right now. thanks so much for joining us. see you back here tomorrow. on friday! good morning everyone. today is thursday, the 6th of november, 2014. i m anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. her abduction caught on camera but this morning that woman has been found alive. come get her. what did police know about her kidnapper? we re live at her home with the developing details straight ahead. what a story. this map shows a clear blow to the democrats. look at all of that red. but it s not so clear to our president. he says tuesday s voters are the minority. to everyone who voted, i want you to know i hear you. to the two thirds voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you too. is he in denial or just being defiant? we re going to report and you decide. call it a new campaign record. one election barely over but rand paul seems ready to run against hillary. you think so? mornings i know this for sure are better with friends. welcome back aboard. live from studio e. brian, she s here and she s in good shape considering she ran the new york city marathon. yes. i slept with my medal under my pillow. we ll do the debrief 6:30 this morning. you raised $60,000. a big thank you to all. we get to see some of this along the way. yes. fantastic. we ll get your time too at some point? that s why she s got the watch. a couple of years ago the president said he got shellacked by the midterms. people said he would have some words. he didn t have big describeer about the loss. he didn t seem to say there would be a shakeup. he said i hear you, america, what happened. but it seemed to go in one ear and out the other. watch this. to everyone who voted, i want you to kn you. to the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you too. is this just a problem with gridlock in washington and everybody s upset with the town of washington, d.c.? it s not your policies that the american ehecht rat is upset the american electorate is upset about? brit hume was on with megyn kelly last night. i think more than he think he was trying to call attention to the fact that less than half the electorate participated and belittle the results as not all that meaningful or important. and to take it a step further, not all that related to him. at least that s how it struck me when i heard him say it. i thought it was almost comical sometimes. i thought the questions were probing and direct. the president, the way he went around the answer and maybe each and every time forget the question. when he said i thought the high point, or low point was when he said i m going to get some legislation i m not going to sign and do some things that s going to tick you off. either you re going to really like me or really, really like me. he s going to do his own thing. there was a sense of i understand the new landscape but i m not changing at all. is there another question? that was pretty much the tenor. one thing i thought was interesting, on the republican side there was a bit of pressure. a much different tact from mitch mcconnell. he seemed methodical, didn t seem eebility. didn t seem he ebulli nt. the president said i just want to hear from republicans. republicans are picking a more proactive approach and laying out what they think they ll be doing. john boehner and the new prospective he s probably going to be the majority leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, they ve got an op-ed in the wall street journal today. it says essentially the americans have entrusted republicans with control of both the house and the senate so here s how we re going to fix the economy. essentially he s saying they re saying let s go obama. here s what they d like to do. fiction the fix the complex tax code that drives jobs overseas. we ve talked about that a lot. the highest rate in the world. they d like to repeal the unpop har tax on medical devices, part of the affordable care act. and install the keystone pipeline which would bring about tens of thousands of jobs. these are things he thinks he can get consensus on and do this thing call passing the budget. the president, all he did was talk about was immigration. what the republicans seem to be talking about is some type of tax reform. when the president says essentially i will give you i will give you the motivation to do some immigration reform by legitimately threatening you with my own immigration reform if you don t do immigration reform the way i want you to. do you understand? the game is rigged according to the president. because essentially what he was saying is you re going to have more of the same. he talked a lot about common ground, but he didn t talk anything about compromise. keep in mind for the last two years the house of representatives has passed hundreds of bills, and then they take them in, they wheel them in to harry reid s office, they put them on his desk and they just sit here. and they die. and they die. the message of the mid tems was clear. washington is sitting there and america thinks you re broken. our question of the day is do you think the president got the mental of the midterms? got the message of the midterms? is he defiant? is he in denial? you can facebook us, tweet us as well. a lot of times when candidates are on the campaign trail people will say is he somebody you would like to have a beer with. president obama yesterday kind of addressed that. listen to this. you know actually i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. i don t know what his preferred drink is, but my interactions with mitch mcconnell, you know, he has always been very straightforward with me. the one time they met face-to-face, i m sure he was. in fact, a reporter during the press conference asked the president, he said how come you ve only met with him a couple of times? is it because you don t like a mint julep? a bourbon? that is the headlines in the daily news today. the president says i would like some kentucky bourbon with mitch. that is kind of a charming thing to say if only at the white house correspondents dinner about a year ago the president didn t say this about having a cocktail with mitch. why don t you get a drink with mitch mcconnell, they ask. really? why don t you get a drink with mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell did have fun with it the next day. but let s see if they do little things where they know they can get a consensus like the x.l. pipeline and maybe start doing real things. the first real thing would be financing the war and getting permission to fight the war or whatever we re doing right now against isis. that will be before november s out. meanwhile it s eight minutes after the top of the hour. and heather childers is joining us here in studio e where she has been dispatched to do the news. and we start with shocking news about somebody we listened to for many, many years. heather. shocking charges this morning, if you can believe it, of a acdc linked to murder. phil rod accused of hiring a hit man to kill two people in new zealand. he appeared in court. he looked disheveled. no details of the alleged plot are being revealed. we know he is being charged with possession of meth and marijuana. he is now free on bail. he will be back in court at the end of the month. breaking overnight, after going missing, the body of a 20th century fox executive was just found. police say hikers found gavin smith in a desert near los angeles. his mercedes turned up hast year in a storage locker linked to james creek, a convicted drug dealer. smith was reportedly in a relationship with his wife. despite the reports that dozens of gitmo prisoners are returning to the battle field, the obama administration just released another one. this one is now back in his homeland of kuwait after nearly 13 years at gitmo. he is the first prisoner released since bowe bergdahl was exchanged for five taliban generals. sources say the administration is fast tracking transfers before the new republican-led senate can put a stop to it. al-odah was accused of being an associate of osama bin laden but the administration says he is no longer a threat. what do you think? country music s biggest night all about this star. stuck in my head all morning long. miranda lambert taking home nuclear power c.m.a. taking home four c.m.a. awards, breaking records held by martina mcbride. and some taking shots at the president and taylor swift. i ll be the first one to say president obama does not care about postpartum taylor disorder. i m pretty sure that is why he lost the senate. how do you know the president doesn t care? i asked him. when did you ask the president? yesterday. i jumped the white house fence, ran across the lawn. the door was wide open. wow. getting a little political. a little rough there. brad later spilled the beans on some huge baby news. he revealed that carrie who we know is pregnant is having a boy. those are a look at your headlines. getting a little dicey. hilarious. the chemistry between the two is so great. and i love miranda lambert with meaghan trainor with all about that bass. they get to talk. these guys sit down, they say a few words. people calm down. we ll go a little over. like the old days. like this show. we can go on and on. we can t now because we have a fox news alert. her abduction caught on camera but this morning that woman has been found alive. carlesha freeplanned gaither was kidnapped from her home. now she is reunited with her family. now we have the details. what do police now about her kidnapper? police say he has a lengthy rap sheet and he has been caught doing pretty nasty things to with many. this morning here, carlesha s cousin stepped outside of the north philly home where her mother lives to speak to us. she says her cousin is still shaken up. we asked her if carlesha knows the man everybody has seen in the video that police have in custody, she said they are not sure. the entire country waited to see what would happen to the kidnapped nurse as she was snatched off the street and it was caught on camera. take a listen to what her cousin says this morning. she wants to tell everybody, the media, the public, our facebook, our instagram fans that she loves y all and she wants to thank you all so much for your support right now. that s all she kept saying was thank you, thank you, thank you. she didn t confirm whether carlesha was at her parents house but her attacker will be in court sometime this morning. a crazy story with a happy ending. fortunately. 13 minutes after the hour. coming up on fox & friends, one election barely over but rand paul seems ready to run against hillary. one issue that sent voters to the poll, the economy. charles payne to weigh in on that. good morning to you, chuck. what makes thermacare different? two words: it heals. how? with heat. unlike creams and rubs that mask the pain, thermacare has patented heat cells that penetrate deep to increase circulation and accelerate healing. let s review: heat, plus relief, plus healing, equals thermacare. the proof that it heals is you. more americans have health insurance. manufacturing has grown. our deficits have shrunk. our dependence on foreign oil is down as are gas prices. businesses aren t just creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990 s, our economy is outpacing most of the world. the president giving himself a great report card. pat on the back. his own back. the day after voters opted for republicans, the president told americans his economic policies worked over the past six years. our national debt is $ $17.9 trillion. plus $92.6 million left the workforce in september. and the poverty rate among black americans is 27.2%, up from 24.6% in 2008. so what can republicans do you to what can republicans do to turn things around? charles paip is here. all the things the president talked about, he hardly had anything to do with any of that stuff. the fracking miracle, which by the way, we know we are the strongest economy among western countries because they re further ahead in the experiments he put us through in the last six years. the economy is doing better. there is no doubt about that. people get upset because it s where it should have been four years ago. it s grown at 3% instead 1.2. this is the worst post recession recovery in the history of america. our wages are where they were over a decade ago. they have not moved, yet the cost of living has gone up. people dropping out of the workforce, the poverty rate is up, those things are devastating. those are things that are part and parcel of trying to build this great giant social welfare utopia where no one makes too much and no one makes too little. we ll be happier if we adopt your plan. quickly. the republicans, focus. i like when mcconnell talked about ted cruz, saying americans need to believe washington can work again. cut tax bills, low-hanging fruit. less taxes means more money in america. more money means we all do better. energy deals. you guys talked about keystone. we ve got draconian deals out this. even coal companies e.p.a. regulations. even coal companies want to have so-called clean coal but they can t do it overnight. the measures that have been put forth to them have been a death knell to them. let s start passing a budget. it s easy. let s have a budget so we can debate something. charles, thanks for coming in. don t miss charles because making money with charles is on the fox business network. 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(electric hedge trimmer) everybody loves the sweet, fluffy deliciouslness of king s hawaiian bread. : update on the midterm elections. virginia senate race still too close to call. republican ed gillespie trailing mark warner by 17,000 votes. officials going through all the votes to certify them now. the race between republican dan sullivan and incumbent mark begich also up in the air. officials are weighing in 40,000 absentee and early ballots. sullivan was spotted removing his campaign science. in north carolina, campaign drama. a campaign woman allegedly kicked a voter in the groin. no details on why this all went down or what kind of ice tea it was. we love our kids but that doesn t mean they aren t making us sick, and diseases that hit them may hit us as adults even harder. here with the five you should look out for is fox news medical a team dr. marc siegel. good morning. the first one is the virus known as the hand foot and mouth disease. it is called hand foot and mouth disease because you get blisters. when kids have that, they have headaches, sore throats. i worry about adults getting this because if they have h.i.v., diabetes, you can get a much worst case. also pregnant women. if you re around kids that have hand, foot and mouth disease, you have to watch out for t. what are some of the symptoms? the main symptoms are the blisters, headaches, fevers and sore throats and feeling very fatigued. next up we have hepatitis a. we think of that mainly for developing countries. i make sure all of my patients that are traveling to developing countries in the middle east and asia get a hepatitis a vaccine. it takes a few months to be active. that really helps. but i worry about adults that get hepatitis a who already have underlying liver disease. if they have hepatitis b or hepatitis c. on top of that i give them this. or if they are very elderly it can be a big problem. next up is fipps disease. it is number five in frequency between chicken pox and mumps. it gives kids red cheeks. it s from a virus. i worry about it in pregnant women and people with underlying anemia because it can give you decreasing blood count. adults get it, they get more of a problem than kids have with it. if you re a pregnant woman or someone who is anemic, you should try to stay away even more than the average american? be on the alert. absolutely. i think the most common one is chicken pox. as an adult it can be magnified. this is what everybody is asking: if you have had chicken pox, you can get shingles. if you have never had chicken pox as a kid and didn t get the vaccine, what you get a grown up who has chicken pox. if you get it as a grown-up you ve got to watch out for pneumonia, dehydration, brain swelling. this is a serious disease if you re an adult getting it. i tell everyone out this if you haven t had the chicken pox vaccine you can still get it. puts you at risk for shingles but not chicken pox. 27 minutes after the hour. coming up, democrats using race to sway voters but fox news contributor stacy dash calling that garbage. that s the propaganda that s false. that makes it someone else s fault, your life, your destiny, anything you want is dependent on somebody else. that is not true. she ll be here live in a few minutes. one election is barely off but rand paul seems ready to fight against hillary? the tweets going out. last night s country music awards. [coughing] dave, i m sorry to interrupt. i gotta take a sick day tomorrow. dads don t take sick days, dads take nyquil. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. [coughing] hey amanda, sorry to bother you, but i gotta take a sick day. moms don t take sick days, moms take dayquil. the non drowsy, coughing, aching, fever, sore throat, stuffy head, power through your day medicine. by 1914 the dodge brothers and set out on their own.pany they believed in more, than the assembly line. they believed driving was a holy endeavor. a hundred years later the dodge brothers spirit lives on. last night republicans picked up a dozen seats in the house to give them their biggest majority since world war ii. or as they put it, time to party like it s 1939. by the time jimmy fallon was done dancing we re talking about 2016. we talked about it on the couch with governor christie yesterday and a few others, but rand paul during the night of the election could not help but take aim at hillary clinton. on his facebook he started a gallery with, as you can see down below there, the hash tag hillary losers. he goes on, he features a bunch of people. you can see michelle nunn. you can see mr. udall. the list goes on and on. the biggest loser on tuesday was hillary clinton. even though the midterm just over, rand paul pretty much is running for president. it s pretty clear. you would have thought it would take at least until next summer. why wait? paul ryan came out and said she is not inevitable. then hillary barbour says blaming the election on hillary clinton is a bridge too far but she put in the time to endear herself to the party perhaps. i made 54 stops in 30 states. the problem is none of those candidates are in power right now. they were in hotly contested races and they all lost. so when it comes time for hillary to be making campaign stops there again, they re not going to be the heavy hitters they would have been when they re private citizens instead of holding public office. hillary since she is on the outside, she can run against congress. my friend lost. i did my best. you know, that s what friends are for. what do you think? is there some strategy to this or is that just how it wound snup is it going to work to hillary s benefit instead are they hillary s losers or ultimately hillary s helpers? let us know. something people have opinions on, democrats or republicans, that is gitmo. he took the money and ran. a brand-new report says the united states paid a ransom for the release of sergeant bowe bergdahl. one problem? the afghan who mediated the deal took the cash and took off. this was before we swapped the alleged army deserter for five gitmo prisoners. the pentagon denying the report. the list of attorney general eric holder got shorter this morning. we re hearing u.s. attorney loretta lynch is being eyed as the top candidate. a spokesman for lynch says she will not discuss her prospects. the harvard grad currently serves on a justice department review board. an extreme case of road rage caught on camera. take a look. this group of men seen fighting over a parking spot at the mall. one gets so angry, this happens. there goes his car too. two people had to jump out of the way just seconds before the driver cashed into their s.u.v. no word yet on whether that driver was caught, but we know that he is going to face some charges this. and have a messed up car. did the guys catch him? we don t know yes. look for a wrecked vehicle. man oh man. she is out on the slick streets of new york city now. we have rain across noorks. there across new york city. we have a storm system as far as texas up to the northeast. it will be cold enough that some of that rain will be snow for some of you across portions of new england. we have winter storm warnings in effect across the state of maine. if you remember, about a week ago we picked up over a foot of snow and now the forecast calling for 8 to 12 inches of additional snow from this round as we head through friday and wind gusts up to 30 miles per hour will be possible. temperature wise, very cool across portions of the great lakes. highs only in the 40 s in places like chicago and also in minneapolis. let s head back inside. i cannot believe we re talking about a foot of snow already in new england. maria, thank you very much. meanwhile the new york city marathon had more than 50,000 runners. do you know any of those people? anna kooiman ran this past sunday in just under four hours and all for a very special cause. is this true, anna? absolutely. you see us holding hands this? we re holding hands for a good cause to raise money for the folds of honor foundation which gives scholarship money to our nation s heroes. we re north of $50,000 now. we re headed to the starting line. anna kooiman from fox & friends and? major dan from folds of honor. we ll see you in a few hours hopefully. on your mark! we did it! 26.2. i love you, 26.2! this was for all the men and women in uniform, everybody at fox, thanks for changi! thank you. without you, these scholarships are not possible. anna kooiman, fantastic. thank you. folks to donate, you can still donate, go to foldsofhonor.com or go to our website, friends@foxnews.com. to see some of the recipients say thank you for the pain we went through you saw the little boy? his dad actually died while serving. his education is going to be taken care of. and his mother is in school right now at the university of tennessee getting her education taken care of. major dan rooney has done some extraordinary things not only as a fighter pilot but since then. yeah. we finished in a good time. we did 3.54, beat our goal. you know what s amazing, at the end you looked the same way he did at the beginning. fantastic. coming up straight ahead, you saw democrats use race to sway voters, but fox news contributor stacy dash calling that garbage. that s the propaganda that s false. then that makes it someone else s fault. your life, your destiny is dependent on somebody else. that is not true. that is what she told bill o reilly. she is here live next. the president not getting the message from the midterms and vowing to use the power of his pen to do whatever he wants. just how far can he go? 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[ female announcer ] what s the best way to tackle football season? new bounty nfl prints. available at walmart [ female announcer ] what s the best way to tackle football season? when you take advil you get relief right at the site of pain. . . a a a on tuesday, democrats used the race card to try to sway voters. it apparently did not work. and fox news contributor stacy dash, who grew up biracial, knows why. well-educated people saying to minority people, you know what, no matter what happens, it s not your fault. it s white privilege. that s the propaganda that s false. then that makes it someone else s fault. your life, your destiny, anything you want is dependent on somebody else. that s not true. that is not true. joining us is fox news contributor actor stacy dash, she s the first person up in los angeles this morning. good morning to you, stacy. good morning. it s good to have you. a lot of people we know you from the movies and television. people don t know your personal story. both your parents were addicts and you grew up in a biracial family. you were a tough kid and didn t know the way and after high school kind of figured it out, didn t you? yes. i knew what i wanted to be which was an actress. i just worked hard and pursued it. that s what i did. that was my focus. it was your focus. and since then, you ve become active on social media and things like that. and there are a lot of people who have bad mouthed you over the last couple of years because you, you know, you re biracial and you re supporting republicans, famously mitt romney, and stuff like that. how does that make you feel? you know, it just fuels my fire. i feel like race has no place in politics or anything, for that matter, at this stage in our history. we re in 2014. our president is black. it s over. it s time to move on. absolutely. and yet the democrats in a number of races played the race card. this was that one down in, i believe, georgia sanctioned by the democrats state committee down there where they said essentially if you don t vote for michelle nunn we re going to have another ferguson on our hands. do you think the race card backfired on the democrats this time? it absolutely backfired. their race card rhetoric no longer stands and it has been shut down completely. so i don t know what they re going to do now. you tweeted out after mia love s big win in utah, breaking those racist sexist, #republicans just elected mia love to congress. oh wait. what s your message there? the message is they were the most qualified. mia love and tim scott, they were the most qualified and that is why they won, period. that s it. absolutely. so to the democrats or the people on the left who said wait a minute, republicans would never vote for a black person, you say what to them? i guess you re wrong. they won. let s victory. let s turn that on its head. bill burton, long-term confidante of this president and former white house gierks guy says this about how the democrats will have to change. it was a tough night. if you have to take any lesson from it it is democrats will never be able to win in midterms if we don t figure out how to talk to white voters. i honestly think that s it. i don t think the message we have has been able to translate to the coalition of voters that helped bring republicans into even more power. that s a head scratcher. i haven t heard that one yet. the democrats aren t going to win until they can figure out how to talk to white voters. baffling. they re grasping at straws now. that s what they re doing, which is good. we have them on their heels which is where they should be. but they re making it about race again rathe than the issues. right. and we have to keep pushing past that. just push past it, you know. it s irrelevant. give it no relevance. there you go. stacy dash, fox news contributor, actress and what not out in los angeles. stacy thank you very much for joining us live today. thank you for having me. you bet. a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. most 18-year olds are headed off to college, but this one off to the house of delegates in west virginia. what? she s america s youngest politician. she joins us live coming up. the president not giving the message of the midterms and vowing to use the power of his pen to do whatever he wants. so how far does that pen go? judge napolitano has seen the ink. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me. zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. despite a major midterm loss, president obama shows no signs of backing down on his big push for executive action. i feel obliged to do everything i can lawfully with my executive authority to make sure that we don t keep on making the system worse, but that whatever executive actions that i take will be replaced and supplanted by action by congress. you send me a bill that i can sign and those executives go away. so if you send a bill exactly like i want it, i ll sign it. just how far can he go and what can the gop do if he goes that far? we re going to ask that question to judge andrew napolitano. do we have a couple of hours? so far what is it within his power to give an executive order to do something as massive as revolutionizing immigration in this country? it is regrettably, it is within his power to do so. but we are still a government of laws. we are still a constitutional republic. he has taken an oath to uphold the law. if he tells the department of homeland security how to process people when they want to come in the country, he can do that. he runs the executive branch. but if he tells homeland security and border patrol look the other way when illegals come in, that is violating his oath because it s a failure to enforce the law and he took an oath to uphold the law. so if the practical effect of his executive order is the opposite of what the law requires, i hate to say this, republicans don t want to do this and i understand why, he s a candidate for impeachment. what about the dream act when he said if you were brought here as a child, you can stay here and don t fear deportation? it s not the dream act. it s the dream executive order. he basically said there are 15 laws here. i m only going to enforce two. you can break the other 13 and i won t go after you. so if the president decides, oh, there are 12 million illegals here? i m going to stop deportation and send a signal to the people south of the border, come on in, we ll let you in and once you re here i won t deport you, he will be violating the law. he will be break his oath. he ll be putting a tremendous pressure on the social systems in the united states and there is nothing the congress can do about it during his presidency unless they want to kick him out. let s look at the number of executive orders. bush 41 had 166. bill clinton, 364. 43 had 291. this president, 184. sometimes executive orders are good, brian, because look, there is 3 million employees in executive department of the government. if the president issues an executive order, he s basically saying to a class of them, here is how i want you to enforce the law. if that s consistent with the law, it s good. but if it s not consistent with the law f. it says, for example, to border patrol, look the other way, that s wrong. that s unlawful. it s then back into congress hands to do something about it. right now the president said yesterday, if you don t get me a bill, i m going to do this thing, you re saying republicans can do what? impeach him. i m not suggesting they should. i m aware of the political consequences of that. i recall what happened last time. but that is their only remedy under the constitution. now, they could deny him the funds with which could do what he wants, but they can t do it yet because the budget is a year ahead of time. so he already has those. look, just so people don t misunderstand this, he can t make them legal forever. he can only make them legal during his presidency. once he leaves, it s up to the new president to decide if they want to keep it there. judge andrew napolitano, we got to get some answers to this because the president vowed to do this and certainly in the lame duck session. condoleeza rice fires back at contracts who use race in the mid terms. i have been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. the great thing about the united states of america is that you can be of any color, any ethnic group, any nationality, any religion and you can have dreams and aspirations. our exclusive interview with the former secretary of state and national security advisor, condoleeza rice, next hour. you got the bargain kind? 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(all) awesome! i love logistics. hi, everyone. good morning, today is thursday, the 6th of november. i m anna kooiman. this woman violently abducted on surveillance cameras found alive. i always knew my daughter was coming home. not a doubt in my mind that she wasn t coming home. i just had to wait for the day. this morning there is breaking news on her kidnapper. meanwhile, this week voters across the country came out in force and painted america as you can see, mostly red. but the president says don t mind them. they re the minority. to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you, but the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you, too. so he hears everybody. but it kind of sounds like he s in denial, or maybe he s just being defiant. your comments pouring in. we ll read some of them. big question is, if people don t say anything, can you hear them? you saw the ads telling black americans to vote democratic. right? to avoid another ferguson. correct? this morning the former secretary of state condoleeza rice fires back. i have been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. the great thing about the united states of america is that you can be of any color, any ethnic group, any nationality, any religion and you can have dreams and aspirations. the former secretary of state is on fox & friends exclusively because she heard mornings are better with condy. mornings are better with anna as well. good morning to you. great to be here. you said you re not sore after running the marathon? my hamstrings were tight. but this is my fourth. the other three i was miserable close to a month. but maybe it s because we raised money for folds of honor and the good lord is blessing me. we raised over $50,000 for families of soldier. people can still contribute, right? yes, our web site. the president on the heels of a landslide for the republican party. they now control the house and senate and a majority of state houses across the country. you would think that the president at his press conference yesterday would have a conciliatory message. but no, no, no. essentially he said, it s going to be my way or the highway. i m sure we ll get plenty done as long as i want to do it, but if they don t want to do what i don t want to do, we re going to have a problem. yeah. he doesn t appear to be changing any of his policies or the people around him. look at the former presidential leadership before him. president bush in 2006 fired some top officials. president clinton in 1994 moved closer to the center. but the president s basically digging in his heels and saying, this is what i m continuing to do even if you re not buying what i m selling. oh, maybe you are, you just decided not to come out to the ballot boxes? doesn t make sense. friday he ll have a big meeting and meet with leadership. he has a lot to do in his lame duck session. the most interesting thing is he has no idea what the republicans want. he can t wait to hear. listen. to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you, too. that makes perfect sense. the election didn t count because the majority of americans didn t vote. actually that s not how it works, mr. president. we have elections and whoever shows up to vote, that s what counts. brit hume thought it was kind of amazing as well. here he is with megyn kelly last night. i think more than anything he was trying to call attention to the fact that it was a less than half of the electorate participated and thereby to belittle these results is not all that meaningful or important and to take it a step further, not all that related to him. at least that s how it struck me when i heard him say it. come on, you want to hear what republicans want? how about a few hundred examples that you have from the house, these bills that got through and never got up for a vote in the senate because of harry reid. he put them in the shredder. i think a lot of democrats are frustrated because as joe manchin said yesterday, i d like to come out and explain to my constituents how i voted. not why i didn t vote. they really have not done anything for years. so at least it s going to be back to business, back to debating, back to putting something on the president s desk and then seeing if a deal could be struck. here is what you re saying about the president s press conference yesterday. ty says i m wondering how long before he blames bush. well, he s been doing that for years. facebook says, this is a great start for moving in the right direction and although i believe he got the message, he will not admit it, nor will he change. michael on facebook writes, what i heard yesterday was him still saying i m going to do it my way. cue the frank sinatra music. meanwhile, we know exactly how the republicans want to proceed because in the editorial pages of the wall street journal this morning, probably the incoming senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, along with the current speaker of the house, john boehner, have got a road map where they think they have common ground with the president of the united states. yeah. they ll be taking on big government spending and obamacare using the power of the purse. here is what they have on their agenda. they ll fix the complex tax code that drives jobs overseas. yeah. this is something that democrats, at least 17 in the senate, repeal the unpopular medical device tax, which is part of raising money to make the affordable care act affordable. the keystone pipeline green lighted. they would like to do that. and end excessive regulations. we heard small businesses say look, it s a drag on us and please, we ve gone for years in the red. let s pass a budget and do something about the debt. 16.2 trillion is where it was two years ago. this week 17.9 trillion. the good news is we are getting additional revenue in. but looking at the affordable care act, game on and look ago dodd-frank, those are some things mitch mcconnell went over and he ll talk to the president about it. they already spoke once on the phone. they re going to have a big meeting tomorrow. we ll see if we ll have anything if it s anything but photo ops. the last line of the op ed in the wall street journal by the speaker and the majority leader says the skeptics say nothing will be accomplished in the next two years as elected servants of the people, we will make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong. well, good luck. other stories make headline, we ll go down to heather childers. good morning. good morning. a fox news alert. philadelphia woman whose abduction was caught on camera found alive. overnight she was reunited with her family after sunday s violent kidnapping. this happened three blocks from her home. her cousin, speaking moments ago, about her return. she wants to tell everybody, the media, the public, our facebook, our instargram fans that she loves y all and that y all so much for your support. that s all she says was thank you, thank you, thank you. so lucky. police say that her kidnapper, 37-year-old delvin barns, has a long criminal history, suspected in another abduction case last month involving a 16-year-old teen-ager. in 2005, he allegedly held his estranged wife captive inside their philly home. listen to this, shocking this mornings the drummer of ac/dc is linked to murder? accused of hiring a hitman to kill two people. no details about the alleged plot. we do know he s also charged with possession of meth and possession of marijuana. the 60-year-old now free on bail. he will be back in court at the end of the month. does a gitmo detainee just released by the obama administration still have ties to senior al-qaeda leadership? he is now back in his home land of kuwait after nearly 13 years at gitmo. the administration says that he s no longer a threat, but fox news just obtained a tweet that linked him to al-qaeda in syria. here is the message. it was posted by a well-known islamist twitter user before it was announced, before it was announced he would be released. it says, 1,000 congratulations to the al oda family forages the issue of guantanamo bay from the beginning. investigators are asking how did terrorists know he would be released before it was announced? sources say the administration is fast tracking transfers before the new republican-led senate can put a stop to it. and finally, get ready to crash his party. luke bryan wins the biggest honor at the cma awards. i love luke bryan. yeah. okay. i ve got to read something here. he was named the entertainer of the year. his trophy presented by to him by former winner, garth brooks. do you think he ll sign my baby? oh, yeah. great. hey. we could name him garth! what are you doing? did you catch it? we knew she was pregnant, but it s not a secret anymore. brad paisley spilling the beans. revealing carrie underwood is having a boy and those are a look at your headlines. i think she should name him luke. there you go. is this an homage to luke bryan? exactly. thank you. let me tell you what s coming up straight ahead. you saw the ads telling black americans to vote democratic to avoid another ferguson. when we talk about that, the former secretary of state condoleeza rice, she fired back. i ve been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. it s an interview you ll only see here on fox & friends. what happens when news anchors think the cameras are turned off? that s what they do at channel 59. advil stops pain right where it starts. relief doesn t get any better than this. advil. do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. when diet and exercise aren t enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. yeah! crestor is not for people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired, have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine, or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of serious side effects. are you down with crestor? ask your doctor about crestor. all right. welcome back. former secretary of state condoleeza rice is one of the world s most influential women. as the country ace chief diplomat under george w. bush, she was at the center of the most critical decisions regarding our national security and status in the world. dr. rice stopped by our studios yesterday where i had a chance to talk to her on everything from the gop takeover to the possibility of her name being in the running for 2016. madam secretary, this is a long time coming, but it s great to have you at this historic time of the the six-year mark of a second term president historically in america is always tough. the president by almost all accounts got a huge message in the house and he lost the senate now. do you believe by his remarks that you just heard that he seems to get the message that things have to change? well, i don t know what s in his mind. i have to say that i hope that when he plans to do is to take the message that the american people don t like the course that we re on and there has to be change. he s going to have to work with republicans, not just to do the things that the president wants to do, but to do the things in a bipartisan fashion that need to be done for the american people. president bush said we took a thumping. and president clinton. i hear your message. did you hear any of that? well, i didn t. but to be fair, let s just watch what happens now. the president did mention his remarks that i m ready to act with the executive action if i don t get legislation that i can sign from congress. what do you say to the possibility of executive action on immigration? we can t have a circumstance in which we are going after a problem as meddlesome, as potentially divisive as immigration by executive action only. this has to go through the people s representatives. that s our system. that s the congress. i like to move back to the election on what it means because i know this strikes home for you. the race card was used in georgia by the democratic party. if you don t elect a democrat here, you can expect ferguson to happen. and trayvon martin as well. you can expect that in the streets if north carolina doesn t go a certain way. your reaction to that as a woman that grew up as a young girl in the south? the fact is, we re not race blind. of course we still have racial tensions in the country. but the united states of america has made enormous progress in race relations and it is the best place on earth to be a minority. the idea that you would play such a card and try fear mongering among minorities just because you disagree with republicans that they re somehow all racist? i find it appalling and insulting and as a republican black woman from the south, i would say to them, really? is that really the argument that you re going to make in 2014? that s very interesting because senator tim scott said this. when i was a high school kid, i heard so often, you re just not black enough. i m not even sure what that was supposed to mean. but simply said, too many kids today are facing a choice of dumbing down in order to fit in. first of all, does it mean that you re not acting black if you speak well and you re interested in things? what are we doing to our kids when we tell them that their ethnic identity has to make them unsuccessful? that, to me, is really a racist thing to say. and i ve been asked many times myself. and i say i ve been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. to my mind, the great thing about the united states of america is that you can be of any color, any ethnic group, any nationality, any religion and you can have dreams and aspirations that are your own and then you can pursue them. that s when this country is about. people say, it s historical electing the first african-american. what do you say to people who say hillary clinton is going to run. we all know that. health allowing. i m going to vote for her because it would be historic, i want to see the first woman. i always make my choices on people s policies, on what i think they ll do as president. that s the wisest course. and i just hope everyone will listen to the policy choices that candidates are putting before us. i couldn t help when i talked to president bush, it didn t take him long to bring his brother, jeb bush. what can you tell me about the jeb bush you know? i am very fond of jeb bush. i believe he s he s a friend. he was a terrific governor of florida. i worked with him on some immigration and education issues. it s going to be a good field, i think for the republicans. who excites you and intrigues you? i m in a mode to listen and let people debate and let s see who emerges and comes forward. what about you? i am a professor at stanford. i m a happy professor at stanford. that s where i m staying. i got the chance to be secretary of state. i m an international relations specialist. it doesn t get better than that. i ll always find ways to serve my country, but these days, it s through work with boys and girls clubs and playing concerts for kids, and picking football teams. good to hear from her. we miss her. yeah. she s on the world scene and also, when she says picking football teams, she s on the committee that s going to pick the first college playoffs. she s going to be on the group that decides who the best teams are in the country. that with golfing and very involved in international relations. very nice of her to stop by. very political, that picking the four teams. it s harder than many things. speak of condoleeza rice, do you remember this fox & friends moment? she was a good sport. you know, condoleeza rice, i did the whole thing, difference between the tale of two people, condy and delisa saying i know you took my ink pen and condy is employee of the month. cedric the entertainer is back and he joins us live shortly. and most 18-year-olds are headed off to college. but this one, off to the house of delegates in west virginia. their youngest politician joins us next. than ever why now is the best time to be on verizon. one: verizon s the largest, most reliable 4g lte network in the country. that s right america. with xlte in over 400 markets. two: and here s something for families to get excited about. our best pricing ever! get 2 lines with an incredible 10gb of data to share for the low price of $110! or just $140 for a family of 4! and three: get $150 credit for every line you switch. the more you switch, the more you get. verizon. who would have thought masterthree 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 ? time for news by the numbers. first, 1855. that s how many firearms tsa agents found in carry on bags so far this year. many of them loaded. agents also found stun guns and grenades and a sword. next, 62. that s the age of the last retiring army hero drafted during the vietnam war era. ralph rigby be served continuously since getting drafted 42 years ago. ten cents. that s how much money will go to the troops this veterans day if you buy scoop of camo ice cream at baskin robbins. it looks delicious. yummy. remember this aspiring politician? i think it s time that our generation learns the importance of conservative principles and there is no better way than just to run. the only thing we ve gotten is lower jobs, more debt, and less opportunity. so i don t think a fresh perspective will hurt anyone. six months after that interview right here on fox & friends, 18-year-old sarah blair s wish came true. sarah just made history, becoming america s youngest state law maker elected to office in her home state of west virginia. she is 18 years old. as you can see, she won by a large margin and she joins us live this morning from charleston, west virginia. good morning to you. for the folks who are not in west virginia, are unfamiliar with your platform, you won on this, tell us your platform that you ran with your campaign out of your dorm room there at the university. i ran a very conservative platform. i am pro-life. i m pro-second amendment and pro-constitution because those are my uncompromising principles. but most importantly, i wanted to bring jobs to the state of west virginia. i watched too many people my age get their high school and college education here in the state and then leave because they can t find a good paying job. and it s sad that they have to leave their family and the wonderful state that they love. so it s most important for me to bring jobs here. also you re a fiscal conservative. you believe in the voter i.d. and opposed to same sex marriage. for many teen-agers, men or women who are your age, it may just study these issues for their debate class or political science class. what got you so interested in changing america and wanting to run? i ve always been really interested in the process. my father did serve as a state senator for several years and i chatted him. i had gone to the convenience, i worked as his campaign manager and had was always something i wanted to do, but never planned at such a young age n. my junior year of high school, i attended this program and it brought 300 high school students from around the state of west virginia to our capitol, charleston, and we wrote a bill and presented it on committees, voted for it. we really got to see the parliamentary procedure. after seeing how capable the students were of creating effective legislation that would be so positive on our state, i decided that i didn t need to wait until i was 40, 50 or 60 to run. why not do it now? besides, you re very effective at 18 years old and giving this particular presentation of your platform. let me ask you this: most 18-year-olds, if you watch tv, you would think they are very to the political left, a lot of progressive kids your age. are you the exception to the rule or are there a lot of fiscal conservatives your age at your school? there are a lot of conservatives. i think the problem is, i think they re afraid to be open about their views because of the way that they re going to be taken for it, because our generation typically is looked at to tend to be liberals. i think as more conservatives saw that it was okay to stand up for your views and you re not going to be beat up on social media for it, then i think they will come out. so i hope that being open that it s okay to have the same views as your grandparents, i m hoping that some more young people will stand up for their beliefs. great. sarah, we thought your story was so interesting, we had to put you on and our social media and our viewers have been pouring in with questions. this one comes from a viewer your age, scott. he says, have you had any issues or arguments with young liberals and how do you counter them? i do. a lot of my friends are and they don t really understand why i m running and they disagree with my views. but i do believe that everybody has their opinion and i won t try to shove mine down their throat. but at the same time, i use facts to prove to them. our state has had the same population since 1980. we just switched over to having republican rule. but for 84 years, we had democratic rule. and so when west virginia is ranked 49th and 50th on every positive list, number one or two on every good one, then those are the facts and there is something wrong with the democratic rule we have in our state. when you put it that way, there is not really a lot of room left to argue. you make a great argument. she is headed to the statehouse in west virginia. she s going to defer her spring term so that she can be there at the 60-day session. sarah blair, good luck to you and congratulations. thank you very much. have a good day. all right. 29 minutes after the hour. a company found the perfect picture of a hairy man to use four its ad campaign. it s too bad he s the master mind of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. plus, do you remember this fox & friends moment? she was a good sport, you know, condoleeza rice, i did the whole thing, the difference between the two, the tale of two people, condy and dally is a. condy is employee of the month and dally is a is the one saying, i know you took my ink pen. we remember that and he s back. cedric the entertainer is coming in the studio. they re next. introducing nexium 24hr finally, the purple pill, the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand, comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™
commercial breaks are very long. we have to keep ourselves entertained. that s what happens when news anchors think the cameras are turned off. this anchor caught breaking it down, his co-anchor looks like she s not having it at all. joining us is the star of the soul man, cedric the entertainer. you were dancing along with that guy, too. yeah. he had the smutty dance going on. i like it. what happens, when you re with somebody, we think you re funny and clearly he thinks he s funny, but the person next to him doesn t. you got to keep going on. he s enjoying himself. it s about you! you have to ride that out. she look like the boring one. exactly! he s getting all the news coverage. she likes it. doing the ipad dance. she totally wants to let go right now. look at her. she s holding it in. he got two ipads up right now and a notebook, like a big iphone 6. so he s got like all things. he s on tv, too. most people in your life think you re funny. would you keep a friend that didn t think you were funny? no. be gone! off with his head! somebody could be president in the past, was not funny or much of a good drink companion would be mitch mcconnell. although yesterday here is the president where he sounds like he wants to go and have some bourbon whiskey with him. listen. you know actually, i would enjoy having some kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. i don t know what his preferred drink is, but my interactions with mitch mcconnell, he has always been very straightforward with me. why don t you get a drink with mitch mcconnell, they ask? really? why don t you get a drink with mitch mcconnell? maybe they will be having mint juleps together. i think so. that s not a bad move. maybe can bring jimmy russell who makes the wild turkey. i love those commercials. old jimmy russell. he s from chicago. i mean, kentucky, the bourbon, it all makes sense. it can be a bonding thing. you think it s a good start? it s always a good start when there is kentucky bourbon in the room. that s a good message for the kids watching. of course. a little bit of bourbon in with your juicy juice. your pro-bourbon. so you re here just to talk about bourbon today. is that true? no. i think the sound bite was the correspondents dinner. the difference between condy and delisa. and that joke went over well. on the couch and our viewers. but sometimes jokes go over like a lead balloon and that appears to be what happened to chris rock on snl over the weekend. take a look at this. they should change the name from freedom tower to the never going in there tower. cause i m never going in there. you ve been training for a year! you finally get to the finish line and somebody screams, run! sometimes you have to laugh so you don t cry. what do you think? definitely. as a comedian, it s our job to kind of push the meter a little bit. you try to make things that are funny that could be you re talking about the world trade center and 3,000 people dying and rebuilding the freedom tower. but again, i think the whole idea is to kind of look at it in the spirit of man, something really tragic happened there and i m just kind of relating it to me personally. so i think that he s just trying o have a good time with it and not necessarily, you know, talk bad or light of those who lost lives. sure. and he was tying the world trade center and then what happened in boston as well. but it s tricky when you re in your business because you got to figure out is it safe to talk about now or am i going to get in trouble? it s hard for you to talk about chris rock cause you got a dvd with him. i got a movie coming out with chris rock. it s always one of these things, it s running joke where comedians go, is it too soon? how do you tell? you can tell when people go, you re going to be on the news. so it s too soon for that. so the cd you have coming out is what? top five coming out in theaters in early december, very funny movie. chris rock wrote and directed. i play a funny character in it by the name of jazzy. it s going to be great. i m sure it will be a big hit. so something serious, your dad has it. 29 million people suffer with it. it s diabetes. yeah. diabetes. november is american diabetes month. i m partnering with pfizer to make some awareness, to get people to step on up, to go and visit their doctor, you know, get checked out. not just diabetes, but it s the pain that goes with it, the tingling, the burning, shooting that goes in your hands that people don t associate with diabetes. and it s in our community, it s undiagnosed. people don t want to know the answer. so i m just encouraging people to get out, step on up, go to the web site and learn more about diabetes and your diabetes pain. the pain that goes with it. you re not just cedric the entertainer, you re cedric the nurse practitioner today. i am. it hurts when i do that (thank you very much. if you want the web site g to our web site. and on facebook, we ll answer the question, does cedric put on the sweater first then the hat or wear the hat then the sweater? you know. you told me in the break. thank you, guys. here is heather. i love the hat and the shoes. sweet. we have some headlines to talk about for you. very quickly, he took the money and ran. a brand-new report says the united states paid a ransom for the release of sergeant beau bergdahl. one problem, the afghan media knew the deal, took the cash and took off. this was before we swapped the alleged army deserter for five gitmo prisoners. the pentagon is denying the report. this ad enough to make your hair stand on end. turkish cosmetics company actually using the mastermind of the 9-11 terrorist attacks as the face of its hair removal spray. and here is the worst part. when asked why they would use him to sell the product, a spokesman for the company said they didn t know that he was a terrorist. they just thought he had a hairy body and that if he was a good fit for the ad. and last week, michael jordan calling out president obama s golf game. he s a hack. you really want to say that? i done said he wasn t a great politician. well, now the president firing back at mike. but there is no doubt that michael is a better golfer than i am. of course, if i was playing twice a day for the last 15 years, then that might not be the case. he might want to spend more time thinking about the bobcats or maybe the hornets. all right. jordan, part owner of the hornets who are 2-3 so far this season. you know i m a big sports fan. i love my panthers and hornets. i ll just say they did beat miami last night. it was 96-89. last half hour, nothing but nba highlights with heather. it will be great. oh, good. you re doing it. bring in the charlotte hornets has been huge. you heard the president say he s ready to work with republicans and get things done. but haven t we heard that in the past? peter johnson, jr. up next with a look back. then john stossel says he s got a bone to pick with ann coulter. why? stick around. midterm beefs. goodnight. goodnight. for those kept awake by pain the night is anything but good. introducing new aleve pm. the first one with a safe sleep aid. plus the 12 hour strength of aleve for pain relief that can last until the am. now you can have a good night and a. good morning! new aleve pm for a better am. woman: everyone in the nicu all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn t trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we re owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. if you re caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. by 1914 the dodge brothers and set out on their own.pany they believed in more, than the assembly line. they believed driving was a holy endeavor. a hundred years later the dodge brothers spirit lives on. my name is karen and i have diabetic nerve pain. it s progressive pain. first that feeling of numbness. then hot pins. almost like lightning bolts, hot strikes into my feet. so my doctor prescribed lyrica. the pain has been reduced and i feel better than i did before. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor about lyrica today. it s specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. our president striking a bipartisan tone in his postmidterm speech to the nation, hinting he might be even willing to reach across the aisle in the last two years as commander in chief. but haven t we heard that before? i told john boehner and mitch mcconnell that i look forward to working with them. what i m committing to is making sure that i am open to working with them. i m eager to hear good ideas wherever they come from. i am very eager to hear republican ideas. we must find common ground anywhere where weak find common ground, i m eager to pursue it. so can americans really trust that this time the president and congress will get things done? they haven t in the past. let s talk to peter johnson, jr. it s time to trust and i guess we have to verify, too, as president reagan would say. he said all the right things yesterday. he said, do you need to recalibrate? no, but i need to reach out to them. it will be up to the republicans to make it work because he s not going to make it work. he s an ideologue. he s stuck to his first principles. he says i ve got another small piece of my presidency to go. i m not going to back off anything. but the issue is who is the adult in the room? who is going to show the american people that they have the capacity to lead and could work together? the republican party doesn t have to step away from what they believe in. but i think they have a great opportunity to show that they are about reconciliation. they are about leadership. they are about bringing people together in a way that works for this country. so if the president will stick to what he said yesterday, that s a wonderful thing in this country because people are sick and tired of the division and the deadlock and they re sick and tired of the democrats blaming republicans for that division and deadlock. that showed in this election. so if he in truth wants to stickie what he said, that would be a great thing for all of us. if he doesn t, then we ll have that partisan deadlock. but the republicans, through mitch mcconnell and john boehner can step up and be the smart people in washington and say, listen, you can push us, you can trash us, you can make fun of us, you can have your media outlets go after us, but we stand for first principles and the american people and we re going to make it work and we re going to show you that we can make it work in the next presidential, too. what the president said yesterday was he said wherever we can find common ground. he didn t say anything about compromising. see, when he ran for president, he said i m going to go to washington and i m going to change it and i m gonna compromise. you know what? he won t use that word. he s not going to use that word. and presidents have lost midterm elections in the past. reagan did. eisenhower did, roosevelt did. they went on to do things. hopefully the president will go on to do things with a republican congress. that s what americans want. they don t want division. they don t want deadlock. they want the president to step up. it appears that the republicans are willing to do that, who is the adult in the room? we want them all to be adults. but sometimes it takes one to remind all the others. so we re looking for mitch mcconnell and john boehner to lead the president by the hand and say, hey, let s do reagan and at this point o neill all over again. thank you, sir. good to see you. next up, john stossel says he s got a bone to pick with ann coulter. why? you ll find out. first this day in history back in 1979, the eagles had the number one song in america heartache tonight. your mission? a homemade dinner in thirty minutes. go! your method? new campbell s® soups for easy cooking. helping you cook recipes like speedy sausage rigatoni in just thirty minutes! dinner accomplished. try new campbell s® soups for easy cooking. when you take advil you get relief right at the site of pain. wherever it is. advil stops pain right where it starts. relief doesn t get any better than this. advil. the rain, the mud-babam! we re new to the pacific northwest. it s there. the outside comes in. 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and that all of their self-interest will create tax reform? we can hope. here is what ann coulter says you have a problem with. if you re considering voting for the libertarian detainee, please send me your name and address so i can track you down and drown you because nothing matters more to the country than republicans taking a majority in the senate. which they did. we thought about that and she said she won t drown me cause i live in new york, so my vote doesn t count. but in north carolina, it might have made a difference. in virginia, maybe it did make a difference. warner won by a very small percentage. not yet. he s not giving in yet. oh, really? okay. it s going to be tough. the libertarian got 60,000 votes. and that might have made a difference. except the exit polls show the libertarian took equally from liberals, moderates and conservatives. so won t blame us! you say libertarians are not spoilers? well, they might be. but the exit polls show that we take from both parties. sure. so what is your message? what s your headline from the midterm election? my headline is this exit poll you cited, which sounds so good that americans don t trust government. great. except the numbers were about the same six years ago when people went along with obamacare and dodd-frank and alt crazy spending and regulation we ve gotten since then. i wish those numbers were higher. we don t like it, but we still can t change it, unfortunately. john stossel we will. we ll see. don t misss to the on the fox business don t miss stossel on fox business. thank you. coming up on this thursday, call it a new campaign record. one election barely over, but rand paul seems already to be running against hillary clinton. then it was the sight seen around hollywood. this morning the true story behind this photograph. i (state your name), do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. hi, everyone. good morning. today is thursday, the 6th of november, 2014. i m anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. we begin with a fox news alert. her abduction caught on camera. but this morning that woman has been found alive. somebody come get her. told me she loves me and come get her. what do police now know about her kidnapper? we are live at her home with the developing details. when you take a look at that map right there, a blue and red states. it s a clear blow to the democrats because there is more red there. but it s not so clear to the president. he says that the people who voted on tuesday are the minority. to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate i in te process yesterday, i hear you, too. so he hears everybody. but it kind of sounds like he s in denial or being defiant. we re going to tell but it and you ll decide. then the marine just freed from a mexican jail now speaking out about the wrong turn that landed him behind bars for eight months. they were very helpful and then it shifted. and then i knew this could be bad. wow. greta van susteren helped sergeant tahmoreesi home and is here live with with more of her exclusive interview because greta knows that mornings are better with friends. where you going? i left something over there. this just in, my notes. thank you. usually they re lost by this hour. thank you very much. anna, thank you for joining us on a rainy day here in new york city. dry inside and we ve got a lot of news going on today. president started mitch mcconnell started at 2:00 o clock eastern time. the president came out on time about 2:50 and spoke for over an hour, after a statement, taking questions. even talked to ed henry. old friends. here is a little of how the president s tone and tenure after speaking out for the first time after losing an additional actually expanding the republican advantage in the house and then losing the senate. listen. to everyone who voted, i want you to know that i hear you. to the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, i hear you, too. so what happened on tuesday, it was a landslide, mr. president, for the republicans. doesn t really matter because a third of the country voted and two-thirds of the country didn t. what? well, that s not how things work. brit hume knows that. megyn kelly heard that. listen. i think more than anything, he was trying to call attention to the fact that it was less than half of the electorate participated and thereby to belittle these results is not all that meaningful or important and to take it a step further, not all that related to him. at least that s how it struck me when i heard him say it. it was crazy. yeah. and he s not really making any apologies. he s not making any staff changes that we know of at the moment. and it appears that the american people are no longer buying the democratic agenda and what the president is selling. but the president appears to be in denial about all of it. he says the things that you would think, as you re listening to the tone and his delivery, you think wow, he seems so reasonable. but if you listen to the words and actually read the transcript, he says things like, i m going to get things on my desk and i m not going to sign them. and i m going to sign things that are going to tick you off. how about that for compromise? if you put something on my desk that i like, great. you can meet me halfway on certain things, i m willing to give here, i heard none of that. the questions were great. the answers were nothing to do with the questions. the answers were typical, what we get with this president at these press conferences. yesterday we were expecting him to have a conciliatory tone. they got whooped, the democrats did. the republican high school a really good night and they ve got two years on the clock now. essentially the president said it s either my way or the highway. remember, he got elected back in 2008 by saying, i m going to change the way washington works. right now it s dysfunctional because john boehner passed the stuff, gives it over to harry reid and harry reid sits on it. nothing goes to the president s desk. now because they control both houses, things will go to the president s desk. this is there is a light at the end of the tunnel. something might actually get done, until the president yesterday kind of poopooed it and said let s see what the republicans have in mind. it s also interesting that they re going to vote on things. we re going to have something more to report on. people like mike emmanuel will have to go there because there will be stuff to do. right now he goes there and everyone stares at each other. the question is, will mitch mcconnell reverse that nuclear option that harry reid put into place that said you no longer need 60 votes to get someone nominated fulfilled or other issues. will he go, i think it should have been in place and harry reid shouldn t have done that or now that harry reid left it here, let s see how it feels? if you remember during this election cycle leading up to it, the president said my issues, my policies are on the ballot. my name might not be, but my policies are. yet somehow the voter turnout is meaning there is no referendum on all of your policies and the people that follow your marching orders. my name, my policies, my lanta. essentially i m sure he s upset about it, but he didn t let on to it. we asked you what you thought. did he get the message? larry on facebook wrote, it s not him getting the message. it s that he doesn t care about the message. bonnie says, he got the message, but has already said he has a pen and will use it for his own agenda. i nomar cuss seemed happy yesterday. there is a lot of things talk being with the budget. green lighting keystone pipeline. and other things that could be out there. i thought it was interesting that mitch mcconnell and john boehner somehow found some time to write together and their editorial appeared in the wall street journal that revealed their agenda. the first thing they re going to get to is fix that complex tax code that drives jobs overseas. so many small businesses have been sitting on cash, worried about what s around the corner and nothing not making business decisions. democrats and republicans both know that medical device tax is unpopular in the affordable care act. so get rid of it, mr. president. let s go. and if you would just approve the keystone xl pipeline, there would be tens of thousands of jobs created. he says we re still studying it, but we re almost unstudying it. excess regulation, we re going to see if the epa puts things forward and if the environmental committees in the senate can stop it. also some investigations sure to happen. he also says this, something that you thought would be a natural, pass a budget and address the debt. keep in mind that whole tax reform thing, it s ready to go out of the house. there is some promising things that democrats are saying about it. very curious to see what happens in the senate and if it ends up on the president s desk. people always say that christmas comes earlier every single year. it seems like elections come earlier every year, too. unbelievable, rand paul on the day after the election, he appears to already be looking ahead two years. they re off! take a look at his facebook page. he has bestowed the honor of a number of #hillarylosers to people that she traveled around the country and campaigned for, but simply lost. according to mr. paul, the senator, he says tuesday s biggest loser is hillary clinton. keep in mind, the clintons were the secret weapon for a number of senate candidates and as it turns out, those candidates flat out lost. one of the things, if hillary does run, which everybody she s running! when she goes to all these states and these hotly contested races that her candidate lost, they re not going to be heavy hitters the way they would if they re in public office if they re a citizen like you and me. right. there she is with al franken, who actually did win. hillary clinton probably the best thing to to happen to her candidacy is have a republican senate and house. this way she could say this is the way i would do it different as opposed to, i m just like the president and he has 40% approval rating. meanwhile, heather childers is here with other things happening in the world. yeah. we have other headlines that we ve been following for you. rather shocking charges. the drummer of ac/dc linked to murder? phil rudd accused of hiring a hit man to kill two people in new zealand. he appeared in court looking not even wearing any shoes. no other details about the alleged plot are being revealed. but we do know he s also charged with possession of meth and marijuana. the 60-year-old is now free on bail. breaking news overnight, two years after going missing, the body of the 20th century fox executive just found. police say that hikers found gavin smith in a desert near los angeles. his mercedes, that turned up last year in a storage locker linked to john creech, convicted drug dealer. he was reportedly in a relationship with creech s wife. and does a gitmo detainee released by the obama administration still have ties to senior al-qaeda leadership? al-odah is back in kuwait after nearly 13 years at gitmo. the administration saying that he is no longer a threat. but a tweet that links him to al-qaeda in syria may tell a very different story. the message posted by a well-known islamist twitter user before it was announced that he would be released. 1,000 congratulations to the family for raising the issue of guantanamo bay from the beginning. well, investigators now asking how terrorists knew that he would be released before it was announced. sources say the administration is fast track those tran before the new republican-led senate can put a stop to it. and finally, country music s biggest night all about this star. miranda lambert taking home four cma awards, breaking records. reba mcen spire and martina mcbride and brad paisley and carrie underwood. there you see them. not pulling any punches. actually taking some shots at the president and taylor swift? why isn t our government doing something about this? i ll be the first one to say it, president obama does not care about postpar item taylor swift disorder. i m pretty sure that s why the democrats lost the senate. but how do you know the president doesn t care? i know he doesn t care, cause i asked him. when did you ask the president? yesterday. i jumped the white house fence, ran across the lawn. door was wide open. pretty clever stuff. brad later spilled the beans on some baby news. he revealed carey, who is pregnant, is having a boy. and those are a look at your headlines. funny show and broke some news. thank you very much. you re welcome. fox news alert, her terrifying abduction caught on camera. but that woman has been found alive overnight. she was reunited with her family in philadelphia. wtxf reporter lauren johnson is live outside the victim s home with the developing details. good morning, lauren. reporter: good morning to you. the family all happy and smiles here inside this home in north philadelphia cause they have been reunited. police calling her alleged attacker a thug and say the man they have in custody is no stranger to trouble. her accused kidnapper, 37-year-old delvin barns, he has a long criminal history. he s suspected in another abduction case last month involving a 16-year-old girl. then back in 2005, he allegedly held his estranged wife captive inside their philadelphia home. his latest victim, a young nurse walking the streets of philadelphia sunday night, snatched and stuffd into a car. 70 hours later, police bring her back home safely. she s still shaken up. it s a tough time. it s tough time for us and a tough time for her. she says thank god, at the end of the day, all we can do is leave it in god s hands. family members tell us that she is shaken up. they will be expected to speak later this afternoon and we ll have an update for you as soon as we get it. back to you guys. homecoming. thank you very much for the live report. the interview last night was amazing. coming up, democrats pulled out all the stops in colorado, but they couldn t stop corey gardner from stealing their seat in the senate. the senator-elect is here next to explain how he pulled it off. and how other republicans might be able to do the same thing if they choose in 2016. and the marine locked up in mexico for some eight months now out of jail and our greta van susteren helped get sergeant andrew tahmoreesi home and is here live with more of her exclusive interview. first, more from last night s cma s here, lady antebellum. they re coming. what do i do? 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we put together an incredible ground game, field operation that s never been done before in colorado and perhaps any campaign around the country for republicans. we went into communities, asian community, hispanic communities and made sure that our message was heard. we talked about how when our party is broken, we re going to say it and fix it. so it really was a message as i think you haven t heard before from a republican candidate. regarding that, where is the republican party broken? i think it s broken a number of areas. energy, we have to talk more about traditional energy, yes. keystone pipeline, yes, but also talk about renewable energy. free market way to move forward. when it comes to reaching out into communities, we can t simply be against immigration reform. we ve got to figure out a way to be for immigration reform. these are things that we can move forward on and that s how we won this election. we talked about shaking things up, new generation of leadership. that s what this country wants. okay. also i want to get your reaction to the president s press conference yesterday. many pundits have been saying the president doesn t appear to be hearing the american people, although all of his policies essentially got the thumbs down. what do you think? i think there is two ways for the president. he could either agree and help work this country s greatest problems along with the house and the senate. we ll put a number of bills on his desk to do just that.ç if he doesn t, it s going to show the american people that he and his party are refusing to work with us. if he does, then it shows that we are willing to work with people across the aisle in 2016 and that will help us as well for our nominee, whoever he or she is. the fact is, we can make a difference in 2016 and i think there is two paths forward. either the president becomes a president of obstruction or seen as working with the republican party. why is it it wasn t too long ago when the democratic party had their convention in colorado and many thought it was curtains for the republicans. where did you go that other republicans didn t go and what was it about you that broke through? we really talked about an apt mystic message. we talked about lifting people s eyes up to the rocky mountn horizon that this is every state. the fact for colorado is if you don t put together that vision, if you don t put together that positive idea of how we re going to have brighter day tomorrow, people don t want you there cause they can be angry or upset all day long. but they want somebody who is going to be presenting a positive image about what we can do for our country because this is a positive, optimistic state. that s the message we presented. and that s the kind of thing that republicans around the country need to do. put together a positive agenda that is about moving forward instead of just being about opposition. people liked your message in colorado. that s why you are the senator-elect. cory gardner going without a tie today. thank you very much. congratulations and good luck. thanks for having me. coming up straight ahead, condoleeza rice firing back at democrats who used race in the mid terms. i have been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. my exclusive interview with the former secretary of state straight ahead. first, you remember them, mortgage disaster s freddy and fannie. well, they re back and they re looking for money. your money. real estate expert bob massi is here with what homeowners need to know. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know genies can be really literal? 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well, they basically, fannie and freddy, there was an announcement that they decided they re going to go back and look at those people who what we called strategically foreclosed. what that means, there are people during the crisis that had the money to make the payments on the house, but saw other people who basically were aligning their homes to go also and now fannie and freddiey and the lenders are going back and finding these people. how they re going to do it, i m not sure and go after them for the deficiencies, which is very, very crucial in america for those people who rebuilt their credit. some of our viewers are waking up going, wait a minute. i might be fitting into that category. how do they fit? they will look at unfortunately, when we sign all these paper and all remember, for our viewers to understand, fannie and freddie, they either own the loans or they guaranteed the loan that you have. so they have looked at it and sort of aging these accounts and they lost a lot of money. they paid a lot of money out. they re going to go back and pull credit reports because we sign all these different things, believe it or not. we have give them access to a lot of our personal information. and they will go and figure this out over what period of time, i m not sure. and i m not really sure what the criteria is going to be. but i will say to you and the reason i want to bring this to the viewers attention, if they start getting notices from attorneys to collect money, or collection agencies, then this could be the issue that they re going after these people from years ago, which is very frustrating to those people who have started to rebuild their credit. so if you go to your mailbox today and you open it up and you pull out one of these notices, what s the next step for you? well, look, first of all, don t put your head in the ground. find a lawyer in that area that could look at this stuff. here is what my concern is, look, we know there is consumers years ago that should not have owned three or four homes. there was some consumer responsibility. there are some consumers that did strategically defaulted and said the heck with everybody else, nobody is helping me, i m going to let my home go. my concern is that you could see an onslaught of bankruptcies again. you could see an onslaught of those people who have jobs, built their credit up, now all of a sudden they re going after them for this deficiency where they either getued or collection. so my concern is that respond to it. don t look away from it. don t let them pull you back in. be pro-active on it to try to resolve these issues before your credit does get bashed all over again. but it is a concern. it is a concern. very often you take our viewers e-mails and questions. folks, e-mail us. bob, thanks so much. thanks for having me. 28 minutes after the hour. coming up, it s a fox news exclusive. the marine locked in a mexican jail for eight months speaking out for the first time. they were very helpful and then it shifted and then i knew this could be bad. greta van susteren helps sergeant andrew tahmoreesi get home. she joins us next. then she s never talked about this photograph until now. so what was sophia loren looking at. first, more from last night s country music awards. here is more. introducing nexium 24hr finally, the purple pill, the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand, comes without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™ i was thinking hopefully these guys are going to be considerate and caring and understanding, but i started feeling the things something shift there. they were very helpful and then it shifted. and then i knew this could be bad. sergeant andrew tahmoreesi recalling the moment he knew he was in trouble after accidentally crossing the mexican border. after nearly eight months in a mexican jail, greta van susteren helped sergeant tahmoreesi get home last friday and he s telling her his story exclusive. and she, greta van susteren, host of on the record joins us from our dc bureau. good morning. good morning. we need to point out, you more than anybody, really you devoted so much time to him and i read later that the judge, the mexican judge in the case actually watched your show at night to see what was up. yeah. sure tells us the power of the media and how lucky we are that we have this platform at fox news where we get we go around the world and we can put spot lights on problems. it s a great thing about our jobs. he knew you were fighting for him. did he express that gratitude before the interview started? when i first met him, he said, could i hug you? so i said sure. so he gave me a big hug. this is a very troubled man. i m very worried about this one because he expressed to me that he s paranoid, that he s been paranoid in the past. throwing him in solitary confinement in a mexican prison was a really lousy idea. now he s out. he has had access to guns. i m putting up a big red warning sign to the v.a. help this man. there are thousands and thousands of young men and women who have come back from war. they have seen the unthinkable. they ve had buddies die in their arms. and they re young kids. some of them are 18, 19, 20 years old. but this man, he really needs help. two tours in vietnam an ied blew up his vehicle. i m warning everybody, help this man before there is further problems and help others. yeah. that was the reason he was traveling there in the first place with all his possessions was to get this ptsd treatment. you can t imagine just how much worse it s even gotten. can i just correct myself? it s afghanistan. not vietnam. and iraq. and greta, you had the opportunity to talk to tahmoreesi about why he was being held. we want our viewers to see that clip. let s watch. i think they felt in their hearts that i wasn t guilty. but they decided to keep me there. why? why? you know, their reasons. they want to look a concern way. they don t want to do what s the right thing to do, i guess, because maybe they re afraid of something happening, you know, something that they don t want to happen happen. instead of doing the right thing, you know, it s something that politics, politics maybe. i don t know why. politics. one of the frustrating things about this was when beau bergdahl was sprung, the president said we don t leave a man behind. yet to so many americans, it looked like this guy, sergeant tahmoreesi, abandoned by his own government. we re on cable shows talking about him and it didn t seem like the official federal government was trying to help him out. i deeply disappointed with the obama administration on this. the reason he was released is because he has ptsd. it didn t take 2u 14 days to figure that out. just listen to him. but the mexican government waited that long. the united states government waited that long. this is very it s the very reason he was released and you figured that out in 15 seconds listening to that video. so i do not understand why this took so long. mexico could have deported him. we deport people all the time. i m not suggesting it s a good idea to bring guns into mexico. it is not. it s against the law. but sometimes we got to be smart about this stuff. all right. greta van susteren, going to be watching you tonight at 7:00 o clock for more on that interview. thank you for joining us. thank you. great job. other stories making headlines, heather childers has those. definitely be watching that. 7:00 p.m. eastern. other headlines, he took the money and ran. a brand-new report says the united states paid a ransom for the release of sergeant beau bergdahl. one problem? the afghan mediating the deal took the cash and took off. this was before we swapped him for five gitmo deserters. the pentagon denying the report. the list to replace attorney general eric holder a little bit shorter this morning. we re now hearing u.s. attorney loretta lynch is being eyed as the top candidate. europes began when the brooklyn attorney was eated next to him seated next to him. a spokesman for her says she will not discuss her prospects. she served on a justice department review board. and a shocking admission by the irs, or maybe not so much so. the agency revealing in court that it has not searched any of its computer systems for lois lerner s missing e-mails. they say the reason is lawyers don t believe irs servers would hold any relevant information. what about the back up tapes? remember those? the irs claims there is no reason to believe that the tapes could help in recovering the e-mails. the agency claims thousands of her e-mails were lost in a hard drive crash. finally, 67 years after this, this iconic picture was snapped in hollywood, sophia loren finally explain requesting she gave jane mansfield that most legendary side eye ever. she admitted she was actually shocked at how low jane s dress was, saying, quote, in my face you can see the fear. i m so frightened that everything in her dress is just going to blow. boom. and then spill out all over the table. yeah. and those are a look at your headlines. i know. i know. we re going to check in with maria who does not have that problem today, nor do i. a little cold throughout and rainy. a little chilly. i have my trench coat on because not only is it chilly burks we re dealing with areas of rain moving through parts of new york city and along portions of the northeast. let s look at that radar image. there is rain along portions of the gulf coast. across texas, louisiana. the storm system is pretty widespread. on the backside of it, you re going to notice some snow. we do have winter storm warnings currently in effect across the state of maine. as much as eight to 12 inches of snow are expected there. and gusts up to 30 miles per hour. temperature wise, you re going to be cool today across chicago and also minneapolis with highs only in the 40s. take a look at texas. 60s and 70s in dallas and san antonio. not bad. it s a warm one in parts of california. los angeles expected to get up into the 80s. let s head back inside. but it s winters in new england. all right. thank you very much. over here, it s 68 degrees. thanks to me. i have control of the thermostat today. thank you. straight ahead, condoleeza rice firing back at democrats who used race in the midterm elections. i ve been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. our exclusive interview with the former secretary of state next here. and here is one way to get the kids to school on time. oh, gosh. it s faster than a plane. the guy who built this incredible bus will be here live to explain why he built it. you re going to want your kids to hear this one. think i ll take my bike today, mom. take a closer look at your fidelity green line and u ll see just how much it has to offer, (coffee be ng poured into a cup.) save your coffee from the artificial stuff. switch to truvia. great tasting, zero-calorie sweetness from the stevia leaf. hi, good morning. some updates now on the mid terms. virginia senate race still too close to call. republican ed gillespie trailing mark warner by nearly 17,000 votes. officials are going through all the votes to certify them. sullivan and mark begich race is also up in the air. officials are waiting on nearly 40,000 absentee and early ballots. sullivan was spotted removing his campaign signs. and election dadra ma in north carolina. vivian faulk, county democratic party chair woman, allegedly kicked a poll worker in the groin and hit him with a carton of ice tea. no details about why this all went down. good grief! sounds like not so sweet tea. no. why are your manners? all right. on a different note, former secretary of state condoleeza rice was at the center of president george w. bush s administration, most crucial decisions regarding our national security. so is she ready now for the white house herself? she stopped by our studios and talked to fox & friends yesterday. here is a little of that interview. this is a long time coming. but it s great to have you at this historic time. the six-year mark of a second term president historically in america is always tough. the president by almost all accounts got a huge message in the house and he lost the senate now. do you believe by his remarks that you just heard that he seems to get the message that things have to change? i don t know what s in his mind. i have to say that i hope that what he plans to do is to take the message that the american people don t like the course that we re on and there has to be change. he s going to have to work with republicans, not just to do the things that the president wants to do, but to do the things in a bipartisan fashion that need to be done for the american people. president bush said we took a thumping and president clinton, i hear your message. did you hear any of that? well, i didn t. but to be fair, let s just watch what happens now. the president did mention in his remarks that i m ready to act with the executive action if i don t get legislation that i can sign from congress. what do you say to the possibility of executive action on immigration? we can t have a circumstance in which we are going after a problem as meddlesome, as potentially divisive as immigration by executive action only. this has to go through the people s representatives. that s our system. that s the congress. i like to move back to the election on what it means because i know this strikes home for you. the race card was used in georgia by the democratic party. if you don t elect a democrat here, you can expect ferguson to happen. i m appalled. and trayvon martin as well. you can expect that in the streets if in north carolina doesn t go a certain way. your reaction to that as a woman that grew up as a young girl in the south? the fact is, we re not race till have racial tensions in the country. but the united states of america has made enormous progress in race relations and it is the best place on earth to be a minority. the idea that you would play such a card and try fear mongering among minorities just because you disagree with republicans that they re somehow all racist? i find it appalling. i find it insulting. and as a republican black woman from the south, i would say to them, really? is that really the argument that you re going to make in 2014? that s very interesting because senator tim scott said this. when i was a high school kid, i heard so often, you re just not black enough. i m not even sure what that was supposed to mean. but simply said, too many kids today are facing a choice of dumbing down in order to fit in. first of all, does it mean that you re not acting black if you speak well and you re interested in what are we doing to our kids when we tell them that their ethnic identity has to make them unsuccessful? that, to me, is really a racist thing to say. and i ve been asked many times myself. and i say, look, i ve been black all my life. you don t have to tell me how to be black. to my mind, the great thing about the united states of thatf any color, any ethnic group, any nationality, any religion and you can have dreams and aspirations that are your own and then you can pursue them. that s what this country is about. people say, it s historical electing the first african-american. what do you say to people watching us right now who say, hillary clinton is going to run. we all know that. health allowing. i m going to vote for her because it would be historic. i want to see the first woman. what would you say to that? i always make my choices as a voter on people s policies, on what i think they ll do as president. and that s the wisest course and i just hope everyone will listen to the policy choices that candidates are putting before us. i couldn t help when i talked to president bush, it didn t take him long to bring up his brother, jeb bush. what could you tell about the jeb bush you know and the chances of him running? i am very fond of jeb bush. i believe he s he s a friend. he was a terrific governor of florida. i work with him on some immigration and education issues. it s going to be a good field, i think for the republicans. who excites you? well, i m in a mode to listen and let people debate and let s see who emerges and comes forward. what about you? i am a professor at stanford. i m a happy professor at stanford. that s where i m staying. i got the chance to be secretary of state. i m an international relations specialist. it doesn t get better than that. i ll always find ways to serve my country. but these days it s through work with boys and girls clubs and playing concerts for kids and pick football teams. she s part of the final four committee who will pick the first ever college football final four college football teams. a little later, you ll hear more from the interview, probably on monday on when he talks about international relations, the state of the world and what it is like now that we ve moved off center stage and how the rest of the world has responded. you can only imagine. she s classy. great interview. great job. it is about ten minutes before the top of the hour. straight ahead, your kids are never going to be late to school again. up next, the guy who built that bus and why. let s first check in with martha mccallum. she s going to tell us what is coming up on her show in 11 minutes. good morning. good to see you. so the wave election leaves mcconnell and boehner very fired up this morning. so how will the president react when the bills on the xl pipeline and health care start landing on his desk? 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they look good. i see that. so we ve got video where your jet bus is going so fast, an airplane is chasing it and the bus is winning. yeah. that s what we do for our act. we do air shows all over the world. we re loading up our show in abu dhabi. i ve got a drag race down the runway. why do you do this, paul? we do it for a living, number one. and we also had to get the message out to kids, kids these days have a tendency to sit behind video games. i try to get to schools and get them out there and learn how to build things. go buy a lawn mower. learn how it weld. i grew up on a farm in wisconsin. and do stuff like that. get outside some and learn to do things like that. and also get yourself away from bad influences like drugs. we ve got a neat slogan that jets are hot, drugs are not. and it only seats like two or three people. you can t get a whole classroom in there. but in addition to that, you did a jet powered dog house as well. yeah. jet powered dog house and outhouse. we re trying to we re looking hard at putting one for people. you are the man. sir, thank you and good luck to you. great message. thanks for having us. appreciate it. that s great. we ll be back in two minutes. stick armed. i thought it d be bigger. 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children before their parents got their green cards. that s going to do it for a monday edition of way too early. morning joe starts right now. good morning. it s monday, may 19th. welcome to morning joe, everybody. look, it just might be a beautiful day. with us on set we have the chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch. good morning. pretty. no. you re in trouble. okay. really? we ll talk. some people have excuses. and other people have excuses. all right. msnbc political analyst and visiting professor of nyu, harold ford jr. is here. hello. the host of way too early, the always joyful effervescent thomas roberts. good morning. you re always in a good mood. i try. i need some of that. you re always in a good mood. i m a little bogged down by life. but there s no reason for that. that s what you tell me. and in washington we have the ceo of politico, jim vandehei. several stories developing right now. in california 47 homes are in ruins following an outbreak of wildfires around san diego. crews battled flames on multiple fronts. some families were spared while others lost everything. the entire state is facing a serious drought. and the governor is warning this year s wildfires will be the worst. and relentless rain have left most of serbia under flooding. massive evacuations is underway. the death toll sitting at 25 is expected to rise. the mers virus is spreading here in america. now a third possible case in the u.s. doctors say it could spread through something as simple as a hand shake. we ll have a report from dr. nancy snyderman in a few minutes. and the va admits 23 people have died because of delayed care. a new information points, though, to a far deeper problem. an ohio paper says delayed treatment is a factor in more than 100 deaths. we ll be looking into that. and it was a packed house for friday s first know your value conference which donny missed in hartford. hundreds of women took part in a wide ranging issues. we re going to show you some of the highlights coming up. mea culpa, i was privileged to be invited to judge yep. celebrity judge. with yourself and mr. scarborough. and i got plans. i got big footed because of you. exactly. i was big footed because of you and i sat home friday night. it s always about the children. i got plans to come up to hartford and i was taking morning joe chopper 5 up there, and i have to be home at 4:00 on fridays when my kids get home from school. this is a true story. so it s children first. that s what happens. and once again the scarborough chopper 5 did not work. by the way, 500 women you know what i said when your chopper wouldn t go in the rain, they all went, please. do you think i d turn down 500 women? that s a good excuse. how was the conference? it was amazing. we ll have more coming up. you owe me some shoes. let me get to the shoes. first heading into the heat of the election season. according to politico. likely voters around the country would prefer a republican over a democrat by seven points. nine in ten say the health care law would be important in determining their vote. 60% of the voters say the health care debate should not be over. but a number that perhaps could help democrats, 58% say a candidate s stance on the income disparity between men and women will impact their decision in november. we have a story coming up connected to that. these numbers come as some of the toughest races will be decided tomorrow. races playing out across the map from oregon to pennsylvania to the deep south. despite big money from the senate conservatives fund, tea party candidate matt bevin trails mitch mcconnell. the senate majority leader is on cruise control. but the same poll shows mcconnell trailing democratic likely challenger alison lundergan grimes. david perdue seeming in the lead. but it would take both slashing, spending, and increasing revenue to take down the debt. it s what his opponents have jumped on. he never voted in a regular republican primary. he s flip-flopped on issues that are key to republican voters common core. and now we found out just this week that he seems to be a little bit soft when u it comes to not raises taxes. i use the word revenue. revenue is a code word for taxes in politics, obviously. the point i ve been making for over a year is we ve got to get the economy going that will increase the tax base and help the crisis. voter turnout is expected to be below 20% and at least three other candidates are in striking distance. the winner takes on michelle nunn. then there s mississippi where chris mcdaniel is trying to unseat thad cochran. a blogger has been charged with felony for taking a picture and posting a photo online of cochran s wife who was in nursing home. what? the blogger clayton thomas kelly is a mcdaniel supporter. but what s the point of this? how would that not backfire? politics these days has become more and more nonsense. mcdaniel has condemn s the blogger s actions. first of all, we ll be hearing from kasie hunt in the next hour. big conversation on the midterms and what s going on with those primaries. but what do you make of those polls and how it looks it s playing out on the campaign trail? start with the politico poll. the important part there is the poll was just in competitive house and senate areas. it s not a national poll. it s where the elections will be decided and republicans have a decisive advantage. and the fact that 90% of people have very passionate feelings about health care shows you that is the singular issue of the campaign and does tilt the republicans way. which is the reason they have that lead. you have that broader environment. then inside of that, the big story of the campaign has been that the establishment has been able to get better candidates, to get more money in to support those candidates and beat back the most electable candidates in the races. we don t know what s going to happen in georgia. one of the most interesting things you said about the georgia is less than 20% of voters are going to vote in that primary. there s almost more candidates than there are people that will vote. but it does look like an establishment-backed candidate will win. you come out of those with the candidate republicans want. donny? obviously your poll shows for health care a robust issue for republicans. but as we get close to the general election and as better and better news comes out for health care, is there a possible misstep waiting in the wings for republicans here? that s always a possibility. in durability in health care numbers i see on which people planning on voting do oppose the law work in the republicans favor. the other thing to keep an eye on is win back the senate, i would look at that poll you re talking about in kentucky where it s really a dead heat for whether or not mitch mcconnell can thought it was going to be down. almost every poll i ve seen shows he s up. this is still very much up for grabs. i think health care is going to be the issue which is why every outside group is pouring money into that issue. i think they can capitalize on income inequality. are you surprised at the numbers? i think alison grimes is a better candidate. have we underestimated her? the sense of those in the national press are wrong. i ve met her. i ve wachd her. she has performed at a lel that democrats in that state are proud of. i watched matt bevin, a republican opponent for mcconnell, yesterday on one on the sunday shows. even if he said he wouldn t support grimes, he said he wouldn t support mitch mcconnell. if we know any kind of division amongst republicans could open a door for her to win narrow in this race. i give her a lot of credit for hanging tough. and obviously hanging well to beat the head bot with the error in news polls. whether the president has been completely successful against the republican opposition or not. that is a fair shot. and the issue of equal pay within that, but the income disparity problem that we are seeing in this country. people like elizabeth warren who are heroes on the left and you ve also, donny, got companies now stepping up realizing if people aren t going to come around in washington, we re going to do what we have to do. we re going to do what we can do. the health care law worked better in kentucky than it did in other states. that could be one of the key factors to the extent the political poll is being decided. he opened up kentucky s health care state exchange. didn t rely on the federal government and they were able to get people in the special statewide program that other states could try to emulate. i think his opponent is she s not running on that. portland, oregon, is pulling its money out of one of the biggest corporations. the city will no longer invest in walmart. the city has adopted socially responsible concerns. wages is mentioned in this as well. by 2016 the city will have eliminated $36 million in holdings or about 3% of the city s portfolio. it s interesting. particularly with millennials today, corporations behaving the right way has everything to do with income inequality, so on and so forth. this also goes back to the health care thing and the republican party of no. it s all about populism today. as our nation, as these young people come up, they want income inequality across demographics. they want it across sex. they want companies to behave a certain way. and they want health care for the masses. and i still believe that although on paper this health care argument seems to be juicy for republicans, as we get to november, the issue will backfire. i totally agree with you. and the argument against that is you don t want everybody to have health care, really? it s all the same blush. it s all about a populist nation. the story after story of walmart employees, mcdonald s employees getting food stamps or living below the poverty line. it s impossible in this country to say i m against a minimum wage hike. are you serious? the one thing we ve seen from the issue with minimum wage and so many fast food worker strikes and that s ignited a fire worldwide about what that means for quality paywise. and women by the way. but we get the video, right? we get the video of the protests and we can see them really relate to what they re trying to say, but donny s point to millennials and how they organize now. it s hash tag protests. it s social media. the fact two things that concern me about what democrats in the congress and white house have not been able to accomplish, number one is that. number two, makes no sense why they have taxed private equity who are benefitting from the interest. they tax people over a quarter million dollars a higher rate. the thing they haven t done to address one of the great inequities that could create extra resources for small businesses who say if i raise minimum wage, it hurt this bottom line. the fact we re not producing higher paying jobs is equally as shameful. in this morning s usa today, the front page dominates with the at&t s purchase of directv for $48 billion. it s a huge challenge to cable and stands to reshape content on everything from mobile devices to tvs to tablets. to offer a single bill for cell phone, internet, and tv. that would be nice. it still needs to go through the fec. but if approved, the entertainment giant would serve 26 million people. let s bring in david goust who wrote the story. what is it for the consumer in terms of when this could come to pass and how it would change their lives? the companies say if this does come to pass, it would probably not show up on your bill until next year. what it could mean is the second largest wireless provider in the country would also then become the second largest paid tv provider. that represents part and parcel the big part in the entertainment industry. that is not done. my gosh. it s i m trying to think of a bigger deal that obviously the comcast/time warner deal was in this same vain. the end of the day, we want to watch our morning joe. so in the past whether it was a cable, now it s a possibly device, whether it s a telephone company. he or she who has content equals ie balls, equals winners. when it comes to how many devices you have to have around your house for sure. but david, what are some of the challenges going through. all these deals sound amazing in the headlines but anything could take it down to an extent. regulators are in a bind. they want to compete with wire companies. they want more competition from comcast and very verizon. they re faced with not letting these companies get too big. a couple of major media and technology companies serving the vast majority of more thanes. there are already these pending deals. comcast is trying to acquire time warner cable. sprint has made no secret of its ambition to take over t-mobile. regulators may have to step back and say what does the new landscape look like together before letting one of these go ahead. in every industry, the good news here versus take the pharmaceutical industry where you ve got pfizer making a bid to astrazeneca, that s to move the money out of the country. as long as that s not hurt by this deal, i think it s something the fcc should look favorably on. thank you very much. all right. the u.s. transportation department is ordering gm to pay $35 million for waiting a decade to recall 2.6 million cars over defective ignition switches. that is the maximum penalty allowed. an internal investigation is focusing on how the legal team handled the safety issues. they released a report of words they were told to refuse using. we re shaking our heads. instead of the word problem, employees were to say condition, issue, or matter. and they were urged to say does not perform to design instead of defect. do you smell coverup? other words they weren t allowed to use, titanic, things like that. at least 13 deaths have been linked to the faulty ignition switches. it was the focus of a special documentary last night on cnbc called failure to recall. they asked us to investigate further to try to determine exactly what happened knowing we may never know the answer. cooper hired an engineer, mark hood, who started testing cobalt ignition switches he bought from junk yards. when he compared older switches to newer ones, he discovered something shocking. when he put the replacements through the test protoll kal. he found they were almost three times stronger as far as the difficulty to turn the key. he said you re not going to believe what i found. i said what, he said they changed the switch. cooper and hood realized gm had changed a part quietly. the s.e.c. and justice department are resurgeoning. the company, this is a terrible thing to say, but it s true. the company we re going after, that company doesn t exist anymore because it dissolved. there s a new gm now. the liabilities don t follow the new company. it s a murky and dicey situation. it is a new gm today. legally. completely. and look. this is a serious problem, but this is a completely different organization. there s a woman running general motors now. theoretically peeking, you couldn t have a different type of management. she knows the culture of gm that got them to this point. the big thing for anyone that has a gm, this is on you to figure out if this car is under this recall and figure it out. because these things have caused deaths. bankruptcy? the company, are you going to say it s a new gm now? no. don t misunderstand me. where the recourse is. i think this is terrible. and there needs to be a fix to this. these families need to be taken care of. the thing i ve not heard that i ll likely hear from gm is this problem has been fiked and going forward you have nothing to worry about. i don t know how you trust that at this point if they re telling to mislead people. can you just declare bankruptcy. is there a problem with the bankruptcy laws and just legally be completely of everything but also morally. obviously not morally, clearly. i feel really sour for the first female president of a car company. but this is unacceptable. also, just before as we were doing that figure on friday for the cnbc report, there was a new gm recall that came out. so they have this litany of problems. again, it is on the people who own the vehicle or people in the market looking for a vehicle to buy. go to their website and figure if the vehicle is under recall. the new york times has issued a more detailed statement explaining the reasons behind the firing of executive editor jill abramson. equal pay for women is an important issue in our country, one that the new york times often covers. but it doesn t help to advance the goal of pay equality to cite the case of a female executive whose compensation was not, in fact, unequal. i decided that jill could no longer remain as executive editor for reasons having nothing to do with pay or gender. jill is an outstanding journalist and editor but i concluded her management of the newsroom was simply not working out. you know, i wasn t here friday. i know you had a lot of this last week. two points. number one, i ve had people in the same exact job at different pay scales because maybe their seniority is different. that s number one. we have to be careful. it sounds like a lot of people in the new york times says she wasn t doing a great job. there s always a dangerous pay saying i was fired because i was a woman, because i was an african-american, because i was gay. and there s two sides to this sword. if you do a deep dive here, you are going to find out from her subordinates she was not well liked and she was very hard on the furniture. and, you know, it s very easy to rush to, oh, she was fired because of gender. i think there s a level of potential reality to what you re saying. it might or might not be true. but it s to be considered. having said that, the numbers that we re learning in erm thes of who was paid what and what she had to do to get the pay she deserved, that s a story within itself. because it s and it might be hers to tell at some point. she s actually speaking at wake forest this week. i think today, right? is it today? i believe so. they said she was tough and abrasive. when guys are tough and abrasive, they get treated differently than women are. hopefully we ll get more, i think it makes the new york times look kbrt. but right now they don t look good. this is what we talked about at the know your value conference. equal pay, the descriptions used for us in terms of leaders, women. we talked about all of that. take a look. could you make a lot of noise? that s pretty good. great ased advocates for our s s spouses, business partners, bosses, friends, kids. we are so fierce. but when we make the case for our own value, what happens? where do we go? what happens to our personalities? we start to self-deprecate, we depreciate, we apologize. and usually we get less. and it s time for that to stop. isn t it? i think it is. and we can all start by just stopping with saying the s word. how many of you today said it several times? i m sorry i didn t mean to get in the way. i m sorry, i know this is a bad time. how many have done that? somebody apologized to me walking in the room. i m sorry. why? you re lying. so don t do it anymore. don t use that word. it s so true. the women over the years who have asked me for a raise are always apologizing. whereas men are like, or i m out of here. then there s the jill story. are we afraid of it? we ll see much more coming up in the show. coming up on morning joe, third instance of the deadly mers virus has been detected in the u.s. but there s something unique about this case that has doctors extremely concerned. and south korea s president is taking action after the death of 300 people. we ll explain today in morning papers. michael jackson stuns people at the billboard music awards. huh? we ll show you in news you can t use. we ll be right back. ameriprise asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? i don t want to think about the alternative. i don t even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i try not to worry, but you worry. what happens when your paychecks stop? 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how long will they continue? this is the dry season. it really starts as we go through the end of april and continues until the fall. we don t really start the wet season until november, maybe even december. that s why they re saying this could be an epic summer of one fire after another in the west. yesterday they got the break they needed. only 70 degrees. it was cooler in the region. that s the recipe we needed. today it will be 70 degrees also, but here s the problem. the drought situation for california, 100% of the state is in severe drought. 25% in extreme. don t expect hardly any rain over the next five months. so in other words the scenes we just got through with, any time there s a heat wave with the winds, it ll happen again. also the middle of the country. north texas and oklahoma is in a pretty bad drought too. we have rain in wisconsin through minneapolis and the dakotas. what a fantastic weekend we just finished with. as we go through today, it s going to be gorgeous. the other story that was getting huge headlines over the weekend and these pictures make you open your eyes. the flooding situation, the catastrophe in places around serbia and croatia. they got nailed with three-months worth of rains in three days. the rivers swelled up. they swallowed cities that were evacuated. a third of bosnia was under water. that s home to a million people. and the other thing, remember the civil war that took place not long ago. there were still huge open fields that had active mines. and the flooding went over those areas. not only do we have flood water, but now we could have active mines that have been moved by these. they need a lot of help in that area. this is going to be a catastrophe that needs worldwide support. thank you. let s take a look now at the morning papers. from our parade of papers, the los angeles times, the president of south korea is vowing to disband the coast guard over its response to the ferry disaster which left nearly 300 people dead. president park. the deadly mers virus. and for the first time it was transferred from one person to another. nbc s dr. nancy snyderman talks about it. reporter: the man that tested positive became infected after coming into contact with a health care worker that was in contact with a worker that was in saudi arabia. it would be considered not close contact, but not a passer by. reporter: this research shows the closest contact was shaking hands, reported to have mild cold symptoms. but officials say he is no longer sick and was asked to isolate himself from contact. yet, u.s. health officials worry. we are concerned because it does lead to the hypothesis you can get it easier than we thought. that is of concern. reporter: and since 20% of patients are a-symptom mmatic, know it can take up to 14 days for anyone to show symptoms. those infected get severe respiratory illness. 30% of those in the middle east who have gotten the virus have died. still cdc guidelines say it s not easily transmitted. we have to be careful of giving people the false sense of security. but at the same time, right now we we have to state if the problem is larger in the middle east. reporter: worldwide there has been 572 cases in 15 countries. 173 people have died. officials posted warnings in nearly a dozen airports the the u.s. warning people to be alert of sick passengers. health care workers on the front lines have been told to be extra careful when treating anyone suspected of carrying the virus. still ahead, saturday night live explains what really went down between jay z and beyonce s sister solange. that s coming up in news you can t use. and are the pacers a legit contender for the nba title? 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he did. he fell back in time. harold? if you were advising this administration, the fact that voting and outcomes, how would you advise them to change anything. and what would you urge them to sustain in terms of policy? these are india has a long democratic history. there s not a whole lot the united states should do in india. but in other countries like ukraine, the outcomes are much more perilous for the united states because you have the potential of people coming to power who can do quite a lot of damage to american foreign policy. i think this best policy is one that speaks to the people. speaking of ukraine, why don t we move on there? . we ll learn in a couple weeks if the revolution in the square led to any kind of stable government in ukraine. we know the east is in turmoil because of putin. but now the western part of ukraine gets to decide who will run it next. so we i saw some pieces over the weekend eviscerating president obama s foreign policy. yet is anything working as it pertains to russia and ukraine? not at all. nothing? is he not pulling back troops? nothing? nothing significant. putin has the world and europe exactly where he wants it. under his thumb. and he has ukraine in his pocket. there s not a whole lot that the u.s. or president obama could do, because you re facing a person who doesn t care about the immediate consequences. we re looking at parliamentary elections to be announced may 25th in iraq. the results will be announced. iraq has been incredibly violent. we ve been looking at other parts of the world. we re missing the fact the person we left behind in charge of that country has done an extremely poor job and has brought more people sort of revived civil war between the shiites and sunnis. it would be enormous bloodshed if it wasn t for the fact that next door in syria there s even more bloodshed. let s move to egypt where there will be a presidential election. big demonstrationings in new york yesterday. pro and anti-sisi. the general who led the coup is going to win the election, the question is the expectations from him are so great for egyptians, we re not sure how he s going to meet it. he s inheriting a country that s bankrupt. the people who came to the streets and brought down two governments, they re now supporting him. but in six months the mood can turn. one more, afghanistan. afghanistan, well, what we do know from the there s going to be a runoff next month, but the candidate who was eliminated from the presidential election is the candidate closest to hamid cakarsai. two very smart people left. former foreign minister, finance minister. both of them are pro-west. the real question there is which one of them will be able to talk. on a much lighter note, we ve got to bring it back. i m not kidding. let s do it. there are probably places in jersey where you can get it. of course. i got a guy in jersey. bobby ghosh, thank you so much for the whiparound the world of elections. up next, can republicans hold jo onto a key seat in georgia? i ve been endorsed by the u.s. chamber. what the republican primary voters are looking for, i have a strong record. we have a full blown financial crisis. politicians cause it. and frankly we can t expect them to fix it. republicans are looking for a conservative to be a fight for georgia georgians. not someone to be part of the club, part of the establishment. kasie hunt explains how democrat michelle nunn could shock the republicans in the deep south. and up next, michael jackson has a new song and we ve got the live performance. next in news you can t use. you, my friend are a master of diversification. d 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 ? 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harold ford still with us. we re going to talk about the key race ace cross the country. chuck todd and kasie hunt are standing by for that. but first i want to break down the battle states. races from oregon to pennsylvania to the deep south. despite big money from the senate conservatives fund, tea party candidate matt bevin trails mitch mcconnell. the senate majority leader is shown an cruise control up 20 points. but the same poll shows mcconnell trailing likely democratic challenger alison lundergan grimes. saxby chambliss is retiring opening up a power vacuum in the state. the latest marist poll shows democrat michelle nunn leading or neck and neck with each republican candidate. political reporter kasie hunt traveled to georgia in our latest states of play. reporter: the pecan trees on the nunn family farm are rooted in history. we re going experimentation with cucumbers and zucchini. reporter: it was here that michelle nunn s father sam launched a storied senate career. i have a father that taught me you can make an enormous difference when you enter the public arena with a real statesmanlike perspective. reporter: republicans need six seats to win back the senate. and none could be the key to preventing that. but sometimes it s hard to tell she s a democrat. in this tv ad, she doesn t even mention it. would you have voted for the affordable care act? so, at the time that the affordable care act was passed, i was working for points of life. i wish we d had more people who would help architect a bipartisan option. so yes or no? it s hard to look back and say. reporter: polls show she d be come pet ty against any of her five challengers. leading is businessman david perdue, the first cousin of former georgia governor sonny perd perdue. not far behind is jack kingston who has backing from the u.s. chamber of commerce. and gaining momentum is karen handel. she s been endorsed by the tea party express and sarah palin. and with arch conservative congressman paul broun and phil gingrey also in, it s a free for all. ed shoit s hard to believe . opponents have been in office for 60 years. voted for debt ceiling increases, bridge to nowhere. she s run five times for five offices. david perdue is actually part of the establishment as much as anybody. reporter: contrary to conventional wisdom, it s not necessarily establishment versus tea party do you consider yourself a part of the tea party? tell me what that is. somebody who i support so much of the tea party values. i get a little frustrated with all of the labels out there. i guess i suppose i would be tea party. reporter: it will likely head to a runoff which means eight more weeks of in-fighting. that s all good news for michelle nunn. when i look at the republican party, i see a race to extremes and more of what is happening already in washington. the dysfunction and the polarization. caskay kasie, great job. i love how nunn said it s impossible to look back. actually, you can. but okay. chuck todd, how big of an upset would it be if georgia went democrat in this race let alone kentucky? i think if you look at just the demographics, the upset would be kentucky. not georgia shifting. georgia is moving. georgia s going to be a swing state in 2020. but the question is does it do democrats have a chance a little bit quicker simply because maybe the republican primary, the eventual nominee gets farther to the right. and michelle nunn, there s a reason she lays down the points of light thing. whoa, i worked with george h.w. bush. we re about two cycles away from georgia being a swing state. caskasie hunt, you have an element for us. she did work closely with george h.w. bush and used his image in an ad but he s not supporting her. reporter: did you have his blessing to use his photo in your ad? i worked for george hw bush in the points of light organization for years. the ad was focused on my history in service and the story of who i am. i think president george h.w. bush will continue to be republican and a leader of that party, but i think that we have a mutual admiration and one that i think will far outlast this political race. a spokesman for the former president, quote, we did not give approval for that and in fact the president was disappointed to see that his image had been included in a political ad as it was. as much as he personally likes and appreciates the job she did, he s stronger in his belief that republicans need to retake the senate. he looks forward to welcoming michelle back to points of light after her defeat. i have no problem with what she did. this is part of her resume. i get it. i get what she s doing, donny. but ethically, i don t think there s anything wrong with it. this is who she is. no. but, jim vandehei, chuck todd was talking about how georgia s shifting to a swing. having said that, not so quickly, because as kasie pointed out, she doesn t necessarily sound like a democrat. and sounds like she s equivocating her way to the end. that s how you have to run in georgia. you asked a question would it be an upset. i think it would be an upset for a republican to lose in georgia. the fact she was talking about she didn t have a position on health care was the big e topic in american politics over the last five or six years and everybody paid attention to it. so i assume she did have a position at that time. but obviously can t state it because she has to run as a centralist. and i think she knows that once this primary is over and republicans rally around whoever wins it on the republican side, those numbers are likely to shift and she ll go into this election in somewhat of a deficit. she knows a lot of outside money is coming the republican way. harold ford, good morning. having run a race in the south seven or eight years, and i m confident she will have better success than i did. people says she doesn t sound like a democrat. she sounds like a democrat where she comes from. people want better schools, affordable health care. my question to you, her and alison lundergan grimes, don t they have to run the races they re running as democrats to have any chance of success in these states? i separate these two races a little bit because, look. the kentucky race is the question s going to be how much of a referendum is it on washington and mitch mcconnell. obviously alison grimes wants to make it all of a referendum on mcconnell and washington. if she does that, hast that s her path to victory. she actually has more opportunity to win republican voters simply because of this potentially anger at mcconnell that she could tap into. in georgia, you re right. that s been the path to how conservative democrats and house races are there. think john barro who has survived for a long time. this is the tight rope he s walked on these issues. but i thought it was such a nothing screamed practiced politician like that answer michelle nunn gave on health care. you just can t it just doesn t come across as credible. what s at least more credible, saying, well, i supported it but i don t like this, this, and this. at least there s credibility when you give that answer. when you say well, i was busy doing another job swob ydoing - you can t look back. come on. she has to give a better answer. if republicans could get david perdue, that s probably the best. he s very much the atlanta businessman candidate. boy, that s where w that s in the mold of saxby chambliss. these center right mainstream republicans. there s one prominent republican that has endorsed her. i love these interview. you honestly ask the question. then they hang themselves sometimes with their equivocating. because that answer kind of listen. i d love for her to do well, don t get me wrong. but come on. i disagree. i think it s very if i were in the senate when the obamacare, affordable care came about, probably not inclined to vote for but maybe i could implement change to that. why couldn t you say that? i don t have a problem with her saying don t saddle me with that. i m looking forward. the real question perhaps kasie asked is how does she fix that. she has a pretty good answer for that. she says that among other things you need to put in a more affordable tier of health care. she has an answer on how to fix it. do not hide from health care. tie it to income inequality, say it was not done as well as it could be done, but i am for giving millions of more people health care as i am for income equality and go straight all in. this is what you re good at. also with us from washington, josh crosshaur. you guys have been calling all these races. but let s go to oregon. how does oregon fit into this picture? this is a race where the general election will be more significant than the primary. republicans have worked to support a moderate republican physician by the name of monica webby. if this map gets big and there s been some polls that there s a possibility that happens, they recruit a credibility candidate in a female physician who s been spending money on very compelling adds. also running for re-election. if there s a big wave, oregon is going to be the place to watch. if monica webby is the republicans favorite candidate there wins the nomination, it could be one to look keep close attention to for the november elections. we have the portland, oregon, news this morning about the city pulling basically no longer investing in walmart which i think plays into some of the politics here and whether or not health care, a fair shot, income disparity will be the big issues of the midterm elections. then ultimately the presidential elections. and actually fair well for democrats. right. on the oregon front, you have a state exchange that didn t work. and that s what makes sort of, i think, what s going on in oregon why republicans are potentially enthusiastic on this. but by the way, that republican primary has gotten nasty. a lot of dr. webby s personal life has become fodder in the last few days. it s really been this ugly thing. this establishment recruit has struggled on the fund raising front. a tea party more conservative challenger has opened up. there s been nasty politics. there s a story out in mississippi from over the weekend that s just disgusting and ugly. what we ve seen going on in oregon i think has been a little bit disgusting about dredging up people s personal lives in ways you re just wondering is there at least some honor code in politics anymore. not anymore. i think people are also really at this point immune to it all. we ve been around the block since bill clinton and the internet has made people a little bit sort of desensitized. chuck, you mentioned mississippi where a blogger posted a picture of one of the candidate s wife who s in a nursing home. as fed up as americans might be, this is a little bit beyond the pail. this blogger as you say is accused of going into this nursing home where thad cochran s wife is. what s the motive? the question is, do they chris mcdaniel is a tea party candidate who s been waging this campaign whose manager was on the phone before the story broke. the details aren t clear. what s the point of doing that? the point look. there s an obsession by some and i think this is what happens when you get fringe candidates on the left and right. they think there s this ends justify the means aspect and you get crazed supporters. but there s this obsession because senator cochran s wife has been basically a convalescent for over a decade. she s had dementia and been in a home. there s some people in mississippi who don t like thad cochran think this should be plastered all over the state and somehow held against a moral judgment should be made against cochran should be by her side. that is sort of getting into people s personal life in ways, that you re like, put yourself in that same situation and ask yourself do you want the public to be part of that process. now i see this obscene motive. call me crazy, if somebody has a sick partner, that might create empathy for them. jim vandehei, josh kraushaar, kasie hunt, thank you. you re headed where next? kentucky. it s going to be big. we look forward to hearing from you. chuck todd, we will be watching the daily rundown at 9:00 eastern sharp. ahead, how we made one woman cry at our know your value event in a good way. and there are appropriate times to cry which we talked about. coming up this hour, how deep does the va scandal go? we ve got disturbing new details on that. but first, bill kairns with a check on the forecast. how great was the weather this weekend? beautiful. i want more. i know. don t we all. last night i bet a lot of people were surprised. ohio valley, great lakes, new england. i bet your heat may have kicked on in the middle of the night. it was a chilly night with clear skies. pittsburgh s at 40 degrees. that s definitely coat weather. 43 in albany. this time of year when you get the strong sun, it s going to be a beautiful afternoon. not concerned at all. we re going up to 70 today for d.c. and hartford. just as beautiful as it was over the weekend. looks to last probably until tuesday. then some rain wednesday in new england. some rain around fargo, rain in the northern plains. the northwest, some showers. we had those fires, of course, out in california to start the weekend. the weather cooperated and it s still relatively cool. 71 in l.a. today. the heat is where it should be. we ll call it 100 degrees. i think the thing that s great about today that will happen this past weekend, the humidity has been low through the southeast in florida. we should continue that into tomorrow. there s not a lot of rain to be had the next five days. this is going to be a quiet period of spring weather. this is peak tornado month. i don t see many happening this week at all. washington, d.c., it s cool and crisp. what a beautiful afternoon you have headed your way. more morning joe coming back. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase like 60,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards even cash back. and my rewards points won t expire. so you can make owning business even more rewarding. ink from chase. so you can. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that s right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we re here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. we re here to help you turn your dream into a reality. are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. csx. how tomorrow moves. what a day. can t wait til tomorrow. the president is madder than hell and i ve got the scars to prove it given the briefings i ve given the president we have seen obviously the reports out of places like phoenix and ft. collins and nart carolina and we re going to get to the bottom of those things and ensure they don t happen again. that is president obama s chief of staff dennis mcdonough speaking over the weekend. a new report suggests the veterans affair scandal may be more widespread than first thought. according to the dayton daily news, the va settled 167 claims since 2001 that were apparently linked to delays in treatment. that financial payouts total more than $36 million. it coincides with a federal investigation into allegations the phoenix medical center kept a secret waiting list to cover up long delays for veterans looking for care. a doctor claims the falsified records led to dozens of presentable deaths. joining us about this, bob carey and ryan galucci. thank you for being with us. ryan, if i can start with you. i think the va has always been plagued with problems. is that fair to say? because i wonder if it s truly m misdeeds happening here or an overflow of people who really need care given what this country has been through over the past decade. well, there are a couple of major issues at play here. and we think that a lot of this does have to do with the influx of veterans coming into the va health care system and looking for care that they re entitled to. what we ve seen around the country is the vfw started polling through our hotline and found in places with high concentration of veterans, veterans are having trouble getting into the system. all right. bob carey, let s just deal with shinseki himself. he runs the place. has he just adopted old problems that ballooned out of control given the fact we ve had so many endless wars going on? there s no question the pace of the conflict. i was a patient of the va system for eight or nine years after i was out of the vietnam war. i understand the importance of that medical system. and i think shinseki has lost the confidence. he s done a terrific job in many areas, but it is time for the president to replace him. when you lose the confidence of the people coming into that system and i would personally hope the president can identify some iraq or afghan veteran, you ve got to restore confidence. because that confidence is gone. so you think shinseki should go. i think the president should find somebody else to run the va, yes, i do. and it s actually, it s in some ways disconnected. because i don t have the facts. nobody knows exactly what happened in arizona. but this isn t the first incident. in february of 2007, the press broke a story about the warehousing of iraq vets across from walter reed because the computers couldn t talk to each other. seven years later they still don t. you still can t track the discharge of a soldier who leaves the system and goes into the va. you were a war hero. you mentioned eight, nine years. what s your experience? if you re going to grade it throughout your time. you have the perspective. i would grade it well. saved my life. gave me a chance to put my life back together. it was a great benefit to me. the two or three most important things, number one, restore confidence with a new leader. if you were the leader of the agency, what would you do to fix the problem? the reason i would look for somebody who was an iraq or afghan war veteran, you ve got to come with the right sense of urgency. these guys have got multiple tours. they ve got traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, a higher set of problems associated with the multiple tours. you ve got to have the right sense of urgency. you can t come to this thinking i ve got all the answers. i think that s part of the problem that shinseki has had. he s created that image with people here. ryan, how do you think the secretary should be handling the cases that are right now on deck with these allegations of people dying waiting for care? obviously the buck stops with secretary shinseki. we think the problem is accountability across the board. the organization has some problems. one problem is how long it takes to sanction an employee. but then if there s a vacuum in care, if a doctor quits or somebody leaves, it can take them six months to a year to replace them. what we re calling for is a accountability from top to bottom and an independent view. one of the reasons i say somebody with an iraq or african war vet, you also need to have the stature and credibility to say to the american people here s where we re not going to say yes. we have 300 men over the age of 90 that applied to 100% disability because their ptsd keeps them from working. so you need somebody that can say the answer is no. thank you so much. ryan galluccii, thank you as well. very much. coming up, the epitome of why we need to take better care of this country s veterans. newly honored medal of honor recipient kyle white is here. but first, is confidence the secret ingredient to economic global prosperity? 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he s available for anything. events and parties. if you have a raffle, it s a free dinner, $20 travel expenses. joe looked natural doing it. it was meant to be. donny, joe showed up. i know. i m locked and loaded for next year. guaranteed. i m going to come with we re doing a national tour next year. you tell me three cities and i will be there. i m on. as long as i get a lesson on how to pass things out. let s do it. it was so much fun to see these women rise up and speak for themselves. okay. i want to do a must read right here, because this is paul krugman and i think what he has to say may have an influence over the midterms and maybe even the next election. in both europe and america, economic policy has been governored by the slogan save the bankers wsh save the world. and government actions have indeed restored financial confidence. unfortunately we re still awaiting for that promised prosperity. in the end, the story of economic policy since 2008 has been that of a remarkable double standard. bad loans always involve mistakes on both sides. if borrowers were irresponsible, so were those who loaned. and refusing to help families in debt, it turns out, wasn t just unfair, it was bad economics. wall street is back, but america isn t. and the double standard is the main reason. i think this president tried. i think the people running for office in the future need to do better. the scary thing, there was a kid sentenced on friday insider trading going away for three years. there s not been one prosecution of any banker that pretty much almost brought down the system. not one. no perp walk. nothing. literally, we almost the average person does not understand it was almost over. it was armageddon and there has not been one person prosecuted as a result. harold, do you think there s a way that democrats can take and run with this even though it has been look, this president can be held as well responsible for holding the banks harmless and not helping out the middle class as much as he could have. having said that, he s been fighting to do so and republicans have held him back repeatedly. there s a new book out that makes the case that paul krugman makes. there s a new book that says we should have saved homeowners as opposed to the bankers. probably would have had pearl on elizabeth warren tried really hard and built the financial protection bureau. right there for the consumer. saying whether or not the money should have gone straight to homeowners or where it went. i think there s probably a decent argument made that way. creating higher paying jobs has to be the focus. saving aig, you ve had to do that. to let them go under was not the issue. tafs big mistake to let lehman go under. the people getting prosecuted, that s for insider trading. again, i m not here to defend that at all. my only point is you ve got to figure out, i think it s tied together. if wall street when financial capital is easier to access by main street, things happen. capital is still hard to get by small businesses, still hard to access for small businesses around the country. now to be a bigger focus there for the administration and others. i think the president has done a great job of raising the issues. but a candidate for the future needs to take the baton and run with it. coming up in our 8:00 hour, a massive deal that could fundamentally change the way you consume media. at least that s what at&t hopes will happen. plus what if we told you there s a way we would predict who could graduate from college and had nothing to do with studying. did you study in college? 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also joining the table contributor to msnbc victoria defrancesco soto. welcome back. it s an incredible story. because it s almost impossible for a poor kid to go to college, make ends meet, pay for it, and keep it together. it s difficult. income is part of it and finances are part of pipt it goes beyond that as well. it has to do with the sense of connection and belonging that students feel there. and it s also not just a problem for poor kids. it s a problem for middle class kids as well. when you look at the national statistics for who graduates, anyone in the bottom half of the income distribution, only a 25% chance they re going to make it to a degree. it is a situation now in a lot of college campuses where the rich kids are doing well and everyone is struggling. the rich kids have the support they need, they don t have a pay for it. they go in there stress free. and they get to actually go to college. what are middle class and lower class kids shouldering beyond the massive dead which is totally completely unfair and the percentage that they re paying on the loans that they re getting are criminal. it s huge. and i think what we need to do is find a way to help those kids. we don t want college to continue to be a place that is just for rich kids. i think that means that institutions need to do a better job of helping those kids making sure they persist. and our bigger institutions and nation as a whole need to take on the issue. what do you do other than loan reform? because it isn t fair, obviously. from a kid coming from a stable home whenever they leave for whatever reason is in better position. other than making the loans more affordable, it s an unfair society. i don t know what you do to change it. this is just one slice of an entire life of unfairness. what do you do? how do you solve this? i think what the university of texas is showing is if you take, you know, not huge supports but serious supports for kids who right now have a low likelihood of graduating, give them mentors, advisers, a sense of community, give them the right kind of messages instead of messages that exclude them, they perform much better. i think what ut is showing that, you know, some minor supports can make a huge difference. so i am a professor at the university of texas and i m very proud to be a longhorn and its programs like this that make me even prouder to be one. and i think in your piece when you talk about the need for that community support and that leadership support, you re really hitting the nail on the head. and i wanted you to drill down a little bit about that specifically. what type of community support, just from my experience you have the kids that are first generation college students from the rio grande valley. it s not just that academic support or financial support but the cultural support. you re in a new place. austin is new to you. college ask a new experience. i think when you have that base, that s when you can succeed. and how do we replicate that model? i think we underestimate what a big deal that cultural side is. if you re from a family where everybody has gone to college, everybody s gone to college, you are familiar with the ideas. even that s stressful. even getting to college for kid that had every wind push him along is hard. you ve also been taught to ask for help and you will receive it. vicki, i m interested just in terms of when you view your students and see these kids that come from different backgrounds, do you say i can t do my night job and i m never going to make it to class. this feels impossible. i feel like the only one who s in my situation. because that s got to be one of the most isolating feelings a student can feel. earlier in the semester, i had a student come to me after-hours in her fast food outfit. she had a break of 20 minutes and ran over to get her paper and help. then had to run back. these students are spread so thin. financially. and then you add onto that that emotional component. a lot of these kids parents many times don t even speak gli english. they re helping their parents. not only not getting help from their parents, but they re having to be a support system for their own family members. so there s a deep level of need there that goes beyond just kind of the textbook and financial aspect. it s a fascinating story. you think it s college, good. done. i think what s important at the university of texas is it shows despite all of those obstacles these students are succeed. especially at a place like ut. what would be the point of going if you re going to leave strapped with such debt that the rest of your life is plagued by trying to pay for something that you could barely get through because you were working in a fast food place while trying to go to class. yeah. i ve got to say. those numbers are scary, but when you look at the numbers of that why do you go. if you get that four-year college degree, your whole future changes. it changes. but i m going to take a leap here and think when you re in the middle of that, chances are if you could choose to perhaps, you know, get out of that type of pressure, you might cave. you might cave. we ve got to stop that. paul, thank you so much. what an important article. vicki, thank you as well. i m very excited for you. another one. thank you. yes, she is. there s still plenty of football to talk about. i won t know what he s saying. but he ll say it to you. football or soccer? 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my new baby. the puppy! that is cute. aw! roger bennett is the director of espn s world cup series, inside the march to brazil. would you do that? it looks too much like legends of the falls. i d put a chest wig on oh, oh, the mental image. i know deep inside you love the sport. saturday you were tuned in to the kuch fincup final, for nine they ve been constipated. oh, that s too bad. america hates constipation. they re playing tiny, tiny club hull city, a grimy little place in the north of england. what happened? james chester takes advantage of the chaos in the arsenal offense. four minutes later, more, more pandemonium, more payoff and curtis davis crops up. this could be the finest moment, eight minutes, 2-0. but back come arsenal. he s almost a smurf but he s got a foot like a field goal kicker. from then on it was a siege. hull couldn t keep them at beige. in the 71st minute like kristi yamaguchi, arsenal put it into overtime. it s 2-2. look at it little back flick. even you, mika, will appreciate this. let me see. that should win a pulitzer. after nine years of barren, life with no silverware, arsenal finally win a trophy. they re happy. roger, i m not a soccer fan, i could listen to you all day. you re a lovely man. see that little old man, the man who looks like mr. burns from the simpsons, that s arsene wenger. that s a man, as i said earlier, free from constipation. mazel tov. what just happened here? it s like listening to poetry. donny deutch knows we re going to win, right, donny? exactly. i find you captivating. now back to the guy with the shirt off. roger bennett, thank you so much. always great to see you. still ahead this morning, gm is facing a $35 million fine because of its defective ignition switches. and that was just one of the issues the company was facing this weekend. also, portland, oregon giving one of the biggest corporations the cold shoulder. we ll tell you what company and why. and the recipient of the medal of honor is with us. we ll tell you who he is in just a moment. i m winning, i m winning, i m winning peace of mind is important when you re running a business. century link provides reliable it services like multi-layered security solution to keep your information safe & secure. century link. your link with what s next. fame, makes a man take things over fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow fame, puts you there where things are hollow the evolution of luxury continues. the next generation 2015 escalade. fame ameriprise asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? 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politics have become more and more of this nonsense. jim, what do you make of this? the political poll was just in competitive house and senate areas so it s not a national poll. it s where the election are going to be decided. republicans have a decisive advantage. the fact that 90% of the people have a very passionate feeling about health care shows that is the singular issue of the campaign and it really does tilt the republicans way, which is the reason they have that lead. you have that broader environment. and then inside of that, the big story of the campaign has been that the establishment has been able to get better candidates, to get more money in to support those candidates and beat back the most unelect abable candida. in georgia less than 20% of voters are going to vote in that primary. there s almost more candidates than there are people that will vote. we don t really know what the outcome will be. it does look like an established-backed candidate will win. johni deutsche. is there a head fake going on? as we get close to the general election and as anecdotally better and better news comes out for health care, is there a possible misstep waiting in the wings for republicans here? it s always a possibility. i will say there s been some durability in the health care numbers across almost every poll i ve seen over the last few years where most people that are planning on voting do oppose the law, which does work in the republicans favor, but you don t know if you have four or five months of good news, that certainly could change the climate. i think the other thing to keep an eye on is everyone thinks the conventional wisdom is republicans will win back the senate. i would like at that dead heat on whether mcconnell can win the election. this is still very much up for grabs and i think health care is going to be the issue, which is why almost every outside group is pouring its money into that issue. i think they could capitalize on income inequality. let s go to mitch mcconnell. i think alison lundergran is a much better candidate. i ve watched matt bevin, the republican opponent for mcconnell yesterday on one of the sunday shows. although he said he would not support grimes, he zant he would support mitch mcconnell. any kind of dissension, division amongst republicans could open the door. i give her credit for hanging tough. there s a message that has framed everything over the last few years, whether the president has been completely successful against the republican opposition or not and that is a fair shot and that is the issue of equal pay within that. the income disparity issue we are seeing. you have people like elizabeth warren who are heros on the left and you have companies stepping up now saying if people aren t going to step up in washington, we re going to step up. the health care law also worked better in kentucky. that could be withone of the ke factors. the governor there did a better job of implementing than perhaps others. because he opened up their own health care exchange, didn t rely on the federal government and they were able to get people to be really a special a statewide program that other states could try to emulate them. she s not running on that. now look at what cities are doing. portland, oregon is pulling its money out of within of the woon biggest corporations. the city will no longer invest in walmart. they have adopted socially responsible companies, which take into court health, and corrupt corporate governance and wages are mentioned as well. the company will have withdrawn from 3% of the company s portfolio. corporations behaving the right way is going to be the price for doing business. this is price of entries for companies doing business in the country today. i m going to also go back to the health care thing and also the republican party of no. it s all about populism today. as our nation, as these young people come up, they want income equality across demographics, they want it across sex, they want companies to behave a certain way and they want health care for the masses and i still believe that although on people this health care argument seems to be very, very juicy for republicans ambassador we get to november, it s going to back fire. i totally agree with you. and again, the argument against that is you don t want everyone to have health care? really? it s minimum wage. it s all the same blush. it s all about the populist nation. we hear story after story of walmart employees, mcdonald s employees, anyone who is paid the minimum wage getting food stamps. it s impossible to accept that in this country and be against a minimum wage hike. are you serious? the one issue with minimum wage and so many fast food worker strikes and that s ignited a fire worldwide about what that means equality pay wise less than women, by the way. we get the video and we see the protest and we can relate on what they re trying to say but it s hash tag protests. 25% of the voting population. it s social media that s driving the force. minimum wage should be increased. there are two things that concern me about what democrats and the congress and the white house have not been able to accomplish. it makes no as soon as why they have not tagged private equity and hedge fund managers who are benefiting from the interest. they taxed people earning over a quarter of a million dollars to the higher rate and they could create extra resources to defray what restaurantures who say if i raise my minimum wage, it hurt my bottom line. it s equally shameful. headlines in usa today, the front page dominated with at&t s purchase of directv for $45 billion. it represents a huge challenge to cable and stands to reshape content on everything from tv to tablets. it still needs to go through the fec but if improved, the entertainment giant would serve 26 million people. let s bring in david ellis who broke the story. what would this man for consumers? if it does come to pass, it would probably not show up on your bill until next year. it could mean the second largest wireless provider in the country would also then become the second largest paid tv provider. that represents a radical reshaping in the entire telecommunications industry that we ve been seeing over the last couple of years and that is still not done. i m trying to think of a bigger deal. the comcast/time warner deal was in the similar vein. it s constant versus eyeballs. at the end daft, we want to watch our morning joe. in the past whether it was a cable, a mobile device, at the end of the day he who has or she who has content equals eyeballs and winner. david, what are some of the challenges of this actually going through? all these big deals sound amazing in the headlines but anything could take it done to an extent. regulators are in a bind. on the one hand they wand wireless companies to compete with wireless companies. they want more competition from comcast and more competition for verizon. on the other hand, they re faced with not let thegs companies get too big. at a certain point we re going to see just a couple of major media and technologies companies that are serving the vast majority of americans. tease something regulators are going to need to weigh. the other this evening is there are already these pending deals. comcast is trying to acquire time warner cable and do divestitures with charter. sprint has in a maid no secret of their interest to take over t-mobile. so they ll have to step back to say what does this mean before letting any one of these go forward. the good news here is the pharmaceutical industry, you have pfizer making a bid against astrazeneca so they can move money out of the country. i think the fec should look favorable, as long as there s nobody hurt in the deal. the u.s. transportation department is ordering gm to pay $35 million for waiting a decade to recall 2.6 million cars with defective ig nation switches. that is the maximum penalty allowed. an internal gm investigation is focusing on how its legal team handled the safety issues. officials released a list of 68 word that gm employees back in 2008 were told to avoid using. instead of the word problem, employees were told to say condition, issue or matter. and they were earned to say does not perform to design instead of defect. other words they weren t allowed to use, titanic, widow maker at least 13 deaths have been linked to the fault y ignition switches. this is from failure to recall. cooper hired an engineer, mark hood, who started testing cobalt ignition switches he bought from junk yards. when he compared older switches to newer ones, he discovered something shocking. when he put these replacement switches through this test protocol, he found they were almost three times stronger as far as the difficulty to turn the key. he said, lance, you re not going to believe what i found. and i said what? he said, they changed the switch. cooper realized gm had changed a part, quietly. he brings up a great point. this is a terrible thing to say but it s true that the company that we re going after who made all these that company doesn t,ist anymore because it dissolved in bankruptcy. you have a new gm now. so the question that comes with all those liabilities, the liabilities don t follow the new company. it is a new gm today. legally. and, look, this is a serious problem burke this is a completely different organization. and there is a woman running general motors now. so metaphorically speaking you couldn t have more of a different type of management. she s spent 30 years at gm. so she knows of gm. if you re looking to buy a used gm car, the onus is on you to figure out if it s a recall. these families are left hanging in the debt. up. next, what does it mean to be a hero? carl white is here. and what do literary giants george sunders and malcolm gladwell and tone,morrison have to do with chipotle? 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[ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. my mom works at ge. still when i think of the road we re traveling on with bullets impacting all around him, kyle ran to pull the injured maroine to cover. he could feel the pressure of the bulleting around him but somehow miraculously they did not hit him. one of his comrades said that it was as if he was reasoning at the speed of a bullet. tragically the marine had succumb to his wound but he fond solace in hkyle white, who was y his side. it is our honor this morning to have sergeant kyle white with us now. also msnbc military analyst and our friend, jack jacobs. that was november 9th in afghanistan. when you heard the president describing those moments, what came to mind? just reliving pretty much every single moment of that day. and as he was, you know, progressing throughout the you know, his narration, it was hard are and harder to hear. because? just, you know, the loss that day, what we all went through, that shared team effort. you know, everybody experienced something that day. i think, jack, i want to bring you in as soon as possible now because of the connection obviously the two of you have, which i can never completely understand, but i can see that there s so much is it guilt connected with getting an award like this or what s the word or the well, guilt s not the right word i don t think but i don t know what the right word is. if you ask anybody who spent time in combat they ll say they don t deserve it. they ll a there were other people who were brave that day, nobody does anything by himself. there s a medal of honor recipient named nicky bacon, received his award in vietnam, he said i don t wear it for myself, i wear it for anybody who can t. it not just the medal it was but the forged bond that occurs as a result of being there on into the crucible of war changes anybody in it and the perception is you are one of a number of people and that the bond can t be broken in life or in death. it something that you carry with you the rest of your life. another thing that bonds you is tens of thousands of fellow soldiers, his ptsd. explain where you are in that process and what you re doing to help yourself and others. so, you know, it was about a year after 2007 that i realized something s wrong, i need to go get help. and i took that initial step of reaching out to my chain of command and being like, hey, i need to see some people. the army did a great job, got me the help i needed. and combined with the treatment that they had for me, you know, i kind of they encouraged me to found my own coping mechanisms as well. since that day exercise has worked great for me. now i feel like the healing process is well on its way and, you know, i couldn t be more pleased with where i am today. kyle, you re only 27 years old right now so back in 2007 you were 20 yooears old? yes. so to be able to comprehend exactly what it meant to be suffering from something, maybe you weren t able to put your finger on it as ptsd, what do you think about that acronym and some of the sigmas that come with it for our vets? one of the issues for me was not sleeping well. this isn t right, sleeping a couple hours a night. we need to get past that. that individual service member can get g out and get help and everything will be okay. i m hoping by me sit hearing today there s a service member in uniform that s contemplating whether to step forward. i did wearing that medal you can say that and that is something that every man and woman who is suffering needs to understand. we re talking about 22 suicides a day, if you look at the data. this is as real as any physical trauma that any soldier has been through. i see a steel bracelet on your wrist and i m told it symbolic. can you tell us about inthat? in building off what mr. jacobs said earlier, we do wear it in their names. this bracelet has all the names of those lost that day. they re the heros i used the word guilt, it was probably inappropriate, jack. it very difficult to found the right word. what is it? i don t know what it is. it shared sacrifice. in benjamin franklin s word, we will hang to the or we ll sure live hang separately. there s something i get, almost this reaction you get or physically in the face, i can t even talk to you about this. not that i don t want to, but it s a disconnect because you have been through something so advi visceral, so real, so unbelievably giving to our country that there are so many of us that can t even measure up halfway. it not a high and mighty i can t talk to you about this, it s i can t relate. you haven t been there, you haven t been in the foxhole. well, that s true. but one of the things that brings it all together for us, for anybody who served in combat is not the difference between people who have served and most who haven t. most americans don t know anybody in uniform. i it s not that. it s that in the heat of the moment, we fight for each other, the idea that we are all in it together. i think that is not only the way to get through any difficulty, but it is also a way to heal. and that s why we focus our attention on that and for kids who have pts, to get them to realize we are all in it together. i know you have family members. the skills and the moral compass and the ability to make decisions, if you hire a veteran, you get something that is so much better than anything else that s out there and that s the next sort of layer of this is to connect that disconnect. and not only to try and understand as much as we can, but to bring these people into our workforce and make them the leaders that they were out there on the field. kyle, i thank you, you sit with you across the table can great respect and admiration and thank you so much for your service. efs just doing my job just like everybody who cares the uniform. exactly. what else is he going to say? 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oh, no. my mike i m sorry. oh. he has always been the fat guy. man. that s it for this. fair, balanced, and unafraid. here s comes greta. they are the lone wolves of terror. in the animal world you have packs of wolves, and you also have individuals that hunt alone. radicalized and hell bent on murder. terrorism came to my front door and took my son. brown jumped out of the car and shot at him ten times. in canada there were two he lone wolf attacks in two days. one soldier run over by a jihadist and another shot at the doors of parliament. and the debate rages. is it murder? workplace violence or terrorism? the idea at the ranch was to start a mujahedin training camp. he stated decided to fight. they re completing operating outside of the cell structure. now from studio j at fox news headquarters, here is greta van susteren. the threat of lone wolf attacks at the forefront of everyone s mind. new threats to the homeland as well as recent attacks in canada have everyone on alert, but lone wolves turn terrorists are nothing new. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge took a look at their dangerous history. lone wolves, by and large, are individuals that are inspired idealogically, but may not have a formal connection to a terrorist organization. frank was the director of the homeland security policy institute at george washington university. he has researched the very dangerous phenomenon of lone wolf terrorists. that s the hard nut to crack here. absolutely. there is no linkage of information. first time i remember really discussing lone wolves is with the so-called unibomber, ed kazinski. timothy mcveigh was one of the first so-called lone wolves. the d.c. sniper, that is clearly a lone case. in 2002 the beltway sniper attacks terrorized the nation s capital. i was working at the white house and & counterterrorism issues. it clearly had a significant psychological affect. this man nation of islam member john alan mohammed along with his accomplice 17-year-old lee boyd malveaux, shot 13 people from a chevrolet caprice in the d.c. area in 2010. the scene actually lifted so that mohammed or malvo were able to crawl into the trunk and shoot without ever leaving the vehicle. clearly john alan mohammed was idealogically motivated. mohammed wasn t a member of a terrorist organization, but he was motivated by his hatred for america. after the two were captured in october 2002, malvo testified the plan was to kill six whites a day for a month. as for malvo himself, he drew these extremist sketches while awaiting trial. today the internet has become indispensable for radicalizing lone wolves. it is a very positive side to the internet and it also connects, unfortunately, the very dark corners of the web. there are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon. reporter: an march, the american-born cleric, inspired countless numbers of people to violent jihad through his on-line sermons. america as a whole has turned into a nation of evil. he downloaded more than 1 00 hours of al alahi sermons and on may 14, 2010, he heeded the call. these security camera images show him just before the tack and taking out the knife before being tackled by a security guard. this was a young woman who was inspired idealogically on the internet and acted on her views. chowdry wasn t the only individual who was inspired on-line and then acted as a lone wolf. at the top of the list is nadal hasan. army major nadal hasan was a loner looking for religious guidance. by chowdry, he was inspired by al alahi, and he sent the cleric 18 emails. the importance of people like alahi is that it solidifies people to believe that they are right. it helps give you the justification. you re not really a criminal. you re not a murderer. at some point he turned into a lone wolf. he bought an nh 570 pistol and a large amount of ammunition. on november 5th, 2009, he opened fire on fort hood, killing 13 and wounding 30 others. nadal hasan was clearly idealogically motivated. it was an act of jihadist-based terrorism. reporter: now locked up in the disciplinary barracks at fort lechbl worth, kansas, he awaits his death sentence. is it workplace violence? of course, but it s more than that. the threat of lone wolves is constantly evolving. including this man who the tsarnaevs who brought terror to the boston marathon bombing in 2014. whether or not they are genuine lone wolves or whether or not they did receive some guidance and training in chechnya is unknown at this point. and most recently attan knoll abandon who changed his name and beheaded a former co-worker in moore, oklahoma, and the terror group isis has put out a call for lone wolves to attack. they re playing a psychological war. we have to call them for what they are. rats. joining us is former u.s. attorney general and former federal judge mike mukasi, catherine herridge, correspondent, and mark, director at george washington university public policy institute. welcome. they re not getting specific directions for somebody to go to it, but recently with isis there s been a call to people to do this, but it is more of the sort of ideology out there, and everyone sort of says, you know, they re doing it in the name of the ideology without a specific direction. what we re seeing is part of an ongoing reporting here at fox news channel over the last five years. this is really a movement and a set of ideas. it s not something that you can drone out of existence. you have for really deal with the ideology first. when people are inspired to act, these self-starters, the term lone wolf, it s not a bad term, but i agree with the judge because very few of these people can do this without some kind of support network, whether it s a support network with physical help, like explosives or weapons, or whether it s idealogical support to give them that confidence that they can go forward with a mission. frank, there s a difference between someone, for instance, the underwear bomber who got some training in temz of obviously it didn t work out too well on that airplane, but, i mean, he is some specific training and direction. it seems like what happened in canada, it s like i don t see, you know, no mosque or no certain group or some radical said here s your vest, your suicide vest or here s your gun. it s a little different. it s early on in terms of the investigation itself, but you re right. the terrorist threat comes in various shapes, sizes, and forms. obviously given that there are thousands of westerners fighting along side isis in iraq and syria today, those that get actual training and expertise, whether it s in improvised explosive devices or the like will be a great threat from a potential to cause catastrophic attacks, but the reality is that there are going to be many that don t go overseas, that won t hit a trip wire, that won t have that training, but, unfortunately, they can still cause harm. if you look at what happened in canada this week, not only the shooting yesterday, but also just people mowing soldiers over, you also saw an incident in jerusalem. i believe this started in between, which is the selection of the u.s. military as the target, and a canadian military. the reason that s important is because these are symbol that is have weight. focus on the armed forces and focus on really telling people that you can t be protected by the people who are supposed to protect you. stay with us. coming up, four murders on two coasts. ali mohammed brown said he did it in the name of jihad. but is he a lone wolf? 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passenger seat. pulitzer prize nominee mark deano is a veteran reporter for new jersey star ledger newspaper. this crime that happened here is shocking in its location to many people. i never thought not in this area that something so horrific could have happened. reporter: it was on the athletic field at seton hall prep school where brendan had attended high school that i met up with his grieving parents michael and allison. brendan had spent the evening at a friend s house in west orange that fateful night and texted his mother that he was on his way home. what time did you get the text? 11:32. four hours later the police knocked on their front door. i just could see on his face when i think i grabbed him and said no, no, not brendan. he said, yeah, it s brendan. he was murdered. but why would anyone want to kill brendan tevlin? he was just a brave young man, a friendly young man. he enjoyed school. he enjoyed his athletics and sports. he was such a good, young fellow. the murder of brendan tevlin had the police baffled. they didn t know what happened. they didn t know it was in a very nice neighborhood. the viciousness of it, they couldn t figure it out. reporter: but what no one knew was that a self-proclaimed armed jihadist had taken refuge in a wooded area surrounding the multi-million dollar homes of west orange. it s a beautiful area. it s very scenic. you re on the mountains of west orange and have incredible views of manhattan. living in two makeshift camps behind the ron jolin and the near cris crest ridge apartments was 29-year-old ali mohammed brown. brown is a convicted sex offender with direct ties to a terror camp and radical islamists in the pacific northwest. according to police, there was some stuff in the jihadist notebook about hiding among the rich. you hide among the rich, the police will never find you. reporter: no one knows how, but on june 29th he somehow made his way to pount pleasant beach some 60 miles from west orange. he attempted to carjack a man outside of the green planet coffee shop. he pulled the guy out of the car at gunpoint, jumped in the car, and realized he couldn t drive a stick shift. when he left that scene, obviously abruptly, he left some kind of incriminating evidence there. went a stop and shop and used the bathroom there to change, and, again, left the bag behind with some incriminating evidence. reporter: brown was caught on a security camera at the time stop and shop where he left behind the bag with a .9 millimeter magazine and some fingerprints. when he later returned to west orange and robbed a man at the crest ridge apartment police combed the area looking for the assailant. that s when police began to search that ridge up there and they apprehended him then. police arrested him and it was then that brown made a stunning confession. he said he had picked brendan evlin at random at this intersection as he waited at a traffic light. he said he murdered him in the name of jihad. brown had pulled in behind him with two other men. brown jumped out of the car, went to the passenger side, and simply opened fire on him and shot at him ten times. tevliin s murder was a just kill, unquote as payback for the united states involvement in the middle east. he has made statements saying that he was doing this as revenge for what s going on in iraq and syria and afghanistan. in our opinion, he is a murderer, and whether down the road the law enforcement comes to the conclusion that he is involved, it s something bigger, i figure the truth will come out. on august 4th, authorities announce the arrest of brown and two accomplices. 19-year-old jeremy villigren and eric-year-old eric williams for the murder of erof brendan tevl. they are being held here at the essex county jail in newark. brown s jail was set at $amillion, and the other two are being held at $1 million each. sdmrooits a complicated case, and they re still really working hard on it to find the whole truth to this. back with our panel. judge, these cases are actually quite easy to prosecute because they leave lots of clues behind or they re shot debt deed on the scene. the big challenge is to get them before they commit new crimes, and here with this young college student, this was so random. it wasn t like he was in the military and might be a possible target. totally random. the only way to do that is to gather as much intelligence about the imams, and the others who are spreading the message and the web sites that are spreading the message and rye to figure out who is tuning in to those and focus on those people. that s really the only way to stop it. catherine, as you do all the intelligence-gathering for us at fox news. are they aggressive? i assume they re aggressively doing this, but are they breaking a lot of the these stories before they get to the random shooting on the street? well, what you hear privately from investigators is two things. one that they feel that they are somewhat hamstrung. by? by the rultz, by the understanding, that they re pulling back, and this is not been just only recently, but in the last five to eight years pulling back from doing surveillance at religious sites. they don t the fbi does not want to engage in that. they want to engage with the community. and it s but it s everyone who says weirdo things that happens to come from a mosque that s politically correct to go round them up without more? yeah, and i think that both judge mccasey and catherine hit an important point. at the end of the day it s the ideology. we do need to paraphrase it s not the economy, stupid. it s the ideology, stupid. how do we get around that? i mean, at the end of the day it s about unand under governed space. why yemen? why somalia? why the machine greb where all terrorists pop up? because they re under governed spaces. same with the internet. stand by. when authorities took a closer look at ali mohammed brown s background, they realized they had seen just the tip of the iceberg. coming up, three more nurdz, a terrorist training camp on american soil, and a seattle barber raging jihad in somalia. hey matt, what s up? i m just looking over the company bills. is that what we pay for internet? yup. dsl is about 90 bucks a month. that s funny, for that price with comcast business, i think you get like 50 megabits. wow that s fast. personally, i prefer a slow internet. there is something about the sweet meditative glow of a loading website. don t listen to the naysayer. switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. welcome back to greta investigates. lone wolves of terror. our team traveled to washington state to investigatory crimes authorities say ali mohammed brown committed. it turns out brendan tevlin wasn t the only person ali mohammed brown says he killed for jihad. ballistics testing by new jersey authorities now link brown s .9 millimeter handgun to three previous homicides. execution style murders that were committed on the other side of the country in seattle, washington. on the night of april 27th, 2014, 30-year-old leroy henderson walked home in the skyway section of seattle when he was murdered in a hail of ten bullets. one month later early in the morning of june 1st two men were murdered in the neighborhood of leshigm. terrorism came to my front door and took my son. dejuan anderson young s mother and his grandmother shelly shared memories of the young man. he was the sun that everybody wanted to have. he was just always wanting to learn new things, and he had a good work ethic. he was 11, he said i want to work. rather than asking for money, he would what can i do to earn money? i ll mow the grass. i ll, wash dishes. he didn t wait for opportunities to come to him. he created his own opportunities. he just approached his teenage years. snoo his sexuality, and he came out at 14, and he told me that he was gay, and, you know, that was a rough time for him. after graduating high school in 2009, dejuan earned a bachelors degree in communications from the university of washington. in late spring 2014 dejuan had just land aid new job at a consulting firm and was growing his own web design business. he was just really looking forward to his future and the opportunities, and for his life to be cut so short, it just it s so sad. on the night of may 3 1st, 2014, his friend ahmed, a 27-year-old somali american offered him a ride home from the night clubs our place. he also offered a right to another man who according to reports he had met on a website. that man was ali mohammed brown. several of his friends said that, you know, he just didn t look like he fit in with the crowd. dejuan ahmed and the third gentleman got in the car, and that was the last that they saw of them. alive. these charging documents state ali mohammed brown pulled out his . 9 millimeter handgun and essentially executed dejuan and ahmed while inside saied s vehicle. he is a terrorist, and for whatever reason, he was going to kill ahmed that night. wron if it was because he had a muslim name. he was gay. i don t know. dejuan was a bonus kill. in his 29 years ali mohammed brown left a trail of depraved crime and violence. court documents obtained by fox news show mr. brown was charged with child rape before pleading guilty to three lesser counts of communication with a minor for immoral purposes. two mothers of his children filed for domestic violence protection with allegations strangulation and punching. one stated that in a fit of rage brown dropped my 1046 day-old daughter on the ground. our team went to seattle to look deeper into brown s past. david gomez in 2004 it was ali mohammed what we were looking at was the fundraising for support material support of terrorism. at the center of the investigation was this 20 x 20 foot barbershop from hell. brown hung out there during his teen years with his own ruben shumpert, a notorious convicted drug dealer. rupert shumpert was a prison convert to islam. he learned to cut hair in prison. ruben was attempting to indoctrinate a lot of the youth in the area into radical forms of islam by showing them videos about the 9/11 hijackers, about al qaeda. i had a piece of that investigation that involved an imam at the mosque. rupert shumpert and others would attend that mosque, and sheikh, the imam, we sur veiled him going to veriesent cuts. he was a particularly vocal proponent of jihad. at the time the mosque was 500 feet away from the barbersh barbershop. we had reports that a father who took his son up there to get a haircut hears what s being said and drags his son out of there saying, um, no. this was supposed to be about a haircut, not a jihad. on november 18, 2004 after two and a half year investigation, the barbershop was raided. members of the joint terrorism task force executed 19 search and arrest warrants and included among those people was to be arrested was ali mohammed brown. his two brothers and another co-conspirator on the financial institution for fraud. at the time of the raid, shumpert was already in jail for assaulting the owners of the restaurant below crescent kits wrrn no one, including brown, was charged with terrorism. they were convicted of fraudulently producing checks, depositing them in accounts, withdrawing the checks and then spending the money basically. but as we reread the 2004 indictment, brown s older brother karim claimed the money was to help our muslim brothers and sisters in the cause because you can t go to war broke. brown was sentenced to two years. the fbi conducted a very authorize yes investigation and was unable at that time to prove that any of the monies had been sent overseas in support in had material support of terrorism. ruben shumpert pled guilty to gun and counterfeiting charges. in june of 2006 he roet wrote this 12-page letter to judge marcia asking for leniency in his sentencing. he claimed he was a changed man sighting his muslim faith and complained about fox news. he made a good case for the fact that he was not a bad guy, but he was, in fact, a bad guy. ruben shumpert decided to flee the jurisdiction of the court and travel to somalia where he wanted to fight with al shab ab. i think they realized their mistake when he didn t show up for sentencing and somebody looked at the file and said, oops, we forgot to get his passport. that s right. brown s barber friend ruben shumpert slipped out of the country to go fight with terrorists in somalia. plus, seeing how we found out brown may have attended this terror training camp built for a convicted terrorist aubeye hamsa al massry. that s next. if yand you re talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic. this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for 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pilchuk high school north of seattle. police say the gunman was a student at the school, but there is no word of a motive. a second sheriff s deputy has died following a shooting in mraser county, california. a third one was injured. now, police say they have apprehended a suspect. he was taken alive friday afternoon from a home in auburn. the shooting spree spanned 30 miles through two california counties. i m arthel neville. back to on the record . for all the latest headlines log to fox news.com. the cohort of accused killer ali mohammed brown fled his barbershop in seattle and ended up on a battlefield in somalia. in november 2006 the seattle fbi received a phone call from war-torn somalia. it was fugitive ruben shumpert. ali hoe maumd brown s pal from the crescent cuts barbershop. former joint chichl task force agents david and david gomez remember that call. it was just a taunting type of phone call that your efforts failed. i win. i lose. i m gone. you can t find me. you may have indicted and arrested me, but i m here in somalia, and i m fighting the good fight with the shabaab, and i intend on reigning down terror on you and your family. reporter: two years later ruben was dead. ruben died in somalia in a missile attack. i believe it was directed by united states forces on a villa where he was living. one of the confirmations of rubingen s death came from shabaab itself in their publications where they eulogized him as a wonderful foreign fighter from america. brown was out on the streets getting arrested again and again. we confirmed he served 84 days of his two-year bank fraud sentence stemming from the rainier valley roundup sxwshgs we found more. david ruben remained certain about the radical motivation of the imam from the aub your bakra mosque. . tim: only 500 feet from the barbershop. he was over here to raise money through the system of money transfer to fund them overseas and to recruit people to their cause, to actually go back to somalia, take up arms. the imam was finally arrested in seattle in late 2005 after returning from a trip to texas. as soon as we saw who he was meeting with in dallas, we thought, okay, you know what, enough. three months after shumpert disappeared, sheikh ibrahim was deported under his real name to kenya, he his country of birth. i m glad we dealt with it in immigration court. i think people think that terrorism cases are just a field goal and a 10 yard line, and they re really not. best thing is to get him off our soil and get him out of here and never let him come back. apparently he has been busy as the leader of united western ssomali liberation front. here he is in 2010 signing a peace treaty with the ethiopian prime minister. i wouldn t sign a peace treaty with a guy. mohammed was and remains i am 100% certain a national security threat to the united states of america. or to any country in which he resides zoosh and that s not all we found. back in 1999 a then 15 yirld ali mohammed brown may have tried to attend one of the earliest terrorist training camp on american soil in bly, oregon. this is poison. poison. you help your brothers. you help yourself. he was the origin spiration of the convert that is we started to investigate around 1998, 1999 with the james ujama case. this is dog cry ranch. it was a dream of a seattle entrepreneur james ujama and radical cleric al masri. he was convicted in may 2014 on 11 terrorism counts, including some relating to this camp. he awaits sentencing in new york city. today the crusade is against islam, and they are led by the jews. james ujamaa enspiration came not from videos of al masri. he went to the mosque and was tutored by him in the ways of violent jihad, and then attempted to bring that back, that oshlg group of converts, some of whom stayed on and worked with shumpert in the crescent cuts case. they tried to set up that ranch. i believe that ali mohammed brown at some point traveled to bly, oregon, prior to his arrest for the financial institution fraud. they went down there, and shot some weapons at the ranch. like a lot of things james did, there wasn t a big follow-through plan. we got the ranch. now what? at some point in the establishment and took a look at the facilities and basically determined that james ujama had done a poor job. that someone was aubeye hamsa seen here at the camp. he is now serve aing life sentence for his role in the oregon plot. over time i think, up, james ujama came to the realization that maybe this wasn t a good thing to pursue and came to assist the government in their prosecution of aub your hamsa and other individuals in new york. ali mi happened brown sits in a jail cell as authorities pour over his past life whereby is he a lone wolf terrorist, or a serial killer using islam as an excuse? coming up, should ali muhammad brown be charged with terrorism in addition to the murders? our panel is back next. uestion: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that 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new jersey. your former attorney general what do we gain if he is charged with some federal charge on top of it? he has those. frankly not a whole lot. if they can tie that together and make it a murders in of aed terrorism he might conceivably get it in a federal court, but the effort given what has gone on up until now likely wouldn t be worth it. i don t think he gains very much. it seems like the american people want a terrorism charge on this even though he is facing these four murder counts, and the terrorism as a judge said really wouldn t give us much. the american people seem to want a federal terrorism charge in a lot of these cases. it sounds like in this case it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, kwaks blik a duck. it is terrorism. on top of whatever else it may be, obviously you ve got a moefsh that seems to be idealogically driven. let me just i very much agree with judge mukasi, but there is the deterrent effect. if we don t treat it as a terrorism case, are we then giving free passes to future cases? i m not suggesting that i guess if we had unlimited resources i would be totally with you on that, but the judge will tell you that a lot of these prosecutors and fbi agents will say they re so taxed. i m not sure that we have the luxury of, you know, going after them in so many different direction where s sdmroosh i don t disagree with that, but it s the deterrent effect that we need to be the key is though expose that threat that was covered in your excellent coverage, and that is the threat that leads all the way back to aub your hamsa and the training camp on the west coast, and that threat is militant islamist. why are we why are we finding it catherine, i guess when i see that threat, i think how many threats aren t we finding? right. what i come away from looking at that investigation is that if you look at this data set in a very neutral way and you do not pull out the religious thread, you have this rich bed of information and several investigative threads that take you from new jersey to a major terrorist figure. not only in the u.k., but also in somalia. if you sort of pull away this veneer that there may be an extreme religious component, what you are left is just the bare bones of the facts and very few investigative leads, and that has the effect of undercutting our national security. greta, could i pick up on that point. most people aren t aware since 9/11 there have been over 80 jihadist terrorism plots in the united states. these are big numbers. these aren t onesy and twossies. those are the ones we ve cat and attacks and we ve prevent and he preetched. these are actual plots. these come from the congressional research service that did this analysis for the congress, and there were 70 sgaz of fep. there have been a handful since. this isn t a small number set of issues. this is a significant threat we re facing. it s been stepped up, judge. what happened in canada just, u know, in this past week. these attacks are being in north america least. the trouble is that we re the people who are leading these agencies are downplaying the significance of each of these, and downplaying the connection between them and militant islam. why would they do that? because osama bin laden is dead and jihad is alive. just to jump in here that s tough. that s this emphasis on the lone wolf or the lone actor, what we ve seen in our reporting on this issue, is there s an emphasis to do that. that takes the individual and makes them kind of an isolated crazy, and it s ease where i to pretends it s an isolated individual acting on their own initiative that it is somehow part of a broader network, and what the reporting in this hour shows is that what happened in new jersey is, in fact, linked to a broader network, and part of that broader network is radical islam. panel, stay with us. coming up, multiple terror attacks in canada. is there any way to stop lone wolves like these. we ll be right back. 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appears to move one step closer towards all-out war. it s that putin may actually light a fire that he loses control of. a lot going on. good morning. it s friday, july 25th. it s supposed to be summer. sort of, like, slow? not at all. mark alperin is with us. chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch. don t want to see that. see, that doesn t work, donny. what did i do? everybody s eyes hurt. your jacket is skiing out. look, you re keying out. and in washington, let s quickly get off donny. pulitzer prize winning columnist of t the washington post and eugene robinson, looking handsome. hi, willie. good morning. and unspeakable news out of gaza and cover the latest plane crash, air algerie. weird question for all of you, start off, though. donny, you have daughters? three daughters. willie, yeah. yes. good. so what would you do if you went to your doorstep in the morning and you found a porcelain doll there, just sitting there, that looked exactly like your daughter? i would get kind of creeped out. you d get creeped out? would you do something? would i do something? yeah. i m ignorant. it s a surprise doll. that looked just like your daughter. surprise doll? curly hair, just like your daughter. do you have a picture? yeah. these doll, all that look like little girls that lived at the houses showed up on doorsteps. would that freak you out? that would freak me out. gene? definitely freak me out. that s weird. that s, like, in chucky territory. right? so what is there a point to this? there s a point, ah ah ah, we ll get to that. it actually happened. that actually happened, all over a town, and we ll explain what happened. okay. i just one other thing i want to get to, though, because i have you here, donny, we don t actually have to show him again, can just hear from him. take, maybe, your jacket off. this gm story, the recalls have really hurt gm. a report now. their profits. in the second quarter, one quarter, 85% down. that s a staggering fall. after taxes, the troubled car parts will have cost the company $1.5 billion, and gm just outlined six new recalls affecting roughly 800,000 vehicles. they keep coming. they ve looked under the hood, so to speak. mika, the irony, their profits, their sales are up. what? their sales are not hurting. i think u.s. consumers have become so anesthetized to corporate blunders and problems, okay, this was 2004. of course, profits are down 85%. the housekeeping they have to do, to put it nicely, but as far as people going to the showrooms, ironically, they re not stopping. yeah. front business section of the times, talking how these big suvs, the sales are so high, as donny says, sales are actually up, but the profits are down, because they ve taken such a chunk from all of these recalls. so i m happy for the company, jobs that stay, but how is it possible? i would think that people would let me ask you a question right now. okay. if you want to go buy an escalade. by the way, my wife, my kids my kids mom, this jacket is throwing me off. drives them in an escalade and for a reason i wouldn t think twice a speck model, that year, recalled, but i think consumer, savvy enough to understand that a car produced in 2013, it s a different model, although it comes from the same corporation, does not necessarily come from the same place. it s stunning. by the way, toyota. right. horrible incident, with the false start. i don t know if we ve become used to it, i don t know if that s the good or bad news there. even with the news, the company is surrive and thrive? they will. they will? wow. and a lot of sales are overseas, too, mika. they have a huge chunk of the china market, gm does. the big news. morning. it s daylight in mauli, we expect to get the first pictures of that air algerie plane that disappeared. 110 passengers, and six crew, killed in the crash over the conflict zone yesterday. right now the cause is unknown, but officials say the pilots did send a final message asking for a change in route because of heavy rain. france, which has been helping mauli fight al qaeda-linked rebels is now helping with the crash investigation. french president hollande said one black box was found amongst the wreckage. five from canada, media reports four from the same family. a mother, a father and their two children. there were no americans onboard, but with a third air disaster in just a week, u.s. officials are rushing to reassure the public that flying is still safe. here s nbc s tom costello. reporter: it s been a rough six months for international aviation, all told, nearly 600 people have died. now another crash. air algerie flight 5017, an md-83 flown by swift air left africa with 116 onboard but crashed 50 minutes later in bad weather. like ukraine, northern maul mali is a war zone. citing the risk of anti-aircraft fire to include shoulder-fired, man portable air defense systems. it s not clear what happened to flight 5017 but it s the latest in a string s incidents. a fatal passenger plane dplash taiwan wednesday with 48 dead. u.s. flights temporarily suspended into tel aviv. the shootdown of malaysia flight 17 over ukraine. malaysia flight 370 remains missing off the coast of australia presumably. the fact we ve had a cluster of incidents does not materially affect the fact our skies and the skies around the world are safe. reporter: the faa lists 63 countries including cuba, yemen, north korea and pakistan, where u.s. airlines are prohibited from flying or subject to flight restrictions and warnings. the secretary of transportation as the situation on the ground changes, in some of these parts of the world, our guidance perhaps will change. reporter: in fact, the chances are very good your flight will land safely. according to an m.i.t. statistician, your chances are being killed in a plane crash anywhere in the world are roughly 1 in 4 million, but in north america and europe, that drops to 1 in 25 million. that means you could go 60,000 years flying every day before a fatal crash. the last fatal accident involving a u.s. carrier was in buffalo when 50 people died. that was in 2009. in this industry, anybody s accident is everybody s accident, and when there s a mishap, when something goes wrong, the industry works together to figure out why to keep it from happening again. and that was tom costello reporting. there is new hope this morning there could be a short-term deal to end the crisis in the middle east after the deadliest day of violence between israel and hamas. we keep saying that every day, and every day it gets worse. secretary of state john kerry is waiting to hear back from both sides about a one-week cease-fire proposal. the plan would let israeli defense forces remain in gaza as israel and hamas try to reach a long-term deal. the possible progress comes after an attack on a u.n. school in gaza. that left at least 15 civilians dead, including 3 children. about 200 more people are injured. palestinian officials say israeli tank shells are to blame. israel says hamas rockets could be responsible but did not rule out accidentally striking the facility. tragically, the school was serving as a shelter for those trying to escape the violence. these are people who have taken shelter in a u.n.-designated area. the warring parties, particularly the israeli, were given the precise gps coordinates. that he knew exactly what was going on there and in spite of that this has happened. we again say, enough civilians, enough women, enough children. they have suffered quite enough in this appalling conflict. the ongoing bloodshed led to large protests in the west bank including clashes between israeli soldiers an thousands of palestinians at a military checkpoint. officials say one palestinian was killed. hundreds were hurt. hurly journalists say one of the biggest protests in recent memory. a total of at least 119 palestinians were killed yesterday. palestinian officials say that brings the overall death toll to more than 800. on the israeli side, 32 soldiers have died as well as 3 civilians. eugene robinson, it s almost as if one would be afraid to watch the news following this story. yes. yeah, yeah. it s it s, it just seems to get worse and worse and worse, and this outbreak of protests in the west bank, on the opposite side of israel, you know, at the end of this, and there will be an end of this. this is not just a regular israeli mowing the grass in gaza. i mean, this turned into a pretty major war, but it will have an end, and at the end, you know, depressingly, i think we re just generating another generation of war. you know, another generation of martyrs and another generation of resentment and, and frankly hatred. it s just incredible. donny? depressing. hey, gene, you wrote a fascinating piece in the post as far as about israel s moral compass and that obviously you re pro-israel and israel has to defend itself, but there are lines. i guess the question is, and as we all watch that as human beings, as a parent, your heart breaks. you go, okay. there s 2,200 rockets launched into israel, and obviously israel strikes back. how do you draw a firm line, firm lines, as far as more the morality is? and the answer is, you can t draw firm lines, because everybody s firm line i think, would be a bit different. i think you have to look at you have to look at the situation. you have to try to look at proportionality and realize that, you know, a civilized nation that does not respond to every heinous act in kind. that s just not what we re about. that s not what israel is about, and and, you know, so what is the what s kind of the moral cost benefit of, of a given strike or a given operation? and you know, i think frankly this has gone too far. it s gone over to the negative side. i think it becomes counter productive. especially given that, yes, all of those rockets are being fired at israel, but you know what? they re all being deflected and shot down by the iron dome system, which is kind of changed the security situation in israel, at least in terms of the rockets. the tunnels are a different story. the tunnels are something new. and you know, we do have to learn more about that, because apparently there are a lot more tunnels being dug than the israelis even knew about. they hadn t really been used yet, and so it s kind of unclear exactly what that s about, but the rockets are n not you know, the situation not what it was five years ago. let s go to gaza. nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohaldene, there since the beginning of the conflict. what more can you tell us about the blast at the u.n. school that killed 16 people? what happened there? reporter: well i wish i could play for you guys the sound happening behind us now. a juxtaposition of what life has become like in gaza. hearing on one hand the sound of friday s prayers and juxtaposed pierced by the sound of artillery shelling every few seconds. been like that the past half hour. in terms of what happened at the u.n. school, there are two narratives coming out of this. one from the united nations, one from the israeli military. the united nations says its gps kward nantz were given to the idf, they say they don t necessarily have any hard eford that this was a direct israeli shell. they say all the indications are that it was an israeli shelling, because it was one of several in the area coming from the direction of the israeli military. in addition to that, they re calling for a full investigation, but they re also citing something that s very important saying this is now the third school that has been hit by the israelis, saying the other two schools, they don t have any doubt it was the israeli shells and, in fact, found and inert israeli bomb in one of those schools. clearly marked it was from the israeli side. so for them, they have in their eyes, the evidence they need to believe it was israeli. they are calling for a full investigation. the israeli military is saying something completely different. they are starting to show they could have possibly made a mistake. in fact a spokesperson said, yes, we were firing mortars in that area. it s possible one of our mortars landed in the school. but at the same time i think we just lost him. we ll get back to him in a moment. i m wondering about john kerry we are talking about a line that has been crossed with pictures after pictures after pictures of children being killed and children being wounded and children losing their family members. gene s article, it s got a picture of this child at the hospital who s just obviously lost her family or friends. just screaming in agony. there is a difference here. is there not? what are kerry s options when you re dealing with people responsible in one way or another for scenes like this? well, the human tragedy, it s horrible, but not to get too mad about this, but i think gene represents a turn in the last 24 hours you see in the miya and opinion pieces and news coverage of people saying, it s gone too far and israelis are keen observers of american media and recognize world and u.s. opinion matter a lot here but they re not done with military operation and i think what secretary kerry is up against in the private conversations between prime minister netanyahu and american officials are very tough, what they re up against, they want a cease-fire and the israelis are not done. they think their military operation is particularly in the tunnels needs to continue. the big question to me, how long? i don t think they ll agree to a cease-fire unless they re done and they re not done. and the other thick ing is, not sure hamas is done either. because hamas was in deep political trouble, right? its patron the government of egypt is gone now. there s a government there that doesn t like hamas. so, you know, and they re getting more popular. they ll get more support among palestinians for standing up to israel. the president, gave an exclusive interview on cnbc. firing back, political reez ens, you heard it from some members of congress, the faa ban on u.s. flights into israel. the initial ban that was imposed by the faa was based on israel needing to show us that, in fact, it was safe for commercial airlines to fly in. by the way you the european governme governments in terms of regulating their allianz did the exact same thing. so i think what happened here was in light of some scary moments a couple of days ago, the faa took some prudent action. criticism came from senator ted cruz as probably the most vocal critic saying this was a way, essentially, to put some sanction on israel for what it s doing. i can officially say, croods is a bliterating idiot. to suggest in any way, shape or form this was done at economic sanctions against israel is a level of idiotism i haven t seen from republicans. this may push the elections coming up back towards the democrats. a blistering criticism for the white house. still ahead on morning joe, former secretary of homeland security michael chertoff with his thoughts on his questions over the global national security fight. there s michael cherchertoff bring the dolls back, our little mystery. is this a little doll story, i hope? i just want to know what you would do if dolls like that showed up on your front doorstep and they looked exactly like your daughter. plus something happened on the way to the 2008 election. because there s so much more to do. the franchise is under siege, both civil rights and economic rights and the aftermath of the great recession. joining us from the site of this year s national urban league conference. and later from the talents of this 6-year-old don t impress you i m not sure what oh, my god. that looks like it hurts. his quest for the guinness book of world records, in news you can t and the doll story. it s freaky. freaky. speaking of freaky, let s go to bill karins with a check on the forecast. that story is cute. the dolls we do not need to show. go back to like the chucky, the poll ttergeist poltergeist. no trespassing and other signs to scare people away. we ll explain very soon. i know. it s creepy, though. good morning, everyone. east coast, the northeast, getting ready for our eighth, ninth, tenth, maybe great weekend in a row, but yesterday morning, just about this time, 8:30 a.m. in the morning, in virginia of all places, coastal virginia, a tornado happened. it was a random tornado way thunderstorm that went through. and unfortunately, it killed two people. just over the chesapeake bay. this was the radar from it. it wasn t much. it wasn t even a big advertisement for severe weather. just goes to show you even at 8:30 in the morning, you have to take these thunderstorms seriously. a couple was killed trying to hide out from the thunderstorm in a tent. 20 other people were injured in that storm. what are we dealing with right no? in minneapolis, a lot of you up early this morning. these thunderstorms are rolling through town crossing through minneapolis and going into areas around saint paul nopt sevet se. give yourself a half hour and continue with your morning routine. storms later around chicago, indianapolis and over the weekend, if we have one stormy spot, indiana looks to be it. severe weather, damaging wind, possibility of flooding, maybe your afternoon plans are rain the out saturday and sunday right there are in the ohio valley. hot, too, throughout much of the inner mountain west. next week, looks like another polar invasion. polar plunge. whatever you want to call it. it s going to be a chilly summer forecast once again for the great lakes and into the ohio valley where they re saying, what summer? we leave you with a shot of washington, d.c. what a beautiful sunrise, and just an unbelievable weekend coming your way with low humidity. enjoy it. we ll be right back with morning joe. kid: hey dad, who was that man? dad: he s our broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don t know exactly. kid: what if you re not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn t work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab all right. it s time now to look at the morning papers and in that we will answer the creepy question. the l.a. times, police tracked down the person who totally freaked out a bunch of parents in southern california by leaving on their doorstep porcelain dolls that resembled their young daughters. look at these dolls. you were right, donny, to be creeped out. it s okay. that was everybody s reaction. almost all of the homeowners used the word creepy to describe the toys dropped off early in the morning before people woke up. the dolls had the same skin tone and hair color as the girls who live in the neighborhood in san clemente. at the home of one of the targeted families, thursday night s sheriff deputies joined parents of the girls who received mysterious porcelain dolls. 11 of the figurines left on the front doorsteps of each family and look eerily similar, parents say, to the girl whose live at each residence. the dolls resemble their daughters. reporter: the sheriff department collected all dolls as evidence in hopes of determining the manufacturer, retail origin and personal person behind the unwanted doorstep drop-offs in the gated community where parents are taking extra precaution. telling them to, you know, never go with strangers, watch out for each other. you know? don t answer the door. reporter: the girls are around 10 years old and several attend the same elementary school. amp the group meeting, the parents and kids left as next door neighbors are worried. it s just hard to know what to make of it. reporter: the first porcelain doll reported was left at a home last week and the most recently placed figurine left in front of a home on tuesday. no crime has been committed, but not knowing if it s the prank or the handy work of a sexual preside president predator have police on the hunt. on vacation. i think it was t.j. sending us un10678ed mystery into the weekend? here s the thing. i feel so bad, because everyone was saying those words like, creepy and they had police. the motivation of the person who left the dolls has been discovered, and it s not so bad. turns out it was an elderly woman. ah. still creepy, though. no. she attends the local church. and she was clearing out her doll collection, and she wanted to surprise her neighbors. right. right. are we sure, mika? it was yes. it s true. an elderly woman as in, tony perkins mother in psycho ? where s mike barnicle? he was here yesterday. couldn t have been him. what about one of the doll s heads turned around? no. so sad. so sweet and how other society is so depraved and awful. blaming it on this poor little lady. her doll collection. her doll collection was so big that she could match up one for one every kid in the neighborhood with a doll? it s sweet. better than cats. it s okay. it s right on par with cats. oh, my goodness. i feel so terrible. did you see how they put the woman s name up in the pack? whatever her name was, received creepy doll. ah a description. i want that as my lower third. one day. let s move on. is this a slow news day? i don t think so. seems there s a lot going on. but the creepy doll is important, too. of all people i shouldn t be i just posed the question at the top, because it s friday. we might want to check the medicine of that lovely old lady. let s check my medicine. that s what you really want to do. all right. the weekend update willie the cdc is resuming transferring dangerous b biological material anthrax and bird flu, several lab remain closed. the cdc has an advisory committee to help improve its lab safety. plagiarism fallout for senator john walsh continues today. united states army war college informed the senator an investigative irpanel will meet in august to determine if he is guilty of copying the work of others and decide how to move forward. he s accused of heavily taking a thesis he wrote from masters in 2007. walsh doesn t believe he plagiarized. the seattle times tumbled yesterday following news of a $126 million loss in the second quarter. despite revenue growth of over $19 billion. analysts believe ceo jeff bezos is overplaying his hand expanding amazon s product line too fast including the new firephone. more streaming services and unlimited e-books. i want to say something about this company. to makes 20 $20 billion a quart and you can t figure out think about stunning companies on the forefront somehow can t manage with $20 billion of revenue to be on the positive side of the ledger. it s stunning. will they? some day they might. wow. some day they might. and one of the five wealthiest companies in the world. market cap wise or something. the cincinnati inquirer. vice president joe biden spoke to national league dell guilt at the 104th conference. the message throughout the address, an optimistic one. biden believes the united states is currently better positioned than any country in the world when it comes to future job creation, and earning a living wage. the veep closed his speech praising the urban legal consistent history and dedication to working towards economic quality. equality. folks, i don t believe the american people are divided. i think it s the american political system that s broken and dividing them. [ applause ] so, folks do what you ve always done since your founding. expose the american people of the realities of the circumstances we re concerned about, and they will be with us like i am with you. god bless you all. and speaking of the national urban league, joining us now, that group the president. mark morale, in cincinnati, the site of the group s 104th anniversary conference. great to have you on the show this morning, mark. hey, good morning, mika. good morning. are you as optimistic agency the vice president, especially about the way forward in terms of wages and jobs? i m optimistic, because we re eternally optimistic, but we face a divided and broken political system, and we face a seeming inability to act on things like minimum wage, but i would say that last week, earlier this week, the new workforce act, which was signed by the president. uh-huh. and passed with overwhelming majorities in both houses of congress is a rare example of bipartisanship, which goes to improving anden strengthening our ability to prepare and train the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow. so we should underscore that notwithstanding difficult and challenging times, there was a victory earlier this week. really. mark, it s willie. good to see you. congratulations on another successful conference. good morning. so much talk at the national and municipal level of income inequality. what are some of the best solutions you ve seen coming out of your conference, and beyond, about attacking that specific problem? you know, we had eight mayors who participated here in cincinnati, and a panel of seven yesterday. mayors from places like memphis and jacksonville. gary, indiana. and i think what i would point to, willie, is the local initiative, programs which are working in specific neighborhoods to increase job training, to increase incentives so that small businesses can grow. i think that what we see now is a frustration with some inaction in washington, and many local elected officials, local community leaders, local business leaders, taking matters into their own hands. that s good. but i think passing a minimum wage increase would be one of the most important votes of confidence. it won t solve the problem of the great income divide, but what it will do is demonstrate that washington is listening, and they heard the challenges that people at the local community level face. mark, eugene robinson is in washington. he s got a question for you. gene? mark gene? unemployment is down to 6.1% or something like that. among african-americans much higher and coming down much more slowly. i wanted to know, do you have specific ideas about what would bring that down further and faster? and, second, are you hearing any ideas not just from democrats but also from republicans these days? let me add to what you said, gene. we have identified ten cities, ten cities, where the african-american unemployment vat in excess of 20%. this is a national crisis. when you ve got high unemployment in cities like chicago, and that s just one example where it s over 20%. and if you juxtapose that to the fact that small business lending, to african-american businesses, is really down across both, from the sba to many of the banks, there are many solutions out there. many steps that we need to take. you ve got to fix schools and education. that s long term. you ve got to get the workforce training system better calibrated so that we re preparing people for the many vacancy and job openings in advanced manufacturing, in technology. the new jobs in the health care sector. we ve got to calibrate the preparation system so that we re preparing people for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of yesterday. mark halhalperin? you heard from the chairman of the republican party yesterday, hearing from rand paul today. how open is your membership to hearing from republicans? cast sometimes as a bit of a stun, but are they open to the ideas? open to the notion of, listening to republican ideas as opposed to democratic ideas? you know, we are deliberately working to send a very strong message with the lineup of speakers we have here, from vice president biden to senator paul, to reince priebus, to debbie washerman schultz. the first step we have to take is a step of having dialogue. i thinking rance priebus and rand paul creates an opportunity for many of our delegates to hear from rance priebus and rand paul for the first time, because what we re trying to do is start with this dialogue, and i think there s a lot of curiosity, particularly since rand paul has taken some interesting positions on things like criminal justice reform. so i believe people are open. the test, mark, is going to be whether this is the beginning and not, if you will, a drive-by set of events. we are open to the dialogue, and we want to send a message that even if we find that there are differences of approach and differences of opinion, we ve got to work to try to find common ground, because these intractable problems are not going to go away easily. mark morale, always great to see you. thank you very much for being on this morning. take care. thank you. good morning. have a great friday. thank you. need that. coming up, what are you doing, donny? told me to take the jacket off. not on the air. i want to warn young viewers at home i m only doing it because it s hard on the camera. nothing to do with my workout regimen. oh, my god. how are you so a bit over today. yeah. kickboxing? what are you doing, donny? they literally said high to, it was on the screen. i m going to be casual on the rest of the show. phil griffin gets upset when i wear t-shirts. a reason. to save our viewers eyes. are you holding your stomach in now? i can tell you are. just stop. just stop, donny. it s awful. does anyone have a vet by the way? these puppies are sick. i learned that from my friend six years ago. take it off him. take it off. the nfl comes down on ravens running back ray rice. what s wrong with his, willie? seriously, he s lost is this a crisis? this is a crisis. tcheky green, right here. i m moving on now to serious news. this is over the ray rice story, the domestic violence incident with his then fiancee as the team stands by his side. i stand behind ray, he s a heck of a guy, done everything right since. they makes a mistake. all right? 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he s going to have to pay a consequence. i think that s good for kids to understand it, that it works that way. that s how it works. that s how it should be. rice will be fined more than $500,000. losing a couple of game checks but a lot of people saying the fine and suspension don t go far enough as the new york times points out under the league collective bargaining agreement, players who test positive for substance abuse or performance-enhancing drugs receive a mandatory four-game suspicion. that includes marijuana use. that s twice what it cost ray rice. the suspension increases to eight games for are the second offense on the drug violation. some are comparing rice s punishment to that handed down to vikings special teams coordinator suspended three weeks for making a homophobic remark. something s got to give to use the movie phrase, to have a less severe penalty than a guy smoking some weed, something s upside-down there. very complicated circumstances, i m sure. sitting there in that, you know i don t really want to know. but when you have video that backs up that he knocked a woman out? am i missing something here? by the way, that s a horrific video. you don t know whether they had an altercation, whether she was drunk. whatever it is, is merited more than that. much more. the nfl has to get behind that. violence against women. so many battering and abuse against women by nfl players and there is no gray area there. there s another player named robert mathis, suspended this season for the first four games plays for the colts for taking what he said was a fertility drug to help his wife get pregnant. he didn t know it was banned. on the ban list. okay. missing four games for that and ray rice gets two games. not sure how they did the math and how it will come off well. not just for ray rice, whoever this player is, it s for everybody to understand what is right and what is wrong. that was way over the line. ugly scene. not enough. up next, must-read opinion pages. we ll be right back with morning joe. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh there s good more. honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy. i m like a statue. i just signed up and, boom, all these points. .and there s not-so-good more. you re a big guy. oh no. get the good more with verizon smart rewards and rack up points to use towards the things you really want. now get 50% off all new smartphones. for over 19 million people. 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a man s got to do what a man s got to do, to use his words. a terrible cycle. israel says, if hamas continues to lob rockets at us we have to defend, respond and defend ourselves. hamas says if you re going to continue to kill our children at u.n. schools we re going to fight back. how do you break it? exactly right, willie. there s a point, i think, there s a line, beyond which this whole thing becomes counterproductive for israeli security in the long run, because what you re the people of gaza really were fed up with hamas. i mean, you know, they had elevated them in power. hamas behaved in a more sort of dictatorial way than a lot of people would like, and they weren t getting anywhere, and so if netanyahu sure if there was military action, some military action that was necessary, fine, but if he were also offering the people of gaza an alternative, look, it doesn t have to be this way. there are other directions we can go in to have, you know, a more productive relationship for both sides. this might have been a moment when the people would have responded. but now, i think, wee past th wt and gaining legitimacy. demonstrations with hamas yesterday and today and those are growing. in a sense, this is great for hamas in a weird way. yes. we re going to talk to david gregory about this at the top of the hour. a lot of politics to talk about as well. coming up, a 6-year-old tries to skate his way into the record books. news you can t use is next. ah! vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours. in the nation, the safest feature in your car is you. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. which for you, shouldn t be a problem. just another way we put members first, because we don t have shareholders. join the nation. nationwide is on your side. these wifi hotspots we get with our xfinity internet service are all over the place. hey you can stop looking. i found one. see? 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[ chanting ] yet another commercial airline disaster. air algerie left south africa with 116 people onboard. the pilots of the plane was asked to change route because of the storm. american security measures have only two settings. indiffer and total panic. the israeli airport is the u.s. airlines are starting to fly into tel aviv. this decision by it s faa, was this a political decision? we have not made decisions based on not just politics we have to just look at the facts. the sanctions send the wrong message. european union is to have 33 new companies to its sanctions list. we ve seen europe move with us, not as fast as we d like, but they get there. russia it moving one step closer towards all-out war. putin may actually light a fire that he loses control of. all right. welcome back to morning joe. donny deutsch, mark halperin, eugene robinson still with us and the moderator of meet the press, david gregory. good to have you all onboard at this hour. start with the middle east. hope there could be a short-term deal to end the crisis in the middle east amp the deadliest day of violence yet between israel and hamas. secretary of state john kerry is waiting to hear back from both sides about a one-week cease-fire proposal allowing israeli defense forces to remain in gaza and israel and hamas try to reach a lng-term deal, this after an attack on a u.n. school in gaza that left at least 15 civilians dead including 3 children. about 200 more people injured. palestinian officials say israeli tank shells are to blame. israel says hamas rockets could be responsible but did not rule out accidentally striking the facility. tragically, the school was serving as a shelter for those trying to escape the violence. reporter: these are people who have taken shelter in a u.n.-designated area. the warring parties particularly the israelis were given the precise gps coordinates. they new exactly what was going on there, and in spite of that, this has happened. we, again, say, enough civilians. enough women. enough children. they have suffered quite enough in this appalling conflict. one way of putting it for sure. the ongoing bloodshed led to large protests in the west bank including clashes between israeli soldiers and thousands of palestinians at a military checkpoint. one palestinian was killed hundreds hurt. israeli journalists saying it was one of the biggest protests in recent memory. a total of at least 119 palestinians were killed yesterday. palestinian officials say that brings the overall death toll to more than 800. on the israeli side, 32 soldiers have died as well as 3 civilians. all right. meanwhile in an exclusive interview on cnbc, president obama fired back against allegations that there were political reasons behind the faa s ban on u.s. flights into israel. the initial ban that wa imposed by the faa was based on israel needing to show us that, in fact, it was safe for commercial airlines to fly in. by the way, the european governme governments in terms of regulating their airlines did the exact same thing. so i think what happened here was in light of some scary moments a couple of days ago, the faa took some prudent action. all right. here is what republican senator ted cruz of texas had said about the ban earlier this week. yesterday we saw the faa make an unprecedented decision to ban all air travel to the nation of israel, and i ve asked today the very simple question, did president obama just unilaterally launch economic boy caug boycotts? driven by the white house, by the state department? if it was based on airline safety as they said, why did they single out israel? why not ban travel to pakistan, yemen or ukraine where a commercial airliner was just shot down? instead they targeted israel. i want to ask david a question. david, you know, clearly what the senator was saying is ludicrous. howling at the moon. no matter which side of the aisle you re on. doesn t this rit rick start to backfire getting towards november you? listen and tilting your head, is he actually saying this? if i m reince priebus running the party, i want to put a muzzle on theirs character. look, there s obviously a lot of support in our political system on both sides of the aisle for israel and so you know, you can have actually bipartisan views against, you know, this faa decision, which has now been dialed back, separate from the allegations he s making in that particular clip. but, look, you know, this become as sayy issue. the president s defending it. i don t think it goes far beyond where we are today. doesn t become a political issue. obviously, the administration is in a tough position now of being very supportive of israel and now in a position where it wants to end this war, but also help israel think about what is an actual prudent end game here. what do you get off all this by the end? especially if hamas is still in power and maybe even strengthened. mark halperin, this role is important, but as eugene robinson pointed out in his piece it has to be in perspectives, does it not, to reality? as i said before, they want to complete the military mission and are very savvy how to play for time. i don t think there s any doubt that both sides would like to limit the loss of life, but the israelis want to complete the mission, and you know, the world s pretty folk the focus is pretty spread out on europe, focused on russia as well, and i think the united states is unable to exercise, push israel and true for most of the obama administration. this administration is unable to influence israel i think beyond where prime minister netanyahu wants to go. mark to your point, the one thing that has been israel s we will do whatever it takes to protect ourselves. the iron dome is one thing. but these tunnels what this is all about. until they can close the tunnels they do not feel safer and that s the end game here. for sure. gene, take it to david. wondering what you think the challenges are to have a positive impact alongside israel? yeah. my question for david is, do we have does the united states really have leverage at this point on either side? is there an effective way, really, even for us to try? we don t talk directly to hamas, but egypt, which was the intermediary before between the u.s. and the palestinian side in most of these situations doesn t doesn t get along with this egyptian government doesn t get along with hamas. therefore, are we really able to have much influence either way? well, i don t think so, and i think that s a key point, that hamas is a lot more isolated. whatever gains hamas thinks its made in the course of the last couple of weeks, it is still more isolated. even iran doesn t, has backed away a bit from hamas, especially with everything that s happening in the region. i think that s one of the reasons you ve seen so much support for from the administration for israel, and what it s doing. and for the fact that hamas has started this, with firing rockets and discriminately and israel has an ability to intercept those to prevent loss of life. you have a peace process that s unravelled. i think they ve staked out ground. we understand what you re doing. especially trying to degrade what donny was talking about. tunnels, the capacity to strike israel. israel tends to be more pragmatic about this, to neutralize threats that are immediately around it, and i think the administration has given them a fair amount of room now in incidents like yesterday, force the administration to clamp down a little and say, look, you ve got we ve got to draw this to a close, and with whatever leverage they have, which i think is mostly just, you know, the power of talking to them very loudly in their ear. david, talk about the power of that leverage, specifically. because we know that the u.s., there is no better friend to israel than the u.s. we give in aid billions of dollars annually to israel. so if we don t have any type of proper channels of communication to discuss diplomacy and to ask excuse me israel to maybe calm down some of the encouragement going on in gaza what leverage do we have at all? this is presupposes america agrees with what israel is doing, and it doesn t. you don t think the u.s. disagrees with killing swirls in gaza? of course. everybody disagrees with killing civilians in gaza. i don t believe the u.s. feels that s what israel s intent is. i don t believe people believe that, except for enemies in the united states and the region believes when there is civilian casualties in afghanistan or pakistan from drone strikes that that s the u.s. intention. the goal here, neutralize hamas, deal with tunnels and rocket fire is something the administration clearly supported israel doing. you ve ladder it from the president and secretary of state and others, but you ve obviously seen a level of frustration with how extensive the military operation is, that leads to these kinds of incidents. right. that absolutely want them to then say, look, we ve got to limit our scope. we may be supportive of what you re trying to do, but this has now gotten out of hand. moving on. former secretary of state and possible 2016 presidential candidate hillary clinton is admitting she may have work to do when it comes to media relations. clinton has frequently clashed with the press including during her 2008 presidential campaign. and her recent book tour. former new york times executive editor jill abramson believes the former first lady expected the press, especially female journalists to be loyal to her. hillary clinton is responding saying, i think maybe one of the points jill was making is that i do sometimes expect perhaps more than i should. and i ll have to work on my expectations, but i had an excellent relationship with the state department press that followed me for four years and enjoyed working with them, and whatever i do in the future i look forward to having the same kind of opportunities. mark halperin, your thoughts? i don t ever like to overstate the media s role, but a pretty big role in the president s process. i think she s talking about the most important issue determining whether she ll are president right now. she ll raise the money, have policy positions. she needs to find way to change the narrative how she s being covered. right now she s destined to get horrible coverage if she runs for president. how did that happen, david gregory? you know, i just think this goes back a long time. one of the down sides to being in the public eye as a political figure for so long is that there s just a lot of baggage associated with that, that goes back now 20-plus years. and relationships and views about the press and situations you ve been in. i think that s very difficult to get out from under. there s always been, go back to her presidential runs what has surrounded her is the idea that she s this formidable and perhaps unstoppable force. and i think the media will always look to kind of pick that apart, especially if there s vulnerability, and if you don t live up to expectations. that s part of what happened in 2008, and i think if you don t make if there s open disdain for a lot of the media culture, and members of the media, you re not able to kind of forge new relationships. the only way that can change is there s a real effort to sort of create new relationships, and i think there, i think a kind of a deft comment. almost like, i m sorry i care so much. i m sorry my expectations are so high. you know? that there s a need for a reset which she talked about as well. the reset with russia. verdicts are coming in for her book tour, we ve talked about as part of this conversation. critics say the book is far from noteworthy except for some with the media. others say, no impact on voters. sales numbers show also a different kind of sign. a troubling sign. possible 2016 dr. ben carson s book sold 60% more copies than clinton s last week. hard choices has sold about 192,000 copies so far compared to 183,000 for parson s one nation, about 1 million copies, donny, of clinton s book was shipped to bookstores. still really good steales. what i would hope, if i was the clintons. it wasn t a personal memoir, about her time at the state department and academic reading. pure marketing point of view, to sit down seems work. if the book was about her marriage to bill clinton, what she s gone to, you would have had 2 million copies. kind of readers appetites kind of thing. the troubling thing, and what was laid out articulately, her problem is simple fatigue. it s just, you see her picture, and you want to turn the page? is it 22 years and beyond the fact of her very, very, very contentious relationship with the media, it s just, are americans just tired of looking at her. i don t mean from a physical point of view, and i think that s the big issue. if that is the issue people are not picking up the book, that s going to be difficult. couple that with the media laying in wait because she is so formidable and laying in wait, because there is no story if she just continues this march, on top of consumer s fatigue, the right republican candidate can beat her. and the reality in washington sorry, mark where people are really disappointed with washington and the big question in there minds when voting will be, who can cut through this? she s from arkansas. not washington. i know. true. the book is the book s relative lack of sales is a caution for anyone who wants her to be president. a book tour is like a presidential campaign. you package the product and try to get people excited about it. as donny suggests, the book tour and the book s failure to sell as many copies as a publisher suggests she needs a different repackaging. still the front-runner for the white house, but you ve got to be about the future and about being forward-looking and she is not right now. that traditional plan? that traditional-style plan of putting out a book, having a foundation, getting out there. is hillary clinton that type of candidate that needs ththat opposite. i m surprised it didn t. she needs her bill clinton-arsenio sax yes. she needs to do that. by the way, do the, a great thing with jimmy fallon. you re done. shallow, david? david i just wondered what mark thought about this? in a strange sort of way i feel the democratic party is is much more like the republican party in the sense that, a sense that, women, this is now her turn. and so that fights against the idea that she really represents the future. and it comes at a time when there s all of the action, all of that energy i think in the democratic party at the grass roots level is about disappointment with president obama. what was left unsaid. what was left undone. and there s no as much excitement about hillary clinton, because it s altogether uncertain where she distance s herself from president obama. sorry? is there someone else, david, who does that? fills that void of excitement they feel was left undone by oba obama? elizabeth warren in certain sectors, i don t know if it s big enough to challenge the institution right now of hillary clinton but, again, that s part of the problem, which is, where s the energy? where is the excitement? especially when well awe look at this knowing hillary clinton is very much in control of a process. we think we know the end point of her returning, but it s kind of are very slow rollout. yeah. okay. all right. david gregory, thank you. what s coming up on meet the press sunday? more on the issue in the war on gaza, also, paul ryan on 2016 and his view of the future of the republican party, and dealing with issues of the economy and entitlements. david gregory, thank you. still ahead on morning joe, been to some of the most remote locations on the planet. and now he s taking celebrities along for the ride. a look at a new show. plus, crisis on the border. exclusive look at the situation in the south and what is washington doing about it? 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[ heart beats ] the crash of an air algerie plane that mali, the latest in a series of airline tragedies this year creating growing concerns how safe it is to fly. nbc s tom costello reports. reporter: it s been a rough six months for international aviation, alltoured, nearly 600 people have died. now, another crash. air algerie flight 5017, an md-83 flown by swift air left africa with 116 people onboard but crashed 50 minutes later in bad weather. like ukraine, northern mallsy a war zone. in june the faa warned pilots to avoid plying below 24,000 feet over mali citing a risk of anti-aircraft fire to include shoulder fired, man portable air defense systems. it s not clear what happened to flight 5017 but it s the latest in a string of incidents. a fatal passenger plane crash in taiwan wednesday with 48 dead. u.s. flights stemp rarery suspended into tel aviv. shootdown s malaysia flight over ukraine, and 37 a 0 remains misg presumably off the coast of australia. the fact a cluster of incidents does not materially affect the fact that our skies and the skies around the world are safe. reporter: the faa lists 63 countries including cuba, yemen, north korea and pakistan, where u.s. airlines are prohibited from flying or subject to flight restrictions and warnings. the secretary of transportation as the situation on the ground changes in some of these parts of the world, our guidance perhaps will change. reporter: in fact, the chances are very good your flight will land safely. according to an m.i.t. statistician, your chances of being killed in a plane crash anywhere in the world are roughly 1 in 4 million. but in north america and europe, that drops to 1 in 25 million. that means you could go 60,000 years flying every day before a fatal crash. the last fatal accident involving a u.s. carrier was in buffalo when 50 people died. that was in 2009. in this industry, anybody s accident is everybody s accident, and when there s a ms. happ, something goes wrong, the industry works together to keep it from happening again. and joining us, michael goldfire, thanks for being with us this morning. good morning. first of all, the restricteded skies over war zones, there are restrictions out there. there are rules. do pilots always follow them? well, mika, start back with tom costello s report how long it would take, 60,000 years flying every day, to be involved in a fatal accident. so it certainly doesn t feel safe with everything happening over the last several weeks and it s because of that, that some changes have to be made in restricted airspace. they re probably going to make decisions to redraw those maps so over the ukraine or other hot spots, that restriction will go to a higher altitude or be avoided, were ut it was that crisis of confidence you mentioned that drove the faa to do the responsible, not the political, thing at tel aviv. in fact, the israelis should be thankful the faa came in. think about it for a moment. had delta, united, the other carriers going in there had to have made that decisions themselves whether or not it was safe to fly, they don t have that kind of information. the flight ops doesn t get that, pilots don t get that. it ought not be a decision by individual airplanes. the governments need to step in and take over that. faa went in, did a quick re-assessme re-assessment, convinced it was safe given the rockets and resumed flight. and monitoring it on an ongoing basis. talk about that monitoring, do you recommend the use of that going forward? the example we just saw this week with what the faa did with the flights into israel? obviously, there was a lot of reaction to that, but do you feel that was the right choice and we should see that more in the future? absolutely the right choice. the faa gets criticized for being slow on a lot of thing, not moving quickly enough to put satellite in the skies, on safety, a continual vigilance. other times when navigational ads have gone down. there is their job. most of the public welcomed that as opposes to a knee-jerk political reaction to make an advantage in the situation in israel an gaza. mark halperin? let me ask you about the case in ukraine, and whether there are things that should have happened differently in terms of, from beginning to end, in terms of the flight and then in terms of the aftermath of the flight? that s an investigative issue, but i d like to hear what you think. did something go wrong? how can we live in a world where a plane like that goes down and the international community has no ability to come in, collect the remains and do an investigation? 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first, mika, we had a really good meeting yesterday with the presidents of honduras and guatemala. many public awareness campaigns now. they are prosecuting the human smugglers and they re going and tightening up their own laws. that s a good thing, because we need to put out information that the children should not come to america through this pathway. there is really very little in our law, as you suggest, unless we declare them refugees, and i don t see that happening. doesn t mean i don t think it should happen. it s just i don t see that happening. and so first thing is protect the children and they re beginning to do that in their home countries so adults start taking responsibility in the home countries as we take our responsibility here. i think, look, let s follow the laws. the laws are in place for a good reason. we still know many of these little girls have been violated and been abused and they need our care and attention now. as we deal with the broader humanitarian crisis on the border. so let s do that, and i think we re going to stem the flow. your reporter just said it s about 1,000 a day. mika, that s about what it is. it s about between 300 and 400,000 a year that cross the border undocumented into the united states. that s down from a high of 1.6 million during george bush s administration. so there are fewer coming but more needs to be done. congressman, mark halperin here, we all admire and really praise you, not just in the current crisis but your long-returning concern about the humanitarian aspects of this. tell people the dirty little secret with the democratic would not like the president to take the executive action you ve been urging them to do because they think it will hurt the party in the mid-terms? there are in the party, more in the senate than anywhere else concerned about their own political viability, either of the party or their own candidacies in the democratic party. and that s fundamentally wrong. when you use when public policy is defined through electoral goals and the goals of a party, then human rights and civil rights always suffer. we must put the rights of the people ahead of benefits that we might construe come to our party. let me just say in about an hour, i m going over to the white house. i ll be meeting with jeh johnson and the chief legal counsel to the president of the united states. we re going to sit down and we re going to negotiate additional terms and avenues the president can use and prosecutorial discretion and i think we can get 3 million, 4 million, maybe 5 million names. who said to you privately, look, if the president does this it could inflame the party in the primaries? who are saying that? no one tells me that privately because they know better. they just know better. seriously, it s not something you want to have a conversation with me about, because just as i ve been clear with you this morning, i would be very i would be clear and even more stern with them if they approached, bust i have heard it. it s not something i haven t heard. it s always a political consideration. let me say this, the democrats in the house are very clear. the hispanic congressional caucus is very clear. nancy pelosi, steny hoyer and i are going with republican colleagues down to the boarder next week. we re clear. do not change the law and let the president use his prosecutorial discretion to set aside. i believe the president of the united states has the authority under the law and should, because for the good of the nation, stop deporting low priorities, not criminal, undocumented in this country who have american citizen children. between 2010 and 2012, deported parents, hurns of children left without r without parents? i think the president should take action and i believe the american public understand if the congress doesn t act, the president should act to put children and families first to suffer these devastating effects. this is thomas roberts. i wanted to ask you about that meeting with the central american leaders, on the president s schedule to meet with him today. did you talk about what we can do as a country to help them to engage their own people, to tamp down on drug trafficking? to try to create better lives for their own people? obviously, these people are trying to come here to seek out the american dream. risking their lives to can do that. kids put through horrendous conditions, some facing sexual assault an on the way to get here. what can we do to help those suffering in central america? have a program that allows central america to thrive and that we invest in those countries. they are look, i think your question is excellent, because everything we do to stem the tide of children coming and people coming to our borders, we can do that. but in the end, severe violence and severe poverty are going to bring people to america to seek refuge here, and the way you stop that by happening is creating conditions there. so we did talk about how we train people for jobs. how we deal with the devastating effect that s had on the coffee industry and agriculture in guatemala. how it is we strengthen civil society and the rule of law and stop the impunity with which not only government officials but the crime element in general deal with there. yes, we did talk about that but also talked about the responsibility. the first thing is, protectal children, have them not come. they should not be coming to america. okay. our laws are not here to address their needs. congressman luis gutierrez, thank you very, very much. good weekend. still heal, survivalist bear grylls embarks on what may be his most daring adventure, taking a group of celebs into the wild. he ll join us, next. at every ford dealership, you ll find the works! it s a complete checkup of the services your vehicle needs. so prepare your car for any road trip by taking it to an expert ford technician. because no matter your destination good maintenance helps you save at the pump. get our multi-point inspection with a synthetic blend oil change, tire rotation, brake inspection and more for $29.95 or less. get a complete vehicle checkup only at your ford dealer. moderate to severe is tough, but i ve managed. i got to be pretty good at managing my symptoms, except that managing my symptoms was all i was doing. when i finally told my doctor, he said my crohn s was not under control. he said humira is for adults like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn s disease. and that in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you ve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. if you re still just managing your symptoms, ask your gastroenterologist about humira. with humira, remission is possible. pull that rip cord. okay. all right? where s the rip cord? it s time to rock n roll! oh, my gosh. i would be scared. that was a scene from nbc s adventure reality series running wild with bear grylls. it s not an actual bear, it s bear grylls. the host of the show joins us now. good to be here, guys. this sounds like so much fun. that was zac efron. my daughters know who he is. ben stiller, channing tatum, deion sanders, tamron hall. who was the biggest wimp? they all had their moments of real terror. i remember even with tamron we were repelling off this canyon wall and i could feel her body physically shaking. but we all have moments like that in the wild. what i love about this show is you see these hollywood stars overcome that. at the end of it, that real sense of pride, big smiles. tamron, she had a big smile the whole time. what did ben stiller do? i took ben to scotland. there was like horizontal wind and rain and it s hard to be cheerful up to two days when everything was soaking wet. what was some of the drop you did. we got dropped off high in the mountains, extracted down to the coast, sleeping in a cave, a lot of repelling off things, climbing up things. i remember climbing up, we did this technique like 150 foot up and it s one line. this is zac. oh, that looks like fun. but the thing is he s great. they have got such physicality from their day job of all that dancing and this sort of stuff. he loved it. he just wanted adrenaline. do they have any idea about what the agenda was going in, the certain type of courses or chores they would be exposed to? they said how do we prepare and i said just come with a big bag of enthusiasm and another sack of fortitude. i ll say we re going to get dropped off here, picked up there. we just wing it. tamron was the only woman. i have to say that makes her very brave. how did she do? she is brave. she was kind of a fish out of water. by her own admission, she s a city girl, she s never done anything like this. what i loved about tamron, she arrived looking perfect, you know gorgeous. just like you, all prepared. i dragged her in, her hair is a mess and it was like welcome to the wild. but she did brilliantly. this is the big question. i want to be on a close-up for this. did you make tamron drink her own urine. of course. off camera. wow. oh, my gosh. no, you didn t. no. tamron wouldn t do that. there s no way. i m going to protect you. why did you ask that question? because as a survivalist bear teaches these type of skills. people come up when i go in a bar, oh, do you want a pint of urine. tamron was amazing. we came across a rotting squirrel and i was trying to pull its gut out through its anal vent. did you say anal vent? oh, my god. the series premiere of running wild with bear grylls will air on nbc monday, july 28th, at 8:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. central time. for round two could you book mika? i m tough. you ve got more of a chance of getting her than scarborough. oh, no, joe would be very brave. would he? yes, definitely. i would not. is there a four seasons anywhere in those areas? all right. thank you so much, bear. good to have you on. a lot more ahead on morning joe. a touching gift or really creepy? creepy. why these dolls are appearing on the doorsteps of homes in one california community, and they look like the kids who live in the homes. and officials are following new leads to determine the cause of the air algerie crash which was the third crash in the course of one week. and the conflict between israel and hamas spills over into the west bank as a protest turns deadly last night. much more when morning joe returns. vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours. weit s not justt we d be fabuilding jobs here,. it s helping our community. siemens location here has just received a major order of wind turbines. it puts a huge smile on my face. cause i m like, this is what we do. the fact that iowa is leading the way in wind energy, i m so proud, like, it s just amazing. yoplait. it is so good for everyone s midnight cravings. for over 19 million people. 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hospital is overwhelmed. most of the casualties are children and women. you want to tell me who is responsible then? this incident has sparked anger among palestinians. yet another commercial airline disaster. air algerie left africa with 116 people on board. the pilot on the plane asked to change route because of a storm. american security measures have only two settings, indifferent and total panic. u.s. airlines are starting to fly into tel aviv. this decision by the faa, was this a political decision? we have not made decisions when it comes to airline safety based not just on politics, we look at the facts. this sends the wrong message to kiev. the european union will had 32 new companies to its sanctions list. we ve seen europe move with us. not always as fast as we d like but they get there. russia appears one step closer toward all-out war with the former soviet state of ukraine. if i have a fear, it s that putin may actually light a fire that he loses control of. it s 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. on the west coast as you take a live look at new york city on this friday morning. it s finally friday. welcome to morning joe. with us on set we have mark halperin, donny deutsch. and in washington, eugene robinson. the recalls have really hurt gm. we ve got a report now their profits in the second quarter, one quarter, 85% down. that s a staggering fall. after taxes, the troubled car parts will cost the company $1.5 billion and gm just outlined six new recalls affecting roughly 800,000 vehicles. so they keep coming. i guess they have looked under the hood, so to speak. but mika, the irony of this is their sales are up. what? their sales are not hurting. i think u.s. consumers have become so anesthetized to corporate blunders and corporate problems, okay, this was 2004. so of course their profits are down 85%. all the housekeeping that they have to do, to put it nicely. as far as people going to the showrooms, ironically, they re not stopping. the business section of the times talks about how these big suvs, the sales are so high, as donny says, sales are actually up but the profits are down because they have taken such a chunk from all these recalls. so i m happy i want the jobs safe but how is it possible i would think that people would let me ask you a question right now. if you want to go buy an escalade. by the way, my kids my wife my kids mom drives them in an escalade and for some reason i wouldn t think twice. if it was a specific model that year recalled. but i think consumers are savvy enough to understand that a car produced in 2013 that s a different model, although it comes from the same corporation, does not necessarily come from the same place. it s really stunning. and by the way, toyota right. a horrible incident with the false start, so i don t know if we ve become used to it. i don t know if that s the good news or the bad news there. even with these numbers, you say the company can survive and thrive. they will. okay. a lot of their sales are overseas too, mika. they have a huge chunk of the china market, gm does, which i don t think is terribly affected by all these recalls. okay. let s get to the big news of the morning. it s now daylight in northern mali where at any moment we expect to get the first pictures of the wreckage of that air algerie flight that disappeared. 110 passengers and 6 crew were killed in the crash over the conflict zone yesterday. right now the cause is unknown but officials say the pilots did send a final message asking for a change in route because of heavy rain. france, which has been helping mali fight al qaeda-linked rebels is now helping with the crash investigation. the french president said this morning one black box has been found in the wreckage. most of the passengers on board were french. others were from africa, the middle east and europe. five from canada. media there reports that four were from the same family. a mother, a father and their two children. there were no americans on board. but with a third air disaster in just a week, u.s. officials are rushing to reassure the public that flying is still safe. here s nbc s tom costello. reporter: it s been a rough six months for international aviation. all told nearly 600 people have died. now another crash. air algerie, flight 5017, an md-83 thrown by swift air left with 116 people on board, but crashed 50 minutes later in bad weather. like ukraine, northern mali is a war zone. in june the faa warned u.s. pilots to avoid flying below 24,000 feet over mali, citing the risk of anti-aircraft fire to include shoulder-fired, man portable air defense systems. it s not clear what happened to flight 5017, but it s the latest in a string of incidents. a fatal passenger plane crash in taiwan wednesday with 48 dead. u.s. flights temporarily suspended into tel aviv. the shootdown of malaysia flight 17 over ukraine. malaysia flight 370 remains missing, presumably 1500 miles off the coast of australia. and a terror watch for all u.s.-bound flights. the fact that we ve had a cluster of incidents does not materially affect the fact that our skies and the skies around the world are safe. the faa lists 63 countries, including cuba, yemen, north korea and pakistan where u.s. airlines are prohibited from flying or subject to flight restrictions and warnings. the secretary of transportation as the situation on the ground changes in some of these parts of the world, our guidance perhaps will change. reporter: in fact, the chances are very good your flight will land safely. according to an mit statistician, your chances of being killed in a plane crash anywhere in the world are roughly 1 in 4 million, but in north america and europe, that drops to 1 in 25 million. that means you could go 60,000 years flying every day before a fatal crash. the last fatal accident involving a u.s. carrier was in buffalo when 50 people died. that was in 2009. in this industry, anybody s accident is everybody s accident. when there s a mishap, when something goes wrong, the industry works together to figure out why to keep it from happening again. and that was tom costello reporting. there is new hope this morning that there could be a short-term deal to end the crisis in the middle east after the deadliest day of violence between israel and hamas. we keep saying that every day and every day it gets worse. secretary of state john kerry is waiting to hear back from both sides about a one-week cease-fire proposal. the plan would let israeli defense forces remain in gaza as israel and hamas try to reach a long-term deal. the possible progress comes after an attack on a u.n. school in gaza that left at least 15 civilians dead, including three children. about 200 more people are injured. palestinian officials say israeli tank shells are to blame. israel says hamas rockets could be responsible but did not rule out accidentally striking the facility. tragically the school was serving as a shelter for those trying to escape the violence. these are people who had taken shelter in a u.n.-designated area. the warring parties, particularly the israelis, were given the precise gps coordinants. they knew exactly what was going on there, and in spite of that this has happened. we again say enough civilians, enough women, enough children. they have suffered quite enough in this appalling conflict. the ongoing bloodshed led to large protests in the west bank, including clashes between israeli soldiers and thousands of palestinians at a military checkpoint. officials say one palestinian was killed, hundreds were hurt. israeli journalists said it was one of the biggest protests in recent memory. a total of at least 119 palestinians were killed yesterday. palestinian officials say that brings the overall death toll to more than 800. on the israeli side, 32 soldiers have died as well as three civilians. eugene robinson, it s almost as if one would be afraid to watch the news following this story. yeah, yeah. it s it just seems to get worse and worse and worse. you know, this outbreak of protests in the west bank on the opposite side of israel, you know, at the end of this, and there will be an end of this, this is not just a regular israeli mowing the grass in gaza, i mean this has turned into a pretty major war. but it will have an end. at the end, you know, depressingly i think we re just generating another generation of war. you know, another generation of martyrs and another generation of resentment and, frankly, hatred. it s just it s incredible. it s depressing. gene, you wrote a fascinating piece in the post as far as israel s moral compass and obviously you re pro-israel and israel has to defend itself but there are lines. i guess the question is, as we all watch that as human beings is apparent, your heart breaks but then you go, okay, there s 2200 rockets being launched into israel and obviously israel strikes back. how do you draw firm lines as far as where the morality is? you know, and the answer is you can t draw firm lines because everybody s firm line i think would be a bit different. i think you have to look at you have to look at the situation and you have to try to look at proportionality and you have to realize that a civilized nation that does not respond to every heinous act in kind. that s just not what we re about, that s not what israel is about. and, you know, so what is the what s kind of the moral cost benefit of a given strike or a given operation. you know, i think, frankly, this has gone too far. it s gone over to the negative side. i think it becomes counterproductive, especially given that, yes, all those rockets are being fired at israel, but you know what, they re all being deflected and shot down by the iron dome system, which is kind of changed the security situation in israel, at least in terms of the rockets. the tunnels are a different story. the tunnels are something new. and, you know, we have to learn more about that because apparently there are a lot more tunnels being dug than the israelis even knew about. they hadn t really been used yet. and so it s kind of unclear exactly what that s about. but the rockets are not, you know the situation is not what it was five years ago. let s go to gaza. nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin has been there from the beginning of this conflict. ayman, good morning. what more can you tell us about this blast at the u.n. school that killed 16 people? what happened there? reporter: well, i wish i could play for you guys the sound that s happening behind us right now. it s a real juxtaposition of what life has become like in gaza. you re hearing on one hand the sounds of friday prayers and it s juxtaposed pierced pie the sound of artillery shelling every few seconds. but in terms of what happened at the u.n. school, there are two narratives coming out of this, one from the united nations, one from the israeli military. the united nations says its gps coordinants were given to the idf. they say that they don t necessarily have any hard evidence that this was a direct israeli shell. they say all the indications are that it was an israeli shelling because it was one of several in the area that were coming from the direction of the israeli military. in addition to that, they are calling for a full investigation. but they are also citing something that s very important. they say this is now the third school that has been hit by the israelis. they say the other two schools, they don t have any doubt that it was the israeli shells. in fact they found an inert israeli bomb in one of those schools clearly marked that it was from the israeli side. so for them they have the evidence they need to believe it was israel. they are calling for a full investigation. the israeli military is saying something completely different. they are starting to show that they could have possibly made a mistake. in fact the spokesperson for the israeli military said, yes, we were firing mortars in that area. it was possible that one of our mortars landed in this school. we are talking about a line that has been crossed with pictures after pictures after pictures of children being killed and children being wounded and children losing their family members. gene s article, it s got a picture of this child at the hospital who s just obviously lost her family or friends just screaming in agony. there is a difference here, is there not? and what are kerry s options when you re dealing with people responsible in one way or another for scenes like this? well, human tragedy is horrible. but not to get too meta about this, but i think gene represents a turn in the last 24 hours you see in the media coverage and opinion pieces and news coverage of people saying it s gone too far. and the israelis are keen observers of american media and recognize world and u.s. opinion matter a lot here, but they re not done with the military operation. i think what secretary kerry is up against in the private conversations between prime minister netanyahu and american officials now are very tough because what they re up against is they want a cease-fire and the israelis are not done. they think their military operation is particularly on the tunnels needs to continue. the big question to me is for how long. i don t think they ll agree to a cease-fire unless they re done, and they re not done. frightening. and, you know, the other thing is that i m not sure hamas is done either, because hamas was in some deep political trouble, right? its patron, the government of egypt, is gone now. there s a government there that doesn t like hamas. and so and they re getting more popular. they ll get more support among palestinians for standing up to israel. the president gave an exclusive interview yesterday to cnbc firing it back against allegations there were political reasons, you heard this from some members of congress, behind that faa ban on u.s. flights into israel. the initial ban that was imposed by the faa was based on israel needing to show us that in fact it was safe for commercial airlines to fly in. by the way, the european governments in terms of regulating their airlines did the exact same thing, so i think what happened here was in light of some scary moments a couple of days ago, the faa took some prudent action. criticism came from senator ted cruz, probably the most vocal critic, saying this was a way to essentially put some sanction on israel for what it s doing. can i officially say that cruz is a blirting idiot. he s a blithering idiot. i love that chris matthews started comparing him to mccarthy, to suggest in any way, shape or form that this was done as economic sanctions against israel is a level of idiocy that i have not seen out of any republicans and this kind of rhetoric is the kind of thing that may push the midterm elections back in favor of the democrats. still ahead on morning joe, the new fear of flying. why after a week of deadly crashes, officials are taking a second look at global air security. former secretary of homeland security michael chertoff will explain what can be done. plus senator maria cantwell is leading the charge on capitol hill to make sure female entrepreneurs are getting the resources they need. she ll join us ahead in just a bit. and still ahead, those dolls that mysteriously turned up on people s door steps who look exactly like the real children that live in the house, awkward and totally creepy? we ll tell you who was responsible next. but first, bill karins with a check of the forecast. bill. thanks, mika. how creepy is that, middle of the night you wake up and see that on your front porch. just deliver it during the day. as far as the forecast went yesterday, horrible news out of southern portions of virginia. this is across the chesapeake right along the coastal areas. they have only had like five tornados in the last 60 years but they had one yesterday morning at 8:30 in the morning. it was over a rural section. it went over a campground. so they really had no warning. they knew the skies were getting dark but there s no tornado sirens in this region and they got nailed. it was only an ef-1. but you see those big, huge trees, they fell on a tent with a couple in it and both have perished. 25 people were also injured and brought to hospitals. let s talk about what s happening as far as today. we continue with the heat. it was 116 yesterday in phoenix. i don t care if they call it a dry heat, 116 is hot. as far as the wet weather goes, thunderstorms continue this morning. they dove all the way from minneapolis now straight down through iowa, and now they re starting to head right over the mississippi into areas of illinois. also that northeast corner of missouri. we ll have to watch you in st. louis to see if those storms can make it all the way down to your northern sections this morning. chicago a chance of storms, a beautiful day from pittsburgh all the way through the northeast. saturday looks pretty nice on the east coast, hit and miss shower around new york, but we could have severe storms, especially indianapolis all the way through the ohio valley. isolated strong storms late in the day and the heat really gets turned up in the west as we go through your sunday. we have 34 uncontrolled large fires burning. 18 of those in oregon. and it s going to be very hot in oregon. boise at 97. you get a feel for those hot shot fire crews on the ground fighting those blazes this weekend. it s going to be brutal to be out there on their front lines. we leave you with a shot of washington, d.c. it s a friday, it s the summertime. traffic, it s a sure thing. more morning joe when we come right back. nervous whitening will damage your teeth? introducing new listerine® healthy whitetm. it not only safely whitens teeth, but also restores enamel. lose the nerves, and get a healthier, whiter smile that 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look at these dolls. you were right, donny, to be creeped out. it was okay. that was everybody s reaction. almost all of the homeowners used the word creepy to describe the toys, which were dropped off early in the morning before people woke up. the dolls had the same skin tone and hair color as the girls who live in the neighborhood in san clemente. reporter: at the home of one of the targeted families, thursday night sheriff deputies joined parents of the girls who received mysterious porcelain dolls. 11 of the figurines were left on the front doorsteps of each family and look eerily similar to the girls who live at each residence. the dolls resemble their daughters. reporter: the orange county sheriff s department has collected all dolls as evidence in hopes of determining the manufacturer, retail origin and person or persons behind the unwanted doorstep drop-off in the debatgated communities with parents are taking extra precaution. telling them to never go with strangers, watch out for each other. reporter: the girls are around 10 years old and several attend the same elementary school. after the group meeting, the parents and kids left as next-door neighbors are worried. it s just hard to know what to make of it. reporter: the first doll reported was left last week and the most recently placed figurine was left at a home on tuesday. no crime has been committed but not knowing if it s a prank or handiwork of a sexual predator, detectives are on the case considering children are involved and the underlying motivation unknown. terrible. please tell me mike barnicle had nothing to do with this. i think it was t.j. you re sending us to the weekend with an unsolved mystery? i feel so bad because everyone was saying those words like creepy and they had police. the person who left the dolls has been discovered and it s not so bad. turns out it was an elderly woman. still creepy, though. no! she attends the local church and she was clearing out her doll collection and she wanted to surprise her neighbors. right, right. are we sure, mika? yes! are we sure it wasn t like an elderly woman as in tony perkins mother in psycho ? where s my article this week, seriously. he was here yesterday. one of the doll s heads spun around? no. it s so sweet and so sad how our society is so depraved and completely like awful for blaming it on this poor little lady. here s the thing, her doll collection was so big that she could match up yes. like one for one, every kid in the neighborhood with a doll. that s so sweet. it s better than cats. it s okay. it s right on par with cats. oh, my goodness. i feel so terrible. did you see how they put the woman s name up and said whatever her name was, received creepy doll. let s go to the cincinnati enquirer. vice president joe biden spoke at the organization s 104th conference. the message throughout his 40-minute address was optimistic. he said he believes the united states is currently in better position than any other country in the world when it comes to future job creation and earning a living wage. the veep praised the urban league s consistent history and their dedication to working towards economic equality. but folks, i don t believe the american people are divided. i think it s the american political system that s broken and dividing them. so folks, do what you ve always done since your founding. expose the american people to the realities of the circumstances we re concerned about and they will be with us like i am with you. god bless you all. and speaking of the national urban league, joining us now, that group s president, marc morial, he s in cincinnati, ohio, the site of the group s 104th anniversary conference. great to have you on the show this morning, marc. hey, good morning, mika. good morning. are you as optimistic as the vice president, especially about the way forward in terms of wages and jobs? i m optimistic because we re eternally optimistic, but we face a divided and broken political system and we face a seeming inability to act on things like minimum wage. but i would say that last week and earlier this week the new workforce act, which was signed by the president and passed with overwhelming majorities in both houses of congress, is a rare example of bipartisanship which goes to improving and strengthening our ability to prepare and train the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow. so we should underscore that notwithstanding difficult and challenging times, there was a victory earlier this week. mark halperin. mr. mayor, how open is your membership to hearing from republicans? it gets casts sometimes as bit of a stunt or are they open to ideas and open to the notion of listening to republican ideas as opposed to democratic ideas? you know, we are deliberately working to send a very strong message with the lineup of speakers we have here from vice president biden to senator paul to reince priebus to debbie wasserman schultz. the first step we have to take is a step of having dialogue, so i think reince priebus and rand paul coming here creates an opportunity for many of our delegates to hear, hear from people like reince priebus and rand paul for the first time, because there s been a disengagement over the past four to five years by many republican leaders. and so what we re trying to do is start with this dialogue, and i think there s a lot of curiosity, particularly since rand paul has taken some interesting positions on things like criminal justice reform. so i believe that people are open. but the test, mark, is going to be whether this is the beginning and not, if you will, a drive-by set of events. we are open to the dialogue and we want to send a message that even if we find that there are differences of approach and differences of opinion, we ve got to work to try to find common ground because these intractable problems are not going to go away easily. marc morial, thanks. after the most deadly week in recent aviation 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danger we face now are attacks on aircraft landing or taking off at a lower level that s within the range of a shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile, or else the kind of attack on an airport that we ve seen in karachi, pakistan, tripoli as well. so the focus has to be on the lower altitude aircraft and the safety of the airport itself. what about flying over unstable areas or even war zones, and do pilots actually follow that all the time in terms of restrictions or warnings? well, they do get warnings. when you re flying at altitude over 30,000 feet, you re not really within the range of the kind of missile that you find in the hands of terrorists. so there have to be either a military mistake, for example we had a shootdown of an iranian airliner a couple of decades ago, or there d have to be something along the lines of what happened in the ukraine, where apparently one country gives a bunch of rebels or insurgents sophisticated weapons and then they use those weapons. but that s still relatively low risk, compared to when you re taking off or landing in a battle zone. that s what i would focus on. mark halperin? secretary chertoff, let me ask you a general question based on your experience on the international stage. can the united states have a productive, useful relationship with russia as long as vladimir putin is in charge or does the u.s. need to wait until he s gone? if we re going to wait until he s gone, we re going to be waiting for a long time. i don t have the sense he s looking to leave any time soon. look, he is testing us and he is testing the west and he is testing the relationship among nato and european countries and the united states to see if there are weak spots or if we re going to go soft. and he s going to continue the pressure. sometimes he ll back off, then he ll turn it up again. so i think we need to make sure we are resolute, that we are all basically operating off the same page. i know in europe there are a variety of views, but i think we need to make sure we send a clear message that there are some red line that say we will not allow him to cross. if we need to turn up economic sanctions, if we need to ask the question whether the world cup ought to be in russia in a few years, then maybe those ought to be issues that are on the table. thomas, go ahead. so secretary chertoff, i know you re now in the private sector taking all the valued experience that you got serving all of us, which we appreciate and thank you for. what do you think about the recent conversations that make our country is at a fork in the road about complacency, that we re far enough away from 9/11 that we feel a little more relaxed or that we re not being as sure of ourselves in the type of security that we re providing ourselves domestically? you know, we ve done a good job up to now with our security and we ve had you know, obviously events like the boston marathon, but they have been relatively rare and the casualties, while tragic, have not been what we saw on september 11th. there is a risk that whether it s fatigue or complacency or distraction with other issues that we will stop adapting ourselves to new threats. and here s the challenge, tom. we are now facing maybe the worst threat situation since the period after 9/11. we have a very active, extreme and violent group in syria and iraq, isis, that has made some significant strides in getting control over part of a territory in those countries. they have gotten their hands on military grade weapons. they have apparently gotten into bank vaults. they have money, they have battle experience. they are recruiting westerners to come and fight. there have been estimates of several thousand westerners, including americans, getting experience and getting indoctrine atd. some of those folks will come back. we ought not kid ourselves that somehow they re not going to be looking to do some damage in the united states and in the west. norway is predicting they may have an attack soon because of returning fieghters. this is not the time to drop our guard. some of the debate about the intelligence needs to consider these threats. switching to immigration, which has a huge national security component, there s a short-term crisis being dealt with this week but obviously a long-term debate about what to do. do you believe there should be a path to citizenship for people in the country who are here illegally now? i still subscribe to what we argued for when we had a bipartisan agreement in 2007. we need to have tough border security, tough enforcement against illegal work in the united states, but we also have to find a way, a path to legalization for those in the country who have been here for a while who are willing to pay their taxes, perhaps to pay a penalty, so that we don t labor under the illusion that we re going to deport 11 million people. i do think we need to have a comprehensive approach, and part of that means legalization for those who are 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and entrepreneurship, senator maria cantwell. great to have you on the show, senator. thank you. really one of my favorite topics and i hope we get somewhere on this. you ve got a report from the senate small business committee that finds among other things that women business owners get just $1 for every $23 in small business lending. i d like to talk about this disparity. first of all, putting on the table that we women are bad at this, asking for money thing. that s one part of it. but there s many other aspects as well. what have you found? well, i don t know if we re necessarily bad at asking for money. i think we are. i think the issue is that when you look at the statistics, you definitely see a gender gap. yeah. what we want to make sure is that there is access to capital because we re 51% of the population, and i guarantee you, we have a lot of great ideas. i think not only that, there s studies out there that show that when women are running places, running things, involved with running businesses, that the productivity, profitability is added to as well. but i talk about the struggle women face kind of asking for a loan or asking for money, and there are kind of personal, psychological aspects to this. we ll put that aside and let me ask you what you think can be done, what you are doing to try and fill this gap from the other end of it with the other problems, with perhaps the fact that women perhaps get less money for other reasons. well, i think to put it in simplest terms, if i was doing a pitch today in front of you and in front of joe, do you think there might be a difference in how we would be perceived? and i think the issue is, is that we need programs that are tailored to women and we need to have women s input in the decision-making. a great product that s out there on the marketplace now is a pillow for newborn babies called boppy. this woman tried to get traditional financing. she ended up going and getting a small business microloan that very much suited her and she took that $25,000 and turned it into a $10 million business. that s incredible. so there are ideas out here and as barbara corcoran said, who is appearing at our hearing, she said sometimes men don t understand the value proposition of products that women are pitching. but secondly, what we need to do besides getting more women entrepreneurs in training and getting women to help them is that we need to tailor products, the financial products, to women. and what we re finding is that women really like the microloans, the $50,000 and less, because that s the way they want to approach the market with their products. they re less, you know, capital intensive, but great ideas. and then they need a second step. they need an intermediate loan that isn t really available in the marketplace. so say between $50,000 and $250,000, and that s what we re really going to focus on, putting capital there. let me just i m going to turn it over to mark halperin, but joe would give you the money. i would be difficult. mark halperin, go ahead. he would. senator, i want to ask you about some news of day. do you think that the time has come for israel to stop its military action in the region or do you think they need to continue doing what they re doing? well, i think i m very appreciative of secretary kerry being there on the ground and i hope we can reach a cease-fire agreement. so we ll see how the rest of today plays out on that point. but again, just in general, do you think do you trust israel to make their own judgment about when they should stop or would you call on them to stop now? well, i think israel has a right to defend themselves, but i think as we can see from the region, we need to continue this dialogue. obviously secretary kerry s presence there has put something on the table, so let s see what comes of that. all right, senator maria cantwell, thank you very, very much. up next, recently there s been increased talk from certain people about impeaching president obama. a new poll is out just this morning asking people s opinions of that idea and the numbers may surprise you. keep it right here on morning joe. as long as i ve lived in iowa, there s always been wind. 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that s a big number. it seems kind of big. let s repoll it. let s make sure. no. i trust it. all right, up next, what, if anything, did we learn today? vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours. he cadillac summer collection is here. during the cadillac summer s best event, lease this all new 2014 cts for around $459 a month or purchase with 0% apr and make this the summer of style. the new poll found that most americans have a higher opinion of darth vader than of any potential 2016 presidential candidate. than any candidate. what? in fact things are looking so good for vader that he s actually decided to run for president. he s released a few campaign slogans. first we have cheney 2.0. next there s the only candidate who can actually scare putin. and finally, still less dangerous than biden. he makes some great points. i hope he comes on the show if he decides to run. time now to talk about what we learned today. if you want to know about background stuff going on in this studio, check mark halperin s twitter. it involves a window watcher and a crotch. that s all i m going to say about that. i don t mean to alarm people. it s alarming. but there s a giant window washer in times square. what did you learn today? two things. that bear taught tamron a new trick on running wild, which is going to be on nbc. very impressive tamron. which i hope everybody watches. and graham, it s graham s last day. get over here, graham. graham, our intern. graham let mark halperin steel by jamba juice. so today is his last day. ask the newsroom, john tower in the control room, how did he do? he was a total diva. diva? diva. really? graham! you re going to have to come back another week. i might have to. okay, great. i think you did a great job, it was great to have you. also i have guests in the newsroom. head mistress, the head of the madera school, heather kirby, great to have you. greatest school ever. that does it for us, everybody. have a great weekend. if it s way too early, thomas, what time is it? it s time for morning joe. but now it s time for the daily rundown with chuck todd. have a good weekend. the border crisis front and center today at the white house. he ll meet with three central american leaders. meanwhile with congress running out of time before recess, can they get anything done? i ll also talk to house budget committee chairman paul ryan about his new anti-poverty plan. meanwhile protests overnight in the west bank after an attack on a u.n.-run school in gaza. as secretary of state john kerry tries to get just a temporary, week-long cease-fire. can we even get that done? plus the other side of the effort to woo women this november, republicans recruiting women candidates to see if they can stem the tide of this gigantic gender gap that favors the democrats. good morning from washington, it s friday, july 25th, 2014. this is the daily rundown. let me get to my first reads of the morning. if you thought gridlock on capitol hill had sunk to an all-time low, congress confirms it can go lower. the 113th congress is shaping up to be the least productive on record. it will pass just 127 laws. that s even worse than the last one, which was one of the most unproductive and unpopular congresses in popular history. but the 112th congress was more productive than this one. by this point in 2012, that congress had passed 147 bills. with just five legislative days to go before members head home to their districts for a five-week august recess, it s looking less and less likely that lawmakers will do anything to solve a couple of problems that a few weeks ago had every member saying needed to be dealt with. they were crises of the moment that needed action. first, there was the situation on the border. this afternoon president obama will meet with the presidents of guatemala, el salvador and honduras. he spoke with the president of mexico last night and w
bunch can turn this around fast. the adult taping is irresponsible. thanks to everyone who responded. don t forget to keep talking about 2016. who would you like to see run for president? log on to our facebook page right now. fox & friends starts now. bye. spoim good morning. it is wednesday, january 14. a fox news alert. airports across this nation on edge this morning ramping up security after terrorists reveal a secret bomb-making recipe and even describe how to sneak it through t. sment through t.s.a. a plot to kill the speaker of the house exposed. a bartender s plan to use a deadly cocktail to kill john boehner. canned and ready? one school principal asking parents to arm their kids with nonperishable food items because throwing cans can stun an intruder with a gun. we have a lot to discuss because mornings are better with friends. hello. apparently you re watching fox & friends. he s not so weird. he knows the number-one cable morning news show in the world. he still has a perm so i think that is important at his age. we begin with this fox news alert. this morning f.b.i. investigating a chilling plot to kill house speaker john boehner. peter doocy live in washington. what do we know about this, peter? reporter: we know the plot to poison the man second in line for the presidency was dreamed up by the man who pours his drinks. michael r. hoyt told police during questioning that nobody checks the speaker s drinks and he could have slipped something into the speaker s wineglass already if he wanted to but he didn t. he also told an officer he was going to use his barretta to shoot the speaker. the bartender was recently fired from a country club in wes chester ohio. his bosses say it is because he had a bad attitude and people are complaining but hoyt blamed boehner. quote, hoyt told the officer that he was jesus christ and he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean to him at the country club and because boehner is responsible for ebola. the complaint is dated october 29. on the 28 the bartender sent a rambling e-mail to boehner s wife. hoyt has a history of mental illness. boehner s office says speaker boehner is aware of the situation and sincerely thanks the f.b.i., capitol political and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. a big driver behind this indictment for boehner s bartender is during his time at the country club this man learned all about where boehner likes to go and what boehner likes to do, information that authorities worry could be used to his advantage if he wanted to carry out a sinister plot against the speaker. peter, you were just talking about how supposedly boehner was mean to the guy at the country club. any idea what he did? no, there s no idea. when you read through the indictment this is one sentence. it says that he told an officer he was jesus christ and that he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean and because boehner is responsible for ebola. okay. i guess that says it all. peter doocy, thank you. thank goodness they have him. no kidding. here we go again. you don t like taking your shoes off? the u.s. is stepping up airport security should cost us more time again from coast to coast after the paris attacks. al qaeda again goes out of their way to brag about a would-be attack and their new so-called weapons. they put out a video that essentially says they have an undetectable bomb that has us now checking everybody s bags. in the december issue of inspire magazine from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, it is so specific, it is so sophisticated, it tells the person how to make the bomb, how to get through security and where to sit on the plane. and they write and this is critical because we re going to talk about this in just a moment how the white house will not talk about islam regarding terrorism. inspire magazine writes the recipe is so easy it s something, quote, every determined muslim can prepare. certain foreign airports are looking on and looking at carry-on luggage. matt olsen to rememberer director of the national terrorism center says the group is determined to carry out an attack on a u.s. airplane explaining this alert. they think this would be easier to sneak through on one of the smaller airports that don t have the super body scans. a lot of american airports do. let s talk about who is responsible for last wednesday s attack in france. we heard the attackers in the video release yesterday scream out once they got into the street after killing 12 al qaeda, besides saying we have redeemed the prophet, this is the responsibility of representing al qaeda in yemen. we heard one of the kouachi brothers call in to a tv/radio station and say the same thing. this is al qaeda in yemen. now we have more news. why still is the white house administration still tongue tied when it comes to terrorism? just say what it is. elisabeth all they ve got to do and the new news this morning is that there is a youtube video out. they have put out a video posted earlier today and made it very clear, and there you can see nari al ansi say the attack in paris was vengeance, al qaeda organized it, planned it and paid for it. josh earnest, the white house press secretary, said it seems a little odd why still at this point you re not referring to this, even though everybody else is including the attackers as being radical islam. why can t you? watch this exchange. it s just unbelievable. certainly wouldn t want to be in a position where i m repeating the justification that they have cited that i think is completely illegitimate that they have invoked islam to try to justify their attacks. i think what i m trying to do is i m trying to describe to you what happened and what they did. these are individuals who are terrorists. we have not chosen to use that label because it does not seem to accurately describe what has happened. let us review what he just said. he said yes, they are terrorists but there are a lot of people out there who want to kill us. these particular people used a religion to justify their attack. this should not be surprising. just keep in mind a couple of days ago, i think it was meet the press, eric holder told chuck todd we are at war with terrorists who commit these heinous acts and who use islam. so this has become the talking point, the boilerplate for this administration. they are terrorists who use a religion. they are not islamic terrorists. they are terrorists. and they are individuals, which i think is troubling; right? because you re either offended by what radical islamists do or you re offended by the term radical islamists. which one is it? i hope we don t find out in a book years later that the reason nobody put out sunday by the way charlie hebdo put out a new magazine. they usually put out 60,000. they now publish in multiple languages and what are we up to? three million? three million sold out. 300 available here in the united states. we believe they are gone as well. i was looking on-line. if you want a copy you can beit on ebay for 500 pounds in great britain. we showed you the cover. it shows the prophet humid and it says all is forgiven with a single teardrop. which by the way i need an explanation. who is forgiving who? eight minutes after the hour. it is the first time i ve seen heather nauert. it is tradition we don t look at you before the show. kind of like a bride. i ve got some news that is actually somewhat related to what we were just talking about, those attacks in paris. that s the accused boston bomber is asking for a trial delay because of the terror attacks in france. jury selection is now underway in dzhokhar tsarnaev s case but his lawyers are arguing it should be put on hold for at least a month because of the comparison of the two terror attacks they say could create prejudice. isis now operating in afghanistan at and a former gitmo prisoner leading that charge. he was released from gitmo back in 2007. now he s been rallying jihadists to join that violent terror group. news of the former prisoner s recruiting comes as republican senators are trying to slow the gitmo releases. one senator says we need a, quote, time-out. ann curry is leaving nbc after 25 years well sort of. there are reports curry has a new kind of development deal with the network and she may still occasionally appear on the air at nbc. curry was forced off the today show more than two years because of the host matt lauer. curry is now negotiating how to end her $12 million a year contract. don t forget your favorite furry friends. today is national dress up your pet day. it is the day to unleash the inner diva in your dap per dog or fashionista feline. those are your headlines. brian, you ve got a dog, i ve got a dog. we ve got to come up with costumes today. to get a team of 12 guys to put my dog in something. he s 120 pounds and doesn t like to wear anything. he likes to be himself. we can t wait to see your photos. let s talk about the note parents got at valley, alabama. the principal at a middle school sent home a letter saying folks, we would like your kids to bring in to school some canned goods. you mean for the starving people around the world? which is common. no. bring in canned goods because if somebody with a gun comes in to a school, as a last resort, we want the kids to throw a tuna can at the guy with a gun. we d love to know what you think about this. about 15 parents showed up to have a meeting about this and there weren t many complaints. they said it would be used as a last resort. they would be stored in the classroom. students wouldn t be carrying them around in the school for fun and wouldn t be using them on one another. this is a last minute defense given to the students to empower them. i like that word empower rather than being a victim. i don t know if i can hit a would-be attacker with evaporated milk, if that is going to work to my advantage. do you think you could survive a bunch of cans coming at you. it would definitely hurt. sounds like a little rascals episode. are they going to practice? think about it if you have a tuna can that is kind of hard to throw but a big peach can clinged peaches, you can t get that off the ground. it sound like we re making this up but this is absolutely true. now there is another alternative and that would be if the staff actually had guns you probably wouldn t need to send the kid to school with a can of sweet peas. the teachers are taught to barricade bathroom doors and may be considering a training program there. but they re at least doing something. i don t think it is a bad idea necessarily and they will donate the cans if they re not used at the end of the year. if you got hit by a can and it changed your behavior, write us. can it work? if you are the guy who has intruded into a classroom and some kid just hit you with a can i think you re going to duck. coming up straight ahead, here s what we say. president obama couldn t make it to paris for that antiterror unity rally but he will have time to deal with another international matter. a meeting of the castros. and the washington rumor mills swirling around a potential run for mitt romney. could the third time be a charm for him? we re going to discuss. music .the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. the schelp then the spill. now the scrub and the second guess. finally, the rewash. or you can make it easy and do the pop with tide pods. the first 3 in 1 laundry pack. it cleans, brightens, and removes stains in one step. tide pods one step to an amazing clean. despite him saying he would not enter the fray into politics, it is looking more likely mitt romney will make another run for the white house. join us now is the current finance chair for the republican governors association. fred, he s 80% in. do you believe he s 100% in? i don t believe he s 100% in. i don t believe he s made up his mind and i don t think anyone who tells you he has can say that with authority. he s clearly looking at it seriously. you wouldn t stir up the country s interest unless you were dead serious on considering this. i think he s 80% likely to do it. what did he do wrong last time? what can he do different this time? i don t think he did anything wrong last time. i think last time around there was a turnout issue. the obama campaign did a better job in turning out the voters. i think mitt romney ran a strong campaign and he s a good candidate. he didn t get people excited enough to come out and that is what is relatively baffling. i want you to hear rand paul when asked this same question. listen. i think even with all his assets he wasn t able to attract a big enough constituency to win and there was every opportunity for him to win last time. i think it s time for fresh blood. your reaction? i think we re going to have a number of very good conservative candidates to choose from for this nomination. it s going to be the strongest field in recent memory. i m almost giddy at the thought of having five or six people on that stage, including, if governor romney decides and if governor bush decides and if some of our current governors like chris christie perry, if they run. you can envision every one of them being a very solid leader for this country and i think it s a wonderful prospect to have. all of them are conservative enough to get the voters out. very interesting. we have some of the other hopefuls you mentioned. as we see that, let me bring up one of the names. governor christie gave a state of the state address, very much a national look at where he s going to set up a super pac. is he somebody who is formidable or was he more formidable two years ago? i think if you look at governor christie or any of our sitting governors or former governors bush and romney, they ve got records of accomplishment in their state and in their nation. they ve shown that they can get things done. they can bring people together and make things happen. that stands in sharp contrast to what people talk about, the do-nothing contrast four years of hillary clinton as secretary of state without a clear record of success. i think they have great records to run on, any one of them. you re the finance guy on the republican governors association. $100 million already in jeb s coffers. are you worried that there is not enough money to go around and the best candidate might not emerge because they don t have the contacts? a lot is being made of the money race right now and i think money is important but i don t believe money is going to be the determinant on who our nominee is. i think it is going to rest more on who is able to come forth with the most compelling message, who can best demonstrate their track record of executing that compelling message. and i believe that everybody is going to be very, very competitive on financing. i think it is going to be separated by their message, by the quality of the campaign and the quality of their records. i agree. it is going to be really exciting. those on the left are also intrigued by what s happening on the right. thanks so much. great to have you this morning. coming up straight ahead, caught on video, the new high-tech way thieves are breaking into cars and the police don t even know about it. how you can protect yourself next. and going viral. this dog loves the park so much, he rides the bus by himself. eclipse and his owner join us just ahead. 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they think by using a high-tech device police are calling a mystery box. how do you protect yourself from a guy in front of your house using the mystery box? the chief communications officer of the national insurance crime bureau joins us. good morning. explain this device. what is it exactly? there is a variety of things out there on the market probably available on the internet for a few dollars, maybe $100 or so. they may be jamming the frequency or mocking the frequency of the remote fob that you use in your car. when you re locking your car, if somebody is nearby and they have a code graber they actually get the code out of the air and turn around and open your car when you re gone? that s one way to do it or there s devices out there that we think today may be able to simulate it. you don t even have to be around. they act similar to the fob. the important thing is they may be able to open the car. we have no evidence they are able to start the car. so they can get in and maybe steal your property if you live it in visible sight but doesn t mean they re going to be able to take the car. or hijack the car if somebody is in there and use their keys. when i saw that video, i thought to myself i will never leave lock my car with a key fob again like at a truck stop or out on the highway because who knows who is sitting over there waiting. you re better off to at least lock your car and take your keys out. that is the important thing. one weekend in nashville, 22 car thefts. 10 of them were from people leaving their keys in the car unlocked. what can we do? it is a cat and mouse game. we ve gone from a 1.7 million car thefts in a year in the 1990 s to 700,000 a year now. what else can help? don t leave your valuables in sight. don t leave your car registration there so they can get your personal information. don t leave your garage door opener in the car. take it with you. park somewhere where it s well let a safe place. if they re going to get it, they re going to get it. these folks are professional and always trying to beat the system. make it as difficult as possible but don t hand it over to them. i think in one of my cars there is a thing where you push and a little metal key comes out. if you stick it in the door or lock it that way they can t grab the code? there s all kinds of dip systems. all manufacturers use different systems and change them constantly. they say they haven t seen anything that can defeat their systems and we re hoping that s correct. it s scary. we don t want people be able to get into cars like that. we want to thank roger morris for being with us. information on how to keep us safe. coming up on this wednesday, this iconic photo of world leaders at the rally in paris is missing something but it s not just president obama. what they shopped out or who they shopped out coming up. going viral, this dog loves the park so much that he rides the bus there all by himself. eclipse, that s him right there, and his owner joining us live to explain all that next. first we want to wish a happy birthday to rapper ll cool j. he turns 47 years old today. shrimp? 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that s in the form of a question? savagely criticize mr. torn. what is to rip. name that verb for 800. to tire out tv commentator mr. carlson. what is tucker? that s it. our very own fox & friends weekend cohost tucker carlson was an answer. the category was naming someone whose first name doubled as a verb. he s the guy who is always tuckered out. what an honor. that is fun. let s head over to heather. i don t have a verb for your name. heather and feather. thank you so much. good morning to you all. news to bring you from overseas. take a look at these two photos. they re almost identical but there is one problem that is difficult to spot but it is there. women are completely removed from it. the original picture was taken at sunday s unity march in paris. it shows world leaders standing arm in arm including chancellor angela merkel. an orthodox israeli newspaper decided to edit out thoseathathathatheo4m .w9 iäéjõ somebody stole my car and my baby is in there. where was your car last seen? [inaudible] i don t know the address. oh my god! my baby is in there! well, that was three-year-old aden who was in the back of that car. he ended up saving the day. a woman left her cell phone in the car so ogden police decided to call that phone. instead of the carjacker answering the phone the little boy did. the suspect then abandoned the car leaving aden the little boy alone. police told him to hop into the front seat and start honking the horn. he honked the horn until there was an officer there and we were close and we got to him. he was scared; that was for sure but he s okay. glad he s back with his mommy there. that suspect is still on the run. aden is now safe. and that is another example. we have these stories all the time when little kids get left in cars. you can never leave a child in a car not even for a minute. we had to leave maria molina alone because she wanted to work in the elements. the weather, where it s 17 degrees right now and it feels much colder. the current wind chill out here is currently 6 degrees. it is a cold start to the day across not only the northeast but also across portions of the midwest and down across portions of the carolinas, you re waking up to wind chills only in the 20 s. speaking of the carolinas we have winter weather across those areas. freezing rain and a little snow across the mid-atlantic so winter weather advisories are in effect and also freezing rain advisories. across new mexico we have winter storm warnings because up to a foot of snow is possible across the higher elevations but the temperatures, they have been very cold across the eastern half of the country over the last several days. take a look at the forecast for saturday. 30 s in the northeast. 20 s for you in boston and it gets better as we head into sunday. you re going to be in the mid 40 s in cities like new york city and then across texas highs will be in the 60 s. and the same goes for portions of louisiana. let s head back inside. thank you very much, maria. it s not something you see every day. look at this. the dog gets off at the stop at the dog park and gets off the bus and i just look out the window and i m like did that just happen? he gets on the bus without me. i catch him over at the dog park. you heard it right. eclipse, a two-year-old labrador mix loves going to the dog park so much so that she ditched her owner and started riding the bus by herself. eclipse and her owner jeff young join us now. good morning to you jeff young and good morning to you eclipse. good morning. when was the first time that eclipse went to the park by herself and were you concerned that you would see her again? yeah, of course. the first time she jumped on the bus i wasn t sure if she got on the bus or went back in the house. another person at the bus stop with me pointed out that, yeah she got on the bus. and it s a bus that her and i rode to the dog park a million times so i was pretty sure that s where she would be headed. i was on the next bus after her, and she was at the dog park. how did she know where to get off? that s her stop. it s only five or six stops down the road but there are some turns before you get there. she knows. she knows her stop. she s a dog. have you had any complaints at all? you know what? the metro transit the agency, they actually love the dog there, it makes everybody happy. but has anybody complained yet? yeah. you know there s always a it s a rainbow out there. everybody s not the same. there s always a dog hater. there s a cat person over there. she brings a smile to most people s day. even when we re on the bus, we re together we re not really together. she kind of rolls solo. she s really independent. she s always 30 40 feet away from me and grabs a seat, grabs a window and watches for the dog park. if she s not riding with you, that kind of says something. she s trying to be as independent as possible. jeff does the bus driver just let her on free or does have to does she bring a token? how does that work? she has a pass. it s a rapid ride system. everybody has passes and the doors open. there s multiple doors. there s like three doors open. she usually gets on the middle or the back. has she ever gotten off anywhere else besides the dog park? no. that s amazing. that s a very smart dog you ve got. good dog. i m on the bus right behind her when she does jump by herself but it s gotten so i don t have to worry. she s got friends on the bus. she s made some commuter buddies. jeff, i didn t know it was a possibility that you could do this. i didn t know it was allowed. any dog with a pass can do it. didn t know. i didn t know either. it was a fright the first time but it s worked out all right. are you going to the park today? yeah. she is. later this morning, you know. jeff, has it gotten to the stainl stage you feel confident she can get on the bus by herself go the four or five stops go to the dog park, play for a little while and then get back on the bus and come home and you can still be at home watching tv? no. no. we haven t come that far yet. so when you go to the park, send us some pictures. if you re going to go to the park before our show ends send us pictures because we d like to see her at the park today. yeah she ll be there. jeff young and eclipse, the bus-hopping dog out there in seattle. jeff and eclipse, thank you very much. good dog eclipse. thank you. you were good too, jeff. very nice. i think you ve seen it all now. i bet this is a new trend. maybe not much everyone is looking at their dog going why can t you do that? what s wrong with you? it s 17 degrees outside. why can t you walk yourself. coming up on this wednesday, does the new york police department have the right to spy on mosques if there is a risk of a terror attack? muslims in new jersey are saying no, and now that s headed to court. we re going to take a closer look straight ahead. she got fired for not being able to do her job while pregnant. her job was lifting heavy boxes for ups. the lawsuit before the supreme court now. does she have a case? i ve smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now.i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that s why i choose nicoderm cq. a a a a a a a a a about 15 minutes till the top of the hour. some quick headlines from the supreme court. the highest court deciding if this man can have a beard while in prison. gregory holt recently converted to islam and want a beard for religious purposes. the arkansas jail says it s against the rules. his case focusing on the right to religious expression in jail. another ruling today expected in the case of a pregnant woman versus the ups. peggy young was placed on unpaid leave after she became pregnant and could no longer lift heavy boxes there. young says that she was discriminated against, but ups says they followed their union agreement and company policy. steve? thanks, elisabeth. reverse the ruling that s the outcry from a group of muslims in the state of new jersey who say the new york city police department surveillance program violates their civil rights. but should safety trump privacy? joining us is criminal defense attorney and former morris county new jersey prosecutor robert bianki. in the past the surveillance program which a lot on the left said you can t do that it s been upheld by the court. and now the court of appeals in philly has taken a lookback at whether or not it is legal. you say what about it? law enforcement has to use the rule of common sense when they re doing investigations and they re interdicting in the communities where there could be a problem whether it is a gang case or mob case. no constitutional right are being violated unless they go into the areas of the fourth amendment which is search and seizure wiretaps, things of this nature. they re not hanging a wiretap on the wall of the mosque. they re just going in and listening. when i was a prosecutor i think this confused people. it may from a policy point of view not be something that is good because some people who are innocent will feel feel like they re be targeted but that doesn t mean it s unconstitutional. if they have a specific tailored reason for going in there in order to gain actionable intelligence after they get that intelligence and it leads to criminality they can go to the judiciary and get warrants and try to construct a criminal case. let s back up to what you said a moment ago. this is essentially the same thing that prosecutors have done, law enforcement has done in the past with the mob. the way they get in the mob is the same way they have infiltrated these communities. when you have a serious criminal risk and obviously it is a cost-benefit analysis terrorism is obviously substantial, you don t do that by sitting behind a desk. you have to gather information, run down leads and then of course it needs to be tailored and speck. if there are groups that are not involved in terrorism, if there are groups and individuals that aren t doing anything wrong, they need to be disregarded. it can t be to the level where it becomes harassment. but what they need to do is get out into the community. you don t do it by waving a magic wand. you ve got to get out there. here s what the legal director for constitutional rights says, he says this is a blunder abouts suspicionless program where the only criteria is religion. what do you say about that? it is not religion. every religious practice has individuals in it that are doing something that is not appropriate. what it is is targeting criminals. if there is a risk that there is a criminal operating within a religious sector or religious group that is where they go. if they re operating in social clubs that s where they go. we know from history and you have to use the rule of common sense that some of the terrorist related activities 9/11 included emanated out of these religious institutions. that is what drove law enforcement to that location. if they re not breaking the law you would think they could go in and just listen. the italian american community dealt with this and i was on the front enl of this. some of the legitimate claims these people may have is you may be on a list and you may be doing absolutely nothing wrong. that is why law enforcement tailors itself so that those people that are innocent don t get trapped into this thing where it affects their lives but they need to be there in order to get the bad guys. there are a lot of bad guys out there. robert, thank you. coming up on this wednesday, a fox news alert, the u.s. section of the international space station just was evacuated a couple of minutes ago. what we re learning from nasa straight ahead. you re going to want to hear what s going on up in space. you want a well-paying job in health care? 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when with you go on this web site what, will you see? 1 to 4:00 p.m. eastern time. basically you do it from home. you upload your resume and start doing virtual chats with several companies. i want to give you some of the top ones today. one is oshner. it s in 600 joabs. 13 hospitals. health centers. that they hired 15,000 people. can be all kinds of different things. the u.s. news and world report recognized them as one the top companies in the country. 700 jobs available with anthem. that i about behavioral health. that s where the openings are for this company in particular. case managers, case coordinators. 700 jobs are open here. one in nine americans has coverage from anthem. you probably know the name as well. if you re in the ohio area, nationwide childrens. columbus, ohio. it s a pediatric hospital. information services, nurses, management. also into teaching hospital. they have a really good fellowship program as well. it s country critical. excellent. so aetna? again, they are expanding hiring 962 jobs open. 43% of their employees telecommute. good for a mom that wants to be at home. good for somebody that wants to work from home if you have the right skills. but obviously etna, 960 jobs at least for now. if you re in pittsburgh? a cowboys fan and i m still trying to get over what happened. i m sorry. university of pittsburgh medical center. this is upnc. 1200 jobs available now. they ve got 20 academic community specialty hospitals, outpatient sites, 400 of those. they re really good at rehabilitation retirement. helping people with disabilities. this is somebody that i really wanted to highlight. big day today. we re glad you re here. u go on line and check that out and it s listed on our web site. don t miss cheryl on fox business. great to see you. coming up, a fox news alert. u.s. astronauts evacuated from the international space station just moments ago. what we are learning from nasa at the top of the hour. and this guy thought he could get away with robbing a helpless older woman. did he know this guy and two others were watching him. the marines who saved her join us live with their story. it s hero heroic next hour coming up but not everyone can say they re the fastest-growing truck brand. in america. guts. glory. ram. well, a mortgage shouldn t be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. pretty good? 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confused matthew mcconaghey in one of his first auditions on tape now revealed. today, man, you guys join me. being alive. we re going to take you inside the room from one of his very first auditions on tape. this isn t on tape. it s live from new york. it s fox & friends. what s up? i m cool j and you re watching fox & friends. my favorite all time feature in the history of my years with fox & friends which dates back to 1963 ll cool j. he brome to a party and taught me how to be cool. he is a good time. he s fun and a great sport. he s aptly named. the reason we played that is because today is todd or ll cool j s birthday. he s 46. there is a party you re not invited to. absolutely. we wish him well and thank you for joining us. we re going to get to that fox news alert. murder by poison? the f.b.i. investigating a chilling plot to kill house speaker john boehner. peter doocy is live in washington with what we know. this is bizarre and dangerous. what else can you tell us? reporter: i can tell you wine in westchester ohio, could have killed the speaker of the house that if boehner s bartendser followed through on this plot which he said would have been easy because nobody looks at what he s pouring for the speaker. that bartendser, 44-year-old michael r.hoyt. the reason he wanted boehner dead, he told the officer that he was jesus christ and that he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean to him at the country club and boehner is responsible for ebola. he was caught because back in october he called 911 where he explained to police that he had been fired from the country club where he had been working for five-plus years. then he threatened to shoot john boehner who he blamed for his job loss with a baretta 380 automatic. it s worth noting the bosses at the country club say it was a bad attitude and not boehner that got him fired. before his arrest he even e-mailed mrs. boehner saying they needed to talk. but the note was rambling and she was confused. at that spokesman for barren says, quote, he is aware of this situation and sincerely thanks the f.b.i. and capitol police and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. the accused bartendser has a history of mental illness but from being around boehner for years, he knows a lot about what the speaker likes to do and where he likes to go, which is why authorities want him locked up. back to you in new york. probably a good idea. thank you very much. meanwhile, we have another fox news alert for you. today the united states is stepping up airport security on the heels of the fact that inspire magazine, which is a publication of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, in their december magazine has given its followers perhaps the most lethal, most sophisticated recipe to cook up a hidden bomb to blow up an airplane ever. tells them exactly how to make the bomb how to get it through the security line like that one there, and where to sit on the plane to blow it up and bring it down. these could be especially a problem for smaller airports that don t have that high-tech body images, security devices. that s why baggages being checked with serb care. there will be reaction. they re still going through bags at times square. can you imagine that? i m not going to say what i discovered. plus, also, yesterday came out, something that we knew already. if you heard the tape that was released yesterday you saw those brothers after they shot and killed, 12, wounded 11, say this is al-qaeda in yellen. we are doing this in the name of al-qaeda in yemen. vengeance, yes. then yesterday another tape emerges of a guy saying yeah, these guys trained with us. they do this in reference and redemption and revenge for killing allah al-awlaki and kahan. they were killed a couple years ago by a drone strike. that photo you saw the yemeni branch of the al-qaeda, their leader supposedly there, claiming responsibility. not just responsibility, but we planned it. we told them when to pull the trigger and we financed it. they gave them $20,000 to pull it off. by the way t took a while. these guys were looked at after a while and said, i don t think they re up to anything. we re going to pull back. imagine if we got a chance it listen and talk to and fully interrogate the underwear bomber because he was across the hall from one of the older brothers. and you can imagine the information we could have gotten if he had not lawyered up hours after. there is a new proposal to put that in a time out in terms of the release of prisoners soon to be looked at by the president. but we want to get to greg palkot. charlie hebdo released its first issue since 12 people were killed. the paper selling out in just minutes. greg palkot joining us live from paris. he s had really the best coverage of these horrific events today with this release. what are people there saying? reporter: they re saying they want to buy it elisabeth. if you re looking for the hottest item in paris, it s not a fashion outfit, it s this latest edition of this newspaper. the first edition put out since the slaughter at their newspaper offices. that was one week ago today. it s all sold out at the news stand behind us and all across paris. it features of mohammed muslim leaders have been upset. one called it an act of war. we want to do find out what the people on the street thought. take a listen. it looks like a publication, but i m charlie. you are charlie? yes, of course. i m not shocked by this. you re not? no. other people could be. probably. it s just like to remind that it s still possible even if what happened what happened. it s still possible to print those? yeah. reporter: this was put together by the surviving member s of the staff, who showed up by an artist who showed up for a meeting late on wednesday. it s available, you can buy it in the u.s. eventually. we ve seen it on ebay. five-dollar paper going for over $1,000. it s a high price to pay, guys. but people who put together this paper over the years in the name of freedom of expression paid an even higher price. i hope they still buy it a month from now and two months from now. in one way, they are losing the pr war if they wanted to bring them to their knees. i m looking now, there is a kip of charlie hebdo the latest one on ebay for $117,000. wow. okay. i ll wait for it to come down a little. meanwhile, there is so much involved in the story regarding charlie hebdo islamic terrorism although the administration refuses to say it s islamic terrorism. now they say they re terrorists who have used a religion to justify it. the president of the united states, since his first day, talked about closing gitmo. here is the problem with closing gitmo and it goes to yemen. remember, both these brothers went to yemen forearms training. the top recruiter for isis right now is a guy who was in gitmo, but he was released. he went back over to yemen. he says, quote, it s my duty to spur the muslims to kill the americans. so far he s recruited something like 3,000 people to fight for isis. the former taliban commander when they get out, they re like rock stars so people flock to them. they were let out during the bush years. we have to learn from our empties stakes and stop letting them out whether it s uruguay or some small island nation or back to yemen where they go with shovels and make tunnels. that s why. senator in new hampshire along with some others are calling for a time out in terms of these released. when you have a 30% reengagement rate, she says it s the wild, wild west. we need to stop it now. detainees that are being released by the administration many were designated high risk. that means high risk for reengagement for terrorism. that s where the focus needs to be. not in the president trying to fulfill a campaign promise. it has to be on protecting the american people and our troops and our allies. that s what she s putting forward, would repeal the current law that the administration would transfer and reduce the population at gitmo to 127. even if it pass, josh earnest was asked, would the president do this unilaterally. he said we ll consider all our options. he d do it anyway. heather nauert has some headlines and we start in space. that s right. a breaking story that we re just getting information about. it is a fox flus alert. evacuation of the u.s. air crew from their section of the international space station. there is apparently been a dangerous ammonia leak on board. right now crews are moving over to the russian section of the space station. they re now sealing off the american section to try to prevent a leak of that ammonia. we ll be following that story and give you the latest as it develops. overnight, officials say they have found the house language of the doomed air asia flight 8051. these are some photos we are just get not guilty from within underwater camera. you can see the company s slogan painted on the side. now everyone can fly. that s what it reads. part of the wing was also discovered alongside the body of the plane. officials say they have finally downloaded the flight data recorder from one of the black boxes and that will give them clues about what caused the crash. hire at home, extreme weather breaking a water main. it sends water shooting 40 feet into the air and that took down the roof of that gas station. wow. watch as it comes crashing down. the damage total is about $65,000. that happening in tulsa oklahoma. then we re getting some incredible images out of detroit. look at this house. it looks more like an icicle. a pipe burst inside that home and caused water to pour through the walls, leaving it frozen solid, including the windows there. wow. temperatures in that area have been well below zero. everyone knows that famous line from dazed and confused. remember this. about these high school girls, man? i get older. they stay the same age. it was delivered perfectly by matthew mcconaghey back then. but even oscar winners had to audition at one point. take a look at this. i love high school girls. i keep getting older. they stay the same age. it was released for the first time. it was his audition tape from dazed and confused. you can see he breezes through those lines. it was his first ever film. he sure did a great job. and that s he went on to become an oscar winner. i would have hired him. like a time capsule. he s a nice guy. happy for him. still can t figure out interstellar. it was a terrible movie. i didn t like it. there was a lot of black holes. it was about an hour too long. next up huge moves this morning in the race for president in 2016 and potential presidential candidates throwing around slogans. there are a lot of folks in washington who argue that the way republicans should win is that we should nominate a candidate from the mushy middle. but what words really work on the campaign trail? frank luntz next (son) oh no. can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix 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(vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it s not just a sedan. it s a subaru. i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn t treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. oh, what a relief it is. here we go! this morning brand-new information about potential runs from governor chris christie governor mitt romney, senator hillary clinton, and more. some potential presidential candidates already throwing around some slogans. but will they work? we re going to ask fox news contributor just that question frank luntz joins us now. good morning to you. we want to start first with kevin mccarthy. watch. i will work every single day to make sure this conference has the courage to lead with the wisdom to listen and will turn this country around. certainly a leader for the republican side. what are your thoughts on those words? brilliant. the courage to lead, the wisdom to listen is about the best single statement i ve heard from a member of congress in the last 12 months. i m going to steal that language because that is exactly what the american people are looking for. they want to know that their opinions are reflected in what members of congress do and they want to know that those members of congress are truly paying attention to the constituents that elected them. kevin mccarthy hit it perfectly with that phrase. meaningful line. ted cruz asked to comment on the candidacy of jeb bush and governor mitt romney. listen. there are a lot of folks in washington who argue that the way republicans should win is that we should nominate a candidate from the mushy middle. what i think that people are going to assess is who is standing up and leading? look at the great issues of the day. look at the great challenges whether it is bringing back jobs and growth and economic opportunity, whether it s defending our constitutional liberties or whether it is restoring america s leadership in the world. senator cruz has got that big picture and for republican primary voters, they want to replace the current big picture of barak obama. so cruz has been effective. that language right there articulates the reason why he s so popular among republican primary voters. they don t just want little details. they want to know what your vision is, what your principles are and that s what cruz explains. we re going to hop over their political line and take a sound from president obama talking about raising the minimum wage and growing the middle class. watch. about three in four americans support raising the minimum wage. that s because we believe that in the wealthiest nation on earth, nobody who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. if everybody does their part, if we all work together, we can make sure that the tide starts lifting all boats again. we can get wages and incomes growing faster. we can make sure the middle class is growing. so he focuses there on the middle class. but what americans are really more focused on is hard working taxpayers. i expect that you re going to hear much of that language in state of the union next tuesday. by the way people who are watching this want to participate in our live fox news state of the union focus group they need to go to luntzglobeal.com. barak obama is too focused on a specific segment of american society. when the public is saying let s focus on all of us. right. frank, ten seconds, are you surprised mitt romney is giving it another shot? am i surprised? yes. is he credible? absolutely. does he have a lot of questions he s got to answer? certainly does. frank luntz, thank you so much. thank you for joining us. always great to have you here. up next, airlines making millions off of your baggage. but are they keeping more of your money than they should be? what we just found out you might not like. this guy thought he could get away with rob ago helpless old lady. little did he know some marines were right there. they will join us live. 34 minutes past the top of the hour. $8.2 million. that s how much money the airline industry raked in from fees like checked bags and premium seats. that s up 700 million from 2013. next, 46.6 million. that s how many americans are on food stamps. the 38th straight month numbers have topped 46 million. that s more than 14% of the entire population. and finally 100,000. that s how many followers a day victoria secret is getting on instagram. helping them out, these sizzling new swimsuit photos from puerto rico. that s pretty good looking, got to say. steve? instagram. thank you very much. don t mess with these three marines. after hearing a woman s calls for hem outside their local recruiting office, they jumped into action by thwarting a robbery and busting one of the bad guys. joining us now from seattle three staff sergeants join us live. gentlemen, good morning to you. good morning. let s pick up the story. your recruiting office in the seattle area is adjacent to a mall. was it you who first noticed a woman in trouble? that s correct. myself and these others were in the office when we started hearing honking. we were the first ones out. so you heard some honking and then looked out and you saw that she was running over curbs and stuff like that. when you got to her, what did she say? she rolled down her window said she was being robbed by these two guys that they had a gun and for help. okay. so you came to her rescue. they said those bad guys have a gun. so what did you do next? we chased them down sir. but they ve got a gun. if somebody says, hey those guys got away. they ve got a gun, i don t know that i would chase them. but i think it was staff sergeant shoemaker who said i ve been shot at before. it s not as bad as everybody thinks. most people miss. that s correct sir. well, that s accurate. i guess you would know i know all of you guys have been deployed to afghanistan and iraq as well. so at what point did you realize, wait a minute, there is one of the guys who the lady described? the minute she said it, she pointed in that direction. they turned and fled. so we assumed that it was them. okay. so you gave chase and what happened? gave chase, crossed the street. the suspect that we apprehended started to turn and that s when i put him in a wrist lock and sergeant sylvester blocked his path. did i read that you put him in the wrist lock because you didn t want to get him down on the ground because you were wearing your dress blues and didn t want to get dirty? that s correct. that s awesome. as they re detaining, staff sergeant twig, what did you do? i was on the phone with 911. there were no police on the scene at that time. all right. and you held one of the guys and did he say anything to you guys? he just offered his excuse that he was trying to get a ride and said we couldn t touch him because we didn t have badges. great. what did you say to him? i didn t talk to him much at all. i don t blame you. he s in big trouble now. we should point out that the woman who did the honking was a retired police officer and she wasn t going to let those punks rob her. and of course you didn t either because you all were in the right place at the right time. staff sergeants, thank you very much for being in the right place at the right time. thank you. that s great. job well done. straight ahead parents worst nightmare playing out on 911. somebody stole my car and my baby is in there! oh, boy. the incredible story of how the three-year-old saved himself from a carjacker. and what happens when the chicken tries to cross the road? we finally figure it out. our eyes they have a 200-degree range of sight. which is good for me. hey! and bad for the barkley twins. your brain can send information to the rest of your body at 268 mph. three times the speed of a fastball. take care of your most important parts with centrum. multivitamins expertly designed with nutrients people don t get enough of from food alone. centrum. for the most important parts of you. we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us i mean, we re going to be there anyway why don t you just leave it for us to pick up? or you could always get in your car and take it back yourself yeah, us picking it up is probably your easiest option it s kind of a no brainer ok, well, good talk that dog is looking at me. today is national dog dress-up day. we re asking you to dress up your dog, faye a picture and send it in. yeah. all pets welcome. greg joined us with this picture. rocky the dog ready for work. look at that. got his tie right. and here is trisha s dog maverick, fresh off game day. gail sent this one of oliver and jackson looking dapper. springtime. and dennis sent in this photo of his dog, cocoa. look at that. how cute is that. keep them coming. we d like to see your dress up your dog day photos. you can e-mail them, facebook or tweet them. if your dog dress itself we ll put them first. pets are getting independent. we ve seen that all day. we opened up the show that way. we re going to turn to heather nauert. who also dresses herself. yes, i do. a huge feat. good morning to you. we begin with an update to a story we ve been following. it s considered a big win for religious freedom. a virginia school board voting down changes to their policy that would have forced some home schoolers to justify their religious beliefs. the board realizing that parents in the area were so fired up about this that they decided to repeal that rule. doug pruitt is one of those parents. he s a virginia father who has been home schooling his children under the religious exemption. he joined us yesterday with his outrage. we ve been home schooling our children for over ten years under the religious exemption. we applied for it in 2004. provided all of the information that we requested and so when we had this letter come, it really surprised us. there is still one more final vote at the board s next meeting. we ll keep you posted on those results. an incredible rescue caught on camera. it happened after a hiker was stranded overnight in california assize coy i can t national park after falling 35 feet into a river, you can see her being hoisted up into a california highway patrol helicopter. she spent all night near the riverbank until hikers heard her crying for help the next morning. she looked like an angel. most beautiful eyes that i ve ever seen. i was just so happy and grateful that i was found. i feel like the word thank you is not enough. if there was something bigger, better, i would say it. but thank you, thank you, thank you. they were amazing. how kind of that rescuer to have held her hair back to comfort her. she broke her arm and she is pretty scraped up, but otherwise doing just fine. an update to bring you on an amazing story of these climbers at yosemite national park. it s believed they are well getting a lot closer to reaching the summit. they ve been doing there for 17 days now. they re supposed to reach a crucial point later today. we ll have to watch that story for you. why did the chicken cross the road? no this is not the start of a joke. a chicken really did manage to get across a busy highway. this is in los angeles of all places. road crews used a truck to keep that chicken out of harm s way. the california highway patrol eventually catching the feathered fugitive. what they did with him, who knows? maybe put him in a pot. they saved it to kill it? why would you do that? why? chip showed up. thank you very much. you know it s wednesday and that means maria molina joins us from the streets of new york city and she tries to stump us which is not tough w science trivia. yeah, that s right. good morning. and today s question has to do with the mid-atlantic ridge on the floor of the atlantic ocean. the question is, it s spreading at what rate? you mean breaking apart? yeah. it s tech tonic. i didn t know what was n it s moving. across the atlantic ocean on the floor. you have two plates that are spreading apart. so the question is at what rate are they spreading apart. .025-centimeters per year .25-centimeters per year, b we were talk being this the other day. what was the answer? i remember the other day it was c. that s right! brian, you re right. it s 2.5-centimeters per year. we passed the time talking about techtonic plates. who measures that? i m sure that you have a lot of scientists measuring that. there are plates all across the world. in the pacific they cause a lot of earthquakes and unfortunately tsunamis sometimes. in the atlantic, they re kind of spreading. so you don t get as many earthquakes with that. now we know how fast. thank you. steve has a follow-up question for the host. not in the form of a question. thank you very much. sounds good. it is now 23 minutes before the top of the hour. now that you know about that, a three-year-old boy kidnapped when somebody drove away in his mother s car. he was still inside. scary. but it was that three-year-old that saved his own life. now i know why anna kooiman is here. she s been following this story and has the details of this saga. it is incredible. good morning. what started as a normal day dropping off her infant at daycare quickly turned into the worst nightmare for this woman. listen. somebody stole my car and my baby is in there! where was your car last seen? at the little i don t know the address. oh my god. my baby is in there! inside the ogden utah daycare for two minutes, a stranger took off in her running car with her three-year-old son aidan, inside. i don t know. you don t know your cell phone number! it s in the car! that s when police had the idea to call her cell phone hoping the carjacker would answer. but instead, it was aidan who picked up. he was just telling me the guy is going through your purse. he s getting your purse. i m like it s okay. just stay calm. just sit in your seat. everything will be okay. can you imagine? the suspect then abandoned the car, leaving aidan alone. police told aidan to hop into the front seat and then started honking the horn. he honked the horn until there was an officer there and we were close and we got to him. he was scared. that s for sure. he s okay. happy ending. that suspect still on the run. but aidan is now back home safe with his mother. a few things were taken from the car, but the woman says nothing is more important than having her son in her arms. back to you. i got a feeling she s not going to leave him in the car again when she s not in the car. thank you. he was such a good listener. he did exactly what they told him to. smart kid. this coming up this is an actual ad in a teacher s union magazine. take a close look there. it encourages teachers to use a legal loophole to get free plastic surgery on your dime. that s how you enhance your natural beauty. and over and over again, jesse watters has proven americans don t know much about history. what was george washington s job? george washington was one of the presidents? which president. the second president after lincoln? kids. the wife of former speaker newt gingrich calista gingrich is here with a plan to educate the next generation because as we just saw they need help. first this trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1969, he was on a funny but canceled fox show which was recently revived on netflix. who is it? be first with the correct answer. you ll get something special. you get sick you can t breathe through your nose. suddenly. you re a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone so you can breathe and sleep shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. 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[container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility there s no going back. quick head leans now. is this little girl a dog whisper other or in danger? one two, three. okay. wow. those are six pit bulls the little girl is feeding but people online are saying that breed of dog is notorious for being aggressive. others argue they are well behaved. and two teen-agers apparently inspired by captain jack sparrow. they tried stealing a man s waltz in brooklyn with an antique pistol. the firearm so old, they aren t facing charges. they could get seven years in prison for attempted stickup. bottom line don t stick people up with anything. we ve seen how bad some americans are when it comes to knowing their history. watch. who did america fight in the revolutionary war? the french? why did the pilgrims come from england? i no. it was to ex brother the west? how did the first thanksgiving go down? i don t even know. and you live in plymouth? i know. they got here on cape cod at some time and thanksgiving popped out. who won the civil war? the north or south? what was george washington s job? george washington was one of the presidents? which president? he was the second president after lincoln. he didn t work with horses did he? god bless you. thanks, you too. our first president abraham lincoln. now there are some children books to help insure the future generations of americans won t be worst when it comes ho history. calista gingrich s latest book is here and she joins us now. good morning to you. good morning to you. why do we need to know about history, because if there is ever a question, we can just google it. it s more important now than ever that our children understand what makes this country so special. and obviously we ve just seen an example of that. does that horrify you? it s distressing. we re not just making that up. according to statistics 20% of fourth graders, only 17% of eighth graders and only 12% of 12th graders actually tested at a proficient level. your kids are a treasure in our home. i think kids at at that age are excited to learn about history. they love ellis and they love seeing how history, real people walked through these times. i think most kids are eager and enthusiastic to learn. but we do need to give them these tools at an early age so they can begin to appreciate the greatness of this nation. tell me about the story line here. from sea to shining sea ellis learns about the great expedition of louis and clark. this is one of the most important expeditions in the history of our country. it was a voyage from st. louis to the pacific that inspired many americans to go west. i hate to break it to you, but i read the history of lewis and clark. i don t remember an elephant. ellis was there. who do you blame for the fact that so many americans are in the dark? is it the educators? the family set-up? who do you take responsibility to? i think a lot of people dislike america and they don t want to uphold our true history unfortunately. they degrade our history. and unfortunately, kids today are learning revisionist and politically correct history and not the true facts. this is my mission to give our children the real history at an early age. i thank you for that. unfortunately, i d like to have everyone smile and say this a great segment and nonpartisan. but we found something about your background that needs some explaining. let s look at this shot. this is ellis the elephant, but he s taking a position on this weekend s game. well, he is. explain this, calista. ellis is a nonpartisan elephant. but does he have a real fondness for the green bay packers. oh, really? he s a cheese head? i had no idea. elephants like cheese, too? there was one on the lewis and clark expedition and he likes cheese? absolutely. he s very excited about the game this weekend. right. seattle fans, we apologize. from sea to shining sea, we thank you for that. it s outstanding for the kids. ours love t. you should get it out there. by the way, newt gingrich, who is just standing off camera, thank you for coming in, mr. speaker. you can say something. he s not allowed to say anything. he doesn t want to talk. what s the world coming to? coming up on this wednesday this is an actual ad in a teacher s union magazine encouraging teachers to use a legal loophole to get free plastic surgery on your dime. first on this date in history in 1951, the first nfl pro bowl all-star game was played in los angeles. in 1999, the impeachment trial of president bill clinton begins in washington. in 1972 american pie by don mcclain was the song of the day. he sang that on this show. it goes on for 45 minutes. americans. 57% of us try to exercise regularly. 83% try to eat healthy. yet up to 90% of us fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let s do more, together. add one a day. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus, for women, physical energy support with b vitamins. and for men, it helps support healthy blood pressure with vitamin d and magnesium. take one a day multivitamins. the answer to the trivia question of the day is jason bateman and our winner is snooki from new york city. congress graduals. you re getting a cop of george washing(-9 talk about trouble with schools a school in upstate new york racking up a $40 million deficit thanks in part to a program that pays for the teachers plastic surgery. i m not kidding. face lifts liposuction maybe both. $5 million worth of that work and the school has to cover them thanks to an outdated union contract. joining me is the chief financial operating officer for buffalo schools, barbara smith. good morning to you. good morning. i noticed and we showed earlier in the program that the union newsletter includes ads from three, not one, not two but three cosmetic service priors asking for teachers to come back for such procedures such as botox, breast enhancement, body contouring hair transplants. i mean this seems to be conclude conclude tag talk about hand in the pocket how upsetting is this? it s very upsetting and we ve got ways to eliminate the cosmetic surgery rider even though it s expired. this is on the moms and dads taxpayers wallet. they re paying for these surgeries to take place. how much money is being spent on these? annually, a little over $5 million. that s a whopping amount of money. nearly $5 million here. then when you look at i m just thinking there has got to be a better way for that money to be spent. perhaps it would be on the education of the students there because buffalo students scores right now just 12.2% of buffalo kids rated proficient or better in gush. 13.1% of them, only that number rated proficient or better in math. that 5.4 million could be better spent elsewhere perhaps? yes. we totally agree with you. we would certainly like to put those dollars toward additional student support, smaller class sizes, extended learning time. this is a common sense issue i think for every american out there who knows that the taxpayer shouldn ting footing the bill for these type of cosmetic surgeries. but what s stopping the change? $5.4 million spent on that. what s the block? the block is essentially an outdated union contract that expired in 2004 that continues based upon new york state law. so absent a new agreement or at least the union leadership agreeing to end the rider, the district has to continue the benefits of that plan. it seems as though it s a thick relationship here. if you have advertisement in the union publication for such surgery, a handshake deal perhaps? well, i don t know about that. we ve offered last year we offered every member who had the benefit $500 and a health benefit card to give up the cosmetic surgery rider which still would have saved us $4 million. what was the result of that? the union leadership did not take it to their members for approval. really a shame. barbara smith, we want to thank you for joining us this morning and hope this can be resolved soon for the kids. thank you canned and ready. talk about schools. one principal asking parents to arm their kids are nonperrishable food items cause throwing cans could stun an intruder with a gun. and bob newark suddenly making huge headlines thanks to his look alike football referee. that ref joins us live to react to all the commotion. we ll see if he throws the flag on us next hour i m jerry bell the second. and i m jerry bell the third. i m like a big bear and he s my little cub. this little guy is non-stop. he s always hanging out with his friends. you ve got to be prepared to sit at the edge of your seat and be ready to get up. there s no deep couch sitting. definitely not good for my back. this is the part i really don t like right here. 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[jerry bell iii] deep couch sitting! morning. it s wednesday, january 14. i m elisabeth hasselbeck. a fox news alert. airports across the country ramping up security this morning after terrorists reveal a secret bomb making recipe and even describe how to sneak it on to the plane. plus a new message from an al-qaeda in yemen this morning. and it sounds like something straight out of a spy movie. the f.b.i. foiled a plot to kill the speaker of the house with poison. how john boehner s country club bartender wanted to take him out. unbelievable. canned and readiment one school principal asking parents to arm their kids with nonperrishable heavy food items because throwing canned goods can stun an intruder with a gun. what do you think about that? you re actually weigh not guilty because mornings are better with friends. hi. we re the oak ridge boys. you are watching fox & friends . that guy has quite a voice. i ve noticed some e-mail. they re film ago commercial in front of ou building of the there is a coffee cart right there. they got the movie lights. apparently it has something to do with coffee. and winter. if you are traveling today, please take special note because we have a fox news alert because airport security is stepping up from coast to coast. it has a lot to do with the paris attacks and the publication of inspire magazine and the threat of a hidden bomb and a lot of people are focusing on carry on baggage and there are special inspections at this hour. that s right. and new video just released on youtube as al-qaeda in yemen reiterating responsibility for the charlie hebdo attack in paris. a terrorist attack there one of the leaders claiming they are behind the funding and motivation. yeah. so there you ve got inspire magazine giving people the recipe to put this super potent bomb on an airplane that according to the magazine quote, the recipe is so easy it s something quote, every determined muslim can prepare. however, whatever you do with the white house don t talk about islamic extremists. sure. they are terrorists, but they re not islamic terrorists. why? because that s not accurate. hold your jaw up and listen to josh earnest. i certainly wouldn t want to be in a position where i m repeating the justification that they have cited that think is completely illegitimate. that they have invoked islam to try to justify their attacks. i think what i m trying to do is describe to you what happened and what they did. these are individuals who are terrorists. we have not chosen to use that label because it doesn t seem to accurately describe what happened. really? times square bomber, same thing. subway bomber, same thing. fort hood, 9-11, what about in spain, what about in britain and paris? you know what josh earnest said, he said they are terrorists, but what they did sure, they re islamic, but they used islam as an excuse to justify the attack. wow. reading from the koran. reducing and side stepping that. it s like terrorist taboo when it comes to thes who and their administration. a lot happening. we ll move to our other top story. i cannot believe this happened. murder by poison of the speaker of the house? well, this morning the f.b.i. investigating a plot to kill the speaker of the house, john boehner. who would do the killing? the bartender with poison or a gun, right peter doocy? that s right. this bartender in ohio says nobody watched what went into speaker boehner s wine glass so he says it would be easy to slip something in. the man who allegedly wanted to kill boehner 44-year-old michael hoyt. his motive, according to court documents, quote, he told the officer that he was jesus christ and that he was going to kill boehner because boehner was mean to him at the country club and because boehner is responsible for ebola. the plan never materialized because hoyt called 911 in october and when police responded, he told them that he was going to shoot the speaker with a baretta 380 automatic because he thinks boehner had him fired from the country club in westchester ohio. that gun was later recovered from his home and the bosses at the country club say it was a bad attitude and not boehner that got him the boot. hoyt has a history of mental illness and prescribed medication two years ago but stopped taking it after six months. now a spokesman for the speaker is out with a statement and say, quote, speaker boehner is aware of the situation and sincerely thanks the f.b.i. capitol police and local authorities in ohio for their efforts. it s worth pointing out that court documents say boehner told the capitol police and the f.b.i. he knows this bartender, but can t remember any negative interaction. back to you. wow. so bizarre. thanks peter. although the guy is a complete nitwit because e-mailed him and his wife and said, by the way, i could poison you any time. as crazy as the guy who shot eggen and lennon. let s talk about 2016. the horse race has more than started. first off governor christie back in the news. he thinks he s going to form some type of president yam pac, leadership pac sometime this month. he knows he can not wait considering all the news about republicans get not guilty and raising money. you have mitt romney calling on political allies and operate actives to get some momentum there again. he s calling all his guys. will the third time be a charm for him? would the third bush be a charm? jeb bush apparently fundraising in california. rand paul hired a campaign manager and hillary clinton hire add chief strategist and media advisor. later today, chris christie is going to be in south carolina. they ve got a very very important primary down there. on friday he s going to be in iowa. he sounds like he s running for president. actually he sounded like he was running for president yesterday in a very nationallish speech about the state of new jersey down in trenton the state capitol. we are a nation beset by anxiety and it s understandable. economic growth is low by postwar recovery standards. america s leadership in the world is called in question because of a pattern of indecision and inconsistency. so funny so see them going at each other. ted cruz using the mushy middle to talk about jeb bush and rand paul says if he runs to the right of jeb bush, that s what governor romney said he ll do, he ll still be to the left of the party. they clearly are different. ted cruz, rand paul jeb bush, as well as mitt romney. let us know which one of those names look like a front runner. there are a couple of dozen on the right and one or two on the left. i know. elizabeth warren said yesterday, i absolutely, positively am not running for president. ever. you can print that. looks like hillary there. i absolutely pledge to toss to heather nauert. if you don t believe me, i ll do it now. heather? you re a man of your word. good morning. let s start with a fox news alert. this coming in, a new round of air strikes against isis in syria and also in iraq. u.s. and coalition forces targeting the strongholds with six strikes using bomber and also fighter aircraft and then in iraq, another 12 strikes were carried out using attack and fighter drones. another fox news alert. the crew on board the international space station is now totally safe following some really scary moments earlier this morning. there was an ammonia leak and it forced american crews to quickly evacuate from their side of the space station and head over to the russian side. fortunately, we are told that everyone is now safe. you may remember crews picking a dangerous space walk back in 2013 to fix an actual ammonia leak. while you were sleeping, officials finding the fuselage of air asia flight 8501. these are pictures from an underwater camera. you can see the company slogan painted on the side of the fuselage. now everyone can fly. that s what it says. part of the wing was also discovered alongside the body of that aircraft. we may soon learn more about what caused that crash. officials have downloaded the flight data recorder from one of the black boxes. and then an update to bring you on the amazing story of those two climbers who are trying to do what seems to many of us, impossible. this happenings in yosemite national park. they re closing in on their historic feat. the two have been climbing the shear granite face of the wall for the past 17 days. today we are told they may reach their summit finally. they re trying to be the first to free climb a 3,000-foot wall. they re able to just use their hands and feet to climb that. they ve got some safety rope. but imagine that using your hands and feet. steve will tell you it s not that hard. it takes all the strength of your digits (nail themselves into a granite wall. get ready for this. a principal is actually asking middle school students to bring in cans, 8 ounce cans of corn or peas. something throwable. so they can use that can as a form of self-defense should an attacker get into the school. this is in alabama and is a middle school there. the principal just wants the kids able to defend themselves. they say if a bad guy comes in the class, then they ll be able to throw a can of too in a at the person. you hit them with chick peas ouch. they also suggest in regular classrooms to use a textbook. this school is taking it one step further. let s have textbooks. let s have cans of cling peaches as well. we asked you if you thought this was a good idea. keep in mind, they would need to resort to canned goods if staff members were armed. taffy on facebook says this, i know it sounds funny, but i believe in fighting back any way i can. this is better than nothing. i agree with that. stacy says, i wouldn t want my kid to be that close to a gunman. how about hiring a retired military personnel to protect all our children at school? that is great idea. great suggestion there. and faith suggests this, it s called counter measures and empowers students to take action and keeps them from being sitting ducks in hostile situations. you re comments have been pouring in. we love the fact you re responding. this is a drill and what it was like. you see the kids getting their cans prior to this and throwing them. those are textbooks. that would hurt. imagine cans. the school says if they were not used as self-defense, which we hope they would not have to be used, that they will donate them to a local food pantry. and where do you get to volunteer to be the intruder? yeah. did you volunteer yourself? not really. what do you think? keep the e-mail coming in. we ll share more later online. his decision to protect his fellow soldiers got him nearly two decades in prison. but what if prosecutors got it all wrong? peter johnson, jr. is here next with the new push for that man s freedom. and a young dazed and confused matthew mcconaghey is in one of his first auditions. people cannot stop watching this. hey, man, you got a joint. not on me why? you d be a lot cooler if you did. we re going to take you right inside that room in a few minutes coming up. all right, all right, all right. () my son has been grieving because even though he did what he felt he had to do and he said if he was in the same situation, he would do it again. he chose to protect his troops. here on fox & friends, a heart broken mother of army lieutenant clint lorance says her son was sent to jail for protecting his troops, which was his duty. men approached his platoon on motorcycles and he gave the order to engage. they opened fire. two of the three men were killed. the army said those men did not have ties to terrorist. so the lieutenant went to prison to serve a 20 year sentence. his attorneys are accusing army lawyers of withholding crucial evidence of the men s terror connections. now thousands of people are petitioning the white house to pardon him and even members of congress are calling for a new trial. joining us now, fox news legal analyst, peter johnson jr. who brought us this story. if he and his lawyers are right, this is one of the greatest railroading in the history of an american fighting man. they are now saying in a modification petition to general clark, the commanding officer, that quote, the prosecution arguing and closing that there is no suggestion that the alleged victims were taliban. as it turns out there has good bit suggesting that they were, are associated with terror. this is legal error. the law requires a new trial. that s right. the supreme court precedent that says if you withhold evidence bringing material, that s evidence leading the jury to believe that you re not guilty of the crime, then you get a new trial. what they have done, steve, is expose new evidence that they say the army had, the defense department had and failed to turn over. and that s the troubling part. apparently there was evidence and we ve got information to put up on the screen one man killed was a co-conspirator to a man serving a 20-year sentence for ied attacks in afghanistan. the man lorance was attempted to engage was ied in kandahar and the guy interviewed was incarcerated in afghanistan and linked to four separate ied events. peter, when we last talked about this, we were looking to help this man get clemency. that didn t happen. what s left? what s left is a new petition modification to general clark and if that do not work, go to the court of appeals, military court of appeals. also there is a petition that has gone up now to the white house. they have about 80,000 or so signatures at this point petitioning the president to look at this particular issue. obviously this is not a cut and dry issue. there are some soldiers that say that lieutenant lorance was out of control overzealous and that the decision to fire on these afghannies was inappropriate and wrong and resulting in this conviction. the lieutenant s lawyers say the jury never heard. the jury was never told that. the jury was never told about the terror ties and what they ve done is put together this impressive dossier showing the terror connections that the defense department knew of five of the seven people involved with this incident. peter, it s cut and dry. the government withheld evidence that his lawyers say would have exonerated him. the lowest low life. the biggest dirt bag in america is entitled to the constitution. why shouldn t a lieutenant who spent ten years fighting for america be entitled to those same protection as soon as we don t know whether he s innocent or guilty. but give this man a fair trial. you just mentioned that somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 signed up. if you would like to help this guy, go to white house.gov and sign the petition for mr. lorance. thanks so much. thank you. see what happens. coming up, jimmy carter says the terrorist attacks in france, israel s fault. you re going to want to hear that. he s straight ahead. michael keaton s words of wisdom gone viral. in a household in which i was raised, the themes were pretty simple. he said hard work, don t quit. be appreciative. be respectful. how do you make sure your kids wind up with mr. mom s attitude? dr. keith able has the advice we all need. you just got a big bump in miles. so this is a great opportunity for an upgrade. sound good? great. because you re not you you re a whole airline. and it s not a ticket you re upgrading it s your entire operations, from domestic to international. which means you need help from a whole team of advisors. from workforce strategies to tech solutions and a thousand other things. so you call pwc. the right people to get the extraordinary done. push your enterprise and you can move the world. but to get from the old way to the new you ll need the right it infrastructure. from a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. and stay ready for everything that is still to come. 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number one, don t think it s easy. you ve got to plan to be able to deliver that kind of richness to your kids. you ve got to hold yourself responsible to do that. i always try to think of whether i m getting an a as a dad and it s really the most important thing because, in fact but if you walk through a cemetery and look at the head stones, it doesn t say anywhere what your profession was or what car you drove. it says whether you were or were not and generally people are kind. beloved father and decent husband. that s what goes on your epitaph. you mentioned decent husband. so kids have eyes on how fathers are triting their spouses, their wives. how much of an effect do you think that has? tremendous effect. someone wiser than i said if you want to do something wonderful for your children love their mother. it s hard, though. listen, so many people fall short. i think that you have to be willing to say listen. we didn t get to the great a today, but let s keep trying. and know that your kids are always watching. children are absorbing so much more than we think they are and they remember single events. remember when you said this dad? so don t be afraid to go back. circle back to your kids and say, listen, this morning i think i disappointed you. i think i said something i didn t mean. don t be afraid to do that. you said for every michael and sean keaton, there are fathers who are short tempered, who are not often absent. there s a lot of imperfect people looking at this and even the keatons i m sure are not perfect. nobody is perfect. that s right. show up. so that s one thing. unfortunately, we d have to say that to a lot of dads. be there. don t leave. parent your kids. for the other ones who those of white house are at home trying our hardest, i would say this simply be willing to listen to your children. spending time with them is what they remember. they remember those things more than anything else, more than the christmas gifts they got. were you present? great message there. thank you. you see all kinds in your office. but you can t tell us specifics but you studied this and you have your own case studies to learn from. thanks dr. keith. absolutely. coming up straight ahead, a newspaper publishing this now iconic photo of the world leaders at the rally in paris. but it s missing something. who they photo shopped out. take a close look there. and actor bob newheart suddenly making headlines thanks to this look alike referee. he s up next to react to all the commotion. i m sure bob newheart loved when think took his elf costume. reusel crumble, be from. fiber one. fiber one streusel. nexium® 24hr. it s the purple pill the #1 prescribed acid blocking brand available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™ [container door opening] what makes it an suv is what you can get into it. [container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility there s no going back. take a look at this. it s your shot of the morning. it s nearly dog gone unbelievable. yep. a clip of the black lab riding the seattle bus by herself. nothing stops her from getting to the dog park and the bus is apparently the fastest way. eclipse and her owner, jeff, joined us earlier this morning from seattle. jeff talked about the first time eclipse hopped on the bus without him. first time she jumped on the bus, i wasn t sure if she got back on the bus or went in the house. another person poe bus stop pointed out that yeah, she got on the bus. it s a bus her and i rode to the dog park a million times. i was pretty sure that s where she would be headed. and i was on the next bus after her and she was at the dog park. she got out at the right stop. she sure did. jeff says that they re going to be headed to the dog park together later today. fun. hopefully she ll make it there again. he said he was going to get to the park and send us a picture. plus we should point out the dog is not riding for pre. the dog actually has a monthly pass. she sure does. right. he holds it right between his webbed feet. a token in one paw and a milk bone in the other. yeah. i d like to see footage of that. has anyone seen heather nauert? she s there to your left. brian, did you hear the story about the dog on long island who used to take the train out there? famous dog in one of the local towns. that s a line i m not allowed on. years ago. they kicked you off. they don t want me on that line. okay. got some news now to bring you. take a look at two of those photos from the paris unity march. they re almost identical right? there is one slight problem. the women have been completely removed from the second photo. the original picture was taken at sunday s unity march that shows world leaders standing arm in arm, including the chancellor of german, angela merkel and the mayor of paris. one orthodox israeli newspaper decided to edit out the female leaders as though they were never there. former president jimmy cart service sounding off on radical islam and the recent terrorist attacks in france. the 39th president telling the daily show s jon stewart that the violence in paris was fueled by something else and that something is israel. listen. one of the arguments social security the palestinian problem and this aggravates people who are what they re doing now is being done to them. i think that s part of it. president carter not explaining exactly how he thinks that the israel-palestinian issue should be solved and how it would help the violent conflicts in the rest of the arab world. ann curry signing off from nbc news. she s leaving the network after 25 years. sort of. there are reports that curry has a development deal with the network and may still appear occasionally on nbc. she was forced off the today show more than two years ago because of well issues with the host matt lauer. she and executives negotiating how to end her $12 million a year contract. wow. everybody knows this famous line from dazed and confused. remember this? that s what i love about these high school girls man. i get older and they stay the same age. doocy says that all the time around here. i m just kidding! he doesn t say that. are you kidding? i m just teasing. it was delivered perfectly by matthew mcconaghey. but even the oscar winner at one point had to audition in his career. look at this. keep getting older. they stay the same age. it s now been released for the first time. it s his audition from dazed and confused. you can see as he breezes through those lines. it was his first ever film. just as cute as ever. steve does do a fantastic all right, all right, all right. all right, all right, all right. and he sounds just like him. let me do that again. all right, all right, all right. i wonder if she s all right, all right, all right out there because it s cold. maria molina how are you? so cold out here. current windchill in new york city 8 degrees. even colder in areas farther toward the west. in chicago feels like 4. in marquette, 0 is the current windchill temperature. still cold across parts of the east and because it s cold and we do have a storm system, we do have some snow coming across parts of the mid-atlantic. there are winter weather advisories that have been issued and even freezing rain advisories due to some freezing rain in that area. so watch out for slick roads. snow coming down across portions of new mexico, up to a foot along some of the higher elevations out there. that s great newser in skiers. i have even better news for you guys in there. we re going to be looking at a warm-up, including the northeast, temperatures are going to be climbing as we head into this weekend. by saturday, 65 for the high. in dallas 60s in new orleans. in the 30s in new york city. by sunday, mid 40s. in new york city, and boston. chicago. 50. it s going to start to feel better out there over the next couple of days. let s head back inside. all right, all right, all right. thank you. ohio state national championship win over oregon is making headlines throughout the week. especially in the aftermath. but not in the way you think. the biggest news maker perhaps outside the final score and the championship, the game s referee. his resemblance to bob newheart. without a doubt. social media exploded on monday night. look at this side by side screen with the tweets about how the head referee and his resemblance to the comedy legend. so much so that newheart himself weighed in, tweeting, in regards to my new career as head ref, hey, i don t have a series anymore. i had something to do. that s so funny. how does that college ref feel about the comparison? joining us now is greg burks, joining us from colorado springs. good morning to you. good morning. has anybody ever told you hey, you look like bob newheart? once or twice. i was on a rental car bus one time and a lady said she thought i looked like bob newheart. he is about 80 years old. i don t know if that s a compliment. not so much. i would have loved to get up the next morning and have everybody compare me to george clooney. but i do look in the mirror and i do see the resemblance at times, yeah. over 3 million people were watching and probably saw that resemblance. when did it hit you? when did you realize that so many people were drawing those photos as the same? after we did the game and got on the bus to go back to the hotel. the umpire said hey, you re trending on twitter. i said what happened? the game went well. he said no no. there is a picture of bob newheart as an elf and they say he looks like you. and i thought oh great. that s special. first second did your heart drop? isn t that the biggest nightmare, for the referee to be the story? you know, in the sense that we re talking about bob newheart and not a pass interference call or something that we messed up on the field, this is okay. overall, how spanish was it to be in the first college championship division 1 ever? oh, it was fantastic. it was life long dream and to be affiliated with that game was just fantastic. congratulations. you had to be the best to get in there and you certainly did. 33 million people watched. thanks so much. my pleasure. take care. no throwing the flag on that. coming up, have you seen this? don t say another word. well, it looks like video of a terror training camp. but it s right in our own backyard. you got to see this and we ll explain it all next. chilling. and nascar s kurt busch says his ex-girlfriend is an assassin. 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[ m m. ] [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell s healthy request. m m! m m! good.® i ve smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now.i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i want this time to be my last time. that s why i choose nicoderm cq. welcome back. it s time for quick courtroom headlines. nascar star kurt busch claiming his ex-girlfriend is a trained assassin. in court over her request for a restraining order he says she travels the world on covert missions to kill people. the claim is called, absolutely ludicrous. the supreme court determining if this beard can have a beard while in prison. he converted to islam and wants a beard for religious purposes. also expected is a ruling on the case of a pregnant woman versus ups. she was placed on unpaid leave after she became pregnant and could no longer lift heavy boxes steve. meanwhile, a new report reveals some pretty scary numbers showing new government regulations could cost the taxpayers, all of us, nearly $1.9 trillion this year. incredible. so what is it going to mean for the united states economy? there is only one person to call. fox news own you know maria bartiromo. costing atrial? it s unbelievable. the fact is these numbers are so extraordinary, this $1.9 trillion number is more than certain gdps of countries around the world. it is such a high number. and as a result of this, you are going to see higher bills. that s the bottom line. i think when you factor in the kind of increases that we re seeing in the cost of regulation, in particular the epa latest regulation has been the most onerus. when i speak to ceos, they say this particular ruling and cost of regulation from the epa is going to mean they will be forced to pass on the price to consumers. so i think what people miss here in terms of increasing and talking about increasing regulation is the fact that at the end of the day, a company is not going to say, oh well. we re just going to swallow this higher cost and we will just make less money. no. that s not what they re going to do. they are going to go forward and say, okay. this is costing us more. so this will cost our customers more. increasingly ceos are telling me that we will see electricity prices in particular go higher. americans should watch their electricity bills. that s what s going to be the result. higher bills there, but as a result of this epa report. and legislation. and speaking of ceos i see behind you, a sign that says jpmorgan. i hear you have an exclusive. we are at the jpmorgan health care conference. i have an exclusive interview with jamie dimon. this is an interview which is exclusive and his first interview since surviving throat cancer. he has battled a lot bigger issues than regulation and cost of regulation over the last year. he s been balloting throat cancer. he said he has a good bill of health. he told me all about the last year and he also talked about the health of the economy with me and the cost of regulation. jpmorgan reported earnings today. they did report a strong quarter. it was below analyst expectations. the reason? they had to take an almost billion dollars charge for legal expense. having said that. he says as he looks across the country, he thinks things are improving and when he speaks with ceos, his customers, he says that they are wanting to expand. not cut back. yeah. the government turned their attention on him and it cost the company a lot of money. in fact, we have a cut. you want to listen? absolutely. you don t normally see companies ever i deal with ceos around the world. particularly in the united states where people say i m going to shrink next year. i don t have any ambition. i m not going to invest. no they re look for ways to grow expand, do more. everybody is looking to grow, expands, do more. but as we detailed a moment ago there is a lot of regulation. there are a lot of other trap doors for people in business these days. there sure are. and that, as well as the issues around the world. weakness in europe and you ve got weakness in china. that s going to impact the u.s. all of that we get to that that interview that s running today on the opening bell on the fox business network. all right. and don t miss on the fox business network, you can find it in your area by logging on foxbusiness.com. coming up, have you seen it? the video of terror training camp. watch. your land is open to the public. oh, no. that s not yemen. it s right here in the united states. if you can believe it. the man who has gone inside of it here next. speaking of the man, the man is going to run the channel here in about 12 minutes. on me. my hand on the wheel. then you re going to join me on radio. we ll see you later, brian. good morning to all three of you. breaking news from the international space station. what we are learning from nasa at this hour. also al-qaeda claims it ordered the terrorist attacks in paris. and was john boehner the target for murder? martha and i will see you in 12 minute, top of the hour have you heard of the new dialing procedure for for the 415 and 628 area codes? no what is it? starting february 21, 2015 if you have a 415 or 628 number you ll need to dial. 1 plus the area code plus the phone number for all calls. okay, but what if i have a 415 number, and i m calling a 415 number? you ll still need to dial. 1 plus the area code plus the phone number. so when in doubt, dial it out! we ve been telling you about france s no go zone. hundreds of muslim areas that outsiders and cops don t dare to explore. they chose to give it up. we have them here in the united states too. i bet you did not know that. nearly two dozen enclaves popping up across nine different states. and watch what happens when a stranger or outsider tries to step inside. but your land is open to the public. you ll be arrested if you come down here. i m not being nice. leave. leave. period. don t say another word. joining us now, the man behind that camera. author of twilight in america . martin moyer joins us now. what was taking place right there? where were you? we were in red house virginia. it s an isolated community as most of these compounds are located in. all areas heavily wooded inside of the mountainous areas. and what we wanted to do was challenge their open invitation to actually come on to these compounds and see whether they were peaceful or not. so we brought our cameras and tried to get on and this is how we got treated. quickly, this is the whole thing that we re seeing here. what goes on in these campuses? a lot of people say there are jewish camps in this country jewish camps. why not a muslim camp? because these are truly no go zones. unlike the ones in europe, which i visited, you can walk into those no go zones. you can walk in with your cameras. you can talk to people. but in these particular no go zones, you can not get into. they have gates. they have armed guards. they have security forces. and when you go up into them you re specifically told to leave these particular areas. and they re particularly dangerous. we re watching now, where are we seeing this footage from? this is a video they put out for the people inside of the compounds so that they learn how to do terrorist type training. they teach them how to kidnap people, strangle them. how to kill guards. how to do guerrilla type warfare training. this is what goes on in these isolated no go zones inside the united states. in america name some states, name some areas cause you also say they re affiliated with a pakinstani militant group. yeah. that pakinstani militant group is run by sheik gilani who most people haven t heard of. that is the man daniel pearl was hoping to interview and was arranging to about view when he was kidnapped and later beheaded. name some towns and cities and states. we have them in texas, sweeney, texas. in york, south carolina. we have them in commerce, georgia. red house, virginia. upstate new york. california. michigan. they re scattered all around the united states. so right knew call an officer and say hey, wait a second. you got an enclave here, this is islamic extremists being trained on our ground, what is the law enforcement s reaction? the interesting thing about these camps, they re located in very rural areas of america which have very small police departments. they intentionally set them up in these areas where, for instance, the one in new york, they have a total of four police officers. i want you to hear what you say is a recruitment, the sound of a recruitment video to fill up the camps. listen. you are most welcome to join one of the most advanced training camps in islamic michigan or in south carolina or pakistan, wherever we are, you can reach us. where did you get that? actually it took about four years to locate that video. we knew it existed and we had someone inside of the law enforcement department out of colorado who snuck us the tape and finally we were to make it public. f.b.i. s reaction? f.b.i. s reaction is that look, they have the first amendment and their american rights to operate these in united states, regardless of the type of weaponry and guerrilla warfare training. it s not okay with they and does not seem to be okay with you. thank you so much. president and cio of christian action network. thank you. we ll keep looking at this. more fox & friends in just a moment. two of the biggest advertisers in this year s super bowl are going to the dogs. this was budweiser s ad last year featuring an adorable golden retriever running free where the clydesdales. they ll be bringing them back this year, while daddy.com godaddy.com will have this buzzy guy named buddy as the star of their ad. that looks like our dog, charlie. by the way today is national dress up your dog day. you guys flooded us with your photos. abbey sent in this picture of her pooch, lex. and this adorable yorkie in a tutu comes from emily from ohio. this is heather s dog coming up next. yeah. that s my dog, sadie, as spiedman. or spiderwoman. how did she like the costume? she didn t like it very well. this is one from florida. great one in a tiara. go on and on. thank you for joining us today. we ll see you back here on the couch tomorrow. bill: breaking news from international space station. a possible chemical leak on board. the mayor can side of the lab has been evacuated. there are indications of a possible ammonia leak. we ll bring you the details as we get them here. claiming responsibilities for the massacre in paris. a top commander of al qaeda in yemen says they chose the target, they financed the plan and they gave the green light a week ago