favorite. about 150,000 fans are expected at churchill downs in louisville tomorrow evening. that s going to do it for way too early friday edition. morning joe starts right now. not only has donald sterling been banned from the nba for life, he s he s also been planned from the bunny ranch brothel in atlanta. if you want to have a good time at the bunny ranch, don t be a racist or animal killer. dennis hoff wants nothing to do with donald sterling. dennis hoff says the main reason why he is banned for life is out of respect for the nba players that come here to the bunny ranch. he has that respect. good morning. it is friday, everybody. it s friday, may 2nd. what a wonderful day may 2nd is. with us on set it is friday this year. it s mika s birthday. happy birthday. i love a taurus. that s her sign. i m 47. am i to be happy about this? of course you are. national holiday in at least three countries. it is. best you ve ever been. have you seen pictures of her at 27? best she s ever been. that s nice. i ve seen that hair. no, i m three years from 50. that s the way i look at it. is that a positive way to look at it? that s not a positive attitude. why not? why not? i think 47 is just fine, thank you. you re thriving. i m thriving. and i know my value. yes, you do. i remember when i was 47. yeah. i do too. msnbc, time magazine analyst mark halperin is here. former treasury official and morning joe analyst, my travel agent, steve rattner. and in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist of the washington post , eugene robinson. what are you going to do for your birthday? i m going to go to sleep. hopefully nor a long time. that s a good present. i m going sleep for a very long time. maybe more like a putting a dog down kind of way. 21st version of timothy leary. i like how your arianna and dr. brzezinski is the same. yes. one is a female voice. it s very zsa zsa gabor. your zsa zsa is very good. you are stunning. we had fun last night moving on away from the birthday at the national magazine awards. have you ever been to that? it s really a great event. so well organized. great crowd. i think they were all drunk. they were not drunk. i do, i think they were. our friend was there. it was a great night. national geographic took some home. bon appetit magazine cleaned up. the new yorker cleaned up. i mean, these guys, i almost there s steve. columbia. the school of journalist. cindy leavy, glamour. then in a huge category shocker for people. big win for them. they had eight. and cosmo won. and magazine of the year. best company. that was awesome. that was fun. yeah. very exciting night. the award that s a big thing. i had no idea what it is. bunch of boomerangs put together. let s get to the news, shall we? sure. the new york times is reporting this morning that u.s. sanctions over ukraine are having a limited impact on russia as vladimir putin demand troops withdraw from part of the country. the russian ruble and stock market are actually stronger now than they were before the first wave of u.s. sanctions were announced. that s not really the idea. meanwhile, an operation is underway in eastern ukraine to reclaim the city controlled by pro-russian militants. gunfire and explosions could be heard as ukrainian forces claim they regained control of at least nine check points. the militants shot down two military helicopters. at least three people have been killed including a ukrainian pilot. separatists loyal to moscow are building barricades in an attempt to keep ukrainian forces away. it has been a violent week in the region with pro-russian militants seizing control of government buildings. yesterday the men overpowered to storm a building. they are fighting. they are fighting. you know it s not a good sign when vladimir putin tells you to withdraw troops from your own country. and the sanctions are having unfortunately limited effect. so we will obviously keep a close look on this. this is also when you see scenes like this, you are going to wonder at some point if we need to help them in a more tangible way. i think most people when they look at the fact they look at the fact that the ruble is doing better, the stock market is doing better than when the president issued the first round of sanctions, not a good sign. also not a good sign when your donors that are going to help you get elected president start talking about moving to another candidate. that s exactly what seems to be happening and according to reports to chris christie. we ll go there. chris christie was leading early polls and considered a top contender to a hillary clinton run in 2016. but now a report says some republican fund raisers even some in the new jersey area with considering jumping ship from christie for jeb bush as the former florida governor looks at a bid. jeb is also getting some support from his brother. i hope jeb runs. and i think he would be a great president. i have no clue what s on his mind. we ll talk when he s ready. i notice he s moving around the country quite a bit. doing well in polls. yeah. that s fine. they don t mean anything. for him i can guarantee he s not looking at a poll to decide whether or not he wants to run. it s internal. he s checking his core. as he said publicly, i m thinking about my family. and he knows full well what a run for the presidency can do on family. after all, he s seen his dad and brother run for president. so jeb, if you need advice, give me a call. okay. it is worth noting according to a new quinnipiac university poll, jeb easily leads the rest of the 2016 pack in his home state. that includes marco rubio who i think people are talking about as well. people are talking about marco as well. it s going to be interesting to see what s going to happen there. mark halperin, this is something we ve been talking about for quite some time. the only reason jeb s thinking about even running in this case is because chris christie started to fall. and when that happened, there s no establishment gop candidate and he figures perhaps maybe why not. the gop establishment, the money people play in the process. and jeb still has as that story suggests, a large hold on them. and governor christie s troubles have only exacerbated the search. there s 30 people talked about as running. that was true even when chris christie looked strong. it s also true in 2012 and jeb didn t take the jump in for a lot of the same reasons he s thinking of not taking the jump in right now. but, you know, we have said from the very beginning this chris christie story is important. and it does have a direct impact on who may be elected the next president, tom. as chris christie goes down, that fills a void and that looks like that void right now is going to be filled by jeb bush. there certainly are establishment republicans that have a long history with the bush family and like what jeb bush represented when it comes to his history in florida. it also means because of jeb bush s family ties with his wife and his kids and the fact that they have a deep connection with the latino and hispanic community, that they might be able to be the bridge that can help usher in a new wave of people to the gop. get them back interested with other people that are currently in elected office have been scaring off that demographic. they have. and jeb was as good or better than anybody i ve seen. certainly better than any republican i ve seen with latino voters. all right. here s an issue that could definitely impact the 2016 elections and become a little problem for potentially one candidate. overnight at least five people were killed in a militia attack at the libyan security headquarters in benghazi. the situation in that area, in that country still far from stable. 19 months after a raid on the u.s. consulate there left four americans dead. held its latest hearing yesterday in the 2012 attack. the focus around a recently released e-mail of talking points that aimed to underscore the idea that the protests were triggered by an anti-islam video. critics say the message rees looed this week is proof there was a political agenda at play in the white house. but the administration says it was about the wider middle east and not specifically about libya. the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today that the protest and, again but benghazi was part of it, right? right. i want to refer you to the cia talking points on that. most people remember there were demonstrations around the region that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video. you were being cautious. you re saying there s an investigation there. that s 9/12. why on 9/14 is ben rhodes writing an e-mail saying judgments this was inspired by a video. why wasn t it we don t know. do you need a copy of the cia report? i ve read them. it is a cut and paste from the talking points which much to your disappointment turned out to be produced by the cia. mark halperin, that s just not true. first of all, here s nancy pelosi. i think she said it best right here when she said benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. what i will say is benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. why aren t we talking about something else? whatever was in that what i know of what i ve read in the press about the those e-mails were very consistent with what was put out there before. i don t think there s anything new there. we re talking about it because the white house has been caught in a lie with benghazi. and one commentator yesterday said who s often critical of republicans, it wasn t just a lie, it was a stupid lie. because it s obvious they re not telling the truth. the documents, the lawsuit that ordered them to release these documents, what did they ask for? not information pertaining to white house records involving the middle east. information involving all discussions involving benghazi. so the white house released this e-mail which clearly shows they weren t telling the truth earlier and that jay carney was spinning for whatever reasons. also, you know, the cia document they kept talking about, the acting cia chief said they weren t the ones that supplied it in the first place. this is what the white house has been doing and they ve been caught. wouldn t it just be better for them to say, yeah, to come clean at some point or are they just going to keep lying? are you saying they can t have it both ways? i m saying that, first of all, jay carney needs to understand and by the way, he should understand. i m taken by people that go in the white house and thinks the history ends when the white house ends. on the other side of the obama administration, he s going to have to come out and he s going to have to piece together his reputation. i say that as a guy i liked. i liked as a journalist. i respected him as a journalist. i still like him as a person. but i ve seen this. i am getting old enough older than 47. oh yeah. that was doing the same thing. in 2005 i called her up. i said you know what? this administration s going to end, and you re going to have decades to deal with your credibility after it ends. stop lying to me. because you re going to have to deal with me on the other side of the bush administration. bush is going to go back to texas and i m still going to be here. when you wonder why jay carney is doing what he s doing, i think shattering the reputation, a well-deserved, good reputation he built at time magazine doing this when everybody knows he s lying. from the beginning, the posture of everyone around the president s been there s nothing to see here, move on. when they do stuff like this, it em boeboldens critics. how can you ask us to trust you when you say there s nothing here and then you do this? if benghazi s not a big deal, if people think benghazi s not a big deal chuck todd seemed to think yesterday benghazi wasn t a big deal. that s fine. have that debate. but if there s an e-mail directing susan rice to go and push a line and they don t reveal that, well, they ve got to come clean. when we look at what exactly was in this specific e-mail that was released and the bullet points given to her to use as reference points to go on these shows, that was in there. to underline the fact this was not a broader policy failure. gene, when we look at this and the ramifications that come from it, let s not forget as we get caught up in the benghazi conversation, we lost four americans. we lost four americans committed to the state department. we lost four americans that were in libya that was a rat hole after muammar gadhafi was out. so this is an embarrassment for the white house. but how do they reclaim the narrative so jay carney doesn t look like just a big liar in trying to remind everybody from that lecture the history of the time, which is okay to do, but how do they look like they re not lying about what was done? you know, if there are any other e-mails, just put them out. just put everything out. because in the end, this is a scandal without a center. you know, what s at the center of this is was the real if there s a scandal, it is a state department security preparations prepositions of forces, the assessment before the attack as to what sort of danger the ambassador and the cia facility might have been in in benghazi. that s what went wrong there. and, you know, to expect there to have been a clear narrative of exactly what the motivations were of the miscreants who did this, a couple of days after the attack is ridiculous. it s absurd. nothing ever happens like that. so if the criticism is that the white house is dragging this out and is making it a bigger deal, a different kind of deal than it ought to be, i think that could be a valid criticism. just put everything out there, because really the issue is what allowed benghazi to happen? not whether what the talking points said. what the talking points said, it s just a ridiculous sideshow. and by the way, go back for liberals who have been watching the show the past couple days and friends of the obama administration who have been frustrated what i m saying about jay carney and the talking points, see what i said the monday morning after benghazi when i absolutely tore mitt romney to shreds for jumping to a conclusion. just following what gene said, for jumping to a conclusion and trying to politicize this. yes, when you hold a press conference after a u.s. ambassador is dragged through the streets without knowing all the information, you re politicizing it before knowing what s going on. i think both sides tried to immediate politicize this. obama administration, oh, this has nothing to do with our policy. it s just an internet video by a crazy person. then you have mitt romney in the middle of a campaign saying this is the worst thing ever, blah, blah, blah. now as things get revealed, maybe mitt romney was right. but he didn t know at the time he was right. but the problem with the white house is that they re the ones sitting there now still having to clean up for some really stupid things they did and some misleading things they did. former national security council spokesman looked to down play his role in changing the talking points saying it s difficult to remember because it was so long ago. according to the e-mails and the timeline the cia circulates new talking points after they removed mention of al qaeda. then at 6:21, the white house, you, add a line about the warning of september 10th of social media reports calling for demonstrations. true? i believe so. did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? maybe. i don t really remember. i don t remember. dude, this was two years ago. dude, it is the thing that everybody talking about. we re talking about the process of editing talking points. that s what bureaucrats do all day long. okay. listen, if you want to keep me off your back, do what he just said. say dude. i love the guy, but there he knows exactly what he did. we ve all been in that situation. i can remember as a lawyer editing things. i can remember as a business person we can remember that was like eddie haskell there. come on, he knew. he remembers everything about that. this white house dude, that was like two years ago? that was a very long interview. it was a small part. when you cut through all this, there s two basic points or questions. one, obviously the white house should come clean. we all know the coverup is worse than the crime. drip, drip, drip. just get it all out. and we also know on that part, the cover up, it was the president was trying to be i m the tough guy. we won the war on terror. they wanted to make this a spontaneous demonstration. but the fact is it s just not true and everybody knows. why don t they clean this up, steve? right. but the second question is is this really going you said at the beginning of all this 2016, is this going to become a national issue or is this inside the beltway? for hillary it will be an issue. because she talked about the telephone call. she got her own 3:00 a.m. telephone call and four americans are dead because of it. and if you think these are just republican talking points, talk to the family members of the four americans who gave their lives for this country. it will be an issue. and hillary clinton and her supporters and any democrats that want to say, oh, this is just right wing a right wing to borrow one of hillary s phrases, a mass right wing conspiracy. wait until the end of the campaign. still ahead on morning joe, bill clinton a 2:00 a.m. phone call and cursing. you just don t want to get 2:00 a.m. phone calls. congressman jim clyburn was on the other end of that call. he ll be here to explain what happened. what? i m also going to ask about what a congressman had to say about clarence thomas being a, quote, uncle tom. also what he had to say about mitch mcconnell being a racist. some extraordinary things. plus new details that the inmate in the oklahoma execution had to be tased before the execution. up next, new cell phone video just released from on board the south korean ferry as it began to sink. the reason why the video was actually released at this point. but first, bill kairns with a check on the forecast. bill? mika, i did my part. it looks like a beautiful birthday weekend for you. nice. happy birthday, mika. thank you, bill. last week was miserable around the country. now we re going to start to see spring taking over. warmer temperatures, too. there s a few scattered showers out there around cape cod. also some light rain around buffalo, syracuse, and rochester. temperatures are more mild today than they had been this past week. we re at the 50s in the big cities, 40s in the burbs. as we go throughout the afternoon, a gorgeous friday afternoon. low 70s to mid-60s. i know yesterday was nearly 80. it was kind of humid. today s more springlike, less humidity, plenty of sunshine. florida s the exception. we ve got a lot of rain coming your way. not the flooding stuff we just dealt with, but scattered showers and storms friday, saturday, sunday. so here s your forecast for your weekend. we re finally ending the horrible warmth out wed. it was 95 in san diego of all places yesterday. wier finally watching everything averaging out. of course the kentucky derby is on saturday. looks to be about 73 degrees. no problems there in louisville. looks beautiful and much of the country even into sunday should be looking pretty nice. there s really not any horrible weather. no severe storms, no tornadoes, nothing like that. mother nature is giving us a break as we go throughout our first may weekend. looking at a nice day across the country. more morning joe when we come right back. avo: wherever your journey takes you the expedia app helps you save with mobile-exclusive deals download the expedia app text expedia to 75309 expedia, find yours so i tri ed depend so i it really made 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all right. it s time to take a look at the morning papers. look at the front page of usa today. 8 million people have signed up for the affordable care act. 8 million. that s great. 8 million. just saying. that s great. what are you saying? i m just saying 8 million people have signed up. that s pretty good. they need more and they need to get young people still. they do. that s a demographic they re still focusing on. why are you behaving so nicely? that s great. bill de blasio and the city s largest teacher s union agreed to a contract yesterday ending a five-year labor dispute. teachers will receive back pay of 8% of their salaries and bonuses for teachers with positive reviews. the union agreed to reductions in health care saving the city $1 million. from our parade of papers, the oregonian, cell phone video recovered from one of the young victims aboard the capsized south korean ferry is giving new insight into what happened in that doomed ship. the student s father released the video to give it to the nation and let them get a glimpse into the disaster. at first the crew warns of a possible accident over the loud speaker. the video shows the students fooling around. but as the ferry begins to tilt, the mood changes to panic. towards the end of the video, you can actually still hear the crew telling passengers to stay in place. it s just outrageous. why would you do that? it s just outrageous. the los angeles times, the president of the naacp in los angeles has resigned in the wake of the scandal involving donald sterling. leon jenkins has been heavy criticized for his plan to present sterling with a lifetime achievement award. the group also granted sterling an award in 2009, the same year he was accused of refusing to rent apartments to latinos and blacks. jeah. it was probably the second award they were giving to him. i wonder how much money he gave the naacp in return for that award? you ve got to look at the money you re given when you re in an organization like that. because it can t be dirty money. it s not worth it as one just learned today. the houston chronicle is reporting 55 colleges and universities are being investigated by the department of education for their handling of sexual assault complaints on campus. such an important story. among them, elite schools like emory university and harvard law school. also florida state and ohio state university. move comes as the obama administration announces new guidelines to prevent incidents and improve reporting on campus. such an important, important story, mika. related news from the wall street journal, reports of sexual abuse if had the military have skyrocketed. the pentagon says confidential reports were 50% higher in 2013 than 2012. now, there were 86% higher among marines. the pentagon suggests it shows victims are more comfortable coming forward. but it didn t account for how many actual crimes were committed. i was going to say, actually, those numbers have gone up and skyrocketed. there s two ways to look at it. of course the number is going up always causes alarm, but maybe it means that people are starting to get comfortable coming forward in the military. which they ve never been comfortable doing before. it s difficult in real life let alone the military. especially in the military. absolutely. and also the previous story, in college, so many young people go away from home. something traumatic like this happens all in muddled circumstances that make you embarrassed to come forward. they re embarrassed, there s shame. there s all these things that hopefully the obama administration, the push is going to actually make it easier for men and women but mainly young women to come forward. absolutely. this weekend s parade magazine features an exclusive from mariano rivera s where he recounts his journey from poor panama kid to world series mvp. all right. thomas? thanks, guys. with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen, here with the morning playbook. give it to us, mike. happy friday! and happy birthday not only to mika, but also morning joe jesse rodriguez. 3-0 today. spotted last night celebrating. ooh, jesse. really? we shouldn t be texting jesse early this morning then. he might have a headache. let s talk about what else is this weekend because we ve got the white house correspondents dinner. and looking at president obama and his sense of humor and why he may be hesitant to poke fun at himself. what have you learned? todd is pointing out here that president obama likes to make fun of other people more than himself. his self-deprecating humor doesn t go very deep. yes, the president jokes about his big ears and about his bad polls and about his birth certificate, maybe his gray hair. but doesn t really go after himself in the way that some other presidents have. a more typical joke by this president is, you ll remember when he said despite the rumors that he was born in a manager, he was really born on krypton. whereas president bush really went after himself. he talked about what the intelligence briefing for him actually meant. but todd discovered that president obama has some company in this. another president who s very thin skinned at the time, bill clinton. talked to some of clinton s writers and the writers would get the jokes and clinton would be like, these are about me. they should be about the other people. and one of the drafts that was released in this most recent clinton document dump, one they tried out that clinton liked was the white house press corps was the opposite of lake woe be gone. that all were below average. we ll see how it goes. joel mchale is the host, right? people are excited about that. the weekend is growing and growing and growing. it s a big weekend. mike allen, thank you, sir. coming up, he said it was an honest mistake, but now there s a good chance you ll see jameis winston king crab legs in a grocery store near you. that s right. and later, a suspected carjacker getting the ride of his life while holding onto the side of a new york city cab. morning joe straight ahead. just take a closer look. it works how you want to work. with a fidelity investment professional. or managing your investments on your own. helping you find new ways to plan for retirement. and save on taxes where you can. so you can invest in the life that you want today. tap into the full power of your fidelity greenline. call or come in today for a free one-on-one review. wanted to go and see a lion up close. this zoom lens is amazing. go and smell the roses! you have to let me know [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come together, the taste is irresistible. sweet and salty nut bars by nature valley. nature at its most delicious.
all right. pay attention. it s take a peek time. it s time for sports. okay. three teams on the brink of elimination last night in the nba playoffs. warriors and clippers. golden state s steph curry led the way with points. 14 of which scored in the first quarter. the clippers come up just short. the warriors hang on for the 100-99 victory. game seven on saturday. memphis/thunder looking to stay alive. 104-84 win to force game seven. also on saturday. to atlanta, the hawks looking to end the pacers season. david west with the go-ahead basket right there. he led the pacers on a 16-4 run to close things out with a 95-88 victory and even up the series. game seven in indy tomorrow evening. and another set of game six matchups tonight. the raptors and nets, spurs and maveric mavericks. all three of those pushed to seven. it s fantastic. agreed. we get to the ice now. round two of the stanley cup playoffs. canadiens leading the bruins. johnny boychuk scores the equalizer right there. this one ends up in double overtime. montreal on the power play. next the game winner. take a 1-0 lead in this series. game two saturday in boston. another round of matchups tonight. the pens host the rangers. and the wild visit the blackhawks. finally for you, yesterday we told you about heisman trophy winner jameis winston being busted for shoplifting seafood. now there is a store catching in on the hype around this. a marketing gem in alabama. jameis winston king crab legs. unfortunately the shellfish, they are not for sale. this is just an in-store joke taking a pinch at jameis. what s he saying? he accidentally he walked out after accidentally walked out. how do you do that? who amongst us has not accidentally walked out with king crab legs. when it falls in your pocket and you don t know, what do you do? it s just like the time no, i never actually look. if you re going to shoplift crab meat, do the already packaged kind. i don t think he meant to do it. whatever. he was framed. he was framed. still ahead, mika, what do we have on this special birthday edition of morning joe ? the ukrainians are fighting back. explosions, barricades, and downed helicopters as ukrainian forces are fighting back. the state department s rick stengel will be here on set live in our 8:00 a.m. hour. also we ll have the monthly jobs numbers released live at 8:30. also tina brown is going to be here for the must read opinion pages. you re going to want to hear about this one. it s about hillary clinton with surprising advice. we ll be right back. and it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn s disease. 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 events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred. before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. ask your gastroenterologist about humira today. remission is possible. we cannot let the fans down. don t worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate shipping. our priority has always been saving the day. because our priority. amazing! .is you! the amazing spider-man 2 delivered by the united states postal service. time now for the must read opinion pages. with us the founder of tina brown live media and the winner of the world summit. good morning and happy birthday. thank you. i m 47. it s okay, right? she s so young. she s so young. so have you seen tina s and she wrote this especially for your birthday because she knew it was a special day and this would be an op-ed that would get a lot of attention. this one is going to get a lot of attention. okay. you wrote a piece in the daily beast about hillary clinton being president you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover you have much, much less than you thought you d have going in. so knowing all this, why indeed would hillary run? now that chelsea is pregnant and life for hillary can get so deep deep deeply familial and present, she is as adored as any ex-president already. it will be another press-on slot from hell and such a hog tied two terms. only the delights of hip replacement surgery will await her by the time she gets out. leave the presidency to the people who don t know what it s really like. jeb and hillary discussed both of them have seen what hell this is on their families. it s hell, but i even think that hillary is tough enough to deal with that piece. but what you re also seeing more and more is what a static, frustrating, tied down institution the presidency now is. what can you really achieve? in a way running for presidency now is what you can do in your post-presidency. you have to get through the complete sort of hog tied status of the oval office. get beyond it, then you re free. what was great to see at our summit was jimmy carter who i ve never seen a happier guy. i mean, he sat on the stage and he just wowed the audience talking about $1 toilets in west africa for women. this is his initiative. how he s creating these for west africa. here s a guy who can talk about toilets for 20 minutes on a stage with a spell bound audience. he never seemed happier. he couldn t do anything when he was president as we know. has that platform to help the world. she has a platform already. usually you have to have the presidency to have the platform. she s got it already. why do it? so why do it? gene robinson, a lot of democrats will push hillary clinton to move forward. but 2008 was brutal for her. no reason to think 2016 would be any less brutal. plus she s got the fights from the clinton administration, brutal ugly fights. she s got the fights from arkansas. she s been at this a very long time. why put yourself out there again? well, it s a that s a good question. i mean, i ve always thought that i m disagreeing with a lot of my colleagues that she has not made a decision to run and she won t make a decision whether or not to run for some time. and she s got to really think about this. that said, you know, look at the position she s in. and look at the history she could make. and i think that will really weigh heavily on her. she, by all odds are that she could have the nomination if she wants it. and she d have an even or better than even shot according to the polls. much better than even of becoming president. as tina says, then, you know, you re president. and you ve got the four years and then eight years of misery ahead of you. but through that misery, maybe you can accomplish something. so i think she is an optimistic person. if she decides to run, it would be with the idea that she s going to get stuff done. and, you know, both of these races are so wide open, mark halperin. much wider than any race you ve covered. if hillary doesn t run, what democrat does? if jeb doesn t run, what republican steps up? there are not any establishment candidates other than those two. yeah. those two are the big pieces. the missing element to me for her and whether or not she runs is what would she run to do? what would the presidency be like? what s the message? what gives her the burning desire. when her husband ran in 92, he had stuff he really wanted to do. she s been part of washington now for a long time. what is her vision? i m not saying she hasn t had one, but she needs to make clear what it is. there s plenty she can do without being a presidential candidate. there s an insatiable drive as a human being that hillary clinton has to achieve. and i think this could be a really bad analogy, but we all know when we have spoiled milk in the refrigerator, we know it s spoiled but we smell it anyway before we throw it out. i think she would know what she s getting into having been the first lady and being, you know, secretary of state. but she, i think, has a desire to achieve this and can. i feel there s an evolution happening somehow on that. she cease what her husband has created, realizes she wants to focus i think so much on her passion really for ending gender inequality globally. and this has been such a focus of hers. is f that is what her big passion is which i believe it is, then you can achieve more of that in your post-presidency. totally. i also think that with jeb, it s like, we cannot expect this thing to just remain static. everybody said it s hillary s nomination last night. being a black president trumped her exceptionalism in president barack obama. she was supposed to be the first woman president but first black president was more interesting. tina brown, thank you. good column. thank you. coming up, why residents in a small michigan town are up in arms over this city-approved public statue. that s art? 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[ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. oh, it s time for news you can t use. this is exciting. thomas, what do you have? we start with crazy video from here in new york city. police say the man holding on for dear life was trying to carjack a taxi in the early morning in the bronx. that s the way we do it here. they topped speeds of 70 miles an hour. the cob driver hit the gas when he tried to take over the taxi. this taxi hit traffic and the carjacker jumped off carjacking another vehicle. he was arrested a short time later. why not hit the brakes fast and that dude would go flying? catlike reflexes. this is good. a small town in michigan, this is what i think we should do around here. a small town in michigan is looking to promote the arts. the importance of art in the community. i get tongue tied because it s so exciting. the skulltuculpture is called b human. living today we can t do it alone. we rely on other people to try to survive. rely on people why? neighbors in the town disagree. not just one. they ve taken to calling this the orgy statue. for good reason. the artist said there was no intentional sexual assault in it and the harsh comment shows that the critics are thinking about it. well that would be if it s not intentional sexuality, then that just happened. it takes a village. sometimes it just happens. the town is going to be moving this to a less prominent location. let s buy it and put it on set. it s awful. that s unbelievable. i know. but the other big news today what? it s your birthday mika! whoo! oh, my god. i was told we have a birthday in the house today. big birthday. thank you, bill kairns. yea! look at this. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear mika happy birthday to you wahoo! are you one? are you two? you got a bear. i got bill kairns. this is great! i love it! the birthday suit comes later. no thank you. he always goes too far. always. happy birthday. come here. come here, bill. thank you. and louis, don t touch me. get out of here. well, happy birthday. what s your favorite birthday memory? speech! speech! what s your favorite birthday memory from growing up? i don t really have any. we didn t do stuff like this. was it that bad? we just didn t do, like, parties or anything. how about the year they gave you that sled? what sled? what are you talking about? this cake looks amazing. thank you. i need to blow some of the stuff off the top here. all right. very good. that way we can clean off the confet confetti. we ll be back with more of morning joe. at the top of 7:00, we have much to talk about but i forgot everything because of this birthday. my. tongue. finally. 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yes, it is. whenever she goes and weekends in south of france, she has a tiara with her. one day i m going to the south of france. you should. thank you. wear that the rest of the day. all right. so obviously a lot of discussions about benghazi yesterday, just the political side of it. but a deadly incident last night. yeah. let s get right to it because there s politics all around it as well. overnight five people were killed in a militia attack at the headquarters in benghazi. the situation in that country is still far from stability 19 months a a raid on the u.s. consulate there left four americans dead. the house overnight committee held its latest hearing into the 2012 attack. it focused around an e-mail recently released. critics say the message which was only released this week is proof there was a political agenda at play within the white house. the administration, however, says the e-mail was about the situation across the wider middle east and not specifically about libya. ed, the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today that benghazi was part of it, right? right. i would refer you to the ca produced talking points on that. most people remember that there were demonstrations around the region. that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video. why then on 9/14 is ben rhodes writing an e-mail that is making judgments that this was inspired bay video? why is it not ed, do you need a copy of the cia talking points? i ve seen them. read them out all you want. from the talking points which much to your disappointment turned out to be produced by the cia. house minority leader nancy pelosi says there is nothing to see in the new e-mails. what i will say is, again, diversion subterfuge. benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. why aren t we talking about something else? whatever was in that what i know of what i ve read in the press about the those e-mails were very consistent with what was put out there before. i don t think there s anything new there. and ahead of the white house correspondents dinner, politico is out with a survey of 60 members of the press corps. nearly 60% have covered the president for ten years or fewer. 61% say press briefings should be changed from their current form calling for fewer talking points, more questions from different journalists, and they should be shorter. many journalists scored the briefings as more lame than essential. when asked if they interviewed someone who wasn t in the communications office in the last week, more than half said, are you kidding. half of those surveyed say they ve been lied to by an obama white house official. nearly 40% say they have been sworn at by an official. it happens. and it happens, the swearing at least, happens in lots of different administrations. ron fournier, you wrote a great column about and i love if you look at the bottom of the screen, man. this is murderer s row. this is like the 27 yankees. you ve got chuck todd at the white house, ron fournier at the white house, david gregory moderator of meet the press. these guys all know the white house. ron, you wrote a column about this yesterday. you look at someone like marlon fitzwater, tony snowe. they were able to deliver bad news in a way that i ll just be blunt, this current white house is not been able to deliver news. there s a hardening, it seems, of the press corps. right now the white house press corps in there and for somebody that s known jay carney for a long time and liked jay carney, it s tough to see himself conducting himself in the way he s conducting himself. what s going on inside the white house? thanks, dude, for having me on. dude, you re the one that asked to be on, dude. i m joking. dude, it s been two years. tommy v. breaking out the northwest florida slang. i love it. good lord. joe as you know any great corporate communications staff knows the difference between winning a news cycle and winning the public s trust. the problem with this white house is they re good at winning news cycles and in doing so they lose the public s trust. there s not a better example to illustrate that right now than benghazi. if you want to set aside for a second the important national security issues. what did the president know, what did he do, what happens when you get involved in a country like this, what s the fallback. set those aside for a second and look at the communications team that s paid a lot of money to communicate to the public. we now know beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the communications team treated this as a political crisis. not a foreign policy crisis. and in doing so put out information really quick that was really long, then didn t correct it until there was a lawsuit. they were fine having a bad narrative out there. didn t want to correct it because they were only worried about winning one news cycle at a time. and in doing so, they ve hurt their credibility. these issues splash over to the president s credibility across the board. and i think this credibility issue is why not just on benghazi, is why his numbers have been coming down. david gregory, we ve all had the conversation at one time or another with pres people for republicans and democrats alike i remember telling a mccain person in 2008 after he d lied to me the night before. i think i said, hey, dude, did not not think the sun was going to rise tomorrow? and mika remembers me saying that the next morning. i wasn t yelling at him. i said did you not think the sun was going to rise. and i was going to find out about your lie. am i going to trust you for the rest of this campaign? the answer is no. and we ve seen it. we ve seen it in a lot of different administrations. i m just curious if it would be best for the white house to cut its losses now and get this behind us. it s only a big deal if they keep covering it up. well, i ll make a comment about benghazi in a second. but i think the larger point is all of these press secretaries have their brief. when ron and i were in the front row during the bush years, we understood that ari fleischer at that point had a lot of limits put on him in terms of what he could do. they wanted him to take tough questions, but be limited in what he could say. that s part of a pr machine that comes to sell the president s agenda and the president. there s always limited terms of what you can get. look. ron said put aside some of the security concerns. the real story about benghazi is what are the consequences for having a light footprint in a chaotic country post-invasion. that s the ongoing story. and by the way, a story that candidate clinton if she becomes a candidate will have to face. those are the big policy questions at work here. we know to ron s point that the white house had a political interest in advancing a story about this video really being at the core of all of these protests. because anything that was spontaneous and happening fast is to their benefit in the situation opposed to being caught unaware about a terror attack which they didn t know about. we don t know. we know they were interested in the politics of this. we didn t know they were somehow telling any untruth. and we know that the intelligence community was saying, in fact, that this was a spontaneous eruption that happened in cairo and then evolved into a direct attack on the consulate. so we know there was an opportunity to sell it. we don t know what all the facts of this are. but this particular memo, for instance, why did they hold that back? of course it was related to benghazi. i think it creates more problems. one of the ways we know it was related to benghazi, the white house admitted it was related to benghazi before it was denied that it was related to benghazi as it was only released because the lawsuit said release documents related to benghazi. chuck todd, now to you, my friend. so we were having this discussion before, chuck, and mark halperin and i were talking. i said well, why doesn t jay carney, a guy like i an awful lot, why doesn t jay just say no? i m not going to go out here and be put in this position. somebody said you can t do that. well, mike mccurry did it. other press secretaries have done it. it s a real balancing act, i understand. and it s extraordinarily difficult. but does jay not have a fairly tough relationship with the press corps that he has to stand in front of every day? i say yes, but it s not jay s doing that it s a tough press corps. this is sort of six years, honestly eight years of sort of dealing look. i think there has been in the worst development in white house staffs over the last two decades has been i think the entire press office is too big. i think there s almost too much. and so when you have so many individuals dedicated to press communications, right, and communicating with press, then you re going to slip into over-spinning. you re going to slip into what they did here with these benghazi e-mails which is so paranoid about giving an inch to their opponents that they withhold too much. you know, everything about all of their some of these political crises if you want to call them that that the white house has bungled all has the same root issue. which is they have been reticent to engage. they say we re not going to give in, we re not going to give them more material. had they flooded the zone, had they just dumped everything out that they had including this e-mail, had this e-mail been sent out at the same time that we got that entire booklet of e-mails from state, cia, and white house. this would be much to do about nothing. the e-mail was withheld. the e-mail itself isn t that damning. there s no smoke in this squirt gun, but it s because they didn t release it at the time and their credibility is why why didn t they release at it the time? everybody agree no smoke here? i disagree. i think there is smoke. it makes it clear at a minimum that they did what no one was surprised they did. they looked to contain the political damage. ron fournier? i agree with mark. i don t think that s a small thing. i think when you get caught spinning like this, when you get caught being incredible with the information, that s a big thing that splashes into other issues. as someone who has worked with jay and wants my white house to succeed, it was painful yesterday watching that briefing and get baghdad flashbacks. are we drilling down here on benghazi in a time period where i think tommy v. used this phrase in his interview, he said collective amnesia. there was a lot going on with the arab spring in a lawless libya at the time. we knew the day it happened, when mitt romney went out and held a press conference that he held wsh david gregory i think it was an unfortunately press conference to say the least. he didn t know what was going on. nobody knew what was going on. and it was sort of shoot first, ask questions later on both sides. on both sides. and mark halperin and i they knew from the very beginning this was a huge deal. right. mark halperin and i were together at the moment when mitt romney started reacting. and by the way, he was reacting to the apologetic statements coming out of the cairo embassy related to the video. but i think to thomas point, the key questions here is we look back now and understand this was an attack on benghazi. and there was at the time information that was flowing out of there that was quite clearly a pre-planned attack. so part of it is why didn t they know? why didn t the administration know? why didn t the services know? why did they move forward to talk about a video? again, a lot of things can be true at once. the intelligence community saying this was a spontaneous attack even though they didn t use video. it s not an illogical leap to make biased on what the belief was. david petraeus is telling folks on capitol hill this was not terrorism initially. but it s also true and don t forget we lived there u an area here with how much grief did the bush white house take for the politicizing national security when this is what s going on here when you have ben rhodes saying, look, we ve got to make sure this video story people understand. and this president is steady. of course. they don t want to be seen as weak on terror. that s an obvious thing to do. joining us now republican representative from oklahoma, congressman tom cole. tom, good to see you. great to see you as always. happy birthday, first of all. thank you. from a fellow taurus. joe, you re a lucky man to have a taurus as a partner. and we re stubborn. so i ve heard. so i ve experienced. so congressman, let me ask you let s switch topics here and talk about minimum wage. it was voted on in the senate and voted down. there s some republicans we had tim pawlenty on the other day and others that believe the minimum wage should be increased, not to 10.$10.10, but should be. but that it could be raised for compromise of keystone. i think you hit the formula. to put something that creates jobs with something that frankly is clearly going to cost jobs. you raise the minimum wage, you re going to lose tens of thousands of jobs across the country. second, you do have to realize in this case that, look. individual states can act on this as they choose to. 19 already have minimum wanls that are higher than the federal start. the point i made before, there s a big difference between the cost of living in new york or san francisco or oklahoma city. so whether a one size fits all minimum wages makes a lot of sense is worth thinking about. and again, states have the ability to act if they think it s in their interest. chuck todd? congressman, how you doing? hey. doing great. let me ask you this. do you think the minimum wage should be raised at all right now? would you raise it at all nationally? aren t we at one of the longest periods ever we haven t raised it? we re also at one of the lowest inflationary periods too. but the point is worth thinking about. i m go i think to address it from a oklahoma standpoint. do i think the we need to raise the minimum wage in oklahoma? no. other states have the ability to act on this on their own. would i look at a minimum wage increase if i thought there were other things attached to it that would create jobs like keystone and additional things? yeah, i think i would consider that because i think job creation is a very important thing. steve rattner. congressman, you re right we re in a low inflationary era, but we haven t raised the minimum wage since 2009. it s now lower in real terms than it was in the 1960s. so isn t there a and historically the federal government has been involved in times like this. i m not telling you there s not a case to be made here. but there s also a case on the other side. one, individual states that want to move can move. two, we know according to cbo and other economists that raising it is going to cost a lot of jobs. losing half a million jobs is no trivial matter in an economy that still has an unacceptably high unemployment rate. i suppose the president is supportive of doing this, but let s be real. he s using this as a political weapon to put something else on the table that would attract republican support. he hasn t done it. i think he enjoys the rhetoric of the debate. there is a compromise to be made here. we ll see if the president comes to the table with something other than $10.10. but put in keystone and something to create jobs, i bet he can get support. mark? what significance will be signed into law before the midterm elections? i hope a lot of appropriations bills as i m the appropriator and we re actually doing the normal work of congress for a change. i would expect an infrastructure bill. i think we ll do something in terms of transportation issue. because transportation fund is going to run dry this fall. don t expect a permanent fix, but i would expect an extension into early next year. but to your basic point, look, not a lot. you know, i think we ve done some important things since the ryan-murray budget agreement. but i think the big things largely are being pushed past by both sides. i think that s unfortunate, but the political reality. all right. congressman tom cole, thank you very much. and again happy birthday. fellow taurus. taurusian, whatever you said. we have at least that in common. thank you very much, tom, for being on the show. david gregory, thank you as well. what s on meet the press this weekend? we ll have governor rick perry, fallout from the sterling story. and will.i.am will stop by to talk about his political involvement. chuck todd, we ll watch the daily rundown at 9:01. i don t know. we ll see. i m going to make joe be quiet. you get it before 15 i ll be impressed. all right. ron, if you can stay with us, that d be good. coming up live at the top of the 8:00, rick seng el hold on a second. it is rick stengel s birthday as well. get out. rick stengel and you and jesse. i need more confetti. what a great eight. and white house correspondent for the a.p. julie pace. and brian sullivan. still ahead, are we being taught to love strangers and is that a good thing? but first, hillary clinton if barack obama would answer a 3:00 a.m. phone call. but it was a 2:00 a.m. phone call from president clinton that congressman jim clyburn wishes he didn t answer. screaming and yelling and cussing. unbelievable. morning joe will be right back. 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welcome back to morning joe. live look at capitol hill and a beautiful day in washington. it s may, and i think the sun is going to come out now. may 2nd. here with us now, assistant democratic leader, democratic representative from south carolina, congressman james clyburn. he s out with his memoir blessed experiences: genuinely southern, proudly black. and i can t wait to hear about the book, but first i want to hear about a blessed experience you had at 2:00 in the morning. tell us all about it. it was a phone call you got in the middle of the night. yes, yes. and the book sort of starts with that. how did that go? it was an interesting morning. it was the morning after the south carolina primary back in 2008. of course i received a phone call. of course i m always up late. you were sleeping. no. i was up watching all the returns coming from around the state. that was a much-watched primary. my wife was asleep, but i was awake. and sure enough, the former president was on the phone. bill clinton. yes. my goodness. what was he calling to say, hey, how you doing, jim? not exactly. no? he was a little upset about the results that day. because hillary lost to barack. he was not pleased with that. so he just wanted to share his feelings or was there a message in what he was saying? there was a message. he thought i was involved in the. reporter: in losing it for hillary. yes. i was not. i was neutral in the race. of course i had personal preferences, but i stayed out of the race. let me read about this blessed experience. i think the way you describe it in the book crystallizes it. this powerful voice came on the phone. if you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one. i needed no help identifying that voice. it was bill clinton. the former president of the united states, my longtime political friend. his wife hillary suffered a major defeat in south carolina s primary. obama had whipped her. and bill clinton wanted me to explain why. i told him i had pledged neutrality to the rules committee of the democratic national committee as a condition of their authorizing a primary in south carolina. and i had kept that promise. i asked him to tell me why he felt otherwise. he exploded using the word bastard again and accused me of causing her defeat and injecting race into the contest. that is your blessed experience at 2:00 a.m. the morning after south carolina. that s i ve had quite a few blessed experience. a few with joe. we ve never raised our voices at each other. no, we haven t. always had great respect for each other. that s true. although the experiences were not always that pleasant. democrat on democrat violence here, this makes me so sad. so what was it like being shouted down and sworn at by the president of the united states? it was a very uncomfortable experience. but i ve had a few of these. what do you say back to him? well, i listened for awhile. i was really caught off balance. and i told him i had pledged neutrality. there was a big contest over who would get that primary. there was a fight against michigan, south carolina, and alabama. right. south carolina had won. but i was asked to remain neutral in the race. i remember. and i did. mark halperin? congressman, i know you d love to talk about bill clinton more, but i m going to switch to the title and subtitle. genuinely southern. in this big day and age, the big national media is becoming more interactive, the south is still distinctive. what does it mean today to be genuinely southern? the south is in transition today. i think we ve seen that south carolina maybe behind georgia, but if you take a hard look at southern states. florida, take a look at arkansas. kentucky s not exactly a southern state, but a border state. you will see in north carolina that went for barack obama in 2008 and was a close race in 2012. i think the south is changing rapidly. a lot of my classmates that left when i graduated, over 80% of my class when i graduated college left the state. they re not coming back. a lot of young people are staying. all three of my children remained in south carolina. that was not the case when i was coming along. i think it s changed because we re getting much more progressive. we re getting more jobs and the kind of jobs that young people are being trained for. now, the reason i put that in there is because i want people to understand that being southern has a broader connotation than being very conservative or being white, for that matter. i don t want people explaining away what they said saying i m a southerner. what does that mean? my mother and father were southerners, but they treated me with dignity and respect and everybody else. and that s why i put that in there. a lot of different experiences from the south, no doubt about it. let me ask you about something that s been making news this week. a fellow democrat, a fellow southern colleague vinny thompson has called clarence thomas, a quote, uncle tom. he doubled down again on that yesterday. suggested mitch mcconnell was a raci racist. said a lot of inflammatory things. does that cause you any concerns? no. i think thompson as you know is a very close friend. we knew each other for 20 years before he ever came to congress. you think it s all right to be calling a supreme court justice an uncle tom? all of us have ways of expressing our disappointment. i am very disappointed in clarence thomas. do you think he s an uncle tom? i don t know. you don t know if he s an uncle tom? he s not the only supreme court justice there. but he s the only one being called an uncle tom. i think that s at extraordinary insult. you ll have to ask thompson. there are certain words and phrases i did not use. and i will never back away from this. i am extremely disappointed. you know, joe. we come to congress and these appointments, we are to bring tho toez bodies our experiences to broaden the application of justice in this country. well, clarence thomas has had an experience of being genuinely southern and being proudly black just like you and his experience led him to a different philosophy about government. and i don t know that he should be castigated because his experience as a black american is different from thompson s experiences as a black american. can t we disagree with each other without calling each other names? sure we can. i talked to someone yesterday who told me they were highly insulted by some of the expressions that clarence thomas has made in his writings, in his opinions. a lot of african-americans find his opinions very insulting. he has a right to that. thompson though? you have no problems with him calling him an uncle tom? he is a close personal friend. we don t always use the same words and phrases. is mitch mcconnell as thompson thinks he is i don t know. ask him about that. i m not going to get into that. you know what? you re going no. around in circles. i am not going around in circles. it s time to wrap. no. why should i read this book? because it s a blessed experience. because i think you would learn a lot if you were to read this book. you will understand a lot of what it s like to grow up black in the deep south, to have no aspirations beyond being a teacher, a preacher, or an undertaker. and you will see how a little black boy growing up in that environment with a mother and father who taught him that you can break through this, and he did. and he got the hall of the house of the house of representatives with joe scarborough. you would have been better to be an undertaker if you knew that was going to happen. but it s also important to remember also one of the most powerful members of the united states congress, it s an extraordinary story. you re a great guy. thank you for being here. thank you so much. i appreciate you. thank you. the book is blessed experiences. congressman james clyburn, thank you so much. coming up, malaysian officials have released new documents on why they waited so long to search for flight 370. tom costello has that story ahead. and congressional cautions. we crunch the numbers next on morning joe.
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all right. it is almost 40 past the hour. it is. you know, big question about the election that s coming up in november. we re six years into the obama presidency. a lot of people are looking at it going, it s goingng to be a t like 2010. that s what republicans hope. yeah. but there are some that look back to 1998 you never can tell, can you? they re hoping to make big gains but history suggests this november is not a sure thing for the gop. derek has more in the latest edition of mojo place. president obama s job approval has the gop eyeing potential takeover in the senate and adding to the house majority. they point out in 2010 when the president s numbers were even stronger, republicans picked up a whopping 63 seats in the house and five in the senate. i m not recommending they take a shellacking like i did last night. however, if they re relying on the president s poll numbers as an indicator, a look at history shows the six-year vote can be problematic for the gop regardless of what party s in power. in 1986 ronald reagan saw his highest numbers of his presidency with 68% approval. still the gop went on to shed five seats in the house and eight in the senate. losing control of the upper chamber. after the revelation of his affair with monica lewinsky, bill clinton was still flying high at 64%, again the gop was unable to capitalize while losing five in the house and stagnant in the senate. in 2006 george w. bush approval was down. look, this is a close election. the if you look at race by race, it was close. the cumulative effect, however, was not too close. it was a thumping. november should serve as a cautionary tale for the gop considering dating back to 1958 republicans have lost seats in each of the six-year midterm elections. time will tell if history repeats itself. guys, back to you. all right. thank you. six-year itch not good for republicans. mark? it has not been. they ve made errors. they feel they re on track. they re raising money. they re doing decent on candidates in terms of the primaries. i think the democrats have to change the dynamic or republicans will have a good midterm. and there were three in one election once. i think we re doing well. i think we re doing well. so far so good. still ahead, forgot the partisan divide in washington. reverend jim wallis talks about faith on fridays. but first trusting strangers to watch our pets, sleep in our bed. and the whole tinder thing. no. the new economy of trust. actually, it s not just trust. it s trusting strangers. it s weird. i think it s weird. but apparently is a good business model. we ll be right back. honestly, i m pouring everything i have into this place. that s why i got a new windows 2 in 1. it has exactly what i need for half of what i thought i d pay. and i don t need to be online for it to work. it runs office, so i can do schedules and budgets and even menu changes. but it s fun, too with touch, and tons of great apps for stuff like music, cause a good playlist is good for business. i need the boss s signature for this. i m the boss. honestly i wanna see you be brave [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn t fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today.and tomorrow. so let s see what we can do about that. remodel. motorcycle. 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and what a lot of companies are doing are lowering that risk. they re linking to a facebook account. this isn t like hitchhiking. they have a rating next to them based on their previous@on these services. it s linked to a credit card like it s paid before anybody gets in the car or goes to the house. and there s also insurance or some kind of if the worst should happen and your place gets trashed, there s a million dollars of insurance that they ll pay you to make up for damages. it s not just like throwing open your door to whoever comes by. there are systems in place. as a lawyer, thomas, though, seriously the liabilities here just making me flinch. the valuation that recently came out for air bnb, $10 million? there is that recourse that people can enact if they feel they ve gotten a bad service. but it is really offputting to think that someone could be in your house or going through your things. logically. reporter: apparently not. instead of working from my apartment, make my apartment work for me. people are deciding to do it. and people are deciding they re willing to have people in their house in order to make money. ebay seemed totally bonkers. like you re going to send a check to somebody you don t know and they re going to send you beanie babies. that seemed nuts. but eventually they built enough systems in place and it became common enough it doesn t seem so shocking anymore. enough it doesn t seem so shocking anymore. ron, would you do that? ron, by the way, i ve got two dogs for rent this weekend and a cat as well, if you d like to rent my dogs and cat for a weekend, let s talk after the show. no thanks, no thanks. i m fascinated about this whole topic. you talk about low trust, the public has no trust in the old financial institutions. where will the sharing economy be in five years and how much of the traditional fik system that people aren t trusting is replaced by a shared economy five years from now. jason? if you re talking about faith in financial institutions, the economy right now is not poised to replace that. it s poised to replace the taxi and hotel industry. those are the industries it s competing with. i honestly don t think there is going to be some whole scale replacement. it s a different kind of experience. it s less consistent, right? do you think that the hotel is going to allow air b & b to get away with stealing their clients and not be regulated and not taxed properly? we re seeing it in new york. the question is what kind of restrictions are they going to put in place. i think honestly at this place this ship has sailed. i don t think regulators can just shut them down. tons of money. all right. the issue, the latest issue of wired is out. jason tanz, thank you so much. for more jason time, visit the afternoon session of our mojoe. i m going to have to tune in. i m intrigued. we re about a half hour away from the april jobs numbers. and all the kids, mika, they ve been aflutter about this. it s crazy online. it s trending. it is trending. than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. son: look, a finger. captain: that s unsettling. man: you think? 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she just kept looking and i said you ve had it up for a few hours. she said my vision is blurred, i m slurring my words. but it s all better because mark leibovich is here. and i m a year older and so much better. mark leibovich, author of this town, now out in paperback and from washington, julie pace and of course we still have rattner at the table. stuck with rattner. it s perfect timing for you to be here, steve rattner. the employment numbers are here in less than half an hour. we re hoping for good news. you never know which way it s going to break. we had a very flat first quarter. a lot of people concerned about that, but the market s exploding. i guess they figure it the weather. what s the jobless report going to look like? we don t know but we ll find out in half an hour. i can give you background and color on what we might expect. for the last year if we look at this chart, we ve had a pretty steady picture of about 190,000 jobs a month being created. but for this month the economists a little built moit optimistic for the reasons you say, joe, we re coming off a winter and hoping we re going to be more in the 220,000 range. the unemployment report did come down gradually last year but it has been pretty flat since then. you need certainly like 200,000 jobs a month just to keep the unemployment numbers from going up because of people coming into the labor force. but people should also look at the long-term unemployed. we really have a problem. this is the percentage of the total unemployed that includes people not participating in the job market? doesn t even include them. so the situation is much worse? much worse. because a lot of people have dropped out. this only shows you the people who have stayed in. the percentage of total unemployed that are long-term unemployed is the highest it s ever been in history. it s come down from the highest 45% but even this number is the highest it ever been in our history. so it s a real problem and economists are increasingly worried. there was a study that just came out that a third of these people will probably never find job, a third of them will drop out of the labor force and only a third will be employed. but let s look at something that relates to washington. last december extended unemployment benefits expired for people over 26 weeks. 1.3 million people lost their unemployment insurance last december. we re talking about $286 a week, not talking about a lot of money. by june 30th, 3.2 million, by the end of the year, it s going to be 5 million. the republicans and democrats not surprisingly are fighting about this. the democrats passed a bill to extend this and the republicans won t extend it until they get what they want. the job participation rate is as low as it s been since the 80s and the situation looks bleak. first of all, i have massive telestrator envy. he is the john madden of if i knew he was going to be a tablet don t bring a knife to gun fight. or telestrator pen apparently to a tv show. two things to add to your excellent analysis, labor force participation rate, we want it see the number go up. if it goes up, it means people are looking for a job, which means they think they can find a job. obviously the underemployed is also a number to watch, 7.4 million people working part time that might like to work full time. i can t get a full-time job so i m going to take the work that i can get, often without benefits as well. those are two other numbers. minimum wage jobs. unbelievable. mark leibovich, what are you writing about this week? i actually have a column next week. bits the merging of broadcasts and politics. you have people like mike rogers leaving the house intelligence leadership to go into television. directly. who else would do something like that? it s a bizarre, trail blazing move. he actually is going directly, though. going rogue. i ve got to say, this kid show as lot of plock and fight and determination to do this. who would do that? it s amazing he had an amazing amount of i mean, you have an immense amount of power. what does that say about what it feels like to be in washington? maybe it doesn t feel so powerful anymore. there s that but it talks about the melding of the media world and political world. the realms are so interlocked that we have this one big people in the green room sector, which we all are. you talk, you tell people what they want to hear. what s the difference? money. you get paid a lot more money to be in the tv business. i m not getting actually paid for this. they give me some coupons. your food truck is bringing in plenty of money. i m not getting paid. i understand why. hey, chris christie back in the news. it looks like some donors are thinking about dumping him for jeb. well, it wasn t so long ago that chris christie was leading in the polls and considered part of the contender among the republicans to challenge hillary clinton in 2016. now the new york times reports some establishment republican fund-raisers, as joe mentioned, even ones in the jersey area, are considering jumping ship from christie for jeb bush. meanwhile, jeb is getting some support from his brother, who knows a thing or two about running for the white house. i hope jeb runs. i think he would be a great president. i have no clue what s on his mind, and we ll talk when he s ready. i notice he s moving around the country quite a bit and doing well in polls. yeah, it s fine. it don t mean anything. for him, i can guarantee he s not looking at a poll whether or not to run. he s checking he is core and as he says, i m thinking about my fami family. he knows full well what it means to run for president. he knows the toll it takes on i don t family. so, hey, jeb, if you need some help, give me a call. does he seem happy or what? he seems happy where he is. according to the quinnipiac university poll, jeb bush leading in his home state. let s go to julie pace down in washington. julie, this is not in the words of the grateful dead a long, strange trip for chris christie. it has been a short, strange, rocky, turbulent trip for the new jersey governor. and it looks like a lot of his donors are starting to lose patience. yeah. this donor battle between chris christie and jeb bush i think is fascinating because they re both playing for money from the same pot, where you have more mainstream republicans, more business-minded republicans, who first were leaning towards chris christie but the second that this bridge scandal popped up, started looking around to see who else was out there, and they really like jeb bush. this is a guy they would love to get into this race. i just also think that the bush family dynamics on this are absolutely fascinating. you have george bush saying i want my brother to run and you have barbara bush a few months ago saying i hope he doesn t run, we ve had enough bushes. i m curious what h.w. has to say. h.w. i think has long wanted his son to actually run for this office. you know, mark, a lot of people close well, we had tina brown here, who is not extraordinarily close to hillary, but she s always been a big hillary fan, they ve run in similar circumstances. she wrote a column this morning saying basically, hillary, you know what it s like, don t run. and barbara bush doesn t want her son to run because of her son and her grandchildren. it s getting more brutal every day to do this. i don t know if there s momentum or if it s just chatter, but maybe hillary won t run. people have always been talking with the assumption that this is a fait de comeplete. we have christie and jeb bush this reenforces the power of the establishment. whenever you have a bush and christie conversation, the tea party are very aggrieved, who are these establishment people? all of a sudden people do sort of line up behind them and it a very, very powerful kind of endorsement. it always happens. it always happens. in 1992 you had the challenge of course when pat buchanan, george h.w. bush ended up winning. in 96 it was buchanan, the conservatives hated bush, dole won. john mccain, all the conservatives couldn t stand him, he won, he won. they at least win the primary, even if they lose the war. can i ask you a question? you certainly can. i don t think i want you to. by the way, happy birthday. what s your question? the economy has been getting better for a couple years. i mean, it s slow, right? we re not booming but we ve been getting better. do you think the economy is still job one for any candidate? oh, my god, yes. is it always even if it s good times? people don t feel like it s getting better because long-term unemployment, as steve talked about. even without the long-term unemployment, real wages have been dropping. big banks are still big banks. bigger than they were. too big to fail has gotten even bigger. you look at working class americans, they ve been losing the battle for decades now. yeah, this is economy is job one. and it s got to be more than just pointing at the last guy because this is a 20-year, 30-year systemic problem. i think there a lot of reasons to be excited. i m very excited about the energy revolution, about manufacturing coming back. as steve said, it s not going to be coming back at $35 an hour, it might be $16, $17, $18 an hour, but i d rather have it here than in china. china is having problems with growth as well, down 7%, 8%. china is not going belly up but at the same time, you re starting to hear people in america to say, wait a minute, it s starting to cost me more to send my jobs over to china. you get the shipping to get back, general electric we re talking about. you have the innovatiowvatio. i wouldn t trade this economy for any other one in the developed world. that said, as you said, joe, wages aren t going up, huge long-term unemployment, 6.5% for those even looking for work. this is the number one issue. but there s two ways, without get too long wonky, there s two problems, cyclical and structural. this is structural. agree with you. if it is structural, who can fix it? how do they fix it? we talk about slicyclical, b look at the last two bump-ups. the late 90s it was fueled by the nasdaq, it went bust, people too excited about it and in 94, 97, you had the tech bubble. as our good friend paul krugman said, he wanted a housing bubble to replace the tech bubble and it did. for the past 20 years, we have been fueled by bubbles. this is what worries economists. it s like a heroin addict. each time you need a bigger and bigger dose to get some kind of recovery to get some kind of growth happening. we re still in a cyclical phase but there are structural issues and someone has to take them on. so, julie pace, you have an article about pushing for data, and new privacy laws. tell bus that. this is something the president called for as part of the larger nsa review. it s what s referred to as big data, which basically means all the information that the government, that private sector companies pull on all of us. and there s a lot of concerns about what happens to this data. and one of the really interesting things in the white house report, which was overseen by john podessa, obama s new counsel, he found there s a real risk of discrimination. as people collect this information, they know an awful lot about us, and they fear this information could be used to discriminate against people in things like financials decisions and housing decisions. it makes a lot of sense when you think about all the information we pump out about ourselves in social media and every form we fill out. it tells people about our age, our race, our gender. it s scary to think how that can be used against us. of course, mark leibovich, they follow around our habits on the internet, which is extraordinarily dangerous. extremely. no, we would never ultimately, this is about disconnect. when you talk about the economic numbers, one of the reasons people are sort of taken aback by this is these economic factors have not really touched washington, d.c. the last couple of decades. what state has the highest percentage of millionaires? washington is the wealthiest metropolitan area. name one major corporation based in maryland. lockheed martin. d.c. in maryland state. the washington post post company i don t work there anymore. d.c. you get my point. the money. we have this gilded age going on and a lot has been inflated by the government and a lot of growth around government. i guess this is a good time to plug my back, right? do it! now out in paperback, this town is actually about this gilded age in d.c. we have the white house correspondent dinner this weekend so it s the perfect timing. everybody should walk around with this town as they walk around to see who is there. mark leibovich and julie, thank you very much. and mark, we ll have you back in about 12 minutes when the unemployment numbers are reported, am i correct about that? yes. and coming up, does separatist really mean russian forces? rick stengel and fred kempe join us. but first here s bill karins with a check on the forecast. let s go talk about what happened this last week as far as the amazing video was concerned, we saw all the devastation in penpensacola, tornadoes. and then there was this out of baltimore. [ screaming ] this was taken from someone s porch. railroad tracks below the little river that turned into a gushing river in baltimore. unbelievable scene there. and there s this opposite view of it. literally, the houses, they re telling people they may not get back in their homes for weeks until they stabilize or literally build a new retaining wall. let me take you to where we are now. we saw not just the east, the west had an unbelievable hot stretch. it was 95 degrees yesterday in san diego. that was the hottest temperature they ve ever seen in may by five degrees. and the drought in california continues to get worse. we have a drought that s getting worse in kansas, oklahoma and texas. it s just been a lot of extremes. the eastern half of the country has been wet and stormy ey eve since the winter and the west warm and dry. tampa and orlando, you re going to get rained on in some portion of your day. showers from minneapolis and chicago. as we go into saturday, there s not a lot of bad weather to be found. we re nice even into sunday. there are no more extremes. and the kentucky derby is going to go off as we go throughout saturday. for the derby itself, you couldn t ask for a better forecast. more morning joe when we come right back. run until she s out of breath, ran until there s nothing left [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn t fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today.and tomorrow. so let s see what we can do about that. remodel. motorcycle. 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it s great to you have back in a different capacity. i was telling the guys here i was just in burma and malaysia. it s fantastic. burma is a great opportunity for american public diplomacy. you know i m going to put this in before you go to whatever you want to talk about. it may be mika s birthday and my birthday today but tomorrow is world press freedom day. the united states government is on the side of journalists oppressed everywhere. journalists are more oppressed today than any time in history. vladimir putin one of the terrible offenders through the years of press freedom. a lot of reporters who have reported on him have ended up dead. 99 journalists were killed in the line of duty last year. what s changed is journalists used to get harmed in the line of duty and now they re targeted by governments. that s disturbing. speaking of vladimir putin, we have now a helicopter shot down in ukraine. vladimir putin ordering the ukraine government to get their own forces out of their own country. what s next in this downhill spiral? thank, joe. i had a conversation with a pretty senior figure in the obama administration today. i said what s going on? and he just come back from the region and he said, fred, it s just like jurassic park. he s a history guy and loves preworld war ii history. he said i ve been studying bones and now the dinosaurs are awake again, it s so exciting. what s happening in this latest attack is we re seeing the unraveling of something much more sophisticated. putin is not bare knuckled. he doesn t need to invade. he s been oozing across the border with special forces and insurgents. he s been using psychological operations. he doesn t want to send tanks across because that would unify the west. that would really take the camouflage off of him. what ukrainians are doing is they re calling putin s bluff by trying to clear out these areas like in donetsk. if he comes across with more conventional forces, that will unify the west and help them enormously. what we learned today is protesters can t fire shoulder-held missiles. this is definitely special ops, well-trained troops. 25 of them go to the building, take it and bring in local activists, go to the next building, take it and bring in local activists. and of course john kerry went to the atlantic council and ripped putin s russia over the ukrainian crisis. what can we do? you look at the wall street journal and unfortunately angela merkel is sending a message, my top corporations don t want anymore involvement. i agree with fred, it s russian special operations. they re illegal and violating of the geneva agreement. but there are new sanctions that are potentially being prepared. i mean, i think the u.s. is looking at ratcheting it up to match what russia is doing there, but what we really want is for them to de-escalate the situation. but when you look at the record of sanctions, rick, through history, going all the way back to cuba and rhodesia and all these places, when they work, it takes a long, long time. i would argue putin is making fundamental errors that in the long run are detrimental to his country. the president has said there s no military solution to this so you have to look at alternatives. but you re being rational. assuming putin is rational. i don t think we should be irrational because he s irrational. no, but we have to find something rational to do. one of the problems with sanctions here is reports out this morning that russia is not being punished at all by these sanctions. the ruble has gone up and their markets have gone up since the sanctions were announced. does this suggest we need to send tougher signals to putin s russia? there s no doubt there have to be tougher signals. it was interesting, we did have secretary kerry at the council this week, vice president biden and kerry was strong but he was strong prime i recall that we wouldn t give away an inch of baltic s territory as they are nato partners. he didn t go so far with ukraine. the problem with sanctions, it s a total new battlefield now where we are using sanctions not to punish the russian for what they re doing but as military deterrence to stop them from what they might do. it s clear the sanctions aren t sufficient to do that or the threat of further sanctions. part of the problem is how dependent europe is on russian energy. we re looking at this wrong. it s not about the ukraine. it s about the future of russia, a nuclear arms state. this is going to go on for years, it s a long game. we re looking for the future of the international system. we re at an inflexion point that could be just as important as the end of world war i and end of world war ii. if we don t shape the international system, then less benevolent actors will step in to do that and that s what we re seeing in ukraine. thank you, rick stengel i have a gift for mika. this is flashlight held by the great singer of ukraine where she turns it on, thousands of people turn it on and she sings the ukrainian national anthem this weekend. we honored her this weekend and we had about 800 of these in the audience. there s a nice little bow on it. huge jobs numbers just came out. thank you fred, thank you steve. that is lovely, fred. thank you. will finally this be the month for economic recovery? 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breaking news. the jobs numbers are a big story this morning. brian, what are they? i don t use the word spectacular much, except to describe you, mika. i m going to use it for this report here. 288,000 jobs. are you serious? of course i m serious, and don t call me shirley. unemployment dropped to 6.3. labor force participation rate, the number of people in the workforce or looking for a job rose as well. professional business services added 75,000. hold on labor force participation rate dropped. the number of under employed people stayed steady at 7.5 million. but 288, can you knock the number? it was going to be 220 and this a really good number. and the revisions for february and march were also very good. steve, there have been so many reports over the past three years that we ve looked at and they ve been disappointing, they ve sort of been flat. this is one of the best slices of good news at least you can always fudge a 6.8 or 6.5. 288,000, that s a real number. that s something to be excited about for middle class people, working class people trying to get back into the workforce. it s an exciting number and it going to be an exciting number in the white house and for a lot of democrats trying to get reelected this fall, if the trend continues. 250 would help us get out of this quagmire, right? we ve been receiving this anemic push up and down in the hundreds. 250 is where we needed to be and above to show that we re in economic recovery, that it s stabilized. that s right. 200 kind of keeps us whole because of people coming in the labor force. 250 is actually a move in the right direction. now 288. it s the biggest number we ve had in a long time. average hourly earnings also creeping up again. it just goes up a few cents. it s saying there s demand for your services. if somebody has to pay you more, it s because they think somebody else might be able to take your job or there s competition for the job so that s exciting. it s such good news that we baked a cake because we anticipated a 288,000 number. how is it? it s very good. you re having a taste? wow. i m going to go for a slice. since you guys are eating, i m going to go over the numbers. to steve s point, the last month was revised over 200,000 as well here. keep an eye on that. i said that the economy had been getting better for about three years and rattner, you were p pooh-poohing all over me. talking about pooh-poohing is not the way to go on the set. oh, my god, i love jim gaffigan. and who knows where, joe, the conversation will take us. there is the vegetarian hot pocket for those of us who don t want to eat meat but still would like diarrhea. hot pocket it should just come with a roll of toilet paper. there s the lean pocket. i don t even want to know what s in there. imagine the directions, take out of box, place directly in toilet. flush pocket have some more cake. stay with it baby if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me,
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jesus said love your neighbor as yourself. that s the spiritual foundation for the common good. certainly if you talk about a common good, too, you and i probably disagree on a lot of issues and probably disagree on immigration reform and what shape immigration reform should take. but, my gosh, you and i both want what s best for this country, you and i both want what s best for this world. if i m a progressive and you re a tea party member, you re a liberal, i m a conservative, i think that s the greatest breakdown is we can t even sit down and have faith that the other person wants what s best for this country, even if we disagree. i remember you had myself and richard land on, a southern baptist and sojourner talking about immigration reform. we disagree on many things you but on that issue we had really come together. let s have a debate about key issue, but we don t trust each other enough, we don t trust each other s intentions enough. the nation is looking for its leaders to solve problems, and glen would talk about how jesus inspires us to i would say don t go left, don t go right, go deeper. go deeper. that s what glen always taught us how to do. and we can follow his legacy and quite frankly also the book, the uncommon good sounds like washington could use, or all us. reverend jim wallis, thank you so much. it s really, really nice to you have on the show. always a blessing to be with you, always a blessing. up next, you wanted it. yes, i did. that s really a better way of putting it. i did, i wanted it. i demanded it in fact. we got it, the mojoe week in review, next on morning joe. ask and you shall receive. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked giants stood tall and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real avo: whatever you can imagine, all in one place expedia, find yours the was a truly amazing day. without angie s list, i don t know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we ve helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com or how ornate the halls are. tall the building is, it doesn t matter if there are granite statues, or big mahogany desks. when working with an investment firm, what s really important is whether the people behind the desks actually stand behind what they say. introducing the schwab accountability guarantee. if you re not happy with one of our participating investment advisory services, we ll refund your program fee from the previous quarter. it s no guarantee against loss and other fees and expenses may still apply. chuck vo: standing by your word, that s what matters the most.
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live on. thanks to everyone who responded. someone here made a good point. they re called food stamps for a reason. we hope you have a great weekend. thanks for joining us. have a great day. we ll see you on monday. fox & friends starts right now. bye. good morning. it is friday, mayç 9, 2014. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. seven democrats breaking rank and approving a select committee to get answers on benghazi, but will the others choose to boycott? probably not. but they aren t interested in answers and we re going to tell you what they do want instead. and welcome to the hotel sharia? the guy who owns the iconic beverly hills hotel adopted the brutal sharia law that says it s okay to stone people to death. now the biggest names in tinsel town are calling for a boycott of the beverly hills hotel. even they can t take it anymore. guys, does this sound familiar? the bathroom is a mess! you should probably go work out! it turns out your wife sç nagging he seems to be chronicling her nagging might be killing you even though she is 100% right. i want to find out if elisabeth nags. we mean well. she has not nagged on the set so far. by the way, we re running out of music that sounds like another planet. so mornings are better with friends. hi, this is kenny loggins on the curvy couch. you re watching fox & friends. and we re footloose on this friday. thank you as we conclude the birthday week for brian kilmeade, youç will see more pictures of the activities. it s lovable about you because all the attention makes you a little self-conscious. i can t wait for this week to be over. now everybody knows my name. did you get a haircut? i got a haircut on monday. it s friday. you haven t seen much of me really. somebody else is doing your hair. do you get a haircut before your birthday every year? is it a routine? it is a tradition i haven t tapped into. it is just a coincidence. but we have a best-up package. last night the nfl draft ended about midnight right across the street. we ll discuss that in a little while. but first a benghazi panel. new news today comingç in. an update here. it s been plus 20 months, four americans killed and zero accountability here. the house voted yesterday to establish a benghazi committee. all the republicans voted yes. seven democrats broke with their party in a vote of 232-186. we re going to look at who the party breakers are. it looks like the same people who voted for the lois lerner investigation and what not. the makeup will be of this new committee, is going to be seven republicans and five democrats. republicans are going toç announce perhaps as early as today who is going to be on their side of the aisle. meanwhile, the democrats going to meet at 9:30 this morning to decide whether or not to have anybody out there. and as it turns out, in the last couple of days, remember on monday we were talking about how adam schiff from california, the democrat, said we shouldn t have anybody there. this is completely bogus. it s all been settled. a waste of time he said. yes. the democrats now see some utility in seeing somebody on the panel and plus if we don t have anybody there, who is going to protect hillary? they should have one guy there to get into the meetings to get access. i guess they ll have a the inside and somebody to ask questions. they certainly don t want to leave hillary clinton, should she be brought in to testify defenseless, the irony being they re going to ask her why four americans were left defenseless and left to die. when you look at the americans here, there is one christen cinema from arizona. nancy pelosi seeming to back off her initial strategy to completely protest in favor of defending. one house democrat aide said they don t want to have a moment like whenç senator joe mccarthy was being chastised during his investigation of communist activities. they need a wingman in case one of their people winds up starting to look bad. a lot of people looking in are happy this is finally happening. a lot of people on the other side of the aisle said we figured it out already. let the chips fall where they may. let truth be their guide. had the white house, as we learned last week, as the white house not started pinning from the get go we probably wouldn t be here if they would have leveled with people. now we ll find out. there will be a meeting today. the one good thing is mass media will cover it more than likely if you have democrats playing a role, as it s easy to marginalize even if great things and interesting things areç taking place if it is just one party hammering a group of people. charles krauthammer wrote an incredible article saying this should not be political. truth should supercede partisan politics. a lot of people fly out to hollywood and stay at the beverly hills hotel. it is iconic. as it turns out, it is owned by the dorchester collection of fantastic, very expensive hotels. in the last week, it s interesting, theirç owner, the sultan of brunei has introduced islamic laws where if you re gay or you are an adulterer, they will stone you to death. some of the great things about sharia law, the way they treat women, the way they punish people, these are all the things that maybe a single american can relate to. because of that, i was heartened to see this because of that you have a-list celebrities canceling up to 20 events at the beverly hills hotel in protest of the way they treat women, the way they treat gays. not just canceling but calleding others. for a boycott here. you have)jay. it s going to get heated. who wants to support a company that supports sharia law? come on! nobody! that s crazy. it is apparently out in california there is a lot of pressure on dorchester collection. you ve got to sell that thing. this is iconic. it s part of the hollywood and beverly hills fabric of history. sell it to anybody else who is not involved in sharia law. they re begging to keep in mind there are a lot of employees. you probably don t like the taliban. did they buy hotels? we don t know. they lost about $2 million in protests so far. if everyone continues to rally, if everyone continues to take note, i think this could make an impact. we wanted to update you on that and so much more. that s how we get started. in the meantime let s turn it over to heather nauert who tells us about more bad news at the veterans administration hospital. a big update to bring you. the secretary of veterans affairs has been subpoenaed by congress. the veterans affairs committee voted to subpoena eric shinseki over the phoenix v.a. scandal. the goal is to get e-mails and ote[ documents about that alleged scheme we told you about that involved treatment delays that may have killed as many as 40 of our veterans. the white house still supports shinseki but lawmakers say he has got to go. listen to this. in his six years in secretary, there is no time left. if you can t change an agency in a fraction of that time, you re not going to do it in a year or more. that is the really sad truth. it is not that he isn t a good man. it is that he failed. there are new accusations this morning of similar scenes taking place at v.a. hospitals in texas and in colorado. we ll keepç watching that story. that s an important one. here is what not to do on a dating show. admit that you killed your first wife. [inaudible] here is what happened. that man confessed to murdering not just his wife but another lover with an ax. he said he spent four years behind bars for killing his wife and six years behind bars for killing the other gal. he says right now he s an honest guy just looking for a new wife. the producers say they knew the guy killed someone when they let him on the show. producerrers; right? produce) on a turkish dating show that was called luck of the draw. wow. we do love our producers. then there is this story: the show must go on. four days after nine performers plunged 30 feet to the ground, ringling brothers is back up for business. there are eight scheduled shows through sunday. many of those injured performers remain in the hospital. that human chandelier stunt will not be performed again. you can see it right there. sad news to bring you this morning. the man behind tony the tiger has died. ç frosty flakes, it s part of a balanced breakfast. they re great! that s lee marshal. he began voicing the frosted flakes mascot years ago. he died of cancer in his esophagus. lee marshal was 64 years old. and those are your headlines. an iconic voice. heather, thank you very much. what about your quiz your quisp? speaking of the voice, let s talk a little bit about the voice of your spouse. when you close your eyes, can you hear that person nagging you? does it drive you to scream? as it turns out the university of copenhagen followed 10,000 men and women for a decadeç and discovered that if your spouse is a nagger, there is a real good chance you re going to die early. because women talk to other women you re pointing at her. don t point at her. it works both ways, brian. no it doesn t because men don t have a network of people to talk to. you forced all our friends away. so we re forced to deal with just the voice women have a network of friends to deal with and get all this off their chest. maybe that guy on the dating show wasç nagged. 2.5 times more likely to die are men within ten years and women are 34% more likely to die if they re nagged with increased risk of strokes and heart disease. this is serious stuff. it is. wasn t king solomon in proverbs who said it would be better to be stranded on a desert island than to be married to a nagging woman? king solomon said that? i think i skipped that page. i think it was king kong. maybe men should just listen to what women are saying and do what we re told. define nag. constantly saying the same thing over and over. what about listening? does that hurt wives? aç little charlie brown speech. i think the problem is it applies to both sexes. if you feel like you re being nagged you ve got to talk to the other person. otherwise you re going to internalize it and the next thing you know, you ll blow a heart valve. men need more guy s nights out to build up that network of friends to allow them to alleviate some of the stress they re keeping locked up inside. thou shalt not studies for your own benefit. it isç a good idea if your wife does ask you to do something about three or four times, if you re not doing it, she s going to keep repeating. message to women: if we haven t done it after three or four times, move on to the next topic. give us some advice. if you ve got a nagger at your house or you figured out how to deal with a nagger, let us know. friends@foxnews.com. that will go well for your friday night date night. on the national television morning show they read out your e-mails. this comes from bill wilson in florida. coming up on this friday, imagine seeing this on your drive to work today. cars nearlyç swallowed up after the road collapsed underneath them. weed is still legal under federal law, so should colorado be letting pot shops in on their banking business? stuart varney here on that. why do results matter so much? it s probably because they are the measurement of everything we do. for a wireless company, results come down to coverage speed and legendary reliability. so go ahead, stream, game or video chat. that s why verizon built americas largest 4g lte network. because the only thing that really matters are the results you get. so for the best devices the best network and for best results, use verizon. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about lyrica today. it s specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. to hear more of karen s story, visit lyrica.com. colorado s blazing marijuana industry now getting theç world s first financial system devoted to the pot business. but since selling marijuana is still illegal under federal law, is the government essentially legitimizing these transactions by allowing their own banking system? let s talk to the host of varney and company stuart varney. the weed business in the great state of colorado, a half million in january, almost five million. you asked? is colorado legitimizing the pot business? the answer of course is yes. that s exactly what they are doing. they are legitimizing it. they are creating financial infrastructure for this brand-new business. as you say, the feds,ç the big banks, they can t accept all this money. it s federally illegal. it s federally illegal and the banks don t want to give the obama team an excuse to crack down on the banks by saying you re dealing in drug money there, boys, we re going to hit you hard. so they ve got to come up with an alternative. and they have. and the thing about and the reason we put that graphic up a moment ago is to show you we re talking about millions and millions of dollars largely in cash. you know, there s a safety issue. i get that. but at the same time it is like what are they going to do? because they ve got this carvingout in colorado, tzey ve got to figure out what to do with the money. it s all about the money. the politicians want to set up an alternative financial structure because of the tax money coming in. nearly $5 million walked into the door in pot shops in the month of, i think it was march. that doesn t include all the money that comes in from pot tourism which is pretty robust in colorado. that. people fly into colorado because they want to smoke marijuana recreationally and legally. there is a cottage industry organizing tourists to fly in, toke up and away you go. i think that is the correct expression, ladies and gentlemen. what colorado is doing with its alternate banking system and that s what they re setting up here, that is the template khr-l be used across the coqáry if recreational marijuana extends beyond colorado. in washington state in july they will need a similar alternate banking system. they will probably copy what colorado has come up. they are legitimizing it. absolutely. some of the banks, because they ve got federal regulations they are reluctant to get in bed with the pot business. it s here. they re going to make money with it. stuart varney, you can check him out on the fox business channel between 11 and 1:00. thank you very much. have a good we= ahead, they put their lives on the line, some even paying the ultimate sacrifice. don t our military members deserve more than a minimum wage? plus it s not your grandpa s boy scout troop. now these young boys and girls are designing and flying their own robots. anna kooiman here to tell us all about that. the boy scouts of the future. quick headlines now. the navy wants to exempt on base fast food workers from the president s federal minimum wage increase. they will make a public plea today echoing fears from around the country that raising the pay rate will force the restaurant out of business. republican senator marco rubio visiting new hampshire, his first stop in an early voting state in more than a year. so far rubio keeping quiet on his prospects so i should whisper thisç story. it s out of the bag. it used to be as a boy scout the coolest thing you could learn was to build a camp fire. now the scouts are learning to build robots. anna kooiman is here to tell us how they re doing. yes. they are evolving with the times. the boy scouts of america say 75% of america s fastest growing careers require significant cowork in s, but 15% of kids aren t ready so they re trying to bridge that gap and even allowing some girls in on the action. watch this. reporter: robots, you see them in the movies and in the headlines. but now the boy scouts aviation explorers are getting their hands on the technology of the future. you built this yourself? here at the illinois math and scienceç academy students from 6th through 12th grade can design, build and maneuver their own quad copter. while they love for the robots to do their homework for them, quad copters like these are being used in real life situations. we re already seeing them used as surveillance vehicles, as delivery vehicles, patrol vehicles, aerial mapping. and i think the future is unlimited. the program is preparing kids for careers in involved in sciengj-dw and technology. what kid wouldn t think it is cool to fly a quad copter. it drives up your [inaudible] that is what we need. boys will be boys. if you crash, don t worry about it. don t sweat it. we re here to leave. robotics is teaching science, tepl, engineering and math. thatr#hpá we need. and think being a scout is just for boys? think again. we bring as much to the table as guys do. i want to work on building an app for my phone. this is cool because someday i can use this to make a change. these kids are fantastic. what skpaoeuts us ex-sites us is when they see what the quad copter will do they are thinking of things we never thought of. folks at home if you re interested in being part ofç an aviation exploring club visit fox & friends .com. can you get a merit badge? 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take a look at this. it s your shot of the morning caught on camera. two nearly naked groomsmen in australia running into the ocean right there. you know why? they re trying to save a fisherman. the wedding party saw the boat overturned near some rocks while they were posing for some pictures. without hesitation the groomsmen started running toward the water stripping their suits in the process. they were able to pull the fisherman to safety. he s okay. the groomsmen wentç back to pictures wearing only their underwear with a few bridal bouquets located in strategic shots. that s great. good for them. it is now 27 minutes before the top of the hour. we have a very busy friday, and heather has got some troubling news from those sterlings. yes. we re hearing more from the sterlings. there is an alleged new report from the l.a. clippers own donald sterling reacting to the scandal that earned him a lifetime ban from the nba. listen to a clip of this. you think i m a racist? you think i have anything in the world but love for everybody? you don t think that. you know i m not a racist.ç the nba banned and fined him millions of dollars for that racist rant during a conversation he had with his girlfriend, and other owns are trying to fast track a forced sale of that team, but sterling not going down without a fight. listen to this. they re trying to force you to sell it. you can t force someone to sell property in america. oh yes they can. in the meantime, sterling s estranged wife says she doesn t want to control the team but does want to keep her 50% stake and buy her husband s half too. teachers and a principal at a philadelphia elementary school were so desperateç to make themselves look good that they helped their students cheat on standardized tests. core papers from 2007 to 2012 say that they allegedly told students to record test answers on scrap paper so their work could be checked later. those inflated scores leading to raises and promotions for the teachers. kids and parents trust these people to do their job, and here s what they do. five educators now face criminal charges. we ll keep watching that story. unsuspecting drivers nearly get swallowed up by a huge sink hole in russia. look at this at the top of your screen. amazingly all the drivers seemed to have noticed it and so they were able to drive around it. eventually thatç asphalt caved in and created a hole big enough to swallow a couple of cars. there is a driver in boston who was busted for putting his dummy in the passenger s seat in order to use the high occupancy vehicle car pool lane. a state trooper pulled him over, he found the man mannequin head propped up and the officer then gave him aç ticket. creepy. he got to work faster. where s maria? she s outside. that s right, i m outside hanging out in new york city. it was raining earlier this morning. that has stopped now and we have areas of dense fog. we re probably going to be seeing delays at the airports in the northeast. across parts of the gulf coast, parts of the state of tennessee and up into the midwest we are expecting to see areas of heavy rain over the next several days. even over the weekend, even mother s day and some areas along the gulf coast could potentially pick up to six inches of rain. that s going to be a concern in terms of flooding and of course it is severe weather season so we expect more severe weather from parts of tam into indiana. it continues on saturday, a little bit more localized from missouri and northeastern portions of the state of oklahoma and eastern kansas. by sunday very widespread again from texas up into parts of illinois. i want to take you to the rockies because out here we have a tropic setting up. that means an area of low pressure. look at the forecast from sunday into monday. snow. th erb they re expecting snow from the valley floor and a few inches possible in denver. some moms not going to be too happy in colorado. that was maria doing the weather. let s talk about sports and the big event across the last night was a big night for the nfl. it was draft day. with the first pick in the 2014 nfl draft, the houston texans select jadavian clowny. went to the houston texans. who were the other picks? here is rich big daddy delgado. the word is in the building there is a sense it is not coming back next year. the draft is going on the road. looks like l.a., chicago, obviously jerry jones. like the super bowl. the big news, clowny, no surprise numberç one? no surprise. when you have an athlete like that, they only come around so many or so. you have to take him. you don t have to worry about two defensive ends that can bring the end. what about johnny football? they needed a quarterback. it took a little bit longer but he s in a good place. number 22 taken by the cleveland browns. at the last minute it looked like the vikings were moving up to take him but browns said not so fast. is this a guy that can put people in the seat? absolutely. tell us about nike. he was anç adidas. nike, underarmour. he sells jerseys. tweeting, he s through the roof. who wouldn t look at that. what to you was the biggest surprise? bridgewater going so far. he was on two days ago. he had a bad pro day and everybody made aig deal because he didn t wear a glove. if you watch the film and those games he won, that guy s an athlete. he knows how to win. last year he was more valuable than this year. he went to minnesota and the guy who is the o.c. there is norv turner. norv turner knows how to coachç quarterbacks. we ve seen that happen before, they don t get drafted when we thought they would and come back. absolutely. being the second round, the names that are going to go today, those are going to be the core guys because there s some guys that didn t go last night that will go today, and those guys are going to be players. a lot of people listen to us in florida, blake portals will put some people in the seats there. absolutely. those tarps that cover the seats and make the stadium look full, those will come down because you ve got a big constituted quarterback that won%t@5jñ big stud quarterback that won t play right away but people will come. and watkins. doug marone says we go as our quarterback goes. you re our party quarterback and it s great you went to the draft last night. thanks for the post game show. 20 minutes before the hour. will you be able to handle a job that requires this. basically 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no vacation. in fact, thanksgiving, christmas, new years and holidays, the workload is going to go up. it is the hardest job in the planet. can you guess what that job is? 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[ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. i don t know about you but i m hungry. we ve got a serving of headlines all about food. let s start with breakfast. pizza for breakfast? it s so college. burger king is now offering burgers for breakfast. they re calling it the burger at breakfast menu. it also includes chicken sandwiches, french fries and apple pie. mcdonald s is testing seasoned fries and st. louis dubbed shake and flavor fries covered in garlic, parpl is parmesan. here s what s different. you buy the fries andç season them yourself. i like that. have it your way. exactly. have it your way is burger king, am i correct? you ham burglar you. are you ready for a rewind? it s been another busy week on fox & friends. let s take a look back. live from studio e. they really pulled out all the stops. fun day monday. packedç house. check this out. this high schooler is in his own one man rail. our own hail mary expert, brian kilmeade, is out on the plaza. he s run over next to our building. jack is back! how does it come back? it was done four years ago. i know. you get a call four years later and you re like who s pranking me. god doesn t actually have a phone number. he may. it sç 1-800-call god. i looked to rub somebody down. fantastic. i need to get certified. can i go now? i m not wrong about that. it s brian kilmeade s birthday. i am officially 50. welcome to the club. happy birthday. when you turn 30, you ll understand what it s like. happy birthday it s a margarita mixer. wait a minute, last time you had a lot ofç margaritas, you wound up in a towel. doing a selfie. elisabeth decided in the after the show show you were going to take that cake and destroy it. i don t recall that. there s a crazy lady in high heels. that guy just grabbed the cake out of her hand and smashes it into his face. nothing else to do but high five. he made me do it. i did not make you do it! she looks crazy we re running out of time. we are. jack is back-ç and she took a whack at you. it took six months. after your first throw at me which failed, it landed up top? is that what enabled you to attack somebody else? you can t leave a cake on the turf. i picked it up and tried to chase you around the building. then you went behind the barrier. and met the unexpected. a total stranger saw elisabeth when she was running by, then this guy grabs the cake and smashes it into his own face. i later asked him why did he do that?ç he said nobody else did. i think his name is eroc from the opening anthony show which broadcasts next door. any way, it s been a busy week. you miss a little, you miss a lot. straight ahead on this friday show, should you be able to use food stamps for guns? one lawmaker, a democrat, thinks so. you re about to hear from him. later i ll remind big daddy we re on television and to whisper. he s taking note on that. would you be interested in this job? 135 hours, unlimited hours a week. it is basically 24 hours a day 67 7 days a week. no vacation. thanksgiving, christmas, new year s, holidays the workload is going to go up. it is the hardestç job on the planet. can you guess what it is? we re going to reveal it coming up next. thoughtful combinations, artfully prepared. fancy feast elegant medleys. inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast. a medley of love, served daily. what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together reliably fast internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are necessary. beam us up. that s my phone. hey. 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well, we believe at american greetings, fathers deserve to be recognized like mothers. we will invite to you wait and see. i m sure you do. brian is arguing that being a father is the hardest thing. right. and i did it off cam are hoping not to bring it up to a national audience. in the big picture, moms should feel is a lieutenanted by saluted by this, correct? absolutely. this was all shared content. we re up to 18 million views because the moms were the velocity behind sharing it. it s a win-win. thank you for joining us. and it s a great message with american greetings. thanks so much. thank you. coming up, they put their lives on the line for this nation. so how do we thank them? we re about to take away their right to smoke cigarettes. is that true? and kids have invaded our control room. that s right. there is a good reason. how you can use your children to lose weight. they re being used? i think they re having the time of their lives scott: hello! nbr: scott - we re concerned. you just fed your lawn earlier this spring and now you re at it again. scott: (chuckles) indeed, a crucial late spring feeding helps defend the grass against the summer heat to come. nbr: we knew that - right guys? oh yeah! scott: feed your lawn. feed it! we know we re not the center of your life, but we ll do our best to help you connect to what is. for $175 dollars a month? so our business can be on at&t s network 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. at od, whatever business you re in, that s the business we re in. with premium service like one of the best on-time delivery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatever it takes to make your business our business. od. helping the world keep promises. good morning. it is friday, may 9, 20124. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. seven democrats breaking rank and approving a select committee to get answers on benghazi. will the others choose to boycott? probably not. but they aren t interested in answers. we ll tell what you they do want instead. a veteran affected by the v.a. scandal is speaking out. i m just like i don t want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. another whistle blower and saying it s not just phoenix. meet the democrat who wants you to be able to use food stamp s to buy firearms. not kidding. #fridays arebetterwithfriends. it s time for fox & friends everybody dance now give me the music give me the music . hello, with your little guy. so many times women are like, i don t have any time to go work out. you do them together. you work it in with the kid. there you go. that s the whole theme. what s the thing with putting them with the most ex opinionsive equipment in the building. i think anything could spill, things could come flying out. so it will be an exciting final two hours. that s right. meanwhile, also later today okay so yesterday, eric cantor said we need this benghazi panel because the administration has not cooperated. they ve stonewalled, redacted information. this could be the only way we figure out what happened after benghazi and leading up to it. we do know that it looks like the members of the republican side, there are going to be seven. they are going to perhaps be announced this later today, there will be five democrats. democrats will meet at 9:30 this morning behind closed doors to figure out whether or not they should show up. what s interesting is when they had this great big housewide vote, all the republicans voted for it and seven democrats voted for it, too. so it was indeed bipartisan. all these name you see here happen to be in states, in situations that are heavily republican. so i m not saying they re insincere in their vote. i m saying it s politically savio for them to vote for this panel. i say you take those men and women, pick five and put them on the panel because they are sincerely looking for answer when is it comes to benghazi as opposed to other people that might be there just to obstruct. remember the initial strategy was to boycott. we heard nancy pelosi say why are we talk being this? we ve heard people suggest that this is just a waste of time when it comes to democrats and the perspective and looking at it again, 20 months later, four people dead, no answers. they are now going to strategically as it seems, place their reps there in order to possibly protect hillary, which she will be called to testify. in fact, the democrats, given the fact this in the beginning they were saying, let s not have anybody show up, now democrats see the utility in having people on the panel. elijah cummings, waxman spoke in favor of appointing democrats and they did mention hillary would probable will he be testifying and probably be testifying and also said susan rice would be testifying. so they wanted and they talked about rosa delaro who said, i m not so sure this is a legitimate committee, but maybe we should have one person, just have one person who has got our back. all right. so we ll discuss it. we ll find out today at least. this is not going to be waiting over the weekend. they ll be meeting again at 9:00 o clock in the morning and maybe put those name out and hopefully we ll got this panel going. we would like to see some of those who were on the ground that night and able to talk for the first time. if you can get them in fronts of that panel where we do not know the answers but we can ask legitimate questions on what it was like surviving that attack, that would be compelling. we have not seen that. admiral mullen didn t see that. ambassador pickering didn t see this. i want to hear from some white house people. it looks like the spin started there. perhaps it did. i think the important note is right questions and getting answers. let the decision be what it is based on truthful facts. the guy who runs veterans affairs, general shenseki, has been subpoenaed. he s got the support of the white house. john boehner said yesterday, it s a problem that is systemic and just replacing the guy at the top isn t going to fix things. what we re learning now is it s not just in phoenix where we heard about the situation where maybe 40 veterans died because they were on some made up waiting list. now apparently a scheduling clerk, 40-year-old government employee is seeking whistle blowing protection. apparently they ve got a situation where this looks like they re gotting to people quickly in san antonio and austin. so it is systemic. what happens if you re a veteran and you re supposed to get medical attention? you got 14 days to get an appointment. they ve been putsing in false records and stringing out people that are in their last legs or deemed to be someone barely hanging on and essentially are on a death list. i thought it would be arizona and colorado. now it seems to have spread to texas. which makes you wonder what, could general shenseki say to keep his job next week? here with more is an arizona veteran. i thought at least one thing i have i can depend upon was my country to take care of me when i get older. i never knew i was going to get this. cancer. i m just like i don t want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. gosh, they risk their life going to battle for us and then here, hearts-researching to hear that their biggest fight is to stay alive under the system as it is in the v.a. it is so wrong. we re supposed to take care of these guys, yet the government is turning their backs on them and making stuff up. in the meantime, let s turn to heather nauert who we can counts on with the headlines. we start with a deadly house fire. that story we told but yesterday. we have an update for you in florida. now new developments in the deadly house fired at james blake s house in tampa. investigators are saying that all four family members had been shot. there was a gun that was recovered inside that home and it was actually reject sistered to the father registered to the father. police say they are now investigating the possibility of a murder-suicide. there is new surveillance video that we re getting in. it shows this, campbell buying $600 worth of fireworks on sunday and he paid in cash. he also bought several gas cans. we ll keep you posted on the details. here is what not to do on a dating show. it s not a good idea to admit you killed your first wife. okay. this was on a turkish dating show. that 62-year-old man also confessed to murdering another lover. this time with an ax. he says he spent four years behind bars for killing his wife and then another six years behind bars for killing the girlfriend. he says he s an honest guy who is looking for a new wife. oh, boy. would you believe him? the producers apparently knew that he had killed someone when they let him on the show. this again on turkish tv show. the iron i don t here if the show is called luck of the draw. that s one you don t want to draw. while you were sleeping, new details about the mass kidnapping in nigeria. the government there now naming the names of more than 50 of the young girls who have escaped their kidnappers. this is considered a controversial move because the girls could now face a stigma from other groups in that area. the terror group boko haram abducted 300 girls. the girls were likely split up and sent to neighboring countries by now. here are bravest dogs you will hear. two bulldogs breaking through their enclosure when they saw giant black bear stroll to a bird feeder in their yard. look at this right there. isn t that amazing? they surround the bear and the stand-off lasts a few seconds. the bear seems to consider his options and then he runs off. way to go, bulldogs. that happened in new hampshire. it s like a cartoon. did that really happen? was this a machine in a bear suit was this a man in a bear suit? i would like to hear from witnesses. thank you, heather. speaking of new hampshire bears travel in packs. wolves travel in packs. why are bears always alone. joel, do you know? e-mail us if you have the answer. do you have a couple of sleeping bear hibernating in the same cave, it gets noisy. if you know why bears travel alone, please let s us know. she was just talking about new hampshire. up in new hampshire, there is a democrat, tim organ is in the state house. it s interesting, they re considering legislation where you can t use your food stamp money for guns, foe back co, booze, lottery tickets, adult entertainment, tattoos or body piercing. this guy says wait a minute. maybe listen to this maybe you should be able to use it to buy a gun. the firearms ban is a blatant violation of the second amendment. presumably you have the same rights to purchase guns like the rest of us for sporting or self-defense. they do have the right under the second amendment to do so. he actually said the inclusion of officials seemed ironic. we want to know your thoughts on this. food stamps are for food. right. i ll either get a bazooka gun or gum. you make the choice, honey. what happens when you runoff money for food? right. are you going to take the gun and rob a store? should i get something to eat oar get more ammo? there was the story of a woman who couldn t get dog food with her card. so raising a lot of brows. send us a post and let us know. let me tell you what s coming up next. we just told you that only seven democrats voted for the select committee to get answers on benghazi. the others meeting this morning. will they boycott? one of them is here when we come back. and do you ever catch yourself talking to yourself? you re not nuts. in fact, it might be a sign of something pretty good. exactly. i wonder what she means by that. no idea. 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let s ask one of the representatives, jerry connally. you voted against having it, but now that you have it, where do you stand? what will be your sense this morning when you meet with other democrats on whether they should participate in this? thanks for having me, brian. yeah. i did vote against it because i don t know that we need a select committee. we ve had four committees in the house and other committees in the senate looking at benghazi since it occurred. but i think the answer to your question is frankly going to be two things. one is what happens in our caucus this morning in terms of the nature of the discussion and where we re going to head and the second is the rules of engagement. what kind of procedures are going to be in place to ensure minority rights, that we have equitable representation in the deliberations and in the decision making of such a select panel. so you want to make sure you have enough time to ask the questions of whatever witnesses are forward, you want lead time to know who they were, access to prior to their testimony? those are some of them, yes. i would add to that, though, strict rules of engagement in terms of fair play. so we get to have our witnesses as well. we are consulted with and have some say over the issuance of subpoenas. i m on the oversight and government reform committee and frankly those minority rights have been completely trampled over and if that s the experience, there is no way democrats want to repeat that with a select committee. cummings is push to go make democrats participate in this and he s a guy we always see next to darrell issa sometimes in a contentious way. that would indicate maybe that that s something you guys should do. obviously we have to weigh carefully whether we re at the table or not at the table. the republicans have clearly pretty much on a party line vote. you have emphasized seven democrats, but that s pretty much a party line vote. they created a select committee in rather rushed fashion. the question is, are we better off being at the table to try to make sure it s a balanced approach and that will be determined at our caucus meeting this morning. we ll got an answer today and thanks so much for previewing that. let s ask you about the irs investigation. lois lerner is held in contempt. six democrats voted in favor of contempt and 26 in favor of a special council to investigate it. when she stood up and took the fifth about targeting tea party groups, you knew somebody would happen. where do you stand on this? you know, i think actually conservatives need to be concerned about the issue of fifth amendment rights. the fifth amendment was there not for angels, but to protect all americans, innocent and guilty from self-incrimination. it s one of ten enumeratessed rights in the bill of rights. and we have to take that very, very seriously. i think case law no matter what you think of lois lerner, case law is very clear here. she did not waive her fifth amendment right. even though we d like to get her testimony. even though she made those statements prior you don t feel that way. it s not a matter of how i feel. it s a matter of case law addressing exactly that example. having said that. as an american, does it bother you in 2013, 14, i don t care who is in power, that the irs is using their power perhaps to target any group? i thought this would be one time in which democrats and republicans were equally outraged. actually when we began this process, we were. unfortunately, the republican majority then took it off to try to make it a political partisan effort to try to damage the president. it didn t work. the president got reelected. yeah. we don t want to see the irs we didn t like it when nixon used it. all right. congressman, always great to talk to you. thanks so much. hopefully we ll get something positive out of today s meeting. thank you. coming up, they helped him in the white house twice. so why are unions turning on the president today? we ll find out. plus, you just heard them join me this this segment. babies are invading our studio. how you can use your children to lose weight. 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. okay, kids. i ve got the headlines. everybody be quiet. like that s going to help. headlines now from the military world. the navy wants to exempt on-base fast food workers from the president s federal wage increase. the navy will make a plea, echoing fears from around the country that raising the pay rate will force the fast food restaurants out of business and the pentagon wants to force our military members to stop smoking congressman huntser is fighting back. if you want to make us all healthy, let s outlaw war because war is really dangerous. meanwhile, the marine turned law maker getting an amendment passed that would stop the pentagon s plans to ban the sale of tobacco. kids, good job. thank you very much for being quiet. elisabeth, over to you. we re just working out here. you can never use the excuse of i m too busy with my kids to work out cause this morning we re going to show you how it use your kids to lose weights. that s right. that s when nicky fitness did it herself. after her son jack was born, she s the creator of baby booty camp and joining me now with great tips for moms and dads alike. you re going to watch us through some moves. those mother s day and moms are happy when they work out and babies are happy when they re working out. so i partnered with huggies. baby help to work out. kids are ready to move and the moms are ready to move. we re going to try some of these out. we want to get the kids involved as well as the moms. you can do a plie squat. the baby s feet are going to touch the floor and jump. my son loves this. up and down. and then after you work your legs, then we re going to turn the babies around to face you to work your arms overhead and squat. this is the beauty of moms right here because we don t hear the screaming. then you put the baby s legs against your lunge and overhead. then the baby jumps off your other leg and overhead. on my dvd, my son never really likes to just be jiggled or shakes when he was fussy. he wanted me to do lunges and squats. so as they got bigger you can extend the move. as they get bigger, you get stronger cause they get heavier. can i say did you a great job helping mommy work out today? oh, my goodness. so you hold the arm and leg and work your obliques. your hips are forward, making sure not to lean forward to precontinuing your bike. this is for baby. they ll be able to do flips flid somersaults. you like to ride up and down? a roller coaster for baby and mom gets stronger as the baby gets heavier. i did this from about four months until my baby was about two. then he was walking and running away from me. that was my new workout. and you can do races and obstacle courses. it s great to start really young with them and great for mom to feel better about themselves. you have something special for the moms today? all the moms have my baby booty camp dvd, a gift from my gym, and huggies diapers for a whole month. that s great gift. thank you. thank you so much. steve? we don t hear the sounds here, but we re awfully fit. precious. are you as happy as can be? good job, ladies! very nice. all right. coming up, is senator marco rubio weighing a 2016 run? what he s doing today that has a whole lot of people talking. then guys, does this sound familiar to you? 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yeah. and then you find out how much they re really being nagged. is that correct? they re not going to say, hi, i want to you meet my wife. she nags me nonstop. a study came out that nagging can kill you. men are more like low to die from nagging within ten years and women 34% more likely to die with increased risk of stroke, heart disease. and they were asked these questions that really had these researchers finding their immune systems were completely sabotaged by nagging. that s right. so when you close your eyes, do you hear the teacher from charlie brown? is it just a constant kind of nagging? yeah. is that a problem for you? we asked you for e-mail. we got a ton. that s right. by the way, you know how you define nagging? excesstive demands from partners, family or those living nearby. not adequate requests for some compliance why are you looking at me? i m not saying anything. diane said, i have a husband that nags. he can t stop nagging. i m retired, but i took a part-time job to get away from him during the day. that could be my grandfather with my grandmother. he d go to bloomingdale s to work during the day. he d rather pat people down than stay at home. well. mike on facebook wrote, i just ignore it. the more you nag, the less i do. that plays out. brian e-mailed this, that says the reason husband die before their wives is because we want to. the theory, according to those in copenhagen, is that women chase away all men s friends so they have nobody to express themselves to and bent their spleen, so therefore, they internalize and their organs explode. that s the way you read it. i interpret it is guys end up putting everything into their wives and that s why they don t have any friends and that s why they don t have any friends. on behalf of all women, i m going to demand we talk to heather right now who has some headlines. heather again. same old. can you put those papers down? thank you. when we go to home depot later today, what do you need? i need some sand for sand box and vegetables for my garden. don t forget the batteries. and take out garbage while you re at it. good morning to you all. got some political news to bring you. today republican senator marco rubio is fueling rumors of a possible 2016 presidential run with a visit to the state of new hampshire. this is his first stop in early voting state in more than a year. new hampshire is where the first 2016 presidential primary is held. rubio headlining two fund-raisers at republican strongholds today. some of president obama s strongest supporters are criticizing his visit planned for today at a wal-mart in california. the president is supposed to talk about efforts to fight climate change. wal-mart is using more solar energy to fuel itself and but labor unions are upset with the visit, saying wal-mart pays low wages and doesn t offer its employees enough benefits. and if you re like us, you probably talk to yourself a lot. you talking to me? you talking to me? there s a new study out that says it actual low does make a difference. researchers found people who talk to themselves using their own name or the pronoun you performed better under stress. so when we view ourselves as a separate person, we re able to give ourselves more objective advice. researchers say that motivational self-talk you can do it. come on, way to go, brian really helps. those are your headlines. brian, when you say those are great tricepts, that helps. it s interesting we put robert deniro in that box during that entire story. or we re using a psychopath from a movie to talk about self talk. when you talk to yourself, then maria. we re talking to you. yes, we re talking to you. good morning, everybody. i want to show weather conditions across parts of the gulf coast. we ll be seeing some issues in southeastern louisiana and southern parts of mississippi. we are going to be dealing with areas of rain over the next several days and unfortunately out there, we could be seeing localized flooding at some of these storms could produce more than four or six inches of rain just into this weekend. there is the potential for severe weather over the next several days, including today from texas to indiana, then tomorrow to kick off the weekend on saturday. they could be looking at some strong storms. by sunday a more widespread risk yet again, from texas up into illinois. out west across the rockies, we have a trough that s setting up. that is going to produce areas of snow. heavy at times along the higher elevations. we re going to see that snow come down all wait down to the valley floor. for mother s day in denver, you could be look at snowfall and a little accumulation expected there. temperature wise across the country, look at texas. 90 for your high in dallas and across the southeastern u.s., hot as well with a high at 930 in raleigh, north carolina. let s head back inside. all right. i was told to do a more specific toss. shocking picks in the nfl draft. a lot of drama. number within, no surprise. with the first pick in the 2014 nfl draft, the houston texans select jadeveon clowney. he was the number one pick overall and has been for months going into the draft unless they traded it away. we knew he was going in the top spot. johnny manziel had to wait. he is the biggest name in the draft. for his time in the spotlight. in the end, the cleveland browns took him on the 22nd pick in the first round. fulfilling the team s need for a quarterback, they felt they had a young one who got hurt. suspended infielder alex rodriguez. a lot of people wondering where he is. okay, me either. he is actually shaving his legs. that s because according to his barber, he shaves his legs and arms to, quote, feel more hygienic. jose lopez, who gives hair cuts to many yankee players, says he once gave a-rod a hand when he was trying shave his legs. as you know, that is the number one story in america. now the number two story. this soccer player hits the ball in, then sprints before into the seats to applaud himself. that s fantastic. that s not a be your own fan. that s one of the greatest things i ve ever seen in sports. that s like the selfy fan. he knew exactly what he was going to do. did he got in trouble for that? what s electric to say? it s not like they can take ten yards away. a yellow card perhaps, but i doubt it. fanning yourself. 20 minutes before the top of the hour. you ve heard the millenials don t wants to work, that they want to invent the next facebook or twitter and rake in the cash. sound crazy? my next guest did it, raising $10 million for his invention in 30 days. let s just say it wasn t as easy as it sounds. that s right. first your trivia question of the day. this actress won five emmys for the same role. who is she in e-mail us with the correct answer, you will be today s friday winner. vo: david s heart attack didn t come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you ve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. stick with innovation. stick with power. stick with technology. get the flexcare platinum from philips sonicare and save now. philips sonicare dominique wilkins, are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didn t get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza. he said victoza works differently than pills, and comes in a pen. and the needle is thin. victoza is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. it is not recommended as the first medication to treat diabetes and should not be used in people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. victoza has not been studied with mealtime insulin. victoza is not insulin. do not take victoza if you have a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to victoza or any of its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include swelling of face, lips, tongue or throat, fainting or dizziness, very rapid heartbeat, problems breathing or swallowing, severe rash or itching. tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. serious side effects may happen in people who take victoza including inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) which may be fatal. stop taking victoza and call your doctor right away if you have signs of pancreatitis, such as severe pain that will not go away in your abdomen or from your abdomen to your back, with or without vomiting. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. taking victoza with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. the most common side effects are nausea, diarrhea, and headache. some side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. if your pill isn t giving you the control you need, ask your doctor about non-insulin victoza. it s covered by most health plans. my len yam millenials, you might call them lazy, they live in their parents basement and can t find a job. but last month, more than 15% of them were out of work. the majority said they d like to work for themselves in the next five years, invent something, or become an entrepreneur. kind of sounds crazy. but not totally impossible. our next guest pulled it off and he knows that it took a whole lot of hard work to do it. our guest, eric, is the founder and ceo of pedal technology, he created, built and marketed the most successful smart watch on the market today. first we got to say congratulations. thanks very much. the pebble, ladies and gentlemen. this is a support version. you re wearing the fancy one. what does it do? it s a watch that talks to your iphone or android phone, whenever you get a new text message, it pops up so you can see who is e-mailing or calling. you can hear the beep of your smart phone, you got a message. but why dig it out of your pocket when you can look at your watch? it s brilliant. it is. this concept was done in your dorm room desk. so you made your first prototype there. you raised over $10 million in 30 days on kickstarter. that s incredible. that s like a record. you had to be blown away by that. but i know it wasn t easy. you had four years of struggle. correct? yeah. we had worked up to it for quite a while up to that point. when you re working on something and finally everything clicks, that s what it was for us. sure. in the beginning, you went to some venture capitalists and you said, take a look at this. just imagine what it s going to do. they didn t see it, did they? not as much imagination. why do you think that is? i think it s risk like lot of these projects are quite risky. but in the end, a lot of people believed in us. we had over 69,000 people from 150 countries around the world support us. one is forbes said you ll double revenue had the next year. that s incredible. if alt companies that are probably have a strong set of eyes on you, what about a buyout? what about selling the company? do you think about that? will it happen this year? i think our focus this year is on building something that s useful for people. that s what drives us. at the end of the day, we built something that we want to do build for ourselves. we wanted to use it. how many times have i read in the wall street journal about how apple supposedly is working on a smart watch. you beat them to the punch. i think there is quite a few people working on things like this. but yeah, we re out there. we re in stores now. have they called you? i can t say anything about any sort of acquisitions or anything like that. but die know yeah. what is your advice to millenials? i think you re remarkable on what you ve been able to do sets the tone. what do you say to them? they want to do what do you. one of the things i realized through school is that you have to experiment. you have to try out different jobs and figure out what works for you. i worked at six different places while i was going through my undergrad. i realized that i didn t want to work at a single one of them. you found that out through work. exactly. trying things out, experiencing different jobs and realize what you want to do and don t want to do. i know a number of kids who are in your demographic and they are at home right now. they are working on their app, their next facebook. they re expecting the moon shot to make some big money. it s not that easy. you got to do the leg work. you got to do the hard work, right? yes. a lot of work on the way. but when it clicks, you ll know. what s the web site? getpebble.com. we thank you for being here. thanks very much. pebble on, my friend. thanks for traveling here from california. incredible story. short of ten minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, are you looking for a movie for mom this weekend? kevin mccarthy is up next. first on this date in 1914, president woodrow wilson established mother s day as a holiday. in 1994, nelson mandela is elected the first black president of south africa. in 1966, louis armstrong had the number one song in america, hello dolly. 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no, no, no. i liked some of the jokes. overall, i didn t think it was as classic as animal house. it wasn t a classic by any means. most people were giving it really, really high ratings, but i thought it was very middle of the road. i ve been waiting for a review on moms night out. what do you say cause i m going. this is a move yes that really surprised me. it really gave me a deeper appreciation for how awesome moms are. i feel like the struggle that sarah drew s character has in this movie with her character and the idea that she deals with these tough struggles of being a mom and i love the idea of how it highlights that because she realizes that not every day is going to be great. and you re dealing with three women who go out for a night out. they leave the kids home with their fathers and everything goes wrong. everything you can possibly think of goes wrong. that part i felt was a bit unrealistic at times. but overall, it was the message is about moms and how awesome moms really are. and i love that aspects of it. for me, i called my mom when i got out of the movie. i wanted to tell her i loved her. it made me appreciate how awesome she was. i gave the movie a 3 1/2 out of five. i really enjoyed some of the aspects of it. again, if you can suspend your disbelief a little bit and get past the unrealistic moments, you can actually get a really good message here. in reading your material, i didn t realize our buddy, trace adkins, was in the movie and you loved him. trace adkins is the best part of the movie! he plays this character called bones and he s like head of this motorcycle gang and he s absolutely hilarious. i wanted more of him in the movie. they didn t use him as much as i wanted them to. but he is the best part. i want to say in the spirit of mother s day, happy mother s day to my mom, jill. she s watching right now. she watches every single day for fox & friends. i love you so much and thank you for supporting my obsession with movies and thank you for letting me watch terminator 2 when i was eight years old that. movie made me fall in love with movies. thank you. just because you ve said that on television doesn t mean you don t have to send hear card. i know a strategy. i m sending her they better be big! thank you very much. have a great weekend. thanks. thanks lot. he seemed sincere. did he. so that s what kevin says you should waste your money on this weekend. waste your money on? i mean spend your machine on this weekend. coming up straight ahead, your e-mails have been pour not guilty all morning on some of the topics. for example, this one. can your wife nagging actually kill you? geraldo has a wife. and he s going to weigh in on that and benghazi and so much more you start tomorrow? tomorrow we re booked solid. we close on the house tomorrow. tomorrow we go live. it s a day full of promise. and often, that day arrives by train. big day today? even bigger one tomorrow. csx. how tomorrow moves. aseball fans cheering] [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. i live in a world oi am totally blind.. i ve been blind since birth. i lost my sight to eye disease. i lost my sight in afghanistan. and it doesn t hold me back. but my blindness can affect my sleep patterns. i go through periods where it s hard to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. but i learned that my struggle was with non-24. non-24 is a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70% of people who are totally blind and can t perceive light. talk to your doctor about your symptoms, and learn about non-24 by calling 844-844-2424. that s 844-844-2424. or visit my24info.com. now i know that non-24 is real. and i m not alone. it s time for a new day. good morning. it s friday, may 9, 2014. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. seven democrats break ranks and approve a selects committee to get answers on benghazi and the others wants to be on it. but they aren t interested in answers. we ll tell what you they do want instead when chris wallace joins us live from washington. a veteran affected by the v.a. cover-up speaking out. i m just like i don t want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. he s a victim and now a whistle blower says it s not just phoenix. if you re in texas, find out where the problem hospitals are there. welcome to the hotel sharia. the man who owns the beverly hills hotel just adopted in his native land the brutal law that says it s okay to stone people to death. now the celebrities suddenly realize that, they re beginning to boycott that place. in fact, it s almost entirely empty. how they re losing millions and when does the iconic hotel step up and maybe get sold? according to all reports, this is friday, and mornings are better with friends. i m terry bader from the mirage in las vegas. you re watching fox & friends. you don t have enough guys impersonating turtles these days. right. but we have sad news about impersonators. tony the tiger, the voice of tony the tiger, he s great, but he s passed away. he has. but the quisp guy is still okay. we ve got geraldo in the on deck circle. he s on in just a moment. but first we turn to heather. you start with benghazi. yeah. the house of representatives passed a resolution to create a select committee on benghazi to investigate that. all republicans voted for it. seven democrats broke with their parties to vote yes. so here is the big question now will those 186 democrats who voted against it stage a boycott? democrats are meeting about an hour from now to talk about this apparently. representstive connally from virginia talked about this earlier on fox & friends. the question is, are we better off being at the table to try to make sure it s a balanced approach and that will be determined at our caucus meeting this morning. the members of that select committee are expected to be announced later today. we ll watch that story throughout the day for you. new information is now heading to house lawmakers investigating the irs scandal of conservative groups. less than a day after the house held lois lerner in contempt, the irs agrees to turn over all e-mails and other communications as evidence. republicans are saying that her actions could be criminal. listen to this. we believe that she violated people s constitutional rights, their rights to due process and that s actually criminal in nature and so this is very serious and we want to find ou far this goes and we re going to follow these e-mails wherever they lead us. republicans have been demanding the documents for months now. the irs commissioner has set it could take years to produce everything that they have. the show must go on. four days after nine performers plunged 30 feet to the ground, ringling brothers & barnum & bailey circus is open for business again. there are now eight scheduled shows through sunday. that human chandelier stunts, that will actually not be performed. seven of the injured acrobats are still hospitalized this morning. and if you re married or in a relationship, listen to this one. nagging apparently can take a toll on any relationship. some more than others. all i ask is that you show a little bit of appreciation, that i just get 20 minutes to relax when i come home instead of being attacked with questions and nagged the whole time! you think i nag you? there is a new study out that claims nagging can actually kill you. there is researchers who say that excessive demands from loved ones can more than double the risk of death in middle age. men are apparently at higher risk. of course. because it s said they keep all that bottled up. we have no one to talk to. what about women? we got nagged, too. you have people to vents to. you have your neighbors and high school friends. you are currently nagging. thank you very much. your e-mail and tweets pouring it. marla writes, if you do what we ask you, we won t nag you, duh. ashley says, i don t like to nag. i prefer to be listened to the first time. how can you ignore my wishes and expect me to be happy? can you tell women actually picked these out? no kidding. louis says, i gained some weight because my wife kept nagging that she wanted to see more of me. so she got more of me. that s hysterical. geraldo rivera, you ve stop nagging. you ve been in relationships. you might say. right. was nagging ever a role in the destruction of those relationships? you know, when you re looking for an excuse to get out of a relationship, you seize on anything and nagging is an easy one. i can honestly say, they say that you re only as happy as you re unhappiest child. you re also only as happy as your unhappiest spouse. so if she s not happy, i m not happy. so i try make her happy. happy wife, happy life. that s right. happy wives, happy life. one more thing to talk to the doctor about. could i just say that i see you have a boxing segment planned. i hope it works as well as the exercise with your baby segment because that was brilliant. wasn t this for birth control? i think it worked like a charm. you know what s even better? when you re talking to a congressman and the babies come marching in. i love that. it sounded a little like washington. lot of whining. it sounds like the white house is surrounding general shenseki who heads up the veterans affairs administration and it looks like they ve got big problems. john boehner yesterday said it s systemic. we have discovered that he s been subpoenaed. we now have discovered it s not just phoenix. it s also austin and it s san antonio as well. it looks like whistle blower coming forward. it s a big problem. speaker boehner is right, it is systemic. i ve done the expose every decade. this is the fifth decade it s happened. the v.a. has a chronic problem. it has since the post-vietnam era at least. i just caution to tread slowly when it comes to generic shenseki. shear why: here is why: he was a twice decorated wounded hero from vietnam. this is the real deal. man stepped on a land mine, went back into the service after he lost half a foot. he was the army chief of staff in the joint chiefs, the highest ranking japanese american ever in the armed forces of the united states. he s a guy that is very, very admirable. if indeed, however, he knew or should have known that these problems existed, then the american legion might be right about demanding his resignation. i just, because of this man s resume, i just say let s go slow. let s make sure that he is to blame. obviously the story is disgusting and it s malignant and it s going to go respecting that office, of course, and you know that he s possibly tried to do. so keeping an open mind is a great point. listen to this one veteran because this is heart breaking. he says he came back and he thought the very least, he could depend on his country and he s fighting for his life because of this situation. i thought at least, one thing i have i can depend upon was my country to take care of me when i get older. i never knew i was going to get this, cancer. i m just like i don t want to die because of some waiting list like other men have. in arizona, 40 died waiting for an appointment. terrible. as horrifying as that is, the fact that they kept two sets of books, that they kept one official record that showed a reasonable waiting time and a real list that showed the actual waiting time, allegedly leading to some fatalities, i think that deceit might be the heart of a real congressional investigation. everyone talks about edward snowedden and what he should have done. now you have whistle blowers coming forward. let s show these guys coming forward, protect their identity, let s them have the freedom to come forward and let them be effective. agreed. the problem with the federal civil servants is they protect themselves. we did a story yesterday. one in 1,000 members of the epa were fired in a single year. one out of 1,000. you re more likely to die of a heart attack than to get fired. nobody gets fired in these federal agencies. the v.a. is one of them. this is a case that cries, it seems to me, certainly the keeps of the second set of records should clearly be fired. all right. what do you think about shifting gears about the sharia law in the hotel. the hotel we re looking at says you will die being stoned if you are guilty of certain crimes. we have hollywood celebrities boycotting this hotel, beverly hills hotel. it s iconic. it s icon iraq, along with the bellaire owned by the same owner. the dor chester in london i ll tell you a quick story. when the people bought norchester in london, i swear to god this happened to me. i worked at abc at the time. walked into my suite on the 7th floor in london, there were people in full desert regalia cooking a lamb. in a room? on the balcony of their own suite. they were cooking a lamb on the balcony. i thought that the snooty dorchester in london was falling on hard times. i ll cut to the bellaire where i always stayed. it s in my contract that i stay will when i go there. whoever i work for. that s all been in my contract. i don t like boycotts generally. i didn t like when the gays boycotted chick-fil-a. you may remember. if you don t want to go to a place and you don t want to patronize a place, that s well and good. but don t pressure others to follow your lead. in this case, sharia law we hate it. it s ownerous, stoning and all the rest. i understand the argument against sharia law, but if you start putsing the politics of the owner at play in terms of whether other people can patronize it, if you don t want to, that s fine. don t go. but when you start saying, brian, you can t go, or i stand in fronts of you, elisabeth, when you want to go and i know all the employees of the bellaire, some of them, my son was raised at the bellaire, what happens to the employees when the hotel was empty? how long did they stay employed? there are consequences. that s true. and i understand you always have an interesting way on this stuff. it s fascinating. but if you believe that these women are being persecuted, if you believe a whole country is oppressing a gender or an ethnic group and you want to make a stand, that s courageous. and having ellen degeneres and jay leno come forward and say, i m taking my business elsewhere. that s fine. if you don t want to get the chick-fil-a sandwich because you think he s antes gay, then don t go there. go to wendy s or some other place. that s fine. but when you stand in my way and i don t believe the politics that you have, then i think it s anti-american. i don t like it. a protest of getting into that hotel. it s intimidating. political correctness is fine and you go with the flow and generally speaking, we believe as they believe in broad strokes. it s just that you have your right to take the stand that you do. just don t stand in my way. geraldo rivera, who as we just learned, has that in his contract, he can stay there in my contract, i have to sleep in my car. no tell motel. in my contract it says stay away from geraldo. coming up, the government wants to slash pay and benefits to our military. so there must not be anything tells cut, right? 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let s talk to the retired u.s. army infantry captain and ranger and senior advisor for concerned vets for america. he joins us today from pittsburgh. good morning to you. good morning, steve. how is it going? going okay. although people watching this right now, their blood pressure will start ticking up. it s outrageous. 150 bucks for jet fuel, but it s green jet fuel. this is just another example of a wasteful government spending program and overall indicative of a department of defense that just does not have its priorities straight at all. any time i see a piece like this, i wonder why is the department of defense involved in the biofuel industry in the first place? that s why we have a department of energy. let the scientists and the laboratories research whether or not biofuel is a lucrative in the military. but what i want the department of defense to do is focus on one thing and one thing only. that s winning wars and protecting the american people. that s what i want. on top of that, let s make sure that we honor the sacrifice of our servicemen and women who served in war. what are we doing on capitol hill? they re cutting the budgets for all sorts of things involving our military. but at the same time, we got money to pay 150 bucks a gallon for this algae gas. they re going to run in some jet airplanes. when i was we saw the headline and i started to read about it. it turns out these things are being produced i know of one case where it was produced by a company that had been a big democratic donor. because they re small companies, rather than giving them an outright loan, they re simply buying the gas for 150 bucks a gallon to subsidize these outfits. yeah. it s the government stabbing in the dark to try to pick a biofuel. what they should be doing is trying to improve the fuel efficiency across the spectrum of the military incrementsally so we don t outpace technology. that s what we want to do. that will save money. it will make our force more fuel efficient. and it will increase operational capabilities. but no. instead we re investing a lot of time and money in biofuels that s not technologically viable in the open market and wasting time. we face a fiscal crisis in this nation, the likes of which have never been seen before. we re dealing with an administration that spends like a teen-ager with a credit card. we need leaders to step up to make tough decisions right now and there are probably 100 programs exactly like this that can be cut prior to getting to cutting the and i benefits of our military servicemen and women. a guy with a teen-ager with a credit card, i know exactly what you re talk being right there. if i got the balance statement and said 150 bucks, she suspense on a gallon of gas, i d hit the roof. as america will as well when they find out about this. sean, always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining us. have a great weekend. steve, can i just make one more points? sure. listen, it s mother s day. we ve got mothers all across this nation that aren t going to be able to be with their loved one. we are a nation that s still at war. let s remember and pray for those mothers this weekend. absolutely. well put. thank you very much. thanks. to mothers everywhere, happy mother s day come sunday. straight ahead, they re paid to make our kids smarter. but some teachers and even a principal did a really stupid thing and it s happening more and more. we re going to tell you what about not making the grade. then jennifer esposito is here talking about a health struggle that affects a lot of people. you re watching fox & friends on this friday. those litt things still get you. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet helpsapproved to treattime the msymptoms of bph, like needing to go freently. tell yr doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthenough for sex. do not take cialis if youtake , as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drinklcohol in excess. side effects may include headac, upset stomach, delayed baache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury,gety 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 breaing or swallowing, op taking cialis and get mecal help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30-tablet trial. some headlines. new developments in the arson at retired tennis star james blake s house in tampa. investigators now saying four family members found inside were shot with a gun reject sistered to their family register to do their family. he was caught buying fireworks and several gas cans. police investigating the possibilities of a murder-suicide. this guy admit to go murder on a dating show. he confessed he killed his first wife and another and another. he spent ten years in jail, but is an honest guy looking for a new wife. this all went down on a turkish show called luck of the draw. it s not a pilot. it s on the air. that would be a deal breaker. more than 2 million americans suffer from celiac disease. mean it often goes undiagnosed by doctors. on average, people with the disease wait six to ten years before they re correctly diagnosed. jennifer esposito has struggled with the condition most of her life and never knew it. she s the author of a new book. i feel like we re soul mates right here. absolutely. when i read your story, so much of it echos with what many go through. you had a tumultous experience. you were tested for a number of diseases. what was the most difficult part of that journey? not knowing. i think so many of us, an average diagnosis, seven to ten years. mine was since i was a child. and hearing things that it was either in my head or it was something else. ibs, ms, lupus, everything. depression. depression. someone asked you if you were suicidal? yes. yes. this was at the height of it. i just kind of stared at her and thought, i m sick all the time and you are the nth person that s not hearing me. wouldn t you be depressed? did you do i want to kill myself? no, i want help. at that point i had a tooth fall out and a lump the size of a small grapefruit in my neck. i was horrible. jimmy kimmel said he couldn t find anything to describe living gluten free what gluten was. i saw that. i have a lot to say about that. i just wish the jokes would stop because when someone like him, who has such an audience and they keep making a joke about the fad, which i understand is a fad, there are people like us and people little people, small people, big people, people of all ages that are suffering from that kind of mentality because what happens is that waiter or server or that chef, that employer, they don t believe us and they think we re somebody who is on a diet. and it s really frustrating. strong message there. the silver lining is you express what you went through will help so many people. you have a bakery, jennifer s way. that s incredible. all these gluten free treats are available. it s gluten free, soy free, egg free. yea. so i can eat. you can eat everything. that is great. i have to say, congratulations. i know you were recently engaged. and you guys are working together, a gluten free wedding is what i bet. i can t wait to make everything. look at that. so that s right out in front of your bakery. jennifer s way is the name of the book and bakery. we thank you for being here. thanks. coming up, democrats want to be on the benghazi panel all of a sudden. but some say it s just to protect hillary. chris wallace is standing by in washington with that. plus, skip the eggs. which fast food joint is serving burgers for breakfast? 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is there some nagging going on? what defines that to you? listen, whatever lorraine does is perfect. i m like a grateful dog. she puts good food in front of me and anything i can do to help her in that intersurprise given the fact that lorraine and i had a little bit of a spat last night for what? i m on double secret probation. what happened? i ve already shared more than i should have. come on! i want to say if you re watching, i m sorry. oh, wow. so chris how intriguing. that should be the lead on fox news sunday. i have your home number. let s call her. fox news i m sorry. or tweet it. #i m sorry. we sent this study was done in europe. as you re an american, as far as we know, do you believe that nagging can actually kill a man? what about a hand in your face? i think that any kind of stress i don t know if it kills you, but it certainly is not good for you, whether it s at home or work or on a sunday morning show. i want to ask you a question, brian. you ever feel like the johnny manziel of fox & friends ? in what way? i want to know. that you re disrespected. that elisabeth and steve are picked were the first two picks and you re sitting this in the room, sort of waiting with a picksar on you. no wonder you had to apologize to your wife, with a mouth like that on you. christian thank is what i say. johnny manziel will prove wbr id wbr92700 he was better than the 22nd pick. he comes out in the fall with something to prove. that s where we start in may. by september, everyone is going to realize they should have picked me first. yeah. speaking of the draft of sorts, they re drafting members for the benghazi committee. it looks like the republicans could announce their picks today and the democrats are going to have a meeting today at 9:00 o clock. are the democrats going to have anybody, one person, what? we re going to find out /b because on sunday, we re going to have an exclusive interview with trey gowdy and i think today they re going to name all the republicans. the democrats, i suspect we won t know by this weekend whether or not they re going to participate. so we have booked the head of the house democratic office and we ll talk to him, along with gowdy because the democrats say it s just a political exercise, we may boycott it. i think that s a risky move for them. on one hand i can understand it does make it look partson. on the other hand, if they go ahead, the republicans and hold these hearings and bring up hillary clinton or bring up david petraeus, they may want to have a democrat there to present questions that allow these people to principal the other side of the present the other side of the story. interesting choice for the democrats. we ll find out whether they made it on sunday. they do have a list to choose from. seven democrats who voted in favor of the select committee. maybe they should say pick from them because they re probably sincere in their vote. i think they were, which is probably the reason the democrats will not pick them. i suspect they re going to want people who they feel are more loyal to the democratic caucus, who oppose this whole thing and don t think it s such a good idea. your guest on sunday, trey gowdy, he s been long asking questions and noted this should really just fly above any sort of political partisan line and intention. so i think a he seems to be above partisan politics. yes. you re absolutely right. but on the other hand, at the same time that he s saying that, the national republican congressional committee, which is the campaign committee for house republicans, has been trying to fund raise off this issue, saying be a benghazi watchdog so that kind of adds some fuel to the fire the democrats saying this is just politics. there is lots to talk about on sunday. republicans should be embarrassed by that. democrats have done it in the past as well. chris, what about the suggestion by politico that the democrats are talking about we should have somebody on there, on that committee to protect hillary clinton? that s exactly right. that s the choice they ve got to make. because let s say they bring hillary clinton up and you ve just got seven republicans, they could sit there and just hammer her with questions and we all know that sometimes somebody this goes with both parties that somebody from the other party, in this case, would be the democrat can sit there and protect and rehabilitate and say, isn t it so, madam secretary clinton, that when you did this, you had and kind of lead the witness in a safer direction. so it s kind of wbr-id wbr94500 an interesting choice that the democrats have to make as to how they want to play this. chris, it will be interesting cause you ll have an answer by the time the show comes up. there s a big meeting today for democrats. maybe by the end of the day, they not only decide if they ll participate, but if they do, name the people they want to be part of the panel. yeah. i think there is a possibilities they won t do it because nancy pelosi is playing this very close to the chest. there is a lot of stuff that has to be done. they have to get all of the staff that is what s happening is they re taking all the staff of foreign affairs and intelligence and all these other oversight and they re going to put them all together in this one committee, all the thousands and thousands of documents. so the democrats have a little time to play this out. i have an idea to save some time. it s been over 20 months. four of our americans are dead and we haven t gotten any answers and the account abilities. how about we tell the truth? that takes a little bit of time only, right? that s the last resort in washington. yeah. chris wallis, we ll be watching you this sunday. before you go, do you need to apologize to anybody else? no. i think that s it. and brian, i want to say that as far as i m concerned, you are brian morning talk television. like johnny football, you re morning show television. thank you very much. what a nice thing to say. i still would pick you with a 22nd pick, i m sorry. now that you made up with me. just one person to make up with and you ll have a good weekend. we ll see. you don t know mrs. sunday. she holds a grudge. your dog s name is winston, that s the dog house you ve been in? say that again. your dog s name is winston. that s the dog house you re in. yeah. we re sharing a bed outside at the dog house. all right. thank you very much. sweet heather. good morning. that s really sweet. i was thinking about our own marital spats. that s all. really? we re just one big happy family. everybody has them. if you have a fight this weekend, bring in a video. i will. good morning. today republican senator marco rubio is fueling rumors of a possible 2016 presidential run with a visit to the state of new hampshire. this is his first stop in the early voting state in more than a year. new hampshire is where the first 2016 presidential primary is held. rubio headlining two fund-raisers in republican strongholds today. this coming out of philadelphia. teachers and a principal at an elementary school there were apparently so desperate to make themselves look good that they helped their students cheat on standardized tests. court papers say that for five years, they told students to write down answers on scraps of paper so that their work could later be checked. those inflated test scores leading to raises and promotions for those educators. i don t know what to say. i think it s sad. kids and parents trusted these people to do their job. all five of those educators face criminal charges. we ll keep you posted on that. talk about a real dummy. a driver in boston, massachusetts, busted for putting a dummy in the passenger seat just so he could use the carpool lane. a state trooper pulled him over and found a mannequin propped up with a jacket behind his head and a mustache on his face with marker. the driver then just got a ticket. it s what overnight workers and pregnant women have been waiting for. burger king now offering a the whopper at some locations in the morning. they call it burger breakfast. we re so happy here at fox & friends. that s right. includes chicken sandwiches, some barbecue stuff, french fries, apple pie. no word if this is a permanent change. if you would rather have a normal breakfast, they re still serve that food as well. those are your headlines. i can t wait. thank you very much. the rage is protein, especially in the morning. why not give people a burger? why don t we stop on the way home, heather? you and me. we got your fast food friends weather forecast now with maria molina out on the streets of new york city. that s right. good morning. we re tracking a storm system farther west. today will be producing areas of showers, thunderstorms, and over the next few days, we are going to see some areas of heavy rain, especially concentrated right along parts of the gulf coast, across parts of louisiana, parts of mississippi and alabama. some of you could pick up over three to four inches of rain, locally heavier amounts. so flooding could be a concern. severe weather possible from texas up to indiana. that severe risk will stay in place as we head into this weekend, saturday and sunday. so keep an eye out for that. temperature wise, heating up across parts of the southern plains today and also the southeast. i want to show you the city of denver. take a look at this. sunday into monday, they could pick up some snow out there. more snow expected as well across the higher elevations of the rockies. let s head back inside. thank you very much. i was just showing brian and elisabeth the picture of my daughter, sally, was taking a final yesterday and then down in dallas then the tornado warning came on. and there they all are down in the basement waiting for it to blow over. seeking shelter. as a parents living 1,000 miles away, that s when you want to see. but it s all good. we re okay now. 18 minutes left unless hemmer and mccallum overshe wants again. here is what s coming up, imagine seeing this on your drive to work. cars swallowed up as the road collapses. it happened. look at that. plus, getting fit one punch at a time. we re getting ready to rumble. our gloves are on. it s the big rage and it will be raging here. put them up. time for quick headlines. the great video edition. watch as unsuspecting drivers nearly got swallowed up bay sinkhole in russia. amazingly, all of them noticed it and drove around it. they re blaming it on heavy rain. look at that. swallowed it up. boom. meanwhile, nearly two naked groomsmen in australia run into the ocean to save a fisherman after his boat tipped over. they got him to shore safely and then went right back to posing for pictures, only this time not so formal. they were just wearing their underwear. and how is this for living on the edge? chicago s hancock center s newest attraction let s you tilt 1,000 feet over the street whoa. a frightening 30-degree angle. that attraction opens tomorrow. it s closing time. for the last bar car in america. get this, the remaining commuter train serving beer, wine and spirits is ending its 40-year run tonight t. turns out nobody else wants to drink on the way home. wnyw reporter is live at grand central station in new york city with more on the last call. how are new yorkers handling this news? reporter: they are quite upset about it, especially someone told me it s exactly what they need after a long day of work. good morning to all of you and good morning, everyone. the party is over, simply put. after 40 years, these four bar cars, the only bar cars that still exist are essentially hanging it out. the nta is taking them out of rotation. they re only running on the metro north new haven line they re something of a throwback to the 70s when having an after work cocktail on the way home was acceptable. it was daily culture. so we talked to some people who were riding on the train this morning. they talked about the tradition. it s one of those things that you do. fridays, thursday, whatever. it s kind of fun to do on the way home. reporter: the big problem is that these bars don t bring in enough money. they only pull in $357,000 a year. a far cry from the bars on the platform. connecticut governor is trying to organize a plan to reinstitute bar cars. that won t happen for at least another year. that s the latest from grand central on this very sad day for a lot of computers. they re crying in their beer. thank you very much. i m looking on amtrak. the top of the picture still shows beer and wine. i was just on two weeks ago. i will say i d be surprised. i think that s the most successful restaurants in the world. at the last call. let me tell you what s coming up, you want to knock out those unwanted pounds, don t you? stick around. mar why is going to show us mar why is going to show us maria is going to show us next how to do it. come on, maria! let him have it ! new from the hill, dems mail out one of their own on the benghazi panel. we ll take you live for the latest this morning. now we will also find out just what was in lois lerner s e-mails which have been released. we ll tell you about that. and ten years ago, army sergeant matt lawton was captured in iraq. now his dad travels to washington to find out who killed his son. he will join us live. now back over to you. if you re looking to gets in shape this summer, you might want to try putting on some gloves and throwing some punches. joining us is dr. paul thompson and the marketing director of title boxing club. nice to meet you. this is actually a great workout. i read you can burn 1,000-calories in an hour of boxing? therapy. great workout. one of the great things about it, it s high intensity interval training, builds muscle, lose fat, gets your cholesterol under control. one session you can make your insulin work better. i watched it. i saw your new gym. it s unbelievable. i saw people of all shapes and sizes taking part. a loft people think it s a young person s thing. but not the way do you it. can we go over some basics over what we d see in a class? cause i want to punch brian. there is no hitting. it s very safe. but on our show we do. okay. so you want to start, if you re right-handed, start with your lead foot back. so you put your stance a little bit here and then this is going to be your power hand. start with your left with a little jab. just like that. then you bring your other hand across. sorry. right at eye level. let s see you connect on the bag. these are 100-pound heavy bags. whether you connect, it will send a shock wave through and it s all muscle resistants. so you re here. you re building muscle at the same time as you re losing fat. okay. usually one person is on a bag. how long do you stay on a bag? three minutes. you ll come off and do something in between. maybe burpees, maybe jumping jacks. keeps your metabolism up. this not only burns calories, you re burning calories for two or three hours after. you also got somebody on the mitt. so you want to step out here. it s amazing how much you feel it in your abs. it s a core workout. that s nice. you get 15 minutes of core at thend. how long do you spar? i also see the medicine ball there. at thend of the class, we do 15 minutes of core. we do this at the end on purpose because if you re using your arms and core, you can take it and do, for instance, a lunge rotate back. you re working your core as well as your upper body and legs. i love this kind of workout because it just gets a little aggression out, burns calories. absolutely. you can take your aggression out on the bag. guys, stay right here. brook and paul, we re going to come back with more boxing and maybe we finally got to take a shot at steve. that s right why do results matter so much? it s probably because they are the measurement of everything we do. for a wireless company, results come down to coverage speed and legendary reliability. so go ahead, stream, game or video chat. that s why verizon built americas largest 4g lte network. because the only thing that really matters are the results you get. so for the best devices the best network and for best results, use verizon. make every day, her day with a full menu of appetizers and entrées crafted with care and designed to delight. fancy feast. love served daily. tomorrow fox & friends weekend, u.s. businesses are collapsing faster than they re being built. why isn t the government helping? also there is a lot of lazy men out there and they wait til the last minute why are you looking at me? last minute to get their mother s day gifts. i ll have the best gifts you can pick up on saturdays morning. what about sunday morning? 7-11, that s why we have it. also governor mike huckabee will be in on saturday. also, in the after the show show, learn how boxing can make you extremely fit. elisabeth and maria are going to go head to head. we re going to go at it right here. have a great weekend. bye, everybody. happy mother s day. nice. good morning, everybody on a friday. fox news alert because the house approving a special committee on benghazi but how many democrats if any will take part it will be decided today. democrats will meet behind closed doors as you see screen right any moment. good morning from new york city. i m bill hemmer on a friday, america s newsroom. we ll find out something today. martha: we can see the doors are closed as we look at that. good morning, everybody, i m martha maccallum. debate from democrats are heating up. one lawmaker says democrats should appoint one member to sit on the panel. a lot of the other are suggesting a complete boycott. bill: republicans say they re determined to get to the bottom of all these facts saying
rihanna retweeted a photo taking aim at a teenager who re-created one of her outfits. everyone have a great weekend. fox & friends starts now. head out on the highway lookin for adventure live from new york city, it is national ride your bike to work day. here on 48th street. this is a great way to wake up. it s cheaper than that car service you demand, steve. that s a taxi. ride your bike to work day. by the way, we ve got a setup in front of our building because in a little while we re all going to be doing a spartan race which should be pretty interesting. even the spartans wouldn t do. it s national bike day. we re going to go inside. you ve got your protective helmet on. before we go further, take a look at how heather rode your bike today. all right, ladies first, come on in. the last time you walked down this hall was your first day. yes, and i had coffee. you haven t brought us coffee since the first day. today i ve got a coffee pot. it s ready to go. that is a great way to start the day, on bikes. a little exercise. today, the inside story, as we find out what it was like going back to the view with elisabeth. i saw your instagram posts. i was instagramming along the way. by the way, i did retweet let s pause. we re on tv right now. elisabeth, i did retweet that picture of you and hillary clinton, and you got an inside story and you got some great details. i do. you re going to get that out of me. i ve got a feeling. ladies, right this way. heather, put your shoes on. we re in the studio now. hanger or hook? this is kind of how we start the show. welcome to studio e live from midtown manhattan. it s national ride your bike to work or school day. oftentimes on friday you might have trouble getting out of the starting gate but i think this is a great start. we should do this every friday. isn t it a great feeling? those bikes are fantastic. thanks to chris for taping my pants to my legs so they wouldn t get stuck in my pedal. and thanks for the bicycle rentals. let s make sure everybody looks good. you look good. your hair is a little joel, are we going to start? and action. yesterday, big hearings on capitol hill as general shinseki went in front of democrats and republicans who had one thing in common. equally outraged with what s going on at the v.a., wait times and kill lists in three states that has people saying we re not going to give them incentives and they re going to die. when i say they, i mean veterans. it was time to tee off on someone who is a decorated veteran, general who in my opinion seems way out of his depth. i think that was proven yesterday. he said i m going to continue, the president wants me there. this may be something where he is in over his head. people at the v.a. have known for years, they have had internal reviews in the past. they have known for years this is a problem. how many american heroes died waiting for treatment? we heard a lot of republicans yesterday, we heard a lot of democrats all outraged. let s start with the republican, he is from nevada, dean heller, asked point-blank, general shinseki, why shouldn t your head roll. would you explain to me after all this information why you should not resign? i tell you, senator, i came here to make things better for veterans. that was my appointment by the president. every day i start out with the intent and in fact provide as much care and benefits for the people i went to war with and the people i spent a good portion of my life doing. this is not a job. i m here to accomplish a mission that i think they critically deserve and need. but it s not happening. it s not happening. so you would think that maybe he thought he should probably get out of there. this is going to be so interesting for me. it s going to be the first time that i can remember over the last six years that democrats and republicans are going to legitimately pursue an investigation on the same page. and if they both do that, let s see if they actually get answers. i think you and charles krauthammer on the same page with that one. williams said we should keep an eye out for real rage or faux rage. it would be unbelievable to think anybody wouldn t want to side on this side of the line to protect our veterans. the v.a. shouldn t be a death sentence for those who have laid down their life and been willing to sacrifice at all for us. this is juan williams saying take a good look. what democrats are doing is making sure it s clear to the american public that they are outraged by this, they are supportive to our military. shinseki himself, i think, has the credentials as a four-star general, former war hero. i think that is their efforts to prevent any kind of political damage going forward. it would be hard for either political party to support what is going on. you were talking about not only a coverup they have known for years about these fake lists document destruction, corruption and ultimately death. we heard about the 40 deaths in arizona, but apparently there is another report, 23 vets died waiting for simple cancer screenings. this goes back four years, 13 stilts in nine different states 13 facilities in nine different states. it is across the country. and for people who say it s not a big scandal, you just aren t paying attention. not only is it a big substantial, it is at the very heart of what we re supposed to provide for our veterans. the ranks of veterans waiting for more than a year for their benefits was at 11,000 in 2009. thought that was bad? it is now up to 245,000 waiting for benefits as of december of 2013. by the v.a. s own admission, it is less than 42% of the veterans who fit in that under 14-day waiting period to get treated to maintain health but be treated for something that ultimately could kill them. most americans in this fox news poll think this administration s skapblgs skapblgs scandals are a big deal. 37% of those polled think the president s handling of benghazi is a serious matter. when you look at the n.s.a. scandal, 53% of you think it is a serious matter. 52% for benghazi and the i.r.s. scandal is 44%. i think it is curious, we ve heard from eric holder and he said the department of justice not ready to get involved. we re just going to monitor the situation. why? because they re investigating it at the v.a. let s think, department of justice, they investigated themselves regarding the, looking into reporters background. the n.s.a., they re taking care of that. the i.r.s., they ve got that handled as well; no criminality. this looks like, it could be, did it not touch so many americans lives, this could be another one of those stonewalling things. but in this case a lot of americans die. people are dying in the meantime. there is no time to go through a full investigation and delay while these veterans are dying. this is a death sentence right now. something has got to be done. john mccain actually calling for jail for those that were involved and knowingly allowed this all to happen. he s right. it is nine minutes after the hour on this friday. we ve got breaking news. now let s turn to heather nauert who s got some shoes on. good morning. we talked a lot about the winter and droughts in california affecting the wildfire season right now. this is a fox news alert. overnight two teenagers arrested on suspicion of trying to start a fire in southern california. this as multiple wildfires are raging and tens of thousands of people are forced to be on the move this morning. they are trying to escape the flames that have ravaged more than 10,000 acres so far and may have killed at least one person. the exact cause of the wildfires remains unclear at this time but officials are not ruling out arson. listen to this one coming in from overseas. a pregnant woman sentenced to death by a sudanese court because she is christian. she has been convicted of apostasy or the disaffiliation from a religion because she left the religion of islam and converted to christianity in order to marry her husband. the court gave her four days to repent from her religion. she of course refused. the death penalty is expected to be carried out after she gives birth next month. sad news to bring you this morning. a top army ranger who helped rescue former p.o.w. jessica lynch in iraq remember that big story? he has now died after he was shot when his unit was attacked in afghanistan. sergeant major martin barreras is his name and he served 22 years in the army 75 ranger regiment. he went to iraq and afghanistan many times, this after serving in the marine corps. barreras was 49 years old. he leaves behind a wife, two daughters and a son. casey kasem not in danger? he was just on vacation? the 82-year-old was in good shape when they found him at a friend s house in seattle with his wife. the daughter still has concerns about his well-being, his battle with dementia. she has been battling her step mom to see him in court. those are your headlines. nobody had more going on yesterday arguably than you and barbara walters. it was nice we all returned there, all the ghosts i call us. just a tribute to barbara. it was an emotional day to go around the table. everyone was on good behavior, barely any cross talk. barbara has done so much for us. it was a great moment. it was like graduation day for her? it was. to look out and see all of us there, she really gave us an opportunity. i owe her the world really. love her. you shot yesterday s show and you shot an extra show? yes. there we are. selfies. i took a lot of selfies. we have a family-style relationship. speaking of family, star jones and rosie o donnell, that was the first moment we saw each other in a long time. everybody seems so happy in that picture. yeah, you know, we re faking it. interestingly enough, barbara has the ability to take all of the opinions and any divisive moment anyone has on the program and bring everyone together yesterday. everyone was happy for her. it was such a truly selfless day for all just to give honor to the one person. i saw one quote from rosie o donnell. she was asked what do you miss about the show? she goes fighting with the skinny girl, meaning you. rosie, we had that big split screen moment. i told her then i would not defend the idea that our troops were terrorists. i won t defend it now. it is indefensible. but i do believe she may have a different heart about it. yesterday none of that came up. i was so thankful because it was all about barbara. barbara walters, the first lady of journalism, a former first lady was actually there yesterday. look who i bumped into. talk about accidental selfies. i m going to tell you more about this. there is a story behind that arm reach, the left arm reach. it was actually her idea. it was? no, it wasn t. did elisabeth invite hillary clinton to sit on this couch right here? we re going to find out in 15 minutes. put down that remote; it s a busy day. it looks like a great day. it actually was very special. barbara, i think she cried. what kind of a tree was she yesterday? a weeping willow. she was. 13 minutes after the hour right now. something the v.a. secretary said on capitol hill yesterday, being called the second biggest lie of the year. captain pete hegseth here to explain coming up. here s a way to attract women voters. send them pot holders. we ll discuss it. set me free why don t you baby up don t really love me you keep me close. help keep teeth clean and breath fresh with beneful healthy smile snacks. with soft meaty centers and teeth cleaning texture,it s dental that tastes so good. beneful healthy smile food and snacks. 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. and the award goes to ceramics house. congratulations. thank you. the success of your small business depends on results. go vests! all organic, and there s tons of info on our website. that s why you rely on the best for your business. and verizon delivers the best devices on the best network. you re all big toes to me. so go ahead, stream and download with confidence on america s largest, most reliable 4glte network. activate any 4glte smartphone and get $100 off. for best results, use verizon. veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki, the general, grilled on the hill yesterday over numerous veterans affairs scandals. however, he says he did not fail the veterans who were left to die. any allegation, any adverse incident like this makes me as makes me mad as hell. i could use stronger language, sure, mr. chairman, but in deference to the committee, i won t. joining us is fox news contributor and the c.e.o. of concerned veterans for america, captain pete hegseth. good morning, captain. good morning. why should he get fired? because he failed at his job. he s been there for six years. the department is failing veterans. we re seeing folks dying on secret lists. he wants to stand there and call it a good system and then he stands there and says these are isolated incidents when facts that were presented before him and he s even shown this is a widespread problem, an infected v.a. system that he has been aware of and only once the media shines of light of scrutiny on the department do they start putting people on administrative leave and even then he s doing it only because the i.g. is recommending it. this is not a guy leading the department now. you ve got inspector generals at the v.a. inspecting themselves. they have known since 2010 about these gaming strategies. it is systemic. it obviously has come from the top. one of the problems at the v.a. is if you hit your number as a manager, you get a bonus. it looks like people cooked the books to hit their numbers, and people died. absolutely. and what s different than private industry is the veterans don t get a choice in the scenario. they re going to that hospital no matter what. those administrators are taking that fixed volume of veterans, fudging the numbers, cooking the books to make the numbers look good for their administrators to get a big bonus. washington thinks the veterans are waiting two weeks. that veteran is waiting; months not getting the preventive care and so we ve got guys dying while waiting on secret lists. to the best of our knowledge the secret lists are not being used now. do we have any indication that the waiting times are less? no. the problem is even getting rid of shinseki if he s fired doesn t change a culture mired in bureaucracy, that s mired in process. it doesn t incentivize clerks or technicians or others to work faster, to be more efficient. that is the problem with the system. how do we fix it right now? congress has to provide an oversight function and start holding people accountable. there is going to be a vote on the house floor next week, v.a. management accountability act that would give any leader the ability to fire bad managers. the onus will be on the senate and the president. let s see if harry reid and president obama are going to put their money where their mouth is and start to st up for veterans. there is going to be a vote and a bill where they can do just that and we ll see, because there is a lot of rhetoric but there hasn t been a lot of action. this reform is a real bite. extraordinarily we have not heard from the commander in chief since he was traveling abroad. nothing. nothing. that speaks volumes. pete hegseth, thank you for joining us today. you got it. 20 minutes after the top. this heisman winner says he forgot to pay but what does the video show? does it show him stealing crab legs? stay tuned. a twin helped her injured sister across the finish line. they tell us their story live next on this friday, fox & friends. you can count on me like one, two, three like one, two, three i ll be there i ve got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. happiness is a drive-over mower deck. 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[shouting] that dramatic video where they re cheering is from syria. it shows the exact moment syrian rebels blow up an army base with 60 tons of explosives with a tunnel bomb. rebel commanders spent months digging a 2,800 foot tunnel under the base. over to india, the opposition party is headed for an election landslide. if results stand it would be the first time a single party has won an outright majority in that country since 1984. in resolution a rocket carrying a communications satellite broke apart nine minutes after that launch. a touching display of true sportsmanship and team work by teenage twin sisters at an illinois track meet. halfway through the track chloe gruenke felt something sharp pop and a sharp pain and fell to the ground. chloe s sister who was behind her in the race decided to pick her up when she couldn t finish and carry her across her back all the way across the finish line. the twins came in last but who cares. for spectators who saw the special moment the girls came away winners. joining us now are the inspiring duo, sisters chloe and claire tkpwraoupb tkpwraoupb chloe and claire gruenke. how are you feeling now? surprised at the way everything is happening. is your leg okay? it s better now. you had an exhausting day. what happened to you? i did well in my first lap. when i came around to the second, my leg started to hurt and i fell to the ground from pain. i couldn t get back up. then claire came right behind me and said come on, chloe, you have to finish this. she stood up and motioned me to get on her back and i got on her back. she was jogging at first. i said claire, we re not going to be able to finish if you jog. i told her to walk and we walked the rest. on the last 100, she was walking and she sat me down right before the finish line and kept pushing me to go first. i didn t want to go first. i wanted her to finish with me. we finished at the same time. i watched this with my daughter and she was so moved. this is a great message for many. the crowd, i hear, went wild. in a society where everyone is pressured to win, you chose to not let your sister stay behind. what were you thinking? why did you do this? it just came like natural to me like i have to help her. i have to have her finish at least. it doesn t matter if she doesn t win as long as she finishes it. what was your parents reaction? claire? they were in tears, both of them. and your coaches? they were also in tears. here s the big question. chloe, if claire fell, would you carry her? i probably would. i would help her get up, ask her if she needed it and then i d help her. great. what s the next race for you all? well, next year in high school. you re going into what grade? ninth. we re going into ninth, yeah. i have a feeling any team, any coach would be more than proud to have you representing them. well done, girls. thank you. thank you. claire and chloe, thanks so much. we ll follow you. eat plenty of liquids and please stretch before you run. i m going to carry brian in our spartan today to honor you. i don t know if you re allowed to stay home but we re actually doing a spartan race later and if elisabeth goes down, she s going to stay down. i m not going to do the chair and chloe method. the chair and chloe method. coming up, girl scott cookies not immune to big government. the story behind my selfie with hillary clinton coming up next. first happy birthday to our own tucker carlson. own tucker carlson. happy birthday, friend. woman: this is not exactly what i expected. man: definitely more murdery than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. son: look, a finger. captain: that s unsettling. man: you think? captain: all the time. except when i sleep. which i would not do here. hotels.com would have mentioned the finger. we cannot let the fans down. don t worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate shipping. our priority has always been saving the day. because our priority. amazing! .is you! the amazing spider-man 2 delivered by the united states postal service. tomorrow, by the way, is barbara walters last day hosting the view. after 53 years in broadcasting barbara is retiring and this morning they had a special show to send her off. they brought back all 11 kurpt and former current and former cohosts of the view. there were no survivors. actually we have the one who was on survivor. that s right. that is almost true. it was a special day. we got to pay tribute to barbara and all she s done for us. then look who i ran into in the hall. hillary rodham clinton. that is hillary clinton. how did that go? i said hi, do you take selfies? she said at this point what difference does it make? she said of course. we took the selfie and we talked a little bit about family. she s expecting a grand baby. i almost asked her about benghazi and i thought not the place. then i said why don t you come she has a book coming out i said why don t you visit with us on fox & friends, to which her assistant said okay. then she said okay. and i thought that was a yes. so i think maybe she ll come. i think it would be a great conversation to have. when you were on the view when she was running for the nomination she was on about five times. at the end of the race, ed rendell told us nobody was fair in the mainstream media to hillary clinton than fox news. i remember watching it thinking the same thing. i think it would be a fantastic opportunity to have a great conversation and reach a broad audience. and we sell a lot of books. if you have a book out, that s what you want to do. i m banking on her keeping that okay word. maybe we should put up the selfie every day until she returns. selfie day one. selfie day two. in a moment we re going to find out what the spartan race is all about. i ll go out on the veranda. the producers have done a great job. heather nauert, you saw as well, one of us is going to wind up going home today dead. from the hospital. it s so dangerous. that s the easy part. it s the big wall and it s the thing you ve got to climb. it s that thing down at the end. it s that remember gym class when you used to have to climb up the ropes? yes. i never did that. i m tkpwog do it i m going to do it today. guys, we talk about we all have trouble sleeping from time to time. that brings us to this first story, a wake up call for anybody who uses a sleeping pill called lunesta. the f.d.a. lowering the dose of that popular drug. the reason? the pill you take at night could make it dangerous for you to drive to work the next morning. there is new data showing people might not be alert enough to drive to work even if they feel totally awake. the f.d.a. starting to cut that dose in half. there is new surveillance video out there. it captures the moment the heisman trophy winner jameis winston shoplifted crab legs from a store in florida. the video shows picking up the crab legs, walking around the store and then walked out the door. he says he forgot to pay for it. he wasn t charged but was suspended for three games and had to do 20 hours of community service. an attempt to reach out to women voters has some calling for a california assembly candidate sexist. a sacramento democrat sending out campaign pot holders addressed only to women. he claims it was to appeal to female voters. i use them when i m at home. i don t want to burn myself. well, that makes sense? send me a potholder. the pot holders came with a letter slamming fong s g.o.p. running mate. the girl scouts in one georgia city, they may soon actually need a permit if they want to sell cookies door to door. yeah, that is right, steve. the city council in the town of snellville, georgia, proposing a measure that would require them to apply for a permit and submit to a background check. the city council said too many homeowners have complained about those pesky door to door solicitors. and those are your headlines. i d love to hear what our viewers have to think about that. it is actually the parents who need the background check. be prepared. let s go out to the streets of new york city. maria molina i think is going to be competing against me in that crazy race where somebody is going to not do well. and i will win, of course. i ll let you. have you seen some of these obstacle courses. they re 14 feet high. that is going to go great coming up later on this morning. you need to tune in and watch. the weather conditions a bit of an obstacle across parts of the northeast. we have a chance to see rain here in new york city and surrounding areas of the northeast and there is the potential for flooding. as much as three to even five inches of rain are forecast throughout the day today. keep a heads up because there is going to be the threat for flooding across the northeast. temperature-wise, it is very cool. a little bit unusually cool across parts of the great lakes. chicago currently 40 degrees. even for may, that s cool for you. 40 in kansas city. minneapolis you re in the 40 s as well. farther west across parts of the southern california, we ve been talking about wildfires. unfortunately we still expect an elevated fire danger today with red flag warnings in effect and temperatures in the 90 s in l.a. and triple digits in phoenix. let s head over to brian. we have the founder of the spartan race and the author of spartan up. you see it in the background. what is it? joe, where did this all start? four years ago in vermont we said we wanted to find high functioning people, people willing to get off the couch and get it done. we started, we thought 50 people would show up, it is a one million people movement globally. you believe human beings are meant to get off the couch and doing this at a regular basis, hunting for food, finding shelter, digging holes. you should only want water, food and shelter. right now we have an abundance of stuff in america and it is making us soft. in the book you talk about your charity aspect. challenge athlete foundation, if anybody needs a wheelchair, we get behind them. come over here a second. we have this wall. the object is to push up right . you re going to use some triceps. we re going to flip a tire here. you want to lift the right way. we ve got a rope climb here. you re going to use upper body strength, hit the bell at the top. watch some of these guys and girls kicking it with their feet. here s the thing. we haven t climbed ropes since maybe fourth grade. i wasn t too good at it then. you re going to get better at it. you re going to need a bigger suit. over here, the we call this the hercules hoist. you re going to want to grab this and then squat down. pink is for girls. steve and elisabeth, there are about six different things to do here. you saw how fit these guys are. do you have any preconceived thoughts about how well you re going to do? steve and elisabeth? just looking at that rope gave me a cold sweat flashing back to wakefield junior high school, wakefield, kansas, where we had that rope. i never made it to the top. neither did i. my gym teacher said you can do it. but we re going to do it! and we re glad he set it up. brian, joe, thank you very much. start stretching. in the meantime this video outraged so many of you today. a teacher gets to keep her job after picking up this child by his face. that boy and his parents are going to join us coming up. are you kidding me? have you heard about a measles vaccine being able to cure cancer? we have that for you and it s coming up next. live from new york city. 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[ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system. only from xfinity. tv and internet together like never before. quick high-tech headlines much the internet about to get 51 new regulators that will control the cop tent content. critics say this will create a fast lane for companies who have big bucks to put content the way they want. and you can now text your emergency to 911. select markets in states are trying it out. you have to type out your full name and address, something that could take precious seconds, especially me with an iphone. elisabeth? imagine this, the nightmare of seeing this happen to your own child. this is a teacher lifting up a six-year-old boy by his shirt and then by his face and then worse, the school didn t tell the parents the whole story up front and worse than that, the teacher gets to keep her job. joining me now, that sweet boy, ian, and his parents. thanks for being with us this morning. how shocking and horrifying to see this happening to your son. autumn, you had to be beside yourself. oh, my god, yes. i lost my mind. seeing something like this happen to your child is unreal, unbelievable, something that you don t ever want to see happen to your child. how is ian right now? hey, buddy. can you hear? i ll wave to you. okay? i know you don t have a mike on. i like to see your smile. dad, how is he doing? doing about as well as a child that goes through something like this could be going through at this time. i mean, right now he s trying to work through things the best he can. so we re just trying to get him back to his normal life the best way we can. so let s go back a little bit, this is not a video that was shown to you when you first heard there was an incident at school. the superintendent down played as far as i read, and then you had to go and find the video on your own. why? actually they never said anything to us about a video until later on. basically we got the video with basically a school-type discovery pack is what we got on tuesday and found out about a video. we had absolutely no idea about that. we were told that basically there was an altercation with him and a teacher. she had grabbed him and pushed him up against a wall and was yelling at him. that s all we were told. we obviously were mad about the situation of a teacher putting their hands on him, but to see a whole video is a whole different thing. when you read the statements, it s insane that they allowed this teach tore come back after a ten-day suspension. not only that, the ten-day suspension is what she s facing right now after an assault as it seems right there in the hallway against your son. but now, as i understand it, did ian remain in the classroom for two days with her until you found out about this video? he finished the day out with her on wednesday and he was with her on thursday and then they decided on friday they were going to move him for a different class. they put him into a different class and immediately iam came home the next day, said i have a new teacher, i like her. he said, i made new friends today. he was back to being happy about school again for a little while, you know. do you believe that ten days is what this teacher should get, ten-day suspension? and is ian back in school? will he finish the year out? no, since we got the video we pulled him from school because obviously with all the media coverage going on, we wanted to try to shelter him a little bit from staff questioning him and everything else. we pulled him and my oldest son out of school for the school year is over this week anyway. there wasn t anything detrimental to his education. but with the actual ten days, i mean, you re supposed to have a zero tolerance for bullying, but yet this is a teach obviously bully teacher obviously bullying a child and you re going to give her a slap on the wrist because she s been there for 14 years? come on, if i did that to her, i d be in jail. why is it okay for her to do it to a six-year-old child? great questions there. ian, you re a good guy. school will be good to you from now on. when you get back there, have fun. we want to thank you all for being with us. we ll stay on this. coming up, more trouble with school much now it s not okay to call your professor miss or mister? turns out that s sexist, too, and a veteran running for office photo shopped to look like the cowardly lion. seriously? that lion here to react and roar good job! still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can. 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[ male announcer ] that s how we run, and nothing runs like a deere. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. the v.a. secretary taking major heat over the v.a. hospital scandal. but was he lying under oath and will eric holder even investigate? who you calling a coward? the democrats tweeting out this picture of a congressional candidate who is also an iraq war veteran. that candidate will respond here first this hour. do you like this commercial? i think it s hilarious. leslie, guess what day it is. it s hump day. if you think that s funny, you might be a racist. we re going to explain. what happened? mornings are better with friends. thank you for joining us. you are looking at the spartan race that we re going to attempt. steve, you are about to head out shortly. use a pully, race to the finish. it s a race that goes back to the early days of man. when we used to hunt, but used to dig holes, build fire. they had scaffolding and they had rope. we used to be as beings, out there hunting for food, flipping tires that were in our way, digging holes, making our own shelter. here is the problem, brian. what? you and i work on a couch! how good are we going to be if we work on a couch? we ve got the upper body strength of lima beans. this is the worst pep talk you ve ever given. when is the last time you climbed a rope? sixth grade, wakefield middle school, junior in wakefield, kansas. you, brian? i think fourth grade. i don t think i was successful or else i would have remembered it clearly. these guys have been trying to tell me not only is it easy, then they re flipping upside down and kick the bell with their foot. all we ve got to do is hit the bell. okay. is there an escalator? it s not going to be pretty. on top of everything else, brian is upset that he knows that elisabeth is going to beat him. no, i didn t say that. and if i did, i said it in the break for a reason. let her win. she s new to the show. are you channeling edie hill? she used to do that all the time. i used to tell her things in the break and she d say, you you re not going to believe what brian told me. now you re doing it. are you afraid of me? that was the story. that is my fear, that she will be carrying me. on a serious note, yesterday was dominated by the veterans administration hearings led by generic shinseki. he had to explain himself why the v.a. system is falling apart, why, when you re supposed to get treatment within 14 days, on average, it s taking 245 days. in some cases, so little treatment was given that people died. now we re finding out it s even more widespread than we thought. they risked their lives daily to fight for our freedom. yet come home to sit on waiting lists where they then die waiting for health care here. truly unfortunate, making a ton of people feel outraged on both sides of the aisle. but shinseki says he s not going to step down from the job. six years has not done enough. he says he s mad as hell. what s extraordinary is there have been reports in his office since 2010 that reported these gaming strategies where they had these different ways to game the system so it looked like the wait times were pretty short and that way they could boast hey, we re doing things. they got incentives and bonuses. i was about to say that. you re absolutely right. they would get bonuses to hit their number. so in other words, they were cooking the books in some cases, as we ve already heard. pete hegseth, a regular on this program, he s had it up to here with this, says shinseki has got to go. he should get fired because he failed at his job, because he s been there for six years. the department is failing veterans. we re seeing folk dying on secret lists. he wants to stand there and call it a good system. and then he stands there and says these are just isolated incidents when facts presented before him have shown this is a widespread problem, infected v.a. system that he has been aware of and only wants the media once the media shines the light of scrutiny do they start putting people on administrative leave and even then he s doing because the i.g. recommends it. this is not a guy leading a department right now. not general like. by the way, we know his track record is unbelievable. what he s already done for the country in uniform. however, just because you re a great general doesn t mean you re great ceo. clearly there is a problem with the system. let s get your responses. pam says people that don t do their job get fired where i work and a manager would get fired if the people they manage were not doing their job or caused harm to others. she s intimating he should go. steve, not doocy, said this on facebook. he is just a figurehead. it was not him that made the death list. go after the person that led them involved. we know the 40 people involved supposedly in arizona, at the phoenix facility. there is another report that 23 vets died waiting for cancer screenings. okay. the death toll is up to 60. so will the top law enforcement man in our country investigate? eric holder says at this point no. here is charles krauthammer weighing in last night on special report . he s the chief law enforcement officer of the united states and he s waiting to hear what the media will tell him about what s been happening inside the government in the one system in the u.s. that is the most entirely government run? i think this is just stupid politics. i can understand stonewalling on benghazi and the irs and all the other stuff. but this is the v.a. this is a big mistake on his part. yesterday jake tapper on cnn had dennis mcdonough, the chief of staff from the white house, on and he said essentially, how many dead vets do we need before heads start to roll? and mcdonough just gave him some excuses. how many more days until the commander in chief steps in? dennis mcdonough tells him how mad he is. everybody is mad but nobody is doing anything. heather nauert. she s not mad. she s working hard here like the rest of us and will bring us some head lines. we ve got big news coming out of california. it is wildfire season. that gets us to our fox news alert. overnight, two teen-agers arrested on the suspicion of trying to start a fire at a park in southern california. this is multiple wildfires rage across that state and tens of thousands of people in the san diego area are now on the move. they are trying to escape the flames that have so far ravaged more than 10,000 acres and killed at least one person. we ll watch this story throughout the morning. casey kasem not in danger. he was just on vacation? the 82-year-old was in good shape apparently when they found him at a friend s house in seattle with his wife. his daughter still has really serious concerns about her dad s well-being. he suffers from dementia and can no longer speak. she s been battling her stepmom in court for the right to see her father. also new overnight, a russian space launch not going exactly as planned. just nine minutes after this rocket launched, it veered off path and caused an emergency shut down. the rocket was carrying communication satellite and it broke apart and then burned up in the atmosphere. and talk about a rude awakening, take a lows look at this video. that s a bear as he pokes his head in the front door while this homeowner sleeps on the couch. this happened in california. the guy jumped to his feet, shoed away the bear by making loud noises. that frightening encounter happened two years ago, but it was just uploaded, the video, to youtube. can you imagine that? something wakes you up? not your teen-ager, but a bear. that s very scary. thank you, boo boo. thanks, heather. the pc police are working overtime today. two stories to tell you about. we ll start with this one. do you like this commercial? guess what day it is. huh? anybody? julie, guess what day it is. come on, i know you can hear me. mike, mike, mike, mike. what day is it, mike? leslie, guess what today is. it s hump day. woo woo! a lot that is hilarious. a lot of us refer to wednesday as hump day. turns out we may be racist. at the university of saint thomas in minnesota, which is a catholic school, they were going to celebrate the end of school, which was on a wednesday, with hump day. and so they were going to bring in a camel, like a petting zoo. but a number of the university students felt that that would be racist and make people, students from middle eastern countries feel bad. so the school caved. there would be no hump day celebration because hump referring to hump in the camel is racist. right. also owe phonedded were offended were sunday, monday, tuesday, thursday, friday, saturday. so do you think that s about time we cracked down on hump day? do you feel this is way overdue or not? what if you smoke camel cigarettes? doesn t that make the middle easterns feel bad? i don t know. let us know what you think about that. what if you smoked them on hump day? wait, there is more. yeah. so professors are demanding an end to titles like sir and miss because they re sexist. so i couldn t say sir, referring to them in class, this is a big deal here. do you think that s sexist as well? you can see miss but just professor? you re talking about professor jennifer coates in london. she says that one of her quotes is, the men on the staff are all in their 20s and they were called sir. she said, sire is what you call the king and sir is a knight. there weren t women knights, but miss is ridiculous. it doesn t match sir at all. so she wants people to stop referring to people as sir and miss and instead use your title. if off professor title, use that. but if you don t have a professor title, i don t know what you would refer to you as, mrs. hasselbeck. just miss. right. why don t we just stop talking to each other and make it easy? the problem is, we re doing a talk show! that s right. i keep forgetting. hump day. there is no humping op hump day. straight ahead, coming up, who are you calling coward? the democrats tweeting out this picture of a congressional candidate who is also an iraq war veteran. that candidate will respond for the first time next. and it s a video everyone will be talking about today. the ambulance driver who drives and dances. 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they ve got a great new book out called the brady bunch. please meet kip and mona lisa and their ten children. good morning. how who is still sleepy? kip, let s start with you. you started your family. you and your wife had a conversation probably about what you wanted to do with your children, right? yes. we started in public school and actually the private school in kansas with the oldest. the oldest three went to private school. right about the third grade, i guess, we were looking at it, thinking maybe there is a better way. my wife had a friend who was home schooling and talked to her. we missed them all day. we thought maybe we could be more efficient and accelerate them a little bit. see, that s the key. accelerate. you ve got ten kids who how many seven in college graduated from college started college. by the age of 12. right. there are a lot of parents looking in right now. they re thinking, okay, my kid would barely be ready for middle school at age 12. how were you able to do it? we re talk being their academics here. a lot of parents are thinking how could my kids socially do this? but they re still kids. they re still they still have friends their age. it s where are they going for their academics. when people start thinking maybe they can handle some algebra at age ten, that kind of starts to make sense. kip, stand up here with me for just a second. if you would, just go through the line of kids. point at your children and tell us what they re up to. we have hannah, she s studying for a ph.d. then rosanne, an architect at cooper union. she ll graduate in september. that s a masters architecture. serena is a navy doctor. very proud of her service. and actually the youngest in the u.s., i believe still. congratulations. and then there is heath and he s graduated with a masters in computer science. and he s working on a business at ho wait a minute. how old are you? 18. you ve got a masters. okay. i feel like such a slacker. heath just graduated. he s got a degree in music. he s 15 years old. masters at 15? no, no. bachelor s. now he s going to go on to study counseling or psychology. all right. then there is seth. he goes to huntington college and he is a history major. what do you want to be when you grow up? an archaeologist. all right. very good. then there is katrina and she is now a freshman at faulkner university. i m 11. she s doing legal studies. i like the way you added the age. i m 11. you keep them all straight, right? it changes every year. then there is mariana. you re how old? eight. she s still home schooled. you want to be a doctor, i think? pediatrician. okay. then there is lohry bee. what do you want to do when you grow up? be a doctor. baby doctor. all right. i kind of like her job. it s much easier asking questions. you forgot about thunder. the last. thunder james. he just graduated from oxford no, that would be funny. with all these kids, and they re all turning out great, what about inside? what about the pressure to forget about getting them through school, but all the pressure on you as parents. i don t think it would be any different if they were getting up and going to public school, traditional school. i d have to deal with all those things, all maybe bullying, maybe some of the social pressures. it s just different. the key to all your kids going to school early was you accelerated it. for people looking in, how do they do it? we have to let them do what they want to do, really. i couldn t force i don t know that that s a food good idea. as long as they re about something constructive, we re okay with it. it s like what do you want to read today? what do you want to study today? as long as it s good material, you know, then it s okay. right. let me ask the eldest daughter right up here. you ve got your parents and this book out, people are going to read about your family s story. what do you want to tell bus your parents and how they helped you achieve? i would say they both have a strong work ethic and both very disciplined. without that, i don t think we could have done what we ve done. that s fantastic. how important is the bible, because in your book, every single chapter starts with a bible passage. yes. character training is very important. we re faith based. absolutely. we check what they re learning everywhere with god s word. sure. you re doing something right because your family is beautiful and they re on track to take over the world. check out the book, it is called the brainy bunch. thank you. thank you. real pleasure. kids, good job. straight ahead, the federal government making changes to a popular sleeping aid. why it doesn t exactly make you rise and shine. it s hard to wake up. and it s a global challenge called the spartan race. we re going to head to head between the headlines. coming up next, which of you kids would like to substitute for mr. doocy on the big wall? 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captain: all the time. except when i sleep. which i would not do here. hotels.com would have mentioned the finger. steve is getting ready for the spartan race, which he was born to do. that s right. he can not wait to get involved and get this race underway. he s been talking about it all morning. this is what happened the last time he attempted to run, you were saying, brian. underneath! no, no, no! you got to go underneath! and the hard part is almost over, except for the electric shock they re coming through! i wouldn t want this part. i should have been a dentist! i think it s going to go better for him out with the spartan race. when he dove into the ice, he swears his heart stopped. so that was a negative. at least there is no ice now. it s a little humid. right. you have a tire. this is basically what early man went through in order to you had to climb rope, climb walls and hurdle buildings in order to get food and eat fox and wolf. but i thought they we want through that so we didn t have to now. so we pavees, we got ourselves shoes and this shouldn t be happening. when we get done with it, heather will be here to take good care of us. that just didn t look like a lot of fun. steve versus maria, round one. my bet is on maria. so is america s. i ve got some news to bring you. listen to what this lady got away with. she is in her mid 30s, but she managed to fool everyone into thinking that she was a teen-ager for half a year. 34-year-old charity johnson, right here, is now facing charges for pretending to be a 15-year-old high school student. this is what she looked like as a high school student. did a pretty good job, huh? police in longview, texas, say she enrolled as a sophomore at new life christian school in october using a fake birth date and the name charity stevens. she even fooled the friend that she was living with at the time. listen to this. she gave me the same story about being abused by her biological father, then he passed away, and her biological mother was dead. i invited her into my home. the friend finally discovered the con after she got a phone call from a needy chirp s group that johnson tried to join. her motive remains a mystery. students revolt at a texas high school and take a look at this. riots breaking out at the school after the school tried to suspend 200 students for violating the dress code there. their violations included piercings, large belt buckles, open toed shoes, and untucked shirts. students say this has they have been enforced before and they re pretty upset about it. they re enforcing the rules and they re supposed to do that, but for them to not do that all year, the last two weeks of school and now they want to enforce it? students now are fighting to have that policy repealed. if you re one of the millions of americans who need help get to go sleep at night, listen to this. it s a wake up call if you use lunesta. the f.d.a. lowering the dose of that popular drug and the reason is that the pill that you take at night could actually make for a dangerous drive to work the next morning. there is new data that is showing you may not be alert enough to drive, even if you feel totally awake. the f.d.a. is now cutting the suggested starting doses in half. take a look at this video going viral this morning. it may make you a little nervous. an emt having a lot more fun driving certainly than we ever will. then he takes both hands off the wheel. that may not be the picture of safe driving, but this paramedic knows how to bust a move. he was dancing to rihanna s song and the video, even prompted a tweet from the pop star herself. she said, quote, this paramedic guy reminded me of why god sent me here. having a good time. those are your headlines. let s head outside to maria. hey there. i m betting on you today. thank you. what about me? get out of here. let s take a look at the weather maps because we have some big weather headlines to tell you about, especially across the northeast where there is a flood threat in place today thanks to a storm system on the move and could produce as much as three to even five inches of rain across the region. temperature wise, below average across parts of northern plains and also the great lakes. those temperatures are yet again above average across parts of the southwest where we do have an elevated fire danger continuing across southern california. red flag warnings are in effect. that s what we have going on weather wise. now it s the moment you ve been waiting for, steve and i face off here in the spartan race. steve is representing men across america. don t put that on me! i was told not to hug maria. i don t know what it is. she s 5-foot, 100 pounds. he is not. together they re going to compete. one on one for the right to be true spartans. true fighters. how do you feel, steve? let s just get this done! let s get going. i sense nervousness on both sides. ready, set, go! they go over the wall first. steve pretends to. brian is going to give him a boost right now. we are with the creator of the spartan race right now. i can t do this! i will give you a dollar! shear a dollar. the rope without the knot is much more difficult. should i help her? look at steve race up that rope! look at this! do you say gee on a roll. ring that bell. now to the other side. steve, you got the pully. who is going to kill steve doocy? that is the question! pull and sit. who won? ladies first! you are witnessing the first ever spartan run by steve doocy and maria. it s no longer a race. elisabeth, i think this is more like survivor. she s doing incredible. i think she s a natural athlete. he s got to do some he is stuck in a tube. has anyone ever spent the night in the tube? people are overweight, they get stuck. you win. the rope, i m going to kill you. maria, great job. that tire looks a lot lighter than it is. was that the most difficult part for you? no, the rope. how did they do? they did great. if they were at a real race, they d be top 30%. wow! good job. i love these guys. at 8:30, elisabeth tries to get out of it. but we ll go head to head. we ll see. i vote against the survivor chick. great job. coming up straight ahead, v.a. official accused of cashing in on big bonuses while veterans died. could anyone actually go to jail? peter johnson, jr. knows and promises to say it out loud. and you should go see godzilla this weekend? what you can skip and what you should go see. kevin mccarthy will join us live. from france? wow. i m toast. that was great. i wanted to give somebody a dollar. nobody would take it. 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we re going to ask fox news legal analyst peter johnson, jr. yes, yes. they should be going to jail if they killed our veterans. there is an allegation that 40 died. there is an allegation that others died across the country, including the failure to get colon checkups after being on waiting lists. and the best that mr. shinseki, the veterans administration secretary can say is that he s mad. he s mad as hell. we hear from the president s spokesman that the president is angry. so people are mad, people are angry. and veterans are continuing to die. nothing is happening here at all. this is the biggest con that i ve seen in america in the last couple years. and congress is perpetuating it, too, but for john mccain and a couple of others. they re going to have hearings. they re going to thank general shinseki. thank you so much for your service, general. you ve done this for five years. you ve failed for five years. but we re not going to touch you. how many veterans will have to die until this changes? how many family also have to go to the grave site and say, yeah, my husband complained, he had symptoms. he cooperate be seen for three months. but they had phony waiting lists and my husband or my sister died as a result of the v.a. s insensitivity, if not criminal negligence. so if they are able to prove these secret waiting lists are there, that these veterans died as a result of those, what then will be the punishment? criminal negligence. mail fraud, wire fraud. these are all federal crimes. may be state crimes involved. but i ve been contacted by a bunch of veterans. i ran into two at the 9-11 dedication yesterday, of the memorial and the museum. i m sick of it and i m sick of the scam that s going on. so this is my small part. e-mail me at johnson junior at fox news.com. or write to us here at 1211 avenue. if you re a veteran or veteran family member and you feel that you ve been part of this scam, if you feel that you ve been part of this criminal negligence, it you feel that you ve been part of this cover-up, contact me. we will reach out to the inspector general s office and to congress and if necessary, to the u.s. attorney in the particular jurisdiction and tell of your concern because i m afraid americans concerns and veterans concerns are not being met. and they need a monitor on this. enough with i m angry, mad as hell. do something. shinseki has got to go. we need real change for the veterans. they gave their lives for us. let s do something for them today. they shouldn t come home to sit and die. nonsense. thanks for being on top of this. i have a feeling your e-mail is getting full. please. e-mail us and write us. should you go see godzilla this weekend? kevin mccarthy says yes and no. there is one part you can skip. he s next on it. first on this day in 1985,, simple minds had the number one song with don t you forget about me. oh, man, the new godzilla movie opened world wide today. everybody is excited about this. in fact, this week officials here in new york actually said the city could survive being attacked by godzilla. they were like look, if we can handle all the hosts of the view in one place, godzilla should be no problem at all. he s picking on you. he is. jimmy, i m going to come get you. if people are just tuning in now, you went. how did it go? it we want well. i ll tell you about it in a little bit. in the meantime, he mentioned godzilla, does it live you want to classic version? looks like it does. joining us now is fox news contributor and founder of nerdtears.com, kevin mccarthy, he s on with us. godzilla, are we for it or against it? hey, so good to be with you. it s one of the most frustrating movies i ve ever had to review and here is why. the beginning is amazing. the ending is amazing. but the middle is terrible. it s absolutely awful. they re making huge mistakes in the first 35 minutes of the movie. a massive mistake. in the 35-minute marker, which sucks the life out of the entire film. now, for godzilla fans, the ending is amazing. that s what you will pay to see. for me, it s like when your parents tell you, i m not mad at you, i m just disappointed. that s how i felt about this movie. i thought it was 2 1/2 out of five. i thought the movie kind of worked in the action sense, but overall, i m giving it 2 1/2 out of five. skip the 3d. that darkens the movie. imax is amazing. all right. so we re going to skip that. meanwhile, hyped you is a dragon and that s the reason why you are coming to us from the mediterranean. right. i m out here. the movie opens in june. it premieres here tonight in cannes. i m at the actual world premiere. i m going to be walking the carpet. i sat down with the stars yesterday. it was an incredible day to spend with the cast. the movie not playing in competition. there are 18 films here in competition and 20 years ago, it s now the 20th anniversary of pulp fiction. it won the palm door here in cannes 20 years ago. do y all remember that one famous scene about the royale with cheese? check this out. do you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in paris? they don t call it a quarter pounder with cheese? they have the metrics. they would call it the royale with cheese. classic scene. i actually went to a mcdonald s yesterday and ordered a royale with cheese. we have my receipt. we have my hamburger box here. i was so geeking out. that was one of the coolest experiences i ve ever had. ordering a royale with cheese in france. now i understand your instagram. how much was it in euros? i m trying to figure it out on your bill. i think it was like seven euros for the combo. i got french fries. it wasn t bad at all. i m here for the festival. it s amazing. i m seeing hunter of the dragon. i m geeking out beyond belief. write down all of this. you can expense all of it now that you re on television. and skip godzilla requesting. we got that idea. thank you, kevin. how many monster movies have we seen in the last ten years where they destroy new york? in other news here, coming up, we re going to tell you something you probably never seen before. geraldo, look at this, riding a bike to work today. stick around for the next hour of fox & friends. where is his helmet? 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forget calls to someone to step down. should someone go to jail? geraldo rivera pedaling in to talk about that. meanwhile, who are you calling a coward? the democrats tweeting out this picture of a congressional candidate who is also an iraq war veteran. that candidate here on fox & friends this morning with his first response to that photo shopped image. then have you seen this video? you got a dog attacking a little boy. it looks like bad for the kid. the cat saves the day. the hero and the little boy she saved join us live this morning. according to all reports, except for when they bring the spartan obstacle course here and we have to race it, mornings are better with friends. ladies and gentlemen, it s ride your bike to workday. geraldo rivera joining us here on the curvy couch. hello. that s great bike, by the way. i know. you looked great on the view with all of your colleagues. so proud of you there. you ve got a great story of barbara walters. if you missed me the last half hour, it was me and maria molina in the spartan race. she killed you. she did. this next part after the tire brian, i know you re worried about this, too, and i m trying to help maria and also trying ogive a guy a that to do it for me, but they wouldn t do it. i did that only through shear determination. i m 57 years old. nice. that s the first time i ever did that. it must have been the adrenaline. you went up and nailed the bell. look at that. i was impressed. this is not an easy task. i think it kind of bonds you with the people you run it with. it does. it s brought a loft badness out of maria. she won t speak to you. she won fair and square and brian and elisabeth are going to square off against each other in a couple of minutes. are you going to help me? i was going to put maria on the handlebars when i rode in, but i didn t think my wife would appreciate it. as long as she was wearing a helmet. good point. we got lots to talk to geraldo about, including whether or not general shinseki should go. we re going to turn to heather nauert who has the news for this friday. good morning. we re starting out talking about wildfires that are taking place out west. they had a really dry winter season contributing to this. fox news alert now, and the question is being asked, were these wildfires in southern california set on purpose? two people are now under arrest at this hour. they re accused of trying to start at least two fires in san diego. right now officials are still trying to figure out whether they had any involvement in the fires that have so far burned more than 10,000 acres and left one person dead. sad news to report this morning. a top army ranger who personally made sure that american pow jessica lynch made it to her rescue chopper in iraq has died after he was shot by a sniper in afghanistan. command sergeant major martin barreras was shot may 6, but he managed to make it back to the united states. doctors say they were sure he would make a full recovery and he was set to head to walter reed for surgery. but he decided he wanted to stay closer to his wife and his children and have his operation performed in texas. but he didn t make it. he had served 22 years in the army 75th ranger regiment, going to iraq and afghanistan many, many times. he s also served five years in the marine corps. he received a bronze star for courage. he now leaves behind his wife, two daughters, and a son. he was 49 years old. our prayers go out to his family this morning. the pc police working overtime today. two stories to tell you about. we ll start here, you like this commercial? you see it all over tv. guess what day it is. huh? anybody? julie, guess what day it is. oh, come on. okay. if you like that commercial, you may be racist? the university of saint thomas in minnesota now canceling an event to celebrate the end of the year after some people complained about bringing a humped day camel on campus. they say it could be considered to be racist to middle eastern cultures. it was a wednesday. then this story, a feminist professor demands an end to titles like sir and miss, claiming they re sexist. the woman says she felt demeaned by youngsters calling her miss and she wants the titles banned from schools all together. that s what we teach our kids. call their teacher miss. not anymore. you re being insensitive. not in the new world we re in. yes, ma am. so silly. we got a lot of e-mail from you. bob from new jersey writing about hump day. the truth is, people who make these claims just get a rush out of making an entire university drop a planned program. they need to feel that power. and regarding the professor against sir and miss, richard from georgia says, using sir and ma am does not make you politically correct or incorrect. it shows you have some respect for other human beings. to your point, heather. now let s switch gears. the big story yesterday was the v.a. hospital. very few people have been around more men in uniform than geraldo rivera. you know that general shinseki served admirably in uniform. having said that, do you think he should go from what you ve heard so far? let me start, and i don t do this characteristically, but i want to start with the white house because i think that this is potentially the most devastating scandal to affect the obama administration and i ll tell you why. really? because it speaks to competence. if indeed they can prove or and i believe they should bring the f.b.i. now to probe this, possibility of criminal acts, if they can prove the double books and that the books were cooked, if they can prove that the administration of the veterans administration, including the hero general shinseki and i told you last week how i hold him in the highest regard and hearing about this master sergeant who passed from the sniper s bullet, these people that serve and are wounded in action and continue to serve, they are deserving of our admiration, our love, our compassion. but if they can prove a systematic failure within the veterans administration, the largest integrated health care system in the country, 6.5 million patients of the system, if they can prove that general shinseki knew or should have known, then i think it really bodes badly for the president in the midterm election year because it will be hammered. you hear now general shinseki being hammered by senators left and right. democrat and republican. i think that there must be an independent criminal probe at this point. does it bother you he hasn t spoken out yet? president obama? you know, i think he has commander in chief has to get his arms around it and i would, if i were advising him, i would tell him right now to make a very forceful statement, other than i have faith in general shinseki. of course you do. but find out what really happened. it sounds like general shinseki has known since 2010. that s with they knew about the gaming strategies at the v.a. for the last four years. and he s been at the top of it. we know of the 40 people who died in arizona waiting on the fake list that they shredded. apparently there are at least 25 other people who were waiting for a simple cancer screening and they died. it looks to some like this is criminal and somebody should go to prison. two quick points. number one, the only national customer satisfaction survey that we have compares the v.a. system favorably to private hospitals. in other words, patients in the v.a. like the v.a. system more than private patients like the private hospital system. does it look at waiting lists? having said that. if indeed we have evidence that this was cooking the books or fraudulently represented the waiting time, then that, i believe, is a crime and i do believe that with all due respect to the inspector general, that general shinseki has now ordered to probe these potential irregularities, i think you need the f.b.i. at this point. if you can have the f.b.i. investigating whether a new york congressman used undocumented workers in the kitchen, you can have the f.b.i. investigating this. they re saying eric holder s investigation might take too long and we can t afford to lose more lives in our veterans in the meantime? i think you need criminal investigators. i really think you need people to forensically go and study whether or not evidence was destroyed as now is being alleged, if indeed there are two books, if there was knowledge of the fact that they were cook the books, and keeping separate waiting time lists, one to present in the public and the other as private, whispering this guy is going to three months, six months. the v.a. complaint has always been it s not the quality of care. it s the time you wait until you get the care. elisabeth had a big day yesterday. she was magnificent. i was so proud of her there. like watching our own sister. went back to the view. yesterday was special. barbara has done so much for so many in the industry. we just gathered together and i call us ghosting around her, but giving her thanks for inspiring us and giving us advice and we shared all our favorite memories together. it was really special. you wound up crossing trails with hillary clinton and you invited her on fox & friends. i did. i first asked if she took selfies. she said yes. i said, you should come to fox & friends and we ll talk. we specialize in selfies around here. look who is talking. she gave us a smiling okay. a couple of things that were interesting to me. i ll speak about barbara in a second. but to see how few of the ladies that have been through the view share your political philosophy. it s quite extraordinary when you see everyone gathered. there is you and then it s all of the other women. welcome to new york. quite a disproportionate in terms of political philosophy. i think star jones travels along that. i ve known barbara for over 40 years. i had a crush on her, two quick stories. i was hitting on her, we were both covering the p canal. i said come on, baby. look at me. we were both covering it. it was romantic. she goes like this, i m busy tonight. she ended up with the panamanian dictator, took him to dinner. i m trying to get the interview. this little kid sitting outside. there is barbara. she got the interview and the dictator. she didn t get him in that sense. scoop wise. yeah. the other one on her 75th birthday, the ladies of the view were you still hitting on her? still hitting on her. in recognition of that, they had me jump out of her birthday cake. i remember that. i remember that. that was her favorite cake. i wasn t topless. i remembered it wrong. i felt topless. i did not have sex with that woman. overall, it s another show today, isn t there? yeah. today is her time, final day. what a pioneer she s been. role model for so many. aside from the fact the first woman anchor, she s really about such a feisty and wonderful reporter. she practically made peace in the middle east by getting baggen and sadat to sit down with each other. she was barting and arbitrating that momentous occasion. castro, the first time he came out of his shell and talked to people on our side of the did he come out of a shell or out of a cake like you? maybe he really was topless. thank you very much for remembering. has a great amount of respect and care for everyone on this couch, too. that s great. today is her last day. geraldo, we ll see you back here next week. thank you. coming up straight ahead, we give them billions of dollars each year. russia is telling the under the circumstances us, no more rides to the moon. senator bill nelson joins us next to weigh in. you watched steve and maria go through the spartan race together. but guess what, brian is promising he s going to hold nothing back when he faces me. who wrote that? 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russia taking retaliations for u.s. sanctions over ukraine to astronomical proportions. moscow announcing it will reject a u.s. request to use the international space station beyond 2020. and no longer let washington use russian made rockets for military use as well as a form of transportation. this despite the fact we pay $70 million per flight to the international space station, which i believe we re co-owners of. so what does all this mean? let s ask the man qualified to answer of the u.s. senator from florida, and former astronaut, senator bill nelson. can they do this? can they say america, you can t use the space station and we re not taking you up there anymore? the fellow who is saying all this stuff, he was sanctioned because of mr. putin s aggressiveness. they froze his bank account and he doesn t like it. and so he s lashing out. the fact is, we re still going to ride on the russian rockets until we get our own humanly safe rockets ready in about two or three years. and the reason that we will is the russians can t operate the space station without us. don t we own it? since when do they own the international space station? they currently have the way of transporting us there. they don t own it. that s correct. most of the international space station, which is 15 countries, by the way, most of it is the u.s. for example, the russians get all of their electricity from u.s. systems. the russians have components on it. the russians were very good in building it with us. this cooperation goes back to the cold war with the soviet union when apollo soyuz and soviet spacecraft rand viewed and docked and they lived together in space in the middle of the cold war. rhetoric aside, how is it that we re depending on the russians? we re far ahead of them in our technology and our space exploration. how did we end up without rockets and how close until we get our own? here is what happened. at the end of the soviet union, the disintegration, we went in there to keep their rocket scientists from going to iran and north korea and worked out a deal that this incredible engine that they have that we would buy it. it is the main first stage engine on some of our most important rockets, the atlas 5, that puts up military and commercial space load. so at the end of the day, we re going to have to build a new engine to replace that because they re threatening they re not going to sell that engine to us for military. for commercial, they haven t prohibited that. listen, we need a major speech about this, get america rallied around this and give new credence to the space program. we have allowed it to wither on the vine and i don t think it s right and i know you agree. especially in florida. senator bill nelson, thanks so much. have a great day. you, too. coming up straight ahead, a frightening new warning on something millions of americans are using to get a good night s sleep. pay attention to that. then you ve seen the video. a dog attacking a little boy. then a cat steps in to save the day. i m not talking about a cartoon if you re listening on radio. this happened. you ll meet that boy, you ll meet the hero live when we come back and that lovely family. don t miss a step. nothing s missed with tenatwist don t miss a beat. nothing s missed with tenatwist oooh discover the fearless protection of tena. so absorbent even when you twist not a drop escapes. nothing s missed with tenatwist 24 minutes after the top of the hour. we got some headlines for you making headlines overseas. look at that. that dramatic video is from syria. it shows the exact moment syrian rebels blew up an army base with 60-tons of explosives by bombing through an underground tunnel that they dug. in india, change coming to the world s largest democracy. the opposition party heading for a landslide election. voters kicking out the gandhi family. they have been in control for all but ten years since the country won independence back in 1947. elisabeth hasselbeck, over to you. thanks, steve. well, it is safe to say that our next guest is the most popular cat in america. she s the fearless feline who saved a little boy from a vicious dog attack. and it was all caught on camera. four-year-old jeremy was playing outside at his home when a neighbor s dog attacked him and that s what you see here. cat tara sprang into action and chased that dog off, saving him. he joins us this morning with his parents, and tara the hero cat is here. good morning to you all. good morning. good morning. okay. i see one tired little fellow there. he certainly is. a big week for him. and his protector, tara is right by his side. this is interesting because most people find cats more independent. they sort of get the rep for that. but it seems as though tara has a serious bond with you guys. yeah. she definitely is independent for the most part. but she does have her loving moments when she wants to come in and be loved. that s what kind of made us post the video was the fact we ve never seen anything like this before in a cat standing up for someone getting attacked. it was impressive. impressive, it was life saving right there. if you could walk us through, erica, you actually were watering plants, i hear, and then you see this dog and hear this dog coming up on jeremy, who is only four years old and sound asleep now, but tell us what happened. what did you see? we were just getting off the bus. i was watering some plants before we went inside and he was just kind of enjoying himself on the warm afternoon. the next thing we know, he was just on the ground being pulled by the dog and before i could even get to him, tara had that dog. she jumped in. she literally saved him. you attempted, too. i m seeing something on jeremy s leg right here. two questions, how severely hurt is he? and are you hurt? and also, is this a dog you re familiar with and has this happened before? the bandage on his leg, is it stitches? he has ten stitches. they had to do two stitches on the inside of each wound and then three stitches on the outside. he didn t really enjoy that. he told us the doctor punched him, unfortunately. but he got wrapped up and fixed up. he made sure his little leg was decorated with the cars sticker and he thinks that s pretty neat. that s great. i actually got bit as well. nothing compared to my son. nice and large bruise, unfortunately. i m sure that s a bruise you re happy to take in an attempt to help your sweet little guy there. but roger, let me ask you this, the dog was a neighbor s dog and i know that he was heard barking before. did you ever expect that this would happen and then what do you want to happen moving forward? you know, we really didn t expect it to happen. the dog has been aggressive when he s on the other side of the fence, but not to the point where we have been afraid that something would happen when he was out front, he s usually with his owners. when he was with them, he always acted fairly normally, like you would expect a dog to act. so we didn t really have any tell tale signs that this was imminent. but just watching the video, it seems like the owners weren t there and they were a little bit away from the i want incident when it happened. the dog kind of took to his own and went after my son. it s an unfortunate i want. if tara was not there, i mean, it s awful to think of the worst. but things would have turned out differently, do you think? definitely. if she hadn t been there, i don t know how i would have gotten the dog off. i m sure i would have gone in and tried to grab him myself and the dog might have bit me worse than it did. i don t know if i could have gotten him off my son without hurting him worse. in an attack like that, seconds matter. a hero cat right there, tara who loves your family and we re glad jeremy is resting andg the. we re glad everything is okay, important message to send. take care. thank you. we are, too. coming up, the president promised our nation s veterans this. cut those backlog, slash those wait times, deliver your benefits sooner. well, another broken promise. this time some of our veterans are paying the ultimate price. so what happens now? chris wallace surely is on that next. and who you calling a coward? democrats tweeting out this picture of republican who is a veteran. he responds for the first time right here on fox & friends. 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chris wallace, thank you very much. we ll be watching you. now listen, chris, you know what it s like to go back with reunions, right? you ve been to a high school reunion. he knows barbara walters. what do you think of elisabeth going back? how do you feel about her emotions? do you have a barbara moment you want to share? look, i had the great good fortune when i was at abc to work with barbara for a while and elisabeth will agree. she s such a great pro. relentless, tough, fiercely competitive. one of the things 2003 in the business, people who interview people for a living, you re always thinking, even if it s not your interview, how i would have asked them or what i would have said and you think, boy they didn t do this right. one of the things i always felt watching a barbara walters interview was this she squeezed the sponge dry. when it was over, she had gotten everything out of that person there was to get. a total pro. i think she people probably have a few scars from having gone up against her and competed with her, but i don t think anybody leaves thinking that she wasn t just a total professional and a great, great journalist. get this, she still is getting the big interviews. through the donald sterling scandal, she still is nailing the big guys. so to speak. you have to be careful how you say that. interviews wise. i don t know what you re talking about. nailing the big guys. you want a do over on nailing the big guy? no. chris and i have a certain vocabulary. he knows what i mean. he s going to continue. she gets the big interview. brian, really. hello, youtube. i m glad all of you are watching out there. that s another big point about why she was so great, which is the fact that i think people felt that she treated them fairly. she wasn t easy. she always asked the tough questions. but it wasn t about her and gotchas and i think that s up with of the reasons that the big guys were willing to be nailed by her is because of the fact that they knew they d get a fair hearing. let me ask but fair here, shifting gears, as it relates to the v.a. and the wbr-id wbr94550 hearing. it seemed to be unusually unpartisan or bipartisan in terms of the grilling of eric shinseki. why do you think that is? well, because there is no partisanship when it comes to the veterans. look, it s very simple. these are people that were willing to risk their lives and defend our country, in many cases, these great men and women were injured in service of our country. to be a little cynical about it, they re also an enormous voting bloc and so whether you re republican or democrat, there are no two sides to this issue. veterans didn t receive proper treatment, if they were being messed over, god forbid if some of them died because they couldn t even get an appointment. there are no two sides to this issue. there is only one side, which is fix it. by the same token, you would think there would be no argument between the two parties if the federal government in the form of the irs is punishing somebody during the political system, where they targeted the tea party, or if four americans are killed in benghazi. you would think that that would also be bipartisan and outrage. yet, it s not. no. i mean, i take your point there. obviously there are things that are just right or wrong. i just would say that the veterans and thank god for this, they re kind of above politics. and you re exactly right, most things aren t above politics, but the vets are. chris, i want to check you on that. are people going to be saying how could this happen over the last six years? how could in 2009 the wait be 45 days, and in 2014, the wait is 245 days to get an appointment? i was reading something interesting in the paper yesterday. i don t know if it s true. we re going to explore this on fox news sunday. but i have heard that there has been a huge increase in the demand for v.a. medical services in the last couple of years. it s about doubled. i m not saying that s an excuse for this kind of treatment, but there may be a reason. and apparently the number of v.a. doctors has gone down. so this may not be a simple thing of people were sitting there reading the comic books instead of taking care of veterans. it may be that we need more a lot more doctors and need to spend more money, whatever we need to do, do it. whether or not eric shinseki is the right guy to do that, that s legitimate question. i think it goes way beyond one guy into how the whole system has worked and let s hope that they get it together, although going back to other issues, when you see how much trouble we have with something as easy as a web site, you wonder how good it s going to be or how effective the government is going to be in dealing with hundreds of thousands of people who have really serious health needs. absolutely. the great chris wallace, plugging his show. tune in sunday, former vice president dick cheney and his wife, lynn, also karl rove, who had a big week. you ve got a lot to chew on. that s why that man nails the big interviews. making history there, chris. thank you. i think we almost got out of this interview with our dignity intact, but no thanks to brian. thank you. friday, we have two days to write our apologies. hey, heather. i ve got a story about politics. he is an iraq war veteran and running for congress. what s so cowardly about republican lee zeldin? , the campaign arm of the house democrats, a comparison so the cowardly lion from the wizard of oz. they say he needs to decide where he stands on congressman paul ryan s budget. zeldin hadn t spoken about this until this morning on fox & friends. listen to this. you have some liberal democrat hack who is hiding behind his twitter account, stuffing his face with cheese doodles, shameful attacks. i think that they realize that our strongest suit is our character, our integrity, our honor, our personal courage. by the way, his democratic opponent has not served in the military. if you re one of millions of americans who need help getting toly. the f.d.a. is lowering the recommended dose of the sleeping drug, lunesta. the reason is that the pill that you take at night could make for dangerous driving to work the next day. new data showing that you may not be alert enough to drive, even if you feel totally awake. the f.d.a. is now cutting the suggested dose in half. a touching display of true sportsmanship by twin sisters at a track meet in illinois. halfway through the race, one sister felt something pop in her leg and fell to the ground. khloe s sister, claire, who was behind her in the race, picked her sister up and carried her to the finish line. they were here earlier on fox & friends. she sat me down right before the finish line and kept pushing me to go first. i didn t want to go first. i wanted her to finish with me. it just came like natural to me, like i have to help her. i have to have her finish. khloe said if claire fell, that she would carry her, too. and those are your headlines. that s what you guys will be doing outside today, right? carrying one another. who is carrying whom is the question. yeah. can elisabeth carry me over the wall? we ll see. good job, heather. we re going to go change. before, let me tell you what s coming up next. where can you get a house like this for under $300,000? we will tell you and where you can find the most affordable homes in the country. maria and i made it through the spartan race. but what about brian and elisabeth? they have been smack talking each other for the last three hours. we ll finally find out who wins. maria beat me fair and square. no matter what kind of business you own, at&t business experts can help keep it running. seamlessly. so you can get back to what you love. when everyone and everything works together, business just sings. oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh.little help? i got you! unh! it s so beautiful! man: should we call security? no, this is just getting good. the name your price tool, still only from progressive. where can middle class families afford to buy a home these days? trulia.com releasing their list of the most affordable places for middle class buyers. mo ho, new york, and columbia, south carolina. here to show us great affordable homes is author of find it, fix it, flip it, michael corbett. he joins us from los angeles. california is pretty much been priced out of the reach of middle class families. but you got some other great places to live. yeah. there are some amazing places out there where you can find great homes that are really affordable. first one is little rock, arkansas. take a look at this house. this is $300,000. it s amazing. it s three bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. it s a beautiful sort of two-story, on the ski chalet. here is the best part, it s on five acres. two story living room, a beautiful open kitchen, eat in, wonderful island. the master bedroom has got a fireplace in it. it s even got an enclosed rear porch that overlooks waterfalls and ponds. and the whole thing will run you with mortgage, interest and insurance, around $1,400 a month. amazing. you can t beat that. less than a lot of people pay torrent. south carolina, one of mytates , columbia, south carolina, has for under 300,000 as well. yeah. columbia, this one is four bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths. this one is almost 3,000 square feet. it s only $287,000. it s two stories. all brick. huge back porch. it s got a wonderful hardwood floor living room, great detail. open kitchen with granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, flow noose a formal sort of family room. you got a dining room, huge backyard. again, this one will cost you under $1,500 a month with mortgage, interest and insurance. our final stop, dayton, ohio. you got a house for $300,000 that is going to knock people s socks off. i am really going to knock your socks off because it s only $200,000. i love this house. this is a beautiful colonial. look at this! i get excited about this one. this was built in 1914. the original detail on this home is spectacular. grand foyer with an entrance, huge classic living room. it s got a formal dining room, a beautiful what we call four seasons or sun room. it even has an in-law suite upstairs and wait til you look at the front of the house. it s got a gorgeous circular driveway. this is a beautiful home that s very affordable and all these cities, according to trulia s trends, are all very affordable right now. they re all beautiful. all right. michael o consider bet joining us from the city of angels, thanks for giving people some ideas on where they can live. have a great weekend. absolutely. thank you. coming up, you watched maria molina and i get through the spartan race together. what about brian and elisabeth? do you think brian is going to help elisabeth? their turn coming up next. first let s check in with martha mccallum who is constantly helping bill hemmer get over that wall. up and over. thanks, steve. good morning. we ve got brand-new polls that show a shocking drop in trust in the u.s. government. we re going to show you the stunning comparisons to just a few years ago on this measure. you won t believe it. and a dad who is fighting the common core tries to get information being gathered on his kids and is told it will cost him big time. wait til you hear his story. and bill o reilly on barbara walters coming up. so s his serve, and his mandarin [speaking mandarin] xieúxieú, hou chiú but like up to 90% of americans, jim falls short in getting important nutrients from food alone. making jim more like us. add one a day multivitamins, rich in key nutrients you may need. spartan race, 90 minutes ago, it was maria molina versus moi. she won. together we made it through. we did. i kind of helped you, you kind of helped me much what was tough was right there, the ropes. that is the part that is terrifying brian kilmeade. now let s come out live. brian against my advice, i said brian, you needed pants because of the rope. you got your bare legs. right. cause i have radio right after this, i can t get totally undressed. no one can see what you re wearing on the radio. ladies and gentlemen, it s elisabeth versus brian on the spartan race. go! first is the wall. very nicely done. there goes a tire. the tire weighs about 100 pounds. very heavy. it weighs more than about two elisabeth hasselbecks. notice brian trying to beat the girl. there she goes. brian, she s way ahead of you. shear determination. he rings the bale. we re down to the last one. she s got to come around. this is called the hurt hoist. it s 14 feet high. there she goes around. now the tunnel. through the tunnel. who is going to get through first? she s first in the tunnel. brian is holding her! that s good sportsmanship, brian. she s in the tunnel. ladies, we have a winner. elisabeth, way to go! that was a very good race. you okay? i feel like a spartan suddenly. she s too quick, she s too good. i had help. i had some help. you guys were great. it was a great race. it was. and we know how you feel. you re absolutely winded right now. great job. if you would like more information, go to spartanrace spartanrace.com. you guys were top ten. do it again. thanks very much. good job, you guys. they get to take the tire. they get to take the tire! we ll be right back. i ve got a to-do list and five acres of fresh air. happiness is a drive-over mower deck. 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[ cheers and applause ] hillary clinton. now who s a name dropper, stephen. really? name dropper, that s not what my good friend tom hanks calls me when we re hanging out at george clooney s place. i loved george. i wish i could have joined her when i had lunch with merrill street and raphael pereira. oh, raffy is such a cut-up, especially when we go camping with oprah. oh? does that surprise you? no, o is what her real friends call her. i know paul mccartney. i negotiated with hamid karzai. i shared an office with steve carell. i ve held high level talks with chinese state counselor. well, now you re just making words up. i will have you know, madam, i once did an entire show with president bill clinton. i hate to break this to you stephen, but i ve met him, too. good morning. it s wednesday, august 6. good stuff. she did great. she looked great. she was funny. she should take him on in the stump if she runs. former communications director for president george bsh nicolle wallace. contributor john heilemann, political writer for the new york times, nicholas poff sorry. i ve said it a zillion times. also in washington, white house correspondent for the wall street journal carol lee. i want to thank all of you to join us this morning. a lot to talk about. of course, the news out of afghanistan, just devastating for the military and it continues. this is the front page of the wall street journal. it s the lead there. also the lead story in the washington post. it s the lead story in the new york post. everybody talking about that. we ve got that to cover and an awful lot more this morning. but this morning let s start with the pentagon investigating that attack in the military base northwest of kabul that left a two star army major general dead. that s the highest ranking american killed in the iraq or afghanistan wars. in fact, you d have to go back to 1970 in vietnam to have another officer with that high of a rank killed. 55-year-old major general harold green was the second highest american serving in afghanistan. he saw the transition efforts to hand over to afghan troops. other coalition officers were at camp tuesday when an afghan soldier opened fire, seriously injuring several before being killed by return fire. the 15 wounded they included eight americans, two british, one german and four afghans. these insider attacks as we all know have been largely on the decline as international presence has started to wind down. in 2012 is when it was the worst here. the two attacks so far this year. to talk about it more let s bring in nbc news military analyst, retired general barry mccaffrey. first i have to ask you what are you thoughts about the tragedy in afghanistan? a huge loss, very talented officer, phd in political science, one of our real technical experts. remember this comes on top of 22,000 plus killed and wounded in afghanistan. there s been a pretty bloody conflict. i think the lack of transparency in reporting these insider attacks is something we ought to be concerned about. we re only talking about the ones that result in u.s. killed by the insider attacks. there are many more than this actually occurring. a huge chasm of trust opening up between the afghan security forces and the nato forces. so tell us what we re not hearing. why are these attacks being swept under the table? i think a lot of it, of course, is just an understandable feeling and a part of the isap nato headquarters. they don t want to accentuate the growing insecurity throughout the country. the reason i make a point of this, joe, looking forward, 10,000 troops spread out in small packets across the country. our combat forces zero out, very vulnerable, not just killed and wounded but abduction. it s a policy process we ve got to think really carefully about. what s the best way forward? at the end of the day afghanistan is going to make it based on afghan people, political leadership, police and army. a robust u.s. embassy with a lot of u.s. marines around it, maybe holding open the airfield at bagram is what we should be doing and not thinking about an enduring presence throughout the country. this is an ethnic civil war that we re unlikely to change substantially with a 10,000 person footprint. general, we were talking about the logistics of how this would work. we are working hand in hand, literally that s how our soldiers are handling this. how would it work? would you envision our troops staying in a secure facility or embassy and troops will come in for technical training or for strategic training, how would the interactions work under what you envision sf. i m less clear on how it would work than the valabilities of leaving packets of troops all over afghanistan. right now we have intelligence officers throughout the country. they do pretty well. remember they re backed up by not just combat forces of the u.s. army, but also medevac helicopter support, all that s going to disappear as we drop to a very small footprint. again, i think we have to rethink that policy. we ought to find out how many of these inviteder attacks are occurring that don t result in deaths. we ve got a giant lack of trust going on at the lowest level between afghan police and army and nato forces. general, before we go, i need to ask you about this. obviously afghanistan on the front pages of all the newspapers today. over the past several weeks we ve been seeing on the front pages of all the newspapers israel and gaza. before that syria would bump in and out. it seems to me, though, when i talk to military men and women, foreign policy analysts, they say the most dangerous thing happening on the globe right now is not even in the ukraine, it s in iraq, it s in syria, it s i.s.i.s. you ve been there. you fought there. do you agree right now that what s happening with i.s.i.s. is something americans should be paying closer attention to? well, it s just another indication of an enormous shift. these post world war i boundaries in the middle east didn t make any sense on religious and ethnic grounds. there s going to be a readjustment. it s going to be bloody, take ten years to sort it out. at the end of the day we re more likely to see kurds and shia, if they don t trust each other, historically they re well argued that they shouldn t. inside iraq, for god s sake, when sunnis had control of the country, they slaughtered hundreds of thousands. general barry mccalf free, thank you so much. we greatly appreciate you coming in. thank you. you see the polls yesterday? almost makes you feel bad for the president. it makes me feel bad for everybody. it s bad everywhere. the president at his lowest approval rating ever. congress at its lowest approval rating ever. the republicans are hey, this is great for republicans, because the president is at his lowest ever. 75% of americans think we re going in the wrong direction. hey, republicans 80 seals, 90 seats, maybe 1,000 seats. hold on a second, r approval rating is at 19%. democrats are at 32. not much better. holy cow. this is like the friends and family plan. friends am family report what s happening in congress. republicans at 19%. the president horrible at 40. the president ain t running for re-election again. republicans still sitting at 19%. you ve had bill kristol. you ve had moderate becomes, me, you, a lot of people saying for two years now it is not enough to be against barack obama. you ve got to do more than investigate. you ve got to do more than spit on the ground and grumble and scratch yourself when you go back to your district and grunt and say i m against barack obama. shut down the government. you ve got to do something. they re at 19%. republicans, you can be pissed off at me if you want to. i don t know. it s the first republican elected in my district since 1873, won four landslides, won by 70%, 80%, i don t know, maybe i know something about this. i know you don t like when i talk about when i was in congress. we love it. i love it. that s why you re on the set right now! that s the only reason. most of america can listen to you talk about that, the mood of the country would lift. oceans would part. sunshine and rainbows for everybody. let me tell you, at this point right now people would look back to this time as when the oceans receded, the earth began to heal itself. what else is he going to do for us? what else happened? the oceans would part, i think the big greek columns would be erected. the playing of frogs in washington according to those polls. but now the oceans is apparently not receding, locusts are coming from the heavens and eating the flesh of people in washington, d.c. look at the numbers, barack obama s approval rating 40%. a lot of people not happy about that. 54% disapprove. not sure, 6%. we have a couple more years of this going. you keep going through the polls. the other polls, nick, republicans sitting at 19%, democrats at 32%. republicans win the generic ballot, 42-43%. 44.3. this number is troubling, 36 approval on foreign policy, 60% disapprove. it shows when the world is a mess, as madeleine albright said, people hold the president responsible. you go down the approval/disapproval on foreign policy americans say we don t care what s going on in foreign policy, but boy when it s going bad they turn on the president. a lot is happening. there s a sense of the world is spinning out of control and the average person isn t quite sure why and they blame the president. i think the average person doesn t think the president understands why. the public has lived through chaotic times. the public doesn t feel like the president understands. you look as the world is spinning out of control. i had a good friend say last night to me. things are crazy, what s happening? i m scared. this was a liberal democrat. you look at the approval ratings we just flashed up, 36% approve of the foreign policy handling, 60% approve. those are george w. bush numbers. yes. the difference being a lot of the disapproval around bush s foreign policy. be had hundreds of thousands of troops deployed. people. reporter: very anxious and very angry. what was the low of your approval rate sglg that was george w. bush minus 13 percentage points towards the end. about this time i think he was sitting about the same as barack obama. he started plummeting soon after that. the interesting thing about this is the point you just made, in terms of practical consequences, no doubt the country is depressed and having a bad summer. that 43 to 44 congressional balance, it s not a wider spread, you ve got the cross-tabs of this poll saying not a wave election. this doesn t look like 2006, doesn t look like 2010. voters are not hugely motivated in looking toward the midterms. the people who thought this was going to be another big wave election seem on the basis of this poll to have been wrong. i don t know where the wave comes from. no galvanizing issue right now. or candidates. there s also not a group of candidates running on change or running on a new direction or running on a cohesive or understandable foreign policy. the republican party is pretty fractured. you don t have what you had in 2010 where you had a new force, new energy, the tea party movement comes in and all get swept in, the establishment candidates winning last night. pat roberts, another establishment candidate. our insurgencies abroad are bad for barack obama. insurgencies at home for the gop are bad for the gop. there isn t a central organizing thing for anybody. moreover, when you look at this poll, at first i thought, this is like we re mad at everybody. it s two different houses casts potses on other houses. half of the people say i want to elect a congress that doesn t block the president. two different countries here and they re divided. carol lee, you cover the white house. what are they going to do over the next two years to turn this ar sflound we seem, do we not, when you re in there day in and day out, we seem to be stuck in a holding pattern? that s absolutely right. if you look at part of the problem, i think, if you look at what the president is saying, what his message is publicly, there s a total disconnect between clearly what the american public feels and what he is saying is going on in the economy. on friday he came out and said things are getting better. clearly people don t feel that way. the president was campaigning, raising money in california a few weeks ago and he was saying people feel better than they did five years ago. some of the folks who were interviewed who participated in this poll explicitly said they don t feel better than they did five years ago. so i think what the white house has to contend with is how you match the president s rhetoric and how he s approaching the public on this issue with what you re seeing in this poll which is that people are not feeling good about the future. the 79% of people who think their kid s future is not going to be better than their own, that s a huge number. that is a massive number. nicole, things aren t getting better. listen, the economy is getting better. i ve got a news flash for everybody. you don t feel it and it certainly maybe it s what ronald reagan said, a recession is when your next-door neighbor has lost their job. a depression is when you ve lost your job. the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. the divide is sickening and continues to grow. but the situation for the middle class is far better today than it was two years ago, four years ago, five years ago. things are getting better. it doesn t show up in these poll numbers. and i wonder how much of that i m not blaming the president at all. i will. he s made it all political, joe. it s all political. this is a stylistic thing. the guy, i ll just say it, everybody that knows him, everybody that talks to him, everybody that works for him says the guy doesn t like his job. he doesn t want to be there. he also makes everything political, even the good things. even when he goes out and talks about making community college less expensive. that s something more available to a lot of families than a four-year university, it s wrapped in politics. when he goes out and talks about income inequality or making taxes more fair for families, it s always wrapped in politics. don t all politicians do that? i don t think so. i think obama has taken it keep a straight face. i think obama has politicized things that previous presidents have not taken to such a political i think the trash talking, the den grading of republicans, every policy announcement in a political wrapper is a loser. john heilemann, what say you? there s a deeper thing going on. no doubt the economy is in a better place than it was three years ago and the unemployment numbers are better and jobs are being created. in the end we still have flat wages in this country for the last 25 years and great inequality. people still feel that. the question about whether people think the world is going to be better for their kids and grandkids and about whether they see improvement, even if they have a job, they re not keeping up even with minimal inflation. 40% of people have someone in their household who has lost their job in the past five years. can you imagine how that echoes through the country? it s a sense of insecurity that is always there. it could be me next. even if you have a job, it doesn t mean your life is getting better. carol, you re right. there has to be great frustration for the white house. they see the economic numbers that look more positive than they were two, three years ago. and so does the president pivot back for the 28th time to a new job, hey, i m going to focus on jobs now. it has to be extraordinary frustrating. is there any indication that he is going over the next couple years, especially if republicans win the senate, is he more inclined to have to sit down and strike deals with republicans that don t like him anymore than he likes them? well, they would tell you that he has been trying to focus on jobs and the economy, he s stuck to that message di des despite some criticism that he should be folk kug cussing on some of the foreign policy issues on the front pages of the newspapers. but i think there is a theory emerging out there that if the senate switches over to the republicans, that the president will be freed in some way and be able to sit down and cut deals with republicans without having nancy pelosi and harry reid pulling him further to the left and that he does want to cut deals and they would be able to get things like some of the trade policies that he s been pushing which drem kratz do not like or tax reform, comprehensive tax reform. the republicans want that, or even immigration reform. they still hold out hope for that. so there s the silver lining, if there is one, and we re not going to see a wave election this year, the republicans will do well, and there s a good chance that the senate will go. but it seems like, you know, there s a possibility he could make some progress on some economic issues if it flips. carol, the worst thing that happened to bill clinton, new democrat bill clinton was he was strapped with some left wing democrats in congress that would stop him from moving to the senate. the second republicans took over in 1994, the guy spent the next six years striking deals and making things happens. who knows? 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he s in a better position to do the deal now than he was yesterday. you know what the lesson of that is? rupert always wins. i ll tell you another guy who always wins, donald trump. in the philadelphia inquirer the donald is suing the have his name removed from the two remaining casinos in atlantic city he used to control. the real estate mogul reveals the plaza and taj mahal are deteriorating and tarnishing his brand. he hasn t operated the casinos for several years. one already closed, two set to close next month and one up for bankruptcy tomorrow. a reason we call him abraham lincoln of our time. look at him. he s a born leader. if they re not treating his casinos right down in atlantic city, you got to take care of it. that s the whole problem is having casinos in atlantic city left. falling apart, not up to the standards of the donald s other properties. this is a high class problems to have, buildings with your name on it in a city you left a while ago. my favorite donald trump moment. he s $9 billion in debt and the banks are going after him. he goes out to a press conference. he s like, i m going to be fine. can i ask a question, just one question. has anybody in this room been in $9 billion in debt before? okay, fine. you don t know how to handle it. i do. he told the banks, foreclose on me. you can foreclose on me. i tried to have the same conversation with my credit card company last month. didn t work. can t pull it off. you re not the abraham lincoln of our time. if you ve ever taken a train overseas, you ve probably seen the sign that says mind the gap. here is why. got his leg trapped. rescuers rush over. the passengers decide to get involved landing a few hands to push the train off the man just enough to get him free. he escaped unharmed. how is his leg? his leg was not available for comment. with us, chief white house correspondent mike allen here with the morning playbook. mike, it says rand paul wants to run for president. ah. does that make you sigh? it makes me tired. nicole just don t hold back. i think rand paul had a very bad week. i think offending the dreamer on the stump. i think he s stitching together. mike, i ve said it before. i like rand paul, and if like yahoo! they want to do whatever they want to development i voted for his father in the primary in 2012. i you know what? i carry the scars. this guy is not going to be president of the united states, and in large part, i think it s because of his former positions, they re going to catch up with him, all the stuff that s gone in the past is going to catch up with him. one of those things, his position on aid to israel in 2011, it s a newly elected senator, he actually talked about cutting foreign aid to the middle east, and here are his original comments. let s take a listen. you want to end all foreign aid as well, right? the other day, 71% of the american people agree with me, when we re short of money, when we can t do the things we can t do in our country, we shouldn t be shipping it overseas. what about the $3 billion that goes every year to israel. you want to eliminate that as well? i think what you have to do, when you send foreign aid, you send quite a bit to israel s enemies. it looks like egypt gets almost the same amount. really, you have to ask yourself are refunding an arms race on both sides. i also have a lot of sympathy and respect for israel as a democratic nation, as a fountain of peace and democracy within the middle east. but at the same time i don t think funding both sides of an arms race, particularly when we have to borrow the money from china to send it to someone else, we can t do it anymore. never introduced any legislation that targeted israel in any way. spent the last three months trying to target aid to hamas and the palestinian authority. i think to print headlines saying rand paul wants to end aid to israel is just not true and inappropriate and really doesn t represent the truth. i ve spent three months trying to end aid to hamas. when you print an article, it s inflammatory and it s also trying to ask you a perception or develop a story line of me that s just frankly not true. it s frankly not true except for the fact that it s true. you go back and look at the clip. he says he s going to end all foreign aid. he includes israel in that. and again, mike, i like rand. i like a lot of the positions he stands for. he runs around saying he s going to end all foreign aid to israel. we have to be grownups on the world stage. who likes foreign aid? none of us like foreign aid. guess what? you have to do it if you re running the free world. that s right, joe. you know you re in trouble when you re referring to your own words as inflammatory. that s going to be a problem. like paul krugman, when i quoted his words back to him, he s like, come on, these are sleazy tactics they re your own words. rand paul is in the same position. they re his own words. we have a piece up this morning, rand versus rand looking on his evolution on a variety of issues, drones, immigration. he was a senate candidate that once talked about having buried electrical fences at the border. of course, it evolved as he got in. his staff is he hasn t changed his position but come to realize what you can get done. joe, a huge moment coming up for smat tore paul who has had a great spring and summer, doing well in the invisible primary of buzz, message, travel. he s in iowa right now. we learned that at the end of september, early october, he s going to give a speech on the topic that joe, as you know, is his biggest problem, the biggest hurdle to him getting the nomination, foreign policy is isolationist. he s going to give a speech at the national defense university where he s going to argue on the spectrum, be involved everywhere, be involved nowhere. he s smack in the middle with ronald reagan, george h.w. bush we shall see. sometimes candidates who underpass their past, look at me, i got elected to congress despite the four years i did in a turkish prison. they did a movie about it. wasn t it a great movie? what do you think the percentage of likelihood is that before the end of the year we ll see rand paul campaigning in a yamaka? pretty high. he was in iowa. i m not knocking him. i m just you know what? this is what i do. this is what i do. i get paid a lot to be wrong. so i m sure i ll be proven wrong here. he s a fascinating guy. he s a fascinating candidate, and i think he has absolutely no chance to actually be elected president of the united states. we shall see. carol lee, thank you for being with us. thank you. hope you ll come back soon. sure. up next, you know what? she didn t seem too excited. she was like sure this is the last time. you ve already burned your bridges with the paul administration. two years before he becomes the 45th president, you ve already burned him. beat the rush. burn him down. i m right on this. i m right on this case. they ll forgive me. most people forgive me. isn t he right on the foreign aid. doesn t your average voter is like why are we giving this money? 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i m a huge fan of yours. that s awesome. you know what, my wife is in florida doing work. i said you re not going to believe what show i m on this morning. she said don t even do that. i said morning joe. i don t explain stuff, i show up on tv. i don t know how it works. you just show up on stuff. so your friends, a buddy of mine, paul finebaum, at times the most hated man in the state of alabama. i love him because he says whatever he wants to say. you say whatever you want to say, man. paul and i get along. i was on his show yesterday. he s very polarizing. i tell people in the northeast, they love baseball but they don t get college football. guys, just think of fenway park and all the passions. like nine of those down near atlanta. that s what the south lives for. just respect and love their passion. it s the same in liverpool with their soccer teams. america is amazing. depending on the time zone you re in, the passion changes. in the south and paul is at the center of it, they live for that sport. listen. it ain t the nfl. we grew up with the nfl bed sheets. we don t care about sunday. we care about saturday. you wake up on a saturday morning in nashville, huntsville, ever boyd has their sports page. they are in their restaurant or bar, it s 7:00 a.m. they re there to that cbs or espn game turns off at 11:30. you say this year, it taint sec going to win the national championship, it s going to be acc. you think fsu. i think florida state will meet up with oklahoma in a championship. i don t think they re as complete as alabama. they don t have to go to baton rouge. auburn s schedule is outrageous, the toughest college schedule i ve ever seen, especially october on. alabama has the most complete roster. i don t leave them yet at quarterback. i think georgia is really good. if you look at florida state through the acc, i think they ll mow through it. oklahoma will lose one game but find their way to it. out west, i think ucla will escape. the sec deserves in my opinion two teams in this forum. it s like the electoral college. the reality is based on population ohio is more important than rhode island, california is more important than maine. based on the population in the south and their high school players that go to sec schools, they deserve more votes and more people in the college football play-offs. they should have two a year until somebody proves what are the reasons i can t watch the nfl anymore? i ll watch occasionally. i m sorry, the guys are just they look roided up man. you ve got these guys that weigh 800s, they run four two forties. why is it that baseball does the right thing and police themselves but nobody else does. it s almost like baseball cut themselves off at the knees. they should have dragged the nfl with them and everybody else. the george mitchell report when baseball said we re going to get george mitchell and find out who is using, i said on my radio show, i thought it was an absolute horrible decision. here is our laundry, we ll hang it out. nobody else does. baseball by far and away now has the best system. people do a more moderate version of testing. the reality is baseball is, once again, what is the national narrative this morning on baseball? there s a user, a seller, anthony bosch. we re not talking about the race. last night yankees tsh tigers. the american league east is wide open and we re talking about anthony bosch. shouldn t the nfl do what major league baseball has done? you re really i can just sense that. i want to. it is an unnatural sport. tim miklaszewski who is the pentagon sport. he used to do radio. tom landry was looking at how fast and big everybody is getting, tom landry said this isn t my game anymore, it s too dangerous. this isn t the game i started with. roger goodell has tried to limit shots above the shoulders and has been panned by his own players for it. the nfl totally understands. the concussion issue is the one issue that can bring down the league. you have a powerful company, it s lawsuits or certain things that can bring down a company. in the nfl it s the concussion issue, they re trying to lessen the injuries. the reality is high school players are bigger, steroid use is up in high school, college players are bigger, the game is faster. now it s no huddle. now it s spread. there s a lot of issues here with injuries in the nfl. the bosch report, it was aimed principally that he was selling steroids to high school kids, not major league ball players, not nfl football players, kids, and that s where the root of the danger is. that s why you have to have stronger drug policies at that level. i heard a story yesterday on radio, not sure where it was, that kids now are not just taking hgh, young boys, for football, they re taking it to just look better. they just want to look better. hey, old dudes are doing that. you see these 65-year-old guys you never see donny deutsche? they re out here. you think barnicle s physique is natural? everybody is taking hgh. the juice is loose. you re not a user or believer yourself? no, i m not. i m a believer in the lord. you look great. i do. you should see barnicle without a shirt on. it s something. you guys are both, despite this hectic life, you both really have aged well. [ laughter ]. i ask you this question, so i don t watch the nfl on sundays anymore. i m an sec guy and european football. i love the epl. i ve got to ask you about mike francesa. is he still over at fan? yes. i saw him one time working at cbs for a couple years calling football games. alabama is playing boston college and he says, like when boston college is going down the field, if we don t get a first down here, we re in trouble. i love this guy. he falls asleep. it s awesome. he s a runaway beer truck, as we say in the south. remember what he was saying? they use both of their feet? he s old school, and he loves baseball, that s great. he loves the nfl. he does a fine job. but i kind of poked him in the ribs the other day, he asked a soccer guy on the other day, can they kick with both feet? soccer is not going away. memo to ann coulter, the american media talk show host for a variety of reasons, fifa sales are up, espn and fox are all in. can i ask you this question, can we execute seth blatter? i don t like him. the biggest issue with the sport from the american perspective isn t necessarily the scoring. it s not. baseball and hockey. it s fluid. there s a lot of movement. the bigger issue is we don t really trust it s the flopping. a little bit. we don t trust fifa. when you ask sports fans, it s like waste disposal in some cities. who is running it? who is making money on it? so that s the big issue. match fixing. i have no idea what you re talking about. yes, there is match fixing all over the place. fifa, they got to clean it up. ironically, it s the united states who some of them seem to loathe that is going to end up cleaning it up. the big sponsors who want to get involved don t want to get involved in a corrupt sport. soccer is not going away. i understand that. how does it prosper? we re not a 1-0 country. there s connective tissue on why it will work. years ago when i was done, i came home i was down. now my dad played, more connectability. now i can play in more leagues. i can buy merchandise. it s everywhere. by the way, we have an explosion in this country. latino explosion in some cities. we now have the mls is profitable, ten teams are profitable. four need bigger stadiums, seattle, kansas city, portland. they re doing well. it s never going to be the nfl and it will probably never be baseball but it is getting bigger. all the kids are playing the video games. if you do one thing and one thing only to increase your life expectancy by four or five years, buy you herd me. alabama will lose at tennessee. i predicted yesterday. i bring you on to say that? they re really good. if i here rocky top i m going to kill myself. come back. i will. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah. 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yes, next week. disney land again. he goes on these cruises and disney land more than anyone i knew. he needs them from living here. that s true. i work around the clock and i wear people down. they want me to gone vacation. i refuse. i love where i am too much. nicolle wallace is here with us. former white house press secretary ari fleischer, sports communications ari fleischer. i think i need to be better friends with this guy to get tickets. editor and publisher of the nation katrina vanden heuvel. you checked your calendar because you have a morning joe calendar up in your kitchen and it s been a year. it s been a year? we ve missed you. well, i m back. great to have you back. thank you. we need your husband in here, too, to talk about russia. yes, a lot to talk about. also former white house communications director and now managing director of skd anita dunne. good to see you, too. great to see you, joe. how are you? i m doing wonderful. i heard you say you don t want to go on vacation. it s obviously different from congress or anybody in washington. you can tell you re in new york this morning. actually i am in new york. i think i go on vacation more than congress. i m glad to be here now. i love being here. i want to bring all of you together here for us to break bread and talk about the meetings of some of the most depressing poll numbers ever. we ve got new nbc news/ wall street journal polls to run through. let s start with the president and we ll start there and go line by line by line. if you re at home and you re going, oh, this is going to skew against barack obama, joe is a republican, he s so biased. don t worry, it s even worse news for republicans. let s start with obama, job performance. 40% approval rating, 54% disapproval. this next full screen explains so much. obama foreign policy, 36% approve, 60% disapprove. anita, let me start with you. you worked at the white house. obviously you have tons of friends inside the white house. we re a long way from hope and change. we re a long way from those greek columns, from all the promise of 2008. it s looking fairly grim inside the white house with these numbers. what gives? obviously it s a summer full of challenges for the white house and for the world internationally as well as continued challenges at home. i think what you ve seen the president do is do as much as he can, and he will continue to do as much as he can despite a congress that, as you rightly pointed out, is far more unpopular than he is and frankly is refusing to do just about anything. they re giving the phrase do nothing a bad name. i think both internationally and hear at home, he s doing what he can do and internationally, i think if you look at what s going on, that the president is continuing his policy of diplomacy and of leadership without committing troops everywhere. that is actually i think very much in line with what the american people are looking for. ari and nicolle, you worked for presidents with low numbers. what s going on? our pitcher is getting shelled and not able to throw anything over the plate. it s not the problem he s doing what he can. it s what he s not doing that s gotten him into so much trouble. what is he not doing? i think two fundamental things that. first is the failure to get the big budget deal with john boehner. it set off the tenor of nothing is going to happen in washington. whose fault was that? everything accumulates up. the president is always the one that has to lead and get things done. democrats would say republicans were out to make him fail from the very beginning. the second big issue where he didn t get something done is where he drew the red line in syria and failed to act. that sent a bad signal particularly in the middle east where people didn t think america was going to get involved or back up our words with any deeds. if you look around the middle east, one of the reasons there s so much trouble in the polling numbers, there s a sense that the president isn t up to handling any of these challenges. katrina? i think there s a fundamental disconnect between the inside the beltway pundit polling class. you re not skewing bias, but history. first of all, these poll numbers are not as low. we ve seen others over the last few years. americans want to engage with the world, but they don t want to listen to the armchair warriors. they don t want there wasn t a great gusto to go into syria. there isn t a gusto to go into ukraine or get too involved in the middle east. i think we need to step back and understand there s a wisdom among the american people in that front. i also think that for president obama, though i ve said this before, it s the worst of both worlds. americans say in polls, don t get involved. you don t get involved and bad stuff happens and you re to blame for that, too. i think of the president i have a lot of issues with the president on foreign policy, but i think he has made a decision that america cannot police the world without detracting from the resources it needs, for the real security of people at home and dealing with security challenges. we agree a lot on that front. i m saying the great irony is a less involved america is a america that can t control what s going on out there, and he pays for doing what the american people tell them they want them to do. that goes to the big thing in the poll. america can t control the world s destiny anymore. of course we re a major power, but we re not, quote, the indispensable nation. i think a lot of americans may be having trouble dealing with that. the big number in the poll is americans believe the country is going in a wrong direction and losing faith in their political institutions. this isn t new. if you ve been watching cnn, the sixties, let s go back to vietnam and the assassinations of king and bobby kennedy, look back at the summer of watergate. this country has experienced crises of confidence in their government. are we allowed to say thoegs cnn documentsry are awesome! like the music one i m going to say it. i just gasped. i sat there i don t want a lot of tv, especially prime time tv. i m on tv and flipping around. joey they ve got brian wilson, i ve never seen this. i m going to get in trouble. those are awesome! some of us were too young to remember the 60s. i was glued at age 13. katrina brings up one, 70% of americans say we re going in the wrong direction. 80% of americans say d.c. is going in the wrong direction. in the 60s there was the chaos in the street. in the 70s, an ugly decade, too, you still had a washington that works. it doesn t work anymore. why doesn t it work? it doesn t work because the republicans have refused to govern. get her, nicolle. i like her too much. they have made destruction their mode of governance. i was talking to carl bernstein and others last night. did carl bring up mccarthy? part of watergate had to do with the republican party who said good buy to nixon. barry goldwater walked into nixon s office and said it s not going to work anymore. you had a republican party that had moderate wings. this is a tired dispute. we know this now. what do we do with a country that is in gridlock? you have to also say that the problem is the center has been hollowed out over the left and the right. this is an important point to bring up. then i ll be quiet. if you look at democrats elected since 2006, they re far more progressive now. the joe liebermans are gone. there s been a hollowing out. in the house there s been a hollowing out because of gerrymandering which is just horrific. in the senate there s a natural hollowing out. there aren t people in the middle that can bring the left and the right together. president bush had senator kennedy and john mccain to work with. he was able to govern. you may not have liked the things he did. he did govern and did have some partners, not a lot. but some partners in the democratic party when it came to education and immigration. there were people to talk to. i d like to ask anita if she thinks the way president obama governed makes it easier or harder for hillary clinton to mount a campaign for the presidency. i think everything president obama has done, he s basically run a global experiment to see what would happen if america completely withdrew from the world stage and didn t exert any influence. he said he doesn t believe in the embodiment of american exceptionism. he says he doesn t believe america has a role to play. i think while americans don t want to see troops on the ground, they do want to believe america can make a difference. but part of not approving of his job and foreign affairs isn t just that we don t like what s happening in the world. we don t like that president obama acts like there s nothing america can do. so, anita, you always hear the generals are always fighting the last war. has there been an overcorrection? if there has been, i think a lot of americans would say it s understandable, after ten years of war, after ten years of occupation, an overcorrection may be in place here. i m a little surprised to hear nicolle mouthing the republican talking points. i love when people say that. thank you. i was going to say nicolle i m going to help you with your base. please accuse her again of being a republican. we ll say it one more time and you can put it in your resume. here is the thing which is, if you look at this, this idea that somehow this administration and the president are disengaged from the world is simply ludicrous. this morning, joe, we have leaders from over 50 nations in africa in time for a historic summit. by the way, that is a very important continent for the future. these are important relations for the united states in the future. secretary kerry who has successfully helped afghanistan negotiate a recount in their presidential election. we know a little about recounts here. no always that easy to do. you have diplomacy happening everywhere right now. the idea that somehow this president has disengaged from the world is so far nicolle, let me finish. i want to go back to the republicans in congress. i was working on the hill in the bush administration, a big part of that time working with tom daschle, the democratic leader. the reality is the democrats worked with the bush administration. the republicans from day one made a decision that they weren t going to work with president obama, and i have to tell you it s a very different situation. i ve been on both ends of pennsylvania avenue there. anita, let s move on to congress, a perfect segue. nbc news/ wall street journal, they sur vaifd americans, americans came back when asked what they think about congress and their response was congress sucks. congress s job performance 14% putin almost got that high a number in this poll. 79% disapprove. ari, i have to ask you about this, there is my concern, it s your concern. a lot of republicans concerns. party approval, gop, only 19%. 54% unfavorable. the dems sitting at 31%, almost double. how many times do we have to say this? republicans in the house have to do something. it s not enough to just pass bills that you know harry reid is going to kill. by the way, i blame harry reid as much as i blame the republicans. guess what? harry reid is not the party in opposition, the republicans are. we haven t made our case on why republicans should take control. you worked in the house when i was there. what do they need to do? what does john boehner need to do to break through with a positive message instead of, we re going to investigate benghazi, we re going to investigate the irs, investigate, investigate, investigate. we re going to sue. and yes, investigate them all, but you ve got to have policies that excite americans, too. i spent about 12 years in the house and almost six years in the senate. two points, one, the 2014 election is going to be just like 2006. it s a rejection election. 2006 was a rejection of george w. bush and his policies in iraq. 2014 is setting up the same way against president obama. so you don t have to as republicans politically speaking do much between now and the election other than win the election on the basis of anti-obama, but it s the day after. it could be a false narcotic for republicans. you could take the senate, probably gain a few in the house. it s the day after. republicans have to turn the corner. i m looking the see who the presidential contenders will be and whether they can speak as a more inclusive fashion. we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform and republicans should do it early in 2015. let s say republicans win the senate. when we won in 94, we can say these are the ten things we promised to do. dam it, we re going to fight and we re going to do it. we got 70% of it done. the day after john boehner gets re-elected, the day that mitch mcconnell is speaker of the house if he wins, what do they say they stand for? like i just said, the first thing is comprehensive immigration reform, keystone open they might. everything is about might when you get to the congress. nobody can ever say what they re going to do. let me put it in a human context. what we ve witnessed is a republican party unwilling to pass long-term unemployment insurance. you have people in this country who look to congress, look to their representatives, look to government to assist when people are down and out to provide jobs that in this country today, people work full-time and still live in poverty is a scandal. i don t think that is a matter of left or right. i think it s a matter of right and wrong. i think this is something obama with his poll ratings not great, he has a three-to-one advantage over congress which has refused to govern on behalf of people in this country. don t mean to interrupt you, katrina, only to make your point. guys, do we have the number of americans who support raising the minimum wage? here is some fascinating numbers. we re taking this out of the partisan context. nicolle, you look at things americans support the most? guess what? they re bipartisan. democrats will be very excited that the overwhelming majority of americans want the minimum wage raised. republicans will be very excited that the majority of americans want corporate tax rate cut. tax reform in general. but specifically they want corporate tax rates cut. democrats will be thrilled that the majority of americans want the top 1% to be taxed higher. 60% of americans want comprehensive immigration reform. 60% minimum wage and the overwhelming number of americans are like me, they want us to invest in our infrastructure. by the way, any republican on cap hole hill that thinks you can run against bob byrd and his off-ramp to nowhere in west virginia, you re in the wrong decade. i ve given 400, 500 speeches on college campuses, et cetera, et cetera. i ve never heard one person say you re a communist, you needless investment in our infrastructure. how about our airports? our airports are crumbling, our bridges are crumbling. nicolle said something interesting about senator kennedy and senator mccain. you see eruption ofs what i call trance partisan coalitions. just the past week, sherrod brown and david vitter worked on banks too big to fail. two weeks before that on the va. and on the issue of how many people in this country are disenfranchised because of drug arrests. by the way, i want to talk to the two republicans on the set here. that s me politely telling you to hold on one second. republicans have such a great opportunity to run against the big government and to run against big business. most americans want the banks broken up. most americans republicans want the banks broken up. republicans can t be seen as captive to wall street, and they re running against a woman, if she gets the nomination, that s captive to wall street. she and bill clinton are wall street. they are so intertwined. why can t we have candidates say break up the banks, don t give wall street advantages? why can t we punish corporations that take their offices overseas to avoid our taxes? they live here, they get the benefits of being here. if you want to get denmark s tax rate, then you and your family have to move to denmark because you re not allowed to live here. if you live here, we re going to tax you. joe, i think you re seeing a lot of that, when you look at the republican desire to break up a bank that provides huge subsidies to major corporations so they can do business abroad. republicans are trying to do that. i think the fascinating dynamic that s going to change for our party, if hillary is the nominee, it s not going to be as much as a left-right fight as a future-past fight. republicans have the ability to paint hillary as the candidate of the past. i ll go back to katrina. we ll keep everybody here and anita, also. if i m a progressive, i can t be excited about hillary. she s intertwined with wall street. are you excited about the prospect of hillary clinton being the democratic nominee? no. i don t get excited about candidates. good for you. i m excited about what i see as the energy right now in a part of the democratic party which is this progressive populist energy which isn t just elizabeth warren. i think it s that bill that pushes senator clinton, former secretary of state. to the left. not to the left, but to really listen to those. i don t want to make it partisan or petty. it s not about hillary clinton. it s about the future of this country and what i believe we will disagree what i believe is needed. people believe this country is moving in the wrong direction. they don t see people there is a recovery in this country, and i think a president should be marked on the subsive accomplishments we ve got to go to break. i want to ask anita, also, there is a recovery out there. i want to ask anita why that s not showing up in the polls. anita, ari, katrina stay with us. still ahead on morning joe, the fall of richard nixon and the rise of ronald reagan. the author of the invisible bridge joins us later in the hour. plus ebola patients back in the united states, but the virus continues to spread across west africa. will it spread here as well? first, a 72-hour cease-fire appears to be holding, thank god, but for how long. we ll discuss how a long-term bill between israel and hamas can be brokered. that s coming up next. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. it s never been easier to find a dentist. watch. dentist. at 1-800-dentist, we ve helped over 8 million people find that right dentist. we can do the same for you. so don t put it off. call 1-800-dentist. so don t put it off. 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the recession and the fact that so many people are still feeling the effects of it comes through very clearly in the poll. we just had our sixth month of job creation over 200,000, the most the lowest number of new unemployment claims since 2007. it is slow, though, and always been a very slow process. the poll shows for the first time since i think since the recession, that more people think that we re not in a recession than we are in one. let s be clear. for people the economy is personal. in washington they talk about it as policy. i think katrina talked about the disconnect. that s one of the biggest disconnects. i also want to go quickly to something ari said about a wave election. there s no signs this is a wave election out there. in 2006, the democratic party was an alternative to the republican party. that s how waves develop. 2008, a wave election, 2010 obviously a gigantic wave election. now you have a republican party that is the alternative to obama that has a 14% approval rating in terms of its congressional leadership and policies. so i think it s a very different dynamic and it means a lot of these senate races in particular will be fought out on a state-by-state basis. i think you re absolutely right. i think tom cotton is ten points ahead. that s going to be a battle. luis nan is always a battle. we don t know what s going to happen in alaska. i think it s going to be a fascinating election. anita, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it and hope you ll come back soon. thank you for having me, joe. by the way, nicolle tell nicolle i said surprised for a reason. great to see you guys. great to see you, too. from domestic politics to israel, the 72-hour cease-fire between israel and hamas is now in its second day and appears to be holding. let s hold our breath there. people are out in the streets and the shops have reopened. but there were early concerns when hamas fired rockets into israel five minutes before the cease-fire took effect. negotiations for a long-term truce are currently under way in cairo. with us from tel aviv, senior correspondent and member of the editorial board, ari, the author of my promised land. ari, we love having you on the show. thank you for being back with us. thank you for having me. we got into it on the set again yesterday with donny deutsch. it seems to me the great tragedy, for me looking at this from my safe cloistered view from the united states, the past month has seemed to strengthen hamas which i think is in nobody s best interest. do we, though, have a chance with hamas being forced to deal with egypt? do we have a chance for palestinian moderates to finally have their say and have a chance to broker a reasonable deal? i think we actually do. when you look at the last months you realize that july in this country was the cruellest of months. we ve seen dark forces erupting and a real tragedy evolving. now the challenge is to bring about a much better august. the terrorists, the warriors, the generals that head the world, now it s time for the diplomats to be reasonable and wise and lead the way forward. let me tell you where i think things are, what we ve learned in this terrible month is two things. one, the gaza suffering which is unbearable. the second, israeli vulnerability which is unbearable as well. we have to deal with both simultaneously. the only way to do it is in a sense to lift some of the economic siege on gaza, but tie the military siege of gaza. in the larger term i would say it s time for a marshall plan that will really rebuild gaza. power stations, hospitals, schools and give real hope for the people of gaza while fighting the fanatical extremist hamas and while disarming it. so only a double track policy which will give hope to the people of gaza, but will be very tough with hamas and will bring about a demilitarization of gaza, will give us hope. i think there s a chance for it. i m sorry. i was just going to say, this time for some reason, appears to be different. we heard yesterday there weren t anti u.s. slogans out in the streets of gaza. you had some people in gaza blaming israel, blaming egypt but also blaming hamas. it appears that a lot of palestinians are ready to move away from this zero sum game. either they win or we lose. the question is, do you believe you ve written a lot about this, do you believe that benjamin netanyahu faced with this opening to actually empower moderates in palestine that will work towards a two-state solution, does he have the political courage to take that opening? i think there is a certain clans i m not very optimistic, but i think there is a chance. let me tell you what this depends on. as we ve seen, there are no saints in the middle east. yet i do believe there are good guys and bad guys. the good guys are the ones who love america and want stability. the bad guys are the ones who hate america and want instability. the good news is there is a potential alliance between the good guys which is egypt, the moderate palestinians, israel, with the support of saudi arabia, the gulf countries and jordan. if we will work out a concept that brings together these moderate forces, none of them perfect, definitely some of our arab neighbors, i do not admire their democratic values and the way they treat their citizens and yet they are relatively moderate and want stability and they are with america, if america will lead a real coalition of moderate israelis, mad rat palestinians and sunni arabs, i think we can create a context in which hamas will be isolated. radicals of the region will be isolated and then the dark forces, namely iran, the islamic brotherhood, i.s.i.s., hamas, al qaeda, islamic jihad, all of these will retreat. the result right now has some promise in it, but the solution, as i told you last week is only a political one. if we see assertive diplomacy, creative diplomacies, deals with the middle east as it is, i think there s reason for cautious hope. ari fleischer, there is reason for cautious hope because you look, and this is the first time this has happened. you do have uae, the gulf states, saudi arabia, jordan. you even have the palestinian authority. you, of course, have egypt who is playing a key role in this, you a lot of arab states that are also turning on hamas. 80% of the gaz sans before this attack began were turning against hamas. there is an opening if netanyahu and the moderate palestinians take it. i think you just put your finger on the changing winds of the middle east. ari, this is ari. i ve always wanted to say ari, this is ari. have you ever seen a potential realignment like this before in the middle east, especially saudi arabia which has worked behind the scenes with israel over the past many years, vis-a-vis iran. have you ever seen a potential realignment where arabs are willing to work with israel against what is really radical islam in the form of hamas? i think there is a great potential. what we ve seen look, in the middle east, nothing is like what meets the eye. if you really want to understand the region, you have to understand everything is multilayered here. what you actually have seen in the last weekend is egypt, israel and the moderate palestinians working together to try to stop hamas, and it worked. this is what brought about the cease-fire. if we enlarge this concept, i look at it from america s point of view. america on the one hand for very good reason is sick and tired of the middle east, for very good reasons. on the other hand, there is no way to run from the middle east. if you run from the middle east, the middle east chases you. we ve seen that in 9/11. the only sensible policy i see is for america to lead the alliance of the moderates that will bring some sort of stability to a deeply unstable region. i think if we see that, it will be good for the moderate palestinians for the people of gaza who will be different from hamas and gradually will move away from hamas. it will be better for all the moderates, for israelis, and it will serve america s interest best because it will give her the leadership it needs. as i told you, i think america is god s gift to humanity. america saved us all in the 20th century, and i wish america would lead us all in the 21st century. in order to do that, there is a potential of american leadership creating this alliance of moderates and giving some sort of reasonable modest hope to this trouble, violent region. ari, thank you so much. we love having you. we hope you ll come back very soon. katrina, a great opening. july was such a horrid month, such a depressing month. as ari said, you do have arab states moderate arab states that used to say something behind the scenes and then say something completely different in their state-sponsored broadcast bashing america, bashing israel. is there a chance for moderate palestinians and israelis to come together with a two-state solution? ari said something important at the top of his interview which is, we ve seen the generals and the warriors, the military men and people. now it s time for diplomacy. but too often that diplomacy has been is undered, broken, by steps taken by israel, not in its own security. hamas, yes, on both sides war crimes have been committed. but israel is a very powerful state. america is it $3 billion a year in military aid and others? at the same time he works . i want to say this country deserves a broader debate about israel. there s a richer debate inside israel about that. we re having that debate here. the media has not provided as much a little more of an opening this time around. but your debate here sounds like a one-sided debate. we have the ambassador to the united nations there s let me talk. let me talk. for the plo. katrina, you have to admit, you talk about israel. hamas fired 3,000 rockets into israel into civilian neighborhoods. you and i know if mexico fired one rocket across the rio grande, we would be in mexico city nightfall and there would be people executed and the united israel must be secure, but have you seen gaza katrina katrina, i agree with you. but you re talking about an asymmetry in a debate, and i m telling you that we re trying to provide symmetry. but you can t just come here and say, well, gee, it s israel that always if you say to me the right wing in israel i feel has worked against the best security of israel. there s a great documentary called the gate keepers with five former leaders of the masad who worry katrina. undermined israel s security. katrina, the only thing anything is ace symmetrical is israel has been forced to play defense. if they weren t unable to shoot down those rockets, the death toll would be more than what has happened in gaza. ari, gaza has been ravaged. who is going to rebuild gaza? that is the international community s mandated mission. we ve got to go to break. i have scars on my back for being down the middle on this. i am pro israeli. the reason i m doing it is because i m hearing my republican friends saying it and my conservative friends saying, my liberal friends saying it, people who don t give a damn about politics seeing what s happening in gaza, they ve said enough. we support israel. we want israel to be safe. but enough with the gaza suffering. i think that s exactly what ari said. he talked about a marshall plan. i support a marshall plan for the people of gaza, the oppressed people of gaza, oppressed by history and the terrible situation they re in. but i lay the blame of that oppression at hamas feet right now. we have an opportunity to isolate hamas and give them hope. i think that s a symmetrical debate. we need a political solution, not a military one. i agree with you 1,000%, and i think there is an opening and i m hopeful hamas is being isolated. that s a great idea. we re going to be talking, speaking of symmetry, to the plo ambassador to the united nations coming up next hour. i know you ll stick around and wake up your children to see that with us. coming up next, boy, a book that has sparked debate. called the invisible bridge about ronald reagan, charges of plagiarism flying around back and forth, but by one of the best conservative historians over the past decade who happens to be a liberal. we ll be right back. vo: this i. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours. conservatives, even pat buchanan told me, joe, you have to read nixon land, it s a great book. it is a great book. his book on goldwater was absolutely amazing. a lot of conservatives talking about rick pearlstein who has written extraordinary books. his latest is controversial the invisible bridge. we ll be talking to rick about that. and ronald reagan: the rise and fall of ronald 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it. so there s passages that look like they re lifted directly from some of craig s reagan books. what do you say? that s nonsense. we both used the word fess tune. i m calling it fess tune gates. what kind of plajist links source notes to the pages he s supposedly plagiarizing. a lot of the passages are the same. they re not the same. you re saying that put up the second passage. he thinks i got that from him. but actually i got it from an african-american paper, the atlanta world from 1976. and the thing that i write is completely richer. it s the second passage i think that your producer showed me was the one in which reagan was shown on camera laughing at what was going on at the convention reagan dissolved into laugher. what that doesn t show is then in my book i say he dissolved into laughter and then he saw himself on the screen dissolving into laughter and stopped laughing when he realized it looked bad on tv. that s from my original research. craig s thing i thought i was friends with him. people should read his book. anyone who is interested in ronald reagan should read his book because it s a good book. he wants my pumped, shredded. it want his read. he s also a public relations professional. his clients are people like ann coulter. the first thing they did was send out a letter to their role decks saying people could join their offensive, that s the word, and rick is trying to put a new spin on reagan and he said we can suggest tweets that you can use. so it really strikes me that this is an ideologically motivated thing. we ll get craig on at some point. maybe both of you on at some point. i would love to. i would really love to talk about this book. not to stay negative. like i said, i could not be larry king tweeted it was controversial and that s why he was reading it. again, your first two weeks i mentioned were extraordinary books. i thought you took a more negative tone toward reagan in this book. is that a fair assessment? i just kind of report what i see. what do you see? well, one thing i see, i write about this in the pref foss. it s very important to understand that opinions about reagan have always been divided. they ve been divided since he was in high school. i tell a story about how there was a cartoon in his high school yearbook making fun of him. some guy says, i m drowning, and reagan goes out and saves him. the guy says, no, don t save me, i m trying to commit suicide. reagan says you ll have to postpone that. i m trying to win a medal. people saw him as this phony ever since then. but other people saw him as a hero that they wanted to i m late. in the preface i quote a letter from a woman who writes him who said you need to save the country just like you saved someone when you were a lifeguard. by the same token, i had a friend who couldn t bring herself to read the manuscript because she was still so mad at ronald reagan. the bottom line s i m trying to bring back the idea the fact that ronald reagan is a controversial figure that has always divided america. it seems you re more sympathetic to richard nixon more than ronald reagan. people have told me they came away from the book more sympathetic to reagan. i don t know. i didn t go in with that agenda. it seems like reagan books are defensive voided in two. they either treat him as providential, put on earth to defeat the evil empire. i ve written a few of those. let s bring in doug brinkley. it s fascinating. people are still trying to get their arms around this man. we talked about what churchill would have said, he s still a mystery wrapped in a middle. there are parts of ronald reagan that i didn t know. absolutely. he s become a beloved figure. you have reagan national and all the rest. his presidential library is the most visited. the big reason everybody talks about reagan and generates such interest is because we may be living in the age of ronald reagan still. by that i mean the two big political figures of the 20th century from pure politics was franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan. fdr told america that the federal government is there to help you. it was there to plant trees with the shelter belt in the depression and all of those you know, it s here to feed the poor during the new deal. it was here to do social security. and then the government won world war ii, the atomic bomb on the manhattan project, federal government, harry truman continued creating government. the nsc, the pentagon, the joint chiefs of staff, the cia. dwight eisenhower, interstate highway system, biggest public works in history. kennedy did the moon. all this federal government. even nixon creates the epa, jimmy carter fema and then reagan. the revolution comes in 81 and it s a roll back that reagan is talking about. rolling back the great society and some of the new deal programs and that s where we are right now. rick. yeah, but he likes certain parts of government. he certainly liked the cia. he was on the rockefeller commission that investigated the cia and he was livid that they were taking on this part of the national security state that truman had started. so and of course when he was president he was quite pragmatic. he didn t roll back government like a lot of you guys had hoped. in fact conservatives all through his presidency had said reagan had sold out reaganism. bill buckley had to go to california in 1967 to defend ronald reagan against conservatives who said he was a sellout. what i m wondering listening to this is part of the root of the disagreement that other conservatives have with you and this book is that they are into mythdom. let s maintain mythdom about ronald reagan. it s far too early for him to be a myth. for the record, it s far to early to say conservatives have turned against this book. i m just saying i m a huge fan of your first two books. i just thought you gave reagan tougher treatment than you gave goldwashington goldwater or nixon. i m reading the whole thing and conservatives should as well. let the readers judge for themselves, i guess. loo look, if this guy is the most important man to ever walk the planet, shouldn t we be studying him, warts and all? look, people have always been underestimating ronald reagan. richard nixon underestimated ronald reagan and william f. buckley said he couldn t possibly imagine this guy as president. but there s this great nixon tape in 1971, you know. nixon and kissinger are sitting around. i think nixon or kissinger says can you imagine ronald reagan sitting in this chair. and kissinger is like no way, he s going to start a nuclear war. that was 1971. you can get it on youtube. two years later because he s such a rising political figure, they bring him in on the consultations and say we have a problem. egypt is exaggerating the number of israeli planes that they re shooting down. reagan says that s no problem. just announce that we re going to on a one for one basis replace every israeli plane that egypt says it shoots down and kissinger was like astonished at this guy s intelligence and he said i wish i had a guy like that on my staff. so i just brought that story into the public record. all right, very good. rick, thank you so much for being with us. congrats on the book. this discussion will continue and we ll see if we can get craig on and you guys can break bread together. duke it out. exactly, duke it out. the book is the invisible bridge. rick, thanks again. doug brinkley, thank you as well. coming up next, we re breaking on the latest nbc news/wall street journal polls. they are ugly for both sides. chuck todd will be here but there s a ray of hope in the poll and chuck will tell us what it is. i have absolutely no clue. plus pretender or contender. one way or another rand paul is making an impression in iowa, and the global market is reeling. did you see this? they were reeling yesterday as russian troops assemble on the border of eastern ukraine. is this the first step before 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transition in afghanistan he wasn t there he was help krt icf. we re going to see a lot more of this as our combat forces zero out. we re not going more and more vulnerable not just to killed and wounded but to abductions. rand paul is in iowa where he is running and sometimes ducking. if you have a question, i m happy to answer it. i get paid a lot to be wrong. i m sure i ll be proven wrong here. he s a fascinating guy, he s a fascinating candidate and i think he has absolutely no chance to actually be elected president of the united states. you re talking about real hard choices. which would you rather fight, one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? we d have peace peace here, there a peace, everywhere a peace. welcome back to morning joe. so great to have you guys with us. man, the first two hours of flown. this hour, don t blink because it s i mean we have so much stuff to fill, and you re here with some really happy news, chuck todd. america needs prozac. no, no, you re going to tell us these poll numbers are like prozac for america. absolutely right. chuck todd is here, he s got some polls. also we ve got managing editor of the news website, bobby ghosh, sara eisen and op-ed columnist dana milbank is here to cheer us up because dana always cheers everybody up. he writes only about the happiest things in washington. he s polly annish, i beneficiary he had would be a bit more biting at times. the economy is better. and see that s the thing, okay. the economy is no. hold on. the economy is better, sara, right? right. but nobody is noticing that it s better. well, no, they do notice. that was what was interesting about our poll. they know the economy is better. it s just not better for them. why are they so depressed? it s a number of things. first of all, they re not recovered from the recession. yes, financially they have recovered, but there are still one in three americans that are either supporting a child over the age of 21 or a parent over the age of 65. the great recession made that. so you have these folks sitting there, they re digging out and sitting there going i m still dealing with the recession. yes, my income, by the way, flat, but i have a job and all these things, so i m still dealing with it even though you keep telling me the economy is better. so, sara, like 70% of americans, i m a politician so i round up or down. 70% of americans think we re going in the wrong direction. 80% of americans think washington is going in the wrong direction. talk to those 70% of americans and tell them why the economy is getting better, why things are improving. well, we saw a 4% growth number last week for the second number. that is a big deal. but you sort of do have this two-speed recovery going on between income. low income, middle income hasn t seen a recovery and wages is the story of why most americans aren t feeling it. adjusted for inflation, they haven t gone anywhere during this entire jobs recovery. the good news is, though, job openings are at the highest level in multi years. the good news is we ve seen several months now a stretch of 200,000 plus jobs created in this country. easier to get a job now. employment rate going up because more people are actually looking. so easier to get a job. we need to see those wajges stat to go up. let s look at those numbers again. you would have thought yesterday people were jumping out of their windows. oh, my gosh, the stock market crashed. we re almost at 16,500. the numbers have just exploded and people don t feel it on main street at all. only half of the population owns stocks. they have been burned by the financial crisis. unless you have it in your mutual fund and retirement portfolios, you re not feeling a recovery in the stock market. look at these numbers from the poll. 64% of americans are not satisfied with the state of the economy, 35% are and that 1% not sure. but you just said the stock market is rewarding companies for streamlining, for hoarding cash, for cutting people. the stock market does not reward companies for investing, for being entrepreneurial, for creating new jobs. so i think that that s why this is even worse on how people feel. the president s job approval, 40%. born policy just bleak. 36% approve, 60% disapprove. dana milbank, my god, here we are 2014, coming up on a midterm election. this is so lined up for the republicans, they are going to sweep through there. it s going to be a prairie fire sweeping across america. but wait, you look at congress job approval rating and the american people say they suck. it s 14% approve of congress job performance rating. here s the party approval, dana. the gop 19%. only 19% have a favorable impression. 54% unfavorable. democrats, i was about to say all the way up at 31%. my parents were glad when i get 31s on my math tests but nobody else is. so, dana, washington, d.c., man, if i m an incumbent, i m thinking this year going into the election that i actually there is a chance that i could get challenged. it s bad news for d.c. it is bad news overall for d.c., but let me add some cheer and light to this. that s why you re here. that s why i m here, because i m always the glass is always half full for me. i don t think these numbers are that bad for president obama given how awful things are overall. and it s not just the economy that s bad. americans are depressed. 76% in this poll don t think their children are going to have a better life than they have had. so far they re right if we re talking about the millennials. 60% think the nation is in decline. when you ve got those kinds of numbers, more than 70% on the wrong track, for the president to be where he is, is quite extraordinary. and the pollsters are saying this does not indicate the sort of wave elections, so people are sort of universal in their discussion. so, dana, in the past you d look at right track, wrong track. you d look at the president s approval ratings and you d be able to predict for the most part other than 1998 what would happen in off-year elections. why is that not the case this year? because of the disgust with washington, 70% is universal. it s also because there s only so many ways voters can register their disgust because very few people are actually vulnerable when you look at the house in particular. and then, you know, you look at the senate. like last night s primaries, you don t see a lot of anti-incumbent antagonism out there in the voters. they re depressed, they re disgusted with washington. they don t know particularly what to do about it. and, dana, of course every republican in washington, d.c. is going to be holding their breath and waiting for your answer on this because they know they can t wait to hear the answer to this. what is wrong with the republican party? oh, they ll be fine, joe, don t worry about it. no, i don t know that they will. i mean the question we ve been asking all morning is what do they stand for? i know people hate to talk about like when i ran for congress. i m sorry, i could talk about when i was a high school football coach. it wouldn t be as applicable. when i ran, everywhere i went people are saying what are you going to do if you actually get elected. i say we re going to do this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, shove it through the house. if you were a republican in 2014 and people says what are you going to do other than investigate, investigate, and i m not talking the investigations, but what are you going to do other than investigate, seriously, what is the answer a republican can give? i mean i would say the campaign slogan boiled down for november is not that guy. so we are not president obama, we are not the democrats, and they figure and they re probably right, that will be enough to get them across the finish line this time. that s of course not enough in the long term and even in 2016 term because you actually do have to have some sort of an alternative here. so i mean they re playing a very short-term game here which may work and may feel that validated their strategy going into this but i don t see where you go starting in december. you know, chuck, i always love to say that i m living proof that in off-term elections you can beat something with nothing. in presidential elections you actually have to stand for something. i m not so sure in 2014 that s the case anymore. tom cotton should be up by ten points in arkansas. he s not. republicans should have closed out mary landrieu by now in louisiana. they have not. georgia, still up in the air. there are a lot of red states where democrats are still holding on. part of the issue is independents are totally throwing up their hands. you see interest in this election by independents cratering. one of the reasons our poll says this isn t a wave election. interest is lower now than 06 or 10 to wave elections. the voters don t have amnesia. they voted for change three of the last four elections and they didn t get it and they re mad. by the way, you want to know what the future of the republican party looks like and what happens when the whole thing blows up in your face? what s that? look at kansas. kansas is a mess right now. sam brownback, a conservative. sam is in trouble. he s in big trouble. he only got 62% in a primary. he didn t really have a real challenger. why is sam in trouble right now? there s a couple of things. one is he was very aggressive and basically trying to leave the charge to purge his party of moderates. he put in a tax bill that was fiscally the moderate republicans argued it was fiscally irresponsible, it was too much that he didn t pay for it. he went very much with a very aggressive tax-cutting policy. the wall street journal loves it, but half the party inside of kansas doesn t. but this is a state. the republicans are in charge. this is full-on being in charge. you can t point your finger at anybody else. and you re seeing almost an implosion here, an ideological implosion taking place inside of kansas. obviously the book years ago what s the matter with kansas talked about why do rural folks in kansas vote against their economic self-interests. but there s a different way, if you want to understand how the national republican party and congressional republicans could see the whole thing collapse on them, go look at kansas. sara, one final question about the polls and then i want to talk about afghanistan with bobby and just unbelievable news that came out yesterday. so it s fascinating, we were talking about this last hour. you look at what americans want. they want the banks broken up in this wall street journal poll, they want corporate tax rates cut, very conservative, right? but they also want minimum wage raised. which conservatives don t love. and you can there are all of these contradictions. but there is actually a consensus that is not left or not right on economics. they want the 1% to get taxed more. a lot of different things going on here. and that s a reflection of the sluggish growth and sluggish income growth. what the business community wants from washington right now, immigration reform, we know that, and that s sort of on both sides of the aisle. corporate tax reform, also going to be very tricky to pull off. the party that campaigns should campaign on those factors that will boost the economy and will boost normal americans way of living and their incomes. you heard president obama talking to the economist magazine earlier this week, hostile with ceos and the business community saying that they live in the hamptons and they should stop complaining. what the business community wants from the republican party is less regulation, dodd-frank financial regulation and obamacare and more proactive reforms. you talk about a reflection of cost cutting. they need to invest and have the confidence to hire. it starts with the ceos, say what you will about them and about businesses. if they get that confidence, that could go a long way to restoring incomes and helping the economy. the top ceos may not say it in front of a camera, but you talk about a lack of distrust in the president of the united states exactly. it is hostile. but the supposed party of business, this is a republican party that wants to dump the import/export bank, doesn t want to do immigration reform. the business community s agenda is not the republican the irony is obama is closer to what they want to get done i don t know about that. i know that, look, the epa thing is a different story, some of these regulations. but let s talk about immigration reform and import/export, obama is their best ally. dana, it is something and the president can t seem to win for losing with wall street. and this has been this has been a bizarre relationship since 2009. he s done a lot of things. he didn t crack down on the big banks a way a lot of his own supporters want him to crack down. there are a lot of punitive measures that he could have taken. and the justice department could have taken against some of the malfeasance that occurred. he didn t do it, and yet he s still very unpopular on wall street. he hasn t been able to profit from that. chuck is right, there is a huge amount of antagonism. mo brooks from alabama who just yesterday or the day before was talking about the war on whites. he was making an argument against the wall street journal editorial page. there s a huge divide there. if you look at the facts on the ground since then, they have little reason to be frustrated with him as opposed to what they re getting from congress but i think there s a long hangover effect there. if i were groucho marx, the duck would have come down because dana got in the war on whites phrase. congratulations, dana. you said the magic phrase. we gave people a bunch of lists on how to improve the economy. 78% picked this. increase fines and jail time for executives at financial institutions who broke the law would help. so you ve got a public out there that s actually ticked off that nobody went to ceos are upset that, hey, you re not doing the corporate tax rate. the public is upset that a ceo isn t in jail. and that s what the president is responding to. there s a disconnect between america and the east coast. a republican candidate that goes out and is anti-big business and anti-big government does big things. watch out for rand paul. they re just not out there. rand paul running away from some of the things he said. he does run away. just a couple of years ago. literally we saw him run away. he literally ran away from the dreamers and now he s running away from what he said about cutting off all aid to israel. this morning changing stories from domestic to international. the pentagon is investigating an attack that left a two-star army major general dead. the highest ranking american killed in iraq or afghanistan. the 55-year-old major general was harold green, the second highest ranking american serving in afghanistan. he was overseeing the transition efforts in handing over u.s. responsibilities to afghan troops. green and other coalition forces were at camp tuesday when an afghan soldier opened fire, seriously injuring several others before being killed and returning fire. bobby, my god, you look at this poll and there is so much to talk about. we could talk about russia, a possible invasion, what it did to the markets yesterday. we could talk about what s happening in the middle east. we re going to with the ambassador to the united nations for the plo coming up, but of course this hasn t happened since, i think, 70 or 71 in vietnam. the situation in afghanistan is just a mess. you talk about americans looking around going what s going on. so many americans still want to know why we re spending $2 billion a week in a war that we just can t win. well, i think that drawdown that the president has promised couldn t come fast enough for many americans. it is the most senior military official killed since vietnam. since we are desperately trying to look for good news this morning, the number of green on blue killings has actually come down. the target was a big one this time. 2012 was huge. nearly 50, last year nearly 15, this year this is only the fourth, i think, all year, which is a smaller number. that s very small consolation. the opportunities for green and blue violence will reduce so fewer american soldiers, knock on wood, will die. but what this tells us is there is still a gigantic mess we re leaving behind there. if the afghan military cannot stand up, and the indications are not good, if they cannot stand up, that quickly will very quickly devolve back again into this cess pit and it will pull its neighbors, pakistan again and it is once again the place from where terror will be exported around the world. it s unbelievable all the lives that have been lost, all the money that s been invested in iraq and in afghanistan. here we are 12 years later, 13 years later, we re still looking for that thomas jefferson figure. guess what, he s not there. well, he s not. it s been three months since presidential elections and they still haven t figured out who the president is. the two candidates are still fighting. john kerry tried to mediate there and that still hasn t happened. they re still counting the votes all over again. there s no one who s behaving like a statesman. never mind thomas jefferson. no one is willing to behave like a statesman. everyone is behaving like a narrow tribal or ethnic leader. and that s the nature of the problem. we would settle for far less actually. the afghans would settle for far less. wouldn t political rivals in a country that cared about this, they d be both serving in the government. wouldn t at this point that s what kerry tried to do. and that s what george washington did. he brought a bunch of rivals into that cabinet. you know, there actually is a model. i know, there is. chuck todd, thank you for being with us. dana, thank you for bringing your own special brand of sunshine to morning joe. you have lit us up. thank you for coming, i hope you ll come back soon. we loved having you. still ahead on morning joe drugs on the diamond. has baseball successfully moved on from the steroid era? plus, will the peace in gaza hold? we ll be discussing that with the ambassador of palestine to the u.n. but coming up next, is a tech bubble ready to burst? the co-founder of foursquare, dennis crowley, is here to explain what s next for silicon valley and his company. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. everybody s excited about the back to school savings at staples. from the customers, to the staples associates. with guaranteed low prices on laptops, you ll flip out! now go tell your friends. staples. make more happen for less. where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road? a card that gave you that i m 16 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eastern airlines. it didn t work out well for me. of course pets.com an ever lasting symbol of the internet bubble. did any of you know what eastern airlines is? i knew pets.com. the question is are we in the middle of another tech bubble. with us the founder of foursquare, dennis crowley. i found out you re not in silicon valley, you re in silicon alley. what exactly is silicon alley when it s at home? i think silicon alley now is just all of the tech activity that s happening in new york. i ve never found the one specific alley. you ve been looking since 98. since i moved in 98 i thought it was one street and i think it s most of downtown manhattan at this point. you ve got a pretty good streak, though. you ve got some great tech startups. yeah, we re doing okay. foursquare hob going for five years strong and i had a company before this. so is there a tech bubble? are we worried about a tech bubble? i was watching the pets.com commercial. i haven t seen that in forever. back then, that was people trying to sell a little bit of everything on the internet. the people that are selling stuff on the internet have figured it out. i think what companies like four square are doing now is trying to reinvent the world through this lens of data analytics and how can we reinvent the world with data. i think it s an entirely different game now than it was back then. sara, you look skeptical. i ve been seeing these evaluations, they re eye-popping. you mentioned eastern airlines. does it make sense to you that uber, which is not a public company yet, is valued more than united airlines or whole foods? that s the valuation these types of companies are getting. you look at the potential of these companies. it s like is uber going to reinvent transportation logistics? are they going to be the broker by which people go and pick up their driverless cars. who knows what that future looks like but they re in a good spot to execute it. i was going to ask about the data analytics bring up. he who has the data wins, as we know with the nsa. so how are you trying to expand the footprint of what we ve come to know foursquare to be and how you see it moving beyond that so that you stay futureproof. what we ve been trying to do is build these amazing personalized local search ing n engines. why should all of us get the same search results if we re looking for lunch or dinner in this neighborhood. we should learn from the way people experience new york city to give everyone different results. what if i don t want people to know where i am. it s not about people knowing where you are. its new foursquare is how can we take all this information about where people have been in the past and help you find spots perfect for you. like a yelp. but much smarter. with yelp all of us get the same results. but what foursquare is trying to do is you would get different results, you would get different results. thomas and i would get faur different results. if you re interested in creating a tech alibi, foursquare could be your end. i just learned that german factory orders fell off. way to bring that in. as dennis is pointing out you sound like a consumer that has used this as a tech alibi. no, not yet. but since we re thinking about it, i m always thinking about things. of course you are. but joe is bringing up the contrast about the fact that he doesn t want people to know where he is so why is foursquare a viable service for him to use? and you ve got a new app, right? it s called social media. social. i never tell people where i am until i left three days ago. hey, look, it s beautiful in nantucket. one of the things we found out is not everyone wants to share their location all the time. so for the people that do want to do that, we launched a separate app for them and called it swarm. you can download it now. it s called swarm? swarm, yes. swarm is the one where you want to share that you re traveling to all these exotic places. i m going to line that one out. the new foursquare app is all about learning about the things that you like and so we can drive you toward the places we think you d love. let s say i want to find the best music spots in brooklyn and williamsburg. i go on the new four square app. yeah, either type in i m looking for live music or scroll over to night life. based upon where people are going in realtime and based upon what people have said about those places, we help you find the best things that fit your taste. so we re talking about jobs. we re talking about americans being unhappy. i get that you re trying to transform industry and you re trying to change the world. what about jobs? what s up when it got acquired by facebook had 55 employees. are you guys creating jobs? i think we re creating jobs. it s very difficult to find software engineers that are incredibly talented. can i ask you about the immigration crisis, the immigration debate. how important is it for you to be able to get immigrants that, say, graduate from m.i.t. and then they have to go back home? it s tricky because we hit we re only allotted a certain amount of visas every year and we hit that limit every year. there s always people we d love to pull in but are above that limit. so it makes hiring talented engineers even harder because we re up against those restrictions. how much of a difference would it make for you as far as global competitiveness if you didn t have those restrictions. i don t think it s just us. we would pick up a handful of engineers per year, which would be a huelp for us, but across te companies in new york and in the valley, i think it would make a big difference. all right, dennis, you ve convinced me there is no tech bubble and i m getting your new foursquare app. what s that watch? it s called anuka. so this for the camera. it s called a nuka watch. does it tell time? it does, yes. what else does it do? it tells the future. tells the future? in the future, four square is awesome. oh, that is so awesome. so, sara, before you leave, we always look at german factory orders to figure out what s going on. as you should. and you say german factory orders fell off a cliff and this is important. because it is the russian factor. obviously the sanctions are starting to hit russia. europe and russia have a very close trade relationship. russia is the eighth biggest economy. thomas was just telling me this. this is not a small emerging markets economy, as thomas knows. so putin moves troops to the border of the ukraine, we feel it here yesterday on wall street. you saw it. just a headline, vulnerability, it s a fragile market out there. the geopolitical tensions especially in russia and ukraine are shaking confidence right now. dennis, thank you so much. thank you for having me. appreciate you being here. check out more on our website on afternoon mojo to find out more about dennis, foursquare and the watch that he wears. coming up next, israel and hamas are taking the first steps toward a long-term truce but a deal won t be struck without conditions. we ll talk about the prospects for a more stable cease-fire with the palestinian ambassador to the united nations coming up next. 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i hope so. it is not going to be easy, it s going to be very difficult. we have a delegation prese representing all the palestinians in cairo that has been there in a few days. i believe there will be an israeli delegation going to cairo today as well. i hope that we can begin the discussion in order to not allow for a 72-hour cease-fire but for a long cease-fire and to deal with the root causes of this situation. and hopefully lasting peace. yes. do you think the palestinian authority is going to have more authority to negotiate with israel on a long-term peace deal since you have the saudis, the egyptians, uae and a lot of other states trying to bolster you and trying to push aside some of the more extreme elements of hamas? we succeeded in april of reaching an agreement to have a national consensus government. and that national consensus government represents everyone, including hamas. so for us in this national consensus government under the leadership of president mahmoud abbas, if we succeed by being empowered by everyone, including the international community, to be responsible for the transition of rebuilding gaza and having a long-lasting cease-fire and then to move into the political situation of negotiating the end of occupation and the independence of the state of palestine so we can have two state solution living side by side in peace and security, then that would be the best thing not only for us, for israel and for the entire region. ambassador, you talked about the national consensus government that you agreed to in april. hamas was at that point at its historical weakest moment politically as well as militarily. what is your assessment of hamas position now after a month of fighting? there are some who say that hamas in some ways is stronger, at least politically, and if that is so then the dynamic within the coalition government changes. is hamas a political force that now you have to reckon with? hamas is a significant political force among the palestinians. the israeli government waged this war for several reasons, including the reason that they wanted to destroy the national consensus government, to keep us divided and, therefore, weaker so that they can make us in a weaker position in terms of negotiation. now the challenges for us is not to allow the israeli government succeed in the destruction of the national consensus government, but to allow the national consensus government to lead the negotiation in cairo, to succeed in the negotiation there, to show the palestinian people in the gaza strip that it is the government that was able to make a difference in their lives by lifting the siege, opening the borders, allowing our fishermen to fish deep in 12 miles or beyond in the mediterranean sea where they can get most of the food for the people in gaza in terms of fish. if we succeed in these challenges, and i believe that the gentleman that you referred to, he was saying you cannot have success in dealing with the situation in gaza without lifting the siege against the people in gaza. he is absolutely correct. we need to show especially the young, 50% of the people in gaza are under 18. we have to give them hope. so with that, and i ve made no secret of the fact that i m a long-time supporter of israel, but with that i would love for the borders to be open, for there to be the possibility. the egyptian border and more movement and less of a siege mentality there, but how do we guarantee security for the israeli people so hamas doesn t use that opportunity to just rebuild its war machine that not only undercuts israel, but undercuts what you re trying to do? well, we have to build on things that succeeded in the past. right. hamas and israel reached a cease-fire agreement in the year 2012 under the auspices of the egyptians. president abbas was not involved in that. now we have a national consensus government that represent everyone, including hamas. if we have that cease-fire and build on it and add new things to it, such as the possibility of putting in place an observer force or group of people to observe the cease-fire, for the israelis that that observer force will create a deterrent atmosphere so that nobody will be firing anything from gaza towards israel, for us in the gaza strip, it will create a deterrent element where the israelis will not be executing palestinians in gaza and attacking gaza as they wish. so this new additional element which we are dewait batbating - and also so israeli people don t have to worry about rockets raining down on them from ha hoss. but also when you have 11,000 killed and injured in four weeks, 80% of them are civilians, large number of children, this is a tragedy. it s so huge that is impacting the entire population, entire nation of the palestinians, including half a million displaced. there s no doubt it has been july has been one of the most tragic months, and let us hope that peace comes out of it. thank you so much. thank you very much for having me. and we hope you ll come back. nicolle had five or six questions, we just don t have time. okay. coming up, how baseball explains america. the author of that new book explains our obsession with america s national pastime. we ll be right back. think the tree we carved our names in is still here? probably dead. how much fun is this? what? what a beautiful sunset. if you like sunsets. whether you re sweet or salty. you ll love nature valley sweet and salty bars. with us now, the senior correspondent for mlb.com, hal bodley, he s the author of how baseball explains america. one of the most important books written about baseball. that s a pretty damn good review by the new york daily news. that s true. it s also such a thick and deep part of our culture, baseball. explain what you ve been doing with your whole life, and it s all right here in this book right now. after covering baseball for 55, 56 years you have a lot of memories, a lot of tapes stored away, interviews you ve done with a lot of people and that type of thing. i wanted to bring it altogether. i thought i could do a memoir. i talked to ted williams in his underwear. i flew on air force one with george h.w. bush. then i thought, hey, that doesn t really work too good. what about baseball and how essential it is to our society. every day. i challenge you, can you go an hour without using a baseball term in your language. you probably can t but it s such an important part of our society. it s essential, the people who have a great passion for the game. they love the game and made it possible. i tried to tie all that in and it s been very, very rewarding for me. i think all of us on this set agree that baseball was such an integral part of our country and our country s culture. do you worry at all about the pace of the game and the fact that the demographics of baseball are increasingly people our age and you re not too far from our age and we re losing some younger baseball fans because of the pace of the game? no question, mike. the games, when they last over three hours, i covered a nine-inning game in tampa bay the other day that was four hours long, it was so awful. i think the velcro, the players are tightening their gloves after every swing of the bat, that type of the game. they do have to speed it up. i think it s a big concern that we haven t been able to bring the youngsters into the game, the little boys. my dad took me to yankees stadium in 1950, the world series with the phillies. we sat behind the dugout. joe dimaggio came to the plate. he put his arm around me and said pay very, very close attention to this because this is something you re going to remember the rest of your life. do dads take their kids to the ballpark as much as they used to? i m not sure they do. we have a contagious type of thing where kids get really involved. i think if the games were played more in the daylight and not so late at night, that would certainly help. so anthony bosh arrested yesterday. brings back the question of steroids, you have a chapter in the book about steroids. we all lived through the steroid era. we may or may not be over. i was a san francisco giants season ticket older. i watched barry bonds break all those records. context y contextualize it. how do we look at that era and put it in proper context? i think our society struggles with it, obviously. i think that decade of the steroid era, it s very, very important we recognize it. if we ever use those record books, we have to have an asterisk in there. i think saying this is during the steroid era. for me personally i will never vote for any of these players that have tainted the game and been involved with steroids. so it s a very, very important thing. i was just going to say quick debate here, let s talk about something important. the greatest decade for baseball. i grew up in the 1970s. you had the oakland a s, hank aaron, willie mays was still playing, lou brock. it was an extraordinary decade. but you disagree with me. i do. i really do, joe. because i talked to tom brokaw, he wrote that great book the greatest generation. and i said to you agree with me that the 1940s was the greasest generation in baseball? the greatest decade in baseball. and he said positively. i ll tell you the reason why. joe dimaggio s 56-game hitting street, ted williams batting over .400. you had all of these good players going to war. above all that, jackie robinson in 1947 breaks the color barrier. that has to be the greatest. it was very, very important to our society and to baseball. you know, you talk about baseball, though. i really do mark so many moments of my life. 1975 obviously what happened in game six, but i will forever remember being in dalton, georgia, at my grandmom s house on april 8, 1974, when al downing pitched that pitch to hank aaron. i mean there are just these are the moments that mark our lives, right? really. it s how baseball explains america. you know, it s so important. and that moment when hank broke that record, that has to stand. and the fact that there was somebody that had peds that helped go above that record the records are so sacred in baseball. it s still hank aaron. we shall return. it s how baseball explains america. hal bodley, thank you so much for being here. always my pleasure. we ll be right back. where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road? a card that gave you that i m 16 and just got my first car feeling. presenting the buypower card from capital one. redeem earnings toward part or even all of a new chevrolet, buick, gmc or cadillac - with no limits. so every time you use it, you re not just shopping for goods. you re shopping for something great. learn more at buypowercard.com i m alex trebek. if you re age 50 to 85, please listen carefully. the lock i want to talk to you about isn t the one on your door. it s a rate lock for your life insurance that guarantees your rate can never go up at any time, for any reason. many policies don t have one but you can get a lifetime rate lock through the colonial penn program. this plan was designed for people on a fixed income with coverage options for just $9.95 a month. that s less than 35 cents a day. your rate is locked in for life and coverage can never be cancelled. your acceptance is guaranteed. you cannot be turned down because of your health. call for your information kit and gift. both are free, with no obligation. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i m spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. need to hire fast? 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the white house is billing the event as the largest gathering of african leaders ever in washington. a second american missionary affected with ebola is setbrants week are the only ebola patients ever treated in the u.s. ramping up for a potential presidential run, senator rand paul will continue his brief through iowa today. that does it for way too early. morning joe starts right now. stick around. join us in an effort to restore confidence, dignity and decorum to this institution. former white house press secretary james brady died today at the age of 73. only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. one bullet striking reagan in the chest. another penetrating brady s skull. the tragedy turned brady s wife sarah and eventually brady himself into advocates for gun control. what may be an emerging genocide. shiite men are herded together and executed in mass graves. news about the experimental drug used to treat that american doctor infected now back here in the united states. a doctor in liberia describes it as miraculous. these two americans may save a lot of lives. by her suffering in this, she may be able to help countless more. a patient came to mt. sinai s emergency room with symptoms of fever. doctors now awaiting the results of tests on a man at a major manhattan hospital. given the amount of travel, it wouldn t be entirely surprising if there would be a case that would show up here in the u.s. today s temporary cease-fire was a chance for gazans to bury some of those killed. but minutes after the israeli initiated truce began, a missile hit a house in gaza city. there s nowhere here. israeli will honor the cease-fire and will be watching to see if hamas does too. good morning! welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, august 5th. a lot to talk about today. with us on set to help us do that msnbc contributor mike barnicle and former communications director for george w. bush. where is the sarah palin line in there? i think it got edited out. it disappears. who would edit that out? that would be the top thing. joe scarborough, sarah palin, what were you, sarah palin? communications director? tutor. do not say that! that is condescending. i think on campaigns oftentimes your staff takes on a role getting you ready. just a lot of different things. like you are for barnicle here. i was a staffer. he also helps with the clothing and it s working very well. thank you. also, we have, mike, this is impressive. the chairman of deutsche, inc. i m so xoited. how many chairmans do you have here? how many are on the board? my mother. before we get started no, no, no. you re wearing a bracelet. i know it s your show but you re wearing a bracelet. i paid for this microphone, mr. green. yeah. i wear it all the time. i ve never seen that. you got the things undone? little donny deutsche going on! no! not even close to donny deutsche. you ve got like pimp my ride like beads there and s&m. i can t believe we are going here already. are we going here? they all have children meaning. sensitive. it s all children s stuff. are we going to show my instagrams tonight? women see the bracelets and they know that donny cares. thank you. and then they go on his instagram account and they know he is one i haven t seen his instagram. and my dogs and puppies are children. one on your account was so bad we couldn t show you had your two little girls right below your pecs. it was disgusting. we are going to have to raise the level. i agree. we have somebody else here, right? somebody else? there must be! in washington, staff writer with the hill we want to apologize, elise. no problem. here is the good news, elise. you had to sit through all of that. that is the bad news. the good news is you don t have to sit on set with donny deutch. it just means i can t see the bracelets, joe. i can t see them. oh, my gosh. the technology of television. here they are. oh, there they are. james brady, yesterday, he passed away. a great man. great man. courageous man. obviously, somebody who stayed very close to the reagans throughout his life. a courageous man, a great man. obviously, everyone knows what happened to james brady. shot, nearly killed, in an assassination attempt on ronald reagan, and spent the rest of his life, he and his wife, forming a committee, the brady group that still, today, and has for a long, long time, promoted gun safety. never gave up, he never gave in. sarah brady has been also real fighter for the cause for sometime. actually ronald reagan played a very big role, you know? in 1994, they actually had great influence over ron and nancy reagan to get ronald reagan on the phone and make those calls, nicole, when they were trying to pass assault weapon ban but for ronald reagan that would never passed. the brady name also bore his name. you know, he really did have a huge impact and is a great example of taking what happens. we had a friend of mine on last week, bob bell got paralyzed his freshman year and he had to decide what am i going to do with my life? that s what james brady did and he made a great difference. the debate is sorely going to miss him. one of the ugly terrains in the american debate and the bradys have elevated it. they have made it more bipartisan and made it more meaningful and i think they have helped quiet some of the more shrill voices in the debate. the debate over gun safety in this country will be less without them in it. no doubt about it. obviously, though, sarah brady will, obviously, continue. of course. andrea mitchell who, obviously, knew the bradys, looks back on his life. reporter: only 69 days after ronald reagan took office. shots were fired at president reagan in washington. reporter: six shots were fired. the first meant for the president exploded in the head of the white house press secretary james brady. brady had always been known as the bear. big, irreverent even at his boss s expense. when president reagan said trus produced pollution by carbon monoxide, brady joked about killer trees. above all, brady was trusted. i wouldn t tell you something if it wasn t the truth. reporter: after he was shot brady fought for his loiven and struggled to speak and to walk. the reagans insisted he keep the title of press secretary and renamed the briefing room in his honor. i hope this room is always filled as much integrity and good humor as jim brady has brought to it. reporter: nancy reagan joked about reports he gave her the job because he wasn t good looking. i keep giving jim my y&h. reporter: jim and sarah brady worked against gun violence. the assault weapons ban lasted ten years until congress let it lapse. after gaby gifford was shot, jim brady again speaking out. he is still just as funny. that s a wonderful word. funny looking. reporter: his neurosurgeon remembers that fateful day. to me his greatest achievement was saving the life of the president of the united states. he walked right in the line of fire. reporter: jim brady lived for another 33 years and valiant to the end. he certainly was and jim brady was 73 years old. we continue now on with news on the ebola virus with another possible scare. the united states latest in new york city. officials are now awaiting test results from a man who showed up at manhattan s mt. sinai hospital yesterday after returning from west africa with symptoms associated with the virus. fever and gastrointestinal problems. officials don t know whether the man has the disease, but say he is being isolated out of an abundance of caution. hospital officials stress the virus is transmitted only through bodily fluids and not through casual contact. you have, obviously, the newspapers in the tabloids in the city certainly talking about the ebola scare in new york. from new york to atlanta. atlanta hospital is awaiting the arrival of a second american who is infected while working in west africa. a plane carrying u.s. missionary nancy writebol left early in the morning and expected to arrive later today. one doctor, a decorated air force colonel and surgeon, says while he trusts doctors at emery emory hospital, it was foolish to bring ebola patients to the united states. they could have taken the medical equipment and the experimental serum to africa and treat the patients this rather than bring the patients here and in fact, the continental united states even though the risk is minuscule. elise, tell us about this. it s an interesting interesting, joe. obviously, you see those headlines. i think what the public does not necessarily understand about this virus, even if there isn t a major danger of epidemic here in the united states or a major outbreak, by transferring a patient to u.s. soil, you create a pathway where ebola could ultimately reemerge again. it s minuscule as the doctor said, the risk is very, very small, but i think that is something that has gone unroverted about thu unreported about this outbreak. the last time we saw ebola only in one region in western africa and probably to make it to more country s by week s end. by creating those pathways the risk arises not only to americans, but people around the world. elise, do we know what mode of transportation this patient is being flown to the united states with? is it a military plane, a charter flight? it s certainly not a commercial flight, is it? it s an evac plane going i believe, to liberia and arrive in atlanta today and she will be brought back and apparently she is doing very well because the two american aid workers who were infected were brought a ground breaking serum has that produced great results. we know that isn t something available to most people with ebola in west africa and raising ethical questions there. it s likely these two are going to survive which is pretty incredible i d say. it s important to notice the between this and sars. this is not something somebody can get breathing in the air. that s right. it has to be bodily fluids so it is something we have to be concerned about but it is not the same level of exposure just for the average person walking around. no, it s not. it s important for people in new york city waking up and seeing the papers and hear about this man who may or may not have ebola. health officials think he probably doesn t but people are thinking i rode the subway with this guy. you won t go to ebola what the cdc tells me. i interviewed all of the officials there. apparently people who are getting are health workers or people involved with the bury rituals in north africa. it s not like somebody could cough on you and you would get ebola. let s move on to more news out of new york. this is, oh, man, this is bad news. bad news, mike. two police unions today are holding events in new york city to show support for the officer who is linked to the death of a staten island make any difference who was put under an apparent chuokehold. eric garden ner said he could n breathe. any results is in the staten island district attorney general. they are calling for the justice department to investigate with some noticing historically strong support for the nypd in staten island and that could impact the case. this is one of the things, mike, you hate to see, obviously. the supporters of the police at the same time. you look what happened on videotape. it appears from, like, it was just such an openly excessive use of force. now that it s been ruled a homicide, there s some tough decisions that are going to have to be made. it s the first big test for bi bill de blasio. the cops have been identified. obviously, the medical examiner has ruled its death by homicide. by the way, this guy is in a choke hold because he is selling untaxed cigarettes. yeah. untaxed cigarettes. look. untaxed cigarettes. and all he is doing is talking to them. and asking right. there was nothing physical happening. so i think this is a test broken windows? well, i think that everyone i think there is a republican instinct to stand up for and always take the side of law enforcement because they have one of the most difficult jobs around. but i think and traditionally conservatives have stood up for police officers. firefighters. firefighters, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. and there are some on the far left have not. let s just put it that way. this video, to me, i think, is a real test for whether what we all can see plainly with our eyes is going to be reflected in the outcome and in the policy, because i think anyone watching and if you re still forming your opinions about law enforcement and you see that someone gets away with that where this was unprovoked violence against someone. the original sin was selling cigarettes. yeah. unbelievable. the question is again you have to ask what if it were your son? right. your husband, your father. what if it were your father. and you could not talk to law enforcement. that was killed and not allowed to ask a question. i m sorry. this is pretty unless something else comes out based on the video, this is pretty clean-cut and we have to say it s pretty clean-cut. yes we stand and salute the nypd and always support them whenever we can but when something is this clean-cut, you know what? it s not enough to say they are a cop and it s okay. it s not okay if there is was nothing more to that. and sometimes there is more than meets the eye. i haven t heard it yet. i m certainly waiting to hear it. let me be the liberal who actually supports law enforcement. my grandfather was actually a cop. obviously, that speaks for itself, but whether it s doctors, lawyers, baseball players, advertise executives, journalist, there are going to be some low lives in every profession. understood. the question is what do you do with the low lives? you prosecute them. that s where i think this becomes interesting and maybe troubling. the instinct is to rally around your fellow police officer but i don t know that you want this guy s actions to speak for the entire department. they need to get more information out. there is an investigation. they need to do the investigation. we need to get all of the information out there. but to blindly support a guy who did this choke-hold on this guy for selling untaxed cigarettes. it looks bad. it looks really, really bad. speaking of looking really bad, let s go to the middle east. after four weeks, there are renewed hopes at least, how long is a cease-fire going to effect? five hours. yeah, five hours and see how long that lasts. there are hopes to end the latest round of just horrific violence between israeli and hamas. overnight, a 72-hour cease-fire went into effect. in the coming days, egypt plans to hold indirect talks with the two sides about a long-term agreement. also overnight, israeli announced all of its troops are out of gaza after destroying the known tunnels used by hamas to launch their attacks against israeli vilcivilians and soldie. they will up force outside of gaza, but warned it will respond to any attacks. let s bring in richard engel who is live in gaza. richard, so there has been appear bit of peace and quiet for at least a couple of hours. what is the feeling on the ground? is there a chance this peace could hold? reporter: there is a hope here that this peace can hold. this feels different than the other cease-fires. we get a sense here in gaza that things are wrapping up. the biggest gomt wdevelopment w israeli troops pulled out of the gaza area and no foot soldiers or tanks on the ground here. in the past, we had cease-fires but they always broke down because hamas fighters and israeli troops who were here in gaza were in such close proximity that fighting almost inevitably broke out and any hope of negotiate settlement quickly evaporated. now we have a structure in place, a structure moderated by egypt and supposed to last for 72 hours while negotiations take place. hamas has said it agrees to it. israeli has said it agrees to it. delegations are supposed to be meeting indirect. egyptians meeting with them to come up with a deal. for the entire time i ve been here, this is the most hopeful moment that we have seen that this war, one month long, could be wrapping up, but the death toll has been quite significant. this has been a terrible war for both sides. 1900 palestinians almost killed. 64 israeli soldiers and 3 israeli civilians. this has been the deadliest of the three recent wars. it has been so deadly. and the violence so horrific. of course, you look at those numbers. 1,800 palestinians killed. 64 israeli soldiers killed. three civilians killed in israeli. there was a report in wall street journal morning, elise, that the obama administration, the state department finally had enough after the final explosion at the u.n. compound where more civilians were killed after warnings that it was a u.n. compound. that s when they decided to make their public statement. i m curious. first of all, what is the reaction been on the hill this week? secondly, if you can, pass the question to richard engel. yeah. absolutely. cl capitol hill has been quiet on the hill and they lost for august resaens we have not heard much from them. this is a congress less interested in foreign policy. you just don t see a lot of reaction. and the silence is deafening when you see a death toll like this. it s pretty interesting. we do know that tensions are at an all-time high between the highest ranking officials in the obama administration and, obviously, the government of benjamin netanyahu. my question for richard, i know that some senior obama administration officials have really taken a beating on the ground in gaza in terms of public opinion and also just around the world. i m wondering what you hear about what the white house is doing, if anything, on the ground there? normally, in gaza and i ve covered the last three wars here, you hear a lot of anti-american sentiment, that the united states is supplying weapons to israeli, that the u.s. is backing israeli blindly, that israeli wouldn t be doing this without the u.s. that is the baseline that we have been hearing here for decades really. this time, we heard a lot less of that. instead, we heard more anger directed directly toward israeli for targeting civilian areas and we heard an enormous amount of anger directed at egypt. the egyptian factor probably has been the least understood and the least reported of this entire conflict. i think at the end of the day, what is happening, the reason we are seeing a deal now, is that hamas finally decided it was going to go to egypt and have to go to egypt and it would deal with general cc who is against the hamas and muslim brotherhood. you want a deal, you have to go through me and kiss the ring and accept i m here and here to stay. i think hamas finally relented to that and that s why, i think, we are seeing progress now. it was really more about israeli and egypt this time than the united states. richard, we realize that you re in gaza city, but in another area of the middle east which you re very familiar with, isis has taken mosul. they have beaten back the kurd. they have taken the mosul dam, which, as you know and reported on in the past, they could flood the entire area almost down to south of baghdad. the kurds seem to be in critical position here against isis. what do you think is the role of the united states in helping the kurds? reporter: well, the kurds so just to frame the question herein i think it s an important question so thank you for asking it. i was in baghdad a month ago and seems like a whole liz ago when isis was marching toward baghdad and it looked like the militants were going to take baghdad. the is started sending in more weapons and started accepteding in advisers. the shiite militias started to fight back and isis realized they couldn t take baghdad and couldn t continue their southern march. what did they do? they changed directions and they started going north and west, even to a degree, the east, anywhere else and they started fighting against kurdish militias and they have been having a lot more success fighting with them and taking new territory. they took new ground in tikrit and mosul and taking that dam. now the u.s. has to realize is it going to arm the kurds? is it going to not just deal with baghdad? is it going to go directly and relate to the kurdish authorities? that opens up the question of the pkk and the pkk is a militant group that is fighting isis which the united states considers a terrorist organization. to arm and help the kurds, the u.s. would have to decide it s going to work with the pkk, which it considers a terrorist group officially, and i think there is a legal problem that is helping that is preventing that from happening right now. certainly no easy answers there. no more so than where you re standing. richard engel, thank you so much. we appreciate it. still ahead on morning joe, michael bloomberg and secretary of state of commerce are going to be here ahead of today s inaugural business forum. what an east coast democrat learned from a west coast trip. elijah cummings and jason chaffetz will be here. maureen and bob mcdonnell took the stand. mike, is that unbelievable? 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the wait is over. it s 6:28 on the east coast. from our parade of papers, we are counting them down! the toledo blade. after three long days the water advisory has been lifted in toledo, ohio. the watery advisory has been lifted in toledo, but there is still obviously lingering concerns. toledo s mayor took a big sip of water yesterday. he actually died two minutes later! he fell right over. he walked inside and just it was all over. they have cleared the water and it s safe to drink. i ve never seen it. his liver just fell right out. wait a second. actually, that is wrong. t.j. wrote that in the script. it is incorrect. he is still live and very well. toxin related to an algae on lake erie. that is disgusting! does lake erie still look like that? i remember an snl skit in 1977 drinking swil water out of oh, my gosh. it impacted 400,000 people. officials say there could be a reoccurring crisis as algae blooms are coming! usa today ! lake erie, clean that place up! come on! usa today. netflix plans to follow up its 31 emmy nominations for shows like house of cards. and mike s show the orange is the new black. do you like that, mike? i do. mika is a avid fan. if you think of one show, why do you start with orange is the new black? ? 11 new shows are in the works that includes several comedy and drama series. they are positive another season of arrested development is in the future netflix has 60 million viewers worldwide. it took me only a year and a half but i final finished the season of madmen. did you like it? it ended okay. first four are just punishment. listen. you know what? this season of madmen has been hammered by everybody. and, by the way, the good people at amc will tell you, i was, like, from episode one. i m still watching it because you guys talked about it. we saw it from episode one. every season is different. i thought this season, i thought it was a good season. last three end really well. it was from a dreary time and i know this sounds kind of weird but if you re a beatles fan it remind me of let it be, where you could see everything falling apart and there weren t a lot of happy moments when they weren t singing i want to hold your hand. this was a very grim time, 69. i love how it ended. the last seen was unbelievable. i thought john hamlin was unbelievable this year. i started watching it, i think donny was the only one watching it when i was watching it and was desperate for all of you to watch it because i wanted it to get better and they made you hang on i think the first third of the season and then it got better. the sopranos tony would stare at the panel i don t like myself. i don t like myself. it would be like a whole season of that! people are going, it s really deep. matthew winer went through two or three episodes where he took it a while but all for a purpose. again, it wasn t the ending it well. i think it was a good season. only three episodes but it was a good season. when is the next one? a year away. i have a new one, the nick i on cinemax. you will love that. 1900 opium. donny and i still love opium dens. they went away. they didn t. you just don t know where to look. this was good. this is how people watch tv. they find their show and watch it wherever it is, right? what struck me is how much i love all of these characters and i ve fallen, john hamm, amazing. oh, my god, he s so great! and on and on. i m so glad that christina hendricks is in washington and you were up here when we interviewed here. she is my dream girl. i need you to be quiet about it, okay? a great actress. we all have dream girls. ruth buzzi for you. your dream girls are in the corners getting ready to go to camps right now. oh, god. that s terrible! exactly. the washington post has a great story too. but, no, we are going to politico! too much to choose from today! i don t know what to do. cornucopia of news today, my friends and i really don t know where to go. it s like i m going out of the supermarket. mike, i have too much in my arms. they are spilling on the ground. there s so much to talk about. yesterday, everyone who was left in washington with the congressional recess, they were at mike allen s lunch with david plouffe. the biggest draw ever for david plouffe he is the next white house chief of star or not, mike? what is the deal? sure looks like it. you remember david plouffe. how could we forget? during the hillary contest, he was the button down calm one who complained about the bed wetters around him who were getting worried. he was stead as she goes. then in the white house, the senior adviser. we hear from people very close to the white house that he is most likely to come in as the last chief of staff. denis mcdonough who has been with the president is going back to the campaign as a national security expert, has been in this job 18 months. it s a burnout job. people figure that around the midterms, he ll probably head out and the david plouffe, someone the president is very comfortable with, someone who knows the obama way, someone who can be there to guide the legacy. he is already on the library board, is most likely to come in. yesterday at the playbook lunch, i asked david about it and it sure sounded like it was a possibility. he said, well, we d love for denis to stay and turn out the lights on january 20th, 2017, no for that. it would be a way for david plouffe to send out the president that he brought in. any other candidates? john podesta could do it who is in the white house right now but we think he probably will be heading out to hillary campaign. ron clain could do it and dan pfeiffer could do it but david plouffe is closer to the president. he said he didn t want to make new friends. congratulations. you ve made new friends. and shake things up when they things are going well enough they don t need to shake it. i like david. things going so great, why not bring in people who were complaining, and bed wetters to cease your beliefs and people who don t agree with you 100% of the time. a final two years. i can t wait. i can see you love the pick. boy, i tell you what, let s just reinforce everything going on the past six years. i can t wait. that is going to make everything work a lot more smoothly in washington. can i ask him a question? no, you can t. mike allen, thanks. yesterday, mike allen insulted the guys in the board room for a lack of sports yesterday. what a catch! jacoby ellsbury. we have a special guest you come coming in tomorrow for sports. i will tell you about it after this commercial break. still be strong after the boys of summer have gone i m 16 and just got my first car feeling. presenting the buypower card from capital one. redeem earnings toward part or even all of a new chevrolet, buick, gmc or cadillac - with no limits. so every time you use it, you re not just shopping for goods. you re shopping for something great. learn more at buypowercard.com we re changing the way we do business, with startup ny. we ve created tax free zones throughout the state. and startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. no property tax. no business tax. and no sales tax. which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. it s not just business as usual. see how new york can help your business grow, at startup.ny.gov dad: he s our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? 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i can get you six. can you really? i m giving up all of mine. yankees fans would not be doing this. you would not hear this. both teams are bad! but yankees are still in it. get a full house all weekend long. we are talking about fenway, all right? seriously. you turn it on any night and they are on the other side of the moat. three people are there. because so much culture in new york. late game last night, rays and a s tied in the bottom of the 10th, two out. derek norris sends one up the middle. a game winner? 3-2 win. oakland and detroit, you might see them in the fall. to the capitol. orioles trailing the nats 3-2 in the seventh. baltimore s ryan flaherty, boom. center field wall. boom. bong. gets it in. come on! delmonday you delmon new england knocks a pinch-hit run. single to left. brings home the run. baltimore ends the inning. 5-3 lead. that was the game. in the eighth, caleb joseph lines up the middle for another two runs. orioles win 7-3. tigers and yankees scoreless in the third. jacoby ellsbury is up. watch this catch. cabrera on the run and still going back. dives and he makes the catch! what a catch by carerra! ezekiel carerra over-the-shoulder diving catch. brandon mccarthy gives another solid performance for the yankees and struck out eight and earns the victory. 2-1 yankees. check this on out. justin verlander, great guy. talking to his girlfriend kate upton behind the detroit dugout. are they still an item? yes. oh, yeah. i didn t know they were still an item. the new york post says it s true. shut up! a picture of the two in the new york post today. t.j., pick a camera! you re bringing three cameras at me! pick a camera! i can t go on any more. this is really important. you mentioned earlier in the show that there is a picture on instagram with me and my shirt off. hold on. but it s men on instagram. do not step on kate upton picture. by the way, if i were verlander, i would still be so angry what they did last season to me during the playoffs. yanking him. the tigers should have beaten the sox. and karma took care of it, right? when jim leyland yanked max scherzer. the big one. he took out max scherzer and ortiz, boom. didn t he do that twice? i think he did it in two games. the last time he did it, that was it for the tigers. those pitchers were lights out for the tigers. they were amazing. we missed the los angeles angels playing the los angeles dodgers and i had guarantarrett richardson on my fantasy team. i sat him and he gets 50 points! you re not helping me. you didn t hear what i said. i did. coming up next, live from it was important. we have mika s must read opinion pages and coming over the teletype. we will be right back with more morning joe. don t go away. ahhh! what is it? 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you should take it for whatever it s worth. i don t want to! dana millbank, he writes this in the washington post. bob mcdonnell is a loser either way. the legal strategy of bob mcdonnell, even if he wins in court he loses in december during his final days in office the prosecutors offering a deal let his wife off the hook and require him to plead guilty to charges unrelated to his official duties but mcdonnell chose to go to court. had he taken the deal he would look like a sleazy pol. now he looks like a sleazy pol. i don t know. i m sorry, nicole. this is morning joe so we can actually tell the truth. i hope i don t offend somebody. i m sorry. his wife looks like the bad actor here. my god! this is just a story of the ugliness of the decent grags of her playmate? her playmate. she wants who? the vitamin guy. this vitamin guy to be her playmate. yeah. and they went to network and they shopped at fancy boutiques and it appears that he picked up the tab. it s really seedy. do you have a question for elise? yeah. elise, this story, i don t know about you, but just reading about it, i felt as if it were an invasion of my privacy. i agree with that. i agree with that. it s made for the tabloids, right? i do agree that the wife does raise some questions here. remember when everyone rumored him to be the next gop presidential candidate? we would have been on the campaign trail. can you imagine? my favorite revelation in this story was the idea she tried it pitch one of these supplements to the romneys as a way to cure ms. oh, my lord. she just sounds really out there. i don t know what to say about that. i hope the romneys said i hope secret service detail was around them and put a taser to the back of her when she did that. we were just talking before about how bob mcdonnell was a guy excited about. i remember in 2010 with all of these people were going out there, like, setting their hair on fire and saying barack obama is a martian and come into your house and eat your babies! you re like, let s go with bob mcdonnell s idea instead, bob for jobs and all bob talked about. the economy got better. unemployment went down. he was never shrill on the subject. he wasn t shrill. he was a socially conservative guy and had everything going for him. but, man, this is some bad news. yeah. he didn t have a very good partner. no. i think i can say that. woo. i m just going to be quiet about this now. but yeah. wow. can you not see why he is saying i m not taking a deal that lets my wife off the hook and charges me! would you do that? 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can i listen to elo for another five minutes? that would be great. we will listen to elo for another five minutes. wait. pictures of new york city. i think it goes well with this little haze and a little fog. exactly. you re waking up out of the fog from the night before. elo, an underrated band from the 1970s, right? higher and higher baby there we go. now we re back. it s a living thing it s a terrible thing to do back with us on set. these guys, i don t know what happened to both of them, chuck, but they are ornery and mean today. it s not true. talking about cows, did i like cows. with us is nbc news chief white house correspondent and political director and host of the daily rundown, chuck todd. chuck, we are going to be waited with bated breath. you got a poll coming out later tonight? coming out tonight. debuts tonight? yeah. it s actually checking in and it s a little bit different. how people are viewing the great recession in the rearview mirror. it is fascinating. lately of the political stuff but this was a tough recession to recover from and you do sort of see if we have recovered. people still mentally haven t recovered. that is the question. they know they see the numbers of recovery. they are still supporting older parents or kids at home and, i mean, you feel stock market and the real economy, there are two economies. what you have in new york and everybody else. we people have in new york. that makes me sad. we are going to talk about that tomorrow. in washington we have nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. thank you for being with us. you bet. pulitzer prize and winning columnist and associate editor for the washington post, and msnbc political analyst, awe gene robinson. from the hill we have elise vivak still with us. we were talking about james brady last hour and the rest of the country and washington is remember is former press secretary james brady who passed away on monday. he was left partially paralyzed after shot on a presidential assassination attempt on president reagan. he became a fighter for stricter gun control laws. andrea, you covered the white house under reagan. talk to us about the life of jim brady. jim brady was irreverent. he was just so funny. he was so smart. he was so trusted. and really loved by the press corps. which raised some suspicions among some in the reagan camp. nancy reagan had to be won over but became such a huge fan of his. he had a great relationship with the president and only 69 days after the president took office, this horrible assassination which really transformed washington. it, obviously, changed the president, the reagans. they were never the same. nancy reagan was never the same in terms of the way she felt protective and never really had a good night s sleep in the white house ever since ever after that. but for jim brady, it was a devastating wound. i interviewed the neurosurgeon who was in the e.r. and saved his life and said he had never seen this kind of injury. fortunately because he was in the presidential motorcade, jim lived because most people with both lobes this was of the six bullets that were fired by john hinckley, the first one hit jim brady and slammed into his head and it was the only one that they were all devastating bullets but the only ones that exploded inside his head. fortunately the bullet that hit the president hit the limo handle and ricocheted into the chest and barely, within an inch, less than an inch, barely missed his heart but that s why ronald reagan was able to recover from a very, very serious injury. but brady s injury was just devastating and the fact he lived for 33 years was a miracle and his spirit kept him going, true grit. the work continues with sarah brady and people don t realize, we talked about it before, but jim brady is responsible, in part, for the passing of the brady bill. absolutely. but also, of course, the influence that the bradys had on the reagans. the reagans always stuck by him on this. very interesting. almost out of loyalty. people try to read into the minds of i think this was clearly a loyalty decision. i thought it was neat yesterday. josh earnest, the white house press office, sent out their statement on jim brady from every living white house president. it was classy and well done. it was touching. the right way. they spoke as one about brady. what you were referring to just briefly. the fact that jim brady we were on the hill when jim brady got this was not ronald reagan s position on gun laws. he called in and that was the critical vote on that assault weapons ban. he got reagan out of retirement to make those phone calls. he did and it made a big difference. a lot of other things to talk about. andrea mitchell, hopefully, we have a cease-fire deal in the middle east. does it stick? the fact is israeli, it believes it has accomplished its purpose with the tunnels and it s withdrawn from gaza so they are not nose-to-nose. you were talking to richard engel about that an hour or so ago. the fact this is so tenuous and all on egypt and whether hamas will let egypt be the peace broker and there is such a deep dismay in the white house and the state department toward what israeli has done, despite this ironclad alliance which, as you know, has led to 3.2 billion dollars last year alone in aid, mostly military, to israeli from the united states. there s a lot of frustration that this time israeli went too far. of course, chuck, you saw the wall street journal this morning said the white house, the last attack on the u.n. school was a final straw for the obama administration. they, obviously, sent out a state department spokesperson who basically said enough is enough. realistic maybe? i got the sense that israeli had no choice to listen. when the state department is sending out messages as tough as the united nations. finally, the president went out there and gave his most supportive statement of israeli since the war began. yeah. so this was a case, which, of course, netanyahu used to his benefit the next day to basically say, hey, america is standing by us on this and then that happens. it does feel as if, you know, israeli say we accomplished our mission any way. let s not forgot that hamas is a terrorist organization and israeli is a democracy. just saying. the only democracy. there is only one. who disagrees with that? nobody, but hamas, you know, obviously, we can go on with this for hours and, obviously, seeing children killed is an atrocity. obviously, it is. and seeing it day after day after day after day. coming from shields. exactly. human shields. let me ask you this did oosh who is to blame? hamas is to blame. if your child is being held with a gun to their head do you want the cop to shoot through your child to shoot you? they use human shields. somebody is shooting at my children and if that child has to die to save my child. it is absolutely abhorrent. the question is if the united nations warns 17 times, 17 times. our nation is not living in israeli. this is a shelter. so, donny, should this have continued? i think israeli accomplished its mission. which is what? which was to shut down the tunnels and keep israeli safe. hamas wants to obliterate israeli. we forget that is their mission. no, none of us forget that. hamas is a terror organization. i ve said it. they are our enemy. they want to wipe israeli off the face of the earth. they are a scourge. but hamas is not going to be able to obliterate israeli. you know why? because hamas is loathed by their own people. before this began, 80% of gazans who were against hamas, egypt is against hamas. great they are against it but when they are shooting rockets. let me finish my point. saudi arabia is against hamas. the uae is against hamas. hamas is not attacking jordan and they are not tacking those people. how ziltisolated they are. donny, when you continue to attack and show across the world 5, 6, 7-year-old children dragged out of rubble dead when they are running with their parents to try to hide in a u.n. school, who does that help? who does that help? it helps no one but no. a casualty. you are incorrect. it is a tragedy, first of all, and do not come close to saying it s collateral damage. i didn t say that. no, a lot of people call that the end result is a result of hamas aggressive moves. answer my question. okay. who is helped when a young nobody. no, that s wrong. who is helped? hamas is helped. oh, yes, of course. well, when you i m literally answering the question. israeli plays into hamas hands. tunnels are shut down. hamas celebrates when their civilians are killed so what does israeli not do? israeli needs to figure out a way to work with the palestinian authority to minimize hamas influence. does anybody around this set, does anybody watching on tv, andrea mitchell, i ll ask you. i know it s harder for you to answer, but have you heard anybody suggest that hamas has not been aided over the past three and a half weeks by these attacks, when they were more isolated than ever before? andrea, maybe i should ask you a news question. was hamas more isolated than it s ever been three and a half, four weeks ago and desperate to strike an alliance with the palestinian authority because it had run out of cards to play? hamas was on its back heels. hamas was faltering. there is no question that in the world of public opinion, hamas has been helped by what has happened here, by seeming like a david and goliath. they have gotten world sympathy, especially in europe. which is my point. which is why we need to explain what is behind that is my exact they have done it and that is the shame of this. remember, khalid mitchell, the head of hamas, was kicked out of damascus. if netanyahu was a clever politician and comes to the peace deals he really is sort of a he worries about his domestic politics above all. this is the time to strike the deal with abbas and abbas alone. right. you know, just do it. exactly. and cut out hamas completely out of the loop. give the west bank almost basically, you know, offer up a deal abbas can t refuse if he completely splits off of hamas. he is still brutalized. right now gene robinson that is the way to do this and quickly cut off world opinion and world criticism. it really is. gene, what i think is the most hopeful sign is the fact that richard engel reported you don t hear a lot of anti-americanism on the ground right now in israeli. i mean, in gaza. you hear a lot of complaints in gaza about whether it s about hamas or whether it s about egypt or whether it s about israeli. so there actually may be an opening if netanyahu was willing to strike, try to strike a deal with the palestinian authority to actually push hamas off the world stage. well, yeah. maybe there is a role the united states can play. here is a question that i think netanyahu should be here is what i think he should be concerned about. this war was very popular in israeli, but that popularity has declined a bit as it has gone on. now he has the question of will people believe will israelis believe they got anything out of this war? because if the status quo just obtains now going forth, the next two years, hamas will rearm and there will be more tunnels and be back in the situation. so i think politically just in terms of his political standing that netanyahu really should show israelis that this was not in vain and that would be massive progress with abbas toward a peace deal. let hope. leaders from 50 african nations in washington. they will focus on trade investment and african security. the president is set to speak at a business forum tomorrow. according to the washington post he is going to announce a $14 billion investment in africa from u.s. businesses. with us now from washington former new york city mayor and founder of bloomberg philanthropics michael bloomberg. with us also is u.s. commerce secretary penny pritzger. michael, are you ready to go to the middle east and strike this middle east peace deal for us? we couldn t hear you. we have a helicopter buzzing. say again? i was asking you, mr. mayor, whether you re ready to go to the middle east and strike a middle east peace deal for all of us. that s up to the secretary of state and the president. i can go to israeli just to lend support and i did that. all right. so why don t you guys tell us what you re involved with here and what kind of impact it s going to have on africa and the united states. penny? well, today is a really exciting event. we have got over 40 heads of state coming to our business summit. we have got over a hundred american ceos and a hundred african ceos all coming together to, first of all, talk about how they do more business together. the president is announcing 14 billion worth of deals as you said. why is everyone here? everyone is here because there is real growth opportunity in africa and this is something that the president and the administration, along with bloomberg, want to highlight and get the word out. 6% gdp growth the next ten years is expected in africa and six of the ten fastest growing economies. very exciting. exports super the united states to africa support 250,000 american jobs. americans get up in the morning and go to work because we are selling things to africa. but there s so much more that we could be doing and this is why we are all together. i might also point out one of our main economic rivals, china, has been doing this for years now. they recognize there is a great potential in this day and age, you cannot, if you re a good business person, avoid markets that have a chance of becoming dominant. the african market with 6 hundred million people certainly has that potential and china is going in and we are doing it now. mr. mayor, secretary, it seems africa is where southeast was in the late 70s and early 80s. you could feel the momentum. we know that american business wants to be there. but the biggest issue in africa, i think, that probably gives business some discomfort is governance. the idea if they invest in there, there is going to be stability in how some of these countries are run. is that the biggest road block right now between africa totally taking off and where it is today? well, i don t think there is any case to be made that if people stay in poverty, government is going to get better. quite the contrary. when people have the dignity of a job of being self-sufficient, they can get a good education and they can make sure that their government is responsive and there s examples on both sides. we boycotted cuba. they are at poor as they were if not 45 years ago. we started dealing why germany. built up their economy. the east german saw something better and walked in one day and said to the army get out of here and took down the wall. where we have a good economy, you tend to have better government and that is the way we should help each other. it s good for the seller and for the buyer. we are seeing many, many you re seeing many, many leaders here who want to engage with american business. they see the opportunity. what they like is what american business brings to the table. a commitment to rule of law. transparency. treating the people that work for their companies well. as well as investment in the local communities. so there is a real interest in having us more present. a real enthusiasm how can we work together? and that is an opportunity for both the african countries, the african people, the american companies and the american people. elise is with the hill. she has a question for you. mr. bloomberg, i want to drill down into what you said about china. their investments have been enormous in africa and quite flashy as well. the obama administration said at the end of this summit they are not unveiling anything new and big and flash y. i m wondering how do you think we can compete with china s investment in africa and do you think the obama administration is making the right move by making sure that this summit ends sort of on a softer note? andrea mitchell? i think no question that america s strategy has always been to let companies go out and compete and make investments that they thought were in their interests and let that invisible hand that i think was adam smith talked about, create a better world and better economy for everybody. china is a much more controlled economy. they do things at a government level that we don t do and it s a practical reality today, giving congress unwilling to fund the basically road structure in the united states or pay for things that we really need domestically, it s hard to believe that american congress is going to vote some money to do things overseas. the president has to deal with the hand that has been dealt to him. the president is announcing 14 billion worth of deals and not like the united states not present in africa. that is just today and has set up an opportunity for businesses to be working directly with heads of state to figure out where the opportunities are. my conversations over the last 24 hours with heads of state, they are saying, here are the projects we want to get done and here is where we would like to see american business. why do they want american business? they like our goods and our services and our technology. they like the way we govern and run our businesses. they want us present. madam secretary and mr. mayor, i was going to say i was at an event that mike bloomberg and others were hosting last night. the fact is that these companies, all of the major companies in america, global companies were there. they were saying the way they compete against china, they were saying to heads of state from africa, is that they can train workers, they can leave and create a great work force. that s is the value added that america brings to the table. mr. mayor, i just want to ask you if, you know, from bloomberg s perspective as a business, what the advantage is in africa? and also before we let you go, i wanted to ask you if you had any thoughts today about your great effort on gun laws and the impact of jim brady. well, number one, jim brady was a guy who was serving this country and, sadly, got seriously injured, an injury that stayed with him for his whole life when some mentally deranged person tried to kill the president and our prayers have to go out to james family. he has been a symbol of too many guns in the hands of people who have psychiatric problems, criminal records. that s something we have to fix in the country. in terms of your first part of your question, look. american companies will do what is in their interests. i think when you take a look at what this country s record has been in dealing with countries around the world, we are not perfect, but we have done a pretty good job of helping an awful lot of people. you know with the presence of the commerce department doubling in africa, the opportunity for us to help american businesses navigate the road in africa is really grown. so we are very excited. today s event is really catalytic and i m proud to represent the department of commerce to partner with bloomberg philanthropy that i think is extremely catalytic for new business occurring in africa. andrea, let me add. bloomberg, the company, has eight offices in africa. we have close to a hundred employees. we deal with 40 countries in africa and our commitment to africa is longstanding and great for us and i think great for africa and we will continue it. madam secretary and mr. mayor, thank you for being with us. it really is. it sounds like an idea whose time has come. elise, thank you as well. greatly appreciate you being with us. andrea mitchell, we will be watching you. thank you. at noon on andrea mitchell reports. still ahead, three-quarters of people believe congress is unproductive. two congress leave their district as the other side of the country lives. plus, i don t know i didn t know she had any interest in me. that s how jonnie williams key witness for the prosecution described his relationship. that s the look. relationship with governor bob mcdonnell s wife. first, health scare in new york city. a man is tested for the deadly ebola virus at mt. sinai hospital while the second person makes her way to a hospital in atlanta. we will bring you the latest ahead. in new york state, we re changing the way we do business, with startup ny. we ve created tax free zones throughout the state. and startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. no property tax. no business tax. and no sales tax. which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. it s not just business as usual. see how new york can help your business grow, at startup.ny.gov that s why i always choose the fastest intern.r slow. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn t i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. atlanta hospital is awaiting the arrival of a second american today who was infected while working in west africa. a plane carrying u.s. missionary nancy writebol is expected to arrive from liberia. concerns were bound by the outgoing outbreak of the ebola virus and a scare in new york city. yesterday, a man showed up in a mt. sinai hospital after returning to the states from west africa with symptoms associated with the illness. hospital officials say it is unlikely he has the virus. nbc s kate snow is live with us in atlanta. kate, what is going on? hi, donnie. reporter: we are awaiting that plane you mentioned. nancy writebol should be here later this morning and much like the scene you saw on saturday with a motorcade and very secure ambulance. this morning, we are learning mow about this experimental medicine that both she and dr. brantly who is already here have been taking that may have saved their lives. early monday a man with a high fever who recently traveled to west africa was put into isolation at new york s mt. sinai hospital. it was about seven minutes from the time they hit the door to when they were in the isolation room. reporter: the new york city health department concluded the patient is unlikely to have ebola. since last week, the cdc has had more than 20 inquiries about suspected ebola cases in the united states about you so far no concerned cases in this country except for the two americans brought here from liberia for treatment. later today, nancy writebol will joint dr. kent brantly in a special isolation unit. their appetite has slightly impok. as a matter of fact i talked to her husband. she asked for her favorite liberian meal which is potato soup and coffee. reporter: the two have received doses of an experimental medication never before used on humans. what is it about this medicine that is working? when you and i are infected with a vir us, any virus, we make antibodies to the virus and that what killed it. in this case these are special antibodies for ebola. you inject them in the human being and they hopefully, kill the virus and let the immune system do the rest. reporter: the rare and expensive drug is not available to the bulk of ebola patients in west africa. hopefully, they will scale this up reasonable soon to get more doses available. reporter: there are only as you said a handful of doses right now available of this drug. so it s really sought after. it s not widely available overseas but what they are hoping, what these two patients are hoping by maybe taking this medicine and showing that it work, that perhaps has will lead to more clinical trials and save a lot more lives. we jump over situations like this. what is the worst case scenario here? reporter: the worst case scenario would be they don t do a good job today protecting this patient and somehow something gets out, but that is such a doom s day scenario. everyone here will tell you they are going to such extreme measures. they have been practicing for 12 years they have had a unit here how to deal with ebola and this is their first two cases but they know what they are doing. they have got an isolation wing behind the hospital behind me that is so locked down we can t get a picture from inside the room. i think the doctors would reassure you they are very confident if e bow ba la is going to come to this country it s not exposure through these two patients. coming up, the red flag surrounding jonnie williams. a star witness, he is called and the businessman i can t read with these lights! snake oil salesman. the latest from that trial is next. when la quinta.com sends sales rep steve hatfield the ready for you alert, the second his room is ready. you know what he brings? any questions? can i get an a, steve? yes! three a s! he brings his a-game! the ready for you alert, only at laquinta.com! a lot of things mitt romney wants to do, like brought into it, right? it s very exciting. anybody running in a republican primary, you want the mitt romney endorsement. it s true. mitt wants to be talked about. he could do it. he is doing this. no, no, no. all great politicians do. don t talk to me about 2016. one area he doesn t want his name brought up. the names of mitt and ann romney have been dragged into the corruption trial of bob and maureen mcdonnell. mcdonnell s wife who is also facing charges attempted to push a supplement on ann romney. the supplement was produced by the company of a businessman who prosecutors say brought influence with the mcdonnell s and one of the latest strange and stunning developments to emerge. nbc s peter alexander is wearing a hazmat outfit and he is live in richmond with more. peter, this goes from bad to worse, from strange to bizarre. what is the latest? reporter: joe, i think that is exactly right. when we first came down here, we thought this would be not an exciting trial. it has been anything but that. there has been a lot of stunning allegations already. one virginia political analyst describes the mcdonnell s as a beaver cleaver family but these new allegations in many this trial in the second week, including that pitch that you referred to from maureen mcdonnell to ann romney how this wonder drug of sorts could potentially cure her multiple sclerosis has left a lot of people here in disbelief. a sorted tale involving a former governor behind the wheel of a fa ferrari and luxury vacations and secret cash loans. the governor s key witness wrapping up testimony. he showered bob mcdonnell and his wife maureen with gifts in exchange for their help promoting the tobacco based pill he invented and pitching as a wonder drug of sorts. along the latest details on the same day that mcdonnell endorse the romney for president and maureen approached ann romney saying the vitamin could help her sclerosis. one said i was horrified and thought it was a train wreck. williams insists his relationship with the mcdonnell was all business to help his company but maureen mcdonnell lawyers argue they were friends that the mcdonnell s marriage was crumbling and former washington redskins cheerleader had a crush on williams and an e-mail he is sent after the east coast earthquake. i felt the earth move and he wasn t having sex. williams is challenging his recollection of his dealings with the mcdonnell s two years ago and he can t recall conversations with prosecutors last month. mcdonnell s team say they were promoting a business but mcdonnell gladly accepted the gifts and this watch that maureen bought to give to her husband. governor mcdonnell is on the witness list for the defense. he has said he is eager to testify at his own behalf. his wife maureen mcdonnell, joe, has said she is not going to testify. one of the real challenges for the mcdonnell s here only months ago we saw them hand in hand and it appeared everything was hunky-dory in wtheir relationship and sitting in court they rarely look at each other and have to impressive on the jury this was a crumbling marriage. so bad they couldn t conspire because they weren t talking to one another. just yesterday in court, jonnie williams said there was no romantic relationship between he and mcdonnell. he said i didn t know she had any interest in me until this past week. peter, thank you so much. i hope you re getting paid overtime. that s just a yuck. the whole thing is. poor bob mcdonnell. how about the fact they are comfortable putting him on the stand, which tells you this is a guy who has experienced basically being an operative, a spinner and a lawyer and he knows how to answer questions. you re saying bob mcdonnell? and they won t put her on the stand, i think is a telling thing. i looked at it dimplfferentl. i look at it like it wasn t bob that had his hands that s what they want us to think. in the mud. it s obvious. i don t know. you know, what really makes this defense seem sketchy is what peter just pointed out. when they first, right after he left the governor s mansion, they are hand in hand and they look like team mcdonnell defending themselves. as this trial as they prepare for this trial over the last nine months, they decide, oh, the only way we are going to stay out of jail is to do this? oh, no. i could give an argument as you peel back the onion, it s each man for himself. you find out the e-mails that were sent back and forth and you look at all of the gifts and look at the fact that she was interested in him romantically. not a lot of husbands going, hey, honey, that s cool, right? chuck, you re more he let her run rough shot over him and we don t know why. we don t know why. there s something there. i don t know. donny, you re laughing. there are a lot of men in america who let their wives run rough shot over them and it has nothing to do with politics. that s right. i agree. i think there is more here that we don t know about the marriage. donny? i just i m stuck. let the defense rest. i m not talking about women. so coming up next, bipartisanship is not dead. in fact, it s breaking out all over the place, i guess. the majority of americans have lost faith in washington, d.c., but congressman elijah cummings and jason chaffetz will talk about how they plan to bridge that divide. keep it right here on morning joe. where the reward was that what if tnew car smelledit card and the freedom of the open road? a card that gave you that i m 16 and just got my first car feeling. presenting the buypower card from capital one. redeem earnings toward part or even all of a new chevrolet, buick, gmc or cadillac - with no limits. so every time you use it, you re not just shopping for goods. you re shopping for something great. learn more at buypowercard.com i m spending too much timer our calhiringer. and not enough time in my kitchen. need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web s leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer99. you drop 40 grand on a new set of wheels, then. wham! a minivan t-bones you. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. depreciation they claim. how can my car depreciate before it s first oil change? 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i don t know what the republican caucus will do. i can tell you, i want a relationship which will allow us to get things done and, yeah, that s part of it for me. and i m certain that s the same thing for congressman chaffetz. we ve gotten used to leaving washington without getting things done. and, joe, you re right. when you and i worked together, we got things done and i ve worked with other republicans that have gotten things done. there are issues our committee needs to be dealing with. if we can get away from throwing the bombs and really concentrate on why we re there as opposed to who we re fighting against, we concentrate on what we re fighting for, i think we can get things done for the american people. i m determined to do that and i think it s very important. by the way, we got things done, it was good for the country and it was good for both of us politically, too. that s right. fewer and fewer people in washington, d.c. understand that it s actually you know, the screaming, yelling, pointing at each other, that s the short game. the long game is actually getting things done for your constituents. thank you for being with us. elijah and jason, thank you so much. think the tree we carved our names in is still here? 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nobody. that s wrong. hamas is helped. we can show you previews of what we said five hours ago. donny deutsch is with us, mike barnicle as well. over a million e-mails and tweets, thank you so much for coming back. from washington, national editor of the cook political report, amy walther. thank you so much. look at a couple of quick headlines here. we did this like 12 hours ago. here, of course, talking about the cease fire in the middle east. also the head of the that s the wall street journal, the washington post also runs with the same headline. and then, of course, what we ve been talking about also, jim brady, the face of gun control, has passed away. pass add way yesterday. we ll be talking about that and much, much more. mike barnicle, very important. jv. justin verlander. and kate upton, still an item. still an item. i didn t know that. she could have at least had the decency to end it with me first. stop. seriously. you know what? seriously. how sick is he? the truth. but, you know i ve got to say, if you look at the new york post. post and a lot of the new york tabloids and also the daily news here. there s a post, two posts, and the daily news. there s the ebola scare in the city all over the place and many of donny deutsch s former girlfriends hoping he contracts that disease. was that tough? was that tough? i have children, you know. they watch this show. you just scared them. they re crying now. you made my daughter cry. your daughter in london? her name is london. you made her cry. he doesn t want you to come down with the virus, but we wouldn t mind if you were put in isolation. just a littleby until you clean up your instagram account. kentucky senator rand paul obviously juggling for a job for president of the united states. but he s also a republican senator with the possibility that he may run for president. rand paul has been arguing for a more inclusive gop, downplaying t issues. now he s taking that inclusive message on the road. during a three-day sweep through iowa. his first stop, an appearance with iowa congressman steve king, a man who continues to talk about impeaching the president of the united states. king was asked about his position yesterday. i want to discourage the president from taking actions that create a constitutional crisis. if he does that, we can t take anything off the table. and i don t know that rand paul is much different than me on that. i think that s a fairly moderate position and i don t know that our founding fathers would have as much patience with barack obama as either i or rand paul have. then there was this awkward moment. paul and king were approached by two self described dreamers after introducing themselves, asking king a question about their stance on immigration, paul, mid bite, takes a cue from one of his staffers and bails. watch this. he s just out. so, amy, that s one of the problems, i guess, trying to run as a new kind of republican and campaigning that s good. with what some would call an old kind of republican. there you go. one of the last guys in washington that is still talking about impeachment. the i word is what he used. yes. he has learned not to use the word impeachment. this is where iowa becomes such a problem for republicans as they re trying to broaden the elect orate. they still go to a place like iowa where the turnout at a caucus is incredibly conservative, they ll be on the opposite end of the issues that you were just talking about earlier, especially on immigration. how do you balance that? what rand paul has ton very well i think ultimately it will catch up with him. what he has been able to do very well is balance this fine line. he has a voting record that is very conservative and then he talks about being more conservative or moderate. it works pretty well until you get confronted on it. he got confronted on it, specifically on israel. you talked in the past about cutting off aid to israel. he said i disagree. i have now voted for more money for the iron dome. he brought his statements back and said you actually did support cutting it off. he has to figure out that balancing act not only in iowa but nationally. did you see that shirt he was wearing? stylish. he s wearing that shirt, it looks a lot like a rainbow. i wonder if maybe steve king was upset by the shirt. he s an optician, isn t he? ophthalmologist. it s a good look. if you re rand paul and you know, you re trying to change the party. if somebody says something you disagree with, you don t want to embarrass them in their own backyard but at some point you have to start distancing yourself. it also goes to the brand he has tried to extend for himself, which is a truth teller. not an old guard republican who goes along with partisanship but a libertarian. as you know, i was interviewing him last week. he feels the inclusion is not just rhetoric and feels strongly that he has introduced several sets of bills, legislation to change the way the republican party operates. he said, his words, he s doing more for african-americans than anyone else in congress. obviously he is also racing against his past. we talked about israel here. and, obviously, he said some things in the past about israel that caught up to him. he got into a big scuffle for his campaign for senator about seeming to be opposed to the civil rights act. at least section two and section seven, with regard to private businesses, which is what the lunch counter fights were about. a lot of people care about that and care about the details. i managed 19 precincts in polk county when i was managing john kerry. donny deutsch, a big fan of that, always pat mes me on the k for it. iowa is more extreme, more passionate than the median base of both parties but also more informed. you had a different position and it might have dissolved the camp david accords. we know about that. we listen to talk radio. we listen to the shows, read the papers. that s an environment where you re going to continue to have voter to politician interactions and sometimes those are tougher than the media, because you just can t shoot the messenger. a lot tougher and he will have to figure out how to square that if he wants to move forward. chris mcdaniel, remember him? long and anticipated move six weeks after losing to senator thad cochran, now formal ly for questioning the results. good luck there. according to mcdaniel and his lawyers, there are more than 15,000 illegal or questionable ballots, votes from democrats who voted earlier that month in their own party s primary, which would not be allowed. many of the ballots in question also believed to be for african-americans who turned out to vote for senator cochran in the runoff. they asked us to put up or shut up. here we are. here we are with the evidence. now, we all witnessed what a segment of our party did in the weeks leading up to. we saw despicable allegations from those that are supposed to be leaders in our party. there is no place in the republican party for those that would the integrity of the elections process of the state of mississippi matters. the matters. but, likewise, the integrity of the republican party and its primary system, a party and a system we love so much, it matters as well. so his big concern was the african-american voters, it was unfair that african-american voter voters in the republican primary. does he have any chance at all? i do not think so. part of their challenge is exactly to the point that it was democrats who came out, voted in a runoff where if you vote in a runoff, you re supposed to support the republican. they say these people have no intention of supporting the republican. this goes directly back to rand paul. here is a party or candidate in rand paul who says we need to be more inclusive. i m reaching out to african-american voters. i ve done so much, tried to increase voting rights for african-americans and then you have this race in mississippi where it does, to donny s point, it s not fair that democrats, specifically african-american democrats were able to vote in our primary. those are two messages that are clashing right there. let me ask you when we re talking about thad cochran, obviously a more senior republican, more moderate republican. we have two other races this week where the tea party is trying to get their first real big win of the year. you have kansas with pat roberts against a guy that was posting bizarre photos of, was it, dead people? i m not sure. and then the other one is in tennessee with lamar alexander. are both those senior republicans pretty safe? they look pretty good at this point. what both pat roberts and lamar alexander did, they were prepared for these challenges. it s not rocket science, to win these primaries. so much of it is just showing up and running really strong campaigns. lamar alexander also helped with the fact that there are a lot of candidates in the primary. much like thad cochran, he spent the last year moving more to the right in order to stave off these tea party attacks and he got helped, you re right, joe, by the fact that his opponent did post some not very good stuff on facebook, when you re mocking patients who have been shot. not very good stuff. not very good. some gruesome photos. gruesome. not very good stuff. so as a tea party, they can t take credit for eric cantor. so what s the big tea party win this year? policy. no, who did they knock off? have they knocked off a single senior republican, anybody? i would say they ve rewired the way the house votes, though, right? yeah. it s been that way for a while. it s proof to the point, what amy just referred to. both lamar alexander and pat roberts had campaigns up and running for quite some time. eric cantor clearly had nothing going on. caught sleeping. thad cochran was caught sleeping. a lot of them caught sleeping. it seems like the establishment was ready this time. washington is remembering former white house press secretary james brady. he passed away yesterday. he was, of course, left partially paralyzed after being shot during the assassination attempt of ronald reagan in 1981. brady became a tireless fighter for stricter gun control laws and andrea mitchell who, of course, covered the reagan white house and knew the bradys looks back on his life. 69 days after ronald reagan took office shots were fired at president reagan in washington. six shots were fired, the first meant for the president explode in the head of the white house press secretary james brady. brady had always been known as the bear, big, irreverent, when candidate reagan said trees caused pollution, he joked about killer trees. after being fought, brady fought for his life, struggled to speak and to walk. the reagans insisted he keep the title of press secretary and rename the briefing room in his honor. nancy reagan even joked about reports she opposed giving brady the job because he wasn t good looking enough. i kept calling him my y & h, my young and handsome. he s still my y & h. worked tirelessly against gun violence. the brady bill, five-day waiting period and background checks beforehand sales. the assault weapons ban lasted ten years until congress let it lapse. after gabby giffords was shot, again, speaking out. still just as funny and not to mention funny looking. his neuro surgeon remembers that fateful day. the greatest achievement was saving the life of the president of the united states, walked right in the line of fire. he lived for another 33 years, valiant till the end. jim brady was 73 years old. when reagan said trees cause pollution, some people would go around and put signs up on trees. reagan s campaign, stop me before i kill again. brady knew how to joke, sort of brush aside the criticism. he knew how to work with the press. he liked the press. the press liked him. even though the press was fairly hostile to ronald reagan. that s a missing art. oh, it sure is. and it s a different time. there were none of the components of the media that are around now, twitter and all that stuff. jim brady had a way to disarm even the most hostile of interrogators in that press room. he sure did. all right. still ahead on morning joe, we ll continue our conversation on teacher tenure and student rights. campbell brown was here yesterday. now we have randy weingarten and former los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. they join us in just a bit. israel withdraws all of its troops from gaza as a 72-hour cease fire goes into effect. is it a cease fire or could it actually open up hopes for a larger peace plan? 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(loud engine sounds!) what! how s it going? heard you need a ride to school. i know just the thing to help you get going. power up with new cheerios protein. israeli troops are in gaza as a three-day cease fire is in effect. it s completed its mission of destroying hamas known tunnels. will the truce hold up this time? let s bring in right now nbc news chief correspondent, richard engel who is live in gaza. israel says, of course, that it s achieved its mission. but you have the state department coming out a couple of days ago in some of the toughest talk i ve ever heard aheard. so talk about the pressures on both these sides and whether it may give us a chance for a lasting peace. reporter: well, i think you ve hit the factors here quite well. for israel, this came down to increasing pressure from the united states. the u.s. stepped up its rhetoric. the state department with that blistering statement over the weekend, after israel continued to fire into gaza and civilians kept getting killed. i think there was just one incident too many when, over the weekend, more palestinians taking refuge at a u.n. shelter were killed. six u.n. schools turned into shelters over the course of this conflict took direct hits. for some people at the white house and state department, that was just too much. on the hamas side, hamas really bowed to pressure from egypt and recognized it didn t have the kind of popular support across the arab world that it thought it did. hamas, throughout this conflict, wanted to negotiate with qatar. it wanted to negotiate with turkey. it wanted to negotiate with those who are sympathetic to the muslim brotherhood. hamas is an offshoot for the muslim brotherhood and egypt said you want to relieve the pressure on gaza, lift the closure, you want egypt to open its border with the gaza strip, you re going to have to deal with cairo and you re going to have to deal with the new government in cairo, run by general sisi, who doesn t like the muslim brotherhood. at the end of the day, hamas realized it had no choice and now is in cairo, negotiating with general sisi, which it never wanted to do. if hamas takes a step back and allows the more moderate or plo factions to be in charge here in some meaningful way, how will that be interpreted in gaza? reporter: hamas here in gaza is saying this is a great victory. hamas always declares victory, i think, in every war both sides always declare victory. but the reality is hamas had to go to cairo and is going to have to accept more presence from the other more moderate palestinian factions because the egyptians are going to impose that on them. hamas has gone to cairo. the egyptians are saying we ll open the border but we want not hamas running the border. we want other palestinian factions, mahmoud abbas faction running that. hamas is losing something out of all of this. it s losing some of its authority here in gaza and it s having to recognize the power of the new egyptian regime. and it s recognizing as well that the muslim brotherhood s days when they were the most popular groups all across the middle east, that the situation has changed profoundly on that. you can see the same protests. we didn t see rallies in damascus, cairo, baghdad. we saw a lot of rhetoric, distressful images but the people didn t come out in the streets for hamas this time. what is the sense in israel about prospective peace negotiations going forward after there was such a seemingly direct effort to diminish the efforts of the american secretary of state john kerry? reporter: i think israel is saying our relations with hamas are purely security based. we won t attack them if they don t attack us. we don t want anything to do with them. we ll negotiate with the palestinian authority. hamas real problem will be with egypt. hamas will have to talk with cairo and figure out how to open the border. after this, relations between israel and hamas by the way, the two sides don t officially recognize each other are broken glass. they re not going to be repaired or put together. thank you so much, richard. greatly appreciate it. appreciate your great reporting from there. richard engel, thank you so much. now with us from washington, plo to the united states, thank you, mr. ambassador, for being with us. thank you. we have been hearing for quite some time now that egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, does not want to deal with hamas. they want to deal with the plo and the palestinian authority. they want to deal with you all. is this not only an opening for more moderate forces in the palestinian territories but also an opening for peace? well, first of all, the palestinian delegation that went to cairo on saturday was formed by president abbas and it does, for the first time, include very palestinian factions, from hamas, islamic jihad, and others. first in the political, you know, life or experience. and therefore what they presented to the egyptian officials over the last two days was a unified palestinian position. we have said all along that we don t want any regional alliances and realliances to impact the palestinian people. and the palestinian leadership has been very clear about neutralizing the pestinians from all these shifts in the region and political dynamics in the region. hamas came, obviously, to you all several months ago, out of necessity, to form a political alliance. is this the fact that they are now agreeing to let the plo take the lead talk about the opportunities for peace. not just for a cease fire but for a lasting peace. in the past, obviously, there have been concerns that if the plo struck a separate peace with israel, factions like hamas would try to assassinate whatever leaders in the plo tried to strike that peace. now it seems that there is a unified front for and can we take some hope from that that maybe we can have a lasting peace deal? had israel accepted and also in 2014 we would have spared everybody this destruction and slaughter in the gaza strip. 1900 people have been killed, 10,000 have been wounded. the only thing that prime minister netanyahu can brag about is the killing of civilians and the destruction of gaza. we wanted to start the political process when hamas accepted the government. we were planning on engaging them in the political dialogue that would eventually bring them into the plo. this remains to be our objective. there is enough pragmatism within hamas, political leadership, i have to say at least, to go along with the palestinian or plo national agenda for finding a resolution to the conflict with israel through peaceful means. so you re hopeful we won t see what we ve seen before, and that is just a cycle of a cease fire and then hamas being able to rebuild their capabilities and us going through this deadly cycle every few years? it takes two to tangle. yes, it does. it takes two to tango. israel also needs to understand that its blockade of the gaza strip for the last seven years has left people in gaza without any hope. what do they expect an oppressed people when you address an oppressed people through violence, what do you expect them to respond by? mr. ambassador, i think mr. netanyahu is bragging not necessarily about killing civilians but shutting down tunnels and pushing back rockets that were meant to try to hurt israel. i love when you use the word pragmatic about hamas. it s a terrorist organization. nothing pragmatic about that. what about members in the israeli government who are calling for the transfer of the palestinians? what about members who are calling for the death of palestinian mothers and the snakes that they have in their wombs? listen, in order to get over this cycle of violence and make sure it s not repeated we need to put an end to the root causes. you cannot tell me that this began because of hamas building tunnels or launching rockets. it did start with rockets from hamas. that s exactly where it didn t start it has nothing else to do donny, hold it, hold it. we re not going to cure 3,000 year s of in the remaining to minutes that we have. since we just had that back and forth, chi sit here as a supporter of israel for ten minutes and say the things that donny just said. the palestinian people could talk about all the suffering that they ve had to endure and theiesilation and the terrible conditions they ve had to endure over the past several years. the question is, can we look forward? can we move forward and find a common ground between israel and the palestinian people for a two-state solution that might create a living environment in gaza and a secure environment in israel? well, i think we need to look beyond gaza, joe. this is not only issue. i think the united states has been investing a lot of efforts. secretary of state kerry has invested a lot of time. the parameters of this resolution are clear to everybody, two-state solution based on 1967 just agreed upon resolution to the refugee problem, security arrangements that will not engage on the sovereignty of the future palestinian state. the ball is in israel s court. israel needs to decide whether they want to pursue this path of violence every year, every two years against the palestinians or they want to sit and engage to find a real end to this conflict once and for all. mr. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us. hopefully, you will come back again some time soon. thank you. so, donny, obviously, we could sit here and debate. you re not going to have a guy that s in charge of the plo delegation going out, attacking hamas. of course, hamas is their enemy domestically as well. why didn t you sit there and scream and wave your arms about hamas, we can do that. what they re trying to do, though, is what happened in ireland. where you actually had guys like jerry adams that basically had to drag the most violent factions of the ira over and drag them over, not attack them publicly and quietly say jerry adams, still, one of the it s just a shock that jerry adams has been able to keep the violent factions in line as long as he has. it is. one thing publicly but privately, don t screw with me. do not step out of line. and, donny, i know, this is a very emotional moment. we don t want to see this in two or three more years. no, we don t. hamas is a terror organization. guess what? so was ira. guess what? there s peace now. i got it. in northern ireland. and it s about the violent israelis and the pragmatic hamas. donny that s exactly what he said. what do you expect him to say? how do you expect me to react? i understand. i am just explaining. if we are going to move forward, you have to understand, he represents a people who have had 5, 6, 7-year-old people dragged out of their homes dead. used as shields. that does not matter to the father of a 5-year-old child. it matters to this discussion. it does matter to this discussion, donny. don t talk to us like we re 2-year-olds. we know hamas uses children as shields. we know hamas uses people to protect their missiles and israel uses their missiles to protect people. we understand. netanyahu is right but sometimes being right does not doesn t solve the problem. does not solve the problem. let s leave it at that. we ll leave it at that. coming up this is going to make teacher tenure seem really tame, randy. we got it all out. we got it now. now we re going to make teacher tenure seem almost boring. the lawsuit against teacher tenure nothing more than smoke screens. he openly questions why teachers unions are opposed to change. randy is here along with the mayor of los angeles. i m not going to call him former. he s still the mayor, baby. he s still the mayor. we ll be right back. and thank you for your bravery. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you re a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. how can i ease this pain? 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i challenge the notion we can t have disagreements among friends. one out of ten poor kids are going to graduating from a four-year college. the fact of the matter is in math, we re at 30, when you compare us to other nations in the world. in science, we re at 23. in reading, we re at 20. we have a national crisis. and for poor kids, kids of color, they re not even competing with the developing world. so we ve got to challenge one another. we ve got to set high standards. and you think getting rid of teacher tenure does that? it allows us to have a conversation. i first filed the reed case, the predicate, frankly, for this case. the rest of the city was only losing 3%. let me bring you in, randi. i remember you telling me one time off camera you were looking and saw these great liberal icons around the table all basically going after teachers unions. now we have david boyce, the mayor. do you feel like you re on the wrong side of history here? let s define what the fight is, which is that everyone, particularly people who care about poor kids, are incredibly frustrated because in a capitalist democracy, the only thing that was always the pathway to social mobility was schooling, public schooling. that s why people are frustrated. by the way, i saw a report today, the rich are going to keep getting richer and poorer are going to keep getting poorer until we make our education system better. i m going to get back to that. it s not simply the education system but social mobility, income inequality. absolutely. we think in a capitalist democracy, okay, this is the road to social mobility, education. so what happens is it s the right debate and the wrong remedy. because if you why is teacher tenure the wrong remedy? what teacher tenure does is teacher tenure lets people i hate the word tenure. due process lets people innovate in classrooms. it lets people whistleblow. it lets people talk about the things that teachers and kids need. where you are right, joe and we ve had this discussion so many different times, before and after while waiting for superman, was the system that was broken was the teacher evaluation system. right but as far as teacher tenure goes, mike barnicle i m sorry. let me finish one more thing, which is this. you actually helped us here. and in over jurisdiction after swrurd, we ve actually worked to fix things and in new york, this is one of the reasons that this case is so wrong. in new york, in connecticut, in maryland, in illinois, we have actually worked new jersey, to change teacher tenure so it is actually not a cloak of incompetence and not an excuse of managers not to manage. first of all we agree, it is not just seniority and tenure. it s also the evaluation system. in los angeles, as an example, about 99%. between 97 and 99% of the teachers were getting a highly satisfactory or satisfactory evaluation. when you asked them how many times the principal had come into their room to evaluate them, the answer would be almost never. the fact of the matter is we have to be able to evaluate teachers. we have to be able to hold them accountable. we have to hold ourselves accountable, too. i don t put all of this on the teachers union or the teachers. there s a lot of great teachers. i ve worked with them. there are organizations like teach plus that are really working to reform our schools and to engage in best practices. there are charters, public charters, by the way, not as you hear from some. these are public charters doing tremendous things. the highly effective ones. i think there are ways for us to collaborate. what i saw as the lawsuit as an opportunity to do is to have a conversation. we have uber due process, the court said, in california. when you can t fire a pedophile who has been already admitted to being a pedophile and you can t fire them. mr. mayor, let me mike, that s one of the big complaints you always hear about tenure, it protects incompetent teachers. city after city, case after case, you can prove that. my argument is this is all pro teacher. it s not anti-teacher. how do we do the following? how do we get to the point where parents, who have a child in public school, rich or poor, have a vibrant, electric, 30-year-old young person teaching and you ve got this is not an attack on veteran teachers, but an older teacher who wants to retire, is not retiring, and the young teacher, in municipal bankruptcies, the young teacher is out the door. what s happening right now is our teaching force is hugely changed and you don t have a whole lot of the people who are senior teachers anymore. the median, the number one the most teachers right now in america have less than two years of experience. so the issue right now is actually how do you build the capacity of the teaching force when we re throwing so much at them and how do you attract and retain great teachers? you pay them more. it s more than that. how do you attract teachers to the school that i taught in, in new york city? so when you talk to great teachers, what they say is they need their voice and they need training. they need to be able to speak. and that s what s wrong with this lawsuit. in new york, we actually did the work that the mayor is complaining about in california. the average amount of time it takes for a tenure case right now in new york city is 105 days. what s happened is that since we talked last, we actually stepped up and did a lot of work to solve some of these problems what i don t like about the copy cat cases, it ignores all of that. let s work on attracting and row taning great teachers to high-need schools and give teachers the voice that they need to actually help kids. randi, thank you so much for coming. hope you ll come back. i will, always. good. we need to get a big round table and just talk this out. absolutely. we can do it. mr. mayor, thank you. great to be on. i m glad you re on the east coast more so you get to watch the show more. i m glad, too. morning joe will be right back. i m alex trebek. if you re age 50 to 85, please listen carefully. the lock i want to talk to you about isn t the one on your door. it s a rate lock for your life insurance that guarantees your rate can never go up at any time, for any reason. many policies don t have one but you can get a lifetime rate lock through the colonial penn program. this plan was designed for people on a fixed income with coverage options for just $9.95 a month. that s less than 35 cents a day. your rate is locked in for life and coverage can never be cancelled. your acceptance is guaranteed. you cannot be turned down because of your health. call for your information kit and gift. both are free, with no obligation. captain obvious: i probably wouldn t stay here tonight. man: thanks, captain obvious. captain obvious: i d get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. we re following breaking news out of afghanistan. as many as 12 american service members may have been shot when a gunman in an afghan military uniform opened fire at a military training camp near kabul. reports say as many as three were killed. officials cannot confirm that count. the incident happened in the training facility for afghan military forces establish b s e the british military. we ll be following that news and any developments we get we ll pass along to you. coming up next, what, if anything, did we learn today? 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from richard engel it took a dictatorship in egypt to strengthen moderates in gaza. don t give an intelligent answer. but that don t give an intelligent answer. children, if it s way too early, it s morning joe. stick around. we ve got chuck todd and the daily rundown. during the cadillac summer s best event, lease this all new 2014 cts for around $459 a month or purchase with 0% apr and make this the summer of style. lldy@@p k7@ qo :é @d888888@888jj when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america. breaking news at the top of the show. as many as 12 isap service members most, if not all of them, americans shot today by a gunman in an afghan military uniform at an afghan military training facility in kabul. green on blue attack. jim miklaszewski has more. mick, this is how u.s. service members are endangered today in afghanistan. correct? 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