sunday. a fox urgent, we re hearing now from a widening circle of people into how some of our veterans may have decide awaiting medical care. a whistle-blower going on the record just a few hourgs right here on fox. is it possible that all this was going on in phoenix and now we find out in other va facilities around the country and that washington didn t know about it? no. they have been cheating about this. the cheating has gone on for a long time. there was a memo in 2010 where she showed all the various cheating schemes and he told everybody not to do this anymore. they knew this was a big problem. and with that, we re coming to light about claims in at least 11 states now across our great nation where allegedly secret lists were kept to hide massive wait times for our veterans who needed life-saving care. tonight, both the white house and congress gearing up for a new week to press for answers and accountability we hope. the top official for veterans health care, dr. robert petzel is out. he was set to retire later this year anyway. eric shinseki is resisting growing calls to resign. a growing line behind the white house which we know is stand behind shinseki for now. nobody is more outraged about this problem than the president of the united states. he will continue to press as it relates to the question of timely access to care until it is fixed. peter live with the news in washington. anger is not enough at this point. what s next? are there any plans in the near future to move ahead from the white house on this? the focus seems to be figuring out how many victims there are and families may have been impacted by improper scheduling procedures. this morning, veterans advocates were complaining that there have been issues for a long time and they think hire-ups must have known. i think it s naive to think they didn t know what was going on. the vfw has been screaming about this for years. the va is so big, it s tough to make things work even with so many official who come from military backgrounds on hand. you would think an organization made up of veterans would understand how to follow orders, but there has been definitely a let down by the senior management team to the secretary and the people under him. we don t have an accountability system or a chain of command within the veterans administration, veterans medical services, and it s showing, that s why our veterans are not getting the services they should. reporter: anyone looking to leave an ano, ma am mouse tip. i mentioned president obama and exactly what the white house was doing thus far. and the white house, harris, chief of staff said that they have ordered additional personnel to help the investigation at the va. here s why. i did not leave you with any impression that the president was satisfied. in fact, the president is demanding we get to the bottom of the exact allegations that you are talking about as it relates to whether veterans are getting the timely access to care that they have earned, that they deserve, and that s exactly what we re digging into. mcdonough didn t announce any new resignations or plans for president obama to speak publicly about this. one of the elements of the story that we haven t heard from, if you will, has to do with those victims or their families. any plans to bring any of them maybe for a hearing on capitol hill in the near future? reporter: we haven t heard anything like that announced, harris. so far you ve got people defending the bureaucracy, who say they are looking into this and within three weeks we should have answers and then you ve got victims families pressing for answers. so far, no invitation so far that we know for a big public hearing and line people up and explain how they were told the wait was going to be this long and it turn out to be this long. that is the voice that s really missing in all of this. we have heard from the lawmakers, the whistle blowers, members of the obama administration, and va secretary cinco de mayo since shins shinseki. what about your thoughts on this. we want to hear from you while you are watching fox report weekend tonight. chime in and tune in for when the fox news political insiders join me later this hour. we ll include you in the conversation. twooet tweet @harris faulkner. interested to get those military voices in here. now, let s go to ukraine. people there are looking ahead to next sunday s presidential election. the rest of europe and the world hoping ukraine and russia don t go to war. as you might imagine, there s concern for fresh violence. hundreds of people still grieving after last week s clash. ukrainian troops and pro russian separatists exchanged fire there and leaving people dead. doe nesk holding their own vote last week declaring independent people republics in two regions. for more on all of this, let s go to greg who is in donetsk. pro russia separatist leader said there will be no presidential elections held in donetsk next sunday. there are some towns in this region that are standing up against a rebel militants at a cost. take a look at one. ukrainian flags flying at the city hall in eastern ukrainian town, in a land racked by pro russian separatist sentiment. majority in the east are still behind a united ukraine. troops are posted outside. still, dissent is seen too. a police station was assaulted. this is what pro russia separatists did to the car of one member of a pro ukraine self-defense unit in this town. they told us this just means they are going to fight harder. someone doesn t like the fact that we are defending our city this militia member says. they are traitors. it s also patrolled by car and at night they are well armed for trouble. among the residents, support for ukraine is cautious. yes, we are for a united ukraine this young man says but sometimes with everything happening people are afraid to express their opinion. others openly call for a break from kiev. we are threatened by our government this woman says who cause terrorists and bring violence here. they are planning to go ahead with the presidential vote and they are also getting threats. democracy a little bit difficult and dangerous in this neck of the woods. more on the situation as some american lawmakers now are looking to take further action against russia for its role in the crisis in ukraine. the senate is now weighing legislation that would cut off pentagon contracts with a state-owned arms dealer. the pentagon reportedly has a contract with that dealer to buy 30 helicopters for afghanistan s air force. that deal said to be worth a half billion dollars. back in our nation s capital now. a shake-up could be in the works at the white house. reports president obama will nominate san antonio mayor julian castro as the next secretary of housing and urban development. it would be an interesting move for that mayor. more from washington. reporter: hi, harris. a second term shuffle is expected to happen in 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absolutely. yes. what pat said is so true. this is nothing knew. this has been going on. i ve never found one veteran who is happy with how they are treated with the va. it doesn t matter who the president is. it s been bad under both parties. so here is a solution. we are going to abolish the va, harris, get rid of it. close it down. get rid of it. hand every veteran an insurance card, and the insurance card gives them the exact same insurance that every member of congress has. and they can go to any hospital, any doctor, like a congressman can or a senator, and that s it. that s interesting. and they get that level of care and they deserve that level of care. i m going to watch twitter and see what people think about that. i think it s great idea. i think the chances of it happening are nil and none. my dad was in the coast guard for 31 years. when he stayed in, he said if you stay 30 years into this, you will have free medical care, you will have the best thing all the way through and then he didn t, they took it away. two administrations george h.w. bush and bill clinton went to court to knock out the promises they had made to veterans on what they would have and they did this as late as the 90s. i want to intercede here because i hear all three of you saying this, democrats, republicans and the like, that everybody wears this. i m seeing on twitter i m a military veteran, president obama is the commander in chief in the military, the va scandal is his responsibility to fix. but this has been going on for so long. why did it have to come to this? it had to come to this because of what kim was saying, we don t have leadership or integrity in washington. no one is willing to step forward and say we ve got to solve these problems on a bipartisan basis, make government particularly the veterans health care system work. pat s story is illustrative of what needs to be done. we really need to do it. do something do something now. independent on twitter says i like that. this idea of giving our military veterans the same care that congress gets. how come we haven t heard that before? god knows. maybe we have. government is priorities. who is going to get what first, because you can t give everybody everything, and don t we think that the four of us here at the table, that if you are asked and you ve put the uniform on and risk your life for the country, when you come back, you are at the head of the line for everything that the government has to offer. education, health care, job opportunities all of it. the only time we really took care of our vets was after world war ii. the gi bill, all the stuff that was done, and it changed america. scpnchts it changed confidence in government. people believed government kept its promises in the 50s. look, we have more scandals. look what s happening. we have an nsa that spies on american citizens. we have an irs that chooses to go after whoever it chooses to go after. we have people in the field a year ago who gave their life and we have a massive cover up going on, the media says benghazi never happened or what difference does it make. this is the way government treats its people. they treat us like we re their subjects, not the they don t treat the american people like they are their bosses or their sovereigns. it s interesting, kd writes. the first part of it is funny why not give them obamacare, because everybody knows it would be inferior to whatever you are talking about. va medical care is a precurser to obamacare. it s a bureaucratic second rate care. it s what the you are going to get under obamacare. you will definitely get it under medicare and medicaid. excuse me. medicaid is good. nancy writes, the veterans absolutely deserve equal coverage as congress, if not better. let s move to the next point of this and you are bringing up more of annum brel la issue, that s the government being trusted. right now the trust in the federal government, look at the percentage and how low those numbers are. this is according to a recent fox news poll. for democrats right now it s 55%. you would think with their party in charge in the white house, it would be higher than that. republicans just 19%, but look at independents. and that s pretty steady across the board. look how it dropped from 02 when it was 53% with independents and pretty high with everybody after 9/11 and that was a temporary bump. it s been like this forever. this is a har binger of ill for president obama and the democrats. with confidence and trust in government at only 31%, this says that independents in november have deep seated doubts about government and administration. you think the democrats wear this more than anybody. they are imperilled eventually to something. we saw it this week, enthusiasm compared to even 2010 was like from 50-some percent to 35%, except democrats are still less enthusiastic than republicans. that s what they think about our system. why should they be? both parties treat them like they are idiots. john. well, i agree. i hear john want to go hold up a sign that says what he said. no. i think first of all i have said this before, the passion differential this year favors the republicans. there s more anger against obama, against obamacare, against these scandals. they call it voter enthusiasm and we ve seen polls recently that republican polls have much bigger edge than the democrats. there is an over arching crisis of confidence in this country. the va scandal bears out the point. people don t trust the government. they are cynical about our president and congress. we ll see it in the polls. it will help the republicans, but make no mistake it s across the board level of disaffection and dissatisfaction. twitter is alive. we ll share more of those comments from military families in a moment. critic are claiming that hillary clinton is unfit to be president due to her handling of boko haram and benghazi. she clearly bears responsibility for whatever the state department or didn t do with respect to that crisis. all this despite the fact that clinton has yet to announce a presidential run in 2016. yeah, we haven t heard it officially yet. our political insiders are coming back. we want to hear from you. is hillary clinton the democratic presidential nominee until she says she isn t? 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yes. let s move on. let s talk about hillary clinton. past and future, if you will, dominating sunday morning talk shows. it was all over the place today. from the benghazi and boko haram tragedies, to alleged health issues. is this a ploy to sway the presidential election one way or the other? our political insiders are back. any thoughts on that. here s what i say, politically i think karl rove who began with the assertion, somewhat, where he said she was quoted as saying she had brain damage, then back tracked that. this was a way to raising the issue early, potentially causing her problems. as far as i can see it ultimately worked to her advantage because what rove said was so over the top that ultimately i think it has taken the issue, gotten it aired and ultimately i think she will be the nominee, and has at least a 50% chance of being elected. i want to ask our team of producers in the booth if they could pop up that president clinton sound bite, do we have a little bit of what he said about her health. let s talk more about it. let s watch. now they say she s really got brain damage. if she does, i must be in pretty tough shape because she s still quicker than i am. doug, you mentioned it. we just happened to have it in the hopper. pat, i m curious to know, does this mean, well that means she s running, if the president shas already answered back on something like this he s done more than that. not only was he effective in doing that, by the way, i heard juan williams on fox this morning suggesting to karl rove s face that he was doing it to help her get elected. the conspiracy theories run great on this thing but bill clinton has done more than that. if you notice in parts what he has been doing saying carefully as all week he s been defending her on benghazi, saying, hey. she wasn t in the front line. that was by suggestion the president and the pentagon. protecting her. and the subtle rebuke of the obama administration on the verge of these hearings. and remember these hearings, we now know, fox had a poll this week, again as we said before, overwhelming majts want to have the hearing, including 55% of democrats. she is in the line of damage there because also in that poll half the people say she was trying to deceive too. you would agree, would you not, that hillary clinton benefited this week by president bill clinton going out there. yeah. defending her on benghazi and taking the health issue but it s so early. it is. it s so early. it s may. although the groundhog may of 2014. and it s still cold outside here in new york. it s may of 2014. john, have vps republicans maybe moved on this a little too early. i don t think this country could take year after year after year where it s all hillary. when are we going to get sick of the thing and the bushes and we can t take any more of them and i think there s going to be a time when something new is going to crop up. america loves new stuff. we like new i phones, new cars, new computers. they are going to want someone knew. there are members in the democratic party say jeb bush is probably the greatest challenge to someone like hillary clinton because he s so moderate compared to her. one thing i have to say, every poll like they showed in ohio this week, hillary was beating every republican name and she was beating jeb bush the worst and that has been showing up everywhere. even in florida. even in florida, and i think the democrats want him because they want another guy that they can just roll over. you know what i don t it s early though. it s way early. these polls that we use and what we talk about shows deep distrust for the federal government, for incumbents, for people who are in the beltway all the time. why are we for hillary when she s a pseudo incumbent for 30 years. she is the establishment. does anyone think hillary clinton or bill clinton going to change anything? 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i think he may have misspoke. it may have been six weeks but i think we ve learn a couple of things. first, that the defense on benghazi is not in the immediate chain of command, set up a review panel, and implemented the recommendations, and second that the health issues, while obviously serious ones have been dealt with in a serious professional way. i think to the good for the clintons, ultimately, bill clinton has become the defender in chief and to john and pat s question about why the clintons have credibility? one answer. bill clinton s record in office. all right. pray without ceasing asked the same question. do we know hillary had rehab for six months? pat, they like to give bad news if that was the case, they got it under the radar. kind of got it out there, get it out there yourself, float it after you are making a general positive but i want to go back to what john said. here s where i disagree with doug. look, the country, the problem is hillary clinton is the establishment wing the democratic wing of the political class, just like jeb bush is the republican wing of the political class. the country has had it with all of this. she is surrounded by guys with blue hair trying to get their guys on contracts to quote what was one written to bobby kennedy about lyndon johnson and the people in office. here s the problem. people that are hangers-on, whatever, what the people want is something new. that s what all these polls say. that s something we re all going to deal with. they tawlk for an we talk for an hour. good to see you all, and by the way the conversation on twitter is going on. i know you guys stay up late on sunday night so people get excited about that. at fn insiders. you can watch them every monday morning at our website, fox news.com. click on the logo at 10:30 a.m. eastern. that is our fox report on sunday, may 18th, 2014. i m harris falker. a new issues we re watching for this week. the va investigation, we ll all over it. i ll be back for out numbered tomorrow. have a great week. here s huckabee. nowchoose one option fromith red lothe wood-fire grill,trios! one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta. all on one plate. three delicious choices. all for $15.99 for a limited time only! come sea food differently today! carsthey re why we innovate. they re who we protect. they re why we make life less complicated. it s about people. we are volvo of sweden. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i ve always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, it s clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you re more comfortable and confident while you eat. super poligrip free made the kiwi an enjoyable experience. 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i m thinking. let s see. despite millions of dollars spent, new polls show the senate may be slipping out of democrats hands. the gap is widening in states where they were trying to hold on and tightening in states they were safely blue. senator jeanne shaheen is clinging to a lead inside the margin of error in new hampshire. senator kay hagan in north carolina up just 1 on republican thom tillis. the same poll has pat roberts catching up to orman. mitch mcconnell is expanding his lead and his chances to become majority leader. in iowa republican joni ernst has opened her lead to 7. bruce braley is trending downward losing his home congressional district. still the balance of power may not be settled on wednesday morning, but louisiana s democrat is lead iing by 8 poin. if she doesn t win outright, it shows her trailing bill cassidy. and though republican david perdue is up in michigan, that state is likely headed to a runoff. in georgia runoffs last nine weeks and perdue is favored. joe, tell us how this looks to you. you know, it looks like thing rg trending the republican direction. it still does not look like 1994, 2006, 2010. it could. i mean maybe the democratic turnout is going to be miserable and maybe the republican turnout is going to be extraordinary. you still see a lot of close rac races. republicans doing very well in some states, but you can t get the band out and sing happy days are here again because they are still fighting in north carolina. they are still fighting in kansas. they are still fighting in georgia. they are still fighting in louisiana and maybe mark halperin, that goes to the republican party. but anything could happen. one of two things are going to. happen. one, the republicans are going to learn from the mistakes in the turnout game from 2012. it might be. and they are going to take back the senate and have the big night. or two, they didn t learn those lessons and don t know how to target voters and democrats are going to hold on. which one? democrat strategy was three things. . eliminate the republicans as unacceptable choices, too extreme. change the debate to be about economic issues and three, the turn. out game. they failed on two of of the three. so the turnout is all they have. it may be enough in some places to allow them to win. why is it so close in kansas? why still close in georgia? why still close in louisiana? i think it could be a big republican night. i am not throwing water on the games that we have seen. that iowa poll people saying 7 points, it s not 7 points. the des moines register poll is the gold standard out there. they get it right. i find it hard to believe iowa is not now in the republican safe. where republicans have had good candidates like in georgia and iowa, they are doing better. donnie deutsche, democrats also in colorado, and i have had democratic operatives and say this and sortd of cringe. they have talked about the colorado race where democrats were so intent on trying to make the republicans seem extreme on women s issues they are turning into the clown show the republican party has been. and i m talking top ranking democratic strategists who have run the democratic world saying, come on, we assume that women only care about contraception? most women know that debate was over a long time ago. women care about jobs, wages, the rich getting richer. they care about education, their kids going off to college and not having a job out of college. it s really sort of been you re going to wake up wednesday very happy. why is that? it s going to go republican. i m not sure that s going to make him happy. somebody on twitter said your party is going to win. i said, are you reading the things my party don t know what my party is. . the republicans will win. there s two little pieces of nugg nuggets that are good news for republicans in 16 and beyond. i was fascinated in a recent poll of my len yells are leadin republicans. the republicans have figured out we are never going to win another election unless somehow we appeal to that audience. my final point, this is the best thing that happened to barack obama. it s hard for a republican sitting here to say this buzz people say you re right, barack obama still believed in 2012 that if you won reelection republicans would suddenly say, he s legitimized and we re going to work with him. . it s going to take i think this final step for him to go, do i want to get things done or not. and for republicans to then have no where are excuses, they are either going to make capitol hill work or screw it up and if they screw it up for two years, they will lose in 2016. i think it s the best thing for the country as far as accountability. do you want to run washington or do you want to run your mouth? that s good. senate major ri leader harry reid says a win for joni ernst in iowa would all but ensure he d lose his majority status. tom harkin drew criticism on buzzfeed. . this senate race i ve been watching some of these it ads. they are sort of this sense that joni ernst, she s really attractive. she sounds nice. i u got to thinking about that. i don t care if she s as good looking as taylor swift or as nice as mr. rogers, but if she votes like michele bachmann, she s wrong for the state of iowa. actually that s a good point. it s true. if a republican said that, it would be over. carol lee, might that backfire? yeah, i think it might. if there s one thing that any politician, particularly a seasoned one like harkin should know, you don t talk about women s looks in that way. i was in iowa last week and the ernst campaign is very in tune to these kinds of things and is very quick to jump on anything that has remotely a whiff of sexism attached to it. so it s just not something that belongs in a race like this and it s sort of surprising to hear it coming from somebody who understands the state and has been around for so long. so what was your feeling when you were out there when you were reporting in iowa last week? did you see a trend? did you feel a trend going joni ernst s way? you did, and i was there with her for a couple of events. and i was with vice president biden did an event with braley. i talked to a bunch of voters at that event and some coming to that event had voted for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and had regretted voting for him. so the presence of the president in a state like iowa was dominant. joni ernst talks a about it a ton. anyone who has watched her, she s a natural on the campaign trail. so she had a lot of appeal with the voters there. definitely down on the president and really looking for somebody different. she seems to be tapping into some kind of sentiment there. it looks like she s going to end up winning. can you imagine a female candidate saying that about a male? i can t, it just wouldn t happen. i was degraded because they would always say that about me. because he s so good looking and has such chiselled features. nobody has ever say that about me. it s actually stupid that somebody would say that after being in politics that long. e she hasn t put out a campaign that s anything that s serious, humorous and very much in the fight. can i ask carol a question? i will ask a question. isn t this how this game works. donnie was talking about millennials are a snapshot. this could change tomorrow. and we re going to have polling saying millennials are trending republican right now. hispanics still supporting democrats, but not the way they did a couple years ago. you go state by state by state, republicans will show you the gender gap in many states now slunk. what has happened to the democratic party that they are most loyal voters? i would say of african-american voters have departed. two years ago republicans know in missouri and indiana cannot agree on a simple criminal definition of rape. it s certainly impacted the races where you should have elected republican senators but they did well. as you look at hispanic voters, there s more of a kinship with republicans and democrats on those issues. if republicans can talk about immigration reform, you can fundamentally change the map for them over the next few years. i would argue if republicans win the most important thing they win the senate is sequencing. how they go about what they want to do. if they try the affordable care act, all bets are off. if they start with a narrow tax reform bill, trade promotion authority, if they start with some energy reform, keystone, lifting the ban on natural gas exports, they could change the wa optics. if they do that, those are the things that would help appeal not only to the millennials but help the to move the country forward. actually have a message. this is obviously luckily for the republicans. i want someone to answer the question why this guy is at 42% if i m giving him talking points, gas is under $3, pass the most important legislation in 50 years, save the auto industry, kill osama bin laden. i know, what s the deal? the medium is the message. donnie, explain that. barack obama is why barack obama is important. let me get to the governors races. you both said this. number one, the president is not as comfortable as talking about business success as other presidents. and you said it a few weeks ago. ebola and isis, the enormous unknowns have colored this race and impacted these races negatively in the last few weeks. mark halperin, i m going to show you the governors races. one point separates scott walker in wisconsin. rapid fire here. in florida one of the nastiest races of all, charlie crist has a lead. who wins that one? democrats are crazy confident about that race. i m not sure why. but libertarian is helping crist. if the national win counts in wisconsin, it counts in florida and will carry both of those over. except charlie crist is a better candidate. i don t know the national win matters because governors have their own record and not barack obama. jason carter trailing in georgia but close to nathan deal. if there s a run-off maybe u. brownback is down to paul davis. . a fox news poll what happened? he just thought people were arrogant. that s pretty close to certainty. doesn t that help orman? orman cannot count on that. i don t know if i m a republican that s going to vote against a republican governor and vote democratic for the first time in my life, i don t know i m going to go democratic twice. orman is an independent. he s a democrat. he had claire mccaskill begging him to run because he was the democrat s best chance of holding the seat. you know that, but his message has been they are disciplined. i always told people. as far as my family was a crest family. colgate commercials mean nothing to us. we bought crest. if you re in kansas, i m not joking here, this works. if you re in kansas and your brand is republican, you may deviate from that brand one time. i don t know you deviate from it twice. i actually think voting against brownback could help roberts. if orman wins, think about it also that the talk about an independent running for president, it grows largely because you see the path. if it can happen in kansas. halperin, you re running for president? one final thing. for all of you pundits and pollsters out there saying greg orman is an independent and we don t know if he s a democrat or a republican, i m taking bets right now on whether if he wins he s going to caucus with the republican party or democratic party. i ll give you 5 to 1 odds that he caucuses with the democratic party. you know he s not going to caucus with the republicans so just quit. all right. we re going to end the block this way because we re going to be doing so much politics. . it was a magic night for 19-year-old lauren hill with an inoperable brain tumor whose dream was to play college hoops in cincinnati. knowing hill has just weeks to live, the ncaa moved up the state of her team s opening game to last night and she would be healthy enough to play. hill scored four points make the first and last baskets in the victory here. here s hill after the game. i just feel so blessed that this is all happening. i m just really happy. this is a really good day. this just it makes meso happy. beautiful. ncaa did good. still ahead on morning joe, a daring feat in the windy city as nik wallenda breaks two world records. i did this in 78. i u think the story we just did is much more interesting. we ll talk to him in our 7:00 hour. first man s best friend sides with the cops over his meth-cooking owner. that s a problem. did your dog turn you in? 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sometimes. pi love track meets. i went to one this weekend. it s a good thing that you live here and not in iran. why? because you could be thrown in jail. the los angeles times says a woman was sentenced to prison for trying to watch a men s volleyball match. the 25-year-old british-iranian woman was arrested outside a stadium in tehran in june while protesting a ban on women attending games. what s wrong with those people? women are also banned from attending soccer games. seriously? we look at this. one of the most headlines grabbing people, kaci hickox, the nurse speaking out after successfully challenging maine s attempt to force her into a mandatory quarantine following her return from west africa. in an interview on meet the press , new jersey governor chris christie initially placed her in isolation because, quote, an abundance of politics was at play. she s also promising to limit her activity at home in maine. i understand that the community has been through a lot in the past week and that i do, you know, apologize to them for that. i will not go into crowded public places. i have had a few friends come visit me in my home and that s absolutely fantastic. okay. usa today, a brave pooch in. alabama helped lead local officials to his owner wanted for allegedly producing crystal meth. he ran out of his back-door when police arrived with a drug warrant and officers lost sight of where he went. they asked his dog to go get him. and that s exactly what he did. bo led authorities to henderson, who was booked on five counts dogs are smart. he s cute. i like that dog. a good-looking dog though. coming up, the rise and the fall of the so-called insurgent candidates of the republican party. bill crystal joins the table. licking his chops. . licking his chops. this is his week. we ll be right back. this is his week. you can t hold a good man down. we ll be right back with much more morning joe. there s confidence. then there s trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. our expertise, technology, and high quality parts means your peace of mind. it s no wonder last year we sold over three million tires. and during the big tire event, get up to $140 in mail-in rebates on four select tires. ring ring! progresso! i can t believe i m eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sister s wedding well it s only 100 calories, so you ll be ready for that dress uh-huh. you don t love the dress? 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the self-funding business. man, they love a self-funder. write big checks. he was the guy. joni ernst, we never heard of her. it s amaze musing when the d.c. republicans take credit. do republicans take over the senate pretty easily? i think so. i m normally a pessimist, but i continue to be. virginia is a real outside shot. it will end up with nine or ten seats. kansas may lose. it s fun to lose a state that everyone thought two months ago. what did d.c. republicans do? they moved heaven and earth to nominate pat roberts. let s see how close it is. before we get to mark, if there s a republican sweep, is it going to be because everybody wants to repeal obama care and make changes that republicans were hinging their yit on or is it something else? what are you hearing out there when you re reporting? it s just a general dissatisfaction with the way that washington is working. the republicans have an edge because of the president the democratic president is in power. i think what s most interesting to me and our wall street journal poll is the number where 67% of voters want the president to move in a different direction. that s a really big number. and it was the most standout number in that poll and that includes 47% of democrats. so either way that things go on tuesday, the president is under a lot of pressure to make some sort of dramatic change. that s the other question, is he going to do that? history would show you he s not necessarily a guy who does make dramatic changes in moments like this. but certainly there s a desire in the country for some kind of break in the gridlock in washington and for the president to move in a new direction. you re exactly right. unlike bill clinton who after he lost brought in dick morris, do not expect dick morris to be brought into this white house. in 2006 after george w. bush got creamed, don rumsfeld was out the next day. the republican party leadership may be seeing a tipping point when it comes to its recent struggle for insurgent candidates. this is mainstream republicans may have won this year. four years ago today, the banner headlines in all the paper were gop takes house and rand paul was elected to the senate. that was an outsider insurgent break china class of candidates. the republicans were ahead this year though are very different. much more, as you say, main line, chamber of commerce. the republicans did this cleverly and under the radar. the party outside groups spent big, worked hard to keep out the christine o donnells, to keep out the todd aikens and get electable candidates. the most important thing in this story is republicans now say they are going to run this playbook in 2016. american crossroads saying they are going to push this message of an electable candidate, not just someone who satisfies the base. i just don t know if american crossroads can take credit for the republican elect rat saying we re just not going to elect dumb candidates. we actually may want to rwin th senate. we may want harry reid out of power. and i think they have made that decision time and again. anyone watching from d.c. who is a consultant who raises lots of money from dumb rich people, they should just really go back to how well they did in 2012. crossroads did spend some money, but a lot goes to the campaign committee which gave them some training. very basic stuff the democrats have done for two cycles. bill, my question for you, republicans have smartly kept the message on if you want change in washington, you have to vote for republicans. did they emerge from this if republicans keep the house? do they emerge with any ideas to say u to the president, look, we want and therefore voters wanted us to do x? they have a mandate for some changes they could get the president to sign like energy legislation. if they run on that, do you think the president will take the message? that s a good question for the president. you ll find republicans wanting to show many more than they should to get things done. if the president comes to that on energy. legislation, modifications and obamacare, on this point that mike allen was making. there s some bad tea party candidates in 2010 and 2012. the establishment gave us george allen and tommy thompson. pat roberts. the establishment it did not tell tom cotton to run. the establishment told tom cotton. the truth is one reason republicans are doing well, and i have said this before, the quality of candidates. a lot of younger candidates, not traditional career politicians. it s a mix. those who said the tea party establishment would destroy the republican party, they have united pretty well behind pretty attractive candidates. cotton, gardener, ernst. you actually really have seen sort of some of the tea party ideas delivered with mainstream sensibilities. the main thing the media decided obamacare doesn t count. the top issue people voting for joni ernst is obamacare. both moving towards repeal but setting forward a serious alternative to obamacare. that is key. early on when the history of this cycle is written, tough go early on and you have to look at all of the obamacare commercials that flooded the early states, drove the numbers of these democratic senators down. it s not happening now, but they were smart. they did it in january, february, march and they drove those numbers straight down requiring democrats to spend a lot of money early. that actually was the smart tactical move of this campaign. mike allen, thank you very much. bill crystal, stay with us. still ahead, it gets physical at a nascar race in texas. what caused jeff gordon to confront a fellow racer. but first a day before the election, are democrats shifting their focus to 2016? 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that poll was a kick in the gut for democrats. with ernst up 7 points, that kicked her up to 1.8%. the des moines register poll is a bigger lead than any other poll, but also one of the most accurate polls in that state. it always is. it somehow even figures the caucuses out right. i have never figured out how they do it. it s the gold standard for polls. it is. she doesn t wait for party i.d.s. she calls people and gets responses. that s one of the debates in the polling community. that poll really concerns democrats. what about kansas? fascinating race. yeah, as we have seen, orman is up less than 1% in the average. this is a state where we d like to see more polling. there hasn t been a lot of polling there. i don t know if we re going to get anymore today as a final round, but this is as close to a toss-up as you can possibly have. casey hunt, you know everything, who is going to win? is this the most fascinating race? the one thing i think is most interesting about kansas is even republicans will acknowledge they are prepared for that to be unsettled on election day. they think it it s going to be that close and they are prepared to go to a recount if they need to. one word on kansas. he might win, you just got to assume it s a 43-43 race. the undecided go to the challengers. i m pessimistic about kansas. so the moderate republican party started in the 1978 in california. tax cuts, tax cuts, for good. reason because taxes were so high. i really believe, and i ll ask this because you ll undercut me. there s a good balance o of republicans on this panel. which is which? an open heart as wide as iowa skies. but going back to brownback in kansas, cut taxes, cut education, the deficit has exploded and their mainstream republicans that said he shouldn t have cut taxes. is this sort of is this a closing of a chapter of just mindless tax cuts at all costs within the republican party? i think if you look closely, he cut taxes on the wealthy and on corporations assuming that would stimulate growth. it doesn t produce as many revenues. he had to cut education. he split his own party. the tax cuts were more populous. they did try to give tax cuts to middle class and working class. that s the way the republican party goes. brownback is a lesson of the orthodox tax reform agenda is not politically viable. the bill from the chairman, it s more like brownback s tax cuts than like a reagan camp. you re exactly right. it s got to be working class and middle class. the poor are getting poorer. billionaires getting 14% tax rates while their secretaries are paying 28%. i have never had one boo me when i said it is time to make billionaires pay a a minimum 28% tax. every republican i have ever spoken to outside of washington, d.c. agrees with me. it s obscene. a 14% tax rate for billionaires is obscene. tax cuts going to the richest of the rich is a policy that s going to cause brownback his seat. if paul ryan is smart, he can redo the bill and make it much more populous. it will increase his influence and set a tone for the presidential race. if i say one thing about the senate, if bill is right that republicans lose kansas. if i m right that michelle is going to be a stronger run-off candidate and if new hampshire goes democratic and north carolina stays democratic, that makes the democrats not have an unbelievable path to keeping the majority. can i say, and yesterday i said i made a lot of people. unhappy by saying great candidate, going to run a great race, going to do better than his father, still going to lose. michelle nunn a great candidate, no way she s going to get the majority in a run-off that nobody is paying attention to. they are paying closer to the s.e.c. championship game than that race. control of the senate is at stake, she can win the run-off. north carolina, what s it look like there? 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candidates matter. of course. candidates matter a lot. and i think we re way too much looking at data and way too much looking at the models. the individual campaigns have mattered hugely. bruce braley has been a terrible candidate. . because tough go state by state, it s not going to be a classic wave election like 64, 74, 94, 2006. mark halperin you brought up a fascinating point. the president s schedule the next two days? at the white house. the president is staying home. as of now. but he s off the trail. not even out for house candidates. even george w. bush was come paining. he was actually. i think he was in some races. i will say, though, in the senate races, it s hard to beat incumbent democratic senators. republicans have spent a long time since they picked off more than two incumbents. they have to beat a lot of incumbents. they are fight iing hard to hol their jobs. again, you have to say democrats are not objective. you talk to all of my sources, republican and democrat, republicans unbridled confidence, democrat, some are already gaming out. how can we maybe keep enough close enough to win the senate back. i always go back to 1998. these cycles of bill clinton and barack obama have been so eerily similar. republicans win a right wing landsli landslide. two years later, the new democrat wins. and two years later, what happened in 98? we were thinking huge republican win. we almost lost the house and newt lost his job. there was overreach. exactly. that s happening here. i got to stop mark here. there s no national republican message. if the republican party, if we republicans win, what is our message the day after? if you want change, you got to change your senator. what is the message? i m not saying it s a lofty. i ll go change my outfit. that doesn t do anything. that s not a message. that s not a mandate. it may be enough for them to take control of the senate. what about the day after? one thing about 97, bill clinton signed welfare reform. he cut a deal with the congress on tax and budget policy. he had a strong economy in 98. barack obama didn t think it was a mandate to go after. republicans have to confront good campaigns. they have ignored the leads. republicans will do better with hispanics in 2014 having resisted the gang of eight bill than they did in 2012. i want to get the fix on tom harkin. chris, senator majority leader said e he would lose his status. an outgoing senator tom harkin drew fire for this comment about joni ernst that surfaced over the weekend on buzzfeed. take a look. in this senate race, i have been watching some of these ads. there s sort of this sense of joni ernst, she s really attractive. and she sounds nice. but i got to thinking about that. i don t care if she s as good looking as taylor swift. or as nice as mr. rogers. but if she votes like michele bachmann, she s wrong for the state of iowa. [ applause ] that s interesting, chris. she s real purdy. i don t know i would have expected that from tom harkin. tell us what you make of iowa. obviously, a big poll came out yesterday. but what s tomorrow look like to you? that s the one, i think, if you re looking at how the whole country is going to shake out. i think bill makes the right point. we probably wouldn t have thought iowa would be the big. race six months ago. bruce braley has been bad. joni ernst has been good. candidates do matter. i think tom harkin, look, if a republican said that a democratic candidate was winning because at least in part because she s attractive, which is what tom harkin said, it s not a great thing. it s going to change the race. i can t imagine it s going to change the race. but would bruce braley rather tom harkin say that? yeah, probably, because part of joni ernst coalition is to win women who live in and around des moines who are probably socially liberal, moderate, fiscally conservative to the extent there s a tron say, the only reason he s winning is because she s a woman. that can get you going to vote. let s turn to some of the tight governor races across the country. somebody here has to keep things moving along. just one point separates mary burke and scott walker in wisconsin. a week ago, i would say burke. he s not in a winning campaign. i would argue he s lost the campaign, but he can still win the election. is that for 2016? i think he s already damaged. i think he will win by 3 or 4 points. everyone will say, whoa, scott walker wins three elections in wisconsin. that s impressive. it s sort of a mindness to christie. that was excellent the way he slapped down chris christie. chris christie, i like chris, by chairman of the governors association and he goes into iowa twice in the last ten days to campaign for branstad who is only up 25 points. i said terry branstad, chris christie is trying to get him over 60. he s at 59. we have to get 62. walker has been pinned down for a long time. it s hard for him to catch up. in florida one of the nastiest races of all has charlie crist with a narrowest of leads. that is just an ugly, ugly, ugly race. they tweeted out the results of that. 526 respondents chose charlie crist. 524 chose his opponent. this is a classic example of we hate both of them. literally. they are both so deeply unliked. not just because of this race. rick scott his first four years, very unpopular. charlie crist was a republican, then independent, now a democrat. you saw $70 million spent on tv. i just want it to be over. rick scott, let s talk about that. rick scott actually became, i think in a way, he became sort of a trend setter in a way you wouldn t want to become a trend setter of what we re going to see more of of the big money in politics. he was a 35% on the day he was sworn into office. it s the first time i ever saw that. this year we re going to see it a lot. most of the winners on election night are going to be under water. it s weird. they are going to win it s this negative environment and all the money that was spent. i look at this scott skpras you sit there and say he barely won in an incredible republican year in 2010. how does he that s it. if he were running against anybody else, he s probably down 5 points. . if there were a tom wolf type candidate that came out of nowhere? democratic in florida is that they had to get a republican who switched parties? if graham is a member of congress after tomorrow, then all of a sudden they have a bench. . let s go to georgia. jason carter trailing in georgia, but close to incumbent nathan deal. and the kbov nor of kansas is now down 6 to democrat paul davis. brownback, no one liked him. but he s getting pounded in a state he should be 10 points ahead in. he passed a tax reform measure in a way that rubbed a lot of insiders a wrong way and made him feel like he didn t have a winning formula. he s also been someone who overflossed with the kind of populous deal you need to have to keep the party united. i think he will probably lose in kansas. what s that mean? iowa could go republican for governor and senate. kansas will go democrat probably for governor and perhaps for senate. populism is back. it s not like they never elected a democratic governor. it does show the populous trend, anti-obama sentiment, this anti-wall street sentiment. some of which is healthy. but the republicans were running the more populous campaigns. you have a smurky twinkle in your eye. that s a very high compliment. the last time we were all together. i used a cheap slur on the new york 11 guys comparing them. it was a cheap. can i say it was offensive to some italian friends of mine. . i said some things that i thought was kind of funny. if i had to start apologizing for things. i hear you going down that road. it was wrong. by the way, michael graham, is that his name? i saw his poll, he s up by like 12. he threatens to throw reporters off a balcony. what was i doing when i was running for reelection? spend five minutes reading the staten island newspapers endorsement of michael graham. they endorsed michael. it happened last week. put it into the google machine. it is amazing. it basically says, yes, he s been indicted, yes, we have heard some things about him with a gun. i was like, but he s still better than the other guy. it s the anti-endorsing endorsement. by the way, i m gook l iing right now. chuck, does miami beat fsu? i think they can. still ahead on morning joe, daredevil nik wallenda. he has an act for danger. walking two tight ropes suspended 200 feet in the air. he joins us later this hour. first, tragedy in the sky. . this is the crash of a virgin spaceship raising question about the future of space travel. we ll be right back. yoplait light is now better than ever. it still melts in your mouth. with 90 calories. and is now aspartame free. yoplait light. it is so good; it s better than ever. faster than d-con. what will we do with all of these dead mice? 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party, i go back to karl rove s permanent majority statement. what s your take away from this poll? why are young voters trending more republican right now? i think the most important thing to understand is things go in cycles. think about this. we started in 2000. this is the 26th survey. democrats were plus 2 in the 2000 election np plus 2 in the 2002 election. it wasn t until katrina, george bush, good campaign by john kerry. he won the youth vote. and barack obama cemented them for several years. now we re resetting this generation and thinking about both parties the same way. they want to have a conversation and make a difference. isn t it a good reminder for both parties don t take anything for granted? don t take any bloc of voters for granted? both parties are despised. the country does not like washington. and unfortunately no matter what happens, we re going to continue to get the kind of politics that the public doesn t want. jeffrey, you and i have talked about debt now for seven, eight years on this show. i would like somebody to tell me what major statewide candidate has brought up in a meaningful way entitlement reform, driving down health care costs in a meaningful way. instead we get these stupid 30-second commercials that it don t address the real issues. i think the key is follow the money. this is really going to be known atz billionaires election. there s so much money come figure from big money. most of it well disguised so it won t even be reported until after the election. what seems to be going on is oil and election. big money from the left. but the huge money is oil and gas money. you can look at the numbers and the left and the right are both equal. it s like the arms rice rays between the soviets and the americans. it s equal. you can say big oil all you want to. that s not factually accurate. where s the big money? the big money is with the big oil companies. the total money is not equal. wait, wait, wait. the koch brothers by themselves are putting $300 million in sboo this election. you re a one trick pony u. you say koch brothers, koch brothers, koch brothers. when you get on the money, one area you always talk about oil and gas when there are environmentalists on the left that are putting in millions and millions. if you add up all the money, and i m going to ask you to choose sides, but add up all the money. it s about income on both sides. it s not that people are thinking about either, but go ahead. number two, we asked them, who is to blame in washington, d.c. it s not obama, it s everybody. a significant majority say everybody. the message about this poll is they are not pathetic. they care about the country. we re grown ups at this table. we just follow the money. november 2008 when you watched obama come out in chicago, you couldn t help but say, wow. and of course, we are are disappointed. now take the millennialmillenni disappointment they must have. they had a promise. they had a ray of sunshine. and i think an instant gratification generation is going to be more profoundly disappointed than us adults and i think that has a lot to do with it. i think about this generation as having two halves. the first was part of the obama movement. it started in 2006. the second half came of age during the great recession when they saw their parents and their friends lose their houses and jobs. how important was that? isn t that a game changer? every time they went to best buy, they could get a cd. i sat around and looking. there was so much money. even in the middle class. and now they graduate from college. they have good degrees, great degrees even. and they don t find work for two or three or four years. how much of an impact does that have? then you take a working class person that doesn t go to college. it s a game-changer. focus groups around the country, people break down in tears asking about the economy s impact on them. if you don t talk about big money, i promise to ask you a question. i think this is important to you and important to me. it s another area we agree the rich are getting richer. average wages have gone down since 1973. average wages down. not republican, not democrat, it s a society. and yet i hear nobody talking in a meaningful way about how we erase that. that s correct. so how do we connect millennials to an election process that talks about contraception, benghazi, all these issues that for most 18 and 19-year-olds, they just they want to know where they are going to get their next job. even though the labor market is relatively good right now, unemployment has come down, the wages are falling buzz of technological change, because if you don t have the skills, you can t get a decent job because the old kinds of jobs are gone. and nobody wants to discuss this because these are deeper structural changes skblp they are structural. you can t talk about that in a 30-second ad, can you? that s another challenge this country is facing. they have done research. the effectiveness of negative ads is 90% more profound than nonnegative ads because you can attach facts. even if they are false to it, a positive ad, it s very hard to say anything factual in a positive ad that sticks. in a negative ad, you can bury people with facts. that s never going to change. the other problem and as donnie is right, it s the front page story of the new york times, hidden donors spent heavily. on message. point is, i m a democrat. it all changed with obama. there s as much it may not be as focused. it s dispersed, but this is a world where money is playing on both sides. okay, final question for john. it s out of control big bucks. . john, what are they voting on? you say they want to be connected and they want to make what is the issue? what difference are they making when they are making a vote in this election? i don t get it. it s not about tran transacti transactional politic ticks. bun place to start is student debt. that s the one issue that men and women of all ages care about. that s the one thing that brings everybody together. you think a candidate has made such a difference there are young people going out and voting on it. is that happening? it s not happening. that s what obama did so well. he empowered people. we re going to talk about where we agree. i really believe and jeffrey really believes there s such a chance in 2016 and beyond for a radical transformation of politics the same way steve jobs transforms the way we talk on the phone. we have to break. out of the status quo. i think it s more ripe for change now than ever before. i really do. absolutely. the parties are locked into the status quo right now, both of them. you didn t say big money. i m proud of you. that s why they are locked in. wouldn t you agree, though, that they are waiting for massive change? in the iowa caucus in 2008, obama won the youth vote 55 to 10. lost everybody over the age of 30. millennials helped elect obama. thank you very much. we d love to talk to you after the election. dr. saks stay with us. with pleasure. we re going to have some rules. there will be some. can he say big money again? he can. i think he can. because we know he s going to say whatever he wants to say. i ll be staying. up next after making across the grand canyon, nick washingtwallenda takes a stroll above the windy city. isolation for 21 days despite showing no signs of the ebola virus. the story of the doctor who endured those three weeks plus why he felt ashamed when he returned from west africa. that s horrible. more morning joe when we return. woman: everyone in the nicu all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn t trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we re owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you re caring for a child with 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while treating patients in sierra leone. he was admitted to the national institutes of health and isolated for 21 days from the time of the needle prick. on october 7th, they discharged him who showed no signs of the ebola virus. on october 17th, his incubation period finally ended. here s his account of his time in isolation. no one could visit me in the unit. the nih folks were wonderful. they are a really good group, but. i had to sit in a hospital bed. i wasn t sick. there s a video camera from there 24/7. they promised me they didn t look at it, but it s there. every time you went to the bathroom you had to tell someone because they need to treat it and treat it as if you re infected. the response is way out of proportion to the need, which was exactly opposite of my existence for the last three weeks where babies were dying and no one was coming to help. joining us now is francis seller, senior writer at the washington post. what breaks my heart is what i said before we went to break. he almost felt humiliated or something coming back. we should be he was sick when he first went in. he was really well looked after at nih when he came back. people went out of their way. cdc helped hum out. he had this exposure in sierra leon. nih really helped him. and then there s a period where his story is playing out against this other story that s happening in the united states, which is really the bigger issue. thomas eric duncan was at the same time in the backdrop being admitted after the mess in dallas where he wasn t admitted the first time. that s the backdrop to these stories. just as we re seeing now with kaci hickox, we have an election that s a backdrop to a story. . so politics and fear begin to play in. i don t want to put words in anybody s mouth, he was very well looked after when he was sick when he first arrived. it s not as if e he shouldn t have gone in to start with or he s criticizing anybody. it s that these other things play into how you treat somebody, how you quarantine them and those are broader questions. i worry that science is not taking the lead there. yeah, you re right about the shame of returning and him talking about that. what is the part of the story that we re not getting as we cover these individual cases and the controversy surrounding them that you captured from this interview? well, something like this, there s an enormous burden of trust when somebody tells you this story. there was a story o of a doctor coming back and he decided not to use his name because he was worried about the quarantine and the stigma being associated. these are not risk takers these doctors who go out there. they wouldn t hurt themselves. they would be dead if they were in these situations, and they would never hurt anybody else. they have been risking their own lives going into these wards to save people. they come back here and know when they are not symptomatic. there s no evidence they can pass on the illness. so that s sort of the frustration. while you see various governors, as we have seen recently, suggesting they should be isolated, that s a huge burden on anybody who would think about going out again. you re not only going for a motto work in these hospitals, but then you come back and there s another three weeks even if you have no symptoms, even if you have no exposure. but even if you have no exposure of being potentially quarantined and not able to go back to work, that risks stopping other people from going out. thank you, we ll be looking for the latest washington post magazine and your story. still ahead, why this pit bull found himself caught between police and his owner. first, our next guest did this blindfolded. daredevil nik wallenda joins us next. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you re like the poster child for paying on time. and then one day you tap the bumper of a station wagon. no big deal. until your insurance company jacks up your rates. you freak out. what 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does it feel different? yeah, you know, still excited to be able to fulfill another dream. two more world records. just thinking back on it. walking up a 19 degree incline and then the blindfold. it seemed surreal the day after. you said going into this you were more concerned about the blind felt walk. it felt to me that s probably the way it turned out. i said to you on the air last night about how confident you were on that first walk. i mean, at the grand canyon you went down to the knee and you had all us clutching each other. and this one, you were kind of chatty. you wanted to talk to me. you wanted to talk to natalie. we could tell almost right away you had this. yeah, you know, i trained very, very hard. one thing i learned over the grand canyon is even though i trained so much, i should have trained more. i never wanted to be in the position where as i was in the grand canyon, am i going to be that embarrassed that i have to go down and hold this wire and wait for help? i was, like, i never want to be there again. to be honest, i think i ve never done two walkings in a row and challenged myself like this. while i was doing that first walk, i was subconsciously thinking about the second one. i kind of raced through the first one just to get to the second one. hey, nik, donny deutsch. what are the jedi mind tricks? do you think, what am i going to have for breakfast tomorrow? give me the mind games. i can be very relaxed on the wire. i ve done it since i was 2 years old. now of course with different situations, with wind, and that wire was moving last night, i m pretty focused on what i m doing. yes, i acan talk, but i m reall focused. so not a lot goes through my mind. i try to keep everything off my mind. because of that, it becomes peaceful at times. i m raising teenagers right now. that can be challenging and stressful. those troubles go away while i m on the wire. you re not recommending that, okay. real quickly, the spectators on the balconies, did that bother you? couldn t see them. i was born to be a performer. my entire life, i was i ve performed. i definitely heard them. having them here actually a live audience is what i live for and it inspires me. i become more of a performer than anything else. congratulations. it was fantastic. it was nerve-racking. how many viewers, like 12 million? 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i think there s going a day or two out. i think it s going to be painful. for you? perhaps. does that mean big republican sweep? i m thinking, i m thinking. let s look at the polls and see what the kids think. new polls show the senate may be slipping out of democratic hands. the gap is id woo widening in s where they were trying to hold on and tightening in states that were supposedly safely blue. shaheen is clicking to the lead against brown in new hampshire. hagan of north carolina up just one on republican tillis. the same poll has senator pat roberts catching up to independent greg orman but still trailing. meanwhile, senator mitch mcconnell is expanding his lead and his chances to become majority leader. in iowa, republican joni ernst has opened her lead to seven. democratic braley is trailing downward, even after losing his home congressional district. the balance of power may not be settled on wednesday morning. senator landrieu, democrat, is leading in louisiana s primary by eight points. if he doesn t win outright, a head-to-head runoff shows her trailing republican congressman bill cassidy. though perdue is up four over michelle nunn in georgia, that state is likely headed to a runoff. in georgia, runoffs last nine weeks. and perdue is favored. joe, why don t you tell us how this looks to you? it looks like things are trending in the republican direction. it still does not look like 1994, 2006, 2010. it could. i mean, maybe the democratic turnout is going to be miserable. maybe the republican turnout is going to be extraordinary. you go through those numbers. you still see a lot of close races. you still see the republicans. who are doing well in some states. also, you can t get the band out and sing happy days are here again because they re still fighting in south carolina. they re still fighting of course in kansas. they re still fighting in georgia. they re still fighting in louisiana. maybe all this goes to the republican party, but anything could happen. one or two things are going to happen. one, the republicans are going to learn from their mistakes on the turnout game from 2012. it might be. and they re going to take back the senate and have the big night. or two, they didn t learn those lessons. they still don t know how to target voters. and democrats are going to hold on. democratic strategy for the cycle was predicated on three things, eliminate the republicans as unacceptable choices, too extreme. change the debate to not be about president obama but about economic issues and three, the turnout game. they basically failed on two out of the three. the debate is about the president and they ve not eliminated the republicans. the turnout is all they had. may not be enough in so places to let them win. why is it so close in georgia? why is it pat roberts. i think it s going to be a big republican night. i am not throwing water on the gains we ve seen. that iowa poll, people saying, sellen opponents, it s not seven points. we all know the des moines register poll is the gold standard out there. they get it right. so i find it hard to believe that iowa s not in the republican column. why is kansas close? because pat roberts has been a bad candidate. why north carolina close? because tilless hasn t been a very good candidate. where republicans have had good candidates like georgia and iowa they re doing better. at the end i m sorry, colorado. donny deutsch, democrats also in colorado. and i ve had democratic operatives say this and sort of cringe. and talked about the races where democrats were so intent on trying to make the republicans seem like extreme on women s issues that they are now turning into the same it s been the last and i m talking top ranking democratic strategists who have run the democratic world saying, come on. we assume that women only care about contraception. most women know that debate was over a long time ago. they re looking stupid. women care about jobs. women care about wages. women care about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. women care about education. they care about the kids going off to college and not having a job after they get out of college. it s really been a sort of you re going to wake up very happy because i think other than north carolina why s that? of course it s going to be republicans i ve got to stop you because somebody on twitter said your party s going to i stopped that and say you don t know what my party is. the republicans will win. there s two little piece of nuggets underneath that good news for republicans in afc 16 beyond. young millennials are leaning republican. leading democrats are really going backwards on hispanics. the republicans have figured out, we are never going to win another election unless somehow we appeal to that audience. and i also believe my final point is i think this is going to be the best thing to ever happen to barack obama. it could backfire ultimately. it s forward a republican sitting here to say this. because people say you re just no, you re exactly right, donny. barack obama still believed in 2012 that if he won re-election, republicans would suddenly say, oh, he s legitimized, it s going to work. no, it s going to take i think this final step of republicans take over. to go, do i want to get things done or not. for republicans to then have no more excuses. they re either going to make capitol hill work or they re going to screw it up. if they screw it up for two years, they will lose in 2016. stinks for republicans and i think it s the best thing for the country. accountability. do you want to run washington or do you want to run your mouth. senate majority that s good. senate majority leader harry reid in so many ways says a win for joni ernst and iowa would all but ensure he lose his majority leader status. outgoing senator tom harkin drew some fire for this comment about ernst that suffered over the weekend on buzzfeed. i ve been watching some of these ads. and they re sort of this sense that joni ernst, she s really attractive. and she s well, i got to thinking about that. i don t care if she s as if looking as taylor swift. or as nice as mr. rodgers. but if she moves like michelle obama, she s wrong for the state of iowa. actually, that s a good point i m going to say what you just said. it s true. if a republican said that, it would be over. carol lee. might that backfire? yeah, i think it actually might. if there s one thing that any politician, particularly a seasoned one like harkin should know, is you don t tom about women s looks in that way. i was in iowa last week. the ernst campaign is very in tune to these kinds of thing and quick to jump on anything that has remotely a whiff of sexism attached to it. so it s not something that belongs in a race like this. it s sort of surprising to hear it coming from somebody who understands the state and has been around for so long. exactly. car carol, what was your feeling when you were out there reporting in iowa last week? did you see a trend? did you feel a trend going joni ernst s way? yeah, you did. i was there. i was with her for a couple of events and i was with vice president biden did an event with braley. i talked to a bunch of voters at that event. and even some of them coming to that event had voted for barack obama in 2008 and 2012 and had regretted voting for him. so the presence of the president in a state like iowa was really it was dominant. joni ernst talks about it a ton. she s also, you know, anyone who s watched her, she s kind of a natural on the campaign trail. and so she had a lot of appeal. voters there are definitely down on the president. and really looking for somebody different. and she seems to be tapping into some kind of sentiment there. and it looks like she s actually going to wind up winning. can you imagine a female candidate saying that about a male i can t. just wouldn t happen. cy was always degraded because they always would say that about me. just because piece so good looking. and has such chiseled features. nobody ever said that about me and my life. it s actually stupid that somebody would say that after being in politics that long. she hasn t put out a campaign that is anything but serious and, you know, quite frankly very much in the fight. can i ask one other question? let me ask carol the question first. can i then ask you a question? isn t this how this game works? harold, so donny was teaching about how millennials are now just snapshot, this could change tomorrow. and we re going to have the head of the harvard polling here saying millennials are actually trending republican right now. his fannics still supporting democrats but not the way they ve done. state by state by state, republicans will show you gender gap in many states now has shrunk tore four, five points. what has happened to the democratic party that their most faithful and loyal voters, outside of african-american voters, have departed? the republican, as everybody on the panel knows, in missouri and indiana could not agree on a simple criminal definition of rape. and it certainly impacted the race. the democrats did well. as you look at latino voters, there s really more of an akinship with republicans than democrats in those issues. for republicans, can talk about immigration reform in the right way. can really fundamentally change the map for them over the next few years. i would argue if republicans win the most important thing in the senate is sequencing. how they go about what they want to do. if they start with a narrow tax reform bill, perhaps trade promotion authority which obama s asked for but reid won t give it to him. if they start with some energy reform, keystone, perhaps lifting the ban on natural gas exports. they could change the optics light not only on washington but their party. i m not convinced they can do that but if they do that, those are the kinds of things that would help appeal not only to millennials but i would argue would help move the country forward. they need to surprise a lot of people. this is obviously, luckily for the republicans, has become a referendum on barack obama. i still want someone to answer the question why this guy is at 42% when if i m giving him talking points, unemployment s 6%, gas under 3 bucks, paxed the most important legislation of the last 50 years, saved the auto industry, killed osama bin laden. the medium is the message and barack obama is the medium. i mean, you give a report card he missed the message. barack obama is why barack obama is exactly it. let me get to governor s races. you both said this well. number one, he s not the president s not as comfortable talking about business success as some other but he s not as comfortable talking about those things. you said it well on this show a few weeks ago. ebola and isis, enormous unknowns, have colored this race and impacted these races negatively on the president s part and the democrat s part in the last few weeks. i m going to show you some of these tight governor races. just one point separates mary burke and her opponent in you don t think they re going to make the difference? i think the national wind in florida, one of the nastiest races of all. crist with the narrow ist of leads. 526 respondents chose crist, 524 chose scott. democrats are crazy confident about that race so i m not quite sure. libertarians really helping crist. if a national win counts in wisconsin it counts in florida and will carry both of those over. charlie crist is a better candidate. i just don t know that the national win matters. because they have their own record to be judged on. close to incumbent nathan deal. can carter win that one? if there s a runoff, maybe. sam brownback is now down six points to democrat paul davis. a fox news poll. what happened to sam brownback? discovered in a way people found a little bit arrogant. at this point, pretty close to certainty. doesn t that help orman? it does some. orman cannot count on that. i don t know. if i m a republican that s going to vote against a republican governor and vote democratic for the first time in my life, i don t know that i m going to go democratic twice. orman is an independent. oh, whatever. orman is a democrat. he had claire mccaskill begging him to run because he was the democrat s best chance of holding the seat. i m just saying. his message has been very disciplined as an independent. i m just saying if, you know, i always told people as far as people, have happenthat h. my family was a crest family. colgate commercials meant nothing to us, we bought crest. if you re in kansas, this works, if you re in kansas and your brand is republican, you may deviate from that brand one time. i don t know that you deviate from it twice. i actually think voting against brownback could help roberts at the end of the day. if orman wins, think about it also, the talk about an independent running for president, perhaps one on this set here, it grows, largely because you see the path if it can happen in kansas wrong. halperin, you re running for president? one final thing. for all of you pundits and pollsters out there that s saying greg orman is an independent and we really don t know if he s a democrat or a republican, i m taking bets right now. all right. on whether if he wins he s going to caucus with the republican party or the democratic party. i ll give you 5-1 odds that he caucuses with the democratic party. you know he s not going to caucus with the republicans. so just quit. do a little game on joe, your family you should we still are. forever. always has been. always will be. we re going to end the block this way because we re going to be doing so much politics. a magic night for 19-year-old lauryn hill, a college freshman with an inoperable brain tumor whose dream was to play college hoops at mt. st. joseph university in cincinnati. knowing hill has weeks to live, the ncaa moved up the date of her team s opening game to last night in hope she d be healthy enough to play. she scored four points. here is hill after the game. i just feel so blessed that this is all happening. just really happy. this is a really good day. and it just makes me so happy. beautiful. ncaa did good. still ahead on morning joe, kaci hickox is apologizing for her actions. i like her. she goes a little too forward that way. she goes a little too forward this way. during he mandated isolation, but not before taking the shot at the man who put her in that isolation. you put me in a bubble. you don t put baeb in a bubble. i think she said something like that. plus, bo, incredibly ow obedient. we ll explain. first, here s bill karens. what a weekend we just got done with. winter just like that. first off, we re down in the appalachians. this dumped heavy snow up to a foot in the mountains. and then outside of columbia, south carolina, we had four inches of snow. it snowed in central south carolina before it snowed in new england this year. kind of a wacky weekend. it was very cold all the way down to north florida where they had a frost. so let s talk about what happened next. we had the big nor easter. that patriots/broncos game barely missed out on the heavy wet snow and the winds. it did snow about three hours before kickoff. all of that went up into maine. we got almost 20 inches in eastern missouri. this was a record shattering for even bangor maine. had 14 inches of snow. by far the earliest they ve had double digit snowfall. what does that mean for now? you can see it rocketing up. it s still windy. still chilly. even the deep south we were down to 38 last night. now we re at 46. we re heading in the right direction. so what is next? we have a big rain storm heading for areas texas, oklahoma and arkansas. this will be around for election day too. we ll have to keep that in mind. it really shouldn t stop too many people from getting to the polls. a slow warm-up in the east. but not bad. we get rid of a lot of the frigid air. we will have that heavy rain and maybe an isolated flooding threat down there in areas of texas, arkansas, louisiana. i think most trouble thing for all of that can look into the future of these weather model, we have another possible nor easter coming and then another huge shot of cold air right behind that for next week. if you don t like the cold and chilly weather for the eastern u.s. we leave you with a shot of washington, d.c. after a cold weekend and bluchtblucht blustery winds. a nice day ahead. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. new york state is jump-starting business with startup-ny. an unprecedented program that partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years. from biotech in brooklyn, to next gen energy in binghamton, to manufacturing in buffalo. startup-ny has new businesses popping up across the state. see how startup-ny can help your business grow at startup.ny.gov let me get tyes?straight. lactaid® is 100% real milk? 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sometimes? track meets? i love going to track meets. i went to one this weekend. it was awesome. it s a good thing that you live here and not in iran. why? because you could be thrown in jail. is this an awkward transition? no, it s not an awkward transition, it s the truth. iranian court sentenced a woman to a year in prison for trying to watch a men s volleyball match. the 25-year-old british-iranian woman arrested outside a stadium while protesting a ban on women attending games. what s wrong with those people? what s wrong with those people? women are also banned from attacking soccer games. seriously. seriously. all right. let me get the bangor daily news. one of the most headline grabbing people, the names out there, kaci hickox, the nurse speaking out after successfully challenging maine s attempt to force her into a mandatory quarantine following her return from west africa. in an exclusive interview on meet the press, she said new jersey governor chris christie initially placed her into isolation because, quote an abundance of politics was at play. she s also now promising to limit her activity at home in maine. i understand that the community has been through a lot in the past week and that i do, you know, apologize to them for that. i will not go into town, into crowded public places. you know, i have had a few friends come visit me in my home. that s absolutely fantastic. okay. usa today. a brave pooch in alabama helped lead local officials to his owner who was wanted for allegedly producing crystal meth. edward henderson ran out of his back door when police arrived with a drug warrant last week and officers lost sight of where he went. investigators asked his dog bo to, quote, go get him. bo led authorities to henderson who was booked on five counts of a snitch. dogs are so smart. come on. he s cute. i like that dog. good looking dog though. what s going to happen to the dog? coming up, a story of perseverance, recovery and friendship. they take on a 103 story building while both rehabbing from major strokes. that s a good story. we ll be right back. 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one the things we re finding is they re not necessarily breaking more republican. just less democrat. obama, huge latino vote. finding a lot of decreases in that enthusiasm. the president was heckled in connecticut yesterday by a lot of people that were, wanted him to pass immigration reform. it s really going to hurt democrats especially in places like north carolina where the president delayed action in order to help hagan and her re-election bid. you feel like you ve had promises broken to you. when you have to get up early or leave work early to go stand in line, the ennews yas sell one analyst talking about how conservative a lot of hispanics are. as far as values go, rock solid values. i m not talking about necessarily the social issues. i m not just talking about abortion or gay marriage. just talk in general. hispanics share an awful lot of values with republicans who can t get out of their way to get the support. using the word conservative to describe themselves, but there s so much hostility. you don t really say like, i m conservative so i m going to vote for this guy would what s the most important for voters? jobs and economy. we hear about education and health care. education is the most frequently talked about among people would have children. the median age of latinos are 27. lots of people in the child rearing stage. the quality of public education s important. if they re voting on issues, can you tell which way they re leaning in the midterms? in the midterms, we think they re continuing to lean democratic. there s no question. there s less enthusiasm for the democrats. they re leaning in that direction. gary mentioned education. education is an area where the republicans i think more than social issues can make inroads because lots of latino families are stuck in really poor schools and a lot of republicans like a jeb bush have been talking for a long time about education reform. speaking of jeb bush, i think the guy who opened that clip, mitt romney, will be our next president, either him or bush. what do you advise these guys? they ve got to get through the primaries. wait, you say you think mitt romney or jeb bush yes, will be our next president. without question. probably romney. it could get interesting in bush wins. we talked about this last time. america wants a do over. america was right about a lot of things. when the crap hits the fan, everybody wants to go back to serious for lack of a better word. how do you advise them to understand in a general elebct n election, they ve got to do better? what separates the old mitt romney from the 2012 mitt romney is the old mitt romney tried to reach out to different groups anded in 2012 because of the primary process, he was pushed right. same true for jeb bush in 2016 if that s what he attempts to do. i think there s a real problem. i disagree. i ll take that bet. that neither mitt romney nor jeb bush will be president of the united states because i think the latino vote will be heavily democrat in a presidential year when, say, hillary clinton i m surprised to hear you say that about jeb bush. campaigned with jeb in miami. the guy was remarkable with hispanics. he is remarkable. as gary said, he can t take the bait and go that far to the right. he hasn t taken the bait yet, has he? rememberness book he released, he had to clarify things. where he said we shouldn t be giving out citizenship for all these illegals. he s going to want to go to the right for the primary. guaranteeing a republican in the white house. i ll take that bet. you heard it here. i actually think if the republicans get smart, they ve got a better than even chance. they re smart, you ll see it in the midterms. let me ask you guys what if republicans i m just speaking for myself as i consider to be economically very conservative and also conservative with a small c. but on immigration, i support legalization. i do not support citizenship. i support legalization with the pathway to citizenship. i can make an economic reason to hard core conservatives like me. you want hispanics who are working to contribute to social security and contribute to medicare and contribute to taxes. you want them to be legal because that brings us millions of dollars. but as far as citizenship goes, i think everybody should have somebody from pakistan should have an equal chance of getting here as somebody from mexico. if you look at the rhetoric, you look at the policy rhetoric from the immigration advocates, all they want is to put people on a path to citizenship. doesn t need to say you re going at the front of the line, you re going to get citizenship. they just don t want people stuck in a permanent status to say you can contribute to social security. there s got to be a pathway. that s exactly right. for people to put some hope that their position here becomes permanent. right. it s an issue of fairness. a huge percentage of undocumented immigrants are actually paying into the social security system right now. it s a real scam about for people who don t know about what they actually do is people that are building buildings will send in phony social security numbers. social security administration will wait six months to say, wait, there s the wrong now. they get the undocumented workers. a lot are paying social security. anyway, fascinating conversation. any predictions tomorrow? i have two predictions. the first is you ll see at least one instance where latinos saved a democrat who otherwise would have lost an election. colorado? colorado s the best bet but also kansas and georgia are close. huge latino population, in both those states. we ve been hearing georgia, the hispanic population has been growing. could hispanics make a difference in georgia in the runoff? the other thing i would look for is i predict there will be at least one case where a republican who has reached out to the latino community does better than expected. okay, the book is latino america. guys, come back after the election. up next, new details overnight in the investigation into the virgin galactic crash. what officials are now thinking was responsible for the accident. that, plus a look at what will be driving the markets. we go like to the new york stock exchange. 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sure. $250,000. i wish people could find other ways to spend that better to help people maybe. just saying. i m a guy of means. i would be embarrassed to spend money to do that with what s going on in space. it s weird, i ve never heard of them. cnbc s sara eisen. we ve heard of her. good to see you. we are coming off a pretty strong two weeks here for u.s. stocks. absolutely roaring back from what appeared to be a scary october at first. guess what, stocks are up. the s&p 500 more than 8% since they hit that bottom in the middle of october. coming off the best two weeks in nearly three years. set to open a little bit lower. typically november is actually a pretty strong month for u.s. stocks. want to mention auto sales because that could be a big mover today. starting to get them out. they trickle out from different auto companies throughout the day. it does appear that october was another strong month for growth in u.s. autos. we just got chrysler numbers, guys. chrysler sales for october, up 22% from last year. it s unbelievable. really, what s driving it is trucks and suvs. those lower gas prices are helping americans go to their favorite kind of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. honda came out, up 6%. nissan also up double digits. we ll get gm and ford a little later. this continues to be a bright spot when it comes to consumer spending and when it comes to the u.s. economy. i get my pickup truck, two months ago. the market is never wrong and what does that tell you about tomorrow, if the market s up 8% in the last two weeks? they re betting heavy republican. and the market is never wrong. so that will forget everything else, forget all the pundits i don t know, sara, i m skeptical we know we re i m skeptical because we ve heard very little talk about the midterm elections here on the floor. yes, the market is up, but don t forget, we re coming off a pretty solid earnings season where profit growth has beaten 10%. we re talking earnings growth. the u.s. economy is doing well. we just had a strong gdp number showing our economy grew 3.5%. we just ended quantitative easing. things appear to be on a good path. you could point to the gains and see that it s mostly due to better news in the economy and earnings as well. but since you did bring up the midterms, the big wild card is if we don t get a result by wednesday, becausevestors hate uncertainty. remember in 2000 when we didn t have a result between bush and gore, the s&p 500 dropped more than 7%. if we re talking about a runoff situation, that could add a little bit of tension to the markets. the outcome, a lot of strategists here, and they say not a lot is going to change either way when it comes to economic reform. the stars changed colors. so you re saying sara and thomas is like going pretty listen to her business report. great business report. look, they changed colors. this is really fascinating. this is the technology i just noticed this. look at eisen, thank you so much. we can put a man on the moon and now look what we can do. watch, they re red now. white. all right, we got a serious story. up next. okay, up next, bonded by tragedy, the touching story of the inspiring friendship between a u.s. senator and 12-year-old boy. stay with us. oats go! wow! go power oats! go! go power! yayyyy! i have $40,ney do you have in your pocket right now? 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senator mark kirk and 12-year-old jackson cunningham start to climb up chicago s willis tower, 103 stories straight up. kirk and cunningham were together step by step. just as they ve been through rehab. the two connected shortly after kirk suffered a major story troo years ago. the same thing happened to jackson when he was 8. caused by a blood clot. he wrote kirk a letter. do not give up on yourself. all the hard work is worth it. reporter: a beautiful friendship was born. it s full of affection and teasing like this trash talk before today s stair climb. you know why he blows me away? because he cheats. if you cry tomorrow, we can hug it out. reporter: behind it all, the very serious and demanding work of rehab. when i first met jackson, he really couldn t run. now he can run. reporter: what about the progress you ve seen in the senator? it s been a lot. from being in a wheelchair and him walking with his cane. reporter: earlier this year, the two were part of a 40-yard dash at the university of illinois. oh, we got a winner! reporter: when we first met the pair last year, kirk invited jackson to visit him in washington. next time, kirk wants to add something. physical fitness goal, to be able to jog around capitol hill with him. reporter: you want to help him on that? yes. reporter: kirk did only a portion of the stair climb, a fund-raiser for the rehabilitation institution of chicago. at the top, he was there for jackson who finished all 2,109 steps. he just was like a jack rabbit. reporter: two unlikely friends pushing each other to new heights. all right, what a great story. coming up, what, if anything, did we learn today. i m meteorologist bill karins. we re going to continue to watch rain developing in the middle of the country. this is the next storm to watch. thankfully, this one does not have snow or ice with it. we could have some minor travel problems in and out of san antonio. mostly late today and then during election day. have a great monday. it s ok thas like my homemade. it s our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i m watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself hi, are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. quick look at the weather. nice day, beautiful tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. what a day. can t wait til tomorrow. in the country. we operate just like a city, and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal, generating electricity on-site, and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we re very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment. i make a lot of purchases foand i get ass. lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 50,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards, even cash back. and my rewards points won t expire. so you can make owning a business even more rewarding. ink from chase. so you can. a judge in maine on friday ruled that nurse kaci hickox who had been ordered to remain quarantined in her home after working with ebola patients in africa, is free to go any place she wants. places like over there. and further over there. hickox was reportedly so happy with the ruling that she started vomiting blood. before the restrictions were lifted, kaci hickox openly violated quarantine orders thursday by taking an hour long bike ride with her boyfriend. said her boyfriend, help, she s gaining on me. all right. okay, wow. it s time to talk about what we learned ta eed today. i learned there is nothing more painful than talking about their love of saddle shoes. nobody should have to endure that. okay, they call them saddle oxfords first of all. i don t like saddle shoes. saddle oxfords. saddle shoes what are those? 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zerlina maxwell, trymaine lee, msnbc will stay on this show. politics nation with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening. thanks to you for tuning in. tonight s lead, the leader of the gop calls for a government shutdown. that s right. el rushbo is calling on the gop to defund the government and trigger a shutdown over the president s immigration plan. an unwritten rule in washington whfrp the government gets shut down no matter who is responsible for it, the republicans get the blame and as such the republicans take a giant weapon out of their arsenal of ammunition. it s time to man up and start dealing with this. they were not sent there to govern and participate and compromise. they were sent there to stop it. rush limbaugh sees the shutdown as a giant weapon. and he s not alone. the right-wing heritage action which cheered on last year s shutdown is back at it. quote, a long-term funding bill is a little more than a blank check for amnesty. and many house republicans also want to use government funding as a weapon. congressman paul gossa said, quote, i am insisting on that. congressman ted yoho called it a great idea. and congressman steve king demanded republicans uphold the constitution come what may. here is what a top gop senator said about the shutdown talk. very briefly you re saying that you don t think that republicans should take the ait, if you will, and do anything to shut down the government? well, it doesn t sol of the problem, chris. look, we re having those discussions. we re going to continue to meet about this. the house leaders are talking about it. the senate leaders are talking about it. they re having those discussions. they re talking about it. so far the threats aren t scaring the president. at a press conference in australia before coming home, he said he will act and prevent millions of deportations. i waited for over a year for speaker boehner to call that bipartisan bill in the house. but, as i ve said before, i can t wait in perpetuity when i have authority that can improve the system. there is a very simple solution to this perception that somehow i m exercising too much executive authority. pass a bill i can sign on this issue. it s now been 508 days since the senate passed an immigration bill, and the house has refused to even vote on it. the president is going to do the right thing no matter what kind of threats we see from the right. joining me now is jason johnson and joan walsh of salon.com. thank you both for being here. glad to be here, rev. the latest article is called mcconnell s looming apocalypse, gop conservatives plan budget show down. i want to come back to you on that, joan. could republican jason really shut the government down all over again? i mean, would they really make the same mistake twice? it didn t turn out to be a mistake. they won in 2014. the voters didn t make the republicans pay for shutting down the government for no reason. they have no reason to worry about it now. they can shut it down two or three more times before obama leaves office 0. i think there s a 50/50 chance. joan, can the so-called grown-ups in the gop have these calls for a shutdown and impeachme impeachment? are they going to take charge? we ve been waiting for the grown folks to take charge. you want a mandate, he had an amazing election. they were going to have to soul search and come to the conclusion they were going to have to reach out. i think including some sources in the white house who think mcconnell is the grown-up. i think it s a very vain hope. what happens when they do this, now mcconnell promised he s not going to let them shut down the government again. let s say he wants to stand by that. maybe we will go along with the short-term budget deal. they take some of the fire out of their base and dissipate their anger somehow through caving in on them. these smaller things lead to a bigger confrontation. it doesn t let them blow off steam. you know, jason, senator mitch mcconnell who joan mentioned says he doesn t want to shutdown but over the summer he openly talked about fighting fights with the president over spending bills. quote, we re going to pass spending bills and they re going to have a lot of restrictions on the activities of the bureaucracy. no money can be spent to do it this or that. we have to go after them on health care, on the environmental protection agency across the board. possibly tryiiggering a shutdow over issues that have nothing to do with immigration? of course, rev. you and joan, we re all clear on this have been poking obama in the chest for years saying, hey, hey, we dare to you do something although we re not really going to do our jobs. they want to shut down this presidency. this is not a winning issue. it hurts you with hispanic voters, with voters in the south. if we don t find something to do about the large number of undocumented people in this country it harms all of the united states. i think they still think they can do it but it s foolish and it s a losing long -term strategy. i just maybe in another world. all of the real ordinary americans that got hurt last time. government public workers. clarl damage to our ambitious and it s frightening to think these people are in charge and public servants working for the government that would be put in dire straights. we saw it last time. we saw it last time and we saw a $24 billion hit to the economy in lost growth and productivity because of the shuttion. i think a lot of major republican donors do not want to see a shutdown. they don t want to see another fiscal cliff. they don t want these gains anymore. because i want to ask you when you say the fiscal cliff, here is what you wrote about the pressure so that the gop shutdown threats on the leadership, quote, with conservatives vowing to use their powers on immigration, mcconnell will be tested early and often. is this not a classic dilemma, the far right keeps pulling the party off the political cliff? yeah, it is it is. they tell the country that they now want to govern and they are going to be responsible republicans. but at the same time they need the right wing of their party and they let them have little showdowns that lead to bigger showdowns and by constantly saying, rev, that this president is lawless, he s a tyrant, he s the most dictatorial, they re inflaming their base, making their base believe he s doing something illegal. doing something illegal, j jason, the president made a point that he s taken fewer executive actions than past presidents. with respect generally, the record will show that i have actually taken fewer executive actions than my predecessors. nobody disputes that. what i think has changed is the reaction of my friends in congress exercising fairly typical exercises of authority. other problems changed since president obama s take in office, jason. i have no idea. maybe the lighting on him is a little different. no one screamed when reagan did this in 1987. what s important, rev, to notice what the president said, lack, as soon as congress signs a bill and gives me a bill i can sign, i ll crumple up my executive order. he said he wants to work with congress. jason johnson and joan walsh, thank you for your time tonight. i m going to have to leave it there. you thank you. coming up, a gruesome isis video. now the hunt is on for the killers. did they leave important clues? 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wilson then reportedly stopped michael brown at 12:02. he radioed this in. 21. put me on canfield. the shooting happened just after that call. we learned the entire interaction lasted 90 seconds and today as we wait for the grand jury so many questions remain. legal experts told the new york times the most likely charges range from everything from second-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter in the second degree or he might not get charged at all. so where is this going, and do these new videos have any impact on the case? joining me now kendall coffee and host faith jenkins. thank you both for being here. thanks, reverend. we ll get into the possible charges in a minute. kendall, i want to ask about this new video. how are lawyers on both sides try to use it? i think lawyers for the prosecution s side would say, look, if there were a prosecution, there s no evidence of injuries much less injuries that indicate serious body injuries or somebody that thought they might be facing death. so at least as far as the videos go they do nothing to exonerate officer wilson. faith? i think what kendall is saying is right. this reminds me of george zimmerman, when they released the video of him walking into the police station after all those reports had komiyama out that he had a broken news. you can t it tell from a video how a person is injured just based on video alone looking at that in a vacuum. now the grand jury has probably seen this video, but this is just a snapshot of what we re seeing. they ve probably seep the full range and scope of all of the evidence at this point if all the evidence has now been presented to them. so you can t just look at this video and decide whether or not a person is injured but, yes, the argument could be made from the praurt s side that this is not someone who informs a life-and-death struggle perhaps based on the video. if the prosecutor made that argument if. i want to hear from both of you on this, too. as i mentioned the new york times says legal experts believe crimes are likely to be considered in this grand jury. second had-degree murder which could mean 10 to 30 years in presideison, voluntary manslaug which has a penalty of 5 to 15 years in prison, involuntary manslaughter in the first degree, up to 7 years in prison, involuntary manslaughter in the second degree up to 4 years. what do you think? well based on i m sorry. you go ahead. it depends on how the prosecutor presents this case to the grand jury. in manhattan, for example, when we present police shootings to grand juries, we may ask the first question after the evidence has been presented, do you think this shooting was justified, i m talking about police shootings. the first question, do you think the shooting was justified? if the grand jurors return a vote of yes, then they may not get to the second question of what charges should be considered based upon the death of another person. so he it all depends on how the prosecutor decides to present and charge the jurors on the law. kendall? this isn t being presented the usual way prosecutors deal with a grand jury. they re getting all of the evidence kind of thrown at them. the prosecutor is going to list the elements of the different crimes, but that s not the way it s normally done. prosecutors typically with police investigate. they do an investigation and then they structure a presentation to a grand jury based on their view of the factual narrative that is compelling that can be proven. it s a matter of leadership with the grand jury and here all the prosecutors are doing is basically standing back, giving them some legal generaltist and telling them to figure it out for themselves. which is unusual because i want to bring something else on that, kendall, for your reaction. the grand jury itself isn t operating like a typical grand jury. the new york times reports, quote, routinely grand juries are virtual rubber stamps, approving the proposed indictments at the hearifter hea few witnesses. proceedings have been prolonged and exhaustive and more resembling a criminal trial than a normal grand jury hearing. very accurate. most of us nope the grand jury processeses that we know and love are heavily led by prosecutors. they do it ethically, they re honest about the evidence, but they pick the evidence that supports their fanarrative. you have an approach to a grand jury that seems to maximize cover for the prosecution office and, frankly, minimize the risk of serious charges. it is a different use and some would say, including me i wrote in my column today a misuse of the grand jury because a grand jury is not there to determine guilt or innocence. they re there to raise the question probable cause. there s probable cause, we must proceed to a trail to find out if there s guilt or innocence. right. police shootings can be a little different. to what kendall was saying normally prosecutors go in, they make a decision. this is why you hire the prosecution or you elect the ones that you elect because you want people who have good judgment to make decisions on cases. and here i think when you look at the grand jury and the way it s being presented to the grand jury, this is a prosecutor who has decided i m not taking a position. i m not making a decision and probably what is the most high-profile case of his entire career. he s decided i am taking a step back. i m putting all of the evidence before these citizens and letting them decide. the are problem is this is not a trail so you don t have lawyers arguing the evidence and analyzing the evidence and presenting the in evidence such a way of making those legal arguments to these nonlegal experts. and that s where people are concerned about the grand jurors being confused about all of this. the volume of evidence being submitted to them. kendall, could they be sending a subliminal message to them that i m not putting my weight behind this by recommending or leaning toward any lael iegal issue here? absolutely that s the message. that s anything but the message a grand jury ordinarily will receive from the prosecution. and that is the problem. k kendall mentioned, or i think you, faith, that the video of the grand jury probably has seen the scope of it. but the lawyer for the family, says he hopes they ve seen these videos at all because we don t know what they ve seen because only the prosecutor controls that. let me show you ben crump, the family s attorney. i would hope that they got to see this video and they asked the same questions everybody in america is asking today. where s his blown-out orbital eye fracture, why are the police two hours later walking around normally? why isn t he at a hospital saying, i can t see? you don t have any of that. it s troubling to michael brown s family. but the question is we don t even know if that video was shown to the grand jury because you don t know what is shown and not shown in a grand jury proceeding. but we do know what the prosecutor did say in the beginning, and that was he was going to present all of the evidence to these jurors, put it all in and let them make a decision. presumably if he did that then this video was shown. whatever happens in the grand jury, they choose to intight or not to indict. the argument can be made this is not just a grand jury s decision. it s the prosecutor s decision, too. because it s the way he presents the evidence in the case. the prosecutor can t hide behind the grand jury completely saying this is their decision and we have to just go with that. this is also his decision. kendall, talking about decisions, the state of emergency declared by the governor of missouri today, how do you read that? how will that impact the grand jury decision? well, i think the grand jury is being told to ignore all those concerns. i think they probably will. obviously there s an assumption that the community is not going to react well, and i think it confirms what all of us have assumed, that the word inside that pro is he is is there isn t going to be an indictment. that s why this concern is so elevated. and, you know, i have to say, i never thought that the local grand jury was going to return charges. i hope, even though we re getting some signals the feds aren t going to indict either, but i hope that that is seriously examined. i think there s a lot of us that will call for continue to call for that examination because we need the truth out, and we cannot do it in a secret grand jury proceeding that isn t even behaving like a grand jury. thank you both for your time tonight. thank you. thanks, reverend. coming up, jimmy kimmel s celebration of unfriend day. who are you unfriending? a tv anchor wears the same suit every day for a year to make a point about sexism. and beyonce s sister gets married. conversation nation is ahead. nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad? 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(vo) meee-ow, business pro. meee-ow. go national. go like a pro. we re back with conversation nation. joining me tonight krystal ball, chris witherspoon, and liz plank. thank you all for being here. thanks for having us, rev. we start off with politics. tomorrow it will be two weeks since the election. in the past we ve seen presidents at this stage argue that they are still relevant. i mean, that was the case with bill clinton. but no one is saying that with president obama. in fact, what s different is this seems like his moment from immigration to the environment to isis. it seems like the gop s entire existence revolves around how president obama will act. krystal, it seems a lot of mainstream press is surprised at how consequential the president is it at this point. what s your reaction? well, you have to keep in mind he still has the power of the presidency. he still has the veto pen and republicans still don t have a 60-vote filibuster majority in the senate. so the president not only still has a great ability to block bad legislation coming through and a lot of leverage but he s also seeing that there s very little that he s actually going to be able to work with republicans on. the fact that republicans have been unwilling to act has put the ball in his court. look, i gave you all a chance. now i have to do this alone. he s also over the past year really made climate changes in terms of what his legacy will be, bringing in something he s been working on. major deal with china, major agreement really shifts the ground in terms of climate change going forward. so he s doing everything he can with the great power that he really still has. liz? and i think we ve to put this all into context, right? this was a at this poitypical s election. the party always loses a certain amount of seats. this was a particular she shellacking. wei we saw even conservative people agree with things like minimum wage. i m not surprised that the president is going ahead with his agenda. but are you surprise it had, chris, the number one issue discussion piece, all of that? president clinton said i m still relevant. he hasn t had to say that. barack obama kms over into entertainment, into hollywood. everyone cares about this nation and the poll six surrounding this nation. i think it s great to see him come back. stow many people thought it was the end of the world. it s great to see obama shaking it off like taylor swift says. and let s keep in mind, too, the entire republican strategy has revolved around opposition to this president. so that gives him a certain power as well. let me go on to the next topic. they say clothes makes the man but they also make a statement. after his routinely co-host was criticized by viewers with b her on-air outfits they decided to conduct an experiment. he s been wearing the same blue suit on his morning program for a year. all to make a point saying, quote, no one has noticed. no one gives a blank. but women are judged much more harshly for what they do. love that. liz, what a statement. i d get tweets if i wear the same suit in a month. you do? i have an anecdote to share. i got more tweets about the fact i wore open-toed shoes with tights than i did about the substance of what i was talking about. fashion minded. it s the msnbc fashion police. they re really out there to get me. don t wake up the beast. women are judged more harshly on their appearance. your socks notwithstanding. you re the exception to the rule. it has real-life consequences. women past the age of 50 basically get pushed out of broadcast iing. if you look at broadcasters over the age of 50, only 1/5 of them are women. we have to treat this as a real issue. you re the culture man, chris. i think it s amazing. a-list celebrities and i sit down with women. they have a team of folks that will bring in different outfits, different clothes to see what pops on camera. men bring a black t-shirt, black jaens and be feign. no one really cares what guys are wearing sometimes. when i was running for congress my staffers told me the biggest difference is the amount of time and effort that goes into thinking about what the appropriate outfit is. it s a whole community process because you have to think about what am i doing throughout the day and logistically is this appropriate for later on. with men there s a uniform. i love that this guy made this this point. it s so cool that he s supporting. it s women judging women. it s a great statement and the reason i ve gone into happy socks is i m trying to have a late show on msnbc called sock it to me, reverend. i love it. up next, it s national unfriend day. who are you going to unfriend and why? . 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i don t totally support this whole concept. it s a little mean. i m going to unfriend the democrats who don t stand for anything. grow a backbone. stand up for what you believe in. chris? i follow celebrities for a job. i m going to unfriend kim kardashian. she gives you so much on instagram. some is he so unyouauthentic. i will unfriend had he and follow her again tomorrow. i didn t know you were wo working like that. liz? i am going to unfriend time magazine for saying we should ban feminism and kale. that s not okay. i m unfriending them until they take it back. they said feminism was dead 20 years ago and now they re saying we should ban the word. not cool. so you re unfriending time magazine. well, i guess who are you unfriending? well, the person knows. i love it. you are finished. that s it. over with. you ve been unfriended. and if you complain, i m going to tell it on national television. you know! krystal, chris, and liz, thank you for your time tonight. we ll be right back. hungry for the best? 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oh! harold square. somebody gave my mom that coat. happy thanksgiving. thanks to bass pro shop. log on to our web site for our after the show show. a fierce storm hitting the east coast snarling thanksgiving travel as folks try to get home in time for the holidays. i m ed henry in america s newsroom. heather: i m heather childress. bill and martha are off. the storm stranded travelers for hours and the delays had ripple effects all across the country. i started down the runway and we got shut down and we had to sit there and wait for them to open the air space again. reporter: that woman you just heard, it took her 12 hours to fly direct from austin, texas to newark, new jersey. and she was one of the lucky ones. much of the east coast was hit with a sloppy, wintry mix making for a miserable commute on one of the busiest travel days of the year. 751 flights were canceled nationwide. there were nearly 5,000 delays. put that in perspective tuesday. there were only 140 cancellations. the new york city airports were up to 3 hours and in boston delays were an hour and a half. as of this morning i m happy to report there are 55 flight cancellations and 352 delays. according to triple aaa we are talking about up to 10 inches of snow. authorities across the east coast are warning drivers to be careful of slick, icy roads today and tomorrow, even if the storm has passed. ed: there are also hundreds of people without power. how are they doing? reporter: 200,000 people are without power. in maine they have woken up to total darkness. it s unlikely those customers will be able to restore power in time to cook their turkeys. public works officials were out in full force in new jersey yesterday. there were 200 traffic accidents when they declared a state of emergency. we always like it after thanksgiving. but we are here and we are geared up and the crews are ready to work. we thought it might be safer to wait for everything to be cleared up. good news from the thanksgiving day parade. it will be a cold day but the wind won t be bad. in other news things are cool off in ferguson after things are cooling off in ferguson after last night. three days after a grand jury announced it would not indict officer wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. de demonstrators are still taking to the streets including los angeles. dominic, after a mostly quiet night is there a sense evenings could reignite? reporter: there most certainly is. details are coming out about the two men arrested friday, the feds picking them up with explosives. it appears they were plotting to blow up the st. louis arch and assassinate the county prosecutor robert mcculloch. we have bad weather on this thanksgiving morning. the temperature will go up a lot. it will be 61 degrees saturday and the and the improvement in the weather will bring the protesters out. as the weather conditions change and people are able to come out it increases the possibility of confrontation here. heather: what is being done to catch the looters, arsonists, vandals, the businesses that were leveled and all the people who don t have jobs. reporter: they are calling on the state police to help them round up the people we saw monday night and tuesday night going around damaging and looting the buildings here. you can see on the screen at the moment, this is a liquor store that was looted for the second time. you can see how the rioters came rushing in and started helping themselves and trashing the place. incredible video of a woman calmy pouring milk on the flames and saving the building from burning down. they will be using video evidence to identify the culprit and the from there they will start arresting people hopefully. the community wants to get over this. you are hearing people in the community that they are helping parole billings get back on their feet with charitable donations and financial contributions. heather: so unfair to all those good people who do live there in ferguson trying to celebrate thanksgiving. thank you so much. ed: the republicans crafting their response to the president s executive action on immigration. this is the next big spending bill and a possible government shutdown looms. oopters warn those tactics have backfired on the gop in the past. daniel, when the president was in chicago a couple days ago you think he might have slipped up and given republicans tam anything. he went off the teleprompter after being heck manied by immigration activists. he said why are you heckling me. i just took an action to change the law. previously they had been arguing president obama s amnesty order was within the confines of the law and here was an admission he is change the law. ed: on that very point, congressman bob goodlat is one of the republicans leading in the the hearings. listen to what he had to say. the constitution says all legislative authority shall rest in the congress of the united states. pts article two says the president shall take care to faithfully execute the laws. it doesn t say the conscious can act and if the congress fails to act then the president can acting. either he has authority understood the law or he does not. i and a great many other people say he does not and that will be the subject of the hearing. ed: we heard republicans say that again. there will be a lot of hearings and criticisms but in the even the republicans won t stop the president. reporter: republicans are unified in the fact they are against obama s executive order. i haven t heard a single republican say they are for it. there are 6 democrats in the senate saying they are not sure they are in favor of president obama s actions. there are some disagreements as to whether or not it should be tackled in this congress or she should do a small stop gap funding measure and tackle it in the next congress. but i think these are small disagreements. i think ultimately they can send a bill to president obama s desk that funds the rest of the government that isn t controversial and make president obama make a decision as to whether he signs the bill and keeps government open or whether he chooses not to and closes the government. ed: the incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said there will not be a government shutdown. he tried to take that off the table. this is an early test for mitch mcconnell, isn t it? if they send president obama a spending measure that keeps the government open but doesn t fund these prove moves and president obama decides not to sign the bill, who is keeping the government open or closed? i think republicans like mitch mcconnell make the argument president obama just closed down the government. ed: i feel like we have been down this road before. but for today we ll take a break. happy thanksgiving . good to see you. heather: u.s. specialal forces leading a mission to rescue hostages held by al qaeda in yemen. ed: brazen robbers crashing a store into a target store. police say they were after one thing. hetd at the white heather: at the white house, executive action of a different kind for the holiday. i don t call this amnesty. but don t worry, there is plenty of turkey to go around. p.push it real good! ow! oooh baby baby.baby baby. if you re salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. push it real good. it s what you do. ah. push it. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it s what you do. ah. push it. i m pushing. i m pushing it real good! ed: an american airlines plane make an emergency landing. pet plane took off again for chicago just a few hours later. heather: we are getting reports that u.s. special forces conduct a raid attempting to free an american and briton . but al qaeda says those two westerners were moved by the time the troops arrived. but they still rescued 8 hostages. happy thanksgiving. it will be a happy one for these 8 hostages. we used drones before in yemen but apparently this was a boots on the ground operation. this operation requires precise intelligence in order to be effective in order to have a good outcome, much like the bin laden raid, intelligence was the key. in this case it appears the hostages we were trying to get have been moved a few days earlier. i m sure haul other aspects of i m sure all other aspects of this op were. heather: if the hostages were moved it means there was some sort of leak along the way. we were in syria trying to rescue hostages and they had been moved. but in this case this was an operation being run in conjunct yemeni forces. in conjunction with the yemeni forces. you have to start wondering whether somebody there is tied to al qaeda and put the word out we were going to run that mission. heather: we talked about the amount of the money received by these groups, al qaeda in the arabian florida specificall n peninsula received from hostages. many times it s not just al qaeda that s taking these hostages, they are being assisted by tribesmen there in the yes then region. how much can we rely on the government there to assist us. that money issue is big all over north africa. where our nato allies who have pledged never to pay ransom have paid $25 million to get their hostages out. when it comes to these radical elements operating outside the government s control, anyway they can get a hostage, any way they can make money. al qaeda has a handbook out teaching people how to take hostages. isis is using ransom as a way of making money. it s spread out virtually anywhere there are groups or tribes or clans willing to take westerners, knowing they can get money out of them. heather: you have been involved in numerous operations in the middle east. you were specifically involved in the release of the beruit hostages. is there anything we are not doing correctly at this point when dealing with these groups? we have seen a lot of activity. i give credit to the white house for returning these missions. it s always going to go back to intelligence. i think it s critical as in the bin laden mission that we try to share nothing with the host country. not that we don t trust them all the time. but it only takes one person inside that group of people knowledge toobl say on to sa. and before you know it the bad guys are up and they tried to penetrate the government. we need to continue to do it. we do not want to pay ransom to get hostages out. it sets a bad precedent. heather: what should it say to other terrorist organizations? not only did we free 8, we killed as many as 8. that should be a warning. we grabbed guy in downtown tripoli who was involved in benghazi. we can go anywhere in the world often with the help of another government, often without. i wish we were doing that against isis targets in iraq and syria. we can do these things and do them well. we have the force and we have the capability. we just need the leadership that says let let s let s do it. at some point we ll have more decisive leadership that wants to do this. we have run these kinds of missions in iraq and afghanistan continuously throughout the war. nighttime missions, day time missions by our most elite special operations forces working with the afghans, sometimes working with iraqi special ops. heather: it makes me proud to be an american listening to you now. happy thanksgiving and happy thanksgiving to all our troops serving overseas today. ed: buffalo, new york coping with major damage after that epic snowstorm. we ll show one business that potentially lost millions. heather: some bold robbers couldn t wait until black friday. i would like to wish happy holidays to my family in queens new york and my girlfriend. happy holidays to all. i ll be home soon. airbornee all the way. bla . so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it s out there somewhere spreading the word about america s favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association s go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope you ll let us know. always look for the grown in idaho seal. every day i say, i m gonna quit smoking. then i stop for gas, a coffee and there they are. cigarettes. it s like going on autopilot. right? well, i m no robot. starting now, i m stopping one less cigarette at a time. that s how zonnic helps me quit. with new zonnic nicotine gum, every cigarette you don t smoke is a victory. 3 great flavors. just $3.99 or less wherever cigarettes are sold. zonnic. every victory counts. heather: a bold smash and grab robbery caught on camera. you can see a minivan crash into a store. 20 people rush in and out twice make off with thousands of dollars of designer jeans in 23 minutes. this is just a string of smash and grab robberies. thieves drove cars through the stores. ed: cleanup continues after buffalo, new york was in the bull s-eye of a pre-winter storm. 7 feet dumped in the area last week and one business getting hit extra hard. reporter: twisted metal, and shattered glass. 2 1/2 acres of greenhouse smashed. we have never seen 6-7 feet of snow in 30 hours. it started wet and heavy. reporter: mark is a fourth generation farmer learning from this brother and uncle. they grow fruits and vegetables on hundreds of acres in eaton, new york. the estimated damage is in the millions. the focus is on demolition. and stabilizing the water pipes, shutting down down and draining them before they freeze and are a total loss. reporter: the weight of the snow was too for the glass panels. this is the result. workers are trying to spall vaj at least one of the struck are trying to salvage one of the structures. we have a lot of work to do and 20-degree nights are not going to be working in my favor. we always build them in july and august. but there is no choice. i hope to see the sun come up tomorrow. reporter: he says understand will cover some of the losses and the kindness of friends and neighbors is helping put the farm back on track. ed: when you think about how long it will take to go through the demolition so they can end the dig out process and try to rebuild. heather: they needed things to warm up, but they warmed up so quickly it caused all that flooding. our hearts go out to those folks. struggling startling new details. court files reportedly revealing why the ferguson police officer did not use a non-lethal weapon on michael brown. ed: holiday humor at the white house. president obama taking jabs at the republicans and not everybody is laughing. you are hereby pardoned from the thanksgiving dinner. i found a better deal on prescriptions. we found lower co-pays. .and a free wellness visit. new plan.same doctor. i m happy. it s medicare open enrollment. have you compared plans yet? it s easy at medicare.gov. or you can call 1-800-medicare. medicare open enrollment. you ll never know unless you go. i did it. you can too. ed: officials say five people are dead, dozens wound after a homicide bomber targeted a british vehicle in kabul. the violence ramping up ahead of next month when the u.s. combat mission officially comes to an end. a nor easter forcing the cancellation of 700 flights and delaying thousands more. residents in ferguson hoping for calm this thanksgiving day. the town cleaning up after last month s violent protests that saw a dozen buildings burn to the ground. heather: president obama poking fun at immigration critics at what he says is sure to be his most talked about executive action. pardoning two turkeys this thanksgiving. i know some will call this amnesty. [laughter] but don t worry, there is plenty of turkey to go around. heather: monica crowley is a fox news contributor and reporter for the washington times. mac and cheese were the two turkeys names. do you find amnesty funny? i m always up for a great joke but leave to it this president to take a lovely and charming and sweet and non-political event like the annual pardoning of the turkeys to take a sarcastic jibe at t republicans and something deadly serious like amnesty and what many believe to be a grave violation of his presidential responsibilities. he just can t help himself. he can t even enjoy a moment like this. he has to inject politics into everything. i m always up for a good joke but this seems inappropriate. heather: this isn t the first time he has been accused of politicizing something. he has been accused of politicizing ebola. do you recall last year when he par dornd the turkeys, the organization for action which was a non-prove it social welfare group? they came out with this list, the things people should talk about around the thanksgiving dinner. and they were talking about how you should talk about obamacare with your relatives. they did that last year to politicize the holiday. we got lectured on how we should gather around the thanksgiving table which they are still doing. if you want to go out today and do a little shopping after dinner you will get bombarded with people who have clipboards asking to sign up for obamacare. last year they had pajama boy with his hot chocolate. christmas morning took you your family about obamacare. the politician are everywhere with this administration. especially with policies that are highly unpopular with the american people like obamacare and amnesty. heather: i think it last numbers we saw. 5%. people think the executive packs on immigration was not the right move for the president to do. he s always been flippant when it comes to his routine abuses of power and disregard for the constitution. the will of the merit can people. he s lad these sarcastic asides. now, though, i think he s grappling with the final two years of policies that are unpopular with the american people. i think he feels if he jokes about them they will become more palatable. and it s not going happen with something as serious as the future of our country. heather: people are going to hear this segment and get on twitter and say come on, it s just a joke, don t you have a sense of humor? does it speak to something on a wider platform? that being the president s regard for what the american people say and have to believe. the chat evening republicans on this. sure he is. like we say, i heard the president be very funny. he has great comic timing. my hat is off to him on that. when you are talking about unilateral executive action on amnesty. a lot of people on both sides believe is unconstitutional. believe of violated his oath of office to execute the law. the republicans he has been taunting them, he did yesterday with the par dorng of the turkeys. taunting the republicans to try to do something about it. try and stop me on this. there are tools the republicans do have to bring this to a halt including defunding his unilateral action on amnesty which is something the conscious at research service over the last 24 hours have come out and said in an analysis that the republican congress does have the constitutional authority to do that. when he says bring it on. you might want to be careful what you wish for because the republicans have some instruments they have to use. there are several democrats concerned about that executive action. i wonder what the first lady has to say about the names. mac and cheese. i don t think that s on her menu and the president pardoned them. mac and cheese, it s okay. did you notice mrs. obama was not present. so maybe she did have an issue with mac and cheese. maybe she wanted spinach and broccoli. ed: i don t think the first lady boy cod the event. i think monica is a good addition to any table. i have had lunch with her before. she is awesome. heather: do you think the first lady would eat mac and cheese? edwhere no, she made ed: no, she made it clear. maybe pop the turkey in the oven. we have unique advice you might enjoy. reporter: they know how turkeys sound. turkeys are smart so you have to sneak up on them. i think they run away because they don t want to get eaten. you get a bow and arrow. twas the night before thanksgiving. these first graders know all about thanksgiving and what it takes today to cook a turkey. i like turkey. you bake it in the oven, and then you get all the bones out. it s just one of my favorites. it tastes really good. you put it on the microwave. and i cook it with a frying and. 20 minutes. reporter: what do you put on the turkey to make it taste good? i don t really put anything on it. maybe some spicy stuff. or maybe . reporter: these and 7-year-olds say turkey isn t the only thing on the table. what s that type of is it stuffing? i never tried stuffing. i like to eat stuffing and cookies and bread. you get other stuff like sometimes just ham and sometimes you have rolls and you have all kinds of stuff. including corn. a lot of people like. i guess carrots. i can eat them any holiday. any day. i ll eat apples, of course unless they are just i really like it. report prr vision of turkey legs dance in our heads. one lesson they will take away from this special recipe. thanksgiving is about more than just the meal. i invite my family over to my house and gather around them. and say what i m thankful for. i m thankful for texas. reporter: that s from our affiliate in austin, texas. of course they are going say barbeque sauce. do you put barbeque sauce on the turkey? heather: no, but we do fry them. do you put barbeque sauce on your turkey? ed: i have never done that. my daughter is 10 and she loves vegetables. my son is 13 and he never met a vegetable, ever. the first lady would not like it. he s pretty skinny, by the way. heather: i like the giant turkey leg. we have some new details from the grand jury files on ferguson. including why officer darren wilson was not carrying a taser the day he shot michael brown. ed: a new recall over faultiy pair bags affecting tens of thousands of vehicles. i m deployed with the 18th airborne core. tip would like to wish my family and friends in san antonio, texas, a happy thanksgiving. i miss you so much and i ll see you soon. i love you. good morning everybody. we are about to make more deliveries to more places than anybody on earth. we have the speed. we have the technology. and we have the team. we made over 15 billion successful deliveries last year. 15 billion! football has a season. baseball has a season. this is our season. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. because i make the best chicken noodle soup. for every way you make chicken noodle soup, make it delicious with swanson®. heather: a major automaker turning to be rocked by safety issues . toyota recalling 40,000 vehicles in japan as part of the an airbag problem and further recalls may be coming after officials say they are looking into another airbag issue. the airbag problems blamed for 6 deaths and dozens of injuries. millions of cars being recalled worldwide. ed: the grand jury files say officer wilson said he was not armed with his taser and he didn t like carrying it around bates was too heavy and clunky. is this an important revelation? does this tell us anything in terms of maybe he should have had that tears and could have used non-lethal force again michael brown? i think at this point it s important to remember these new detail are the highly speculative about the effect of what it would have meant if he would have had the taser available. the grand jury did consider that testimony. darren wilson went on record saying he didn t carry the taser, it was too clunky. even despite that the grand jury decide not to indict. so the question isn t what effect it will be in a criminal context. it will be a question of what we can do going forward as part of this federal investigation into the probe and practice. ed: was he supposed to have the taser? i don t believe he was supposed to have the taser. that s the type of fundamental change we need to see implemented as part of this pattern and practice probe into the ferguson police department. we have seen in the past these types of investigations can result in agreements being reached between the local law enforcement agencies and the justice department where improvements are made to the police operations and this is the type of positive change president obama keeps calling for and the brown family keeps calling for in the wake of their son s death. ed: criminal charges were not brought on the local level. but you mentioned the potential federal case led by eric holder. eric holder is planning to step down. i know the bar is much higher to bring federal charges, but with eric holder stepping down soon, is he under pressure within the administration to bring a case even if it s not there? the legacy item? it many an excellent question. many in the legal community view the recent statements by the attorney general about the ongoing federal investigations as being more after political gesture than an actual viable legal avenue. recently the attorney general reminded the public that there are independent investigations going on that hah been going on since day one. and by doing that, he s trying sea swimming some of the massive he s trying to assuage some of the disappointment but he might have inadvertently created a false sense of hope that there will be more criminal charges brought against officer wilson. ed: michael brown s family has been doing a series of interviews. their attorney said the community brown lived in. and benjamin croft, the attorney for the family, he was talking about the african-american community and it might suggest that he was profiling due to a racial bias. i m not saying he was, this is the allegation being raised by the brown family. could that play into a potentially federal case. i m sure itments being reviewed by the justice department. they are conduct their own independent investigation. unfortunately the legal burden is so high with the federal ross cuter would ultimately have to show the federal prosecutor would have to show officer wilson intended to violate brown s civil rights. ed: state of mind. in the heat of the moment it s hard to figure out. the evidence we have seen being released, the testimony, the forensic evidence, it just does not appear to have enough to suffice to carry that very heavy evidentiary burden. ed: we appreciate you coming in. a lot of people hoping for peace and quiet over this holiday. heather: the world s top oil producing countries meeting in austria as fuel prices continue to fall around the world. some leaders calling for drastic measures to reduce excess supply. what it could mean for prices at the pump. ed: that holiday gift that s strengthening more than just a boy s hand. introducing the new philips norelco shaver series 9000 with contour detect technology that flexes in 8 directions for the perfect shave at any angle. go to philips.com/new for savings on shavers and trimmers. innovation and you. philips norelco. this is the equivalent of the and this is one soda a day over an average adult lifetime. but there s a better choice. drink more brita water. cl thank you. ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. i order b14. i get b14. no surprises. buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller coaster white knuckle thrill ride. you re promised one speed. but do you consistently get it? you do with comcast business. and often even more. it s reliable. just like kung pao fish. thank you, ping. reliably fast internet starts at $89.95 a month. comcast business. built for business. edrrp a 7-year-old being fitted with a robotic hand after being born with only a thumb on his right hand. it was developed by high schoolers in a tech class. after 9 months of work, the students use the school s 3d printer to create the design. to help a person with their disability and to give them a feeling of wholeness it s a great feeling inside. if it gives them something and strength to move forward. that s huge. ed: his family says the robohand is changing johnny s life and giving them all something to be thankful for this thanksgiving. heather: the global economy on shaky ground as opec meets in vienna today. they are look at the steep decline in oil prices which is creating winners and losers. is opec cutting production and will we see lower prices? it has dropped from $115 a barrel to $75 or so. a big reason for that is the boom in the production of american shale oil. depending on what opec decides today, prices could drop even further. it s a very long meeting. the world s leading oil producing nations are expected to leave productions at its current level. in the past when oil prices have dropped. other oil producing nations cut production to shore up the prices. the united arab emirates said they are comfortable with these oil prices. demand is slogan production is increasing. heather: why is saudi arabia willing to accept lower prices? reporter: they say production is high and demand is slowing but saudi arabia is looking beyond the oil price and look at what s going on around the world and some of these conflicts we are watching in the middle east and europe paint a good picture why saudi arabia is willing to accept a lower price. russia and iran are big backers of the assad regime. so an effective strategy to hurting assad is to hurt his financial backers both iran and russia. a lower oil price would hurt iran and russia and disrupt their ability to fund and supply weapons and money to assad. it also may help rediewlts aggressiveness of russia in the ukraine and also keep iran as at the negotiating table over its nuclear program. there are a lot of reasons for saudi arabia and the gulf countries to want to keep the powell prices lower. among them is russia and iran. whether that will stay long term or whether they will respond to these lower oil prices isn t clear. but russia and iran need high oil prices to balance their budgets. by bringing count price of oil it does hurt iran russia. iran iran and russia. ed: lawmakers on capitol hill are away for the holidays. a firestorm continues to grow over the president s executive actions on immigration. heather: a thanksgiving travel nightmare. many folks still trying to get home at this hour after a massive storm. the latest forecast coming up. t. then i ll use a bunch of them. what are you doing? dish issues? . . get cascade complete. one pac cleans better than six pacs of the bargain brand combined. cascade. now that s clean. get fast-acting, long-lasting relief from heartburn with it neutralizes stomach acid and is the only product that forms a protective barrier that helps keep stomach acid in the stomach where it belongs. for fast-acting, long-lasting relief. try gaviscon®. ed: president obama extending a wide array of federal benefits to illegal immigrants. happy thanksgiving. heather: glad to be with you on this thanksgiving. bill and martha spending time with their families today. the white house confirming illegal immigrants who stay in the country under president obama s executive actions and apply for work permits will be eligible for social security and medicare, potentially putting added pressure on the severely under funded program. ed: leland vittert is live in washington. reporter: one republican says this is an attack on working families. the details are important. it goes right to the heart of president obama s statement during the rollout of immigration reform by executive action. the white house said illegal immigrants who go through pratt sells of applying for work permits will be eligible for social security and medicare, essentially those who are deported and get work permits along with a social security number will pay into the system. the catch comes with the 10-year rule which requires recipients to pay in for at least a decade before becoming eligible for benefits. compare that to what president obama said a week ago. it does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently or offer the same benefits citizen receives. only congress can do that. all we are saying is we are not going deport you. reporter: since president obama leaves office in 2016, congress would have to extend the benefits so the immigrants who start paying in would be legal. the white house said they aren t eligible for benefits under obamacare. republicans point out those who have been allowed to stay and work by president obama are older, lower waged and lower skilled. that means the workers will draw more in benefits than they would ever pay into the social security system. ed: the white house has been saying you have millions of illegal immigrants who are not paying into the system and it could actually help shoirp these social programs. what are republicans saying about that. that s the issue of the path mere in terms of how much money goes into the social security program and how much money will end upcoming out. how many people will apply for these permits. how many people will actually pay in and how many people will stick around come 10 years from now as republicans are on the other side of this thing. this math doesn t work. the question is is this the law you have unintended consequences or intended consequences by the white house. he s got the pencil, he s adding up the math. happy thanksgiving. heather: i m glad he s adding it up. bob cusak who is the editor-in-chief of the hill, he can speak clearer to this. what are your thoughts on this. you just heard leland reference the sound from president obama where he said this amnesty, this immigration deal, executive order does not offer the same benefits citizens receive, only says that we ll not deport you. now that appears to not be the case. president obama went big on this immigration action as the left want him to do. the white house says we want to get these people out of the shadows and paying their taxes and as leland mention they are making the argument this is going to help the federal coffers. but a lot of republicans are saying this will cost the federal government a lot of the money. there are similar provisions in the the senate-passed immigration bill. as we are learning more about this executive order. we have a presidential elect coming up and hillary clinton will be pressed by locals to expand it to have these illegal immigrants be eligible for obamacare and some maybe senator bernie sanders who may run for president may embrace that. this is just the beginning of the story. heather: we heard that before with obamacare and a lot of the americans are wondering are we being grubered all over again and bees by piec and piece bs more information going to be coming out. if a republican is elected he or she can retract this executive order. but politically that be very difficult. once you give people benefits it s politically impossible to take it away. at least very, very difficult. so that s going to be the rub. this will and hot issue in the 2016 election. as president obama says, you can pass a bill but that s not going to happen anytime soon. i think republicans might pass small immigration bills but nothing like the senate-passed immigration bill. heather: we are being told this does not allow for federal benefits like student financial aid. food stamps or housing subsidies. could that change? that could change and immigration activists are going to be pushing for this so the first step was pressing this white house to make this change. remember president obama initially said he couldn t do this. then political pressure was applied, he did it. their next strategy is to add to the benefits that have been given and that be something that will be pushed through the 2015. but republicans do have control of congress so they will be doing oversight of this and some republicans are looking to defund aspect.of this immigration order. but they don t have the votes to override a veto. is the incentive that you won t be deported? when i hear the president say this is your chance to come out of the shadows, get right with the law, it s your chance to come out and pay taxes. many of these folks, they are already here, they are getting paid, they are not paying taxes. what is the incentive? is it just the deportation, the lack of deportation that he believes will make them come out and do this legally? that s a great question. there are concerns people won t come out of the shadows. they will be concerned about deportation even though they have been guaranteed they won t be deport. then how much do you prove you have been here five years. the documentation that goes along with that. some said there could be some fraud with that. how this is implementland be very, very africay. heather: seems to be a lot of planning that needs to take place. thanks for joining us on this thanksgiving. see ya. ed: heavy snow and cold weather keeping many protesters off the streets of ferguson. meantime the past and present mayors of ferguson criticizing governor jay nixon of missouri and his response. he failed the city of ferguson, he failed the state of missouri. he should resign. there were many elected officials in the region, sphaid wide and others who statewide and others who tried to help us reach out to the governor and eventually those troops were deployed, unfortunately too late. ed: the governor taking a lot of heat about it was pretty quiet last night. reporter: i think the authorities were glad to have a cold but boring night. this is florissant avenue, where the concentration of the gunfire and the looting and burning was. now it s a ghost town but for the police officers standing sentry. you did have some demonstrators last night who braved the bad weather. they mostly confronted the national guard. a lot of foul language. a lot of attempts to provoke the marching up and down the street. but no major incident. authorities are glad to report only one arrest. reporter: this could go one of two ways. this could be a lull and then the protesters would come back and it could get violent the days ahead. then they are hoping they will turn the corner and everything has calmed down. i think the intelligence the authorities are getting, there are planned demonstrations for friday, saturday with the intention of disrupting commerce for black friday and the holiday shopping period. a lot of people are hoping it continues with peaceful demonstrations. but there is that element that wants to come out here and wants to start trouble. ed: mike tobin we appreciate your reporting this past week. heather: critics slamming missouri s governor for not doing enough to prevent the violence in ferguson. he was and isn t during this process and was not on top of it. being the lead spokesperson is frankly beyond me. heather: did governor nixon get it wrong? 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pretty much precisely as you indicated. happy thanksgiving to you, too. this is one time when we are grateful for a little cold weather moving in. there has been light snow in st. louis the past day and a stiff wind. and that apparently has helped some folks decide to stay inside. meanwhile, only two arrests last night, and the people of missouri are still scratching our heads about our governor s non-action monday night, where was the guard and where was the governor. you have been sharply critical of him. has he responded to you in the last 24-4 tight hours? the pattern of the last six years of no communication has held. this governor has a very tight circle of the lawyer hospital surrounded him during this 16 years as attorney general. he pretty much talks to them. and very few others who he doesn t have to. and forget me. i m not the issue here. the issue is that the desperate pleas by the mayor of ferguson, mayor james noles. during the critical evening, he could not get the governor. i spoke to him yesterday, he s still trying to cope with the situation with no communication. i can t understand the governor s failure to communicate with the mayor of the city affected. ed: you are a republican and government is democrat. he says this is all politics. what is the explanation he has given for why the national guard was not out in full force that first tight? why did it take 24 more hours? it s not me he owes the explanation. it s to the people of missouri and we have not had one. there was a press conference mid-afternoon. day before yesterday in which he dodged and did this usual dodge. the news media in this state its starting to get on to that. and they are not going to accept empty cliche s. and that denial that you just referred to was sort of a non-denial denial. i never alleged anything was a political motivation. then he denied it was political. he was denying what was never alleged. it s simply the fact.are there for everyone to see. it involves no political charge. the governor did not communicate with the mayor. when the mayor was desperately trying to get his attention. not only did the governor not. but he could not get any member of the governor s staff top respond. ed: let many get down to whether there will be account bibilityd on what yo will beany accounu are talking about. it appears to be getting bert as you noted. but in the days ahead do you expect some sort of hearings on the state level to get to the bottom of what went wrong so this doesn t happen again? hearings are coming early in the new year. the legislature convenes the first week of january. a panel will be convened to look into this. that panel will have seen a power to compel the testimony if it s not voluntary from all members of the governor s administration. ed: what is your message? we have been talking a lot about the governor. i want to end on two hopeful floalts beyond all that. what is your message to michael browns family? a message of great sadness at their terrible loss. it s a tragedy when anyone dies and the circumstances we witnessed here in august, and we pray for that family. we pray for peace and healing and reconciliation. our loving arms are around the brown family. and we wish them all the best as they come forward and deal with this terrible loss that we all mourn. i was the only statewide elected official at the funeral and i mourn for everyone else there. ed: i asked our correspondent on the ground mike tobin about this. you talk about the lull overnight. this could be a calm before the storm and this weekend we could see more trouble or things could be getting bert. what s your sense? i hope and pray and i can say i believe we have seen the worst. we turned the corner that brighter days lie ahead, that we can have some peace and reconciliation. surely in the thanksgiving and in the coming holiday season for all concerned. ed: lieutenant governor peter kinder, we thank you for your time today. heather: an american teenager busted. accused of trying to hop a flight to the middle east to fight with isis. ed: a wild predator on the loose in china killing farm animals. is a really big deal.u with aches, fever and chills- there s no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it s a little cold? there s something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. prescription tamiflu attacks the flu virus at its source. so call your doctor right away. tamiflu treats the flu in people 2 weeks and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you re pregnant, nursing, have serious health conditions, or take other medicines. if you develop an allergic reaction, a severe rash, or signs of unusual behavior, stop taking tamiflu and call your doctor immediately. children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion or abnormal behavior. the most common side effects are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. so don t wait. attack the flu virus at its source. ask your doctor about tamiflu. prescription for flu. female announcer: get 36 monthsnksgiving weekend interest-free financing. plus, big savings of up to $400 on beautyrest and posturepedic. even get three years interest-free financing on serta icomfort and tempur-pedic. plus, free same day delivery, set-up, and removal of your old set. when brands compete, you save! but mattress price wars ends sunday, thanksgiving weekend, at sleep train. sleep train your ticket to a better night s sleep ed: okay, you re really not going to believe this story. a pair of russian killers on the loose in china. siberian tigers released into the wild by russian president vladimir putin, and they re now killing goats and chickens. the tigers are being monitored by chinese wildlife protection workers. president putin released three tigers in may. two of them entered china where a farmer woke up one morning to find dead goats everywhere. translator: i locked the shelter yesterday, but the tiger broke the wooden fence and killed the goats. ed: russia rescued the tiger cubs two years ago nursing them to health and teaching them to hunt. wildlife experts are taking measures to protect them from hunters, and farmers are being warned, keep their distance. heather: yes. ed: unbelievable. there s a russian bear joke in there somewhere [laughter] heather: i just want to see a bare-chested putin ed: that is inevitable that he s going to ride to the rescue. heather: we ll have that story tomorrow for you. well, a teenage terror suspect out of jail this morning. he is out. a magistrate released the 18-year-old into the custody of his parents. the minnesota teen accused of trying to travel to syria to join isis. tom linden from our affiliate kmst, fox 9, is in minneapolis with more. reporter: when no one was looking, this teenager slipped out a side door of the federal courthouse, the first local terror suspect anyone can remember who s been released before trial. astonishing even his attorney. i was very surprised. i was very hopeful, i certainly gave kit everything i had. reporter: in court, an fbi agent detailed how they intercepted him last may before he got on a plane to turkey. another man believed to be fighting for isis in sir or ya. but the timing may be critical to the case. he got his passport on may 5th, but the state department didn t declare isil a terrorist organization until may 15th. ten days later, just 13 days before he tried to fly to turkey. how does that make you a terrorist? it just might make you show that you want to fight, but it doesn t make you a terrorist doing atrocities by any means. reporter: fbi agents had surveillance of him as he left school and walked two blocks to this mosque here in southeast minneapolis, including right before he tried to get on the plane to turkey. and if it sounds familiar, well, it s come up before. it s part of the alpha rook enter of will mixton wilmington where he was radicalized, becoming much more religious and talking about jihad. the center kicked out a subject for allegedly radicalizing their young people. it s reopened, it attracts good people but sometimes, you know, bad people do slip through the cracks and actually do go there. reporter: and the attorney believes ultimately that s why prosecutors wanted to keep her client locked up, in hopes he may start naming names. will i think that s why they want to keep him in custody, so he s forced to help them out in some way. reporter: to literally squeeze him so he would cooperate? i would imagine that s one of their intentions. heather: you know, this area has constantly targeted, you know, back since 2008 they ve been targeting these young people, young girls, young teenage boys ed: so why in the world they didn t do more to stop it, it s insane. heather: we ll find out. ed: airline pilots say drones are coming way too close for comfort near runways at our busiest airports. heather: and it was a sloppy trip for a whole lot of people trying to get home for thanksgiving the, but mother nature might, maybe, end up cooperating for the holiday weekend as we take a live look at new york s times square all dressed up for christmas. introducing the new philips norelco shaver series 9000 with contour detect technology that flexes in 8 directions for the perfect shave at any angle. go to philips.com/new for savings on shavers and trimmers. innovation and you. philips norelco. americans drink 48 billion that s enough plastic bottles to stretch around the earth 230 times. each brita filter can replace 300 of those. clean. clear. brita water. nothing is better. alookin good! close it up! got it. . and then, santa s helpers boarded the train, and off they went. and that s how we got it. wowww . you guys must ve been really good this year. the magic of the season is here, at the lexus december to remember sales event. this is the pursuit of perfection. just look at those two. happy. in love. and saving so much money on their car insurance by switching to geico. well, just look at this setting. do you have the ring? 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the macy s thanksgiving day parade. maria was out there earlier. the managing partner at chapwood investments joins us with more on this and, hopefully, some good news. so let s start first with the heating oil prices which are falling, but as natural gas prices are rising. right. and they sound like they re one and the same, and they re not. right now is happening is anything that is oil related is going down in price because there s a lot of oil being put onto the market, and the world market don t think about just the united states concern is slow. so when you have a lot more supply and a little bit of a tempered demand, not a lot, but a little tell perked demand, you re going to see prices go down. natural gas is a very different animal, okay? and natural gas prices are not affected by opec. you re starting to see the demand for natural gas is picking up a little bit, and you ve seen those prices rise. yo all, this is a very good thing overall, this is a very good thing at a very good time. heather: why? i m sitting around my kitchen table talking to my husband, why is it a good thing? because if oil prices are dropping, the one thing we re missing here is gasoline prices are tied to oil prices. we don t use too much natural gas, so that s not too much of a concern, it s the oil as we enter into, obviously, the cold season and at the same time at the gas pump, we have a little bit more money in our pocket. not a lot because prices are still rising across the board, but it s a good thing and, quite frankly, even better because as we enter this time of year we often times think oil prices are going to rise. it s not. more money in our pockets. heather: is that something that s going to stick around or short lived? you never know. i believe this is going to stay around for a little while because we do have a slow global economy, more oil going out there, and opec just a little while ago heather: yes. we talked about that. they talked about how they re not going to cut the supply. overall right now it looks really good going into, you know, the first quarter of next year. heather: okay. so you mentioned gas prices. we, you know, have to get to the grocery store, get the kids to school, get to work, and gas prices continue to slide. we take a look at some of the states specifically five states across the country, arkansas, alabama, florida, illinois, louisiana. will this slide continue? this is good news. it s good news, and i don t know if the slide continues, but i think the price point is going to stay this way for a while which is good. and there are a lot of people who come to my office where they drive quite a while, and this is going to help everybody, you know? they off times tell me how much they oftentimes tell me how much it costs them to come to work heather: they want to stay home and work from home. there s a little bit of that. at a time like this right now, thanksgiving, this is really good news for everybody. heather: and the chi overall because that means people will do some shopping. we certainly hope so. maybe the presents will be 10% better this year than last year. heather: is it true that traditionally, you know, at the beginning of the year the gas prices will start out lower but then increase as we approach, say, the memorial day holiday? we like to say there s a rule of thumb, and some people look at charts and say so, but right now it s all dependent upon opec because we re dependent upon what they do. until we get more oil produced in this country, we re dependent upon what they do and what they say through opec. heather: all right. throw the charts out, but right now definitely something to be thankful for. we appreciate it, ed. happy thanksgiving, by the way. you too. ed: there s a new danger in the skies, those small remote-controlled drones. in the past six months, pilots reported more than two dozen close calls, many of them at our nation s busiest airports. our favorite reporter i think they put that in there mike emanuel takes a look at washington. happy thanksgiving, and where are these close calls happening? reporter: well, ed, many of them are during takeoffs and landings when commercial airplanes and aircraft are at altitudes where drones are also flying. the washington post obtained records revealing some 25 incidents since june 1st where small drones came within a short distance or a few seconds of crashing into a much larger aircraft. the data indicate a lot of these close calls are happening near major airports including new york s laguardia and jfk, washington s dulles international and reagan international airports. and the 25 close calls are among more than 175 sightings since june by pilots and air traffic controllers spotting drones near airports or restricted air space. while many of these sightings are from general aviation or helicopter pilots, airline cruise have also reported them. ed: most of these drones are not very big. what makes them dangerous when they get close to a commercial airliner? reporter: you re right, they re made up of plastic and are just a few feet in diameter. most of the drones that have been spotted are small equipped with cameras which are becoming more and more popular with photographers and those who like flying them as a hobby. the real danger is if it gets sucked into a jet engine or crash into the propeller of a smaller plane, and on a few occasions pilots have changed their course to avoid an unmanned aircraft. with drones becoming more up popular, this could become a bigger challenge. e d: happy thanksgiving. heather: who s the favorite? ed: we re buddies. heather: yes. and we love you both. ed: thank you. heather: democratic senator chuck schumer taking some heat after he takes aim at obamacare. to aim a huge change in mandate at such a small percentage of the electorate made no political sense. so when democrats focused on health care, the average middle class person thought the democrats are not paying enough attention to me. heather: that didn t sit too well with house minority leader nancy pelosi, and she is firing back at senator schumer. ed: going to want to hear more about that. plus a grateful woman thanking her dad for the gift of life. i call him my superhero now. he said one time your mom and i gave you life 35 years ago, so i m giving you life again. i m an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it s out there somewhere spreading the word about america s favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association s go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope you ll let us know. always look for the grown in idaho seal. heather: thanks for joining us here on america s newsroom on this thanksgiving. one woman look at her father in a whole new way, as her superhero. she had been on dialysis for nearly two years until her father learned that he was a match, and he did not hesitate to donate her a kidney. there was no thinking at all. let s get it going. he would, um, go to all his appointments that they asked of him, and he did it without grumbling. they want children, and the longer she s on dialysis, she couldn t do it. heather: that s a great story. the 35-year-old says she is excited to start planning a family of her own and this thanksgiving she will definitely indulge. ed: top democrats, meanwhile, divided over the president s health care. house minority leader nancy pelosi taking aim at democratic senator chuck schumer after he said this: but unfortunately, democrats blew the opportunity the american people ghei them. we took gave them. we took their mandate and put all of our focus on the wrong problem; health care reform. now, the plight of uninsured americans and caused by unfair insurance company practices certainly needed to be addressed. but it wasn t the change we were hired to make. ed: ah, lead arer pelosi, one of the law s biggest cheerleaders, pushed back. she said in a statement: we come here to do a job, not keep a job. there are more than 14 million reasons why that s wrong. jest jessica tarlove is a consultant, least that booth is executive director of blackrock group. happy thanksgiving to both of you. happy thanksgiving. ed: jessica, you know, quite interesting that democrats are fighting over this. i spoke to someone at the white house a couple days ago who said that reference from nancy employeesty, 14 million reasons, the sign-ups are going pretty well right now. they feel like they re turning the corner, and yet now somehow the leaders are fighting over it. why? i think it s difficult times. there s conflicting messages everywhere. i mean, the latest polling on obamacare, it s only popular with 37% of americans, so there is room for what chuck schumer said. that said, i don t think it s helpful, i don t think it pushes the democratic cause, and i think what he should be saying is talking about ways we can reform obamacare to make it better, to make more americans excited about it and to boost already, sign-ups that are already going well. ed: lisa, interesting because some democrats, former white house aide like john favreau immediately went on twitter saying, quote, i don t remember chuck schumer giving that advice when he was privately and publicly championing the affordable care act in 2010. dan pfeiffer, meanwhile, said the broader point is obama ran to so long-festering, politically-hard problems that others shy away from, a direct shot there at chuck schumer. i thought democrats were saying before the midterms this was going to be an asset for them. they absolutely were, and chuck schumer was one of those individuals. this is a stunning add admission from the senator admission from the senator. this is someone who really has his finger on the pulse of the democrat party. so for him and someone who once said it would be a liability to vote against obamacare to now intentionally reverse course is not only, is not only an example of just to be unraveling and unpopularity of obamacare, but it s also a repudiation of his earlier statements and comments. ed: jessica, the broader point that senator schumer was trying to make among others was he felt like the president and democrats writ large should have been focusing on helping the middle class more on economic measures but, again, that s a flip from what he said in 2010 about health care. at one point on meet the press he said it really does help, of health care, deliver for the middle class. the parade of horribles, particularly the worry that the average middle class person has that this is going to affect them negatively. how in the world did democrats back in 2010 say this is going to help the middle class, republicans said then, no, it s not, and now you have people like chuck schumer admitting four years later it didn t really help the middle class, he seems to be saying. yes, and i think it s part of a larger strategy as we head towards 2016. we ve shown that we can t win necessarily on just obamacare, so he wants to bring economic reforms back into it. we ve done really well on things like raising the minimum wage. i wouldn t be surprised if we heard more from him about immigration reform which he s been a champion for, we need a comprehensive bill in congress and not just go it alone on executive actions the whole way through. so i think that you re seeing, you know, a new election cycle. we have an election to win in 2016. i think the democrats can do it, and obamacare will be part of that, but more broadly speaking, as senator schumer said, we need to think about all middle class issues and not just health care. ed: lisa, i wonder if you see democrats here, we ve been focused on arguing themselves into a corner on what s supposed to be an asset for them, health care, what about republicans? you ve got one minute on immigration. is this something we are going to see republican leaders in the new year actually pass a bill, strengthen the border, or are they going to let that issue fester out there? democrats have their problems, but what about the republicans? right. well, i think what we ve seen is house leader speaker boehner has said that republicans will pass something. i don t think it s going to look like what president obama decade because what president obama did is against the will of the american people and against the will of congress, and it s not really helping americans, and it s not really helping hispanics because, ultimately, what it s doing is not solving any of the root problems that we re facing with immigration. if anything, it s going to incite more problems like we saw along the southern border this summer. ed: lisa, jessica, happy thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving to you as well. heather: shopping malls could be pushing a whole lot more than black friday deals. how obamacare could become a frustrating part of your holiday bargain hunting? ed: are they going to put that in brookstone? i want to see that story. black friday shoppers already lining up, sometimes without clothing to snag the now, wait heather: i want to see that one. ed: we ve got an expert to give you the upperhand so you don t have to expose your upper body. my name is major kevin evans, i want to wish my family, friends in indianapolis, indiana, happy thanksgiving and happy turkey day. 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heather: it is game time, and i m not talking football. it is thanksgiving and black friday shopping time, and this year it is on a whole other level. retailers upping the ante, extending black friday, discounting new items and expanding online deals. web sites upping their game too, hopefully helping you shift through all the sales, and they include some of these web sites, take notes shop adviser.com, price watch.com, shopping.com, price grabber.com and the buy via app can help you search for local deals and coupons on specific items. so joining us now is andrea warric, a consumer savings and personal finance expert, and you have got to help us get through all of this. thank you, and happy thanksgiving. you re right, black friday is a game. it is a game to find the best deals. so the first thing that i recommend doing is once you have your list together of the items you plan to purchase, check and research prices with all those sites that you just mentioned. it s important to know where the cheapest prices are offered, plus get an average for the cost of those items, because some retailers may inflate the original price to make that doorbuster deal look like a better value. if you do your homework, you won t get fooled by misleading promotions. and if you re in store, the buy via app will help you with local deals, red laser offers price comparison and some stores like walmart and radioshack are ad match on black friday. and then, of course, the mobile coupon app, coupon sherpa, will help you with extra savings. heather: is there one web site that will kind of take all of these into account and give you the lowest price? you know, unfortunately, i find that i run a couple of comparison searches maybe on price grabber and then on shopping.com to get an idea of where the cheapest prices are. so you can just use one of those search engines, and it ll help pinpoint the best deal. heather: all right. so what is best, to go out on black friday or to wait until cyber monday? you know, it depends on what you re shopping for. if you re shopping for popular items, you might want to get out there early before they sell out to. in fact, stores are releasing doorbuster deals today so you can burn off the turkey and start snagging up the sales. kmart is offering $50 off a samsung galaxy 7-inch tablet plus $20 in rewards points for loyalty members, and they have a buy one, get one a dollar off footwear. so there are lots of deals, but certainly you can save on cyber monday too on gadgets, on clothing, even on airfare. heather: andrea, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. pack your patience if you re out hitting the mall. appreciate it. thank you. ed: too much turkey shouldn t be the only thing slowing us down on thanksgiving, but mother nature clearly does not agree. how the weather is snarling travel and how long the extreme conditions will last. ed: happy thanksgiving, everybody. thanks for joining us on america s newsroom, i m henry in for bill hemmer. heather: and to everyone at home as well, i am heather childers in for martha maccallum. thanksgiving dinner just a few hours away for folks on the east coast, and now the race is on to make it in time for the turkey. and you re looking live at times square which was a wintry mess yesterday. ed: indeed. and that bad weather sparking hundreds of cancellations all around the country, thousands of flight delays at the airports. while the weather has improved in spots, the travel trouble may not be over yet. heather: brian is live in our new york city newsroom. please give these folks some good news. reporter: how are you, heather? remember last year much of the northeast was hit with a storm, but it appears this storm has caused a bit more travel havoc while knocking out power for hundreds of thousands. now, as of this morning an estimated 400,000 people are now without power in states like virginia, up the coast to new jersey, new york, pennsylvania and in maine where more than 83,000 customers woke up this thanksgiving to total darkness. now, thanks to more than 10 inches of heavy snow in some parts, officials say it s unlikely those customers will be unable to restore power in time for thanksgiving dinner. meanwhile, the sloppy wintry mix of snow, rain and ice making for travel havoc, one of the busiest on one of the busiest travel days of the year as some 46 million people hit the road and skies for thanksgiving. yesterday 751 flights were canceled nationwide according to flightaware.com. to put that in perspective, on tuesday, the day before u there were only 140 canlations. cancellations. in new england a foot and a half of snow in the mountains fell, some 20 inches in west virginia and records were broken in albany, new york, and concord, new hampshire, where there s more than 10 inches of accumulation. and to the roads, well, they were icy i and slippery. about 90% of travel hearse choose to drive during the holidays, and new jersey governor chris christie declared a state of emergency in his state where more than 200 accident were reported on new jersey roads. so far we have about 67 cancellations and over 60 delays at airports 600 delays at airports nationwide today, and we ll monitor that as many people have rescheduled their flights to take off today. thankfully the good news is it looks like the worst weather is behind us, and that s just in time for people heading back home, you know, in the coming days, heather. heather: yeah, for some of that turkey and stuffing. something to be thankful for. thank you, brian. reporter: no problem. ed: fallout overnight around the country from the ferguson grand jury decision. police in los angeles arresting at least 130 people who refused to disperse during a third night of protests there as hundreds took to the streets downtown l.a. for several hours. and in oakland police arresting 35 protesters following a martha spiraled into some incidents of vandalism. therethere were also scattered protests in ferguson last night, but no additional property damage thankfully. one question sure to be on the many minds there, can this be, you know, a day of peace on a day of thanksgiving? let s go to mike tobin live in ferguson. it seems like the weather kept protesters home last night, pretty chilly out there. reporter: yeah, cold, wet and boring, and i don t think the authorities out here were complaining at all. we saw the demonstrators show up particularly in front of the ferguson city police department, and mostly what we saw is them standing for a long time taunting the national guardsmen who were standing century in that miserable sentry in that miserable weather. in the end, updating my number from earlier, two people were arrested. no major clashes with the authorities. as you come back out here live, look up the street, this is where the concentration of the trouble really has been throughout the process. you can see now it s a ghost town but for the police officers. no indication things are going to change today. ed? ed: mike, we spoke to the lieutenant governor of missouri last hour as you may have heard, and he said there were hopeful signs as you re reporting now, although they were still concerned about what might happen around black friday and into the weekend. reporter: a lot of the information what the cops are looking at is some demonstrations are planned for black friday and planned for saturday and the subsequent days with the intention of disrupting commerce. so that is some of the obstacles that the police are looking to tackle here in the coming days. ed mike toe by on the ground in tobin on the ground in ferguson. thanks for that report. heather: well, after word today that ferguson protesters may actually crash the macy s thanksgiving day parade underway in new york city, going on right now outside of our studios, and we are getting reports that they may have done just that. with six people arrested after something was thrown from a roof. organizers had reportedly been using social media to encourage people to make a statement using the hashtag stoptheparade to fuel the fire. one twitter user calling for protesters to, quote, stomp right over the macy s thanksgiving parade. this after thousands of protesters marched for a second night in manhattan chanting no justice, no peace, jail for killer cops. and justice for mike brown. ed: and the protests over ferguson even reaching across the atlantic with more than 1,000 demonstrators marching through london to condemn the decision not to prosecute the police officer who shot and killed michael brown. tearing down fences in parliament square after demonstrating outside the u.s. embassy. some of those relatives of black britons killed in incidents involving police there. heather: the white house is rolling out a new obamacare outreach program targeting you, the consumer. listen to this. the malls around the country, they are now allowing promoters to approach black friday shoppers and urge them to go to healthcare.gov to enroll. it is a big change from last year s celebrity-driven ad campaign. but critics say one thing is the same, the holidays are being politicized. leland vittert live from washington. i would not want to be one of those folks approaching somebody and all of these black friday crowds. i mean, come on. reporter: yeah. people on black friday are crazy, heather, and i don t think they want to talk about health care, but you never know. [laughter] in addition to the great deal on clothing, you, too, may be inundated by fliers on health care. the much-lampooned health care navigators are being allowed to hawk obamacare around the country, and as we explain, the very crowds of black friday tough to get anything done in there. the move comes in open enrollment version 2.0 which at least appears to be going a little smoother than the disastrous web site rollout that we saw last year. the new program focuses more on outreach in these types of events than it does the celebrity advertising that went on. still at least one democrat is having a little bit of second thoughts about pushing obamacare through right after president obama s win in 2010. but it wasn t the change we were hired to make. americans were crying out for the end to the recession, for better wages and more jobs, not changes in health care. reporter: and if you are wondering if there are any doorbuster deals on obamacare, no dice. it appears even on black friday you, as well as the taxpayers, will be paying full price. heather: all right. well, you know, we can wish for anything. happy, leland. happy thanksgiving. reporter: and to you. ed: can you imagine being a guy in the middle of the crowds saying, hey, you want to get some health care? get out of my way. [laughter] house republicans are crafting their response to president obama s decision to go it alone on immigration. a look ahead at what s expected to be a very busy week on capitol hill. heather: plus, a thanksgiving tradition at the white house, the annual turkey pardon doesn t always go as planned, as you can see here. [laughter] but what actually happens to those lucky birds after they are spared from ending up on this dinner table? hi, my name s crystal neely. i just want to wish my dad happy holidays in fayetteville, north carolina. love you, bye. heather: welcome back. millions are mourning in australia today after beloved cricket star phillip hughes died in a sydney hospital two days after being struck in the head by a ball during a match. prime minister tony abbott paying tribute saying hughes was, quote: a man living out his dreams. obviously, our thoughts and prayers are with his family, with his friends. he thought the player in his prime should be killed playing a national the thought that a player should be killed in his prime playing a game is shocking and sobering. we should be conscious of the risks that our sports people run to give us the pleasure that they do. heather: hughes was wearing a helmet at the time, but the hard leather ball hit an unprotected area on the back of his head. deaths are rare in cricket, but hughes is now the second player in two years to sustain a fatal blow. phillip hughes was just 25 years old. ed: meanwhile, the house republican leadership is getting set to respond to the president s executive actions on immigration with both the house judiciary and homeland security committees getting set to hold big hearings next week. meanwhile, over in the senate senator ted cruz of texas is saying republicans should not fear a government shutdown over immigration. let s bring in byron york, washington examiner chief political correspondent. first of all, i think you re down in alabama with your family, happy thanksgiving. good morning, ed. happy thanksgiving to you too. ed: these hearings are coming up, what do you think republicans will actually do though? can they do anything to stop the s actions, or will this just be a whole lot of talk that we see at times in washington from both parties and they actually don t end up doing anything? well, there s two important things to remember about this. one, republicans will, indeed, respond. that is going to happen. and, two, they don t control the senate yet. democrats control the senate right now. harry reid will be the majority leader until the first week in january. so republicans are in no stronger position today to do anything about this than they were, say, during the shutdown battle in october 2013. so what you re seeing is i think they re focusing on, republicans are focusing on a funding battle to try to do a very targeted, surgical move to defund the specific offices inside the department of homeland security that will enforce the president s order. but they can t do anything now. and you remember, the government s going to run out of money on december 11th, so what they have to do is pass a bill to fund the entire government until next year, and then in january when there are probably 54 republicans in the senate, they will try to strip away funding from those specific offices dealing with the president s order. ed: byron, you make an important point about the overall government running out of money december 11th. last time there was a lot of back and forth who was to blame for the government shutdown. the fight that ted cruz led in the senate over the president s health care law. what s your sense now when the incoming senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says there s not going to be a shutdown this time, there are other rank and file republicans who seem to want to leave that option on the table. what s your sense about the mood of the republican leadership, what s the likelihood this time? i think mitch mcconnell said it all, they don t want a government shutdown. i do think there s been a little rethinking about that october 2013 shutdown can among republicans because if you remember at the time, there were people who said, you know, the republicans have just shot themselves in the head. they ve thrown away any chance they had of winning the senate in 2014. well, look what happened. they won the senate in pretty spectacular fashion. but i think what you ll see the senate leadership go along with in january once they re in control is a measure that would fund the entire government except for this very specific office to defund the president s order. and remember, even to do that if they have 54 seats, they re still going to need some democrats to go along with them. we know there are democrats who are opposed to the president s order, but we don t know if they d go along with the republican measure to fight it. ed: byron, there s been another element added to this, but republican lamar smith said, quote: ed: what do you know about this ston the washington times about this? and how this may be a big deal at these hearings coming up this week? well, this is more an obamacare issue really than an immigration issue, but it is true the employer mandate is coming, and employers who have large numbers of employees will have to provide coverage to their employees or face a penalty. now, illegal immigrants are not covered under obamacare. republicans did not want them to be covered under obamacare. so an employer could hire them and not have to pay a penalty. it s like there s an incentive to hire an illegal immigrant. now, some democrats would say, well, gee, let s just make obamacare cover illegal immigrants in this country. republicans don t want that, so this is basically another argument from republicans that the employer mandate plus the individual mandate are, in obamacare are just bad law and should be scrapped. ed: byron, we just showed a live picture of the capitol. m looks awfully calm, it s bubbling and getting ready when they come back next week. things are really going to change. ed: happy thanksgiving, good to see you, byron. thank you, ed. heather: president obama keeping with tradition this thanksgiving, pardoning turkeys at the white house. this year s lucky birds mac and cheese. you can see cheese getting his pardon on yesterday. so what happens next? well, the turkeys will retire to morvin park in virginia. in past years the birds went to george washington s mount vernon, before that some even headed to petting zoos, even disney world and disneyland, not a bad way to retire. pardons date back as far as the 1800s, but president reagan back in 1981, that might be one of the most memorable. this turkey clearly getting a little spooked out on the white house lawn. ed: yeah. he sort of jumped up. you see the feathers pop up. what people don t know, the retirement is pretty cool, but a little secret before they go to the white house, the night before they usually stay at the w hotel, they get them a little suite, and they have to how do i say this they have to put some special plastic covering on the floor health health why heather: why? ed: the turkeys are not exactly potty trained. they get a sweet night and a suite at the w hotel. the animal activists know they get pardoned heather: do you get a discount if you have the room next to them? ed: i think you should get a free room. they re pretty loud. heather: and what about this menu that s been released? ed: oh, the white house has all kinds of traditional things, but there s about a dozen pies on the list. you were talking about that, the turkey, the ham, the stuffing, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoeses, mashed potatoes, green bean cass casserole. i think i must have seen banana cream, pecan pie, cherry, you ve seen this hashtag thanks mrs. obama over the school lunches, there s been a lot of division over that. i m not sure heather: i want a photo op of the first lady eating the pie. you know what s missing? fat back and chicken and dumplings. ed: you see that down south. you don t see that at the white house. heather: i d like to see that there. ed e ed a new concern at some of our nation s busiest airports, how small drones are creating a big danger there. weave we re live with the details. heather: plus the event that gets democrats and republicans to agree on something. it s true. how our very own ed henry played a part in it. [laughter] i m an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it s out there somewhere spreading the word about america s favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association s go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope you ll let us know. always look for the grown in idaho seal. boy: once upon a time, there was a nice house that lived with a family. one day, it started to rain. the house tried to keep out all the water, but water got inside and ruined everybody s everythings. the house thought she let the family down. they just didn t think it could happen. they told the house they would take better care of her. always. announcer: protect what matters. get flood insurance. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voiceedge mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i ve never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. ed: just in to fox, our own shannon bream confirming that justice ruth are bader ginsburg has been released from the hospital this morning on thanksgiving. she had a heart procedure just in the last 24 hours or so. remember, she has battled cancer successfully many times as well. there have been some democrats in recent months suggesting she should step down to give president obama a chance to nominate another liberal to the court. she has resisted that repeatedly and said that she s sticking around and, n., even after this heart procedure gets out today, and shannon has previously been reporting that justice ginsburg is planning to get right back to work at the supreme court monday morning. heather: she got right out of the hospital. well, a new danger in the skies. with the faa now reporting a surge in new collisions between passenger planes and small drones. many of the close calls happening at our nation s busiest airports. mike emanuel s life for us in live for us in washington with more on this disturbing story. reporter: the faa currently receives about 25 reports per months from pilots who have seen drones or model planes operating near their aircraft. some sightings are from general aviation or helicopter pilots while others are reported by commercial airline crews. in a statement the faa says, quote: r eporter: the faa data indicate a lot of these reported sightings are happening near some major airports on the east coast including new york s laguardia and jfk and washington s dulles and reagan national. and the 25 close calls are among more than 175 sightings since june by pilots and air traffic controllers spotting drones near airports or restricted air space. if you re wondering about the drones, in many cases they weighless than 10 pounds, are plastic, have cameras and are just a few feet in diameter. a group called the small uu a v co uav coalition notes that with more than a half million unmanned aerial vehicles in our air space for recreational use, there have been no reported accidents. their concern is this reporting of close calls may lead to a very revective rule restrictive rule which would stifle innovation. a vast majority of these reports are just sightings, and pilots did not have toalter their course, and the increase can be attributed to three things; pilot awareness, better reporting and better recordkeeping. heather: yeah. this morning we reported one came within a foot of a plane, so that s pretty disturbing. reporter: that s right. heather: happy thanksgiving to you, by the way, too. reporter: thank you very much. ed: mike is our chief congressional correspondent, and many folks wondering what republicans on the hill may accomplish or not accomplish to take control of both chambers in january. i had the pleasure of moderating a panel for the jack kemp s annual dinner, with discussed with republicans paul ryan, tim scott and democrat cory booker. congressman ryan got his start working for kemp, and cory booker was inspired when kemp visited his college campus. kemp played quarterback, of course, for the buffalo bills, so we talked a little politics and a little football. i will be thankful for a bipartisan solution for kids trapped in poverty living in the wrong zip codes to have real education reform be it public, private or both. [applause] jack kemp really was a leader on healing and confronting the he was a strident civil rights activist when he was a football player, had a wonderful quote that i just found hilariously slightly off color about having showered with people of different races, you kind da gotta love and get a love that comes out of that closeness that you have. [laughter] i don t want to get myself in trouble with his family. ed: we re going to air that one. in this space right now which will contribute so much to the unfinished business of bias against, around race and poverty in america that s locked people in a caste because it s so hard with a criminal conviction in america, my hope and prayer is we actually can do something on this issue. i ll see him on that and go to tax reform: this is an idea whose time has come. it s an idea that jack kemp championed. i would be remiss if i didn t say a year from now i think i ll be very thankful for aaron rogers [laughter] on fire these days. i had to find a way to sneak that in there. if we start the year on a good footing, if we start the year on the right tone, then i think there are a lot of good things that can get done let s find a way to take that, those trials and lift them to a higher level. that s right. that s what this country needs. when this new hand is outstretched from this new majority, give us a chance to well, i ve been a minority for a long time. [laughter] and i m about to be one in the united states senate. i will take your hand anytime you outstretch it to me. [applause] ed: you can see that outstretched hand from paul ryan to democrat cory booker. now, they re talking a good game, we ll see, about prison reform, tax reform which a lot of our viewers are interested in, whether republicans in the house and senate can get that done i m not sure where senator booker was going with the shower analogy but, of course, paul ryan from wisconsin had to get aaron rodgers and the packers mentioned. the packers aren t playing until the weekend, but our colleagues at fox sports would want us to tell you cowboys/eagles heather: who do you pick? ed: i m going to actually go with the eagles. my fantasy team, i ve got the eagles defense. heather: i m going with cowboys just because you re not. [laughter] well, a tough going for millions of americans. we have been telling you about this, a nasty nor easter delaying hundreds of flights on the busiest travel day of the year. and for some the rough weather is far from other. ed: plus, you know how it goes, you can t wait to dig into that turkey day feast, and when it s all over, you feel well, a little bit awful. we ll tell youou exactly why, bt more importantly, what you can do about it. happy thanksgiving. guess what, it is a messy one for hundreds of thousands of americans now without power. after a wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow in spots, the stormy weather making for a lot of travel troubles with hundreds of flights cancelled, thousands delayed. driving also a big problem with the snow slicked roads causing dozens and dozens of crashes, and the snow may not be over. and the weather s for not much better in the west where a powerful rainstorm is looming. meteorologist three molina his life for us. can i just say by humbug to you? good to see you. we have picked up some significant snowfall totals. more than a foot of snow accumulation from west virginia all the way to maine. we are still dealing with the snowfall in eastern portions of maine. behind the system, much colder in parts of the east. current windchill temperatures in the 30s as far south as places as atlanta. a chilly thanksgiving day for you, current windchill temperatures in the 20s in new york city, much colder in the northern plains and in the midwest. 8 degrees below zero in minneapolis and single digits in rapid city. exiting parts of maine still producing rainfall. some lingering snow showers across parts of the northeast and also in maine. brand-new storm system arriving at it his areas of heavy rain across oregon and even into western parts of washington state and portions of the northern rockies. the forecast for today is relatively quiet especially when you compare it to yesterday. some showers in place across places like north carolina in rally. chilly temperatures for your highs only in the 40s, cold in the northern plains. teams for the fargo s. look at the forecast for l.a., highs in the 80s with sunshine, beautiful weather in store for them out there in southern california. something for them to be thankful for. thank you, maria. jon: a study finds excess weight accounts for 5% of new cancer cases in developed countries, half a million new cases worldwide every year. dr. debbie, i was trying to do it slowly. happy thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving. bill: what can people do about to sit down at the thanksgiving table. tell us about this study. we don t know exactly why it causes cancer. if people have other risk factors, it might take them over the edge so we think it can prevent 10% of cancer. bill: not the only, but i he cod be the biggest risk. why do women have a bigger risk? it probably has to do with estrogen. before menopause women have estrogen from their ovaries. after menopause they should have less estrogen. you can ask a get estrogen produced by the fatty tissue. you can see it in men as well, same thing can happen with more estrogen. the biggest thing is actually weight loss. that wouldn t be related to one thanksgiving meal, that would be more of a long-term commitment. now the city also talks about developed countries versus developing countries. second with our diet and lifestyle, makes a huge difference. developing countries people die a lot younger they may not live long enough to develop these cancers. bill: talking about things giving dinner, you cannot have too much of a good thing. around 700 calories. a single holiday dinner can easily top 2000 calories, which is the recommended daily calorie intake for an entire day. americans like to get their fill on thanksgiving and christmas but it can leave you feeling pretty awful afterward. what his recommendation for people first on the meal itself. how do you deal with it? if you want to try things, go ahead. better to go slow and steady because the huge rush of food and calories usually makes people feel worse. and how do we control our blood sugar? insulin regulates it, when you eat your body produces insulin to control your blood sugar but if you have a ton of calories all at once it is not sure how much to put out there, so it usually overshoots. they usually feel really tired, so if you eat a little slower, your body, just a little better to that. bill: short-term and long-term. when you are at work on a normal day should not be sitting at your desk all day. likewise you shouldn t be sitting on the couch immediately after a big meal like that, what can you do? he can walk before the things giving meal because that helps the body burn more calories and get adjusted so if you are eating if you can spend more time standing, walking or take a walk afterward, that will help. for people you don t want to go sleep right after even if you are tired. you won t burn as many calories, but if you think about gravity, eating more and bolger out a little more in the middle but also can bolger out upward. it pushes on your lungs a little, you feel short of breath and when you lay down if you think about your stomach acids, gravity helps plummeting downward, otherwise it is like heartburn. even when you go to sleep you want to use as many pillows as possible. bill: you mentioned it is not just one meal, it is a long-term deal with exercise as well. of course. bill: you cannot exercise tomorrow for an hour and everything will be better. short-term i can stay active it will help the symptoms today but overall it is much more of a long-term issue. bill: good to see you. heather: still to come, the feds uncovering chilling terror plots targeting one of the national treasures and a local press good with ties to the ferguson grand jury. why sources are questioning whether the suspects were even capable of carrying out the alleged plot. our legal panel weighs in. plus, vladimir putin facing new troubles over a deadly cross-border raid. this has nothing to do with ukraine and everything to do with a very large cat. i am here at afghanistan and i want to say hi to my family back at salt lake. i love you, happy thanksgiving. heather: well, and unusual protest in paris, farmers releasing sheep under the eiffel tower as a statement on the government policy on protecting will. this heavy printers are killing many of their animals, estimate is 250-300 wolves currently living in france, and wolf attacks apparently on live stock have been on the rise since 1990. bill: vladimir putin also blamed for another cross-border raid this time it is not ukraine. here is putin with a tiger cub raised in a special animal protection program. that cute little guys all grown up now. they were released into the wild earlier in the year and now reportedly on a killing spree in northeastern china suspected of slaughtering at least 18 goats on a farm since sunday alone. the farm s owner says he knew something was up when his dog started barking but when he checked, he found nothing unusual. unlocks the shelter after hurting the goat yesterday but the tiger enter the shelter by breaking the wooden fence and killed the goats. piece of a plan to compensate him, but urging him move the goats to a more secure location, obviously. heather: some new details and a suspected terror plots in missouri. two men facing federal weapons charges accused of planning to bomb the gateway arch in st. louis. investigators say they planned to kill st. louis county press getting attorney robert mccullough and ferguson police chief tom jackson. the suspect allegedly bought what they believed was a pipe bomb in an undercover sting. joining us now defense attorne attorneys, thank you both for joining us and happy things given to you. happy thanksgiving, heather. heather: i understand has been an indictment in this case but it doesn t mention the bombing or the potential killing. where do we stand right now, david? they have them on the purchase of a stra strawman fora firearm. one of these guys bought a firearm for another guy able to possess a firearm. that will hold them without bail. that is really nothing compared to the attempt to purchase what they thought was a bomb with a commitment to purchase two more bombs and the big charge they are going to face no question about it is conspiracy to create mass murder. they planned on place the palms in the arch at st. louis, a tourist attraction at could have killed dozens, hundreds, who knows. also to kill oppressive and police chief adding enhancements to the charge of attempted mass murder, so they are in big trouble. i would advise them don t talk anymore. i have been talking to the media, zip it, stop, don t dig a hole any deeper. heather: their names brandon baldwin and holly david. any chance they could get out before they face is much more serious charges? let s talk about these alleged more serious charges. speaking of that things giving meal, i got a little bloated reading because of all the hot air about this alleged purchasing of pipe bombs. as i see it right now, there is no evidence these guys purchase any pipe bombs, in missouri conspiracy to commit murder requires an overt act in pursuance of the crime. right now all you have are these two guys purchasing guns, we think, for somebody else. absent some audio surveillance, video surveillance, possibly some social media blogs where these guys are talking about an actual time, place where they were going to carry out these alleged mass acts of terrorism, i don t see them facing any additional charges. heather: a pair of the there was a second hearing argument should be held in jail. from what i understand, the fbi was there, and agent presence and they have photographic and video evidence they were ready to play. am i wrong about that? that is exactly right. i have videotape of these guys purchasing what he thought was a bomb committing to buy two more. obviously they are not what you sell him an actual bomb, but he attempts to purchase the bomb is the act that you need for a conspiracy. that is what will get them and i am telling you now as a defense attorney, which i would advise him to do, stop elaborating on what happened because right now they have videotape, photos, the federal firearm form. they are toast. they have the videotape, that is what they say. if they had it, i think theye would have seen it. unless we have some other evidence to support this, i think this might be the media generated story that isn t there. heather: we will see because i am sure there is much more that will come from it. thank you both for joining us and happy thanksgiving to both of you. bill: a key part of turkey day. the act of being thankful, so how can you do it and make it part of your life not just today. it has to do with being grateful more than one day a year. heather: good idea. just the thought of quitting makes me want to light up. my world without cigarettes? 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we need to be honest. there are a lot of things to be stressed out about today. fox was revealed 58% of americans believe the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and yes, heather, there has been a proven relationship between expressing gratitude and reducing stress, by the way that is nothing new, it says be anxious for nothing but in everything with prayer and thanksgiving let your requests be known to god. if we will make gratitude a part of our everyday life instead of just once a year accordin gorgin turkey and cranberry sauce we can experience less stress in our life. heather: we actually have three tips as you just mentioned, make gratitude part of your daily routine. guard against the tendency to go negative. negative molly or debbie downer. express appreciation to others who have made a difference in your life. i think it is interesting to talk about the power of prayer, a lot of people say we are so busy running around, we don t have time. bret baier interviewed a colonel in washington, d.c., a few months back and said you should see it not as a big, long prayer you do every day, it can be like a text message, you cannot even do a small prayer? this a practical suggestion for our viewers. before you drift off to sleep, reflect on two or three positive things that happened to you that day and thanked god for them. studies have shown that people who will do that reflect on the positive each night will experience greater level of satisfaction than those who don t. some of our viewers may not feel thankful right now. it is a lot easier to ask yourself into a feeling than to feel yourself into an action. if you start expressing gratitude, you will feel that way. there is a reason this holiday is called thanksgiving, not thanks-feeling. heather: thank you so much, we appreciate your words on this day. bill: good to see you, pastor. a group of turtles with a lot to be thankful today after getting hypothermia. you re going to want to watch this after the break. bill: people not only one giving thanks today. 30 endangered sea turtles recovering from hypothermia at a turtle hospital key west, florida, days after they were rescued from cape cod bay in massachusetts. heather: they are among more than 193 flown to orlando in banana boxes by the u.s. coast guard this week with the restaurant to four other marine animal revocation centers. bill: thank you for not great me for not saying the pecan pie correctly. heather: thanks to my family is at home right now having pecan pie. bill: we are going to to regulate cap. heather: happy thanksgiving fewer family as well. happening now is starting right now. bye. well, the great american migration is underway, splitting time with our family and friends. welcome to happening now. it was a sloppy trip to grandma s house for many americans and no trip at all for many others. dropping heavy snow and rain along the east coast forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and delay thousands. in new york mother nature playing along for the most part at the annual macy s things giving day parade.
time to home school. robert was said he should have been asked to stop talking and then escorted out. thanks to everyone who responded. fox & friends starts now. bye. good morning. it s wednesday, may 7. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. breaking election news overnight. big primary results with some races still undecided. what you need to know and how it could change the balance of power in washington. how exciting. guess who s back? monica lewinsky. that s her right there speaking out and setting the record straight. but whyç now? could this all be part to help hillary? we re going to report, and you decide. put on your beret, folks. m.v.p. tribute to his mom gets a standing ovation. you made us believe. you kept us off the streets, put clothes on our back, food on the table. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you re the real m.v.p.ç a speech that has everyone talking this morning. more than just the nba. finally good news to come out of the nba. mornings are better with friends. hi everybody. welcome to the telecast live from studio e here in the heart of midtown manhattan. it is the seventh day of may. that s right. it s a birthday. my son. happy birthday, son. is he the one with the car dealership? yeah. that is funny. whose birthday is it for real? pç it s brian kilmeade s birthday. i am officially 50. elisabeth, when you turn 30, you ll understand what it s like to turn 50. the phone keeps ringing. hello. who s there? hi. it s dawn kilmeade. i m sure she s thrilled to be up this hour. she just made me breakfast at 2:30 and then goes back to sleep. you re on the phone with somebody else? yes, i am. hi,ç dad. hello, little brian. you re up 90 minutes early. i m sure you re thrilled by that. this is brian s official last day of high school. he s up at 6:02 in the morning. the nerve of you to have a birthday it s always about me. happy birthday, brian. thank you very much. brian, you were studying spanish yesterday. how did it go? well, i have it today. i know. but it s for today. he went on to skate for a living. he dropped out of school. that s ice ka paid. i guess this is me and brian skating. dawn s in the picture there too, i see. that s back in the day. big family. that s elisabeth photo bombing because brian did fou go to the book party that we had. so there you go. there s the quirky cousin, me. dawn, you re up early. there you guys are, your family out at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. dawn and brian, what sort of plans do you have for the old man today? gosh. when he gets home, it s the usual running around. but then tonight we ll have some dinner plans with the family. did he make any birthday demands? no. brian s pretty easy when it comes to birthdays. noç birthday demands. but we re hoping to have a special family night. it s a big birthday. dawn, how long have we known each other? we have pictures from the 1970 s. these are old, old pictures, some of them. we go way back, back to high school. for the folks who have forgotten, it was just a couple of weeks ago that brian and dawn celebrated jointly a birthday out near your home. right. i apologize for you having to get up this early. i m up any way. good luck with the spanish test, brian, too. and then he can celebrate. thanks for getting up. i appreciate the birthday wishes. hope i get a chance to see you in the afternoon. happy birthday. we love you, brian. love you too. you can only shake katie andç kirsten so much before you go. grammar school, they have to be there at 9:30. why don t you just get there at noon? any way, happy birthday. thank you very much. and todd? we d all like a deal. he d like a hybrid this year. you know whose birthday it s not? heather nauert. brian, happy birthday to you. i do have news to bring you. you travel around the country and seeç political campaign ads all over the place right now and that begins our first story. while you were sleeping big developments in the political world that will affect mid term elections. let s start in north. republican tom tillis winning the nomination. he will face kay hagan. then to the state of ohio, house speaker john boehner defeating two tea party challengers in his bid for a 13th charm in congress. the u.s. is now joining the manhunt for the leader of a nigerian terror group behind the kidnapping of more than 270 young girls. the u.s. is sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria to assist in the hunting down of theç leader of boko haram and to help free the girls. this as we just learned that eight more girls have been kidnapped. last year the state department offered a $7 million reward for the warlords who have plans to sell those girls into slavery. an investigation is underway at this hour to try to figure out who is threatening republican congressman trey gowdy from south carolina. gowdy got e-mails after being tapped to lead a select committee to investigate an attack on benghazi. the e-mails threatened to hurt him if he goes forwardç with those hearings. those hearings certainly are going forward this morning. fox news just confirming that the 12-member panel will include seven republicans and five democrats. we ll keep watching this story carefully. oklahoma city thunder superstar kevin durant is now the nba s most valuable player. listen to this moving acceptance speech and his real shout out to his mom. you made us believe. you kept us off the streets, put clothes on our back, food on the table. when you didn t eat, you made sure we ate. you went to sleep hungry. you sacrificed for us. you re the real mvp. speech. those are your headlines. a perfect prelude to mother s day this sunday. don t forget. that s this sunday? i mean that s this sunday! of course you knew that. of course i knew it. thank you very much, heather. tomorrow vanity fair officially is going to be publishing, after ten years she s broken her silence. monica lewinsky. it will be on vanity fair s website tomorrow. the new york post has some ofç the excerpts. she writes it is time to burn the beret and burn the blue dress. in a preview she talks about being suicidal at times and wanting to reach out to somebody going through something of a similar fashion. she says this about how hillary called her a narcissistic loony tune. yes, i get it hillary clinton wanted it on record that she was lashing out at her husband s mistress. she may have blamed her husband for being inappropriate but i find her impulse to lash out at me troubling. she thinks it s all about timing. she sç saying it s a lot about timing, let s clear the decks to get ready for 2016. take a listen to this great debate. i don t think this is actually relevant as we go forward into 2016 because it has no bearing on the ability of hillary clinton to be a national leader and whether she can lead our nation. any time monica lewinsky is in the news, it does not help either of the clintons. it brings back all sorts of bad memories, you know, certainly of the president s bad behavior. i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clintons part to get that story out ofç the way. would vanity fair publish anything about monica lewinsky that hillary clinton didn t want in vanity fair ? i haven t seen the whole article but from the excerpt i see, i don t think hillary looks great. she might be saying i ve got to say something because i think i ve turned a corner of my life. she is saying get it out now and america will chew on it for two years and by the time the campaign rolls around, yeah, we ve already talked about that. what s curious is she s quite adamant, monica lewinsky stresses this was her, having sex with the president, was consensual. not like he forced her on it. she makes it very clear it was consensual. she says the only time sheç was abused was by his cronies, the people who scapegoated her. she does mention she does feel taken advantage of. so if this is indeed on the part of the clintons to get this out of the way, this could be the second time she has been used by the clintons in the white house. let us know what you think about this. who does it help? does it help monica? does it help hillary? does it not help either one? let us know on facebook. you should call barbara walters. she got the interview. i called her thisç morning. barbara, i know you re up. i spent a lot of time with her, so i d be curious. coming up straight ahead. a new rule banning parents from spanking their children in certain areas when they misbehave. we ll tell you where that is. there is a new rule on the books. we re going to explain. protesters refuse to let condoleezza rice speak at rutgers university, but something big just came out of that. it s big. it s next. to truck guys, the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeatable truck. . good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year and first ever back-to-back champion. guts. glory. ram. why do results matter so much? 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former secretary of state condoleezza rice decides to not be the commencement speaker at rutgers after a group of students and faculty protested her would-be appearance. but it turns out she is welcome somewhere else. texas tech wrote her a letter immediately saying this, quote, i want to let you know that you are more than welcome to speak at texas tech. if a university attempts to stop their free speech, it is the greatest suggestion for the market of free ideas. we salute you and your dedicated service. joining us is the texas tech university chancellor. chancellor, why was it important for you to write thqá letter? i think it s important in that we want to let people know we would love to have condoleezza rice. she s welcome at texas tech and the love of texas. this is a great role model for students. she grew up in the segregated south. she overcame a lot of things. she became provost at stanford, became secretary of state. i think she would be an excellent speaker. when you re looking at criteria of a speaker, you look for accomplishment. you don t necessarily need to agree with her policies? don t have to agree with their policies or their ideas. we want someone that s been highly successful in some area, and we ve had all kinds of speakers. president obama s secretary of the navy, governor ray mabus did an outstanding job. we ve had former secretary of state james baker. we ve had scott pelly, one%of ym angle, one of our distinguished alums. he s with fox news. and ed whitaker, c.e.o. of at&t. does it disturb you when a group of students seemingly led by professors organize a push-back. what does it say about the university system? it s not good. here s what s happened. on the left, a lot of people are for free speech as long as they agree with it. they re notd3uju free speech they want to stifle it if they don t agree with it. we re in the idea of business. any time you try to stifle free speech, you re going against the liberty and justice and freedom that this kupt was built on this country was built on. aren t they exercising free speech by speaking out against her experience? there are ways they can do that. they can petition the administration and ask someone be allowed to speak at the next commencement that has ideas that are different from condoleezza rice. they could do that. they could show up in front of the building with placards. there are ways that one can do that. but you shouldn t be in a situation where they try to stifle it to keep them away or they threaten to make so much noise and yell that no one can hear the speaker. i want toç you hear condoleezza rice, what she posted on facebook. commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for graduates and their families. rutgers invitation for me to speak has become a distraction for the university at a special time. it is not because of the push back she has decideed to speak. it is because of this. universities have become so liberal they stifle people that don t necessarily agree with them. and a professor is so great,ç kids will start agreeing with that to get long. you ve got to look at free speech any time something comes up. the key is there are those on the left that want to stifle free speech and they want to stop free speech for the people they disagree with. we re in the idea business. if there is anyone that should be in the idea business, it s universities. we should be stressing that we want all people of all persuasions to be able to speak out. and i think it s just it s bad. it s happened throughout the country. and some places a person would get up to speak and the students would yell them down so they couldn t speak. there s a lack of civility in that and there s also an element in that that s against free speech of thoseç that they disagree with. not at texas tech and that s why you re here this morning. chancellor, condoleezza rice s office got your letter. they thank you and they ll consider it. thanks for talking about it today on this very special time for not only the chancellor, the professor and students in may. kent hance, thanks so much. coming up straight ahead, kids, take a book, any book as long as it s not that bible thing. one kid in serious trouble in his school for reading about religion in class.ñi lawmakers wanting to bring let me try that again. she won t talk, but lawmakers want to bring lois lerner back to capitol hill. is this just a waste of your money or can we expect a change of heart? we ll discuss it. 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. music go watch your kid catch her first fish. go jump in a lake. go to bass pro shops for great deals on great gear. like ladies gathered v-neck ts and drawstring shorts starting under $10 each. iwas thathe biggest vit gave me.ar. confidence to buy my very first car. and to walk out of that dealership. and know that i got a good deal. save time, save money, and never overpay. visit truecar.com welcome back. some quick headlines for you. he served no jail time for his crime but now the family of the so-called affluenza team has to pay up, a $3 million settlement with one of his victims families. that teen was left paralyzed after couch crashed his truck while driving drunk. four others were killed. should the stow away teenager be criminally charged. this video shows the moment a 15-year-old climbed out of the wheel well of a 767, shopping down on to the tarmac. no oneç knows how he survived the five-hour flight where temperatures dropped well below 80 degrees. he has been placed with child services. i think that is 80 degrees below zero. a fifth grader admonishes a fifth grader for reading the bible. listen to the message to his parents. he has religious books in the classroom. he s not permitted to read those books in my classroom. joining us is fifth grader giovani rubeo along with his dad paul. i understand,ç paul, in april let me back up. giovani, you got the bible as a gift from your church around christmastime? yes. why did you decide you wanted to read the bible during your free time? i love reading the bibl m ald it. apparently the school had given you some trouble in the past. paul, you went in to the principal, talked to the principal, i believe in april, is that right, and got a letter that said he can read it during free time? i had spoke to them numerous times. in march they told him to put it away a coupleç of times, and he came home and said dad, they re telling me to put away my bible and i told him they can t do that. a couple of days ago, giovani, your teacher says you ve got to put that away and you don t. then what did you ask her to do? i asked her to call my father. and she called your dad and said that you couldn t that go ahead. why do you think she said you had to put your bible away? because she didn t want me reading it. paul, why is it that teacher didn t want your son reading his bible during free reading time? that, i can t answer. it seemed they were very hostile about the whole thing. i found that the voice message kind of speaks for itself.j4(p&c@ well, it does. i understand none of the other students were queried what they were reading at the time. so let s bring in the attorney right now, jeremy dice. jeremy, what s going on here? why do you think the school s got a problem with the bible? it s a hard question to answer. but what we do know is that students across america are permitted to read their bible while they re at school especially during free time in free reading periods like this. the bible is not contra band and shouldn t be treated as such. for a teacher to single out a student during free reading time is an egregious violatiof nf the constitution. absolutely. we ve got a statement from the school board. they say broward county public schools respects and upholds the rights of students to bring personal religious materials to school, including the bible, and to read these before school, after school or during any free reading time during the school day. giovani, one of the things is, i read in the local news stories down there in florida that apparently the school said that that was not a free reading time. you were supposed to be reading some other assigned book. is that right? no. that s not right at all. it was definitely free reading. paul, you had received word that during free reading time it would be okay for your son to read his bible? yes, i have received that. okay. so what do you want from the school? right now all we want is a written apology. if you made a mistake, be diligent enoughç to admit it, and everybody can move on and just allow my son and all the children in the entire school district to have that freedom to read their bible if they choose to do so during free reading time. jeremy, that s fair; right? i would think so. for the largest school district in the united states to be able to walk across the street and say we re sorry our teacher tried to remove the bible during a free reading period, i don t think that s a tall order to ask. students in america are permitted to read their bible while they re at school. giovani is no longer in that teacher s classroom. he has been moved toç another one as he concludes the year. giovani, paul, jeremy, thank you for joining us. what do you think about that? why did that particular teacher crack down on that particular book, the bible? go ahead and send us an e-mail, friends@foxnews.com. you can facebook us or tweet us. next up on the rundown, he oversaw the agency accused of leaving our veterans to die on a secret waiting list. should the head of the v.a. step down? 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[laughter] it s your shot of the morning. these three hot dogs told to wait for their treat. and then they re finally given the go ahead. the smallest one makes off with everybody s food. that s how it goes in my house. you know what? i thought in the dog world you don t want to cross a pit bull. i m like, okay, buddy, i ll let you get about five feet and then i m coming after you. got to be fast. to the littleç guy, just another dog. that s the mind set? somebody else with a flea collar. i don t know in the dog world how they punish each other but a lot of people throughout time have decideed to discipline their children by spanking. in kansas city, in one hospital in particular, spanking is no go. the point is they actually have a plan if they catch you spanking and it leaves a mark. they have pamphlets and banner. the no-hit zone at children s mercy hospital.ç a policy that says you cannot use any sort of spanking. if they see it happening, they will bring in a representative from child services to deal with it, giving alternatives such as bubbles and coloring to make the situation simmer. it s not even a ban on spanking. it s a ban on any sort of, let s see, hitting of any kind. and the goal of the hospital is if they see something escalating they re going to try to defuse it because they don t want it to lead anything else. if a staff member sees something escalating, get the kid a coloring book or bubbles. if somebody gives their kid a spafrpg or something like a spank or something like that, sounds like they re going to call in a social worker. a lot of people say we re not spankers. there are a lot of people in this world who discipline theirç children with a spank. they don t define it as hitting. here they blend the two together. they say no hitting. they re bringing them in together in terms of discipline. on one hand, anybody who has had a kid in the hospital understands it is a stressful time. it is the point where you feel the least amount of control over a situation. for one more access to the ability to control a situation in your family is hard for those parents out there right now and have that taken away. but if things are escalated, it could get tense in a hospital. so this kansas city,ç missouri, mercy hospital says we looked at these studies and it said you basically raise bullies if you start spanking kids. are they taking the parent out of parenting? are they going to a place they don t belong? or is this hospital doing something that is necessary on behalf of what they think for the child? are they trying to create peace or trying to take your rights away? sure. some families do spank. if you ve got somebody in the hospital and suddenly you ve got to deal with the social worker because you gave your kid a whack on the butt, that doesn t make it any easier. they say if it leaves a mark. they re not going to decide if it s over the line unless it leaves a mark. they re going to be looking at this. is it a distraction to the overall health and well-being to kids in the hospital? let us know what you think. facebook or twitter. it is 24 minutes before the top of theç hour. heather nauert. speaking of spanking, there may be a little bit of a political spanking in washington. the house of representatives now inching closer to charging former i.r.s. official lois lerner with contempt. there is a meeting to be held today to consider that as well as a g.o.p. request for a special prosecutor to investigate the targeting scandal. the way this looks, you know, it looks so political, a political process, pure and simple, aimed at trying to appeal toç the political base. the facts don t seem to matter. nobody can find a scarier organization, at least one without guns, than the i.r.s. there could be a full house vote today or tomorrow. an emotional moment caught on camera. the mother of a u.s. marine hears her son s words from inside this prison for the very first time in mexico. sergeant andrew tameri s eu has been locked up in a mexican jail. he says he took a wrong turn while driving and accidentally went over the border. he had three legal guns in his truck. listen to this. i m a pretty good man, good morals. i believe in god and i put my faith in good that he will take care of me. that took me by surprise. i hadn t heard that interview. that was the jail house heard that. a local san diego newspaper conducted that interview. tahmooressi faces 21 years in prison if convicted. new calls this morning for v.a. secretary shinseki to step down following that massive scandal at the phoenix v.a. hospital. it is accused of hiding treatment delays that reportedly led to the death of 40 veterans. on monday the american legion called for shinseki to resign. it is the first time since 1941 that the veterans group calledç for the resignation of a cabinet official. shinseki telling the wall street journal that he s not going anywhere. from the fields of battle to the fields of the nfl, take a look. this army ranger who hasn t played football since 2009 has just been signed by the philadelphia eagles. 25-year-old lieutenant villanueva weighs 277 pounds. he spent the last four years serving three tours of duty in afghanistan. the eagles signed him after seeing him work out last month. at the end of the day the ranger training and the physical fitness they have out there in the rangers and also in the army means a lot from every soldier. there wasn t a huge transition i had to make. he says if the nfl doesn tç work out he ll head back to afghanistan in september for his fourth tour of duty. what a brave young man. we ve got a bunch of nfl draft picks coming in later today. we have 15 nfl draft picks. it s been a five-year tradition. exciting there. thanks, heather. maria is standing by. hello everybody. i want to take you first to wyoming because in wyoming, we saw a very rare tornado. the state only sees about ten tornadoes per year. this oneç lasted only about two minutes and hit an undeveloped area. again, very rare especially this early in the year to be seeing tornado activity across the state of wyoming. that same disturbance is headed eastbound. today it will be tapping into some very warm and humid air across parts of the center of the country and we are going to be seeing the possibility for severe storms not only today but also as we head into tomorrow and also on friday to wrap up the work week. there is still an elevated fire danger in places across parts of the southern rockies due to dry conditions, gusty winds and temperatures well above average. take a look at those highs in places like dallas and kansas city, 89 degrees for your high temperature. let s head back insides. thank you, maria. straight ahead, they have known ties to terror but they can travel freely throughout the united sttls. how does this happen? find out next. they re on a hands off list. how to go from nothing to the top of the tph l. top of the nfl. the secret to success the secret to success coming up next. 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will senator charles grassley raise the issue with usda officials? a student terrorist in pakistan paying homage to bin laden, paid the library after the founder of al qaeda. a large sign at the entrance reads we love osama bin laden. he s known for nfl stardom but former all star matt burke is telling a different story. it s about health. he describes it in a book allç prowisdom. congratulations on the book. where did this idea come from? you guys were neighbors and they came through fellowship? fellowship in the cul-de-sac. we got in the cul-de-sac, corralled our kids and talked about life. i would share my experiences in the tph fplt rich would share experiences in life and we found there is a lot of overlap. i want to talk about being a line man. are the seven steps, is that the best protection moving through life,ç business, family and friends? absolutely. i would say there s seven questions any person needs to ask themselves if they want to be a person of positive influence, whether they re a young person getting instruction from a mentor or a business leader. the seven questions are crucial in establishing your foundation. it s not only we re in a time right now where faith is being questioned, the freedom to express, especially when it comes to christianity. taking a strong stand when our rights are called into question. in 2013 you chose not to attend the white house celebration with the ravens. ñ%y is that? it starts with the question who are you? my identity starts with being a christian and it is important to me. i understand that is who i am. because i understand my identity, i have the confidence to beç myself. at that time it just was not consistent with my values and with what i want to try to convey and pass on to my children to visit the white house. not an easy decision and one that came under critique. did you have regrets? it came under critique but it wasn t difficult for me. it was right after president obama addressed planned parenthood and said god bless planned parenthood and my wife and i are very involved in the pro-life movement. my kids know that we re involved in the pro-life movement. they know what it means. they know what the president standsç for. so i didn t want to confuse my kids. i wanted to send them the right message. a strong message indeed there. talk about the seven choices. that being the first step there. what are some others people can take away from this today in the book? i think if a person understands his or her identity, the next question is what is your purpose? this has to do with passion, whether it s at work or your vocation. the next person is what kind of person do you want to be? a person of character establishes depend ability. to become a trustworthy person we need to ask what kind of a person do i want to be? it progress s from there. coaches, c.e.o. s, this is reaching a broad audience. one high school golf coach is having the entire team go through it and do a lesson plan about it and write aboutç it. matt birk, well done. rich, you guys are good friends and have done a good job with this. thank you for being with us. coming up, should high schools be handing out homework with graphic references to sex? this father questioned it and guess what? he got arrested. we re serious. what s better than howard stern stopping by our studio? not much. he is surrounded by puppies and naming them all.ç 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. he gets a ready for you alert the second his room is ready. when sales rep steve hatfield books at laquinta.com, so he knows exactly when he can prep for his presentation. and when steve is perfectly prepped, ya know what he brings? 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we did. he is as big an animal lover as i am. that s why i fell in love with him. good move for a guy. by the way, these animal looks at you as now i m in good hands. describe these dogs. this is el bell. she s tearier mixer. between eight to ten weeks old. they re ready to be adopted. spayed and neutered, ready to go home. you have ainsley, she s a collie mix a. big girl. you have lukey. he s going to be a really big boy. so a big yard, great, great, great family dog. they re so great with one another. yeah. we have lula who is a chihuahua mix. great dog for the city, your apartments. you can put in your purse. carry her around. i think that these dogs know that they have to be extra special good. so when you bring them home, they re extraordinary. they know they ve been saved. they do. i feel every animal that s been rescued i feel that way with our cats. they just know. we re actually coming to our final d of our touche for life. we went to 52 cities with four of our mobile units. over 2,000 adoptions with our partnered shelters across the united states. what do you have to say to families who are considering not adopt ago did you go from a rescue. what s your message? my message is when they buy from a pet store, they re facilitating a horrific cycle of puppy mills. these animals in puppy mills are bred solely for money. most of the time they re in horrible conditions. rescue a did you go. you re saving a life. they know it. i heard two things that involve you. between howard stern s party, when i heard about that, which was incredible, and then that big open forum with billy joel across the street. can i say billy joel, on his birthday, this friday is donating all of his proceeds from his concert to the foundation that howard and i came up with. wow. where is that going to be? madison square garden. i ve heard of that! on friday in the met stadium on sunday for mother s day. thank you so much. thank you. great to see you. it s great cause. bark at the park this sunday. meanwhile, she s back. monica lewinsky break her silence and criticized hillary clinton. but is there a chance hillary okay with this? your e-mails and theories at the top of the hour. you remember film beverly hills 90210 . jason priestly revealing the secrets from his personal life. was that a bible thumping moment? 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[ bop ] [ male announcer ] could ve had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. two full servings of vegetables 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. wbecame your business. passion. at&t can help simplify how you manage it. so you can focus on what you love most. when everyone and everything works together, business just sings. 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. good morning. it s wednesday, may 7. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. breaking election news overnight. big primary results with some important races still undecided. what you need to know and how it could change the balance of power in washington. yep. she s back. monica lewinsky break her silence to criticize hillary clinton? why now? one possibility might surprise you. i really wonder if this isn t an efforts on the clintons part to get that story out of the way. that s an interesting theory. your theories straight ahead. and forget the royal treatment. guess who was just spotted flying coach. who is behind that great big question mark? thank you for joining us on wednesday. it s a wednesday. it is a wednesday. right. we got to get a calendar. mornings are better with friends. happy birthday to you i should have known today was wednesday cause today is the big day. ladies and gentlemen, brian kilmeade is celebrating a birthday that ends with a 0. right. this is the longest birthday celebration ever, cause i had a surprise party three weeks ago. that s right. so it s ongoing. i could always say i m not 50 yet. now i m officially 50. wait a minute. is that the telephone? hello, who is there? is that jim and steve kilmeade, brian s brothers? yeah. they just woke us up. they re in another location. from what i ve been able to tell, you re the only member of the kilmeade clan that gets up before noon. i think so. they like to sleep in. we re from a long line of bartenders. we ve been up late cleaning and sweeping. actually we don t know how to sleep very well. we can t s family. doesn t work. jim, thanks for that s a live shot. that was from last night. yeah. steve and jim, slide over. we ve got to get a pictures. brian, you are the little one? i m the middle one. evidently we re out of room. is that you with the bow tie? that is me there without a neck. that s an outfit that i grew out there you go. grow the hair over the eyes. jim, tell us something we don t know about your brother, brian. what can i tell you? i think you found out everything after the book tour. except for the back that brian cries for every family picture. it s true. he didn t like having his picture taken. so almost every picture we have except for three we showed, he s in tears. did that give him the nickname crying brian? a lot of people wouldn t do that. i wish you were around back then. we weren t that clever. we couldn t come up with things that rhymed. unfortunately, when we were growing up, elisabeth wasn t born. you guys threw a beautiful big, fantastic party for brian out in long island. was that it or is he getting a cake today? he s getting one more cake on the traditional sunday kilmeade dinners. very nice. i love that. good brotherly love. brian is crying right there. how do we have crying shots? thank you. guys, thanks a lot for getting up. that was great parties. happy birthday, brian. thank you. as a special tribute, what better way to have a talking point with monica lewinsky? we re going to in about two minutes. right. you re so desperate to get out of that, you destroyed the talking point. i didn t know. it s your birthday. you get to call the shots here. like calling the shot over to heather. hi, heather. hi. nothing will make you feel old than monica lewinsky turning 40. right. good morning to you. i ve got news to bring you. politics now, while you were sleeping, there was big developments in the political world that will affect the midterm election. let s start in north carolina. republican tom tillis winning the republican senate nomination. he will face democratic senator kay hagin in november. also in north carolina, the congressional primary race between democrat clay aiken and keith chrisco still too close to call. in ohio, john boehner defeating two tea party challengers in his bid for a 13th term in congress. united states now joining the manhunt for the leader of the terrorist group behind the kidnapping of more than 270 girls there. the u.s. is sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria to help with the hunt for the leader in an attempt to free the girls. this as we learn eight more girls have been kidnapped in the last 24 hours. the warlord says he plans to sell those girls into slavery. we ll keep you posted. condoleeza rice getting an offer this morning to speak at texas tech university after she turned down rutgers invitation amid all those protests there. the chancellor of that school joined us earlier on the show. he said it shouldn t be about politics, but about the person s credentials. listen to this. we re in the idea business. if there is anyone that should be in the idea business, it s universities. we should be stressing that we want all people of all persuasions to be able to speak out. rice is said to be considering that offer. we ll let you know what happens. listen to this one, every parent needs to hear this. a father shows up at a school board meeting to express his concerns with a risque novel that s required reading for his 14-year-old daughter and here is what happened. what are you charging me with? disorderly conduct. disorderly conduct. taken away in handcuffs. here is what happened. he went over the two minutes of that allowed for him to address the school board in new hampshire and so he was arrested and taken away. the center of the controversy is a book called 19 minutes. it s by jody picall. there is a love scene in it that is too graphic for ninth graders. listen. it reads like a transcript for a triple x porno movie. we had no notice about it. school officials say they are standing by that book. they say it s been part of the curriculum since 2007. they ll update their policies, but listen to this one, instead of being able to opt out of controversial material, including this one, parents have to be forced to sign off on them. so it s still part of required reading. nothing changed there. i got to send something home to the parents. you re hearing from people on this, right? yeah. a lot of you are weighing in. wayne tweeted us this, he says his fry dom of speech was violated. very sad that parents aren t allowed to voice their concerns about improper books. that s right. susan tweeting this: they allotted him two minutes? he could have expressed his outrage in that time. no infringement on free speech. sean says, officer, how about arresting the teacher who hands this out and teaches it? check out how helpful to the students. yep. keep e-mailing us regarding it. you can fake book us or you could tweet us as well. meanwhile, today you re going to discover that monica lewinsky is back. she s written an article in vanity fair. the whole thing comes out tomorrow. we do have some excerpts, which it s curious, she makes it very, very clear that the times she had sex with then president of the united states, bill clinton, it was consentual. it was between consenting adults. he didn t force himself on her. didn t abuse her. the only people who abused her were his cronies, it sounds like, when she was made the scapegoat and was all to protect the clintons. right. that way she felt taken advantage of and also suicidal. she reveals during the height of the scandal, actually prompting her to write and actually get some word out here in the vanity fair article and help others who may be feeling like a victim going through something like this. i really feel bad for her. she points out to what happens at rutgers with the 18-year-old who felt humiliation. she said she felt same to that in the same fashion as she turns 40. shear an excerpts from the article which has not been fully released yet. she said my first thought as i was getting up to spied, that s the worst thing she said about me, i should be lucky. yes, i get it. hillary clinton wanted it on the record that she was lashing out at her husband s mistress. she may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate, but i find her impulse to blame the woman and herself troubleing. and things that we know from her then friend in the 1990s said hillary referred to monica lewinsky as that narcistic looney toon. what s curious is why is vanity fair publishing this right now? we ve got one theory from lynn cheney, you re about to hear, and also we ve got a republican strategist and a democratic strategist because the timing is curious, don t you think? we haven t heard of monica lewinsky out of the blue til now. why? listen to this. i don t think this is actually relevant as we go forward into 2016 because it really has no bearing on the abilities of hillary clinton to be a national leader and whether she can lead our nation. any time monica lewinsky is in the news, it does not help either of the clintons. it brings back all sorts of bad memories, certainly of the president s bad behavior. i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clintons part to get that story out of the way. would vanity fair publish anything about monica lewinsky that hillary clinton didn t want in vanity fair? probably not. my question is, is vanity fair going to do something with broderick or gennifer flowers or paula jones? if they re doing, so to speak, monica lewinsky if you google mistresses of bill clinton, there is a shocking number of people who come up. the timing of this is certainly coming under question. we re going to have the opportunity to talk with lynn cheney in a bit here on the show. we asked you what you thought in the meantime and barbara is saying this: monica may be the only honest person in a sad situation. we know the clintons aren t truthful. theresa posted on facebook, hillary stayed with bill for her own agenda to once again occupy the white house. and ralph s up and he says what difference does it make? you re funny. mark saying it s all good until a republican does it, then all hell breaks loose. yeah, there is a little bit of a double standard. continue to e-mail us, tweet us and facebook us. she was over wasn t she at oxford? she got a degree at oxford in london. she did. but she said she had a difficult time finding jobs after. moments of being stressed. she says it s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress. okay. none of this would have happened if that blue dress disappeared, or she had gone to the cleaners. 7:11. you re right. he s being tapped to lead an investigation into the benghazi attacks. now congressman trey gowdy is getting death throats. is threats. is that just the start of something? and the university of utah s fight song, utah man, under fire for being sexist. should the school have to change it to protect others feelings? what about utah people? we report. you decide. he scores. hi, i m terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it s hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. 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joining us is congressman devon nunez and members of the house select committee on intelligence who joins us from d.c good morning to you. great to be back on with you. it s great to have you. a couple of days ago, democrats were saying, no, no, no. nobody should show up. suddenly yesterday, nancy pelosi said, well, we ll show up if it can be half and half. which is funny because when she was running things, it was nine democrats versus six republicans. what sort of recipe are you guys looking at? it s going to be seven republicans and five democrats, steve. the point that you make is right. this congress has a long history of these investigative committees. we attempted to do it through the existing structure with the four committees of jurisdiction, but as you know, we ve been stonewalled by the administration, so much so that the legislative branch of our government was unable to get the e-mails that you guys in the press were able to get. that s totally unacceptable and i think it broke basically john boehner did the right thing by coming out strongly and putting one of our great new members of congress, trey gowdy, who will do a great job as chairman. as we look in, you re in the thick of things in washington, d.c., it does look like stonewalling, in addition to the fact they would send you guys documents that were completely blank because they had been completely redacted where you couldn t even tell where it was about, which is kind of nuts. they ve also made it impossible for to you talk to the people who were there. it sounds like from what we ve heard some of you guys talk about these guys have been threatened with their jobs. if you say anything, there goes your pension. we might sue you. will witnesses be able to testify in fronts of your committee? yeah. i think that s the important point, too, is we re going to have good witnesses like greg hicks, who was the number one man, after ambassador stevens was murdered in cold blood by al-qaeda terrorists, greg hicks was the man in charge. greg hicks has been put out to pasture by this administration. he s been said that he s not a credible witness. but i think what we re going to find through this investigation is that guys like greg hicks, who were on the ground, the station chief that was there in libya working for the c.i.a., all of those people are going to be extremely credible. if we can ever get the rest of the e-mails out of the administration, we re going to find out we re going to get to the bottom of what really happened in benghazi and who made up these most ridiculous stories. the white house goes well, we had you, congress, you ve had a bunch of investigations, plus there was that arb, accountability review board, they looked at things. but the arb talked to greg hicks, to your point, and he told them that the reason chris stevens was in benghazi was because hillary clinton personally asked him to see whether or not they could establish a permanent post there. that s what he told the arb. but the arb, when they finally released the report, it said chris stevens wound up in benghazi independently, which is crazy. that s a flat out lie! yeah. we haven t gotten to the bottom yet of what was chris stevens actually doing there. he did meet with people that day. i think that s something that the committee should look into, who exactly did he meet with. i think the committee should trio meet with those folks, or at least have investigators meet with those folks. there is still a lot of information out here. i don t blame anyone but the white house. the american people should blame no one but the white house. they had an opportunity and they have a responsibility as leaders in this country to provide the legislative branch of government all of the documentation when the legislative branch asks. they did not do it and they get what they deserve on this. well, to a lot of people, it looks like there was a conspiracy and a cover-up and a lot of people would like the answers and it s up to you guys now. all right. congressman, thank you for joining us from washington. my pleasure. it is now 20 minutes after the top of the hour. she refuses to talk. now democrats say enough s enough when it comes to questioning lois lerner. maybe we can get ken star to come out of retirement and do another investigation and waste taxpayers money. should we give her a break or keep paying to watch her plead the fifth? that s coming up next. and you know him as the heart throb from the hit drama 90210 . jason priestly is dishing it all, like his former roommate, br what does he know about him? plenty. and he spills the beans to liz and brian and me as we roll on live from new york city. ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? i think the numbers speak for themselves. i m sold! a selling machine! ready for you alert, only at lq.com. 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. we re become now for your consumer news. another general motors recall. this time nearly 60,000 saturn aura cars that affect the 2007 and 2008 model years with four speed transmissions. the problem can cause cars to roll away unexpectedly because the driver thinks it s in park. it led to 28 crashes and four injuries. but no deaths thankfully. office depot looking to scale back in a big way. the company plans to close 400 stores by the year 2016. a move expected to save the company $75 million a year. 150 stores will be closed by the end of 2014. subway testing new menu option. some of the chains started putting thinner slices of deli meat on sandwiches. there are 12 slices on a footlong instead of eight and testing a new topping called hummus. really? what do you think about that? it s too controversial to comments on. he burst onto the hollywood scene as a star of one of the hottest prime time shows ever. brandon, i know you were mr. popularity back home. but i m not going to miss minneapolis. nobody knows me here. i could be anybody. i could be somebody. like what, homecoming queen? the life for the man best known as brandon walsh on 90210 hasn t always been glitzy and glamorous f. sudden stardom to a life changing car crash, jason priestly reveals his dramatic journey from heart throb to family man in a new book titled jason priestly, a memoir. and he s parked on our couch. good morning to you. good morning. why did you write this? it kind of felt like time. you talk about my car crash that i had back in 2002, while i was lying in my hospital bed starting my recovery from that car crash, i said a lot of set a lot of lofty goals in my recovery. i found myself in 2012 having achieved all those goals, my wife, my family, my career was back to where i wanted it to be. it just felt like time to write this book. what was the toughest part to write about? the toughest part to write about was the accident and my recovery from that accident. i suffered a lot more catastrophic injuries than i had ever really talked about. you were in the hospital for three months? three months i was in the hospital. i suffered three skull fractures in the accident. skull fractures, 7, 8, 9 in my lifetime and class 3 concussion. i could barely talk when i was in the hospital. my cognitive thought capabilities had been lost completely. i couldn t remember anything. so i had to relearn how to speak and how to think and how to memorize things. they had to take my eyeball out and rebuild part of my skull here. this whole side of my face wouldn t work for a long time. so there were a lot of things that i had to overcome. physically, my back was broken, my feet were shattered. so i had to do a lot of work to bring myself back to the place where i am today. so you said you grew up and you were watching television, you always thought, i want to be part of that, from the electric company on down and it happens really quick. is fame hard? the struggle was short. you said you arrived in los angeles in 97. in 98 you re on the top show. is it hard to be famous? well, no. i wouldn t say it s hard to be famous. fame has a lot of positive aspects to it. i think it s difficult to manage sometimes. sure. cause there is no self-help book that you can go and just pick up on the shelf and it tells you how to manage it. you ve known a loft famous people. lot of famous people. for instance, brad pitt was your roommate. what sort of dirt can you dish on brad? look, i tell a lot of stories in the book about some of the famous people that i ve come across in my lifetime. but i really do that just for contextual reasons. there is some funny stories that happened in my life, certainly before i got famous. and those experiences are there because those kind of friendships and those experiences are things that kind of make you who you are. i like the story where you talked about how he went home, brad pitt did, and came back with a box full of bibles. he sure did. and gave them away, right? yeah. and we were all young actors and it was back in the late 80s and everyone wanted to be a bad boy. so everyone is handing out cartons of cigarettes and bottles of jack daniels and trying to be all cool. brad handed us all bibles that were embossed with our names on it cause he had just come back from missouri where he s from. did you think it was a joke? oh, no. no, no. he s very earnest. do you still have it? of course i do. read it? of course i ve read it. listen to what shannen doherty treated. memoirs are so funny. the truth is rarely told. after all, they re trying o sell a book. she actually tweet that had about somebody very inflammatory headlines that have been written and priestly lashes out at dougherty. i certainly would never lash out at her. i she shannon and shannon and i had four fun years together on the show. maybe it s from in the book, you talk about how she was yelling at a publicist because, what, you sent me a town car! i should have a limo! we ve all done that, steve. come on. a lot in this book. we re so glad you re fully recovered. love to hear about the kids, too. yep. and the first time i met you, you were racing with paul newman. yeah, that s right. congratulations. thanks, appreciate it. coming up, new video this morning of the kid who flew across the pacific ocean in the wheel well of a plane. now investigators have questions for the teen who just wants to do see his mom. and in 24 hours, these guys will be multi-millionaires. the 2014 nfl draft picks. 15 are here to talk about their big night tomorrow night. now you can have it all with red lobster s new seafood trios! choose one option from the wood-fire grill, one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta. all on one plate. three delicious choices. all for $15.99 for a limited time only! come sea food differently today! it s built to be as fast as it is strongor advil. and fights pain at the site of inflammation. advil has the strength and speed to help you move past pain. advil. make today yours. 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yeah. very exciting time for us because it s a time of year where america s top college athletes, football players come to new york city to see where and what teams will be drafting them. before they get picked in less than 24 hours, they ve come here before they go across the street to radio city. let s meet some of the soporose effects. give yourselves a round of applause for getting here right now! let s go around the horn. where are you from? bama. where do you hope to go? anywhere. mike evans, texas a & m. mike especially for you, a lot of people really excited about the prospects. you proved yourself in the combines big time. i did my best. right. you went to one year high school football? yes, sir. how did that play into this? are you surprised how quick you picked it all up? i already knew how to play football. i just didn t decide to do it in high school, but in my last year. one of the best decisions i ever made. thanks a lot. and by the way, johnny manziel, that s a guy you play with. he s all right. we ll see where he goes. some say number within overall. morgan moses, university of virginia. usc. university of minnesota. ohio state. ohio state. indiana university. university of north carolina. are you having fun this week? it s been all right. kind of nervous? yeah. we just trying to get through it, you know. it s not like you re in competition with these guys. universities of louisville. teddy, you are got the quarterback and wide receivers to throw to. have you been throwing the ball around? not yet. nice to be here with these guys. they re always open. always open. okay. jordan from vanderbilt. a lot of people looking at you and saying isn t he related to jerry rice? that is true. kind of a fun fact. kind of cool. puts a lot of pressure, but i like it. you like it. of course, he comes out of nowhere to be the greatest nfl wide receiver ever. that must have been inspirational. is he still running the hill? yeah, i m trying to get throughout and do the same thing he did. of course, shine in the colleague get better as a pro, which all you guys do. of course. just don t drop anything. of course. louisiana state university. odell. oregon state. brandon, what s the experience been like for you? it s been fun. been fun of the been around a lot of good talent. compact what about the combines? is that nerve racking? no. i watched a lot. tcu. what are your thoughts about tomorrow? i m excited to be there. have these guys become your friends? yeah, dick cheneyly. this go definitely. is this going to be one of the greatest drafts ever? yeah. congratulations. good luck tomorrow night and don t forget fox friends friends as you grab your jersey with your new team. elisabeth, take it away. wishing all of them well tomorrow. thanks. the u.s. jumping into the search for hundreds of girls kidnapped in nigeria. who are the terrorists who are kidnapping them? peter johnson, jr. going to run down their history coming up. first, the aflac question, trivia of the day. born on this date in 1945, this actress is best known for her role as dorian lord on one life to live. be the first to e-mail us with the correct answer. passenger: road trip buddy. let s put some music on. woman: welcome to learning spanish in the car. passenger: you ve got to be kidding me. driver: this is good. woman: vamanos. driver & passenger: vamanos. woman: gracias. driver & passenger: gracias. passenger: trece horas en el carro sin parar y no traes musica. driver: mira entra y comprame unas papitas. vo: get up to 795 miles per tank in the tdi clean diesel. the volkswagen passat. recipient of the j.d. power appeal award, two years in a row. aflac, aflac, afc! 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what is it that they believe in exactly? joining us is fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. 300 young women held captive by these folks. it s important to understand who this terrorist organization is. in 2013, the united states declared it a terror organization. its leader, they espouse hatred for everything modern, secular and western. they especially oppose education for women. so they ve become known for these attacks on schools, including burning schools, holding people hostage, suicide bombs, and attacks. this is their leader that is pictured right there. yeah. and he suspect out a series of videos saying that allah ordered him to do this. that s interesting because they do have ties to al-qaeda, the terrorist organization we know so well. they ve received training from al-qaeda and shakal declared his allegiance to al-qaeda in the past. there is no firm evidence that they intend to take their efforts beyond the four countries in africa that they ve been involved with. who are their targets that we know of? their targets are schools, government officials, christians, christian churches, nigerian security and police forces. they re known most famously for december 2011 bombing of a cathedral in nigeria. in fact, last year i met a nigerian bishop who told me that priests were so terrified in that country that they needed to change christmas midnight mass to early in the afternoon to 4:00 o clock in the afternoon because they were afraid that the parishioners would be kidnapped and murdered in the middle of the night on christmas morning. and it s taken a terrible, terrible toll. 1500 people have died this year alone. thousands have died in the last few years. now america and the world, including great britain, are saying, we need to get involved in this. the hashtag has taken hold and foreign policy is following this saying, what can we do to save these children? it s an absolute heart break. the president spoke out as well. he actually called it, quote, heart breaking and outrageous. so what exactly precisely can be done? it s interesting. in some ways it s ignored this situation in nigeria for a while. there s a $7 million bounty on the leader s head. now the white house is sending a team of military officials, negotiators, intelligence officials and law enforcement personnel to see what they can do to bring these children back, to return them to their parents. can you imagine at any school in america to have almost 300 children snatched and then parents literally chasing these terrorists with bows and arrows against their ak 47s? they re afraid of reprisals. they don t want their names out there. unfortunately, the nigerian government has been absolutely powerless in reapproximatelying this kind of attack repelling this kind of attack. they ve been known they ve not repelled these attacks and they continue. in fact, eight other children abducted yesterday. and bombings continue. heart breaking to hear that. glad at least something is being done in this area. peter johnson, jr., we thank you for always keeping us up to date. america again the policemen of the world. we will follow this story for you. prayers for them. coming up, his career didn t end when he walked away from baseball. nolan ryan now cooking up a storm. his simple recipe for burgs that won t strike out. in 1975, he don t like you like i love you by tony orlando and dawn was the number one song in america. sfx: car unlock beep. vo: david s heart attack didn t come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you ve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. time for the answer to the aflac trivia question. born on this date in 1945, this actress is known for her role as dorian lord on one life to live. who is she? it s robin strasser. the win letter get a copy of brian s book george washington s secret six. from one book to another, they couldn t be more different. power pitcher who off the field turned his passion for ranching into a successful meat a business. that s why we smell like hamburger right now. nolan ryan right here sharing some of his favorite dishes in his new book the nolan ryan beef and barbecue cookbook, recipes from a texas kitchen. good morning to you. good morning. this is great. when was the last time you talked to nolan ryan about a hamburger? you got two kind here. one, the all american. what does it have inside it? it has bacon and it has cheese and then it has montreal seasoning. it s got an egg in it! and you put that in there. bind it together so when you grill it, it stays together. the cajun burger. is that blue cheese? yes. and bacon? yes. and different cajun flavoring. you have a choice this morning. look at the size of these burgers. you can see how great they are. this is not these are not small patties you might get at a fast food place. you talk about different things you can do with the meat, from chuck stake to skirt steak. this is grilling season in texas. it s a little early in new york. that s what i enjoy. you re at the point, you could have a full time guy grilling stuff that you want for breakfast. but you prefer to grill yourself. that s just kind of what i enjoy doing and i m kind of particular how i like my meat. so i want to make sure that i don t blame it if it s not right on someone elimination. you ve been work for this meat company for a dozen years. you started putting the recipes on line and this is where this was born, right? right. we wanted to do this for our customers and give them an opportunity. they would call and want to know, i bought t bone what, do i do with it? how do i prepare it? you got the american burger, cajun burger. it s all in this new book. it s weird not seeing with the rangers. you re now with the astros. i remember your relationship with the bushes. you seem really tight. i don t think the president missed a game now that he s retired. he came to a lot of games. he s really a baseball fan. he was the owner of the ball club when i was there as a player. so we ve been friends for a long time. it was hard to wiggle away from him cause he was sitting right next to you. he kind of liked those seats. i bet he did! he s president, but you re nolan ryan. nolan, do you ever see yourself fighting ventura again? i hope not. i hear he s got a cookbook coming out. the president said one of the most inspirational said he saw is a 40-year-old guy on the mound, ventura charged the mound, and to see you pound him that, inspired the former president! it s just one of the unfortunate things that happened in my career and i think rob feels that way, too. once again, the book is called the nolan ryan beef and barbecue cookbook. will you make me one of the cajun burgers? you got your bun? i got my bun right here. it really comes down to what all do you want on that? a lot of bacon. bacon is in there. it s already got bacon in there. i ll take one protein style here. homeruning with the burgers. loving that with the guys. coming up, timing is everything. why is monica lewinsky speaking out now for the first time in a decade? i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clintons part to get that story out of the way. lynn cheney joining us live in minutes. plus, brian turns 50 years old today and we have a surprise guest for him who brought a very special gift, right after the break. don t miss it. 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. 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. 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(announcer) all-new friskies saucesations. a taste experience like no other. in cheesy, creamy, homestyle, or garden sauce. friskies. feed the senses. good morning. it s wednesday, may 7. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. breaking election news overnight, big primary results with some important races still undecided. how will it shift the balance of power in washington? everything you need to know straight ahead. and monica lewinsky breaking her silence to criticize hillary clinton. but why now? one possibility could actually surprise you. i really wonder if this isn t an effort on the clints part to get that story out of the way. excellent theory. lynn cheney is actually here this hour. with james madison. he s been tapped to lead the investigation into the benghazi attacks. now someone wants congressman trey gowdy dead. do you believe this? float the pictures. mornings are better with friends. of course, we would play that because today is brian s birthday. right. tomorrow we will not play it. look who we booked for this final hour today because it s your birthday. lynn cheney and i grew up together. that s right. plus you remember the movie goonies ? guy fieri and two special mystery guests. i think one of the mystery guests is joining us right now behind the blue door. open it up. ladies and gentlemen, happy birthday, brian. happy birthday brian happy birthday to brian happy what is that? it s going to be rogaine, viagra and magazine subscription happy birthday. he s the first man who kissed me. there you go. it s good to see you. open that up. all right. when you continue 50, geraldo rivera that s right. i show up. do you know what he got you? he wrapped it in headlines. look at this. balls. it s a margarita mixer. oh! wait a minute. last time you had a lot of margaritas, you wound up in a towel. he didn t bring the towel. that s right. a little later today i m doing a selfy. no shirt on. i m doing the geraldo. after this, you just might. thank you very much. happy birthday. you re so youthful. what s hard to believe you re qualified for aarp magazine now. i think i ll wait on the subscription. feel any differently? not at all. i actually do not feel 50. it feels surreal, which is crazy when you start at the same job 17 years ago 17 years. my goodness. in 97, when my son called in, he was one. when you think about high school and college, four years each. now you double that. brian, we watched you grow up. it s brian s song. i d like to jog in a football uniform! you know what? since you re here, geraldo, we want to ask you about the monica lewinsky story. she now is appearing on the covers of talking about time flying. exactly right. she s 40. she writes in vanity fair for the first tile time ever about her affair with bill clinton. among other things, she talks about how when i had sex with the president of the united states, it was consentual. he didn t force himself on me. the only time i was abused was by his cronies who tried to scapegoat me. you know, when i first came to fox, bill o reilly said that fox audience would never accept me because i was bill clinton s prime defender during my cnbc days. i have a source, the reason i could report with great accuracy about what was happening is that the president s best friend, whom i have sworn never to name, would call me on a nightly basis with the story du jour. how many does he have? well, if you sort through, you could probably figure it out. there was an amazing shift within the dynamic of the pro-clinton forces during the arc of the story. monica lewinsky is absolutely right, as i recall, as the story was evolving right before my very eyes there, that there was a lot of she s nut job, she s a loose cannon. she s a crazy it s her faults. basically she came on to him. she pursued him. then if you ll recall, i was the one who broke the story that the stain on the blue dress was indeed president clinton s dna. so i was able to report that. the story changed dramatically as that revelation was reported to me and i passed it on to the american people. then it was much more about all men lie about having affairs, oral sex is not real sex. then the story became not monica. monica was now in every way affirmed. now became the minimummization of what the offense was. why do you think she s coming out? that s good question. i don t necessarily agree with lynn cheney. great to see her again in the green room. i don t necessarily agree that hillary clinton is behind the timing of this. put yourself in monica lewinsky s shoes. i don t know where the hell she has been for these many years. why bother? why do it now? you know, let s take her at her word. the 18-year-old rutgers student who jumped off the bridge in front of my house, that she was motivated because she similarly felt humiliation he felt. and she wants to do self-destroy as he did. will it play in 2016 for hillary? will this matter that she s coming out now? i think it meters who the republican nominee is. i think a senator rand paul has made very clear, elisabeth, that he considers the president s character and the actions of his spouse during this traumatic period in american history to be relevant to the 2016 election as it refers to the clark of the family character of the family. if it s rand paul, that s one thing. if it s jeb bush or mitt romney again i actually see a woman that s turning 40 that wants to make sense out of what happened to her. i think that s very profound. you just turned 50. i 70. can i throw a curve ball in here? could women, could the clintons or hillary clinton maybe assume that there would be a bunch of women who feel like she does and maybe this would relate to them? could this bode well for her if she was on the ticket? well, all i know is that she got tremendous support from the women s movement and monica lewinsky points out with great bitterness, if you read even the excerptses, the limited excerpts, how feminists deserted her and blamed it all on her, the intern, after all, and the suffering spouse. why were they ever defending her? why weren t they? that s an excellent question. i think the woman s movement really has to assess its own performance during that trauma. we re going to listen to you on the radio? i m going to radio right now. i got my radio voice on now. we re going to be talking to lynn cheney. her take on it. she s coming up in a couple of minutes. geraldo, thanks very much for dropping by. didn t expect so. thank you very much. 52 minutes now. right. keep the cameras away from the man. heather, what s in the headlines? let s start with political news. while you were sleeping, there have been major political developments that will affect the midterm election. let s start in north carolina. republican tom tillis winning the gop senate nomination. he will now face democratic senator kay hagin in november. also north carolina, the congressional primary race between two democrats, clay aiken and keith chrisco is still considered too close to call. we ll let you know what happens as we got it. ohio, john boehner defeating two tea party challengers that we told you about yesterday. he won that in his bid for a 13th term in congress. the united states now taking part joining the manhunt for the leader of the nigerian terror group behind the kidnappings of more than 270 young girls. the u.s. is now sending military intelligence and law enforcement support to nigeria in its hunt for the leader of the group. this as we learn eight more girls have been kidnapped within the last 24 hours. the warlord of that group says he plans to sell the girls into slavery. the republican congressman trey gowdy is now receiving death threats after he s been tapped to lead a select committee to investigate the attack in benghazi. the e-mails threaten to hurt him if he goes forward with the hearings. the hearings will go forward. fox news now confirming that the 12-member panel will include seven republicans and five democrats. but will they got any answers? i don t blame anyone but the white house. the american people should blame no one but the white house. they had an opportunity and they have a responsibility as leaders in this country to provide the legislative branch of government all of the documentation when the legislative branch asks. they did not do it and they get what they deserve on this. today we expect to learn more about who will be on that committee. a fifth grader in florida says he was simply humiliated by his teacher. he was reading the bible during free time at school, but listen to this voice mail that his teacher left for his parents. i noticed that he has books, a religious book in the classroom. he s not permitsed to read those books in my classroom. those books. 12-year-old boy says his bible is one of his favorite books. he and his father joined us, along with their attorney, emergency roomier on fox & friends. listen to what they had to say. all we want is a written apology. if you made a mistake, be diligent enough to admit it and everybody can move on and just allow my son and all the children in the entire school district to have that freedom to read their bible if they choose to do so. the broward county public school district says it upholds the right of students to bring religious materials to school. what do you think about that? those are your headlines. back to you. thank you very much. i m looking in the e-mail box. many happy birthdays. very nice. i appreciate it. it was great to see geraldo again. great, with clothes on. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, rutgers university paid $30,000 to bring in snooki from jersey shore. but let a speech by condoleeza rice slip away because of a few protesters from faculty and students. now the former secretary of state has a new offer. and she refuses to talk. now democrats say enough is enough when it comes to questioning lois lerner. maybe we can get ken starr starr to come out of retirement. maybe he can come out for another investigation and waste taxpayer money. should we give hear break or hold her accountable? i ll take the fifth. i ll let you take the fifth because it s your birthday. he s drinking a fifth? you ve reached the age where you know how things work. this is the age of knowing what needs to be done. so why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? 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yep. she s back. monica lewinsky speaking out in a new interview with vanity fair. some are questioning the timing of the article. why now? joining us to weigh in on exactly that is the wife of former vice president dick cheney, and the author of james madison. good morning. good morning. and i want to give brian a birthday present. thank you very much. especially signed for you. it is signed. congratulations. i m not in your class, especially after i see this. i m fascinated by the period in which you examined. first i want to get your comment about what broke in the news. you find the timing of this article interesting. well, politics i ve been lucky enough to have a front row seat for quite a while it s never what it seems. there is always an explanation below the surface. it s usually more accurate than what you immediately lead to. in this case, i just can t imagine vanity fair running an article that the clintons wouldn t approve of. it seems so timed to inoculate mrs. clinton s campaign against this kind of thing popping up later. sure. put it out now. a couple years in advance, and then by the time people go to vote, they ll be oh, that s old news. vanity fair is going to do this. do you think they re going to do something with paul paula jones or gennifer flowers? no. i think that, you know i have a great empathy, sympathy for monica lewinsky and i do think she s been suffering. but i m sure if you were able to sort it all out, vanity fair probably reached out to her and the article came about that way. so let s talk about why you re here. not only to see steve and elisabeth on the couch. and wish awe happy birthday. but talking about james madison. what is underappreciated and what needs to be revisitd about this founding father? his accomplishments were such great height and scope and depth, father of the constitution, crucial to the founding of the first government. president when the country went to war for the first time under the constitution. so all of that, plus a really interesting life story. there is one story that occurred to me when you asked me about monica lewinsky. dolly madison was the subject of whispering campaigns. she was just a little too attractive. really? yeah. attracted for him? no. but too attractive to not attract this kind of notice. and she at one point was said to be having an affair with x. and y, a friend of the madisons, stood up and defended her in an embarrassing way. so madison, went to x s house, the person rumored to be having an affair with dolly. personally invitessed him to dinner. it was a very clever move because what it said to everyone is the secretary of state had gone over there, invited the fellow to dinner. he came to dinner on f street. he wasn t having an affair with dolly madison. i think it s useful and you know this. even when you re looking at past times, to always be aware that there is another scenario playing out. the past is prolog. it seems like those what would he say today about the president s role? well, he d be appalled by the scope and reach of the federal government. but i think he would also be very troubled that the president seems to decide for himself what the law should be. we won t enforce immigration laws even though they are on the books. they ve been passed by the congress. we ll delay mandates and requirements under the affordable care act, even though that s no prerogative of the president. so i think he would be troubled at the constitution having become not the rule of law, but the rule of it s also important in your book, you chronicle anybody who thinks america is in hard times and never been so bad, how about a president standing, sitting by himself in a horse in the pouring rain while washington burns and he s overlooking it? that s grim in 1812. he was the president then and he brought everybody back. dolly goes out and gets all the priceless artwork. before you go, how is your husband, dick cheney? he s wonderful. we re so lucky. how is liz? she s great. i m hoping she ll run for office again. the book is terrific. everything you ever wanted to know about james madison. right there! i ll talk to you on radio about it, even more ostensibly. you want another copy? it s his birthday. thank you. coming up on this wednesday, he is oversaw the agency accused of leaving our veterans to die on a secret waiting list reportedly. so should the head of the veterans affairs step down? we have an update on that. and what do you call your in-laws? mr. dell dev. is it normal or nuts to still call your in-laws mr. or mrs.? dr. ablow has that answer. mr. keith ablow. doctor. 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! female narrator: the mattress price wars are on the mattress price wars are on at sleep train. we challenged the manufacturers to offer even lower prices. now it s posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years interest-free financing. plus, free same-day delivery, set-up, and removal of your old set. when brands compete, you save. mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. your ticket to a better night s sleep got quick headlines for you. new calls for veterans affairs secretary eric shenseki to step down. texas senator john cornyn demanding his resignation following accusations of the phoenix v.a. hospital hid treatment delays that led to the deaths of 40 veterans. several other senators, as well as the american legion, have called for his resignation, telling the wall street journal he s not going anywhere. has the epa gone rogue? today the agency s inspector general is expected to tell congress their homeland security office, a unit run by president obama s political staff, is illegally blocking investigations. the office is accused of impeding probes into employee misconduct and computer security as well. who is normal and who is nuts? it s a question we ask dr. keith ablow every week and he joins us now to tackle it once more. good morning. good morning, team. all right. sir, here is your first e-mail. after four years of marriage and a baby, our daughter-in-law still calls us mister and mrs. i told her it s fine to call us by our first names but she won t. normal or nuts? she won t listen and that s not normal. that s nuts. are you kidding me? four years and a baby. you re lucy and ken. you re not mr. and mrs. anderson. she s just being poe lights. no, she s not. she can t cozy up. there is something in the way of her and more intimate relationships. this could be a big problem, by the way, social anxiety, some form of asburgers. there is something going on here that could be a major problem. okay. so she s not just being extra polite. good to know. she s not. unless these people are really stand-offish, but doesn t sound like it. we have another question for you. my husband always exaggerates the truth. for example, if a hotel room costs $57, he ll say it costs $77. it makes me crazy. is he normal or nuts? well, look, what s that? that s a 25% exaggeration. so i m going to say normal cause it s not quite nuts. he s not saying it s a $700 room. not that you would believe it. but the bottom line is here is somebody who doesn t think he s enough. he thinks he s 25% too little. so you can be kind to him and tell him he is everything you hoped he d be and he doesn t need to do this cause you love him. if that s true. wants to know my theory? cause i watched bob newhart in the 70s. i think he has to spend his whole life trying to get attention by exaggerating. this is another example of it. well, i think we agree. but that sense of needing to exaggerate, listen, he doesn t have to. he s always been good and decents and enough and if he doesn t realize it, his wife has to help him see that. and here is another one. i just wrote it to myself. can i get the typing noise at least? today is my 50 birthday. i m not going to read this. come on, you wrote it. i m thinking of quitting all this and becoming a soccer player. am i normal or nuts? normal. that s normal? normal because you at 50 are like another man at 22. why not? hit the field. i like this guy. i think i might satisfy your deductible. i d buy my tickets right now to see that. go to the revolution to see me weekly. i think he was wrong on two of them. you think he was wrong? dr. keith, thank you very much. thank you. take care. happy birthday. thanks. coming up straight ahead. should high school be handing out homework with graphic references to sex? that father questioned it and he got arrested. are you kidding me? no. it really happened. what happens when moms take a night off leaving dads in charge? it s the topic of the new movie and it s christian [ male announc ] your eyes. even at a distance of 10 mis. the length 146 football fields. they can see the light of a single candle. your eyes are amazing. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins with lutein and vitamins a, c, and e to support healthy eyes and packed with key nutrients to support your heart and brain, too. centrum silver. for the most amazing parts of you. cen rum silver. 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swimming skills. the zoo wants to make sure it is safe to transfer them to a public viewing area, which contains a pool of water. and more room for them to roam. they all passed with flying colors. therefore, they re going to have a pool in their backyard. come see them. pool party coming in june. how fun. as we mentioned earlier today is brian she phone right , say hello to your mother. that s right. hey, mom. how are you? i m good. happy birthday, bri. thank you very much. i appreciate it. i know you don t like the channel, so it s hard for you to flip over. she never changes the channel. marie, great having you on the program today. it was nice seeing you at brian and dawn s big party a couple weeks ago. elisabeth had the observation earlier that in a lot of brian s childhood pictures, he s crying. she referred to him as crying brian. did he do a lot of crying as a kid? there he s crying right there. only when we took his picture. right. even when he received communion, he didn t cry. he just wouldn t smile. yeah. i refused to take pictures. i didn t like the paparrazzi even back then. it was before tmz, but i had a sense it was coming. now you like it photo bomb everyone else. come a long way. so mom, thanks for giving birth to me. i appreciate it. really enjoyed these years and thanks for taking pictures. what picture is this year? i think i m five. brian, brian. there they are. i understand one of your favorite pictures is of your three sons in their pajamas, right? i know. everybody said i always took pictures of them in their pajamas. it s so cute. i didn t think it would be on international television. i thought we would hand them to our aunts and uncles. all your kids wearing pajamas, i hope you went to the drive-in, cause that s what we would do. cause the kids would fall asleep in the car. we went to the drive-in and it was the story about sharks who ate people. no wonder you were always crying. mom, what do you think about elisabeth? i love elisabeth. okay. don t yell at me. i just asked you a question. you raised a great guy here for sure. i think birthdays are sentimental for moms. we get mushy on the birthday of our kids. i am very mushy. especially with him. brian has been all these years, brian has been an incredible rewarding journey me. he s been wonderful son and a special person as well. i m not prejudiced. now you re going to make jimmy and steven feel bad. so say something nice about them. i don t need to hear oh, he s your favorite. she didn t say that. i didn t get to the other two yet. you got to call back august 3 and august 9. we got to have them on. brian, you have a very happy birthday and many happy things. thank you. thanks, mom. let s keep in touch. okay. i love you. i love you, too. and i ll see you a little later. okay. we all love you, mom. i am the son that can t fix anything, so she calls me just she knows i feel bad about that. when the light bulbs go out, she calls me. she literally leaves the light bulbs so i can change them so i don t feel bad. that was not my mom. that was an actress, but still, a lovely woman. i don t know what to believe coming out of your mouth anymore, kilmeade. all right. you should believe this, the news. we turn to heather nauert. she s such a lovely lady. good morning to you all. news to bring you. this morning police in california are trying to determine if that teen-ager should be charged with a crime. this comes as newly released surveillance video shows the moment the 15-year-old climbed out of the wheel well of that 767 whether it landed in hawaii. no one still knows how the boy managed to survive that five-hour flight in temperatures 80 degrees below zero. unbelievable. condoleeza rice is getting an offer this morning to speak at texas tech university after she turned down an invitation at rutgers university amid all those protests there. the chancellor of texas tech was on our show earlier and he says it shouldn t be about politics. it should be about the person s credentials. listen. we re in the idea business. if there is anyone that should be in the idea business, it s universities. we should be stressing that we want all people of all persuasions to be able to speak out. rice is said to be considering that offer. we ll keep watching that story for you. the house of representatives is now inching closer to charging former irs official lois lerner with contempt charges. there is a meeting to consider that today. the way this looks, you know, it looks so political. a political process, pure and simple. aimed at trying to appeal to the red meat, throwing red meat to the political base. the facts don t seem to matter. nobody can find a scarier organization, i think, at least one without guns, than the irs. there could be a house vote today or tomorrow. we ll watch that story as well. here is a story that we re hearing a lot from you about. a father shows up at a school board meeting to express his concerns about a very risque novel his daughter was required to read, who is 14. watch what happens at the school board meeting. what are you charging me with? disorderly conduct. disorderly conduct. okay. so what happened here? you see him there, he went over the two minutes that he was allowed to address the school board in new hampshire and he was arrested. the book in question is called 19 minutes. it has what s described as a, well, pretty rough teen sex scene. reads like a transcript for a triple x porno movie. we had no notice of it whatsoever. no written notice, nothing. okay. so what happens now? school officials say they plan to update their policies. but instead of allowing parents to opt out of their children reading this controversial material, parents will be forced to sign off on them. so basically no real change. the kids still have to read the stuff. more on that, let s bring in sean astin. he plays a dad in the movie moms night out and in real life you have three children. i have try daughters. you ve done everything. everything. what about that story, the guy goes past his two minute limit and they arrest him. you didn t show what he was like in that room, so i m not sure about that. but the solution that the school came up with seemed reasonable. what would you do if that raiding was forced on your kids? i prepare my kid for anything going into it. no matter what they throw at her, i m there to support her. but i like the idea that parents have to sign off on questionable material. how do you feel about, with you, cable, you have young kids, growing up, did you watch anything on line or watch anything you you want? we talked a little bit about it. but one thing is the kids are pretty self regulating. if there is something scary, they don t wants to watch it. or political, they don t wants to watch it, or news. that said, my feeling is i m very liberal about what they watch as long as they know that i m going to talk to them and we have to communicate for a long time afterward until i m sure that they put things in the right place. my wife is very protective. she insulates them from a lot of stuff. it s like america. kind of a grab bag. your wife in the movie needs a night out. yeah. i m thankful for this because it sort of gets into the complexity and funny moments of moms have. they got to get away and the dads left to watch the kids. how did that go? you know what? this story is just kind of an unabashed look at life in america with christian families. sarah drew, who plays the mom, is gorgeous. she s in gray s annot knee. she s having a moment where she needs support. my character, you got to find something to do. you ve got to go out with your friends. and then, of course, me and the other dads get left with the awesome responsibilities of finding some ways to keep our children safe and entertain them. which is challenging. absolutely. when people see you on the street, you walked in, i said hi, rudy. but a lot of people say hey, goonies. when are they going to make a sequel? the director made some comment about how it was happening. if it is happening, it will be nice to know about it. this is the first you ve heard about it? yeah. right here. do you have anything else to tell me? i m ready to negotiate your deal. how about this? rudy goes pro and we put you on the vikings. why the vikings of all teams? this is mother s day weekend. my wife, we re doing whatever we can to figure out how to give my wife, our mom, something beautiful to do. taking your kids and your family to see moms night out is a lovely thing to do. it s a sweet, fun, family film. people are saying we wish there was a film that reflects our values. this does. we find it everywhere? yeah. 1100 screens. it s big. it s wide! america, go see this! for kids as well? dads will like it. it s a ready made thing. dads will like this because they ll see, you see what you re like? moms will see, you don t understand. they ll say, that s sean astin, he s great in everything. happy birthday. thank you very much. thank you. we ll be watching. coming up. a fox news alert. the u.s. jumping into the search for hundreds of kidnapped girls. we are live from the white house with the brand-new details on that. guy fieri is here. find out what he s cooking up and if sean wants a bite. delicious. starts with back pain. .and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve. .for all day relief. start your engines in front of our house again. it s a free country dad. our house. our spot. those are the rules. ok who wants sweet rolls? i do! me too! are those king s hawaiian rolls? thanks, carol! people go pupule for the sweet, fluffy deliciousness of king s hawaiian. find us in the deli or in-store bakery. is levy using our clippers? fox news alert. american military and police are joining an international manhunt for the leader of a nigerian terrorist group behind the kidnapping of more than 270 girls. molly henneberg is live at the white house with the latest. we re in now? reporter: we are in. good morning, brian, steve, and allegation. president obama has adequate in media interviews he can only imagine what these parents of the abducted girls are going through. nearly 300 of them taken from their schools, teenage girls taken from their school on april 15 by an islamic extremist group. now that nigeria has agreed to accept help, president obama says the u.s. will do, quote, everything we can. we ve already sent in a team to nigeria. they ve accepted our help, a combination of military, law enforcement, and other agencies who are going in trying to identify where, in fact, these girls might be and to provide them help. reporter: haram is the group that says it took the girls and translated, that means, quote, western education is sinful. their leader says allah told him to sell the girls. while the white house says the u.s. has sent military advisors to nigeria, there is no plan to send combat troops. we re not considering at this point military resources. we would urge nigeria to insure that any operation to free the girls would protect civilians and human rights. reporter: as far as any f.b.i. resources being sent to nigeria, that s still being sorted out. a senior federal law enforcement source says the elite hostage rescue team has not been sent to nigeria at this point. brian? i know the british are helping out as well. hopefully we ll find some answers. thanks a lot. we ll talk to you again. on a much lighter note, guess who is here. guy fieri, one of the most famous faces in grill something here. first let s check in with another famous face, martha mccallum for what s going on on her show at the top of the hour. hemmer pretends like he has pull. but you make all the decisions. nicely done. happy birthday. thank you. we re going to hear from john boehner this morning and we expect new details on the make-up of the select committee to investigate benghazi. who and when. those are the big questions there. also we expect he s going to talk about the vote to hold lois lerner in contempt, discussion and vote on that expected shortly on the irs scandal. lot of big news. and which way does the monica lewinsky story really cut these days? bill and i will see you at the top of the hour. fancy feast elegant medleys. inspired dishes like primavera, florentine and tuscany. fancy feast. a medley of love, served daily. he s the ultimate culinary rock star and his new book will get you ready for summer with the best grilling recipes. and here he is right now, the guy on fire, the host of diners, driver-ins and dives. it s cold out here! you are warming up, guy. this is fine for me. i m from northern california. i know a little bit of chilly. grilling time. what is the number one thing people screw up? pork chops. why? they overcook them. and they don t treat them right the first time. let s talk about the first thing which is called a brine. warm waters, sugar, peppercorn, thyme, chile flake. pour it in. this brine. this is a double cut chop. we re good on the sugar. it s equal parts of salt and sugar. we drop these chops in and what we ll let them do is sit in the brine from two to eight hours. just depends on the thickness. plan ahead. exactly. when they come out of the brine, what s going to happen is we re going to make a little pocket on the inside of this chop. remember the trick with the banana when you were a kid where you put it inside the banana? and then unpeel it and it was cut in half? this is the same thing here. we if in with the knife. we cut inside this chop just with a small incision. after you take it out of the brine? exactly. now we re ready to stuff. now i got peppers and onions. we re going to mix that in right here with some provolone. give it a little stir. brian is having a pork chop birthday. we do this osmosis. now we grab this mixture of peppers, onions, proscitto. we got this all stuffed. we take it over to the grill. here is the key. let s make sure that when we take it to the girl it doesn t spill out. look at her go. i can just take off now. you got this. this recipe here is the idea. we re grilling it on both sides and then what happens, right when we gets done? we ll set it over here, let it rest for a little bit and we re done. i know you re the pro. who do we have here? you re going to pull me away from this? 30 seconds. french toast. everybody loves it. the key to great french toast, we have a mixture of eggs and cream and little bit of vanilla and cinnamon. the key is when you get done with the french toast, brown sugar, butter, chopped apple the, calvadose. wait a second. let s do this right. right over the top. top that french toast. we have the recipes. this is inspired by my kids. we have a little whip cream on top. go gets his book. guy on fire. go to his house. he has good food. more fox & friends in just a moment. new car! hey! 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