is his chance to get it right. here s your instructions, john. bring the boy home. mexican bureaucracy, greta, as you know may well be more incompetent than our own department of veterans affairs. at least the sergeant is still alive. it s time time now for a high level intervention. you know, ollie, we spent the last two days, we were promised the last three days to go in that prison and interview them. everybody promised. they pulled every red tape to keep fox news out of that prison today. we sent the mother in for a social visit. here is the interesting thing is ollie. i think ill would have made the exact same turn as this sergeant did when he left that parking lot because san diego was to the left so you want to turn to the left to go there. how do you know it would loop down into mexico with no exits. now you end up in mexico. the sergeant says that he lawfully possesses those weapons in the united states. that s bhea says. now, you can t possess them the problem is in mexico. so he gets arrested after he tells the mexican border i have got these guns. he wasn t smuggling. they didn t charge him with smuggling. well, in fact, i think they probably know better. and that s why this really is time for a high level intervention. apparently from what his mom just said to you, he is suffering from the effects of traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress from combat. it s time for this administration to plead some humanitarian relief, get this young man back home and into some kind of treatment. i know that congressman duncan hunter has written several letters. can i only add this. who does he think he is? a congressman? this is the state department that ignores congressional subpoenas about four dead americans, one of whom is an ambassador, another one is a foreign services officer. so why would they bother to answer a letter from congressman about incarcerated marine sergeant. it s stunning the way this administration works. i will tell you the that congressman hunter has been helping us so has senator lindsey graham. they have been trying to help us the last few days in getting in there the other sort of thing about this is that on march 14th, this marine, who has ptsd, was he actually went to a v.a. facility here in california because he was looking for helps, because he does have problems from his experience in afghanistan. and only two weeks later when this happened. and now a very troubled marine is sitting in a very ugly situation, a prison in mexico and this could go on forever. it s a wonderful opportunity for john kerry for once in his life to do the right thing. i would also like to know, gte, just between you and me, was this trip to mexico by the secretary of state arranged before or after the secretary was subpoenaed for the house government reform committee? also an interesting thing to know. i have no clue on that. that s above my pay grade. i will tell you though ollie, the way the mexican judicial system operates and the facts of this case this is a huge terrible injustice. we need some prosecutor just to take a look at the facts right now. and we can show them our own videos. and we can show them the records on the guns because, you know and the 911 call after this happened. all of that indicates that this young guy made the wrong turn. indeed. colonel north, always nice to see you, thank you, sir. thank you, greta. our live coverage continues. could the marine s 911 call that lt. oliver north just mentioned be the key to the sergeant s freedom. i m at the border of mexico right now. my problem is i crossed the border by accident and i have three guns in my truck and they are trying to possess they are trying to take my guns from me. up next, sergeant s mother tells us exactly what prompted her son s desperate 911 call for help. plus, e brother, get ready for one. federal workers spending money donating to the poor on first class air fare and massages. that s coming up. mine was earned in korea in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. 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that s right. parks his car on the u.s. side. goes into tijuana for a time. when he goes out, he goes back in his car, guns in the trunk, leaves the parking lot. when he leaves the parking lot he makes the wrong turn instead of going towards san diego, he made a left turn in which curiously if you go left you would think you would go north as it turns out go left end up looping around into no exexit lane in mexico. that last left mistake auto feet from the parking lot. that s the sign that has graffiti on it as well there is a sign there but at 11:30 at night, i m not sure that i would be able to see it. as he enters mexico, he gets stopped at the mexican check point? yes, yes, yes. does he volunteer to them i have three guns in the trunk? i don t want to be here. this is a mistake. it s an accident. i don t mean to be here. will you let me turn around? i don t want to go back to the border. and i have three guns. i have three guns. i want to go back to the border. absolutely declared it open and honestly. at what point does he make 911 call while he is still at the check point? he told me was hopeful at that one point in time before the 911 call because it was only the customs agent. and it seems like the customs agents were being quite accommodating like okay. and he actually thought that they were flagging kind of an escort car that would help a lost motorist in that situation. get turned around because it would be illegal to turn around, you would be going opposite but he thought that he was getting help. an escort to get back to the border. but then within minutes he realized that there was a whole lot of conversation going on and now another group of not customs agents but military have come. he said 20 with guns. and that s when he dialed 911 because now he is affronted by military with guns. he knows he has got guns. he has already told the customs agents that he has got guns and he wants to get back to motorcycle. so he dials 911 to say i ve got an emergency here. and we all know now what he said on the 911, but it s clearly i accidently entered mexico. but at one point is he almost hopeful that he is not yet in mexico. is he hoping that he is still on american soil. who actually open the trunk? you no, you have to picture a ford f-150. it s not a trunk, it s a truck. so you have got the big, you know, bench seat and he has got the whole bench seat in the back. it fits six. so in his backseat is piles of hefty bags of clothes that he literally packed. he packed in hefty bags and a few suitcases that he does own when he left at christmas time to head to the family cabin in tennessee. so, and all that stuff has always been in his truck. where are the guns at this point? in a suitcase. in the suitcase in the far back. well, there is only one backseat. is there an area behind that backseat. oh, no, no, no. only one backseat. in the backseat in a suitcase. on top of hefty bags full of clothes. the 45 is where i would have thought it would be because it s always in the pocket of his car. loaded? i don t know. all i know are the three guns. and is there any suggestion, as far as you know, that he was in any way reaching for a threatening or doing anything with those guns? no. he that he notified the mexican attention on the fact that u.s. marine in this prison? yes. but sort of the side story of this, is that, you know, there is so much attention now on what we are doing for our vets, when they return. right. and i guess what, you know, caught my attention to the fact that here is a young man who has returned. he has had several incidents in afghanistan. ied blowing up his military vehicle or the front of it. obviously having trouble. and then going to a v.a. hospital to try to help trouble and then two weeks later we have this situation. it s tragic. it s tragic. this situation clearly was a mistake. an accidental turn. i mean an innocent wrong turn. but, we re from florida. that s not a border state. we don t have that sensitivity about the hazards of being so close to a border to be quite frank. and in florida we don t always hear a lot of news about mexico. so if you think about a floridian who is really just relatively new to san diego you don t understand the hazards of being so close to a foreign country where the guns aren t allowed and legal system is so different it was an innocent mistake. i actually the bigger issue because i have driven. this i have actually now driven where your son was, that left turn, i m not so sure i wouldn t have made that same left turn because those signs, especially at night when it s dark, i might not have noticed those two signs it made more sense to turn left to go north to san diego. i would have thought that was the direction towards san diego not knowing it would loop around to a street that you were then forced into mexico. yes, yes. i would not think thats watt direction of mexico. right. anyway, that s just me. thank you, greta. up next. other news stories grabbing our attention tonight. back in the u.s., did california just win something very big? 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i spoke to the head of the american association of equine practitioners. it s not performance enhancing substance or device or anything. it on mizes breathing. california chrome was the only horse as i understand it in the kentucky derby in preakness to wear the strip. but the horse the jockeys, the horses have every right to we re them. they could have chosen to wear them too. and maybe now in the belmont some of the other horses will wear them seeing that california chrome has had such success with them. all right. we only have 15 seconds left. longer race at the bell memorial hospital is california chrome expected to win? always expected to win. everybody gets their hopes up. 13th horse that we have seen. but we have had so much heart break in the triple crown since 1978. horses getting hurt. horses losing at the last second. we can only hope. if i m putting money down. i will take the safe bet and go with california chrome. sean, thank you. no problem. more live coverage from the u.s. mexican border as the marine and mother fight for freedom next. don t forget to watch hannity tonight. senator john mccain join sean to talk about the v.a. scandal that s tonight at 10:00 on hannity. capitato make it happen? 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in private. thanks to everyone who responded. we appreciate, as always. we will see you tomorrow. we will. fox & friends starts right now. bye. good morning. it s tuesday, may 20. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. happening now, he played a cop on the hit show the shield, but this morning he is the one in cuffs. the show s star arrested after his wife was found shot dead. this developing story and details straight ahead. veterans across the country left to die while waiting for care they were promised but how did the president of the united states, commander in chief, find out about the scandal? i believe that we learned about this through the reports. i will double check if that s not the case. but that s when we learned about them. oh, he saw it on tv? if it wasn t for the press, what would he know is going on in his own administration? maybe nothing. good thing he gets cable or does he have the dish network? he walked on stage to speak, then revealed his disability. as a person who stutters, i could be no more certain that in this room and in this hall are thousands of people who are far more talented at public speaking than i am. it is the commencement speech that has everybody talking. and he will join us live. by the way, i ve talked to everyone i know. mornings are better with these friends. aww! this is christie yamaguchi. you re watching fox & friends, the best show on ice. you were skating on thin ice yesterday. we didn t know where you were. you have been gone for a good reason. yeah. my mom turned 80. should i have said that? not really. she had a big birthday. we had a huge party sunday and thought i woulding useless on monday if i showed up at 4 in the morning. we had the grandkids host her reflective tape. my mom s graduating to 80 so we did a little tape. we did it when they were 9, 8, 7 and 6. what do we do 80? they hosted and did interviews. where did they get that from? i have no idea. we know she s watching right now. happy birthday. happy birthday. probably not at 6. maybe at 7. let s talk about what s going on today. later on today the house of representatives is going to vote on the v.a. management accountability act. it s going to let the secretary of the v.a. fire the bureaucrats responsible for the scandal. unlike a lot of legislation on capitol hill, this is actually bipartisan. there are 118 cosponsors, 5 of them are democrats. let s face it, people are hearing about this scandal for the first time in the last couple of weeks. a lot of people have known there s red tape at the v.a., long waits. we had no idea people were dying. apparently the president either. he s been finding out through watching the news, as the white house has indicated. never leave a man behind. you hear that expression often in the military. it should also be something that the president should know quite well-being the commander in chief. when you look at this map, 19 states right now that are being looked at, at least this is just the beginning here in terms of mismanagement when it comes to the v.a. and wait times for our veterans when they come home just to get the care that they deserve. as these stories broke, more whistle-blowers are coming forward. one of the biggest yesterday you guys had on the show, peter johnson jr. contacted, you have 19 states, at least 7 cities and more to come. the question is where is the president on this since it broke? and think about what he said since 2008. and how odd is it that the president again, his spokesperson, jay carney, was asked how the president found out about it. he found out it in a similar way he found out about fast and furious, the i.r.s. through the news. listen. when you say there are problems, the fact that there have been bureaucracy. give me specific allegations that i think were reported first by your network out of phoenix, i believe. we learned about them through the reports. i will double check if that is not the case. that is when we learned about it and that is when, as i understand, secretary shinseki learned about them. for jay carney to say we learned about it, maybe he found out about it, jay carney did. but that is a lie about the obama and biden transition team. remember back in 2008, yesterday cbs produced a memo that showed that they were briefed by the bush team, look, all sorts of problems; there are problems associated with scheduling, wait times and waiting lists. essentially the bush people said at the v.a. there are problems. they ve got these fake waiting lists. the obama-biden team knew about it in 2008. for jay carney yesterday to say we heard about it on the news, that is a flatout lie, but that is a pattern. how many times have we heard the president say stuff like that? the fast and furious program when in fact everyone knows the president did not know about this tactic until he heard about it on, through the media. let me take the i.r.s. situation first. i first learned about it from the same news reports that i think most people learned about this. i think it was on friday. as i said yesterday in my statement, other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the justice department to seek phone records of the associated press. do you know when he first knew that there was a problem? well, i think;!,b!,b!,b!,b1e clear fairly early on, the first couple of days. but not before that, though? not before october? so the president of the united states, the commander in chief, is same way my uncle bruce does? this is not acceptable. it s absolutely not acceptable. and you certainly can t do you not care? do you not want to care and know? do you know that you re the president of the united states? charles krauthammer asking this. the administration cannot hide the president reported to be madder than hell which i suppose is an improvement over secretary shinseki who apparently was only mad as hell, he is now even madder than hell. he acts as if and this is the same with the i.r.s., with all these other scandals, with the obamacare launch as if he stumbled upon the presidency and discovered all this horrible stuff is happening. he s in charge of these departments. at some point you ve got to ask where has he been and where is he competence, the elementary competence he promised when he ran in 2008? here s the big difference. i remember the next day after the i.r.s. scandal broke in those press reports, at least the president spoke. after fast and furious broke, he spoke the next day. now the spokesperson is trying to spin his way out of this saying he s so mad, going to get to the bottom of it. i don t understand why the president is delaying. it doesn t make sense. cbs noted a major allegation as fraud was confirmed. just last year, yet nothing was done. did you not know? did you know and do nothing? that seems to be the case as far as looking at these 19-plus states. you look at what cbs reported last night that the transition team, the obama-biden team knew back in 2008 that there was a problem with these waiting lists. they knew back then. so what s the president going to say? yeah, i knew about it. i just didn t do anything about it. meanwhile, while you ve got this brewing, on the other side of the house what they re trying to do is get these, the house select committee on benghazi going. and it sounded like yesterday nancy pelosi might actually announce whether or not they re going to take part. meanwhile on-line and also with a couple of leftie groups, they re trying to get one particular democrat to be essentially the whole squadron. they ve got one attack dog they re interested in, and it s this guy. the republican health care plan is this: die quickly. that s right. the republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. they say that he was really strong on iraq and accountability. he was also strong, they say, with the bank finance system, that he doesn t use his time just to blow v.a., that he comes directly at it. if he feels there is something there he can kick out of the park, let s hear it. let s have a legitimate hearing. if he s going to be direct and not pontificate, put him out there. they have the ability to make it a legitimate investigation by sending more than one democrat on to this investigation committee. you have trey gowdy who said this should transcend politics. this should not be political. our people died. we want to get to the bottom and understand why. for the very least, for their families to understand why and get to the truth. you have him to be a spoke in the wheel. and to disarm and completely dismantle any republican argument, this isn t about republican or democrat. this is to find out the truth and find out why americans died in benghazi. a spoke in the wheel or like putting a playing card in there, making noise. according to moveon.org, they would like to see it turned into a kangaroo court at the washington post, greg sergeant, who is a lefty guy, he writes if republicans are doing a full-on freak show, why not send a proven master of playing by the freak show s rule. what they re going to do, rather than send a prosecutor or something great as an investigator or interrogator, they re going to show that guy the door. you be our representative and try to blow things up. that wasn t dick sergeant, which for my money, was the better one on bewitched which of the darrins was he? the second darrin. he had the smaller face. hey, heather childers. speaking of television shows, have you ever seen the shield ? breaking overnice, michael jace who stars in the hit show detained by police in los angeles suspected of shooting and killing his wife. according to tmz jace called the police himself. he admitted to pulling the trigger with his kids inside the house. detectives are questioning the actor right now. he still has not been placed under arrest. happening today, it is the primary s version of super tuesday. six states holding elections. the spotlight on a couple of key race force you. in georgia, businessman david purdue, cousin of the former governor, in a tight race to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss. if no one gets the majority it will take a run-off to decide who will face democrats, michelle nunn, in the fall. in kentucky, incumbent republican leader mitch mcconnell leads the polls against matt bevin, he was caught giving a speech at a cock fighting rally. in pennsylvania, idaho, and oregon, also hosting primaries today. tensions mounting between the u.s. and china over unprecedented cyber spying. charges that china summoning the u.s. ambassador to complain about it. five chinese military officials working from shanghai, they are accused of stealing information like product designs and confidential legal strategies to give chinese companies the advantage, kofgs costing jobs in the u.s. the victim s, six pittsburgh-based companies. finally, it is a race to the top at the naval academy in annapolis, maryland. the class of 2017 taking part in a 50-year-old tradition known as herdon monument climb. students build a human pyramid tall enough to reach a dixie cup at the top and replace it with an official navy cup. it symbolizes students moving up from first year students to fourth class midshipmen. looks like they made it. back to you. they always make it. it takes a little while but they make it. coming up, did you see this? 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i did to the point that you can. and so why did you choose graduation in front of 17,000 people as the time to announce it? because i pursued this opportunity because of the e-mails that i have received since that day. these are e-mails from moms and dads who have children that have a vast array of challenges, and they have told me that for the seven and a half minutes that they watched me talk, their children were in tears because they for that time did not doubt themselves. they dared themselves. surely. the amount of courage it took you is unbelievable. well, i cannot thank you enough for saying that. but in the end this is not about me or anything that i ve done. this is about people and what i believe that they can become. excellent. for the people who were not in attendance, parker, what was your message? it s a very easy thing. it is encapsulated by three very simple words. it is possible. whatever it is, whatever challenge you have. i issued a challenge of my own, which is not to doubt yourself but to dare yourself. all right. wise words. well, congratulations on graduating. what do you want to do now that you ve got some free time ahead of you? i could tell you that my end goal is to help out the people of this great country in whatever capacity i possibly can. i don t know if that s going to be through politics or law. but what i can say is that i will not while my speech disorder certainly keeps me from saying some words perfectly, it will not keep me from pursuing my goal. well, your goals are clear. and it was clear that you were inspiring to so many people at your graduation. hats off to you, parker mantell. we wish you the best whatever you do. thank you so much, sir. very well done. if you haven t seen it, go on-line. he is absolutely terrific. still ahead, a home knocked down in seconds after mother nature unleashes her fury. just look at that. listen to this. ten thousand babies under the age of three are being given adhd drugs. and your doctor, it might be his or her idea. what you need to know as we roll on live from new york city. ything else that costs money. like shoes, textiles, foreign investments, ything else that costs money. spatulas, bounty hunters, javelins. just take a closer look. it works how you want to work. with a fidelity investment professional. or managing your investments on your own. helping you find new ways to plan for retirement. and save on taxes where you can. so you can invest in the life that you want today. tap into the full power of your fidelity greenline. call or come in today for a free one-on-one review. i ve got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. top three tools hammer, screwdriver, front loader. happiness is a drive-over mower deck. a john deere dealer can teach tractors to anybody. 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[ male announcer ] that s how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. visit your dealer or johndeere.com/1family. quick headlines now. news around the globe. more than 90 people have been arrested for their connection to creep wear. that s a software that lets hackers overtake victims computers activated in their web cams. it has affected half a million people including miss teen u.s.a. she shared her story on the show. caught on camera, the moment a three-story home just collapses. it happened during a landslide in bosnia. the area hit by the worst floods in more than a century. no one was inside at the time or else we would not have shown that. here s elisabeth. a shocking new study, more than 10,000 toddlers are be prescribed drugs for adhd and a.d.d. despite pediatric guidelines stating children who are younger than four years old should not be taking the medication. who is to blame here? your child s pediatrician? dr. ned joins us this morning. this is alarming. more than 10,000 toddlers, they are still in diapers and they are being prescribed medicine like what? aderrol? sure. people are looking for a solution to an age old problem, rambunctious toddlers. the solution is not to give them medication. the solution is to play with them, be with them, not give them a pill in the hopes of quieting them down. we look at the centers for disease control here, georgia, 1 in 225 toddlers being medicated for adhd. that is 760 cases alone. this is more than alarming. what sort of side effects or long-term effects does this have on a little baby? we don t know, which is worrisome. you don t want to give them medication when you don t know exactly what it s going to do. we do know there are much better solutions than giving them medication, the effects of which you re not really sure of. this is a controlled substance. it is not a trivial intervention. the intervention that parents should be using and pediatricians should be encouraging is human connection. put away the electronics, be with your child. yes, it s labor intensive. taking care of a toddler you ve done it, i ve done it. it s labor intensive. it is in no way a call for medication. let s talk about responsibility on the part of pediatricians who are prescribing this. are they qualified to prescribe adhd medicines like aderol and ritalin to a two-year-old and three-year-old? if they were well trained they would not prescribe. they are giving in to the demands of their patients. why? pressure. they want their patients to be happy. it s really bad. it shouldn t be happening. any more than blindly prescribing antibiotics should happen. you re saying the pediatricians attention in some of these cases may be making the parents feel better and not the health of the child? absolutely. it is giving in to the pressure of the moment. it shouldn t happen. the pediatrician should take the time to say listen, it s hard being the parent of a toddler. this is what you can do, and walk them through the steps. instead they do the quick thing which is to write a prescription. if there is a parent out there who maybe has a desperate moment and have gone to their doctor right now, are watching this program and saying my child is on this medication, what do i do? what is their next step? get them off the medication. how? right away? you can abruptly stop these meds. there is no danger to that. do not give them another aderol, do not give them another ritalin and find a doctor who can help you learn how to be a parent to a toddler. it is not easy. it is labor intensive but it does not include medication as part of the treatment regiment. thank you for being with us this morning. listen to this before you grill this memorial day weekend. this is happening here. beef making people across the country sick. the recall that you need to know about before you take out the grill. one school charging for high school.cuñ graduations. a seat even going for 200 bucks. first happy birthday to the scandal actor tony goldwyn. d 16. i didn t know how i wasoing 16. to be able to do these shows with this kind of painhat i was in. i told mwife what i had. she went on the internet and said i think you have shingles. i could feel the shock in my back and it was like wowts got to get better than is or i m in big trouble. there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place i could feel the shock in my back and it was like where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked giants stood tall and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real avo: whatever you can imagine, all in one place expedia, find yours was killed june 28,2005 in afghanistan. my husband s death was the hardest thing i ve ever faced. the special operations warrior foundation stepped in to help. now you can help, too. purchase new cherry 5-hour energy now through july thirty-first and a portion of each sale benefits special operations warrior foundation to help families of fallen heroes. i will always miss my dad, but thanks to special operations warrior foundation i will never feel alone. like a heat wave burning in my heart it s your shot of the morning. a floridian was walking along the beach when he spotted, yes, a rare sight for florida. an african elephant hanging out in the water. turns out it is all for a lavish beach party nearby. local authorities even issued a permit to allow the elephant at the party. another one we weren t invited to. it s quite a sight and for great selfies. that s me and that s an elephant. they always say you can lead an elephant to water but you can t make him drink. bring your own trunk. how do you get the elephant to the water. they got a permit. does the elephant have a say in this? they go. they just go? yes. they like the water. i thought they were so smart. they have great memories so they remember where the water was. brian, your high school graduation, did it cost a lot of money? there is a school that is charging the kids. i don t know if brian s graduation coming up june 1 is going to cost me money. in braydenton county, florida, at manatee high school, looking at their website, the senior fee if you want to walk during graduation, your 20 bucks is due by friday. but here s the interesting thing. you can actually buy premium seating real close to the stage for 200 bucks if you would like, if you have the 200 bucks. it has a number of parents absolutely furious. keep in mind, kids have gone to manatee high school for four years, it s the end of a long school career, and now they re going to hold up the parents for 200 bucks if they want to sit close to the stage. apparently ten rows are made available for purchase this year. for a bench. $200 for a bunch you can purchase there. according to that paper there, the school is apparently $12,000 in estimated graduation costs in the hole there. the graduation is costing $12,000 for the high school and maybe it is the way they re dealing with that. i have no problem with this. are you kidding? all i want to see is the budget. if the budget looks normal, a normal school budget and you re $12,000 in debt at a time people don t want to be paying high taxes because you know the property taxes go to school, they re in debt. which the juniors, freshmen and sophomores will be paying for, it will give the people a chance to spend their own money, not a demand, to do that. guess what? it sold out in a couple of hours. this is graduation. shouldn t it be included in your taxes? they charge you for the gown already. and you ve got to give it back. here s the thing. graduation, you re supposed to recognize the kids for the hard work, not what family has the most money to buy the let s get the sky box up front. if i was one of the parents there, i was absolutely be furious. keep in mind when your kids are in school, particularly for proms and stuff like that, they have all these fund-raisers, so have a fund-raiser for graduation. would it kill you to do that? then have a lottery as to who sits close to the stage. but to reward the parents who have got the most dough, is that capitalism? it seems a little harsh. it does. but the people that pay the most at the fund-raisers are the ones with the most money. they are the ones who buy the cupcakes and put the prizes in for the big raffles and maybe buy a lot of tickets for the 50/50. you have the campout so you get the good seat. like how you got sting tickets. exactly. weigh in and tell them how wrong they are. heather childers. okay, money bags. after graduation a lot of times you have a barbecue. you need to hear about this story. where is the beef? you may want to throw it out before that party. 11 people in four states, they are sick with e. coli prompting a national beef recall. the department of agriculture says the 1.8 million pounds of beef was produced by wolverine packing company between march 31 and april 18 sent to restaurants in ohio, michigan, missouri and massachusetts. a near disaster at newark airport in new jersey. two planes packed with people come within feet of colliding mid air. the ntsb just releasing details of the incident. it actually happened on april 24. a united airlines flight trying to land a few hundred feet above an express jet flight taking off on an intersecting runway. the express jet pilot bound for memphis could be heard telling air traffic control the united flight got, quote, real close. you think? the united flight from san francisco was ordered to abort its landing. calls are growing for president obama to help free the american marine who is currently in a mexican prison. sergeant andrew tamarisi has been locked up for more than a month over an apparent mistake. the 25-year-old says he accidentally drove into mexico with three u.s. registered firearms. his mother just got into the prison to see her son face-to-face. fox news was there when she came out. he s not a criminal. he made a mistake and made a wrong turn and said right at the border, i ve got guns. the whitehouse.gov petition, that is the only hope that i have that the white house acknowledge he is in prison. i haven t heard from president obama. perhaps she should. the petition needs 100,000 signatures for the white house to respond. right now it has 23,000. finally from michigan, a suburb taking a cue from the movie demolition man. do you remember that? remember that film? every time sylvester stallone cursed, a machine popped out a ticket. it is actually a reality in the town of brighton, police ticketing people who swear, all geared towards disorderly teens. we had one of those. a nickel. by the end of the year, how much would be in it? i was broke. i tell you, on the other story, heather, you brought up, there was a great job last night to talk about how easy it is to be on those roads. if you get in the wrong lane, you cannot get out of the lane that sends you into mexico. if you re in the right lane, you re in mexico without a doubt. we re in the lane now to go to the weather. maria molina joins us from the streets of new york city. good morning. hello, everybody. i want to start out with this cool video out of wyoming. this was taken on sunday. it is a time lapse video, something called a super cell thunderstorm. look how amazing that is. what a super cell is, a large thunderstorm very well organized with a lot of rotation. typically these do produce some tornadoes. we are expecting severe weather today, so we want to show you the area that is included. that does include parts of the midwest and also the plains. that s going to be continuing as well. the same storm system is going to stay on the move as we head into your wednesday. we have two days here of a small but a chance of seeing severe storms, anywhere from parts of the plains up into parts of the midwest. that is a chance for today. across parts of the southwestern u.s. you have an elevated fire danger in place with a number of of red flag warnings. that will be something to watch. temperature wise heating up across the plains. 90 s and upper 80 s from parts of kansas down into texas. chicago not bad either. warming up, 84 degrees for the high temperature out there. let s head back inside. all right, maria. thank you very much. since he took office he s lowered taxes and gotten thousands back to work. maybe the federal government can learn a lesson from the north carolina governor, as you can see coming into the studio. how are you doing, governor? 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the draw is one is we re paying off our debt of unemployment. north carolina owed the federal government $2.4 billion of unemployment compensation. most people don t realize that it s not free when you take this money. it s borrowed money and we owed the federal government $2.4 billion. and we were raising taxes on businesses to pay off the interest, not even the principal. so we were lowering that debt. we lowered our compensation to what our neighbors pay in south carolina, tennessee and virginia. and the second thing is we did major tax reform where we re now competitive with the rest of the southeast in income tax and corporate tax. we re becoming more business friendly and saying come to north carolina, create and grow a business. it all sounds terrific. do you think part of the reason that your unemployment rate has gone down is that unlike a lot of other states with very liberal unemployment benefits, you have people toe the line. you don t give them much, as much as other states. we were the ninth highest unemployment benefits in the country and we weren t competitive with south carolina, tennessee and virginia and therefore their costs were much lower. i was mayor of charlotte for 14 years. south carolina s unemployment benefits were lower and our debt was higher. we ve got about $500 a week here. for how many weeks? 20-some weeks. i haven t got the exact figures. not extended. the administration, congress would not let us extend unemployment if we lowered unemployment to what south carolina, tennessee and virginia were paying. that was actually crazy on their part. why can t the federal government take note of what s going on? why can t the president look at what s happening in states like yours and say this is a pretty good plan. let s do that. we listened to what employers were saying. basically we had openings for jobs even when we were at 9.4% unemployment. employers were saying we have openings but people weren t taking them or we couldn t find the qualified labor. we re dealing with that. now people are taking the jobs that are open. second, we re initiated vocational training programs in our high schools and two-year colleges to say learn the trades. we re now telling people you don t have to go to four-year college degrees to become a success. you have several different career pathways. one of them is become a mechanic, become an electrician, become a health care worker because that s where the demand is right now. become an engineer. watch cam new top because you guys are up cam newton because you guys are up and coming. going to be named the charlotte hornets in the nba. north carolina is on the rebound. our goal is to get people back to work. you re doing a good job. governor, thank you very much for stopping by. thank you, governor. coming up, we told you yesterday about the outrage over the 9/11 museum gift shop. this morning new fallout about where the items being sold are actually made. an explosive new report reveals the president knew about the abuse in the v.a. administration as far back as 2008. did he fail our nation s heroes? the judge is here with his own jury. tigers, both of you. tigers? don t be modest. i see how you ve been investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip! you got our attention. we did? of course. you re type e well, i have been researching retirement strategies. well that s what type e s do. welcome home. taking control of your retirement? e trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e ? i m going to keep making sure we re providing unprecedented support to our veterans. let us commit ourselves to keep making sure that our veterans receive the care and benefits that they have earned. to all our wounded warriors and to the families who laid a loved one to rest, america will not let you down. well, the president has long said veterans are one of his top priorities. but did his administration know that the v.a. neglect was happening as far back as 2008? joining us now is fox news judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. some trouble there. this 08 report to his transition team showed the bush administration says we got problems, they re fudging the results. they re change their admissions and their appointment schedules. there doesn t seem to be any issue with the fact that the obama administration was on notice about this before the president took office. it s almost inconceivable that they did nothing in the five years until these death and these waiting lists became known to all of us. it s a head scratcher. i can t figure out why they would be so neglectful for such a sympathetic and well-deserving audience. there is no political game here. it s just imcompetence, mismanagement, and sweeping it under the rug in the hopes the public won t notice. here are excerpting from the report. audits completed since 2005 have been identified and noncompliance with the policies and procedures for the scheduling. inaccurate reporting of patients waiting times and errors in electronic waiting lists. the bush administration says listen, we re having problems with this. it s probably going to get worse cause more are coming home. if those errors that you just read about were if any of it was intentional in order to make the records look better than they really were which they seem to be. it looks like it is, we re talking about federal crimes. you re talking about a serious and large number of criminal prosecutions. that in turn will trigger the right of these people who suffered because a loved one died or person who suffered because they didn t get medical attention and ran them out of time, to sue the federal government. you re talk being a lot of litigation, both criminal and civil. and they have it coming to them. here is an example of what must be proven in a civil lawsuit. the disability or death was caused by hospital care, either bay department employee or department facility. and it was caused by the department s carelessness, negligence or lack of proper skill. they have an i.g. report looking at the phoenix situation and trying to hammer away that number down on the 40 they say died because of their lack of care. when the inspector general tells you that a large number of people died and then the bureaucrats that run the department start saying don t believe the inspector general, you know it s a very, very serious problem there. why hasn t the president said anything? you ran all those clips of the president saying how he s going to help the veterans. why doesn t he acknowledge this? unbelievable. maybe he s waiting for the news report to confirm it. we ll see you throughout the day. coming up, he was catapulted into the national spotlight after he criticized president obama at the prayer breakfast and did you know the white house demanded an apology? dr. ben carson here live with the story that i guess only steve and elisabeth can get cause i m with the judge. plus, calling all wanna be politicos. house of cards is looking for you to take on frank underwood. details at the top of the hour. he might just be president. hunt or be hunted. get ready. things are about to move very quickly. i m ready. what if i don t play along this is the age of knowing what you re made of. so why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain. it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include heabnormal vision., set sd to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to you doctor. i ve got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. happiness is a drive-over mower deck. 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pharre will, l williams. do you know why the reason benghazi is in the news? no. should we be concerned that this is the future of america? america right now nodding yes. a little scary. but we re going to take care of you cause tuesday mornings are better with friends. this is kid rock. you re watching fox & friends . he sounds cool intrusion us. he was wearing sunglasses. and a hot. and he came down and needed an ottoman. sat there on the couch like he s been here for 20 years. it s kid rock, come on. you re going to be relaxed your whole life. what is his real name? he s grown up rock. right. send it to us if you know that. we re going to talk about the scandal at the veterans affairs administration. all sorts of trouble. later on the house will vote on the v.a. management accountability act. what that s supposed to do is going to give eric shinseki the ability to fire the bureaucrats responsible for this scandal where they ve got all these waiting lists where people are dying waiting for treatment. first they re going to do a three-week audit, which people think will be a catastrophe. the house is? no, eric shinseki. they re going to check themselves? yeah. they re going to find out which wrong, which i think we re ahead of the game with that. apparently the president didn t know or did he, that this v.a. scandal is now spreading like a wild virus through the united states. at minimum we have 19 states. when you see this map in red, it s devastating to think our veterans are being left on these medical waiting lists, not getting the care they so deserve. the expression never leave a fellow soldier behind, well, the president, commander in chief, seems to be doing just that. apparently he just found out about this on the news, the allegations. this is jay carney on that. when you say these problems, the fact that there have been bureaucracy specifically were reported first by your network out of phoenix we learned about them through the reports. i will double-check if that s not the case. but that s when we learned about them and that s when as i understand it, secretary shinseki learned about them. secretary shinseki has known about them for years. the president of the united states, when he became president, the transition team with george w. bush, they said essentially, look, the waiting lists, they re fake. you got to do something about it. then the president has come out a number of times and said, i m going to do something about the problems and the red tape and things like that. one of the things that the white house is doing right now is saying we re 100% behind eric shinseki. why would that be? they say he s the guy in the job right now, he can fix the problems once they do the three-week audit that brian was talking about. here is the thing, eric shinseki is the one guy who, if they fire, can go look, i ve been telling them for years it was all screwed up and for them to now say they didn t know, that s crazy. i would add to this, the spin over the weekend is unbelievable. dennis mcdonough saying the president is madder than hell. then we have some on these sunday shows saying, why are we going to these wars in the first place? excuse me? we re debating on the need for war as opposed to the treatment for those who fight the war? you got to be kidding me. and wait for this one. i m sure it s going to be coming this week. well, if the bush administration knew about it, why didn t they fix it? that was one thing. that is not allowed. you can not go back 5 1/2 years and say, well, if george bush knew in 2007. there were things done and guess what. then secretary gates for the bush administration went in there and cleaned house at walter reed. he demanded answers immediately. there has been no quick action. have you seen secretary of defense hagel do anything? but they didn t know. they re just finding out about this nowering according to what jay carney said. the president didn t know. did he know every time he shook the hand of a serviceman or woman in our nation that s been fighting for our freedom, you re shake the hand of the veterans that are waiting for their care. some of them don t have the opportunity anymore. this is sally barns, she lost her father. he was a victim in this scandal which is now nationwide and this is what she has to say to our president. if he called me tonight, i would simply say, you re a liar. i don t trust you. and if it was up to me, i would fire him and i believe he s a part of it as well. he gave us nothing. nothing. all he wants to do is go on the mission and still continue to let the veterans die, including my pop and i don t like you very much, mr. president. we still have not heard from the president of the united states in over three weeks. but the house, as i said, is going to vote on this accountability bill later on today. 118 co-sponsors, including a number of democrats as well. extraordinarily, the veterans affairs committee yesterday, only the second time in history, has subpoenaed letters and e-mail from and to eric shinseki and other v.a. officials over what happened in phoenix. so during the fact that suddenly judicial watch is able to get a bunch of e-mails revealing what has happened in the pasty.iú regarding that scandal, let s find out if these folks can get to the bottom of it. and if we ll hear from the president, when he was in manila was the last time he spoke. as we approach memorial day, this is gut wrenching. here is heather telling us what s happening in the world. majority james richie, by the way. kid rock s real name. huge kid rock fan. breaking overnight, michael jace, the actor who starred in the shield, he was detained by police in los angeles suspected of shooting and killing his wife. according to tmz, jace called the police himself. he admitted to pulling the trigger with his children inside the house at the time. detectives are questioning the actor right now. he still has not been placed under arrest. happening today, the primary version of super tuesday. six states holding elections. the spotlight on a couple of key races for you now. in georgia, businessman david purdue, cousin of the former governor, leads in a tight race to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss. if no one gets a majority, it will then take a runoff to decide who will face democrat michelle nun, daughter of former senator sam nun in the fall. in kentucky, gop senate primary incumbent republican leader mitch mcconnell leads the polls against newcomer matt bevin. he was caught giving a speech at a cockfighting rally. pennsylvania, arkansas, idaho and oregon also hosting primaries today. so big day. take a look at this. a water emergency in texas, leaving dozens of communities in a severe drought. more than 30 towns saying they only have enough water to last three months. with a dozen saying they will dry up in half of that time. one resident saying the lake that was once right behind his house has receded more than a mile away. dry weather one factor. but growing populations also drying up those reservoirs. and finally, do you have what it takes to tangle with a man like house of cards frank underwood? 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i got a call from one of the organizers that said the white house is very upset and you need to call the president and you need to apologize. why? i said, i talked to the president afterwards. he didn t seem upset. and there is no reason that he should be unless what i said applied to him. because what you said applied to america and not him in particular. exactly. and so you didn t. you didn t do that. had you ever heard from the white house since? well, i got an invitation to come to a presidential medal of freedom reunion, but i was busy that day. that was the second time you ve been asked to speak at a national prayer breakfast. correct. the first time when bill clinton was president. it was a fantastic occasion. but when they asked me again, i said what? i said, has anybody ever done it twice? they said one person has, billy graham. i said, whoa. i got to do this. pressure. i said, i think the good lord has something he wants me to say. they asked you for your notes ahead of time and you said i have no notes? i didn t know what i was going to say until the morning of the prayer breakfast. wow. what do you think about the phrase that s being used to describe you being called the black avenger? i think that s a very racist thing for anybody to say. you know, there needs to come a time when people look at people as people and what makes a person who they are? is it the color of their skin or is it their brain? i can tell you as a brain surgeon, it is definitely not the color of the skin. and the left in particular needs to get away from characterizing everything racially. we need to move beyond that. we re much further advanced. you know why they do that, because when they call somebody a racist, historically that has shut them up and shut them down. yes. and it s funny what s going on in our country now. the labeling, the demonization, you know. if you re pro-life, then you ve got to be antiwoman. if you re pro-traditional family, then you ve got to be a homophobe. if you re white and disagree with a progressive black person, you re racist. if you re black and you disagree, you re crazy. it s so amazing that people allow themselves to be manipulated by those who are trying to divide us. that s why the book is called one nation, because we are one nation and we re not enemies. the enemies are those people who are trying to divide us. you talk about talking to each other and using examples of marriage and both sides in marriage counseling think they re right. you think compromise has to fit in. i want to stick one area of expertise and that s health care. you got a lot of heat to this saying obamacare is second only to slavery. if i could paraphrase your thoughts, to what it can do to this country. and the issue that i was bringing up is not slavery. the issue is that we have taken the most important thing we have as free americans and turned it over to the government. and you go and look at the neomarxist literature and see what they say and the need to bring america into in line with everybody. you have a plan. the other area i wanted to bring up is something you brought up in your book and it was a year ago when you were going to speak at johns hopkins in your final year, they didn t like your stand on traditional marriage. correct. they protests and you said okay. get somebody else. and now look what we have this year. yeah. basically what s happening is our universities, which are supposed to be the places that encourage free thought and free speech have moved 180-degrees in the other direction. a lot of the administrators at these universities are afraid to stand up and oppose the students. so they cave. the students, that s what they are, they re students. they re immature. you find a lot of these people 20 years later and they say, i can t believe i acted like that. somebody has got to exercise some leadership here. it relates to leadership, the v.a. scandal we re looking at now and veterans not getting the treatment they deserve. look no further than this to describe how government health care can go. this is a wonderful harbinger of what s going to happen if we just put layers and layers of bureaucrats between the patients and the health care providers. no accountability, no one is to blame. they all point to somebody else cause it s not my job. that s the problem. this is symptomatic of all things that are going on with this gigantic government that you can t control. right. i tell you what, you are president of the united states. you just found out on the news, like our current president, about the v.a. scandal. how would you fix it in one easy step in it s not one easy step. but what would you start with? there is no one easy step. but first of all, i would want to know who allowed this to occur. and whoever that was, i would debrief them, find out why they allowed it to occur, and then allow them to take a vacation and put in somebody who really has the kind of expertise and experience that is necessary to run an organization like that. and this is not saying anything about shinseki. that doesn t mean his management helps anything like that. correct. what people have to understand, he s a great general or he should have what he should have done is surrounded himself with people who knew how to do that kind of thing. (> thank you. we ll hear you on radio. thank you. well, it is one of the deadliest disasters in the world. how can you survive being swept away in a flood? maria molina is going to show us how it do that. what are we doing to that young lady? is that her? it was kelley blue book. it s the trusted resource. and now, kbb.com has a whole new way to help you decide on your next new car by showing you what really matters. use 5-year cost to own to compare the long term cost of maintenance, insurance and gas. read reviews. woman: gas milage is awesome. from actual owners and kelley blue book experts. and get the full picture on what it s like to own the cars you re considering kbb.com time for news by the numbers. just 8%. that s how many of the items sold at the 9-11 memorial museum were actually made in america. next you re the champ. i m ready for this my whole life. wow. 150 bucks. that s how much it will cost for a piece of the stadium turf notre dame legends played on. the team now selling it off in two by five sections. the field being replaced with artificial grass next season. you could have used joe montana as an example, but go with rudy. if i thought this jet pack was great, look at this jet pack. an $85,000 hover bike. developers announced the star wars-like rox will go on sale in 2017. its top speed is 5 million miles an hour 45 miles an hour. meanwhile, more extreme weather today possibly in the midwest. we could see tornadoes in cities like chicago and also columbus. did you know the rain that comes with these downpours and the twisters can be even more deadly than the actual funnel cloud? we re talking about flash floods, rushing water so powerful, it can wipe entire towns off the map. oftentimes that water comes so fast, that people don t have time to escape. that s why there are specially trained groups all across the country who specialize in saving their lives. maria molina is here with one of their stories. what did you do? what did i do that i keep getting sent on these assignments? but these people are incredible. by the way, they re volunteers. so they have their own full-time jobs on the side that they do and then this is what they do extra to serve back to their communities. whenever there is a potential for flooding, these swift water rescue crews are standing by ready to jump in. i found out how they save lives. hold on! it s one of the most frightening feelings being swept away by a raging flood. it can happen to anyone, anywhere. you don t need to be in a river. just six inches of water is all it takes to be carried away. flooding and swift water and flood rescue is the leading disaster in the united states. typically our response for people that are swept away in vehicles or swept away in a flash flood cause they didn t heed the warning. this instructor, mike, that gets people home alive. we had severe weather across the plains. very dynamic system. it s still on the move today. there is a concern for some flooding. when you re on the news, don t let the hurricanes come in. your efforts, it s predictable for us. swift water rescue teams are experts in everything. from towing someone to show with a rope, swimming after a victim. we perform this because the victim is too cold to catch the throw bag. in the most dangerous situations, using helicopters to save lives. it doesn t matter how they rescue somebody, when dealing with moving water, it s never easy. for rescuers and the victim, it s always back to basics. we call defensive swimming. lay on your back and feet up. if i am being pushed into an obstruction, i can use my feet as springs to push off. we just can t float. cause if we do, the current will take us where it wants. you want to go to the right, you ll have the back of your they had that way in a 45-degree angle and kick and make back strokes. if you want to come to the left, keep back strobing. for victims, following your first instinct could be deadly. they re being swept away. the human brain says i want it all to stop. they put their feet down and when you do that, you become entrapped. in theory, grabbing to a nearby tree or rock seems like a good idea. but in reality, it s just dangerous. many of our victims grab and hold on to anything. but because the water is so powerful and relentless, she s only going to be able to maintain this position for a little bit she s swept away again. in the end, your first priority is to always get to shore. if you are swept away, the first thing you want to do is try to get out of that. any means you have of swimming, get out. that water was only moving at 4 miles per hour. but the amount of force that i felt on my body from that water that wasn t moving that fast, it could during a flash flood was incredible. really shows how dangerous it is to be caught. i ve been on some of those swift water rescues. they re challenging and you don t know how fast the water is going. in the story, you said don t hang on to the tree. don t hang on to the boulder cause then some other big stuff could come and that could be it. and you could get caught underneath. the power of that water rushing at you and that s when people can drown. these are very dangerous situations and this is one of the top weather disaster killers in the united states. flooding. something to always have in mind. got to think about it if your car is flooded, should i get out? if you don t have to, don t. i m going to get maria on speed dial in case something bad happens, how do i get out of this? coming up, smile like you mean it. it could be the key to your next promotion. we re going to detail that coming up. and remember when this democratic law maker said republicans want you to die? the republican health care plan is this, die quickly. that s right. the republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. political stunt? what say you? mine was earned in korea in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. 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here is the thing, this started out as a joke on twitter and the blogs and now essentially what they re saying is, let s go ahead and gum up the works. let s turn it into a kangaroo court and have this particular guy. move on.org says our interest is to have someone with great credibility and stature among democrats and republicans. you know what? with all due respect to the congressman, he s not the one. republicans do not think he is a great statesman. i would say this, if that s what democrats want and if he s such a great it s a farce. you could say whatever you want. if he s coming up with questions out of left field and looks like a jesse ventura wanna be, everyone will say this is a joke, but it won t take away from the other six republicans who i assume have serious questions about what transpired that day. anyone with a good heart should not be on the committee if they re not interested in getting to the target of getting answers on benghazi. this is a tough subject because not many people know about it. george mason, university students, were given a pop quiz or final exam on benghazi and this is how it went. two who who sings the song? prarrell. pharrell williams. that s right. what is benghazi? do you know what the reason why benghazi is in the news? no. is it with the save the children? in the middle east? that s right. i don t know. it s like the world out of danger is in afghanistan. it reminds me of a guy i work with at the gym. his name is like benghazi. really? that s all i can think of. has he been in the news lately? no. you haven t heard benghazi anywhere? no. sounds familiar. yeah. reminds him of a guy at the jim. benghazi, ben gazzara. by the way, we should point out that was media research center s dan joseph asking the questions. every one of those people can vote. yeah. that was waters style right there. i like that. right, heather? you know what benghazi is. in a word, wow. i ve heard it a time or two. topping the headlines for you, nuclear waste leaking into the ground in new mexico, posing a substantial threat to public health. the cause of the leak, listen to this organic kitty litter. officials say a february 14 leak at the waste isolation pilot plant was caused by a chemical reaction between the kitty litter, which is used to soak up waste, and radioactive debris. a small amount of radiation escaped, contaminating 22 workers. you can get your taco, your burritos, but just don t bring your gun. fast food chain chipotle asking customers not to bring firearms into the restaurant. this comes after a pro-gun group apparently took assault rifles into a dallas chipotle last weekend. the company says it caused some anxiety for some of the customers. if you are looking for some fun this summer reading, the government has you covered. the department of labor has put together a summer reading list that features books all about people at work. some of the light reading, they re calling it light, includes orwell s animal farm, out of the furnace and others in case you re interested in reading about work while you re on vacation. i want a new list! for sure. one more. small tweaks to your smile can help you land a big promotion. according to a body language expert, keeping your eyebrows level while you re smiling will make you look powerful. while lowering your head a little bit makes you look seductive. and if you raise i couldn t eyebrows while smiling, you will apparently look submissive. so i m in trouble because i raise my eyebrows all the time. i ve had botox. because you re reading the headlines. talking with your face. right. i do. that s how they teach. that s a good thing. the problem is with the smile, it comes from within. you can t manipulate a smile or it won t look authentic. they re talking about if you want to manipulate the image you re projecting, you got to manipulate your face. why do you want to manipulate? aren t we a nation based on honesty and truism? no. i didn t think so. bunch of fakeers, according to the folks at harvard. you are making me raise my eyebrows now. maria molina, you re going to give us a glimpse of what s happening weather wise now. yeah. what do you think of my smile? it looks so almost real. you almost look powerful and submissive at the same time. let s take a look at the weather conditions across the country because we have some serious weather to talk about. there is a potential for some severe weather today across parts of the midwest and also in the plains and that risk does extend also into tomorrow with large hail, damaging winds, and also some isolated tornadoes possible in those areas. temperature wise, very warm, especially across the center of the country. take a look at texas. you re in the upper 80s and 90s. that does extend into parts of oklahoma and also across kansas. even in chicago. today your high temperature, 84 degrees. not bad. warming up out there and starting to feel like summer, especially across the plains states. across parts of the southwestern u.s., we have red flag warnings in effect due to warm temperatures. low humidity and also some gusty winds out there. let s head back inside. all right. thank you very much. we ve been following the scandal at the v.a. and this this morning we re sharing the personal stories of the heros who waited and waited for help. peter johnson, jr. sharing your e-mails next. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked giants stood tall and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real avo: whatever you can imagine, all in one place expedia, find yours add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance. .and we ll replace destroyed or stolen items with brand-new versions. we put members first. join the nation. nationwide is on your side is is mike. his long race day starts with back pain. .and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve. .for all day relief. start your engines help keep teeth clean and breath fresh with beneful healthy smile snacks. with soft meaty centers and teeth cleaning texture,it s dental that tastes so good. beneful healthy smile food and snacks. some quick headlines for you now. kurt busch crashing hard into the wall during a practice for the indy 500. look at that. flames erupting from the car wheels, buckled and went out of control. he was not injured. this texas teen facing life behind bars for baking pot brownies. the 19-year-old charged with a felony because he used hash oil that allows prosecutors to count the total weight of the brownies as the drug and push the offense to the highest level there. so be careful what you bake. steve? don t use hash. thank you. this morning, the v.a. scandal widens as more whistle blower like one doctor blow the lid off the administration s inhumane practices. hundreds of veterans and family members wrote to us yesterday and provided an unprecedented level of painful personal and raw testimony to a government s failure to care for its wounded warriors. peter johnson, jr. has been spearheading this. good morning. of the hundreds of e-mail you ve gotten over the last couple of days, once again, what you did was read each and every one of them and took them apart and you analyzed them. we ve analyzed them. they re raw, intimate. they re tragic. they re the most seering e-mails i ve ever received from someone i didn t know. i spotted some particular trends in these hundreds of e-mails i got yesterday and hundreds i got friday. let s look at them. goes to the pain of our vets. they believe they re receiving second rate, second class care here in america. they ve an absolute no confidence in the process, distrust the treatment they re receiving, and they really have a fear of death or grave injury from the lack of treatment that they re receiving. they feel abandoned. they feel isolated. they feel forgotten. they feel anger at administrators. the president says he s mad as hell. look and see what these folks are saying. they also believe v.a. officials are more concerned about costs than cures, that they d rather save money and get a bonus than actually cure veterans in america. we got some incredibly compelling e-mails. one from an alabama vet. i tried for two years to get an appointment to get a hearing aid that the v.a. said i needed. i left messages because i never got to talk to a person and never got a return call. i called the inspector general twice and never got an answer or got to talk to anyone. i just gave up. that s too bad. meanwhile, an e-mail from somebody whose brother died. my brother, greg, spent hours in the waiting room just to be sent home. he needed urgent care, but was turned down. he was forced to go outside the v.a. system. by the time he received care, his cancer had spread beyond the ability to treat it. i watched him die. i couldn t believe how the v.a. treated our vets who served america without question. wow. one more. i applied for v.a. benefits in may of 2013 and was told the process would take six to eight months. i was diagnosed with a disease as a result of my service with the coast guard. when i checked in february of 2014, i was told they were running 12 months to review the case. i checked again last week and am now told they are running 16 to 18 months. that s mesothelioma. one from a woman who tried to get help from the v.a. in temple, texas, because her husband had thoughts of suicide. they gave him a suicide hot line card and told him to come back to talk to a doctor about medication. but the doctor was not available when he went back. my husband hung himself at our family business about three hours after going to the v.a. she wrote to me, we were married for 26 years and the love of my life is now gone after serving his country honorably. he left behind two daughters. please shine the brightest light on this dark, dirty health care system. our veterans are exposed to it. we ll do it and do it again tomorrow. he went there for help and they said no. death. if you would like to contact peter johnson, jr., america s lawyer, the e-mail address is johnsonjr at foxnews.com or if you prefer to write a letter, write it to our world headquarters. we re staying with it. we re not giving up on it. they re counting on you. we re staying with it. thank you. coming up, next on the program, looking for a new career? 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sure; she turned 80. so we had a party for her. so that was good. everybody did a great job putting that all together for her as she reflected back. we tried not to surprise her. just saying. he with did bring some of her high school and grammar school friends with us. i missed you. but today is really my monday. so a lot of things, i ll have way too much energy. tomorrow i ll be calm. glad you re back on your monday. we ll turn now to heather childers. congratulations to your mom, by the way. i will share that with her. we begin with that breaking news. michael jace, an actor who starred in requesting the shield now charged with shooting and killing his wife. according to tmz, he called the police himself, admitted to pulling the trigger with his children in the house. police say it s not clear what led to the shooting. jace and his wife were married for nine years. he s under arrest. happening today, the primaries version of super tuesday. six states holding elections. some polls already open at this hour. the spotlight on a couple of key races for you. in georgia, businessman david purdue, cousin of the former goff leads polls in a tight race to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss. if no one wins a majority, then it will take a runoff to decide who will face democrat michelle nunn, daughter of former senator sam nunn in the fall. and in kentucky, the gop senate primary there. incumbent republican leader mitch mcconnell leads the polls against newcomer matt bevin. he s the one you may remember who got caught giving a speech at a cockfighting rally: pennsylvania, idaho, oregon hosting primaries today. also new overnight, tensions mounting between the u.s. and china over unprecedented cyber spying. charges that china is summoning the u.s. ambassador to actually formally complain about the charges. five chinese military officials working from shanghai are accused of stealing information like product designs and confidential legal strategies to give chinese companies the advantage, in turn costing jobs here in the usa. the six hits burg china says the charges are made up and experts say the charges of a trial are remote. it is the commencement speech that everyone is talking about, a graduate walks on stage and shocks the 17,000 people in attendance. take a look. as a person who stutters, i could be no more certain that in this room and in this hall are thousands of people who are far more talented at public speaking than i am. indiana university graduate parker mantel kept his stuttering a secret for the past four years. but he explained earlier on fox & friends why he decided to speak out now. i pursued this opportunity because of the e-mails that i have received, moms and dads, who have children that have a vast array of challenges and they have told me that for the 7 1/2 minutes that they watched me talk, their children were in tears because for that time, they did not doubt themselves. parker, you were great. he says he wants to pursue a career in either politics or law. i think that he is well on his way. what do you think? those are your headlines. degree in political science and he worked for politicians, so good luck to him. steve, on a side note, do you remember how we were talking about house of cards and you said brian, season one we re through season 2 now. right. tracy burns wrote me that she had not finished season 1. so i apologize to everybody. somebody who joins us once a week to talk about the house of cards that is washington, d.c. is laura ingraham. later today the house is going to vote on a bill that would give the secretary of the v.a. the authority to fire some of these bureaucrats responsible for the fake waiting lists, among other things. this is becoming a real scandal and yesterday, jay carney said the president found out about it watching the news just like a lot of other stuff. watch this sound bite montage. serious program, when in fact, everyone knows, the president did not know about this tactic until he heard about it through the media. let me takea#ód)q irs situatn first. i first learned about it from the same news reports that i think most people learned about this. i think it was on friday. as i said yesterday in my staple, i don t know press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the justice department to seek phone records of the associated press. do you know when he first knew that there was a problem? well, i think it became clear fairly early on. the first couple of days not before that, though? not before october? no. every time there is a scandal, the president finds out on the news! yeah. isn t this the reason we elect people to high office, so they know stuff that s really important before the rest of us? otherwise just pull anyone off the street who can run the government because, well, i read about that in the newspaper, or that was on fox yesterday. so we re going to really do something about this. guys, this goes back to the theme that we ve hit so many times on this program, which is in every ballooning government and ever increasing bureaucracy in government, that cannot be tamed, that cannot be managed, that cannot be run, especially by someone like barak obama who came into office with no managial experience, no experience in the business world. he had never run anything. and we are seeing the fruits of that right now. he refuses to take responsibility. people don t get fired. i would say this: if only barak obama s team treated our veterans as well as they treat the mega donors to the democrat party, i think our veterans would be really happy today with their health care. but unfortunately, they don t get the star treatment and a win toward george clooney and the rest of the crew inhe entertainment industry. they get treated really well. but our veterans, they just have to wait. to your point, we spoke with dr. ben carson, brilliant man. has a book out now, and we said, if this is if the v.a. is an indication of how ou government health care is treating the best us, what does it mean for the rest us? take a listen what he said. a wonderful harbinger of what s going to happen if we just put layers and layers of bureaucrats between the patients and the health care provider. this is symptomatic of all the things going on with this gigantic government that you can t control. laura, on top of that, it seems very similar. kathleen sebelius seemed beefedled throughout the process. then general shinseki, decorated general, seems totally out of his element in something he should know all about. how about last week, i was like well, i m really angry about this. wait a second. wouldn t it be nice if someone in the administration was truly outraged and angry at this failure to perform for our veterans or targeting conservative groups, if they are angry about that as they are randomly at any member of the tea party, we d be in good shape. when they want to focus on an issue, or focus on a group of people, they ll do that. like they did that last night in potomac, obama had another fund-raiser. laser beam focus on preserving their own purchase of power. i got to tell you, i think this v.a. story is growing. i think it s going to get bigger and i think we re going to learn a lot more over the next few weeks and months about just what happened, what they knew and when they knew it going back many years. good. how about this? this is burning up the internet now. last night sarah palin went on line and she posted on facebook, remember a couple of days ago, karl rove was on, it was revealed that carl said it at a speech he was giving that he had concerns about hillary clinton s health given the fact that she was out of commission for about a month. then everybody blew up at karl. anyway, sarah palin wrote this on her facebook. hey, hillary s brain is off limits. leave her health records alone. democrats are right, scouring records of a female candidate is just politics and for the media to engage in it would be unfair. unethical. absolutely unprecedented. you can t probe a woman like that because, well, it s a war on women. hey, wait a minute. they did all that to sarah palin already. of course they did. katie couric interview to questioning her wardrobe, her eyeglasses, her hair style. i mean, look, they dragged her through the mud and we all know what happened there. and right now, now we re supposed to believe that hillary clinton, whose husband started the whole war in politics that she s somehow the damsel in distress here? are they kidding me? so now the only people who can have a political war room are the clintons. okay. i don t think that s going to a. i think what karl rove did in that little comment is he gave a real signal to the clintons that we re going to play, gloves are going to be off and we ll play as hard as you play on your side. don t think that we re going to give special treatment to mrs. clinton because she s a woman. we re not. we re going to treat her like any other political competitor. who had, according to her husband, a terrible concussion, that she had the after effects for six months. that sounds pretty serious. it s a common question for any candidate running for office. given the shear imcompetence and the inability to perform in office that we ve seen over the last five years, we tonight want that to happen again. i would think not. right. we know you got to go prepare for your radio show heard all across this great land of ours. thank you very much. we ll see you back here. see you next week. bye. terrifying moments caught on camera. people are sent running for their lives when a gunman opens fire inside a bowling alley. a mayor in hot water for saying this about bullying. i m against bullying, but i m getting damned tired of it being used as a mantra for everything in the ills of the world when all most people have to do is grow a pair. wow. he is here next to defend those comments and more. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh.little help? 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i m surprised that it we want national, but it needs to be a national discussion, so i m kind of glad that my colorful language brought it to the attention of the media. right. so mr. mayor, why don t you set the scene for us, which led up to those comments. well, in my mind, there is so many different ideas that tell us that it s a bullying situation when, in fact, it s not a bullying situation and it takes away from what is bullying situation and what needs to be addressed in our schools as well as families. they kind of came to us with an idea of safe zone out in the cityies which is a situation that i don t believe should be a liability that the city should take on, as well as taking away the responsibilities of our school children that the school districts are supposed to be taking. right. so they re going to spend more money, set up bullying safe zones. you think it s gone too far. you re not pro-bullying. you see it as an issue. throughout life, throughout society, every country there are bullying issues. but the reality, mayor, isn t it that in life, it s not fair and there is times you do have to learn to stand up for yourself and you can t run to the courts or a system to defend yourself? i believe that is exactly what we re talking about, that not only are we stand up for ourselves, but if you listen to some of the rest of the discussion going on, it was that others would stand up for you when there is somebody out there that is being picked on horribly at school that if you don t want to happen to yourself and see it going on, then it s up to us to bring a message to those bullying saying as a group, we re not going to take this. for someone to characterize you as that mayor doesn t care about the ten yearly getting beat up on the playground, that s just not true? it s just the opposite. i care immensely. i was about 11 years old when it happened to me and 7th grade, i believe it was. made every excuse in the world not to go to school, was in fear of a gentleman that kept on pulling a knife on me and one day i had to confront my tormenter and therefore, i stood up for myself. the other thing, brian, is i didn t want to tell anybody what was going on and i m afraid that s also what i m hearing from the school kids. they don t want to tell anybody what s going on because they don t want to draw attention to the fact that they may or may not be bullied because the torment may continue from other people. i think your statement brought up the dialogue. i think we got to have it. mayor hamilton, thanks for the courage to come up and expand on what you said and i enjoyed hearing your explanation this morning. brian, thank you for bringing it to the public also and appreciate the show. i listen to you guys quite often. thank you. i appreciate it, cause that means you got to get up early. coming up, mr. mayor, hope you re still listening, we move ahead. listen to this, 10,000 babies under the age of three are being given adhd drugs and your doctor may be to blame. what you need to know about that. then, how would you like to go to college and not pay a dime in tuition? 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still a mystery. a look at the jaw-dropping time lapse video of a super cell forming right in front of storm chasers. they captured it near claritin, wyoming. they re the largest, strongest and longest lasting thunderstorms. here a florida man was walking loan the beach when he spotted a rare sight, an african elephant just hanging out in the water. it turns out it was all for a lavish beach party nearby. bring your own trunk. steve? i like that. thank you. it is commencement season and there is some sobering news for this year s graduating college graduates. the most recent figures show they, the graduates, will end up having to pay back about $33,000 in student loans. that s the average nationwide. there is a college known as hard work u which is offering a students the chance to get a four-year degree and graduate for free. no debt. it doesn t cost you anything. it s all done the old-fashioned way. you got to work for it. dr. jerry davis is the president of the college of the ozarks and laura lingner is a senior at the school and they join us live from springfield, missouri. good morning to both of you. good morning. so dr. davis, the way it works, a college of the ozarks, if you get in, you don t have to pay for anything. how do you operate? we have friends across the united states that believe in the same things we do such as self-help. they believe in giving students a hand up. not a handout. and we think that our way teaches responsibility in things that are important in the culture. sure. and laura, the key is if they give you the hand out, you ve got to help them. you don t have to pay anything, but you got to work. tell us about the jobs you ve had so far at college of the ozarks. i started out as a freshman in the dish pit and then i worked from there. i was able to move throughout thanksgiving week, which is my workweek. we have one workweek every she iser. i moved throughout the kitchen and learned a lot of skills. now i work at the high school on campus, the school of the ozarks laboratory school. i work with students, answer the phone. it s been a great experience pour me definitely. that s terrific. there are a lot of parents whose kids, it s hard to get them off the couch and they certainly would never do the dishes in this lifetime. you come from a family of nine. used to hard work. you got a landscaping business. when your friends would go to other colleges, here, yeah, i don t have to pay anything, but i ve got to work, what s their reaction? they definitely think it s amazing. i know a lot of my friends when i tell them about it, they have a hard time at first understanding. but then once they do, they really wish they could go there. it s an amazing opportunity. my family is used to hard work. my dad does have a business and a web site. so we grew up helping him. so we were able to learn how to do that in the real world at college of the ozarks. look at that, you gave your dad a free commercial nationwide and around the world. fantastic. jerry, after parents and kids watch this, a lot of people are going to be thinking, college of the ozarks, sounds great to us. how hard is it to get into, to be admitted to? i would imagine you get a lot of people from out of state and in state who want to go there. that s correct. we get about 4,000 applications this year and we admit about 400 freshman. these students are interviewed. they understand what the college is about and that we expect a lot because our operating philosophy is pretty simple. just be good or be gone. sure. the key is at the end of the day, you want the kids who graduate from there to get jobs and i understand 90% of t get jobs pretty quickly. if employers are look at it, that s really who you want to hire, isn t it, somebody who works hard? well, that s the way i learned it and i think it s still true in the country. i m not sure that all colleges are encouraging that. but we certainly are. we sure are. laura, before you go, what do you want to be when you grow up? i would love to be an english teacher. my major is english and i love reading and writing, i d love to write some day. i love to share my love of english with students. jerry davis, the college president out there, we thank you both for joining us from springfield, missouri. from job. thank you. thank you. that s great. 28 minutes after the top of the hour. that s great story. it is the super tuesday of primaries and the outcome could change the balance of power in washington. we re going to take a look at some of the key races today. and dogs dying from toxic dog treats. the story everybody who owns a dog needs to hear to keep their pet safe. you see the thing is geico, well, could help them save on boat insurance too. hey! okay.i m ready to come in now. hello? 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let s start there. we re more of a riddle show today. we do everything backwards. here is the video and here is the question. if you have the answer, let us know. we just took you out to the college of the ozarks where kids go to school for free for a college education. it actually costs you $20 per head to graduate from manatee high school in bradenton, florida. 20 bucks for each student. that s the senior fee. here is the extraordinary thing. if you want the premium seating, it will cost parents $200 for seats close to the stage. you know why, steve? this is for deep pocketed parents who want to show off and be close. it costs $12,000 to throw a graduation. have a fund-raiser! have a car wash. it s discriminatory. i saw some e-mail. we wanted to know from you what you thought about the fact that they re charging 200 bucks to get the good seats at a high school graduation. you could see steve swaying the witness. one e-mail says i say make the graduates pay. not the parents. get them started off in life on the right foot. nothing is free. good. thank you, mike in maine. karen from new hampshire says graduation seats should be assigned by students grades. not by how much a parent can afford to pay. right. it s all about graduation is to celebrate the 12 or 13 years of hard work and if you did great, have the valedictorian parents sit up front. one says, are you surprised? they charge for lunch, sports and registration. schools are worse than airlines. no, nothing is worse than airlines. believe me. all i can say is the school needs the money. a lot of rich parents are the rich parents that always put in all the money for the 50/50, have the great donations for the lottery how does that make the parents who can t afford that, how does that yeah, sit in the back of the place. it shouldn t be prohibitive on the day of your graduation. you have turned on me, elisabeth? look, i m still trying to never mind. i m not on a side. you turned on me. i have not. she s commove to the right side. that s like when you were cheat last friday. i can t even look at you. that s why i took off monday, you were so angry. i am looking at heather. here i am. and we actually did have a serious story to begin with. this is a breaking news for you. fox news alert at this hour. frantic search underway for a missing marine who apparently fell from an aircraft in north carolina. the military personnel say the marine fell from an osprey during a training mission around 7:00 p.m. last night around white lake, about 100 miles south of raleigh. the osprey was based at marine corps air station new river. it s not clear how he fell. that marine s name has not been released. we will keep you updated as this story develops. calls are growing for president obama to help free the american marine who is being held in a mexican prison. sergeant andrew tamarisi has been locked up for more than a month over an apparent mistake. the marine says he accidentally drove into mexico with three u.s. registered firearms. his mother just got into the prison to see her son face-to-face. fox news was there when she came out. he s not a criminal. he made a mistake and made a wrong turn. and said right at the border, i ve got guns, so whitehouse.gov petition, cause that s the only hope i have that the white house will acknowledge that andrew is in prison. this commander in chief is president obama. so i haven t heard from president obama. the petition needs 100,000 signatures for the white house to respond. right now it has about 24,000. and this. it is a shocking new study to say the least. more than 10,000 toddlers are being prescribed drugs for adhd, despite pediatric guidelines stating children who are younger than four years old should not be taking the medication. the scariest part, doctors don t know what the lasting for examples could be. so effects could be. is your child s pediatrician to blame? one doctor joined us earlier and he says it s the parents. it s giving in to the pressure of the moment and it shouldn t happen. the pediatrician should take the time to say listen, it s hard being a parent of a toddler. this is what you can do and walk them through the steps. but instead, they do the quick thing, which is write a prescription. the two-year-old, of course they re going to be concentrating on other things. but the doctor added that if your child is on these drugs, you can stop them immediately without any danger. and finally, it is the super tuesday of primaries and the outcome could change the balance of power in washington. six states holding elections. some polls are already open. the spotlight on a couple of key ras for you in georgia. david purdue, cousin of the former governor leads polls in a tight race to replace retiring senator saxby chambliss. if no one gets a majority, it will turn into a runoff to decide who will face democrat michelle nunn, daughter of form er senator sam nun. and mitch mcconnell leads against newcomer matt bevin. he is the one who got caught giving a speech at a cockfighting rally. pennsylvania, arkansas, idaho and oregon also hosting primaries today. and those are your headlines. all right. thank you very much. it s interesting in georgia, where michelle nunn, on the democrat sigh was asked if you were in the congress back in the day, would you have voted for obamacare? she gave an answer that has people scratching their head. she wouldn t do it. the person asked a couple of times. she would not do it. analysts said she probably should have said, well, you know what? i wasn t there, but if i was, i may have voted for it. but this is how i d fix it. she had no good answer. apparently it s harming her. we also know that mitch mcconnell will win that race. but he needs somehow to win over the bevin voters for the general. for the mid terms. can t alienate too much, cockfighting or not. that s right. we re going to keep you posted on all of that coming up. someone who has run and really captureed the hearts of america with her look at the weather, maria molina, how are you? good morning. good to see you. we have some extreme weather to tell you about today that will be possible across parts of the plains and also in the midwest. we do have a chance for severe storms out here, large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will be possible not only today, but also as we head into tomorrow. that does include parts of the midwest, parts of the ohio river valley and even as far east as western pennsylvania for tomorrow. those high temperatures today, very warm, especially across the center of the country. take a look at kansas city. your high today forecast to reach 88 degrees, well above average. some parts of kansas, oklahoma and texas are expected to climb well into the 90s. in chicago, not bad for you. 84 degrees for your high temperature there. across parts of the southwest united states, warm temperatures as well. low humidity and gusty winds, producing an elevated fire danger. red flag warnings are in he can t effect. willlet s head back inside. all right. straight ahead, bad beef on store shelves ahead of memorial day weekend. details on a major recall. if you like burgers, you want to hear that after the break. proud supporter of the second amendment under attack by the so-called tolerance left. they even went after his mom. so what did he do to have that happen? 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like that race. thank you. a proud 30-year-old gun lover who shared his passion for firearms and the second amendment on youtube that won him a spot as host of the nra s new web show. take a look. we didn t invent that guns are cool on this show. we didn t invent the way people feel about the second amendment either. i hate to break it to you, but no one invented me. that s right. i m a black guy who got into guns all by myself. aren t you proud? he s no strange tore controversy. he faced antigun left leaning opponents before. but now the attacks against him are getting personal. i am joined now by the host of noir. thanks for being with us. this is getting a little personal. you don t really fit the description of someone that the left can easily attack for supporting guns. your hip, black, miami lenials like you and now they re going after your mom. what happened? well, it s actually been pretty consistent. but there was a web site that posted my personal information, kind of almost as if they were outing me as being some type of poser person. what ended up happening, i contacted them and said look, my mom lives there by herself. that s her address. could you please take it down? and they refused to do so. and because i no longer live there, i decided that since her public information was out there, i decided to give her a gun for protection. you solved that problem right away. let me ask you this, you re really passionate. i watched you speak about starbucks when they said this is our antigun policy. why are you and where does this come from, this passion for the second amendment? yeah. i in general have a passionate personality. but the very first time i shot i was about 25, 26 years old. and i started taking a love for it, getting involved to it and it spiraled into a passion for the second amendment and you get what you see here today. what do you say now a lot of your critics call you poser garbage. they want to progress. i ve heard you say once that you can progress this country to death. what do you say to them? well, i m having a slight hard time hearing you. i couldn t get that last part of the question. your critics call you a poser. this isn t what you re about. you can t possibly be for gun rights, second amendment. i like to call it elusive bigotry and arrogance. when you think you own the topic and you think you own i guess in their mind cool, when somebody comes out who isn t exactly in line with the way they re thinking, it s kind of like no, he obviously has to be fake. there is no way that somebody like him who is young and black is into firearms and into responsibly owning firearms because in a lot of ways, all you see publicly is a negative portrayal of younger blacks utilizing firearms. for them, it s almost mind blowing. will they succeed in silencing you? say that one more time. will they succeed in silencing you, your critics? not at all. you got your mom some good protection there as well. absolutely. we will continue to check you out there and all that you have to say with regard to our constitutional rights. thanks for being with us. thank you very much. still ahead, dogs dying from toxic jerky treats. the story all dog owners need to hear to keep their sweet pets safe. that s coming up next. first we re going to check in with martha mccallum for what s coming up at the top of the hour. hello there. good morning. so one of the big questions today is will we hear from the president this morning on the v.a. scandal? we may. how about the question of whether or not eric shinseki will step down today? that is coming up as well. we now know that the president was warned years ago and quite specifically about what was going on at our veterans hospitals. we ll hear from a whistle blower doctor who says two of her patients took their own lives while waiting for help. coming up at the top of the hour [announcer] play close-good and close. help keep teeth clean and breath fresh with beneful healthy smile snacks. with soft meaty centers and teeth cleaning texture,it s dental that tastes so good. beneful healthy smile food and snacks. sfx: car unlock beep. vo: david s heart attack didn t come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you ve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. we re back quicker than i thought. dog owners, beware. some of your pets favorite snacks may be toxic. that means you, duke. here is bad news. up to 1,000 dogs have died nearly 5,000 got really sick because of some bad beef jerky treats that could have been in part manufactured from items from china. it might be impacting cats and humans as well. how do you protect yourself and your pet? here we have veterinarian heather lenser. good morning to you. hi. this goes back to 2007, bad stuff from china? it does. jerky treats that have chicken, duck, and believe it or not, sweet potato or dried fruit and it s sourced from china. it can be hard when reading the label to figure out trial where the ingredients are coming from. so china could have bought it from somebody else and sent it to us? in theory. what symptoms would your dog be displaying or you should be concerned and maybe bring this up? so about 60% of the cases are gastrointestinal signs. blood in it. kidney related. some means they stop urinating and that s not the case. the first sign of kidney disease is drinking more and urinating more. rather than buy the dog treats that might be just bad for them, you ve got some suggestions on real food to give the dog. i do. i m a big proponent of raw vegetables. i brought some here. dogs don t eat those! they do. my dog here is munching on carrots. we ve got broccoli and frozen green beans. these are low fat and high in plant nutrients. how do you train them to do that? 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