officers after attacking a california woman outside a pizza parlor. the monkey will be kept in quarantine for six months to make sure it doesn t have rabies. no word on why a mon key was hanging out at a pizza parlor. thank you for joining us. fox & friends starts now. hello everyone. good morning. today is wednesday, the 6th of august, 2014. i m anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. a wife and mother missing for two weeks found dead. this morning the latest details from the investigation. meanwhile, remember when our president declared the war in afghanistan over? the bottom line is it s time to turn the page after a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. really? now it looks like the terrorists heard him loud and clearly and attacked the victim, a u.s. army general. what this says about president obama s foreign policy. straight ahead. in a few hours a man accused of deserting the military will face questions about what happened. but there is a good chance bowe bergdahl may say nothing at all. good morning. mornings are better with friends. happy to have you here. you re watching fox & friends, that s a great way to begin your day. thank you, don king. welcome to the big telecast live from new york city. brian and elisabeth off and in their place once again, just like yesterday, anna and peter. good morning. we re going to be starting our day off with the fittest people on the planet from cross fit. these people are celebrities in their own right. they are going to be racing across our plaza on their hands in a handstand. they are trying to get us in on the action. cross fit not so fit. also we re going to hear prosecute sean hannity in the program hear from sean hannity. he s been in israel. is the cease-fire holding? the results coming in from primaries in four states. one of them my home state of kansas where the incumbent pat roberts fended off a tea party challenger. joining us from d.c. with the details is peter doocy. the two most prominent republicans in kansas who were in danger of losing their jobs in last night s primaries aren t going anywhere for now. the governor sam brownback easily defeated challenger jennifer winn and three-term incumbent senator pat roberts easily beat the tea party backed dr. milton wolf by more than 19,000 votes, 48% to 41%. roberts is now saying different parts of the party are going to have to come together if the g.o.p. wants to take over the senate. unit i don t see must happen if we are to keep kansas red. it must happen if we are going to defeat the obama agenda and send harry reid packing. the roberts victory last night means that this cycle, senate incumbents have now won in kansas, mississippi, kentucky, south carolina and texas. but with the michigan results in, another house republican has fallen. the tea party backed carry bentivolio lost outnumbering two to one in michigan s 11th house district. pentivolio joins eric cantor. john dingell who is retiring saw his wife debby win the michigan primary for his seat. that is the seat dingell won in a 1955 special election when his father who served that district for two decades died. i guess they don t have term limits this. peter doocy, live in washington, thank you very much. four minutes after the top of the hour. this morning a u.s. army general murdered, killed in an insider attack in afghanistan. somebody dressed as an afghan soldier opened fire at a group of people at a military academy near kabul killing major general harold greene and wounding 15 others. greene is the highest ranking american killed in combat since vietnam, something like that. this morning the president s abandonment of afghanistan coming under fire. pete hegseth is the c.e.o. of concerned veterans for america, also a veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars. he joins us live. what do you think? when you lose someone of that stature, of that rank, it affects everybody. you feel like a general is invincible. the training mission is dangerous. it s an insider attack, a very concerted tactic the taliban has used. when i was in afghanistan from 2011 to 12 there was a big surge in insider attacks. it does two things. it erodes the trust. it creates the headlines you see in the new york times today, is this mission worth it? should we stay? the taliban knows this. we underestimate our enemy time and time again. they want to get at the heart of our will and heart of our commitment. an attack like this does that. does this make the taliban seem like they are chasing us out of afghanistan. pef announced our we ve announced their withdrawal. is this them trying to say it is because of us? sure. this is to create a perception that they are the wave of the future. the americans on the way out. that is what they do at with these members of the afghan military who are targeted to say americans are on the way out. we have the time, the americans have the wawps. they re they have the watches. you better side with us or your families at risk. you were talking about the demoralization of our troops. now we have a general murdered by the taliban forces. the president didn t speak about that yesterday. what does that say to the troops? reenforces how detached he is from this conflict. the war in afghanistan, the one he called the good war, the one he was going to focus on as opposed to the iraq war, the troops have felt the fact it has been about withdrawal more than success from the beginning. that is what you re seeing in athe taliban is exploiting that perception to make it look like americans are on the way out and they are the future. the president of the united states did make comments yesterday, just not about this. he was talking about the africa summit. the white house apparently has briefed the president and now there is going to be an investigation or something like that. but here is the president just a couple of months ago in may essentially washing his hands of the whole war thing. the bottom line is it s time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. this is a big touchdown for the enemy. that s right. turn the page. we don t get to turn the page if the enemy doesn t. the taliban hasn t turned the page. al qaeda, isis are not turning the page. they are redoubling their efforts because they have identified we are retreating, we don t care, we re not invested in the outcome. you ve got islamists on the march, the taliban really controlling the countryside. what folks don t understand is if we leave afghanistan we re going to create another environment where the afghan army or afghan government. doesn t mean we stale together but following through on an investment you made is an important thing for the legacy of our troops, the commitment and security of our country. this is a blow to the advisor-adviseee relationship we ve got going on. pete hegseth from concerned veterans for america, thank you. it looks as if later today there is a good possibility that bowe bergdahl, the guy who went missing while serving back in 2009 over in afghanistan, we know he walked off post, we know his platoon mates say he was a deserter. and nonetheless, that s an image that was released by his attorney yesterday. his attorney says mr. bowe bergdahl is mentally ready to answer questions. it looks like life is pretty good for bowe bergdahl. from this image here to seeing the image of him preemg for preparing for the hearing with his attorney. it looks like he gained weight. they say he s mentally ready. what if he does not speak at all? what if he takes the fifth? is that in his best interest? under the code of military justice there is a greater right to attack the fifth. they get a better so-called miranda right than civilians do in america. yesterday on the five it was indicated he might do that. let s listen in. i don t see any incentive for sergeant bergdahl to cooperate, participate. i expect we re going to see more kind of a lois lerner take the fifth not give the information because he is the worst witness against himself. if he doesn t say anything, he remains on active duty, in good standing, able to get a pension and continue to serve if he s not convicted. i don t particularly agree with kimberly. she is a great lawyer but on this issue i think there are attorneys taking the position that somehow and he hasn t indicated but engt best tactic but i think the bestactic is he was somehow confused and mentally ill. i think taking kind of a strong approach he said it in print, how do you put someone in jail after he has been jailed for five years by the taliban? instead of taking this equitable approach that somehow his client is the victim here, so i think that there will be a robust defense and that he will cooperate the best that he possibly can in telling his story, even if it doesn t jibe with the facts that have been exposed back in the early army investigations. you would, peter, expect bowe bergdahl will go ahead and explain it all and they ll discount it to the fog war or something like that? but for his attorney to say, you know, he was being held for five years. that should count as something, that s his sentence. what about that guy is, to many americans, a deserter, a traitor. people died looking for him. these are all true. in speaking about the tactics, i do not believe there will be a fifth amendment defense here. he will not stand on his rights. they will come up with a version of what occurred that is in his best interest and skewed in terms of his own mental condition at the time it took place and thereafter. this will be an interesting passion play in that sense. this will be a dramatic story that will be heard today. we won t hear it for awhile but they will come up with an interesting story to grab the attention of the army and eventually the white house, because that s the audience. the white house is going to dictate what happens to bowe bergdahl going forward. let s not forget he was held in a cage for some period of time but there were rots of fraternizing with them there were reports of fraternizing with them. other stories making headlines developing overnight, heather nauert joins us for those. i ve got another story about a scare in the air. terrifying moments on a united airlines flight packed with 200 passengers. a fire breaks out on that plane and look at this picture taken by a passenger. there was a fire fighter inside the plane. we don t see these kinds of pictures often. this flight was headed to brussels from newark, new jersey, when the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in canada. no one was hurt and no word on what caused that fire. a tragic update on a story we have followed extensively here at fox. the oregon mother who mysteriously vanished while she was running errands two weeks ago has been found as dead. authorities discovered jennifer huston s body near her s.u.v. in a wooded area about 25 miles from her house. we do not suspect foul play at this time and there is nothing to suggest that the public should be alarmed. just before the 38-year-old disappeared she withdrew money prt bank, she money prt bank, bought snacks and sleeping pills and filled up her gas tank. she leaves behind her husband and two young sons. today closing arguments begin in the so-called porch shooting trial. before that case goes to a jury, theodore wafer spent two days on the stand and tried to convince a detroit jury that he shot an unarmed teenager in self-defense when she showed up on his front porch. listen to this. i didn t want to be a victim. i opened the door all the way as much as i could. then as soon as i did that, this person came up to the side of my house so fast, i raised the gun and shot this poor girl. some are comparing the case to the case of trayvon martin. that was the teenager shot and killed in florida in 2012 by george zimmerman, that happening in detroit. a beautiful home meets an ugly ending. the moment a powerful mudslide destroyed this house is all caught on camera. look at this. the family heard a noise right before the home was shoved off its foundation. thank goodness for that, because they heard that they were able to escape that house. this happened in the up scale neighborhood in north salt lake, utah. it was a massive 400-foot wide hole now left in that hillside. experts fear more mudslides are on the way and that ground is unstable. those are your headlines. that happening in salt lake. a lot of folks nervous after that. a fox news alert now. trouble at the airports as ebola fears spread around the world. this morning one airline already canceling flights. british airways will no longer fly to the affected african area. dr. marc siegel live at jfk international airport. good morning. good morning. i m here at john f. kennedy international airport terminal 4 where international arrivals and departures including flights to and from west africa. the centers for disease control prevention has 20 quarantine stations around the country including one here in this terminal. i spoke to dr. steve monroe, who is the deputy director of c.d.c. for emerging infectious diseases and he says the first line of defense is to try to control the outbreak in the country where it started. one of the things we are doing is sending some of our staff to the countries that are affected to help them with their exit screening procedures to try to identify sick people before they get on an airplane and to also identify people by questionnaire who may have had one of these high-risk expoa shiewrs, that is a known exposure to a patient or to their body fluid. the next line of defense is at this airport where the c.d.c. can get a call from a plane and meet the plane on landing, bring an ambulance and take the patient right to a hospital or they can use these quarantine stations to detain patients. peter, they have a legal right to detain patients if they have a contagious disease that could be deadly like ebola. then c.d.c. will sometimes bring them right into the quarantine station. let s watch dr. steve monroe talk about the initial screen. as a part of that initial screen, they might try to assess where the person came from, what they might have potentially been exposed to and how sick they are. how symptomatic they are when they get off the plane. there are a small number of diseases for which c.d.c. does have authority to order somebody into isolation and prevent them from entering the country. dr. monroe says, by the way, that they can make a risk assessment either by phone or in person and decide that the person didn t come into contact with a disease like ebola. then they let them go and they don t detain them. guys? dr. segal, the main line of defense is the people at the airport where they take off from or here look at somebody and if they have a fever, then they start to ask some questions. but if they don t have a fever, keep in mind the incubation period can be three weeks, there is a real good possibility somebody with ebola could walk right in and not develop it for another two weeks and then wind up in an e.r. somewhere. that is a very good point and they re doing surveillance in the countries where they re leaving from. they re actually in west africa now trying to figure out who has this problem. it is after you leave the airport you find you have symptoms, then you call the c.d.c., they bring you right back to the quarantine station here. we got e-mails from viewer. kimberly asks is there a way to screen people for the virus before they get on a plane? first of all, you re not going to get it on a plane. you re not going to get it by touching somebody or if they re sweaty. you re not going to get it that way. but if they have a fever or flu-like symptoms, that is when they are contagious and that is when the c.d.c. has to be notified. 150 times last year the c.d.c. was notified by an airplane while in the air. dr. segal, steve answered this but this viewer linda is asking what is incubation period exactly? how many are coming to the u.s. sick but showing no symptoms yet? the incubation period is 7 to 21 days. this is a very smart period. this could be a problem. i want to emphasize with only 1,500 cases approximately in west africa if you re sick with flu-like symptoms it is extremely unlikely you have ebola unless you were in contact with a patient who had it. great point. dr. marc siegel live out of jfk where they have got a quarantine area, one of 20 airports in the united states. sir, thank you very much. we re going to be in a quarantine area later today, steve. doubling down, jesse ventura says all the bad press for suing a navy seal and winning is the widow s fault. maria molina getting hollywood-style treatment. look at this. okay, maria molina, this is your first time on 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[siren] inside in an orderly fashion. here we go! oh my goodness, the new movie is called into the storm and michael tammero was first in line at the premiere in new york city. this story follows people from all walks of life from teachers to storm chasers trying to survive an onslaught of twisters threatening their hometown. the if you think the effects are totally cool, becaum are real and these actors had to toughen up to play the part. [screams] it s like staring at fire. i think there is a human instinct captivated by courses of nature. it kinds of pummels you to see what mother nature can throw at you. i play a school teacher who has to go on a journey to find one of his boys in the course of the storm. everything except the twisters themselves were actually occurring. it is a miracle one of us didn t get hurt. you are really blocking things out because you don t want to get hit. it was an experience. it s a lot of real wind, real rain, real debris flying at us. we were wait 90% it doesn t feel like they are intense but they are intense. we had 100 and 140-miles-per-hour wind machines, we had rain, debris. we felt like we were really in a tornado. every time i got dry, had to go back in there. the water coming down on you, the wind. bring it on. i love it. i m reading scripts differently. i now figure out how many pages i m wet and cold for. at some points the makeup artists would say keep it up kid. you learn something about tornadoes you didn t know going into it? i don t want to be in one. we are the comic relief for the film. would he play one of the storm chasers. when you re in the middle of a tornado you need comic row lef. and you need beer. and whiskey and you need to be dumb as hell. who s harry? who s lloyd? that s a good question. i don t even know. i tell you what i m wearing. who are you wearing? hugo moss. honey fubu. okay, maria molina, your first time on the red carpet. it suits you, i think. i thought it was going to be red. fabulous. i didn t know how to tie a tie. maria had to help me with that. we were just storm chasing a week ago too. the special effects look amazing. you can tell they ve watched a lot of tornado videos on-line. if you were to face a tornado, you had to pick one person to be by your side steve, brian, or elisabeth who would it be? definitely elisabeth. for the record, i said steve. he has the kansas credibility. all three of you. the video of you storm chasing and the video from the movie almost synonymous. they did their homework to try to make the movie as real as possible with the special effects, funnels. they used technical terms such as hook echo. i was impressed with that. it is a movie and so there were some scenes that were a little out there. the last movie like this was 1996 twister and the technology has come a long, long way. this movie, by the way, opens up on friday. michael, maria, eminem, thank you. you looked great. cute feathers. thank you, guys. a major update in the search for a missing girl in washington state. why investigators are keeping a close eye on a family member. folks, have you seen this video? a car with a woman trapped inside being swept away but the complete strangers who saved the day are used to this kind of they think. first happy birthday to a former spice girl singer. 42 today. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of what if s . what if my abdominal pain and cramps come back? what if the plane gets delayed? what if i can t hide my symptoms? what if? but what if the most important question is the one you re not asking? what if the underlying cause of your symptoms is damaging inflammation? for help getting the answers you need, talk to your doctor and visit crohnsandcolitisinfo.com to get your complimentary q&a book, with information from experts on your condition. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh. 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[baby crying] i love it. it s your shot of the morning. this little girl goes from tears to pure happiness, listening to katy perry dark horse. katy perry tweeted available for baby sitting at $10 an hour and oreos. let s just watch the second she realizes. like clockwork. great video. 26 minutes before the top of the hour. we have a fox news alert right now. jirl israeli tanks maintain defense positions as the cease-fire in the gaza enters its second day. sean hannity on the ground surveying the damage. this is where it hit. it wept through a lot of went through a lot of layers of cement. i picked up this and this is some shrapnel from the bomb that went off. here s the interesting part, though, and help me through this. as you go into this area, shrapnel here penetrating what is a washer and dryer. shrapnel, this wasn t here until this morning. obviously maximum impact. you can see the broken damage. it is not just this one. if you walk into this area here, these are not small holes. these are big holes. just imagine that s your backyard. and with negotiations set to continue today in cairo, will the 72-hour trows truce hold? sean hannity joins us from jerusalem. sean, what s the latest? reporter: we re at the temple mound and the western wall is over my right shoulder. what we showed you yesterday, that was an attack, we spent most of yesterday at the israeli gaza border. that was one location. that attack, six mortars that landed in that community literally hit roit where a right where a housing unit was. this is a life they live everyday. we went fo a town and while we were there kids can t play outside. they have to play in an inside playground, four to five bunkers surrounding the whole thing. we saw rockets covered at the police station. we went to the center of the mayor of cyrot and spent a lot of time seeing what life is like on a daily basis. in the last ten years, to give people context of what goes on in those border towns, 10,000 rockets in ten years. i think that is the untold story of life in israel for the average person. one thing that i did learn today, in fact, we know that negotiations are going on in egypt at this very hour to extend the cease-fire possibly even longer than it is expected to go on. that s good news. i understand you also at one point you were talking about how life goes on. you were near a playground. imagine if you re a parent and you want to send your kids outside to play but you don t know if a rocket is going to go off in the playground, what do you do? inside the playground you have young kids, older kids, some as old as 16. they ve got a soccer field, basketball courts, air hockey and ping-pong tables. i spent some time playing with a lot of the kids. they can play outdoors. and i would ask the parents, because i m thinking 10,000 rockets in ten years, not a life i would want to live myself. i asked them why do you stay? the answer was we are not going to be forced out of our home out of terror. i m not sure i would make the same decision but that was the universal answer i got from every parent. interestingly, some of the money that came to build that facility came to estee lauder who heard about the town and the fact that the kids didn t have a place to play and so made a significant donation for that playground. thank you, sean hannity, live from jerusalem where he is reporting live. the cease-fire is holding. steve, one last thing: where we are at the temple, you re talking about the center of mono theistic religion. you have the arrest you have the armenian quarter, christian quarter. tonight we will bring you through the wall of the gates, the holy selpucher, the place where it is believed jesus was buried rising from the dead, if you re a christian. and a lot of, all these significant religious sites are where we are which brings into context a lot of battle that goes on and for the heart of jerusalem and whether jerusalem should be the capital of israel. we ll have experts on tonight to talk about it. great point. sean hannity from the holy land. sean, thank you. other stories making headlines. we ve got news at home and police in the pacific northwest need your help to search for a missing-year-old missing 16-year-old girl in washington girl. this as police keep a close eye on her father who was once charged with molesting his stepdaughter. both parents have taken lie detector tests. results have not been made public at this time. two of their other children have been taken from them. jenise was last seen saturday night. fresh off his lawsuit from a dead navy seal, jesse ventura going after chris kyle s widow. chris kyle once wrote in his book that jesse ventura made negative comments about the navy seals. jesse ventura saying he is the victim and going after his wife. i ve been beaten up. the lawsuit didn t come to her. she made a choice to come into it. i think it was done as a tactic for court. this video is simply incredible. a car with a woman trapped ip inside is no match for mother nature. mother nature is no match for some airmen, good samaritans. take a look at this. this happening about 30 miles north of las vegas. members of the u.s. air force whopped to who happened to be nearby ran into the car to pull an 80-year-old woman out. seconds later the car was carried off. a big congratulations to them. terrific. great heroism and courage. incredible. coming up, a fox news alert. a wife and mother missing for two weeks found dead this morning. the latest details from the investigation. and the red line on syria outraged a singer so much, he put his words into a song. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we ll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours. when the president changed his tune on the red line towards syria, our next guest expressed his feelings about the situation in song. that song, red line is the first single for the band deck three, and it is premiering right this second here on fox & friends. what the red line means to me [singing] john haber is the song writer. good morning to you. that first line was essentially you put yourself in the shoes of the people over there and they hear obama say you can t cross that red line and what does that mean to them. exactly. i tried to put myself in the situation of a person living there, a regular guy who want to live his life and he s been through a year and a half of devastation with a civil war that pretty much the world is ignoring what s going on and the one sign of hope that is going to have the situation better is taken away after nothing was followed up with the red lines. the song sounds great and the message is important. and what you re doing is you re going to donate some of the proceeds where, from the down loads? all the profits from the down loads of the song i m going to give to help the kids that are being helped by israeli hospitals. a lot of people don t know that israel has taken in some of the kids that are enemies. i m going to give the money to the hospitals. john, there are so many things you could write songs about. why about the red line in syria? we have an album of 12 songs. are you a real political guy? i m into politics, news, like to read, try to be hip to what s going on in the world. this song, it was such a crazy, to relive the situation there, what was happening. we re going in, we re not going in. it was kind of a train wreck. from the humanitarian they think, how does someone there feel. thank you. if you want to download it look for red line by deck three. a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. we showed you how kids react to finding guns in their play area yesterday. but is this happening when you send them to a friend s house? how to have that crucial conversation with your neighbors coming up. this pair officially the fittest men and women on earth. next they re sharing their cross fit secrets and putting fox & friends, steve and anna, to the test. here i am. rock you like a hurricane fiber one now makes cookies. find them in the cookie aisle. every time you take advil you re taking the medicine doctors recommend most for joint pain. more than the medicine in aleve or tylenol. the medicine in advil is the number one doctor recommendation for joint pain. relief doesn t get any better than this. advil i dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. i love my contractor, a a ist. angie s list reviews you can trust. good morning, everybody. coming up, we have the fittest man and woman in the world. good morning. good morning. congratulations. thank you very much. what is cross fit? oh, man. that s the hardest question ever answered. it s a mix of everything. a mix of running, gymnastics, weightlifting. it works out every part of your body? correct. it s grown from 5,000 affiliate gyms last year to 10,000 this year. it s not just a cult following, it s exploding. you guys are going to demonstrate a couple exercises. what do you have, about 100 pounds on there? i have no idea. this probably weighs from 65 to 75 pounds. all right. let s go. we re going to leave a mark. can i try? do you normally do it on granite like this? show me the best way to do this. spread your feet wide and you want to go sit back and keep your arms bent. there you go. great job. anna, hold on a second. you re doing really well. come on! very nice. it s cross fit is cross fit okay for somebody over 50? yeah. actually they have a master s level. aid guy from my gym that i own who is 60 plus. got 12th in the world. then i could do anything. one of the wildest things is watching them, they can walk on their hands. can we do like a competition, men versus women? sure. excellent. let s see. you want to go this way? this is the finish line. she s a a gymnast. ready, set, action! yeah, i don t think i m doing that. four years in a row you ve won this. literally our celebrity a celebrity in your own right. you re switching gear, tell me about how you adopted a baby. me and my wife adopted a baby girl, born july 7. next charm of my life. retired from the individual competition, but still going to compete on the team. you re going to go from the sledge pole to the diaper pole. that s right. congratulations to both of you. thank you very much. thank you. peter, do i look like i m in better shape now? you look fantastic. i m exhausted. thanks so much. coming up, drive-through service guaranteed in 60 seconds or less or your meal is free. which fast food giant is making that promise? a former president defending a mass and jimmy carter is not alone. how can someone defend hamas. charles krauthammer will tell us at the top of the hour. let s see hand stand. when laquinta.com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes? 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jr. anna, awesome job walking on your hands. i m shaking a little. i could only do one step. exhausted me. cross fit, ladies and gentlemen. we have got a starting right now with election results. while you were sleeping, primaries in four states. one, kansas, incumbent, senator pat roberts fend odd a tea party challenger. now the late breaking details with peter doocy. good morning. reporter: good morning. establishment republicans rolled to easy victories in the first primaries of august. kansas, tea party support failed to give dr. milton wolf the boost that he needed in a challenge to senator pat roberts. he managed to pull in 41% of the gop vote, though. so now roberts is saying voters need to rally behind one republican to increase their odds of taking over the senate. unity must happen if we are to keep kansas red. it must happen if we are going to defeat the obama agenda and send harry reid packing! kansas republican governor sam brownback beat his challenger, jennifer nguyen, 63% to 37%. the roberts results in kansas is the latest victory for senate incumbents this cycle where senators in mississippi, kentucky, south carolina and texas have also all held on. another house republican lost last night, though. tea party favorite beaten by a businessman who wants to be a congressman. he joins eric cantor and hall as the only incumbents to lose this cycle. in michigan, the longest serving congressman ever, john dingell, saw the race won by his wife, debbie dingell. she moves on to november with a chance to keep michigan s 12th district seat in the family. back to you in new york. all right. peter doocy live with the postgame show from last night s election results. thanks. other stories making headlines, heather nauert joins us for those. good morning. a real tragedy for the united states and our u.s. military. our country is mourning the loss of a two-star major general, general harold green was murdered in afghanistan. he served 34 years. what a career in the u.s. army. he was killed in an insider attack in afghanistan. he is the highest ranking american officer killed in combat overseas since the vietnam war. someone dressed as an afghan soldier opened fire at the officer training facility, wounding 15 other military personnel, including eight americans. major green was 55 years old. he leaves behind a wife and two children. sergeant beau bergdahl hours away from facing army investigators. his lawyer says he s mentally ready to answer questions and will be as cooperative as possible. a new picture released by his attorney shows him right here. looks pretty healthy as he prepares to sit down with an army general looking at the circumstances of his 2009 disappearance in afghanistan. fellow soldiers accused him of deserting his post. this questioning comes three months after he was traded for five taliban prisoners. deadly ebola virus is now spreading as new cases are now reported in nigeria. airports are become the first line of defense by stepping up screening. health screenings at that. a flight at new york jfk airport was held after a passenger fell ill. cdc officials quickly ruling out ebola, thank goodness. other airlines say they are playing it safe. british airways suspending all flights to liberia and sierra leone for one month. here in the united states, a second infected patient is undergoing experimental treatment in atlanta. the two patients are said to be improving. terrifying moments on a united airlines flight that was packed with 200 passengers on board when a fire breaks out. take a look at this picture. it was taken by a passenger. you see firefighter inside that plane. that flight was headed from brussels from newark, new jersey. the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in canada. no one was hurt and no word on what caused that fire just yet. cameras everywhere. you don t often see a fireman on an airplane. but thank goodness everybody is okay. thank you very much. former president jimmy carter has a long-standing reputation as the most ineffective foreign policy of any modern presidency until now for many, but we re not going to get into the until now business. jimmy carter and former president of ireland, a woman named mary robinson, have written an op ed in foreign policy magazine and what they re doing is they want the united states to recognize hamas, which is a terrorist organization, to the exclusion of israel, which has been our ally for decades. so jimmy carter says we ve got to recognize the terrorists. yeah. let s read an excerpt for our viewers from this. it says, the united states and e.u. should recognize hamas is not just a military, but also a political force. hamas cannot be wished away nor will it cooperate in its own demise. only by recognizing its legitimacy as a political actor, one that represents a substantial portion of the palestinian people can the west begin to provide the right incentive for hamas to lay down its weapons. so peter, legit mazing hamas, the terrorist organization, is this going to embolden them and our other adversaryies? absolutely. yes. you make a good point in asking that question. the legitimacy of a terrorist organization is always in question. so for a former president to say it needs to be legit mazed as a political actor in the world, along with other states, that s a huge, huge issue, especially when we heard sean hannity talking earlier today about 10,000 missiles being hurled into israel over this ten-year period in this area that he was in and now a president saying oh, no, let s recognize hamas. recognized by the u.s. as a terrorist organization. charles krauthammer was on the channel last night trying o explain why some clueless americans feel that way about hamas. here he is with bill o reilly. i would draw a sharp distinction between the european sympathizers and the american ones. when it comes to europe, i think the overwhelming factor is raw native, deep seated anti-semitism. this is 2,000-year-old anti-semitism. in the united states, it is very different. anti-semitism is not a major factor here. of all the countries that the jews have lived in in 2,000 years, this is the most tolerant, friendly, loving country that the jews have ever known. what i think is the most important factor here is shear, raw, ignorance. they have no idea what hamas is. all that you said, they have no idea, for example, that there is no occupation in gaza. you ll hear them talk about gaza being occupied. the israelis left in 2005. they tore out their settlements. there is not a settler. there is not a soldier, there is not a jew left in gaza. do any of these people know it? no. are they aware of the fact that hamas charter calls not just for the destruction of israel, but for the killing of jews everywhere in the world? this is an openly genocidal organization. and how can you negotiate with them when they play by their own rules? remember the cease fire we just had last week and the israelis were going into the markets and they re stocking up on supplies, thinking the coast is clear because of the cease fire, and all of a sudden, boom. they re not playing by the rules. sean hannity is on the ground in israel at this hour. he s been talking with residents there and seeing what they re dealing with, exploring an indoor playground/bomb shelter in israel. look at this. in the last ten years, just to give people some context of what goes on in those border towns with gaza, 10,000 rockets in ten years. i think that s the untold story of life in israel for the average person. we do know that negotiations are going on in egypt at this very hour to extend the cease fire possibly even longer than it s expected to go on. here the architect wanted to have a big merry go round, like the one you see in disney world and big parks because it s nice. but then by the way, i think the merry go round was the very first thing the architect put on paper. but then the ideas came and the ideas had to approve everything and they saw the plans and said sorry, you can not have a merry go round and we said why? this is the nicest thing for a kid with the lights and horses and music. they said there is only one problem. it takes 25 seconds to stop a merry go round. they only have 15 seconds to run for coverment end of story. when the air raid sirens go off, they only have 15 seconds and that s why they have to build indoor playgrounds for the kids. to imagine a child s activity is limited by the time it takes to get to a bomb shelter, that s staggering and we see anti-semitism is rising around the world. so that s why it s surprising to hear president carter speaking out so forcefully on behalf of hamas being recognized as a legitimate political actor. which he has supported in the past as well. incredible. it s currentsly 7:11 here in new york city. we ve got a fox news alert for you. a wife and mother missing for weeks, that woman, found dead. authorities discovered the body yesterday near her suv in a remote wooded area 25 miles from her house. what happened to jennifer huston? ainsley earhart is here with the latest details on the investigation. thank you. the cause of the death isn t released yet. detectives are still processing the scene, but police say it does not look like there was a crash or anyone else involved. there is nothing to suggest that the public should be alarm ed. the person who owns that land spotted jennifer s suv on his private property about an eighth of a mile from his house. then he told his wife about seeing a lexus on their land. i said, what color is it? he said green. i said, dark green? and i knew right then. police found the 38-year-old s body 50 feet away from that green suv. she was wearing the same clothes that she had on when she vanished on july 24. the mother of two disappeared that day while she was running errands. she took out 100 bucks from the bank, she filled up her car, bought some snacks and then some sleeping pills at a local drugstore. minutes later, her cell phone was turned off and the battery was not dead, according to police. her father and her husband joined us on fox & friends on monday speaking out about their desperate search and they were clearly exhausted. we re just graping at straws. any time we hear about a sighting or something, we re all over it. once or twice we ve jumped in the car and ran somewhere we thought a vehicle was seen at. the family has now asked for privacy in order to grieve and to process their loss. jennifer leaves behind her husband and her two boys, ages six and two. back to you, anna. all right. thank you so much. a tragic end to that story. 13 minutes after the hour. in a few hours, closing arguments are set to begin in the so-called porch shooting trial. before the case goes to the jury. theodore waiver tried to convince a jury he shot an unarmed teen-ager in self-defense when she showed up in her porch last year. i didn t want to be a victim. i opened the door all the way, as much as i could. then as soon as i did that, this person came out from the side of my house so fast, i raised the gun and shot. this poor girl. this case raising controversy. some drawing parallels between her and trayvon martin. is that a fair comparison? let s ask our legal experts. good morning. thanks for being with us. good morning. i ll start with you, what are the differences between these two cases? the difference is this defendant was in his home. okay. he wasn t outside or walking around a housing complex. two, this was a teen-ager and it was a woman who was knocking on his door, who was look for help as she had been in a car accident. also what is different in this case is we don t know a this is ha high crime neighborhood. he testified about an incident where there was a car that was hit with a paint ball after the tigers lost a game. that to me is not indicative nor is it consistent with a high crime neighborhood and he was not a victim of prior break-ins. eric, what we do know is she was screaming, she was drunk. is there a reasonable fear this man may have had for his life because in order to take a life, you have to have fear for your own life? we re not sure he had a reasonable fear. however, the facts are still that it was 4 a.m he stated that he was asleep and he was startled, which any one of us if someone is banging on your door at 4:00 a.m., you would automatically be alarmed if you weren t expecting anyone. so if he conveyed that to the jury that he had a reasonable fear that there were break-ins in the area and a high crime area, he may get a not guilty verdict. was there a 911 call before bullets were fired? there was no call. he didn t pick up a cell phone. he picked up a gun. he knew enough that there was an african-american woman banging on his door at 4:30 in the morning and he shot. he shot and he killed her. how he can convince this jury that he had a reasonable fear that his life was in danger is beyond me. this is similar to the trayvon martin case to the extent that it s biracial. but this is a man who should not be allowed to pick up a gun and shoot and that s what makes this very different. is this a case, eric, of somebody protecting themselves or someone being trigger happy? well t could be a case of both because this goes to what he believed. there was evidence that there was climbing on the air conditioner and the police did not process the evidence. and he stated and testified that he heard banging on the side, banging on the front door, banging on the side, banging on the front door, which instilled his possible fear, which i can reasonably understand. so you want to speak out individually. we ll have to leave it there cause i want to jump topics to jody arias. on monday it was said she s going to be able to represent herself in the penalty phase of her trial. is this going to be something advantageous for her to be able to speak to the jurors one by one? based on her prior experience, i don t think this is advantageous for her at all. look, she has a ged, that is not a ged. you need to have lawyering experience to voir dire to question jurors. she doesn t have that experience. i don t know that she ll be able to do this successfully. why put something that fix something that isn t broken? her attorney last time was able to successfully save her life in the last penalty phase. so i would have stuck with my attorney because obviously the jury liked her and as we saw during the murder trial, we weren t necessarily sure whether the jury liked jody arias and found her to be somebody who was worth saving. eric, is she going to just say hey, this was self-defense, as she has before, or is she going to start going cocoa bananas doing head stands like we saw in the video to try to make it seem like she s off her rocker? the guilt phase is over. this is about saving her life at this point. what she wants to do is connect with the jury. she wants to talk to them and probably try to charm them, which could backfire on her because they will know that she s conniving. they will know that she was found guilty of this and it could backfire. i agree. i think that i m not sure this was ever a death penalty case. but what we know about death penalty cases is that there are appeals after appeals after appeals. for this trial judge to let jody arias represent herself in the penalty phase is inviting an appeal, which means another trial, which means taxpayer dollars paying for this woman s third trial. it s bad decision and if she s convicted for the death penalty, i suspect this will be the reason it s overturned. all right. thanks for your time today. thank you. 18 minutes after the hour. coming up, brand-new information about that double decker bus crash in the heart of times square. we just learned police arrested one of the drivers. the reason? drugs. and did you know there are 50 new drugs out there to treat cancer in adults? but there is just 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peter, over to you. thanks. in the past 20 years, the f.d.a. has approved only one drug, only one for any childhood cancer and the national cancer institute uses 96% of their budget for adult cancer research. so why are children with cancers and diseases being left behind, sometimes and too often to die? joining us now is the mother who tragically lost her own son, jacob, to a rare brain tumor. nancy goodman, who is the founder and executive director of kids versus cancer. thanks for being with us this morning. thank you for having me, peter. you helped change american history and provide an incentive for american companies to develop pediatric cancer drugs and other drugs that will save children. when they do so, they basically get a reward or a voucher from the federal government that they can actually sell thereafter and you provide this incentive. tell us about the act that you helped create and why you did it. thank you, peter. it s called the creating hope act. i created it because when my son jacob was diagnosed with a pediatric brain cancer, i was shocked and amazed to find out that the drugs he was receiving were 40 years old. and they didn t work. so that s the purpose of the creating hope act, to give companies a reason to develop drugs for kids. so what s happened, nancy, in terms of millions of dollar transaction that came about as a result of one of these pediatric cancer drugs? so last week the first voucher was sold, peter. it was sold for $67.5 million, which is great. it means the program works and the company that sold it, their market cap increased by half a billion dollars and another up with of the two companies that purchased it, their market cap increased by $20 billion upon announcement of the sale. so that means the program works and if companies develop drugs for kids with cancer and other serious illnesses, they ll be there will be financial gain for those companies. congratulations. let s talk about compassionate use. we focused on josh hardy and his ability finally to get the drug that he needed that could help save his life. you had a hard time getting compassionate use for your own child. what advice would you give to mothers and fathers and family members as they try and save their children that may have a pediatric cancer for which there is no approved drug? it s a terrible problem, peter. i think what we really need to do as a society, one is fix the compassionate use program. there is some structural problems in it. and second, we have to find ways to encourage or acquire companies to offer pediatric trials of new drugs earlier. well, as a pediatric cancer survivor, nancy, i thank you for what you ve done. you ve really created history and provide an incentive for drug manufacturers to help our youngest and most vulnerable population. nancy goodman, thanks so much for doing what you ve done. thank you, peter. coming up, three huge storms, including two hurricanes threatening beach goers across the country. maria molina with what you need to know. and then we showed you how kids react to finding guns in their play area. is this happening when you send them o a friend s house? do you even know if the parents own a gun? how to approach that crucial and maybe life-saving conversation, coming up on fox & friends. your eyes. even 10 miles away. they can see the light of a single candle. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins for your eyes, heart and brain. now, with a new easy to swallow coating. chances are we re already there. be or what you want to do, 12 brands. more hotels than anyone else in the world. like super 8, where every destination is super. save up to 15 percent and earn bonus points when you book at wyndhamrewards.com are you hungry? are you thirsty? it s your shot of the morning. today we are celebrating national root beer float day. maria molina is on the plaza with more. good morning. hi. good morning. that s right. it s national root beer float day. a and w restaurants are here on the plaza handing out free root beer floats to anyone that is passing by. you can stop at select stores to pick up your free root beer float. and by the way, they re also going to be raising awareness and donations for the wounded warrior project. so they re also big supporters of our nation s heros. they have been doing this, this is the second year they ve been doing this. last year they raised up to $100,000 in donations for the wound warrior project. so that is just a wonderful thing they re doing and by the way, a and w started in 1919 just as a little stand outside. they were making some floats and it became a huge success eventually and during the return of the world war 1 when veterans came back, they actually had this as well because they were participating in the parade then with the root beer float. a lot of history with a and w. come on by if you are in manhattan, 48th and 6th, for your free float and stop by your local stores. let s head back inside. that s right. thank you very much. there was root beer first or ice cream first? i think the ice cream first. a lot of first kisses probably. i remember we used to go to the a and w root beer and it was always a happy day when my dad would bring the great big one gallon jug of a and w root beer home. what did you say? that there was probably a lot of fir kisses over root beer. you re probably right. that would result in a lot of root beer float mustaches. go get a free root beer today. meanwhile, brand-new video into fox & friends right now. listen to the moment two double decker buses crash in the heart of times square two blocks from right here. you can see people running and the traffic light toppling onto the crowd. police have just arrested one of the drivers. channel 5 here in new york s reporter is in times square. what do we know about the driver who has been arrested? reporter: good morning to you guys and good morning, everyone. the driver s name is william delambar, a 50-year-old marne from new jersey, a long-time driver with gray line buses. little is known about his criminal past, if there even is one. police tell us this is a guy who should not have been behind the wheel. he was charged with driving while ability impaired. they tell me he had drugs in his system. not narcotics, but some type of prescription or over the counter medication. a guy who should have taken the day off and not taken that shift because we know what happened next. you ve probably seen the video by now. you just saw some new video. let s check out the earth cam video of it. two double decker buses crashing into each other at 47th and 7th and taking down a light pole with it. you see on this earth cam video, people start to scurry. the light pole comes down. debris shatters like shrapnel is what people told us when we arrived on scene yesterday. a number of injuries. 14 people injured. three people seriously, including one of the tour bus operators on another bus. apparently she got her head stuck underneath the dashboard. chaotic scene here. certainly there were a lot of tours in the area. anybody who has been to times square in the afternoon knows how busy it can be. a lot of people panicked. and we can also tell you guys we are hearing from police that this was an unusual event in and of itself. but earlier in the day, this area was shut down prior because there was a bomb scare that occurred in this area. so especially a lot of patrons of the restaurants, people would work around here weren t quite sure what exactly was going on. they had the bomb scare and then they had this bus crash. so it made for a very uneasy tuesday for people who work in this area and people who just want to take in times square. that s the latest from times square, i ll send things back to you in the studio. live there and today is matinee day where they have the matinees on times square and broadway. is driving under the influence of prescription drugs is that on par with a dui? it can turn into a dui. anyone who drives in manhattan knows that the peril is sometimes posed by these bus, they re kind of a pain in the neck. you wonder sometimes who is actually training some of these folks. there is a bunch of different lines out there. a lot of lawsuits, big investigation i predict. big regulation moving ahead against these types of bus lines to prevent exactly these type of accidents. the double decker buss are so huge, so long, they block entire sections. i rode my bike home yesterday and i couldn t get through. cabs were laying on their horn. great service and great fun, but they can be hazardous sometimes. it s 23 minutes before the top of the hour. and heather nauert joins us with some news. good morning. an update for you on a story that we told you about. a woman in pennsylvania charges not dismissed against the mother who carried her registered gun across state lines. a judge now ruling that she will have to go to trial for being found in possession of this gun during a traffic violation in the state of new jersey. here is what happened. she presented her concealed carry permit for pennsylvania, but that isn t recognized across state lines in new listen. i hope that i didn t know about it. it could happen to anybody. she can now face at least 3 1/2 years in prison. you got to know the gun laws. the search for a missing six-year-old girl in washington state intensifying by the hour. this as we just learned that police are keeping a close eye on the little girl s father. james wright was once charged with molesting his eight-year-old stepdaughter. that charge was later dropped. police aren t calling him a suspect, but both parents have taken lie detector tests. those results have not been made public at this time. two of their other children have been taken from them. she was last seen on saturday night. she s just six years old. san antonio spurs making history by hiring becky hammond as an assistant coach. she s the second woman to work on an nba coaching staff. but the first full-time employee growing up i remember asking my dad, you know, hey, dad, will i ever play in the nba? oh, sweety, no. you ll never be able to play in the nba. but if you re really, really good, maybe you can get a college scholarship. so i m gog have to call him up and say dad, you never said coaching. she exceeded his dreams. she played in the wnba for 16 years. one man certainly knows how to keep his ducks in a row. oh, my god! they follow him. you can see the guy is able to get his flock into the barn without ruffling any feathers. that happened in russia. that is going viral. trainable. why couldn t we have taught our kids to do that? all right. here. how about this? you can have this. now we get the two straws. maria molina outside where just a moment ago, root beer float day and now she s got science trivia. i heard you guys talk being whether it was ice cream or the float, how do you make the float? it s ice cream first and then you pour it in. i was right. now time for science trivia. we re looking at today s question related to tornadoes. kind of because of the storm coming out on friday. so the question is, the largest tornado outbreak included how many tornadoes? is it a, 111, b, 155. c 211 or c, 355? this was over a couple of days and the largest tornado outbreak in history. the biggest number, 355 of course. i m going to say the lowest number. i m saying ice cream first. i hear peter saying 355. and you are correct. 355 tornadoes. that s the largest tornado outbreak on record. happened in 2011. pretty recently in late april. way to go, peter. we want to switch gears now and talk about the weather because we have a lot of activity across the tropics. starting across the eastern pacific ocean, we have two hurricanes and both of these storms are set to continue moving westward and impact hawaii over the next several days. the good news out here is that they are forecast to weaken over the next few days. forecast to impact hawaii, iselle on thursday as a tropical storm and then you have the following storm, hurricane julio, also set to impact hawaii over the weekend. bertha also producing issues along parts of the east coast with rip currents concerns. we do have a number of advisories along coastal areas. right now, maximum sustained winds at 50 miles an hour and moving away from the coast. now back inside. thank you very much. 18 minutes before the top of the hour on this wednesday. we showed you how children react when they find a gun in their play area. the question is, does this happen when you send your child over to their friend s house? how to have a crucial conversation with your neighbors about their guns this hour. and hackers have a new way of breaking into your computer using your mouse and you ll never even notice. curt the cyber guy is here with steve next to explain what this is all about as we drink our root beers nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how 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to get into your computer. you won t know it at the time and you can t fix it and it s tied to something you probably use each and every day. here to explain, curt the cyber guy. good morning to you. good morning. this is a terrifying story because i have done exactly what you re saying people should not do. everybody has. that s the big problem. even if you ve never used one of these little things called a usb thumb drive, which i have right here, you still need to be worried about this cause plenty of people are using these devices that have control of your data. and what has happened is two researchers from sr labs has come out, both of them have come out with an idea that usbs in particular, thumb drives or accessories that you plug into a computer, are now able to be controlled by, say, a malicious attack from a hacker. so let me give you an idea of what that means. for example, right now this device plugs into a number of computers and inside of this device is instructional language called firmware. it says i m a usb drive, i hold this much information and you can talk to me this way. inside that instruction, which is inside the device and not something you can control, you now or someone could put instruction that says, copy all the information off this computer and send it to this other computer. see, that s the bad part. here is the thing, a lot of companies give these out as promotional things. people i can t tell you how many people have given me one of these little gizmos like this and i actually have used one until this morning. we thought that this was actually a safer way to transfer information. of course. you will say, i won t e-mail it, i ll copy it on this and hand it to you and here you go. the problem is anyone at any time can now put this on this device and you don t know who put what where and you can t detect it. so the problem is now we ve got to look at usbs in a whole new way. and it s a big wake-up call to say stop using freebie handout ones. only use ones which are inside of the packaging that you get from the store. a broader way of thinking of this is think about a usb drive as you would your wallet. you don t loan it to somebody else and if you do loan one of these things to somebody, you simply don t expect it back because all it takes is one transfer and now that could infect your computer that you now plug that into the next time. it s so innocent looking. but i seem to remember it was a little device like this that some spies used to blow up the iranian computers with this virus. it is that and there is cotton mouth is a widely discussed protocol from the nsa that came out from edward snowden s leak which this would use the same technology to get there. so bottom line here is big wake-up call and in the months and perhaps even years to come, it will take a long time to implement a new way to secure this kind of technology. so no longer safe. no longer the sure bet. don t take a free one. just go to staples and buy a new one. exactly. thank you very much. great advice. that was easy. coming up on fox & friends, this choke hold is the latest tragedy after a suspect resisted arrest. is that a growing trend? are the cops not respected anymore? our next guests say yes and know why. and on this day in 1955, rock around the clock was the number one song. hello! three grams daily of beta-glucan. a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. thank you! that s keeping you from the healthcare you deserve.. at humana, we believe the gap will close when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let s do it. let s simplify healthcare. let s close the gap between people and care. female announcer: sundayduring sleep train s triple choice sale. for a limited time, you can choose to save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. or choose $300 in free gifts 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street are demoralized. i talk to cops every day. the cops are so disgusted with what s going on, they don t want to get involved. they don t want to do anything. what we saw on the videotape of what happened and the incident at staten island, dozens of times i use the same kind of head lock to bring someone down. you got a man who is 6 3, 350 pounds, you got cops 5 7, 5 8, you bring them down in a head lock. it s not meaning that you re trying to choke him. on the other side of the coin is when they use the word homicide, homicide is used by the hands of another. you commit a homicide even when you give a lethal injection. that s homicide that s on the medical record. people now are getting this thing that i want to see an autopsy report where there is a crushed wind pipe. i want to see that because the head lock that s used, i ve used dozens of times and it s used all the time to bring someone down. and if you watch that video, it wasn t a consistent compression on the guy s neck. and this is kind of gets me upset that these cops are being singled out. then when you get a mayor that has a great police commissioner like bratten sit there and take the abuse of al sharpton, i am disgusted. every cop is disgusted. i m going to hire an independent medical examiner to look at that autopsy report. someone s got to step up with this and protect this commissioner and these cops that are out there who are servicing this city. bad enough they took the stop and frisk away, which is ridiculous, which we can use it in a courteous manner and i ve talked to them before and i vo e police department, including my ex-partner there, ben tucker, about ways of utilizing stop and frisk. listen, something has to be done. things seem to be going out of control. i m a little angry, i m sorry. you re not the only one. coming up, our gun series continues. do you know whether or not your kids are safe when they go to a neighbor s house regarding the neighbor s guns?wh that conversation 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the bottom line is it s time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. it s not over. the terrorists heard him and attacked again. this time killing a top general. what does this say about our president s foreign policy? mean while, an incredible show of team work as a group of strangers pulled together to help a guy stuck between a train and the platform. look at that! how did it turn out? stick around. our gun series continues. do you know if your kids are going to a house with a gun? do the parents keep it locked up? how to have that conversation this hour, conversation well had because mornings are better with friends. you re watching fox & friends. that s a great way to begin your day. thank you very much. can you imagine you re down on a subway platform and somebody says let s push over the train a little bit. how many people would sign up for that? their adrenaline must have been pumping. you ll find out more about that. but we have breaking news. while you were sleeping, the results came in from practice i marries in four states. one of the states, kansas, where the incumbent, senator pat roberts, fended off a tea party challenger. joining us from washington with all the late-breaking details is peter doocy. peter? reporter: the tea party tried to replace three-term republican senator pat roberts in kansas, but their candidate, dr. milton wolf, came up short. the split was close enough, 48 to 41, that roberts used his victory speech to plead with the party to come together so they have a better chance to win in november. unity must happen if we are to keep kansas red. it must happen if we are going to defeat the obama agenda and send harry reid packing! reporter: sun flower state governor sam brownback won as well with 63% of the vote to primary challenger jennifer nguyen 37%. the senator roberts victory is the latest successes. his colleagues in mississippi, kentucky, south carolina and texas have also all held on as well. a different story for republicans in the house, though. first it was eric cantor who fell, then ralph hall. now tea party-backed carey bentafolio defeated by a michigan businessman. elsewhere in michigan, a race to replace john dingell, retiring after the longest congressional career ever has been won by his wife, debbie. now in november, she ll have a chance to take the seat her husband had for 50 years. peter doocy live with the results from washington, d.c i heard on special report last night, the republican running against senator roberts is a first or second cousin of barak obama. amazing. meantime, three minutes after the top of the hour, we turn to heather nauert who has got some terrifying news. yeah. for some passengers on board, but we ve got good news as well. terrifying moments for united airlines flight packed with 200 passengers. a fire breaks out on board the flight. look at this picture here, taken by a passenger. once it finally reached the ground, inside the plane, you see the firefighters on board that plane. this flight was headed from newark, new jersey to brussels when the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in canada. fortunately, no one was hurt. no word yet what caused that fire on the jet. luckily everyone is okay. today closing arguments begin in the porch shooting trial. it goes before the jury later today. theodore waver spent two days on the stand trying to convince a jury he shot an unarmed teen-ager in self-defense when she showed up on his front porch drunk and screaming. i didn t want to be a victim. i opened the door all the way as much as i could. then as soon as i did that, this person came up from the side of my house so fast. i raised the gun and shot this poor girl. some are comparing the case to the trayvon martin case. remember that one? it was a teen-ager who was shot and killed in florida back in 2012 by george zimmerman. fearing the threat of ebola, british airways now suspending all flights to liberia and sierra leone for one month. airports are becoming the first line of defense against the ebola virus by setting up medical screenings. here in the united states, the second infected american is now undergoing an experimental treatment in atlanta. both nurse nancy writebol and dr. brantley are said to be improving. then you got to look at this video. it s incredible. a car with a woman and her husband trapped inside it, no match for mother nature. but rest easy because mother nature is no match for some good samaritans who also happen to be u.s. airmen. take a look at this. this all unfolding about 30 miles north of las vegas. members of the air force who happened to be nearby ran into the water to pull the 80-year-old woman out of her car. her husband was just rescued moments before. one of those airmen was then nearly swept away himself and he had to be rescued. seconds later, their car was carried off. a lot of flash flood not guilty that area recently. a lot of rain. so a big problem. but everybody is okay. if it was just the car, people might let it go. but if there is somebody inside two people inside, two elderly inside. thank you very much. we had terrible news yesterday. a two-star general, harold green, was murdered at the u.s. military rather the military academy for afghanistan training afghannies to take over their own security. the taliban has already claimed responsibility for the attack, which prompted ed henry yesterday to ask white house press secretary josh earnest, okay, it s the taliban. they re claiming they killed this guy. how can we say we re making progress over there? here is what josh earnest and ed henry had to say. how can you say progress when an american general was killed today? the progress that i cited is the progress that was made. hard won progress that was made by our men and women in uniform who have been serving for more than 12 years. and there is no doubt that what previously was a base of operations for core al-qaeda no longer exists. this is a huge touchdown for the taliban. yeah. and this insider attack is something that we saw a surge in in 2011 and 2012. pete hegseth from concerned veterans for americans was there at that time and is familiar with this area and he says that this is not spontaneous timing, that this possibly is part of a sleeper cell of the taliban. this is their propaganda of trying to say yes, you may be announcing a withdrawal and winding down the war, but we are chasing you out. pete hegseth also says that if we say the war is over, that doesn t mean the war is over for our enemy, still think it s raging. listen. the troops have felt the fact that it has been about withdrawal more than success from the very beginning. that s what you re seeing in afghanistan right now. the taliban is exploiting that perception to make it look like the americans are on the way out and they re the future. taliban hasn t turned the page. al-qaeda, isis, are not turning the page. they re redoubling their efforts because they ve identified that we re retreating, that we don t care. we re not invested in the outcome. so you ve got islamists on the march, the taliban really controlling the country side. and the taliban redoubles its efforts in afghanistan, resulting in the death of general green who is last in the long line of those who serve in the military service back to the civil war. a new poll is showing that the president is sinking deeper than ever before. the question that was asked was in general, do you approve or disapprove or not sure of the job barak obama is doing as president? and 54% of the american people disapprove. 40% approve. and 6% are not sure. that s a new low for the president. then this is the one that s really going to catch your eye in this wall street journal poll. do you think things in this nation are generally headed in the right direction or the wrong track? 71% of you say we are headed on the wrong track. only 22%, one in five, think we are headed in the right direction. and this terrible tragedy yesterday. let us know what you think. also this morning, this is happening, sergeant beau bergdahl, the guy who was swapped for five terrorists, he s formally going to be questioned on desertion charges. his lawyer saying he will be as cooperative as possible. this is a new image of him preparing for his questioning. he appears to look pretty good. he s gained some weight there. yeah. remember right now he s got a desk job down in san antonio. the big question is, keep in mind, we ve had his platoon mates on this program. they all say he was a deserter. he clearly he left a note. he said, i ve had it. here, i m leaving. so what s going to happen to him? fox news legal analyst kimberly guilfoyle was on with bill o reilly last night and she sees this scenario playing out. i don t see any incentive for sergeant bergdahl to cooperate, participate. i expect we re going to see more of kind of the lois lerner, take the fifth, not give the information because he is the worst witness against himself. if he doesn t say anything, he remains on active duty in good standing, able to get a pension and continue to serve in if he s not convicted. if he s not convicted. i have a different viewpoint on this. you ve got a lawyer who i believe is going to attempt to cop a plea today and tomorrow, asserting that bowe bergdahl was somewhere between confused and mentally ill when he stepped off that base. his lawyer was someone who has spoken up in the past on behalf of enemy combatants at guantanamo bay. so he s going to get a defense and i believe they will come up with a story to ex cull pate him. his lawyer has always said, he s been in jail with the taliban already for five years and that s an amazing counterpoint that we re talk being this story today on the day that we are mourning the death of general green, perhaps killed at the hands of the taliban, the same leaders that we released to qatar some months ago. that is such an excellent point. peter, the white house, because they did do this controversial swap and released all these bad guy, the white house would love to see this go away, sweep it under the carpet. so could they pressure the pentagon or these attorneys or whoever decides let s just get rid of this? you re not going to see formal e-mails to that effect. but i believe that the president s beliefs on this particular issue will inform the outcome as to what happens going forward. remember, there was already a determination that he had walked off that base without permission, that he was awol. now they ll be looking at deserter status or not and whether to bring charges. no charges have been brought yet. yeah, you can imagine the president worried about his legacy on this one if one of those five returns and does something terrible and kills innocent americans again as some of them have vowed to do. 12 minutes after the top of the hour. we showed you hidden camera footage of how kids react when they find a firearm. how do you know when they re in the presence of one? do you even know if your neighbor or your child s play date has one? well, do you keep them locked up and do they keep them locked up? this is the latest in our series on children and guns and heather nauert is here with more. good morning. we re looking at this all week and it s a major, major topic. it s our constitutional right to own a gun, but with that comes a major responsibility, especially when there are children in the home. but what do you do when your child goes o another family s home? do you ever even think o ask them if they own a gun? it s obviously a tough question to ask. but i recently met a mom who regrets not posing that question. this is something that every parent should see. said to me, i don t know how to tell you this and i said what? and he said, nicholas was shot. and i said, what are you talking about? how? when? where? december 22, 2010, 12-year-old nicholas, a 7th grader, who had a flair for art and performing was accidentally shot while spending the night at a friend s house. we were told that they went downstairs to the basement where nicholas friend showed him old 40-year-old bullets and his friend asked him if he s ever seen a real gun before. he went to his parents bedroom and got the gun out of like a sock drawer, thinking that the gun was unloaded, he pointed at nicholas and pulled the trigger. this is the last heartbeat you re going to hear your child. did you know that the parents were gun owners? i never thought of it. you never thought about that before? had you known, would you have felt differently about having your son play at his house? absolutely. how do you ask that family if they own a weapon and if it s properly secured? you just ask. so that s it. just as she said, you just ask. and though it can be an awkward conversation, it s one that s practical and necessary. for 75 to 80% of families with guns in the home, first and second graders know where that gun is kept. so it really is unrealistic to think that the kids don t know what s going on. because of that awareness, experts say lay the groundwork with your kids early and often. you need to start the conversation early, from kindergarten on and it needs to be the rules. when approaching parents keeping it conversational works best. there needs to be no emotion about it. it s just one of the questions, do you have allergies? do you have a pet? do you have a swimming pool? do you have a gun? if a family takes offense, offer to move the play date. studies have shown people with guns aren t offended by asking the question. in fact, it s almost offered a lot of times. it s a matter of you feeling safe. the reality is it could take just once for something to happen to your child. you need to make that decision that s going to keep your child safe. such a bright light. it is really, really important to know if the people where you re sending your child for a play date are gun owners and how they re stored. we re not trying to take, you know, the guns away from gun owners. there is nothing wrong with asking so you could make an educated choice. nicholas was such a beautiful little boy. the couple are now working to pass what s called nicholas bill in new york state. it would require the safe storage of guns with a locking device to prevent children from getting their hands on them and using them. the bill is now before the new york senate. there is that other angle to consider, something that gun rights advocates talk about a lot, trigger locks, and whether or not they threaten homeowners security and that is an angle that we re going to look at tomorrow because a lot of people express concern that if you have a trigger lock on your gun or if you have it stored in a safe, that it would take too long to respond to a home intruder. we ll look at just how long that might take tomorrow. great advice that it should be one of those questions, do you have allergies? do you have a pet? do you have a pool? do you have a gun? put it out there, just conversationally. it s something that i m a parent of two young children. we often send our kids on play dates. have you ever asked that? i have never asked. but it s such a good question because you want your kids to be safe and we know how curious kids are. sure. most gun owners are absolutely responsible and my friends who have guns in their homes, they have the gun safes. they ve got the vaults. it s all locked up. it doesn t hurt to ask. we re not saying don t own guns, but you have to be responsible about it and then ask questions. i know it s a thoughtful, thoughtful report that you ve done. my own experience in my own family, a lot of police officers and that was always the concern that my uncles had when people were coming over for a party. i remember this as an older teen-ager, they were so vigilant to make sure their off-duty weapons were put away where nobody could get them. it s important. thanks for doing this. thanks for mentioning that. meanwhile, straight ahead, it s happened again. billions of internet passwords stolen. only this time it s worse. there is a chance that you are a victim and we ve got the details straight ahead. then this is amazing. a navy veteran loses his hand in a horrific accident but gets his grip back for 20 bucks at the home depot. you ll meet him and see his breakthrough invention when we come back. he invented that? 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is it something else that could have really impaired his ability? we don t know. we do know from talking to some of the people who work for grayline bus that he was working the night shift coming in at noon and expected to work through the night. if you come here to times square today, you ll see that there is little remnants of the accident that occurred at 3:30 yesterday afternoon. it happened on the corner of 47th and 7th. the light pole is back up, but boy, it came down with a vengeance yesterday. look at this earth cam video. you can see as those buses collide, people start to run. they hear the explosion of the buses hitting and then they start to scatter as they see the light pole come down, spraying debris. there were a ton of tourists. 14 people were hurt. three seriously, including apparently one tour operator that was on one of the other buses. her head got wedged underneath the dashboard. steve, we re waiting to hear more from nypd about this man. if there is any sort of criminal past and also when he ll be in court today. that s the latest from times square this morning. i ll send things back to you in the studio. live in times square, thank you very much. anna, over to you and peter. amazing story. navy veteran involved in a horrific accident that cost him the use of his hand, he sawed off four of his fingers, three had to be amputated. only one was able to be saved. this morning not only does howard have a smile on his face, he s got a solid grip to boot. that s because he created his own prosthetic hand after a trip to home depot. good morning, howard. good morning. you say you ve gotten your self-esteem back because of this $20 that you spent at the home depot. how does it work? well, when i cut my fingers off, i had to go to home depot and i met a friend named casey barrett and he s the one that designed these my hand for me and we just needed to get a glove and some string, some fishing line, some glue and that s how we put our firsthand together. what can you do with the hand, howard? show us that hand and what can you do with that incredible hand that you made on a 3d machine? wow. that is tremendous. i can pick up some water bottles now, which i couldn t do before without my fingers. i can even play some cards with my friends now cause i can hold the cards. i can see the magic hyped your eyes. you seem really happy with all this. obviously you re able to keep costs down at 20 bucks, making these prosthetic potentially accessible to a lot more people. are you working to get this thing on the market? no, we re not working to get it on the market. what we want to do is the wreck f foundation has joined me and we want to give it away. we want to give it away to veterans who have lost their hands and their fingers and anybody else that needs help cause prosthetics are very expensive. this is an incredible thing. one of the things that you can rebuild your own hand, what a feeling of power. you should be so proud of yourself. it gives hope to a lot of other americans. we re so happy to have you on this morning. thank you. and it wasn t me that built it. like i said, a friend of mine came to me after i chopped my fingers off and he s the engineer of our group and he s the one that printed all these fingers for me. you guys certainly make a good team with the help of a 3d printer. thanks for your service, too. thank you. thank you very much. 27 minutes after the hour. coming up, it s the most incredible video you will see all day. hundreds of people, complete strangers, pull together to help save a man stuck in the tracks. details next. then she s used to flying f 16s for a living. so what happens when our own leah gabriel flies cross-country with our own jon scott? 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ainsley earhart is here with details. incredibly sad story. we ve been following this for weeks. it is sad this morning to report that she is no longer with us. but the cause of death still not released yet. detectives are still processing on the scene. police say it does not look like there was a crash or anyone else involved. we do not suspect foul play at this time. there is nothing to suggest that the public should be alarmed. the person who owns the land spotted jennifer houston s suv on his private property about an eighth of a mile from his house and told his wife about seeing that lexus on their land. i said, what color is it? he said green. i said, dark green? and i knew right then. police found the 38-year-old s body 50 feet away from that suv there. she was wearing the same clothes that she had on when she vanished on july 24. the mother of two disappeared that day while she was running errands. she took out $100 from the bank. she filled up her car with gasoline and bought some snacks and then bought some sleeping pills at a local drugstore. minutes later, her cell phone was turned off and police say the battery was not dead. her father and her husband joined us on fox & friends on monday speaking out about that desperate search and they were clearly exhausted. we re just grasping at straws. any time we hear about a sighting or something, we re all over it. once or twice we ve jumped in the car and ran somewhere we thought a vehicle was seen at. the family has asked for privacy in order to grieve and to process their loss. jennifer leaves behind her husband and their two little boys, age six and two. back to you guys. tragic end to that story. thanks for the update. what a terrible story. i wond for they found a note. don t know. awful. we turn now to heather nauert who has got the search for somebody else. yeah. police in the pacific northwest need your help searching for a missing six-year-old girl. this as we just learned that police are also keeping a close eye on her father, james wright. he was once charged with molesting his eight-year-old stepdaughter. that charge was later dropped. police aren t calling him a suspect at this time. the girl was last seen saturday night, six years old. they came to this country illegally multiple times and now they re charged with shooting a u.s. border patrol agent dead. the two men had both been arrested and deported from our country multiple times. that u.s. border patrol agent was shot and killed in front of his wife and his family while he was fishing. this father was shot, but is expected to survive. the two suspects who confessed to that shooting were trying to rob the family when he fought back. it is one of the largest security breaches ever. a russian crime ring stole more than 1 billion user names and passwords from 420,000 different web sites. 500 million e-mail addresses have also been compromised. some of the victims include the auto industry, car rental businesses and also hotels. keep a close eye on your personal information. if you need to quiet your baby as a loft us moms do, try the power of katy perry. look at this. she s quite a dancer, too. it worked! that little girl goes from tears to pure happiness. this after seeing the katy perry video, katy perry actually tweeted about it. available for baby-sitting at $10 an hour and poor oreos. nice sense of humor. those are your headlines. gosh, i wish i knew that. thank you very much. a new dance. she can do the mouth, too. that is adorable. 23 minutes before the top of the hour. time for some weather and get this, maria molina, it sounds like a lot of people who are going to hawaii right now for their vacation picked a bad week to go. yeah. i can t really feel i still feel jealous. i would still like to be in hawaii, even if there are storms headed that way. i do have some good news and that is that the storms are forecast to weaken. they are hurricanes, headed westward. and one of them could potentially move north of the islands. so that would be good news. we would be spared from some of the impact from these storms. we do have two storm systems. over the next several days, they are going to continue to move westward and iselle will be the first storm to potentially impact the hawaiian islands. that s coming up as we head into thursday and then you have julio. this one has maximum sustained winds iselle at 90 miles an hour. julio has been a little weaker, but forecast to continue to intensify and then eventually weaken before hitting the island, that s coming up over the weekend. we also have bertha, that storm moving away from parts of the east coast. rip current concerns are continuing along coastal areas of the northeast. of course, that s a big issue for anyone that s headed out towards the beaches there. there you have tropical storm bertha, max winds at 50 miles an hour. let s head back inside. thank you very much. meanwhile, do you recognize her? we rely on her reporting skills and military analysis as well. but leah gabriel hasn t stopped flying since her days as a pilot of an f-18 in the u.s. navy. but when she came to new york city and joined us here at fox, she left her plane in california and i guess, were you running up a bill at the airport? you had to move it? i wanted it here so i could fly it and i set out on this journey after july 4th weekend. so i decided to call my trip freedom tour. and i knew i would offer some incredible views that you don t normally get to see and i wanted to share those. take a look at some of the sights that you don t get to see when you fly across country in an airliner at 40,000 feet. this is what i used to fly for the u.s. navy. f-18, two engines, top speed, 1200 miles per hour at a price tag of about $30 million. now that i m no longer landing on aircraft carriers and the navy is no longer buying my fuel, this is what i fly. a cessna 172. one engine, four seats, top speed, about 120 miles per hour. cost? about what most americans spend o a new car. put it somewhere where you can have access to it. reporter: a fellow veteran began fixing up my plane when i left san diego to join fox news. now it s time to fly her to my new home in new york, a coast to coast adventure. to me, flying is the ultimate freedom, to go where i want, when i want, one of the greatest gifts of our land of the free. my copilot is photo journalist for the trip, fox news anchor jon scott. how does it feel to be crossing this air space at 110 knots? i feel like i m in a helicopter. i did a lot of flying here. especially flight training. this is bomb ranges where i dropped practice bombs. we have a little diversion. we have a little bit of a diversion. thunderstorms offer their own kind of beauty. awesome power, enough to take down even an f-18. so we give them plenty of room. our first stop, an airport on the edge of one of america s greatest natural wonders, the grand canyon. we re treated to a bird s eye view. getting ready to take off, day two of this adventure. just a few minutes after takeoff, we re flying over the surface of mars. at least that s how the painted desert appears from 2,000 feet above it. the chart here, the storm over there to the right. with more thunderstorms ahead, we decide to land earlier than intended. gallop, new mexico, to fill our tank and check the weather. we re back on the road, we re following interstate 40. this will take us into albuquerque, new mexico. to my left are the sandia mountsens. once we clear this mountain range, we can start heading northeast to new york city. as you can see, the train changed quite a bit. like this flat land. that is to amarillo. sunset not guilty the next ten minutes. it s a little hazy. we won t see the gorgeous texas sunset. we ll be up bright and early tomorrow morning and see the sun rise here in texas. one of the greatest parts of the trip were some of the wonderful people that we met along the way, including some people who watch fox news every day. tomorrow you ll get to meet some of them and also get to see what it looks like to fly right into new york city, right over the statue of liberty at night and at eye level from the sky scrapers. you had a pretty good camera guy. i had a great camera guy/copilot, jon scott. hopefully we ll be able to get him in here tomorrow morning so he can talk a little bit about the experience. breath taking stuff. great stuff. thank you very much. knocking our socks off. coming up, hysteria about ebola. is it warranted? are americans in danger because we re treating victims? dr. mark siegle is here live from jfk to answer viewer questions (vo) get ready! fancy feast broths. they re irresistabowl. completely unbelievabowl. totally delectabowl. real silky smooth or creamy broths. everything she s been waiting for. carefully crafted with real seafood, real veggies, and never any by-products or fillers. wow! being a cat just got more enjoyabowl. fancy feast broths. wow served daily. this is a fox news alert. that s video of the moment hamas fires rockets near a hotel in a gaza residential district and now we re nearly 20 hours into a 72-hour cease fire in gaza. john huddy is live in jerusalem with the very latest. john? reporter: yeah, when i was in gaza, we saw a couple of, not a couple, we saw a lot of rocket launches and also missile strikes very close to our location, by the way. as you mentioned, the cease fire continues. over 20 hours into it now and the cease fire is holding at this point. the question is what s going to happen after the 72-hour mark is up? that said, take a look. supplies started arriving, various countries donating these supplies, arriving into tel aviv yesterday and today as well as they re now flowing into gaza. much needed supplies that have been in short supply and have run out over the course of the now more than four weeks or the four weeks of fighting. we re talking about food, water, various items like that, and people were lining up pretty much all day trying to get those items, trying to get those basic essentials. that said, troops are returning home as well as we saw yesterday. on the border after being pulled out of gaza, started going back to their families, girlfriends, wives. this as we re waiting for more information about the cease fire, the egyptian-brokered cease fire agreement that s been going on. israeli delegation there is, palestinian, hamas, islamist jihad as well. so again, the cease fire is holding, but we re waiting to see what happens after that 72-hour mark. john huddy live in israel, thank you. meanwhile, coming up on this wednesday, is the hysteria about ebola warranted? are americans in danger because we are treating victims here in the u.s.? dr. mark siegle is here live from jfk airport where they ve got a quarantine area to answer viewer questions. first we re going to check in with bill hemmer for a look at what s coming up at the top of the hour. polling numbers show the danger many americans see about their own future. numbers are stunning. herman cain analyzes the election results from last night. what they tell us about november, especially on the senate side. jimmy carter argues america must make peace with hamas. rudy guiliani reacts on that. water skiing on your hands. got to hurt. we ve got the video. see you in ten minutes . captain obvious: tell your grandmother with the hotels.com loyalty program, she ll earn free nights. so they re not the same, because they re different. woman: jimmy s not my grandson, captain obvious. woman: man: he s my lover. no. having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn t there and the next second. boom! you ve had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and. boom! you re blindsided for a second time. they won t give you enough money to replace your brand new car. don t those people know you re already shaken up? 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peter, that s very good question. i spoke to a passenger coming from one of those countries who was very frightened. i think that the answer to that is that the numbers are so low that the chances of somebody coming in with ebola with only 1500 odd cases in west africa, extremely low. but really there is a lot of fear and they put out any advisory saying anyone with flu-like symptoms, how to isolate them in the hospital. it s a mixed message. great britain is looking at it differently. and we have another tweet from one of many patriots saying this: for those with flu-like symptoms, how would they know if they had come in contact with ebola? look, the chances are really, really, really slim. i mean, ebola is not floating around west africa. if you have to be literally taking care of a patient, it s not an airborne virus. you would have to be in touch with the secretions of this virus. so i think the fear is really getting rampant here where people thinking i m in west africa, i got the flu. but you know what? the chances are extremely low. to answer the question directly, though, unfortunately, ebola initially just has regular fatigue, fever, and muscle aches. so it can look like any other flu over the first few days. all right. great advice. dr. siegle, thank you very much and thank you for joining us this morning from jfk airport. thanks. it s tense here. i would imagine. tense all over the place. people are worried about it. we re going to continue live from new york city in about two) minutes you re that grumpy cat. well i know! how about some honey nut cheerios? humans love them. moms, dads, kids-well, all of em. not even a smile? huh. maybe someone should tell your face. ohhh that is your face. 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weapons for any price because that was his self defense. he needed those firearms for his own sense of security. he never for any price would he have sold those guns. he doesn t have the profiler of someone who needs to sell their weapons. his first court date is next wednesday. they have shown a commitment to veterans. but new reports show the president knew about the problems years ago and did nothing. peter doocy is live in washington with what the white house is saying now. now the white house is saying president obama learned about the spefkt stories of the schedules at va hospital. at the same time many americans did when they started popping up on the news. still, though e-the press secretary jay carney says the president has worked toward improving care for veterans for years. candidate obama, then senator obama identified problems within the va and committed himself to be elected to making sure we enhance the budgets that we provided to the veterans affairs department so we could better serve our veterans. and what you are seeing since he took office is just that. one whistleblower in west virginia says they hodelayed appointments for veterans. some waiting killed themselves. they are putting some of the blame on the side of the veteran s affairs department. the veterans system is so large you have a layer of workers, doctors, nurses, technicians caring for people and you have this bureaucracy, administrative people. it is big. so the doctors are not only trying to work, but you have to manipulate through this maze, this behemoth bure rock ski. see chlt / /- bureaucracy. they will continue to provide documents on a need only basis. thank you, peter. that brings us to our look at who is talking. it is time for the president to step up and hold them accountable. it is a huge problem. don t try to blame it on bush or republicans in congress. she is the ceo of the country. they report to him. he ought to have the same kind of interest in this than he did the obamacare web site and obamacare law in general. shake these people up. now what does he say through his chief of staff? i am madder than hell about this as if he just stumbled upon this problem the way he stumbles upon everything in the administration from the i rk s scandal to the disastrous launch of the obamacare web site. it the spotlight on a few b race i s s. the governor leads the polls for a tight race. if nobody gets the majority there it will take a run off to decide who will face democrat michelle nun the father of sam nun in the fall. mitch mcconnell leads the polls against newcomer bev vens. he gave a speech at a cock fighting rally. oregon and idaho also posting primaries today. abu hamza alma iii convicted of all 11 terrorism charges against him. he shows no reaction in court as the verdict was read. the jury in new york city found him guilty of recruiting for al qaeda, helping kidnappers during a 1998 hostage taking in yemen and setting up a terrorist attack in 1999. new for you overnight we have these tensions mounting in china over unprecedenteunprecedented. china summoning the u.s. ambassador to complain. five chinese military officials are accused of stealing information like product designs and confidential legal strategies to give chinese companies the advantage costing jobs in the u.s. the victims six pittsburgh based companies. the charges they are made up. experts say the chances of a trial are almost. they used it for the search of a missing jet. they want the images released. they want the entire world to join in on the search for the plane. officials have not said when data. passengers on board an allegiant air flight forced to evacuate after the pilot reported smelling spoke in the cabin. th the passengers noticed commotion. the airline service, the pilot says abort, abort, and the doors opened up. emergency flags were deployed and passengers slid down the tarmac. the smell came from the plane s electrical system. now to an extreme weather alert. take a look back at some incredible time lapse video. storm chairses right in front of them. this happened near claritin wyoming. it is the longest lasting thunderstorm. that brings us to maria molina in the weather center. it looks like a spaceship. this is what can happen when the thunderstorms start to form and rotate. there s a chance to see more of that activity. it is a slight chance but as far west as parts of colorado and western parts of kansas and the grass with a slight chance for large hail damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. tomorrow the risk continues across parts of the ohio valley, indiana, illinois and also yet again across portions of the plains states. have a way to get the warnings especially this afternoon and this evening. we have the plans in place. out here we have elevated fire danger in place. red flag warnings in effect. those temperatures right now very warm across the center of the country. take a look at the 70s kansas city down to dallas. those highs will reach the 80s in chicago and minneapolis. let s head over to you. sn the that interesting, chicago thhad hoech cold weathe and now in the 80s. thanks maria. new outrage brewing over the new 9-11 museum s gift shop. family members of victims have souvenir sales. they honor the heros and remember the victims from the september 11th terror attacks with deeply moving exhibits. a few feet away the gift shop sells hats, coffee mugs, hood des and t-shirts. 8 percent of the items were made in the u.s. they have to make money to make the museum run but this has gone a little boifrt board it is tacky and it s an international disgrace. proceed from the shop goes from developing and sustaining the museum. california krohn running in the belmont stakes. the horse arrives in new york for the run for the preet ste ps steeg gus triple crown. they ruled the strips are a okay. if he wins the belmont he would be the first horse to sweep all three races since 1978. donald 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said there is no exceptions. a florida high school decides to sell premium seats to the ceremony and they don t stop there. kelly wright is here now with controversy. this whole thing is stup tid p stupid. here s a reason they are upset. every senior is required to pay $20 to participate in the graduation ceremony. now the school is charging $200 for premium seating for family members. that price will get you an entire bench near the end zone of the school s stadium. the site of the ceremony all rows have been sold out. others have to settle for first come first serve seating. some say the school s fee is discriminatory and unfair. discriminatory economically, socioeconom socioeconomically. $200 is a lot of money. is my child more important than yours? what is the real deal? it is ridiculous. it is sad you wouldn t be able to bring all of your family members with you. they sent a letter explaining why the student fee was imposed the one for $20. the cost of the event rises each year and with current budget restraints we are not longer able to cover all of the expenses of the program. that may be the case parents in the past have been able to get to the stadium on time and find any seat on a first come first serve basis. it will be interesting to see what people have to say about this one. time now to brew on this. it is the new time-out and it is called kid shaming. parents getting revenge on rebellious kids by posting pictures on-line of their children holding up signs confessing bad behavior. like look think oat this one. i like to sleek thriek the loud during the quietest parts of church. i ve been stealing mom s energy drinks. we will post them on foxnews.com. we will share them later in the show. flooding is one of the deadliest disasters in the world. how can you survive being swept away if it happens to you? maria molina will show us how to get out alive. are you sick of lathering up? now you can drink up. the sunscreen being served up for you to swallow. oueserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler. if frustration and paperwork decrease. if grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. the gap begins to close. so let s simplify things. let s close the gap between people and care. flooding is one of the most dead list disasters in the world. getting swept away only takes a few second. there are specially trained teams to keep you from getting swept away. good morning heather and ainsley. good to see you in person. with water rescues any time there s a potential for flooding they are standing by ready to jump in. i found out how. it is one of the most frustrating feelings being swept away by a flood. it can happen to any one anywhere. you don t have to be in a river just 6 inches of water is all it takes to be carried away. flooding and water and flood rescue is in the united states people are swept away in vehicles or flash flood because they didn t see the warnings. the maryland fire department led by rescue 3 instructor mike berna is what gets people out alive. there is concern for flooding. here on the news we are preparing. it is all predictable for us. with water rescue teams our experts in everything from towing someone to shore with a rope to swimming after a victim. we performed the rescue because the person was too cold or hypothermic to accept a bag. using helicopters. doesn t matter how they rescue somebody dealing with moving water is never easy. for rescuers it always goes back to the basics. lay on your back and go. if i am being pushed into an obstruction i can use my feet to push or. you want to go to the right you are going to have the back of your head that way on a 45 degree angle in line with your body. if you want to come to the left keep back stroking. for victims following these tips could be deadly. you are being swept away the human brain says i want it all to stop. they put their feet down when you do that you become entr entrapped. in theory grabbing on to a nearby tree or rock seems like a good idea but in reality it is dangerous. many victims will grab and o. because the water is so powerful and relentless she will only be able to hang on for a little bit before she is swept away again. the first priority is to get to shore. the first thing you want to do is get out of that environment in i means you have of swimming get out. make sure to always see the warnings when they issued for information go to k fox and friends first. turn around don t drown. the time is 26 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up big storms like sandy could soon cost communities millions of dollars. it has nothing to do with damage. the reason the insurance companies could be taking your home town to court. this day back in 1873 levi strouss and jacob davis received the patent for blue jeans. in 2007 the simpson s 400th episode aired. captain: this is a tip. bellman: thanks, captain obvious. captain: and here s a tip. when you save money on hotel 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unscreen you can swallow to protect your skin from the sun. fox & friends first begins right now. here she comes she is a man eater. little hall and oats waking you up this morning with the american flag. right here on 6th avenue. welcome back to fox and friends first . i am ainsley earhardt. i am heather childers. appreciate it as always. half past the top of the hour. we begin with va scandal. they have shown a commitment to veterans. new reports show the president has problems with the va years ago and did nothing. this as the va starts turning over the paperwork. what s the latest in this case. there may be some va foot dragging on this. they say they are going to have a congressional subpoena for documents pertaining to the delegation of mismanagement. the documents come close to some of the things they heard with va whistleblowers the administration is in real trouble especially if you look at the things that the former va doctors have said ladies and gentlemening some vess trans died because of mismanagement. the veteran system is so large that you have a layer of nurses technicians caring for people and you have bureaucracy administrative people. it is big. the doctors are not only trying to work you have to manipulate through this maze, this bow heem et bureaucracy. the white house says president obama is very angry about all of this. despite this revelation from the washington times and the fact that the obama transition team was warned before they took office the patient data was suspect they say he just learned about this allegation. you say there is bureaucracy give me the specific allegations out of phoenix. i will double check if that is not the case. statement we are learning more about the scope of this problem. they have a map showing all of the incidents of the alleged mismanagement on the part of the va. it is extensive. doug luzader live in washington. what a liar. that s what one family member of the 40 veterans who died waiting for treatment ask the phoenix va is calling president obama. a 71-year-old navy serviceman thomas green died battling bladder cancer. sean hannity asked them what they had to say to the president. if he called me tonight i would say you are a liar i don t trust you. if it was up to me i would fire him. i believe he is a part of it as well. he gave us nothing, nothing, all he wants to do is go on the mission and still continue to let the veterans die including my pop, and i don t like you very much mr. president. they re anger they echo what many families of veterans across the country are feeling. calls for the white house and president obama to help free the american marine in a mexican prison. sergeant andrew tomeresi who served two tours in afghanistan has been locked up over an apparent mistake. he made a wrong turn and the accident drove him to mexico with tree u.s. registered firearms. his mother got into the prison to see her son face to face. fox news was there when she came out of the prison and she had this message for the president. i told him about the white house.gov petition because that s the only hope i have that the white house with acknowledge that andrew is in prison. his commander-in-chief is president obama. so i p haven t heard from president obama, but america, if you could please sign the white house d house.gov petition i will get a response from the white house about andrew s fight for freedom. the petition has 23,000 signatures. that brings us to the look who s talking. it is clear he is suffering. secretary of state john kerry needs to take action. it is time this administration gets this you think i don t man back on some kind of treatment. the sergeant may be the only person the obama administration has ever kept from entering the united states from mexico if the state department is telling the truth and he is heading to mexico on wednesday he has already screwed up a foreign policy in iran, egypt, syria and ukraine. this is his chance to get it right. here s the instructions, john, bring the boy home. the marine s first court case in mexico is next wednesday. breaking overnight switching gears michael jake the star of the tv sheer res the shield is detained by police following the shooting death of his wife. he called police himself saying he shot his wife. he is being questioned by authorities but has not yet been arrested. police say the couple s children were inside the house at the time of the shooting. this is a bizarre story. the state police is out of texas a naked man through a sun roof and attempted kidnapping. it is all caught on camera. he jumped into these people s car. could you hear the terrified victim? she was screaming as the naked man punches and coax her. she crashed into a utility poll the police were able to arrest that man. the women now traumatized. it is like a nightmare every time i close my eyes. the suspect nicholas dial has not yet been charged. he s getting medical treatment. they are in the country illegally so should illegal immigrants be allowed to serve in the military? the pentagon looking at expanding application tools by letting some illegals enlist. urban leading the charge for illegals who have taken advantage of the president s nondeportation order. only open to citizens legal citizen residents or current green card holders. oo maria molina is out of the flood waters and back in the studio. what can people expect? we have a storm system moving eastward. a little area further west across parts of colorado and nebraska. there s a small chance we could see storms forming this afternoon and during the evening hours. by wednesday that is more expansive across parts of western virginia, the state of west virginia and yet again across parts of the plains. a way to get the warnings today and tomorrow. there is a fire danger across parts of the southwest and warnings in effect. the temperatures right now are very mild. in the 70s in the city of dallas. what we are expecting this afternoon in minneapolis upper 707s and millddle 80s in chicag and upper 80s and also in the city of dallas. want to switch gears a little bit and show you this photograph which looks like an upside down smile and upside down rainbow. this is called a scircumvented ark. that s the technical name for it. this bounces off ice crystals. typically this occurred and we wouldn t be able to see it because it is so high up in the atmosphere because it would be blocked by the clouds. there is a photo of it upside down smile for you. a rain bow drops from the sky. you would hope so. looks so pretty this morning. that is amazing. get ready for climate change or get sued. a major insurance company suing municipal government in the chicago area saying they knew the risk poseed by climate change. should have been better prepared for massive flooding in april 2013. the damage was in the millions. it is the first of its kind suit. it could indicate a strategy by insurers for the pa 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how is it going ladies. you wear a crown at work you will be treated more special than the others. we will take that into account. i will think about it for tomorrow s wardrobe. let me show you what s on our show. laura ingram isser hasn t. dr. van carson is here he joins us on the kirby couch. he may or may not run for the president s seat he never wanted to but might have to. more than 10,000 toddlers on adhd drugs. is this safe for kids? and did any one ask them. a warning for parents. a california mayor tells bullying victims to grow a pair. he joins us. plus the commencement speaker with the inspirational message you have to hear. all coming up on fox & friends. please kr[ñwatch. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis is a daily game of what if s . what if my abdominal pain and cramps come back? what if the plane gets delayed? what if i can t hide my symptoms? what if? but what if the most important question is the one you re not asking? what if the underlying cause of 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plain mean? your comments up next. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it s a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what s our strategy with the fondue? diversifying your portfolio? e trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e ? have your next burger with a side of awesome. the one-of-a-kind, creamy blend of sweet and tangy. miracle whip and proud of it. two minutes till the top of the hour. before you leave the house here s what s happening today. nearly two million pounds of meat recall. beef that is. after 11 people in four states get sick with e. coli. the meat was sent to restaurants in ohio, michigan, missouri and massachusetts. it s primary tuesday in six states. voters heading to the polls in georgia, pennsylvania, arkansas, and oregon. a california man arriving in new york today to prepare for his triple crown. time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first the good. small tweets of your smile can help you land a big promotion according to a body language expert from oxford and keeping your eyebrows level while smiling make you look powerful while lowering your head a bit makes you seductive. a yacht capsizes as it is being delivered to its owner. the ugly, a woman crushed by an angels fan trying to catch a foul ball. she catches her shoulder in pain while the fan high five s those around him. kid shaming, the latest trend hitting the internet. parents getting revenge on their kids by having them hold up a sign for their rebellious behavior. parents think it is cute but way over the top. ashley say as long as they are fun and innocent, they are hilarious. dean says too far. i learned in the military, praise in public, reprimand in private. thanks to everyone who responded. we appreciate, as always. we will see you tomorrow. we will. fox & friends starts right now. bye. good morning. it s tuesday, may 20. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. happening now, he played a cop on the hit show the shield, but this morning he is the one in cuffs. the show s star arrested after his wife was found shot dead. this developing story and details straight ahead. veterans across the country left to die while waiting for care they were promised but how did the president of the united states, commander in chief, find out about the scandal? i believe that we learned about this through the reports. i will double check if that s not the case. but that s when we learned about them. oh, he saw it on tv? if it wasn t for the press, what would he know is going on in his
thank you, panel. as always, thanks for inviting us into your home tonight from concord, new hampshire, that s it for this special report, fair, balanced, and unafraid. no online show tonight. greta goes on the record right now. developing now, ukraine out of control. more missiles shooting down planes, this time fighter jets. so were they fired by the same attacker who s took down flight 17? at this hour president obama is on the west coast busy on his fundraising trip. meanwhile, back at home in washington, d.c., senator john mccain is calling the obama administration cowardly. he will go on the record in just moments. fox news steve harrigan live in ukraine with the very latest. steve? greta, two more planes shot down in eastern ukraine today. this time both military planes. they were f-2 fighters. soviet era made by the ukrainian government flying low within the crash site. near the border with russia. likely flying low in support of infantry. ukraine is mapping an offensive now against the rebels. they were probably hit with shoulder mounted rockets. not the sophisticated antiaircraft missiles that were used to bring down that civilian malaysian liner but really a sign of just how dangerous the skies in ukraine are. and just how dangerous that site remains with this hot war going on. a number of international experts still haven t been able to reach the scene and begin the work. different turn it of events for some the victims after days in body bags and on broken down trains, a real turn for the better as far as respect and dignity goes for 40 victims who have made it to the netherlands. they were put on private hearses and given a sign of respect from the dutch nation. the identification project will begin now. the rest of the bodies will arrive in nethers lie the end of the week. days to week to make identification using d.n.a. analysis of teeth and hair before those bodies are repatrioted. greta, back to you. steve, as it calmed down at all or i mean obviously if they shot down two fighter planes not shot down on the air but what about on the ground. on the ground, the rebels are actually losing territory. they retreated from the outskirts of this city where i am now, moving into the city center and kicking out university students and taking over their dorm story tropical storm dormitories. keep in i understand moo, both sides have heavy armor and rockets. this is a city of a million people. so donesk could be in a real fight. thank you. john mccain with razor sharp words for the administration calling it cowardly in the handling of the ukraine crisis. nice to see you sir. thank you, greta. cowardly why. cowardly not to give these people weapons for which to defend themselves. i m not positive that this wouldn t have happened but i think if the ukrainians had been giving what they were begging for rather than mres, i m not making this up. they finally decided to give them mres but they didn t want to fly them this. leased german trucks to truck them in. i m not making that up. we see these weapons pouring across the border from russia into eastern ukraine. we won t give them any defensive weapons. they may have been able to succeed in moving those, quote: rebels as they are called out of ukraine and maybe this wouldn t have happened. what s the backup of president obama? why wouldn t he want to do that? what i was told, they didn t want to provoke vladimir putin. the misreading of vladimir putin is the most amazing thing to me that it is just boggles the mind. and when i say it s cowardly. i think it s cowardly not to help people who are begging to for our help to eject people who are ininvestigating their invading their country. taking crimea. literally invading their country. these people that are in the country are, some of them are, quote: russian-speaking ukrainians but a hell of a lot of them are just russians who have come in at the behest of vladimir putin to create unrest. if you continue to have that part of ukraine in turmoil, their economy cannot recover. that s where the major industry is. how do you stop putin at this point? oh, i think slap sanctions, sector sanctions on. send the weapons to these people, move reinvigorate our missile systems. and check republic and poland. move nato troops into at least temporarily into areas that are more surrounding this area of the world where there is such unrest. and condemn our so-called european friends. do you really think that the french are going to revoke the sale of those two helicopter carriers hot russians who have openly said they could have gotten the georgia operation done in 45 minutes with those carriers. the europeans are not going to do anything until they are energy independent, senator hole green, barrasso and i put together a proposal that within three years we could get natural gas from fargo, north that coat to europe and that will change the whole scenario. until they are energy independent, the europeans aren t going to do a damn thing. well, even with his own party, he has people objecting, senator feinstein objecting to him and his fundraiser. at least that s the way i read this. this is senator feinstein. i m not going to tell the president what to do. but i think the world would very much respect his increased attention on this matter. and i think there ought to be increased attention. well, he was out in california, she ought to be glad of that. but, look. out in california, you know what he said at a fundraiser today. he was talking, he said i would love nothing more than a loyal and rationale opposition. basically saying the g.o.p. is not loyal and rationale. the self-pity that he continues to exhibit is really kind of sad, really. you know, i can t work with them and all. when is the last time he really called leaders of both parties together over at the white house, say, for a dinner, a social event, you know, that reagan was best at, clinton did, bush did. why isn t he? i cannot explain it except to say that he does not have this desire to have social interface with people and sit down and try to work things out. right now, we he have got ukraine. we have got the border. israel? we have got israel. we have got iraq. we have got more problems, more crises than i have ever seen both foreign and domestic. i said i have never seen more turmoil. everybody says i m talking about turmoil in the world. i have never seen more. you might want to hear my off-the-record at the end of the show tonight. i know you have got a busy schedule. you might want to hear what i have to say about that nice to he so you, sir. thank you. news tonight that a month ago ukraine had asked the u.s. and nato jamming to block very painful question could that radar jamming equipment had we delivered it, could it have prevented the downing of flight 17, the daily beast eli lake broke that story. nice to see you, eli. what did ukraine ask from us and nato and when. specifically asked for electronic warfare technology. the idea would be radar technology and jamming out date and russians can defeat it. if you can somehow jam the radar then you deny the admissibility of adversary to aim. at the time they asked nato for radar jamming, would it have been possible or likely or probable to be able to get that equipment to ukraine so in time it might have prevented this crash? no. this wasn t asked for some kind of technology given the time frame nobody says it would have been able to get there to prevent that crash. they were asking for it we have to understand is last month when the united states publicly disclosed that they did see these systems from russia coming into ukraine. and that was a point at which this was absolute. is this just simply a back off of the obama administration to want to get their hands into the ukraine separatist movement problem? there has always been an intelligence issue because the ukrainian military in particular was extremely close to the russians until february. there is a concern very sensitive equipment given to the ukrainians could be reverse engineered by the russians. fascinating article by the daily beast that you broke. thank you, eli. thank you. not just ukraine. try our borders. disturbing new information about immigration crisis. new research showing that children under 12 years old are are the fastest growing group of minors crossing our border compared to pew research compared to last year, 117% increase in the number of children 12 and younger caught at the border. 117% increase. and the l.a. times molly hen see joins us. nice to he so you, molly. hi, greta. thanks for having me. molly, why the huge jump, the 117%? why do people think that s jumping so high? well, and that 117% represents children who are being caught crossing the border unaccompanied. without their parents. this is a variety of reasons i talk to some of the children as well as parents who came with children. we have seen a tripling in the number of those kids who have been caught with their parents crossing. you hear people say that they heard about these permissos that he they would be given permission to statement you hear about people talking about economic conditions, poverty, violence, threats from gangs, extortion also coming for medical help. well what sort of provoked the permissos all of a sudden becoming so prevalent that you hear so much about it. why? it s give to say. the people i talked to i pressed them. i was down in the border a couple of weeks ago, i went out with border patrol and out with them apprehending people. i would ask them did you hear about these per missos i heard on the news or my friends wasn t exactly clear how they were finding out. continue to come into the country. in terms of what is their condition when he they arrive, the ones you saw? well, i was able to go in with border patrol to one of the stations in brownsville, texas, where the children are housed and we saw the children. we weren t able to speak it them or interview them but they have added a lot to accommodate the children. they have added showers. they have volunteers and fema staff who come and take them out for recreation outside. the border patrol agents who i spoke with said look, we are not trained to work with children. these facilities were not designed to be housing them. so then they do turn them over within 17 hours to run longer term shelters. the facilities here on the border have been overwhelmed. in recent weeks they have seen a little bit of a drop of the number of children who have been apprehended. not clear whether that is going to continue, whether it s sustainable. molly, thank you. thank you. it s not just the border states. thousands of immigrant children moving on right through the border states to states across america and many governors don t know how they will pay for them. now, several governors demanding president obama take action. gary herbert joins us. good evening, sir. good evening to you, greta, great to be with you. governor, you and several other governors have written a letter to the president of the united states. what did you write the president and what do you want? well, i think we re exhibiting frustration about the immigration problem. particularly with 57,000 undocumented children being at our southern border. as we have asked about that, we are finding out that not only are they there, but they are being placed with relatives and sponsors who are also undocumented. further just exacerbating the problem. is this, i mean, do you have any real problem now or are you predict that you are going to have a problem later you? are not a border state but you are a big state. i mean, are these just sort of like you are worried about what s to come? that is certainly part of it and it s not just about utah. it s about america. we are not a border state but a lot of undocumented immigrants filter up to utah. we have about 100,000 we estimate now in the state of utah. there has been kind of a diminishment of that because of the recession. enough to that the economy is starting to turn around, you see this surge is taking place. why we are sending parents and young people on the bordered in the hope of getting inside america really is puzzling in many ways and certainly not a very good healthy immigration policy for america. you have had any sort of interaction or response. i realize you just sent the letter to the president. any response from the obama administration so at least you are considering or willing to work with you or do they ignore you? well, i don t think they have ignored us. secretary burwells with sensitive to questions being asked on both sids of the aisle but particularly sponsors that they don t ask the question whether they are documented or not. the estimates are that nearly half of them aren t. so we have a problem there that she at least is aware of. the question is really what do we do? i think for governors, we are frustrated that nothing is really happening in washington, d.c. there is a dearth of leadership. the president won t even go down to the border to look and see firsthand what s taking place. he needs to come up with a plan of first securing the border. i think that s something everybody agrees with why can we not at least take that first step of securing the border and deincentivizing people from coming across the border. you talk about the young people, and that s a significant rise of what 117% of these young people that are coming to our borders, most of them unaccompanied with adults. but, adults are still coming, also. they are the largest numbers still. if there is no plan, why do you not feel ignored you? said a minute ago you don t feel ignored. i would think i would feel ignored if i thought this was a big problem coming down the road and i alerted of them to it and got basically no plan. well, when i say ignored, we had the meeting thatment proked the letter just a week ago. i m going to give them at least some grace period to respond to the letter. again, i think the secretary of health and her response, she is happy to do something that s very difficult. she accident create policy on the border. that s the congress and that s the president. so, from the standpoint of nothing is being done, we are kicking the can down the road, i guess you are right, we are being ignored. frankly the governors are tired of it we have tried to do some things in our states. we have been told very directly by the courts this is a federal issue. okay. we ll back off. but we expect the federal government to do something. and, again, the president has got to lead. he has a 3.7 billion-dollar program out there. senator reid and the senate democrats have a 2.7 billion-dollar proposal. there they are only a billion apart. i know in washington, d.c. that s a rounding error. that s real money to the city of utah and taxpayers. they have got to show leadership and bring people together, particularly we all to secure the border. i don t understand why that can t be d governor, thank yo. thank you. and this week, the presidents of guatemala, el salvador and honduras will meet with president obama here in washington at the white house. joining us, guatemalaen foreign minister fernando, nice to he see you sir. nice to see you as well. welcome to the united states. thank you very much. why are children leaving your country for the u.s.a.? well, i think what happened the last three years is that the criminal found a way of fooling families. central america that they could get some kind of legal establishment and they provide a service and because of the number of cases you have your judicial system now, migration, some of them have stayed longer, and so, started to say to the families, you see, we told you, you know, they are staying in the u.s. legally and they were fooled because of that and that s why so many children have come now. what s sort of unusual though is guatemala, mexico, to the united states. and just this month, the president of guatemala and the president of mexico signed an agreement to make it sort of an easier transit through mexico, right? no, no. that s not correct. okay. the agreement is the agreement has two parts, right? one is that along the border that we share, 80-kilometers within mexico and also within guatemala, there would be some kind of a there is a lot of trade and we activity. beyond that point, 80-kilometers within mexico, control starts to get stricter and stricter. until they reach more or less 3300 south of mexico convocation city. mexico city. mexico has said very clearly they don t want migrants from central america to move to northern mexico and they will collaborate. are they actually stopping them at the southern mexican border? the idea is that with this system created, everybody in guatemala will be having a card. there will be issued free by the government. which allows them to go into mexico? within those 80-kilometers. that s why it looks like it s easier to get into mexico. let me ask you another question. the children being deported back to guatemala. are you able to absorb them? by all means, no problem with that. you want your children back? no problem with that. what do you want when the president meets with your president meets with our president at the white house this week, what is it that will help your country so that we don t k. at least try to put a lid on this problem for both countries. two major issues. one is the issue of coordinated action international criminal networks. i think that is important so we can have all of this international networks under control in the u.s. and mexico and in central america. they work along the three territories and the second thing that is very important is long-term investment in social and economic opportunities most children are left because there is not enough secondary education. guatemala. if we send them back to you or deport them back which is what is happening you can t even put them in schools? no. so you have got an absorption problem if they come back to you? not really. because, just give you a figure. okay. more or less 25,000 children coming in the last three years from guatemala. okay? we have every year 400,000 newborn children in guatemala. 400,000. children below the age of 18, 6.5 million. so 25,000 is not an enormous number that he we cannot absorb. mr. foreign minister thank you for joining us, i hope we can work this out because it s serious for both countries, thank you. thank you. horror writer steven king blasting the party and christians. what did he just write that s sparking so much qulowt rage. michael moore of hollywooda? hypocrite? you have to find out what we just found out. i m doubly impressed! phillips digestive health. a daily probiotic. nothing s missed with tenatwist don t miss a beat. nothing s missed with tenatwist oooh discover the fearless protection of tena. so absorbent even when you twist not a drop escapes. nothing s missed with tenatwist when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that s not a coincidence. it s one more part of our commitment to america. really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? 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joining us our political panel u.s.a. today kirsten power and washington, d.c. political correspondent byron york. rick? he is tearing up the twitter account? yeah. using religion and typically you use religion when you use it as weep. you don t use it proactively. use it against someone else to say, you look at their beliefs and say this is something that runs contra. that is always problematic, because for a long time and for most of american history, the presumption has been that someone s individual religious beliefs that s their own beliefs, that s their own business to. ascribe politics to it is asking for trouble. i suspect suspect, kirsten, i don t know about allot about steven king he would do a lot about this argument if he were down at the border handing out sandwiches or something. i have done a the love reporting on this story i can tell you pretty much everybody i have talked to who has been handling these children are from christian organizations. i mean, you it is the christian organizations that are taking them in. it s the u.s. the council of catholic bishops. it s catholic charities. it s evangelical organizations. almost these are christians taking care of these kids. horror writers. what they write on twitter is horror. they are unaware of how integral these christian organizations really are to our social services to this country and how much they really do pick up the slack in a crisis. i actually think michael moore later another segment. but, boy, byron, like is he trying to compete with michael moore for hypocrite of the night. unless he is down on the border contributing a lot of money i don t know about for these kids. it s not a religious issue. the government has a right to set its immigration policy to enforce immigration policy. i will say though in this particular debate about the unaccompanied minors coming over the border. we have seen at love religious references. if you listen to nancy pelosi, the house minority leader she has said on a number of times she has cited the conference of catholic bishops to suggest that most of the children should be given homes in the united states and should not be returned to their home country. there has been a lot of religious references. shouldn t steven king then be pointing his keyboard more at nancy pelosi and not at the christians who might be down at the border or even like the tea party which is not a religious issue? i mean, wouldn t he be better suited to do that? well, certainly not anybody. handing out sandwiches. certainly not anybody who is actually taking action to help had the people coming over. is she doing anything? take leader pelosi, is she doing anything? a lot of people are talking about it in washington. there are so many talkers, everybody has an opinion. you got steven king who has an opinion who are the good guys, the bad, anybody doing anything, rick? she is pushing immigration reform. how? fundraiser. clearly she would like to seat immigration reform bill, that s the democratic prescription for a the lotted of this. i don t think it s fair to expect every lawmaker to be handing out sandwiches. i used that as a reference. the people who have the power to do something, have the authority to do something they are not doing it they are not up on capitol hill pounding out some bill. she is out at a fundraiser in california. i m not expecting her to hand out sandwiches, but. it is remarkable 8 days before this congressional recess everybody agrees this is a big pressing national issue. no sense of urgency around it everyone is throwing up their hands too far apart have to come back after labor day. real possibility. nothing will get done before the recess. they should be engaged and maybe every single one of them doesn t need to be down on the border. it s such a huge issue. i think president obama should have gone to the border when he was down there. i think if they are going to talk about it, they should go down and see it firsthand and everybody see what s going on. i don t think they have to go to the border. at least back home in their offices writing legislation and talking to each other. anyway, panel, thank you. the irs scandal just got weirder, it has to do with lois lerner s emails. hear what the irs commissioner just said. that s next. we fill our freshly baked flatbread, with bold, unflat flavors. like taste inspired by the freshness of the mediterranean. so you always get flavor that s anything but flat. new flatbread sandwiches, try one today. start a team. join a team. walk to end alzheimer s. visit alz.org/walk today. thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. and thank you for your bravery. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you re a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. big news from today s irs hearing. irs commissioner john koskinen confirming that investigators have found backup tapes in the lois lerner lost email probe. backup tape may, in fact, exist. i have no information as to whether there is anything usable on those tapes. why didn t you tell us you had the irs had destroyed emails that belonged to lois lerner. they were not destroyed as a conscious effort by the irs. if the folks like lois lerner and others would have spent more time working on the backlog and less time targeting groups, maybe morale would be better and maybe their backlog would be lesser. not one piece of data could be covered. doesn t surprise you the american people just have a hard time believing that does it. there was no secret that we were hiding. right after the oversight hearing the irs commissioner talking directly to us on the record. my commitment is i want people to be comfortable that the irs is simply the tax administrator. we are not a political organization. we are not politically motivated when they hear from us, it has only to do with tax matters it has nothing to do with their background, their organization, their political beliefs. at this point, beginning it run out of documents to produce but we will continue to produce them as quickly as we can in response to the committee s request. all the information i have is that the tapes from backup tapes from three years ago were recycled and don t exist. i do know the inspector general came out in this hearing and earlier materials released by this committee has looked at some tapes and is reviewing them. to the extent that there? i information on them, that would be terrific. if they need outside help, i would never oppose that again, as i say, it s our interest, my sense is, we produce 67,000 lois lerner emails, the vast majority of them aren t very interesting. we have got 24,000 that she sent during this period to other people. and so my sense is that it would be very good to know how many other emails there were. at this point there is no indication that they would be really exciting, but it would be much better for everybody to know that. representative jim jordan joins us. good evening, sir. good to be with you. if this weren t so serious i would be flippant and say who is on first. now the commissioner says he doesn t know he didn t know the backup tapes existed and now he doesn t know if there is anything on them. what does he know and where is this information? yeah. great question. because every time we interview someone else, we find out some new fact that contradicts what mr. koskinen has said under sworn testimony, under oath sworn testimony in front of the can i. let me ask you this, is he lying or uninformed or confused or what? today he indicated that he didn t even talk to his chief counsel. his chief counsel knew in mid february that lois lerner s computer hard drive was unrecoverable. they didn t tell us untilsser i don t. four months. uninformed, incompetent in thinks job or deceitful. it s hard to say. what are you leaning towards. i think he isn t being square with us. that s a plight polite way of being deceitful. i asked him. why didn t you tell us in april when you said you did know. why did you wait all the way to june 13th? my theory is. this judicial watch does a foia request, they get email from the justice department. they forward the justice department. they get email that shows he was talking with lois lerner in 2013. woe bring in mr. pill gear in. right before the inspector general s report went published, this is may of 2013 before. right before? actually days before. the email was two days before she went public. so we bring him, in we find out he not only talked to her then but in 2010. about what in 2010? about targeting? yes. about the whole citizens united case about the whole subject matter. we subpoenaed justice and we want all correspondence between justice and lois lerner. we get those emails. we then ask the irs why do we have to get this from justice? why didn t you provide them? here is the key fact. look at the time line. as a prosecutor did you that as well. that was june 9th when we sent that letter to the irs. june 13th is when they disclosed to the world, hey, we lost lois lerner s emails and they have been destroyed and they are unrecoverable. so you knew in february june 13th. why june 1st? because we sent a letter on june 9th saying we got email from the justice department that we didn t get from you. the justice department in 2010 before the inspector general s report if they are talking to lois lerner about targeting, the plot thickens very much. i mean, were they actually talking about targeting them? it s worse than that, greta. the irs sent 1.1 million pages about c-4 organizations. 21 disks of information. a small portion of that contained taxpayer protected information. 6103. stuff you can t about donors. they sent out the fbi. that was in the fbi s possession for four years. this coordination and collaboration went clear back to 2010. once we had those emails and confronted the irs on it, suddenly four days later they tell the world oh, you know what? we lost lois lerner s emails. what is commissioner koskinen s goal though? he if you think he he is deceitful. he has every motive to do the opposite. tom cain one of the lawyers responsible for document in. up to 20. 80 people involved in the irs targeted. 82 identified. up to 20 may in fact have had computer crashes. what s the odds of one fourth of the beam who are under part of the investigation having a computer crash? but that s what tom cain, the lawyer, the professional lawyer in charge of document production said to our staff last thursday. plot thickens, thank you, sir. thank you. and is the world just going to look the other way while christians get slaughtered by isis? just because they are christians? and they just wouldn t convert to islam. ambassador john bolton is here next. plus, michael moore wants more and more and more. yes, the same film maker who calls capitalism evil. is moore a hypocrite. greg gutfeld the star of so many shows here on fox news that i can t talk about them all is here to talk about that coming up. but if you have arthritis, this can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain, and improve daily physical function so moving is easier. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain. and it s not a narcotic you and your doctor should balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, like celebrex, ibuprofen, naproxen and meloxicam have the same cardiovascular warning. they all may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death. this chance increases if you have heart disease or risk factors such as high blood pressure or when nsaids are taken for long periods. nsaids, like celebrex, increase the chance of serious skin or allergic reactions, or stomach and intestine problems, such as bleeding and ulcers, which can occur without warning and may cause death. patients also taking aspirin and the elderly are at increased risk for stomach bleeding and ulcers. don t take celebrex if you have bleeding in the stomach or intestine, or had an asthma attack, hives, other allergies to aspirin, nsaids or sulfonamides. get help right away if you have swelling of the face or throat, or trouble breathing. tell your doctor your medical history. and ask your doctor about celebrex. for a body in motion. we re th12 brands.ou call home, when you re away from home. more hotels than anyone else in the world. like wyndham, we re awaiting your arrival. save up to 25 percent and earn bonus points when you book at wyndhamrewards.com you owned your car for four you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you re like nothing can replace brad! then liberty mutual calls. and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement, we ll pay for a car that s a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. 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really? film maker michael moore seeming to enjoy the capitalism allowed him to get very rich and allowing him to buy nine holmes. moore s divorce settlement exposing hypocrisy. co-host of the five and host of the red eye and host of the network. he is always on the air. that s true. greg, nice to he so you. michael moore, oh o, brother. what do you think? i hate to kick a man when he is down or round but is he $50 million, 9 homes. one of the homes is 10,000 square feet. he is richer than the chocolate pound cake that he eats on his toilet. and it exists. all this shows is the hypocrisy of a leftist. aist doesn t believe in being poor. he just doesn t want his opponents to be rich are. so it s okay if you are leftist and rich. but if you are a republican, if you are a conservative, that s evil. so, the it s about you can t have a proper share of the pie. he wants all of the pie. you know the thing that disturbs me is i did poverty work for so long. and, you know, i have never been poor. i never want to be poor. and my heart bleeds for the poor, for people who are poor and struggle. but the problem is that what michael moore does is he makes people wrong for being successful. exactly. he makes it like he demonizes it. we wouldn t be talking about it tonight if he wasn t such a hypocrite. i don t begrudge his wealth at all. he goes around telling everybody else who has been successful and b puts his throat foot on the throat of people who are successful. is he trying to hold them back with his talk. i want him to be rich. i want everybody to be rich. that s a capitalist. is he against capitalism unless he is the capitalist. you know when he said he wasn t part of the 1%. dana perino pointed out he is not lying. is he part of the .001% at 50 million. is he really good oat making documentaries about corruption and hypocrisy and fraud why doesn t he do a documented tri on himself? you know. i think it s profoundly disappointing and, you know, i wish that, you know, i wish that he i wish he liked success. i wish he appreciated his own success. i wish he encouraged everybody else who bothered to be successful. it s because he ascribes good and evil to value. if that money came from somewhere else, it s bad money. but if he makes his money exposing, you know, conservative hypocrisy or the evil of guns, then that s good money. his wealth is good but your wealth if you work at fox news, for example. your wealth must be evil. he says it s different. the money is different. all right. well you don t have to quote dana perino on this show, by the way. i heard her say that tonight. i watch the five all the time, too. i didn t want to steal her joke or great point. i actually was going to steal it of course when you gave her credit for it, i couldn t very well do it. i would look pretty petty. greg, thank you. thank you. coming up, i m going to take you off-the-record. things are really a mess and something very important is missing big time. i m going to tell you what i m going to tell you what it is and then you can decide. od flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use od flow. helps you be ready anytime the moment s right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. do not take alis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may causan unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess with cialis. side effects may include headache, upset stomach, delayed backache or muscle ache. to avoid long-term injury, seek immiate medical hp for an erection lasting more than 4 hours. if you have any sudden decrease or loss in hearing or vision, or if you have any allergic reactions such as rash, hives, swelling of the lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a 30-tablet free trial. really. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there s unlimited talk and text. we re working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues. great terms. let s close. introducing at&t mobile share value plans. .with our best-ever pricing for business. if energy could come from anything?. or if power could go anywhere? or if light could seek out the dark? what would happen if that happens? anything. let s all go off-the-record for just a minute. sometimes putting things in very simple terms makes the point. remember grade school or even high school when the teacher would leave the room for about three seconds there would be calm to make sure the teacher wasn t coming right back and then all hell would break loose. food fight kids would yell, throw stuff, food, spit balls, you name it of course, the bullies would take over and there would be total chaos. that s what happens when the teacher, the leader vanishes. all hell breaks loose. well, we got that now. only the classroom is the world stage and this is dead serious. the teacher, president obama, has left the proverbial classroom. think about it. president of the united states, when they are doing their job are the leaders of the free world. their influence, stabilizing, effective, powerful and calming. it s called leadership. and now chaos. every place you look. ukraine, israel, vawk, and even our own border and even our allies are now rolling their eyes at us. leadership matters. mr. president, where are you? and that s my off-the-record comment tonight. thank you for being with us. we will see you again tomorrow night right here at 7 p.m. eastern. paul ryan will join us and he will unveil his new plan right here. plus, we will talk with the president of honduras about the border crisis. all tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m.: do you think michael moore is a a hypocrite or just misunderstood? vote in our gretawire poll. if you are tuning in before bill o reilly pick up remote
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[screaming] tornadoes wreaking havoc from coast to coast. wow. it s not the kind of ad you would expect to see from a democrat. where do they think their electricity comes from? i ll make sure president obama gets the message. you can do that? why the president s own party now apparently campaigning against him. the president has played 81 rounds of golf since 2012, but does it look like those rounds are helping his game, so to speak? here s what one guy just found in the woods. oh cool. mornings are better with friends. you re watching fox & friends. that s a great way to begin your day. that s an actual signature by john hancock. here in the studio right now, we ve got a rare 1860 letter written by mr. abraham lincoln who once upon a time was president of the united states. it s a guy it s a lincoln you probably have not seen before in that he writes as if he just burst on to the scene. he gives a major spoach at cooper union major speech at cooper union and talks about his newfound fame. everyone, after they hear his speech they want that abraham guy, this congressman to speak on his behalf. and you know what happened right there. you know what? you can buy it. there is a fixed price on it. it is not going to be an auction. $40,000. we ll tell you about that and more. we ve got history in the studio. now let s turn over to heather nauert. a wild night with tornadoes. usually when we talk about tornadoes it s kansas or the midwest but not so on this occasion. we re talking about the state of massachusetts and we begin with that extreme weather this morning. a rare tornado barreling through a massachusetts suburb five miles outside of boston. look at this. look at the trees! they broke! that twister packing 120 miles per hour winds ripping a path of destruction nearly two miles long. take a look at this car, totally flipped offense on the sidewalk there. from above you can see the roofs torn off the building. the national weather service says this is the first twister to hit that area since they started keeping records back in 1950. but that s not it. the destruction also out west, at least three tornadoes touching down in the denver area, one of them caught on camera near the airport. no reports of any major damage. we ll keep watching that. overseas, overnight israeli missiles striking nearly 70 targets in gaza, including a home of a hamas leader. prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel, of course, telling israelis to prepare for the long haul as the three-week campaign seems far from over. the death toll now stands at more than 1,000. in the meantime secretary of state john kerry facing harsh criticism by the israelis this morning over his attempts to negotiate a cease-fire. many say his deal favored hamas and ignore israel s key demands. the deadlocked jury in the jesse ventura defamation trial is ordered to try again. deliberations set to resume today. it will be day six. ventura is suing former navy seal chris kyl for $15 million over a story he wrote about in his best selling memoir american sniper. kyl writes about punching jesse ventura out in 2006 after ventura said that the navy deserves to lose a few. though kyl never specifically mentioned ventura s name in his book it was only in subsequent interviews the name came out. kyl was killed at a shooting range last year. his wife testified at his trial in his place. the president, you know he likes to play golf. he s played golf 81 times since 2012 but are all those rounds helping him out? a golfer at a congressional country club in maryland claims to have found the ball the president used himself and he found it in the woods. he posted this picture of the ball on instagram with comment, the president played at congressional yesterday and i just found this in the woods off hole number one. it looks like he s off-line once again. who knew that the president had a potus, president of the united states, on his own ball. the question is how far off the track is it? if you watch any golf, even the best golfers sometimes shank it into the next hole. let s talk about what the president is doing when he is not golfing and that is executive orders. it s not a big mystery. when he felt as though a couple of weeks ago nothing is going to get done he s right on immigration reform, he said i m going to take matters on my own hands. rumor has it once congress goes away he s going to do that and grant amnesty to parents, illegal parents of kids born here if you re born here, you can become a citizen that could add up to 3.8 million getting amnesty. upwards of five million that will get work permits that will be issued via executive action. this is astounding to many. the emphasis on amnesty as well as work permits is shocking the nation. there is some saying this is complete lawlessness. why are we a nation of laws if we don t follow them? can we remain a nation of laws? senator jeff sessions was on the floor and says we have time to do something right now. we are not abiding by the law. he s specifically talking about the president. if president obama is not stopped in this action and he exceeds his power by attempting to execute such a massive amnesty contrary to law, the moral authority for any immigration enforcement henceforth will be eviscerated. it is absolutely not too late for us to restore a lawful system that treats applicants that come to america fairly and serves the national interest. this can be done. well, apparently what could be done yesterday was he and ted cruz, the senator from texas, were able to stir up enough support to get people, they said if you re going to do anything, do it right now. call your senator, call your congressman in washington, d.c. for the most part they melted the phone lines yesterday. also yesterday there were a couple of protests outside the white house. but right across the street from it and also at lafayette square. what s curious about this, though, is according to reports, many of the people in attendance were illegal aliens. these are people who are not supposed to be in the country, according to news reports, and yet there they were protesting. and what s curious is apparently they didn t feel like, okay, if i m arrested i m going to get in trouble because for the most part the i.c.e. agents told one of our reporters that unless somebody has a serious criminal past, they re not going to get deported even though they re in the country illegally. so they had nothing to worry about, so there they were. they re going to protest again after that as well. meanwhile, as congress is going to work this week and then going to take five weeks off, it doesn t mean the catastrophe at the border is going to attack any time off. in fact, it s 24 hours a day. you ve got 1,000 men who are not there yet in texas. for the most part these border patrol are underfinanced, undermanned and overwhelmed. as congress takes off without providing any funds or reenforcement for the border possibly, the national border patrol counsel sean moran says we re going to work through the summer. we will be on doubt. we don t take five weeks off. we will be here doing our jobs. that includes rescuing people, especially kids who probably don t know survival skills. they re going to be working. no recess for them, not to mention the fact that jobs right now are a major achilles heel in our nation and sessions also mentioned, to jump back, he asked would this effectively granting amnesty and work permits, be good for the american worker? five million people and their parents being able to work when americans here are not able to find jobs. is it good for the african-american community? he said the c.b.o. report didn t indicate such. while they re hoping to get something done by thursday, border patrol agents working hard. the u.s. chamber of commerce is examining it, whether or not this is a good idea. i bet they re going to come back and say yes because they do like cheap labor. meanwhile, right there in washington, d.c., the big newspaper, the washington, d.c. post, clearly leans to the left it is a progressive newspaper. what is curious, though, is they re talking about the president of the united states and suddenly they re talking about whether or not he is competent. remember back in 2008 he was the guy who said, i m going to restore competence to the white house. has he done that? no. on an editorial written by chris scalese, he said obama is faltering badly on the competence question and in doing so badly imperilling not only his ability to enact any sort of second term agenda but also democrats chances this fall, serious events from the v.a. scandal to the ongoing border crisis have badly undermined the idea that obama can effectively manage the government. even the washington post is saying that the president of the united states competence is putting his party in peril. they did a poll, cnn did, and only 42% said he s governing competently, 57% saying he is not. considering it was around 80% when he took office in 2008, it is pretty significant. on top of that, i always said if the president wants to make major gains, he doesn t have to go on the campaign trail. all he has to do is make quick, decisive, well thought out decisions on the myriad of crises happening in the world now. then people will say maybe i didn t vote for him, man, he is in charge. if he does go on the campaign trail, he might actually have an adverse effect on those that are running in the democrat party. many are stepping aside. we showed you that ad, a west virginia candidate who is going to join us later in the program, she runs an ad right now really shutting the lights off in the white house, actually taking a stance against the president as she moves into election season. she s going to join us. i think that is an example of somebody in a red state who knows if i run as a democrat and support the president, i have no prayer and no chance at all. the same with senator joe manchin. he s the closest thing to a moderate democratment senate. if he was a liberal democrat, he would not have that job. and the president is as anti-coal as anybody in the country. he s got his pen and he s got his phone and they re talking about changing the rules so states can change down coal plants and open up solar things. the question is we hear chris cillizza writing in the washington post talking about there is no competence here. you ve got somebody running for the senate in a state curptly where there is a democrat who has a u.s. senate job and they re taking a shot at the president. the big question is would you want president obama to campaign for you if you ran for office. according to a brand-new fox news poll, a majority, actually by a landslide say no, stay home. go ahead, hit some golf balls into the woods. no photo op there. nearly six in ten that would say no. please don t take a photo with me when i m running for your party. democrats, four years ago fully 82% wanted president obama to campaign on their behalf. that is down to 69%. they have a drop there, 13 points within his own party. please be as far away from me as possible. send money. just don t come. george bush had the same situation in his final mid term before his second term was up. meanwhile, straight ahead. many calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the i.r.s. but our next guest says that s a bad idea. really? 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when people hear special counsel they think independent prosecutor. there is no independence from the executive branch when you re talking about prosecution which is an executive power. any independent counsel or special counsel they would appoint would have to answer to president obama and eric holder. we remember ken starr got to the bottom of it much to the chagrin of the clinton administration. we remember during the valerie plane investigation things didn t go swemgly for scooter swimmingly for scooter libby. why do you think we ll get the truth out of a special prosecutor now? you have very different administrations and different attorneys general who actually let the system work. but you have a justice department who has a track record of abusing authority. the thought that holder and obama will pick somebody is farcical. we have a justice department that doesn t seem to be looking into the i.r.s. we see the oversight committee making progress but the nation seems not as interested as you would think. why do you think so many in congress are calling for this if the reality is as you say it? i like to think they probably hope the system would work and they re being naive about it. what we know about this scandal we know because of congress s investigation and because of some freedom of information act law sought going on with private litigants. if you kick this to a special prosecutor who gets kicked by holder, they re going to say grand jury secrecy, we can t talk about this anymore. the witnesses are going to say we can t cooperate. there is now a serious criminal investigation. and then it will lapse into a black hole until president obama pardons everyone at the end. what options do they have? let s keep doing what we re doing now. it s painful, it s not as smooth as you d like, but congress can get to the bottom of it. what i would do is expand the jurisdiction of the special committee that s already looking at benghazi and give it the i.r.s. scandal. because a special committee, unlike the subject matter committees in congress, can look at something reasonably like a grand jury and get to the bottom of what happened. a special committee would be the the other thing that would be interesting is if the senate flips, then we ll be coming at it with two bodies. andrew mccarthy thank you for showing up. 19 minutes after the hour. straight ahead, atheists fought to remove the 9/11 cross at grond ground zero. now the case is over. what a judge said next? 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number one, i want to make sure people don t avoid the beach. it s fairly safe and we want people to enjoy. but obviously if there s a thunderstorm out there and lightning, you want to make sure you get out of the beach. water a conductor. you can get massive shock if it hits you. that shock can hit your heart and all the chambers of the heart can go out of sync and you can have a cardiac arrest. it is the biggest shock you can get. get out of the water. not even wet sand; correct? exactly right because water is a great conductor. it can affect you. if you have a car, getting getting get into your car because that is connected to the land and can get rid of a lot of the lightning threat you have. go out there but use common sense. that s one of the reasons as a urologist i m covering the beach and water stuff. people think run under a tree. that could be one of the worst places you could be. there was a story about a guy who was in a sand tunnel and it collapsed. ten feet of sand on top of him. he suffocated. this is unfortunate. don t make it so deep. obviously these sand tunnels can really collapse. what they did was they rushed to bring him out and be able to clear his airway but they were not able to save him. it is a sad story. the bottom line is if you have children around, make sure these tunnels are shallow. people think it s sand, it s z. you can get out quickly but if you re under ten feet of it, it s like concrete. about 30 cases between 1997 and 2007 that were experienced. the spring-eating amoeba. how would you get this brain eating amoeba. how do you know if your child has been swimming and has this. how common is this? don t be scared, elisabeth. can you sense the fear? i can hear it. it is extremely rare. when you go to lakes that are untreated water, extremely warm temperature, you re going to see some of this amoeba. don t dive right through it because amoeba can get through your nose. if you drink it nothing happens. but if it goes through your knows it can go to the brain area. it can cause enself enselfencephylatis. it can cause neurological damage and coma and death. those are rare cases. you have to be in places full of these parasites and you have to basically get into your nose. if you put a plug and keep your head above water if you happen to be in those lakes, you re safe. these are rare incidents, unfortunate where we see some of these amoebas getting to us. something a lot of people do at the beach, they step on something, it s a sea you urchin. i ve done it myself but occasionally they can kill us. those are poisonous ones. if you see skin allergies, you want to detect it. you know pretty much immediately when you ve stepped on it. exactly. go to your doctor because they can give you injection to calm the allergies and save you. if you see allergic reaction on your skin, see your doctor immediately. don t take the chance. exactly. these are rare cases. i want you to go out, have a good time. we had such a long winter in new york city. i know but this is great to be aware. absolutely right. thank you, dr. samadi. straight ahead action it was supposed to be a three-hour tour but turned into a nightmare. a whale watching boat stranded at sea off the coast of boston. dating website okay cupid admits to experimenting on its customers without them even knowing it. you have got to hear this story. first we want to wish happy birthday to boys to men singer and friend of our show juan wanya morris. show juan wanya morris. he s 41 today. nexium®,is now available, without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. because the best moments in life aren t experienced from the sidelines. now there s nothing holding you back. this is nexium level protection™. the #1 prescribed acid-blocking brand. now without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™. it s amazing. it s your historical shot of the morning. today is the unveiling of a newly discovered letter from president lincoln that you ll only see here on fox & friends thanks to this guy, nathan rabb, president of the rabb collection named after himself. nathan, good job. besides lincoln, which we ll get to in a second, you brought other historical letters. you can get these letters, one price it s not an auction. we ll tell you how. first, what have we got here? that is a letter of thomas jefferson written while he s president. not a copy? the real thing. entirely in his hand. these are all original. he is attempting to establish a u.s. presence in the louisiana area. before we bought it? right. basically trying to say we re here, woaf a claim. that is to benjamin franklin s doctor. what have we here? a letter of albert einstein where he s warning against the possibility of nuclear annihilation and it would threaten the weak as well as the strong. jefferson how much? 36 thousand. einstein how much? 13 thousand. what do we have here? that s a letter of george washington to the people of philadelphia. philadelphia had been occupied by the british and he s congratulating them they re now a free people. that s 120 thousand. how does a letter like that get away from the washington collection? in many cases they re written to private individuals. if somebody writes you a letter, you own it. right here? a document of john hancock signed around june-july 1776. it looks exactly like his sigma tour on the declaration of independence. it is a foundation document of the navy. he s appointing somebody who would be one of the first naval officers. he s got great penmanship. right here is the letter we re discussing. lincoln gives his cooper union address. it changes everything for him. he becomes a national figure. this letter is indicative of what? this captures a moment in lincoln s life where he went from being a regional politician to being a national figure. it shows him struggling with that emergence. he wasn t from the east coast. he comes out to the east coast and all of a sudden he s inundated by requests to speak. people want his time, his attention. he misses his family, his sons are sick, he wants to return home. and he feels nervous. you don t think of abraham lincoln feeling nervous but in this he confesses i m nervous, i feel unfit to fulfill my obligations. this is 40 thousand dollars? that s right. where do we go to bid. not to bid to buy, rabbcollection.com. how do you decide who gets it? whoever calls and buys it. first-come, first served. our customers are private and public. public institutions buy these things. private institutions like universities buy them. sometimes private collectors buy them. awesome. nathan rabb, thanks so much for bringing these here. great to be a part of history. hopefully somebody out there will be buying these today. heather, what else going on? news to bring you now. police are hoping some new surveillance video will lead them to a possible break through in the case of a missing oregon mother of it would young children. jennifer huston disappeared last thursday while she was running errands. the tape which hasn t been made public yet shows her withdrawing cash from a local bank before she heads to a gas station. her cell phone was then turned off shortly thereafter. i was getting through the financial institutions cell phone video, that type of stuff. we contacted several businesses not to mention other cameras that we know of based on our routine days of patrol. hus top s family is offering a reward for her safe return. fury in northern california after a guy flew a drone over a raging wildfire to try to get video of it and he nearly blocked the plane s relief efforts to put out that fire. officials not issuing him a ticket but they did issue a no-fly zone to civilians to avoid endangering any more fire fighting planes. this is a fire east of sacramento. it is now 75% contained, just under six square miles have burned so far. dating the traditional way can sometimes be tough. everybody knows that. hello? yes. i m with him right now. no, not very attractive. doesn t make much money. it appears that on-line dating cannot be trusted at all either. one of the most popular dating sites called okay cupid has been conducting this crazy psychological experiment on users without them knowing about it. the website s cofounder says users photos and bios were changed and removed in the name of science they say. the site even told people they were a good match for one another when in reality they were terrible for one another. and those are your headlines. i think that is not okay, cupid. who are you calling cupid? thanks, heather. meanwhile, 23 minutes before the top of the hour. destruction in the suburbs of boston, massachusetts, after a rare and powerful twister touched down. more than 100 homes were damaged. look at this. we re talking about massachusetts. maria molina joins us live with details. maria, they haven t seen something like this there since 1950. incredible images coming out of that region. that is in massachusetts just outside the city of boston. that twister was confirmed as an ef-2 with winds of up to 120 miles per hour. that was early yesterday morning making it even more unusual because it s not only a little unusual for this time of the year, typically this happens during the springtime when you start to talk about tornadoes and that type of severe weather, but it s a little unusual in july and also it happened between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. so very early in the morning for that type of weather. behind that storm system we do have much cooler air that s moved in. we have very chilly temperatures early this morning with them currently in the 50 s in places like pittsburgh and buffalo. 70 s in places like new york city and cleveland. very cool for the month of july. farther west we have a number of flood advisories in effect, flood watches expected from the central plains to parts of nevada. that is due to heavy rain that is in the forecast. let s head back inside. maria molina with the latest, thank you. our hearts go out to families there in massachusetts. it s a whale of a tale. nearly 160 tourists forced to stay in a boat overnight after getting stranded by about 60 miles from the boston harbor. more on what happened yesterday. jessica, good morning to you. reporter: good morning. we just got word in the past hour that that boat was successful in getting untangled from the line it got stuck on this morning. 157 people on board are on their way back to boston and are scheduled to get in here about 7:30 this morning. the boat left here around 1:30 yesterday afternoon wand was supposed to get back here after about three hours. of course we know that did not end up happening. it got stuck 14 miles off the coast of salem, massachusetts, with 157 people on bored. the boat they are on is called the satacia, a whale watching boat. divers yesterday made an attempt to untangle the boat with hand cutting tools but were unsuccessful. a commercial dive team went out this morning and they able to get the boat freed from the line that it got stuck on. again, we know that boat is free. those people, 157 passengers on board, they re going to be getting back to boston in about an hour from now. we know they re safe and secure and we ll be hearing from them in a little bit. for now, back to you, brian. thanks so much. now you know the rest of the story. now let s talk about sports. donald sterling is out. steve balmer is in. a los angeles court is ruling against sterling s attempt to block the sale. after the ruling his wife says she expects him to drop suits against her and the league. the deal is expected to be finalized by august 15 meaning players and coaches don t have to be affected. a dad catches a foul ball and his son is overcome with joy, goes in for the big hug. a souvenir to take home, one we will not forget. we taped it and provide a copy to the entire family. as you see, they bought up the entire section. big crowd. what a shot. that the cool thing about being out of it. these fans are in a league of their own. the team s so bad they have to put robots in the stands. how great is that. that is a little kooky. the new york times pushing pot calling it safer than alcohol. our next guest claims explains why this claim is seriously outdayed. the new york city times published an editorial to legal marijuana. they don t care about weed. it is the only way they can keep selling paper. you don t have to read it. captain obvious: i probably wouldn t stay here tonight. man: thanks, captain obvious. captain obvious: i d get a deal for tonight with deals for tonight from hotels.com. and you might want to get that pipe fixed. nineteen years ago, we thought, wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad? 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researchers find the search engine can spot crashes before they happen. analysts looked at business searches between 2004 and 2012 and found spikes right before drops in the stock market. so there. the south korean baseball team so bad they used robots to fill empty seats. fans can project their face on to a robot from the comfort of their own home even using it to hold up signs to cheer. the hanwha eagles lost 400 games in the last five years so they need fans even if they are virtual. elisabeth, over to you. i m a fan of yours, steve. drugs are safer than alcohol? that s according to the new york times. the newspaper s editorial board pushing to legalize pot. our next guest calls this belief seriously outdated and claims legalizing pot will cause a health catastrophe worse than we can imagine. joining us is david murray. he worked in the national drug control policy office under president george w. bush. thanks for being with us. how irresponsible is it for the new york times editorial board to put forward the theory that pot is no more dangerous than alcohol. you have to wonder what were they thinking? don t they read their own newspaper? the information is stunningly careless of them. it is negligent. it s scientifically unsound what they have said. they re taking a risk here with a serious substance and they seem to be caught in some sort of time warp of the culture. cheech and chong and hilarious hippies. they even invoke reefer madness. that was 80 years ago. today s more potent t.h.c. pot that is affecting kids in america is a serious risk. it is much more potent, much more consequential and it is industrial pot. if you look at where this is actually happening since january in colorado where they legalized recreational marijuana it is a debacle. they re having serious problems with their youth. this is industrial dope being put out at hypoten is i and it s having hypotency and is having negative affects. this morning i passed by the open door shelter and haven for women. the clean and sober people who are trying to keep themselves in treatment away from dope, away from the narcotics and their effects, they are profoundly affected when dope becomes widely accessible, widely available, normalatively accepted. most importantly it is the new generation. young children 12, 13 years of age have developing brains, t.h.c. in marijuana is a neurotoxin. it costs them eight i.q. points if they smoke heavily through their lives. it puts them at risk of psychological trauma of depression, hallucination. it is a serious drug with serious consequences. if you missed the last ten years of biomedical reporting and neuroimaging on what this drug does to the developing brain then you might come out where the new york times has come out. they must have been asleep at the switch for the last ten years because they ve taken a seriously irresponsible posture. david, that is a strong position. we want to thank you for being with us. i m just trying to figure out why high fructose corn syrup is so bad and pot is okay according to this article. david, thank you for joining us. appreciate your insight. coming up, she left her kids in a hot car to go on a job interview. all charges were dropped but now she s trying to get her kids back. does she deserve a second chance? 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coverage on the go than any other provider. xfinity, the future of awesome. this is not a rerun. president obama is once again ignoring congress and this time he s going to expand obamacare. the administration proposing to give thousands of temporary federal workers access to obamacare even though obamacare explicitly prohibited them from getting it. lawmakers are already suing the president for his improper implementation of the affordable care act, so is this just the latest offense to add to the list? he s shaking his head. judicial analyst judge napolitano joins us live. we should reveal that in a commercial break before the camera came on, i looked at you and said, here we go again. you did. it s like a couple times a week these things happen. the congress was crystal clear. in order to get the number of votes they needed for this to pass, it was agreed, temporary, seasonal, part-time workers don t apply. yesterday the obama administration announced that today it s going to issue an administrative regulation that says, if you are a temporary or seasonal or part-time worker, and you think you might some day become full time, obamacare applies for you. this is for federal employees. guess who picks up the tab? you do. put the tab up. the taxpayer does. we ve got the tab. we re talking about maybe a little north of 2 million federal employees, cost 8400 a year per person. so it looks like it could be up to $350 million. where is that money coming from? from the taxpayer. of course we re broke, so they print more, which complicates this year. this is yet another violation of the constitution. why? because the constitution is very clear. no money may be spent by the federal government except that which is appropriated by the congress. not by the president. by the congress! we have the president yet again changing the rules, changing the meaning of the rules, changing the right of way and spending money that was never authorized by the congress. you know what it looks like? it looks like they re just making it up as they go because and you were talk being this during the commercial the president essentially has given up. it does appear part of my job here is to watch this stuff. and analyze it. it comes in in droves. it appears as though he has given up his constitutional role as president and has now taken on the role of ideologue in chief to change whatever laws he can by whatever means he can in the two years he has remaining, the constitution be damned. he may have some interesting ideas, but the congress writes the law and the congress spends the money. not the president. all right. judge napolitano now i m going to go have some espresso. where is chris? thank you, judge. coming up, it s one of the most beloved children s programs on television. look at that right there. who doesn t love thomas the tank engine. apparently he and his friends are racist! what? yeah. wait til we go off the rails with that. even without words, your body 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you? it s thomas. hello, thomas. hello, everybody. why one blogger says thomas the tank engine is making your toddler racist. not kidding. stay tuned. you re watching fox & friends. that s a great way to begin your day. i never got into thomas the tank. but i never saw the potential backlash in the cartoon. there is passion behind thomas. all my kids grew up on it. how did they come out? they ve come out okay so far. right. i haven t concluded things yet. based on that, one could recommend thomas the train. if you re a fan of thomas the tank engine, wait until you hear what somebody sees in that innocent little tv show. we re going to get that to you in just a minute. time to go back to maybe speed racer? electric company, mickey mouse. two minutes after the top of the hour. right to a fox news alert. israeli missiles strike nearly 70 targets, including gaza s only power plant. john huddy is watching it all from the israeli-gaza border. john, so very big night last night for the israelis in terms of hitting targets. absolutely, it was, brian. good morning to you. we ve been hearing artillery fire throughout the day from our location and seeing strikes in the distance behind me in gaza which has seen a lot of activity over the past 22 days. as you mentioned, there was a watt of activity overnight. there was an artillery strike on the gaza strip s largest power plant, a shell hit one of the fuel tanks that powers that power plant, erupting into an inferno. we re not sure how many people are without power at this point. but you can expect probably a significant amount at this point. this as you mentioned, as the fighting raged on. israel s main objective throughout the 22 days has been to take out, destroy hamas military infrastructure, in particular the cross border network of tunnels. yesterday we saw several israeli troops killed after hamas militants ambushed them, bringing the total number of israeli soldiers that have been killed up to 53. ten have been killed overnight, including several yesterday by mortar fire along the border as well. and also on the other side in gaza, about 40 people were killed since midnight, bringing that total up to more than 1100 and more than at this point, probably close to 6300 wound. although that number continues to change by the day, even by the hour. there is movement in terms of possible cease fire talks. we hear palestinian and even hamas representatives may be going or on the ground in cairo trying to work out an egyptian-brokered agreement, something israel has been willing to accept with the stipulation it continues the objective of destroying hamas military infrastructure. so that said, despite the uncertainty, perhaps something is in the works. this as you can see in the dance perhaps, the smoke continues to rise in gaza. brian, elisabeth, steve, back to you. thank you very much. last night benjamin netanyahu addressed the israeli people saying get ready for a long war. the two days ago, the big story was secretary of state john kerry digging in saying i got a great idea of how to get a cease fire. the israelis say you got to be kidding me. even a liberal newspaper in israel said john kerry is really no help here. there is nonstop criticism of kerry s attempts to bring in particularly turkey, who has been seen as defenders of hamas before. kerry was also accused by israeli news of abandoning some of israel s key demands during negotiations, and one went as far as saying the plan kerry put out was a, quote, strategic terrorist. yeah. he is the first secretary of state in 20 years to fail at brokering a cease fire. it is embarrassing. none the less, the obama administration has got to prop up and spin this some way, so they re all out defending mr. kerry. watch this. our view is it s simply not the way that partners and allies treat each other. the reality is that john kerry, on behalf of the united states, has been working every step of the way with israel in support of our shared interest. israel has no better friend, no stronger defender. he has been tireless in his efforts and i think that israel and many countries and friends around the world recognize exactly that. john kerry s error was he put so much emphasis on a quick halt, he solidified the role of hamas to the exclusion where he undercut the egyptians and israelis and the fatah movement which is trying to end hamas rule in gaza. this was a big mistake. dave ignatius wrote about that in the washington post and his connections to the middle east are without pier. brit hume went off on bill o reilly s show. i think obama shares instinctively the sentiment and academic left, which favors israel s palestinian neighbors i guess where his instincts are. but the reason you don t see big public dustups between israeli leaders and any american president is it s terrible politics on both sides. israel depends heavily on its alliance with america for its security and its safety and israel is very popular in the u.s. congress and in the country as a whole. surely. that s pretty much where you stand right now. that s why israel says we have got to finish the job in there and if you re going to leave the terror tunnels out, and leave them armed, we re going to be back in the same place. on a different note, one of the things you care about, immigration. as this week the clock is ticking as congress sets to take recessment the president set to take his p pen and announcing that executive amnesty may come into play. meaning amnesty for those crossing into the border, those have come on expired visas or illegally, as well as work permits for millions that have entered this nation, rattling the hearts and minds of the work force of americans coming forward and certainly those in congress who think this is quite unlawful. sure. so essentially with this would be is it would be executive amnesty and there are different versions of what the president and his men and women are proposing. it could be amnesty for the parents of legal u.s. citizens. it could also be amnesty for the parents of the dreamers. so it could total 5 million or both. we don t know at this point. they ve got a bunch of trial balloons out there and see which ones work and which ones blow up on them. look for something to happen shortly. cause the senate passed an immigration reform bill. the house did not. they do not believe the president is going to reinforce the border, so they see no point in coming up with a plan because that ultimately is an executive decision. so now the president is going to do this, almost baiting congress, believe it or not, to try to impeach him. the democratic mantra is look, the president is going to get impeached. taking an oath to abide by the law and uphold the law of this nation while at the same time violating it if he does take executive action. brian, to your point about impeachment, only democrats are talking about it. republicans, conservative, not talking about it. only democrats. it s to gin up the base before november. time for some weather and we start with heather. boston? tornado? totally crazy. tornadoes in boston. we begin with this. a rare tornado barreling through a massachusetts suburb, just five miles outside of boston. take a look. look at the trees! that twister packing winds of up to 120 miles an hour, ripping a path of destruction. nearly two miles long. take a look at this car. totally flipped over on the sidewalk there. and then you can see the roof torn off buildings from above. the national weather service says this is the first twister to hit this area since they started keeping records back in 1950. but then also crazy weather out west. at least three tornadoes touching down in the denver area. one of them caught on camera near the airport. no reports of any major damage there. in this ultimate story of survival, overnight rescue crews finding a 13-year-old boy. he is alive in a central california national park this morning. king s canyon national park. austin shed went missing on sunday. he was hiking with his dad and a family friend. he disappeared when they stopped for lunch after an eight-hour walk. austin will be air lifted out of the park later this morning. exact details on his condition have not been released just yet. it is just a plane ride away. health dishes are scrambling to try to track people overseas who may have come in contact with that deadly ebola virus. an infected man boarded a plane in liberia last week and traveled across west africa. he died from that virus on friday. ebola is spread by close contact. it has an incubation period of up to 21 days. those infected may not notice symptoms for weeks. it s possible, this is a plane ride away. we don t know when people come in what they have. any virus could be ebola. there are international airports in some of those countries where it has spread. two american health workers treating ebola have become infected. being a country music star pays off pretty darn well. forbes ranking kenny chesney as the third highest paid country crooner. he earned $44 million last year. number two is taylor swift with $64 million. and the highest paid country singer is this guy. he s just made in america that is toby keith raking in $65 million annually. thanks to his albums, restaurants, and also his endorsement deals. he has a big chain of popular restaurants. sure, toby keith is watching right now, we would salute you with our red solo cup. right. which we did in this studio. we sang along to it. from red solo cups to thomas the tank engine, the blue tank engine, it turns out there is a blogger in great britain, tracy van slike writes in the guardian, the thomas the tank engine is racist, it s sexist. it s classless. i ve been saying this for years. this is a quote, if you look through the steam rising up from the coal-powered train stack, you realize that the pretty puffs of smoke are containing twisted messages. when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines are pumping out black smoke. he goes on to say that the train is for little white boys, sparking out demands like a controlling auto crat. how many kids looked at that and said that s a controlling autocrat. it has a global audience. they try to create characters people can relate to. across the world, kids are watching this. i don t recall this being raised before as an issue. what do you guys think? were you scared, miffed? if anything, there is an obesity problem with him. but does she call him out? no. rosy is one of the trains there. i have a daughter, she never never complained? i met her, she didn t seem to have any problems adjusting. we have the whole article on www.foxandfriends.com. we wanted you to respond on our facebook page and you can read the article and get some background. are you one of the many outraged? troubled by thomas. coming up, the democrat and republican who agree on at least one thing. we should not have traded 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brought you to john huddy sitting in the israeli-gaza border. near his position there has been an explosion. what can you tell us? reporter: well, just probably about a minute and a half ago, there was either a rocket or mortar launch that came right over our heads and landed in let me get out of the way. you can see the smoke. landed right there, right across the street from a road and also a neighborhood, large neighborhood. you could hear this thing. coming right over us. it came in and landed, hit hard. people are now you see some cars there, they re getting saw some people running out of there. this is how close we are to the border. we re obviously on the israeli side burks in the distance, we ve been showing you gaza that as i mentioned earlier, has been taking a lot of artillery strikes and even just moments ago before i went live there, we heard a series of artillery fire. this, again, was very close to us. it reminds me of when i was in gaza and the missile strikes that were coming right over our heads as well on presumably hamas locations. but now this one was definitely targeting civilian locations. this gives you a pretty good example of what israelis have to deal with and throughout the course of the last 22 days of operation protective edge, how this impacts people in the area and also how it s hit a number of locations. pretty close. very close to us. we re all getting down on the ground almost. i see you have your helmet on. just to be clear, this came from the hamas side into the israeli side. you mentioned 70 targets the israelis hit. but hamas is shooting back. reporter: yeah, absolutely. i don t have the exact number so far of rocket launches. let me put it this way. we ve seen throughout the morning rockets being fired from gaza. in fact, this morning in a city north of this strip where we re staying, we were woken up by the sound of the code red signal warning about an impending rocket coming over. this amp right before we left as well there was a rocket that was intercepted by israel s iron dome defense system. so this one, whether it was a rocket it sounded like to me a rocket, could have been a mortar as well. it landed very, very close to our location. all right. john huddy, thanks so much. we ll check in again throughout the three-hour show. meanwhile, coming up straight ahead, she left her kids in a hot car to go to a job interview. all charges were dropped. now she s trying to get her kids back. does she deserve a second chance? that mom here live. and say it ain t so. red lobster getting fancy. no more discount deals? what about bibs? vo: this is the summer. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. so get out there, and get the best price guaranteed. find it for less and we ll match it and give you $50 toward your next trip. expedia. find yours. starts at 6:30 a.m. - on the (vo) rush hounose.und here but for me, it starts with the opening bell. and the rush i get, lasts way more than an hour. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. that s why we ve built powerful technology to alert you to your next opportunity. because at scottrade, our passion is to power yours. time for news by the numbers. 12 million. that s how much the faa is fining southwest airlines for repair violations on its boeing 737 fleet. the airline is accused of making faulty alterations on 44 jet liners. next, 7 minutes. that s all you need to jog per day to have the risk of heart disease. just seven minutes on the treadmill. researchers say it can add three years to your life. and finally, two for 25. that s the red lobster promotional deal that is now gone, trying to act like a fancier restaurant. they will eliminate discount prices and arrange its dishes in classier ways. they re getting fancy. brian, over to you. congress set to adjourn for a five-week recess without an immigration deal. but one democrat and republican can agree on at least one thing. we should not have tried traded terrorists for bowe bergdahl a couple months ago. those congressmen join us now, john barrow, a democrat from georgia, and scott rijola republican from virginia. what brought you guys together. what bothered you about this deal? brian, the facts are not in dispute. the president broke the law when he transferred the five senior taliban commanders to the government of qatar. to prevent that from becoming precedent that either he or future administrations could rely upon, we thought it was important to put this legal marker in the ground and to repudiate, condemn clearly what the president did. congressman what, bothers you about the deal, that it was such a bad deal, lop sided for the taliban, or that it we want down without your permission? both. both. it s not good for national security. mohammed fasul is the deputy minister of defense for the taliban. i m confident and it troubles me to share this, that probably in a year or so, he ll be back on the battlefield when we ll still in all likelihood have american forces in afghanistan. so this is not that s not wise. and then this balance of powers situation here where the president is consistently going outside of his constitutional lane and ignoring the law. congressman bare barrow, they re supposed to tell you 30 days ahead of the deal. how does the law real? scott and i were concerned and objected to the whole violation of our long-standing policy, not to negotiate with terrorists. we were concerned about that from the get-go. but the thing that concerns us, the specific subject of this resolution is the failure to comply with the law that the congress and president agreed to that before there would be any release of detainees from guantanamo bay, there would be a consultation with congress beforehand. checks and balances are important. it s important so both branches can get the best advice from the other when it has shared responsibility and both branches in this case agree on the process to be followed. prior consultation. this is more than a window dressing. there is a whole bunch of at gitmo, they could be out tomorrow without us knowing about it. the president and president bush actually released about 500 detainees from guantanamo bay and did so legally. but in this case, when the secretary of defense came before the house armed services committee on june 11, he really had no answer as to why the administration had like 80 or 90 members of the administration that were aware of this, but not one member of congress. senator feinstein hammered this and it s more than some check off the box. there is a series of things that the administration has to give to congress to assure american security is not going in the wrong direction. and that s exactly what happened here. this is a serious matter. i appreciate mr. barrow standing with me in this. it s bipartisan effort. it s not personal to the president. but we ve got to stop what the president is doing. when i go to virginia, people are saying, scott, what are you doing about this t? this is a practical step in responding to the president. guy, thanks so much for coming together, at least on this issue. hard to imagine in gates was in power this would have happened. just my opinion. thanks for your time. thank you. coming up straight ahead, she left her kids in a hot car to go on a job interview. charges were dropped. now she s trying to get her children back. does she deserve a second chance? that mom here live. and frenzy friendy prinze freddy prinze junior said why keifer sutherland made him want to quit acting for good. 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as you can believe, with 1.2 million views. happy views. my image of new zealand is a happy place. am i right? has anyone been there? as long as it s your image, that s all that matters. that reinforces it. it s like the happy move. it s hard, when you hear that song, i think a is one of the best songs of the last couple of years. we were playing it and heather nauert was over there smiling. i want to retire. what s your criteria? you like the beat, but you can t say the lyrics move you. they penetrate your being. no. it s the happy song. but the beat. the words. when you talk about happy, that makes you happy. it s too simple. that s the beauty of the song. as my kindergartener s graduation song. you should see the little five-year-olds walking down. they liked it. did you tape that? yes, i did. we d like to see that. maybe it s not as shared as the 1.2 million views for happy. you re happy, heather. because she s newsy. all right. i have some news to bring you that will make iraqi christians happy. this is terrific news for them. france is now offering a asylum to iraqi christians who we ve been telling you about have been under serious fire from this isis terrorist there. that terror group has been forcing christians to convert to islam, pay a massive fine that few can afford, or die. most christians forced to leave mosul, iraq s second largest city, with just the clothes on their back. france is saying they will do everything they can to protect those refugees. glad to hear that this morning. the deadlocked jury in the jesse ventura trial is ordered to try again, deliberations are set to resume this morning. it s day six. ventura is suing the estate of the deceased navy seal chris kyle for $15 million. it s all over a story in kyle s best-selling memoir american sniper. he writes about punching out ventura in 2006 after ventura allegedly said that navy seals deserve to lose a few. ventura was never mentioned by name in that book. but his identity was revealed in later interviews. kyle was killed in a shooting range last year. his wife testified at the trial. a fox news alert to bring you now. that stranded whale watching boat that we told you about earlier today off the coast of boston is now headed back. it was supposed to be a three-hour tour, but it turned into a bit of a nightmare when the boat got stuck in a lobster trap. about 60 miles from the boston harbor. nearly 160 tourists were forced to stay on that boat overnight. you know the actor freddy prinze, junior? he s bashing his 24 co-star, keifer sutherland. thanks for doing this. prinze saying he hated every moment he worked on the hit fox show. he calls sutherland, quote, the most unprofessional dude in the world. okay. a rep for sutherland release ago statement saying keifer worked with freddy prinze junior more than five years ago and this is the first time he heard of the grievances. we love keifer sutherland here and his show. maybe he s got something to it. keifer madness. i loved his dad in chico and the man. i don t know if that applies here. thanks, heather. moving on, thousands of people picking up the pieces after a rare tornado ripped through the town of revere, massachusetts. maria molina, they haven t seen a tornado around there since the 1950s. that tornado was confirmed as an ef-2, happened yesterday morning between 9:30 in the morning hours and had winds of up to 120 miles per hour. stayed on the ground for two miles. a little unusual there across parts of massachusetts. thankfully no injuries. there were a lot of reports of damage out there. i want to show you now your current temperatures across portions of the great lakes and northeast. behind that storm system we do have much cooler air that moved in. we re seeing the temperatures in the 50s and 60s across the entire region, feel ago little bit more like fall. not summer. your high temperatures are going to remain below average, into the low 70s at cleveland. 70s in new york. but across the southern plains, still a hot day. 90s and triple digits. 109 for your high temperature in phoenix. out west, across portions of new mexico, colorado, and into nevada, we have flood watches in effect. heavy rain expected today. let s head back inside to elisabeth. thank you. this homeless mom in arizona was arrested for leaving her kids in a hot car so that she could go on a job interview. she claims she couldn t find a baby-sitter. prosecutors recently dropped criminal charges. she s grateful for the second chance. but should she have been given one? here to tell her story is the woman and her attorney. thank you both for being with us this morning. we hear your story, read it all over the place. can you bring us back to that day in your mindset and heart of why your two little kids at six months and two years, you felt their best option was to stay in the car while you went inside? what happened that day? well, what happened that day was i had scheduled for a sitter to be available for the boys. that sitter was not available at the last moment, based on the time that i had, as well as the gas money that i had available, i didn t have the resources to go to the next nearest baby-sitter, which was about 30 minutes the opposite direction of where i needed to be. so it was just a lack of resources that day. when you look at the statistics, 120 children since 2011 that have died as a result of being in a hot car. in 2014, i think we have 17 kids that have died thus far. your two little babies, some would say, could have been added to that statistic. you were just given a second chance with criminal charges not being on your record now. means you can get your kids back in your custody. looking back on that day, do you believe that you still did the right thing in the moment? i believe that i made a choice in a desperate situation. i had to choose between either providing for them or caring for them at that moment. and i made the best choice out of a bad set of options. would you do it again? i asked myself that 1,000 times and i keep coming back to the choice, on being able to provide or to care for them. that s a choice that many people are facing today. there are too many people trying to figure out how to keep quality childcare, as well as support the family and maintain all of their all the things they need to do as a family. so it s something that people face every day, unfortunately. the criminal charges were dropped. benjamin, where does it go legally from here to getting the kids back? basically a couple weeks ago we were able to get the criminal charges dropped. now the next step is to focus on getting the kids back. we have a court date coming up in late august. we re going to go in front of the judge and the court and discuss with the state of arizona and child protective services the fastest way that we can unite miss taylor with her kids permanently. you have a nine-year-old daughter, i know this has to be extraordinarily challenging for her. what was the last thing you told her? the last thing i told her was i explained the situation. mommy made a bad choice and i had to pay the consequences for that. but at the same time, she knows me as a mother. she knows the efforts that i make to take care of the things that she needs. so she s not upset with me. she s just worried about the situation more than anything else. worried that it will keep her and i separated for an extend amount of time. do you believe you ll get your children back? what do you say to those who say you should not? i believe i ll get them back because i m doing everything and anything possible to get them back. to those that say that i don t deserve them back, i simply ask for that chance to prove myself. we re thankful your boys are okay. our best to your daughter. we want to thank you both for being with us today. a complex situation. thanks. thank you. thank you for having us. coming up, the government issuing a dire warning on the state of 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really say. here with what the administration is not doing to improve faith abroad, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson, jr. good morning. so what the state department did was issue a failing report card without any prescription for improving the grade. let s talk about some of the things that they focused on. syria. once had a christian population of 160,000. now down to 1,000 people. 160,000 to 1,000. then in nigeria, they focused on boko haram, killing more than 1,000 people and over 10,000 people have fled. we know what happened to those young girls and those students in nigeria because of boko haram. so then they focused on the european union. this is really interesting. a survey among jewish people in the eight-member states found as many as 48%, almost half have considered emigrating because of anti-semitism. finally, among the findings, in egypt, attacks on christians, in one week alone in august of last year totaled at least 42 churches, in addition to schools, orphanages and other christian facilities. so they ve done this wide array of problems around the world in terms of persecution and discrimination. and then they ve come up with their prescription to combat this. it s really staggering. i say that in a sarcastic way. they say, speak truth to power. use this report to defend religious freedom. perhaps you ball it up. then utilize programs, speeches and statements and say, there is some moral persuasion. peter, 75% of the people across the globe live in countries that do not respect religion. and that s what they come up with? that s what they come up with and focused on certain countries. we touched on a few of them. there is something called the u.s. commission on international religious freedom, steve. they said in the past year that egypt, iraq, nigeria, pakistan, syria, and vietnam should be listed as countries of particular concern. we have nine. we pick out nine. just nine in the world to say these are countries that we have a problem with. they include burma, china, iran, saudi arabia, amongst others. but egypt, iraq, nigeria, pakistan, syria, vietnam, and we talked about a few of those, what s happening in syria, what s happening in nigeria, what s happening in egypt. no, they haven t been listed. john kerry pointed to the problem in his own report. he says, i want to emphasize this effort is not about naming countries to list in order to make us feel somehow we ve spoken the truth. i want our countries of particular concern designation to be plans to help change the reality on the ground and help people. the problem is they haven t named many of the countries that should be on that list! with regard to the countries that are on that list, this report really points to nothing tangible, concrete, substantive and effective to stem the tide of discrimination in the world against religions. especially judaism and christianity. the report is pitiful. waste of time. waste of time. peter johnson, jr. bringing that to our attention. thank you very much. coming up, even without words, your body language can say a whole lot more. so hey, what you doing? isn t he handy? cheryl casone is here with what not to do if you want to land a job. a no-no. first on this date in 1983, the police had the number one song in america. you know the words. every smile you fake i ll be watching you every move you make every step you take i ll be watching you i voted for culture. .with a k. how are you? i voted for plausible deniability. i didn t kill her, david. and i voted for decisive military action. america, you cast your votes. now, go to xfinity on demand and select the people s hotlist to see this summer s top 100 shows and movies. i voted! your negative thoughts can leave a bad impression on your boss and sometimes your co-workers. that s why our co-worker, cheryl casone, is here. she has the secret ways you could be sabotaging your own success. tell us more. have you ever had a co-worker that was just a little too handsy? brian! no, i haven t. okay. me neither. here is an example. so hey, rachel, what you doing? not everybody is comfortable being touched in the office. you got to be careful about touching your co-workers. he could have come across a little inappropriate. he could have come across a little too hands. she s like hr. a little too close in everything. some people like to hug you and you re like, oh, that s not good. the other thing is, a lot of times i do want you to look me in the eye. take a look at this. brian, how do you think the show has been going? i think it s been going really well for elisabeth and steve. are you happy with how you re doing? they re all right, i guess. i like what i do. please tell me you were acting. i m much more professional than keifer sutherland. sometimes it s better to make before the accident eye contact with your co- co-workers. if you weren t looking me in the eye, i m wondering what s going on. the handshake is very important. sometimes it s a good time to get a grip. hi, cheryl casone. nice to meet you. nice to meet you. maybe they don t like germs. we call that the dead fish handshake. women are really actually the worst when it comes to a weak handshake at work. ladies, just go in, give the strong handshake. what about a fist bump? a fist bump, that kind of comes across as you re a bit of a bully. really? never mind. you don t want to have a too strong of a handshake. i m not supposed to do that. take a look. okay, so rachel, i need you to go to the production meeting for me today and i need you to take really careful notes. are you getting all of this? that was subtle. what was the message there? either she wasn t listening to what i was saying or she didn t understand a word i was saying. i m not really sure. you may not realize you re giving the impression you think when you re tilting your head that you re actually listening, engaging the person. you re not. you re giving a bad impression to that person. good note. great tips on the body language. hug it out, everybody. fox news alert, it was supposed to be a three-hour tour, but it turned into a nightmare. a whale watching boat stranded at sea has just returned to the docks. live from boston we go. remember this girl? the football sensation who dominated the boys. sam gordon is heading back to the gridiron and joins us live next hour. de citracal maximum. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep. nothing s missed with tenatwist don t miss a beat. nothing s missed with tenatwist oooh discover the fearless protection of tena. so absorbent even when you twist not a drop escapes. nothing s missed with tenatwist while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, this can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain, and improve daily physical function so moving is easier. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with 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worked with five years ago on 24 just the worst actor he ever worked with. and professional do. game delay on the comment. 24 is now back. we have to follow that story because it looks like there s a rift he will have trouble feeling. he is not on the show anymore. didn t 24 come back? they are now in london. only five years ago. i am still in first season. right by the side with a lot going on. they have their season finale so it is over. i was watching seinfeld. some news to bring you, we talked about this earlier this morning. the stranded whale watching boat has now returned back home. it was supposed to be a three hours tour but it turned into a nightmare. 15 hours long. the boat s prop got stuck in a lobster trap 60 miles from boston s harbor. 160 tourists were forced to stay on the boat overnight. the company is apologizing saying they will refund passengers for the trip. on the west coast police hope new surveillance video will lead them to a break in the case of a missing or again mom. jennifer disappeared last thursday when she was out running errands. this new tape which hasn t been made public yet apparently shows her with trying cash from a local bank before heading to a gas station. herself and was turned off shortly thereafter. family is now offering a reward for her safe return. she has two young children. an alert now, a tornado barrows throw massachusetts suburbs five miles outside of boston. all broke. that twister packing winds of 120 miles per hour ripping a path of destruction two miles long. we rarely hear about this on the east coast so some pretty big news. look at this car, totally flipped over on the sidewalk and from above ec these roofs torn off the buildings. the national weather service saying this is the first wister to hit that area since they started keeping records in 1950. crazy weather out west, three tornadoes touching down in the denver area. one of them caught on camera near the airport, no reports of any major damages. he has played golf 81 times since 2012 but all those rounds may not be helping his game. a golfer playing the congressional country club in maryland on sunday claims to have found his ball in the woods somewhere. he posted the picture, the president played the congressional yesterday and found this in the woods. full number 1. looks like he is off line again. that is the problem with gulf. no correlation between a lot of practice and being good. back there, very good. good at what? we know that the president has a phone and japan and the putter. apparently he will use his pen to essentially come up with executive amnesty. according to a number of papers white house is going to use through executive amnesty action oil. they would issue work permitss to millions of illegals in the country with no threat of deportation. could be to the parents of legal u.s. citizens, the parents of a dreamer kids, nonetheless it could be five, six, seven, 8 million illegals could be impacted before the midterm is. the border crisis and this turning into a constitutional crisis as lawmakers on the hills stand up and say jeff sessions, one of the talk a lot yesterday about what is going on here. how is this protecting americans when we have a president working against the law. our laws say this is not possible. are we protecting american workers including legal immigrants? he pointed out again working people all over america would not be helped. african-americans would not be helped by this executive order for amnesty and work permits. the cbo office says this is a mass amnesties that would cause america wages, wages fall for a decade. if we are worried about it being misinterpreted this new amnesty thing, remember the dream backed the president to get this if you are here and you are brought here as a kid you are now don t have to fear deportation. that message is essential and south america next thing you know thousands of kids coming to our borders thinking all i have to do is show up in darkens a year. the parents of kids that were born here now say i am here illegally but maybe the president will let me in. that will be misinterpreted too in the south to only exacerbate things but it might be a good thing to do before the midterm elections if you want to maximize the hispanic vote for some. see if he actually decides to do that. meanwhile there was a protest at the white house. turns out most people, the protesters were illegals who want their voice heard when it comes to immigration reform so they had no fear coming out in front of 1600 pennsylvania avenue and will come back again. that is extraordinary to have that many people without keep in mind around the white house that bubble is one of the most secure areas in the world yet you have all these people without any sort of documentation who are protesting and to your point you are right, eyes agents told fox news absolutely no fear of deportation. for instance if somebody got arrested they look at their background but unless they have got some really hideous serious criminal record they would let from go. there should be no compromise when it comes to the law, just followed. national board patrol is still working, those in charge of the law putting it forward are about to set vacation as of the end of this week. heard from national border patrol council, who said we are not going on break. congress may be but we have work to do. this is a big crisis. border patrol agents we will be on duty, we don t wake five weeks off, we will doing our jobs and that includes rescuing people especially kids who don t know survival skills. what we heard is he is talking about border patrol agents before the 7-10 border patrol agents not guarding the border because they are babysitting. last week we talked to the border patrol at the border and ice agents in charge of returning the. we had one agent on last week who said he essentially they are not being given any assignment. so they go ahead and stop some people but because they are not being given the assignment of returning from that is the message, they can stay, as long as you one. the big picture people looking at the present and the midterm elections, 98 days away. wondering how the president is doing in his confidence which was so strong in 2008 according to the polls, so much smarter and more astute and more grounded now has reversed. obama is faltering badly on the confidence question and in doing so in periling his ability not only to a and actor second term agenda but democrats chances this fall. a series of events in the ongoing border crisis and the situation in ukraine, the nsa spying program badly undermined the idea that obama can effectively manage the government. two said of independents saying obama is not an effective manager. considering the washington post is a lefty newspaper and one of the columnists saying barack obama is box office poison for his party and we were telling you about the columnist who said the president essentially has this was for the daily collar and the telegraph, the president has already checked out of the job, phoning it in, sleepwalking through his second term and is ready for an early departure. maybe that is his opinion but keep in mind he is running the country. how does that impact all of us. that is not good. not a positive thing. the president might be checked out but does not want to lose the senate so look to push the idea the republicans want to in peach him. wherever you go leadership, democratic leadership, there are e-mails saying republicans are trying to impeach me, look out to try to rally his base. when it comes to romneycare, the pending executive order as released amnesty and work papers, now we will maybe perhaps in more of a crisis when it comes to employment. millions more are granted the right to work. the president wants to do well in the midterm elections or his party does the immigration at least be in charge, the israeli gaza situation, there s a end in sight. solve the situation in iraq, make a decision. all these issues would restore the president s confidence ratings. i don t know. it could be a little weight on some of that stuff. kind of baked into the cake. is he out of time? we are out of time for this segment. for mother who left her kids and a hot car once a second chance, does she deserve it. hear her case. one candidate for congress and in a message to the white house they cannot ignore. where did they think their electricity comes from? i will make sure president obama gets the message. did we mention she is a democrat? she is joining us live in our studio next. keep her away from our light switch. staples for back to school. they re excited. these guys are super excited. because when you get notebooks for less. index cards for less. and tablets for less, all at guaranteed low prices, you can t help but show it. in a big way! staples. make more happen for less. thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. 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comes from? you and i know it s our hard working west virginia coal miners that power america. i fought to protect our coal jobs right alongside joe manchin and i ll stand up to leaders of oath parties who threaten our way of life. i ll make sure president obama gets the message. where is that light switch? natalie tenant wants to be the next senator from west virginia. she s currently secretary of state. welcome. what s behind the ad? thank you for having me here. thank you for having me here. virginia coal miners. it s sending a message. this isn t about you re talking about democrat. but this isn t a democrat or republican. this is about west virginia and whether the president wants to recognize it or not, coal still produces 40% of the electricity for this country. it fuels west virginia. and senator manchin on here before. i reference him, too. that we work together for our west virginia coal miners to make sure that we have jobs, cause when we talk about west virginia coal miners, it is families, it is mortgages that they re trying to pay. we re getting ready to go back to school and they re trying to send their children back to school. we see the lights go out in the white house. so what is president obama getting wrong? how would his actions affect west virginia? these regulations are attacking our coal jobs and what we re asking and what i m asking is don t attack our coal jobs with regulations that are unrealistic and unattainable. work with us because if you invest in west virginia, we will deliver for you, advance coal technologies that yes, can cut emissions and save jobs at the use that investment. but you know, there are a lot of people who go, we got to get rid of the dirty coal or all the coal. those people don t realize that when they plug in their electric car in the garage, they re they plug in their electric car in the garage they re planning into a coal plant. you see that here. where do you think your where do you think your so people look at you, you re in a pretty much red state. people with you, you are a red state. i dispute that. we have a 2-1 registration advantage for democrats. ten of our 13 statewide elected officials are democrats, house and senate are democrats. joe mansion is close to a moderate democrat in the senate. judging by his track record and what he has been like here do you think it is to your advantage to appear with senator warren of massachusetts who is known as the liberals s liberal? when i look at senator warren and together we know we don t agree on everything and don t agree on everything and don t we agree on making sure our students have the ability to middle-class, we agree on making sure our students have the ability to have an affordable college education and that they be indented with student loans. we also agree on taking care of coal miners. introduced with senator rockefeller that i will continue the bankruptcy fairness law where many retirees coal miners ended up on the wrong side of bankruptcy. redistribution of wealth is something also. with is all about opportunity and the middle-class. this is equal pay for equal work. work. of course, right now your new ad, you re standing up to the white house. don t pull the plug on coal. but your opponent, shelly moore capito, sent this picture saying this is proof that you re a flip flopper because there you are back in 2008 and you are campaigning for the now president of the united states. are you a flip flopper? first of all, west virginiaians know me. they know i stand up for west virginia. example, when officials in 2010 tried to steal an election, i led the investigation that put them behind federal prison. that shows that i stand up for west virginia first regardless of party, regardless of position. would you hold that sign again today? when we talk about this you look at it, yes, i did campaign for the president in 2008. i am disappointed and i m hurt with the way he is reacting to west virginia and the perfect example is today, the epa is having a hearing about these regulations. and on tuesday, they re in d.c today they re in pittsburgh. we asked mccarthy to come to west virginia, hear from people who are going to be impacted, their livelihood. do you know where they re going thursday? pittsburgh. 20 miles away from west virginia. would you hold that sign today? i didn t hold the sign. would you be there right now? i m not sure. he s not on the ballot. that s what is about this election. you re not sure if you would vote for president obama. this is about me and capito cause i don t answer to the president. thank you for dropping by. we ll have your opponent on this thank you for dropping by. we will add your opponent on this program tomorrow. keep your lights on. 20 minutes after the hour. coming up, does this look racists to you? it is thomas. hello, thomas. find out why one lugger says thomas the tank engine make your toddler racist. dominating the boys and garden and the 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laquinta.com! la quinta! time for quick international headlines. fox news alert. four israeli soldiers are dead. hamas militants firing at a tank they were riding in through gaza. this comes after a night of missile attacks from israel hitting the house of a hamas leader and gaza s only power hitting the house of a hamas hitting the house of a hamas 24-hour cease fire, saying hamas agreed to the temporary peace. the politically powerful cousin of afghan president karzai was killed by a suicide bomber on tuesday. the attacker, who hid the explosives in his head gear, has allowed into his house as a guest. the attack is a major blow to the country s ruling family. elisabeth? thanks. who could forget this little girl? yes, i said girl. two years ago nine-year-old sam gordon became an internet sensation barreling through all the boys in her tackle league, and barely breaking a sweat. more than 2 million people watched our highlight reel and some said she was a shoe in for the nfl. then she said she put down the pig skin and focused on soccer instead. many thought it was a mistake. but this morning it appears sam might be having a change of heart. i m going to football camp at the university of michigan. they divides us up into our position groups and i chose runningback. they taught us how to hold the ball right and did drills. i wanted to impress the coach. so i ran my hardest. today we ran the 40-yard dash. the rumor going around camp is that i ran it in 4.9 seconds. i m not that fast. i think you re pretty fast. football sensation sam gordon joins me now. good morning. hi. well done. i love watching those highlight reels. so you re back to football. what was camp like? it was really fun. i loved going. oh, my gosh. you look pretty fast. you don t think you ran that fast, 4.9? no, i don t think i can run that fast. maybe almost. you played a lot of football there. you ran some drills and you mentioned devon garden. we want to let everyone watch this. i thought it was really cool when i got to meet quarterback devon gardner. he even asked to join our game. he made a perfect pass to me when i was all alone and i dropped it. i definitely need to spend more time with the receivers. so what did you feel when that happened? tell us. i felt like really embarrassed cause i just dropped a perfect pass made by devon gardner. i bet he was impressed with your skills overall. i d take that pressure off yourself. no more soccer? all football? what s your plan? my coach said my soccer coach said that i can miss a few practices to go to football. she says that football made me see the field really well. so it s a good thing i m doing it. so you believe then, too, that football is good for soccer? yes. now, brian kilmeade and i can finally get along that you said that. i want you to realize. it is impressive. what s your advice to kids out there who just want to give it a try in a sport where it might not seem possible? it s really fun for football. i don t know. i have to think about that. you know what? my husband, tim, he played a lot of football, completely impressed with your film there and your skills. you re quick. have fun. let us know your next steps okay? all right. i think you ran a 4.9. thanks. we ll see you soon. coming up, the mom who left her kids in a hot car during a job interview wants a second chance. does she deserve it? hear her case so you can decide. and can you tell the difference? one ring is real. the other is fake and they re sold at major department stores. did you get duped, too? shopping online is as easy as it gets. wouldn t it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie s list, now it is. start shopping online from a list of top-rated providers. visit angieslist.com today. scheck it out.? i just saved 15% on car insurance in 15 minutes, so i took a selfie to show everyone how happy i am. really? because esurance saved me money in half that time. can i.? oh you 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engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump out black smoke and all pumping out smoke, it s not hard to make the leap into the race territory. but of course. so thomas the tank engine is in this blogger s and a mother s estimation, is a racist sexist, classless kind of show. we asked for your comments. we got a tweet from matt who said, seriously? get a grip, lady. thomas is a great and helped expand my son s vocabulary. another said, are you kidding? my kids grew up watching this and they re far from racist. another man says it s antiracist. the story line that steam engines and diesels are different and yet they can be friends. a lot of people don t think diesel and steam can be friends. working together appears over and over. a lot of people think the white smoke symbolizes the white man giving orders to others. right. that s what the blogger says. you see the white smoke. what about when they elect a new pope? so they burn the ballots, first there is black smoke and then white smoke. is that a racist thing? right. and as chris chulo pointed out an f-troop, they had white smoke and one time it came out black smoke and it was because they had a hole in the blanket. but there was no complaints then. nothing deeper than that. larry storch didn t become pope then, did he? no, stuck with being a corporal. and as a sergeant, made all the decisions. another woman thought otherwise, but we love hearing your responses. keep them coming. let s toss it over to that woman there in white, heather nauert, who starts with the news on that stranded boat. this is quite a story. a fox news alert, moments ago that stranded whale watching boat off the coast of boston has returned back home. it was supposed to be out for just a three-hour tour, but it turned into a bit of a nightmare. 15 hours for passengers there. the boat s propeller was stuck in a lobster trap 60 miles off the coast of boston s harbor. nearly 160 tourists were forced to stay on the boat overnight. those things happen. accidents happen and things like that. the reaction was very slow. seemed like ages. what a story they get to bring back home. that tour company is now apologizing, saying it will refund all the passengers for the cost of their trip. a homeless mother in arizona arrested for leaving her children in a hot car during a job interview is now defending her decision this morning right here on fox & friends. listen to this. i believe that i made a choice in a desperate situation. i had to choose between either providing for them or caring fo. and i made the best choice out of a bad set of options. does she deserve a second chance? you ve been writing us all morning. dia says if there was ever a time for a judge to use someone as an example, this would be the case and now would be the time. another says of course she deserves a second chance. we all deserve a second chance. carl says it was a bad choice to leave the kids in the car. but it would be punishing her kids even more by putting her in jail instead of teaching her how to make better choices. she had three children in the car. three young children. dating the traditional way can sometimes be pretty tough. hello? yes. i m with him right now. no, not very attractive. no, doesn t make much money. a bit fat. ouch. gosh. how awful. it looks like on line dating can t be trusted either. it s called okay cupid and it s been conducting this crazy psychological experiment on users without the users even knowing about it. the web site s co-founder says users photos and bios have been changed and also removed the name of people in this experiment. the site told people they were a good match when in reality they were awful for one another. so a lot of people getting upset about this. this on the heels of facebook doing something somewhat similar recently. major department stores, including macy s and j.c. penney busted after an investigation found that they re actually selling customer s gems that are filled with cheap glass and referring to them as real rubies. you can see the difference after putting them in jewelry cleaner. look how it crackles on the left. the lead glass stone on the left appears to be cracked. the real one on the right sparkles. both stores say they mark the products as lead glass rubies. macy s says they re going to retrain their salespeople now. j.c. penney says they will refund dissatisfied buyers. those are your headlines. not a good idea to buy your wife for an anniversary. it looks like a mood ruby. it changes with my mood. unlike the ruby slippers. do you know what the ruby slippers were made out of? sequins sewn on. i ve seen it at the smithsonian. just stitched onto a pair of shoes. when my daughter asked if they were real, i said yes. they were bedazzled. if you had not seen that story, there was a spoiler alert. it would have been nice if you said that. maria molina joins us. we were talking about the wizard of oz that involves a tornado. there was some tornadoes making news yesterday. that s right. yesterday and there was one specifically just outside of the city of boston. a confirmed ef-2 tornado, winds of 120 miles per hour. a lot of damage out there. thankfully no injuries. that was in eastern parts of massachusetts. hyped that storm system behind that storm system that produced all kinds of severe weather on thursday and monday, we do have cooler air that s moving in. that s a very strong cold front that moved eastward. and now look at the temperatures. a little chilly for some of you. like in detroit, you re looking at a current temperature of 55. 58 in buffalo. you re at 54 degrees in pittsburgh. your highs are going to remain below average out there across portions of the midwest and into the northeast. still hot across parts of texas and even farther west like in phoenix, 109 for your high temperature out there. we do have a disturbance that s swinging through portions of the west and even into the plains. it is going to be producing areas of heavy rain, flood watches are in effect. let s head back inside. thank you very much. a fox news alert talks of a new cease fire. happening now in gaza. is israel being treated as the bad guy. former israeli ambassador to the u.s., michael, joins us live ahead. before he was deployed to fight for this nation, his home looked like this. now it looks like this. all because of a code violation. that soldier joins us live next. your 16-year-old daughter studied day and night for her driver s test. secretly inside, you hoped she wouldn t pass. the thought of your baby girl driving around all by herself was. you just weren t ready. but she did pass. cause she s your baby girl. and now you re proud. a bundle of nerves proud. but proud. get a discount when you add a newly-licensed teen to your liberty mutual insurance policy. call to learn about our whole range of life event discounts. newlywed discount. new college graduate and retiree discounts. you could even get a 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from el paso, texas, where he serves at fort bliss. good morning to you, sergeant. good morning. thank you for having me. good to have you. what a story. so a number of years ago, the county said that you needed to fix up your house or what was going to happen? from the beginning, it was excessive use of force from them. they said you need to bring your house up to code, current code, even though it was built in 1947. something that wasn t doable. and so why were they telling you to do that while they weren t telling the other people on your block to do it? that s exactly where the confusion was, i tried to ask them why me? if die it, then that means i m submitting the rest of the neighborhood to the same process. absolutely. so you started the process. you started to fix things and they kept coming back and kept saying, while you re at it, fix this and this. eventually you hired an engineer to help you, right? that is correct. what did he do? they proved that there was no structural issues with the house and everything that they wanted could be done and we had plans drawn and engineer report and once the architect went to ask for the permit, the same guy that was making the building official, he denied the permit for building. so you were on it. you were trying to comply. then out of nowhere, they demolish your house. did you have notice that they were about to do that? negative. there was no court order for us to vacate or anything. how did they get away with that? the building department, they re their own entity. they have the power to do basically whatever they want. because this was a personal issue. they did exactly that. okay. so last week a judge ruled in favor of you, saying the county should have delayed the building code violation proceedings against you while you were on active duty overseas. so they smacked down the county. now that you have won, what do you want? i just want this to be over. it s been hard for our family. some people might think the money will make up for it. there is nothing that makes up for a lost home and all the memories that came with it. okay. so i understand from your attorney you want the city to drop all the liens, including the demolition costs and suspend all code enforcement and pay $395,000 as well. is that correct? that is accurate. okay. and in the meantime, you moved on. you re in texas, right? yes. and you just want it to be behind you. what a terrible story. we hope you wind up with some justice, sergeant. thank you very much for joining us today from texas and telling us your story. thank you. good luck to you. that is just a little crazy. it is now 12 minutes before the top of the hour. a fox news alert. talks of a new cease fire agreement happening as we speak in gaza. but is the united states treating israel as the bad guy? former israeli ambassador to the united states, that man right there, michael orr, joins brian next. first let s check in with martha mccallum for a preview of what happens on the channel in a little bit. good morning to you. john kerry is fighting back today as criticism mounts in his handling of israel and hamas. russia grows more bold, testing a missile that violates a treaty that we have with them. we re going to talk about that. how about this, is the irs now starting to take on churches? bill and i will see you right here on america s newsroom at the top of the hour. losing your chex mix too easily? deploy the boring potato chip decoy bag. with a variety of tastes and textures, only chex mix has twenty bags of interesting. pick your mix. [music] jackie s heart attack didn t come with a warning. today her doctor has her 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. fox news alert. four israeli soldiers dead this morning as new explosions rock the city of gaza. this after israeli missiles take out a power plant and the home of another hamas leader. now the palestinian authority is calling for 24 hour cease fire, saying hamas has agreed to a temporary peace. but our next guest says the only way to end this crisis in the middle east is to crush hamas. the former ambassador to the united states is with us. how long will it take to crush hamas? very few in the west would be sad if they were to disappear. how long would that take? good morning to you. it may take a while. what israel needs is time and space. we ve been through this round, this cycle again and again where the terrorists shoot rockets at us. we fire back. the world imposes a cease fire. the terrorists use that cease fire to build up their rocket arsenals, then fire again with even longer range rockets and bigger rockets. the whole thing starts we got to break this cycle right now. to do that, you got to deliver something close to a death blow to hamas. you got to get them into a situation where they re not going to use those rockets. they re in charge of gaza. they merged with the palestinian authority. you have to get rid of every single one of them to ask them to leave or killed? we re talking about demille tearizing the dealership. they can stay there. they don t have rockets, what goes on from gaza is their business. as long as they re not firing at israeli citizens, as long as they re not digging tunnels under our cities, our farms to come up and kill our civilians, that s their business. ambassador, the long run, if you destroy every tunnel, they know how to make them. they ll make them again. how do you stop that? do you look for a long-term israeli presence in gaza after the violence stops? i think the idea is to get out of gaza as soon as possible once the work is done. but you have to develop a type of underground iron dome defense system, iron dome is the revolutionary israeli antiballistic system that has taken down hundreds of rockets over our city, including this city, tel aviv. we need an underground version of that. the united states faces very similar challenges with tunnels under its southern border. we haven t come up with a yet. but we came up with a technological answer for missiles, we ll come up with one for the tunnels. you know about the world of diplomacy and witnessing this fires. josh earnest is calling on israel to do better. listen. israel and their political leaders often talk about the high standards that they put in place for their military operations to ensure the safety and well-being of civilians on the palestinian side of the border. based on published reports, it s apparent that there is more that they should do to live up to those standards that they have set. ambassador. more you could do? i came to my job as ambassador not as a diplomat, but as a military historian. i ll tell you right off that there has been no army in the history of warfare that has done more to minimize civilian casualties, whether it s dropping thousands of leaflets, sending text message, making phone calls to palestinian civilians, telling them to leave areas where combat is about to take place. having said that, are you insulted by the charge? i wonder what published reports they re basing them on. are they basing them on al gentleman sneer a reports? are they basing them on reports from the united nations is this which is scarcely which is scarcely an objective source about israel. a few years ago we had the report that had israel guilty of war crimes and then found it was false and they had to apologize for them. i personally take strong objection to the fact that we re not doing enough. we re doing a super human job to avoiding casualties. straight ahead, atheists vowed to remove the cross from the 9-11 memorial. the decision is in. we ll share it pain from your day can haunt you at night, don t let it. advil pm gives you the healing sleep you need, helping you fall asleep and stay asleep so your body can heal as you rest. advil pm. for a healing night s sleep. he gets a ready for you alert hthe second his room is ready. so he knows exactly when he can check in and power up before his big meeting. and when alan gets all powered up, ya know what happens? 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sounds like the spanx will be about 150 bucks. you chose spanx as your one for the road. we spanx you for it. thanks, everybody. christmas gifts not too early, is really war planes hitting targets in gaza overnight, watch this. those flares turning the sky orange. hamas government complex hit, fuel tanks they look like they re exploding into flames. another strike hitting in gaza city where fox news staff is saying this
favorite. about 150,000 fans are expected at churchill downs in louisville tomorrow evening. that s going to do it for way too early friday edition. morning joe starts right now. not only has donald sterling been banned from the nba for life, he s he s also been planned from the bunny ranch brothel in atlanta. if you want to have a good time at the bunny ranch, don t be a racist or animal killer. dennis hoff wants nothing to do with donald sterling. dennis hoff says the main reason why he is banned for life is out of respect for the nba players that come here to the bunny ranch. he has that respect. good morning. it is friday, everybody. it s friday, may 2nd. what a wonderful day may 2nd is. with us on set it is friday this year. it s mika s birthday. happy birthday. i love a taurus. that s her sign. i m 47. am i to be happy about this? of course you are. national holiday in at least three countries. it is. best you ve ever been. have you seen pictures of her at 27? best she s ever been. that s nice. i ve seen that hair. no, i m three years from 50. that s the way i look at it. is that a positive way to look at it? that s not a positive attitude. why not? why not? i think 47 is just fine, thank you. you re thriving. i m thriving. and i know my value. yes, you do. i remember when i was 47. yeah. i do too. msnbc, time magazine analyst mark halperin is here. former treasury official and morning joe analyst, my travel agent, steve rattner. and in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist of the washington post , eugene robinson. what are you going to do for your birthday? i m going to go to sleep. hopefully nor a long time. that s a good present. i m going sleep for a very long time. maybe more like a putting a dog down kind of way. 21st version of timothy leary. i like how your arianna and dr. brzezinski is the same. yes. one is a female voice. it s very zsa zsa gabor. your zsa zsa is very good. you are stunning. we had fun last night moving on away from the birthday at the national magazine awards. have you ever been to that? it s really a great event. so well organized. great crowd. i think they were all drunk. they were not drunk. i do, i think they were. our friend was there. it was a great night. national geographic took some home. bon appetit magazine cleaned up. the new yorker cleaned up. i mean, these guys, i almost there s steve. columbia. the school of journalist. cindy leavy, glamour. then in a huge category shocker for people. big win for them. they had eight. and cosmo won. and magazine of the year. best company. that was awesome. that was fun. yeah. very exciting night. the award that s a big thing. i had no idea what it is. bunch of boomerangs put together. let s get to the news, shall we? sure. the new york times is reporting this morning that u.s. sanctions over ukraine are having a limited impact on russia as vladimir putin demand troops withdraw from part of the country. the russian ruble and stock market are actually stronger now than they were before the first wave of u.s. sanctions were announced. that s not really the idea. meanwhile, an operation is underway in eastern ukraine to reclaim the city controlled by pro-russian militants. gunfire and explosions could be heard as ukrainian forces claim they regained control of at least nine check points. the militants shot down two military helicopters. at least three people have been killed including a ukrainian pilot. separatists loyal to moscow are building barricades in an attempt to keep ukrainian forces away. it has been a violent week in the region with pro-russian militants seizing control of government buildings. yesterday the men overpowered to storm a building. they are fighting. they are fighting. you know it s not a good sign when vladimir putin tells you to withdraw troops from your own country. and the sanctions are having unfortunately limited effect. so we will obviously keep a close look on this. this is also when you see scenes like this, you are going to wonder at some point if we need to help them in a more tangible way. i think most people when they look at the fact they look at the fact that the ruble is doing better, the stock market is doing better than when the president issued the first round of sanctions, not a good sign. also not a good sign when your donors that are going to help you get elected president start talking about moving to another candidate. that s exactly what seems to be happening and according to reports to chris christie. we ll go there. chris christie was leading early polls and considered a top contender to a hillary clinton run in 2016. but now a report says some republican fund raisers even some in the new jersey area with considering jumping ship from christie for jeb bush as the former florida governor looks at a bid. jeb is also getting some support from his brother. i hope jeb runs. and i think he would be a great president. i have no clue what s on his mind. we ll talk when he s ready. i notice he s moving around the country quite a bit. doing well in polls. yeah. that s fine. they don t mean anything. for him i can guarantee he s not looking at a poll to decide whether or not he wants to run. it s internal. he s checking his core. as he said publicly, i m thinking about my family. and he knows full well what a run for the presidency can do on family. after all, he s seen his dad and brother run for president. so jeb, if you need advice, give me a call. okay. it is worth noting according to a new quinnipiac university poll, jeb easily leads the rest of the 2016 pack in his home state. that includes marco rubio who i think people are talking about as well. people are talking about marco as well. it s going to be interesting to see what s going to happen there. mark halperin, this is something we ve been talking about for quite some time. the only reason jeb s thinking about even running in this case is because chris christie started to fall. and when that happened, there s no establishment gop candidate and he figures perhaps maybe why not. the gop establishment, the money people play in the process. and jeb still has as that story suggests, a large hold on them. and governor christie s troubles have only exacerbated the search. there s 30 people talked about as running. that was true even when chris christie looked strong. it s also true in 2012 and jeb didn t take the jump in for a lot of the same reasons he s thinking of not taking the jump in right now. but, you know, we have said from the very beginning this chris christie story is important. and it does have a direct impact on who may be elected the next president, tom. as chris christie goes down, that fills a void and that looks like that void right now is going to be filled by jeb bush. there certainly are establishment republicans that have a long history with the bush family and like what jeb bush represented when it comes to his history in florida. it also means because of jeb bush s family ties with his wife and his kids and the fact that they have a deep connection with the latino and hispanic community, that they might be able to be the bridge that can help usher in a new wave of people to the gop. get them back interested with other people that are currently in elected office have been scaring off that demographic. they have. and jeb was as good or better than anybody i ve seen. certainly better than any republican i ve seen with latino voters. all right. here s an issue that could definitely impact the 2016 elections and become a little problem for potentially one candidate. overnight at least five people were killed in a militia attack at the libyan security headquarters in benghazi. the situation in that area, in that country still far from stable. 19 months after a raid on the u.s. consulate there left four americans dead. held its latest hearing yesterday in the 2012 attack. the focus around a recently released e-mail of talking points that aimed to underscore the idea that the protests were triggered by an anti-islam video. critics say the message rees looed this week is proof there was a political agenda at play in the white house. but the administration says it was about the wider middle east and not specifically about libya. the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today that the protest and, again but benghazi was part of it, right? right. i want to refer you to the cia talking points on that. most people remember there were demonstrations around the region that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video. you were being cautious. you re saying there s an investigation there. that s 9/12. why on 9/14 is ben rhodes writing an e-mail saying judgments this was inspired by a video. why wasn t it we don t know. do you need a copy of the cia report? i ve read them. it is a cut and paste from the talking points which much to your disappointment turned out to be produced by the cia. mark halperin, that s just not true. first of all, here s nancy pelosi. i think she said it best right here when she said benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. what i will say is benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. why aren t we talking about something else? whatever was in that what i know of what i ve read in the press about the those e-mails were very consistent with what was put out there before. i don t think there s anything new there. we re talking about it because the white house has been caught in a lie with benghazi. and one commentator yesterday said who s often critical of republicans, it wasn t just a lie, it was a stupid lie. because it s obvious they re not telling the truth. the documents, the lawsuit that ordered them to release these documents, what did they ask for? not information pertaining to white house records involving the middle east. information involving all discussions involving benghazi. so the white house released this e-mail which clearly shows they weren t telling the truth earlier and that jay carney was spinning for whatever reasons. also, you know, the cia document they kept talking about, the acting cia chief said they weren t the ones that supplied it in the first place. this is what the white house has been doing and they ve been caught. wouldn t it just be better for them to say, yeah, to come clean at some point or are they just going to keep lying? are you saying they can t have it both ways? i m saying that, first of all, jay carney needs to understand and by the way, he should understand. i m taken by people that go in the white house and thinks the history ends when the white house ends. on the other side of the obama administration, he s going to have to come out and he s going to have to piece together his reputation. i say that as a guy i liked. i liked as a journalist. i respected him as a journalist. i still like him as a person. but i ve seen this. i am getting old enough older than 47. oh yeah. that was doing the same thing. in 2005 i called her up. i said you know what? this administration s going to end, and you re going to have decades to deal with your credibility after it ends. stop lying to me. because you re going to have to deal with me on the other side of the bush administration. bush is going to go back to texas and i m still going to be here. when you wonder why jay carney is doing what he s doing, i think shattering the reputation, a well-deserved, good reputation he built at time magazine doing this when everybody knows he s lying. from the beginning, the posture of everyone around the president s been there s nothing to see here, move on. when they do stuff like this, it em boeboldens critics. how can you ask us to trust you when you say there s nothing here and then you do this? if benghazi s not a big deal, if people think benghazi s not a big deal chuck todd seemed to think yesterday benghazi wasn t a big deal. that s fine. have that debate. but if there s an e-mail directing susan rice to go and push a line and they don t reveal that, well, they ve got to come clean. when we look at what exactly was in this specific e-mail that was released and the bullet points given to her to use as reference points to go on these shows, that was in there. to underline the fact this was not a broader policy failure. gene, when we look at this and the ramifications that come from it, let s not forget as we get caught up in the benghazi conversation, we lost four americans. we lost four americans committed to the state department. we lost four americans that were in libya that was a rat hole after muammar gadhafi was out. so this is an embarrassment for the white house. but how do they reclaim the narrative so jay carney doesn t look like just a big liar in trying to remind everybody from that lecture the history of the time, which is okay to do, but how do they look like they re not lying about what was done? you know, if there are any other e-mails, just put them out. just put everything out. because in the end, this is a scandal without a center. you know, what s at the center of this is was the real if there s a scandal, it is a state department security preparations prepositions of forces, the assessment before the attack as to what sort of danger the ambassador and the cia facility might have been in in benghazi. that s what went wrong there. and, you know, to expect there to have been a clear narrative of exactly what the motivations were of the miscreants who did this, a couple of days after the attack is ridiculous. it s absurd. nothing ever happens like that. so if the criticism is that the white house is dragging this out and is making it a bigger deal, a different kind of deal than it ought to be, i think that could be a valid criticism. just put everything out there, because really the issue is what allowed benghazi to happen? not whether what the talking points said. what the talking points said, it s just a ridiculous sideshow. and by the way, go back for liberals who have been watching the show the past couple days and friends of the obama administration who have been frustrated what i m saying about jay carney and the talking points, see what i said the monday morning after benghazi when i absolutely tore mitt romney to shreds for jumping to a conclusion. just following what gene said, for jumping to a conclusion and trying to politicize this. yes, when you hold a press conference after a u.s. ambassador is dragged through the streets without knowing all the information, you re politicizing it before knowing what s going on. i think both sides tried to immediate politicize this. obama administration, oh, this has nothing to do with our policy. it s just an internet video by a crazy person. then you have mitt romney in the middle of a campaign saying this is the worst thing ever, blah, blah, blah. now as things get revealed, maybe mitt romney was right. but he didn t know at the time he was right. but the problem with the white house is that they re the ones sitting there now still having to clean up for some really stupid things they did and some misleading things they did. former national security council spokesman looked to down play his role in changing the talking points saying it s difficult to remember because it was so long ago. according to the e-mails and the timeline the cia circulates new talking points after they removed mention of al qaeda. then at 6:21, the white house, you, add a line about the warning of september 10th of social media reports calling for demonstrations. true? i believe so. did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? maybe. i don t really remember. i don t remember. dude, this was two years ago. dude, it is the thing that everybody talking about. we re talking about the process of editing talking points. that s what bureaucrats do all day long. okay. listen, if you want to keep me off your back, do what he just said. say dude. i love the guy, but there he knows exactly what he did. we ve all been in that situation. i can remember as a lawyer editing things. i can remember as a business person we can remember that was like eddie haskell there. come on, he knew. he remembers everything about that. this white house dude, that was like two years ago? that was a very long interview. it was a small part. when you cut through all this, there s two basic points or questions. one, obviously the white house should come clean. we all know the coverup is worse than the crime. drip, drip, drip. just get it all out. and we also know on that part, the cover up, it was the president was trying to be i m the tough guy. we won the war on terror. they wanted to make this a spontaneous demonstration. but the fact is it s just not true and everybody knows. why don t they clean this up, steve? right. but the second question is is this really going you said at the beginning of all this 2016, is this going to become a national issue or is this inside the beltway? for hillary it will be an issue. because she talked about the telephone call. she got her own 3:00 a.m. telephone call and four americans are dead because of it. and if you think these are just republican talking points, talk to the family members of the four americans who gave their lives for this country. it will be an issue. and hillary clinton and her supporters and any democrats that want to say, oh, this is just right wing a right wing to borrow one of hillary s phrases, a mass right wing conspiracy. wait until the end of the campaign. still ahead on morning joe, bill clinton a 2:00 a.m. phone call and cursing. you just don t want to get 2:00 a.m. phone calls. congressman jim clyburn was on the other end of that call. he ll be here to explain what happened. what? i m also going to ask about what a congressman had to say about clarence thomas being a, quote, uncle tom. also what he had to say about mitch mcconnell being a racist. some extraordinary things. plus new details that the inmate in the oklahoma execution had to be tased before the execution. up next, new cell phone video just released from on board the south korean ferry as it began to sink. the reason why the video was actually released at this point. but first, bill kairns with a check on the forecast. bill? mika, i did my part. it looks like a beautiful birthday weekend for you. nice. happy birthday, mika. thank you, bill. last week was miserable around the country. now we re going to start to see spring taking over. warmer temperatures, too. there s a few scattered showers out there around cape cod. also some light rain around buffalo, syracuse, and rochester. temperatures are more mild today than they had been this past week. we re at the 50s in the big cities, 40s in the burbs. as we go throughout the afternoon, a gorgeous friday afternoon. low 70s to mid-60s. i know yesterday was nearly 80. it was kind of humid. today s more springlike, less humidity, plenty of sunshine. florida s the exception. we ve got a lot of rain coming your way. not the flooding stuff we just dealt with, but scattered showers and storms friday, saturday, sunday. so here s your forecast for your weekend. we re finally ending the horrible warmth out wed. it was 95 in san diego of all places yesterday. wier finally watching everything averaging out. of course the kentucky derby is on saturday. looks to be about 73 degrees. no problems there in louisville. looks beautiful and much of the country even into sunday should be looking pretty nice. there s really not any horrible weather. no severe storms, no tornadoes, nothing like that. mother nature is giving us a break as we go throughout our first may weekend. looking at a nice day across the country. more morning joe when we come right back. avo: wherever your journey takes you the expedia app helps you save with mobile-exclusive deals download the expedia app text expedia to 75309 expedia, find yours so i tri ed depend so i it really made 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all right. it s time to take a look at the morning papers. look at the front page of usa today. 8 million people have signed up for the affordable care act. 8 million. that s great. 8 million. just saying. that s great. what are you saying? i m just saying 8 million people have signed up. that s pretty good. they need more and they need to get young people still. they do. that s a demographic they re still focusing on. why are you behaving so nicely? that s great. bill de blasio and the city s largest teacher s union agreed to a contract yesterday ending a five-year labor dispute. teachers will receive back pay of 8% of their salaries and bonuses for teachers with positive reviews. the union agreed to reductions in health care saving the city $1 million. from our parade of papers, the oregonian, cell phone video recovered from one of the young victims aboard the capsized south korean ferry is giving new insight into what happened in that doomed ship. the student s father released the video to give it to the nation and let them get a glimpse into the disaster. at first the crew warns of a possible accident over the loud speaker. the video shows the students fooling around. but as the ferry begins to tilt, the mood changes to panic. towards the end of the video, you can actually still hear the crew telling passengers to stay in place. it s just outrageous. why would you do that? it s just outrageous. the los angeles times, the president of the naacp in los angeles has resigned in the wake of the scandal involving donald sterling. leon jenkins has been heavy criticized for his plan to present sterling with a lifetime achievement award. the group also granted sterling an award in 2009, the same year he was accused of refusing to rent apartments to latinos and blacks. jeah. it was probably the second award they were giving to him. i wonder how much money he gave the naacp in return for that award? you ve got to look at the money you re given when you re in an organization like that. because it can t be dirty money. it s not worth it as one just learned today. the houston chronicle is reporting 55 colleges and universities are being investigated by the department of education for their handling of sexual assault complaints on campus. such an important story. among them, elite schools like emory university and harvard law school. also florida state and ohio state university. move comes as the obama administration announces new guidelines to prevent incidents and improve reporting on campus. such an important, important story, mika. related news from the wall street journal, reports of sexual abuse if had the military have skyrocketed. the pentagon says confidential reports were 50% higher in 2013 than 2012. now, there were 86% higher among marines. the pentagon suggests it shows victims are more comfortable coming forward. but it didn t account for how many actual crimes were committed. i was going to say, actually, those numbers have gone up and skyrocketed. there s two ways to look at it. of course the number is going up always causes alarm, but maybe it means that people are starting to get comfortable coming forward in the military. which they ve never been comfortable doing before. it s difficult in real life let alone the military. especially in the military. absolutely. and also the previous story, in college, so many young people go away from home. something traumatic like this happens all in muddled circumstances that make you embarrassed to come forward. they re embarrassed, there s shame. there s all these things that hopefully the obama administration, the push is going to actually make it easier for men and women but mainly young women to come forward. absolutely. this weekend s parade magazine features an exclusive from mariano rivera s where he recounts his journey from poor panama kid to world series mvp. all right. thomas? thanks, guys. with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen, here with the morning playbook. give it to us, mike. happy friday! and happy birthday not only to mika, but also morning joe jesse rodriguez. 3-0 today. spotted last night celebrating. ooh, jesse. really? we shouldn t be texting jesse early this morning then. he might have a headache. let s talk about what else is this weekend because we ve got the white house correspondents dinner. and looking at president obama and his sense of humor and why he may be hesitant to poke fun at himself. what have you learned? todd is pointing out here that president obama likes to make fun of other people more than himself. his self-deprecating humor doesn t go very deep. yes, the president jokes about his big ears and about his bad polls and about his birth certificate, maybe his gray hair. but doesn t really go after himself in the way that some other presidents have. a more typical joke by this president is, you ll remember when he said despite the rumors that he was born in a manager, he was really born on krypton. whereas president bush really went after himself. he talked about what the intelligence briefing for him actually meant. but todd discovered that president obama has some company in this. another president who s very thin skinned at the time, bill clinton. talked to some of clinton s writers and the writers would get the jokes and clinton would be like, these are about me. they should be about the other people. and one of the drafts that was released in this most recent clinton document dump, one they tried out that clinton liked was the white house press corps was the opposite of lake woe be gone. that all were below average. we ll see how it goes. joel mchale is the host, right? people are excited about that. the weekend is growing and growing and growing. it s a big weekend. mike allen, thank you, sir. coming up, he said it was an honest mistake, but now there s a good chance you ll see jameis winston king crab legs in a grocery store near you. that s right. and later, a suspected carjacker getting the ride of his life while holding onto the side of a new york city cab. morning joe straight ahead. just take a closer look. it works how you want to work. with a fidelity investment professional. or managing your investments on your own. helping you find new ways to plan for retirement. and save on taxes where you can. so you can invest in the life that you want today. tap into the full power of your fidelity greenline. call or come in today for a free one-on-one review. wanted to go and see a lion up close. this zoom lens is amazing. go and smell the roses! you have to let me know [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come together, the taste is irresistible. sweet and salty nut bars by nature valley. nature at its most delicious.
all right. pay attention. it s take a peek time. it s time for sports. okay. three teams on the brink of elimination last night in the nba playoffs. warriors and clippers. golden state s steph curry led the way with points. 14 of which scored in the first quarter. the clippers come up just short. the warriors hang on for the 100-99 victory. game seven on saturday. memphis/thunder looking to stay alive. 104-84 win to force game seven. also on saturday. to atlanta, the hawks looking to end the pacers season. david west with the go-ahead basket right there. he led the pacers on a 16-4 run to close things out with a 95-88 victory and even up the series. game seven in indy tomorrow evening. and another set of game six matchups tonight. the raptors and nets, spurs and maveric mavericks. all three of those pushed to seven. it s fantastic. agreed. we get to the ice now. round two of the stanley cup playoffs. canadiens leading the bruins. johnny boychuk scores the equalizer right there. this one ends up in double overtime. montreal on the power play. next the game winner. take a 1-0 lead in this series. game two saturday in boston. another round of matchups tonight. the pens host the rangers. and the wild visit the blackhawks. finally for you, yesterday we told you about heisman trophy winner jameis winston being busted for shoplifting seafood. now there is a store catching in on the hype around this. a marketing gem in alabama. jameis winston king crab legs. unfortunately the shellfish, they are not for sale. this is just an in-store joke taking a pinch at jameis. what s he saying? he accidentally he walked out after accidentally walked out. how do you do that? who amongst us has not accidentally walked out with king crab legs. when it falls in your pocket and you don t know, what do you do? it s just like the time no, i never actually look. if you re going to shoplift crab meat, do the already packaged kind. i don t think he meant to do it. whatever. he was framed. he was framed. still ahead, mika, what do we have on this special birthday edition of morning joe ? the ukrainians are fighting back. explosions, barricades, and downed helicopters as ukrainian forces are fighting back. the state department s rick stengel will be here on set live in our 8:00 a.m. hour. also we ll have the monthly jobs numbers released live at 8:30. also tina brown is going to be here for the must read opinion pages. you re going to want to hear about this one. it s about hillary clinton with surprising advice. we ll be right back. and it feels like your lifeate revolves around your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira adalimumab. humira has been proven to work for adults who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn s disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief, and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred. before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. ask your gastroenterologist about humira today. remission is possible. we cannot let the fans down. don t worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time with priority mail flat rate shipping. our priority has always been saving the day. because our priority. amazing! .is you! the amazing spider-man 2 delivered by the united states postal service. time now for the must read opinion pages. with us the founder of tina brown live media and the winner of the world summit. good morning and happy birthday. thank you. i m 47. it s okay, right? she s so young. she s so young. so have you seen tina s and she wrote this especially for your birthday because she knew it was a special day and this would be an op-ed that would get a lot of attention. this one is going to get a lot of attention. okay. you wrote a piece in the daily beast about hillary clinton being president you may have more power than anyone else in the country, but you quickly discover you have much, much less than you thought you d have going in. so knowing all this, why indeed would hillary run? now that chelsea is pregnant and life for hillary can get so deep deep deeply familial and present, she is as adored as any ex-president already. it will be another press-on slot from hell and such a hog tied two terms. only the delights of hip replacement surgery will await her by the time she gets out. leave the presidency to the people who don t know what it s really like. jeb and hillary discussed both of them have seen what hell this is on their families. it s hell, but i even think that hillary is tough enough to deal with that piece. but what you re also seeing more and more is what a static, frustrating, tied down institution the presidency now is. what can you really achieve? in a way running for presidency now is what you can do in your post-presidency. you have to get through the complete sort of hog tied status of the oval office. get beyond it, then you re free. what was great to see at our summit was jimmy carter who i ve never seen a happier guy. i mean, he sat on the stage and he just wowed the audience talking about $1 toilets in west africa for women. this is his initiative. how he s creating these for west africa. here s a guy who can talk about toilets for 20 minutes on a stage with a spell bound audience. he never seemed happier. he couldn t do anything when he was president as we know. has that platform to help the world. she has a platform already. usually you have to have the presidency to have the platform. she s got it already. why do it? so why do it? gene robinson, a lot of democrats will push hillary clinton to move forward. but 2008 was brutal for her. no reason to think 2016 would be any less brutal. plus she s got the fights from the clinton administration, brutal ugly fights. she s got the fights from arkansas. she s been at this a very long time. why put yourself out there again? well, it s a that s a good question. i mean, i ve always thought that i m disagreeing with a lot of my colleagues that she has not made a decision to run and she won t make a decision whether or not to run for some time. and she s got to really think about this. that said, you know, look at the position she s in. and look at the history she could make. and i think that will really weigh heavily on her. she, by all odds are that she could have the nomination if she wants it. and she d have an even or better than even shot according to the polls. much better than even of becoming president. as tina says, then, you know, you re president. and you ve got the four years and then eight years of misery ahead of you. but through that misery, maybe you can accomplish something. so i think she is an optimistic person. if she decides to run, it would be with the idea that she s going to get stuff done. and, you know, both of these races are so wide open, mark halperin. much wider than any race you ve covered. if hillary doesn t run, what democrat does? if jeb doesn t run, what republican steps up? there are not any establishment candidates other than those two. yeah. those two are the big pieces. the missing element to me for her and whether or not she runs is what would she run to do? what would the presidency be like? what s the message? what gives her the burning desire. when her husband ran in 92, he had stuff he really wanted to do. she s been part of washington now for a long time. what is her vision? i m not saying she hasn t had one, but she needs to make clear what it is. there s plenty she can do without being a presidential candidate. there s an insatiable drive as a human being that hillary clinton has to achieve. and i think this could be a really bad analogy, but we all know when we have spoiled milk in the refrigerator, we know it s spoiled but we smell it anyway before we throw it out. i think she would know what she s getting into having been the first lady and being, you know, secretary of state. but she, i think, has a desire to achieve this and can. i feel there s an evolution happening somehow on that. she cease what her husband has created, realizes she wants to focus i think so much on her passion really for ending gender inequality globally. and this has been such a focus of hers. is f that is what her big passion is which i believe it is, then you can achieve more of that in your post-presidency. totally. i also think that with jeb, it s like, we cannot expect this thing to just remain static. everybody said it s hillary s nomination last night. being a black president trumped her exceptionalism in president barack obama. she was supposed to be the first woman president but first black president was more interesting. tina brown, thank you. good column. thank you. coming up, why residents in a small michigan town are up in arms over this city-approved public statue. that s art? 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[ male announcer ] troubleshoot, manage appointments, and bill pay from your phone. introducing the xfinity my account app. oh, it s time for news you can t use. this is exciting. thomas, what do you have? we start with crazy video from here in new york city. police say the man holding on for dear life was trying to carjack a taxi in the early morning in the bronx. that s the way we do it here. they topped speeds of 70 miles an hour. the cob driver hit the gas when he tried to take over the taxi. this taxi hit traffic and the carjacker jumped off carjacking another vehicle. he was arrested a short time later. why not hit the brakes fast and that dude would go flying? catlike reflexes. this is good. a small town in michigan, this is what i think we should do around here. a small town in michigan is looking to promote the arts. the importance of art in the community. i get tongue tied because it s so exciting. the skulltuculpture is called b human. living today we can t do it alone. we rely on other people to try to survive. rely on people why? neighbors in the town disagree. not just one. they ve taken to calling this the orgy statue. for good reason. the artist said there was no intentional sexual assault in it and the harsh comment shows that the critics are thinking about it. well that would be if it s not intentional sexuality, then that just happened. it takes a village. sometimes it just happens. the town is going to be moving this to a less prominent location. let s buy it and put it on set. it s awful. that s unbelievable. i know. but the other big news today what? it s your birthday mika! whoo! oh, my god. i was told we have a birthday in the house today. big birthday. thank you, bill kairns. yea! look at this. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear mika happy birthday to you wahoo! are you one? are you two? you got a bear. i got bill kairns. this is great! i love it! the birthday suit comes later. no thank you. he always goes too far. always. happy birthday. come here. come here, bill. thank you. and louis, don t touch me. get out of here. well, happy birthday. what s your favorite birthday memory? speech! speech! what s your favorite birthday memory from growing up? i don t really have any. we didn t do stuff like this. was it that bad? we just didn t do, like, parties or anything. how about the year they gave you that sled? what sled? what are you talking about? this cake looks amazing. thank you. i need to blow some of the stuff off the top here. all right. very good. that way we can clean off the confet confetti. we ll be back with more of morning joe. at the top of 7:00, we have much to talk about but i forgot everything because of this birthday. my. tongue. finally. 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[ female announcer ] some questions take more than a bank. they take a banker. make a my financial priorities appointment today. because when people talk, great things happen. make a my financial priorities appointment today. i dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie s list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie s list. angie s list reviews you can trust. according to the e-mails an the timeline, the cia circulates new talking points after they removed mention of al qaeda. then at 6:12, the white house, you, add a line about the administration warning of september 10th of social media reports calling for demonstrations. true? i believe so. did you also change attacks to demonstrations in the talking points? maybe. i don t really remember. you don t remember? dude, this was like two years ago. we re still talking about the most mundaoneundane dude, this is what everybody is talking about. we re talking about editing talking points. that s what bureaucrats do all the time. tommy v., dude. i like it. joining us from washington, david gregory. but now we have chief white house correspondent and political director and host of daily rundown, chuck todd. and editorial director of the journal ron fournier. i like the tiara it s impressive, isn t it? yes, it is. whenever she goes and weekends in south of france, she has a tiara with her. one day i m going to the south of france. you should. thank you. wear that the rest of the day. all right. so obviously a lot of discussions about benghazi yesterday, just the political side of it. but a deadly incident last night. yeah. let s get right to it because there s politics all around it as well. overnight five people were killed in a militia attack at the headquarters in benghazi. the situation in that country is still far from stability 19 months a a raid on the u.s. consulate there left four americans dead. the house overnight committee held its latest hearing into the 2012 attack. it focused around an e-mail recently released. critics say the message which was only released this week is proof there was a political agenda at play within the white house. the administration, however, says the e-mail was about the situation across the wider middle east and not specifically about libya. ed, the e-mail was about protests around the region. if you want to tell me today that benghazi was part of it, right? right. i would refer you to the ca produced talking points on that. most people remember that there were demonstrations around the region. that were in reaction to what people felt was an offensive video. why then on 9/14 is ben rhodes writing an e-mail that is making judgments that this was inspired bay video? why is it not ed, do you need a copy of the cia talking points? i ve seen them. read them out all you want. from the talking points which much to your disappointment turned out to be produced by the cia. house minority leader nancy pelosi says there is nothing to see in the new e-mails. what i will say is, again, diversion subterfuge. benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. why aren t we talking about something else? whatever was in that what i know of what i ve read in the press about the those e-mails were very consistent with what was put out there before. i don t think there s anything new there. and ahead of the white house correspondents dinner, politico is out with a survey of 60 members of the press corps. nearly 60% have covered the president for ten years or fewer. 61% say press briefings should be changed from their current form calling for fewer talking points, more questions from different journalists, and they should be shorter. many journalists scored the briefings as more lame than essential. when asked if they interviewed someone who wasn t in the communications office in the last week, more than half said, are you kidding. half of those surveyed say they ve been lied to by an obama white house official. nearly 40% say they have been sworn at by an official. it happens. and it happens, the swearing at least, happens in lots of different administrations. ron fournier, you wrote a great column about and i love if you look at the bottom of the screen, man. this is murderer s row. this is like the 27 yankees. you ve got chuck todd at the white house, ron fournier at the white house, david gregory moderator of meet the press. these guys all know the white house. ron, you wrote a column about this yesterday. you look at someone like marlon fitzwater, tony snowe. they were able to deliver bad news in a way that i ll just be blunt, this current white house is not been able to deliver news. there s a hardening, it seems, of the press corps. right now the white house press corps in there and for somebody that s known jay carney for a long time and liked jay carney, it s tough to see himself conducting himself in the way he s conducting himself. what s going on inside the white house? thanks, dude, for having me on. dude, you re the one that asked to be on, dude. i m joking. dude, it s been two years. tommy v. breaking out the northwest florida slang. i love it. good lord. joe as you know any great corporate communications staff knows the difference between winning a news cycle and winning the public s trust. the problem with this white house is they re good at winning news cycles and in doing so they lose the public s trust. there s not a better example to illustrate that right now than benghazi. if you want to set aside for a second the important national security issues. what did the president know, what did he do, what happens when you get involved in a country like this, what s the fallback. set those aside for a second and look at the communications team that s paid a lot of money to communicate to the public. we now know beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the communications team treated this as a political crisis. not a foreign policy crisis. and in doing so put out information really quick that was really long, then didn t correct it until there was a lawsuit. they were fine having a bad narrative out there. didn t want to correct it because they were only worried about winning one news cycle at a time. and in doing so, they ve hurt their credibility. these issues splash over to the president s credibility across the board. and i think this credibility issue is why not just on benghazi, is why his numbers have been coming down. david gregory, we ve all had the conversation at one time or another with pres people for republicans and democrats alike i remember telling a mccain person in 2008 after he d lied to me the night before. i think i said, hey, dude, did not not think the sun was going to rise tomorrow? and mika remembers me saying that the next morning. i wasn t yelling at him. i said did you not think the sun was going to rise. and i was going to find out about your lie. am i going to trust you for the rest of this campaign? the answer is no. and we ve seen it. we ve seen it in a lot of different administrations. i m just curious if it would be best for the white house to cut its losses now and get this behind us. it s only a big deal if they keep covering it up. well, i ll make a comment about benghazi in a second. but i think the larger point is all of these press secretaries have their brief. when ron and i were in the front row during the bush years, we understood that ari fleischer at that point had a lot of limits put on him in terms of what he could do. they wanted him to take tough questions, but be limited in what he could say. that s part of a pr machine that comes to sell the president s agenda and the president. there s always limited terms of what you can get. look. ron said put aside some of the security concerns. the real story about benghazi is what are the consequences for having a light footprint in a chaotic country post-invasion. that s the ongoing story. and by the way, a story that candidate clinton if she becomes a candidate will have to face. those are the big policy questions at work here. we know to ron s point that the white house had a political interest in advancing a story about this video really being at the core of all of these protests. because anything that was spontaneous and happening fast is to their benefit in the situation opposed to being caught unaware about a terror attack which they didn t know about. we don t know. we know they were interested in the politics of this. we didn t know they were somehow telling any untruth. and we know that the intelligence community was saying, in fact, that this was a spontaneous eruption that happened in cairo and then evolved into a direct attack on the consulate. so we know there was an opportunity to sell it. we don t know what all the facts of this are. but this particular memo, for instance, why did they hold that back? of course it was related to benghazi. i think it creates more problems. one of the ways we know it was related to benghazi, the white house admitted it was related to benghazi before it was denied that it was related to benghazi as it was only released because the lawsuit said release documents related to benghazi. chuck todd, now to you, my friend. so we were having this discussion before, chuck, and mark halperin and i were talking. i said well, why doesn t jay carney, a guy like i an awful lot, why doesn t jay just say no? i m not going to go out here and be put in this position. somebody said you can t do that. well, mike mccurry did it. other press secretaries have done it. it s a real balancing act, i understand. and it s extraordinarily difficult. but does jay not have a fairly tough relationship with the press corps that he has to stand in front of every day? i say yes, but it s not jay s doing that it s a tough press corps. this is sort of six years, honestly eight years of sort of dealing look. i think there has been in the worst development in white house staffs over the last two decades has been i think the entire press office is too big. i think there s almost too much. and so when you have so many individuals dedicated to press communications, right, and communicating with press, then you re going to slip into over-spinning. you re going to slip into what they did here with these benghazi e-mails which is so paranoid about giving an inch to their opponents that they withhold too much. you know, everything about all of their some of these political crises if you want to call them that that the white house has bungled all has the same root issue. which is they have been reticent to engage. they say we re not going to give in, we re not going to give them more material. had they flooded the zone, had they just dumped everything out that they had including this e-mail, had this e-mail been sent out at the same time that we got that entire booklet of e-mails from state, cia, and white house. this would be much to do about nothing. the e-mail was withheld. the e-mail itself isn t that damning. there s no smoke in this squirt gun, but it s because they didn t release it at the time and their credibility is why why didn t they release at it the time? everybody agree no smoke here? i disagree. i think there is smoke. it makes it clear at a minimum that they did what no one was surprised they did. they looked to contain the political damage. ron fournier? i agree with mark. i don t think that s a small thing. i think when you get caught spinning like this, when you get caught being incredible with the information, that s a big thing that splashes into other issues. as someone who has worked with jay and wants my white house to succeed, it was painful yesterday watching that briefing and get baghdad flashbacks. are we drilling down here on benghazi in a time period where i think tommy v. used this phrase in his interview, he said collective amnesia. there was a lot going on with the arab spring in a lawless libya at the time. we knew the day it happened, when mitt romney went out and held a press conference that he held wsh david gregory i think it was an unfortunately press conference to say the least. he didn t know what was going on. nobody knew what was going on. and it was sort of shoot first, ask questions later on both sides. on both sides. and mark halperin and i they knew from the very beginning this was a huge deal. right. mark halperin and i were together at the moment when mitt romney started reacting. and by the way, he was reacting to the apologetic statements coming out of the cairo embassy related to the video. but i think to thomas point, the key questions here is we look back now and understand this was an attack on benghazi. and there was at the time information that was flowing out of there that was quite clearly a pre-planned attack. so part of it is why didn t they know? why didn t the administration know? why didn t the services know? why did they move forward to talk about a video? again, a lot of things can be true at once. the intelligence community saying this was a spontaneous attack even though they didn t use video. it s not an illogical leap to make biased on what the belief was. david petraeus is telling folks on capitol hill this was not terrorism initially. but it s also true and don t forget we lived there u an area here with how much grief did the bush white house take for the politicizing national security when this is what s going on here when you have ben rhodes saying, look, we ve got to make sure this video story people understand. and this president is steady. of course. they don t want to be seen as weak on terror. that s an obvious thing to do. joining us now republican representative from oklahoma, congressman tom cole. tom, good to see you. great to see you as always. happy birthday, first of all. thank you. from a fellow taurus. joe, you re a lucky man to have a taurus as a partner. and we re stubborn. so i ve heard. so i ve experienced. so congressman, let me ask you let s switch topics here and talk about minimum wage. it was voted on in the senate and voted down. there s some republicans we had tim pawlenty on the other day and others that believe the minimum wage should be increased, not to 10.$10.10, but should be. but that it could be raised for compromise of keystone. i think you hit the formula. to put something that creates jobs with something that frankly is clearly going to cost jobs. you raise the minimum wage, you re going to lose tens of thousands of jobs across the country. second, you do have to realize in this case that, look. individual states can act on this as they choose to. 19 already have minimum wanls that are higher than the federal start. the point i made before, there s a big difference between the cost of living in new york or san francisco or oklahoma city. so whether a one size fits all minimum wages makes a lot of sense is worth thinking about. and again, states have the ability to act if they think it s in their interest. chuck todd? congressman, how you doing? hey. doing great. let me ask you this. do you think the minimum wage should be raised at all right now? would you raise it at all nationally? aren t we at one of the longest periods ever we haven t raised it? we re also at one of the lowest inflationary periods too. but the point is worth thinking about. i m go i think to address it from a oklahoma standpoint. do i think the we need to raise the minimum wage in oklahoma? no. other states have the ability to act on this on their own. would i look at a minimum wage increase if i thought there were other things attached to it that would create jobs like keystone and additional things? yeah, i think i would consider that because i think job creation is a very important thing. steve rattner. congressman, you re right we re in a low inflationary era, but we haven t raised the minimum wage since 2009. it s now lower in real terms than it was in the 1960s. so isn t there a and historically the federal government has been involved in times like this. i m not telling you there s not a case to be made here. but there s also a case on the other side. one, individual states that want to move can move. two, we know according to cbo and other economists that raising it is going to cost a lot of jobs. losing half a million jobs is no trivial matter in an economy that still has an unacceptably high unemployment rate. i suppose the president is supportive of doing this, but let s be real. he s using this as a political weapon to put something else on the table that would attract republican support. he hasn t done it. i think he enjoys the rhetoric of the debate. there is a compromise to be made here. we ll see if the president comes to the table with something other than $10.10. but put in keystone and something to create jobs, i bet he can get support. mark? what significance will be signed into law before the midterm elections? i hope a lot of appropriations bills as i m the appropriator and we re actually doing the normal work of congress for a change. i would expect an infrastructure bill. i think we ll do something in terms of transportation issue. because transportation fund is going to run dry this fall. don t expect a permanent fix, but i would expect an extension into early next year. but to your basic point, look, not a lot. you know, i think we ve done some important things since the ryan-murray budget agreement. but i think the big things largely are being pushed past by both sides. i think that s unfortunate, but the political reality. all right. congressman tom cole, thank you very much. and again happy birthday. fellow taurus. taurusian, whatever you said. we have at least that in common. thank you very much, tom, for being on the show. david gregory, thank you as well. what s on meet the press this weekend? we ll have governor rick perry, fallout from the sterling story. and will.i.am will stop by to talk about his political involvement. chuck todd, we ll watch the daily rundown at 9:01. i don t know. we ll see. i m going to make joe be quiet. you get it before 15 i ll be impressed. all right. ron, if you can stay with us, that d be good. coming up live at the top of the 8:00, rick seng el hold on a second. it is rick stengel s birthday as well. get out. rick stengel and you and jesse. i need more confetti. what a great eight. and white house correspondent for the a.p. julie pace. and brian sullivan. still ahead, are we being taught to love strangers and is that a good thing? but first, hillary clinton if barack obama would answer a 3:00 a.m. phone call. but it was a 2:00 a.m. phone call from president clinton that congressman jim clyburn wishes he didn t answer. screaming and yelling and cussing. unbelievable. morning joe will be right back. 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welcome back to morning joe. live look at capitol hill and a beautiful day in washington. it s may, and i think the sun is going to come out now. may 2nd. here with us now, assistant democratic leader, democratic representative from south carolina, congressman james clyburn. he s out with his memoir blessed experiences: genuinely southern, proudly black. and i can t wait to hear about the book, but first i want to hear about a blessed experience you had at 2:00 in the morning. tell us all about it. it was a phone call you got in the middle of the night. yes, yes. and the book sort of starts with that. how did that go? it was an interesting morning. it was the morning after the south carolina primary back in 2008. of course i received a phone call. of course i m always up late. you were sleeping. no. i was up watching all the returns coming from around the state. that was a much-watched primary. my wife was asleep, but i was awake. and sure enough, the former president was on the phone. bill clinton. yes. my goodness. what was he calling to say, hey, how you doing, jim? not exactly. no? he was a little upset about the results that day. because hillary lost to barack. he was not pleased with that. so he just wanted to share his feelings or was there a message in what he was saying? there was a message. he thought i was involved in the. reporter: in losing it for hillary. yes. i was not. i was neutral in the race. of course i had personal preferences, but i stayed out of the race. let me read about this blessed experience. i think the way you describe it in the book crystallizes it. this powerful voice came on the phone. if you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one. i needed no help identifying that voice. it was bill clinton. the former president of the united states, my longtime political friend. his wife hillary suffered a major defeat in south carolina s primary. obama had whipped her. and bill clinton wanted me to explain why. i told him i had pledged neutrality to the rules committee of the democratic national committee as a condition of their authorizing a primary in south carolina. and i had kept that promise. i asked him to tell me why he felt otherwise. he exploded using the word bastard again and accused me of causing her defeat and injecting race into the contest. that is your blessed experience at 2:00 a.m. the morning after south carolina. that s i ve had quite a few blessed experience. a few with joe. we ve never raised our voices at each other. no, we haven t. always had great respect for each other. that s true. although the experiences were not always that pleasant. democrat on democrat violence here, this makes me so sad. so what was it like being shouted down and sworn at by the president of the united states? it was a very uncomfortable experience. but i ve had a few of these. what do you say back to him? well, i listened for awhile. i was really caught off balance. and i told him i had pledged neutrality. there was a big contest over who would get that primary. there was a fight against michigan, south carolina, and alabama. right. south carolina had won. but i was asked to remain neutral in the race. i remember. and i did. mark halperin? congressman, i know you d love to talk about bill clinton more, but i m going to switch to the title and subtitle. genuinely southern. in this big day and age, the big national media is becoming more interactive, the south is still distinctive. what does it mean today to be genuinely southern? the south is in transition today. i think we ve seen that south carolina maybe behind georgia, but if you take a hard look at southern states. florida, take a look at arkansas. kentucky s not exactly a southern state, but a border state. you will see in north carolina that went for barack obama in 2008 and was a close race in 2012. i think the south is changing rapidly. a lot of my classmates that left when i graduated, over 80% of my class when i graduated college left the state. they re not coming back. a lot of young people are staying. all three of my children remained in south carolina. that was not the case when i was coming along. i think it s changed because we re getting much more progressive. we re getting more jobs and the kind of jobs that young people are being trained for. now, the reason i put that in there is because i want people to understand that being southern has a broader connotation than being very conservative or being white, for that matter. i don t want people explaining away what they said saying i m a southerner. what does that mean? my mother and father were southerners, but they treated me with dignity and respect and everybody else. and that s why i put that in there. a lot of different experiences from the south, no doubt about it. let me ask you about something that s been making news this week. a fellow democrat, a fellow southern colleague vinny thompson has called clarence thomas, a quote, uncle tom. he doubled down again on that yesterday. suggested mitch mcconnell was a raci racist. said a lot of inflammatory things. does that cause you any concerns? no. i think thompson as you know is a very close friend. we knew each other for 20 years before he ever came to congress. you think it s all right to be calling a supreme court justice an uncle tom? all of us have ways of expressing our disappointment. i am very disappointed in clarence thomas. do you think he s an uncle tom? i don t know. you don t know if he s an uncle tom? he s not the only supreme court justice there. but he s the only one being called an uncle tom. i think that s at extraordinary insult. you ll have to ask thompson. there are certain words and phrases i did not use. and i will never back away from this. i am extremely disappointed. you know, joe. we come to congress and these appointments, we are to bring tho toez bodies our experiences to broaden the application of justice in this country. well, clarence thomas has had an experience of being genuinely southern and being proudly black just like you and his experience led him to a different philosophy about government. and i don t know that he should be castigated because his experience as a black american is different from thompson s experiences as a black american. can t we disagree with each other without calling each other names? sure we can. i talked to someone yesterday who told me they were highly insulted by some of the expressions that clarence thomas has made in his writings, in his opinions. a lot of african-americans find his opinions very insulting. he has a right to that. thompson though? you have no problems with him calling him an uncle tom? he is a close personal friend. we don t always use the same words and phrases. is mitch mcconnell as thompson thinks he is i don t know. ask him about that. i m not going to get into that. you know what? you re going no. around in circles. i am not going around in circles. it s time to wrap. no. why should i read this book? because it s a blessed experience. because i think you would learn a lot if you were to read this book. you will understand a lot of what it s like to grow up black in the deep south, to have no aspirations beyond being a teacher, a preacher, or an undertaker. and you will see how a little black boy growing up in that environment with a mother and father who taught him that you can break through this, and he did. and he got the hall of the house of the house of representatives with joe scarborough. you would have been better to be an undertaker if you knew that was going to happen. but it s also important to remember also one of the most powerful members of the united states congress, it s an extraordinary story. you re a great guy. thank you for being here. thank you so much. i appreciate you. thank you. the book is blessed experiences. congressman james clyburn, thank you so much. coming up, malaysian officials have released new documents on why they waited so long to search for flight 370. tom costello has that story ahead. and congressional cautions. we crunch the numbers next on morning joe.
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all right. it is almost 40 past the hour. it is. you know, big question about the election that s coming up in november. we re six years into the obama presidency. a lot of people are looking at it going, it s goingng to be a t like 2010. that s what republicans hope. yeah. but there are some that look back to 1998 you never can tell, can you? they re hoping to make big gains but history suggests this november is not a sure thing for the gop. derek has more in the latest edition of mojo place. president obama s job approval has the gop eyeing potential takeover in the senate and adding to the house majority. they point out in 2010 when the president s numbers were even stronger, republicans picked up a whopping 63 seats in the house and five in the senate. i m not recommending they take a shellacking like i did last night. however, if they re relying on the president s poll numbers as an indicator, a look at history shows the six-year vote can be problematic for the gop regardless of what party s in power. in 1986 ronald reagan saw his highest numbers of his presidency with 68% approval. still the gop went on to shed five seats in the house and eight in the senate. losing control of the upper chamber. after the revelation of his affair with monica lewinsky, bill clinton was still flying high at 64%, again the gop was unable to capitalize while losing five in the house and stagnant in the senate. in 2006 george w. bush approval was down. look, this is a close election. the if you look at race by race, it was close. the cumulative effect, however, was not too close. it was a thumping. november should serve as a cautionary tale for the gop considering dating back to 1958 republicans have lost seats in each of the six-year midterm elections. time will tell if history repeats itself. guys, back to you. all right. thank you. six-year itch not good for republicans. mark? it has not been. they ve made errors. they feel they re on track. they re raising money. they re doing decent on candidates in terms of the primaries. i think the democrats have to change the dynamic or republicans will have a good midterm. and there were three in one election once. i think we re doing well. i think we re doing well. so far so good. still ahead, forgot the partisan divide in washington. reverend jim wallis talks about faith on fridays. but first trusting strangers to watch our pets, sleep in our bed. and the whole tinder thing. no. the new economy of trust. actually, it s not just trust. it s trusting strangers. it s weird. i think it s weird. but apparently is a good business model. we ll be right back. honestly, i m pouring everything i have into this place. that s why i got a new windows 2 in 1. it has exactly what i need for half of what i thought i d pay. and i don t need to be online for it to work. it runs office, so i can do schedules and budgets and even menu changes. but it s fun, too with touch, and tons of great apps for stuff like music, cause a good playlist is good for business. i need the boss s signature for this. i m the boss. honestly i wanna see you be brave [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn t fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today.and tomorrow. so let s see what we can do about that. remodel. motorcycle. 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and what a lot of companies are doing are lowering that risk. they re linking to a facebook account. this isn t like hitchhiking. they have a rating next to them based on their previous@on these services. it s linked to a credit card like it s paid before anybody gets in the car or goes to the house. and there s also insurance or some kind of if the worst should happen and your place gets trashed, there s a million dollars of insurance that they ll pay you to make up for damages. it s not just like throwing open your door to whoever comes by. there are systems in place. as a lawyer, thomas, though, seriously the liabilities here just making me flinch. the valuation that recently came out for air bnb, $10 million? there is that recourse that people can enact if they feel they ve gotten a bad service. but it is really offputting to think that someone could be in your house or going through your things. logically. reporter: apparently not. instead of working from my apartment, make my apartment work for me. people are deciding to do it. and people are deciding they re willing to have people in their house in order to make money. ebay seemed totally bonkers. like you re going to send a check to somebody you don t know and they re going to send you beanie babies. that seemed nuts. but eventually they built enough systems in place and it became common enough it doesn t seem so shocking anymore. enough it doesn t seem so shocking anymore. ron, would you do that? ron, by the way, i ve got two dogs for rent this weekend and a cat as well, if you d like to rent my dogs and cat for a weekend, let s talk after the show. no thanks, no thanks. i m fascinated about this whole topic. you talk about low trust, the public has no trust in the old financial institutions. where will the sharing economy be in five years and how much of the traditional fik system that people aren t trusting is replaced by a shared economy five years from now. jason? if you re talking about faith in financial institutions, the economy right now is not poised to replace that. it s poised to replace the taxi and hotel industry. those are the industries it s competing with. i honestly don t think there is going to be some whole scale replacement. it s a different kind of experience. it s less consistent, right? do you think that the hotel is going to allow air b & b to get away with stealing their clients and not be regulated and not taxed properly? we re seeing it in new york. the question is what kind of restrictions are they going to put in place. i think honestly at this place this ship has sailed. i don t think regulators can just shut them down. tons of money. all right. the issue, the latest issue of wired is out. jason tanz, thank you so much. for more jason time, visit the afternoon session of our mojoe. i m going to have to tune in. i m intrigued. we re about a half hour away from the april jobs numbers. and all the kids, mika, they ve been aflutter about this. it s crazy online. it s trending. it is trending. than the reviews said. captain obvious: this is a creepy room. man: oh hey, captain obvious. captain obvious: you should have used hotels.com. their genuine guest reviews are written by guests who have genuinely stayed there. instead of people who lie on the internet. son: look, a finger. captain: that s unsettling. man: you think? 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she just kept looking and i said you ve had it up for a few hours. she said my vision is blurred, i m slurring my words. but it s all better because mark leibovich is here. and i m a year older and so much better. mark leibovich, author of this town, now out in paperback and from washington, julie pace and of course we still have rattner at the table. stuck with rattner. it s perfect timing for you to be here, steve rattner. the employment numbers are here in less than half an hour. we re hoping for good news. you never know which way it s going to break. we had a very flat first quarter. a lot of people concerned about that, but the market s exploding. i guess they figure it the weather. what s the jobless report going to look like? we don t know but we ll find out in half an hour. i can give you background and color on what we might expect. for the last year if we look at this chart, we ve had a pretty steady picture of about 190,000 jobs a month being created. but for this month the economists a little built moit optimistic for the reasons you say, joe, we re coming off a winter and hoping we re going to be more in the 220,000 range. the unemployment report did come down gradually last year but it has been pretty flat since then. you need certainly like 200,000 jobs a month just to keep the unemployment numbers from going up because of people coming into the labor force. but people should also look at the long-term unemployed. we really have a problem. this is the percentage of the total unemployed that includes people not participating in the job market? doesn t even include them. so the situation is much worse? much worse. because a lot of people have dropped out. this only shows you the people who have stayed in. the percentage of total unemployed that are long-term unemployed is the highest it s ever been in history. it s come down from the highest 45% but even this number is the highest it ever been in our history. so it s a real problem and economists are increasingly worried. there was a study that just came out that a third of these people will probably never find job, a third of them will drop out of the labor force and only a third will be employed. but let s look at something that relates to washington. last december extended unemployment benefits expired for people over 26 weeks. 1.3 million people lost their unemployment insurance last december. we re talking about $286 a week, not talking about a lot of money. by june 30th, 3.2 million, by the end of the year, it s going to be 5 million. the republicans and democrats not surprisingly are fighting about this. the democrats passed a bill to extend this and the republicans won t extend it until they get what they want. the job participation rate is as low as it s been since the 80s and the situation looks bleak. first of all, i have massive telestrator envy. he is the john madden of if i knew he was going to be a tablet don t bring a knife to gun fight. or telestrator pen apparently to a tv show. two things to add to your excellent analysis, labor force participation rate, we want it see the number go up. if it goes up, it means people are looking for a job, which means they think they can find a job. obviously the underemployed is also a number to watch, 7.4 million people working part time that might like to work full time. i can t get a full-time job so i m going to take the work that i can get, often without benefits as well. those are two other numbers. minimum wage jobs. unbelievable. mark leibovich, what are you writing about this week? i actually have a column next week. bits the merging of broadcasts and politics. you have people like mike rogers leaving the house intelligence leadership to go into television. directly. who else would do something like that? it s a bizarre, trail blazing move. he actually is going directly, though. going rogue. i ve got to say, this kid show as lot of plock and fight and determination to do this. who would do that? it s amazing he had an amazing amount of i mean, you have an immense amount of power. what does that say about what it feels like to be in washington? maybe it doesn t feel so powerful anymore. there s that but it talks about the melding of the media world and political world. the realms are so interlocked that we have this one big people in the green room sector, which we all are. you talk, you tell people what they want to hear. what s the difference? money. you get paid a lot more money to be in the tv business. i m not getting actually paid for this. they give me some coupons. your food truck is bringing in plenty of money. i m not getting paid. i understand why. hey, chris christie back in the news. it looks like some donors are thinking about dumping him for jeb. well, it wasn t so long ago that chris christie was leading in the polls and considered part of the contender among the republicans to challenge hillary clinton in 2016. now the new york times reports some establishment republican fund-raisers, as joe mentioned, even ones in the jersey area, are considering jumping ship from christie for jeb bush. meanwhile, jeb is getting some support from his brother, who knows a thing or two about running for the white house. i hope jeb runs. i think he would be a great president. i have no clue what s on his mind, and we ll talk when he s ready. i notice he s moving around the country quite a bit and doing well in polls. yeah, it s fine. it don t mean anything. for him, i can guarantee he s not looking at a poll whether or not to run. he s checking he is core and as he says, i m thinking about my fami family. he knows full well what it means to run for president. he knows the toll it takes on i don t family. so, hey, jeb, if you need some help, give me a call. does he seem happy or what? he seems happy where he is. according to the quinnipiac university poll, jeb bush leading in his home state. let s go to julie pace down in washington. julie, this is not in the words of the grateful dead a long, strange trip for chris christie. it has been a short, strange, rocky, turbulent trip for the new jersey governor. and it looks like a lot of his donors are starting to lose patience. yeah. this donor battle between chris christie and jeb bush i think is fascinating because they re both playing for money from the same pot, where you have more mainstream republicans, more business-minded republicans, who first were leaning towards chris christie but the second that this bridge scandal popped up, started looking around to see who else was out there, and they really like jeb bush. this is a guy they would love to get into this race. i just also think that the bush family dynamics on this are absolutely fascinating. you have george bush saying i want my brother to run and you have barbara bush a few months ago saying i hope he doesn t run, we ve had enough bushes. i m curious what h.w. has to say. h.w. i think has long wanted his son to actually run for this office. you know, mark, a lot of people close well, we had tina brown here, who is not extraordinarily close to hillary, but she s always been a big hillary fan, they ve run in similar circumstances. she wrote a column this morning saying basically, hillary, you know what it s like, don t run. and barbara bush doesn t want her son to run because of her son and her grandchildren. it s getting more brutal every day to do this. i don t know if there s momentum or if it s just chatter, but maybe hillary won t run. people have always been talking with the assumption that this is a fait de comeplete. we have christie and jeb bush this reenforces the power of the establishment. whenever you have a bush and christie conversation, the tea party are very aggrieved, who are these establishment people? all of a sudden people do sort of line up behind them and it a very, very powerful kind of endorsement. it always happens. it always happens. in 1992 you had the challenge of course when pat buchanan, george h.w. bush ended up winning. in 96 it was buchanan, the conservatives hated bush, dole won. john mccain, all the conservatives couldn t stand him, he won, he won. they at least win the primary, even if they lose the war. can i ask you a question? you certainly can. i don t think i want you to. by the way, happy birthday. what s your question? the economy has been getting better for a couple years. i mean, it s slow, right? we re not booming but we ve been getting better. do you think the economy is still job one for any candidate? oh, my god, yes. is it always even if it s good times? people don t feel like it s getting better because long-term unemployment, as steve talked about. even without the long-term unemployment, real wages have been dropping. big banks are still big banks. bigger than they were. too big to fail has gotten even bigger. you look at working class americans, they ve been losing the battle for decades now. yeah, this is economy is job one. and it s got to be more than just pointing at the last guy because this is a 20-year, 30-year systemic problem. i think there a lot of reasons to be excited. i m very excited about the energy revolution, about manufacturing coming back. as steve said, it s not going to be coming back at $35 an hour, it might be $16, $17, $18 an hour, but i d rather have it here than in china. china is having problems with growth as well, down 7%, 8%. china is not going belly up but at the same time, you re starting to hear people in america to say, wait a minute, it s starting to cost me more to send my jobs over to china. you get the shipping to get back, general electric we re talking about. you have the innovatiowvatio. i wouldn t trade this economy for any other one in the developed world. that said, as you said, joe, wages aren t going up, huge long-term unemployment, 6.5% for those even looking for work. this is the number one issue. but there s two ways, without get too long wonky, there s two problems, cyclical and structural. this is structural. agree with you. if it is structural, who can fix it? how do they fix it? we talk about slicyclical, b look at the last two bump-ups. the late 90s it was fueled by the nasdaq, it went bust, people too excited about it and in 94, 97, you had the tech bubble. as our good friend paul krugman said, he wanted a housing bubble to replace the tech bubble and it did. for the past 20 years, we have been fueled by bubbles. this is what worries economists. it s like a heroin addict. each time you need a bigger and bigger dose to get some kind of recovery to get some kind of growth happening. we re still in a cyclical phase but there are structural issues and someone has to take them on. so, julie pace, you have an article about pushing for data, and new privacy laws. tell bus that. this is something the president called for as part of the larger nsa review. it s what s referred to as big data, which basically means all the information that the government, that private sector companies pull on all of us. and there s a lot of concerns about what happens to this data. and one of the really interesting things in the white house report, which was overseen by john podessa, obama s new counsel, he found there s a real risk of discrimination. as people collect this information, they know an awful lot about us, and they fear this information could be used to discriminate against people in things like financials decisions and housing decisions. it makes a lot of sense when you think about all the information we pump out about ourselves in social media and every form we fill out. it tells people about our age, our race, our gender. it s scary to think how that can be used against us. of course, mark leibovich, they follow around our habits on the internet, which is extraordinarily dangerous. extremely. no, we would never ultimately, this is about disconnect. when you talk about the economic numbers, one of the reasons people are sort of taken aback by this is these economic factors have not really touched washington, d.c. the last couple of decades. what state has the highest percentage of millionaires? washington is the wealthiest metropolitan area. name one major corporation based in maryland. lockheed martin. d.c. in maryland state. the washington post post company i don t work there anymore. d.c. you get my point. the money. we have this gilded age going on and a lot has been inflated by the government and a lot of growth around government. i guess this is a good time to plug my back, right? do it! now out in paperback, this town is actually about this gilded age in d.c. we have the white house correspondent dinner this weekend so it s the perfect timing. everybody should walk around with this town as they walk around to see who is there. mark leibovich and julie, thank you very much. and mark, we ll have you back in about 12 minutes when the unemployment numbers are reported, am i correct about that? yes. and coming up, does separatist really mean russian forces? rick stengel and fred kempe join us. but first here s bill karins with a check on the forecast. let s go talk about what happened this last week as far as the amazing video was concerned, we saw all the devastation in penpensacola, tornadoes. and then there was this out of baltimore. [ screaming ] this was taken from someone s porch. railroad tracks below the little river that turned into a gushing river in baltimore. unbelievable scene there. and there s this opposite view of it. literally, the houses, they re telling people they may not get back in their homes for weeks until they stabilize or literally build a new retaining wall. let me take you to where we are now. we saw not just the east, the west had an unbelievable hot stretch. it was 95 degrees yesterday in san diego. that was the hottest temperature they ve ever seen in may by five degrees. and the drought in california continues to get worse. we have a drought that s getting worse in kansas, oklahoma and texas. it s just been a lot of extremes. the eastern half of the country has been wet and stormy ey eve since the winter and the west warm and dry. tampa and orlando, you re going to get rained on in some portion of your day. showers from minneapolis and chicago. as we go into saturday, there s not a lot of bad weather to be found. we re nice even into sunday. there are no more extremes. and the kentucky derby is going to go off as we go throughout saturday. for the derby itself, you couldn t ask for a better forecast. more morning joe when we come right back. run until she s out of breath, ran until there s nothing left [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn t fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today.and tomorrow. so let s see what we can do about that. remodel. motorcycle. 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it s great to you have back in a different capacity. i was telling the guys here i was just in burma and malaysia. it s fantastic. burma is a great opportunity for american public diplomacy. you know i m going to put this in before you go to whatever you want to talk about. it may be mika s birthday and my birthday today but tomorrow is world press freedom day. the united states government is on the side of journalists oppressed everywhere. journalists are more oppressed today than any time in history. vladimir putin one of the terrible offenders through the years of press freedom. a lot of reporters who have reported on him have ended up dead. 99 journalists were killed in the line of duty last year. what s changed is journalists used to get harmed in the line of duty and now they re targeted by governments. that s disturbing. speaking of vladimir putin, we have now a helicopter shot down in ukraine. vladimir putin ordering the ukraine government to get their own forces out of their own country. what s next in this downhill spiral? thank, joe. i had a conversation with a pretty senior figure in the obama administration today. i said what s going on? and he just come back from the region and he said, fred, it s just like jurassic park. he s a history guy and loves preworld war ii history. he said i ve been studying bones and now the dinosaurs are awake again, it s so exciting. what s happening in this latest attack is we re seeing the unraveling of something much more sophisticated. putin is not bare knuckled. he doesn t need to invade. he s been oozing across the border with special forces and insurgents. he s been using psychological operations. he doesn t want to send tanks across because that would unify the west. that would really take the camouflage off of him. what ukrainians are doing is they re calling putin s bluff by trying to clear out these areas like in donetsk. if he comes across with more conventional forces, that will unify the west and help them enormously. what we learned today is protesters can t fire shoulder-held missiles. this is definitely special ops, well-trained troops. 25 of them go to the building, take it and bring in local activists, go to the next building, take it and bring in local activists. and of course john kerry went to the atlantic council and ripped putin s russia over the ukrainian crisis. what can we do? you look at the wall street journal and unfortunately angela merkel is sending a message, my top corporations don t want anymore involvement. i agree with fred, it s russian special operations. they re illegal and violating of the geneva agreement. but there are new sanctions that are potentially being prepared. i mean, i think the u.s. is looking at ratcheting it up to match what russia is doing there, but what we really want is for them to de-escalate the situation. but when you look at the record of sanctions, rick, through history, going all the way back to cuba and rhodesia and all these places, when they work, it takes a long, long time. i would argue putin is making fundamental errors that in the long run are detrimental to his country. the president has said there s no military solution to this so you have to look at alternatives. but you re being rational. assuming putin is rational. i don t think we should be irrational because he s irrational. no, but we have to find something rational to do. one of the problems with sanctions here is reports out this morning that russia is not being punished at all by these sanctions. the ruble has gone up and their markets have gone up since the sanctions were announced. does this suggest we need to send tougher signals to putin s russia? there s no doubt there have to be tougher signals. it was interesting, we did have secretary kerry at the council this week, vice president biden and kerry was strong but he was strong prime i recall that we wouldn t give away an inch of baltic s territory as they are nato partners. he didn t go so far with ukraine. the problem with sanctions, it s a total new battlefield now where we are using sanctions not to punish the russian for what they re doing but as military deterrence to stop them from what they might do. it s clear the sanctions aren t sufficient to do that or the threat of further sanctions. part of the problem is how dependent europe is on russian energy. we re looking at this wrong. it s not about the ukraine. it s about the future of russia, a nuclear arms state. this is going to go on for years, it s a long game. we re looking for the future of the international system. we re at an inflexion point that could be just as important as the end of world war i and end of world war ii. if we don t shape the international system, then less benevolent actors will step in to do that and that s what we re seeing in ukraine. thank you, rick stengel i have a gift for mika. this is flashlight held by the great singer of ukraine where she turns it on, thousands of people turn it on and she sings the ukrainian national anthem this weekend. we honored her this weekend and we had about 800 of these in the audience. there s a nice little bow on it. huge jobs numbers just came out. thank you fred, thank you steve. that is lovely, fred. thank you. will finally this be the month for economic recovery? 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breaking news. the jobs numbers are a big story this morning. brian, what are they? i don t use the word spectacular much, except to describe you, mika. i m going to use it for this report here. 288,000 jobs. are you serious? of course i m serious, and don t call me shirley. unemployment dropped to 6.3. labor force participation rate, the number of people in the workforce or looking for a job rose as well. professional business services added 75,000. hold on labor force participation rate dropped. the number of under employed people stayed steady at 7.5 million. but 288, can you knock the number? it was going to be 220 and this a really good number. and the revisions for february and march were also very good. steve, there have been so many reports over the past three years that we ve looked at and they ve been disappointing, they ve sort of been flat. this is one of the best slices of good news at least you can always fudge a 6.8 or 6.5. 288,000, that s a real number. that s something to be excited about for middle class people, working class people trying to get back into the workforce. it s an exciting number and it going to be an exciting number in the white house and for a lot of democrats trying to get reelected this fall, if the trend continues. 250 would help us get out of this quagmire, right? we ve been receiving this anemic push up and down in the hundreds. 250 is where we needed to be and above to show that we re in economic recovery, that it s stabilized. that s right. 200 kind of keeps us whole because of people coming in the labor force. 250 is actually a move in the right direction. now 288. it s the biggest number we ve had in a long time. average hourly earnings also creeping up again. it just goes up a few cents. it s saying there s demand for your services. if somebody has to pay you more, it s because they think somebody else might be able to take your job or there s competition for the job so that s exciting. it s such good news that we baked a cake because we anticipated a 288,000 number. how is it? it s very good. you re having a taste? wow. i m going to go for a slice. since you guys are eating, i m going to go over the numbers. to steve s point, the last month was revised over 200,000 as well here. keep an eye on that. i said that the economy had been getting better for about three years and rattner, you were p pooh-poohing all over me. talking about pooh-poohing is not the way to go on the set. oh, my god, i love jim gaffigan. and who knows where, joe, the conversation will take us. there is the vegetarian hot pocket for those of us who don t want to eat meat but still would like diarrhea. hot pocket it should just come with a roll of toilet paper. there s the lean pocket. i don t even want to know what s in there. imagine the directions, take out of box, place directly in toilet. flush pocket have some more cake. stay with it baby if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me,
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jesus said love your neighbor as yourself. that s the spiritual foundation for the common good. certainly if you talk about a common good, too, you and i probably disagree on a lot of issues and probably disagree on immigration reform and what shape immigration reform should take. but, my gosh, you and i both want what s best for this country, you and i both want what s best for this world. if i m a progressive and you re a tea party member, you re a liberal, i m a conservative, i think that s the greatest breakdown is we can t even sit down and have faith that the other person wants what s best for this country, even if we disagree. i remember you had myself and richard land on, a southern baptist and sojourner talking about immigration reform. we disagree on many things you but on that issue we had really come together. let s have a debate about key issue, but we don t trust each other enough, we don t trust each other s intentions enough. the nation is looking for its leaders to solve problems, and glen would talk about how jesus inspires us to i would say don t go left, don t go right, go deeper. go deeper. that s what glen always taught us how to do. and we can follow his legacy and quite frankly also the book, the uncommon good sounds like washington could use, or all us. reverend jim wallis, thank you so much. it s really, really nice to you have on the show. always a blessing to be with you, always a blessing. up next, you wanted it. yes, i did. that s really a better way of putting it. i did, i wanted it. i demanded it in fact. we got it, the mojoe week in review, next on morning joe. ask and you shall receive. vo: once upon a time there was a boy who traveled to a faraway place where villages floated on water and castles were houses dragons lurked giants stood tall and the good queen showed the boy it could all be real avo: whatever you can imagine, all in one place expedia, find yours the was a truly amazing day. without angie s list, i don t know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. for over 18 years we ve helped people take care of the things that matter most. join today at angieslist.com or how ornate the halls are. tall the building is, it doesn t matter if there are granite statues, or big mahogany desks. when working with an investment firm, what s really important is whether the people behind the desks actually stand behind what they say. introducing the schwab accountability guarantee. if you re not happy with one of our participating investment advisory services, we ll refund your program fee from the previous quarter. it s no guarantee against loss and other fees and expenses may still apply. chuck vo: standing by your word, that s what matters the most.
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