bunch can turn this around fast. the adult taping is irresponsible. thanks to everyone who responded. don t forget to keep talking about 2016. who would you like to see run for president? log on to our facebook page right now. fox & friends starts now. bye. spoim good morning. it is wednesday, january 14. a fox news alert. airports across this nation on edge this morning ramping up security after terrorists reveal a secret bomb-making recipe and even describe how to sneak it through t. sment through t.s.a. a plot to kill the speaker of the house exposed. a bartender s plan to use a deadly cocktail to kill john boehner. canned and ready? one school principal asking parents to arm their kids with nonperishable food items because throwing cans can stun an intruder with a gun. we have a lot to discuss because mornings are better with friends. hello. apparently you re watching fox & friends. he s not so weird. he knows the number-one cable morning news show in the world. he still has a perm so i think that is important at his age. we begin with this fox news alert. this morning f.b.i. investigating a chilling plot to kill house speaker john boehner. peter doocy live in washington. what do we know about this, peter? reporter: we know the plot to poison the man second in line for the presidency was dreamed up by the man who pours his drinks. michael r. hoyt told police during questioning that nobody checks the speaker s drinks and he could have slipped something into the speaker s wineglass already if he wanted to but he didn t. he also told an officer he was going to use his barretta to shoot the speaker. the bartender was recently fired from a country club in wes chester ohio. his bosses say it is because he had a bad attitude and people are complaining but hoyt blamed boehner. quote, hoyt told the officer that he was jesus christ and he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean to him at the country club and because boehner is responsible for ebola. the complaint is dated october 29. on the 28 the bartender sent a rambling e-mail to boehner s wife. hoyt has a history of mental illness. boehner s office says speaker boehner is aware of the situation and sincerely thanks the f.b.i., capitol political and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. a big driver behind this indictment for boehner s bartender is during his time at the country club this man learned all about where boehner likes to go and what boehner likes to do, information that authorities worry could be used to his advantage if he wanted to carry out a sinister plot against the speaker. peter, you were just talking about how supposedly boehner was mean to the guy at the country club. any idea what he did? no, there s no idea. when you read through the indictment this is one sentence. it says that he told an officer he was jesus christ and that he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean and because boehner is responsible for ebola. okay. i guess that says it all. peter doocy, thank you. thank goodness they have him. no kidding. here we go again. you don t like taking your shoes off? the u.s. is stepping up airport security should cost us more time again from coast to coast after the paris attacks. al qaeda again goes out of their way to brag about a would-be attack and their new so-called weapons. they put out a video that essentially says they have an undetectable bomb that has us now checking everybody s bags. in the december issue of inspire magazine from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, it is so specific, it is so sophisticated, it tells the person how to make the bomb, how to get through security and where to sit on the plane. and they write and this is critical because we re going to talk about this in just a moment how the white house will not talk about islam regarding terrorism. inspire magazine writes the recipe is so easy it s something, quote, every determined muslim can prepare. certain foreign airports are looking on and looking at carry-on luggage. matt olsen to rememberer director of the national terrorism center says the group is determined to carry out an attack on a u.s. airplane explaining this alert. they think this would be easier to sneak through on one of the smaller airports that don t have the super body scans. a lot of american airports do. let s talk about who is responsible for last wednesday s attack in france. we heard the attackers in the video release yesterday scream out once they got into the street after killing 12 al qaeda, besides saying we have redeemed the prophet, this is the responsibility of representing al qaeda in yemen. we heard one of the kouachi brothers call in to a tv/radio station and say the same thing. this is al qaeda in yemen. now we have more news. why still is the white house administration still tongue tied when it comes to terrorism? just say what it is. elisabeth all they ve got to do and the new news this morning is that there is a youtube video out. they have put out a video posted earlier today and made it very clear, and there you can see nari al ansi say the attack in paris was vengeance, al qaeda organized it, planned it and paid for it. josh earnest, the white house press secretary, said it seems a little odd why still at this point you re not referring to this, even though everybody else is including the attackers as being radical islam. why can t you? watch this exchange. it s just unbelievable. certainly wouldn t want to be in a position where i m repeating the justification that they have cited that i think is completely illegitimate that they have invoked islam to try to justify their attacks. i think what i m trying to do is i m trying to describe to you what happened and what they did. these are individuals who are terrorists. we have not chosen to use that label because it does not seem to accurately describe what has happened. let us review what he just said. he said yes, they are terrorists but there are a lot of people out there who want to kill us. these particular people used a religion to justify their attack. this should not be surprising. just keep in mind a couple of days ago, i think it was meet the press, eric holder told chuck todd we are at war with terrorists who commit these heinous acts and who use islam. so this has become the talking point, the boilerplate for this administration. they are terrorists who use a religion. they are not islamic terrorists. they are terrorists. and they are individuals, which i think is troubling; right? because you re either offended by what radical islamists do or you re offended by the term radical islamists. which one is it? i hope we don t find out in a book years later that the reason nobody put out sunday by the way charlie hebdo put out a new magazine. they usually put out 60,000. they now publish in multiple languages and what are we up to? three million? three million sold out. 300 available here in the united states. we believe they are gone as well. i was looking on-line. if you want a copy you can beit on ebay for 500 pounds in great britain. we showed you the cover. it shows the prophet humid and it says all is forgiven with a single teardrop. which by the way i need an explanation. who is forgiving who? eight minutes after the hour. it is the first time i ve seen heather nauert. it is tradition we don t look at you before the show. kind of like a bride. i ve got some news that is actually somewhat related to what we were just talking about, those attacks in paris. that s the accused boston bomber is asking for a trial delay because of the terror attacks in france. jury selection is now underway in dzhokhar tsarnaev s case but his lawyers are arguing it should be put on hold for at least a month because of the comparison of the two terror attacks they say could create prejudice. isis now operating in afghanistan at and a former gitmo prisoner leading that charge. he was released from gitmo back in 2007. now he s been rallying jihadists to join that violent terror group. news of the former prisoner s recruiting comes as republican senators are trying to slow the gitmo releases. one senator says we need a, quote, time-out. ann curry is leaving nbc after 25 years well sort of. there are reports curry has a new kind of development deal with the network and she may still occasionally appear on the air at nbc. curry was forced off the today show more than two years because of the host matt lauer. curry is now negotiating how to end her $12 million a year contract. don t forget your favorite furry friends. today is national dress up your pet day. it is the day to unleash the inner diva in your dap per dog or fashionista feline. those are your headlines. brian, you ve got a dog, i ve got a dog. we ve got to come up with costumes today. to get a team of 12 guys to put my dog in something. he s 120 pounds and doesn t like to wear anything. he likes to be himself. we can t wait to see your photos. let s talk about the note parents got at valley, alabama. the principal at a middle school sent home a letter saying folks, we would like your kids to bring in to school some canned goods. you mean for the starving people around the world? which is common. no. bring in canned goods because if somebody with a gun comes in to a school, as a last resort, we want the kids to throw a tuna can at the guy with a gun. we d love to know what you think about this. about 15 parents showed up to have a meeting about this and there weren t many complaints. they said it would be used as a last resort. they would be stored in the classroom. students wouldn t be carrying them around in the school for fun and wouldn t be using them on one another. this is a last minute defense given to the students to empower them. i like that word empower rather than being a victim. i don t know if i can hit a would-be attacker with evaporated milk, if that is going to work to my advantage. do you think you could survive a bunch of cans coming at you. it would definitely hurt. sounds like a little rascals episode. are they going to practice? think about it if you have a tuna can that is kind of hard to throw but a big peach can clinged peaches, you can t get that off the ground. it sound like we re making this up but this is absolutely true. now there is another alternative and that would be if the staff actually had guns you probably wouldn t need to send the kid to school with a can of sweet peas. the teachers are taught to barricade bathroom doors and may be considering a training program there. but they re at least doing something. i don t think it is a bad idea necessarily and they will donate the cans if they re not used at the end of the year. if you got hit by a can and it changed your behavior, write us. can it work? if you are the guy who has intruded into a classroom and some kid just hit you with a can i think you re going to duck. coming up straight ahead, here s what we say. president obama couldn t make it to paris for that antiterror unity rally but he will have time to deal with another international matter. a meeting of the castros. and the washington rumor mills swirling around a potential run for mitt romney. could the third time be a charm for him? we re going to discuss. music .the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. the schelp then the spill. now the scrub and the second guess. finally, the rewash. or you can make it easy and do the pop with tide pods. the first 3 in 1 laundry pack. it cleans, brightens, and removes stains in one step. tide pods one step to an amazing clean. despite him saying he would not enter the fray into politics, it is looking more likely mitt romney will make another run for the white house. join us now is the current finance chair for the republican governors association. fred, he s 80% in. do you believe he s 100% in? i don t believe he s 100% in. i don t believe he s made up his mind and i don t think anyone who tells you he has can say that with authority. he s clearly looking at it seriously. you wouldn t stir up the country s interest unless you were dead serious on considering this. i think he s 80% likely to do it. what did he do wrong last time? what can he do different this time? i don t think he did anything wrong last time. i think last time around there was a turnout issue. the obama campaign did a better job in turning out the voters. i think mitt romney ran a strong campaign and he s a good candidate. he didn t get people excited enough to come out and that is what is relatively baffling. i want you to hear rand paul when asked this same question. listen. i think even with all his assets he wasn t able to attract a big enough constituency to win and there was every opportunity for him to win last time. i think it s time for fresh blood. your reaction? i think we re going to have a number of very good conservative candidates to choose from for this nomination. it s going to be the strongest field in recent memory. i m almost giddy at the thought of having five or six people on that stage, including, if governor romney decides and if governor bush decides and if some of our current governors like chris christie perry, if they run. you can envision every one of them being a very solid leader for this country and i think it s a wonderful prospect to have. all of them are conservative enough to get the voters out. very interesting. we have some of the other hopefuls you mentioned. as we see that, let me bring up one of the names. governor christie gave a state of the state address, very much a national look at where he s going to set up a super pac. is he somebody who is formidable or was he more formidable two years ago? i think if you look at governor christie or any of our sitting governors or former governors bush and romney, they ve got records of accomplishment in their state and in their nation. they ve shown that they can get things done. they can bring people together and make things happen. that stands in sharp contrast to what people talk about, the do-nothing contrast four years of hillary clinton as secretary of state without a clear record of success. i think they have great records to run on, any one of them. you re the finance guy on the republican governors association. $100 million already in jeb s coffers. are you worried that there is not enough money to go around and the best candidate might not emerge because they don t have the contacts? a lot is being made of the money race right now and i think money is important but i don t believe money is going to be the determinant on who our nominee is. i think it is going to rest more on who is able to come forth with the most compelling message, who can best demonstrate their track record of executing that compelling message. and i believe that everybody is going to be very, very competitive on financing. i think it is going to be separated by their message, by the quality of the campaign and the quality of their records. i agree. it is going to be really exciting. those on the left are also intrigued by what s happening on the right. thanks so much. great to have you this morning. coming up straight ahead, caught on video, the new high-tech way thieves are breaking into cars and the police don t even know about it. how you can protect yourself next. and going viral. this dog loves the park so much, he rides the bus by himself. eclipse and his owner join us just ahead. 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they think by using a high-tech device police are calling a mystery box. how do you protect yourself from a guy in front of your house using the mystery box? the chief communications officer of the national insurance crime bureau joins us. good morning. explain this device. what is it exactly? there is a variety of things out there on the market probably available on the internet for a few dollars, maybe $100 or so. they may be jamming the frequency or mocking the frequency of the remote fob that you use in your car. when you re locking your car, if somebody is nearby and they have a code graber they actually get the code out of the air and turn around and open your car when you re gone? that s one way to do it or there s devices out there that we think today may be able to simulate it. you don t even have to be around. they act similar to the fob. the important thing is they may be able to open the car. we have no evidence they are able to start the car. so they can get in and maybe steal your property if you live it in visible sight but doesn t mean they re going to be able to take the car. or hijack the car if somebody is in there and use their keys. when i saw that video, i thought to myself i will never leave lock my car with a key fob again like at a truck stop or out on the highway because who knows who is sitting over there waiting. you re better off to at least lock your car and take your keys out. that is the important thing. one weekend in nashville, 22 car thefts. 10 of them were from people leaving their keys in the car unlocked. what can we do? it is a cat and mouse game. we ve gone from a 1.7 million car thefts in a year in the 1990 s to 700,000 a year now. what else can help? don t leave your valuables in sight. don t leave your car registration there so they can get your personal information. don t leave your garage door opener in the car. take it with you. park somewhere where it s well let a safe place. if they re going to get it, they re going to get it. these folks are professional and always trying to beat the system. make it as difficult as possible but don t hand it over to them. i think in one of my cars there is a thing where you push and a little metal key comes out. if you stick it in the door or lock it that way they can t grab the code? there s all kinds of dip systems. all manufacturers use different systems and change them constantly. they say they haven t seen anything that can defeat their systems and we re hoping that s correct. it s scary. we don t want people be able to get into cars like that. we want to thank roger morris for being with us. information on how to keep us safe. coming up on this wednesday, this iconic photo of world leaders at the rally in paris is missing something but it s not just president obama. what they shopped out or who they shopped out coming up. going viral, this dog loves the park so much that he rides the bus there all by himself. eclipse, that s him right there, and his owner joining us live to explain all that next. first we want to wish a happy birthday to rapper ll cool j. he turns 47 years old today. shrimp? 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that s in the form of a question? savagely criticize mr. torn. what is to rip. name that verb for 800. to tire out tv commentator mr. carlson. what is tucker? that s it. our very own fox & friends weekend cohost tucker carlson was an answer. the category was naming someone whose first name doubled as a verb. he s the guy who is always tuckered out. what an honor. that is fun. let s head over to heather. i don t have a verb for your name. heather and feather. thank you so much. good morning to you all. news to bring you from overseas. take a look at these two photos. they re almost identical but there is one problem that is difficult to spot but it is there. women are completely removed from it. the original picture was taken at sunday s unity march in paris. it shows world leaders standing arm in arm including chancellor angela merkel. an orthodox israeli newspaper decided to edit out thoseathathathatheo4m .w9 iäéjõ somebody stole my car and my baby is in there. where was your car last seen? [inaudible] i don t know the address. oh my god! my baby is in there! well, that was three-year-old aden who was in the back of that car. he ended up saving the day. a woman left her cell phone in the car so ogden police decided to call that phone. instead of the carjacker answering the phone the little boy did. the suspect then abandoned the car leaving aden the little boy alone. police told him to hop into the front seat and start honking the horn. he honked the horn until there was an officer there and we were close and we got to him. he was scared; that was for sure but he s okay. glad he s back with his mommy there. that suspect is still on the run. aden is now safe. and that is another example. we have these stories all the time when little kids get left in cars. you can never leave a child in a car not even for a minute. we had to leave maria molina alone because she wanted to work in the elements. the weather, where it s 17 degrees right now and it feels much colder. the current wind chill out here is currently 6 degrees. it is a cold start to the day across not only the northeast but also across portions of the midwest and down across portions of the carolinas, you re waking up to wind chills only in the 20 s. speaking of the carolinas we have winter weather across those areas. freezing rain and a little snow across the mid-atlantic so winter weather advisories are in effect and also freezing rain advisories. across new mexico we have winter storm warnings because up to a foot of snow is possible across the higher elevations but the temperatures, they have been very cold across the eastern half of the country over the last several days. take a look at the forecast for saturday. 30 s in the northeast. 20 s for you in boston and it gets better as we head into sunday. you re going to be in the mid 40 s in cities like new york city and then across texas highs will be in the 60 s. and the same goes for portions of louisiana. let s head back inside. thank you very much, maria. it s not something you see every day. look at this. the dog gets off at the stop at the dog park and gets off the bus and i just look out the window and i m like did that just happen? he gets on the bus without me. i catch him over at the dog park. you heard it right. eclipse, a two-year-old labrador mix loves going to the dog park so much so that she ditched her owner and started riding the bus by herself. eclipse and her owner jeff young join us now. good morning to you jeff young and good morning to you eclipse. good morning. when was the first time that eclipse went to the park by herself and were you concerned that you would see her again? yeah, of course. the first time she jumped on the bus i wasn t sure if she got on the bus or went back in the house. another person at the bus stop with me pointed out that, yeah she got on the bus. and it s a bus that her and i rode to the dog park a million times so i was pretty sure that s where she would be headed. i was on the next bus after her, and she was at the dog park. how did she know where to get off? that s her stop. it s only five or six stops down the road but there are some turns before you get there. she knows. she knows her stop. she s a dog. have you had any complaints at all? you know what? the metro transit the agency, they actually love the dog there, it makes everybody happy. but has anybody complained yet? yeah. you know there s always a it s a rainbow out there. everybody s not the same. there s always a dog hater. there s a cat person over there. she brings a smile to most people s day. even when we re on the bus, we re together we re not really together. she kind of rolls solo. she s really independent. she s always 30 40 feet away from me and grabs a seat, grabs a window and watches for the dog park. if she s not riding with you, that kind of says something. she s trying to be as independent as possible. jeff does the bus driver just let her on free or does have to does she bring a token? how does that work? she has a pass. it s a rapid ride system. everybody has passes and the doors open. there s multiple doors. there s like three doors open. she usually gets on the middle or the back. has she ever gotten off anywhere else besides the dog park? no. that s amazing. that s a very smart dog you ve got. good dog. i m on the bus right behind her when she does jump by herself but it s gotten so i don t have to worry. she s got friends on the bus. she s made some commuter buddies. jeff, i didn t know it was a possibility that you could do this. i didn t know it was allowed. any dog with a pass can do it. didn t know. i didn t know either. it was a fright the first time but it s worked out all right. are you going to the park today? yeah. she is. later this morning, you know. jeff, has it gotten to the stainl stage you feel confident she can get on the bus by herself go the four or five stops go to the dog park, play for a little while and then get back on the bus and come home and you can still be at home watching tv? no. no. we haven t come that far yet. so when you go to the park, send us some pictures. if you re going to go to the park before our show ends send us pictures because we d like to see her at the park today. yeah she ll be there. jeff young and eclipse, the bus-hopping dog out there in seattle. jeff and eclipse, thank you very much. good dog eclipse. thank you. you were good too, jeff. very nice. i think you ve seen it all now. i bet this is a new trend. maybe not much everyone is looking at their dog going why can t you do that? what s wrong with you? it s 17 degrees outside. why can t you walk yourself. coming up on this wednesday, does the new york police department have the right to spy on mosques if there is a risk of a terror attack? muslims in new jersey are saying no, and now that s headed to court. we re going to take a closer look straight ahead. she got fired for not being able to do her job while pregnant. her job was lifting heavy boxes for ups. the lawsuit before the supreme court now. does she have a case? i ve smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now.i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that s why i choose nicoderm cq. a a a a a a a a a about 15 minutes till the top of the hour. some quick headlines from the supreme court. the highest court deciding if this man can have a beard while in prison. gregory holt recently converted to islam and want a beard for religious purposes. the arkansas jail says it s against the rules. his case focusing on the right to religious expression in jail. another ruling today expected in the case of a pregnant woman versus the ups. peggy young was placed on unpaid leave after she became pregnant and could no longer lift heavy boxes there. young says that she was discriminated against, but ups says they followed their union agreement and company policy. steve? thanks, elisabeth. reverse the ruling that s the outcry from a group of muslims in the state of new jersey who say the new york city police department surveillance program violates their civil rights. but should safety trump privacy? joining us is criminal defense attorney and former morris county new jersey prosecutor robert bianki. in the past the surveillance program which a lot on the left said you can t do that it s been upheld by the court. and now the court of appeals in philly has taken a lookback at whether or not it is legal. you say what about it? law enforcement has to use the rule of common sense when they re doing investigations and they re interdicting in the communities where there could be a problem whether it is a gang case or mob case. no constitutional right are being violated unless they go into the areas of the fourth amendment which is search and seizure wiretaps, things of this nature. they re not hanging a wiretap on the wall of the mosque. they re just going in and listening. when i was a prosecutor i think this confused people. it may from a policy point of view not be something that is good because some people who are innocent will feel feel like they re be targeted but that doesn t mean it s unconstitutional. if they have a specific tailored reason for going in there in order to gain actionable intelligence after they get that intelligence and it leads to criminality they can go to the judiciary and get warrants and try to construct a criminal case. let s back up to what you said a moment ago. this is essentially the same thing that prosecutors have done, law enforcement has done in the past with the mob. the way they get in the mob is the same way they have infiltrated these communities. when you have a serious criminal risk and obviously it is a cost-benefit analysis terrorism is obviously substantial, you don t do that by sitting behind a desk. you have to gather information, run down leads and then of course it needs to be tailored and speck. if there are groups that are not involved in terrorism, if there are groups and individuals that aren t doing anything wrong, they need to be disregarded. it can t be to the level where it becomes harassment. but what they need to do is get out into the community. you don t do it by waving a magic wand. you ve got to get out there. here s what the legal director for constitutional rights says, he says this is a blunder abouts suspicionless program where the only criteria is religion. what do you say about that? it is not religion. every religious practice has individuals in it that are doing something that is not appropriate. what it is is targeting criminals. if there is a risk that there is a criminal operating within a religious sector or religious group that is where they go. if they re operating in social clubs that s where they go. we know from history and you have to use the rule of common sense that some of the terrorist related activities 9/11 included emanated out of these religious institutions. that is what drove law enforcement to that location. if they re not breaking the law you would think they could go in and just listen. the italian american community dealt with this and i was on the front enl of this. some of the legitimate claims these people may have is you may be on a list and you may be doing absolutely nothing wrong. that is why law enforcement tailors itself so that those people that are innocent don t get trapped into this thing where it affects their lives but they need to be there in order to get the bad guys. there are a lot of bad guys out there. robert, thank you. coming up on this wednesday, a fox news alert, the u.s. section of the international space station just was evacuated a couple of minutes ago. what we re learning from nasa straight ahead. you re going to want to hear what s going on up in space. you want a well-paying job in health care? 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when with you go on this web site what, will you see? 1 to 4:00 p.m. eastern time. basically you do it from home. you upload your resume and start doing virtual chats with several companies. i want to give you some of the top ones today. one is oshner. it s in 600 joabs. 13 hospitals. health centers. that they hired 15,000 people. can be all kinds of different things. the u.s. news and world report recognized them as one the top companies in the country. 700 jobs available with anthem. that i about behavioral health. that s where the openings are for this company in particular. case managers, case coordinators. 700 jobs are open here. one in nine americans has coverage from anthem. you probably know the name as well. if you re in the ohio area, nationwide childrens. columbus, ohio. it s a pediatric hospital. information services, nurses, management. also into teaching hospital. they have a really good fellowship program as well. it s country critical. excellent. so aetna? again, they are expanding hiring 962 jobs open. 43% of their employees telecommute. good for a mom that wants to be at home. good for somebody that wants to work from home if you have the right skills. but obviously etna, 960 jobs at least for now. if you re in pittsburgh? a cowboys fan and i m still trying to get over what happened. i m sorry. university of pittsburgh medical center. this is upnc. 1200 jobs available now. they ve got 20 academic community specialty hospitals, outpatient sites, 400 of those. they re really good at rehabilitation retirement. helping people with disabilities. this is somebody that i really wanted to highlight. big day today. we re glad you re here. u go on line and check that out and it s listed on our web site. don t miss cheryl on fox business. great to see you. coming up, a fox news alert. u.s. astronauts evacuated from the international space station just moments ago. what we are learning from nasa at the top of the hour. and this guy thought he could get away with robbing a helpless older woman. did he know this guy and two others were watching him. the marines who saved her join us live with their story. it s hero heroic next hour coming up but not everyone can say they re the fastest-growing truck brand. in america. guts. glory. ram. well, a mortgage shouldn t be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. pretty good? 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confused matthew mcconaghey in one of his first auditions on tape now revealed. today, man, you guys join me. being alive. we re going to take you inside the room from one of his very first auditions on tape. this isn t on tape. it s live from new york. it s fox & friends. what s up? i m cool j and you re watching fox & friends. my favorite all time feature in the history of my years with fox & friends which dates back to 1963 ll cool j. he brome to a party and taught me how to be cool. he is a good time. he s fun and a great sport. he s aptly named. the reason we played that is because today is todd or ll cool j s birthday. he s 46. there is a party you re not invited to. absolutely. we wish him well and thank you for joining us. we re going to get to that fox news alert. murder by poison? the f.b.i. investigating a chilling plot to kill house speaker john boehner. peter doocy is live in washington with what we know. this is bizarre and dangerous. what else can you tell us? reporter: i can tell you wine in westchester ohio, could have killed the speaker of the house that if boehner s bartendser followed through on this plot which he said would have been easy because nobody looks at what he s pouring for the speaker. that bartendser, 44-year-old michael r.hoyt. the reason he wanted boehner dead, he told the officer that he was jesus christ and that he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean to him at the country club and boehner is responsible for ebola. he was caught because back in october he called 911 where he explained to police that he had been fired from the country club where he had been working for five-plus years. then he threatened to shoot john boehner who he blamed for his job loss with a baretta 380 automatic. it s worth noting the bosses at the country club say it was a bad attitude and not boehner that got him fired. before his arrest he even e-mailed mrs. boehner saying they needed to talk. but the note was rambling and she was confused. at that spokesman for barren says, quote, he is aware of this situation and sincerely thanks the f.b.i. and capitol police and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. the accused bartendser has a history of mental illness but from being around boehner for years, he knows a lot about what the speaker likes to do and where he likes to go, which is why authorities want him locked up. back to you in new york. probably a good idea. thank you very much. meanwhile, we have another fox news alert for you. today the united states is stepping up airport security on the heels of the fact that inspire magazine, which is a publication of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, in their december magazine has given its followers perhaps the most lethal, most sophisticated recipe to cook up a hidden bomb to blow up an airplane ever. tells them exactly how to make the bomb how to get it through the security line like that one there, and where to sit on the plane to blow it up and bring it down. these could be especially a problem for smaller airports that don t have that high-tech body images, security devices. that s why baggages being checked with serb care. there will be reaction. they re still going through bags at times square. can you imagine that? i m not going to say what i discovered. plus, also, yesterday came out, something that we knew already. if you heard the tape that was released yesterday you saw those brothers after they shot and killed, 12, wounded 11, say this is al-qaeda in yellen. we are doing this in the name of al-qaeda in yemen. vengeance, yes. then yesterday another tape emerges of a guy saying yeah, these guys trained with us. they do this in reference and redemption and revenge for killing allah al-awlaki and kahan. they were killed a couple years ago by a drone strike. that photo you saw the yemeni branch of the al-qaeda, their leader supposedly there, claiming responsibility. not just responsibility, but we planned it. we told them when to pull the trigger and we financed it. they gave them $20,000 to pull it off. by the way t took a while. these guys were looked at after a while and said, i don t think they re up to anything. we re going to pull back. imagine if we got a chance it listen and talk to and fully interrogate the underwear bomber because he was across the hall from one of the older brothers. and you can imagine the information we could have gotten if he had not lawyered up hours after. there is a new proposal to put that in a time out in terms of the release of prisoners soon to be looked at by the president. but we want to get to greg palkot. charlie hebdo released its first issue since 12 people were killed. the paper selling out in just minutes. greg palkot joining us live from paris. he s had really the best coverage of these horrific events today with this release. what are people there saying? reporter: they re saying they want to buy it elisabeth. if you re looking for the hottest item in paris, it s not a fashion outfit, it s this latest edition of this newspaper. the first edition put out since the slaughter at their newspaper offices. that was one week ago today. it s all sold out at the news stand behind us and all across paris. it features of mohammed muslim leaders have been upset. one called it an act of war. we want to do find out what the people on the street thought. take a listen. it looks like a publication, but i m charlie. you are charlie? yes, of course. i m not shocked by this. you re not? no. other people could be. probably. it s just like to remind that it s still possible even if what happened what happened. it s still possible to print those? yeah. reporter: this was put together by the surviving member s of the staff, who showed up by an artist who showed up for a meeting late on wednesday. it s available, you can buy it in the u.s. eventually. we ve seen it on ebay. five-dollar paper going for over $1,000. it s a high price to pay, guys. but people who put together this paper over the years in the name of freedom of expression paid an even higher price. i hope they still buy it a month from now and two months from now. in one way, they are losing the pr war if they wanted to bring them to their knees. i m looking now, there is a kip of charlie hebdo the latest one on ebay for $117,000. wow. okay. i ll wait for it to come down a little. meanwhile, there is so much involved in the story regarding charlie hebdo islamic terrorism although the administration refuses to say it s islamic terrorism. now they say they re terrorists who have used a religion to justify it. the president of the united states, since his first day, talked about closing gitmo. here is the problem with closing gitmo and it goes to yemen. remember, both these brothers went to yemen forearms training. the top recruiter for isis right now is a guy who was in gitmo, but he was released. he went back over to yemen. he says, quote, it s my duty to spur the muslims to kill the americans. so far he s recruited something like 3,000 people to fight for isis. the former taliban commander when they get out, they re like rock stars so people flock to them. they were let out during the bush years. we have to learn from our empties stakes and stop letting them out whether it s uruguay or some small island nation or back to yemen where they go with shovels and make tunnels. that s why. senator in new hampshire along with some others are calling for a time out in terms of these released. when you have a 30% reengagement rate, she says it s the wild, wild west. we need to stop it now. detainees that are being released by the administration many were designated high risk. that means high risk for reengagement for terrorism. that s where the focus needs to be. not in the president trying to fulfill a campaign promise. it has to be on protecting the american people and our troops and our allies. that s what she s putting forward, would repeal the current law that the administration would transfer and reduce the population at gitmo to 127. even if it pass, josh earnest was asked, would the president do this unilaterally. he said we ll consider all our options. he d do it anyway. heather nauert has some headlines and we start in space. that s right. a breaking story that we re just getting information about. it is a fox flus alert. evacuation of the u.s. air crew from their section of the international space station. there is apparently been a dangerous ammonia leak on board. right now crews are moving over to the russian section of the space station. they re now sealing off the american section to try to prevent a leak of that ammonia. we ll be following that story and give you the latest as it develops. overnight, officials say they have found the house language of the doomed air asia flight 8051. these are some photos we are just get not guilty from within underwater camera. you can see the company s slogan painted on the side. now everyone can fly. that s what it reads. part of the wing was also discovered alongside the body of the plane. officials say they have finally downloaded the flight data recorder from one of the black boxes and that will give them clues about what caused the crash. hire at home, extreme weather breaking a water main. it sends water shooting 40 feet into the air and that took down the roof of that gas station. wow. watch as it comes crashing down. the damage total is about $65,000. that happening in tulsa oklahoma. then we re getting some incredible images out of detroit. look at this house. it looks more like an icicle. a pipe burst inside that home and caused water to pour through the walls, leaving it frozen solid, including the windows there. wow. temperatures in that area have been well below zero. everyone knows that famous line from dazed and confused. remember this. about these high school girls, man? i get older. they stay the same age. it was delivered perfectly by matthew mcconaghey back then. but even oscar winners had to audition at one point. take a look at this. i love high school girls. i keep getting older. they stay the same age. it was released for the first time. it was his audition tape from dazed and confused. you can see he breezes through those lines. it was his first ever film. he sure did a great job. and that s he went on to become an oscar winner. i would have hired him. like a time capsule. he s a nice guy. happy for him. still can t figure out interstellar. it was a terrible movie. i didn t like it. there was a lot of black holes. it was about an hour too long. next up huge moves this morning in the race for president in 2016 and potential presidential candidates throwing around slogans. there are a lot of folks in washington who argue that the way republicans should win is that we should nominate a candidate from the mushy middle. but what words really work on the campaign trail? frank luntz next (son) oh no. can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix 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(dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that s why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it s not just a sedan. it s a subaru. i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn t treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. oh, what a relief it is. here we go! this morning brand-new information about potential runs from governor chris christie governor mitt romney, senator hillary clinton, and more. some potential presidential candidates already throwing around some slogans. but will they work? we re going to ask fox news contributor just that question frank luntz joins us now. good morning to you. we want to start first with kevin mccarthy. watch. i will work every single day to make sure this conference has the courage to lead with the wisdom to listen and will turn this country around. certainly a leader for the republican side. what are your thoughts on those words? brilliant. the courage to lead, the wisdom to listen is about the best single statement i ve heard from a member of congress in the last 12 months. i m going to steal that language because that is exactly what the american people are looking for. they want to know that their opinions are reflected in what members of congress do and they want to know that those members of congress are truly paying attention to the constituents that elected them. kevin mccarthy hit it perfectly with that phrase. meaningful line. ted cruz asked to comment on the candidacy of jeb bush and governor mitt romney. listen. there are a lot of folks in washington who argue that the way republicans should win is that we should nominate a candidate from the mushy middle. what i think that people are going to assess is who is standing up and leading? look at the great issues of the day. look at the great challenges whether it is bringing back jobs and growth and economic opportunity, whether it s defending our constitutional liberties or whether it is restoring america s leadership in the world. senator cruz has got that big picture and for republican primary voters, they want to replace the current big picture of barak obama. so cruz has been effective. that language right there articulates the reason why he s so popular among republican primary voters. they don t just want little details. they want to know what your vision is, what your principles are and that s what cruz explains. we re going to hop over their political line and take a sound from president obama talking about raising the minimum wage and growing the middle class. watch. about three in four americans support raising the minimum wage. that s because we believe that in the wealthiest nation on earth, nobody who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. if everybody does their part, if we all work together, we can make sure that the tide starts lifting all boats again. we can get wages and incomes growing faster. we can make sure the middle class is growing. so he focuses there on the middle class. but what americans are really more focused on is hard working taxpayers. i expect that you re going to hear much of that language in state of the union next tuesday. by the way people who are watching this want to participate in our live fox news state of the union focus group they need to go to luntzglobeal.com. barak obama is too focused on a specific segment of american society. when the public is saying let s focus on all of us. right. frank, ten seconds, are you surprised mitt romney is giving it another shot? am i surprised? yes. is he credible? absolutely. does he have a lot of questions he s got to answer? certainly does. frank luntz, thank you so much. thank you for joining us. always great to have you here. up next, airlines making millions off of your baggage. but are they keeping more of your money than they should be? what we just found out you might not like. this guy thought he could get away with rob ago helpless old lady. little did he know some marines were right there. they will join us live. 34 minutes past the top of the hour. $8.2 million. that s how much money the airline industry raked in from fees like checked bags and premium seats. that s up 700 million from 2013. next, 46.6 million. that s how many americans are on food stamps. the 38th straight month numbers have topped 46 million. that s more than 14% of the entire population. and finally 100,000. that s how many followers a day victoria secret is getting on instagram. helping them out, these sizzling new swimsuit photos from puerto rico. that s pretty good looking, got to say. steve? instagram. thank you very much. don t mess with these three marines. after hearing a woman s calls for hem outside their local recruiting office, they jumped into action by thwarting a robbery and busting one of the bad guys. joining us now from seattle three staff sergeants join us live. gentlemen, good morning to you. good morning. let s pick up the story. your recruiting office in the seattle area is adjacent to a mall. was it you who first noticed a woman in trouble? that s correct. myself and these others were in the office when we started hearing honking. we were the first ones out. so you heard some honking and then looked out and you saw that she was running over curbs and stuff like that. when you got to her, what did she say? she rolled down her window said she was being robbed by these two guys that they had a gun and for help. okay. so you came to her rescue. they said those bad guys have a gun. so what did you do next? we chased them down sir. but they ve got a gun. if somebody says, hey those guys got away. they ve got a gun, i don t know that i would chase them. but i think it was staff sergeant shoemaker who said i ve been shot at before. it s not as bad as everybody thinks. most people miss. that s correct sir. well, that s accurate. i guess you would know i know all of you guys have been deployed to afghanistan and iraq as well. so at what point did you realize, wait a minute, there is one of the guys who the lady described? the minute she said it, she pointed in that direction. they turned and fled. so we assumed that it was them. okay. so you gave chase and what happened? gave chase, crossed the street. the suspect that we apprehended started to turn and that s when i put him in a wrist lock and sergeant sylvester blocked his path. did i read that you put him in the wrist lock because you didn t want to get him down on the ground because you were wearing your dress blues and didn t want to get dirty? that s correct. that s awesome. as they re detaining, staff sergeant twig, what did you do? i was on the phone with 911. there were no police on the scene at that time. all right. and you held one of the guys and did he say anything to you guys? he just offered his excuse that he was trying to get a ride and said we couldn t touch him because we didn t have badges. great. what did you say to him? i didn t talk to him much at all. i don t blame you. he s in big trouble now. we should point out that the woman who did the honking was a retired police officer and she wasn t going to let those punks rob her. and of course you didn t either because you all were in the right place at the right time. staff sergeants, thank you very much for being in the right place at the right time. thank you. that s great. job well done. straight ahead parents worst nightmare playing out on 911. somebody stole my car and my baby is in there! oh, boy. the incredible story of how the three-year-old saved himself from a carjacker. and what happens when the chicken tries to cross the road? we finally figure it out. our eyes they have a 200-degree range of sight. which is good for me. hey! and bad for the barkley twins. your brain can send information to the rest of your body at 268 mph. three times the speed of a fastball. take care of your most important parts with centrum. multivitamins expertly designed with nutrients people don t get enough of from food alone. centrum. for the most important parts of you. we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us i mean, we re going to be there anyway why don t you just leave it for us to pick up? or you could always get in your car and take it back yourself yeah, us picking it up is probably your easiest option it s kind of a no brainer ok, well, good talk that dog is looking at me. today is national dog dress-up day. we re asking you to dress up your dog, faye a picture and send it in. yeah. all pets welcome. greg joined us with this picture. rocky the dog ready for work. look at that. got his tie right. and here is trisha s dog maverick, fresh off game day. gail sent this one of oliver and jackson looking dapper. springtime. and dennis sent in this photo of his dog, cocoa. look at that. how cute is that. keep them coming. we d like to see your dress up your dog day photos. you can e-mail them, facebook or tweet them. if your dog dress itself we ll put them first. pets are getting independent. we ve seen that all day. we opened up the show that way. we re going to turn to heather nauert. who also dresses herself. yes, i do. a huge feat. good morning to you. we begin with an update to a story we ve been following. it s considered a big win for religious freedom. a virginia school board voting down changes to their policy that would have forced some home schoolers to justify their religious beliefs. the board realizing that parents in the area were so fired up about this that they decided to repeal that rule. doug pruitt is one of those parents. he s a virginia father who has been home schooling his children under the religious exemption. he joined us yesterday with his outrage. we ve been home schooling our children for over ten years under the religious exemption. we applied for it in 2004. provided all of the information that we requested and so when we had this letter come, it really surprised us. there is still one more final vote at the board s next meeting. we ll keep you posted on those results. an incredible rescue caught on camera. it happened after a hiker was stranded overnight in california assize coy i can t national park after falling 35 feet into a river, you can see her being hoisted up into a california highway patrol helicopter. she spent all night near the riverbank until hikers heard her crying for help the next morning. she looked like an angel. most beautiful eyes that i ve ever seen. i was just so happy and grateful that i was found. i feel like the word thank you is not enough. if there was something bigger, better, i would say it. but thank you, thank you, thank you. they were amazing. how kind of that rescuer to have held her hair back to comfort her. she broke her arm and she is pretty scraped up, but otherwise doing just fine. an update to bring you on an amazing story of these climbers at yosemite national park. it s believed they are well getting a lot closer to reaching the summit. they ve been doing there for 17 days now. they re supposed to reach a crucial point later today. we ll have to watch that story for you. why did the chicken cross the road? no this is not the start of a joke. a chicken really did manage to get across a busy highway. this is in los angeles of all places. road crews used a truck to keep that chicken out of harm s way. the california highway patrol eventually catching the feathered fugitive. what they did with him, who knows? maybe put him in a pot. they saved it to kill it? why would you do that? why? chip showed up. thank you very much. you know it s wednesday and that means maria molina joins us from the streets of new york city and she tries to stump us which is not tough w science trivia. yeah, that s right. good morning. and today s question has to do with the mid-atlantic ridge on the floor of the atlantic ocean. the question is, it s spreading at what rate? you mean breaking apart? yeah. it s tech tonic. i didn t know what was n it s moving. across the atlantic ocean on the floor. you have two plates that are spreading apart. so the question is at what rate are they spreading apart. .025-centimeters per year .25-centimeters per year, b we were talk being this the other day. what was the answer? i remember the other day it was c. that s right! brian, you re right. it s 2.5-centimeters per year. we passed the time talking about techtonic plates. who measures that? i m sure that you have a lot of scientists measuring that. there are plates all across the world. in the pacific they cause a lot of earthquakes and unfortunately tsunamis sometimes. in the atlantic, they re kind of spreading. so you don t get as many earthquakes with that. now we know how fast. thank you. steve has a follow-up question for the host. not in the form of a question. thank you very much. sounds good. it is now 23 minutes before the top of the hour. now that you know about that, a three-year-old boy kidnapped when somebody drove away in his mother s car. he was still inside. scary. but it was that three-year-old that saved his own life. now i know why anna kooiman is here. she s been following this story and has the details of this saga. it is incredible. good morning. what started as a normal day dropping off her infant at daycare quickly turned into the worst nightmare for this woman. listen. somebody stole my car and my baby is in there! where was your car last seen? at the little i don t know the address. oh my god. my baby is in there! inside the ogden utah daycare for two minutes, a stranger took off in her running car with her three-year-old son aidan, inside. i don t know. you don t know your cell phone number! it s in the car! that s when police had the idea to call her cell phone hoping the carjacker would answer. but instead, it was aidan who picked up. he was just telling me the guy is going through your purse. he s getting your purse. i m like it s okay. just stay calm. just sit in your seat. everything will be okay. can you imagine? the suspect then abandoned the car, leaving aidan alone. police told aidan to hop into the front seat and then started honking the horn. he honked the horn until there was an officer there and we were close and we got to him. he was scared. that s for sure. he s okay. happy ending. that suspect still on the run. but aidan is now back home safe with his mother. a few things were taken from the car, but the woman says nothing is more important than having her son in her arms. back to you. i got a feeling she s not going to leave him in the car again when she s not in the car. thank you. he was such a good listener. he did exactly what they told him to. smart kid. this coming up this is an actual ad in a teacher s union magazine. take a close look there. it encourages teachers to use a legal loophole to get free plastic surgery on your dime. that s how you enhance your natural beauty. and over and over again, jesse watters has proven americans don t know much about history. what was george washington s job? george washington was one of the presidents? which president. the second president after lincoln? kids. the wife of former speaker newt gingrich calista gingrich is here with a plan to educate the next generation because as we just saw they need help. first this trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1969, he was on a funny but canceled fox show which was recently revived on netflix. who is it? be first with the correct answer. you ll get something special. you get sick you can t breathe through your nose. suddenly. you re a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone so you can breathe and sleep shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. 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[container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility there s no going back. quick head leans now. is this little girl a dog whisper other or in danger? one two, three. okay. wow. those are six pit bulls the little girl is feeding but people online are saying that breed of dog is notorious for being aggressive. others argue they are well behaved. and two teen-agers apparently inspired by captain jack sparrow. they tried stealing a man s waltz in brooklyn with an antique pistol. the firearm so old, they aren t facing charges. they could get seven years in prison for attempted stickup. bottom line don t stick people up with anything. we ve seen how bad some americans are when it comes to knowing their history. watch. who did america fight in the revolutionary war? the french? why did the pilgrims come from england? i no. it was to ex brother the west? how did the first thanksgiving go down? i don t even know. and you live in plymouth? i know. they got here on cape cod at some time and thanksgiving popped out. who won the civil war? the north or south? what was george washington s job? george washington was one of the presidents? which president? he was the second president after lincoln. he didn t work with horses did he? god bless you. thanks, you too. our first president abraham lincoln. now there are some children books to help insure the future generations of americans won t be worst when it comes ho history. calista gingrich s latest book is here and she joins us now. good morning to you. good morning to you. why do we need to know about history, because if there is ever a question, we can just google it. it s more important now than ever that our children understand what makes this country so special. and obviously we ve just seen an example of that. does that horrify you? it s distressing. we re not just making that up. according to statistics 20% of fourth graders, only 17% of eighth graders and only 12% of 12th graders actually tested at a proficient level. your kids are a treasure in our home. i think kids at at that age are excited to learn about history. they love ellis and they love seeing how history, real people walked through these times. i think most kids are eager and enthusiastic to learn. but we do need to give them these tools at an early age so they can begin to appreciate the greatness of this nation. tell me about the story line here. from sea to shining sea ellis learns about the great expedition of louis and clark. this is one of the most important expeditions in the history of our country. it was a voyage from st. louis to the pacific that inspired many americans to go west. i hate to break it to you, but i read the history of lewis and clark. i don t remember an elephant. ellis was there. who do you blame for the fact that so many americans are in the dark? is it the educators? the family set-up? who do you take responsibility to? i think a lot of people dislike america and they don t want to uphold our true history unfortunately. they degrade our history. and unfortunately, kids today are learning revisionist and politically correct history and not the true facts. this is my mission to give our children the real history at an early age. i thank you for that. unfortunately, i d like to have everyone smile and say this a great segment and nonpartisan. but we found something about your background that needs some explaining. let s look at this shot. this is ellis the elephant, but he s taking a position on this weekend s game. well, he is. explain this, calista. ellis is a nonpartisan elephant. but does he have a real fondness for the green bay packers. oh, really? he s a cheese head? i had no idea. elephants like cheese, too? there was one on the lewis and clark expedition and he likes cheese? absolutely. he s very excited about the game this weekend. right. seattle fans, we apologize. from sea to shining sea, we thank you for that. it s outstanding for the kids. ours love t. you should get it out there. by the way, newt gingrich, who is just standing off camera, thank you for coming in, mr. speaker. you can say something. he s not allowed to say anything. he doesn t want to talk. what s the world coming to? coming up on this wednesday this is an actual ad in a teacher s union magazine encouraging teachers to use a legal loophole to get free plastic surgery on your dime. first on this date in history in 1951, the first nfl pro bowl all-star game was played in los angeles. in 1999, the impeachment trial of president bill clinton begins in washington. in 1972 american pie by don mcclain was the song of the day. he sang that on this show. it goes on for 45 minutes. americans. 57% of us try to exercise regularly. 83% try to eat healthy. yet up to 90% of us fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let s do more, together. add one a day. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus, for women, physical energy support with b vitamins. and for men, it helps support healthy blood pressure with vitamin d and magnesium. take one a day multivitamins. the answer to the trivia question of the day is jason bateman and our winner is snooki from new york city. congress graduals. you re getting a cop of george washing(-9 talk about trouble with schools a school in upstate new york racking up a $40 million deficit thanks in part to a program that pays for the teachers plastic surgery. i m not kidding. face lifts liposuction maybe both. $5 million worth of that work and the school has to cover them thanks to an outdated union contract. joining me is the chief financial operating officer for buffalo schools, barbara smith. good morning to you. good morning. i noticed and we showed earlier in the program that the union newsletter includes ads from three, not one, not two but three cosmetic service priors asking for teachers to come back for such procedures such as botox, breast enhancement, body contouring hair transplants. i mean this seems to be conclude conclude tag talk about hand in the pocket how upsetting is this? it s very upsetting and we ve got ways to eliminate the cosmetic surgery rider even though it s expired. this is on the moms and dads taxpayers wallet. they re paying for these surgeries to take place. how much money is being spent on these? annually, a little over $5 million. that s a whopping amount of money. nearly $5 million here. then when you look at i m just thinking there has got to be a better way for that money to be spent. perhaps it would be on the education of the students there because buffalo students scores right now just 12.2% of buffalo kids rated proficient or better in gush. 13.1% of them, only that number rated proficient or better in math. that 5.4 million could be better spent elsewhere perhaps? yes. we totally agree with you. we would certainly like to put those dollars toward additional student support, smaller class sizes, extended learning time. this is a common sense issue i think for every american out there who knows that the taxpayer shouldn ting footing the bill for these type of cosmetic surgeries. but what s stopping the change? $5.4 million spent on that. what s the block? the block is essentially an outdated union contract that expired in 2004 that continues based upon new york state law. so absent a new agreement or at least the union leadership agreeing to end the rider, the district has to continue the benefits of that plan. it seems as though it s a thick relationship here. if you have advertisement in the union publication for such surgery, a handshake deal perhaps? well, i don t know about that. we ve offered last year we offered every member who had the benefit $500 and a health benefit card to give up the cosmetic surgery rider which still would have saved us $4 million. what was the result of that? the union leadership did not take it to their members for approval. really a shame. barbara smith, we want to thank you for joining us this morning and hope this can be resolved soon for the kids. thank you canned and ready. talk about schools. one principal asking parents to arm their kids are nonperrishable food items cause throwing cans could stun an intruder with a gun. and bob newark suddenly making huge headlines thanks to his look alike football referee. that ref joins us live to react to all the commotion. we ll see if he throws the flag on us next hour i m jerry bell the second. and i m jerry bell the third. i m like a big bear and he s my little cub. this little guy is non-stop. he s always hanging out with his friends. you ve got to be prepared to sit at the edge of your seat and be ready to get up. there s no deep couch sitting. definitely not good for my back. this is the part i really don t like right here. 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[jerry bell iii] deep couch sitting! morning. it s wednesday, january 14. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. airports across the country ramping up security this morning after terrorists reveal a secret bomb making recipe and even describe how to sneak it on to the plane. plus a new message from an al-qaeda in yemen this morning. and it sounds like something straight out of a spy movie. the f.b.i. foiled a plot to kill the speaker of the house with poison. how john boehner s country club bartender wanted to take him out. unbelievable. canned and readiment one school principal asking parents to arm their kids with nonperrishable heavy food items because throwing canned goods can stun an intruder with a gun. what do you think about that? you re actually weigh not guilty because mornings are better with friends. hi. we re the oak ridge boys. you are watching fox & friends . that guy has quite a voice. i ve noticed some e-mail. they re film ago commercial in front of ou building of the there is a coffee cart right there. they got the movie lights. apparently it has something to do with coffee. and winter. if you are traveling today, please take special note because we have a fox news alert because airport security is stepping up from coast to coast. it has a lot to do with the paris attacks and the publication of inspire magazine and the threat of a hidden bomb and a lot of people are focusing on carry on baggage and there are special inspections at this hour. that s right. and new video just released on youtube as al-qaeda in yemen reiterating responsibility for the charlie hebdo attack in paris. a terrorist attack there one of the leaders claiming they are behind the funding and motivation. yeah. so there you ve got inspire magazine giving people the recipe to put this super potent bomb on an airplane that according to the magazine quote, the recipe is so easy it s something quote, every determined muslim can prepare. however, whatever you do with the white house don t talk about islamic extremists. sure. they are terrorists, but they re not islamic terrorists. why? because that s not accurate. hold your jaw up and listen to josh earnest. i certainly wouldn t want to be in a position where i m repeating the justification that they have cited that think is completely illegitimate. that they have invoked islam to try to justify their attacks. i think what i m trying to do is describe to you what happened and what they did. these are individuals who are terrorists. we have not chosen to use that label because it doesn t seem to accurately describe what happened. really? times square bomber, same thing. subway bomber, same thing. fort hood, 9-11, what about in spain, what about in britain and paris? you know what josh earnest said, he said they are terrorists, but what they did sure, they re islamic, but they used islam as an excuse to justify the attack. wow. reading from the koran. reducing and side stepping that. it s like terrorist taboo when it comes to thes who and their administration. a lot happening. we ll move to our other top story. i cannot believe this happened. murder by poison of the speaker of the house? well, this morning the f.b.i. investigating a plot to kill the speaker of the house, john boehner. who would do the killing? the bartender with poison or a gun, right peter doocy? that s right. this bartender in ohio says nobody watched what went into speaker boehner s wine glass so he says it would be easy to slip something in. the man who allegedly wanted to kill boehner 44-year-old michael hoyt. his motive, according to court documents, quote, he told the officer that he was jesus christ and that he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean to him at the country club and because boehner is responsible for ebola. the plan never materialized because hoyt called 911 in october and when police responded, he told them that he was going to shoot the speaker with a baretta 380 automatic because he thinks boehner had him fired from the country club in westchester ohio. that gun was later recovered from his home and the bosses at the country club say it was a bad attitude and not boehner that got him the boot. hoyt has a history of mental illness and prescribed medication two years ago but stopped taking it after six months. now a spokesman for the speaker is out with a statement and say, quote, speaker boehner is aware of the situation and sincerely thanks the f.b.i. capitol police and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. it s worth pointing out that court documents say boehner told the capitol police and the f.b.i. he knows this bartender, but can t remember any negative interaction. back to you. wow. so bizarre. thanks peter. although the guy is a complete nitwit because e-mailed him and his wife and said, by the way, i could poison you any time. as crazy as the guy who shot eggen and lennon. let s talk about 2016. the horse race has more than started. first off governor christie back in the news. he thinks he s going to form some type of president yam pac, leadership pac sometime this month. he knows he can not wait considering all the news about republicans get not guilty and raising money. you have mitt romney calling on political allies and operate actives to get some momentum there again. he s calling all his guys. will the third time be a charm for him? would the third bush be a charm? jeb bush apparently fundraising in california. rand paul hired a campaign manager and hillary clinton hire add chief strategist and media advisor. later today, chris christie is going to be in south carolina. they ve got a very very important primary down there. on friday he s going to be in iowa. he sounds like he s running for president. actually he sounded like he was running for president yesterday in a very nationallish speech about the state of new jersey down in trenton the state capitol. we are a nation beset by anxiety and it s understandable. economic growth is low by postwar recovery standards. america s leadership in the world is called in question because of a pattern of indecision and inconsistency. so funny so see them going at each other. ted cruz using the mushy middle to talk about jeb bush and rand paul says if he runs to the right of jeb bush, that s what governor romney said he ll do, he ll still be to the left of the party. they clearly are different. ted cruz, rand paul jeb bush, as well as mitt romney. let us know which one of those names look like a front runner. there are a couple of dozen on the right and one or two on the left. i know. elizabeth warren said yesterday, i absolutely, positively am not running for president. ever. you can print that. looks like hillary there. i absolutely pledge to toss to heather nauert. if you don t believe me, i ll do it now. heather? you re a man of your word. good morning. let s start with a fox news alert. this coming in, a new round of air strikes against isis in syria and also in iraq. u.s. and coalition forces targeting the strongholds with six strikes using bomber and also fighter aircraft and then in iraq, another 12 strikes were carried out using attack and fighter drones. another fox news alert. the crew on board the international space station is now totally safe following some really scary moments earlier this morning. there was an ammonia leak and it forced american crews to quickly evacuate from their side of the space station and head over to the russian side. fortunately, we are told that everyone is now safe. you may remember crews picking a dangerous space walk back in 2013 to fix an actual ammonia leak. while you were sleeping, officials finding the fuselage of air asia flight 8501. these are pictures from an underwater camera. you can see the company slogan painted on the side of the fuselage. now everyone can fly. that s what it says. part of the wing was also discovered alongside the body of that aircraft. we may soon learn more about what caused that crash. officials have downloaded the flight data recorder from one of the black boxes. and then an update to bring you on the amazing story of those two climbers who are trying to do what seems to many of us, impossible. this happenings in yosemite national park. they re closing in on their historic feat. the two have been climbing the shear granite face of the wall for the past 17 days. today we are told they may reach their summit finally. they re trying to be the first to free climb a 3,000-foot wall. they re able to just use their hands and feet to climb that. they ve got some safety rope. but imagine that using your hands and feet. steve will tell you it s not that hard. it takes all the strength of your digits (nail themselves into a granite wall. get ready for this. a principal is actually asking middle school students to bring in cans, 8 ounce cans of corn or peas. something throwable. so they can use that can as a form of self-defense should an attacker get into the school. this is in alabama and is a middle school there. the principal just wants the kids able to defend themselves. they say if a bad guy comes in the class, then they ll be able to throw a can of too in a at the person. you hit them with chick peas ouch. they also suggest in regular classrooms to use a textbook. this school is taking it one step further. let s have textbooks. let s have cans of cling peaches as well. we asked you if you thought this was a good idea. keep in mind, they would need to resort to canned goods if staff members were armed. taffy on facebook says this, i know it sounds funny, but i believe in fighting back any way i can. this is better than nothing. i agree with that. stacy says, i wouldn t want my kid to be that close to a gunman. how about hiring a retired military personnel to protect all our children at school? that is great idea. great suggestion there. and faith suggests this, it s called counter measures and empowers students to take action and keeps them from being sitting ducks in hostile situations. you re comments have been pouring in. we love the fact you re responding. this is a drill and what it was like. you see the kids getting their cans prior to this and throwing them. those are textbooks. that would hurt. imagine cans. the school says if they were not used as self-defense, which we hope they would not have to be used, that they will donate them to a local food pantry. and where do you get to volunteer to be the intruder? yeah. did you volunteer yourself? not really. what do you think? keep the e-mail coming in. we ll share more later online. his decision to protect his fellow soldiers got him nearly two decades in prison. but what if prosecutors got it all wrong? peter johnson, jr. is here next with the new push for that man s freedom. and a young dazed and confused matthew mcconaghey is in one of his first auditions. people cannot stop watching this. hey, man, you got a joint. not on me why? you d be a lot cooler if you did. we re going to take you right inside that room in a few minutes coming up. all right, all right, all right. () my son has been grieving because even though he did what he felt he had to do and he said if he was in the same situation, he would do it again. he chose to protect his troops. here on fox & friends, a heart broken mother of army lieutenant clint lorance says her son was sent to jail for protecting his troops, which was his duty. men approached his platoon on motorcycles and he gave the order to engage. they opened fire. two of the three men were killed. the army said those men did not have ties to terrorist. so the lieutenant went to prison to serve a 20 year sentence. his attorneys are accusing army lawyers of withholding crucial evidence of the men s terror connections. now thousands of people are petitioning the white house to pardon him and even members of congress are calling for a new trial. joining us now, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson jr. who brought us this story. if he and his lawyers are right, this is one of the greatest railroading in the history of an american fighting man. they are now saying in a modification petition to general clark, the commanding officer, that quote, the prosecution arguing and closing that there is no suggestion that the alleged victims were taliban. as it turns out there has good bit suggesting that they were, are associated with terror. this is legal error. the law requires a new trial. that s right. the supreme court precedent that says if you withhold evidence bringing material, that s evidence leading the jury to believe that you re not guilty of the crime, then you get a new trial. what they have done, steve, is expose new evidence that they say the army had, the defense department had and failed to turn over. and that s the troubling part. apparently there was evidence and we ve got information to put up on the screen one man killed was a co-conspirator to a man serving a 20-year sentence for ied attacks in afghanistan. the man lorance was attempted to engage was ied in kandahar and the guy interviewed was incarcerated in afghanistan and linked to four separate ied events. peter, when we last talked about this, we were looking to help this man get clemency. that didn t happen. what s left? what s left is a new petition modification to general clark and if that do not work, go to the court of appeals, military court of appeals. also there is a petition that has gone up now to the white house. they have about 80,000 or so signatures at this point petitioning the president to look at this particular issue. obviously this is not a cut and dry issue. there are some soldiers that say that lieutenant lorance was out of control overzealous and that the decision to fire on these afghannies was inappropriate and wrong and resulting in this conviction. the lieutenant s lawyers say the jury never heard. the jury was never told that. the jury was never told about the terror ties and what they ve done is put together this impressive dossier showing the terror connections that the defense department knew of five of the seven people involved with this incident. peter, it s cut and dry. the government withheld evidence that his lawyers say would have exonerated him. the lowest low life. the biggest dirt bag in america is entitled to the constitution. why shouldn t a lieutenant who spent ten years fighting for america be entitled to those same protection as soon as we don t know whether he s innocent or guilty. but give this man a fair trial. you just mentioned that somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 signed up. if you would like to help this guy, go to white house.gov and sign the petition for mr. lorance. thanks so much. thank you. see what happens. coming up, jimmy carter says the terrorist attacks in france, israel s fault. you re going to want to hear that. he s straight ahead. michael keaton s words of wisdom gone viral. in a household in which i was raised, the themes were pretty simple. he said hard work, don t quit. be appreciative. be respectful. how do you make sure your kids wind up with mr. mom s attitude? dr. keith able has the advice we all need. you just got a big bump in miles. so this is a great opportunity for an upgrade. sound good? great. because you re not you you re a whole airline. and it s not a ticket you re upgrading it s your entire operations, from domestic to international. which means you need help from a whole team of advisors. from workforce strategies to tech solutions and a thousand other things. so you call pwc. the right people to get the extraordinary done. push your enterprise and you can move the world. but to get from the old way to the new you ll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. and stay ready for everything that is still to come. 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number one, don t think it s easy. you ve got to plan to be able to deliver that kind of richness to your kids. you ve got to hold yourself responsible to do that. i always try to think of whether i m getting an a as a dad and it s really the most important thing because, in fact but if you walk through a cemetery and look at the head stones, it doesn t say anywhere what your profession was or what car you drove. it says whether you were or were not and generally people are kind. beloved father and decent husband. that s what goes on your epitaph. you mentioned decent husband. so kids have eyes on how fathers are triting their spouses, their wives. how much of an effect do you think that has? tremendous effect. someone wiser than i said if you want to do something wonderful for your children love their mother. it s hard, though. listen, so many people fall short. i think that you have to be willing to say listen. we didn t get to the great a today, but let s keep trying. and know that your kids are always watching. children are absorbing so much more than we think they are and they remember single events. remember when you said this dad? so don t be afraid to go back. circle back to your kids and say, listen, this morning i think i disappointed you. i think i said something i didn t mean. don t be afraid to do that. you said for every michael and sean keaton, there are fathers who are short tempered, who are not often absent. there s a lot of imperfect people looking at this and even the keatons i m sure are not perfect. nobody is perfect. that s right. show up. so that s one thing. unfortunately, we d have to say that to a lot of dads. be there. don t leave. parent your kids. for the other ones who those of white house are at home trying our hardest, i would say this simply be willing to listen to your children. spending time with them is what they remember. they remember those things more than anything else, more than the christmas gifts they got. were you present? great message there. thank you. you see all kinds in your office. but you can t tell us specifics but you studied this and you have your own case studies to learn from. thanks dr. keith. absolutely. coming up straight ahead, a newspaper publishing this now iconic photo of the world leaders at the rally in paris. but it s missing something. who they photo shopped out. take a close look there. and actor bob newheart suddenly making headlines thanks to this look alike referee. he s up next to react to all the commotion. i m sure bob newheart loved when think took his elf costume. reusel crumble, be from. fiber one. fiber one streusel. nexium® 24hr. it s the purple pill the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™ [container door opening] what makes it an suv is what you can get into it. [container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility there s no going back. take a look at this. it s your shot of the morning. it s nearly dog gone unbelievable. yep. a clip of the black lab riding the seattle bus by herself. nothing stops her from getting to the dog park and the bus is apparently the fastest way. eclipse and her owner, jeff, joined us earlier this morning from seattle. jeff talked about the first time eclipse hopped on the bus without him. first time she jumped on the bus, i wasn t sure if she got back on the bus or went in the house. another person poe bus stop pointed out that yeah, she got on the bus. it s a bus her and i rode to the dog park a million times. i was pretty sure that s where she would be headed. and i was on the next bus after her and she was at the dog park. she got out at the right stop. she sure did. jeff says that they re going to be headed to the dog park together later today. fun. hopefully she ll make it there again. he said he was going to get to the park and send us a picture. plus we should point out the dog is not riding for pre. the dog actually has a monthly pass. she sure does. right. he holds it right between his webbed feet. a token in one paw and a milk bone in the other. yeah. i d like to see footage of that. has anyone seen heather nauert? she s there to your left. brian, did you hear the story about the dog on long island who used to take the train out there? famous dog in one of the local towns. that s a line i m not allowed on. years ago. they kicked you off. they don t want me on that line. okay. got some news now to bring you. take a look at two of those photos from the paris unity march. they re almost identical right? there is one slight problem. the women have been completely removed from the second photo. the original picture was taken at sunday s unity march that shows world leaders standing arm in arm, including the chancellor of german, angela merkel and the mayor of paris. one orthodox israeli newspaper decided to edit out the female leaders as though they were never there. former president jimmy cart service sounding off on radical islam and the recent terrorist attacks in france. the 39th president telling the daily show s jon stewart that the violence in paris was fueled by something else and that something is israel. listen. one of the arguments social security the palestinian problem and this aggravates people who are what they re doing now is being done to them. i think that s part of it. president carter not explaining exactly how he thinks that the israel-palestinian issue should be solved and how it would help the violent conflicts in the rest of the arab world. ann curry signing off from nbc news. she s leaving the network after 25 years. sort of. there are reports that curry has a development deal with the network and may still appear occasionally on nbc. she was forced off the today show more than two years ago because of well issues with the host matt lauer. she and executives negotiating how to end her $12 million a year contract. wow. everybody knows this famous line from dazed and confused. remember this? that s what i love about these high school girls man. i get older and they stay the same age. doocy says that all the time around here. i m just kidding! he doesn t say that. are you kidding? i m just teasing. it was delivered perfectly by matthew mcconaghey. but even the oscar winner at one point had to audition in his career. look at this. keep getting older. they stay the same age. it s now been released for the first time. it s his audition from dazed and confused. you can see as he breezes through those lines. it was his first ever film. just as cute as ever. steve does do a fantastic all right, all right, all right. all right, all right, all right. and he sounds just like him. let me do that again. all right, all right, all right. i wonder if she s all right, all right, all right out there because it s cold. maria molina how are you? so cold out here. current windchill in new york city 8 degrees. even colder in areas farther toward the west. in chicago feels like 4. in marquette, 0 is the current windchill temperature. still cold across parts of the east and because it s cold and we do have a storm system, we do have some snow coming across parts of the mid-atlantic. there are winter weather advisories that have been issued and even freezing rain advisories due to some freezing rain in that area. so watch out for slick roads. snow coming down across portions of new mexico, up to a foot along some of the higher elevations out there. that s great newser in skiers. i have even better news for you guys in there. we re going to be looking at a warm-up, including the northeast, temperatures are going to be climbing as we head into this weekend. by saturday, 65 for the high. in dallas 60s in new orleans. in the 30s in new york city. by sunday, mid 40s. in new york city, and boston. chicago. 50. it s going to start to feel better out there over the next couple of days. let s head back inside. all right, all right, all right. thank you. ohio state national championship win over oregon is making headlines throughout the week. especially in the aftermath. but not in the way you think. the biggest news maker perhaps outside the final score and the championship, the game s referee. his resemblance to bob newheart. without a doubt. social media exploded on monday night. look at this side by side screen with the tweets about how the head referee and his resemblance to the comedy legend. so much so that newheart himself weighed in, tweeting, in regards to my new career as head ref, hey, i don t have a series anymore. i had something to do. that s so funny. how does that college ref feel about the comparison? joining us now is greg burks, joining us from colorado springs. good morning to you. good morning. has anybody ever told you hey, you look like bob newheart? once or twice. i was on a rental car bus one time and a lady said she thought i looked like bob newheart. he is about 80 years old. i don t know if that s a compliment. not so much. i would have loved to get up the next morning and have everybody compare me to george clooney. but i do look in the mirror and i do see the resemblance at times, yeah. over 3 million people were watching and probably saw that resemblance. when did it hit you? when did you realize that so many people were drawing those photos as the same? after we did the game and got on the bus to go back to the hotel. the umpire said hey, you re trending on twitter. i said what happened? the game went well. he said no no. there is a picture of bob newheart as an elf and they say he looks like you. and i thought oh great. that s special. first second did your heart drop? isn t that the biggest nightmare, for the referee to be the story? you know, in the sense that we re talking about bob newheart and not a pass interference call or something that we messed up on the field, this is okay. overall, how spanish was it to be in the first college championship division 1 ever? oh, it was fantastic. it was life long dream and to be affiliated with that game was just fantastic. congratulations. you had to be the best to get in there and you certainly did. 33 million people watched. thanks so much. my pleasure. take care. no throwing the flag on that. coming up, have you seen this? don t say another word. well, it looks like video of a terror training camp. but it s right in our own backyard. you got to see this and we ll explain it all next. chilling. and nascar s kurt busch says his ex-girlfriend is an assassin. 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[ m m. ] [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell s healthy request. m m! m m! good.® i ve smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now.i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that s why i choose nicoderm cq. welcome back. it s time for quick courtroom headlines. nascar star kurt busch claiming his ex-girlfriend is a trained assassin. in court over her request for a restraining order he says she travels the world on covert missions to kill people. the claim is called, absolutely ludicrous. the supreme court determining if this beard can have a beard while in prison. he converted to islam and wants a beard for religious purposes. also expected is a ruling on the case of a pregnant woman versus ups. she was placed on unpaid leave after she became pregnant and could no longer lift heavy boxes steve. meanwhile, a new report reveals some pretty scary numbers showing new government regulations could cost the taxpayers, all of us, nearly $1.9 trillion this year. incredible. so what is it going to mean for the united states economy? there is only one person to call. fox news own you know maria bartiromo. costing atrial? it s unbelievable. the fact is these numbers are so extraordinary, this $1.9 trillion number is more than certain gdps of countries around the world. it is such a high number. and as a result of this, you are going to see higher bills. that s the bottom line. i think when you factor in the kind of increases that we re seeing in the cost of regulation, in particular the epa latest regulation has been the most onerus. when i speak to ceos, they say this particular ruling and cost of regulation from the epa is going to mean they will be forced to pass on the price to consumers. so i think what people miss here in terms of increasing and talking about increasing regulation is the fact that at the end of the day, a company is not going to say, oh well. we re just going to swallow this higher cost and we will just make less money. no. that s not what they re going to do. they are going to go forward and say, okay. this is costing us more. so this will cost our customers more. increasingly ceos are telling me that we will see electricity prices in particular go higher. americans should watch their electricity bills. that s what s going to be the result. higher bills there, but as a result of this epa report. and legislation. and speaking of ceos i see behind you, a sign that says jpmorgan. i hear you have an exclusive. we are at the jpmorgan health care conference. i have an exclusive interview with jamie dimon. this is an interview which is exclusive and his first interview since surviving throat cancer. he has battled a lot bigger issues than regulation and cost of regulation over the last year. he s been balloting throat cancer. he said he has a good bill of health. he told me all about the last year and he also talked about the health of the economy with me and the cost of regulation. jpmorgan reported earnings today. they did report a strong quarter. it was below analyst expectations. the reason? they had to take an almost billion dollars charge for legal expense. having said that. he says as he looks across the country, he thinks things are improving and when he speaks with ceos, his customers, he says that they are wanting to expand. not cut back. yeah. the government turned their attention on him and it cost the company a lot of money. in fact, we have a cut. you want to listen? absolutely. you don t normally see companies ever i deal with ceos around the world. particularly in the united states where people say i m going to shrink next year. i don t have any ambition. i m not going to invest. no they re look for ways to grow expand, do more. everybody is looking to grow, expands, do more. but as we detailed a moment ago there is a lot of regulation. there are a lot of other trap doors for people in business these days. there sure are. and that, as well as the issues around the world. weakness in europe and you ve got weakness in china. that s going to impact the u.s. all of that we get to that that interview that s running today on the opening bell on the fox business network. all right. and don t miss on the fox business network, you can find it in your area by logging on foxbusiness.com. coming up, have you seen it? the video of terror training camp. watch. your land is open to the public. oh, no. that s not yemen. it s right here in the united states. if you can believe it. the man who has gone inside of it here next. speaking of the man, the man is going to run the channel here in about 12 minutes. on me. my hand on the wheel. then you re going to join me on radio. we ll see you later, brian. good morning to all three of you. breaking news from the international space station. what we are learning from nasa at this hour. also al-qaeda claims it ordered the terrorist attacks in paris. and was john boehner the target for murder? martha and i will see you in 12 minute, top of the hour have you heard of the new dialing procedure for for the 415 and 628 area codes? no what is it? starting february 21, 2015 if you have a 415 or 628 number you ll need to dial. 1 plus the area code plus the phone number for all calls. okay, but what if i have a 415 number, and i m calling a 415 number? you ll still need to dial. 1 plus the area code plus the phone number. so when in doubt, dial it out! we ve been telling you about france s no go zone. hundreds of muslim areas that outsiders and cops don t dare to explore. they chose to give it up. we have them here in the united states too. i bet you did not know that. nearly two dozen enclaves popping up across nine different states. and watch what happens when a stranger or outsider tries to step inside. but your land is open to the public. you ll be arrested if you come down here. i m not being nice. leave. leave. period. don t say another word. joining us now, the man behind that camera. author of twilight in america . martin moyer joins us now. what was taking place right there? where were you? we were in red house virginia. it s an isolated community as most of these compounds are located in. all areas heavily wooded inside of the mountainous areas. and what we wanted to do was challenge their open invitation to actually come on to these compounds and see whether they were peaceful or not. so we brought our cameras and tried to get on and this is how we got treated. quickly, this is the whole thing that we re seeing here. what goes on in these campuses? a lot of people say there are jewish camps in this country jewish camps. why not a muslim camp? because these are truly no go zones. unlike the ones in europe, which i visited, you can walk into those no go zones. you can walk in with your cameras. you can talk to people. but in these particular no go zones, you can not get into. they have gates. they have armed guards. they have security forces. and when you go up into them you re specifically told to leave these particular areas. and they re particularly dangerous. we re watching now, where are we seeing this footage from? this is a video they put out for the people inside of the compounds so that they learn how to do terrorist type training. they teach them how to kidnap people, strangle them. how to kill guards. how to do guerrilla type warfare training. this is what goes on in these isolated no go zones inside the united states. in america name some states, name some areas cause you also say they re affiliated with a pakinstani militant group. yeah. that pakinstani militant group is run by sheik gilani who most people haven t heard of. that is the man daniel pearl was hoping to interview and was arranging to about view when he was kidnapped and later beheaded. name some towns and cities and states. we have them in texas, sweeney, texas. in york, south carolina. we have them in commerce, georgia. red house, virginia. upstate new york. california. michigan. they re scattered all around the united states. so right knew call an officer and say hey, wait a second. you got an enclave here, this is islamic extremists being trained on our ground, what is the law enforcement s reaction? the interesting thing about these camps, they re located in very rural areas of america which have very small police departments. they intentionally set them up in these areas where, for instance, the one in new york, they have a total of four police officers. i want you to hear what you say is a recruitment, the sound of a recruitment video to fill up the camps. listen. you are most welcome to join one of the most advanced training camps in islamic michigan or in south carolina or pakistan, wherever we are, you can reach us. where did you get that? actually it took about four years to locate that video. we knew it existed and we had someone inside of the law enforcement department out of colorado who snuck us the tape and finally we were to make it public. f.b.i. s reaction? f.b.i. s reaction is that look, they have the first amendment and their american rights to operate these in united states, regardless of the type of weaponry and guerrilla warfare training. it s not okay with they and does not seem to be okay with you. thank you so much. president and cio of christian action network. thank you. we ll keep looking at this. more fox & friends in just a moment. two of the biggest advertisers in this year s super bowl are going to the dogs. this was budweiser s ad last year featuring an adorable golden retriever running free where the clydesdales. they ll be bringing them back this year, while daddy.com godaddy.com will have this buzzy guy named buddy as the star of their ad. that looks like our dog, charlie. by the way today is national dress up your dog day. you guys flooded us with your photos. abbey sent in this picture of her pooch, lex. and this adorable yorkie in a tutu comes from emily from ohio. this is heather s dog coming up next. yeah. that s my dog, sadie, as spiedman. or spiderwoman. how did she like the costume? she didn t like it very well. this is one from florida. great one in a tiara. go on and on. thank you for joining us today. we ll see you back here on the couch tomorrow. bill: breaking news from international space station. a possible chemical leak on board. the mayor can side of the lab has been evacuated. there are indications of a possible ammonia leak. we ll bring you the details as we get them here. claiming responsibilities for the massacre in paris. a top commander of al qaeda in yemen says they chose the target, they financed the plan and they gave the green light a week ago
welcome back. let s get a check on the day ahead. president obama will follow up on the immigration announcement with a visit to nevada.announce. and the capitol christmas tree arrives in washington, d.c., the tree hails from minnesota this year, and it will be lit on december 2nd, that is it, morning joe starts right now. if you register, pass a criminal background check and you are willing to pay your fair share of of taxes you will be able to apply to stay in the country without the fear of deportation, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law, all we are saying is, we are not going to deport you, the critics of this action call it amnesty, it s not. it s the immigration system we have today. good morning, it s friday, november 21st, and welcome to morning joe, can you believe it s friday? it sort of has been a long week. that was president last night. amazing speech. we have political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman, hear old ford, jr. did you do wiell? he gave a good speech. controversial? no doubt. and morning. good to have you on board for just this reason. and the host ofof before we t to immigration and the big conversation about that, we want to start this morn onning in up-state new york where massive snow storm is going wrap up finally after pounding the buffalo region for the last few days. it has been breaking news over the past 36 hours. it has been blamed for ten deaths after dropping up to 7 feet in some area of snow. roof collapses are a major concern, with warmer temperatures this weekend expected and flooding will be an issue as well. lester holt has more on this . reporter: more than 100 patients had to be evacuated when the roof showed signs of weakening. there s potential for collapse. reporter: two dozen people driven from the roads by white-out conditions and deep snow has been holed up in the wall mrt store since tuesday. could not ask for a better place to be stranded. reporter: from the air, we could see the area painted in white, rooftops looked like they are slathered in whip cream. we can count dozens of cars that were stopped in their tracks, buri buried in snow, the roof is barely visible. even as road crews make progress, there s neighborhoods still can cut-off, surrounded by chest deep snow. we went down one street on foot where we could only shout a conversation. have you ever seen it like this? i have never seen it like this, i have lived here my whole life. reporter: the officials are doing their best to reach those with emergencies and are reminding hope-bound residents to take precautions. you are looking theity buffalo bills stadium. it s covered in snow, the schedule game on sunday has been moved to monday night in ford field in detroit. they were trying to get people to shovel it out, it s impossible at this point. let s bring in bill with the latest, bill? the snow totals are off the chart. the highest total we have in is over 7 feet of snow in this three-day event. it s really two storms that were separated by one day. all through theier, hamburg was 80 inches, orchard park where the stadium was cloelocated, it was a front end loader dug this woman out, and this is just from her driveway, you can see her son went out to climb the mountain of snow in her front yard. this is what they will deal with all winter long, it will be there all season. we will melt considerably, we will up to 61 on monday, it will be humid out there too, so that melts the snow faster. a half inch of rain, we are worried about flooding. worse damage was done by the snow and the wet of the snow. we will watch it as with we go through the weekend and good news is over the weekend, warm air builds across the country. we are two weeks of january type weather and it s over with after today. all right, bill, we will be in touch with you, we have the big news now this morning out of w with a, in the words of president obama, we were strangers once too. last night that speech to the nation the president made the emotional case for wide ranger immigration reform. but with a nod to the political blow-back that lies ahead. he heads to las vegas today to curoccucurry favor for the acti. it is intended to protect human trafficking victim. it will remove barriers for foreign workers to come here and work and stay longer, especially in the high tech industry. and the center piece will prevent the deportation of 5 million americans. he has argued that every president since eisenhower has taken action on immigration, it is clear that he is aware of the politics aa head. don t let the disagreement on a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. it s not how the democracy works. okay, javier, let s look at how the new york times, first line, president obama chose you know, i think first and foremost, our association, the 3.2 million hispanic in the country that collectively contribute billions of dollars in the economy stand in support of the president s action. it s not the action that anybody hoped for. i understand that, you and i are on the same page, could he have waited? could he have given them a deadline? what would have changed this this deadline? he could have, but the reality of it is, there s a bipartisan bill that has sat in congress now for over a year. and we prefer some action versus no action at all. ray suarez, when do you think? there was risk involved by the president, but it may have been a bigger risk to way longer. the president has been calling for congress to act on this for a long time, for years in fact. congress could not even fas dream act, which for a long time was considered the low hanging fruit of immigration reform. if you could not take the most sympathetic immigrants, people that were brought here as babes in arms in many cases and make them safe from deportation, what could you accomplish? the house had a long time to do something on it and did nothing. the president was advised by many to act earlier and he didn t. the clock was running and he was under pressure too. and the republicans are sounding the alarm. they are insensed about this. the top leaders are using the president s own words against him now. the president said before, he is not kin. and he is not an emperor, but he is sure acting like one, and he is doingi ining it at a time wh american people want us to work together. he was talking about immigration, and i know that some wish i could by-pass congress and change the law myself. but that is not how democracy works. indeed, mr. president, it isn t. previous comments were looked at on executive author aity, an they said it s false that his position has changed. it will embolden more desperate people to make the often deadly crossing from the united states to the united states from mexico it is said. and there s division on how best to respond to the president. some are pushing for budget strikes and others are dangling the idea of a shutdown and some are not fully ruling out impe h impeachment. we can defund areas of president obama s lawlessness, so we should do so, use the power of the purse. are you worried about the political blow-back on the republicans if they do that? not if it s targeted and limited. what are we talking? it s not government shutdown or anything drastic. third would be kuth out the appropriations bill. i don t want to could the last thing. nobody wants to do the i word, the president has thrown us in to the situation. you hear caution. lindsey graham is cautious saying if you make it about us, then it s not about the president and immigration. they can pass their own law that the president can vito. and the president said do it. pass the bill. first of all, i think the substance of what the president said, spot on. these are steps that should have been taken, his timing is wrong, however. i think it would probable have been better to give the republican new congress three months to act to it, and lay it out, and if they didn t, the president could still act on executive action. you have to wonder, there will be ramifications for this. the republicans warned before this happened and the president is taking a big risk on other parts of other important parts of the agenda being enacted. now this issue is important. and it may end up being the only issue that gets done over the next several months. hopefully the republicans are not equally silly and shutdown government or try to impeach the president. the democrats in the congress could have negative blow-back from this. do you feel the timing was provocative? putting the republicans in a place where they always do, trying to knock down what he has always done, instead of doing something productive. which he could have given them time to do. no doubt, it s provocative. the reality is that there s an amazing hispanic electorate that is growing by leaps and bounds. many turn 18 and become an eligible voter. every 30 seconds, a hispanic turns 18 and becomes a voter. the republicans have a chance here to illustrate leadership to this electorate, and finish what has begun long before president obama came along. ray, do you think the republicans will see it as an opportunity? no, but in some ways the president painted them in the corner. it s true when the president said that what he has done is limited. it is only in effect for the life of his administration. it can be rescinded by the next president or over ridden by legislation. but do the republicans want to aggressively move to break up families and start sending people home by using their legislative tools that they have been reluctant to use so far. do they want to do that? the president cannot make them legal, and he didn t do that last night. all he did was move them to the back of the line for waiting to be deported. he the cannot regularize their status, he didn t do it. do the republicans want to move in and say, sorry, buddy, you want to get on the next plane. i know it s a question with a long answer. give me a quick one and distil it down, what is your in my opinion? what do you think had hispanics and latinos in general are looking for, what is a sound immigration policily? you know, i think something comprehensive and permanent is what everyone is looking for. we are an organization that is focusing on economic development and the commercial and economic interest of the nation. anything that helps entrepreneurs and small business in the country is what we are looking for. this is not what anybody hoped for, there s an opportunity here to illustrate demonstrate lly d needed leadership. we will talk more about what is brewing on this after the president s comments last night t white house is pushing forward for the pick of the top treasury post. the administration has no plans to pull back on the nomination of antonio weise. it s said that he helped companies avoid taxes by moving money overseaoverseas. it s time for president to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over this issue warren s growing power is described as a test. and liberals are showing strong support for the massachusetts democrat. she tops hilary clinton in a poll. she has popularity on the left. and the far, far left for sure. bill cosby is scheduled to take the stage tonight for a performance as the lift of women accusing him of sexual assault grows. a 57-year-old florida nurse said cosby drugged and raped her in las vegas when she was 19. but she continued to see him and later asked for and received thousands of dollars from him. he changed the course of my life. instead of empowering me like he said he does to people. he made me a victim and a all my life i have been a victim because of this. and that doesn t go away for all of the days of my life. the wife of the incredible hulk actor, lou ferrigno is speaking out, she claims that cosby try to force himself on her in his home and she was able to get away. and new york daily news has an interview with another woman that said the comedian lured her in to a hotel room in 1992, and assaulted her. and an actress who appeared in one flew over the cucoo s nest said she was assaulted. the attorney for bill cosby said we have reached the point of absurdity, the stories are getting more and more ridiculous. the producers of the cosby show are break their silence saying the accusations are beyond our knowledge or comp hengz. cosby is scheduled to give a stand up performance tonight, he did not address the allegations last night in his performance. in the past, cosby has denied allegations made by other women, and has never really been criminal charged. he is going to have to come out is and say something at some point. it s getting away from him. if these allegations are true, it s obviously horrible. but that ap interview he did a couple of nights ago, he on camera ask today correspondent to edit out the question and his response to this. he did not respond. he did not respond, he told h them to take out the question. none of it is proven, but so far, they are allegations, he needs to talk about it. josh ernest, congressman aaron shock and actress brooke shields with her new memoire, and a thanksgiving day the communicate. you are watching morning joe. 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no.soup! oh! soup! loaded with vegetables. packed with taste. all right, it s time for the must-read opinion pages, we have a bunch of different ones. this is the washington post on bill cosby, hard to keep the faith. and he writes in part this, a few weeks ago, i spent a delightful afternoon and evening with bill cosby. i was the emcee of a gala for historically black claflin university which is this my hometown of orangeburg south carolina, i was having a jolly old time with a serirapist? i m having trouble squaring the allegations with the man i was with that day. many people may be experiencing the same. cosby has spent his long ground breaking career in the entertainment industry being such a good guy. how could he possibly be such a bad guy too? i would like to believe the man i met is incapable of such montsrous acts, but his stoney silence is making it hard to keep the faith. to your point, i think he needs to say something. and that puts it in perspective why people are having a hard time talking about this. he has done amazing transformative things for society. his life and his work means so much to so many families and to black and white americans in terms of understanding each other and bridging the gap, fair? no doubt, he broke barriers. look, he has to answer this at some point, these allegations continue, it s not one or 10. and you don t know if it s a pile on. the argument i say it so carefully . gene said it well. there s nothing proved. nothing proved. no convictions, just allegations. but there are a lot of them at this point. peggy noonan. let s move, the nihlst, the bomb white house assumes it will happen to them, thus they can do pretty much what they want. what they forget is that facts largely decide what the history thinks. history will be written by liberals, fair enough and they will judge harshly because he has failed to do anything to last. keystone will pass and a veto overridden and the president has failed liberals through unpopularity which is another word for incompetence, ray, obviously not a fan of the president, what do you think of the piece? i think there s a lot of chapters to be written this the obama presidency. she makes the point that liberals are disappointed and i think they are. i talk to them and they say, how come he will not go big. the people on the other side are people that will not agree with anything. how come he comes in prebaked and willing to compromised no matter what he says, the people that consider themselves his political opponents are never going to give him an inch. they cannot understand why the president precompromises, comes in at his final number and then sees that start to tear down. all right, we are going to bring in chief white house correspondent for political michael ennow, with the morning playbook. one of the lead stories this morning, j governor chris christie is finding little 2016 support from his fellow governors. govern eor christy was a gra sl slam, was a big part of his comeback story. he raised $100 million traveling the country can. but at the big annual meeting, jake sherman asked some of the governors that he helped elected, if governor christie runs for president, will you elect him? those governors said he is a great guy, but we are not going to commit to him yet, he can run if he wants to. he got a lot out of this. he said that he does not begrudge the governors for holding back. he said, they cannot commit if i won t commit, it would be presumptuous of me to say will you back me if i sflun. what is the grassroots opinion of chris christie, what is the feeling about him among republicans across the country? well, as you know, represent cans feel he would be a very strong match up with hilary clinton. the way that one top republican said it to me, he is the only guy that hilary clinton cannot be sure she could beat. along with jeb bush. how does he get to that match up? so the question is, could he navigate iowa? people think he probably could play fine in new hampshire, it s how do you get to that match up? it would be the same issue with governor jeb bush, probably strong against hilary clinton. hard to see how he gets through a republican primary where they are not going to like his stand on immigration and common core, what the represent condition voters call obama core. and democrats bet big on demographics why many think the president s action on executive action in immigration will pay off in a big way. what are they saying? it pulls back the curtain on what happened last night and makes the point that it s a bet on the emerging voting groups. socially progressive younger voters and latino hispanic voters. democrats, the president s party may face a backlash among white voters in the south, and in to the rust belt for the immigration action, but in a state like virginia and florida, both so important in a presidential race of course you have populations there where it will be popular. michael en, itke mike all. it s friday. it friday! this is i m going read this, i m going deeper, okay, she said this, and harold, i want to know what could be done avoid this. in recent years president obama has repeatedly turned to nominees with close ties to wall streelt for high level positions. the president s choice for treasure t treasury s highest position, and the president tabbed stanley fisher, a bank of america executive, was put in charge of international trade in the commerce department. the two recent picks for commodities futures trading commission, are lawyers that spent their careers representing big financial institutions. she guess on to say, it s time for the obama administration to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over economic policy making. sure, big banks are important, but running this economy for american femaamilies is a lot m important. her premise is right, but if the wall street bankers are dominating the administration, they are doing a poor job of drafting policy for wall street, because wall street is complaining. they raise the point of what liberals are thinking. government does not work if one group thinks they are going to control it. it s wrong to think that. there s nothing wrong with compromise. elizabeth warren can say she is opposed to the nominees that the president put forward. but i would challenge conservatives and liberals alike to call this president an over compromiser or precompromiser if he deserved that title, that would be a good thing. that means we get more things done in washington. one of the things that i think the times is off, i think the president could have gotten more from the republicans before doing this, i would love to see the minimum wage increase. right, where are the bargaining chips being used? i don t think they are being used effectively. liberals complain that he is not liberal enough and he should put more on the table. look, government should work, it s main function is to work for every family, regardless of how much they lobby. in terms of platform, it does not work. elizabeth warren should push, push the minimum wage, if you want to work with republicans and you think he is compromising too much, layout a plan that will allow democrats and liberals alike to get more of what they want. i don t see enough of that coming out of the liberal wing of my party and for that matter even the white house at times. do you think elizabeth warren has a point? i think she does and to the congressman s point, it s all about moving forward the president has done what he can in the areas he is called upon. there s no surprise in what he is doing. he signaled all the things long before he took action. up next on morning joe, linda sanchez who was just elected new chair of the hispanic caucus and brooke shields will join us. you are watching morning joe, don t go away. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know genies can be really literal? 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the house gop made a promise that they would take up the issue of immigration reform and they did not come through on the promise. the step last night was a huge step forward and it may propel them to sit down and think seriously about proposing something. because they have done nothing. and so, i think in the grand scheme of things but isn t it a step forward politically? because might he have said, look, i m going to do this, unless you and then given them time to pass a bill? we have been waiting more than 500 days. that is more than a year for the republicans in the house to put up a bill on a yes or no vote. all they have to do is schedule the vote. they don t have to write something, it was worked out overwhelmingly passed in the senate on a bipartisan basis. that is democrats and republicans. and he promised, the speaker promised he would take it up and then back tracked on that. so, you know, republicans have never really wanted to work with the president. they want to thwart attempts to move the country forward and take care of our country s business and then when nothing gets done because they fail exercise leadership, they love to point the finger of blame at others. the fact of the matter is, the president has been urging the speaker of the house for more than a year to put something on the floor. and it has not happened. and you know, these sudden, you know, cries from the republicans side, we need more time, we need more night titime, it s disinge i m not saying that they are whining, i m wondering in the president s decision was politically strategic? well i m asking ray, hold on, and then it will go to you. he set a high bar for himself. he had promised action when he began this congress if the house did not act. the house did not act, many people were urging him to make this announcement before the just completed elections. he didn t do it. now, the pressure was really going to rachet up and he moved. all right, harold ford, jr.? congresswoman sanchez, good mo morning. good morning. we heard people say he acted how he did last night, do you take them at their word that it poisons the well and may make it difficult to move and find progress on other issues from either the minimum wage to energy to health care to other issues that are important to the democratic caucus? i will tell you that i don t believe that there was ever any intention to really compromise and sit down and try the to work on areas where we can find common ground and i think they look for excuses not to really work with the president on the business that the country needs to get to. right. you talk about tax reform this year. i sieve on the i serve on the ways and means committee, we tried to work with the republican chairman of the committee to try to get it done and it was their side that derailed the attempt and not the democrats. they promise, we want to really work on this and we need more time and the reality is they don t have any intention of trying to compromise and workout differences in areas where we may have common ground. all right. and i think they use the issue of immigration to do what, you know, secretly they want to do anyway, which is just try to thwart attempts to get anything moving in the congress. all right. congresswoman linda sanchez, thank you for being up early with us. we appreciate your time. my pleasure. javier, let s take it all told, does the action the president took make the comprehensive immigration reform, everyone agrees it needs to take place, and disagrees on how to get there, does it make it more likely or less likely to get something done next year? sadly the only thing more broken than our immigration system is our congress. i hope and pray that there will be leadership from both sides of the aisle. they need to work collaboratively to find an answer for the american people. do you think it will happen? i surely hope so and i think the american business has spoken loudly on this, small business has. voices like lowell mcadams at verizon, randal stevenson in at&t and goldman sachs have called for clarity and movement forward, we want immigration reform. thank you very much, both of you for being on this morning. coming up next, one of our favorite jimmy kimmel bits. celebrities reading mean tweets about themselves. we will be right back. 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denying a couple of million dollars in spending in month, it s not threatening government shutdown or anything drastic. third would be to cut out of the appropriation s bills those funds that would fund this, that is the progressive effort of this moving forward. but, i don t want to do the last thing, i don t want to do the i word. some republicans urge caution, lindsey graham said if you over react, it becomes about us and not about president obama. matt lewis, is the president acting like an emperor or what could he have done to prompt action like he did last night? well, the emperor word is something that president obama brought up. that comes from him. i know, everybody is going to talk and say the republicans are calling him that that, he has said multiple times that this is not legal. what he did last night and what he said he was going to do was beyond his purview as president. and congress would have to do it and he said i m not an emperor i can t do that. i think there s a temptation for republicans to kind of use his language against him. it s a bad idea probably. i think i m with the majority of americans on this. i think most of the policies are good policies, but the problem is that the way our system works the way democracy works is, this has to go through the legislative process. that is best for everybody. it not going to happen, matt, and i m not going i m trying not to you know what side of this i m on. but it s do you think something would have happened had the president not done what he did last night? do you think we would have had a bill? come on, nothing would have happened. do we agree on that? i don t think, well with, it s hard to tell what might have happened over time. i agree that not within the next couple of weeks or even months. but i think it s less likely now that we will have a bipartisan consensus on this. where people like me, who have been arguing in favor of immigration reform actually now have a harder time making the argument to conservatives and republicans because of the over-reach. he has poisoned the well on it. couldn t they approximatespa? i think it s a disservice to hispanics ultimately. the fundamental problem, i think, is the precedent it sets. if a president can just rewrite had this law, what can t a president do? and so but you are acting like it has never happened before and it s an incredibly strange. it has happened before. the presidents have issued executive orders before. i think it s unprecedented. if you look at what president reagan did, i m proud he tackled immigration reform. when ronald reagan and george hw bush tweaked the law, that is different, they were operating on a law that had recently passed and they were fixing sort of using their authority to make fixes to a law that congress had just approved. vastly different than what president obama is doing. there s no law for him to base these on. and in fact, he is going against what the voters just told him two weeks ago. i m picking on matt, harold ford, jr., i don t mean to, couldn t the republicans still do something in response to this that would produce results? one would hope that is the reaction. i think they could. let s layout a couple of facts. this is good policy that the president laid out and what he has done is different than what he said he was going to do, because he said that he could not act alone. th matt is correct. and it will have affect on other legislation in the congress. which is a equal and bigger concern of mine. taxes, health care, energy, minimum wage, there s a number of things and the president will need republicans support on the continuing avalanche of foreign policy changes. the timing is a little provocati provocative, was it the right time to do it should he have given congress time? and if they did not act, he acts. that is a legitimate question and one had the white house has to answer, particularly if they cannot get other things advanced. let s try and be productive. everyone could find something wrong with what has happened and how the republicans are responding and we can sit and argue about that. but matt, could the new republican congress, maybe perhaps respond with a bill? well, look, i think they could and i think they should. i mean, the problem is, i think that president obama was trolling republicans, i think that what he has been hoping to do is to actually, i believe that the democrats essentially want to own, they want to be the party of immigration reform. and that by doing this, he actually makes it harder for people like me who believe in immigration reform. and i think the danger is republicans will over react. and it does not even have to be a leadership. it could just be a back bench member of congress that says something horrible now that will dominate. so my advice is look, i think republicans should tune it out and go about doing their business and i think they should pass a series of immigration reform bills that can start with border security, but they cannot end there. it has to continue. i personally believe in a path way to citizenship. assuming people meet all sorts of criteria along the way. don t tell anyone i agree with a lot of what you are saying. first, you have some news on the form president, jimmy carter? it s great that matt talks about the context of former presidents and when executive orders have happened in the past, we sat down with jimmy carter, former president, in a wide ranging discussion and they discussed everything from voting laws to edward snowden and recurring criticism on the right. john mccain, reaching for the worst possible insult for president obama earlier this year said this, i have never seen anything like this in my life, i thought jimmy carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president in my opinion. the serious question is, what does it feel like and what is your response to these moments of being used as an insult? your legacy being used a as an insult? that is a compliment for me coming from a war i was lucky enough when i was president to keep our country at peace and to provide peace for others. i was lucky enough to go through my four years, with he never dropped a bomb or fired a missile or shot a bullet. wow, okay. here with us now from washington we have nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press chuck todd, who is the author of the stranger, barack obama in the white house. i wonder when you watch today president if he adhered to the narrative in your book as opposed to being consiliatory, do you feel he had no choice? he well, yes, of course was politically provocative. they knew they were doing that and i think there was different clae calculations that they made. i think they regret that they waited. i think the senate democrats over panicked and over reacted, and they are right, had he announced it this earlier, some would have lost by big more points. there s regret that they did not do it sooner. they worried about credibility with hispanic activists and he put the republicans in the box. they have control of congress. you know, that line, pass a bill. look, i think there s people that are going be okay with the policy that was announced and not like how he went about doing it. right? so, that s the box the republicans are in because what he announced is not something that is offensive to the american people. what they don t like is how he went about doing it. they wish washington do it in a more functional manner, all of those things. but the policy itself is not that unpopular, which is why i think it does put the onus on the republicans they have to put their money where their mouth is. chuck, good morning, harold ford, you look at congress and how they behave and treat the president. the president traveled to china and announced that the internet should be regulated like an old telephone monopoly that angered congress. and he now takes this step, what does it mean going forward, play it 3 to 6 months going forward. other important issues and obviously the avalanche of foreign policy challenges, does the president now have not only a different congress and republican congress to deal w perhaps a more polarized congress to deal with in the coming months? it could, it will be interesting to see how mcconnell a and boehner handle their base. it s the base conservatives that would like to be more aggressive. they feel the president is being away aggressive against them. fight fire with fire, if it means using the power of the purse, threatening government showdowns when it comes to funding, so beit. now the leadership does not want that. they are kind of hoping that the way to challenge the president, have the lawsuit, maybe it s the state of texas, constituent of ok state of oklahoma, but states are pondering the idea of suing the president over it and trying to get the courts to do it. but i don t know if it changes the relationship with i guess i just don t believe that things would be any better or worse if he did this now or didn t. all right, we have one more for you, chuck, this is on obama-care. thomas? the department of health and human services acknowledging that it made acceptable mistakes for including dental plans. this error added 380 dental subscribers to the roles raising the total sign ups to over 7 million. once the numbers were readjusted it puts the enrollment below. and the administration was using the number as the benchmark goal. the cbo set it out there. this error came to light through the house oversight and government reform committee. this is adding insult to injury after all of the gruber comments have come to light and the numbers have been a lynch pin of bragging rights, so how do they spin it? they have to have a better second year number. i think at the end of the day, 6.7 to 7.1, if they are within 400,000, or 500,000, of the second is year number, it s not such a big deal. now they revise the second year estimate down, and now this is being revised down. they have to start worrying that they have that they ve got a marketing issue here with the plan itself. but, you know all right. i think it proves that they are not anti-dentites. that is it. there you go. thank you very much. chuck, what do you have on meet the press on sunday? we are going to do a lot of focus on immigration and do a look at energy and how it is totally changed some of our foreign policy attack whattacks comes to iran and russia and our economy here at home. we will be watching that sunday morning on meet the press. thank you. come canning up, aaron shock and brooke shields and we go live to a snow weary buffalo to say the least. where dylan is standing by somewhere underneath the snow banks. josh earnest is our guest. you are watching morning joe, we will be right back. get to the terminal across town. are all the green lights you? no. it s called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at 4:51. they cut the power. it ll fix itself. power s back on. quick thinking traffic lights and self correcting power grids make the world predictable. thrillingly predictable. my fellow americans, we are and always be a nation of immigrants. we were striangers once too and whether our forebarers crossed the pacific or the rio grand, we are here because the country welcomed them in and taught us that being american is more than what we look like, what our last names are or how we worship. that does not sound like an emperor to me, it sounds like a leader. good to have you back on the show, gary. he is the co-author of latino america, how america s most dynamic population is poised to transform the politics of the nation. what do you think the impact of the president s action will be if the republicans don t come back in kind with the bill? i think in the short-term, it s going to dramatically improve the lives of a lot of people who are here just trying to earn a living and support their family. it s going to protect them from the threat of deportation and the threat of family division. i think it s going to be a big political win for the president, in terms of support for his party s success on the democratic ticket. some of the things that republicans have said in the last few days and they screamed about last night, i happen to agree that the presidents remarks were on point. some feel it s going to serve as an invitation for people to come to the border with the hopes that they will be legal. do you think it s a valid criticism of the president? i don t think it s a legitimate criticism, it suggests that any action that addresses the situation of the 11 million undocumented in the united states would create more undocumented. the policy is very clear. that it does not address anyone who has been here a short period of time and it prioritizes deport tagzs, folks that arrived after january 1st of this year and it redirects border enforcement to the border to try to make sure that no additional people cross. so, i think it s actually a rational policy. if the idea is that if you do anything about the undocumented that you invite more the only logical solution is to do nothing forever and i don t think that is viable. do you think the president should have programmed tried to work behind scenes with congress before taking bold action? i think that that s a talking point from the right. but i don t think it s a realistic view. to believe that that would have worked is to believe that a republican congress, which has been obstructionist for four years is taking control of the senate and going to be in the mood for more compromise. the house of representatives has had 500 days plus to act on a bipartisan senate bill or offer their own and they have done absolutely nothing. gary, thank you very much. we want to go to the white house now, white house press secretary josh ernest joins us now. josh, let s get right to the heart of the fight. let s do it. the republicans blasted the president ahead of his address, using his own words against him. take a listen, boehner/mcconnell. the president said he is not an emperor, but he is sure acting like one. and he is doing it in a time when the american people want us to work together. he was talking about immigration that day. i know that some wish that i could bypass congress and change the law myself. but that s not how democracy works. indeed mr. president, it isn t. okay, but this is not democracy working either. first of all, is he acting like an emperor, it is a new congress, should he have gone behind the scenes and said, let s see if we can work together and give a window of time and come up with something and pass it? i will say a couple of things. if he was a king or e in mperor, he would have implemented the bipartisan senate bill that passed the law 500 days ago. he asked the attorney general to review the authority he had under the law and he used every element of the law within the confines of the law to reform the immigration system. and that is what he did last night and it s entirely consistent with the way that the president bush, president george hw bush tried to address that when they were president. as it relates to waiting to the next congress, 2 or 3 days after the mid term elections, speaker boehner was asked if he intended to bring i mmigration reform to the new congress. he would not commit to doing so it s a clear indication that we cannot wait for them to act to this. we need something acted to right now and the president delivered last night. i found parts of the speech to be beautiful as it pertained to what this country is businessbusiness is based on and the concepts and immigrants. having said that, he lectured the republicans and we got lectures back from the other side and we are hearing lectures on both sides. is it warmer behind the scenes, how do we get to a point where we get action that is not just one side kicking the other over the edge? i mean, as it relates to the president s speech right now, i do think that everyone who watched the speech last night could tell that the president was speaking to the heart. he was talking about the values that animated his commitment to public life for the last couple of deck a aades and he was talk about what he believes the united states of america can and should be. i think the steps he announced last night are consistent with those values, those are the kind of values that the democrats and republicans across the country can will say they share, and people that did not vote for the president or are supporters of the president understand how the steps that he announced last night are consistent with the kinds of of values that we embrace as americans. what is that at this point, since we are here, almost what is happening behind the scenes? has he reached out to republicans? is there any attempt to negotiate on this or is that over on this point? well, i think we consider the announcement that the president made last night a first step in trying to fix the broken immigration system. the president is standing ready to work with democrats and republicans. we have a good temporalate for that. we have a great template for the congress to take up legislation and work with the administration and try to advance it through the senate and the house. the president would be happy to do that. it would be good for the economy and good for job creation and good for border security and good for reducing the deficit. there s a whole host of reasons to make progress on a piece of common sense legislation like that. and the president is ready to do it. if the congress passes legislation, the president will rip up the legislation made last night. what about the idea that it s a change in tune and a change in substance in the president when he said he could not do it alone. how does the white house or president respond to that? he cannot implement the senate bill, we need the house of representatives to pass the senate bill and that means we need house republicans to stop blocking the bill. he did everything that he could within the confines of of the law to use his executive authority to repair the broken immigration system. that is not as much authority as congress has in the matter. what the president did yesterday was of consistent with steps that were taken by president george hw bush, and president reagan. what president obama did is consistent with what president reagan did. when bush tried to fix broken aspects of the system, expanded legislation that congress passed to include 40% of the undocumented population in the country at that time. so, president george hw bush took a sweeping step to try to address problems president obama did the same thing last night. all right, josh ernest, good to see you, thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity guys. have a good friday. thanks, you too, coming up actress brooke shields remembers her remarkable career and how her relationship with her mother had a major influence on it and first, more than 7 feet of snow. there she is! very good. dylan dreyer is right there in the thick of it. there s no angel in 7 feet of snow. she is a an angel, a live report from buffalo new york, next. and ah, so you can see like right here i can just. you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim.you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that s so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you re on the jumbotron! whoa. ah.yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, shopping online is as easy as it gets. carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? 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welcome back to morning joe, finally january is going to end, or the weather we are experiencing. what happened in buffalo is tragic, now the deg dths are upo 12. dylan dreyer has been there covering the story. you were in jersey and you lived in boston for a long time, people cannot relate and picture this. you were in one of the most intense bands in your life that you have been in your life, try to explain it to people, they see snow every year and not compare it to what you saw. i m used to snow. i grew up with it, boston, we cover nor easters all the time. you saw the stuff i was tweeting yesterday. you could not see two feet in front of you and we got stuck in the snow bank because of the white out conditions. here, covers are buried in snow and in walmart, there s several people that were living there for the last five days. monday, they are making their own community there. and communities all across the area, they are finally breathing a sigh of relief that the snow is over. but now, they feel the concern of the long lasting impact of the snow. widespread concern this morning that a year s worth of snow over a few days is too much to the bare. we have been deing with reports of collapsing roofs. reporter: no sooner than the snow stopped that the residents were getting the snow off of their roofs. i looked up and had a 16-foot crack between the wall and ceiling. reporter: patients were evacuated over concerns that the roof would not hold. crews are working around the clock to clear the streets. here, more than 30 people have been stranded in a walmart since monday. i know exactly where my vehicle is, it s under 10 feet of snow in the main entrance. their cars buried. these guys have camped out, where else? in the entertainment section and in the automotive section. when we left, we got stuck too. a plow helped ous out of the walmart parking lot. the buffalo bills will have to hit the road as well. the game against the jets has been moved to someplace that is not in snow. and the nfl has announced that the game will be played monday night in detroit in ford field, which is a domed field, so snow will not be an issue and as for the people in the walmart, they can dig out their car cs today, but there s travel bans so they cannot get to road until that is lifted and the concern with the flooding this week. it s one thing after another. i m sure everyone is glad that the snow was over. it was like a thunderstorm of snow, cool, but yeah, it was. amazing stuff. coming up on morning joe, it s not a question of if republicans want to block the president s decision on immigration, it s a question of how. morning joe will be right back. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he s our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don t know exactly. kid: what if you re not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn t work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab
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i cannot assess motives, i don t know if he is sticking an eye in the republican party or not, sure, if he is not intending to it, it sure happened. and one of the things that happened, if you step back a minute, to me, it s having the same impact as the less fortunate comments that the president on the health care plan. where the debate immediately is moving away from the substance of what he is doing to how he do it. the same statement, if you like your doctor, you can keep it, dominated the discussion of health care, what we are hearing now is the debate whether he exceeded his constitutional authority. and i think the idea, this is somehow, when i hear people say, cooler heads will prevail, i don t believe that for a minute. i don t think we have seen it for the last six years by and large. in the wake of the election and the act, whether it s legal or not is provocative, it s going to make the less calm members of your caucus enraged. so, i know i don t mean to come out here on the eve of thanksgiving and be pessimistic, but bet the under on my meaningful accomplishment. let s ask a member of congress, will cooler heads reisrar prevail? on what issue? on this issue. will there be a bill? will had there be an outcome that is consilcilitory? the president has blown up the trust. so, it kind of stopped any progress in the house. our hope was now, with the republican senate that no only immigration reform, but the other 380 bills that we passed with bipartisan votes in the house will get to the senate and get to the president s desk so we can negotiate. josh earnest said he will rip it up if he come up with a bill. any immigration bill, the president said if you do not like what i have done, pass a bill. i think congress should. i have been pushing for on it. it will not be a massive bill like the senate passed. we will do a border security bill like we did had in the homeland security that passed unanimously, and a visa expansion and deal with the dream act kids. so, we have solutions on to these problems. the problem is harry reed said we are not taking your bill and the house said we are not taking the senate bill and we were in a stand still. which is why it did not get done. now after the election, we have the ability to get our ideas to the president s desk so we can negotiate with him. jack? very simple question. is the republican house caucus and the republican senate caucus now more or less charitably disposed to comprehensive immigration, i would say less. after his actions? after the election? the new republican senators from what i saw, they are not inclined to embrace anything approaching comprehensive immigration reform and i think some of the new house members are the same. and they are the ones that are going to get the most attention fairly or not. last night, if i may, last night, watching your network and fox. oh, that must have been fun. cnn was covering college costs, which is another thing. who did hannity book? michelle bachmann and he did not book you, did he? and i think that is not his fault. i mean, don t pick on aaron. he is a good guy. i m sympathizing with aaron, that is not who the folks are turning to. and i can t understand that feeds to your point, the method at which the president is using that will be the distraction to getting something done. so congressman, last night in listening to the president, what was aggravating to the methodology to the president s executive action, leading with border security and leading with wanting to do immigration reform and talking about protecting american families, not felons. what was aggravating to your ear about that approach? what was aggravating was had that i agreed with a lot of what he said, but i did not deal with his action. his executive action tammys to do legislatively what he wants the congress to do. that is getting around the operation of powers of our congress. he talks about a visa program for people that are in college that he wants to keep. he talks about border security, additional bored security. so, this is not just another clinton, regan bush type order. it s sweeping and so what was aggravating from my standpoint was mr. president, if you really want to do those step by step issues you just outlined then come work with congress. what s the part, jeff, from your covering presidents over decades and the strategies for negotiation, and the behind the scenes part, is there something missing from this process, was the president s action last night provocative because it missed something else? what is missing is what has changed completely in washington. every time i hear the auction about well, this is what reagan and tip o neal used to do. right. i mean, this is what clinton and newt gingrich used to do. everything looks good in retrospect. that is right. and there s a change here. you know, part of the thing that i was thinking about, was back five years ago when the republicans drew lines in the sands in first weeks after obama s inaugural, a lot of them said this is good for us, because the american power pl public does not like obstructionism. do you think it has hurt the republican party? yes. take a look at the mid terms. we have passed bills ou s ou the house. i m tired of hearing how republicans were obstructionists, we have passed 380 bills. all right, willie geist sits down with brooke shields, next on morning joe. holiday music ) hey! i guess we re going to need a new santa (the music builds to a climax.) more people are coming to audi than ever before. see why now is the best time. audi will cover your first month s payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. visit audioffers.com today. looking for one of these? yoplait. smooth, creamy, and craved by the whole family. i m gonna be the perfect mom. herman? just like in the movies. i ll be the one person my daughter can always trust. making memories that last a lifetime. i should totally start a blog. life can surprise you. so can an allstate agent. with accident forgiveness they can make sure your rates don t go up after one. because everyone has an off day. the good hands are doing more than ever before. maestro of project management. baron of the build-out. you need a permit. to be this awesome. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. 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[ whistling ] that is of course one of brooke shields legendary jean commercials, which she says she still has some in storage. she s here to talk about her new book. good morning, good to see you. thank you. the most important news out of this book, not only do you still have those jeans, they still fit you. my mom saved everything. she saved two pairs from that commercial. one, i gave to the met, as one does with their jeans. of course, old jeans. ah, give them to the met. the other one, they go up so far. well, it was a different time. it looks like sausage encased. but they fit. to your great credit. let s talk about what this book is and what it s not. okay. this is not, like, your life story. this is the story with your mother. and i think the impression that people have some people anyway, of your relationship with your mother, that it was kind of a mommy dearest thing. she put you in pretty baby when you were 12 and the commercial when you were 15. that s not really the way it was though, was it? it s not. i m not trying to discredit that we did do all of those things. but the main sort of point that i was trying to make is i wasn t a victim. you know, i wasn t we weren t making career decisions as to what meant any difference now to the next job, to the next, the next. we were just in this business. we were sort of taking what was offered to us. if it worked, if it paid, if we were able to get a car, a house. you know. we sort of just did these willy-nilly jobs. was there any part of you later in life that looks back and says, ooh, pretty baby, maybe i was too young for that? no, those are the more enduring pieces of art that i m involved with. there s plenty of other things whether it s a brooke at all or a bizarre jeans campaign that failed or all of a sudden now selling shampoo or whatever the thing is, you know, that i was secret. underarm. you know, those are the things that i sort of look and think, that s a disconnect. how do you start with pretty baby and that s the trajectory of your career. that s, a, giving my mom a lot of credit for even thinking of a plan. and also thinking that, you know, there was something about those those particular jobs that were important. and i think we knew it. you know, we knew we were doing something unique when we did the commercials. we were making commercials that were a minute long that were supposed to be played in movie theaters. and at the last minute, they pulled then and said, oh, they ll never be advertising in movies. we were able to be at the forefront of some of that stu and that s what was fabulous about it. but that s not a sexy story. sexy story is the drunk mother who sells her daughter into prostitution. like that s the headline knowing you and how grounded you are and how in touch and present in people s lives you are with your husband and your kids. i read this book and i say, my god, look at the life she s lived. is it ever crazy to you that you didn t stumble somewhere along the way there? for the longest time, i didn t know why i was why i was graced, you know, why i was saved. why there was this sort of saving grace about it. i used to attribute it to everybody else. but i do think there was something i have to now start owning up to something. there s a bit in my character that will not be the victim. i have to ask you because there s this big chunk at the end of the book dedicated to you being at the bedside of your mother as she s dying. and it is absolutely gut wrenching when you read what you two have been through together, to say good-bye. you describe it as the moment you feared all your life. what was it like? it was during hurricane sandy. there you are, running on generators at a hospital in new york. there s your mom. you watching her leave you. it s nothing you know, i wouldn t have had it, excuse me. any other way. i knew i needed to be there because i never would have forgiven myself. but it s a horrific thing. there s no hallmark moment. you know, there s no and it s not even a exhale like it is in the movies. and it s there s something bizarre, there s something kind of freakishly funny, there s something psychotically horrible. you re watching it, thinking, okay, i m going to get this, i m going to understand it. i m going to internalize it. and i don t know anything more about it now than i did before, you know, it s like ah. i think you turned to the nurse and said, is this it? yeah, she was doing she was busy. she had a lot on her plate that day. brooke, i can t say enough good things about this book and what an incredible life you and your mother had together and now what an incredible mother you are and wife and it s just been fun to get to know you. you must read this book. it s called there was a little girl. the real story of my mother and me. thank you, brooke. we ll be right back with more morning joe. twhat do i do?. you need to catch the 4:10 huh? the equipment tracking system will get you to the loading dock. there should be a truck leaving now. i got it. now jump off the bridge. what? in 3.2.1. are you kidding me? go. right on time. right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably. we call that predictable. thrillingly predictable. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms? i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.. can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. get to the terminal across town. are all the green lights you? no. it s called grid iq. the 4:51 is leaving at 4:51. they cut the power. it ll fix itself. power s back on. quick thinking traffic lights and self correcting power grids make the world predictable. thrillingly predictable. if you register, pass a criminal background check and you re willing to pay your fair share of tax, you ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. all we re saying is we re not going to deport you. i know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. well, it s not. amnesty is the immigration system we have today. good morning. it is friday, november 21st. welcome to morning joe. can you believe it s friday? it s sort of been a long week. that was the president last night. pretty amazing speech. with us on set, we have msnbc political analyst, visiting professor at nyu, harold ford jr. did the president do well? thought he gave a good speech. good speech. controversial? no doubt about it. the president and ceo of united states hispanic chamber of commerce, javier palamerez joins the table. good to have you on board for just this reason. and in washington, the host of al jazeera america s inside story ray suarez. thank you very much for being on this morning. before we get to i grammigratiod the big conversation about that, we want to start this morning in upstate new york where a massive snowstorm is expected to wrap up finally after pounding the buffalo region in the last few days. this has been breaking news over the past 36 hours. the storm now being blamed for at least ten deaths after dropping more than seven feet of snow in some areas. seven feet. roof collapses are a major concern. with warmer temperatures expected this weekend, flooding will be an issue as well. nbc s lester holt has more on this. reporter: more than 100 patients evacuated in this nursing home in chicktogowa when the roof showed signs of collapsing. there s a potential for it. reporter: more than 2 dozen people driven from the roads by whiteout conditions and deep snow have been holed up in this walmart store since tuesday. couldn t ask for a better place to be stranded. reporter: from the air, we could see entire sections of the buffalo area painted in white. rooftops that look as if they ve been slathered in whipped cream. we worked our way south of buffalo and it gets a lot worse. these are unplowed streets. we can count dozens of cars that were stopped in their tracks, barely the roof is visible. it s like the day the earth stood still. reporter: there are neighborhoods still cut off, surrounded by chest deep snow. we venture down one cul-de-sac on foot where we can only shout a conversation with mary ann. have you ever seen it like this. i ve never seen it like this. reporter: officials say they re doing their best to reach those facing emergencies and are reminding home brown residents to take precautions. you re looking at the latest photos from the buffalo bills football stadium which is covered in snow. their scheduled game on sunday against the jets have been moved to monday night at ford field at detroit. they re trying to get people to shovel it out. that is just impossible at this point. bill karins with the latest. these snow total are also off the chart. the highest total we have in is over seven feet of snow in this three-day event. it s really two storms that were separated by one day. all through that area, hamburg with 80 inches. orchard park where the stadium was located was 71. al de n, new york, 56. sarah sent me this picture. she s finally free. a front loader came in overnight and dug her out. her son climbing the mountain of snow now in her front yard. that snow s not going anywhere. we are going to melt a considerable amount this weekend. we re going to get to 51 on sunday, 61 on monday. it will be a little humid out there too so that melts the snow faster. half-inch of rain. we are worried about flooding. worst damage was done by snow and the weight of the snow. the good news is, over the weekend, warm air builds across the country. are two weeks of january-type weather over with after today. bill, we ve got the big news now this morning out of washington. in the words of president, we were strangers once too. last night in a speech to the nation, the president made the emotional case for wide-ranging immigration reform. with a nod to the political blowback that lies ahead. curry favor for the plan that he says focuses on deporting felons, not families. the white house says the plan shifts resources to the boarder, streamlines immigration courts and protects human trafficking victims. it would remove barriers for foreign workers to come here and stay longer, especially in the high-tech industry. but the centerpiece prevents the deportation of as many as 5 million americans. most of whom are the parents of children who were born on u.s. soil. while he argued every president since eisenhower has taken executive action on immigration, it is clear the president is aware of the perilous politics ahead. don t let a disagreement over a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. that s not how our democracy works. and congress certainly shouldn t shut down our government again just because we disagree with this. let s look at how the new york times, first line, president obama chose confrontation over conciliation. i know you support what the president has done. however what could have been more conciliatory in terms of the moves here? i think first and foremost, our association of 3.2 million hispanic owned firms in this country that collectively contribute over $486 billion to the american economy stand in support of the president s action. it is not the panacea that anybody has hoped for. i get that. i understand that. you and i are on the same page. could he have been more conciliatory? could he have waited? could he have given him a deadline? certainly, i think he could have. the reality of it, there s a bipartisan bill that has sat in the congress now for over a year. we prefer some action versus no action at all. ray suarez what do you think? well, certainly, there was risk involved for the president, but it might have even been a bigger risk to wait any longer. the president s been calling for congress to act on this for a long time, for years, in fact. congress couldn t even pass the dream act which for a long time was considered the low-hanging fruit of immigration reform. if you couldn t take the most sympathetic immigrants, people who were brought here as babes in arms in many cases, and make them at least safe from deportation, what little could you accomplish? the house had a long time to do something on this. did nothing. the president was advised by many to act earlier this year in advance of the elections. he didn t. his clock was running. he was under a lot of pressure too. yet, willie geist, the republicans already sounding the alarm here. it almost goes without saying, republicans are incensed about this. using the president s own words against him now. the president has said before he s not kin. and he s not an emperor. but he s sure acting like one. he s doing it at a time when the american people want nothing more than for us to work together. he was talking about immigration that day. i know that some wish that i could just bypass congress. and change the law myself. but that s not how a democracy works. indeed, mr. president, it isn t. looked at the president s previous comments on executive authority and what he s saying now. according to the site, it is false when he says his position has not changed. saying the move will only embolden more desperate people to make the dangerous crossing to the united states from mexico. there is key division on how best to respond to the president. many considering legal action. some are pushing for surgical budget strikes. others have dangled the idea of a shutdown. others still will not fully rule out impeachment. appropriation bills are the one area in which the senate and congress can prioritize funding. we can defund areas of president obama s lawlessness. we should do so. we should use the power of the purse. that happens all the time. on the republicans if they do that? not if it s very targeted, very limited. what are we talking about? denying a couple million cars worth of spending issuing those permits? this is not threatening government shutdown or anything drastic. a resolution of disapproval. second would be a censure. third would be to cut out of the appropriation bills those funds that would fund this. that s the progressive effort of this moving forward. but i don t want to do the last thing. i don t want to do the i word. nobody wants to throw the nation into that kind of turmoil. the president has thrown us into this situation. you hear some caution being exercised there. senator lindsey graham joined that chorus. he said, quote, if you overreact, it becomes about us and not about president obama. harold ford, where does this go from here? we ve got the executive action. we re going to have a republican house and senate come january. they could pass their own law that the president could then veto. the president said do it. pass the bill. hopefully they do that. i think first of all, i think the substance of what the president said last night was spot on. there s no doubt these are steps that should have been taken. i think the timing is wrong. it probably would have been better to give the republican new congress three months to have acted on this. they chose not to, the president would have still had the opportunity to act back on executive action. don t agree with the president or ray on that, this should have been done. interest will be ramifications for there. the republicans warned kwint fra quite frontily before this happened. this issue is important. it may end up being the only issue that gets done over the next several months because republicans are hopefully not stupid enough to try to impeach the president or equally silly and try to shut down government. i do think the democratic party in the congress is going to have reverberations from this and it could be negative. do you agree? do you think the timing is perhaps a little bit evocative? putting the republicans in a place where, again, they do what they always do, try and knock down what he s done instead of try and come up with something productive. he could have give be them time to do. no doubt, it was provocative. the fact of the matter is, he s the leader. he attempted to lead. i think there s a wonderful opportunity here for the republican party to look at this as a wonderful option. the reality of it is, there s an amazing electorate. hispanic electorate that is growing by leaps and bounds. every month in this country, 52,000 hispanics turn 18 and become an eligible voter. every 30 seconds, an hispanic turns 18 and becomes an eligible voter. the republicans have an opportunity to ingratiate themselves to that electorate and finishing what has begun long before president obama came along. ray, do you think the republicans are going to see this as a wonderful opportunity? no, they re not going to see it as a wonderful opportunity. but i think it is clear that in some ways the president has painted them into a corner. it s true when the president says what he s done is very limited. it only is in effect for, in effect, the life of his administration. it cab be rescinded by the next president. it can be overridden by legislation. but do the republicans want to aggressively move to break up families to start sending people home by using their legislative tools that they ve been reluctant to use so far? the president, they re making believe they ve never heard of prosecutorial discretion. all he did was move them to the back of the line for waiting to be deported. he can t regularize their status. he didn t do that. do the republicans want to move in there and say no, sorry buddy, you re getting on the next plane? i don t know if they want to do that. javier, i know this is a question with a long answer. what is your membership? what do you think hispanics, latinos in general are looking on? what is a sound immigration policy? i think comprehensive, permanent. we are an organization that focuses on economic development. anything that helps entrepreneurs and small business in this country is what we re looking for. there is an opportunity here to illustrate desperately needed leadership and collaboration in this country. that s what american business wants right now, clarity. the white house is pushing forward with its pick for a top treasury post. despite growing criticism from democrats. noticeably, senator elizabeth warren. the administration has no plans to pull back on the nomination of antonio weiss, a former global investment banker who critics say helped companies avoid taxes by moving their addresses overseas. in an online op-ed, entitled enough is enough, senator warren writes, in part, this, it is time for the obama administration to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over economic policymaking. sure, big banks are important. but running this economy for american families is a lot more important. politico describes warren s growing power in the party as a test for senator schumer who is looking to strike a balance between them. in a poll of thousands of members of the left leaning group democracy for america. she definitely has popularity on left and the far, far left for sure. bill cosby is scheduled to take the stage tonight for a performance, as the list of women accusing him of sexual assault grows. a 57-year-old florida nurse says cosby drugged and raped her in las vegas when she was 19. but she continued to see him. and later asked for and received thousands of dollars from him. he changed the course of my life. instead of empowering me like he says he does to people, he made me a victim, and all my life, i ve been a victim because of this. that doesn t go away for all the days of my life. the wife of the incredible hulk actor lou ferrigno is also speaking out. claims cosby tried to force himself on her at his home in 1967 but she was able to get away. new york s daily news says it has an exclusive interview with another woman who says the comedian lured her into a hotel room in 1992 and assaulted her. and an actress who appeared in one flew over the cuckoo s nest says cosby forced her to perform oral sex in a tonight show dressing room. cosby s attorneys disputed the allegations. saying, the stories are getting more ridiculous. i think people are trying to come up with these wild stories in order to justify why they have waited 40 to 50 years to disclose these ridiculous accusations. the producers of the cosby show break their silence saying the being accusations are beyon knowledge or comprehension. florida is scheduled to appear tonight in melbourne. he did not address allegations last night during a show in the bahamas. in the past, cosby has denied allegations made by other women. has never been criminally charged. he s going to have to company out and say something at some point. it s getting away from him. if these allegations are true. it s obviously horrible. that ap interview he did a couple nights ago where he on camera asked the correspondent to edit out the question and his response about this. he didn t even respond. kind of what i thought was telling. none of this is proven. but he needs to talk about it. still ahead, the congressman from california joins the conversation. ahead of the president s event in las vegas today. first, breaking bad fans rejoice. amc sets a premiere date for the highly anticipated better call sal. i love him. he s one of my favorite characters. you know who i m talking about? 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las vegas has a large hispanic population. the largest hispanic population in the country at about 7%. he has been to the high school where he s going to sign the executive action twice before, including in january of 2013, when he laid out what he hoped was going to be the immigration reform bill that passed. there s a lot of symbolism here. but it s also a big favor i think to harry reid who you just met, you just saw. harry reid has talked a lot about astrid silva. the president brought up astrid silva in his speech. what s not as well known is astrid silva s father has been under a deportation order for some time and it appears he is going to be covered by this executive action. jose diaz-balart, i d like you to take it to representative cardenes. first, give me a sense of how you think the president did last night. for millions of people in this country who have been living here for more than five years who have u.s. born children or residents in the united states, this is a life changing thing. because even though it s going to be limited for a three-year period, this is going to be the opportunity of millions and millions of families to company out from under the shadows of fear and be able to participate in this country in a way they ve been doing, many of them, for many years, but now they will be able to do so without the fear of disappearing. there are millions of people that every day leave their homes, to drop their children off at the bus stop or to go to work and don t know if they are going to come home at the end of the day because they don t have the papers. this is a life-changing thing for millions of people. and we have to remember, the last six years, 2 million people have been deported from the united states. that s the entire city of houston that has been deported. and this is going to mean a b big for millions of people. when we look at this and we think about astrid silva and her dad, their situation existed prior to the midterms. and that s painful for their family. it s painful for millions of families that are suffering just like theirs. but how does this not look just blatantly political from the president not trying to steal the football from the republicans try to get any type of senate from being the ones to helm immigration reform for congress and he s trying to get credit for it, the president that has supported millions of people as jose points out. everybody in every elected office has a job. the president is the executive branch. they have a responsibility to exercise and follow through with the laws that have been enacted and the right to interpret them as well. that s what an executive order is about. the one thing i want everybody to understand, this is not just about 4 million undocumented people who are working really hard. it s about over 300 million americans. i say it s really three top issues that we re covering here with this executive action. and that is the economy, the economy, the economy. the president just set in motion an additional close to $4.5 billion over the next five years. congressman, why do this now? why not do this? astrid s situation, her father s situation, the situation for millions of people that have been struggling through a broken immigration system has existed and it has languished for a very long time. the president campaigned on this in 08. here we are now in his last two years seeing some type of executive action. and this is now the time where we re seeing the gop-led house, the gop-led senate, saying that they want to lead. take the football on this. and this is just the democrats saying we don t want to give you any credit for immigration reform and getting any type of thunder with the latin community. i would love for the republicans to take credit. the 14 republican senators should take credit. they help pass a bill. 68 out of 100 u.s. senators. this is actually instead of bipartisan tripartisan. there were two independent senators who voted for it and 52 democrats. 68 united states senators voted for this legislation. now it s been sitting in our house. republican-controlled house. for over 500 days. so i think what happened is the president finally said enough is enough. we need to take care of our economy. we need to take care of business. and the bottom line is, like i said earlier, it s not about the president doing anything that congress didn t do. it s about the president doing something to help our economy forward. the congress refuses to do. so he s using his authority to interpret the current laws and he actually did a wonderful job. congressman tony cardenes, thank you. thank you very much. still ahead, willie geist goes behind the scenes of saturday night live s weekend update as the late-night comedy show enjoys its 40th season on the year. more morning joe when we return. let us be lovers, we ll marry our fortunes together i ve got some real estate here in my bag it took me four days to hitch-hike from saginaw i ve come to look for america i wish. please, please, please, please, please. 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well, there is this friday morning celebration. and the driver is central banks. not in this country, but globally. we got some comments very early this morning from europe, the head of the central bank there saying he s open to doing more when it companies to stimulus for europe s economy. also china cut interest rates. that was a surprise. it s basically an indication that easy money, easy policies all over the world, even if they re coming from overseas, continue to drive money into u.s. stocks. and with that said, we are set to open at record highs for the s&p 500, for the dow jones industrial average and 14 1/2 year highs for the nasdaq, the tech heavy index. we re looking at our fifth week in a row of gains. a lot of people talk about the santa claus rally where the markets jump toward the end of the year. better economic data in this country and easy central bank action overseas and that is a recipe for pretty strong stock market at the open. behind you, can you tell him it s looking good. yeah. excellent. thumbs up, yeah. he was having a hard time there. wearing a tie on casual friday. it really has been a pretty solid week. i want to underscore the news in this country, guys, has been good on the economy. you talk about retailers during this time of the year. we got the latest report from gap beating expectations. retailers have had challenges lately with store traffic and getting people through, having to deal with a lot of promotions. but overall, everyone from on the low income scale and the middle income scale like walmart and target have been beating the streets forecast and even some of the higher retailers as well. all in all, it s been a pretty solid week. awesome, sara eisen, thank you very much. up next, what, if anything, did we learn today. 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we ve been working this since april. we have the first call from one of our partner hospitals there in april, saying we ve got some ebola cases, what can you do for us? we ve been providing personal protective equipment. iv fluids for patients. over 4 million relief items. we also mobilized medical teams to go and serve there. so part of what you do is to get companies to jump in and try to get the support from wherever you can find it. medical supplies, food, whatever. how has the response been to getting help to where the problem is, west africa? it s an interesting response. i think our government has responded well. maybe a little slowly, but relatively well in terms of setting up these ebola treatment units. we ve had great support from our corporate partners who are there with a lot of material aid. this has not caused a lot support from the american public generally. we need support for the efforts we re doing not only right now but considering what we need to do to accomplish long-term goals here. thomas. when we talk about the situation of the spread, michael, and the containment of that, where does it stand right now? countries like sierra leone, liberia? what we re seeing in liberia is the case counts coming down, which is really good news. that s a success story. we should be grateful for that. that s evidence the strategy s working. if you put health workers in there, you give them the materials they need and you train them, you do public information messaging to the people in the community, and it works. this works. now, it s not happening in sierra leone quite as fast. the numbers are still rising there. guinea seems to be flattening out a little bit too. we ve got a new scare in mali. this is not done by any means. who are the corporate partners who have been most helpful, you know, because it s i think were you saying to me this is hard to sell? to the general public. think most of the general republican has been the few cases in the united states. the reality is people are dying every day in west africa and that s where we really need to be focused. we need the general public to come stand with us as well. and support us the way they have done in earthquakes and typhoons and those sorts of incidents as well. we need them along. corporate partners have been great. the company backster donated 50,000 bags of iv fluids. and cardinal health just hundreds and hundreds of thousands of items of personal protective gear, masks and gloves and boots and gloun s a. we need the public to stand up too. when we talk about health workers, we have is the extreme situation where we just had the unfortunate loss of a 44-year-old american doctor who passed away after coming back from sierra leone. and then we have the huge example of kaci hickox who came back and was treated with the isolation in maine. from what you re hearing on the inside is that stopping people from wanting to be of service? no, it s not stopping people. we ve had a tremendous su brt from american doctors and nurses we ve contacted, asked them to go. this is really to me the great spirit american compassion. this is what we do. people see a crisis. they know we need a response. they raised their hand to go. we were talking with one of the nurses we placed there in liberia. she was going to go for an eight-week rotation. she said, i m going to stay longer and do more. this is the great american spirit. i know from having been a volunteer and gone on these airlifts, these are hard. this is grueling hard work that, you know, a lot of people no, that s true. people of ameri cares, like if you want the most fantastic experience of your life, volunteer, donate. i just want to say about the health workers that are going, these are people who are going to give up their holidays, they re going to give up their comfort. these are people who are sweating it out in their protective equipment. and yet they say we want to stay, we want to keep doing it. they re responding in the great spirit of american compassion. it is great to have you. good luck with everything. i learned i m a johns hopkins mom. my daughter s home from vacation. the rundown with jose diaz-balart is up next. i know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. well, it s not.
face-to-face with a great white shark in florida. a brave diver there. thank you for joining us. have a great monday. fox & friends starts now. bye. good morning. today is monday, may 19. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. if you think the scandalous v.a. couldn t get any worse, it just did. brand-new allegations this morning. veterans with heart problems and brain tumors forceed to wait months for care. another hospital destroying their records. great. meanwhile, the museum pays a heart wrenching tribute to those lost in the september 11 attacks, but the gift shop at the 9/11 memorial, the gift shop is sparking outrage. what is in this store that has family members disgusted? we re going to talk about that. the king of pop back from the dead? how did they do that? we ve got the high-tech resurrection and the rest of the highlights. plus what a billionaire investment said that has everyone buzzing. mornings are better with friends. live from studio e here in rockefeller center, it s the fox & friends program. welcome aboard. elisabeth, did you have a nice weekend? i did have a good weekend. did you have a nice one? i did. where s brian? i m not sure. what s he doing here? i m here. you re not brian. i m not brian. i m sitting in today. i m looking forward to it. you look fantastic. thanks for being with us this morning. we ve got you know, the big story over the weekend on the sunday chat shows if you were watching was the scandal at the v.a. and how many vets had to wait and probably died waiting for care. well, add another hospital to the list. this time we re talking about albuquerque, new mexico. this the v.a. officials are destroying the records as fast as they can to cover their tracks. we know that apparently vets with heart conditions, gangrene, even brain tumors waited on waiting lists way too long, all to make the front office look good. right. in an exclusive moment i believe with the daily beast, a doctor there, a whistle-blower saying there is an eight-month waiting list for patients to get ultra sounds on their hearts. eight months? average four months, so it could actually go more. he said though there is no proof that veterans died as a result of what allegedly happened in, phoenix, it is possible they could still be alive because of what happened earlier. this seems to be a systemic issue facing our veterans to die at home. we re talking heart conditions. we re talking cancers, which means every day, every single day that you lose is monumental to the health of these veterans. and guess what? this is only a couple of weeks into this. there s going to be a lot more. there is no question this is going to continue to spread. these whistle-blowers are going to step up. and the question you have to ask eric shinseki, great general, terrible administrator isn t it time for him to step down? the freedom of information act provided records saying this is something this administration has known about for over five years, at minimum. in fact, the very first whistle-blower we had, dr. sam foote, he said he s glad this one guy we re going to talk about in a moment was forced out. but he says at this point keep shinseki because he knows how to kick butt and take names, so maybe that is the best thing to do right now. because everybody seems to be mad about it. we ve heard a number of people say in fact, we heard mr. shinseki himself say i m mad as hell. how mad? he s mad as hell. but you know who s madder than him? the president of the united states. the president of the united states we haven t heard from in three weeks since ed henry asked the president a question in manila about it. so instead of the president showing up, he sent out his chief of staff who says the president isn t mad as hell. he s madder than hell. the president is madder than hell. and i ve got the scars to prove it, given a briefing i ve given the president, the conversation he and rick and i have had on these matters, the president is demanding we get to the bottom of these exact allegations you re talking talking about as it relates as to whether veterans are getting the timely access of care that they earned, that they deserve. that is exactly what we re digging into. is it outrage or faux rage? the under secretary for health and the veterans affairs handed in his resignation friday. he works right under eric shinseki. this is the outrage that happened. he s going to hand in his resignation, parenthesis, means they asked him to resign. he already mentioned he was going to resign a year ago. they already had a press release out. with a press release saying he was going to be leaving in 2014. they pretended to say we re all about accountability. there it is right there. press release, members of the v.a. administration, teacher, dr. robert a. petzel will retire in 2014 as planned following a four year tenure as under secretary for health. for the administration to say we re going to be accountable for this and heads are going to start to roll, petzel was already planning on leaving. disingenuous. dr. sam foote, the initial whistle-blower, he says petzel was the chief man that he s glad is gone. in albuquerque, this story is unbelievable. they have eight cardiologists working in the department. at any one time of the eight only three are working any day of the week. they see less than two patients a day. on average they only see 36 vets per week for the entire department. whereas med scape says 60% of the cardiologists in this country see between 50 and 124 patients per week. that s for one cardiologist. here out there in albuquerque, they ve got eight doctors. they only see 36 a weeks. it is a problem. according to doctors, while they are already trying to destroy the records before they can be uncovered and unveiled to the public here, the record of those long wait times for veterans that they are alleged to have had, they are also destroying the lives of those who have served our country. it is not only this, it s not only the treatment that they re delaying, it s actually getting approval to get the treatment. this long v.a., the waiting list that was over a million people and they got it down to only 500,000 or 600,000 people on the waiting list just to get approval just to get the benefits to wait on-line to be put on a waiting list. it is insane. these people should be treated above the standard not below the standard of health care in america. this is the seventh state. on friday peter johnson asked you if you had a personal story to let him know. hundreds of you did. wait till you hear some of them. they are heart breaking. you can count on fox to be on this story. heather nauert is standing by to wish everyone a good morning and bring the latest headlines. good morning. hope you all had a great weekend. we have news happening overnight. an emotional apology from south korea s president following that ferry disaster that took place on april 16. he is now vogue to close down the country s coast guard amid new accusations that government regulators became too close to businesses operating there. the coast guard s duties will be taken over by the national police until a new safety agency is set up. nearly 300 people were killed in the sinking of that ferry last month. the captain and three crew members have been charged with murder. 11 other crew members have been charged with abandonment. the search is on for more people who have come into contact with the first mers patient in the united states, this after a third case has been announced by the c.d.c. officials believe an illinois man likely contracted the disease from an indiana man who became infected while working in the health care industry in saudi arabia. the latest person to be infected did not get sick and has not been hospitalized. that s a good thing. but health care workers are testing anyone who may have come in contact with him. thousands of people evacuated from a northern virginia movie theater after the sound effects get too real for that audience. police now looking for the person who set off two soda bottle chemical devices in the theater causing loud popping sounds. the bottles contained acid and a metal that apparently reacted together and then exploded. no one was hurt. let s go to the west coast. if you live in san francisco, you better watch out for a giant green lizard. some sort of bay area prankster hatched a digital road sign. look at this. godzilla back. turn back! the latest godzilla movie was just released this past weekend and it shows the big reptile making a mess of san francisco. some are speculating on twitter and social media that the sign was a promo stunt for the movie. it probably was. kind of cute; give you a smile on monday morning. you re not prely going to believe that. it s that easy to hack into the road? i think it s a stunt. speaking of stunts, it was not a stunt. apparently that beatdown between jay z and his sister-in-law solange, this video cost tmz reportedly a quarter of a million dollars. they got it from an employee of the standard hotel who has been fired. it lit up the internet and broadcast news all last week and still was burning strong last night. at the billboard music awards, an opportunity to make it even bigger. take a listen. we re here to announce our latest investment. we just spent $3.2 billion to buy a hot new company called beatdown by solange. that was a great, great elevator pitch. so that needs to be explained a little bit. apple bought beats, the headphone company, $3.2 billion. cuban does the show the shark tank where they hear pitches and they re making a play on that. the beats headphones. the elevator beat tko up tko up beatdown was part of a planned p.r. stunt. that didn t look planned. then on saturday night live because there was no audio they were trying to explain what happened. according to saturday night live the reason she was going like that was because look, there s a spider. trying to make light of a situation that involved kicks and tons of money. an employee revealing the scandalous video here. 250 thousand bucks for that video. i think he might have gotten more. maybe. a lot of people saw it. we ve got a very, very, very busy monday morning. thanks for joining us today. the museum pays a heart wrenching tribute to those whose lives were lost in midtown manhattan but the gift shop is sparking outrage. our next guest says what s in that store that has family members disgusted. you think you ve had some rough days? try dealing with this when you re late for work. very busy bee there. but first another look at the billboard music awards. peace of mind is important when you re running a successful business. so we provide it services you can rely on. with centurylink as your trusted it partner, you ll experience reliable uptime for the network and services you depend on. multi-layered security solutions keep your information safe, and secure. and responsive dedicated 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was a demolition super supervisor and ground zero and was part of the cleanup recovery. you went through the museum and i understand it is very, very powerful. it is said to be punch the gut. myself and other 9/11 responders went together. we wanted to go together as a group for support. it was tastefully done. it was it hurt to go there. sure. but it had to be done, and we had to go. we absorbed everything we could. towards the end when we saw that gift shop, i was taken back. and my eyes literally came out of my head like roger rabbit. and i was like this was really uncalled for. and i understand the premise for having to raise money for maintenance or salaries, but they could have did that after the 21st when the museum opened to the public. i posted something about, on twitter about this yesterday. and i got a ton of outrage. people said does the money go to the 9/11 victimize families? no. it goes to the museum to help pay for the salaries and stuff like that. people felt like it was almost as if keep in mind, there are near the gift shop at the museum, there are unidentified human remains for 8,000 people said that would be like having a gift shop at the tomb of the unknowns. agreed. over the last 13 years we as a society dropped the ball on the issue of sensitivity towards those who lost loved ones to 9/11 respond he wants who were sick and dying. it seems like every issue that pertains to 9/11, we lack sensitivity. to take money, to open that gift shop and let people know they can go in there and buy something during the six days this was open to family members and responders, i found that a little distasteful. sure. let s show you some of the things they ve got in the gift shop. you can buy twin towers glass ornaments for $23. a 9/11 memorial bookmark for $13. a scarf, world trade center at lunch time when it was standing for $19. search and rescue plush dog or the world trade center tote bag for 20 bucks. no one i know will buy that. that might be great for a tourist from out of state or out of country that doesn t appreciate the devastation of 9/11. but to sell that merchandise especially during these six days because you have 359 other days to make money, that was very distasteful. especially for the families because it looks like they re making money off of their relatives. a lot of people are looking for closure. going to this museum might have been that answer for them to start the healing process. you just added salt to a wound that hasn t closed in 13 years. here s what the 9/11 museum spokesperson said. the museum is a nonprofit that does not receive any federal, state or city funding for its operations. our organization relies on private fund-raising, gracious donations and revenues from ticketing and carefully selected keepsake items for retail. many of our guests from the 9/11 community visited the shop and purchased a keepsake from their historic experience. i should point out as well on top of that, it costs you $25 to get in. you know, i donated to the museum my artifacts that are in the post-9/11 section of the museum but nobody told me about this. if they would have told me about this, i would have had reservations about going. i was surprised as everybody when i saw this. john feal, thank you very much. what do you think about that? appropriate or not? e-mail us at friends friends.com. meanwhile, important information for you and your pet. the danger lurking in some dog treats could be deadly. what to look for coming up. from foster care to the white house and then the nba, our next guest is living proof of the american dream. he joins us live with an inspirational story. good morning to you. you ve reached the age where you ve learned a thing or two. 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 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us to tell us his truly inspirational life story is the author of living proof: from foster care to the white house to the nba. lucas boyce. and happy birthday. how old are you? 35 years old today. your story is inspirational. tell us about growing up in kansas city? sure. first i have to give credit to my mom dorothy boyce. 35 years ago today i was born but ten years ago today i went to her home as a foster care and over the course of gosh 15 years she had over 40 foster care children. all of this is possible as a result of my mom dorothy boyce. there you are growing up as a little boy. that is me on adoption day, two and a half. mom loved bow ties. she still loves them today. tell us the story. i was in kansas city, missouri. this is our team growing up, our basketball team. over the course of 15 years, mom had over foster care children. that is your family, those you grew up with? yes. all of us were diverse as a family, young and old. some of my siblings had disabilities. my pweurblt money my birth mother was a 19-year-old drug addicted teenager. mom was kind of like michael jordan. she launches that three point shot for all of us children. she told all of us children we were built for something more. there is a scripture in the bible that says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. it didn t matter if we had disabilities or what i struggled with. what i came to her house with, she loved us as we were. she empowered us to believe we can do anything we put our minds to. how did you come to be working in the white house? some people say this isn t going to be your story not based on your history. statistics would say if you re born to a drug and alcohol addicted call girl, you re not supposed to amount to anything. i believed in what my mom told me and randomly after 9/11 i had the opportunity to be an intern. very, very fortunate. six months after 9/11. i get this call one day. my boss sailed somebody is going to my boss said somebody is going to call you on the phone. my advice is to say yes to what they re going to ask you to do. we re working for free. we re excited to be this. we get this call from the u.s.a. freedom corps having this photo opportunity. march 26, 2002. they take me to the west wing, my very first time in the west wing. i take off my suit coat, i was standing on the south lawn. there were kids. i m 22 at the time. they were like 8, 10 and 12. i m trying to figure out why i m on the front lawn with these kids. the secret service comes out, the president comes out and says hey, i m george. i grew up in a small town in missouri. i never met anybody famous. i responded the only way i knew how. i said what up? i m lucas. after this photo shoot, i start to walk away, calls me in for this photo and he pulls me in for the brother hug and i m like sir, i m praying for it. it s like six months after 9/11. i think that s it. we didn t have facebook, instagram, all those things in 2002. i could think of one person in the planet to update my status with. mom. i call up mom, i m excited pumped. i think that s it, a really cool day on the south lawn. and my boss comes back and said lucas, you kind of made an impression on the president yesterday. my mind goes back to pulling him for a hug and i think i m about to get fired. he said the president called me at this meeting, what is his name. what s his story? my boss shared with the former president a little bit about my background and foster care. this is the principal reason i get to share this story today. he said what can we do for him? let s bring him on board. that is how i got my start as a 22-year-old white house intern. what a story. now you work for the orlando magic. an amazing story. happy birthday. thank you. and thank all the foster moms out there. they do a great job. it is foster care awareness month. over 400,000 children are looking for families. it is a good time to reflect and focus. thank you for bringing this to our attention, lucas. happy 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average of about 800. if you haven t gone to class in about a year how do you keep your parents from finding out you re not graduating? call in a bomb threat of course. that is exactly what this gal did. she s 22 years old. her name is daniel shea. she did this at connecticut quinnipiac university. when she was faced with telling her family she dropped out of school, police say she called in two separate bomb threats just before the start of the ceremony. she is being held on a $20,000 bond. graduation was delayed 90 minutes and moved indoors but then went off without a hitch. what a dopey move. the washoe tribe of nevada claiming mark twain was a racist. the famed raoeufr was set to have the famed writer was set to have a could he have named after him but the washoe tribe objected. some argue it should be named after twain because of his deep love of the tahoe. caught on camera, let s go to florida. a terrifying moment. a diver takes on a great white shark and then wins. that is a spear gun in his hand, and he s able to get that shark to move away. this was off the coast of vero beach florida. the shark kept getting closer and closer. the shark eventually swam away. this whole thing lasted about two and a half minutes. i m sure it felt like hours for that diver. that shark was about 12 feet long. great white. isn t it mandatory under shark stories all tv shows should play that music. scary stuff. from scary stuff to chilly stuff, maria molina joins us right now. maria, frost warnings in certain parts of the northeast? that s right. across interior parts and parts of pennsylvania and upstate new york waking up to temperatures around the freezing mark. we have freeze warnings in effect out there early this morning. across places like new york city not too bad. the current temperature 50 degrees. farther off to the west in cleveland, chilly as well. 41 degrees for your current temperature. look at the state of texas, out there you have temperatures in the 60 s and 70 s. as we head into this afternoon climbing into the 80 s and 90 s. that s going to be the story as well across parts of oklahoma and the state of kansas. 100 degrees for your high in the city of phoenix. out here in parts of arizona, new mexico and into the plains we have an elevated fire danger in place, mudslide warnings and fire weather watches in effect. now let s head back inside. maria, thank you very much. 22 minutes before the top of the hour. it was a monster weekend at the box office. the remake of the science fiction flick godzilla raked in $the 0 million. raked in $90 million. another film, the latest installing of x-men. joining us is michael tammero. godzilla will be no match for the x-men as they hit theaters nationwide. it is the long awaited next movie. hugh jackman has defined the role of wolverine. he has been playing it for 14 years now, since 2000. we asked him if he ll ever see a time he ll be hanging up the cloth. every morning i wake up at 4:00 to train. of course i can see that. i don t think about it all the time because i m enjoying it more than ever. i think the scripts are getting better. it feels fresher like we are moving the whole franchise into it. it feels like it is opening up, it doesn t feel like it s closing down. it s hard to be a movie star to have to get up at 4 a.m. wolverine goes back to 1973, the 70 s not to do the hustle but to change events to make a better future. we caught up with the stars and asked them if they could go back to the past to change the future, what would they do. i wouldn t change anything, but it would be interesting to go back, i suppose. but, you know, you don t know if you change one thing what the knockout effect to that would be. everything happens for a reason. i believe things are mapped out. would i change anything? no. i wouldn t change much. x-men: days of future past opens up on friday, may 23 nationwide. for all my interview news check out inthefoxlight.com. back in 1973, somebody 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joining us is a man who fought to bring the man to massachusetts, bristol county sherrif thomas hudson. thanks for joining us. one of the things we ve heard is ice has released 36,000 hardened criminals, gleam aliens on to the streets illegal aliens on to the streets of america. your thoughts? it is something america ought to be concerned about. when we start allowing people who have predispositions to commit rapes, robberies, voluntary manslaughter, murders, these are dangerous people. whether or not they are, they have done some of their time or all of their time, they ought to be deported. they let s talk about this. 406 sexual assault convictions. it goes on and on. i m trying to figure out where did these people do their time? did they do it in american prisons? they do it in american prisons. the real rub is that once they complete their sentence, if in fact they have detainers against them, the current administration wants to say that we re not going to be able to hold them on the detehran. it is a really difficult situation. of these 36,000, wouldn t those be the ones earmarked for deportation? 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a former patriots linebacker, sean stuckey, weighs in ahead. get all your favorites all day, everyday. olive garden s signature favorites, just $10 including creamy fettuccine alfredo, and our classic lasagna. plus unlimited soup or salad and warm breadsticks. signature favorites, just $10 all week long, at olive garden. a a the nfl might be getting closer to loosening its policies when it comes to marijuana use. would that be sending the wrong message to their young fans? joining us is former new england patriots linebacker and sports attorney, sean stucky. good morning. what s the deal with the pot here and why an attempt to loosen the reins on marijuana use within the nfl. the nfl understands that they have a problem here. they understand that public sentiment is changing, that the public is more acceptable to the use of marijuana, and the nfl is a capitalistic beast. they are driven by what public sentiment is demanding. if the public is demanding more violence, the nfl gave it more violence. when the public demand less violence, they gave it less violence. so the nfl understands that the public sentiment is changing and therefore, the rules need to be changed to reflect that. as far as public sentiment is concerned, i think most parents here would think this is unsettling to think that the nfl is going to open the door for more pot use. the reins are pretty loose. you don t have a first-time use penalty where you re suspended. you just go into a program. i think parents would be concerned that this is something that is opening up in the nfl. no? this is something that i m sensitive to. i understand the public sentiment or maybe it s not a widespread sentiment, but i understand the sentiment that if you allow nfl players to use marijuana that you re going to find a bunch of kids out there using it as well. particularly sensitive to this issue because i come from a family where six out of such of my aunts and uncles were addicted to crack cocaine, including my mother who was addict to do a couple years and addicted from the time i was 12 years old. so i understand that. and however, i was also a high school teacher where i taught young teen-agers. i am intimately aware of what the teen-agers are influenced and not influenced by. the nfl changing its policy towards marijuana would not influence these teen-agers. let me give you an example. if the nfl were to immediately ban the use of all alcohol among all football players, you would not find a widespread cessation of alcohol use among teen-agers. perhaps. i think your story is fascinating and you have a unique perspective. i think the concern is hey, how can you say we re working on brain health and let more pot be used? 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tell kids to, quote, grow a pair? the person with that wisdom, a mayor. we ll tell you where and what he was thinking on this monday morning because mornings are always better with friends. yep. find out all about the grow a pair dictum coming up in just a bit. look who is with us today. glad to be here. we always see waving behind the window. every morning i come in and i wave to elisabeth in the morning. i never see you. you re not waving to me. i m waving to her. i give him a wave back. just like that. good morning. great to have you here. good to be here. always steve, too. the nightmare of the release of the v. continues to get worse. we can not wake up from this horrific dream. it s been going on for a long time. now a new state is being exposed for this life-taking scandalous handling of veteranshealth. albuquerque, new mexico, destroying records in fear they are going to have their situation looked at a little too closely. the v.a. apparently settled 167 medical delay cases dating back to 2001 totaling $34 million. veterans have been waiting for treatment with heart and brain issues and have been waiting eight months, steve? something like that. right now in albuquerque, there is an eight-month waiting period to get ultrasound of hearts. some patients have obviously died before they got around to seeing the doctor. i saw an e-mail from a vet a moment ago and he said look, okay. shinseki, i don t really care whether he stays or goes, it s a big problem. a major part keep in mind, these are people who die on waiting lists. the reason we have the waiting lists is because in the v.a., just like in a corporation, there are bonuses. and if you look good to the front office, you re going to get a bonus. the bonuses are tied to the short waiting times. dan is the national commander of the american legion. he says if this were a regular ceo, gone. we need the white house, the president to come forward. he needs to make a statement to show the employees of v.a. that this needs to change now. one death is tragic, but when you hide it, that s unforgivable. it s got to start at the top. it s accountability. if it was the ceo, we ve heard many ceo s lately of major corporations stepping down. if this was the military, you would be relieved of duty. that s right. if this was a football teen-ager the coach would be fired. if it was a ceo, you d be removed. here is something very interesting. a lot of people are talking about this in social media. this is a big bureaucratic government-run health care system. sound familiar? what s obamacare going to be. multiples of the v.a., multiples in size, multiples of bureaucratic nightmares. listen, whether you believe it or not, sarah palin and a couple other people on the right said there will be people deciding who gets what treatment and when and that s going to put long waiting lines on certain types of treatment while the v.a. is improving that right now. look, you said something so important. these are our heros. these are our military people coming back. they shoot have to put their shouldn t have to put their lives on the line over here. to put them back on some sort of back list that then disappears is horrific enough. but then to conceal that and hide that as some of these records are showing issues some of the whistle blowers are indicating, is even worse. yeah. let s take you out to fort collins, colorado. lisa lee, currently serving in the u.s. military, she s in the navy. she went forward to the v.a. and she said there is a terrible problem here with this where they re cook the books. cooking the books. she wound up with a two-week suspension. she refused to hide the wait times. so she s blowing the lid of things in fort collins. what s interesting is after she became a whistle blower, the v.a. tried to buy her off. they came to her and said, listen, we ll get rid of that two-week suspension thing, your record will be clean as a whistle blower, but you got to stop with the whistle blowerring. okay? she said no. absolutely not. this is a scandal. people need to know. i ve got to stand on principle. she s not backing down and she doesn t like the idea of returning to the v.a. because her experience has been that it is, quote, a snake pit. the bottom line here is people aren t getting treatment. our heros aren t getting treatment because there is not enough money. with all there is enough money. it s spent badly. right. we overspend our budget by a trillion dollars a year, maybe $600 billion a year this year and supposed to be good. how about spending some money on these people? how about instead of worrying about healthcare.gov, spending millions on that, fix this? it s a matter of hiring enough people to fix this problem. that s all it is. these people deserve it. it s been happening for a long time. this is nothing that s just come to surface. the administration and white house has known about this for quite a long time. shinseki still in place and the president is confident he can fix this problem. we haven t heard from the president in three weeks about this, extraordinarily. heather nauert joins us again. good morning. good morning. let s start out on the west coast. the drought there has been a real problem all season long. the governor of california is saying this could be the worst ever wildfire season according to jerry brown. crews in san diego county finally gain control of nearly one dozen fires. those fires destroyed nearly 50 homes and caused around $20 million worth of damages. governor brown says the state has set aside nearly $600 million to fight wildfires this season. he worries that may not be enough money to deal with the problem. there have already been more than 1500 fire this is year, compared to 800 on average. it has been a depaid for decades burks australian researchers say there is no link between autism and vaccinations. they looked at ten international studies that involved one million children and found that kids who received vaccinations, including tetanus, whooping cough, measles,mmr were not at a higher risk of being diagnosed with autism. doctors hope the study will reassure parents and they will get their kids vaccinated. a massive merger to tell you about in the media. at & t buying direct tv in a deal worth nearly $50 billion perform aprovenned, it will give at & t more subscribers and content like the nfl sunday games and that means you can get football on your phone, tablet and even in your car. combined at & t-direct tv deal would make it the country s number two television provider. no word on how it will impact prices for consumers. justin timberlake, the big winner last night, taking home seven trophies. this is what has gained a lot of attention. the late michael jackson stealing the show. look at this. take a look at that. kind of creepy in a way. the king of pop coming back to life as a hologram performing his new hit. that is getting a lot of attention. and also coming up in the show, robin thicke continuing his quest to win back his wife. the singer debuted a new song about her called get her back . he sang to his wife in an acceptance speech. listen to this. he d like to thank my love and support for putting up with me all these years. carrie underwood taking home the milestone award. i wonder if that will work for robin thicke. we ll see. that michael jackson thing is getting a loft attention. he started working on that song in the early 90s and now it was released for the first time. it looks so real. it really does. thank you. haverford college is on the main lines in a suburb of philadelphia. they had the commencement over the weekend. the speaker was william bowen, a former president of princeton. you know what he did? extraordinarily, keep in mind, it was two weeks ago we were talk being how condy rice decided not to go speak at rutgers because there was a student protest. at haverford there was a protest where 40 students and three professors didn t like the way that the guy they had invited, robert bergerow, how he handled a student protest. right. so then the new speaker actually came in, former princeton university president. he said this. in my view, they should be encouraged to come and engage in serious discussion. not to turn tail between his legs to respond to an indictment that a self chosen jury had chosen. i think he should be with us today. he comes in as a pinch hitter for the speech and decides to go into the students and say look, this was uncalled for. there should have been a discussion here. a lot of times the students aren t to blame. there s a committee that chooses these speakers and frankly, it s pretty fairly liberal, left wing leaning. you think? yeah. and so things like condy rice happens. the rutgers decides they want to ask her to speak and all of a sudden, this group, these group of 50 or so out of 44,000 rutgers students complain and then they cave. led by professors. led by professors. and the group caves. remember the woman that was going to speak at another university, exposing some of the atrocities that muslim women are going through and a group of liberals said don t let her speak and she was asked not to speak. there is more and more activism going on in the college let these kids graduate. just let them get out into the world and enjoy their last day of college. yeah. college kids, you re going to hear opposing viewpoints later on in your real life. the problem is, there are all these lefties who only want voices that they agree with. so afterwards, this particular guy who did the speech, he said that the students were the protesters were immature and arrogant. he went in and he wound up getting a standing ovation. he actually did. sort of giving them a little redirection before they direct themselves out. coming up, more controversy at the 9-11 museum. what s in the gift shop that has family members absolutely disgusted? 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is this going to separate you in this election? absolutely. west virginia, we ve lost thousands of jobs. we re very concerned about our future and our families, our opportunities for our children and to be able to stay and live and work in this beautiful state. and it s under attack. that is the pervasive argument of this election. it s getting west virginiaans back to work, creating opportunities and not having policies emanating from washington that really inhibit the ability for we west virginia women to have the kind of family life and the kind of futures that we really want. your opponent is a woman. natalie tenant, running for the same position. how much more difficult is it to face a woman and not be perceived as getting catty when it comes to politics? you know, i really can only control my own campaign. i ve run against women before. i think it s a wonderful thing that i have the opportunity to be the first woman senator from the state of west virginia. this really is not about gender. it s about the policies that are going to be moving forward that are going to guarantee west virginia families a future and an optimism that government isn t fighting them and that we re partners together to try to create that country and that state that we all want. all righty. we re going to leave it right there. thank you very much. coming up, he was knocked unconscious by a rocket-propelled grenade. when he came to, he ran towards the bullets to save his comrade comrades. now he s got a medal of honor and he s here next. he s on the brink of making history. california chrome won t try for the triple crown. the trainer s side up here ahead i m randy and i quit it s a non-nicotine pill. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don t take chantix if you ve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some could be life threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i did not know what it was like to be a non-smoker. but i do now. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. csx. how tomorrow moves. what a day. can t wait til tomorrow. time for news by the numbers. first, 96 bucks. that s how much it now costs for anyone ten and older to get into disneyland. the 4-dollar price hike comes weeks before the busy summer season. next, $93.2 million. that s how much godzilla made in its opening weekend. finally, first time 70-year-old rock legend mick jagger is a great grandfather. he gained the new status this weekend after his 21-year-old granddaughter gave birth to a baby girl. wow. it is the highest honor our country can bestow upon its heros. today we pay tribute to a soldier who embodies the courage of his generation. we present our nation s highest military declaration, medal of honor, to sergeant kyle j. white. on tuesday, u.s. army sergeant kyle white became the tenth person to receive the medal of honor for his actions in afghanistan. he put his life on the line in an hours long effort to save his fellow soldiers during a seven ambush in afghanistan. joining us is a true american hero. army sergeant kyle white. thank you very much for your service. wow. look at that. that s pretty cool. tell us about the story that earned you that. it was a fire fight that lasted four hours, from the time the first shot rang out to the time the last service members lifted out of the area, it was about a 20-hour battle. it was a pretty it was the worst day of my life and the worst day of the lives of anybody that was there that day. you were the radio guy? yes, i was the radio telephone operator. coming back to those moments, i m sure they never leave you. but certainly brought to a front as you receive this medal, the greatest honor. how emotional was it for you? i did try to keep somewhat of a composure. i remember specifically when you turned on the stage and he actually put the medal around your neck, the only thing i saw was the faces of the guys we lost that day. and not to mention i was facing one of the gold star families that were able to attend and it was emotional. tell us a little bit more about that four hours that you were there. tell us what you went through, what you saw, what you felt. well, when we were coming down the trail, we were approaching the area we knew was a high danger area, so we knew we had to get through quickly. once the first shots rang out, it was a single shot, then two shots, and then it seemed like the entire valley erupted. i remember it wasn t too long after the first shots, i was not going to make it through this because way too much there is too much fire coming in too many different directions and we had no cover and nowhere to go. so part of what i was receiving this award for that day was my good friend, specialist kane shilling was there and i was able to apply some of that first aid that it s been pounded in our head every day. i was able to stop some of his bleeding. part of the story that is extraordinary is the fact that amid the four hours, you were knocked out by an rpg. you were out cold. you wake up, you wind up running toward the guys shooting at you. yeah. it was right after that opening initial ambush, i fired my first magazine, reloaded, and it was lights out. then i didn t find out til days later after talking to kane shilling that it was an rpg hit basically right hyped my behind my head. when you see yourself with this honor and medal, what do you think? i think i m provided an opportunity to get the names of those that were killed that day out for the world to know because they gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country and i feel everybody should know their names and hear their stories. there are a lot of stories out there, a lot of stories about the military right now with the v.a. and the trouble. the g.i. bill has helped you out immensely because you came back and you studied finance and now you ve got a good job. yes. i think the post-9-11 g.i. bill is an excellent program. it was instrumental in me getting my degree. i couldn t tell you how easier it is to actually go and get your degree after leaving the military knowing that that tuition is covered, knowing that you have that assistance that you need. that s wonderful. your plans are to do what? i m going to take it day by day at this point. just the past five days alone have been overwhelming. sure. every day a gift after what you ve been through. yes. i definitely know i ve been given a second chance. unthing i learned that day is never take anything for granted. thank you for giving us the chance to have you here. certainly an honor and we thank you for all that you ve done and for keeping all those brothers and sisters names alive. well done. thank you. great to have you. thank you. all right. we re going to step aside. 28 minutes after the top of the hour. is this the way to end bullying? 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well, that s miranda lambert and carrie underwood debuting their duo song something bad last night at the billboard music awards. they are great. let s watch a little more. too bad. i m big fans of both of them. they ve both been on the show. they re great. let s take you out to porterville, california. they have proposed the town was talking about there is a problem with bullying in our town and so what we should do is establish some safe zones where if a kid feels like he s being bullied, they should go to the safe zone. well, mayor cameron hamilton, who says he s against bullying, said bullying victims should toughen up and defend themselves. this is how. listen here. i m against bullying, but i m getting damn 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. grow a pair. council woman a pair of what? i would imagine shoes? boots. these boots were made for walking. cucumbers. she told the mayor, quote, it s hard to grow a pair when you re a ten-year-old girl, end quote. what do you think about that? the response to bullying. safe zones or grow a pair? let us know. 26 minutes before the top of the hour. heather nauert joins us with some headlines. good morning to you. got an update on that malaysian airlines flight. there is still no trace of that missing airplane. but it is not stopping hollywood from writing its own ending. debuted at the cannes film festival, a trailer for something called the vanishing act. unmade movie, but sort of based on the malaysian airlines mystery. the film makers say they are trying to tell the untold story of what happened on that plane. kind of bizarre. it was all fun and games, but a prank lands an austin, texas boy with assault charges. look what happened here. okay. not funny at all. it is called smack cam. it s a prank that s going around now adays. this young boy walked into a wendy s restaurants pretending to order and hit a 16-year-old employee in the face. listen to this. i stayed there for a couple of seconds and then took a breath and i said a few words and went to the restroom and got myself together and went back, told my manager what happened. fore thing. there were two people involved with that. police eventually caught up with them after they took off. the boy, his age and name has not been released and is facing a misdemeanor assault charge. a moment captures crews who are simply exhausted. boy, who can blame them? they were battling the wildfires taking place in southern california. this is san marcos firefighter tim bergen and he takes this selfy for his wife to let her know he s okay. now the selfy has gone viral and you can see him and also his fellow crew members in the back. despite all that, still had a smile on his face. kind of nice. one traffic cop is being taken on a wild ride in china and it is all caught on video. check this out. can you imagine that? this guy is on the roof on the hood of that vehicle. the officer tried to stop the driver, but then the driver took off to try to avoid getting a ticket. the cop managed to hang on to the hood. he made it about three quarters of a mile before he was eventually stopped and then arrested. somehow that driver was not hurt. can you imagine that? almost a mile on the hood of that car. those are your headline. i wonder if the officer had a gun and was just now, pull over. i don t know if they have guns. might be that driver didn t just slam on the brakes. exactly. kick it into reverse. thank you, heather. i see she s out on the streets of new york city again, maria molina at 48th and 6th avenue with the fox cast. good morning. hello, everybody. we re talking chilly temperatures this morning across parts of the northeast where we had freeze viesries and several frost advisories across the region, especially interior parts across pennsylvania, upstate new york. that s where you re waking up to temperatures as chilly as the low 30s for some of you, in the low 40s across cleveland. across the plains, temperatures won t be much warmer across texas, oklahoma, parts of kansas, into the middle 80s and upper 90s for some of you. there is still an elevated fire danger across most of the state of new mexico, arizona, and parts of the plains with red flag warnings in effect out there due to low humidity, gusty winds and those warm temperatures. again, those warnings are in effect out there. moisture farther north across parts of the northern plains in the great lakes today. areas of showers and batches of heavy rain. let s head over to eric. thank you. triple crown candidate california chrome, bow out of the belmont stakes. it s all because of a new york ruling banning the use of nasal breathing strips. we spoke with california chrome s trainer, art sherman, yesterday. listen. we re look forward to the belmont. it kind of bothers me a little that we have to change equipment on the horse that s been running very good. not that i m superstitious, but i just don t understand it. right. if california chrome wins it, he will be the first horse to sweep all three races since 1978. have you ever thought you were done with something only to realize it s not quite over just yet? at least yours wasn t on live tv. check out this cyclist. she thinks she s won. no, no. that s a little bit unfortunate for the spaniard. clearly doesn t understand english. the commentator saying no, no, no. that is a shame. one lap to go, my friend. oh, no. this happened at the tour of california. that guy ended up get this he didn t come in first. he didn t come in second. he came in 56th. that s going to hurt. that s going to leave a mark. he made everybody s highlight reel today. that s right. oh, my. so thanks for being with us today. we re not done yet. we got an hour and 21 minutes to go. a lap and a half to go. coming up on this montel cast, more controversy at the september 11 museum. what s in the gift shop that has family members disgusted? that s right. they have a gift shop down there at the memorial. and the scandal at the v.a. capturing the attention of our nation. now veterans and care givers are sending us their own horror stories by the hundreds. peter johnson, jr. sharing them with you next. but first today s trivia question. born on this date in 1945, this rock n roll hall of famer was named one of the rolling stones top ten guitarists of all time, even though he never learned to read music. who is he? 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this morning as the outrageous allegations of veteran mistreatment continues to pile up against the v.a., we re guiltying an overwhelming response from all of you watching. veterans and care givers writing us and peter johnson, jr., your personal horror stories. peter asked for your e-mails on friday and he s here to share them with all of us and give some of the stories the attention they deserve. not only did we receive hundreds and hundreds of them, but you spent the weekend analyzing them and you ve spotted some trends. i did. it s evidence of neglect and contempt. let s talk about it. category by category. first with delays. i saw a pattern of three to six months wait in the evaluation for primary care and specialist appointments. i saw a case of a five-month surgical delay for a six inch hernia. three months for eye tests. six months for glasses. eight months for heart stress tests. really an incredible pattern of abuse. looking through them as well, you analyzed it and it s clear imcompetence is at play. there is a level of imcompetence that s been alleged in 325 e-mails. overcrowded emergency rooms and a massive failure to evaluate and treat ptsd and traumatic brain injury. instances including blood sugar strip rationing. you can only have two a week. and reliance on pain killers as a substitute for treatment. let s give you opiates. let s give you pain killers instead of defining what was going on. also treatment hindered by doctors english language skills. injuries from death from cancer and heart disease due to delays, staggering. no kidding. we told earlier about a new story about how in fort collins, colorado, there was a whistle blower. she couldn t take it anymore, and she came out. she was smacked around, suspended for a couple of weeks and that s one of the other problems. you noticed a lot of abuse. absolutely compelling. the people that wrote to me, the veterans and families, there is a fear of retaliation. there is a fear of arrest after complaints. there is a fear about being thrown out of the system. also paying out of pocket with their own dollars to private physicians for care that should have been provided by the v.a. we also found that the office of the inspector general, does not by their own admission investigate every complaint. so veterans can send them complaints like these and not have them investigated because they don t deem them to be serious enough. you analyzed them and also read them. they re heart breaking. there is a few that are interesting. from william, i m a three-tour army vet. i use the v.a. for the few things i earned. i ve been struck by nine ied s and suffer from ptsd and tbi. on my last trip for a psych appointment, my psychologist told me i only had three appointments left. she told me i was limited to six mental health visits and i may want to stretch out my appointments a little farther between visits. we also got an e-mail from alan who is a father of a veteran. he writes, every time my son needs an appointment because of his ptsd or any other issue, he can t get an appointment until one to three months for help. because of this, he gets aggravated and gave up on seeking v.a. health care. i see him suffer. we can not afford to have him seen by nonv.a. medical professionals. from nancy, a veteran s sister-in-law, i want you to look into my brother-in-law s death on february 7, 2014 of a heart attack. he had been trying to get into his primary care doctor at houma, arizona for over three months because of chess pains and shortness of breath. my sister called at least once a week to get him seen. his death was caused by the v.a. s inattention. please stand up for our american heros. that s exactly what we try and we will be doing as the weeks go on. we have an effort going on here at fox & friends to save our vets. and we need your help. e-mail me or write here at the fox news channel. we intend to share these with the congress. we intend to share these with the office of the inspector general and the highest levels at the v.a. we want results. this is absolutely unsatisfactory and unamerican. absolutely. i m sure a lot of people at home have come up against these problems in the past. they feel frustrated. this is their chance to get the story out. coming up at 8:15, you ll interview one doctor who wrote in to us to share her first experience with mismanagement and inadequate care, psychiatric patients on the verge of suicide, not having the care that they needed. absolutely. she s coming up. once again, if you have an e-mail you want to send to peter johnson, jr., send it in. thank you. coming up, concussions are a silent injury. so how do you know when your kid has had one and what do you do? the simple advice every parent needs to know coming up. first, on this date in 1981, kim karnes had the number one song in america. she had those betty davis eyes. good job! still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. two full servings of vegetables peoi go to angie s listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie s list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you ll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we re expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie s list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i ve found on angie s list actually have blown me away. find out why more than two million members count on angie s list. angie s list reviews you can trust. welcome back. the answer to today s trivia question, pete townsend, congratulations to bob and mary ann from pennsylvania. you are going to receive a copy of brian kilmeade s book george washington s secret six. enjoy. undeniable, spring sports have sprung. soon summer athletics will kick in, that also means injuries and a major one everyone is talking about, concussions. there are more than 300,000 sports-related concussions each year and emergency room visits for kids with sports concussions has gone up 60% in the past decade. one problem is that parents don t know how to help their kids heal properly after having one. joining us with some advice, dr. cohen of the headache institute, adolescent headache center and a neurologist at st. louis roosevelt hospital center. thanks for being with us. thank you for having me. having had a concussion myself, i know it takes a little time to heal and there are things you can actually do to help and things that do that hurt. we re seeing an increase, though. are we just having kids that are hurt more often or just paying more attention? one thing that s been really beneficial in the past couple years is there has been a lot more awareness about concussions in the media, the work the nfl has done to increase awareness about concussion. and especially a lot of schools and school districts are imposing new legislation and regulation which will help protect kids better. so we want kids to still have fun but want to know what to do if they get hurt. if you believe they have a concussion, what do you do to help them heal? the best thing is what we call mental rest. we want to protect the brain in its time of healing. some things we recommend is one, no screen time immediately following the concussion while the symptoms are severe. as symptoms improve, you want to slowly reintroduce that screen time. that is computers, iphones, tablets, anything like that. you re not making any friends with the kid community right now. may not admit they have a concussion after hearing that. but that makes a huge difference. it can make it harder for the pain to heal. all that attention. we also want to provide other mental rest. don t try to do anything that s too taxing. for kids we recommend they re out of school for a few days as the symptoms are most severe, then slowly reintroduce school. keep them out of tests for a while and other things like that. okay. don t rush back into physical activity. absolutely. do no physical activity at first. then you can slowly introduce maybe small walking. get back to physical activity only after the symptoms of a concussion resolved completely. another one you say is avoid balancing your checkbook. don t do anything too taxing. anything that could have a severe effect that you get wrong. absolutely. it really is a difficult time as far as cognition. it s difficult to think or concentration in the setting of a concussion, but we know resting from those activities will help the brain heal faster. it s hard. i had one. it s hard to dial back the expectation when it comes to having fun socially and what s expected in terms of work. so for kids, is this doable? most people will heal from a concussion within one to two weeks of the head injury. we re just asking for a short period of time. let that brain heal. one of the risk factors for having another concussion is having had one. so the more you get your brain to heal, the better chance you have of not having one in the future. thanks for being with us. my pleasure. coming up this morning, the v.a. scandal getting even worse with another hospital added to the scandal. so what is the white house doing? bret baier top of the hour on that. then a student phoned it all in last year. skipping out on her classes. but one phone call sealed the deal. we re going to talk to her aseba] [milk pouring] great things go together. and new sargento tastings are perfectly paired with every day. exceptional cheeses in smaller, snackable sizes that make it easy to explore new flavors and savor every moment. new sargento tastings. one of a kind flavors found right in your dairy section. find your favorite and make your own perfect pairing. new sargento tastings. perfectly paired with every day. good morning. today is monday, may 19. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. a brand-new whistle blower with brand-new allegations of veterans denied treatment by the v.a. the hospital tried to silence her, but she s speak out exclusively on fox & friends this hour. chris christie sounding off, slamming president obama on his failure to lead and his lack of support for israel. bret baier reacts to the governor s comments. bret is live in dc. and controversy at the 9-11 museum. what s in the gift shop that has family members disgusted? would you buy these souvenirs? mornings are better with friends. used to saying, starts right now. go ahead. hour three starts right now. ladies and gentlemen, eric bolling in for brian kilmeade. eric is on at 5:00 p.m. eastern time on the five : what s the show after that? there is a secret thing happening at noon that no one is supposed to know about. oh, you no, i m talking about what show is after you. the bret baier show. segueway to our guest. i got you. that was easy. best lead in television. that s really cool. thank you very much. you want to fire back, bret? no. i ll leave it there. eric s got it covered. we re all good. i got a feeling tonight you re probably going to lead with the v.a. again, at least 100 dead, delay in treatment, according to the dayton daily news. also there is a whistle blower who has come out in albuquerque who says that v.a. officials are destroying records left and right to cover their tracks. and that vets with heart conditions, gangrene, they re put on a list and they have to wait for months. it seems to be gaining momentum as these individual v.a. hospitals come up with more allegations. the dayton daily news article over the weekend based on a request for data, really was quite something in that the number was 167 deaths over the past since 2001 really, tide to a delay in treatment, according to the data. and that the veterans affairs office had paid out some $37 million in settlements based on that delay. there is another request getting attention this morning and that s from the washington times which says that v.a. officials briefed the transition team, the observe observe-biden transition team as they were coming into office in 2009, saying that the wait times were not really what they were and that the computer system was essentially completely faulty. so while this all does go back years and years and people say these problems have been around for a while, what happened from 2009 forward is obviously of concern up on capitol hill. both democrats and republicans calling for increased investigations. sure. many calling for the resignation an eric shinseki to step down, though the white house says he s still the guy to handle the guy. under the secretary at the v.a. there, he said he was going to resign, he was actually forced to resign cause they re mad as hell. yet he already announced he was set to retire over a year ago. this sort of reaction from the white house here doesn t seem to be matching what s being uncovered across the nation. veterans here left to die on these waiting lists? yeah. it s emotional, emotional issue. you re right, dr. petsle was scheduled to retire anyway. in fact, the white house had named a potential replacement already from the illinois v.a. hospital. it was billed friday afternoon late as the white house press briefing, after people had talked about it as kind of a resignation that came as a result of all of this scrutiny. but he was scheduled to step down already and there are a loft republicans saying this doesn t mean a lot. bret, chief of staff, dennis mcdonough said the president is madder than hell. but think about this while you listen to this, how mad can the president be if we haven t heard from this man, no press conference in three weeks? take a listen to the chief of staff, mcdonough. the president is madder than hell and i ve got the scars to prove it given the briefings that i ve given the president, the conversations that he and rick and i have had on these matters. the president is demanding we get to the bottom of the exact allegations you re talking about as relates to whether veterans are getting the timely access to care that they have earned, that they deserve. that s exactly what we re digging into. so bret, no press conference. elisabeth points out disingenuous retirement. how mad account president be? as chief of staff says he s trying to really get to the bottom of this. i think one of the things the white house tried to do is not get ahead of where the investigation was going. but i think that it is getting past that point. you re right, eric. these things are taking on a life of their own across the country. it is important in context to realize that the v.a. treats some 85 million visits per year. so it s a massive system. it has had problems for quite some time. but what has been done in recent years is really the focus of a lot of the talk up on capitol hill. sure. let s talk a little bit about what happened here in new york city last night. chris christie, who is the governor of the great state of new jersey where i live, he was speaking to the champions of jewish values international awards gala and he really took some swipes at the current commander in chief. at one point he said, once you draw a line, you enforce it. he also said this about our president. we will either lead or disappoint. those are the only two choices. unfortunately today in my opinion, america is disappointing. but it s not too late. test time for us to stand up once again and lead our nation in a way that leads to us greater success and prosperity and lead the world towards greater liberty, freedom, prosperity and respect for human life. all right. so there he is last night here in new york city. rick perry also in attendance. this is a high profile event. it is. governor christie to focus on something other than what he s been focused on, tealing with these questions for the past months about the bridge scandal. now, this was very pointed and the red line line is one that republicans think is very can lead to a lot of questions about the president s leadership, about the red line in syria obviously he s talking about. but there are other red lines. for example, crimea in ukraine and others. so christie is attacking that. whether that s enough to change his course as potential presidential material, we ll see. obviously the line is very popular. sure. he was also talking about how much the united states needs to support israel, one of our greatest allies. we re going to be watching after the five. adjacent to. thank you. have a great day. all right. always great to see heather nauert here. good morning. in a bright yellow. we re look springy this morning. i ve got some news to bring you. this involves the mers virus. the search is on for more people who may have come in contact with the first mers patient in the united states. this after the third case has been announced by the cdc. officials believe that an illinois man likely contracted the disease from a man in indiana who became infected with mers while working in health care in saudi arabia. the latest person to be infected didn t get sick and has not been hospitalized. a good thing. nevertheless, health workers are testing anyone who may have come in contact with him. a massive merger to tell you about this morning in the media industry. at & t buying direct tv in a deal worth nearly $50 billion. if it s approved by u.s. regulators, it will give at & t more subscribers and content like the nfl sunday ticket, which means live football games on your phone, tablet and in your car. the deal would make it the country s number two television provider. no word how that will impact prices for consumers. here in new york, its aim is to tell the story of one of the darkest days in our nation s history. but new york s new 9-11 museum is opening this week, but that gift shop there is causing a lot of controversy. the memorial museum are now defending opening a gift shop, saying that it is a nonprofit, so it relies on revenue. but others say this is distasteful and disrespectful, including the guest we had on earlier this morning, who was one of the demolition supervisors at ground zero. listen to this. a lot of people are looking for closure and going through this museum might have been that answer for them to start the healing process. you just added salt to a wound that hasn t closed in 13 years. here is part of the problem, you can purchase christmas ornaments, tote bags, stuffed animals and some say it s tacky to offer that there. frankie valuey s trademark voice set to ring in the fourth of july celebrations in washington, d.c who loves you pretty mama who s always there to make it es you who loves you pretty baby he is 80 years old and he will have headline the show that has so many people to the national mall. that celebration will be broadcast nationally on tbs and those are your headlines. love it. we re already thinking about fourth of july. can you think of the best place in the united states you ve ever spent a fourth of july? right there on the capitol grounds. pretty spectacular. it s free and open to the public. very nice. thank you. a brand-new whistle blower with brand-new allegations, veterans denied treatment by the v.a. the hospital tried to silence her, but she is speaking out exclusively on fox & friends next. and governor rick perry sending a letter to the president today, but he ll be here first to show us what is in it. o when i started weight watchers 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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yes. that s exactly right because i know there is a lot of doctors who experience this kind of frustration in the v.a. system. let s talk about your frustration. you re a psychiatrist. you would see these guys coming back and after the initial consultation where you analyzed them, you would give them some antidepressant drugs and then you would tell them, come back in ten days. tell us what would happen and why that was important. i write the order. return to clinic, ten days, two weeks top. then i check for my patient and he s getting booked three weeks, four weeks, it got to be months to see them in a second visit, which means they re partially treated, which means they re worse off than no treatment at all. so i would complain to the staff that s booking and they have their policies and procedures. that s controlled by administration. so i complained to administration. you can not partially treat people and then this is bad practice. it s doing harm. we had conversation going on, but nothing happened. more staff, i said? could we reach out into the community? could we limb the service and turn people away so at least they know that they re not being treated? it s more honest and maybe the media will get attention and we ll get some help. nothing. eventually they really stopped talking to me. so i was functionally silenced, but they kept booking them. i knew the suicides were inevitable, worse than if they hadn t been treated at all. because apparently once you would give them the antidepressant drugs, you wanted to see them in ten days because those are very powerful drugs and you need to see them in ten days. if it s put off for months, that can have terrible consequences. right. yes. you re setting up for problems if you don t monitor them early in treatment. and monitor them early in treatment and then their bodies get well before their emotions get well. now you got angry, depressed veterans who are activated. that s where you get in trouble. but you can intervene and monitor and help them and then they get strong and stable, you re good. so you can treat them. i could have been able to treat them and couldn t. the administration it s dangerous. you think they d listen. so i don t know. do they not take doctors seriously? do they talk to each other? i don t know. it s very frustrating to say the least. let me ask you about this. there are stories out that on average, 22 vets commit suicide every day. that s close to one an hour. of the people you saw and you would say okay, come back in ten days and then they were put months off, how many of your patients committed suicide waiting to come off the waiting list? i was there briefly. less than two years. there were two. i was in a very tight-knit community. there was lots of extracurricular support, family, faith, vet centers. so we had help. but no thanks to the v.a., i m sorry. i mean, these men were eventually going to need more than a visit every ten months. they need more than that. mental health care dollars are often short. psychiatrists are in high demand. the numbers are going up. it is a problem that is beyond the scope of the v.a., but the v.a. is particularly handicapping being able to handle it because the bureaucracy is so heavy. the administrators are not adaptable and not nimble to meet these changing needs quickly enough to really help them. my veterans weren t left in a corner. they were seen, but they were partially treated. so that was a different kind of a problem than dr. foot s patients. but same thing. you re risking death. it s a fix-all problem. there is solutions. doctor, i understand you told our producer yesterday, if somebody gets put in jail, then these administrators will maybe fall in line. is that what it s going to take? were criminal activities going on? oh, yes. well, that s what we doctors talk about is the administrators, they can have very comfortable jobs and they don t really experience what the doctors and nurses are experiencing, which is the suffering and the pain and the deaths. so they go home at 5:00 o clock at night and if they enforce their regulation, they feel they ve done their jobs and they don t have that fear of what s going to happen to the patients if they re so remote in these big bureaucracies, they become very remote. now, if they would finger these people who have committed crimes and prosecute them and incarcerate them, i think you re going to get a lot more information out of the ones who are now nervous about what s gog happen to them because they re not nervous about what s happening to the patients. no kidding. make them nervous about what s going to happen to them. let s see what happens because it s all messed up. doctor who worked at the v.a., thank you very much for joining us today to tell us your story. thank you for having me. thank you. by the way, calls and e-mail to the charleston, west virginia v.a. were not returned yesterday and we d like to thank the doctor for coming on the show today and sharing. a big announcement this morning from the feds. why we re about to slap criminal charges on china. and oh, baby, we have plenty of babies this morning. the best baby products, moms and dads need to survive in style. quick headlines from around the world. the justice department expected to charge chinese government officials with cyber spying today. it s the first time the united states will be charging a foreign government with that crime. the officials reportedly accused of stealing american trade secrets through cyber espionage. emotional apology from south korea s president following the deadly ferry disaster. he vowed to close down the country s coast guard, saying they did not properly regulate the nation s ferries. a new safety agency will be set up to take over nearly 300 people were killed when the ferry sank last month. over to you, elisabeth. thank you. any parent will tell you raising a baby can take a whole lot of gear from highchairs to bottles and more. it can be quite a challenge for parents to narrow down their options. lucky for us, our guest has some of the best of baby awards top picks and some adorable little babies to help us show them off. good morning. good morning. where do we start? these are the top picks. right. let s start with the travel system. a travel system is really important for new parents. you re going in and out of grocery stores, baby stores, all that stuff. so you want something that you can use with your car seat. this is it? you buy both together. the stroller and the car seat. and the stroller is really great. it s got lots of storage in the bottom. good basket on the bottom. easy to maneuver and the car seat this is ezra. we got a lot of babies here. he is really enjoying his time in the stroller. i see you re trying to go. the car seat pops in and out of this easily? easily. you pop the car seat in and you re good to go. and the car seat is great also because it has smart screen technology t. tells you you ve installed it correctly. and who is this? isthey re modeling the boba wra. this is a really great, affordable pick for a baby carrier. under $40. it s a registry no brainer. and it s comfy and cozy, easy to wrap. you just need to know how to do it properly. and babies love it. you do love it. we re moving over here to the highchair now. we ve got hunter. he has been so patient. you went through all of your cereal and now you re letting us see the inside. this is the spawn baby to booster. you can use this from six months to five years. after your child gets a little bit older and he s outgrown the highchair, you take the tray off and move the footrest and you ve got a booster chair. like a little restaurant seat. it s one buy that lasts a long time. good job, mom. so now this is an amazing little like a swing slide. this is a modern swing. it rocks more like a rock chair as opposed to a swinging chair. the babies feel that motion in their head more. there is five different speeds. so you can adjust it according to your baby s liking, his mood. and what parents love is you can hook up your iphone, cell phone and play your own play list instead of whatever the baby swing people tell you to play. perfect! god bless you. and are you having so much fun on this? 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yeah. when you think about the competition between the states, that s what our founding fathers really meant for us to do is federal government to do a few things, do them very well and everything else action tax, regulatory, legal policies should be decided by the states rather than this one size fits all that we see out of washington, d.c. too often, which i think stymies innovation and growth. so the states competing with each other is the real key. i m sorry. it s so unfair, though. you re cheating, governor. you don t have the state income tax. your regulations are lower, you re for cheaper energy. stop it already. how is california supposed to compete, or illinois? interestingly, we ve seen illinois make some changes in their tax policy. the new new york ad that you ve seen, i think all of those are because bobby jindal, rick scott or other governors have come into those states to compete for those businesses and give them some opportunities and give them some alternatives, if you will, to high tax, high regulation, and legal system that allows for oversuing. why doesn t california jump in? you ve been able to drop the unemployment rate to 5.2%. texas rated best state for business. what are they getting so wrong and you re getting right? well, we don t have that much time to really sit here and go through all the different things that but there is four that matter. it s tax structure, a regulatory climate. it s the legal system and it s the accountable public schools. so you have a skilled work force. when you look at those, california comes in almost dead last in every one of those categories when it comes to obviously taxes. new york and california have had more wealth per capita leave their states over the last decade than any other states in the nation. and they come to places like nevada or texas or arizona or rick scott is doing an extraordinary job in florida of really making that state be competitive. he s moved up to right below texas on a ceo magazine list. he credits you for some of the things that he s done in florida. but the fact is, he and governors like nikki haley and john kasich up in ohio, they re really making a difference in those states and making those states be more competitive. so blue state governors need to be look over their shoulder. they need to be responding to these types of it s not a tax. this is just being competitive. it s like the jets and giants playing. i m thinking they re both going to want to be competitive and win their game. then after it s over with, they go out and have a beer. speaking of want to go win the game, you would like the country to be more energy independent. you re writing a letter to the president of the united states that will be made public today. it says in part would you like to read it or should i? go ahead. it says, if adopted, the texas approach could create jobs, contribute billions of dollars to the economy, strengthen our energy security and make the united states a global energy powerhouse today and for future generations. i encourage you, mr. president, to act quickly to free up these resources for families all across america. and i think that last sentence is the one that s really the most powerful one when you think about what s happened in the state of texas. the resurgence of the shell gas formations that have been explored and being able to use those resources and the job creation. maybe five years ago a young man in south texas, maybe newly married, maybe not had a job and today he s driving a truck in the eagle formation, that natural gas and oil formation that s just creating incredible amount of jobs, making over $100,000 a year. that can happen in southern new york. it can happen in california. it can happen in these states that have tax and regulatory problems. but it s going to take a president and those governors recognizing that the best thing for their citizens is to allow for energy to be explored for in this country. there was a drill more, drill offshore, open up some of the lands that are held by the federal government. you can do it safely and thoughtfully. one of the things that i like to bring to people s attention, during the decade of the 2000s in texas, we lowered our nitrogen oxide levels. that s really cleaning up the air of real pollutants, and making a difference. we had 5 million people move into our state. so you can have energy security in north america with the xl pipeline, with what s happening in mexico and north america. we don t have to be held hostage by countries that may not have our best interest in mind by allowing that type of exploration for our natural resources in the state. that s the type of thoughtful economic and energy policy that this administration should be engaged in. texas is a great state. i m down there all the time cause as you know, my daughter goes to smu. we ve got in attendance your daughter and your money come to texas. a lot of both. for good reason. thank you very much. good to see you. heather nauert is standing by. good morning to you. we got a lot of graduations going on this time of year. you will not believe what one student in connecticut did. you haven t gone to class in a year. so how do you keep your parents from finding out that you re not graduating? call in a bomb threat? that s what this gal did, danielle shay. she attended quinnipiac university. she called in two bomb threats just before the start of the graduation ceremony. yeah. she s now being held on a $20,000 bond. the graduation was delayed 90 minutes, moved indoors, but it went off without a hitch after all. a new law in the state of colorado will allow terminally ill patients access to fermental did experimental drugs that could save their lives but not approved by the f.d.a. colorado is the first to pass this law. pharmaceutical companies would have to sign off on giving the drugs to a patient before they start to get it. it s similar to what happened with josh hardy. he has been featured extensively on our show. 7-year-old boy from virginia and he beat cancer four times. he developed a virus that caused heart and kidney failure, but after receiving doses of an experimental drug, he can sit up and play board games with his brothers and doing so much better. wow. caught on camera, the terrifying moment a diver takes on a 12-foot great white shark and wins. look at this. this man was diving 90 feet in water off the coast of florida. the shark kept getting closer and closer. and eventually you can see here, he prods it with his spear and it eventually goes away. that lasted 2 1/2 minutes. 150 new words just added to the meriam webster dictionary. selfy, hash tag, spoiler alert, baby bump and yooper? what s a yooper? a person who lives in the upper spend peninsula of michigan. they re known for their distinctive manner of speaking and scandinavian roots. those are your headlines. steve, you can answer that. and we also took the program a couple years ago up to the u.p. of michigan. is that the thumb? the up there at the top part. where the yoopers are. coming up, important information for you and your pets. the danger lushing in some dog treats that could be deadly. what to look for ahead. and when it comes to award shows, the awards are rarely the headline. last night s show no different thanks to a little celebrity dirt. the story behind both of these moments just ahead. you ve reached the age where you ve learned a thing or two. 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 headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. 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. quarter before the top of the hour, quick head lynns. a warning for dog owners. new f.d.a. report says toxic jerky treats have apparently killed more than 1,000 dogs since 2007. after seven years of investigating, officials have no idea why. the snack is mostly made in china and sold by many different companies under many different brands. and which one of these dishes looks better to you? about the same, right? a new study says that even though they re identical, the more expensive food will always taste better to some. in a cornell university study, identical dishes were given to participants, but those that paid more gave a rating that was 11% higher than the cheap stuff. that s the news. the billboard music awards have everybody talking this morning. justin timberlake won big. but there was a controversial moment that has everybody agag. mark cuban didn t like the jay-z-solange elevator brawl go to waste. here is what he said. we re here to announce our latest and best. we just spent $3.2 billion to buy a hot new company called beat down by solange. that was a great, great elevator pitch. quick reaction it seemed even in the audience, right? eric, you should explain as you did earlier. apple purchases beat the company which is a dr. dre starter company for $3.2 billion. a lot of money. these guys, the mark cuban and the other guy do shark tank. it s a tv show about buying companies. so therefore, the joke. it took a while for me to get the joke also. but i think any reason to put that video of solange kicking and punching jay-z will do the story. work it in somehow. talk about your investment. and clearly the billboard people felt the same way. that video of tmz stuff is getting the same nonstop play, that remember the twerking video of miley cyrus with robin thicke? robin thicke after that got in quite a bit of trouble with his wife. they re currently not in good state, to say the least. so last night he did his best to try to win his wife back. all i want to do is keep it light i got to make it right, make it right most importantly i d like to thank my wife for her love and support and for putting up with me all these years. boy, did he pour it on thick. sure. other guys might be using that song to say they re sorry to their mate as well. there you have some of the highlights of the music awards last night. by the way, also michael jackson recreated. i just read it was michael jackson s face, but some other dancing who did the dancing. so the hologram was not michael jackson? no. meet the teen who just topped a sitting law maker in the primary. what s her winning strategy? she joins us next. first we ll check in with martha mccallum for what s coming up at the top of the hour. hello there. good morning. the president s chief of staff says his boss is, quote, madder than hell about the mounting v.a. hospital scandal. what will be done about it? the pressure mounts on eric shinseki this morning. and dick cheney speaks out about benghazi and the unavoidable impact on hillary clinton. brit hume is here on that. and a 9-11 gift shop. does the store need to go? we ll see you at the top of the hour really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there s unlimited talk and text. we re working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues. great terms. let s close. new at&t mobile share value plans. our best value plans ever for business. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it s earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protecon. and because usaa commitment to serve current and former military members andheir families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get ready to meet the teen who just topped the sitting law maker in the primaries. 17-year-old sarah blair is one election away from becoming the youngest state law maker in west virginia history. she joins us right now this morning. great to have you here. thank you, glad to be here. you re set to graduate wednesday? yes, ma am. you re 17 years old. most young women your age would be thinking of summer break. why politics? it s always interested me. my father did it for ten years. then i ve been with really great organizations that led me along the way. i think it s time that our generation learns the importance of conservative principles and there is no better way to do that than just to run. tell us, i love how you reach out to the people of your district and wrote letters by hand. yes. i started with a survey to the district so that i could understand their views. i sent it out to 150 people and got their views. from there, i went and wrote 800 handwritten letters to the people of my district. i didn t have a staff working with me. and i just really wanted them to know that i was dedicated to this and i was going to do it for them. you re going to go up against a democrat, a 44-year-old female trial lawyer. if you win, what are you going to do about school? i ll be going to school it will be my full-time job. i ll be a full time student, just as all the legislators, they have full-time jobs. that will be my full-time job and the legislature is my part-time job. what do you think critics would say? too young. she doesn t know what she s doing. right now the average age in the u.s. congress is 57. and the average age in the senate is 62. with all that experience, the only thing we ve gotten is lower jobs, more debt, and less opportunity. so i don t think a fresh perspective will hurt anyone. sarah, if elected, you will fill in the blank. i want to bring more jobs. you just had governor perry here. and texas is the best ranked state for business. and i really want to see west virginia do that because i ve watched too many kids my age have to leave the state because they can t find a good paying job and i want to bring good paying jobs back to the state of west virginia. very refreshing. there is no war on women in the republican party, is there? not at all. then you haven t been watching the mainstream media. impressed. you wrote all of those letters with a strong message. great to have you here. thank you. congratulations. thank you. good luck. thank you. more fox & friends moments away. 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. i ve got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. happiness is a drive-over mower deck. [ male announcer ] that s how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. before we leave you today, we re going to talk into watching tomorrow because we got a great one. dr. ben carson, is he thinking about a 2016 run? north carolina governor pat mccory and cheryl casone with the five companies hiring right now. don t miss it. did you say the five ? what a flawless plug right there. that s it. maybe something at noon. maybe. i m not supposed to say anything. is that an offer to buy us lunch? it would look kind of like that. maybe we ll find out in the after the show show. eric, it s been great having you. thanks for having me. brian will be back tomorrow. we go now to america s newsroom . martha: thanks very much, guys. we have stunning new revelations in the va scandal. the all bain station s transition team the obama administration transition team received warnings in 2008 that there were problems to address in the va hospitals and did nothing so far to stop it. i m martha maccallum. glad to have you with us in america s newsroom. good morning every. one of the i m eric shawn in for bill hemmer today. the washington times reporting more than five years ago, right after the president was elected his team was told not to trust the wait types of the va hospitals were reporting. those problems apparently leading to death of the more than 40
welcome back, everybody. let s get a check on the day ahead before tossing over to morning joe. rick perry dips his toe to be i hampshire today with business leaders attending a gop reception. bob mcdonnell is back on the stand again today in the corruption trial against he and his wife maureen. that is going to do it for way too early. great week, everybody! know what day it is? payday friday! morning joe starts right now! president obama played eighth round of golf of his vacation today. he s played so much golf, i guess he is getting pretty good but still not at the pro level yet and i ll show you what i mean. here is rory mcilroy s tee shot. in the hole! they are yelling get in the hole, get in the hole. now see the difference with obama s swing. listen. get back to the white house! get back to work! get back to work! get back to the white house. get back to work, get back to the white house. that s pretty good. that s funny. hi. a little bit of a controversy that the president gets for sure. every president. why did you wear the same sweater? vomiting blue on the set. blah! blah! can i just say i want to wear my t-shirt? do it. it s friday. why not? hello, thomas. good morning. when you get to be our age, it will be harder for you to get yourself together in the morning. i m just saying. it s hard. yes, it is! it s friday! there is a very blue theme going on over here. payday friday! check your apps and pay your bills, people! it s a good day to be an american. thomas has been in a great mood since 3:00 a.m. like rambling on. i like it a lot but sometimes it s a little much. i got paid! mika is bringing it this morning! no kids. kids? do i have kids? no. a dog. a nice little beagle. interesting. kids, no kids. that s all. you re staring at me like you re appalled. kids? what? i can tell by the price tag on your sweater. i m going to just listen, if you guys don t get mika like a different color here, i m going to take this off and just wear my gray t-shirt. okay. do i have to change? while you go to a clip, i m going to a great t-shirt. i think i should get a blue shirt and we should go all in on this blue thing. what do we have here? a lot of news to cover. the press conference yesterday was scary. the pentagon, oh, my gosh. we start with that. we are also following the trial in virginia of governor bob mcdonnell and it is getting extremely personal. really big questions about that. first, u.s. officials are offering grim warnings about the terror group behind the beheading of an american journalist. the nation s top general says it may be impossible to stop the militants without them hitting iraq and syria. isil is a sophisticated and well-funded, as any group that we have seen, they are beyond a terrorist group and this is beyond anything we have seen. we must prepare for everything. and the only way you do that is you take a cold steely hard look at it and get ready. this is an organization that has an apocalypse end of day strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated. to your question can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization which resides in syria, the answer is no. that will have to be addressed on both sides of what is essentially, at this point, a nonexistent border. he let s bring in nbc news chief pentagon reporter jim miklaszewski who was at the briefing yesterday. jim, as you ve been watching this, we have been talking about this for a week. you got a sense of a week and a half ago that the white house realized that isis was a threat they no longer could ignore. talk about humanitarian assistance and then arming the kurds and bombing and then couple of days later we are going in helping them take over a dam. now we are actually talking about and i don t want anybody to take this the wrong way. i m not being critical. i am saying it is remarkable that just a couple of weeks later, we actually have generals going out, obviously, at the white house guidance and talking about the possibility of actually bombing syria. talk about necessity. talk out of total necessity. talk about how quickly our focus is expanding. well, joe, we talked about this last week. when we talked about the u.s. backing iraqi and kurdish forces with air strikes to take the mosul dam. that was the opening salvo in what was going to be, according to some officials we were talking to, a long running war with isis, at least there in iraq for the time being. nobody is under any illusion that i circumstances can simply be contained there in iraq and the fear, of course, as we have also talked about, is that the threat from isis there in iraq is going to spread not only through that region, but could eventually find its way here to the united states in terms of terrorist attacks because they do have, for the time being, only a small number, a handful of americans within their ranks. they think that success that isis had in iraq is only drawing in more recruits and their numbers are thought to be about 17,000 right now, joe. all right. we talked about that news conference being sobering. a lot of people who saw it, i just wonder what your thoughts were, mick. you go to these all the time. yeah. reporter: well, the president has said you know, he was eluding to the fact this was going to take sometime. i don t think the u.s. government was leveling with the american people. the folks we were talking to said this is going to be a long, hard slog, not to quote donald rumsfeld but this is going to take some time. we had talked about that also earlier. first you have to contain them in iraq. then you have to go after the leadership as general dempsey was talking about. and he didn t say it was necessarily going to be the u.s. he says this has to be a broad international effort. and, so far, except for some humanitarian assistance, we haven t seen any other of our european allies in particular weigh in and they are just as threatened potentially as the u.s. is because many of those isis members are european. so europe european. so that has raised some level of disappointment here in the pentagon. right. reporter: but, first, they have to deny that safe haven in iraq and just like al qaeda, and just like the attempts over the years to get osama bin laden, they are going to have to cut the head off that snake and go after the isis leadership. thomas? wow. mick, explain to all of us why we aren t talking about bashar al assad when it comes to the equation. i think most people getting read in on this know the last time we were talking about saeyria, it president obama against assad and you better not cross that line. now we are talking about syria, no one is talking where al assad stands on isis. is he a trusting partner in trying to eliminate isis from his own country and are we really going to bomb syria and not have bashar al assad on board? reporter: it s not clear, first of all, the u.s. is launching air strikes inside syria but it would not be inside syria. technically, geographically it would be across the border but they would be going after what is now considered to be the isis state, the isis nation of terrorism. quite frankly, bashar al assad is sitting back there in damascus watching all this probably with some amusement because the u.s. finds itself in a battle with the same enemy which assad does. it s a strange partnership. you know, politics makes strange bedfellows of war and sometimes even makes stranger bedfellows. in this particular case, this narrow instance, assad and the u.s. are on the same side and wanting to get rid of this threat from isis. nbc has learned new details about the effort to rescue james foley. last november, foley s family received an encrypted e-mail in english demanding 132 million dollar ransom. after a brief e-mail exchange the captors were not heard from again until last week, when a furious message from the group promised foley s death in retaliation for american air strikes. later on morning joe, we are going to be speaking to the parents of journalist james foley about their son s work overseas and the government s attempt to save his life. that is coming up in our 7:00 hour. nbc, jim miklaszewski, thank you very much. we will be following you on this. we move on to the krups tri corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell. it was yesterday in richmond where the former governor delved deep in what he calls a troubled marriage. in an e-mail he told his wife this. i want to be in love, not just watch movies about it. i am so spiritually and mentally exhausted from being yelled at. i don t think you realize how you are affecting me and sometimes others with your tongue. and when asked on the stand whether he thought his wife was having an affair with a donor of the center of it all, he said, no. but when asked whether they had a strong emotionally relationship, he said yes. all of this is being used to show that their marriage was so fractured that they couldn t have conspired to solicit thousands of dollars in exchange for favors. sam. senior marriage correspondent? senior marriage correspondent of the huffington post. mika is very skeptical. who are you skeptical of? she is skeptical their marriage is that broken. she thinks they are going to be found not guilty and go out on the courthouse steps and kiss and say, we got them. no double jeopardy. it will be the end of a great movie. it s not what i think but okay. she thinks it s all a big scam. i don t think it s a big scam. i think you look at what everybody said about his wife and it looks pretty ugly. marital disputes have two sides obviously. i would be curious what e-mail she sent him if she ever released those e-mails and i would love to see them. but there is something inherently sad about it. yeah. i m sorry i hurt you? yeah, the whole thing is very sad and unfortunate and it s bizarre it s gotten to this point that this is now the sort of crux of his defense i was estranged from my wife that our relationship is so bad we couldn t conspire could be corrupt. i don t know what the legal basis of this could be and how it will get them off on this, but it goes to show you so many bizarre things happen behind the scenes with politicians lives that it s not this glamorous thing they put up. oh, when you re in such a spotlight like that and you bring your family alone, it really changes the dynamic and things come out in people. the alternative universe, this man could have been mitt romney s vice president. oh, my gosh. we could have been seeing this play out at the old executive office building. i think why are you skeptical? i m going to bring in a reporter who is covering this. what i question and i don t think there is i don t know what is going on. but i just think there is such an avid fervent effort to show how fractured they were. i don t believe it. let me say this. you can have a very acrimonious marriage and talk about the nice rolex watches that you re receiving. no way he did not know about all of these things. maybe. that kind of goes against everything that he has proved about himself as a successful person. we don t know that. i think so. listen. his wife seemed to want to have an affair with this jonnie williams guy. yeah. she probably wasn t sharing everything with him. i m just guessing. listen. there is two sides to this story. i m curious what her e-mails say. let me just i have a question for the reporter. why don t we hear her side, though? exactly! now that why is she not defending herself? you just answered my question. do you know what i m saying? you make funny of the ruse that might be going on here and yet there is no pushback? that makes me sad. let s bring in wall street journal valerie bord line. valerie, am i the only one looking at this thinking something doesn t make sense here? i think you have the question on the mind of every person in this courtroom which has been packed because for four weeks, the question has been is this just so much kabuki theater we are seeing between the two people and not communicating or is the marriage that fractured? i think a sense especially after mr. mcdonnell gave the chronology of the troubles in their marriage yesterday morning a sense from the people around and friends that this is really a marriage that is as mr. mcconnell describes it in deep, deep trouble. okay. and, yet, will we hear, i guess maybe concerns from the other side? is this going to become some sort of divorce trial? are we going to hear her side in this? i guess that is number one. number two, the other question that i have would be how could he not know about some of these massive sort of exchanges that took place? is that even possible? well, i think to your first question, mrs. mcdonnell is not expected to take the stand. her attorneys have said that. she s not on the witness list so we don t expect to hear it from her mourth. mr. mcdonnell said yesterday his wife often didn t write him back. particularly from the labor day in 2011 he tapped that out on his blackberry in the middle of the three-day weekend and they weren t speaking and he said she didn t respond. it wasn t said in opening arguments we would hear extensively on that point. it was bolsters she had a crush on mr. williams if we don t see that content. one of the things that came up yesterday mr. mcdonnell says he is living with his parish priest. it s a blog that many priests would keep but yesterday he talked about mcdonnell trial by name and he said something i think gets at what you re talking about, what are we seeing? he said is any married person reading this and want to stand in front of the public and tell the whole truth about their life? it s a enriching experience i think for a lot of people to see. valerie, for you as a reporter, this has to be interesting to cover because this is not about a celebrity divorce. this is about federal corruption charges that have been brought against a virginia governor and it seems as if the behind the scenes kabuki theater of the relationship of a jonnie williams maybe trying to buy access of the governor through maureen mcdonnell is what is really playing out here and that is the relationship that is being vetted more than what the governor actually knew about where this flow of cash was coming from. reporter: mrs. mcdonnell s attorney say if he was trying to buy her influence, she didn t have influence to sell because she wasn t a public figure. she was not elected to anything. so it s very important for prosecutors to tie mr. mcdonnell s complicity in this arrangement. i think we expect mr. mcdonnell to take the stand again this morning and he is still on direct examination by his attorney. prosecutors on the cross-examination, they don t care about the state of the marriage. they want to know when you hosted a luncheon and appeared at this luncheon, mr. mcdonnell, that honored mr. williams, why did you do that and give people samples of his product? why did you, you know, why did you ask various members of your administration to work with with him? they will say we don t care. we don t care about the state of your marriage. we care about the acts you took as the governor. given that is the question ultimately, i ll try this from a different angle. maureen mcdonnell is being raked over the coals. her reputation is being completely destroyed and, yet, she s not ever going to take the stand? she s not ever going to speak for herself? is her team and is she okay with this? she is facing legal troubles in owner own right and they are calculated putting her on the stand is too much of a risk to take at this point. the question that mcdonnell has to answer why did he take these specific actions buying 30,000 share in williams company that he, himself, did. if you re so estranged from your wife and everything is going through your wife, why do you personally buy those shares? that is the question he has to answer. wall street journal valerie bord land, thank you so much. thank you, valerie. come back and keep us up-to-date. appreciate it. still ahead on morning joe, once wasn t nearly enough for us. we have more on morning we have more this morning of the author of the narcissist next door. who passed the test with flying colors? 9 out of a 4 that s correct. since i didn t take it, with we must talking about someone else. plus, both american ebola patients have been officially cleared of the deadly virus. we will talk about how doctors were able to pull that off with dr. zeke emanuel. how much could you dead lift? something tells me not as much as hollywood star hugh jackman. the dramatic rescue of the luc luc lucky koala. the fuzzy little bear, something like that. i actually think that the colors on my tie match your sweater. we are changing. we are going to put an end to this. tels tell us about the weather. if you re in the adirondacks this weekend you will be complaining because it s not going warm but the rest of the country bakes in a late august heat wave. the cool air moved in and over from new york to d.c. but the roads are probably a little wet and showers from albany, new york, over to boston if you re traveling on the mass pike. as far as the forecast goes, still additional showers later this afternoon from new york to d.c., maybe a rumble of thunder. look how cool it s going to be. in the s60s for highs in area o new england. we got drenched in chicago overnight. thankfully the rain is over with and flash flood warnings should be lifted shortly but we picked up 4 inches of rain in 40 minutes at midway airport so a lot of water out there near chicago. drive carefully and drive slow. it should improve throughout the day. what is happening with the area of tropics? no eminent threat to the southeast coast and florida coast but it s a hot forecast from texas to the carolinas to florida. friday, saturday, and sunday, nothing changes there. it s going to remain hot for the foreseeable future. you re watching morning joe. we will be right back. wondering what that is? that, my friends, is everything. and with the quicksilver card from capital one, you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you purchase. not just everything at the hardware store. not everything, until you hit your cash back limit. quicksilver can earn you unlimited 1.5% cash back on everything you could possibly imagine. say it with me everything. one more time, everything! and with that in mind. what s in your wallet? that s a better sweater. thank you. my eyes don t hurt any more. okay. are you doing okay, thomas? i think the blue sweater brought my eyes out better but i ll deal with the red. it will work. time to deal with the morning papers. from our parade of papers to the dallas morning news. two americans are free of the ebola virus after contracting it while working with patients in west africa. dr. kent brantly was released from emory university hospital on tuesday. both patients went through a series of tests to ensure they are not contagious. i wouldn t be hugging this guy. in an emotional speech well, apparently he is ebola free. that is amazing. he said it was miracle to be standing there. take a listen. today is a miraculous day. i m thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. above all, i am forever thankful to god for sparing my life and i m glad for any attention my sickness has attracted to the plight of west africa in the midst of this epidemic. please continue to pray for liberia and the people of west africa and encourage those in position of leadership and influence to do everything possible to bring this ebola outbreak to an end. both patients were treated with an experimental drug but doctors say it is not clear if it helped in their recovery. that s incredible. it was amazing. that was the medical team that worked on him and he gave each and every single one of them a big hug to say thank you. he looks great and we will wait to see if nancy writebol comes in to the cameras. tampa bay times. a heart warming story out of st. pete. a pay forward act of kindness lasted 11 hours because around 7:00 a.m. on wednesday morning, a woman going through the drive-thru paid for our ice coffee and pick up the tab for the driver behind her. the starbucks employees explained to the drive that came up next what happened the driver paid for the drink that came up behind them. this sparked a pay it forward moment because the baristas kept explaining what happened and the act of kindness being kept paying forward. it happened for 378 people until around 6:00 p.m. a woman just said she wanted to pay for her drink. employees said she did not understand fully the pay it forward idea so maybe they did not explain the concept what took place at 7:00 a.m. i don t think that s heart warming but okay. it s starbucks. they are like a couple of dollars so you ve got people who can that s great. a couple of dollars? it s seven or eight bucks! so rich, mika. no, i don t think that is heart warming! it s hard to afford a coffee that costs that much. i think it s a starbucks commercial actually. hey, the lady ahead of you paid for your drink. wow, that s so sweet. that s not heart warming. it s nice but not heart warming. you re a cold person. come on. i ve seen you do much nicer things for people. i to. that s why i believe stuff like that it s a seed of hope. you got to plant that. usa today has a story. paralyzed olympics this is actually olympic swimmer amy van dyke took her first steps on thursday. this this would be heart warming. following an atv accident this summer. the six-time gold medalist posted videos on instagram as she used a bionic exo skeletal device. the crash severed her spine and it comes two months after the crash. walking! no, actually, i m walking back into it. amy, when you get to the bottom, another step. take this step here. now that is amazing. so inspiring. yeah. that s incredible. so positive. she is going to walk. the technology has taken us that far and only get better and better. she has a little bit of feeling and that is hopeful for her. it s great news. wish her all of the best. the next store from the washington post. legislation in new york city looks to crack down on times square, costume characters amid ael allegations of harsh tactics for tourist tips. the bill will require anybody who earns tips and changes their appearance to go through a registration process. so they would then be subjected to a background check and be required to wear a visible i.d. tag while they are in costume. molestation charges and groping and stuff like that, elmo. starring as elmo, today, merv, the perv. the eyeballs are a little off and a little matted. they are dirty. if you see an extra tall elmo. but they have been a little aggressive for tourists and some don t understand the concept that you re supposed to tip minnie or mickey moose. they get aggressive. a kaola bear was saved after hit by a car crossing the road. where do we get these stories? 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what should america do? i think, a, i think he is doing the right thing. b, i actually agree with krauthammer until he gets to knocking obama which is sri. i mean, the guy is a right wing columnist. so i guess that it s too bad because i think the rest of the idea of how bad these people are is exactly right. so you would agree they are the most evil people on earth and something has to be done to stop them, right? it s not entirely clear to me that they are actually human beings. yeah. this is about as bad as it gets. these are cultists who murder people for thrill and so they need to be eradicated. i think the president is doing the right thing. we can t put troops on the ground. we know that. even if we were, we did, it would probably be an enormous tactical mistake. this is what high tech is for to knock the guys off with drones and whatever else we need to do and this is a big problem. i don t want to just gloat because i m not gloating about something like this but this is exactly what i thought was going to happen 11 years ago when he came out against the war. if you look back at the stuff i was saying at the time i predicted iraq would split in three groups and al qaeda which is gone essentially but these guys are worse, would take over in one of those areas and set up a stronghold and exactly what happened and now we have our hands full. one thing the president said which i think is also true this is going to be, in fact, a long-term effort. these guys are not going away. i think we will win this effort but it s going to be very long term. we have to be committed to it. pretty grave concerns from the pentagon 37. the indication here that the president s words are nonexistent or weak but what is the case we should be doing if this threat is as real as everyone says it is? no. that is just right wing rhetoric and let s criticize the president for the sake of criticizing. he said what joe did, this is cancer on the world which is true. he is intervening with ways we can be successfully intervening putting isis back on their heels and supporting the kurds on the ground and knocking off a variety of their assets, including the famous white pickup trucks that are kind of in your face to the west and that is what he is doing. it s very clear to me what his plan is and aapprove of that and i think he continues to have to be aggressive from the air. sam stein? i mean, i agree with the general sentiment there. i think there is a fair criticism that the administration sort of overlooked the significance of this problem up until very recently. but the problem here is the complexity of the iraq/syria border and, of course, our bizarre relationship with bashar al assad that thomas talked about earlier. i don t know whether we cozy up to him but it sounds like we are going to ignore the board. this is laid out in the new york times piece. if they start a campaign against isis in iraq they scurry across the syrian border and then we have questions not only the tactical operations that we can pursue but the legal officials we can pursue. can we target them in a country we don t have war authorization. i think the complexities from the sound of the press briefing yesterday, a lot of those complexities are wiped away and thrown out the window and on the ground when you have a general saying, listen, if you want to get rid of devices you have to go into syria and assad is saying, great, the united states can provide me air pawer to take out one of my enemies? thank you. why don t you kill them all and then go to the u.s. and talk about it later but please come and do it. howard dean, stay with us. an internal investigation into mary landrieu s flight records. one country has officially grown tired of miley cyrus, we can now confirm. really? i wonder who that could be. is that hollyweird? i doubt it. hey! i found a happy space somewhere to call our own a happy little place and it all starts with you whoa-oh-oh-oh, all this goodness. after-school snacking should be fun and nutritious which is why we put whole grains first in every general mills big g cereal what matters most should always come first general mills. look for the g, it means goodness first. moderate to severe is tough, but i ve managed. i got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said my crohn s was not under control. he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn s disease. and that in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you ve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. if you re still just managing your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. mike brown, a month ago it looked like scott brown was going to lose another race and lose it badly. he trailed shaheen by two points. shaheen is headed in the wrong direction against favorables and unfavorables. it determines the president s reputation is what is dragging down her numbers. mike, 37% approval rating in the state of new hampshire and that is obviously having an impact. it sure has. as scott brown also has been making a big point about how few town halls jeanne shaheen is doing. scott brown is gifted in the retail campaigning and doing a lot around the state. today, senator john mccain is sending out a fund-raising e-mail trying to capitalize on this poll and talking about the ten-point swing that you just highlighted there. mike, it s getting so i won t say so bad. it s getting so close up there. again, shocking. i mean, it really is based on what we were seeing a month ago that san francisco billionaire tom steyer is rushing in with a six-figure bye. joe, last night, i was asking top republicans how big a deal is this? this is a huge psychological turning point for republicans. not just in new hampshire, but elsewhere who are wondering can we really take the senate? i m told that this poll is going to help bring other big donors off the sidelines because they are saying, wow, a senate majority leader mitch mcconnell might be a real thing if scott brown wins, they are very far on the way to that. howard, obviously, really bad news for the democrats of this race does become competitive but most of us didn t think that scott brown had a shot a month ago. is the president s approval rating even in new england really a drag on these candidates? i don t know. i actually would suspect that poll might be wrong and the reason is that we just i just seen a poll here where the president s approval was at 59%. now, this is have the and that is new hampshire but they are a lot more alike than people think. i d be very surprised if scott brown got were in near jeanne shaheen on election day. he s an out of state guy and didn t play well with the republicans. if there is a third-party candidate, i don t know if there is you might see the third-party collect a lot of votes but they are not going to scott brown. i think this poll is an outlier. we shall see. mike allen, thanks so much and have a great weekend. you too. thank you, all. the rick perry mug shot tour continues as the texas governor takes a hawkish turn in a big speech yesterday and it will be interesting to see what you think of what he said, joe. plus, we will tell you who owns the copyright to selfies taken by a monkey. what is going on today? 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over the senate. that was a little personal. the most vulnerable stuff and they are all democrats, i mean, republicans have a pretty good shot. yeah. absolutely. and then what is barack obama do for the final two years of his presidency? he does what he has been doing the last two years. no. nothing. stop it! come on! nothing ever gets done. be optimistic. i mean, listen. it looks increasingly liking that republicans do have a chance to win the senate here. think the landrieu race is indicative of the tough race that democrats race. i wouldn t take the last poll and make a huge mound of it but if you look at it a problem for democrats trending through republican favor. i ve seen democrats want the election to happen now because they are more confident now than a couple of months from now. coming up at the top of the hour, the growing threat of isis and a serious warning from top u.s. officials. why defense secretary the defense secretary says the militant group is, quote, beyond 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been talking about it really in real-time last week. it s a humanitarian crisis. the next day, we get breaking news we are arming the kurds. the next day, something else happens. then we go and we have them take back the dam. now we are actually talking about air strikes in syria. a lot of people out there are going to say nobody said that yesterday. when you have a general in the pentagon saying, well, if you really want to beat this group that we are calling the worse group ever you got to go into syria. it certainly looks like this is expanding quickly and that the pentagon, chuck hagel sound scared out of their mind about this organization. yeah. it s been interesting to see the development and the assessment of is circumstances in washington. only in january, the president was saying that they were not the kobe bryant of jihadis. the jv team. today senior officials from the administration saying this is apocalyptic. can i ask you what makes this group different from all of these other terrorist group that seem to come up with a big plan. when you have 9/11 as a perspective. yeah. come up with a big plan they hide in caves. these people are out in the open. and tactically you talk to military people, seem to be pretty damn good at what they do. they are pretty good. i think it s a combination of two things. one, you ve got the problem of european jihadis that are joining this movement. they are very often reject of society. they are they feel like losers and they want to hang out. they are the kind of people taking a machine gun and killing kids in a school if they weren t going to this region to do other things like beheading foreigners. and then you ve got sunni grievances within the region. you know, both in iraq and in syria. and those grievances tie up with jihadism and that makes people quite fearless about what they want. is there any evidence of any cracks between the sunnis in the region? obviously, i always go back to 2006 zarqawi bombing and say they are fighting back. yesterday, the white house put out a statement listing all of the muslim groups and clarkics and high ranking officials in the region in the u.s. who were denouncing these actions. we still need to see more from within the region, because general dempsey was right, you know, air strikes aren t the only solution to this. they might be part of it, but you need to have more than just counterterrorism strategies to deal with this. and it goes back to the point that some people are making you know, some people are saying what happens we should alie ourselves with president assad to fight this because we are perhaps on the same side. you have to remember the sunni grievances in the region are part of this problem and you re not going to address sunni grievances if you team up with the allawis. on the pentagon briefing yesterday, here is defense secretary chuck hagel who calls the islamic state an eminent threat to say the least irks . i isil is well funded group that we have seen. they are beyond just a terrorist group. this is beyond anything that we have seen so we must prepare for everything and the only way you do that is you take a cold steely hard look at it and get ready. sam? yeah. just to jump on that last point. david ignatius has a really interesting column this morning that i would recommend to anyone, where he talks about sunni grievances being something osama bin laden himself recognized toward the end of his time that that was a problem that he had faced and probably prip precipitationed to the downdafa of al qaeda. in the end he recognized he misstepped there. i do think that is a problem and ignatius says this is a problem isis will face down the road. the question is how do we harness more of the moderate sunnis to come in and fight us with the fight on isis? the obama administration made clear they need political reconciliation in iraq if they want to make progress in iraq. governor dean, what can we do not military in iraq to help precipitation turning of the tides against isis? i think that is unfortunately, in terms of reunifying iraq that is probably not possible. really? the new prime minister is also allied with iran, not as knowsably and closely and less authoritarian tendencies that maliki had. iran is next door name and a shiite and the sunni will resent that. i think the solution often is we have to support the peshmerga on the ground with arms and training but not ground troops. they have to fight their own battle. we can help them fight their own battle but they have to fight on the ground and be willing to do that. until the sunni who are being oppressed by isis in their own territory are willing to do that, this isn t going to succeed. as far as syria goes, there s we don t have to alie ourselves with them to be successful. it has nothing to do with whether assad should or should not be in power. we prefer he not be in power. i think the president wisely decided not to intervene there because of groups like isis. we have a battle against terrorism. assad is a different kettle of fish and that is not our concern right now. hhmm. chris, let me ask you based on what governor dean is saying we know the white house and president obama doesn t think bashar al assad should be in power. we have been covering a long time about the concerns of this white house and bash ash al assad using chemical weapons against his own people. are there back channels open to april sad or his people of how they think that isis can be best extinguished? one of the things the white house will tell you and the president is clear about his first line of defense is always going to be diplomacy. but let s not be mistaken. diplomacy at this point has gotten us to where i was on that night in the white house august 9th when the decision was made to start the air strikes and the air drops in iraq. this is a region where this white house seems to find itself often caught where they are trying to play a little bit of catch-up and they are the first ones who will tell you the president acknowledged this, senior white house advisers acknowledged on that night that it was really only events that happened the day before that precipitated the president s decision. he s got himself in a position now, as you ve been talking about, for sometime that these hard decisions are going to have to be made. you listen to general dempsey yesterday. again, nobody was suggesting the fact that air strikes were going to happen in syria. he is certainly someone, the general, who has talked about how fraught that decision is, what the risks are. civilian casualties not to mention the political considerations there. but the conversations are going on right now are i think to howard dean s point. the white house official stance is we have to have a coalition government in iraq and that s where it has to start. how realistic is that and if thags not playing out, what is the next step? kim, can you stay with us? howard dean, thank you very much. chris jansing, thank you as well. we are going to see chris guest hosting meet the press this sunday. big time! go chris. still ahead on morning joe, are you kind of a big deal? kind of a big deal? you know what? mika got me that t-shirt after she saw anchorman. when did you see anchorman ? about a year ago. oh, come on. got joe a t-shirt says i think i m a big deal. do you wear it? i don t have to wear it. you know i m kind of a big deal, which feeds into our tease. later this hour we are brecking down the narcissist problem and how you deal with narcissists in your life. we will see how doctors pulled off the ebola feat. some call it a miracle. first, we have the honor of speaking to journalist james foley about his work overseas. you re watching morning joe. we will be right back. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens? anything. ounds] the wait is over for 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was all of that. and, as parents, we weren t aware of that as our children grow, they become their own people, but jimmy jimmy was challenged when he first met poverty and disadvantage at marquette university. since that moment, his soul and heart grew and grew and group to encompass all of those people who needed help, needed their stories told. he began to love all, and that was his biggest gift to the people he met, his love and his help. diane, he got out of school and he did teach for america because he wanted to help children. he went overseas and then when he came back, he had to go back again because of what he had seen and somebody that knew him said, after going there and seeing what was going on, he couldn t just sit at home, he had to go back and report this story. tell us about that bravery. we just we found it difficult to understand, truly, as parents. he was home in october of 2012 for his birthday, and he just looked so good. i just said, jim, can t you stay home through christmas? and he says, oh, ma, i have to go back, but i will be home for christmas. and he just had made promises and he just was so committed to the people who was suffering. he was trying to humanize. humanize. he wanted the people to know how people were suffering, particularly the children touched him so much. he raised money because people were bringing people to the hospital in wheelbarrows and carrying them. and taxis. the more he saw the suffering, the more his heart seemed to grow. and he just had a growing commitment. did that drive start early on, even maybe as a boy? i wonder what it was like raising him and watching this grow within inside him. jim was just a very joyful, happy kid. he was not a he was the oldest of five. he was just a happy kid! and i think actually when he saw the suffering, first really realized in milwaukee, the inner city of milwaukee working with kids without parents or breakfast. he had a privileged upbringing and he wanted to share that. so he believed then, john, that as the old saying goes, as somebody told me, you know, to those much is given, much is expected, he really, i guess, in marquette, is sound like he woke up to that fact that he had a responsibilities and he just couldn t stop trying to help people, right? yeah. yeah. he ran with it. yeah. it was just natural. he grew stronger and more commit. more passionate. i just someone oh. no. go ahead. no. i was just going to say, one of his former students from teach for america reached out with a beautiful tribute and they said that if only those young jihadists had had a mr. foley, that our jim jim had saved his life. and the life of so many others. so what are you most proud of your son? and i m not even talking about at the very end. was there a story? was there a moment? was there a decision he made? like you said none of us are a saint but how remarkable is it when somebody puts their own safety and well-being in the back seat and says i m going to help other people? i guess we were the proudest of jim when we were able to interview the released hostages and they told us of his courage and his commitment to helping all of those people in the box, making sure that as much as possible they had enough food to eat. he negotiated with the guards, all the time being punished both physically and psychologically. we are proud that he was able to draw strength from prayer and sacrifices. we have talking about what a remarkable man pope francis is the past several weeks. i understand he picked up the phone and called you guys and spoke for maybe 20 minutes. we won t ask you what he said, unless you want to tell us that, but tell us what that meant to you and did it bring you comfort in this terrible time? huge comfort. huge comfort! because pope francis, like jesus, loves, like jim. he understood jim s heart. pope francis himself lost three family members was in deep grief himself and, yet, he reached out. well, that was so that touched us very deeply. very deeply. we are so grateful for the prayer of so many people all over the world. are jim s strength. are you all going to be speaking in the future? personally, i don t think now is the time to ask you these questions. i know a lot of people want to and we don t just don t think now is the time. but are you guys going to be speaking out in the future about what david whoad was on our show yesterday. he said jim was let down by america and europe. they really need to get their act together on negotiating with these terrorists. is that something that you re going to want to do to bring this out to the light of day, or are you going to just remain silent about it? no, we are not going to remain silent but we have to understand it is a very difficult issue. david is a good friend of ours and of jimmy s and he raises the appropriate points. we are also going to want to speak out about the things we want to do to make jim to make sure that jim s death is not in vain in terms of 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well, there are two things here. one is the need for organizations to really make sure they support their journalists on the ground and there are a lot of freelancers who are risking their lives. james did get a lot of support from global post. they were trying to raise ransom money. the other discrepancy is the way europes and u.s. address this and europeans do pay ransom. either nobody did or everybody does. since 2008, countries have paid al qaeda and its affiliates at least $125 million according to an investigation by the washington post adam taylor leading the pact. france has paid over $58,000 since 2008 to the terrorists. it is worth noting a separate group found france had more citizens held hostage across the globe than any other nation raising the question as to whether or not, you know, the country s history meeting ransoms i think the question answers itself. it goes back to what i was saying about sudan in the late 1990s. you had evangelical groups going out and children would be held hostage. they would pay $30, $35 to free those children. six months later, those children would be taken again and they would be paying 60 and a hundred. i certainly understand it. i said yesterday i would have hated to be in president obama s position of deciding whether you pay a ransom and save an american s life or not. but, obviously, paying that ransom the way france does just encourages more that is what we were talking about earlier on in the show. how are they so powerful and so well-funded? part of it not only that. there is an embassy report they thought it was absurd and not serious offer because it was so much more whereas usually demands are $5 million or $3 million euros. the question is how valid do you take that offer and do you see it as an honest negotiating effort or not. would it make a difference if the ransom had been made? perhaps or perhaps not. if you don t stop your air strikes we will kill him and no ransom after that. the choice has to be made again with steve sotloff. president obama has to weigh the national security of the united states and europe and put that in the balance with the life of one man. what do you do? i don t envy his position. i had no idea, until this story broke a couple of days ago, that i guess i read a report in the washington post or the new york times that al qaeda primarily gets its funding now from this. $15 million. yep. that and isis has been swooping up funds and actually machinery and movement across iraq so they are getting a ton of money that way well. all right. up next, texas governor rick perry continues what appears to be a march toward running for president in 2016. now he is showing off his foreign policy chops? kasie hunt was at his speech yesterday. she joins us next. bob mcdonnell tells the court his marriage is on hold, but prosecutors look to keep the focus of his actions as governor of virginia on center stage. we will be right back with much more morning joe. don t go away you can call me another day so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7 it s just i m a little reluctant to try new things. what s wrong with trying new things? feel that in your muscles? yeah. i do. try a new way to bank, where no branches equals great rates. everybody s excited about the back at staples.avings from the customers, to the staples associates. with guaranteed low prices on sharpies. you ll flip out! now go tell your friends. staples, make more happen for less. first thethen a littleeck-in.. weekend to remember. join us for the celebration package.with sparkling wine, breakfast and a late checkout. doubletree by hilton. where the little things mean everything. 6 past the hour. live look at capitol hill. joining from us capitol hill is associate editor of the washington post and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. also with us nbc news political reporter kasie hunt. good to have you both with us. if governor rick perry is taking his recent indictment battle. no, he s not. you wouldn t know it. not based on his trip to washington. i think the indictment looks look goo on him. he came in an a conquering hero for american conservativi m conservativism. he slammed the president s approach to the middle east and took up a muscular interventionist stance on how to stop the spread of isis. others take the view that no matter what comes next in iraq, it s no concern of ours. their attitude is we gave it our best effort, but now we re done. in syria, as well as iraq, this terrorist army must be confronted with overwhelming force appear. as for the many iraqis trying to defend themselves and their country, they need to seek more help from us. air power is a major part of it. but it s also going to take more special operations, intelligence, and advisory support than we have offered so far. three ukrainian individuals were apprehended in a ranch in far west texas within the last 60 days. so i think there s the obvious grave concern that the cause of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secure and us not knowing who is penetrating across, that individuals from isis or other terrorist states could be, and i think is a very real possibility that they may have already used that. three ukrainians now on a ranch in texas, maybe the ukrainians grew up watching john wayne and liked true grit and said i want to be a ranchhand. i thought you were going to tell me to play this straight! no, i m playing it straight. i mean, i don t know. who want to leave ukraine? exactly. versus texas. to work on a ranch for the summer? maybe they are college students. kasie, you were there. was rick perry a conquering hero or was he warmly received? tell us the reaction what you heard before and after the speech. this is totally rick perry s crowd. i think it showed how this indictment could play, especially with the base. i mean, people were really excited to see him. the indictment was the first thing out of the gate that he mentioned. he seemed almost defiant and like he was enjoying himself before he took this deep dive into all of this foreign policy with isis. to me he sounded, in his speech, a lot more like george w. bush than like a senator rand paul or like some of the other people with we have been hearing from in the republican party who are worried about this interference. in his speech, ed we need to be more aggressive in all of these different ways and he stopped short of saying we should put combat boots on the ground. i asked him about that and he said, well, all options should be on the table. all options on the table, okay. all options on the table? i think that is almost what the pentagon is saying right now, but no doubt he certainly is not sounding like rand paul. hey, gene, let s move from texas governors to virginia disgraced governors. the bob mcdonnell trial, we have been talking about a good bit and, obviously, it s just getting ugly down there. mika does not buy the defense at all. she thinks they are going to get off and go to steps and kiss each other and sing no double jeopardy. you write in the washington post how far would you go to stay out of jail? would you publicly hue mail i didn t think humiliate your wife and put the secrets of your marriage on display? mcdonnell s testimony this week in a federal courtroom in richmond about his wife s psychological turmoil has been both cringe worthy and compelling. it has been clear for some time that mcdonnell s strategy for winning acquittal amounted to what could be called the crazy wife defense. but only when he took the stand did it become apparent how thoroughly he intended to humiliate the soulmate he still claims to love. you know, something doesn t add up here, gene. okay, so, mika, you re into the, you know, it s a big conspiracy theory and they are in this together and she s just kind of suffering through this temporarily, and they are going to kiss on the courthouse steps when they get acquitted and that is a possibility. it s not quite sounding like that right now. i mean, if that is what they are doing, they are certainly taking it to an extreme, because it is really it s painful and compelling to watch this testimony as he just trashes her left and right. here is the disconnect for me is if this marriage was so fractured, if this woman was so out of control, why is it that now he is mustering the might and righteousness to speak out against it? a lot of people don t just put their problems out on the front pages of the newspaper. there s no reason okay, i m sorry. let s just say. gene, you ve lived in washington long enough. do we really want to talk about all of the scam marriages that are still in effect in washington, d.c. by people who care a hell of a lot more about their political careers than they do about their personal life, and they will literally lilve with people they hate and they won t talk to and describe as beasts? it happens all over washington, d.c. from people that are a lot more concerned about their image than they are about, you know, fixing up their personal lives. if you have a political that is a business arrangement or whatever, you can have that, right? or marriage for convenience or just inertia keeps a marriage together, whatever it is. they have been married for 38 years. it is not usual that one spouse will go on a stand in a trial that is being watched certainly around the nation. it s being live tweeted every minute of testimony and just completely trash the spouse as a crazy woman who was spending like crazy, who had this emotional involvement with another man. yeah. who i don t think they had a physical relationship. my goodness, you know? i would just it s unseemly. maybe i m missing something in the testimony, but if this is some sort of fractured scam situation, i would love to hear about the effort to rein her in on the part of bob mcdonnell instead of i didn t know anything. i didn t see anything. it just all happened and i just was sitting here as governor. it doesn t work. i think we saw a press or an e-mail yesterday. he didn t know about $50,000? he is wearing a rolex watch and sitting in a ferrari and she is carrying around these purses and going off with vitamin guy? are you kidding me? as i was starting to say, mika he is blaming their financial problems and saying she was spending too much. well, actually, it was he was the one who made these lousy real estate investments that put them under water. hold on. joe, finish. the guy gets into this process and, obviously, we have heard everybody talk about what i m sorry. what a holy terror she was and they were threatening to all quit at the same time. you don t hear anybody saying that about bob mcdonnell. you know, i don t know his wife. i know bob. bob has always been a soft-spoken guy. everybody that i know that works for bob says he s a good decent man. everybody that i ve known that knows bob throughout the years please let me finish. i m getting to a point. he is a good decent man. i ve heard the opposite about his wife. do i feel comfortable talking about his wife? no. i have heard repeatedly as we hear about spouses or as we hear about some members who are just absolute terrors that this is not a scam. this fits in with everything i have heard about these two people since they first came on the national scene in 2009. let me just say if bob mcdonnell is getting this and he is finding a lot of stuff out he may not know for the first time. like, for instance, his wife had an emotional connection with this man, this donor of his and it sounded like she wanted to have a lot more than just an emotional connection with this man, then i think a husband in the middle of a trial may decide to go this way. so that may all be true. there is an inherent risk to this defense which is that will the jury look at someone who is so willing to throw his wife under the bus? will they say this isn t a man of strong moral fiber or good standing and perhaps cloud their own opinion of bob mcdonnell as someone if he willing to do this to his wife if there is a he said/she said and heard the testimony on the other side that bob mcdonnell was a rude son of a bitch and driven by this and that, then the jury could go back and say that. what the jury has heard all of these stories about her. and i don t know if this could be possible at this point. it might not be because she s not on the witness list. i wonder if they are regretting or trying to get her to testify. mika, you said you don t get that. yeah. maybe just because it s the truth. have you heard anybody in all of our years in washington and up here and in the middle of politics tell you about bob mcdonnell s bad temper or throwing things around or screaming or yelling? i have it. i can say hell of a lot about a lot of politicians that i ve heard that about. you just haven t heard that about him. i agree. the question is still why did bob mcdonnell spend his own $30,000 on this man s stock? the question still becomes why did he use his own resources? if it was all siphoned off with his wife and she was doing without any of his knowledge, i get that and that might be the case, but he was still spending his own money. i m only going to the question mika is saying why are they just going after her and bob mcdonnell? maybe that is the reality. you talk about the did 30,000 stock and i ve heard about that. actually, that cuts against the prosecutor s case because you re supposed to be getting money, not giving money to somebody else. again, at the end of the day, thomas, what the prosecutor has to prove is he got these gifts and in exchange for these gifts, he said, okay, i m going to help you out. the whole reason, why we are even talking about this is because at the core of it, it s political. this is not a celebrity divorce. this is because he is the governor of virginia. on hold. this is not about maureen. she s just the first lady of virginia. she was not elected by the people, the good people of virginia. right. this is about bob mcdonnell and was the governor on the take? real awkward. i think it s really awkward. it is really awkward. we can all agree on that. she has all of the power and he has none of it. gene and kasie, thank you. at louis vuitton, she had a lot of power. exactly. 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today is a miraculous day. i am thrilled to be alive and to be reunited with my family. dr. kent brantly, high fiving his medical team today. discharged from hospital, free from the ebola virus. please, do not stop praying for the people of liberia and west africa and for a quick end to this ebola epidemic. is it tough to be up there? i d rather be fishing. behind the portrait of bob mcdonnell was the emotional wreckage of a troubled, dissolving marriage. things got so bad with wife maureen they couldn t communicate enough to trade their position for privilege. the islamic terrorists who e beheaded the american journalist james foley had demanded $132 million. we begged the international community to help the remaining hostages. the president authorized a rescue mission. the operation in northern syria was textbook, but the intelligence out of date. the western hostages had already been moved. they re beyond just a terrorist group. this is beyond anything that we ve seen. the secretary of defense acknowledged today what armies in syria and iraq already knew. isis is a force to be reckoned with. then what risk does isis, perhaps, pose to the united states? because of open borders and immigration issues, it s an immediate threat. what other bad actors are coming here or for that matter have arrived already. from a certain angle the cartels, as vicious and as brutal as they are, might be the least of our worries. you ve got to change this is embarrassing. vomiting blue. sam, you should have just done the show. can i just work in my t-shirt? no. it s friday, why not? hello, thomas. good morning. you know, when you get to be our age, it will be harder for you to get yourself together in the morning, i m just saying. it s hard. yes, it is. it s friday! there is a very blue theme going on here. check your apps, pay your bills, people. it s a good day to be an american. well, thomas has been in a great mood since 3:00 a.m. i like it a lot. i got paid today. sometimes it s a little much. i got paid. same here. mika is bringing it this morning. no kids. kids? do i have kids? no. i have a dog. i nice little beagle. interesting. kids/no kids. you re staring at me like you re appalled. i think that the price tag is still on your sweater, but that s okay. i am so tired. i m going to just listen, if you guys don t get mika a different color here, i m going to take this off and wear my gray t-shirt. i have to change? while you all go to a clip, i m going to the gray t-shirt. i think we should go the other way. i think i should get a blue shirt and go all in on this blue thing. what do we have? that press conference yesterday, you re like, oh, kind of scary. which one. the pentagon. oh, yes. we are going to start with that. we re also following the trial in virginia, governor bob mcdonnell, and it s really getting extremely personal. it s really personal. some of the questions about that. but first, u.s. officials are offering grim warnings about the terror group behind the beheading of an american journalist. defense secretary chuck hagel calls the islamic state an imminent threat, while the nation s top general says it may be impossible to stop the militants without them hitting iraq and syria. isil is a sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen. they re beyond just a terrorist group. this is beyond anything that we ve seen. so we must prepare for everything. the only way you do that is you take a cold steely hard look at it and get ready. this is an organization that has an apocalyptic end of eyes vision and which will eventually have to be defeated. to your question, can they be defeated without addressing that part of their organization that resides in syria, the answer is no. that will have to be addressed on both sides of what is essentially at this point a nonexistent border. let s bring in nbc news chief pentagon important jim miklaszewski who was at the briefing yesterday. jim, as you re watching this and we ve been talking about this for a week, you got a sense about a week and a half ago that the white house realized that isis was a threat they could no longer ignore. we started talking about humanitarian assistance. the next day we heard we were arming the kurds. the next day we heard there were going to be bombing runs. a couple of days later we re going in and helping them take over a dam. now we re actually talking about, and i don t want anybody to take this the wrong way, i m not being critical, i m just saying it is remarkable that just a couple of weeks later we actually have generals going out, obviously at the white house s guidance, and talking about the possibility of actually bombing syria. talk about a necessity. talk about out of total necessity. talk about how quickly our focus is expanding. well, you know, joe, we talked about this last week when we talked about the u.s. backing iraqi and kurdish forces with air strikes. to take the mosul dam. that was the opening salvo in what was going to be, according to some officials we re talking to, a long-running war with isis. at least there in iraq for the time being. nobody is under any illusion that isis can simply be contained there in iraq. and the fear, of course, as we ve also talked about, is that the threat from isis there in iraq is going to spread not only throughout that region but could eventually find its way here to the united states in terms of terrorist attacks because they do have for the time being only a small number, a handful of americans within their ranks. they think that the success that isis had in iraq is only drawing in more recruits and their numbers are thought to be about 17,000 right now, joe. all right. we talk about that news conference being sobering. a lot of people who i just wonder what your thoughts were, mik, you go to these all the time. yeah. well, you know, the president has said he was alluding to the fact that this is going to take some time, but i don t think the u.s. government was leveling with the american people. the folks we re talking to say this is going to be a long, hard slog, not to quote donald rumsfeld, but this is going to take some time and we had talked about that also earlier. you know, first you have to contain them in iraq. then you have to go after the leadership as general dempsey was talking about. and he didn t say it was necessarily going to be the u.s. he said that this has to be a broad international effort. and so far except for some humanitarian assistance, we haven t seen any other of our european allies in particular weigh in and they re just as threatened potentially as the u.s. is because many of those isis members are european. so that has some raised some level of disappointment here in the pentagon. but first they have to deny that safe haven in iraq and then just like al qaeda and just like the attempts over the years to get osama bin laden, they re going to have to cut the head off that snake and go after the isis leadership. thomas. mik, explain to all of us why we aren t talking about bashar al assad in the equation when it comes to syria? i think most people just getting read in on this know the last time we were talking about syria, it s president obama against bashar al assad and you better not cross that red line. now that we re talking about syria, no one is talking about where bashar al assad stands on isis. is he a partner in all of this? is he a trusting partner in trying to eliminate isis from his own country? and are we really going to bomb syria and not have ba shaush sh assad on board? it s not clear, first of all, that the u.s. is going to launch air strikes inside syria, but it would not be inside syria. technically, geographically, it would be across the border but they would be going after what is now considered to be the isis state, the isis nation of terrorism. and quite frankly, bashar al assad is sitting back there in damascus watching all this probably with some amusement because the u.s. finds itself in a battle with the same enemy which assad does, so it s a strange partnership. politics makes strange bedfellows. certainly. of war, sometimes even makes stranger bedfellows. in this particular case, this narrow instance, assad and the u.s. are on the same side in wanting to get rid of this threat from isis. nbc has learned new details about the effort to rescue james foley. last november foley s family received an encrypted e-mail in english demanding a $132 million ransom. after a brief e-mail exchange, the captors were not heard from again until last week when a furious message from the group promised foley s death in retaliation for american air strikes. we re going to move on now to the corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell, which is playing out like a script from a soap opera, and more court testimony is expected today. but it was yesterday in richmond where the former governor delved deep into what he calls a troubled marriage. he showed the court an e-mail dated in 2011 telling his wife, maureen, this. i want to be in love, not just watch movies about it. adding, i am so spiritually and mentally exhausted from being yelled at, i don t think you realize how you are affecting me and sometimes others with your tongue. and when asked on the stand whether he thought his wife was having an affair with the donor at the center of it all, jonnie williams, he said no. but when asked if they had a strong emotional relationship, he said yes. all of this is being used to show that their marriage was so fractured that they couldn t have conspired to solicit thousands of dollars in exchange for favors. sam. senior marriage correspondent. this is ugly, man. it keeps getting uglier. it doesn t make sense. and mika is very skeptical. she thinks this is all part of a ruse. who are you skeptical of? she s skeptical that their marriage is that broken. she thinks that they re going to be found not guilty and go out on the courthouse steps and kiss and say, hey, we got them, no double jeopardy. that s not what i think, but okay. she thinks it s all a big scam. it would be a good movie. i don t think it s a big scam. i think you look at what everybody said about his wife, and it looks pretty ugly. well, marital disputes have two sides, obviously. i d be curious what e-mail she sent him if she ever released those e-mails, and i would love to see them. but there s something really inherently sad about it. if you real the whole e-mail i m sorry i hurt you. the whole thing is sad and unfortunate and bizarre that it s gone to this point that this is now the crux of his defense, i was so estranged from my wife, there is no way we could have conspired to be corrupt. i don t know what the legal basis of this will be and how it can get him off on this, but it goes to show you that so many bizarre things happen behind the scenes with politicians lives that it s not this glamorous thing. oh, when you re in such a spotlight like that and you bring your family alone, it really changes the dynamic and things come out in people. in an alternative universe, this man could have been mitt romney s vice president and we could have been seeing this play out at the old executive office building. so why are you skeptical? i m going to bring in a reporter who s covering this. what i question, and i m not i don t think there s i don t know what s going on, but i just think there s such an avid fervent effort to show how fractured they were. i don t believe it. also let me just say this. you can have a very acrimonious marriage, i guess, and still sort of talk about the nice rolex watches that you re receiving. no, there s no way he did not know about all these things. that kind of goes against everything that he s proved about himself as a successful person. we don t know that. i think so. listen, his wife wanted seemed to want to have an affair with this jonnie williams guy. yeah. she probably wasn t sharing everything with him. i m just guessing. listen, there s two sides to this story. i m curious what her e-mails say. let me just i have a question for the reporter in richmond. why don t we hear her side, though? exactly. now that why is she not defending herself? well, you just answered my question. i mean that you say what i m saying? you are making fun of the ruse that i think might be going on here. i m not making fun of you. i would never do that. that makes me sad. let s bring in the wall street journal, valerie borline. valerie, i guess, first of all, am i the only one looking at this thinking something doesn t make sense here? mika, i think you ve got the same question on the mind of every person in this courtroom, which has been packed. because for four weeks the question has been is this just so much kabuki theater we re seeing about these two people not communicating or is the marriage just that fractured? i think there was a sense, especially after mr. mcdonnell gave a chronology of the troubles in their marriage, there was a people from people in the elevator, in the cafeteria, attorneys and others that have been watching, and friends, this really is a marriage that is as mr. mcdonnell describes it, in deep, deep trouble. okay. and yet will we hear, i guess, concerns from the other side? is this going to become some sort of divorce trial? are we going to hear her side in this? i guess that s number one. and number two, the other question that i have would be how could he not know about some of these massive sort of exchanges that took place? is that even possible? well, i think to your first question, mrs. mcdonnell is not expected to take the stand. her attorneys have said that. she s not on the witness list. so we don t expect to hear it from her mouth. and the e-mails, one of the issues mr. mcdonnell identified yesterday is he said his wife didn t often write him back, particularly in that wrenching e-mail from labor day of 2011 that you guys referenced. he tapped that out on his blackberry in the middle of a three-day weekend, they weren t speaking. he said she never responded so i don t think there s the expectation. it wasn t said in opening arguments that we would hear from her extensively on that point and it really bolsters her position in a lot of ways that she had a crush on mr. williams if we don t see that content. but i did want to say, one of the things that came up yesterday is that mr. mcdonnell says he s living with his parish priest, father wayne ball here in richmond. mr. ball is well known in richmond. he keeps this blog. it s just a blog of devotions like many priests would keep. yesterday was the first day he really talked about the mcdonnell trial by name and he said something that i think gets at what you re talking about. what are we seeing. he said is there any married person reading this who would want to go to the public and tell the truth, the whole truth about their life? it s a riching experience, i think, for a lot of people to see. valerie, for you as a reporter, though, this has to be interesting to cover because, again, this is not about a celebrity divorce. this is about federal corruption charges that have been brought against a virginia governor and it seems as if the behind the scenes kabuki theater of a jonnie williams maybe trying to buy access to the governor through maureen mcdonnell is what s really playing out here, and that s the relationship that s being vetted more than what the governor actually knew about where this flow of cash was coming from. and the mrs. mcdonnell s attorneys say if he was trying to buy her influence, she didn t have influence to sell because she wasn t a public figure, she was not elected to anything, so it s very important to prosecutors to tie mr. mcdonnell s complicity in this arrangement. and i think that we re expecting mr. mcdonnell to take the stand again this morning. he s still on direct examination by his attorney, so we ll hear more questioning from a friendly inquisitor but prosecutors on cross examination, they don t care about the state of the marriage. well, when you hosted a luncheon and appeared at this lunch on, mr. mcdonnell, that honored mr. williams, you know, why did you do that? why did you give people samples of his product? why did you, you know, why did you ask various members of your administration to work with him? they re just going to say we don t care. we don t care about the state of your marriage, we care about the acts you took as governor. exactly. so given the fact that that s the question ultimately, i ll try this from a different angle. maureen mcdonnell is being raked over the coals. her reputation is being completely destroyed, and yet she s not ever going to take the stand? she s not ever going to speak for herself? is her team and is she okay with this? she s facing legal troubles in her own right and they might they obviously have calculated that putting her on the stand is too much of a risk to take at this point. the question that mcdonnell has to answer is why did he take these specific actions, buying $30,000 a share in jonnie williams company. if so you re estranged from your wife and everything is going through your wife, then why do you personally buy those shares. that s the question he s got to answer. still ahead on morning joe reality tv finds its religion. we ll talk to one of the mega pastors featured on the new series preachers of l.a. about some of today s most pressing faith issues. plus, we ll explain why this giant rubber duck is making a splash on the west coast. i m sorry. and up next, two americans have been cured of ebola. in a related story, two americans have been cured of the ebola virus. how could that radically impact the rest of those infected patients in west africa and help us in america if the virus comes here. dr. zeke emanuel is going to join the question and we ll ask him. we ll ask him about narcissists too. i really think he needs to talk to you about it. first let s go to bill karins, the great bill karins with a check on this weekend s forecast. bill, what s it going to look like? in some areas it s going to be so perfect, in other areas a struggle with the heat, humidity and thunderstorms. last night we got supersoaked near the chicago area. it was overnight at least so we re not driving in it this morning but it did leave its mark. we had about 4 inches of rain in 40 minutes at midway airport in chicago. so that s like that much rain in 40 minutes. that s why we dealt with the flooding. now you can see the thunderstorms continue south of chicago. driving across northern indiana there s a lot of water out there also in central portions of illinois. as we look at the tropics, we were watching this tropical wave. right now it doesn t look very impressive. very ragged, not organized at all. if it does get its act together and that s a big question, it may never do it, but it would likely be sunday into monday somewhere over the bahamas, the central bahamas or just off the east coast of florida. it could bring large waves to the east coast and squally weather next week. we have yet to determine how strong it could possibly get. we ll watch it for you but right now does not look like a huge threat as far as this weekend. as far as the forecast for the weekend goes, each and every day looks similar. cool in new england, very warm from texas all the way to the carolinas. by the time we get into saturday, we re watching the same weather pattern across the nation. the northeast will be gorgeous, northern plains not bad, but very hot from arkansas all the way through texas into the deep south. that continues into next week, by the way. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. what if there was a credit card where the reward was that new car smell and the freedom of the open road? 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[ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. today is a miraculous day. i am thrilled to be alive, to be well, and to be reunited with my family. above all, i am forever thankful to god for sparing my life. and i m glad for any attention my sickness has attracted to the plight of west africa in the midst of this epidemic. please, continue to pray for liberia and the people of west africa and encourage those in positions of leadership and influence to do everything possible to bring this ebola outbreak to an end. that was dr. kent brantly, one of two american doctors released from the hospital after being cured of ebola. let s bring back former white house adviser for health policy, dr. zeke emanuel and also on set with us, alan murray. thomas as well. so, zeke, first of all, is this a story of a miracle drug or just a miracle or incredible luck? probably none of those. you know, ebola is very serious. it has a 50% mortality but half the people but to get up and walk out and hug people, is it okay to be a little surprised by what we re seeing? yes, because he was very sick and has walked out. but whether the drug worked or not, no one knows because you really need a trial. some people get the drug, some people don t get the drug, to know if it s effective. has this happened before? oh, yeah. half the people roughly or 40% of the people who get ebola get cured and are able to leave. is cure the right word here? the chances of a relapse are not no, this is cured. he s done. and again, part of the drugs the experimental treatments are based upon antibodies that people who had ebola react to the drug i mean react to the virus and protect people. so it s like a regular viral infection. but i think the real issue here is we still don t know whether the drug works. separate from the drug, in west africa, as dr. brantly said, there s still havoc there because of ebola and the big issue there is it s not the drugs that they need, it s basic stuff. it s gloves, it s knowing how to treat people in isolation. it s the basic public health measure. and the tragedy that we ve had to pull out, the western doctors who know all those things, many of them have had to pull out. right. and the local doctors got infected or health care workers, first of all, are very few, got infected because they didn t know what they were dealing with early on and the whole infrastructure is terrible. thomas. we talk about the basics here, just from the q & a, dr. bruce ribner, these were the reporters asking questions about brantly s release. they asked dr. bruce ribner who runs the infectious disease unit whether or not there was an immunity created for brantly and writebol. he said there really is no danger to a relapse. he would anticipate an immunity to this virus. i want to ask both of you guys just from a business perspective and put on your business cap, if they can figure out this was a cure and then they can go ahead and work with big pharma to get this out and to western africa and distributed, obviously there is a humanitarian need and then there s a business need that s filled. you first, zeke. first of all, it s not going to happen in six months. the experimental agents they were working on were exactly based upon this theory of immunity that people got infected had antibodies that could neutralize the virus and protect you for life. between that observation and a drug or a by biologic that works or can be marketed, very long gap. remember, these experimental agents had never been tested in humans before, so that s a long path of discovery years and years, and it s not going to solve west africa. mika, zeke knows 100 times more stuff about this than i do. but the challenge is not finding some kind of a miracle drug. the challenge is getting basic health care practices in place in west africa. this is not a huge threat to the rest of the world but it is a tragedy in west africa. what, 1500 people, close to 1500 people now have died. more than 2,000 have been infected. and what you need is just basic health care practices to keep it from spreading. and we should put it in context of lots of other illnesses that kill, diarrhea, pneumonia. the focus changes. which is 100 times more deadly than ebola. this does capture us because it s a very illuminating problem. dramatic. and dramatic. i guess that s the right word. dr. emanuel and alan murray, thank you so much. coming up, our interview with the parents of james foley. what they say about their journalist son who sacrificed his life to report on the struggle of the syrian people. morning joe will be right back. it s the yoplait greek taste-off and we re asking this sports town which blueberry greek yogurt is their champion. it s the bottom of the 9th, who s it going to be? 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i wonder what it was like raising him and watching this grow within side him. jim was a very joyful, happy kid. he was not a saint. no. he was the oldest of five, and he he was just a happy kid. i think actually when he saw the suffering, at first really realized in milwaukee, the inner city of milwaukee, working with kids without parents or breakfast he had a privileged upbringing. he wanted to share that. so he believed then, john, as the old saying goes, as somebody told me, you know, to much to those much is given, much is expected. he really i guess at marquette it sounds like he woke up to that fact that he had a responsibility and he just couldn t stop trying to help people, right? yeah. he ran with it. it was just natural. he grew stronger and more committed. i just someone oh. no, go ahead. no, i was just going to say one of his former students from teach from america reached out with a beautiful tribute. they said that if only those yongjie haudiung jihadists had foley, that jim had saved his life and the life of so many others. so what are you most proud of, of your son? and i m not even talking about at the very end. was there a story, was there a moment, was there a decision he made? like you said, he wasn t a saint, none of us are a saint, but how remarkable is it when somebody puts their own safety and well-being in the back seat and says i m going to help other people. i guess we were the proudest of jim when we were able to interview the released hostages. they told us of his courage and his commitment to helping all those people in the box, to making sure that as much as possible that they had enough food to eat. he negotiated with the guards. all the time being punished both physically and psychologically. we re proud that he was able to draw strength from prayer and made sacrifices. we ve been talking about what a remarkable man pope francis is over the past several weeks. i understand he picked up the phone, called you guys, spoke for maybe 20 minutes. we won t ask you what he said, unless you want to tell us that, but tell us what that meant to you and did it bring you comfort in this terrible time? huge comfort. huge comfort. because pope francis, like jesus, loves, like jim. he understood jim s heart. pope francis himself, having lost three family members was in deep grief himself, and yet he reached out. well, that was so that touched us very deeply. very deeply. we re so grateful for the prayer of so many people all over the world. our interview with the parents of james foley showing amazing strength in the face of unspeakable loss. up next, inside the lives of one of l.a. s most popular men of cloth, bishop noel jones. jones is next. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens? anything. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment s right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or any allergic reactions like rash, hives, swelling of the lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30-tablet trial. i think the family healing becomes very important. there s absolutely no way, there s absolutely no way for the rest of the community not to respond to the way that you re feeling. to see a bishop coming out wow. and help us. pretty emotional stuff right there. that was a scene from oxygen s preachers of l.a. here with us now for our faith of fridays is the co-star of the docu-series, the city of refuge church in los angeles, the bishop noel jones. sir, it s great to have you with us. it s my pleasure. and that was really an emotional scene there. obviously we re showing probably one of the more emotional in the docu-series. when you signed up to do this, what was your thought about trying to put faith on tv, on cable, and to draw in audiences to look at it from a different aspect? one of the things that i thought was significant, and i still do, is to lower the iconiclastic proclivities people have toward leaders because i wanted to lessen the significance of putting people on pedestals that they can t live on. ultimately what happens is because you put the preacher on a pedestal, you put people who are your icons like yourself, like a bishop would be. they can t live on it because they re human like you are. part of what i think is significant in touching people s lives is to be able to say that i have the same struggle that you have. so i m not in a glass house, i m not separated from the issues that you deal with. so when i make a presentation, it s not you, you, you, you, you, it s like we. because i have to deal with the same kinds of things that you deal with. so accessible that s what i wanted to do. aspirational, making it so it s possible exactly. for people to find what they need and hope for, and the comfort. definitely. one of the things i say about life is that it s important to understand this. if you wait until your life is totally straight, it s pristinely excellent, and you need that before you start helping people you ll be waiting a long time. a long time. because oftentimes you take robin williams, you take people like that, they are making you happy while they re hurting. is there a contradiction, though, because this docu-series takes a look at the power of influential religious leaders like yourself. also shows the more glamorous aspect of it. made influential by some of the money that you have. is there a contradiction between rich and influential bishops, pastors, those leading churches that are talking, you know, to their faithful that are much less than them that would be considered poorer than them? is that a contradiction from your angle? one of the things you ve got to understand and i think it s very important to understand this is that many pastors have different money streams. now, for instance, my sister grace and i imported gray cars, so all the cars i have i bought when the dollar was bullish against the mark. of course you had to lobby, so many people don t understand that you have multiple income streams. but i think another thing that s very important is that most of the guys who are significantly big, and girls, ladies and men, and gentlemen, who are significantly big, if they started this business when i started in your early youth and you re not coming from corporate america, you re not coming from ceo of some company, you started preaching when you were young and you had to deal with issues, i mean i have preached with people and i had hamburger helper without the hamburger. so i ve come in many instances it s a supply and demand situation with me. i go all over the world and somebody says, well, we want the bishop to come. well, they re going to make sure that they take care of you financially. so you don t make apologies for being wealthy? no, you don t make apologies because you have multiple income streams and you do many things. but i will say this and i think it s very important to say this, that most of the fellows who are significantly big today, who will say on tv i don t have to deal with anybody, i have money because i came because i do my books and my books pay for me, well, somebody paid for your tv and somebody made you so popular that now you don t need the people. so i would say it like this. they helped you in your early life or they helped you to get to where you are, so now you don t need them. but don t ever say that no one helped you to get to where you are. so it s not a contradiction, but you have to understand how it works, the mechanics that go into it, because you bless people, they bless you. i m one person, there s millions. the season premiere of preachers of l.a. airs on oxygen next wednesday at 10:00 p.m./9:00 p.m. central. bishop noel jones, very nice to meet you. it s my pleasure. thank you very much. all right, up next, it s man versus monkey? 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senator mary landrieu says she has the 60 votes needed to advance a bill authorizing the construction of the controversial keystone pipeline when it comes up for a vote today. we ll be watching that one. an architect will [ music playing ] 6r7b8g9s at the g 20 summit, politicians took a break from saving the world. take a look at these three photos that have never shaken hands before. you put your, you put your hand on red and your left hand on yellow. hold on, spin it. spin it! they took a break posing for pictures holding koala bears, vladmir putin and prime minister tony abbott with koalaings. here s other one with president obama and a koala. apparently kim jong-un heard about this and field bad. so he had his photo taken with a koala. cute. oh, speaking of koala bears, joe. yeah. have you seen willie lately in. oh my gosh. i know. so. so cuddly. let s have some grooming i would id things going on here. less than two weeks. the countdown is on. good morning, everybody. november 18th. with us on set, we have economic analyst steve radner and willie, joe and me. good morning, joe. yeah. before we get to the fuse, which is a lot. tammy duckworth. have you seen the story? do you think she should have been able to deliver her vote to the committee? there is politics involved. she allowed the vote by problxy what do you think? you know, it s not been done before, in this case, you have a woman that s eight months pregnant. you get a doctor who told her she can t fly to washington, d.c., so you can make that exception. a lot of people are criticizing nancy pelosi. the people who are criticizing themselves are all the people who tried to use their situation so they can also cast a proxy vote. that s when nancy pelosi had to say no, people started saying, yeah, i may have a chipped tooth. i may have. everybody came up with an excuse and so hopefully nancy will be, i don t know, an exception should have been made. it wasn t made. it worked in washington now. so they re going to have to just adjust. we ll get back to that. maybe there is more to this story. we are following a developing story this morning out of jerusalem, where two palestinian men stormed a sin go, attacking worshippers inside t. attack left four people dead and at least four more wounded. the two men attacked congress regants inside the orthodoxed neighborhood before killed in a shootout from police. the men were said to be from east jerusalem, fueling one over another. people would come to worship god in the sanctuary of the sin knowing, were hatcheted and hacked and murdered in that holy place in an act of pure terror and senseless brutality and murder. this violence has no place anywhere. palestinian president pla mud abbas condemned the attacks while hamas praised them but did not claim responsibility. turning now to obamacare where this morning the washington freebie conhas footage on its website of a 2006 panel discussion featuring then senator barak obama. it includes a sound byte where the future president praises a group of academic, including economist jonathan gruber, who has been all over the headlines recently for say that the stupidity of the american voter happe helped congress pass health care. you have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles. many of them i have stolen lit lal lally my good friend jim wallace who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice. president obama was less complimentary when asked about gruber earlier this week. i just heard about this i get well briefed before i come out here the fact that the summit adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that i completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflex on the process that was run. fact checkers say gruber earned almost $400,000 and earned reportedly $2 million for an ongoing contract with hhs, the national review puts the figure far higher as if 6 million. it lists paychecks to gruber from a number of states, including vermillion, minnesota and michigan to name a few. david axelrod recently wrote, if you looked up stupid in the dictionary, you d find gruber s picture. he went on to add one note, his contributions to the ar ca, like governor romney s massachusetts plan were valuable. hills quips were offensive. nancy pelosi recently said she doesn t know who jonathan gruber is, although she touted his work back in 2009. joe. i don t know from to start. he got $103 million from the department of state, many insurance mince, $293,600 from the department of hhs. $1.73 million from the justice department. 2 million $50,000 from the u.s. national institutes for health. he s a guy that went into the white house i believe to help construct this plan a dozen of times, in fact, the president said he helped write the affordable care act. if these people that are saying every couple days, who gruber, where gruber, horton hears a gruber. they re embarrassing themselves. nancy pelosi saying she has never heard of jonathan gruber barak obama is doing this act. i don t know who tells him it makes him look cool it doesn t it makes him look out of touch. how many times do we hear i was just told about this va ca vasc. if he were president of the united states he said jonathan gruber for health care reform. i mean, there is talk about taking a one-day story and making it a one-week or two-week story, they should have just come out and said jonathan grubary strong guy, they helped us draft there bill. he s an idiot. there are obvious reasons why he s a tenured professor. because he s an idiot in front of cameras. he helped put together this package. they can t get out of tear way. here s the thing. watching those two sound bytes back to back when the president said he didn t joe is absolutely right. the white house staff, you got to wonder about the staff. you got a smart guy saying stupid things. why they don t say just that, by the way, what is the obsession with taking 10 million people off the health care rolls? with the president mentioning his name. i didn t see it. how many speeches or book events where you thank the person or give a nod, have you no idea who they were. he was reading that off the script. it s not so gotcha. i have been in situations on a much, much smaller level. on a much, much, smaller level, where you are running for office. but every presidential candidate guess through this. who are the people you are going to surround yourself with when you become president of the united states and people say, well, you know, colin powell over here and it would be great to have leon panet thta over he. so if you are president of the united states, we will know which direction you are going to go if. steve radner, he brought up jonathan gruber and he did that for a reason because gruber has put together romney care up in massachusetts. he wanted him to put together obamacare in washington, d.c. i think that is a very. i don t want to say gotcha moment. because this is taken care of by the president you know engaging in politics 101 he s a smart guy. he said some stupid things. instead of steve pretending like he didn t even know who he was. i think that s exactly the point. jonathan gruber was back in the day in 2009 the guru on health care as you said, he designed the massachusetts plan for romney i think if you go back and look at the washington post or the new york times times in that period jonathan gruber s fame will be all over it on health care quoted by everybody, who the white house was using mg i don t think we few the dollar numbers he was paid at the time. he was certainly i remember that when i was in the white house, he was certainly viewed as an important figure in helping to put obamacare towing. so it s exactly what you said. the problem is not that gruber helped them put obamacare together. he was the man. the problem is what he said in the last two weeks and how the white house has handled it. you can almost hear david axelrod s frustration in that tweet say, hey, guys, this is the answer to the question. he s a stupid guy. he helped write it. he did some good things for us. we condemn these comments. he keens going day after day after more tapes come out. it s not a one-time gap for gruber. there are six, seven, eight videos where he has total contempt for the american people and can say they don t have toll economic, so we can slip this by him. at this point to sort offing a like i don t know who this gruber guy is, it s again just say it, what an idiot. i would just say when democrats lost the election, you let me down, guys, just say it. it s funny, what willie said is exactly right. when i saw david axelrod s tweet yesterday, it was like, okay. he is pulling out his hair in chicago. he was trying to send a single, guys, say he was really important in this because people aren t dumb. it s almost like the white house thinks people are as stupid as jonathan gruber thinks people are. oh, please. i m serious. i know. by saying if you think can you go out and say we don t know who this guy is when he got paid millions and millions of dollars by the federal government. he was one of the architects of obama case organizeing for america, you identified him as one of the architects, one of the writers of obamacare. barak obama when he was running for president, said when he wanted to keep people running his administration, it s almost like they agree with jonathan gruber we re all stupid and we re not going to be able to google his name and find all of this. they need to put this behind them. okay. we ll start by turning the page right now. because dan says we have to move on. as we have discussed, president obama is reportedly poised to take executive action to keep millions of undocumented immigrants from being deported. but a new poll shows resistance on the part of many americans. 46% want the president to wait until the new congress. top senate democrats, harry reid back the president taking action now, writing a letter, showing tear support. as the new york sometimes notes, the president appears to have evolved about using such broad executive action. in 2013, someone asked the president if he d consider taking action to keep parents of minors who qualify for the dream act from being deported. young people who have basically grown up here are americans that we should welcome. we re not going to have them oefrt under a cloud, under a shadow. if we start broughtening that, then essentially i would be ignoreing the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally. so that s not an option and i do get a little worried that, you know, advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediately thinking. well, you know, somehow there is an out here. if congress doesn t act, we ll just have the president sign something and that will take care of it. we won t have to worry about it. all right. joe, take it. what jose said what jose got to president to say in that interview is obviously going to be something we will be hearing time and time again the president of the united states say figure he took president action in this way he is thinking of doing it now, it would actually be unconstitutional. it wouldn t be legal. it s unconstitutional. it s hard a couple years later to turn around and do the very thing you said two years ago as a guy that taught constitutional law at the university of chicago, this action would be unconstitutional. president correspondent, tracy lunt, is there any case this spirals into another shutdown standoff? reporter: republican leaders are trying hard to prevent that from happening him i think at this point it would take a set of circumstances to get into that storm again. there is a real recognition basically to lose this fight with the brought is to go into another government shutdown. i will say as joe was pointing out, these comments from president obama are definitely going to be something that we hear over and over and over again from republicans on the hill and i think we know now that the president is definitely going to go forward with this executive order t. question is the timing. i think it does matter if he decides to come out with it before december 11th when the government fwheedz to be funded or after. but after that point, i think the question is how do the long-term politics of this play. do americans get upset that the president is, do they view it as the president going around the law doing something that as he said in that interview with jose outside of the law or is it something that becomes politically untenable to reverse? and the president is clearly betting that republicans are going to decide that they don t want to undo this for fear of angering those hispanic voters that they really need entering the presidential election. all right. casey, thanks. still ahead on morning joe best selling author tony robbins will be here and then the company that took on fork city taxis is now going after journalists? the latest uber war is next. are you watching morning joe. we ll be right back. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he s our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don t know exactly. kid: what if you re not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn t work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab . okay. let take a look at the morning post. in california more than one-fifth of the homeless in the u.s. t. nation finds the high poverty rate is to blame for the increase and domestic violence. a new york times says an executive at uber should consider apologizing for dig up dirt on the media last friday. he thought the conversation was off the record and says his comments do not reflect the company s views. suggesting hiring opposition researchers to gather info on the personal lives of his critics. he mentioned targeting a female journalist who accused them of sexism and urged other women to delete the app. michael has been at uber for years. take a look at this, a local investigative report in new york city finds a radar system at furyk international airport is often not functioning properly and repeatedly sending out false alarms. the system is supposed to prevent collision as planes come too close to one another. but as jim hopper reports the key safety tool isn t working as intended. reporter: complaints about the unreliability of the anti-collision radar fill these daily logs. one controller noting as dx keeps shutting down, we ask tech ops to shut it down completely. our investigation is found from january to february this year. the radar failed to operate properly. 118 out of 131 days. that lack of reliable may have played a role in the closest of close calls last april at newark when an express jet taking off if a united airlines 737 came within 400 feet of colliding. he was real closer. we are told the radar did alert be every the near miss but gave little time for the controller to react. the daily log shows the radar again false alerted. just 28 minutes before the close call. go, jim. wait a second. 118 of 181 day the radar at newark didn t work? willie, that s correct. i m flying out of lagardeia or jfk. that is absolutely insane. how did that happen and not get fixed. they write it down on a newspaper somewhere. the reporting. the independent chef gordon ramsay is accusing a rival chef of turning up the heat. oh my lord. sabotageing his new london restaurants opening weekend. ramsay blames quote haters for booking 100 tables left unoccupied. it says he will now recon firm every registration to make sure it s real. the biggest chocolate companies are warning of a coming shortage. farmers are producing less cocoa than the world consumes, if part because of disease and drouchlt analysts warn we are in the middle of a 50-year streak of chocolate production deficits. last year alone the world ate about 7,000 metric tons more chocolate than was produced. mars, one of the largest chocolate numbers says that number could swell to 1 million by 2020. some people say hoard gold. i say hoard chocolate. keep it in the freezers? m & ms. this is the greatest marketing ploy of all times by the chocolate industry. i love it. well done. the new york daily news one woman going all out to prove her loyalty even if it means exchanging vows with him a. 26-year-old woman is intent on seek him exonerated. she moved to california almost a decade ago to visit him in prison. now she tells the associated press. that s so sick. is that okay for me to say. to get access to case information only available to relatives. the woman believes her fiancee is innocent and will get a few trial. yeah. where are they registered? home video? no, she s actually an 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angieslist.com today. all right. time now for the must read opinion pages. you guys, give me the no. there was no no. we are talking about pike stanton, juan carlos stanton, $335 million. how much is that per game? that s a lot of money for a miami marlin. boehner s immigration inertia forces obama to act. the only reason president obama has to act on immigration reform is house speaker john boehner won t. i repeat. that s the only reason. on june 27ing, 2013 the senate passed a bipartisan reform bill by a 68 to 32 vote. boehner refuses to bring it to the house floor even though he knows it would pass. most republicans vehemently oppose the measure, which means the vote would come from democrats and a few gop moderates. boehner would incur the wrath of his own caucus. that s his problem. not president obama s. joe, do you agree with that? well, i agree with it. but i think the best way to do that is not to go ahead and sign an executive order right now that you ve already said years before would be unconstitutional. i think the best way to do that is what bill clinton would do to republicans, set them up for failure. have this as an open debate. talk about it non-stop. campaign with hillary clinton by your side and every other 2016 presidential candidate by your side that every swing state where hispanic voters will determine who perhaps may be the next president of the united states in a close race and have that debate. i mean, a good politician, a great politician like bill clinton would have his opponents twisting in the wind and actually use there as a great excuse to go out and show just how wrong republicans are on this issue if he believes republicans are that wrong on the issue. most americans right now are saying, we got a new intrath senate. we got a new house him we got a few group of leaders in washington, d.c. and i think that s one of the reasons they don t want the president to move towards executive action right now. but let it play out for two or three months. make this your top issue. if you think you are right, republicans are wrong, embarrass them. there is no reason he can t sign this in march or april. give him one or chance in the new congress him i think there are a lot of people if you do this in a lame duck session, a lot of people say, wait a second, we just elected a new congress. why is the president rushing and doing this unilaterally. dana mill banks right this, purity, politic, democrat style, here comes the stae party on the left on a rainy monday morning, 50 activists stood on the muddy front lawn of the capitol hill home of senator mary landrieu advocateing for the louisiana advocates deal. one of the leaders was in trouble that so many moderate democrats with wishy-washy positions on oil and gas lost their seats this month. he said a smaller group of uniformly liberal democrats would help his cause. many liberals will now say as republicans did after the 2006 and 2008 defeats that is way back to the majority is to be pug naciously tenacious. steve radner, would you agree with that? there is the debate going on in the democratic party. it s grand jury to go on at least until we have a nominee between the more centrist people, myself, including hillary clinton, who think these issues are more complicated. things like keystone are more complicated. then have you the other faction, which elizabeth warren is certainly the most visible member at the moment, who are basically arguing for a pure form of liberalism. i think it s an admirable idea long. cal commitment. i don t think it s one that will lead to great electoral success. why do you think with regard to senator landrieu in the issue of the keystone you just mentioned, the keystone pipeline, oil is already being transported by rail through the pipeline route. why has it become so complex? why this dragging out of this? so, keystone is an interesting issue. look, what keystone really comes down to is whether, is an effort by 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can treat foreign policy as a spectator sport and hope to remain a global power. the world which the democratic nation does not become a world in which dictatorship contend or unite to fill the breach. americans seeking a run to an isolationist garden of eden alone and undisturbed in the world, knowing neither good for evil will soon find themselves living within shooting range of global pandemonium. only. i m nervous. joe. yeah, hey, brett, let me ask you, obviously the debate between the lefts and the rights, also, you got guys like rand paul that are rising to the top of the republican party. yeah. do you suspect this will be the defining moment for a republican party foreign policy in 2016? yeah, absolutely. this book is as much a brief against some of what rand paul has been talking about as it is against what some of the obama administration has done. i think there is a new foreign policy divide in the country. it s really between the traditionalists and democrats both democrats and republicans of the post-cold war era and isolationists or neoisolationist, even though they don t often like the term, like rand paul and the progressive members of the obama administration, you talk about nation building at home who think that foreign policy and domestic policy is an either or proposition as if we can. right. we with have our prosperity here without having security among our allies. so greg give us bearings on where exactly you are on the spectrum between say bill crystal, a good friend of ours and rand paul? i would whoic to think of myself in the middle of that on sort of the weinberger doctrine pell doctrine approach which, of course, both sides wouldn t like. but where are you. are you more where powell is or bill crystal is? what is your view? i m probably closer to crystal. look the rob we had in the last decade, instead of assuming our role as american policemen, we became america s priests. we were preaching the pos pell of america s way, changing iraq and afghanistan and determine the composition of their parliament, how they allocate oil, how they develop their schools. that s not really a proper rule for the united states. i don t think it s one we can perform or want to perform. what we should be about is a kund that enforces certain norms, rules of order that basically reassures the people of the world, israel and taiwan that deters aggressive regime and from time to time punishs a wicked and dangerous country. so in the 1990s, i was critical the obama administration is running foreign policy, social policy, critical of interventions in bosnia or kosovo, there are two interventions that actually bill crystal supported. where would you stand on that with your world view and where would america retreats stand on conflict where there is not a direct u.s. interest involved? in there that s true. in a way you can look at the balcan interventions and say they were vindicated. limited u.s. intervention, we didn t have combat boots on the ground, making sure yogoslavia didn t come like syria, you have a multi-sectarian,ment multi-ethnic state. here in new york we ve had a lot of safety less crime because of this broken window theory, which emphasizes interventions at the lowest point before the crisis. it s about maintaining order, not reacting to disorder. right. the analogy in foreign policy works also. if we had been more proactive in iraq and syria, we wouldn t now be dealing with isis and the metastasizing jihadis. steve radner. so where do the american people fit into this in the sense when you look at the polls, you take the pulse of the country, they re tired of major interventions, they re scared of major interventions. the defense budget has been cut, maybe inadvertently through the sequestration process. americans are worried about their own resources to deal with their own problems. how do you get the american people in line with your vision of foreign policy? i think americans are looking for a goldilocks policy. we realized the freedom agenda the pooridge was too hot. it was more than we can do. i think a lot of americans, especially after the beheadings in syria, realize the obama approach, which is a dissident approach that pooridge is too cold. we are looking for something in the middle. when i wrote there book, we saw strong polk open six to american intervention. now you see americans realize isis is a problem. the nuclearization of iran is another problem. so this book really if it s anything, it s a brief for the next crop of presidential candidates. republicans and democrats to offer them a foreign policy that is in the middle between those two polls, between rand palm, neoisolationism and the agenda of the last decade. let s apply, brett, your goldilocks mentality. we have isis, like you, a lot of people think we have done something sooner in syria. it does exist the way it does. what should president obama the department of defendant be doing if you say this isn t enough? look. what we need to do is deal with isis quickly rather than on the installment plan. the older people i think get the de ja vu all over again. first, there are no boots on the ground. there are 1,500. we feed a kind of a shock and awe company against isis. we need to make sure it s not able to consolidate a ministate, not such a ministate in iraq and syria. a kind of intervention on the installment plan is dow jones to essentially allow them to remain in power. on the other hand, we re not there to rescue anbar from its various problems. we re not there to solve tribal differences. we re there to make an example of isis for other jihadis. that was same with iraq. we went into iraq to make an exam of saddam hussein. the difference was 4,000 american lives. all right. the book is america in retreat. brett stevens, thank you very much. congratulations on your club date. still ahead, senator john hoven explains the best case scenario for getting the keystone pipeline to pass in the 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this is just for people watching, even alan greenspan says this is the greatest threat to american capitalism today. it is. you talk about a sclerosis squeezing off the american dream, stopping upward mobile. this is it. what are the two or three things you recommend we do to tighten the gap on income and equality. well the first thing, have you to have revenue, if you look at this last chart, you can see we don t have the revenue, our tax rates, are the lowest of all the developed countries. where it s 32%. the average is 37, within europe it s 46.8. we don t want to be europe. unless you tax people you can t pay for things. there are all kind of other policies, for example, we are the only other major development that does not mandate paid vacation or paid policies. we have no rules on that. no one takes it. a lot of people. you see on this cart, all these other countries offer, mandate require employers to provide paid vacation and paid sick leave. we don t as a country. how does vacation narrow the income and equality gap? well, that s a quality of life issue in giving people a chance to have time off and not have to work two jobs and all that sort of thing. isn t the problem here really the rich, the super rich, because of a lot of technological changes, the super rich are becoming so much more richer than they were, i mean, you look at ceos even back in the 50s and 60s, now they destroy your company and get paid $150 million in a golden parachute. isn t that a big part of this. if the super rich keep getting much, much richer? the super rich are definitely getting much richer. that s a part of this trend. it s globalization, technological change, all these things that have made it harder for the average american to keep up in terms of getting real ways. so the way we have a address it i think is fixing the problem at the lower end. we can do some stuff among the rich. really, what we have to do is provide education, provide training, provide infrastructure, provide more social support kind of program to help the people at the bottom live a little of a better life. i don t think you can going to solve the problem by just tearing down the rich. i don t think there is enough money there, frankly torque solve all problems. i think you would destroy what makes there economy. steve radner. jack kevin, thank you so much for that statement. i couldn t agree more. translator so excited. they did. coming up at the top of the hour, searching for 60. can for mary landrieu deliver? 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good who lord, what else do you need? we ll get through this. we have dana milbanks joining willie and me. good to have v to have you on this hour t. senate is set to vote on the keystone pipeline, it remains to be seen. senator mary landrieu locked in a runoff in louisiana is trying to arm twist herself to 60 votes. landrieu is trying to use keystone to show se can deliver back home. yesterday protesters set up an inflatable pipeline. meanwhile the version of the bill, republican bill cassidy co-sponsored easily cleared the house. cassidy is bringing in support from jeb bush, phil robertson of duck dynasty even sarah palen. the gop indicated they are pulling their tv money from the race following a similar move from the democrats. yesterday, senator mark begich conceded defeat. conduct, where is this going? i think it s going to be a battle. i m trying to physical out where they find 15 votes. that s a lot of votes. have you the retiring democrats, leaving democrats. can you do that, you d assume, physical out how to get to 15? i think there will be some of those democrats, maybe if they thought she could win, they might do it. by the way, i don t know how this helps. i think it only highlights a powerlessness. if the republicans weren t already in control of the senate next year, then it would be really fascinating if this was the one that tipped the balance of power in the senate what the democrats would be willing to do. chuck makes an important point, though, which is lost, it s not clear how this helps her beat bill cassidy. we take it as gospel. that s just not the case. joe. she could lose by 9. i want to go to dana milbank really quickly. you have an interesting, fascinating column right now in the washington post. you talk about the tea party of the left, which it s just one of those things i love when i read something i have been thinking. but i m too busy with my crayon to actually write it down. i m glad you did this hard work for me. but i ve heard, you look at what the president is doing, for instance on keystone, it doesn t make sense logically. it s safer to transport via pipeline than trucks, train, automobiles. then you look at the president going to australia and actually attacking one of our closest allies over global warming. a guy that actually believes in global warming. and it seems bizarre and you have a quote in here that reminds me of jim demint who said i would rather have 30 true believers than a majority. it seems like the democrats now on the issue of energy and on the issue of global warming are pulling their leaders too far left. far away from where the american people are going to be. joe, i m always trying to channel your ideas, if you don t have more, you sends them my way. i ll get right on that case. i ll color you are picture. drop it in the mail. but, yeah, this was a bizarre scene yesterday. i think it s indicative of where we are right now. so what did this election do? there weren t many moderate democrats in the house, you lost a whole clunk of what past or moderate democrats are in the senate. so now you do have this core of much more liberal democrats and i am hearing that jim demint lines, beginning to hear it people saying it will be much easier in opposition. we will have a much easier time of messaging, you have the nor equivalents on the left saying it s better to be pure, of course, this is completely wrong in the long term, you can see how the mid-terms reward them. you know, lawrence, i believe global warming exists. i believe we got to cut carbon emissions radically but dramatically, i said four years ago, we need cafe standards of at least 40 miles per gallon per car. so i m there i m not a diner. at the same time i look at what the democrats are do. i look at the future. we will be the no. 1 producer of oil by 2020 we got a revolution in natural gas. it s got to bring a lot of jobs back to america. how do democrats avoid tea party by environmental activists, some of their biggest contributors. they afternoon. first of all, there is no conceivable grover norquist on the left. no one can come up with a name who has that influence, who gets republican legislators literally to sign contracts. tom star? but he didn t do it. joe, he didn t do it. he was asked to do it in the case of mary lands rue. he didn t. wait, are we suggesting tom starr doesn t have as much as grover norquist who gave millions of dollars or billions. it is inkrabl comprable. this is no one submitting contracts for legislators to sign bineing tear votes forever locking them down on a question forever. no such thing. so you are basically saying lawrence you don t think the democratic party will be dragged too far left? what have they done? all they ve done is keystone the president says he has process he wants to play up there is litigation going on in one of the states relevant to whether this thing can be dropped on the roof. lawrence, it defies logic. you know it does. this pipeline makes sense. it s not going to create a zillion jobs. just on the margins, it s environmentally safer. so the environmental lobby have a lock on president obama, they can t get him to say he s opposed to keystone, that s how powerle they are. yes, that s how powerful they are. any president faced with there would have signed it easily. we disagree on this, obviously, conduct todd, do you disagree as well the environmental movement is not going to move the democratic party too far left in the coming? because they re going to have to make tough decisions, we got an energy resolution, decisions on fracking, on permitting, on creating a lot of american jobs in the future. i think the jury is still out. let s see if they do. this hasn t happened before. there has been some activism in the democratic primaries on the house level. but not really. we haven t seen the type of activity you are describing with the tea party and the right just yet. i m not saying we wouldn t. i think at the president rnl primary. why hasn t the president signed the keystone bill. . i think on this, i don t know why he s not using it as a bargaining chip. on the democrat s side, listen to environmental activists on the democratic side. they are wildly dissatisfied with president obama s administration in their category. they are constantly saying, he s done nothing. that s their refrain. they re disappointed. that s what winger has always said about ronald reagan. he was there, he was never conservative enough. he was a moderate squish. of course, that s what extremists do. so you freeze the president. you know how this game is played, lawrence. people are not extremists joe, they are looking at science. they want a certain outcome based on their analysis of the science. i don t think that s extremist. there is an objective they want they aren t achieving. that doesn t make them extremists. well, do you think that florida is going to be under water in 50 to sfwief to 100 years? are you an extremist. few want to say, there is a difference between being an environmental alarmist and activist. again, i believe if global warming. i believe in climate change. i believe that man has a very big contribution to that. i believe we have to slow down carbon emissions. if i look logically. i have scientists telling me keystone will actually deliver oil to the gulf of mexico in a more environmentally safe way tan driving around in trucks and another, i am going to logically say, well that makes sevenls i will not be an ideologue driven to an ideologue battle. i will let reason and facts lead the way. i don t think that s happening in this case. you sound like a lefty environmental activist. i will move to the next level here. hold on. can i sip my soy latte? we have run out of soy. go ahead,ab go ahead, mica. president obama is keeping dozens of undocumented immigrants from being desported. 46% want the president to wait until the new congress. top senate democrats, including harry reid, taking action now, writing a letter showing support t. new york times notes the president evofltd about using such broad executive action. in 2013, jose delaria asked the president if he considered minors from the dream act from being deported. young people who have basically grown up here are americans that we should welcome. we re not going to have them operate under a cloud, under a shad dome. but if we start broadening that, then essentially i would be ignoreing the law in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally. so that s not an option and i do get a little worried that, you know, advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediatelitying, well, you know, somehow there is an out here, if congress doesn t act, we ll just have the president sign something and that will take care of it. we won t have to worry about it. dana milbanks, what s the definition for this reversal? they hate when you dig up the video tames. you saw the mid-term election, the huge gap between people who support the legalization and those who don t and you have a president who feels as if he s out of options on the topic and is actually spoiling for a fight. so i think he is basically set the merits aside. he s not going to worry if there is a ted cruz who is going to become president by fiat eliminate obamacare some day. he is making the only political decision he can right now to keep hispanics in the poll. he d be delighted to get into a shutdown fight with republicans over this, because he thinks he s winning. i think we are dealing strictly with politics. the president said in 2013 the problem is i m brought of the united states, i m not the emperor of the united states. he was giving john boehner, congress space to do something. now it s clear they aren t doing anything, it s a strategic shift. he was trying to apply political pressure then. now he is applying a different political pressure now. again i go to the same answers, i don t understand why you don t use it as a barring anything chip. i might sit there and say okay on june 1st, 2015, i m going to do these ten things and i m going to act. congress, i ll give you to june 1st. something like that but draw a line in the sand, i wouldules it one more shot as a bargaining chip. i think you get public opinion on your side you are making one last effort. i agree completely. i will ask laurps completely. doesn t it make more sense i have the president doing it now in a lame duck session? it just has a lern certain look to it. chuck says, i will do these ten things on june 1st or march 1st and then do what bill clinton did to us, showcase our extremism. showcase how ideological you were. make us look like we have our feet in the sand. go to florida, go to georgia. go to colorado. these different states doesn t that make more political sense? my guess is what the white house and the democrats have calculated is understand u under the as far i don t you laid out, we will no longer be believed by the constituency we are trying to help and whose electoral support you suggested would emerge. when you listen to immigration activists out there now, they like environmental activists have run out of patience, they are incredibly dissatisfied with what president obama himself has done. it turns out what he did for the dreamers now feels like a distant memory to them politically. so it seems to me the white house calculation is they ve run out of patience. if other calculation is if we do this now we have to get it behind us so we can try to build some relationship with the new republicans coming in. let s do it before those republicans come in and take over in the senate. let s take a look at another issue the affordable care act the washington freebie conhas footage of the we believe site of the 2006 panel discussion featureing then senator barak obama him it includes a sound byte, where the future president praises academics, including jonathan gruber, who has been all over the headlines saying the stupidity of the american voter helped congress pass health care reform. you have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them i have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from robert gordon to austin golds, john gruber. my deer friend jim wallace who i think can inform what are sometimes dry boils debates with a to havetic voice. that s president obama in 2006. president obama was less complimentary about gruber when asked about him earlier this week. i just heard about this. i get well briefed before i come out here. the fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that i completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process it was a run. the walk post is reporting that gruber earned almost $400,000 through contracts from the health and human services department. he reportedly earned more than $2 pll with an ongoing contract dealing with the prescription drug plan. the national review puts the figure higher at $6 million give or take. it lists paychecks to name a few former senior adviser to the president diefd axelrod now out of the white house recently tweeted quote if you looked up stupid in the dictionary, use find gruber s pick. yesterday, he added quote, his contribution to the aca like governor s romney s massachusetts plan were valuable. his throw away quips were offensive. nancy pelosi drew attention for saying she didn t know who jonathan gruber is. i think his name will become like a verb. there is not grubered or something. the guy, i think to joe s point last hour, let s cut this conversation short, the president should have just said, what a jerk. he did. what the president didn t do what nancy pelosi did last week when she pretended to literally not know who gruber was. then you had video of her talking about gruber years before. look, this fits the michael kingsley definition of a gap. what gruber did, specific language aside the offensive language aside. what he did was tell the truth. legislation always needs collective ignorance about many elements of it in order to move forward. i promise you, there was not one person who voted for the affordable care act, who can tell you more than 30% of what was in it. i had the pleasure of coming on this set, sitting in this chair, announcing to america there were veeven taxes in the affordable care act that no one knew about because they were developed in secret as they always are by senate finance staff, as soon as max baucus work product was finally public we few that. through the course of that debate, those taxes did not get debated. you couldn t find anyone who could name two or three of those taxes in there that is how these things move. one of the legislative strategies about secrecy is, as soon as you know there is a medical device tax in this bill, the medical device industry and tear lobbyists will come from an shut that down. so everyone preserving the secrecy of legislation and the moving components of it going through the process think they re doing the right thing. their experience tells them, it s the only way we can get the passed. right. if you said it that way. it s not the same concept, which is we are trading, counting on you, the voters. okay him chuck todd. hold on one sec. yes. did you just do a gruber, lawrence? what i said was earn in this legislation knows. did you griesh all over yourself? i tried not to, joe. i tried to just joy, anyone who has worked on legislation can tell you, unless it s a simple thing. let s increase the gas tax a nick em. if it s anything more complex than that, i guarantee you there are elements of that legislation the writers of it don t want discussed because they are political liabilities within the legislation that s what gruber was saying. i don t want to sound like a neophyte here. you do. but dana milbank, if we are talking about one of the most significant pieces of legislation, i d rank it up there whether you like it or don t like it. as far as being transformative. there is obviously a serious problem. you have the speaker of the house saying we have to physical out what s in it. a couple years later, we find out this guy says, we had to hide it from the american people because they re too dumb. lawrence didn t gruber himself. thank you. he didn t talk about stupid itty, it s not the concept. it s the way he said it. i can t wait for the hearing when they haul this guy down here, if you didn t turn it into a verb, it will be in a week or so. thank you, you do have a little gruber right here. oh. we ll be watching. first tonight at 10:00 eastern time. mica, we need for to you go to the internet and physical out how lawrence gets that out. i know. it s with me forever now. why do i come here? 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actions speak louder than words. he s held it up six years. he is trying to defeat it with delays. he is clearly opposed to the project. which is why i have written a bill. i ve actually passed a bill. we attached it to the federal tax holiday inn 2012, requiring the president to make a dig. he turned it down. so now we ve come back under the congress s call of the constitution, congress is actually approving the project. senator, one of the points of controversy surrounding the passage of this bill and the pipeline is of an environmental nature. specifically, it targets an area in nebraska, where there is a potential for the aqua fir water beneath the ground to be spoiled pregnant permanently by potential oil leaks. the water is quite high there. so the oil wouldn t have to seep that far below the ground to spoil it. do you have any environmental concerns about the environmental passage of this bill? there is millions of miles of pipeline that cross the country. we have to always address those issues. in fact, the pipeline has been rerouted to address the aquafer concerns. you got the latest, greatest technologies to make sure you protect the groundwater. steve rad fer, real quick. last question, senator the other criticism that the president, himself, has made is that this is simply going to get on that pipeline in canada, it will go to new orleans, somewhere in that vicinity, it will be put on ships an sent somewhere else, that it doesn t have direct economic benefit to us? yeah, his own department of energy says otherwise in their report in 2011 says it will use the oil near this country and that it will help reduce gas prices and help with our supplies. so again, we don t need to bring it in from venezuela or the middle east. senator john hoven. thank you. we ll see what happens. thank you. good to have you on. coming up, fighting for workers rights taking on the $4 trillion supermarket industry, how they are revolutionizing farm labor. that story is next. plus to some, he s known as the ceo whisperer. to some, he s a business strategist. tony rob bins will be here. more morning joe when we return. good to have you on. more morning joe when we . . it was saying should you eat organic? iterated milk. it did beef, chicken, iterated vegetables, it said, yes, it s worth the price to boy organic beaver. yes, it s worth the price to buy organic chicken, yes, it s worth the price to buy organic milk. produce, the most sides are gone. nobody factored in the human cost the human suffering the human exploitation behind it. i was so mood at that article, i thought i would rather buy organic, because we have the most well fed nation in the world and the people that feed us go to bed hungry. enjoy actress and activist eva longoria. she is the executive producer of food chains. here with us is joy. she is so impressive. eva longoria. as mica was watching that. we know her as gabby from desperate housewives. some people may know her from her soap work. she used her platform in big ways to drive home big messages. this is something we don t think about. supermarkets. explain what she is diving into. she is talking about where your food comes from, we can be very blase about where our food comes from. this is impact. . they take food and put it into context. that context is slavery. americans may not like to recall it. but this country became a world power because of the free work of africans, when that was no longer a tenable system. that was replaced by the cheap labor of african-americans, followed by the cheap labor of successive immigrant groups, whether it was the chinese, mexicans, and this cheap labor continues to fuel the economy even today so you take the wine we ll people are enjoying, the napa valley, the gulp between the people that produce that wine and they live and the people that consume that wine live with that and the other thing the film brings out the supermarket industry fuels this continued use of very cheap labor. we are talking near slave labor that is being utesed to produce a lot of the food that comes to our table. i think maybe some of that is consumers want to say we want to pay the absolute low price, we don t care who it comes from, we want the cheapest head of lettuce. what strikes me really smart about the way she is educating people, you need to pay a little more. pressure wal-mart for its workers. talk about marginally more. not substantially more. this isn t the difference between a tomatoes that $3 and $15. we are talking the difference between $3ened $4. we can put up unsettleing salaries. the average farm worker earns about $12,000 a year. we also do have a problem where it is hard for a wide swath of the american people to get good food at a price they can afford. right. healthy food. absolutely. food deserts are unfortunately a growing phenomenon in parts of the country. i remember going to missouri when the first lady was doing a program to encourage healthy eating. this wal-mart they built in missouri was literally, that was it. that was the closest place to get fresh vegetables, fresh food. the issue is we don t have enough food but at the same time we are the best nation on earth. it s who can get access to the freshest, healthiest food and to your point, people want to pay very little money for it. therefore the people that produce it are paid almost nothing. the terrible irony of that is making 12 grand to pay a family. you are picking healthy foods, that s not going to work. what major stores have signed on it. steve mentioned wal-mart. they are making a difference. there are other big names making a difference, too, right? i think the industry, especially in florida. they have gone after publix. it s the big behemoth in florida. it has not been responsive up to now to this issue. the workers in florida some of the lowest workers have taken publix on. they re trying to convince firms like them, companies like winn-dixie to pay their workers better. this is exactly how it should happen. it s not a lot of political power. eva longeria. i love it. food chains hits theaters nationwide november 21st. you can catch it this afternoon on the reid report at 2:00 right here on msnbc. it s great to have you on. thank you. still ahead, mastering the money game, author tony robbins explains the key to financial freedom. next on morning joe. you need a permit. to be this awesome. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. 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yes. what made you bring this one to the table? getting angry. what? seeing people being taken advantage of for so many years. i ve been spent 37 years of my life being obsessed with what makes people s lives change. breakthrough strategies. and there s only a few areas that affect your lives, your body, your relationships, your emotions in money. i grew up very poor. no money and no food at thanksgiving. it shaped my life. when 2008 happened, it wasn t a bunch of statistics to me. when people are losing their homes and half their retirement income. and i want to be part of the solution. i thought, i know a lot. i would like to know more. i have coached one of the top ten financial traders in the history of the world for 21 years. he s not lost money for 21 years. i thought if i could take him and interview 50 of the smartest people in the world, self made billionaires, top hedge fund guys and find out what they know, then i can take what the best know and teach it to the the general population. perfect person to ask you for advice. steve, what would be the question that you would ask him? well, so this is something i ve thought about a lot. i m a professional money manager. i spent all my time thinking about how to make more money for my one client. and here s what i don t understand. this is the only profession i know of where people not trained in it think they can do it. you would not write your own will. you would not take out your own append appendix. you would not fix your car. you would not fix your plumbing. but yet the average american thinks he can manage his own money. i finds it mind boggling. when i sat down with warren buffett, when i sat down with one of the greatest hedge fund managers in the world, they all said it makes common sense to hire somebody else. but active management statistically doesn t work. 96% of all mutual funds is untrue. for a ten-year period of trim. they do not match the market. most people think they re paying 1%. they re paying 3%. it does on expenses as well. so if one person starts with three people with $100,000. one payses 1%. one pays 2%. one pays 3%. going to have 574,000. the person with 3% is going to have 254,000. that s 77% less money. same returns. difference is fees. so what warren is doing, he s saying i want all my money to go index funds. 90% when i pass away. only a few unicorns that can beat the market. what bloomberg has access to. and this is showing what does he say, anybody can do to make money in any market. a lot of people are going to worry what happens. for the average person, indexing is the solution. in your zseven steps, one says you should invest the 0.001%. they have access to much more sophisticated products. more sophisticated themselves. i don t think they should be managing money like the 0.1%. i think they should be indexing and taking a passive road. we re on the same page with one exception. i went to ray dalia. most people don t know his name. i know you do. president of the united states does. jan el yellen does. he manages money for china. he hasn t taken money in ten years. last time it was $5 billion and $100 million to talk with him. he s been a fan of my work for a long time. at the end i said if you couldn t give any money to your children and all you could do was give a strategy, a portfolio, what would it be? he said i ve tested this since 1925. it s where my money is. it s where my money is for my kids. it s where my money is for all my contributions after my death. i said how does it work? at the end, i said this is great. you explain how you do well in any market. but you told me how to make a chocolate cake. i need to know the amounts. what is the secret sauce? he s never shareded it before ever. he said i can t do that. i said, but you re not taking anybody s money. he said it s complex. i said do a simple version with no leverage. he laid out a version. we testeded it. and if you take it all the way back to 1925, 75 years, it s right 85% of the time. the average loss is 1.6%. and the overall is just under ten. and it s 75 years, the most it s lost is 3.95%. amazing. joe is here. so mika, tony here is i think his ear piece is out. so you need to pass this along to him. can you hear me, tony? hi, how are you? i m doing great. so i get in and i make zillions of dollars. now we have a new problem. the 100th anniversary said some of the most miserable people i know are rich. how do you as a life coach explain if you want to get rich to be happy, you re barking up the wrong tree. you make them the money. and now as a life coach, explain to them. it s not going to make you happier. it s not the money, it s what you do with it. you can spend $10. and if you re doing it for things, you re going to be miserable. in you do it for experiences, you ll feel very different. if you do it for other people, people you care about, you emotion changes radically. most people get wealthy. 2 challenge is they start expecting things. the highest level was 2006. we had the highest lels of economics in our world. people trade expectation for appreciation. so you re supposed to give it all away. you know, but the great thing is, and i think maybe you would tell this to people, is we don t have to be bloomberg to have financial freedom. we can find and achieve ways to be financially free and not be manager millionaires or billionaires. and i ve taken what they know and bring the the strategies never been seen before here. i show people what you don t know will hurt you. i work to bring people an answer that s simple. seven steps. if you re just getting out of the of college and have debt. how do you turn around? if you re a baby boomer and you re behind, what do you do to turn around? this is the best in the world. indexing is one of those strategies. but many of these people share things they ve never shared before because they really, truly care, believe it or not. here s what you can do to change your life. the book is titled money: master the game. tony robbins, thanks so much. great to meet you. coming up, more fallout as president obama downplays. grubergate. down playing his knowledge of the architect of obamacare. plus, public opinion on the president taking executive action on immigration while democrats rally around obama s plan. all that and much more when morning joe returns. to map their manufacturings at process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. what they do actually is rocket science. high tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. we re just their bankers, right? but financing from ge capital also comes with expertise from across ge. in this case, our top lean process engineers. so they showed us who does what, when, and where. then we hit them with the important question: why? 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[ laughter ] put your hand on red and left hand on yellow, and hold on. spin it. they took a break to pose for pictures holding koala bears. vladimir putin and australian prime minister tony abbott with koalas. here s another one with president obama and a koala. and apparently kim jong un felt bad he was being left out so he had his photo taken with a koala. cute. it s 10:00 a.m. on the east coast. 5:00 a.m. on the west coast. we have mike barnacle and steve ratner. tammy duckworth. do you think she should have been able to deliver her vote in the committee? yes. there s politics involved. she s eight months pregnant. she requested they allow her to vote by proxy. joe, what do you think? yeah, you know, it s not been done before. but in this case, you have a woman who is eight months pregnant. and you have a doctor who told her that she can t obviously fly to washington, d.c. so you can make that exception. a lot of people are criticizing nancy pelosi, the people who really should be ashamed of themselves are all the people who tried to use her situation so they could cast a proxy vote. people started saying b, yeah, i may have a shift too. everybody came up with an excuse. so hopefully nancy will be well, i don t know. with pregnancy. women work in washington now. and they have babies. so they re going to have to just adjust. we ll get baa to this. we re following a developing story out of jerusalem where two p palestinian men stormed a synagogue. according to israeli officials, the two men attacked inside the orthodox neighborhood with axes, knives and guns before they were killed in a shootout with police. the men were scheduled to be from east jerusalem. people who have come to worship god in the sanctuary of the synagogue were hatcheted and hacked and murdered in that holy place in an act of pure terror. and senseless brutality and murder. this violence has no place anywhere. palestinian president condemned the attacks while hamas praised them, but did not claim responsibility. we re going to be following that. but turning now to obamacare where this morning the washington free beacon has footage on its website of a 2006 panel discussion featuring then senator barack obama. it includes a sound bite where the future president praises a group of academics, including economist jonathan gruber who has been all over the headlines for saying the stupidity of the american voter helped congress pass health care. you ve already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles. many of them i ve stolen ideas from liberally. people ranging from robert gore on the to john zbrgruber. my dear friend can inform dry policy debates with a prophetic voice. president obama was less complimentary when asked about gruber earlier this week. i just heard about this. the fact that some adviser who never worked on the staff expressed an opinion that i completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the process that was rung. fact checkers say gruber earned almost $400,000 through contracts from the health and human services the department. he also reportedly earned more than 2 million for an ongoing contract with hhs. they put the federal figure higher, as in 6 million. it lists paychecks from a number of states including vermont, minnesota and michigan to name a few. david a axelrod said if you looked up stupid in the dictionary, you would find gruber s picture. yesterday he was added one note. adding his contributions to the aca like his massachusetts plan were valuable. his throwaway quips were offensive. nancy pelosi also drew attention for recently saying she doesn t know who jonathan gruber is. although she touted his work back in twooip. joe? i don t know where to start. i m looking over this list of how much jonathan gruber made from the federal dovt. $103,000 from the department of state. of course, you talk about minnesota. $1.73 million from the justice department. $2,050,000 from the national institute of health. he went into the white house, i believe, to help construct this plan. dozens of times. at least a dozen times. and in fact the president s own organizing for america said that he helped, quote, write the affordable care act. if these people that are trotting themselves out every couple of days saying gruber, who? what, where? horton hears a gruber. i don t hear a gruber. they re embarrassing themselves. nancy pelosi saying she s never heard of him, and yet she s praising him at the height of the affordable care act. barack obama doing this act, and i don t know who tells him it makes him look cool. it doesn t. it really makes him look out of touch. how many times have we heard him saying, oh, i just heard about this irs scandal or oh, i was just told about this scandal, and for barack obama to say he s some adviser when his own team is saying he helped draft the bill. when he was at brookings institute and zd who he would put in charge of reform if he were president of the united states. he said jonathan gruber for health care reform. talk about taking a one-day story and making it a one-week or two-week story. he helped us draft the bill. he s an idiot. for obvious reasons. why he s a tenured professor. he s an idiot in front of cameras. he he s pretty smart behind cameras. and they re screwing things up for themselveses chls. they can t get out of the way. watching the two sound bites back to back of the president when he first mentioned gruber s name and saying he didn t know him. now he should say that guy is an idiot? who here at the table doesn t think he s a jerk? he s a total jerk. he s completely a hypocrite or whatever else. you know what he is? i ve met him. he s a smart guy who said some unbelievably stupid thing out of ego in front of the camera. joe is absolutely right. the white house staff. you have to wonder. you have a smart guy saying stupid things. why they don t say just that and then say by the way, what is the obsession with taking 10 million people off the health care? right. an that stirs sound bite with the president mentioning his name. you know, i m not going to pretend that was a big gotcha moment. how many events have you done where you thanked the person or given a nod to someone in the audience? you had no idea who they were. he was reading that off a script. it s not so gotcha. i ve been in situations on a much smaller level. on a much, much smaller level where you re running for office. every presidential candidate goes for this. who are the people you re going to surround yourself with when you become president of the united states. and people say, well, you know, colin powell over here. it would be great to have leon panetta over here. in this case, and we ve all seen this before, steve. in this case he was being asked by the brookings institute, who are the top people you will have around you to influence your thinking? and so if you re president of the united states, we ll know which way you go in. and steve ratner brought up jonathan gruber. he put together romney care in massachusetts. he wanted him to put together obamacare in washington, d.c. i think that s a very i don t want to say gotcha moment. he said stupid things. instead of pretending like he didn t know who he was. i think that s exactly the point. he was back in the day, and in 2009, a guru on health care. if you go back and look at t the washington post or the new york times or anything this in that period, you ll find jonathan gruber s name all over it as a leading health care expert as quoted by everyone. someone the white house was using. he was certainly viewed as an important figure in helping to put obamacare together. so the problem is not that he helped him put obamacare together. you can almost hear david axelrod s frustration. saying this is the answer to the kweb. we condemn these comments and you move on. but it keeps going day after day after day. it s not a one-time. there are six, seven, eight videos where he has total contempt for the american people and says they don t understand economics. so we can slip this thing by them. and to joe s point. at this point to act like, i don t know who this gruber guy is, it s again, just what an idiot. when democrats lost the election, you let me down, guys. just say it. you know, mika, it s funny. what willie said is exactly right. when i saw david axelrod s tweet yesterday. i was like, okay. david is pulling out his hair in chicago. exactly. guys, say he was really important in this. people aren t dumb. it s almost like the white house thinks people are as stupid as jonathan gruber thinks people are. oh, please. i m serious. i know. by saying if you think you can go out and say, oh, we don t know who this guy is, when he got paid millions and millions of dollars by the federal government. he was one of the architects of obamacare. and they identified him as an architect. one of the writers of obamacare. he said he wanted the keep people helping him put together his administration. it s almost as if they agree that we re all stupid and not going to be able to google his name and find all this. they need to put this behind him. we ll start by turning the page. parking light obama is poised to take executive action to keep millions of undocumented immigrants from being reported. 46% want the president to wait until l the new congress. top senate democrats including harry reid backed the president, taking action now, showing their support, and as the new york times notes, the the president appears to have evolved against using the broad executive action. in 2014, he asked the president if he considered taking action to keep parents of minors who qualified from the dream act from being deported. young people who have basically grown up here are americans that we should welcome. and we re not going to have them operate under a cloud, under a shadow. but if we start broadening that, then essentially, i would be ignoring the law, in a way that i think would be very difficult to defend legally. so that s not an option, and i do get a little worried that, you know advocates of immigration reform start losing heart and immediately think iin that there s somehow an out here. we ll have the president sign something and we don t have to worry about it. all right. what jose said. what he got the president to say in that interview is obviously going to be something we re hearing time and time again. the president saying he took executive action in this way. he s thinking about doing it now. it would be unconstitutional. wouldn t be legal. it s hard to turn around and do the very thing you just said a few years ago. this action would be unconstitutional. joining us now from capitol hill, nbc political correspondent casey hunt. is there any way this spirals down to another standoff? republicans are trying really hard to prevent that from happening. at this point it would have to take a serious set of circumstances to get them to step into that storm again. basically the only way to lose this fight is to go into another government shut yn down. as joe was pointing out, these comments from president obama are going to be something that we hear over and over and over again from republicans on the hill. and i think we know now that the president is definitely going to go forward with this executive order. the question is the timing. i think it matters if he decides to come out with before december 11th, whether the government needs to be funded or after. but after that point, the question is how do the long-term politics of this play? do americans get upset. do they view it as the president going around the law? doing something that he said is outside of the law? or does it become untenable to reverse? and the president is clearly betting that republicans are fwroing to decide they don t want to undo this for fear of angering hispanic voters. that they really need in the the upcoming presidential election. still ahead on morning joe , senator claire mccaskill weighs in on the immigration debate. and then the author david baldaci is here with his latest thriller. is this the end of chocolate? really? we ll tell you how the world is running out of chocolate. but bill karins with a look at the forecast. good morning, everyone. we have incredible snow happening just south of buffalo, new york. already reports of 32 inches of snow. a lot of places picksing up two to three feet. cold air over the warm waters of lake erie. just a continuous stream of very intense snow just south of buffalo, new york. highway new york steat freeway is closed in the area. everyone is staying home and trying to shovel themtss out. the forecast is for greater than 30 inches just south of buffalo. someone is going to end up with five to six feet of snow. by the time this historic lake-effect snow is over with. also grand rapids, a few or two off lake michigan. e e erie and a little bit in cleveland. all 50 states below 30 degrees. it was cold all the way down to florida. but this is it. we have two more days of this and then we warm it up against the country. we ll be done after we finish the lake-effect. new york city, below 30 degrees. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. kid: hey dad, who was that man? 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they just write it down and push the paper somewhere. good reporting. good reporting. the independent celebrity chef gordon ramsey is known to be a nightmare in the kitchen. now he s accusing a rival chef of turning up the heat. this is getting ugly. sabotaging his new london restaurant s opening weekend. he blames haters for booking 100 tables left unoccupied on this big night. the chef did not name the culprit but says he will now reconfirm every reservation to make sure it is real. okay. that s awful. usa today, the world s biggest chocolate companies are warning of a coming shortage? what? farmers are producing less cocoa than the world consumes in part because of disease and drought. we re in the middle of a near 50-year streak of chocolate production deficits. last year the world ate 70,000 metric tons more than produced. mars, one of the world s largest chocolate maker says that number could swell to 1 million by 2020. some people say horde gourd. horde chocolate. m&ms. this is the greatest marketing ploy of all times. chocolate! well done, chocolate industry. the new york daily news. this is crazy. one woman is going all out to prove her loyalty to convicted mass murderer charles mapp son, even if it means exchanging vows with him. the the 80-year-old cult leader obtained a marriage license to wed a 26-year-old woman who is intent on seeing him exonerated. she moved to california almost a decade ago so it would be easier to visit him in prison. that s sick. now she says she wants to marry charles manson to get access to case information that s only available to relatives. the woman says she believes her fiance is innocent and will get a new trial. up next, democrats took two years to rebound after this year s losses in the house and senate. how will they respond to the the challenge? 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well, first of all, this is not the time for any of us to be criticizing anyone else. this is really hard. i think we need to spend more time talking about how we heal and make reforms. we ve got a police department in ferguson that is 95% white in a community that s 70% african-american. that s a problem. we have racial profiling still occurring across the country day in and day out. i think we need to be leading, all of us, with how we come together and realize we can do a better job in our criminal justice system of making sure there s equal justice for all. and by the way, many of the police officers have done heroic and wonderful work. and they are tasked with a very, very difficult job. and that is protecting people s first amendment rights. but also making sure the bad actors that want confrontation are not allowed to incite the kind of violence where people could get hurt. so i am spending all my time working on the since i have no direct authority, i ve been spending my time trying to work behind the scenes with the ferguson police department in making reforms there. with the community leaders that are trying to see if we can t change our municipal court system and do a much better job recruiting young african-americans. both that run for office and into law enforcement. certainly a careful balance that you re trying to strike there. joe? yeah, and claire, obviously we agree with you completely about the disparity and the racial makeup of that police force and shocked by some of the things the mayor of ferguson 15id earlier this year. i want to ask you about the police officer and his family. obviously a lot of threats have cropped up online. if he is not indicted, if the grand jury comes back and finds he did nothing inappropriate, what would you say to missouri residents about this police officer and how he should be treated moving the forward in the community? well, i think first of all we have two separate independent investigations going on. a state investigation and a federal investigation. both are looking at all of the evidence. and when the grand jury finishes with a witness, that testimony is going directly to the federal government for their review. right and so there s really two independent investigations. once their investigationses are complete, then officer wilson, you, will either be indict d, and then of course removed from the police department. or he will not. officer wilson has to decide what the future holds for him. i m asking about missouri residents who have threatened him, who have threatened his family. what message would you want to send to the people of ferguson and the people of missouri if he is, in fact, not indicted, and now or in the the federal case. there has been rushes to judgment on both sides of this equation, joe. the rush to judgment by some o in the african-american community is in fact understandable. because there is racial disparities in terms of how people are treated. but i m talking specifically about this man and his family who have had dollar prices placed on their heads by extremist organizations. will you just come out and say respect him and if he s acquitteded then stay the hell away from him and stay the hell away from his family? well, i think that s kind of obvious, joe. well, it s not obvious. because i keep asking you about this officer and his family, and i m curious if he is acquitted, then does he get his life back? does his family get his life back? do they get their life back? of course they get their life back. of course, he should be protected and of course his life should not be threatened. there s absolutely no excuse for 350e people threatening violence in this issue. i thought that was obvious. absolutely inappropriate if this officer is not indicted, he and his family should be safe and carry on with the rest of their life and people should respect that. okay, let s move onto national issues. i want to talk about two things. one keystone. but first immigration reform. i was fascinated by what you said the other day. you don t like the president s approach, but of course, republican obstructionism is not looking so good on this issue either. what s the mirdddle way? what s the missouri way? what s the way you would like to see congress and the president go on this issue? i think speaker boehner needs to be put under a lot more pressure. we passed a bill by two-thirds majority in the senate. people like lindsey graham and lamar alexander from tennessee and south carolina, voted for it, and they just got reelected. by double digits in deeply red states. so i m trying to figure out why the republicans that supported comprehensive immigration reform are not putting more pressure on their colleagues. it is one thing to shoot arrows at the white house. it s another thing to roll up your sleeves and get to work. we can get this done if speaker boehner would just allow the bill to come to the floor for debate, change it. amend it. put in your own bill. but do something. don t just make this about demonizing the president. thomas? so senator, the issue that s playing out in washington, d.c. right now is whether or not the president will use executive action. i know you were on cbs and face the nation over the weekend saying you were not crazy about this idea. the last time in this country we had a major immigration overhaul. we hat republican presidents and reagan that used an executive action to protect immigrants in this country. there wasn t that big of a backlash against a republican sitting president, two of them. why do you think there would be such a big backlash against a democratic sitting president for executive action to protect immigrants? well, it s the times we live in, and it s also the fact that there s a great deal of frustration about the gridlock. and the president obviously has had a great deal of difficulty getting cooperation, consensus, compromise. there s a wing in the republican party that thinks any action in this regard is somehow a bad idea. even though we are losing in terms of competing with other countries for the best and the brightest who come to this country to get educated. we need to make it less complicated to legally immigrate. we you say you re not crazy about the idea but blame the republicans for not coming to consensus. why wouldn t you support the president to use executive action? well, i think it s awkward right now. i m not crazy about it. i haven t made up my mind. and he hasn t done it yet. but i think all of us know this is not the best way to do this. i would prefer we do it the old fashioned way. let s negotiate a compromise and pass a bill. and the refusal. the abject refusal of the republicans in the house to even take this up ought to be what we are all talking about. and i would prefer we talk about that and try to get movement there. because the american people don t support the game playing around the issue. they want us to get some work done on it. all right. senator claire mccaskill. always good to have you on the the show. fiery today. we appreciate everything you ve talked about today. thank you very much. thank you so much. coming up, best selling author is still ahead. but first, brian sullivan has apreview. business before the bell is next on morning joe. after seeing everything, i think this is the one. but let me take one last look. sure. take your time. built-in nav, heated seats for mom, dvd with wireless headphones for the kids! and tons of room for the golf clubs! golf clubs, and strollers. shhh . i love this part. so what do you think? 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i do not have a throne of money like marcus does there, although, it s made out of pen in is. ooum trying my best. let s start with the markets here. this is something cool. if we finish higher on the s&p 500 today, it will tie the longest streak of gains in 20 years. the dow is up 8% in one month. we ve been soaring no not just america, but all over the world. a group of taxi drivers clogging up san francisco airport, trying to protest uber and handing out leaflets. the federal housing administration in the black for the first time since 2011. in other words, they are now profitable. they are no longer losing billions like they had. story four, elon musk writing we are apparently within ten years of dangerous artificial intelligence. i want your viewers and listeners to think killer robots. he wrote that in a blog. the blog post mysteriously disappeared. perhaps a robot made him do it. and jim crowe, 13 years. $325 million deal. biggest sports contract in the history of north carolina america. $152,000 per game. $17,000 per inning for 13 years. mom yeah, a couple of things really quickly, brian. first of all, i saw this elon musk article on mashable. it s really frightening. he said most people think 5 to 10 years before we have a major incident where, you know, artificial intelligence gets more intelligent than us and creates a possibility that he says could be worse than a nuclear bomb. even those that take a more moderate view say we may be 20 years from this. it s frightening. i wonder who is out there actually protecting us. we re already there. elon musk is much smarter than i am. have you tried to call through and get somebody at an airline? the voice mail alone is the artificial intelligence he speaks of. mike barnacle, that s a little different than war games with a computer launching nuclear missiles because it s smarter than we are. speaking of lack of intelligence, this deal that miami just hatched. what economic what economic justification can there be for that kind of contract? it makes no economic sense for the marlins. it makes great sense for john carlos. it s a clown deal for the franchise. last year in the 2014 season, the total team payroll was $41 million. they will not win a thing. john carlos stanton that has a five-year opt out in this contract. he will leave miami after five years. good for him he signed the deal, but it s a clown deal for the franchise. $154,000 per game. it s just staggering. that s just not right. brian sullivan, thank you very much. up next, it is a family affair and david baldacci s latest thriller the escape. the best selling author joins us next with a preview here on morning joe. about 55. where you headed at such an appropriate speed? 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